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I have spent the last week lusting after Coachella-inspired sundresses, denim cutoffs and cowboy boots. Ok… fine, stalking Pinterest for the right combo of hippie-cool that doesn't scream Cher (back when she knew Sonny). I need a support group. Why? I already have three (three!) full closets in my one-bedroom apartment. This can't be healthy.
As it turns out, it's not. Clutter (aka the stuff you don't really need or want) can make you feel tired, unbalanced and depressed. How frustrating is it when you can never find what you are looking for? How often do you justify keeping an item because you'll wear it when you lose the weight? Or you may need that dress someday? Or you can't part with your ex-boyfriend's t-shirt? Clutter weighs on our emotions and insecurities. It holds us back.
It's hard to let go of clothes. They are reminders of good times and memories that matter. Plus you spent money on them – it can seem wasteful to get rid of items you purchased. Or maybe you're scared you'll need it again someday – the future can be unstable. Is it really wrong to enjoy the feeling of having plenty now?
Unfortunately, these reasons don't reflect reality. "We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow." Live in the present. And while you are there, learn to appreciate the value of quality over quantity and apply it to your wardrobe. More is not always more.
So, ready to de-clutter your closet? (Some may call this spring cleaning.) Block out some time and grab a few boxes. I also recommend a bottle of red wine and The Weeknd. Here's how to find more more space:
- Take everything out of your closet and make a huge pile.
- Quickly sort it all into 3 piles: keep, toss and maybe. Don't over-think it.
- Put the maybe items into a box and store it out of sight and out of mind for 6 months. If you don't need any of those items during those 6 months, get rid of 'em.
- Put the keepers back in the closet – organize! Feel free to get all anal and sort by colour; it will be easier to find things later on.
- Sort the "toss" pile: items to donate, sell, give away or get rid of.
Looking to donate your clothes? Here are a few organizations in the Lower Mainland that accept clothing donations: (Click the hyperlinks to find a drop spot.)
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- Covenant House
- Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter
Alternatively, consider re-purposing your clothes with a little DIY! Make a work out tank from an old t-shirt or upcycle an old tee into a new top. (Thanks again, Pinterest! Seriously, I need an intervention…)
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With the structure and cost of the heath care industry today, physicians are now at the mercy of insurance companies. Very often their hands are tied when it comes to ordering certain types of tests. Unfortunately, these diseases do not have a lot of forth-warning symptoms and the physician will often need to wait to order a test until it is sometimes to late and the disease has reached severe stages.
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Today Mary Glenney spoke with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, about her group's plans to protest the upcoming Republican National Convention, and her concerns for global peace and justice. Benjamin and her group also have growing concerns about the "war on women" being waged in this country and are urging their supporters to "Bring your Vagina to the RNC". They'll be holding a planning session around that theme at Sacred Grounds Coffee House in Tampa on August 25 from 2-5 pm.
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Not sure how many of you have seen this yet, but this is one of my favorite new Kickstarter projects. I did a quick search and didn't see it posted or mentioned here before, so I figured I'd share.
Pressy is a button that plugs into your 3.5mm audio jack and allows you to assign any number of actions to button presses, and combinations of long and short button presses. Paired with something like Tasker, the possibilities are endless.
In my plans to permanently mount a Nexus 7 in place of a head unit in my car, button relocation became a bit of a challenge, or at least, something to think about. Sure, I'm already going to be pulling apart some of the Nexus for the install and I could take apart the current buttons and solder in some wire to extend them, but that's a bit of a pain in the ass, and it involves mutilating the tablet a little more than I was hoping I'd have to (right now I just plan to relocate the USB/headphone jack board and that's about it. USB ROM gives me volume on the screen, so that's taken care of, but the power button remains hidden. With Pressy I'll be able to turn on and off the screen as I so desire (in case it gets a little bright at night or something), as well as do countless other useful tasks like launching my music player or GPS without taking my eyes off the road and having to look for the icons.
There are all kinds of other cool uses like making it a camera button, answering calls, replacing a broken button, whatever you can think of. Hopefully I don't sound like too much of a sales pitch, but I was already interested in the ability to add a programmable physical button, but then today I started thinking about how to integrate it into my N7 head unit project, and I got even more excited over it. The price is definitely right for what it can do, so check out the kickstarter page for more info and pics.


