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Launched by Şafak Ozkutle, Oceanvs Orientalis is somewhat a nebulous entity aiming to challenge the aesthetic perceptions in electronic music conditioning the senses for appreciation of patterns which are more melodic and ethereal. Sometimes it manifests itself as a multiplicity comprised of diverse live instrumentalists; more often as a singular process behind the decks. Known for his original production and remixes, Oceanvs Orientalis dwells in the cumulative musical history of humankind feeding on the worldwide archaeology of sound and scores, in this very context believing that "everything comes from the east". State-of-the-art electronic gadgetry is his vehicle to carry and introduce antiquated and peripheral vibes to the new and main dance floors, transforming sporadic indigenous rhythms into relatively more precise, fluent and cozy 4/4 beat assemblages. The other way round, the traditional acoustic sound which the musician frequently employs benefits his electronic output by making it less symmetric, bringing it nearer to nature, rendering it less "superhuman." The technicalities of his style so distinctive and viable aside, Oceanvs Orientalis is a platform for expression of extra-musical ideas to include intercultural and spiritual issues.
Reportedly born to remain a child out of the passionate love affair between Silesian rocket scientist and a man with only one shoe, raised at a pet asylum by its founder and his yellow cat, Noema spent most of his early formative years obsessively listening to traditional Mongolian dance music and practicing magic from which, among other fine values, he extracted an intense desire for travel. Sailing straight into the wind, his journey into the Unknown took him from China to northern Romania. An El Dorado of occult groups, lodges and spiritualist circles back then, there he simply could not have failed to discover his talent for mediumship and to perfectly teach himself graphology, chorology, phrenology, and astrology. This sort and quality of knowledge wide-opened his eyes to many wonderful career opportunities. Self-employed for a while as a peddler, mesmerizer, quack, fortuneteller, body custodian, secretary of mind, soul minister, he then resolved to advance his mastery lifting the reliquarium of his experiences to the high-altitude level. The decision came into being in the form of a sect that he arranged and nourished above the clouds in the Carpathian Mountains.
"Until you walk the unbeaten path, you'll never know where it leads..."
To conjugate verbs to the present tense: it is there so close to heaven and in the gentle embrace of his followers that Noema ventures to explore the universe of rhythm and other possibilities of music making. Until you walk the unbeaten path, you'll never know where it leads... Soon fully consumed by the process, he abandons his cult descending without warning or being invited upon Berlin – intuitively right place to test his newly acquired techniques, to accommodate his Dionysian spirit, to vaporize his surplus bacchanalian energies; for anyone to surprise oneself going beyond one's own expectations and borders.
Hence the motto: "Creating the Possibilities, Exploring the Opportunities". Explicitly or otherwise, it imprints everything Noema has been doing ever since – his residency at Zur wilden Renate, collaborations with the likes of Apparat, Daniel Wang, Dixon, Basement Jaxx, to name some, or production to his own name, or reproductions by Soul Clap, Wolf+Lamb, Axel Boman, Toby Tobias, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, or support by Theo Parrish, Moodyman, Crazy P, Nature, or, out of doubt, his worldwide rituals under the signature of THE MAGIC MOVEMENT.
THE MAGIC MOVEMENT. Here it comes.
Our jumbo compendium titled Scorpios Rituals 2016 containing more than 60 profiles amply appended with biographies and multimedia would take an elephant to upload it en masse and another on the receiving end to download. We are splitting the volume in about these many lighter segments to keep you posted on what lies ahead – each bit at a time and when that time comes.
You will find some names world-renowned and resounding, some familiar from Scorpios 2015, some utterly unknown and cryptic. Sonic entertainers, auditory artistes, record collectors, sound clip archivists, sub-underground producers, beat-matchers, glitch architects, ambience alternators, random pattern catalysts, loop pathfinders, fader collaborators, semi-automatic virtuosos, vst illusionists, high-pass filter maestros, fulbright village musicologists, dehydrated desert deejays, ancestral spiritualists, magic tribalists on the move, jungle hipsters on tour, urban hustlers off the leash, air-guitar medalists on ableton, sex symbols in denial and disguise, prophets of microgroove, turntable houdinis, sultans of midi-mixing, don juans of dropping bass, love-frequency therapists, downtempo yogis, shamans of acoustic techno, disco nudists, deep house apollonians, music personifiers, unswerving sui generis, the variant combinations of all these, and more… Each comes in so many identity dimensions* .
Quantity equals quality: the next 4 months at the Sunset Terrace may easily go down in history as the most exciting "instant" ever lived through on the island.
* DJ Culture in the Mix: Power, Technology, and Social Change.
ISBN: 978-1-62356-690-6 (hardcover).
The Sun is calling. Let the journey begin! Come to celebrate our first sunset in 2016. Starting now and riding beyond into the night!
Dear Friends,
This is to tell you we are closed for the season. Thank you for making the time so special, so exciting and so memorable. For making the project possible! All our effort -- tremendous as it has been -- would be futile without you actively appreciating the results, without you being our guests and supporters, without your good vibes. Thank you for bringing Scorpios to life and breathing so much soul into it!
Looking forward to seeing you all in 2016!
The exhaustion of not knowing anything about NU the person is tiring and very hard on the nerves. Every hour spent searching on line for a bit of information to no avail gets you weaker. Upon failure growing with each step so miserable, you catch yourself thinking how dismal, how heavy it is to listen to NU's mix and another one and more to come – the whole sequence looped to never end the indulgence – and to know virtually nothing of the individual behind his music.
Why pretend to be a superhero or diva if it can be your job! Fun as it may be working at the club (which is anything but commonplace), it is also a great challenge. Pick one and shine with us. Or do your friends a favor -- share!!! Scorpios is hiring for the 2016 Season.
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With so many photographers out there with skills substituted and virtually eradicated by fully-automatic gadgetry, it is harder than ever to stand your own ground, to believe in your own vision, to listen to and hear your own voice. But somehow, paradoxically, it's not a huge issue for Carolin Saage, if at all. Caro's artistic self-confidence and the quality of her work obtains largely from her being in the right place at the right time.
Ioannis Martinis is a lawyer, founder and editor of Elusive Magazine . Our guest with a camera is also a self-proclaimed "aesthetic fundamentalist" -- his Instagram reveals. The ism we can relate to is of this kind. Good morning!
Here is some music to it.
Some of you should perhaps postpone watching this video until Spring when Mykonos opens for the season. It's so well produced with the scenes in it so alluring, this postcard may make your waiting for the moment next year deeply insufferable :)


