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Sensi Seedling
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Posted: 27 August 2005 at 16:12
Hi i am new to the game and need help starting to grow my own bud. where do i start??
g g g g ggggggunit!
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|Quote Reply Posted: 02 September 2005 at 22:02
you could always try reading other peoples posts on this subject, theres a huge amount of info on these forums for newbs and competent growers alike.
hope this helps
aint no beef with the leaf
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Location: Afghanistan
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|Quote Reply Posted: 03 September 2005 at 09:06
You can get all the info you need on the net, spend some time and study some helpful site such as this Sensi site also another site that I recommend is www.quicktrading.com it is from the grow expert Ed Rosenthal. Check it out.
After gather up all the basic info such as grwon in Hydro or soil, seeds, light ,water, nutrient,life cycle , sexing , harvest etc.. then you will need to get the basics.
Find a source for some seeds, get a good light.
good luck!
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Sensi Seedling
Joined: 27 February 2007
Location: United Kingdom
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|Quote Reply Posted: 18 March 2007 at 17:47
I`m awaitiing delivery of first pack of seeds and eager to get going.I found any question`s you have someone`s already asked & the answers have already been posted up.It`s just a matter of finding them.
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|Quote Reply Posted: 18 March 2007 at 18:57
Yes you need to make your own findings and mistakes...
Some will tell you things can only be done a certain way but if you `feel your way` as you grow then you can develop your own technique to suit your own time constraints, etc.
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Sensi Seedling
Joined: 04 April 2007
Location: Ireland
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|Quote Reply Posted: 08 April 2007 at 00:15
i see 2 types of cfl bulbs in my grow shop.
one blue spec and 1 red spec,both 200 w ballast jobbies.
im only growing 2 plants a so 1 bulb should do ??
i dont mind buying both ,but which one is for which cycle?
what happens if i use the same 2 at once?
farmer mick
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|Quote Reply Posted: 09 April 2007 at 15:27
Blue spec is for veg, red spec for flowering. If you're only buying one, go for the red spec as indoor cannabis spends more time in flower than veg.
Running the two at the same time will give the plants the perfect light spectrum at all times and you should end up with twice as much bud because you're using twice as much light.
However, if you have the choice, buy a 250w HPS light instead of a CFL. HPS is much more efficient for growing plants and you will end up with more smoke on harvest day.
"A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings." - Jimmy Reid, RIP
Sensi Seedling
Joined: 27 April 2007
Location: Hungary
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|Quote Reply Posted: 21 May 2007 at 16:05
hello everybody!
i decided to start growing my own as i'm fed up with the unreliable sources :)
so. after i spent some time researching the subject on google i found the homebox which seems to be ideal for a beginner like me.
after examining the types of the homebox, i decided to get this kit: http://www.head-nature.com/04165-400W
for the seeds, i'm planning to get feminized super skunk.
what i really don't have any clue about is:
-how many plants could fit in that homebox? (just for the record, my guess is 5 :))
-what type of soil should i use?
-what fertilizers and nutrients should i get, and how much?
and of course i would be grateful for any advices or links to good faqs, as i'm really a beginner, the only plants i have right now are cactuses :)
regards and thanks,
farmer mick
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|Quote Reply Posted: 21 May 2007 at 16:32
1. You could grow one big plant or up to nine small ones (3x3) in that homebox.
2. You should use good quality potting soil. Add 20% perlite or vermiculite to improve drainage.
3. You can buy nutrients designed for the growth and flowering stages of cannabis. If you can't get these, use food designed for tomatoes.
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Sensi Seedling
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|Quote Reply Posted: 21 May 2007 at 16:49
thanks for the quick answer mick.
1. i guess i will go for more small ones, that should give more yield.
2. so any good qual soil works? does the pH matter? i had a quick glance on one the bigger gardening shops' webpage in our country, they have soils with pH 6.5-7, 6-7, 5-6, ph neutral...
as i understand skunk does not like acidic soil so i guess it should be either the 6-7 or the 6.5-7 one?
3. could we go in more details about this? :)
for example. does this: http://www.head-nature.com/04086?id=8PD5rP8D&mv_pc=285
contain what i need or that's not enough?
what about this: http://www.head-nature.com/04662?id=8PD5rP8D&mv_pc=293
or this: http://www.head-nature.com/04658?id=8PD5rP8D&mv_pc=321
i don't want to buy things i won't need but i also don't want to end up missing something important.
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Q: In Collobert Orbital, what is the relationship between your book and Danielle Collobert's work?
A: My intention was to expand on (parts of) her work; to re-vectorize it into a new technological and political (discursive) orbital.
Q: Why were you drawn to Collobert's work?
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A: Because she was very nomadic, but, in difference to the philosophy of pious hopes, it did not make her free in the least. On the contrary, it killed her. Or, more specificially: for me she was a clear and productive example of radical immanence.
Q: In Collobert Orbital as well as a lot of your other books, you refer to your work as a care-giver. I've read discussions about your relationship to traditional "working class literature." What do you see as your relationship to this tradition?
A: I use its advances, write partially in critical dialogue with it. I share the class aspects, the feelings of inferiority and the consciousness of the importance of wage work for bodies, individuals, societies – yes, the whole damned planet. However, "my" aesthetic is very different from the classic Swedish working class literature. And we have different relationships toward modernity. Then: a linear, progressive, "from darkness we move toward the light." Now: an imperialistic dynamic without outsides, without another horizon.


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Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has left Leicester City, the English Championship club said on Monday.
The 63-year-old Swede joined Leicester in October 2010 and although the team have struggled for consistency early in the season, they are just eight points off the top of the table.
"Leicester City Football Club has confirmed today that, by mutual agreement, Sven-Goran Eriksson has ceased to be the first team manager, with immediate effect," the club said in a statement on their website.
The Midlands club are 13th in the second division standings following a 3-0 home defeat by Millwall on Saturday. First-team coach Derek Fazackerley has also left the club.
"The club and its board of directors would like to thank Sven and Derek for the contribution they have made to Leicester City during their 13 months at King Power Stadium," the club said.
After making his name in Italy where he won the Serie A title with Lazio, Eriksson became the first foreigner to coach England when he was appointed in 2001, a position he held until 2006.
He has also had spells in charge of Italian clubs AS Roma, Fiorentina and Sampdoria, England's Manchester City and Notts County and the national teams of Mexico and Ivory Coast who he led to the 2010 World Cup.
Former Leicester, Celtic and Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill is among the names being linked with the vacant manager's job.
Academy director Jon Rudkin and coach Mike Stowell will jointly assume the role of acting manager.


