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Hazel Is Back From Her Vacay!!!
Hello guys, you missed me? Miss Hazel was gone for about two weeks. I was visiting family back home on the east coast. I love going back home. Keeps me grounded. Then upon arrival back in Hollywood, I was invited to Las Vegas! You know miss Hazel loves her vodka. Free booze and a free stay, can't say no. And ended it off in Palm Springs for Labor Day weekend. Now I have to detoxify for a while. But yes, fear not I have return to wreak havoc on all the drama going on and about all LA and maybe the IE. Seems like there's always drama there. Hope you all had a fun and safe Labor day weekend. I have to check my inbox, seems that I have fan and hate mail. Lets see what these queens and queers have to say. I guess I've made it!


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text: Home > Bookshop > Australian Subjects > Australian Biography « Back Auto Da Fay Weldon, Fay Our Price Retail Price AUD$39.95 Your Price AUD$15.28 Minimum Order: 1 In Stock (1) Dispatch: 1 day Auto Da Fay/Weldon, Fay/Hardb/000710992X/S048-B1 AUD$15.28 QTY Gift Wrapping Add Gift Wrapping (click checkbox) If you would like a gift wrapping message, please add it in the Notes section on the checkout page, thank you. AUD$2.95 Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN-13: 9780007109920 Series: Binding: Hardback Year Published: 2002 The one and only Fay Weldon writes her one and only autobiography. From the 1930s to the 1990s, Fay Weldon has seen and lived our times. As a child in New Zealand, as young and poor in London, as unmarried mother, as wife, lover, playwright, novelist, feminist, anti-feminist, spag-bol-cook, winer and diner, there are few waterfronts that she hasn't covered, few battles she hasn't fought. An icon to many, a thorn in the flesh to others, she has never failed to excite, madden or interest. Her life and times cover love, sex, babies, blokes, poverty, work, politics and Very Famous Names. The reader might feel inadequate, but will never be bored!Moving from New Zealand to London to Scotland, from the UK to points east and west, Weldon has sipped, gulped and sometimes spat out the things that make us what we are today. ID: 17729 Code: HC000325


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In November, 2009, "Google News attracted 100 million unique visitors worldwide, making it a larger news site than CNN of 66 million or the combined properties of the New York Times of 92 million. But, Yahoo! News with 138 million unique visitors worldwide tops the list," according to comScore. Here's the partial comScore list in ascending order: Yahoo! News, Google News, New York Times sites, CNN, China's QQ.com, BBC, and MSN.
However, over at Nielsen the numbers appear to be quite different than the comScore data above, especially the ranking of Google News. Here's Nielsen's list of the top 10 global online news sites for November, 2009: 1. Yahoo! News 2. CNN Digital Network 3. MSNBC Digital Network 4. AOL News 5. NYTimes.com 6. Tribune Newspapers 7. Google News 8. Fox News Digital Network 9. ABCNEWS Digital Network 10. Gannett Newspapers and Newspaper Division.


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Travel: Marbella, Spain2:00 PM
Today I will show you some photos from my trip to Marbella.
We were very lucky with the weather, it was warm and sunny.
The city itself is beautiful, especially the old part of Marbella (photos in my next post).
I was kind of surprised by the size of the city, its not so small as I imagined it.
As for the expenses, you can find places on any budget.
If you are looking for more "glamorous" life you should go to Puerto Banus,
its a small village full of yachts and expensive shops.
I could not resist taking this photo. Love Vespa
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Kaka wants to grow old in AC Milan...
There have been rumors lately going about Kaka - a player for AC Milan and Brazil's national team, saying that he might be moving to England's Manchester City for a record breaking price. Well to get this squashed once and for all - Kaka isn't going anywhere. In fact in a television interview he told the press that he'd like to grow old in AC Milan and someday become captain, that is, if Milan want to keep him. And knowing Milan - they don't get rid of their players that want to stay (one of the many reasons why I love this team is the fact that they respect the player opinions).
The offer from Manchester City was rumored to be up to £100m and possibly weekly wages to Kaka of £500,000.
For more details read the following article: Kaka plays down City link and claims he wants to 'grow old' at Milan
So Forza Rossoneri! And Forza Kaka! (:


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OK, I apologize for the bad pun in the title, but I just couldn't help myself! It's almost December... which means I'm another month closer to the start of the 2013 season and being in a race car every weekend! While I'm counting down the days until St. Pete (113 days, if you were wondering), I'm staying busy with appearances, training and testing.
As I mentioned earlier this week, I was the keynote speaker for the "Stop Diabetes @ Work" event on Tuesday hosted by the Indiana-area chapter of the American Diabetes Association. It was really cool opportunity to be in the company of Mayor Greg Ballard, Dr. Joan Duwve (Chief Medical Officer for the Indiana State Department of Health) and Gerry Dick (host of Inside INdiana Business) while sharing my story on behalf of Novo Nordisk.
If you're in Indy, come by the Big Ten Fan Fest today from 6-8 p.m. I'll be on Georgia Street downtown for a Q&A and autograph session (at the Pan Am Plaza). Hope to see you there!
Tomorrow morning I'm heading to Phoenix for an event with Novo Nordisk. It's about 30 degrees warmer in AZ than here in Indy... no complaints from me! Make sure to follow me on Twitter @racewithinsulin for updates from the road.
P.S. If you missed my interview on WPIX, you can check it out here or below!
Friday, November 30, 2012
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Today's design is something I wanted to do for a while now: a half moon manicure with tiny limes. Since I got some lovely mint green colors I decided to go for it! As my base color I used OPI - You Are So Outta Lime (PR Sample) from their 2014 Neon collection. This one is not the classic neon green but it does have a hint of neon, which makes it look very different on camera. It's more of a light green and not the mint color you are looking at. I applied two coats over one coat of white. For the little lime halfmoons I used Maybelline - Chic Chartreuse and then painted the rest of the design with acrylic paint. On top is one coat of Essence - BTGN High Gloss.
This is a scheduled post. I will be scheduling posts for the next few Sundays, but I'm trying to keep up with your feedback! You can follow me on Instagram, where I might post some nails during my vacations. Have a beautiful summer :)