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Albufeira has a population of roughly 14,000 and is located approximately 28 miles from Faro Airport. Shuttle buses run throughout the day from the airport to the town.
It is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Algarve. The small, quaint coastal town started as a hub for tourism in the 1960s and has grown tremendously since then. Albufeira now hosts 5 million tourists each year. The booming city features a marina where boats and yachts moor at the dock.
Albufeira boasts a variety of sights to see during the day, and then really comes to life as the sun sets.
Visitors enjoy staying at the elegant Albufeira hotels and resorts. Tourists and locals alike take advantage of long and tranquil walks on the beach at sunset, dining at world class restaurants, experience the opulent nightclubs, pubs, and the live entertainment the city has to offer. The surrounding hills also boasts many manicured and well maintained golf courses for the avid golfer.
Albufeira is divided into two distinct areas. One area is called 'The Strip', a vibrant club and pub oriented area. Visitors and locals alike can experience the city's vibrant nightlife, go dancing, and listen to live music at the discos and clubs.
The other area, "Old Town", is more relaxed, family oriented, and is based on the traditional Arabic architecture of the old town. Tourists can experience fine dining, cafes, and novelty shops.
Albufeira holidays are defined by its elegant and lavish hotels and resorts.
Albufeira hotels are luxurious, many are situated on the beach, and offer many amenities such as spacious accommodations, pools, spas, fitness centers, tennis courts, and friendly personalized services. Notable five star Albufeira hotels and resorts include the Alisios, CS Vila das Lagoas Holiday Apartments & Townhouses, Grande Real Hotel, and Sheraton Algarve Hotel.
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Along the road toward equal pay, working women are traveling a little faster. Since 1980 the increases in income for women working full time have been considerably higher than the increases for similarly employed men.
Figures from the March 1985 survey by the Census Bureau show that from 1980 to 1984 income for all full-time working men dropped 0.6 percent, after adjusting for inflation, while income for women workers was up 5.6 percent.


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With four million viewers, Nickelodeon's Mr. Troop Mom set a new record as the kidnet's highest-rated and most-watched original TV movie, along with scoring the spot for number one original TV program on Friday, June 19 at 8 p.m. The two-hour original TV movie was also tops for kids and tweens on broadcast and cable that day, averaging a 5.3/1.9 million (kids two to 11, up 66%); a 7.5/1.6 million (kids six to 11, up 108%) and a 5.8/1.2 million (tweens nine to 14, up 107%).
Also on the Nick front, iCarly was the number-one kid-targeted program with total viewers as well as basic cable's top-ranked kids' show for the week of July 15, with the repeat showing of 'iTake on Dingo' (June 17, 7:30 p.m. ET/PT) bringing in 4.2 million total viewers, averaging an 8.7/1.9 million (kids six to 11, up 123%) and 6.8/2.4 million (kids two to 11, up 106%). Tweens, meanwhile took a shining to the repeat ep 'iDate a Bad Boy' (June 17, 8 p.m. ET/PT), as it came in as the week's top telecast, averaging a 6.5/1.4 million (tweens nine to 14, up 124%).
Meanwhile, Cartoon Network's Saturday night premieres of roller coaster game show BrainRush (8 p.m.) and Destroy Build Destroy (8:30 p.m.) on its new CN Real block also saw some gains. The former earned saw a 20% delivery increase with kids six to 11 and a 55% increase with the nine to 14 set, and Destroy Build Destroy saw a 34% delivery increases with kids six to 11 and 38% for the nine-to-14s.
And Disney Channel saw its most-watched week in total day for the week of June 15, seeing 1.879 million total viewers, along with 727,000 kids six to 11. DC also had some notable numbers in prime as cable's number-two network in total viewers (2.5 million).
Tweens nine to 14 flocked to the kidnet with back-to-back airings of The Suite Life on Deck on Thursday at 5 p.m. (1.4 million/5.7 rating and 1.3 million/5.5 rating, respectively).
Its Sunday showing of a new Jonas ep (8:30 – 9:00 p.m.) was TV's top program in its time period with the six to 11s (1.3 million/5.4 rating) and tweens nine to 14 (1.1 million/4.5 rating), as well as cable's top scripted show in the half hour with total viewers. Prior to that, a Sonny With a Chance repeat ep on Sunday (8:00 – 8:30 p.m.) was also TV's number one program with kids six to 11 (1.2 million/4.7 rating) and tweens (965,000/4.0 rating), as well as cable's top scripted show in the half hour with total viewers.
Preschool-wise, Saturday's 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse' (9:30 – 9:55 a.m.) was the week's number one TV telecast in the two-to-five demo (1.0 million/6.3 rating), placing the series second overall for the week with a 696,000/4.3 rating), also seeing two other series in the top five, with Handy Manny at number four (638,000/3.9 rating) and Imagination Movers at number five (621,000/3.8 rating).


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TORONTO (Bloomberg) -- The Detroit 3's output decline in Canada is poised to end after the major carmakers secured wage and pension savings that lower the costs of what Ford Motor Co. calls the world's most expensive auto workers.
In four-year labor agreements at Ford and General Motors Co., the companies agreed to offset previously announced layoffs with fresh investments and jobs.
Chrysler Group LLC pledged to maintain its current operations in a tentative deal with the CAW last night. In exchange, workers accepted bonuses in lieu of annual raises, along with measures to make new hires less expensive.
"We're in a period now of a decade-plus of evolving to learn how to compete one-on-one with the best jurisdictions anywhere in the world," Dennis DesRosiers, president of DesRosiers Automotive Consultants in Richmond Hill, Ontario, said by telephone. "And these labor agreements are starting to reflect that."
The auto companies opened the latest round of negotiations with Ford saying its Canadian workers were the most expensive worldwide. The country's exports became more expensive in the last decade as the dollar rose about 60 percent against its U.S. counterpart. That helped push Canada out of the top-10 global automakers, from fourth place in 1999, according to the union.
Most expensive
Before negotiations began last month, Ford said it spent $15 more an hour for a Canadian worker than a unionized laborer in the U.S., including costs for benefits and retirees. Erasing that hourly gap will depend on how many workers Ford can hire at the new wage to bring down the average, Lauren More said by e- mail. She declined to say what the new average hourly wage could be.
Faye Roberts, a spokeswoman for GM, didn't respond to an e-mailed request for comment. Chrysler, in an e-mailed statement last night, declined to comment on the accord.
The three U.S. companies' output in Canada was 1.48 million vehicles in 2011, down 24 percent from 2002, according to DesRosiers Auto Consultants. Employment dropped 55 percent to 20,777 workers over the same period, according to the union.
"At least in the course of the next three or four years, with these agreements, they could get very competitive with the U.S.," Kristin Dziczek, director of the Center for Automotive Research, said by phone from Ann Arbor, Mich.
New hires
With no plant expansions planned, labor savings under the new agreements will depend on how many current employees retire, and the companies' ability to keep a steady pipeline of new workers coming in as older workers reach full pay, she said.
"The structure is there," Dziczek said.
Under the deals, workers gave up annual cost-of-living raises in favor of C$2,000 ($2,033) lump-sum payments in the second, third and fourth years of the contracts, as well as a C$3,000 ratification bonus. The hourly rate for new hires will fall to C$20.40 from C$23.80 and the time to reach a base salary of C$34 will be 10 years, from six.
The Ford deal promises 600 new jobs in its Oakville, Ontario, assembly plant to help offset the loss of 1,100 jobs after a plant in St. Thomas, Ontario, closed in September last year.
The GM deal will add 900 jobs at an assembly plant in Oshawa and 100 more at an engine and transmission plant in St. Catharines, to offset the 2,000 jobs lost from another plant set to close in 2014.
Top sellers
Chrysler said during negotiations it planned to maintain three shifts at its Windsor assembly plant, near Detroit, and two shifts at its Brampton, Ontario, plant through the agreement, CAW President Ken Lewenza told reporters last night.
The Dodge Grand Caravan and Chrysler Town & Country minivans built in Windsor were the fourth- and fifth-best selling models in the company's lineup last year. Deliveries of the 300 sedan, built in Brampton, surged 158 percent this year through August, the biggest gain among its models.
"The beauty of Chrysler Corporation, even though they're the smallest, even though from a financial perspective they might even be the most vulnerable, they've got some hot products that are going to provide employment opportunities at our facilities for the life of this collective agreement," Lewenza said.
The contracts, which still need to be ratified by GM and Chrysler workers after Ford's members approved theirs, move half the pensions for new hires into a defined-contribution plan where the payout at retirement depends on the pension fund's performance. The other half will come from the union's defined-benefit plan that guarantees a certain amount at retirement and obliges the company to make up the shortfall if the fund underperforms.
'Bigger piece'
In 2011, Canada accounted for about 20 percent of the major U.S. car companies' North American production, up 3 percentage points from a decade before, even as the companies' share of North American sales fell, according to DesRosiers Auto.
The latest agreements will allow Canada to hold onto its share of the U.S. automakers' production, DesRosiers said.
"We're getting a bigger piece of a smaller pie," he said.
Before the past decade, Canada's auto industry had grown with the help of a Canadian dollar that hit a record low of 62 U.S. cents in 2002 and the competitive advantage offered by the country's universal health-care system. By 2007, the car companies moved a large part of their U.S. health-care costs off their books and into a separate fund managed by a UAW trust fund.
Government incentives
"I think it's a win for manufacturing," said Jeff Schuster, an auto analyst with LMC Automotive in suburban Detroit. "I think it's a win for the unions, and creates a stable environment."
Places where labor is cheaper, such as Mexico and Tennessee, where GM will shift production of its Chevrolet Equinox SUV from Oshawa, have been offering tax incentives to attract producers.
Long-term investment by the auto industry depends on the Canadian and Ontario governments doing the same thing, said Schuster.
"That's what they're getting in the U.S.," he said. "They're getting that in Mexico, so that seems to be the name of the game. If you want a factory, or even just a new vehicle, which is going to drive economic growth for that region and for the country overall, then they want some sort of incentive to locate it there."