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The Australian online retail market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11.28% during 2012-2017, outpacing sales growth in physical retail stores, which is forecast to grow at just 3.66% during the same period.Online expenditure is growing in Australia, so online retailers are adopting various strategies to attract consumers who currently shop online through overseas retailers.Sales of online grocery are on rise. Time bound Australian consumers have increasingly been buying groceries online, despite higher prices and the addition delivery charges, when compared to traditional stores.M-commerce is gaining widespread popularity in Australia. Convenience is the prime factor driving online sales through mobile devices.Traditional retailers have understood the importance of the online retail channel, and are expanding their businesses by entering
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Um, I'm all about being pampered and taken care of, but this is a little extreme, don't you think?
I spied Girls star Lena Dunham getting fed by an assistant while shooting scenes for the upcoming season of her series. Holding a cup of tea in one hand, she eats a quesadilla as a man feeds it to her.
Oh, I'm sorry, Lena. You're too busy being the voice of your generation to feed yourself? Well guess what. I'm the voice of my generation and I have never once degraded someone into doing that. (Clarification: I've obviously eaten strawberries out of the hands of a drool-worthy dude on a picturesque island while watching the sunset, but enough about my personal life–I don't want to make anyone jealous…)
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Edith Balas, Professor of Art History, College of Humanities & Social Sciences Balas' main areas of interest are modern art (1890-1960), painting and sculpture, and the art of the Italian Renaissance. Balas published books include Bird in Flight: Memoir of a Survivor and Scholar (2011), Brancusi and His World,(2008); Brancusi & Romanian Folk Traditions, (Second Edition 2006; trans. 1999; First Edition 1987); Michelangelo's Double Self-Portraits (2004); The Early Work of Henry Koerner (2003); The Mother Goddess in Italian Renaissance Art (2002); The Holocaust in the Painting of Valentin Lustig (2001); Joseph Csaky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture (1998); and Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation (1995). In 2003, she curated an exhibition at the Frick Art Museum, and several in Pittsburgh, Paris, New York and Budapest. She has been teaching at Carnegie Mellon since 1977, and is also an Adjunct Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. She has published over two dozen articles in the United States, Holland, Hungary, Romania, Italy, and France, and holds an M.A. in Philosophy, 1952, Bucharest; M.A. in History of Arts, 1970, Pittsburgh; Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1973.
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As December winds down and folks make resolutions for the New Year, it's not uncommon to daydream about how things might have worked out differently. What decisions do you regret? What would you make differently, if you had a chance to change your life?
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[gallery link="file" columns="2"] Do the above two images look similar? The first is the iconic spread by Jon Bogdanove and Dennis Janke from the classic Death of Superman storyline, the second is by Dan Jurgens and Jerry Ordway for next week's DCU Legacies #8. A few words from the book's editor, Mike Carlin, who also edited the original Death of Superman story:
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Among former Mountaineers, the most productive running back in professional football these days may not be the person you are thinking of.
Tampa Bay's Charles Sims?
Not yet.
Steve Slaton, Noel Devine and Jock Sanders in the Canadian Football League?
No, no and no - at least not right now with those three.
Well, how about Ciara Chic?
Ciara Chic is currently the leading rusher for the undefeated Pittsburgh Passion of the Independent Women's Professional Football League.
She scored a 33-yard touchdown during Pittsburgh's 26-12 victory over the New York Sharks last Sunday to help get the Passion into women's pro football's championship game against the Houston Energy in Rock Hill, S.C., on Saturday, July 26.
Two weeks ago, Chic ran for 101 yards in Pittsburgh's first-round playoff victory over the Keystone Assault.
You may recall Ciara being a tremendous sprinter for the Mountaineers and a member of the distance medley relay team that placed eighth at the 2001 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Chic earned All-America honors for that performance and was also a multiple all-Big East honoree in the sprint events.
A native of Charleston, Chic was the state record holder in the 100- and 200-meter dashes when she graduated from Riverside High.
Ciara currently resides in Wilkinsburg, Pa.
Here is a link to her official bio: http://pittsburghpassion.com/11-ciara-chic-rb/.
Way to go Ciara!
Speaking of Canadian Football League players, the three most prominent Mountaineer offensive players of the late 2000s are currently on CFL rosters.