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You will play a key part in designing and overseeing TGI's research harmonisation strategy. This will involve liaising closely and regularly with our partners around the world to ensure that global best-practice in design and methodology is adopted within the TGI services of our Partners and then delivered to end-clients. You will also work closely with other parts of the Product team to achieve this.
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Within Kantar Media, you will work as part of the TGI Product team, which is responsible for ensuring that the methodology of the TGI studies worldwide is strategically fit for the changing demands of our increasingly international and digital client-base.
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NEW YORK -- With the $5 billion acquisition of business intelligence provider Cognos formally concluded last Thursday, IBM wasted no time unveiling a slew of new products and its plan for integrating the company into its information-on-demand (IOD) strategy.
Addressing analysts and press in the rooftop suite of the St. Regis Hotel here in Midtown Manhattan, Steve Mills, IBM's software group executive, heralded Cognos as the culmination of two years of acquisitions and initiatives to improve how companies store, organize, retrieve and visualize data.
"The Cognos acquisition completes [an] end-to-end set of capabilities IBM can offer," Mills said, adding quickly that IBM would continue its aggressive pursuit of the business-optimization market. "It's not just the roadmap we've been on -- it's the roadmap going forward."
Through purchases of companies like FileNet, Princeton and Solid Information Technologies, IBM amassed the core information-management and in-memory database infrastructure to build a suite of dynamic business-data storage solutions scalable to companies of all sizes.
But Big Blue still lacked one element. Cognos delivers the visualization and reporting that allow companies to peer into their data to make better business decisions -- "the top of the iceberg that carries the whole thing forward," Mills said.
Because IBM and Cognos both use open standards and architectures, businesses can tap their tools to aggregate "any data, anywhere, [using] any application," he said.
That's fortunate, since according to IBM, enterprises face a lack of advanced BI and IOD tools.
While every business that IBM consults with has a clear idea of what products they want to put in place to improve operational inefficiencies, they rarely have a vision for their "information agenda," said Ambuj Goyal, IBM's general manager of information management software.
For IBM, that is the difference between business automation and business optimization.
Slippery terms, to be sure, but Goyal summed it up in brief: "Information on demand is about unlocking the business value of information."
The goal is to level the barriers created when an organization's data is siloed, said Rob Ashe, who previously served as Cognos's CEO before assuming the position of vice president of IBM's newly created Business Intelligence and Performance Management division.
Ashe said a unified BI application produces "coordinated decision making." For instance, it can ensures a company's marketing and customer service departments are able to access the same information packaged in a customizable, user-friendly dashboard.
He will have 35,000 employees across IBM's three major units of software, hardware and services supporting the BI efforts that he is to lead. Cognos' operations will remain in Ottawa.
When BI companies like Cognos burst on the scene, they offered "whiz-bang reporting," Marc Andrews, IBM's director of IOD and Cognos integration marketing, told InternetNews.com.
Yet, two reports could produce wildly differing data, he said. As a result, the problem of flashy but faulty data representations highlighted the precariousness of the standalone BI industry.
That's where IBM came in. Cognos will become the face of IBM's underlying IOD campaign, advancing its business-optimization services for companies of all sizes.
Business optimization -- what Ashe called the "marrying of future data with historic data to get a complete picture" -- is the fastest-growing segment of IBM's industry, the executives said.
IBM wasn't the first enterprise computing powerhouse to recognize the need to add BI capabilities. The acquisition followed SAP's $6.7 billion bid for Business Objects in October, and Oracle's $3.3 billion purchase of Hyperion last March.
Fortunately for IBM, a 15-year relationship between it and Cognos, and the open standards and architecture that each uses, has helped it move quickly to integrate the smaller company into its operating structure.
"They fit hand and glove," Ashe said, noting that the buyout received approval of 99 percent of Cognos' shareholders.
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Installing software on Ubuntu Linux
If you want to use Linux for music production, you'll obviously have to know some important things about Linux as well. One of the most helpful things to keep in mind when using Linux is that there are almost always choices how to go about things. And this includes installing software. I realised that in my article about selecting Linux music production software I didn't mention how to actually install the software. And here you have lots of choices as well. As always, with choices come responsibilities, and the main responsibility here is understanding what's happening. Different distributions use different tools for this process, so I will use the Ubuntu tools as an example (but even in Ubuntu there are more ways than described here). Let's get started:
Contributing to Linux music software
In Selecting Linux music production software I outlined several ways in which you can contribute to the software you use, and thus help Linux for music forward. But I forgot about one way that was brought to my attention a few days ago. Let me provide you with some background first: most open source initiatives are projects done by dedicated people with a passion for their project and who work on the projects whenever time permits. Quite a few projects are backed by universities and corporations, providing talents, resources and often money. Why do I bring this up? Read on to find out:
The Ubuntu pocket guide
I discovered a handy guide for Ubuntu: the "Ubuntu pocket guide & reference". It's a nice little book (170 pages in pdf format), written by Keir Thomas who wrote several Ubuntu and Linux books. For musicians contemplating the transition to Linux for music it could be a very valuable download (especially since it is free!). Read on for a little review of this book:
Linux? What Linux?
(This post is geared towards musicians who are not yet familiar with using Linux for music production - or Linux in general for that matter.)
If you want to start working with Linux, it is important to realise that in most cases you don't install Linux itself. Instead you install a Linux distribution. A distribution is a 'package' containing a Linux kernel (the core of the system), device drivers, an installation utility, a graphical user interface, resources for installing applications, etc. Basically the creators of the distribution have made a lot of choices for you to make your life easier. And there are quite a few different distributions, hence the title of the article, which you can now read as: "Linux? Which distribution?" Here's how to go about selecting a distribution...


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During the Q&A of Artifact at the Toronto Film Festival, Jared said " We're not anti corporation, we're not anti company. We're anti-greed"
Well with the new Adventures In Wonderland formerly known The one and only Golden Ticket. The following has ensued.
Since The One And Only Golden Tickets (GT), now called Adventures In Wonderland (AIW) never allowed pictures or video recording during their Meet & Greet sessions, no one but those who have previously attended knows what happens during those events, so let's make a quick summary…
During the This is War tour , a GT meant that you would queue for hours prior to the meeting time (yes, we DO queue for hours too, despite having early entry, because there were around 100-200 GT's sold per show and with only half the stage available for GT holders, you were not secured a front row spot) and when the hostess arrived, she would take you inside, give you a color wristband depending on your package and you would go into the venue to wait again till the GA holders were let in. When the show finished, you would be taken inside a room, sometimes with no access to a toilet, given your bag, poster, laminate and the hostess would then give tell the crowd the rules. The group was to spread out in a circle, no cameras or cellphones allowed (or they would take them), have your item that you wanted signed out and ready, oh and only once signature per band member. After a while the guys would come into the room and sometimes Jared would stand in the middle of the group and chat for a little while at this time Shannon and Tomo would hang back in the back of the room and goof around and just have fun. Then they would start signing (usually having Shannon and Tomo going clockwise, and Jared alone going counter-clockwise). The 10 seconds it took for them to sign PLUS the few minutes they'd stop in order to collect the present you brought them were the only minutes you were given as a meet and greet. Which seems short for the amount of money, but it was usually quite fun, explaining to them why you were giving them those presents, why they were important or significant. After the round of signatures, they guys would pose for pictures. At this time we were told that we were only given one photo so if we wanted someone else in our photo that is the only photo we were going to have. Also, there was no hugging the band members. Again, we would all queue and get our picture taken, sometimes in between saying hi to the guys again, or while answering to one of the guys who asked you where you came from, etc, but ALWAYS WITH NO PRIOR WARNING from the photographer that the picture was about to be taken. And that was it! It was short, too damn short, but it was fun, and it was something we would recommend to others in a heartbeat. "WAS" is the key word here.
With 2013 we are now in the mist of a new album and a new tour. There was an issue with the fans about the increase of the prices in the GT's, but it was a bit understandable with the financial crisis, and Jared explained that the costs were for insurance, staffing, gift bags and that the band actually made nothing off of the GT. We were told by Jared himself that GT's would change, they would be more "limited in order to make them intimate and personal" https://twitter.com/JaredLeto/status/270563971768143872 . We, the fans were satisfied with that at that time. We understood that things cost more, and if they were going to be fewer people than yes a higher price, but it wouldn't be the 100+ people in each M&G as it was before. Less tiring for them, maybe a bit more time to just goof around. Ah but then changes started to happen…
For some unknown reason Golden Tickets (GT) became Adventure in Wonderland (AIW) and once some of the tour dates were listed, the new AIW packages were listed and included the following:
- Ticket to the show
- Early Entry (skip the long lines)
- Meet and Greet with individual photo with Thirty Seconds To Mars
- Pre-signed poster with all three band members signatures
- Exclusive merch pack including: t-shirt, commemorative laminate, mars tote
- Golden Ticket concierge
Pre-signed poster means that the guys will no longer sign anything in person (let's hope it doesn't mean the signatures will also be printed, then it would be a total rip off!). Some people seemed ok with this, they thought it would save some time during the M&G which they could spend talking to us while we were giving them our presents, etc. While others weren't too happy with the idea. What if instead of the poster, you wanted another picture signed because you love that picture? Forget it. What if you wanted an album booklet signed? Forget it. What if you wanted one of your previous M&G pictures signed? Well, forget it! What if you wanted Shannon to sign in a different picture because your friend who lives in a remote island far away is a huge fan and you know she'll never get to meet him but you wanted to make her happy? Forget that as well!…..But we accepted that and no one complained.
Then AIW sent out an email to all of us who had purchased the VIP packages. Great news for they had added two new things to the list of features in the AIW packages. "Remarks from Thirty Seconds To Mars" and "Question and Answer period with Thirty Seconds To Mars". Sounds great huh? Oh but they added a PS at the end. "Due to security reasons giving gifts to the band personally is no longer possible. You have to label each present accordingly and they will collect them and give them to the band later". As any marketing worker will tell you, you have to sweeten things up if you are delivering bad news.
So, let's review this email. They add a Q+A and Remarks (for those of you who don't know, remarks from a band is simply when they enter the room they say hello to the group as a whole) no longer would there be any one on one meet and greet and the ability to present each member with a personal gift is now forbidden. Some people spend months making a gift for each member, their heart and soul is poured out into that gift. So basically now you don't get to MEET the group anymore, you are merely a member of the audience during a Q+A session. That's what a "boutique experience" means?
In a nutshell, everything that was the "special experience" has been taken away.
Jared said on the VyRT chat: "GT IS A LUXURY ITEM. ITS NOT JUST ABOUT MEETING THE BAND ITS THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE." and "GT IS NOT THE SAME AS COMING OUT THE BACK OF A VENUE AND SAYING HELLO. ITS AN ALL NIGHT EXPERIENCE THAT GIVES YOU UNPARALLELED ACCESS"…..The whole experience of what? unparalleled access Jared said " We're not anti corporation, we're not anti company. We're anti-greed to what exactly? We live the concert the same way GA holders who have queued for hours/days do. We get a t-shirt, a bag, a hello from the band to all of us as a group, a Q+A and a picture. That's it? Well, we paid for a MEET AND GREET, as it is stated in the AIW website. So where is the Meet and Greet?
Despite countless emails and tweets to AIW, the company owned by Jared Leto himself who organizes these GT's, we have received NO ANSWER as to if we would get to talk to the band face to face as we did in the past, and not only by the Q+A, or if the solutions offered regarding the gifting issue have been even considered, so we decided to let our voice be heard publically. This could have been so easily solved by replying to us.
We do not believe in nagging and complaining, but in offering solutions for the problems we are faced with, so here are some solutions that the Echelon have come up with:
1) MAIN ISSUE: GIFTING – AIW says "due to recent developments, there are significant concerns regarding security and gift giving. Unfortunately the band will not be able to accept gifts in person until further notice." Never has a fan given anything that could cause harm to the any of the band or the crew during a Meet and Greet. Therefore, this new arising issue is a non issue.
AIW SOLUTION: "If you are planning to bring a gift, please make sure it's labelled and we will have them all collected and distributed accordingly."
OUR CONCERN: Echelon spend MONTHS creating those gifts for the band. Often, those gifts need an explanation as to what they mean, or why they are especial. By not being able to give the gifts personally and explaining their meanings, you are making people feel they have wasted/will waste their time and effort in making them.
OUR SOLUTION: Collect all the presents when we enter the venue and have the concierge or security staff check each and every present while we are watching the show. When the show is done and all presents are safe and approved by AIW staff, allow us to deliver our presents PERSONALLY to the band.
2) ISSUE: Pre-signed poster
OUR CONCERN: Why pre-signed poster? Why can't it be a picture I choose or an album booklet or my previous M&G picture? Is it so people don't take they Haiti books or Notes From The Outernet books to get them signed? Since we know those are sold at a higher price at the Mars Merch Store. Also the posters are made of very poor quality and some fans travel far to these concerts. The posters do not travel well and are often even torn before leaving the venue.
We bought the Haiti, Vyrt, NFTO books AND paid for a GT, so what is the problem if I want MY book signed? That I would not pay for the signed version of the book from the store since I prefer to have it signed in person? Think about it: Unsigned NFTO book ($75) + GT ($400) = $475. Signed NFTO = $150. Boy, that's bad bad maths!
OUR SOLUTION: This is our Meet and Greet experience that we paid our hard-earned money for. Therefore, we should be able to have whatever we want signed by the band members.
3) ISSUE: The official photographs
OUR CONCERN: If you look through the archives, 30% of the M&G pictures are awful. People (both fans AND the band) with eyes closed, looking somewhere else, talking to each other… For a "special picture to remember a special moment", this should be something that should be taken seriously and professionally.
OUR SOLUTION: Either have the photographer to check each picture before the fan leaves, or shoot 2 or 3 times to make sure the photo will turn out right. This is something done by many bands, as seen in this KISS Meet & Greet fan video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdLL-5hY0BI
4) ISSUE: No pictures or video recording
OUR SOLUTION: ALL bands allow this at their M&G which is a nice bonus for those who cannot attend or are considering if it is worth it. What is the big deal? That people will actually see what happens at a M&G? Well, some cheeky fans actually recorded some videos, and here you can see Shannon's suggesting to the girls to take pictures during the M&G https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDUPbhgB-W4&NR=1
5) ISSUE: GT's restricted to Tomo's side
AIW SOLUTION: This was a GT problem before the name change to AIW, When apparently GA holders complained they couldn't get a front row spot despite queueing for hours, AIW decided to divide half the venue's barricades for GT holders and half for GA, which meant not all GT holders would get front row. 30 Seconds to Mars is the only band who punishes those who actually spend hundreds of dollars on VIP tickets by sectioning them off in either 1/2 to 1/3 of the barrier. Some shows the VIP people were in the far corner looking at speakers. The VIP'ers were always on Tomo's side,this in turn upset both the VIP and the GA fans as some wanted Shannon's side and others wanted Tomo's.
OUR SOLUTION: This one is easy, sell less GT's. But let's be honest, this is a business, and even though it was promised by Jared that GT's would be "VERY limited" this time (https://twitter.com/JaredLeto/status/270563971768143872) time will tell but AIW has already added more packages to some of the already sold out shows. Also, Jared said they would look into the whole Tomo vs Shannon's side (https://twitter.com/JaredLeto/status/270557421141893120)
While 30 Seconds to Mars was on hiatus the GT started doing VIP's for other bands, The Jonas Brothers, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie to name a few. The prices for the packages were half the cost of the of 30 Seconds to Mars. Additionally, the packages included, sound check, 3-5 pictures, hugs and lots of joking and laughs.
During the Q&A of Artifact at the Toronto Film Festival, Jared said " We're not anti corporation, we're not anti company. We're anti-greed"
If this is indeed the case, then how come the AIW packages are 250$ for a non Meet and Greet but just an early entry and a gift bag? Lets say the ticket costs 50$, does this gift bag contain 200$ worth of product? There is no added insurance, crew or any of the extra costs that Jared said were the reason for the higher rates.
The next package is 350$ and that is the basic package, on floor general admission
The next package is 700$ and the difference is that you sit on the side of the stage. You get to look at the back of Tomo for the entire show.
And last but not least is the 900$ package which is sitting on the side of the stage and guaranteed on stage for Kings and Queens. So you see the back of the band the entire time, then come out on stage and get shoved to the back of the stage by the people who paid 25$ and were picked by the management because they have nice boobs or are guys and are now in front.
So where is the great experience, what are we taking home with this?
I will close again with the quote from Jared during the Q&A at Toronto Film Festival Jared said " We're not anti corporation, we're not anti company. We're anti-greed"
With these prices and the lack of special experience for the Adventures In Wonderland all that is seen here is greed.