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Our determination is to bring the world a honey entirely honest in nature, by keeping it raw without the need for secondary processing. Subjecting our Manuka to high temperatures just isn't in our thinking.
Raw, Cold Pressed Manuka
Creamed Manuka vs. Cold Pressed Manuka
Most Manuka honey produced is heated to very high temperatures (70C or 158F) during production, which makes the honey easier to pour out of its storage containers and pack into pots. The honey undergoes a secondary process where heat is applied. Unfortunately when honey is heated to these high temperatures it destroys some of the health properties of the honey. It gives the honey a different colour and texture as the honey crystals are smaller and more uniform due to the melting from the high heat. Many of the honey's nutrients are lost during this processing method.
Benefits of Unpasteurised, Cold Pressed Manuka
Steens Honey is cold pressed (unpasteurised) which means it has only been heated to hive temperatures (36C or 96F) and is then left to set naturally. This minimal processing technique does not denature the amino acids & enzymes in our honey which allows our honey to have:
- High Amino Acid (protein) profile
- Higher nutrient content
- Keeps the honey's natural enzymes that aid digestion
- A thicker, thixotropic texture as the crystals are uneven in size – as nature intended them to be
- Our honey can be labelled 'raw' as it has not been processed above 47.7 C (118 F)


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text: "When one door closes, another opens but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." Alexander Graham Bell Our world of farming and ranching is a consuming force. We live where we work and we work where we live. We identify our home, our work, and who we are with terms relating to "the farm." That's great, until we choose to or are forced to leave the farm. Then what? After a number of calls, listening to words or the silence of depression, hearing shouts of anger and unfairness, witnessing people in transition, I've come realize everyone needs a "Plan B." Especially farmers and ranchers. Even if you never plan to leave the farm, just having a mental option of what else you could or would do, gives you additional strength for creativity, necessary risk taking, and flexibility in today's changing times. It also is the next step for those who retire or must change plans due to health or financial problems. "Plan B" reduces the paralyzing, underlying fear of, "I must succeed because this is the only thing I can do." You have many talents and skills. Farming and ranching require them of you. From scientist and mechanic to public relations and marketing, from food and fiber specialist to doctor and decision maker, from employee and financial manager to lobbyist and leader, never underestimate your competencies. Run with your vision and passion and put them to full use on your farm. And, if you choose to change directions, remember, we live in a country where history has proven opportunities abound. I've had the privilege to visit with many who have added an additional job to supplement their farm income. I've also visited with many who have left the farm. Here are some interesting comments: "It was an insightful moment when I understood that land is just dirt and cows become hamburger, but people and family, that's what really matters." "I had to make a choice. I could spend my time making excuses, playing the blame game and finger pointing or I could build on the best of the past and use it to make my future." "Maturity doesn't come with age, it comes with accepting the responsibility for the reality you've made." "I love to farm, but I've learned I am not the farm." "If you want to be happy with the life you live, take charge. Accept responsibility for where you are and where you're going. Ask, "What do I want to do and what am I willing to do to make it happen?" "If you are struggling, talk now before you quit talking. Build a team. Ask for help." "Leaving and changing are not easy. My advice? Just keep moving through it and don't stop. What is the right thing to do? You make the decisions before you are forced to and have no choice." "I was petrified of life without my label. I was a farmer. Do you know what happened? I shared my story and my talents, and life outside of farming embraced me." In my workshops, I often require people to write an answer to the question, "If you could not farm, what would you do?" Get out your pencil. What is your answer? Then send it to me at firstname.lastname@example.com © Copyright 2001 Jolene Brown's phone number 319-643-2429 and email address email@example.com.


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1979 Yugo 101 1.3 from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Electricals, plastics, some rust on the floor...
General Comments:
It's a very good car after years of use.
It's still can be useful in the short races on public streets.
It's perfect for young couples to enjoy on picnics or something like that :P.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 20th April, 2009


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Jennifer Flores
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On January 16th, the internationally recognized photojournalist Karl Grobl came to campus to share his work and inspirations. The Benedictine University Alum presented to a mixture of faculty, students and community members.
Prior to the event there was a program handed out allowing the public to read about Mr. Grobl. The presentation was about his life journey and how he took photographs for "more than 85 different NGOs in over 50 countries."
"With a keen awareness and reverence for human dignity, Karl creates photographs that not only educate and motivate but also stir the viewer's deep emotions," said Karl Grobl's biography in the Komechak Art Gallery program.
This was very special event that was prepared because it was Grobl's first art show according to Teresa Parker, instructor and one of the organizers for the event. The event was a huge success because of the presentation and the panel that followed. The panel consisted of a Benedictine Senior and two Benedictine Professors. The panel was an interactive experience that dealt with how Grobl was able to do his work in both physical closeness but also how he was able to get close to people emotionally.
The turnout for the event was great and had between 80-100 people.
"I think the great success overall, was for the students to see what one of the alumnus can do and he is making a difference around the world," said Parker, "It speaks well of the institution and the school and gives students an idea of what they can do."