Running back Steve Slaton is playing for the Toronto Argonauts while running back Noel Devine and quarterback Pat White are playing for the Edmonton Eskimos.
Other former Mountaineer players currently in the CFL include: Jock Sanders (Calgary), Selvish Capers and Robert Sands (Edmonton).
My thanks to our new graduate assistant, D.J. Jamiel, for doing a little Canadian Football League research this morning.
Earlier this morning, the Big 12 announced its 2014 preseason football poll and West Virginia was predicted to finish eighth ahead of just Kansas and Iowa State.
The Mountaineers were also picked to finish eighth last season and ended up finished tied for seventh with TCU and Iowa State.
Considering West Virginia's inability to stop teams and a quarterback situation that still needs to be ironed out, that's probably about where the Mountaineers should be heading into year three in the Big 12.
But in terms of personnel, I think this is probably the deepest team that Dana Holgorsen has had since he's been here. Yet it remains to be seen if there are enough explosive playmakers to make his offense as effective as it was two years ago when Geno Smith, Tavon Austin, Stedman Bailey and Co. were here, or a defensive front three that can be stout enough to provide more resistance against the run and get to the quarterback in passing situations.
Those are the things that immediately jump out when looking closely at this year's football team, but I do recall similar concerns about West Virginia in 2002 when the Mountaineers were coming off a miserable 3-8 season under first-year coach Rich Rodriguez in 2001.
West Virginia was picked to finish sixth in the eight-team Big East in 2002 and wound up finishing tied for second after Rodriguez stabilized his quarterback situation and retooled his defense.
Stay tuned.
No, West Virginia is probably not going to break any records for season ticket sales this year but the new sales staff Associate Athletic Director Matt Wells has assembled is making considerable progress in many areas.
The outbound sales team just added last month is already making an impact in overall season ticket sales, now at 29,100 as of earlier this week, as well as with the popular mini-package currently available that features Oklahoma, Baylor and Kansas State.
Wells is also pleased with the outstanding response they have received so far for West Virginia's Sept. 6 game against Towson, designated a Family Day (four tickets and a $25 concession voucher for just $150) with a fireworks show planned at some point during the game.
Furthermore, the 2014 season opener against Alabama in Atlanta is also going well with less than 4,000 tickets remaining for the ticket office to sell.
"If this is a down year, it's a sign our program and season ticket base is healthy," said Wells.
Those interested in purchasing season tickets or mini-season tickets can call the Mountaineer Ticket Office toll-free at 1-800-WVU GAME or by logging on to the official ticket office website http://www.wvugame.com.
One of the top objectives for this year's defensive staff is finding quality replacements for Will Clarke (third-round pick by the Cincinnati Bengals) and Shaq Rowell (free agent signing by the Carolina Panthers) on a defensive line that did play well at times last year.
First-year defensive coordinator Tony Gibson said his goal is to have six game-ready players available when the Mountaineers take the field against Alabama in Atlanta on Aug. 30.
"That way we can try and roll them and keep them fresh and keep the best guys in there as much as we can, but we have to do it by committee," Gibson said earlier this month. "You can't play three or four defensive linemen and try and expect to get through a game."
Gibson had some encouraging things to say about the offseason work being done by Christian Brown and Dontrill Hyman.
"Wait until you see (Brown)," said Gibson. "He looks like a totally different person. He looks good and Dontrill is the same way. They're running, they're getting in shape, they're hungry and I really like where we're at as a unit with those guys. We just have to keep getting better and get those guys some confidence early."
Running backs coach JaJuan Seider says West Virginia will be ready to go when the Mountaineers face Alabama in Atlanta on Aug. 30.
"If we open up with Florida A&M our kids will be ready," said Seider. "We are coming off a losing season for the first time in, what, 13 years, so our kids will be motivated."
Seider especially likes the underdog role that West Virginia is in this year – a role the Mountaineers have played frequently (and very successfully) through the years.
"We like those games where nobody gives you a chance. The one thing about West Virginia, and you guys (media) know it, we thrive in the underdog role," Seider pointed out. "Nobody is going to tell us what we can and cannot do. We're going to walk into that stadium and be ready to play."
The players they are recruiting come from winning programs, and they are being recruited to play in a program that has a reputation for winning – not one at the bottom building its way back to the top.