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Gladiators! Did you catch the Scandal finale tonight? Well we did, and while there were the usual Shonda twists, this finale certainly could have used a little more fire, don't you think? So we're remixing it tonight with this steaming hot Scandal-inspired editorial shoot put together by our Coterie member Tara of Perfect Planning Events and a fabulous team of DC area Coterie members and wedding vendors.
Remember towards the end of the finale, when Jake let Olivia know that his "job was done?" Well, we were at the edge of our seats waiting for her to run into his arms and proclaim her undying love for him. But Shonda forgot to add that into the script so we took it upon ourselves to do a little editing! In this shoot, Jake and Olivia get married in perfect Olivia Pope style. From the sophisticated decor, including an intricately designed cake by Couture Cakes by Sabrina, to the carefully thought out details like the sparkly cake topper by Ten23 Designs, this shoot represents the perfect #Olake wedding. Enjoy these stunning photos by Keith Cephus Photography.
Planning/Design: Perfect Planning Events
Photographer - Keith Cephus Photography
Cake - Couture Cakes by Sabrina
Wedding Dress - Sondra Falk Couture
Tuxedo - House of Jonlei Atelier
Makeup - Shaune Hayes Makeup Artist
Hair - Leontyne Reaves
Floral Decor - Tierra Floral Design
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|This document is available in two formats: this web page (for browsing content) and PDF (comparable to original document formatting). To view the PDF you will need Acrobat Reader, which may be downloaded from the Adobe site. For an official signed copy, please contact the Antitrust Documents Group.
Carol VanLandingham
October 22, 2005
Antitrust Division
The MLS is a cooperative, broker-to-broker offer of cooperation and compensation that help both brokers and customers buy and sell homes. It is not a public utility, nor should it be. I have been a member of several MLS services over 26 years and I have never found them, to be unfair to the public, other realtors and their clients & customers.
The beauty of the MLS is that it allows real estate brokerages of every size to compete on a level playing field. It gives all of us access to an inventory of property listings that we are able to show and sell to our clients.
The MLS doesn't discriminate. All MLS members are treated equally, regardless of their size or their business model, and yet the rights of property owners and their listing brokers are respected. The rules of the MLS achieve a delicate balance between respecting the rights of listing brokers so they will continue to be willing to contribute their inventory of listings and permitting cooperating brokers the ability to show those listings and be assured of receiving compensation if they bring about a successful sale.
The new ILD policy is a win-win for both consumers and Realtors® It works for consumers because it gives home sellers a choice whether to permit marketing of their property on the Internet and in selecting an MLS member with whom they want to work. It allows them to "opt-in" and have their property displayed on other brokers' Web sites even if they are working with a broker who does not participate in sharing his listings for display by his competitors. And it works for REALTORS® because it gives us the right to control where our listings are displayed on the Internet.
The real estate industry is a model of competition that works. In an economy in which large, national corporations - such as Wal-Mart and Microsoft - dominate the marketplace, real estate stands apart. We are an industry made up predominantly of small businesses and independent contractors who represent the entrepreneurial spirit this country was founded on.
Barriers to entry are low. If you are willing to take the time to learn the business in your local market, pass the state license examination and adhere to the REALTOR® code of ethics, there is nothing to stand in the way of success in this industry. I had to learn the business and pass the state licensing examination, but it is my own work ethic, commitment to professional standards and dedication to client satisfaction that determine my success.
Even through the economic downturns our country has experienced in the past few years, our industry has continued to provide opportunity ~ something I would say is confirmed by the thousands of new agents that join our profession every year and the over 2 million Americans who are now licensed to provide professional real estate services in communities across the country.
Nothing encourages a competitive business environment more than providing consumers with choice. In the residential real estate marketplace, consumers not only are able to choose from more than 76,000 brokerage firms and more than 1.2 million REALTORS®, but also from a variety of business models.
Caroline H. Vanlandingham
RE/MAX Executive