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The UK games industry is the largest in Europe
1. A magnet for talent and collaboration
Home to the largest concentration of developers and publishers in the UK, London offers the unbeatable mix of an abundant workforce, innovative start-ups and established global players. With leading financial, advertising and media clusters, six of the world's most prestigious universities and a creative industry employing 518,000 people, the capital is a hub for top talent.
2. A large and profitable market
Across the country 34.7m, gamers, playing an average of 14 hours a week, look to London for ever more innovative and creative instalments. And with video games sales growing 17% to £3.5bn in 2013 there's no surprise the capital is the number one city for expanding international games companies.
The potential profit on each download in the UK is the highest in western Europe at $0.47
London is home to the largest concentration of developers/publishers in the UK with 83 studios
3. Proven success
Recent successes include Mind Candy's Moshi Monsters, one of the world's most popular games generating $250m in gross sales revenue, the global expansion of educational game developer Night Zookeeper, and the sale of DeepMind to Google for $500m.
4. Generous tax breaks
Companies in London enjoy the third lowest tax rate in Europe. Along with the introduction of a new video games tax relief in 2014 reducing the cost of development activity by up to 25%, entrepreneurs can also benefit from capital gains tax breaks on their first £10m.
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If you go in for "excruciating," then you are a ripe candidate for Jason Miller's fan club. Not talking about the Jason Miller who played Father Karras in 1973 film "The Exorcist," though at this point there would appear to be parallels in areas dealing in fiction and possession.
We're talking about the host of "Bully Beatdown" -- the uber-popular (and perhaps former) MMA fighter.
What is going on with "Mayhem?" First he's caught naked in a church with a spent fire extinguisher, then he's tweeting Ronda Rousey strange bits of indecipherable brain patter. He's never been what you might consider average -- the nickname should tip you off -- but now, after appearing in the Kevin James MMA movie "Here Comes the Boom," he's a method actor gone berserk.
Just so we're clear -- he's method acting after the role. He's still in character, presumably to help sell the movie. Now there's promoting a movie ... and there's what Miller is doing. But exactly what is it that he's doing? Does he even know?
Miller made an in-studio appearance on Ariel Helwani's "MMA Hour" on Monday in New York, and showed up as "Lucky" Patrick Murphy, a caricaturized ruffian from Dorchester, Mass. From the word go, the interview was awkward. Helwani wanted true life. He got bad fiction, instead. There was no middle, yet there were beads of sweat.
Helwani played along with the ruse, but couldn't drag the real Miller out. "Mayhem's in the woods," he was told time and again. He was also told to "f--- off" on occasion. That Helwani wouldn't spend an hour of mortifying role-playing with Miller made him angry. After crawling on the furniture and shouting, he eventually stormed out. He even swiped the host's "Volkmann for President" shirt for good measure, which has its own awkward narrative.
Funny as in Andy Kaufman funny?
Nope. It was 14 minutes that felt like an hour. It was 14 minutes of cringe. It was 14 minutes of "Wow, I hope Miller's OK."
It's this last thing that makes it all the more unfunny.
Is Miller OK? At this point, you do have to wonder. After being cut from the UFC -- where, you'll recall, he gave C.B. Dollaway a noogie before losing a "do or die" decision -- Miller has been out there a little further than usual. There's his Twitter account with nearly 228,000 followers, which has become an erratic log of disconnect. And then there was the arrest for the Orange County church break-in. With a platform to explain things, or at least downplay the incident and make light of it, Miller strayed into left field.
He came as "Lucky" Patrick, a character from the movie, which didn't exactly sell anybody on the idea of seeing it. He was in and out of accent. He was in and out of moods. He was in and out of the segment. By acting standards, Miller is a good fighter.
Was it just "Mayhem's" brand of hokum? Maybe. If it is, might be time for a new shtick. Nobody hams it up quite like "Mayhem," who in the fight game was known as much for his big choreographed walkouts as he was for his performances.
If Miller was just having a laugh, he was doing it alone. Can't imagine the producers of the film are laughing along with him. An impenetrable guise? Helwani might as well have been interviewing the lady in the Hello Kitty costume down at Times Square.
But if it's something other than misfired silliness, you have to be a little concerned for "Mayhem." The incidents are stacking up around him, and everybody's seeing it. Everyone but Miller, who traveled from California to New York to tell us he's looking at things through the eyes of somebody else. Talk about uncomfortable.


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ERC Researchers Demonstrate Energy Savings for Ankle-Foot Orthosis by Recovering Exhaust Gas
Researchers at the Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP), an NSF-funded Engineering Research Center (ERC) headquartered at the University of Minnesota, demonstrated a strain-energy accumulator on an Ankle-Foot Orthosis (AFO) as a way to recover exhaust gas in its pneumatic system (see figure).
In these preliminary trials, use of the pneumatic strain-energy accumulator resulted in an energy savings of over 25% relative to operating the pneumatic actuation of the AFO in the conventional manner. This is an important energy-saving achievement because the AFO is representative of a typical pneumatic actuator task and industrial pneumatics are used widely in the United States.
The typical method of pneumatic actuation is only 23% to 30% efficient since a large amount of the energy is exhausted when the actuator changes direction. The pneumatic strain-energy accumulator is able to store a portion of this exhaust gas and then reuse it to assist the powered return motion of the actuator. Given that about 0.5% of the energy consumed in the United States is for industrial pneumatics, an application of this technology for pneumatic devices on assembly lines could save $1.4B to $2.5B per year.


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Florence County Sheriff's Office Announces DDACTS Locations:The Florence County Sheriff's Office has designated the following DDACTS "hot spot" areas of Florence County for high visibility traffic enforcement for the next month (July 2015).
• Brittany Drive, Willow Trace and Via Ponticello;
• South Cashua Drive, South Santiago Drive, Hyde Circle, South Parker Drive and Ridgecrest Circle;
• South Canal Drive, Allison Street, Dawn Street, Yancy Drive and Brenda Street;
• Howe Springs Road area, Tara Village and Southern Pines;
• West Camp Branch road, McAllister Road, and Trifalia Road.
These areas were selected as "hot spots" based upon location-based crime and traffic crash data. Residents and motorists in these areas can expect to see high visibility enforcement of traffic laws for the next several weeks with both marked and unmarked units running rear blue lights even when not on a traffic stop. In addition, routine citizen encounters in these areas will be increased.
DDACTS, or Data Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety is a U.S. Department of Justice approved operational enforcement model launched by FCSO in June of 2014 which uses GIS mapping of crime and crash data to establish effective and efficient methods for deploying law enforcement resources.
This model recognizes the clear correlation between vehicle crashes and incidents of crime and seeks to reduce both in the targeted areas with high visibility enforcement of traffic laws.
FCSO is the first sheriff's office in South Carolina to adopt DDACTS as an enforcement model.
|Sheriff Kenney Boone