"When you get the right kids who are used to winning, used to working and have the leadership qualities we are looking for, he is going to make the other guys around him better," said Seider. "That's why you recruit those types of kids. If you keep bringing in those kids it's going to help bring the program back where it used to be."
Most importantly, says Seider, is that all of the players now fully understand what it takes to win games on a consistent basis in the Big 12 Conference.
"You can have a down game against Rutgers and still have a chance to win, but you can't have a down game when you play Oklahoma State or Texas because they can outscore anybody in the country," said Seider. "I think our kids are finally starting to realize that going into year three."
And finally, a Don Nehlen story from Chuck Neinas, former Big Eight and Big 12 commissioner who today is still the No. 1 consultant in collegiate sports.
Neinas and Nehlen worked closely together when Neinas was the executive director of the College Football Association (CFA), the two becoming great friends. Whenever they get together, Neinas always manages to tease the coach about the time he ripped into a group of college presidents at a CFA board meeting.
"(Nehlen) was on the board of directors – we had 11 members and there was one football coach, one AD, one faculty rep, one conference commissioner and basically presidents and chancellors," Neinas recalled. "And Don was representing the football coaches at that time."
The group had finished its morning work session and after returning from lunch, the chair of the group went around the room seeking suggestions on how college football could be improved before wrapping up the meeting.
"Don was the next to last to speak and when they came to him they said, 'What do you think, Don?' He said, 'I think we should knock off all the bull----.' That was something, especially coming from Don (who rarely spoke in colorful language). Don said, 'I'm having lunch with all these presidents and you're all talking about how your incoming freshman classes have 1,200-1,300 on their board scores. You expect me to recruit guys who do 750 and graduate at the same level as the 1,200-1,300s. Now, all college coaches know who the boss is – it's the president – and let me remind you, if we don't have the players to fill the seats on Saturdays then you can't pay the bills, so don't tell us one thing and expect another!'"
Nehlen left a big impression on everyone at the meeting, especially the presidents and chancellors sitting on the CFA board at the time.
In fact, every single one of them offered him a job during his WVU coaching tenure, including Missouri's chancellor, who once sent Dan Devine to Morgantown to try and talk Nehlen into taking the Missouri football job.
Nehlen literally had to kick Devine out of his office because the former Notre Dame coach was told to hire Nehlen at any cost.
But by that time, Nehlen was fully settled and established in Morgantown, and had developed a great bond with the state of West Virginia.
Interesting stuff, nonetheless.
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Helen Keen performs at the Hackney Empire, London, on 28 January 2007
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Helen Keen is an English alternative comedian and writer born in Yorkshire, now living in London.
In 2005, along with writing partner Miriam Underhill, she won the first Channel 4 New Comedy Writing Initiative award.[1][2] Judges included station executives, as well as Annie Griffin, Victoria Pile and Arthur Mathews.[3] She also reached the 2005 UK Funny Women final.[4] In 2006, she was a finalist for the hotly competed Hackney Empire New Act of the Year title.[5] In 2007, she performed in the second annual tribute to Malcolm Hardee.[6][7] Her broadcast writing has included regular credits on BBC Radio 1's late-night experimental comedy show The Milk Run and BBC Radio 4's long-running The Now Show as well as the Dog Almighty edition of Channel 4's Comedy Lab series and the 2007 series of Channel 4's The Friday Night Project.
Live shows[edit]
Keen's subject matter tends towards the unusual and esoteric.[8][9] Her solo shows are also unusual in that they have all toured both arts festivals (including music festivals) and science festivals.[9]
At the Buxton Festival Fringe in July 2008, her first full-length solo show It Is Rocket Science! (a stand-up comedy lecture about the history of the space rocket) was nominated as Best Show and she won the Best Individual Performer award.[10] She then performed the show throughout the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2008. The show then toured science festivals across the UK and Ireland. For many festivals[11][12][13] this was the first time that they had booked a comedy performer.
Her second full-length show Helen Keen: The Primitive Methodist Guide to Arctic Survival (the true story of an ancestor trapped overwinter on an arctic whaling ship) ran throughout the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2009 before embarking upon a similar tour of science festivals. Also in this show and in interviews[14] Keen, a postman's daughter, discussed her working-class family background and her early experience of selective mutism.