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May 19 — Google Inc. is appealing an over $100,000 fine levied by the French data protection authority (CNIL) over the company's implementation of the right to be forgotten.
In a May 19 blog post, Google Senior Vice President and General Counsel Kent Walker said the appeal, filed in the Conseil d'État, the country's highest administrative court, contests the 100,000 euro ($112,100) fine that CNIL imposed against the company for failing to comply with users' requests to have links to personal information about them removed from Google's global search results (15 PVLR 674, 3/28/16).
CNIL's order raises a substantive question about whether it makes sense, or is legally appropriate, for a country "to ban a service that allows the public to find truthful and publicly-available information" for no other reason than the subject of that information wants it "forgotten," Frederick T. Davis, of counsel for Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in Paris, told Bloomberg BNA May 19.
CNIL declined May 19 to comment on Google's appeal.
Announcing the fine in March, CNIL cited the European Court of Justice's May 2014 finding that EU citizens have a right to get such links removed, but the Paris-based authority added the stipulation that the requests apply to all Google's data processing and, consequently, search engine domains (13 PVLR 857, 5/19/14). It rejected Google's arguments that the global requirement hinders freedom of expression, and declined the company's proposed compromise to use geoblocking technology to make it harder for EU users to find delisted information (15 PVLR 528, 3/14/16).
Walker said Google complies with laws of countries in which it operates, but disagreed with CNIL's efforts to apply its interpretation of French law to every version of Google Search globally. He said this could lead to "a global race to the bottom, harming access to information that is perfectly lawful to view in ones own country."
Practitioners have said the appeal could take one to two years to run its course.
Under the ECJ's 2014 decision, EU data subjects have the right to compel Google and other Internet search engines to delist results linking to websites containing personal information about them if their fundamental right to individual privacy outweighs the public's right to know. Walker said Google complies with the ruling in every EU country, and has reviewed nearly 1.5 million webpages, delisting around 40 percent EU wide, including over 300,000 in France, or around 50 percent of requests.
But in July 2015, CNIL ordered Google to extend the right to be delisted to all its search engine websites worldwide, including .com based in the U.S., not just EU domain names , such as .fr, .de or .uk (14 PVLR 1441, 8/3/15).
The Article 29 Working Party of the 28 EU data protection authorities, headed by CNIL President Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, has also stated that search engines that receive valid requests for delisting based on the ECJ ruling must apply them worldwide.
The other important question that worldwide delisting presents is the extraterritorial effect of national laws, Davis said. "This is an important issue, with no easy resolution."
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Monday, 30 September 2013
[SISTEMA] Submissions for the World conference in Brazil 20 to 25 July 2014
Great news! The Conference Organising Committee has extended the
deadline for submissions to November 1st. Visit
http://www.isme.org/isme2014 to find out more.
The ISME Sistema Special Interest Group already has considerable
interest, (see below), but we would be delighted if there were even
more submissions as presentations or posters.
Four symposia are being submitted as mentioned in my previous news
updates. These are:
1. A symposium centred around Social Inclusion;
2. A symposium centred around pedagogy: The principles and practices
of pedagogy in El Sistema programmes
3. A symposium asking the question: Is there a place for Sistema in
indigenous communities? and
4. A symposium drawing on National identity – how can we learn from
each other internationally?
I have received one request asking whether someone would like to
convene a symposium around integrated papers on Sistema research. Now
that the deadline has been extended, let me know if you would be
willing to take this on and I will put those colleagues in touch with
each other. (I would be prepared to do this, but as I have already
made one symposium submission, it would probably be better if someone
else was prepared to lead on this. As it is, I am not sure whether the
Conference Organising Committee would prefer more symposia (fingers
crossed that the above 4 get accepted) or whether further papers would
be more likely to be accepted if submitted individually. I have sent
an email asking this question and will let you know the outcome of
that enquiry).
I have already received some suggestions regarding a possible social
event for those interested in Sistema – more news nearer the time.
Thank you too to those colleagues who have informed me that they are
unable to attend the conference. I will still keep you updated
regarding what is happening and will send some sort of update
following the conference so that you are kept as informed as possible.
Of course, if you change your mind, conference booking takes place
next year – it is only the submissions of presentations and posters
that must be completed by November 1st to enable the conference
programme to be organised.
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17 May "We're the home of grassroots football"
Pitchero were recently announced as this year's tournament sponsor. We spoke to CEO, Mark Fletcher and he couldn't be happier about the collaboration.
"ACES has Pitchero written all over it. The event brings together great talent, great coaches and will be full of junior football heroes – that's what Pitchero's all about, finding the next hero," he said.
Pitchero, a sports network designed to unite sports teams across the country, is sponsoring ACES for the first time this year in Nottingham.
"We're the home of grassroots sport," Mark stated. "Thousands of football clubs create their websites with us, manage their membership, create videos and organise their teams all through their club websites and apps."
With the best of the best in junior grassroots football all battling it out at one exciting tournament, the atmosphere on the day is predicted to be the best in ACES football history.
"This event is a fantastic opportunity to bring all the talent together from across the country, we'll all get to witness how good junior football can be," Mark explained.
The team at Pitchero Headquarters will be heading down to Nottingham to champion the junior talent every weekend.
"We'll be doing lots with social media and video on the day," Fletcher confirmed.
"Pitchero Play will also be recording goals and getting those online within 90 seconds of them happening." He continued, "We're excited that we'll get the opportunity to capture great moments over the weekend."
The Pitchero ACES Nationals tournament kicks off on 17th June. In the meantime, if you're after more information about a new club website and how it could benefit your football club, contact Pitchero.
Check out the full interview with Mark Fletcher below.