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One of the part of playing 3D video on a VR Headset is to get a 3D content. Some perhaps downloaded 3D video from YouTube, YIFY while some people want to convert their 2D video to 3D MKV for their 3D devices:I have noticed that there have been many 3D video supported players with the popularity of 3D lifelike movies. I find a 2D movie (.MKV), and it works just fine at home. Now I want to see it at my friend's house, and they have a 3D system. To have a theatrical 3D experience at home, we're trying to find an easy way to convert 2D Video/Movie to 3D MKV? Any idea? "
With the upsurge of 3D movies in recent years, more and more people are looking for 3D converting software to convert 2D to 3D videos that are compatible with all 3D devices. As mentioned above, if you want to convert 2D to 3D MKV, you have to figure out the best 2D to 3D MKV Video Converter to help you get this done.
Best All-In-One Software for 2D to 3D Converter – Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate
- Convert 2D Blu-ray,video to 3D SBS/TAB/Anaglyph video, 3D video to 2D.
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Step 3. If you like, you could adjust video codec, bitrate, frame rate, etc to get better video quality in saved 3D MKV video. Meanwhile, you could choose 3D anaglyph and Depth in Profile Settings to avoid images misaligned.
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Monday Oct 08 2012
Cal lacrosse coaches to hold clinic Sunday at Vista del LagoBy: Staff Report
Join Cal Berkeley Head Lacrosse Coach Ginger Miles, her coaching staff and current Cal Players for a pre-season clinic from 2 to 6 p.m. on Sunday at Vista del Lago High School. Pre-registration is required and to do so visit edhylax.org. The clinic is limited to 100 players. The clinic is designed to help returning players prepare for the upcoming spring season. Players of all levels will benefit from an afternoon of drills based on techniques and stick work, shooting, individual defense, individual offense and goalkeeper instruction, as well as 5-on-5 play later in the day.


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5 Brands That Understand The Latino Market
Has your brand been paying attention to the Latino market? If not, it should. The proof is in the data: Recent reports show Latinos are the fastest growing segment in the U.S., accounting for 17 percent of the American population (near 54 million, according to the Census Bureau). And if you combine the approximate 123 million people in Mexico alone with the people in 25 countries across Central and South America, the Latino market is 600 million strong -- one of the largest potential markets in the world.
So what can your brand do to stand out? In the past it may have been enough to translate brand campaigns into Hispanic languages, but this is no longer the case. For brands to really succeed in this growing market, brand owners need to design campaigns specifically targeted to Latino's and their cultural expectations, says Marina Sanchez, Director of Business Development for Latin America at SGK.
Here are a few brands that have had great success by remaining true to the essence of their brands while adapting to local needs and aspirations.
1. Bimbo
The Mexican-based company wanted to have a consistent approach across the region but faced a cultural challenge related to its main brand. When entering the Brazilian market, it realized that the word "Bimbo" in Portuguese could have an offensive meaning without any such connotations in Spanish. Research conducted with potential consumers showed that the word "Bimbo," if used alone, in fact did have a negative connotation in Brazil. But when presented in context (used as a brand logo, with rounded, soft letters and associated with the brand's character, a friendly teddy bear), the reception changed completely. By appealing to the emotional side of the Brazilian audience, the brand managed to convey a completely opposite and very positive message and was able to maintain the desired consistency in different countries.
2. Budweiser
One of Anheuser-Busch InBev's global brands, Budweiser has been successful in the Latino market, appealing to a range of audiences in terms of both economic and cultural differences. While Bud has a "mainstream" approach in the U.S., the brand has a "premium" yet trendy and highly aspirational positioning for Latino markets, such as Argentina and especially Brazil. By closely linking the brand with cool music, technology, and sports, Budweiser has built a strong connection with young beer drinkers in Latino markets, reaching the top position in the premium beer segment in its largest market: Brazil, the brand's second largest market overall (after the U.S.).
3. Danone
The French Danone has had fantastic performance in the region. A big reason for its success? A mix of different products within the region based on a deep understanding of local tastes. The products available differ from country to country, focusing on the flavors and products that speak to local consumers. For instance, Danone recently introduced 18 new flavors of Activia yogurt in Brazil. Some flavors are designed to appeal directly to the local market, including Pineapple & Orange as well as Banana & Apple. These locally focused flavors have strengthened Danone's presence in the market, which has historically shown lower consumption of yogurt products in Latino countries when compared to European countries.
4. Colgate
With excellent penetration in emerging markets, such as Venezuela and Equador, the personal care brand Colgate knows how to communicate with Latin American consumers. In fact, the Latino consumer is responsible for 29 percent of Colgate's net sales, according to Forbes. That's because Colgate understands the purchasing power in the Latino market is still lower when compared to North America. The company maintains its brand essence and color equities but adapts to economic and cultural needs by using smaller pack sizes, encouraging trials, and introducing value packs. Colgate also understands the desire within the market for access to more efficient and refined products. Thus, it consistently launches innovative, new products to maintain its leadership position in the Latino market.
5. Knorr
One of the most popular food brands in the region, Knorr has an approach to launching products that's similar in all markets but adapts to local tastes in much the same way Danone does. Knorr offers different products and flavors in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and Colombia. In Peru, for example, the "Fuchifu" soup, a Peruvian recipe with oriental influences, is part of Knorr's instant soups offering and has become a tremendous success. In Brazil, Knorr's "Sopão" addresses the desire to gather the family for a hearty and delicious meal. Knorr's extensive range also includes light (0 percent fat) and low-sodium options, understanding that health concerns are becoming more significant for Latinos.
As these examples show, successful marketers shouldn't take a "one-size-fits-all" approach to launching campaigns and products in the Latino market. Because the market is so vast, brand owners must do their homework and understand the cultural nuances and differing tastes, preferences, and attitudes that affect buying behaviors throughout. Those who take the time to create a lasting connection, show respect for the cultural differences across the market, and demonstrate a willingness to evolve as the Latino community grows will be rewarded with what all brand owners want -- brand loyalty in a quickly expanding market.


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Hey there! I'm back with another tutorial after a bit of a break. This time it's an ombre brow and a wearable twist on a winged liner. Click 'read more' for the full tutorial!
Ombre Brows
*Products used:
- Anastasia Brow Powder, taken from the Brow Pro Palette. Buy here or here (duo form) You're going to need a dark shade of powder and a much lighter shade.
- Rimmel Wake Me Up Concealer. I got mine here.
- Anastasia Angled Cut Brush #15. Buy here.
- Smaller angled brush (optional)
- Small Concealer brush
- Spooly
*You don't need to use exactly what I use. Use your preferred products and brands or if you have what I've listed, excellent!
1. Start by taking a clean spooly and running it through your brows. We want to start out with clean, groomed brows, it just makes the finished product turn out nicer! So if you need to trim or pluck, do it now.
2. We're going to start out at the middle of the brow, at the base of the arch. Taking the darkest shade of your brow powder, start filling in the outside half of your brow. Where you first started with the dark powder, use your spooly to blend it out to avoid any harsh lines.
3. Now, taking our lightest shade, fill in the rest of your brow. Be very light handed at the front of your brow. If you have sparse hair at the front of your brow that you still feel you need to fill in, you can do so and run some concealer over the brow hairs to lighten them.
4. Now taking your concealer on a small concealer brush, clean up any mistakes and shape your brow. This is totally optional. You should have something that looks like this! This effect can be less or more effective depending on the shade of your natural brow.
Burgundy Liner
*Products used:
- Elf Mineral Eyeshadow Primer
- Anastasia Beverly Hills Lavish Palette
- Illamasqua Fatale Palette
- Maybelline Color Tattoo in 'Pomegranate Punk'
- Anastasia Eye Covet Liner in 'Noir'
- Sugarpill Eyeshadow in 'Tako'
- Essence Maximum Definition Mascara
- Real Techniques Base Shadow brush
- Coastal Scents Classic Crease Blender
- Fine Liner brush (Came in a nail art kit from Ebay)
1. The first step is always to prime. So take your favourite primer and apply it all over the lid and the lower lash line.
2. Taking a light, warm shade (I used 'Orange Soda' from the Lavish palette) on a fluffy blending brush, apply all over the crease with a light hand.
3. Apply a white or cream shadow on the mobile lid using a flat shadow brush. I used Sugarpill's 'Tako'. We want to pack this on quite heavily.
I felt this need a little bit more definition so I added a darker, warm colour (Sienna) only focused more into the crease.
It should look a little like this.
4. We're going to add a little bit more definition to the outer corner of the eye now. Taking 'Mystify' on a fluffy brush gently pack it onto the lid and blend into the white that we applied earlier.
5. Now, taking a fine liner brush and the Colour Tattoo cream eyeshadow, we can start our winged liner. I like to start applying at the inner corner. This cream shadow can be a lot drier than most gel liners so keep that in mind when applying and try to work quickly. I found that really packing the liner brush with product made it easier.
Create your basic liner shape.
Now add your wing!
The way your liner looks will depend on your eye shape.
6. Let's start on the lower lash line now. Taking 'Ensnare' from the Illamasqua fatale palette on a crease brush we're going to run that along the outer two thirds of the lower lash line.
7. Time to tight line and line the lower waterline. For the lower lash line, we're going to line the outer corner and blend it out slightly into the red shadow using the same brush that we used in the last step.
8. Time for mascara and lashes. I like to use quite a bit of mascara with a simple look like this.
The lashes I chose were the Cherry Blossom #74s.
And that's the finished product. Hope you like it!