In 2011 Keen was a guest on several dates of The Infinite Monkey Cage "Uncaged Monkeys" tour alongside Brian Cox, Simon Singh, Robin Ince and Ben Goldacre.[15]
Keen also curates and comperes Spacetacular! an innovative space-themed comedy/variety/science/audience-show-and-tell/fancy-dress/quiz night along with Londonist Editor Matt Brown.[16][17] In 2012 Spactacular! received a UK Space Agency Space For All award.
Keen hosted the first Comedy Night at the CERN lab in August 2013, the show proved to be CERN's most successful webcast since the discovery of the Higgs boson there, and was followed from 105 countries by nearly 10,000 browsers.[18][19]
In December 2010 Keen recorded her first BBC Radio 4 series, It Is Rocket Science. She created, wrote and performed in the 4-part series based on her 2008 Edinburgh show It Is Rocket Science! Alongside Keen, the show starred Susy Kane and Peter Serafinowicz and was produced by Gareth Edwards. The first episode was broadcast on 9 March 2011. A second series was broadcast in 2012 and a third series aired on BBC Radio 4 in May 2014.
In 2015 Helen Keen was made a Wired UK Innovation Fellow. [20]
In 2013 Helen Keen's BBC Radio 4 series It Is Rocket Science won the WISE Media Award.[21] This was presented by Princess Anne in a ceremony at the Science Museum, London. The show was also nominated for the 2014 Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Radio Comedy. It has been shortlisted for the 2015 Association of British Science Writers Royal Society Radio Prize. [22]
From 2010-12 Helen Keen was Comedian in Residence at the Newcastle Centre for Life Science Village – this is the first time this position has been awarded.
Channel 4 New Comedy Writing Award 2005[1]
Buxton Festival Fringe Best Comedy Performance 2008[10]
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- ^ "Writers' Guild announcement".
- ^ "The Stage".
- ^ "Review on Chortle, UK comedy industry website".
- ^ "List of Hackney finalists".
- ^ Maxwell, Dominic (30 January 2007). "Review in The Times (London), 30th January, 2007". Retrieved 4 May 2010.
- ^ "Review on Chortle, UK comedy industry website".
- ^ "Review on Chortle, 2007".
- ^ a b Kettle, James (20 March 2010). "Guardian Review, 2010". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 4 May 2010.
- ^ a b "List of Buxton Festival Fringe finalists".
- ^ Dundee Science Festival webpage
- ^ Article about York Science Festival
- ^ Wrexham Science Festival webpage
- ^ "Interview on Woman's Hour, Jan 2010".
- ^ Telegraph review
- ^ Review of Spacetacular! at Manchester Science Festival
- ^ Londonist Spacetacular! preview
- ^ Chortle.com piece about the CERN comedy night
- ^ CERN update about their first comedy night
- ^ "2015 Wired Innovation Fellowships".
- ^ WISE Campaign Awards 2013
- ^ "ABSW Award nominations 2015".


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After the Boston Celtics were eliminated from the playoffs, a report out of San Antonio on Sunday suggested the Spurs would be interested in pairing Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan next season.
According to Buck Harvey of Spurs Nation, the Spurs will consider everything and everyone this summer when free agency begins. But one option tossed out this weekend by one in the Spurs organization is not just another name.
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But the reality is there are 29 teams in the league that will covet Garnett once he enters free agency. Some big market teams like the Los Angeles Lakers and the Miami Heat will likely go after him.
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The Heat on the other hand, can offer Garnett perhaps the most talented 'Big Four' in the league should he decide to join LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami.
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Telstra unveils Android tablet
Australia's biggest telco Telstra has flagged plans to launch its own Android-based handheld tablet device into the midst of a market which is about to explode with options from Apple, Samsung, Dell and more.
The company has posted a page on its website where customers can register to receive information what it's calling the "T-Touch Tab", with a photo of the device which appears to show a tablet of a similar size with Dell's Streak, which has already launched with Optus. The date it's due? "November".
In addition, a Telstra executive at a devices briefing this morning told journalists further information on the tablet would be available over the next few weeks.
According to Telstra's site, the T-Touch Tab will only be available on Telstra's Next G network — similar to its existing range of 'T' self-branded devices such as the T-Box internet video platform and the T-Hub telephony system. Telstra's site also includes a prominent "powered by Android technology" badge.