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Rents, as a construct in political economy, are usually associated with monopolies and imperfect competition and markets. In the literature, rents always never represented value created in production but represented a portion of the created value captured during the distribution process. In short, rents are not created values but captured values. In this sense, rents represent pure transfer of resources from one economic actor to another; the transfers are mediated either through the market, the state, or non-market, non-state mechanisms or institutions. The economic actors may either be private agents or institutions or public entities.
But all general statements will have to be qualified. Consider Tullock's (1988: 51) example: the person who invents and patents a cure to cancer (or AIDS) will be considered a public benefactor even if he became extremely wealthy by claiming monopoly rents on the patent.
In the main, there are three types of rent differentiated according to mode of "creation" and disposition: market rents, public choice rents, and non-market, non-state rents. Market rents (or Rent I) are rents created by natural or structural market imperfections or market power. When we say natural market imperfections, we mean market imperfections that are not caused by state action such as licenses or tariffs. If a public utility monopoly endures because huge capital requirements deter the entry of others, then we have a natural or structural market imperfection. The structural monopoly earns monopoly rents. The best example of a market rent is the classic landlord rent.
Some type I rents attract "good" rent-seeking, the latter concept defined as the expenditure of resources towards the capture of rent. An example is the cancer cure patent mentioned earlier. To the extent that the rent is successfully captured, i.e., the invented cure was successful and could be patented, the resources expended to capture the rents from the patent could not be considered to be deployed wastefully. In contrast, the use of resources to capture ownership of a choice piece of real estate is not only wasteful but also criminal.
Public choice rents (or Rent II) are the rents created by the state when it restricts entry to the market. This rent type attracts wasteful rent-seeking; the "right" to capture the rent may be sold to the highest bidder. However, it could be also be dispensed or deployed by the state to favored parties. If the state restricts market entry or competition, the actor who captures public choice rents also earns monopoly rents. The distinction between rent-seeking and rent-dispensing is an important one and will surface in the subsequent discussion on rents and development.
The third type (or Rent III) are rents created by non-economic, non-state bodies (including churches, mass media, and political parties) but are sought and could be captured by anybody–businessmen, state officials, politicians, or private citizens. While these bodies are not strictly state or market (for profit) agencies, they can create rents because they also enjoy monopoly power of sorts.
Religions monopolize the supply of spiritual goods while mass media may monopolize information. In this sense, the rents that they can earn are quite similar to market or monopoly rents. This rent type may also attract rent-seeking, albeit of a kind quite different from public choice rent-seeking. Let us illustrate this last point with the Iglesia Ni Kristo (INK) in the Philippines. The INK is obviously a newer and smaller religious organization than the Catholic Church. But it is considered to have a stronger political clout than the latter; INK members supposedly vote as a single bloc according to the dictates of their Church leaders. For this reason, INK leaders are wooed every which way by politicians and their brokers for electoral support. In return, the INK supposedly gets material and non-material rewards from their clients. Other examples are supplied by Hutchcroft (1996): the AC-DC (attack and collect-defend and collect) politician and journalist.
The fourth type of rent (Rent IV) are "criminal rents" earned from benefices granted by the powers-that-be to operate or maintain gambling, prostitution, gun-running, illegal drugs, and other illegal businesses without fear of persecution or harassment in exchange for a cut of the proceeds. Antonio Sanchez, the sentenced mayor of Calauan, Laguna (for rape and murder) appears to be a beneficiary of such a right and has apparently disposed of his rents in conspicuous consumption, patronage, pay-offs to appropriate patrons.[1] This rent type is usually associated with means of coercion and violence.
One can still identify a fifth type of rents (Rent V) if the state itself is construed as a rent-seeking agent vis-a-vis other states and other international actors, which are rent-assignors. Official development assistance and military credits are examples of this rent type and are actively sought after by many states in the developing world, including the Philippines. This type of rent is often associated with the development of clientelistic relations between the donor-state and the recipient-state.
Depending upon the active agent, it is also important to distinguish between private rent-seeking and public rent-seeking. Murphy, Shleifer and Vishny (1993: 412) define private rent seeking as taking the form of "theft, piracy, litigation, and other forms of transfer between private parties" while public rent-seeking is "either redistribution from the private sector to the state, such as taxation, or alternatively from the private sector to the government bureaucrats" taking the form of lobbying, corruption, and the like. While we may or may not fully subscribe to the notion that taxation is rent-seeking, public rent-seeking provides the bridge between rent-seeking and the much older concept of corruption.
How do we relate rent-seeking and corruption? In a situation where the state (or a state agency) creates rents, the normal economic reaction of private actors is to use all means–legal, extra-legal, and illegal–to capture them. Lobbying government officials is a legal way while bribery is an illegal way of capturing rents. The bribe can be seen as the purchase price of a good or a service that the state officially owns but is now appropriated privately and personally by government officials. In so far as officials have discretion over the provision of these goods, they can collect bribes from private agents (Shleifer and Vishny 1993: 599).
A key flaw of much of the rent-seeking literature (of the public choice school) must be fully elucidated. Rents and rent-seeking, especially in their pejorative sense, are concepts that had been defined with reference to a fairy tale–that of perfect competition. To the extent that competition and markets are imperfect, then rents will always be available for capture.
It is true that the public choice literature had fired its strongest guns against state-created rents (or Rent II). But as we have pointed out, not all rents are created by the state nor do all rents attract wasteful rent-seeking. A whole category of rents will exist and continue to exist because certain economic assets will remain scarce relative to demand. Type II rents will disappear only if the state disappears. And lastly, one can raise the valid question whether all rent-seeking efforts are necessarily wasteful?
Among other reasons, the competition between rent-seekers is considered by public choice literature to be wasteful. The resources expended by rent-seekers are resources that could have been used for more productive purposes. In an ironic twist to neoclassical logic, it is suggested that restricting the competition for rents may reduce wasteful rent-seeking. If one follows this line of reasoning, the least wasteful situation is one where an absolute dictator, who will brook no complaint, will dispense rents as he sees fit.
It could be shown however that competitive rent-seeking can flourish in the most authoritarian political setting simply because the dictator cannot make all decisions. Below the apex of power, there will be many decision-makers at all possible levels who could compete with each other for the rents or for the power to dispense the rents according to the their competencies. The existence of these officials will similarly attract wasteful rent-seeking. It is true of course that the competition for rents is not fully open even in democracies. The costs or wastes associated with rent-seeking are thus limited, as Jomo and Gomez (1995) explain.
An opposite scenario, which is consistent with neoclassical economics, may develop with respect to public rent-seeking, or at least, in the case of bribes. If producer A can buy a government good more cheaply than producer B, then he can outcompete the former in the product market. The cheapest way to purchase a government good is to bribe a government official at a rate lower than the official level–a transaction labeled as corruption with theft by Shleifer and Vishny (1993).[2] So if producer A bribes an official to reduce his costs, his competitors must do so also. Competition between buyers of government goods will spread cost-reducing corruption, i.e., corruption with theft, across the economy. But the greater demand for cheaper government goods (meaning a greater supply of bribes) will boost bribe rates to just a shade lower than the official prices. Downward pressure on the bribes could come from the competition among bribable government officials. However, it would be easier for them to collude to keep bribe rates up than for consumers to unite for lower rates.
Finally, it is likewise useful to distinguish between rent-seeking, the expenditure of resources to capture rents created by the state; and rent-assigning, the granting by the state, or by any of its officials or agencies, of rents or of opportunities to capture rents to selected private or public actors. These processes need not be mutually exclusive in the sense that some private actors may still seek rents even as the state assigns them. Nonetheless, one can say that the more rents are assigned and are known to be assigned by the state or its leaders and officials, the less the rent-seeking will be.
[1] A well-placed source informed me that Sanchez was the chief maintainer of jueteng in Southern Luzon and was grossing an average of P 350 million daily. In his pay-off list are national-level officials and politicians, high-ranking military and police officials, down to the lowly barangay-tanod (village guard)..
[2] In the case of corruption without theft, the government official charges an amount (the bribe)on top of the official price of the good. He turns over to the government treasury the amount corresponding to the official price and pockets the bribe. In the case with theft, the official charges a bribe lower than the official price and does not turn in anything to government.
Hutchcroft, Paul (1996). "Corruption's Obstructions: Assessing the Impact of Rents, Corruption, and Clientelism on Capitalist Development in the Philippines." Paper read at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Jomo, K. S. and Edmund Terence Gomez (1995). "Rents, Rent-Seeking and Rent Deployment in Malaysia." (Typewritten.)
Murphy, Kevin, Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny (1993). "Why is Rent-Seeking So Costly to Growth?" American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 83(2): 409-414.
Shleifer, Andrei and Robert Vishny (1993). "Corruption." Quarterly Journal of Economics 108(3): 599-617.
Tullock, Gordon (1988). "Rents and Rent-Seeking." In The Political Economy of Rent-Seeking, pp. 51-62. Edited by Charles Rowley, Robert Tollison, and Gordon Tullock. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.


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Today marks the one year anniversary of my first post on VMtoday.com, and an exciting year it has been in many ways. First, some stats: VMtoday.com has been visited more than 10,000 times in the past year. While the number of site visits is far below some of my fellow virtualization bloggers, it is still exciting for me to see that I am making an impact on the community (despite my meager post count). There are some of you who read my posts through Planet V12n and RSS, which is cool by me. Yesterday was the busiest day for the site. No coincidence that it comes after adding some … [Read more...]
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Upgrading Virtual Hardware in a VMware Virtual Machine May Cause Disks to go Offline
I recently posted an article on how specific actions during the upgrade of a VMware Virtual Machine's hardware from v4 to v7 can cause problems with certain services, including DNS, DHCP, and WINS. In that case, the problem was related to Microsoft Windows leaving non-present devices with networking configurations and the failure of the VMware Upgrade Helper service to copy WINS settings when updating the NIC. As my fellow blogger and VMUG leader, Jason Boche, responded on Twitter: "Same gotchas, different version." And right he is - anyone with experience in P2V or V2V, or who has been … [Read more...]
vSphere Upgrade Breaks Active Directory
I recently completed a VMware VI 3.5 to vSphere upgrade in a small environment (5 hosts, 80 VM's). Being a small environment, the upgrade was planned for one big overnight blitz. Unfortunately, the size of the environment did not afford a test environment to uncover potential issues before the upgrade. The upgrade to vSphere itself went swimmingly (the vCenter server had been upgraded a couple weeks earlier). However, some things in the environment started to go wonky once the upgrade was complete. Specifically, name resolution (DNS), DHCP, WINS, Group Policy, and really anything … [Read more...]