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For me, my hair care does not just stopped after shampooing and conditioning my hair. Leave on hair treatment has become a must after I stepped out from shower.
With the constant blow drying, heat styling and dyeing of hair, I know that my hair is not in the tip-top condition, my hair has been dry and brittle. Some of these everyday habits can put stress on our hair and impact its health and appearance.
The 5 Hair Stress Brothers are telling us that our hair is missing out something essential.
With the constant blow drying, heat styling and dyeing of hair, I know that my hair is not in the tip-top condition, my hair has been dry and brittle. Some of these everyday habits can put stress on our hair and impact its health and appearance.
Good morning, this was how I looked every morning when I woke up. Argh, I need to get rid of my bedhead caused by pillow friction before I step out of house.
Why does my hair has so much problems?
The hair problems are caused by the above 5 Hair Stress Brothers.
External environmental factors and our own personal habits contributes to stresses to our hair. Aww, I definitely don't want my hair to be as dry and brittle as them.
Let's see the individual cause:
1. Blow drying: Heat damage/friction
I always like to blow dry my hair after shower because I cannot stand having wet hair, it makes me feel comfortable. Since I have long hair, it takes longer time for my hair to be completely dry. However, blow-drying is unhealthy for our hair because it removes moisture from the hair, leaving hair dry, brittle and susceptible for further damage.
2. Combing: Friction to the hair cuticles
Gosh, I am guilty of this because I love combing my hair so that it looked neat.
Who knows combing wet hair will cause great hair damage as the hair follicle is at is most fragile state and coming through dry hair can form hair knots which makes hair prone to unnecessary breakage?
3. Split Ends: Fraying of hair shaft
The ends of your hair are the oldest and driest parts. When the protective hair cuticle is destroyed at the end of the hair, the hair splits into two or more parts. A problem that I always encounter.
4. Hair Breakage
Besides daily heat styling, blow drying and brushing, other seemingly harmless actions like tying your hair into a tight ponytail or twirling your hair with your fingers exert excessive stress on your hair, resulting in hair breakage.
5. Dryness: Dry hair that feels rough
Exposure to the sun, wind or even air-conditioning can result in hair dryness. The hair cuticle that protects the hair is weakened and is unable to retain moisture within the cuticles of the hair. I always focus protection on skin, but totally neglect the fact that our hair need protection too.
How can I get rid of the 5 hair stresses and pillow friction hair to achieve the neat and tidy look that I want?
Essential CC Oil & Night Care Milk to the rescue.
I have been a loyal user of Essential haircare, I am currently using Essential Light Finish Volumizing shampoo and conditioner. Now added 2 more Essential hair products to my shelf for daily use.
Essential CC Oil (60ml)
Retail Price: S$11.90
BB and CC cream have been a common term used in skincare, but how about CC oil?
The 'CC' in the new Essential CC Oil stands for Cuticle Care.
It shares the same 'multi-functional' concept of BB or CC Cream in skincare. 1 BB/CC cream has numerous functions, it provides moisturize, cover blemishes, brighten skin and protect our skin from harmful UV rays.
CC Oil shares the same concepts where 1 oil protects your hair from 5 hair stresses.
When apply on hair, CC Oil forms a protective coat around each hair strand and protects our hair from the 5 hair stresses, leaving us with more beautiful, less tangles and manageable hair. It contains Hair Supplement Oil, which is similar to hair's natural oil. It can be applied on towel-dried or damp hair, and can be reapplied any time of the day. For optimum results, use after Essential shampoo and conditioner
Pump an appropriate amount onto palm
Spread and apply evenly onto hair, concentrating on mid-length to the tip of hair. No need to rinse off.
Tadaa, the result of application vs non-application.
My review:
Sweet fragrance is a plus point to attract me. I love the smell that linger on my hair after application. The CC Oil was fast absorbed into my hair cuticle and leave no greasy behind. It smoothed my frizzy hair end, my hair has become more manageable. It moisturized my hair, making it soft upon touch and giving it a silky finish.
Essential Night Care Milk (100ml)
Retail Price: S$11.90
Hair care treatment for the night.
The Essential Night Care Milk protects the hair from "Pillow Friction" by leaving a protective coat around each hair strand and prevent misaligned cuticles when hair rubs against the pillowcase.
Do you know that when you toss and turn at night, there is friction between your hair and the pillow, causing the cuticles to be misaligned?
This is known as pillow friction. Misaligned cuticles creates frizz, resulting in the fabulous lion's mane the next morning. We have no choice but to wake up earlier to wash and blow dry their hair in the morning before going to work.
With Essential Night Care Milk, it intensively repairs and moisturises the hair in the wee hours of the night. Coupled with cuticle coat protection ingredients, its rich yet non- greasy milk formula weightlessly leaves hair smooth and manageable the next morning. It can be applied on damp or dry hair before going to bed.
Same procedure as Essential CC Oil, pump an appropriate amount onto palm and apply evenly onto hair, concentrating on mid-length to tip of hair.
The light scented Night Care Milk helped to tame my frizzy hair and there was only minimum tangle when comb through my hair the next morning. Just apply Essential CC Oil and I am ready to step out of house.
The Essential CC Oil and Essential Night Care Milk promise gorgeous, healthy and manageable hair all day long, even as we sleep peacefully at night. Totally in love with them. You can purchase them from Cold Storage, Giant, Guardian, Isetan Supermarket, Meidi-ya Supermarket, NTUC, Sheng Siong and Watsons.
Something to share with all of you.
Essential Singapore is giving out weekly prizes for the top scorer of Essential's Mane Hero Facebook game. You will stand a chance to win Mane-Friendly hamper.
Click here to play the game: https://apps.facebook.com/essentialmanehero/
You duty is to combat the 5 evil Hair Stress Brothers and Pesky Pillow King. Imagine you are Mane Hero, move the Essential basket left and right to catch the powerful hair treatments to gain points. If you catch 5 evil Hair Stress Brothers and Pesky Pillow King in the basket, you will lose points.
Have fun playing and hope you win the prizes.


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When Secretary Hillary Clinton sought to mobilize millennial voters, she held a rally with Al Gore in Florida and focused heavily on climate change.
On one level, this is a curious move. Al Gore's presidential bid was in 2000, when very few millennials (a generation born between 1982 and 2000) were even old enough to vote. In addition, relatively few young people say "the environment and climate change" is the most important issue to them this year. And climate change has received almost no attention in the debates, nor much media coverage in major outlets.
So why focus on climate change as part of the final push to mobilize millennials, many of whom are still recovering from the emotional roller coaster of Bernie Sanders' rousing but ultimately unsuccessful campaign?
To find the answer, I analyzed data from Tufts University's Tisch College/CIRCLE Pre-Election Millennial Poll that explored millennials' attitudes toward a variety of issues, institutions, movements and candidates.
The data show that climate change is one of the very few issues that most millennials can get behind this election season, even though it doesn't rank as the top concern. Whether enough millennials will turn out in large numbers or influence the result of the election still remains to be seen. But the data show that climate change in the future has the potential to be a unifying issue across party lines, and one that millennials can directly connect to their personal lives.


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SENATOR and eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao arrives in Los Angeles for his press conference to announce his comeback – after a short-lived retirement – and welterweight bout against Jessie Vargas which will be held November 5, 2016 at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The wildly popular Pacquiao retired after beating Tim Bradley in April this year.
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Soul sensation, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, will bring all their smash hits from the 70s, 80s and 90s for one unforgettable night at DeVos Performance Hall on Saturday, September 10th at 8PM. The performance is scheduled in part by the diligence of the Grand Rapids-Kent County Convention/Arena Authority's Community Inclusion Group (CIG) to provide more diverse programming at the downtown venues.
For any standard, one of the most talented self-contained bands of the past thirty years has been Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly. With their ability to fuse a groove of soul, jazz and mature lyrics that many find addicting, perhaps the band's best ability is to adapt that solid groove through time. Yet despite their adaptability, it is their commitment to Soul's basics that has gained them an extremely loyal following among Soul music fans and great respect among their performing peers. The Maze featuring Frankie Beverly concert is part of a commitment that Steve Heacock, the Grand Rapids-Kent County Convention/Arena Authority Chairman, and the CAA, along with the Community Inclusion Group, have all made to bring entertainment for people of color in the West Michigan Community. We expect that there will be more entertainment to come," said CIG Chair, Darius Quinn. "We thank Steve Heacock and the CAA board for recognizing the need and helping us to fill the board."
The Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly catalog sales are still very strong and far better than many of their contemporaries. The strong album sales are a testament to Maze's timeless music and a sound that remains fresh and relevant today. Beyond their relevance, the loyalty form their fans is also a testament to their unrivaled pension for touring—playing crowds worldwide for over thirty years, despite not releasing an album since the early 90s! In that time, the band has been out on the road with the likes of Marvin Gaye, Anita Baker and Natalie Cole to name a few. Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly has had close to thirty hit singles since their 1977 debut, nine of which have been Top 10 R&B charted singles including classics like "Running Away," "Love Is The Key," and "Can't Get Over You." Eight of the groups 10 albums have gone gold, all the way from their self-titled 1977 Capitol Records debut to the 1993 Warner Bros. album, "Back To Basics."
Tickets are $51.50, $61.50, $71.50, and $87.50 and go on sale Monday, May 2nd at 10AM. Tickets may be purchased at the DeVos Place and Van Andel Arena box offices, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and by phone at 1-800-745-3000.
GROUPS OF 10+ SAVE $5 PER TICKET! To order group tickets email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 616-742-6185. Group discounted tickets are available until September 2, 2011.