Telstra's launch will rocket the company squarely into a tablet marketplace in Australia which is shortly to become white hot. Dell launched its Streak tablet just days ago with Optus, while Samsung's Galaxy Tab is slated to launch in November on all major local carriers — including Telstra itself.
In addition, Apple's iPad is being adopted by early adopter technology consumers and some industry verticals such as the education market, which is broadly trialling the tablet, with some education departments also flagging plans to trial rival, Android-based devices.
Some companies — such as business intelligence firm MicroStrategy — are rolling out the iPad widely internally, seeing the tablet as a replacement for many of the functions of the traditional laptop or desktop PC.
Image credit: Telstra. Additional reporting by Jenna Pitcher.
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Wow, I bet it'll be awesome… :). I predict in 3-4 years that no-one will remember what the T-Touch Tab OR the T-Hub even were.
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Everyone and their dog are releasing Android tables and somehow still the only choice I have is between cheap chinese knockoff or $1000 Samsung Tab (yes, it will be ~$1000 here)
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Before the Celtics face off against the Bulls in Chicago tonight, let's take one last look at some of the highlights from Saturday's win over the Bucks. From Rondo's slick reverse, left-handed lay-up to Paul Pierce and Monta Ellis' mini-duel in the fourth quarter, to Jeff Green's encouraging game, it's all below. Jeff Green vs MIL: Paul Pierce vs Monta Ellis mini-duel Rondo's Left-Handed Reverse Lay-Up Rondo Bangs Knees with Dalembert, Dodges Bullet (watch what happens to assistant coach Mike Longabardi at the end of the clip): Pierce's baseline dunk Pierce's Falling Down Behind the Back Flip Pass to KG
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JWOWW and beau Roger Mathews announced their engagement five months ago, and they've been teasing us with all the details of the romantic moment ever since.
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The Band Aid Trust, a registered British charity since 1985, has raised in excess of 190 million dollars to support projects designed to make a lasting difference in Ethiopia, Somalia and surrounding countries in East Africa. This includes the construction of schools, hospitals, boreholes, wells, rain-water harvesting facilities and latrines, as well as food security, hygiene, sanitation, livelihood diversification and income generating activities, training in-country for teachers, doctors and nurses, assistance for those living with HIV/AIDS, and emergency interventions such as nutrition screening programs, seed and animal distribution and the procurement of emergency food aid to treat severely malnourished children and adults. By July 1985, over $6 million had been spent on buying and transporting food, shelter, medical supplies, water equipment and other essential items to famine victims Ethiopia and Sudan. The Live Aid concerts on July 13, 1985 raised over 80 million dollars world-wide, which was spent on programs designed to address some of the underlying causes of the famine. In 2005 the Band Aid Trust put on 11 concerts around the world to demonstrate to world leaders that they had a global public mandate to reduce debt, facilitate trade, and increase aid for Africa. This resulted in an unprecedented commitment from the G8 leaders to these aims. In 2011, Band Aid contributed $5.5m to support emergency projects in Ethiopia and Somalia in response to the current food crisis in East Africa.
When asked about Glee covering "Do They Know It's Christmas?," Bob Geldof noted "The reverberations of this little song continue down the long 26 years since Midge Ure and I wrote it. It could not be more timely now that Glee with its vast global audience of young people re-introduce it to a whole new constituency who are probably unaware of the great tragedy unfolding amongst the hungry, poor and dying of Somalia as a result of drought and a bitter and pointless civil war. This song was made specifically with that intent. Band Aid would like to thank from the bottom of its heart all the producers and actors of Glee who have gone beyond their normal brief of entertainment and entered into the spirit and understanding of that recording and its artists 26 years ago and its many subsequent iterations, by opening their web-site to the topic of poverty and the poor and linking it through to the Band Aid and the ONE campaign sites. This is entertainment with purpose. This is putting what you do and who you are to a focused concern and in so doing alter the lives of many thousands of otherwise voiceless people. This is beyond acting or singing or producing, lighting or directing. This is engaging. Out of the blue, what an unlooked for and exhilirating Christmas present not just for the hungry, hurt and poor but for all of us at Band Aid, One and the many many artists of Live Aid and Live 8. Glee...thanks."
Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume (released November 15) and Glee: The Music, Volume 7 (available December 6) are the latest releases in the Glee catalog of music. Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume features the 2 new original songs "Extraordinary Merry Christmas" and "Christmas Eve With You", both written by Adam Anders, Peer Astrom and Shelly Peiken. Glee: The Music, Volume 7 features memorable tracks from the third season of Glee including Michael Jackson's "Man In The Mirror," Beyoncé's "Run The World (Girls)," and Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night" (see below for full track listings on both new Glee titles).


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Post title pretty much sums it up. I'm using Chris' All AJAX theme for wordpress, and I noticed the title doesn't change and was wondering what's the best way to change it as well.
Also, due to the nature of AJAX and SEO, can anyone recommend any articles that relate to both subjects that covers best SEO practices for AJAX websites?
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Microsoft to patch critical Windows, Office flaws
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The company will release six updates for the operating system and four for the office suite, according an advance notice sent out Thursday by the software giant. Some of the patches will be deemed "critical," the company's highest severity rating. The company also plans to send out a security bulletin for Microsoft .Net that will be tagged moderate, it said.
The updates, part of Microsoft's regularly scheduled monthly patch cycle, come after sample attack code has surfaced for vulnerabilities in the Windows Shell component of the operating system. Those flaws could enable attackers to use a Web site to load malicious software onto systems.
The past few weeks have seen the arrival of third-party patches for the Windows Shell problem. The Zeroday Emergency Response Team, or ZERT, delivered its own fix, aiming to help people protect their PCs until Microsoft issued an official update. In addition, security company Determina provided an outside patch for the same issue.
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- Yawn...
- Must be a slow news day. Should I panic??? Oh that's right, no
need to worry, I run OS X!!!
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- Exploit released for Mac OS X flaw
- http://news.cbsi.com/Exploit+released+for+Mac+OS+X+flaw/2100-1002_3-6122015.html?tag=nefd.pulse
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- Just another MS-MEGA-PATCH...
- Same-old... Same-old... Nothing new to see here.
But, heres a few pieces of personal-advice from someone who has used Microsoft-products for decades, and genuinely wishes that Microsoft really WOULD turn themselves around, and become worthy of respect...
1. Turn off "automatic updates"... (Put your system behind a "router", ...turn off ALL unnecessary "XP-services", ...and use some third-party security-Apps)...
So, that you can...
2. Wait about a week before deploying any new "Microsoft updates"... to find out just how many problems the "updates" may actually cause... And, how many "updates" to the "updates" will finally be issued...
Or... if youve actually been tricked, by Microsoft, into believing that not allowing Microsoft to tinker endlessly with your "Windows" system, on THEIR time-table, for THEIR ends, actually increases your "security risks"...
Then, for the love of God, why dont you..?
3. Finally decide, like so many others are, to abandon the sinking-ship that is Microsoft (Think "Titanic"... the biggest... unsinkable... went down, due to arrogance and stupidity, shortly after launch), ...and try to find a safer, more stable, ALTERNATIVE to the PRIMARY-CONTRIBUTOR to the VAST MAJORITY of ALL of the MAJOR "security events" in the last decade.
Try "Linux", "Apple", "BSD", etc...
Or... You can just stubbornly... keep believing that maybe, just maybe, the next MS-OS really will fix all the problems created specifically by Microsofts perennially-bad approach to software-development. Or, maybe the MS-OS after that... Or, maybe, the one after that... Or... Oh well...
...Of course, that would presuppose that both Microsoft, and your important-data, will survive long enough...
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- The Sky is falling
- How about not slapping out the same old stuff and coming up with something new?
Be original. Be useful. Stop screaming the sky is falling and DO something about it.
Whining. Complaining. Moaning. Is any of this useful? Nope, not in the slightest. Are you willing to do anything about it? Oh no, that might interfere with your ability to complain.
If you would like, it might save time if you just write up your hate-speech and make it a simple macro. Leave the subject and name blank and you can fill them in for anything you care to post about because the story never changes, you never change, and you're not going to do anything about it.
I believe Mac, Linux, Ubuntu, Irix, and even Windows have various macro applications that could work for you. Heck, you could even just use a bot to do automatic postings. How's that for saving time?
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- MS-Patch #?????