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You will need, for 2 people:
160g washed young spinach leaves
60g whole grain rice
1 pinch nutmeg
2 eggs
150ml whole milk
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
(note all amounts are approximately what I had left in the larder, so if the spinach to rice content is slightly different, don't worry)
Bring a pan of lightly salted water to the boil and boil the rice for 10 minutes.
Add the spinach leaves to the top, place a lid on and let it simmer for a minute or two until the leaves have crumpled and broken down.
Strain the rice and spinach through a colander and set aside.
In a large bowl, beat the two eggs and slowly add the milk whisking while you do so.
Add the pinch of nutmeg and some salt and pepper.
Combine the rice and spinach with the eggs and milk and mix thoroughly to ensure that the spinach is evenly distributed.
Spoon into a lightly greased oven proof dish.
Place in the oven for 30-35 minutes, depending on the depth of your dish. A shallower dish cooking more quickly than a deeper one.
Left as it is, this is a perfect vegetarian dish but as my fridge is over flowing with Swiss cheeses, I removed mine after 20 minutes and sprinkled the top with exactly 42g of grated Gruyere. It would also be good if you added some diced. crispy pancetta chunks to the rice and spinach before baking.


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If the principal has no credential information, the rest of the process is aborted and the principal is given the authorization access class of nobody.
NIS+ gets the user's DES credential from the cred table of the user's home domain. The encrypted private key is decrypted with the user's password and saved by the keyserver.
NIS+ obtains the server's public key from the NIS+ directory object.
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The common key is then used to generate an encrypted DES key. To do this, Secure RPC generates a random number which is then encrypted using the common key. For this reason, the DES key is sometimes referred to as the random key or the random DES key.
NIS+ then takes the current time of the principal's server and creates a time stamp that is encrypted using the DES key.
NIS+ then creates a 15-second window, which is encrypted with the DES key. This window is the maximum amount of time that is permitted between the time stamp and the server's internal clock.
NIS+ then forms the principal's DES credential, which is composed of the following items.
NIS+ then passes the following information to the server where the NIS+ object is stored.
The access request (whatever it might be)
The principal's DES credential
Window verifier (encrypted), which is the encrypted window plus one
The object's server receives this information.
The object's server uses the Secure RPC netname portion of the credential to look up the principal's public key in the cred table of the principal's home domain.
The server then uses the principal's public key and the server's private key to regenerate the common key. This common key must match the common key that was generated by the principal's private key and the server's public key.
The common key is used to decrypt the DES key that arrived as part of the principal's credential.
The server decrypts the principal's time stamp with the newly decrypted DES key and verifies it with the window verifier.
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If the time difference at the server exceeds the window limit, the request is denied and the process aborts with an error message. For example, suppose the time stamp is 9:00am and the window is one minute. If the request is received and decrypted by the server after 9:01am, it is denied.
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Here it is, my first dupe post, (what a funny word). Here's a palette i've been loving. It has 12 lovely shades, 5 matte, 7 shimmer (i would prefer more matte shades if i wanted to be picky).
This palette is PERFECT for that smokey eye look. I'm obsessed with the darker shades in the crease, and the gold shimmers on the lid, which are really good when light shines on the eye.
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Yesterday, I slammed the last book of my freshman year.
Today, I'm at a loss of what to do with myself. There's only so many things you can draw (see left), and only so much you can do to spruce up your desk.
It's officially summer. The boredom, the random adventures, and going to brat stands for lunch (that's a first, actually). My brother has even begged me to go fishing a few times. I'd rather swim, thank you very much.
We had the first chapter in The Chronicles of Tiger. Cat vs. Turtle. Turtle won, by the way. Chipmunk wasn't so lucky.
As I write, my little brothers (and big brother) are chattering about baseball taking place in the afternoon, and I think this is the twentieth time someone asked if I was going. And no, I'm not - reading sounds much pleasurable.
A long time ago, I promised pictures from our play, and my finished dress. Sadly to say, none of them are very good quality - but I'm keeping my promise:
Here we are, singing for the radio. And yes, those are curlers in our hair. The staff got a kick out of that.
In costume!! From left to right, Hannah, Bailey, Me, and Sarah.
Alright, that's all for now! Go enjoy this lovely Friday afternoon!
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Such a cute drawing :)ReplyDelete
Y'alls hair looks so pretty!
Have a awesome Summer~
Good quality, my eye. *cringe*ReplyDelete
Cutest drawing EVER.
If you're bored, you should make random to-do lists that elevate "mail off check" into a heroic deed. Seriously. I feel so proud.
Congratulatins, Bethany, on finishing school! Good job :) Wish I were that far along.... *stares at humongous pile of school books*ReplyDelete
Have a fun summer!
you guys are so cuteReplyDelete
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text: Hongkong offshore RMB liquidity tightening continued overnight interest rates rose 500 points, hot column capital flows thousands of thousand comment stocks diagnosis the latest rating simulated trading client Sina Taiwan Fund exposure: the letter Phi lag of false propaganda, long-term performance is lower than similar products, to buy the fund by the pit how to do? Click [I want to complain], Sina help you expose them! FX168 financial newspaper (Hongkong) – the Mid Autumn Festival holiday, Hongkong RMB continued tightening of liquidity, according to Financial Markets Association on Wednesday (September 14th) the latest data show that Hongkong RMB overnight interbank interest rates rose 532 basis points, to 8.1617 per cent this year is the highest since February 19th; a week of RMB interbank rate rose 523 basis points to 10.152 per cent. German commercial bank said the soaring cost of offshore renminbi financing shows that China's central bank to increase the cost of shorting the yuan in order to reduce the pressure of devaluation. In addition, the bank in the onshore market to increase the transaction costs of the bond market leverage, but also on the spillover effects of offshore RMB liquidity. Hongkong Financial Bureau released the latest Hongkong, July RMB deposits fell below 700 billion Peng, decreased by 6.2% to 667 billion 100 million yuan. In addition, due to the 3 day of the Mid Autumn Festival holiday on Thursday (September 15th), the market worries short positions slightly tight, leading to the Hong Kong Interbank pulled high, makes a number of banks in Hongkong last week raised the RMB deposit interest rate. Among them, the Wing Lung Bank on Friday (September 9th) announced, up 1 to 12 months the RMB deposit rate, a period of 12 months to 3.2 per cent deposit of HK $100 thousand; CCB Asia also raised RMB 3 to 12 month deposit rate of about 10 points, a period of 12 months to 3.1 per cent, the minimum threshold of $100 thousand to 1 years; Fubon deposit interest rate increase 0.4 per cent, the latest preferential interest rate raised to 3.4 per cent in the same period; such as, beyond the Shanghai commercial bank 3.2% per cent for the whole of Hongkong 1 year RMB deposit interest rate in the highest. Proofreading: TIER into the [Sina financial stocks] discussion相关的主题文章:


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In the Pines, Cont.
Earlier, I transcribed a version of In the Pines.
I had been playing it well enough on my own, and enjoyed it.
Tonight, Jeremy brought over a violin. That, combined with Maynard playing bass, made for an excellent test of my transcription.
We rocked the living fuck out of it. You might say to yourself, "Self, how can adding a violin be 'rocking the living fuck' out of something?"
The answer is that the song is not about "rocking". It's about experience. Lanegan's version is angry; Cobain's is almost psychotic. The way we were playing it was . . . sadder. I'm not pissed at my girl for sleeping out; I'm sad about it.
It was interesting how the violin worked. It was both "lead" and "not lead". I don't say it was "rhythm" because it can't be – not with its treble – but it could drop to the background and let another instrument come forward.
We experimented a lot with the song itself and discovered that it had a lot of room for exposition in all areas. Between the more "obvious" verses, we could drop into long, winding jam sessions. As long as one of us kept the basic four or five notes in sequence, the others could walk all over town.
I'm really digging on the bowed instrument additions.
We'll have to get some amplification on vocals for it. Though, to be honest, I'm actually not sure the way we played it requires vocals. Maybe only a single verse, spoken or sung cleanly in the right place.
I do know that my vocals sounded about four million times better when I sang from my heart rather than trying to mimic Leadbelly or Lanegan or Cobain. I am sadder than Lanegan or Cobain, with less baritone.
Totally happy about it.
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I have been writing a couple alternate verses that change things around a bit.
I hesitate to post them since they're not finished, but so far they change what the meaning of "The Pines" is.
evilheff May 8, 2009 at 6:25 pm
we cn haz copy?
If I could figure out how to actually get something to fucking record, I would see what I can do about it.
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Violins make everything better.