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Make a Donation
Open Door is a charity and depends on regular donations and funding support in order to carry out its work with young people and parents.
The demand for all of Open Door's services has increased and so have the costs associated with providing a highly professional and accountable service. We aim to provide an accessible and responsive service but the length of our waiting list means that many young people face a significant wait to receive the help that they so desperately need.
- £1 will pay for a trained member of staff to take a telephone enquiry from a depressed young person and explain whether Open Door might be able to help.
- £5 will pay for a trained member of Open Door's staff to carry out an initial telephone assessment of a young person who is feeling depressed and who ring's us seeking help.
- £30 will pay for a depressed young person to talk face to face with an Open Door therapist who is specially trained to help them.
- £30 will pay for a parent /carer or parent couple to have to have face to face assessment with a specially trained therapist.
- £100 will pay for a young person to attend 3 sessions with a trained therapist.
- £100 will pay for a parent / carer or couple to have 3 face to face therapy sessions.
- £200 will pay for parent /carer or couple to complete 6 session short-term intervention
- £500 will pay for a young person to complete medium-term interventions of 15 therapy sessions.
- £600 will allow 3 families to benefit from complete PTP interventions consisting of 6 sessions each.
If you would like to make a donation, here's how:
1) Online – click the button in the sidebar on the right to go to our page on Virgin Money Giving which is a not-for-profit website set up to help charities raise funds.
2) Direct Debit – email us at email@example.com, or call us on 020 8348 5947, to request a Direct Debit form which you can submit to your bank in order to make a regular donation.
3) By cheque payable to Open Door – send to Open Door, 12 Middle Lane, Crouch End, London N8 8PL
Become a Friend of Open Door
By becoming a Friend of Open Door, you will be making a huge difference to the lives of young people. You will also become part of an engaged and valued group of Open Door Friends. Benefits include:
- A twice yearly newsletter to let you know how our work is going.
- Opportunities to share your thoughts about developing our work.
- An invitation to our annual Friends of Open Door social gathering.
- An acknowledgement of your support, should you agree, by naming you as a donor on a dedicated webpage.
If you would like to join, you can print off the Become a Friend Form, sign it and return by post or phone 0208 348 5947 with your details.
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You can make an additional donation at no extra cost to you. If you pay income tax, we can claim an additional 25p of Gift Aid from the Government for every £1 you donate. If you donate online, Virgin Money Giving will collect the Gift Aid on our behalf. If you make a donation by Direct Debit or cheque, please complete a Gift Aid Form.
Financial support for Open Door's services is dependent on contributions raised from Charitable Trusts and Foundations, Statutory (government) Funding Bodies, Corporate Donors and individuals. Grants raised from charitable sources and the National Lottery account for over 50% of Open Door's income. Grants and contracts with local government and the NHS made up the rest of our income. The income needed each year to meet the costs of running Open Door services is over £300,000.


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Tulip skirts are pretty! American Apparel has the tulip skirt that I want. Hell, American Apparel has everything I want. Except him...
Today was a crap school day. We got our shots and the HPV vaccine. I needed three fucking shots! Arms (yes notice the plural arms) hurt like a bitch. It was the HPV vaccine that hurt the most, but now all shots are starting to take an effect on muh arm.
Shit, I'm scared 'cos my friend said that we're samples and that they're testing the HPV on us. Why the fuck did my mother sign the consent form... I'm fucking scared. It's like drugs... doctors said they were totally healthy and it wasn't 'till like a decade or two later that they found out that drugs were actually unhealthy for us. What if the vaccine has like some kind of negative effect on me and doctors won't find out about it in a couple years? Fuck, am I going to die? Will my babies become disabled?
God, I hope not. And if I am, I am gonna sue someone.


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Top Picks here.
Just a reminder that we are looking for new members for our Design Team. Please see the tab at the top of our page for full details. If you'd like to be considered, please put DT after your name when you enter your card.
This DT call also runs through the first week of our next challenge. If you want a bit more time to make your project, please see our DT Call Details tab for a sneak peek of our next challenge, which is a sketch.


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Bunk Bed King, Factory Bunk Beds.com, Flexa and Manual Agent all have an assortment of instructions for assembling bunk beds. Manual Agent is a third-party website that compiles manuals for products from many companies including Ikea.
Bunk Bed King, Factory Bunk Beds.com and Flexa are all websites for individual furniture manufacturers. These websites carry assembly instructions specifically for that company's bunk beds.
Flexa offers instructional videos to teach customers how to assemble their bunk beds, as well as other furniture. There are two videos for bunk bed assembly on the site, as of April 2015. The videos are each about 22 minutes long and depict a person assembling the bunk bed, so a customer can easily follow along in real time.
Bunk Bed King offers a range of instructional manuals for assembling bunk beds. Each of these instructional manuals comes as a PDF. The files can be printed out for easier use. The manuals on this website also contain safety tips and specifications for proper bedding, as well as mattresses to be used with each bed frame. The manuals offered on FactoryBunkBeds.com are similar.
Manual Agent compiles images from assembly manuals for various products from a myriad of companies. These are available in PDF form or as an online slide show.


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10 Million Xiaomi Mi Bands Shipped In First Three Quarters of 2015
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Xiaomi launched the Mi Band fitness wearable accessory last year in July priced at $13 (84 Yuan) and it is still selling like hot cakes. First three quarters of 2015 has recorded 10 Million Units in sales of Mi Band which shows the popularity of the fitness wearable among the masses.
Xiaomi has further revealed that over 600,000 units of Mi Band were shipped to Taiwan during the period between January to September this year. This data reveals how much people care about their well being in today's busy schedule.
Mi Band strengthened Xiaomi's position in the wearable segment.
Xiaomi Mi Band comes with fitness monitor and sleep tracker that can regulate the busy lifestyle. The highlight feature of this band is that you can unlock your smartphone with this band. It also comes with 30 day standby time.
Market research firm IDC has released a report which states that Xiaomi Mi Band sales has increased over 800% over the last year which indicates Xiaomi is going strong in its wearable segment.
Earlier this year Xiaomi released an upgraded version of Mi Band 1S which comes equipped with optical heart rate monitor that was lacking in the original Xiaomi Mi Band.


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Herrooooo famiryyyy!!
how is everything going?? Sounds like you had a good week and you got a a nice round of golf in. Dad im loving all the pics you have been sending me! Tell cars im lovin that mullet, that thing is greasy haha. Im glad Blue Devil has finally gotten finished, took long enough. I cant wait to play it when I get back though. I love
the pic of Wilde and all the boys haha, isnt he gonna be finished soon??
My week was pretty decent. We struggled on the missionary side of things we only had 1 lesson. It was with 2 guys with Bible College degrees so it was kind of a mess. I kind of just sat there and nodded my head the whole time acting like I knew what was going on haha Ya i basically know nothing about the bible. It kind of sucks being in the bible belt for my first area, but it will prepare me for the rest of my mission. Nothing too exciting happened this week, we basically just did a lot of trackting. We were able to go to the Haras last night for dinner which is always fun. Elder Lawter and I are gonna play tennis as much as possible this week so we can work Brother Hara next Monday. I think he beat us in 6 straight sets last Monday it was a gong show haha.
Transfers are coming up soon they are on the 30th and The L dog will probably be out of here. Im hoping I stay here in Abbotsford for another transfer though. Im really starting to like the ward and getting to know people. Brother Noftle is gonna get us more involved with the young men which should be fun. I figure once Im senior companion I can make the work a lot more enjoyable. I will get way more involved with the ward, and look for ways to enjoy missionary work. I know this is the hardest part of my mission, so im just trying my best to get through it. As the biebs puts it "we can go no where but up, from here my dear"
I would love to see Auntie Kim and Abbey, I will ask the zone leaders then I can get a member to text you to tell you its alright. Then you can text Auntie Kim my number or something. That would be awesome seeing them though, I could give them some of my stuff I dont need as well!
Ya Pres Tilleman just changed the rule on dinner appointments. We are allowed to have them, but there has to be a less active or non member there. We cant just go over and eat with a family. Thats one of my favourite things about missionary work.
As far as Pdays go ive been looking for some hikes or something cool we could do in the area.
But were gonna play some more tennis today which should be sweet! I also try to play as much bball on the new mini hoop as possible which keeps me sane haha that thing is the bees knees!!
Well I gotta roll, hope all is well in the YYC i miss you all soooooo much and love you too the moon and back.
Peace and loveeeeee
Your Favorite Son
Elder Spencer Steele
His companion in the MTC!
He got to spend some time with his best friend Josh Garry!! Such a blessing!