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Measurements [metric]
- 4 eggs
- 1 lb powdered sugar
- 1 Tbsp. grated fresh lemon rind
- 4 cup sifted flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Lump of butter the size of a walnut
- Anise seed
Beat the eggs and powdered sugar by hand for 30 minutes (or cheat and use a Kitchenaid mixer for 15 minutes).
Add flour, lemon rind and baking powder. Mix until the dough becomes heavy. (Cheat with a Kitchenaid mixed paddle)
Roll out on a floured board to 3/8 inch thickness. Lightly dust with flour to keep mold from sticking.
Press Springerle mold into the dough. Then cut into shapes.
Lay cookies on anise seed sprinkled on a greased baking sheet and let dry out in a cool room overnight.
Bake the next morning for 30 minutes at 300 degrees F.


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During the season, we publish random images of our players. Check here weekly to view the images.We are accepting YOUR photos for our web site. You can email them to the "Webmaster "<webmaster -at- csys -dot- org> or click here to upload your photos yourself.
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Research from the University of Delaware and Stanford University concludes that offshore wind turbines could have an unexpected benefit alongside their primary goal of generating renewable energy. The research team suggests that offshore wind farms could reduce wind speeds, wave heights and storm surges resulting from hurricanes, weakening their impact before they reach land.
The findings, published in Nature Climate Change, demonstrates that wind farms could act as buffers to coastal cities normally afflicted by hurricanes.
"The little turbines can fight back the beast," said study co-author Cristina Archer, associate professor at the University of Delaware's College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment. Along with her team, Archer looked at how isolated weather events behave differently to the general global climate. In so doing, they discovered that hurricanes might be more affected by wind turbines than normal winds.
Related: Oregon Prepares to Launch the West Coast's First Offshore Wind Farm
Using hurricanes Katrina, Isaac and Sandy as examples, they looked at what would happen if large wind farms, with tens of thousands of turbines, had been in the storms' paths. Instead of being destroyed, as one might expect, the wind farms removed energy from the storm's edge and slowed down the fast-moving winds. As a result, the lower wind speeds at the storm's perimeter gradually made their way inwards to the eye of the storm.
The researchers modeled reductions of up to 87 miles per hour (mph) for Hurricane Sandy and 92 mph for Hurricane Katrina; also, the hypothetical wind farms would have decreased storm surge by up to 34 percent for Hurricane Sandy and 79 percent for Hurricane Katrina.
"This is a totally different way to think about the interaction of the atmosphere and wind turbines," Archer said. "We could actually take advantage of these interactions to protect coastal communities."
Via Phys.org
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Author Expert Interview about Mindfulness Books with Nataša Pantović Nuit (Alchemy of Love Mindfulness Training Series of 9 books)
Nataša Nuit Pantović brings us her ninth book, TREE OF LIFE, as part of the Alchemy of Love Mindfulness Training series. She considers the Alchemy of Love Mindfulness a spiritual rather than a religious endeavor. TREE OF LIFE is poetry— spiritual not religious—that is an "inspirational and motivational encounter with various spiritual journeys into Love, Consciousness, Bliss."
Nataša Nuit Pantović has traveled widely and currently lives in Malta with her two children. At the moment she is working on her next book, "Conscious Creativity."


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Quote:tomk said:So, I have a thought. In christian mythology, each of the following seem to be true:Judas betrayed Jesus.As a result of this betrayal, Judas is sent to hell.Judas's betraying jesus is necessary for jesus to have been crucified.If jesus were not crucified, then salvation would not be possible.Jesus knew Judas would betray him beforehandJesus suffered less on the cross than Judas will in hell.Well, you start to tally it up, it looks like Judas, not Jesus is the one who is suffering for everyones sins. Both him and Jesus had a part in the crucification that lead to the possibility of salvation. Who payed more? Judas did. In betraying Jesus, Judas made salvation possible and went to hell forever. So, Judas and not Jesus should be the figure those who focus on salvation should worship. After all, Judas payed a much higher price for you to be able to obtain salvation then jesus did.
Quote:psyka said:Did Judas have a last name? Or is that a call-sign?
Quote:OldWoodSpecter said:Quote:psyka said:Did Judas have a last name? Or is that a call-sign? Iscariot
Quote:MarkostheGnostic said:Judas [Jude] is a Shadow figure in the Jungian sense.
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Korea Vogue should have saved this for their October 2008 issue, in my opinion.
Editorial: Black Obssession
Magazine: Harper's Bazaar Korea, August 2008
Photographer: Park Ji Hyuk
Source: DCM Models
Whoa, these pictures awesome! The first couple of pictures are very cool and this model's legs...sexy sexy.
Yeah, this editorial would've been PERFECT for the October issue. The first and last pics are my absolute favorites.
i love the pic where she's holding the white roses!
I love first and last pics as well!! and.. Korea doesn't really celebrate Halloween... Instead, they celebrate(...?) the dark and the scary in summer to chase away the heat of summer.. So in korean's point of view, I think it was appropriate decision to put this kind of editorial in August :D
your blog is outstanding , with amazing photos , actually the exact type of photos I like