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Finally I have subbed Keroro Gunsou 298. It tells all about Mois and Saburo, but let's show the titles.
Mois, Farewell Pekopon. De Arimasu! / Saburo, the Mysterious Boy. De Arimasu!
Mois got a letter it saids she must leave Pekopon and destroy it before she leave, but Mois is actually the King of Terror who cames to destroy the Earth. Everyone don't know who Saburo is. He's a boy like us. But he haves so many faces in other dimensions. Fuyuki is the only one who was many of them. It's their secret and I won't tell it.
Mois is Hugging Tamama is a best scene ever! This is a first FuyuXSabu moment!
How's that? Ke-Kero!


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A newly built modern palace overlooking Los Angeles has just become the most expensive home listed in the United States. Price tag: $250 million.
CNBC can reveal that the 38,000-square-foot mansion in Bel Air, California, will officially come on the market this week — eclipsing the current record holder, a $195 million mansion in Manalapan, Florida. The home has remained one of the best-kept secrets in real estate, since only a handful of billionaires and a few celebrities and top brokers have seen it.
The home has 12 bedrooms, 21 bathrooms, three kitchens, six bars, a massage room and spa, fitness center, two wine-champagne cellars, the most advanced home theater in any U.S. home, and an 85-foot infinity pool.


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American actress and singer known for her role as Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the film MASH (1970), for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
Early lifeSally Clare Kellerman was born in Long Beach, California, to Edith Baine (née Vaughn) and John Helm Kellerman. She attended Hollywood High School, but, after a year at Los Angeles City College, dropped out to enroll in Jeff Corey's acting class.
While her work was excellent, Kellerman's weight, by her own estimation near 350 pounds at the time (albeit spread out over her nearly 6-foot frame), severely hindered her prospects. And while, judging from her 1957 film debut, Reform School Girls, Kellerman appears to have shed more than half of those pounds in the interim, the cheaply made exploitation film otherwise did little to advance her career.
Unfazed, Kellerman continued her studies, and, within a year or so, a production of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, staged by Corey, featuring Kellerman and classmates Shirley Knight, Jack Nicholson, Dean Stockwell and Robert Blake, proved somewhat more productive. In any event, by 1960, Kellerman was working on television with regularity, and, towards the end of the decade, was continuing to hone her craft, now at the newly opened Actors Studio West.
Singing careerKellerman already had a recording contract with Verve Records when she was eighteen. After giving a performance in Robert Altman's Brewster McCloud, she recorded her first demo with Lou Adler and then went into the recording studio with arranger and record producer Gene Paige to record Roll With The Feelin, an album for Decca Records. Kellerman also contributed to the musical film Lost Horizon (1973), in which she collaborated with Burt Bacharach, and Andra Willis (Olivia Hussey); the soundtrack was released by Razor & Tie.
Kellerman sang again in the independent film Open House (2004) opposite Ann Magnuson, Anthony Rapp and Kellie Martin. The same year she had a solo act which was a hit at Teatro ZinZanni.
In September 2008, Kellerman contributed to the song "I Thought About You" in a duet with singer Ray Brown, Jr. (son of Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Brown) on Brown, Jr.'s duets CD titled Friends and Family.
In 2009, Kellerman released her first album since Roll With The Feelin, titled Sally, a jazz and blues album.
Selected television workShe portrayed psychiatrist Dr. Elizabeth Dehner in "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the second pilot for Star Trek (1966). She also appeared in The Outer Limits (1963) episodes "The Human Factor" with James B. Sikking, "The Bellero Shield" with Martin Landau, written by Joseph Stefano, Centennial (1978), and in the 1998 Columbo episode "Ashes To Ashes"
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The Detroit Red Wings are off to their best start in six years, and Henrik Zetterberg has been leading the charge.
The Red Wings seek their sixth straight win on Sunday when they host the Carolina Hurricanes.
Detroit beat Minnesota 5-0 on Friday, earning its 20th win in its 28th game. It's the quickest the Red Wings have reached the 20-win plateau since the 2001-02 season, when they won the Presidents Trophy with the most points in the league and beat Carolina in five games to earn their last Stanley Cup title.
The Red Wings own the most points in the league this season, thanks in part to Zetterberg, who posted his second career hat trick against the Wild. Zetterberg has a point in all but two of Detroit's games and leads the team with 21 goals and 40 points.
"Your best players have got to be your best players," coach Mike Babcock told the Red Wings' official team Web site. "That's what makes you good."
Zetterberg's linemate, Pavel Datsyuk, added three assists and leads the team with 23. Datsyuk ranks second on the team with 34 points, while the third member of the line, Tomas Holmstrom, ranks third with 27 (13 goals, 14 assists).
"Them and that (Sidney) Crosby line (with Pittsburgh), they're right up there," Minnesota goalie Josh Harding said.
Goalie Dominik Hasek, who struggled early in the season, stopped 19 shots for his first shutout of the season and the 77th of his career. He has won his last two starts after dropping his previous three.
"I believe I can continue to play like this," Hasek said. "I can feel it more in my heart and my stomach. I am talking more, you can hear me on the ice. I bang my stick more on the ice and that's what I need to be doing to keep myself in the game and play on the best level."
Detroit is hosting Carolina for the first time since Jan. 31, 2004, when the teams played to a 4-4 tie. The Red Wings are 1-2-1-0 in their last four against the Hurricanes after winning the previous six regular season meetings.
The Hurricanes know they have their work cut out for them against the Red Wings, but are feeling better about their chances after Saturday's 5-1 win in Montreal. Carolina, which is wrapping up a five-game road trip, bounced back nicely after a 2-1 loss in Tampa Bay on Thursday.
"It's never a great feeling going in to face them in Detroit, regardless, but certainly the way we played tonight was much better than we did the other night in Tampa Bay," said Ray Whitney, who had two goals and an assist. "It certainly gives us something to build on going into (Sunday) knowing that we're going to have to be even better than we were tonight to be competitive with them."
The win was the second on the road trip for Carolina, which scored more than four goals for the first time since a 5-3 win in Atlanta on Nov. 10.
"They played hard tonight," Hurricanes coach Peter Laviolette said. "They were going stride for stride at the beginning. We scored a couple in the first and got a jump, but they showed up and played."