- I cannot help but think, if a car company or nearly any other company produced a product that was so consistently flawed with bugs, they would not last very long.
Maybe instead of changing its products all the time, Microsoft should focus on putting out a solid product.
Hey Bill, most of the people I work with and support only need a good solid word processing program. They hate it when there computer tries to out think them by filling in words for them, and they really hate it when you change things so that they work differently than what they are comfortable with.
Just in case you really wanted to know,
thanks bill.
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- Thank you for being reasonable
- I have to believe a huge company like Microsoft is aware of the end user's desire for applications like you requested. They are going for the widest appeal though, and niche markets like the one you are talking about for word processing without features may not be their area of focus. There are plenty of alternative word processing applications out there that can do what you are asking for though, so I would check into those options.
Apple has some pretty good applications available for their platform as well, so it may be worth looking at the Mac as a possibility.
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- I prefer to wait
- until MS releases the patched versions of these patches.
IMO, the old saying "it takes MS three tries to get anything right" appears to be true about patches as well as applications.
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- Good advice
- In a business environment, a failed patch can cause all sorts of issues. I know that MS creates and tests the patches they make on their own employees for a week or two to see if they affect other areas of the OS or applications. That happens before they go public, but there's always going to be some unexpected issue or incompatibility someplace. And sometimes the problem may be urgent enough to push out a patch immediately or risk even greater threat of compromise by waiting.
You're damned if you patch, damned if you wait.
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AS VIOLENCE erupts once more in Israel and the Gaza Strip, new military technology is set to change how future conflicts will play out.
For the first time, a missile-defence system is working effectively. Nicknamed "Iron Dome", Israel's missile interceptor uses radar to identify rocket launches, track their trajectory and guide a Mach 2.2 missile to blow them up mid-air. Because the system can track a rocket's trajectory, it can ignore those that will fall into uninhabited areas.
By noon on 19 November, 877 rockets were fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip, said the Israeli Defence Force, which claims to have downed 307 rockets on a dangerous trajectory.
Until 17 November the system had a range of only 15 kilometres but a software upgrade fast tracked over the weekend extended the range to 75 km, says Ben Goodlad, a defence analyst with IHS Jane's, the military data publisher based in Coulsdon, UK.
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Needles falling on paper will calculate pi, everyone's favourite mathematical constant, on the day that bears its name.
Pi day is 14 March, or 3.14 as Americans might write it. The constant – the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter – is a string of numbers beginning 3.14159, although it goes on forever.
Computers have crunched pi to trillions of digits. But this pi day, beginning at 1.59 pm GMT, Marcus du Sautoy of the University of Oxford will run Pi Day Live, an online experiment to get people to calculate the constant using a 200-year-old method called Buffon's needle, which anyone can take part in.
The technique involves dropping a needle onto paper marked with evenly spaced parallel lines that are further apart than the needle's length. The probability of the needle crossing a line is linked to the value of pi.
A single needle drop won't give an accurate estimate, so the idea is to pool results from as many participants as possible.
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When the Pi Day Live team tried Buffon's needle themselves with a total of 100 drops, they got 2.63 as an estimate for pi, which would make for some pretty wonky circles. Du Sautoy hopes scaling up the experiment online will improve results. "There will be errors in everyone's calculation because it is a probabilistic method, but the more data we get coming in, the more we'll home in on pi," du Sautoy says.
The experiment will also look at other low-tech ways of measuring pi, such as counting marbles crammed into a roughly circular shape, a method thought to have been used by the ancient Egyptians to compare a circle's diameter to its area.
"Pi is so much part of our mathematical heritage," says du Sautoy. "Most people can rattle off a few decimal places." Why is pi so universally beloved? After all, no one celebrates e day to commemorate 2.71, the constant that is the base of natural logarithms. It's partly because 71 February doesn't fit nicely with our calendar – but other mathematically themed days have failed to take off as well. "I tried to introduce the perfect day, June 28th," says du Sautoy, chosen for the first two perfect numbers – numbers that are the sum of their factors (28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14, for instance). But nothing has the popularity of pi.
Perhaps it is just because circles are so important, both culturally and scientifically. "Pi is historically one of the very first numbers mathematicians started trying to calculate and explore," says du Sautoy. So why not have a go yourself this pi day?
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