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I am having the least sleep and rest EVER, and it might have something to do with a little butterball!
Anyway I am noticing dark circles, fine lines and dark circles appearing extra fast. Whilst I try and find an super charged eye cream, I am also all about the concealing at the moment.
I spotted this super cute set from The Face Shop and had to buy – a Bye Bye Dark Circle Concealer which comes in a pen form and a Bright Pact Setting Powder (you have to buy separately but they are part of the same range).
The concealer contains Kiwi and Broccoli extract (apparently) and offers sun protection (SPF 30), anti wrinkle and whitening properties at the same time.
The packaging is tres cute; I love it. The pen is the same size as regular pen type concealers and the powder is a slightly small powder which comes with a sponge.
The concealer is a very light textured pale salmon colour. It actually love eye brightener type pens in this salmon colour which brighten the eye area without looking heavy or unnatural. The light texture doesn't settle into lines and makes the eye area feel hydrated and glowy.
The powder is a very pile light whitish pink. The texture is smooth although it's slightly powdery. It's made to set the make up and adds extra brightness.
So here's how it goes – bare scary eye:
Applying the concealer:
My area feels a lot brighter – I don't know if this would work for mega dark eye circles and discolouration or for people with dark skin tones – I think it could come up a bit ashy.
On it's own I am happy with the finish as I like a soft glow. The powder is a nice texture and adds a bit of brightness. However I think it looks slightly cakey but I do have extremely dry skin.
I am a fan of the Bye Bye Dark Circle Concealer – it makes my eyes feel really hydrated and soft and really brightens things up but without looking unnatural – sometimes concealer looks so racoony when people overdo it.
The powder is nice but I can't say I like it enough to repurchase it. It's nice having a brightening powder but I don't like anything look cakey under my eyes and in a way, my regular face powder will keep everything a bit more balanced and evened out.
Purchased from eBay for £6-8 each.
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Staff Attorney, Coal
Earthjustice is now accepting applications for a Staff Attorney to join our team of lawyers and advocates who are using the power of the law to speed the transition of our nation's energy system away from dirty fossil fuels and to promote clean energy in its stead. The position will be based in our soon-to-be-opened Chicago office.
Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit environmental law organization. We take on the biggest, most precedent-setting cases across the country. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people's health; to preserve magnificent places and wildlife; to advance clean energy; and to combat climate change. We partner with thousands of groups, supporters, individuals, and communities to engage the critical environmental issues of our time and bring about positive change. We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer.
Founded in 1971, Earthjustice has a distinguished track record of achieving significant, lasting environmental protections. We achieve this by hiring people who share a passion for justice and a healthy environment. Our headquarters are in San Francisco with offices in Anchorage, Juneau, Los Angeles, Tallahassee, Miami, Honolulu, New York, Philadelphia, Denver, Seattle, Bozeman, and Washington, DC.
The Coal Program uses hard-hitting litigation and administrative advocacy to work to end our nation's reliance on dirty, expensive, and outdated coal-fired power, and to transform our country's energy sector into one that is clean, renewable, and modern. Our docket includes litigation to secure and strengthen stringent environmental standards for coal plants, lawsuits challenging government or industry failure to implement such standards, and challenges to utility proposals to spend hundreds of millions of dollars or more on aging coal plants rather than investing in clean energy. Pursuant to our goal of transitioning the nation to 100% clean energy, the Coal Program is also increasingly challenging proposals for new gas-fired power plants. For more information about the Coal Program, please visit http://earthjustice.org/about/offices/coal
Interested candidates should submit a:
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Please reach out to firstname.lastname@example.com if you are having technical difficulties submitting your application. No phone calls, drop-ins, or hard copies.
Earthjustice is driven by a passion for justice, partnership, and excellence. Our core values lead us to seek a broad range of perspectives and backgrounds to achieve our mission and to maintain an inclusive environment where all staff are valued and respected. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to employment practices that ensure that employees and applicants for employment are provided with equal opportunities without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other factor that is not related to the position.
For positions located within the City and County of San Francisco: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
For positions located within the City of Los Angeles: We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
Additional Salary Information: We offer a mission- and employee-focused work environment and a competitive compensation package, including excellent benefits. Earthjustice is an equal opportunity employer and highly values diversity.
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Credit check when renting a house
Following are some important steps for Renting a House with No Credit Check
1. Look for houses in your price range and desired location by scouring "houses for rent" ads, online classifieds and looking for rental signs in your desired neighborhood.
2. Call about the houses that most interest you and find out more information, such as number of bedrooms, monthly utility costs, available amenities, required deposits and unique aspects of the house for rent.
3. Schedule appointments with landlords to visit the houses you would like to follow up about. Often, they will have a set time to show the house to prospective renters. Plant to come at the beginning of this time frame so as to get your application in ahead of the crowd and make the best possible impression.
4. Bring your identification, proof of income, rental history and a list of professional references with you when you look at the houses for rent.
5. Make a good impression on your future landlord. Dress respectfully, present yourself well, and most of all, let the landlord know that you
pay your rent on time and can afford the rent for the house. Ask if you can add to the landscaping by planting flowers--landlords love to know that their tenants will add to the property value and not detract from it.
6. Ask for an application. Fill it out and return it on the spot if possible. If there is a request for a credit report or credit check, politely ask if that could be waived if your rental history and income check out. Explain that you have some blips on your credit that you're working to repair and that you are an exemplary tenant and will keep the place in top shape and always pay on time.
7. Give the landlord your proof of income, rental history and references. Ask when you should expect to hear back and let him know that you're excited about renting the house. Believe it or not, many private landlords go with a "gut" feeling when choosing renters. Make a good first impression, and your credit check will likely be waived.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (April 29, 2014) – The Salvation Army has completed its first 24 hours of disaster response in the central Arkansas area. Since Monday morning, The Salvation Army has provided 566 prepared meals, 1,362 drinks and 540 snacks to survivors and first responders in Arkansas.
On Tuesday, The Salvation Army deployed six canteens to the following locations:
• West Little Rock: Kanis Command Post, 34106 Kanis Road
• Vilonia: Dollar General Store, 1100 Main Street
• Mayflower: Mayflower City Hall, 2 Ashmore Street
• Two roving canteens serving affected areas in Vilonia
• One roving canteen serving affected area in Mayflower
As severe weather continues to impact the Deep South, The Salvation Army is deploying additional disaster response teams to assess damage and provide food, drinks, and emotional and spiritual care to communities in Alabama and Mississippi impacted by last night's storms. The Salvation Army is serving survivors and first responders in communities such as Tupelo, Miss., where a mobile kitchen served more than 600 meals last night and Pearl, Miss., where two mobile kitchens from The Salvation Army's Jackson, Miss., corps are active. Other feeding units are being activated in other hard-hit communities across the two states.
To support relief and long-term recovery efforts:
• Visit SalvationArmyUSA.org or call 1-800-SAL-ARMY (1-800-725-2769)
• Text the word "STORM" to 80888 to make a $10 donation through your mobile phone; to confirm your gift, respond with the word "Yes"*
• https://donate.salvationarmyusa.org/uss/april2014
• Donations in the form of checks designated to "April 2014 Tornado Relief" may be mailed to:
The Salvation Army Disaster Relief
P.O. Box 1959
Atlanta, GA 30301
For more information on The Salvation Army's response, visit blog.salvationarmyusa.org, facebook.com/salvationarmyusa or twitter.com/salvationarmyus.
*A one-time donation of $10 will be added to your mobile phone bill or deducted from your prepaid balance. Message and data rates may apply. All charges are billed by and payable to your mobile service provider. Service is available on Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. All purchases must be authorized by account holder. By participating, you certify that you are 18 years or older and/or have parental permission. Donations are collected for The Salvation Army and subject to the terms found at igfn.org/t. Privacy policy: igfn.org/p. Text STOP to 80888 to stop; text HELP to 80888 for help.
About The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army, an evangelical part of the universal Christian church established in London in 1865, has been supporting those in need in His name without discrimination for more than 130 years in the United States. Nearly 30 million Americans receive assistance from The Salvation Army each year through a range of social services: providing food for the hungry, relief for disaster victims, assistance for the disabled, outreach to the elderly and ill, clothing and shelter for the homeless, and opportunities for underprivileged children. Eighty-two cents of every dollar The Salvation Army spends is used to support those services in 5,000 communities nationwide. For more information, visit SalvationArmyUSA.org.
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I have found a fool proof way to enjoy a fried dessert–guilt free! How? Serve a salad for dinner! No, I'm serious.
So what if you and I both know that salad dressings can be just as fattening as a juicy steak. I don't know how it happens, but anything mixed with lettuce tricks my brain into thinking it is a low fat healthy meal.
Hey, whatever works–works! 🙂
I call this a Cobb Salad, but It isn't exactly a true Cobb Salad. It's something we love to eat for dinner when the weather is hot.
We grill some boneless, skinless chicken breasts
fry some bacon
hard boil eggs
chop up romaine and iceberg lettuce
Bake some homemade croutons
slice and dice, hard boiled eggs, avacado, feta cheese, bacon, tomatoes, sunflower seeds, cucumbers, radish, and just about anything you love to eat–and mix it all together. Top it off with Ranch or Ceasar Salad dressing.
Very tasty!
Now for the cannolis!
This is the first time I've ever made the shells–I usually buy them at the Italian deli and make my own filling. Rolling these in the pasta roller proved to be a bit challenging at first, then I realized if I roll them myself and then flatten them further in the pasta roller, things went smoother.
In the end, they turned out great, so I'm happy with the results. Mark said they were the best cannolis he had ever eaten. Who knew he didn't care for the boxed shells?
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BAA calls on Chancellor to repeal Aggregates Levy
British Aggregates Association says scrapping of the levy would assist Government growth agenda
THE British Aggregates Association (BAA) has written to the Chancellor, George Osborne, ahead of this month's Budget, calling for the Aggregates Levy to be repealed before the impending court case in April.
The Association says such a move would provide a welcome boost to growth in the beleaguered construction industry, not least in the public sector which uses more than half of UK aggregate output.
Currently, the Aggregates Levy is set to increase to £2.10 per tonne from 1 April 2013.
In his letter to the Chancellor, BAA Secretary Peter Huxtable reminds Mr Osborne that the quarrying sector has been operating some 40% below pre-recession output levels for more than five years, with little or no indication of any improvement in the foreseeable future.
The letter goes on to say that the Levy brings little, if any, net cash benefit to the public purse, but its removal would help protect jobs in the quarry sector, provide a welcome boost to the construction sector and send a strong signal that the Government is supporting growth nationally.
The BAA maintains that the Levy has no 'green tax' credentials and has not delivered any environmental benefits. The Association believes that, perversely, it has actually done the opposite by increasing transport miles and placing previously saleable lower-quality materials outside the market.
In conclusion, Mr Huxtable says repealing the Levy would not only assist with the Government growth agenda, but would also resolve the issues arising from the rulings from the EU General Court and the very specific problems relating to Northern Ireland.