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International Business Development Manager (Global Security Solutions)
- Recruiter
- Recruitment Revolution.Com
- Location
- London (Greater)
- Salary
- £80,000 - £100,000 (£100,000 - £120,000 OTE) + Car Allowance & Company Pension
- Posted
- 12 Feb 2018
- Closes
- 12 Mar 2018
- Ref
- 10916
- Function
- Sales
- Job Type
- Manager
- Hours
- Permanent
International Business Development Manager (Global Security Surveillance Solutions)
£80,000 - £100,000 (£100,000 - £120,000 OTE) + Car Allowance & Company Pension
Who we are:
We design end-to-end integrated security and surveillance solutions for the world's most challenging environments. In locations where security and surveillance are a priority to customers operations.
Our expertise and experience is focused on complex projects that require tailored solutions with high reliability and flexibility, specifically for gaming, oil and gas, marine, transport, infrastructure and public space applications.
The International Business Development Manager Opportunity:
The International Business Development Manager will be responsible for the identification, development and negotiations to generate profitability and sustainable sector growth, with the primary focus on new large infrastructure projects.
The International Business Development Manager Key Responsibilities are:
+ Research and target end-users and consultants for large infrastructure projects that align to our products and offerings
+ To achieve revenue targets and performance objectives
+ To engage with the customer at the appropriate levels in order to understand key business drivers and objectives
+ Engage and collaborate across the business to deliver winning, profitable proposals that leverage our strengths and technology and add value to our proposition for large infrastructure projects
+ Provide an insight into market dynamics, specifically competitors, stakeholders, current and market/product trends
+ Continually build and refine a proposition that positions our strengths, builds on our success and provides opportunity repeat business from valued customers.
About You:
+ Proven track record, self-starter, sector knowledge
+ 'Consultative Selling' style
+ Highly motivated, entrepreneurial solution sales expert, driven and demonstrable results
Are you an energetic dynamic sales driven individual who has a track record for building high level relationships with influencers and decision Makers? If so we'd love to hear from you...
You may have worked in the following capacities:
Senior Technical Solution Sales, Enterprise Sales, Security Surveillance Solutions Sales, Head of Sales, Business Development Director.
Interested? Just Apply Below...
...But first a little formality. By applying you explicitly consent to us processing & passing your application to our client for review for this vacancy only. If your skills match the role you will hear back from us within 2 business days. If you have any pre-application questions please contact us quoting the job title & ref. Good luck, Team RR.


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Two weeks ago a friend of me sended me a little message with the question if I
wanted to join this challenge for one month or for 365 days. Ofcourse!
There is finally an opportunity to stop this shopping behaviour and I entered
with a lot of courage. I will and I want to stop shopping!
'Stoppen met Shoppen' (stop shopping) has been organised by Swapping.be
and more than 1300 Belgian women entered to this challenge. I'm very proud of them!
I'm sure that it won't be easy for me to stop at once, but I'm trying so hard.
I want to make some people proud in my environment.
Shopping became a disease, really. I'm ready to talk in 'public' about it/with
my readers and I'm sure that I'll get some support from some of you and I really appreciate that!
The challenge has started on the first of April, no this wasn't a joke at all even if
I hoped it was one, and everything goes great at this moment.
I hoped it was one, and everything goes great at this moment.
I'll share all my experiences with you on my blog, and this is a start of a whole new life for me!
Now, fingers crossed!
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Cindy Van Dyck
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- I'm Cindy, a 22year old girl from Antwerp, Belgium. Since 2009 I'm obsessed by fashion. On my blog you can see all my outfits, purchases, etc. Enjoy it!


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With October just a couple of days away, I wanted to take this little series to the dark yet beautiful direction of the Gothic genre of art. There's a handful of artists that I'm familiar with in this particular category but for some reason I decided to settle on an individual that I knew I would get responses of both Yes and No. With the Gothic genre, I knew for a fact that there would be individuals who would be passionate about their art so asking who influenced would always be a matter of walking a thin line so as not to offend them. Not sure why but I thought it was a good idea at the time and just stuck with it, choosing Gerald Brom as my artist in question.
|"Selenia, Desolation Angel" in MTG by Brom
Many people are probably familiar with Gerald Brom (1965 - ), but for those who aren't he is a Gothic fantasy artist and illustrator. His works have been used in role-playing games along with card games such as Wizards of the Coast's Magic: The Gathering and Last Unicorn Games' Heresy: Kingdom Come. His paintings have also been used for the covers of the War of the Spider Queen book series and has done the concept art for several movies and video games. With such beautiful works, it's surprising to discover that he actually never took any formal art classes and was influenced by Frank Frazetta, N.C. Wyeth and Norman Rockwell which is just an interesting combination in itself.
It took me several look-throughs of other well known artists in this field before I decided to stick with Brom then an even longer time to pick the people I wanted to ask my question to. In all honesty, I picked them out a month or so in advance of me asking them but it took me a good week to go through pieces just to figure out who's work seemed similar. So picking my five artists, I sent forth my question not sure what to expect in my inbox later:
"Looking at the quality and darkness of your pieces makes me curious if you were influenced by the Gothic artist Gerald Brom. Was he any inspiration for you?"
trejoeeee.deviantart.com (Isle of Man)
|"Cronos" by trejoeeee
A digital artist located out of the Isle of Man, Chris specializes in character concept designs and fantasy environments. His pieces seem to have a balance of fantasy and technology to them, some giving a sense of almost a steam punk quality to them. With a cool and earth tone color pallet, he breathes life into his creations and causes the viewer to wonder what they themselves would do if they ever saw some of the beings he's created in person. When I asked my question, I wasn't prepared for the almost exuberant response from him.
"Sure! He's an amazing artist" ~trejoeeee
|"Embers" by Jeff Simpson
JeffSimpsonkh.deviantart.com (Canada)
A talented young man out of Canada, Jeff specializes in digital art. His works are mostly concept pieces of people, strange and intimidating creatures, along with weapons. Cool greys and sepia tones seem to be a staple of the color pallet Jeff works with, with the occasional guest color to bring an unearthy glow to the pieces which draws the viewer in. With his answer, it was as if I was talking to an old friend who I hadn't seen in years and was asking how his day was. There was a lot of insight in his response then what I was expecting.
"Sort of? Not really though, I do like his work but I prefer to be inspired by things that or not speficially created to "look dark" as 90% of the time it comes off as cheesy and forced. I think nature and reality is a much better source of inspiration, looking at the source of our world be it physical or psychological and you'll find much more interested material to play with in your images." ~Jeff Simpson
|"Mercy" by One-Vox
One-Vox.deviantart.com (United States)
Located here in the United States, Peter Mohrbacher is a digital artist who is probably best known for his Angelarium series but also his pieces for Magic: The Gathering. He seems to favor blues and sepia shades for many of this works but is obviously not going to limit himself on colors when creating his works which are heavily fantasy based. Of all of the answers I received from this group of artists, I don't think I was prepared to come across someone who actually met Brom.
"Yep. I got to meet the guy this last year too. Super nice dude!" ~Peter Mohrbacher
|"Quadratum Mortis" by Ertaç Altınöz
eratacaltinoz.deviantart.com (Turkey)
Located in Turkey, Ertaç Altınöz is a digital artist who works greatly in the fantasy genre. Highly detailed, each piece is a feast for the eyes which might be almost overwhelming for the viewer but he draws his audience in so that they can slowly enjoy the work he put into them. His color pallet of choice seems to be more towards the blues, cool greys and purples which can be seen in many of his pieces in some way.
"Eheh, thank you so much. I didn't think about it, but I can easily say that I'm not a huge fan of Brom. In fact, I prefer Tony DiTerlizzi's style to get some inspiration. But Brom is a true master, no doubt. Have a nice day and thanks for stopping by" ~Ertaç
|""Demon Cult Priest - MtG" by Damascus5
Damascus5.deviantart.com (United States)
Working in both digital and traditional mediums, Clint Cearley focuses on his digital work and is another artist who does pieces for the Magic: The Gathering. His color pallet of choice seems to change from piece to piece mainly due to the fact that he tries to make sure that each has the unique feeling he is aiming for. Each piece has a beauty to it, no matter the subject matter. His response was probably most interesting to me for the simple fact that it's obvious that he wouldn't mind branching out and experimenting with other genres.
"I've been a fan of Brom's work for years, but not overly so. We both have done work for Magic: The Gathering which explains some of the similarities of "quality and darkness." I probably wouldn't do as much darker subjects if it weren't for the fact that they are the projects I'm assigned." ~Clint