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Everyone is welcome to join us at 1:00pm each Sunday. It's a great way for new members and guests to get to know some of us UU's and/or for older members to reconnect with our church community.
Here's our February schedule:
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|Enjoying our sunny morning ride to the Pearl District
|Free transit? Thank you, Portland!
After a bit of shopping, we headed back to the Pearl District for a picnic lunch in the square and lots of splashing around, mainly for Etienne who seems to have no issue with cold water. He also made some friends and ran around with some local boys. It's always so great to watch kids adapt so quickly and meet new people without feeling shy or out of place! And while the kids played in the water, Chris and I relaxed and just enjoyed some quiet time. This is actually something we're trying to force on ourselves. When we travel, we naturally try to be moving constantly, and seeing as much as we can. But since having kids, we've realized this is much more tricky, as kids just don't have the same attention span as adults, and to ask them to continue from one place to the next with no rest or play time just doesn't work. It's a work in progress, but we're accepting it more and more.
|Etienne splashing around in the falls at Jamison Square
|Chris learning to relax and just take in the
|The kids at the gate to Chinatown
|Coralie enjoying a cool, refreshing drink at an
interesting water feature
|Steel Bridge - this was a shot we meant to get yesterday
|An improvised resting place for Etienne. Proof
kids will sleep almost anywhere.
|The brewing kettles at the Mash Tun...I recommend the
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Steps to Hitting a Good Drive
The drive is golf's glamour shot. Other than putting the ball in the hole, there's nothing more satisfying to most golfers than stepping to the tee with a driver and smoking the ball 250 or more yards down the fairway. Beyond the glamour, a long, accurate tee shot leaves you with a shorter second shot and a better chance to par or birdie the hole. To make this dream a reality, however, you must put all the aspects of a good swing together, beginning with your grip and stance and ending with the follow-through.
Step 1
Take your normal grip, placing your left hand on the club first -- if you're right-handed -- and holding the club in your fingers, rather than your palms. In a standard interlocking grip, place your right pinkie on top of your left hand, between the first and second fingers. Your thumbs should be pointing down the shaft and set just right of center. The "V" shapes formed by the thumb and forefinger of each hand should point toward your right shoulder.
Step 2
Assume a wider than normal stance when you hit a driver, with your feet a bit farther than shoulder-width apart and point your toes out. You'll also stand farther from the ball because the driver is the longest club.
Step 3
Tee the ball up so half the ball is higher than the top of your driver's clubface. Align the ball with your left heel.
Step 4
Pick a specific target, rather than seeing the fairway as a 40- or 50-yard-wide field, and aim directly for your target, according to PGA teaching pro Zachary Allen.
Step 5
Take the club back low, moving your arms and chest as one unit. Keep your right knee flexed slightly, to limit your hip rotation, but rotate your shoulders as far as possible, to create torque. At the top of your backswing your back should face the target and your left shoulder should be under your chin.
Step 6
Begin the downswing from the ground up, shifting your weight to your front foot while rotating your hips. Jack Nicklaus recommends that you focus on turning your right hip toward the ball.
Step 7
Let your arms drop naturally in front of your chest. If you're shifting your weight properly, your wrists will naturally remain cocked until about midway through your downswing.
Step 8
Transfer about 80 percent of your weight to your front foot at the moment of impact. Your left arm should be straight, your right elbow should be in front of your right hip and your right heel should just be lifting off the ground when you strike the ball.
Step 9
Keep the club moving along the target line as long as possible during the follow-through. When the club is horizontal your right hand should be in a position to figuratively shake hands with the target. Finish the swing with a full follow-through so your belly button is pointed at your target.
- To achieve more distance, try angling your left foot more toward the target in your stance, to allow for more hip rotation in your downswing.
- If your drives are straying off the fairway, choke up on the club and tee the ball lower for greater accuracy.
- Don't swing with 100 percent effort. Instead, use as much effort as you can while remaining in balance.
- The Timeless Swing; Tom Watson
- How I Play Golf; Tiger Woods and the Editors of Golf Digest
- The Complete Golf Manual; Steve Newell
- Golf Tips: Stripe It! Who Says You Can't Hit It Far and Straight
- My 55 Ways to Lower Your Golf Score; Jack Nicklaus
- My 55 Ways to Lower Your Golf Score; Jack Nicklaus
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LinkedIn Corp (LNKD.N), the operator of the world's biggest online network for professionals, reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue and profit as demand grew for its hiring services and the company raised its 2016 forecasts.
LinkedIn shares, which have lost more than a third of their value since the company reported fourth-quarter results on Feb. 4, rose 8 percent to $133 in extended trading on Thursday.
Revenue from the company's talents solutions business, which connects recruiters and job seekers, jumped 41 percent to $558 million in the first quarter. The business accounts for nearly two-thirds of the company's total revenue.
LinkedIn has been buying companies, expanding its sales team and spending heavily to grow its presence in markets outside the United States, including China.
The company raised its full-year forecast for adjusted profit to $3.30-$3.40 per share from $3.05-$3.20. It also raised its revenue forecast to $3.65 billion-$3.70 billion from $3.60 billion-$3.65 billion.
The net loss attributable to LinkedIn widened to $45.8 million, or 35 cents per share, in the quarter ended March 31 from $42.5 million, or 34 cents per share, a year earlier, as costs surged 41.5 percent.
Excluding items, the company earned 74 cents per share.
Revenue jumped 35 percent to $860.7 million.
Analysts on average had expected a profit of 60 cents per share and revenue of $828.5 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
(Reporting by Kshitiz Goliya in Bengaluru; Editing by Kirti Pandey)
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My creations
Starting from my university studies during my free time I developed a lot of content for the Android platform
Go to Android apps
Android apps
I created many Android apps, expecially in the customization field
Go to Android Themes
Android Themes
This is the field in which I'm more active. I started making themes with the "old" Cyanogenmod 9. I am now developing themes for Substratum theme engine
Go to Android games
Android games
I also developed two very simple Android games just for fun and to learn something about the Unity game engine
About me
I'm Gianluca Spadazzi, an italian mobile developer. Starting from my university studies I started developing Android apps and themes in my free time. I now work as software developer (Android and IOS apps) in a company. In this website you can view all the stuff I made in my free time!
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Since I don't have young children at home I don't go all out decorating for Halloween. My nod to the day is my rustic pumpkins and a skeleton I made from a clay pot. It makes a cute little cache pot for candy. It is so easy so that is why it is a last minute skeleton from a clay pot. I got this idea a long time ago. I can't even remember where I saw it.
You will need a clay pot and a clay saucer that will fit over the large opening of the pot. I went with the traditional color and used white spray paint, although the first one I did is in cream. It looks more aged. But wouldn't it look cool in black with silver or white markings?
I placed the pot and saucer on top of an empty cat food or single serving applesauce container. This way you can turn it and not get fingerprints on your project. Use light strokes and spray the outside of the pot and saucer.
Once it is dry get out a black sharpie or you can paint the lines with a small paint brush and black paint. I prefer to use the paint brush. Lightly pencil in eye sockets, nose socket and a curvy line with little slashes at the end. This is the mouth.
For the eye socket, paint or color in an oval shape at the bottom of the eye socket. Paint or color in the nose socket.
Paint or color the thin line and slashes. Then paint or draw little squares above and below the line. Paint in a few teeth so they look like they are missing. Then paint or draw a few squiggly lines around to mimic cracked bone.
Once the paint is dry protect it with spray on poly, poly or a clear protector.
That is all there is to a last minute skeleton from a clay pot. See the burlap pumpkin? You can make one just like it.
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If you want to sample dog meat (thit cho), a northern speciality eaten mostly in winter and never during days one to ten of the lunar calendar month, then head out of Hanoi along the Red River dyke to Nghi Tam Avenue. There are dozens of stilthouse restaurants to choose from, though Tran Muc is consistently regarded as the best; alternatively, just head for the busiest. The dog meat comes boiled (luoc) or grilled (cha nuong) and served with green banana and tofu (rua man), and is washed down with rice wine.
Le Mat snake village – 4km over Chuong Duong Bridge in the Gia Lam District – is home to a slew of snake-meat restaurants, some of which play to the crowd with elaborate theatrics, including killing the snake in front of you. It's then served up in every possible form, from soup and crispy-fried skin accompanied by rice wine liquors laced with blood and bile. The guest of honour gets to eat the still pumping heart – beware, it's alleged to have amphetamine properties. Though not the cheapest of Le Mat's restaurants, Quoc Trieu (t 04 3827 2988; 10am–10pm) has a reliable reputation and leaves out the gory bits
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To add a treatment to your profile first click on your name, and then on 'treatment' below your picture. You can also click on the menu icon in the upper right corner, go to My Profile, then My Treatments.
Scroll down to 'Treatments and Effectiveness'.
To add a treatment you are currently taking, type the name of the treatment in the box below where it says 'My current treatment or therapies' (to the right of the + sign).
To add a treatment you have taken in the past, type the name of the treatment in the box below where it says 'My past treatments or therapies' (to the right of the + sign).
A box will appear that will allow you to enter your treatment dates, the effectiveness of the drug, as well as any side effects you experienced while taking the drug.
If you would like to remove, or edit your treatment click on the edit icon that looks like a pencil.
Then make changes and save, or click on the button that says 'remove treatment'.
Once you have made the changes to your profile you will be able to view all of your treatments and therapies on your timeline.