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Qiang Du
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Ph.D. Mathematics (1988) Carnegie Mellon Univeristy
B.S. Mathematics (1983) Univeristy of Science and Technology of China
Qiang Du is the Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics. He is also an affiliated member of the Institute for Data Sciences. Professor Du earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics (1988) from Carnegie Mellon University, after which he has held faculty positions at University of Chicago, Michigan State University, Iowa State University, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Du was most recently the Verne M. Willaman Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State University. Recognitions for Dr. Du's work include the Frame Faculty Teaching Award (1992) at Michigan State University, the Liberal Arts and Sciences Award for outreach/extension (2000), the Feng Kang prize in scientific computing (2005), the Eberly College of Science Medal (2007) from Penn State University, and his selection as a 2013 SIAM Fellow for contributions to applied and computational mathematics with applications in materials science, computational geometry, and biology.
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The recent change in his public stance on gay marriage has earned the president the unwarranted praise of many in the gay community lately. After months of campaigning as a candidate who believed marriage was strictly reserved to one man and one woman, the newly elected president immediately began his peculiar "evolution" on the issue. No one believed he didn't support gay marriage. Everyone assumed, however, he would endorse the political hot potatoe after the November elections. That is, until Vice President Biden forced his hand.
In the wake of the president's (very odd) announcement, gay rights groups and gay marriage advocates rallied around the newly annointed leader of the movement. This included the HRC, who endorsed Mr. Obama's reelection one year ago while he was still an opponent of gay marriage and was vigorously defending DOMA and DADT in federal court. What virtually no one has bothered to mention is that Mr. Obama's political maneuvering on this issue has hurt the homosexual community's efforts for equal protection at least as much as and arguably more than any anti-gay campaign.
North Carolina offers good evidence of the damage done by Mr. Obama's opportunism. On May 8, 2012, North Carolinians voted to ban gay marriage in that state. The very next day President Obama announced his support. Since that announcement, opposition to gay marriage in the black community has seen a sharp decline. After months of supporting gay marriage at a rate of only about 41%, the black community now supports it by nearly 60%. And nationwide the trend has been the same since his announcement according to the Washington Post. Is the black community turning into an important ally of gay rights after years of voting in opposition? You tell me. But all signs point to yes as, like night turns into day, the NAACP endorsed gay marriage just ten days after Obama's policy shift, calling it a "civil right" issue.
Here's the million dollar question: Would 29 states have banned gay marriage by now if President Obama had had the courage to tell the American people the truth more than two weeks ago? Would states like California, North Carolina and Maryland have banned gay marriage if the president weren't a weak, opportunistic grand stander who preferred to use gay Americans as pawns instead of standing by them as fellow citizens and decent human beings?
The answer is increasingly apparent. No, they wouldn't have. President Obama does not deserve our praise. As in every other instance of his presidency, Barack Obama has failed to lead on an important and divisive issue. And, as usual, the cost was paid by those Americans who trusted him to bring about hope and change.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
How the Evolution of Barack Obama Hurt Homosexuals
Posted by Russ Hargraves at 8:29 PM
Labels: Barack Obama, califonia, gay marriage, maryland, north carolina, President obama, prop 8
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I just learned about this organization's existence and am looking on line to learn more. I like it.ReplyDelete
I do have a favor, however, if you could say "some North Carolinians voted" instead of "North Carolinians voted" it would not only be more accurate -- it would reflect more fully the feelings of many of us.
Although I am straight this is an issue where I have not agreed with the party line of the GOP for a long time. There are many loved ones in my life who are other than straight and GOProud is an organization I will be telling them about.
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Who doesn't love looking for work? Summoning your brio, shining your shoes, lying awake in bed trying to come up with a better answer to "Why would you be a good fit for this job?" than "I'd be really good at it and I'll bring cookies to office meetings"—it's all character-building stuff, right?
Yeah, no. I don't like it much either. But that's OK; remember Newton's first law of motion: An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. Sometimes one has to be one's own unbalanced force in the world in order to make things happen. And sometimes it helps to get a little inspiration from the unbalanced forces of others.
I first read this letter that a job-hunting Eudora Welty wrote to the editors of the New Yorker when I was firmly employed. It was part of the first batch of letters leading off What There Is to Say We Have Said, the collected correspondence of Welty and William Maxwell. I remember thinking it was a nice note but didn't pay it much mind otherwise; I was all hot to get to the really good stuff, which turned out to be mainly about planting roses and editing. (I'm not being sarcastic here—planting roses and editing are both big in my corner of the world.) But I ran into it again last month at Brain Pickings, and it just charmed me to pieces:
March 15, 1933
I suppose you'd be more interested in even a sleight-o'-hand trick than you'd be in an application for a position with your magazine, but as usual you can't have the thing you want most.
I am 23 years old, six weeks on the loose in N.Y. However, I was a New Yorker for a whole year in 1930–31 while attending advertising classes in Columbia's School of Business. Actually I am a southerner, from Mississippi, the nation's most backward state. Ramifications include Walter H. Page, who, unluckily for me, is no longer connected with Doubleday-Page, which is no longer Doubleday-Page, even. I have a B.A.('29) from the University of Wisconsin, where I majored in English without a care in the world. For the last eighteen months I was languishing in my own office in a radio station in Jackson, Miss., writing continuities, dramas, mule feed advertisements, santa claus talks, and life insurance playlets; now I have given that up.
As to what I might do for you — I have seen an untoward amount of picture galleries and 15¢ movies lately, and could review them with my old prosperous detachment, I think; in fact, I recently coined a general word for Matisse's pictures after seeing his latest at the Marie Harriman: concubineapple. That shows you how my mind works — quick, and away from the point. I read simply voraciously, and can drum up an opinion afterwards.
Since I have bought an India print, and a large number of phonograph records from a Mr. Nussbaum who picks them up, and a Cezanne Bathers one inch long (that shows you I read e. e. cummings I hope), I am anxious to have an apartment, not to mention a small portable phonograph. How I would like to work for you! A little paragraph each morning — a little paragraph each night, if you can't hire me from daylight to dark, although I would work like a slave. I can also draw like Mr. Thurber, in case he goes off the deep end. I have studied flower painting.
There is no telling where I may apply, if you turn me down; I realize this will not phase you, but consider my other alternative: the U of N.C. offers for $12.00 to let me dance in Vachel Lindsay's Congo. I congo on. I rest my case, repeating that I am a hard worker.
Truly yours,
Eudora Welty
Welty didn't get the job, or any response from her letter at all. On the other hand, she was eventually published in the New Yorker, which is probably better. But her upbeat cheer is contagious, even 80 years later, and I appreciate that. It's not easy to tap into that particular kind of esprit on command, especially when you've already written a collected correspondence's worth of cover letters in the past month. But Eudora's got it right there. And it's exactly what I want to have on hand when I desperately need to summon my own inner concubineapple.
(Photo courtesy of Eudora Welty House.)