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Celebration of Colors
By Helena Natanael - Saturday, May 25, 2013
Hello readers!
First, I want to say Happy Vesak/Wesak Day for everyone who celebrates! It's a cloudy day and I love cloudy day, because it gives good blue/green tone to my photographs. Guess what? These pics above are fresh from my DSLR :)
It has been a really busy and high-stress-level week, and thank you for all your kind supports, I've gone through this week in one piece. Phew.. Btw, I'm entering the NatGeo Asia contest "celebration of colors". People who enter it are really awesome, they capture ordinary things but in differently amazing point of view/angle, and make it really special. I'm blown away by those talents. Though I don't expect to win that competition (my rival are really expert and I am just "hey, I'm newbie and I love photography" *9gag effect*), but going to USA and having a Canon 60D will fly me to the moon (?)
AQUA is a mineral water in bottle, sold in my country. It is celebrating it's 40 years existence in my country, so it changes it's look to be more "Indonesia". There's Wayang Gunungan and Wayang Petruk, Rafflesia Arnoldi flower, Malang mask, Jalak Bali bird and Cendrawasih bird in that illustration (don't know what it is? google it!). It is so Indonesia and reflects Indonesia's rich and diversity natural resources, that can only be found in Indonesia. I'm really proud of my country, and by this little mineral water, I feel more proud to be an Indonesian. That's why I'm featuring this bottle in my post :D
I'm really into these anti-bacterial gel by Bath and Body Works, I love their scents like crazy! hahaha.
If you are wondering what's that... that is a 5-colors highlighter! I got it from Bank Capital, when I was opening my first ever bank account *yes I'm seventeen years old, in case you don't know lol* really cute, right? You don't have idea how I like to use highlighter, it's quicker than writing a memo about the important parts of those school subjects. But because of the highlighter, some of my books turn into this:
These days are the last days of 2012-2013 class, so my friends and I took pics of ourselves
That's all I think for today, thanks for reading my chit-chat! here's a sneak peek of my outfit posts, will post it soon :) have a great day all!


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Welcome to Baird's Dry Cleaners
With over 100 years experience of serving our friends and neighbors in the Treasure Valley.
Who We Are
Family-owned and operated business for over 40 years with over 100 years history in Boise and the surrounding area.
What We Do
Dedicated group of individuals making sure our friends and neighbors look and feel great by providing friendly and professional full service dry cleaning.
Our Mission
To provide professional dry cleaning services that the Treasure Valley community can count on, time after time.
Our Vision
To provide reliable and friendly full-service dry cleaning services to Treasure Valley residents, events, groups, and more for another 100 years.
Dry Cleaning Services in Boise for 100 Years
Baird's Dry Cleaners started in business in 1916 and has been Boise's leading dry cleaner for the last 100 years. Baird's has been family owned and operated for over 47 years after the Elledge family purchased the business from Ed Baird. Baird's has earned a reputation for being the area's finest cleaners and continually strives to produce the highest quality dry cleaning while offering superior customer service. Baird's offers the Treasure Valley's largest home or office pickup and delivery service at no extra charge.
We have been in business for 100 years because we take pride in the special care we give our customers and their clothes. We feel handling your garments is a personal responsibility and we take it very seriously. We strive to stay competitive and offer the industry's leading methods of dry cleaning and stain removal.
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At Baird's we offer executive shirt laundry service, highest quality dry cleaning, professional pressing, alterations and repairs, on site suede and leather cleaning, wedding gown cleaning and preservation, drapery cleaning, and superior cleaning of household items such as bed spreads, comforters, tablecloths, and napkins.
At Baird's we want to make your life easier, that is why we have six convenient locations across the Treasure Valley, Meridian, and Eagle area along with free pickup and delivery twice a week to your home or office. At Baird's we also offer same day dry cleaning and laundry service upon request with no extra charge.
We appreciate our customers and strive to give a little extra love in all that we do.


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Win a four week medical project with Projects Abroad and Oxford University Press
For the second year in a row, to celebrate the new edition of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University Press will present one winner with £2000 towards a four week Medicine & Healthcare placement in a destination of their choice in Africa, Asia, Latin America or Eastern Europe with Projects Abroad.
To enter this competition to win this once-in-a-lifetime experience, in no more than 750 words, you need to explain where you would go, why you would go there, what you expect to learn and how the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine helps you to become the doctor you want to be.
Email Oxford University Press with your entry at firstname.lastname@example.com before the 29th of May 2015 to enter. To read more and check out the full the terms and conditions of this competition, visit the Oxford University Press website.
You could soon be practising your medical skills, boosting your CV and creating everlasting memories on the Projects Abroad medical project of your choice!
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text: Reebok One Challenge - The Great Escape Share Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Email Official Website Start Sun 6 July 2014 09:00 End Sun 6 July 2014 17:00 Venue Gardens by the Bay Sport Alternative Sport Prisoners on death row are put to play a game of shoot & kill with the guards. They are given the opportunity to escape – only if they outrun the guards, who are prowling to hunt down them down. Only prisoners who survive the fitness challenges surrounding the prison, and slip out of sight of the guards can escape unscathed. The question is: how fast can you run? Modeled after the conventional game of police and thief, participants have to finish a course of 5 kilometers, crossing various obstacles during the course that encompasses fitness elements. The exciting element in the game revolves around roving catchers along the route, who will be out to take away the "life tags" of each participant. Only those who manage to finish the course with at least 1 life left wins the game. Get Feedback Download iCal Card


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Director: Ben Wheatley
Stars: Tom Hiddleston
Year Released: 2015
Genre: Thriller
Running Time: 119 Minutes
Spoilers From This Point On:
"High Rise" takes place during the 1960's in an ultramodern apartment building that provides its residents with every modern convenience. As the tenants spend more and more time isolated from the outside world, they eventually revert to brutal and primitive tribalism, with each group or social class jealously hoarding recourses while viciously attacking anyone perceived as an outsider. The actual plot is a bit random, due to the strange nature of the story and the fact that the movie is more about the building as a whole than any one character or storyline.
Still of the many people in the high rise and the ones we spend the most time on are: Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) a university professor of psychology who serves as our de facto main character and who slips into madness as the high rise slips into anarchy. Richard Wilder (Luke Evans) a liquor swilling, foulmouthed, perpetually horny, lower class cameraman, who is determined to ascend to the top floor of the building and confront the high rises architect, by whatever means necessary. Anthony Royal (Jeremy Irons) the architect of the high rise who was crippled in its construction. He considers the high rises he has built to be his greatest works and observes the chaos with the detached eyes of a scientist, even as his own family descends into savagery.
I think I enjoyed "High Rise" a bit more than others, due to the fact that I read the book that this movie was based on and got quite a bit of background on the ideas that went into its creation. The book and the movie wears both its English values and its 60's era fears on its sleeves and a better understanding of English values and the attitudes of that day, will help you understand a very weird movie. The most important thing to remember is that of all the things engrained in the British mindset, conformity and classism have the most influence. This was especially true in the 60's and "High Rise" reflects this. The high rise is divided by class and the higher up you are in the building the higher your class is. There is competition between the floors for resources even before the collapse (blackouts and water shortages are common) and each floor is quick to blame the one above or below it for all the trouble.
Despite the carnage most characters are so interested in keeping up appearances, that they seem totally in denial. Many residents keep going to work even as bloody warfare breaks out because after all, what would the neighbors think if you started slacking off. I'm completely convinced that most of the high rise resident didn't even want to become modern day cavemen; they're just going along with the crowd.
Despite its faithfulness to the book (which is impressive, given how weird and random the book can be) "High Rise" is not a perfect adaptation. In the novel we never find out what causes a pair of death that begin the high rises slide into anarchy. In the move however we know exactly what caused it, thought to the movies credit this knowledge gives us an important plot point. A lot of people will be turned away by "High Rises" strange story, bizarre visual style and schizophrenic plot. Fortunately I'm a fan of weird stuff like this so I loved every bizarre thing the movie could throw at me. While the wall to wall weirdness will be too much for some people I hope those interested in a more unconventional story will give this a chance. After all fears of human desensitization due to isolation are alive and well, with the internet now making it so that you never have to leave your home, every house can be a high rise.
Did I like the movie: Yes
Would I watch it again: Yes
Would I buy it: No
Look deep inside you self, what is it that you see: There are couple lungs and a stomach; I don't recognize the other stuff. Meh, it's probably just taking up space.