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©Science-y Hair Blog 2013
|Full strength, "strong" detergent. Frilly, rough surface is the cuticles of the hair being pushed outward as the hair swells in the shampoo.
|Same shampoo as above, diluted at a shampoo:water ratio of 25:75 or 1/4 shampoo and 3/4 water.
|Strong detergent, diluted 1-2 teaspoons shampoo in
1 cup water showing much less disruption in the cuticle
|A combination of "mild" detergents at very high concentration,
the "frilly" edges indicate hair damage.
Travel-friendly: This is also a good solution for when you are traveling and need to wash your hair but don't have your usual products with you.
Harsh-feeling sulfate-free shampoos: If you have bought a "mild" shampoo and find it to be truly drying, try diluting it to see if you like it that way.
- Do not dilute dandruff shampoos if you are using them for itchy scalp or flaking. You'll dilute the medication and render it less useful.
- Do not dilute shampoos in their original bottles, this will dilute the preservative and can result in bacterial growth.
- If you want to dilute a small amount of shampoo to leave in the shower, boil the water first (or use distilled water), mix the shampoo in gently when the water has cooled enough to touch, store in a bottle cleaned well with vinegar, rubbing alcohol or diluted bleach. This should be safe to use for a week or two, but do not use it if it changes in any way - in color, thickness, odor, or separation.©Science-y Hair Blog 2013


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Moles is a dependency isolation and mocking framework. Instead of building mock stubs for dependency injection, Moles allows the programmer to detour the call to portions of the actual dependency object. So, how does Moles detour calls, without touching the source code?
When the compiler is executed, Moles tells it to generate a "moles assembly" for each assembly identified in the .moles files. The moles assemblies are basically wrappers of the target assembly. Stub and Moles types classes are created in this wrapper assembly, and each contains a set of Func< , > types properties associated with the method, property, and event objects of the target class. Each of these Func< , > properties are pointed to the target objects, by default.
The HostType(Moles") attribute decorating the test methods ensures all calls get routed through the moles assembly. When a moled test method executes, the Func< , > delegate may be pointed to an anonymous or other method.
Upon exiting a moled test method, the moles assembly Func< , > properties are reset to point to the original, target objects. This prevents unit tests from leaving residual delegates in the moles assembly.


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- a time commitment,
- making yourself accountable,
- ways to keep improving your conversational ability, and
- a way to develop lots of relationships with speakers of the language you want to learn.
Well, anyways, I hope that this new insight into language learning will help me develop better activities and methods for teaching English. Although one of the things that he repeatedly stresses is that it is extremely difficult to learn a second language in a language class. 頑張るぞォ


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What a wonderful evening! Yes, you're right in assuming it had something to do with Phil…LOL. We skyped this evening. It was really good too. Lots of fun. Over too soon. I could tell he was really tired though. It was nice of him to stay up so late for me despite the fact that he hadn't had much sleep.
We don't skype that often. As much as I wish otherwise…I think that's a good idea. It wouldn't seem such a special thing if we did it all the time. Might even get bored with each other. That would be tragic. Don't want to give him the chance the get bored with me until he's stuck with me 24/7 on the cruise…LOL. I know…what am I worried about…like anyone could get bored of me….please…LOL.
Otherwise, things around here are pretty much the same as usual. Still doing the diet thing. 39 pounds down as of this morning. Not going so fast now. I do feel a lot better though. Been keeping a better eye on the groceries I buy. Need to exercise more. Still going down though…and not up. That's a good thing. Hopefully, nicer weather will inspire me….that is if we get some nicer weather. This has not been a very good spring. Been a lot of hot/cold swinging…and staying mostly cold. Right now it's rainy and cold. Next up will probably be HOT. Forget warm. Sigh.
Ok, time to rant about work a little. Sorry, but I have to get it off my chest. You have been warned, so feel free to skip ahead if you like…LOL.
Work sucks. Not actually the work itself….I love decorating cakes and being creative…but the environment…the BOSS. No, she really isn't a mean boss…but she's not a good one. That's what's so bad…she sucks at being a manager. Sometimes I wonder if she's got her head up her ass. Take Sunday for instance. Easter. Store was dead that morning but I knew after church let out, it was going to get busy. First thing I did was fill the cases with product…or try to. It was rather difficult because there was very little product in the cooler to fill with! I did the best I could though. I was the only decorator there. It was a skeleton crew. We missed a lot of sales due to lack of product though. Shame. More sales means more hours. I know why we didn't have much product though. Inventory. My boss was more worried about her upcoming inventory results than having the product she needed. She regularly worries about getting in trouble for something…over on supplies/merchandise, over on hours, bad inventory…rather than worrying about the business end of it. She focuses on the wrong things…and it shows. We're all the time running out of something and she has to send someone (on the clock, which means lost production time) to another store to get it.
See why I get frustrated? This shit happens all the time, almost a daily basis. I think I care more about having a good bakery than the boss does! I try not to care…trust me…but I do. I can't help it. I know how I would feel as a customer if I went to the store looking for something and it wasn't there. Especially if it was in the ad! Things could just be so much better. My job shouldn't have to be so difficult.
Ok, rant over…LOL. I think I'm starting to get a little tired now. I should be…it's almost midnight. That's what happens when you sleep late, take a nap and have loads of coffee. Not to mention interesting, exciting conversation with a hot, intelligent man….tee hee. Takes a while to come down off that high…LOL. I think I'm going to give sleep a shot though. Wish me luck. Oh, and keep your fingers crossed that I don't dream of being run over by a fleet of steamrollers! It's a long story…LOL.
Ciao for now