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LONDON - Orbital Worlds, a newly formed independent game development studio, today announced Armoured Shift, an upcoming iPhone and iPod Touch shooter set to hit the App Store in September. With engaging, motion-based controls, Armoured Shift puts players in command of the Scythe MKIII, a powerful and agile spacecraft, and challenges them to defeat waves of asteroids, enemy ships, and deadly bosses.
Unlike the majority of shooters available on the App Store (which rely on dual on-screen virtual joysticks), Armoured Shift takes advantage of the iPhone's accelerometer for a uniquely immersive gaming experience. The open-world shooter also features:
- Six Expansive Open World Maps
- Stunning Graphics Running at 60 FPS
- Multiple Enemies, Bosses, Weapons and Power-Ups
- Arcade and Progressive Story Gameplay Modes
- 10,000 Player Online Leaderboard
- In-Game Achievements
- Eight Original Composed Music Tracks
"From the very beginning, we wanted to do something markedly different from the deluge of shooters of the iPhone – and so we chose to throw out the run-of-the-mill dual-analog control scheme in lieu of something more awesome," said Abdul Hameed, co-creator of Armoured Shift. "Instead of falling in with the rank and file, we decided to take advantage of the iPhone's motion sensing capabilities, and not just Multi-Touch."
To download the Armoured Shift electronic press kit, including screenshots, music and a trailer, visit: https://www.triplepointpr.com/dl/orbitalworlds/ArmouredShiftEPK.zip
Armoured Shift has been submitted to the App Store and is expected to launch in mid-to-late September. It will be available for $.99.
About Orbital Worlds
Orbital Worlds is an independent game development studio, founded in the United Kingdom in 2009. Orbital Worlds aims to create distinctively fun, challenging and polished gaming experiences for the iPhone and iPod Touch platforms. The company's first game, Armoured Shift, is set to launch in September 2009.


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S.2393 - CLASSICS Act115th Congress (2017-2018)
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Statistics - How to find them and use them.
Guidance for health and safety representatives
Statistics are an important tool for any health and safety representative. They can tell us a lot about what is happening in an industry or area and give us the information that we need about injuries or illnesses that we need for prevention.
Statistics do not need to be complicated. They are just numbers, and a health and safety representative does not need to know about any of the complex ways that numbers are collected and analysed to be able to use them.
Statistics will be able to tell you how many people are injured in your workplace every year, or how many people are off sick and for how long. This will allow you spot problem areas and make proposals for how they can be reduced. You can also compare figures with previous years to see if there are any trends on new problems arising.
These are a few sources for simple straightforward figures about injuries and illnesses that you may find useful.
The first stop will be your employer. They have to give health and safety representatives information on injuries and sickness if you request it and also let you inspect any documents that relate to health and safety. Although there are exceptions for some personal information and health records you should be able to get:
Where the employer has more than one site it is important to get information across the organisation so that you can compare performance. Safety Committees are a useful way of getting information on the whole organisation as they should receive regular reports.
Information will also be of use if you can compare it to the rates of injury or illness in similar type employers or just against the national average. This information may be quite easy to get. The HSE site has a huge number of statistics on both injuries and occupational illnesses. These are collected from a range of studies but mainly the RIDDOR reports that employers make and a large government survey.
The main page is at http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/
There you will find the current annual statistics but also breakdowns by industry, occupation, region and disease or type of injury. The site also has European figures for comparison.
There is even a tool that lets you break down some of the information and make your own report at https://handson.hse.gov.uk/hse/public/home.aspx
For figures on violence you should try the British Crime Survey. The most recent one is at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-statistics/research-statistics/crime-research
The official site for government statistics is the Office of National Statistics at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/default.asp
For European statistics there are two main places.
The first is the European Agency for Occupational safety and Health at: http://osha.europa.eu/en/statistics
The other is the massive Eurostat which contains figures on just about everything. Go to: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/statistics/themes
Click on Health (health and safety at work) to get into the health and safety information.
There are very few reliable sources of comparable international data. The International Labour Organisation keeps a number of databases but, because international statistics are often collected in very different ways, very little of it will be of use to health and safety representatives. http://www.ilo.org/global/statistics-and-databases/lang--en/index.htm
However do not forget that your union health and safety section may have information on injury or illness rates in your sector. Have a look at their website. Plus of course you can always get your own figures by running your own survey on issues like stress or bullying.
Statistics can show you very clearly what the level of injury and disease is, how it has changed over a period of time and how likely a person is to be killed or injured in a workplace. They can also be used to confuse.
The first question that any health and safety representative has to ask is 'are you comparing like with like'. Comparing the rate of reported injuries in agriculture with the number of injuries reported in manufacturing would be very misleading if farmers report a far lower proportion of their injuries.
Also there is a difference between numbers and rates (see below). There may be a decline in the number of injuries in an industry, but if the number of workers in that industry has fallen by a half, while the number of injuries have only been cut by a quarter it actually means that the rate of injury has gone up by 50%.
Another example of how statistics had make things look safer than they are is using a short time period or single occurrence. An employer may claim that the chance of a person falling from a tower crane when climbing up and down is only 1 in 100,000. That sounds pretty low but if a person is going up and down twice a day every day for a year they will have made the journey at least 1,000 times. If they work as a crane operator for 25 years then the odds begin to look a bit less good. It would mean that every crane operator would have a 1 in 4 change of being killed by a fall during their working life. Even a one in a million chance can be pretty worrying if the activity that is being done often or there are a lot of people doing it.
Official statistics can be misleading as well. Not deliberately, but because of the difficulties in calculating numbers in some areas, especially diseases which can be caused by a range of different things, not just work. The TUC has always claimed that the official statistics for the number of cases of cancers caused by work is too low. This is because it is usually impossible to say what the cause of any individual cancer is and often they are not blamed on work. Many lung cancers for instance are automatically blamed on smoking despite the fact the worker may have worked with a wide range of dusts at work that can also cause cancer.
This is not intended to be comprehensive but these are some terms that are often used in health and safety statistics.
Mean. The mean is what most people think of as the average, where you add up all the numbers and then divide the total by the number of numbers.
Median. The median is the middle point in a list of numbers. To find the median, the numbers have to be listed in numerical order,
Rate. This is a number measured against another measure, usually a period of time, so it could be a figure like 200 a year, but it can also be measured against another number, such as an exchange rate
Ratio. This is the same as a fraction. If the ratio of A to B is 2 to 3, that means for every 2 of A there is 3 of B. It can be written as a ratio of 2:3 or as a fraction 2/3.
Prevalence and Incidence. You will often find both these given for occupational disease statistics. Prevalence refers to actual number of cases (the number actually living with the disease) while incidence refers to the new cases in a period - usually a year.
Confidence levels and confidence limits. These are level of confidence you can have in the results, so a report could say that 33% of the workforce witnessed bullying at work in the last year but it attaches a 95% confidence level to the figure of 33% plus or minus 3%. That is, it very likely that between 30% and 36% will witness bullying with 33% being an average. The confidence limits would therefore be 30% and 36%. The bigger the survey the more confidence there is so the limits get narrower.


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So let's rest for awhile, friends, and return here early in the New Year. I started this blog in August, and we're now up to Volume 10, having cut our way through over two hundred tracks already. We've still got 13 more albums, three Best Ofs and another two VHS compilations to cover, so there's lots up ahead of us.
If you fancy getting your Christmas party going with an old-school indie swing, the Spotify Indie Top 20 Playlist contains most of the tracks we've covered so far.
And if you want to get me a Christmas present... well, I know it's rude to talk about what you want, but tell your friends about this blog. If you've got a blog or website of your own, link back to this. If you're on social media, give it a mention. If neither applies, feel free to tell people anyway. The vast majority of any blog's traffic comes through referrals these days, so if you want me to feel a bit more motivated to keep this blog fresh, speak up if you're enjoying what I do (and huge gratitude and thanks is obviously due to the people who already have).
I hope you all have a great Christmas and Santa brings you an elusive copy of "Indie Top 20: House" down the chimney.