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Masked Army Jihadist Group Expands Rapidly in Syria
A murderous Islamist group called ISIS is obstructing Syrian rebels in their battle against President Bashar Assad's regime. The Free Syrian Army seems barely able to put up a fight in the face of their brutal tactics.
The sender was unidentified, but the young engineer knew who the email was from as soon as he opened the attachment. Beneath a picture of the brutally mutilated corpse of Muhannad Halaibna, a civil rights activist known throughout the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, was a single sentence: "Are you sad now about your friend?"
Mere hours later, the engineer and 20 other members of the Syrian opposition -- doctors, city council members and activists -- escaped from Raqqa into Turkey. They weren't fleeing Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, but a new and terrible power that has no face and goes by many names. The official name of this al-Qaida branch, which has broken away from Osama Bin Laden's successors, is the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS). "Daaisch" is the most common abbreviation of the group's name in Syria. "But we call them the Army of Masks," says Basil, the engineer who fled the country, "because their men rarely show their faces. They dress in black, with their faces covered."
In addition to civil rights activist Halaibna, the group's thugs have kidnapped hundreds of others in Raqqa, where Assad's army was driven out back in March. The jihadists seized the chair of the city council, the heads of the civilian opposition, an Italian Jesuit and six European journalists. Anyone who opposes the ISIS fighters, or who is simply considered an unbeliever, disappears.
ISIS maintains four prisons for holding its hostages in this area alone. And Raqqa was only the beginning. In the last four months, the jihadist group, which was still essentially unknown in Syria at the start of this year, has seized control of several cities, as well as strategically important roads, oil fields and granaries.
What is currently taking place in the north and northeast of the country could bring about the worst case scenario: Syria's disintegration. This is not because the Syrian rebels are eager al-Qaida supporters -- as Assad's propaganda has claimed since the spring of 2011 -- but because people are exhausted after three years of destruction and don't have much energy left to oppose the jihadists' rapid expansion.
War on Two Fronts
For two years, the United States and Europe's constant mantra was to deny military support for the Syrian rebels, because there were radicals among them and weapons could fall into the wrong hands. Thus the Syrian rebels, left largely to their own devices, faced a murderous stalemate in the fight against Assad's military machinery, which is backed by Russia and Iran.
Many voices warned against the ignorance of such policies, SPIEGEL among them. "The longer the outside world fails to help, the more likely it is that others will fill the gap, possibly including al-Qaida," argued one commentary published in August 2012, titled "Civil War in Syria: The High Price of Hesitation." Now precisely that commentary's prediction -- "confusion and delusions on the part of governments can produce exactly the thing that they wanted to prevent" -- seems to have come to pass.
The balance of power among the rebels has shifted. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) has steadily shrunk while waiting in the vain hope of military aid from the US. Back when the number of foreign fighters in Syria was still very low, Washington didn't want to support the rebels because of the possibility that al-Qaida might get involved. As a result of that inaction, al-Qaida is now there.
The rebels are being ground down by a war fought on two fronts, with Assad in front and the jihadists behind. To make matters worse, Washington and London now plan to discontinue their meager support of the rebels entirely.
Taking Advantage of Disorganized Rebels
With a force of around 7,000 men, in mid-September ISIS stormed the town of Azaz, in northwestern Syria. Shortly thereafter, they attacked the border town Jarabulus, 200 kilometers (125 miles) to the east, as well as the cities of Dana, Tarib, Binnish, al-Bab and even parts of Aleppo -- all areas that until then had been controlled by local rebels.
Hundreds of people who had managed to more or less maintain infrastructure and a justice system in these liberated areas have fled from al-Qaida to Turkey in recent months. These are the same people who were previously persecuted by the regime in Damascus.
Few dare to stand up to the masked army. When a convoy of ISIS pickup trucks mounted with machine guns rolled into the town of Turmanin in late November, not a shot was fired. The jihadists occupied the town's largest building and set up roadblocks.
With their combination of centralized leadership, brutality and bribery, ISIS has zeroed in on the Syrian rebels' Achilles' heel -- their lack of unity. One eyewitness says that when ISIS attacked the border town of Azaz, the leaders of the major rebel groups in northern Syria convened to discuss whether or not to help the beleaguered FSA unit there fight back.
"No," the leader of the Tawhid Brigade -- the largest group in Aleppo, with around 12,000 fighters -- finally decided, declaring that the group could not afford to open a second front as long as the fight against Assad required all its resources. Instead, the Tawhid Brigade's leaders negotiated a ceasefire -- which lasted only as long as it took ISIS to gather enough masked fighters to subdue the small city for good.
ISIS Attacks Intensified in Fall
The group's forward march began quietly, a result of an internal al-Qaida power struggle. In April, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of al-Qaida in Iraq, decreed that his commands would now apply to Syria as well. The jihadists of the al-Nusra Front, whose beginnings lie somewhere in the murky depths of several attacks orchestrated by the regime, disagreed, saying they were subject only to commands issued by Ayman al-Zawahiri, official successor to Osama Bin Laden. But Zawahiri's words, issued from the isolated mountains of western Pakistan, no longer carry much weight. Nearly all the foreign al-Nusra fighters who have infiltrated the country to date have now switched allegiances, joining al-Baghdadi's forces.
As recently as this summer, these foreign ISIS jihadists, who travel into the country via Turkey, were just one force among many in northern Syria. The first abductions occurred, but ISIS did not yet control the roads. The foreign Islamists one met were mainly just bizarre encounters. Take the example of a scene that occurred in one of the last restaurants in the mountains of Latakia, where a group of young Saudi Arabians sat at a table. Wearing an explosive belt complete with a cable and a red plastic switch that he was toying with, one long-haired young man stood up, declaring, "If I push this, boom! Hee hee."
These men seemed threatening, yes, but also more crazy than organized.
That changed this fall, as the ISIS units' attacks grew appreciably more coordinated and better prepared. In Raqqa, they dealt with the small rebel groups one after another. When one FSA brigade refused to acquiesce to ISIS, the jihadists sent four suicide bombers in succession to their headquarters.
Elsewhere, the reputation ISIS had acquired in Raqqa was enough to subdue other competing rebel groups. When an ISIS convoy rolled into the city of al-Bab, the masked fighters told local rebels they only wanted to drive through the city en route to the front in Aleppo. But they had barely reached the center of town before the masked men jumped down from their pickup trucks and occupied the city center without any considerable resistance. "It was like a movie," recalls one witness. "All these monstrous figures in black."
- Part 1: Jihadist Group Expands Rapidly in Syria
- Part 2: Lack of Resistance Hard to Explain


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