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Hi friends! This weekend is 4th of July and it's usually the highlight of the summer for us. We always go big for the 4th, whether with a party, trip, or food. It's always memorable regardless of how we celebrate and this year is going to be no different. We're looking forward to spending time with our friends, cooking out and watching the fireworks. So, today of course I bring you a very 4th of July approved dish. It's a seafood dish that is fresh, quick, and tasty. Everything that summer has to offer is here.
Garlic Shrimp Skewers with Cilantro Pesto is a combination of so many delicious flavors. The shrimp on their own are absolutely to die for as they are marinated in ton of garlic, red pepper flakes, and paprika. Then quickly grilled until just pink and opaque. You can pretty much enjoy them on their own but Cilantro Pesto kinda takes the shrimp skewers to the next level. OMG. Cilantro Pesto…seriously…I don't even know where to start.
It has all the traditional pesto components: garlic, parmesan cheese, pine nuts, olive oil, and lemon juice but instead of basil, it's made with fresh cilantro leaves with little bit of white wine vinegar. The result guys..no lie, is the best stinkin' pesto I ever had. And when you dip garlicky+spicy shrimp into the fresh, green and absolutely perfect pesto you get an amazing 4th of July meal. Or atleast in my book 🙂
Hope you guys have a safe and awesome 4th! As always tag me @littlebrokenblog and follow me showing me your food creations, whether from LittleBroken.com or your own Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest.
- 2 lbs. medium (26-30) shrimp, peeled, deveined, tails on
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup minced garlic
- 1 Tbsp. red pepper flakes
- ½ tsp. paprika
- ½ tsp. sea salt
- zest 1 lime
- bamboo skewers
- ½ bunch fresh cilantro
- 2-3 garlic cloves
- 1 Tbsp. white wine vinegar
- ¼ cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- 2 Tbsp. pine nuts
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 2 tsp. fresh lemon juice
- 1 Tbsp. water
- salt to taste
- For the shrimp, in a medium bowl combine olive oil, garlic, red pepper flakes, paprika, salt, and lime zest. Add shrimp and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate while preparing the pesto.
- For the pesto, combine all ingredients in a bowl of a food processor and pulse until smooth. Pop the pesto in the refrigerator while cooking the shrimp.
- Preheat the grill to medium-high.
- Thread shrimp onto skewers and grill, covered, for 2-3 minutes per side or just until cooked through and no longer transparent. Do not overcook or you will have rubbery shrimp!
- Serve immediately with prepared pesto.
**for the pesto, use 2 or less cloves of garlic if you're not a fan of garlicky taste but we heart eyes all the garlic!


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"Mase, calm down."
That was Red's attempt to get me to stop cursing out my mother for making me come all the way across town for absolutely no reason. As we sat in our booth at Spades, I fumed just thinking about the fact that her water didn't break at all. Part of me thought she set it up, so I could be home to receive the damn summons.
Of course, Red disagreed.
"I don't think so, Mase. Why would your mother do something like that?"
I looked at him in disbelief. "Red, I can't put anything past her at this point. And how can you sit over there and try to defend her? This is the same woman that's hiding a fugitive and keeping Alex in jail. It's because of her that a family's life is being turned upside down. And with no remorse. She's horrible, man."
"She's not horrible. She's doing what she's gotta do. To protect herself."
"At my expense, though? I've been called by the prosecution to testify against Alex. She has the power to stop all of that. What kind of mother does that to a son?"
"I don't know, Mase. Maybe she feels like you're a grown man and that you can handle stuff. Maybe she knows you can, and thinks that you should understand that her baby can't. Maybe she feels like saying stuff against Sheldon would make it hard for her baby."
I looked across at Red with a scowl, before taking a swig of my Red Stripe. I hated it when what he said made sense, because, sometimes, he didn't know it did. But it did this time. He had a point. The shit was still fucked up, but I understood what he was saying.
"Red, if that's the case, and she's protecting her child, at her other child's expense, then when and if I do testify—because I haven't decided whether I am or not—I'm showing her no loyalty. At all. I'm going to get up there and say whatever I need to do for Alex to come the fuck home."
"Me, too." Red waved for the waiter to come over to clear his tray of ravaged chicken bones. I swear, they weren't even in front of him for more than ten minutes. Insane.
"I just worry about Starlet," he continued. "I want Alex to come home, so A.J. will know him growing up. And now that she's pregnant again—"
I interrupted him with a loud laugh. "What? Get out. Big Bones is knocked up?" I looked around in a mocking manner. "Are we sure it's Alex's kid?"
Red didn't smile with me. "Come on, Mase. It's definitely Alex's baby. That's why I worry. I want Starlet to be OK. And not just because of the food she makes me, but because I know how hard it is to grow up without a father. I don't want that for her and her kids."
"I feel you, man. That's why we have to do whatever we can to get Alex off. Say and do whatever we need to do."
"I know, Mase. I know." The waiter brought more wings to the table. As Red went through his ritual of inhaling as much of the 'Spade-hot' sauce as he could stand before commencing to eat, that's when I noticed the small backpack sitting next to him in the booth.
"Red, what the fuck is that? You have an overnight trip planned I don't know about?"
"What, this?" Red said, pointing at the bag. "Nah, no overnight trip. In fact, I probably need to get home soon. To prepare."
"Prepare for what?" I asked, giving Red the side-eye. "What's going on? What's in the bag?"
"Well," Red began, somewhat hesitant. "A few weeks ago, I received some mail. And wasn't sure who to tell about it. So I didn't tell anyone." He licked his fingers from the sauce before unzipping the bag and pulling out a pile of papers and placing them on the table.
I picked them up and was speechless as I began to read the first page.
"I kept them, Mase," Red went on. "I read them, and then put them away, not sure what to do with them. I haven't even told Jean about them."
"Red, are you crazy? You know what you need to do with these. This shit could be gold. You need to get these to Alex's lawyer right now! This shit could change everything!"
"You think so?"
"Hell, yes, I think so!" I threw money on the table and jumped up and headed toward the exit. I couldn't wait to get what looked like some sort of diary with Sheldon's name on it to the lawyers. Without even reading what was inside, it couldn't be anything to help the bastard. And that's all I needed to know.
Whomever sent this to Red knew what they were doing. They must've known that sending it to me or Yanni would've meant a manhunt and a fucking scalping for my mother's baby daddy.
I was halfway to the exit when I looked back to see Red still sitting at the table. "Red, you coming or what?"
Red looked up from his plate and put his hands in the air. "What, I can't finish my wings first?"
This guy.

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Article first published as Product Review: Pelican S130 ProGear Backpack on Blogcritics.
This is, without a doubt, the best pro-gear backpack I have ever owned.
The test of time:
I've used this pack almost every day since NAB in April 2013, and it is weight-balanced to reduce fatigue, resilient, makes it easy to keep my gear organized and clean and has even been in the rain with no problem. (In fact, it is waterproof to 3.3 feet – 1 meter for up to 30 minutes.) It was amusing to see everyone scurrying around to avoid getting their equipment wet while I just walked slowly to my destination knowing that my cameras, batteries, etc., were snug and dry. Oh, it is also TSA friendly with fast access to the laptop compartment.
The weight distribution makes it possible to load up in lots of equipment in one pack and carry it around without hurting my neck and shoulders. (See my note below under "surprise features.")
Here is the equipment I carry for remote assignments, all of which fits easily into the Pelican S130 and goes in the overhead on the plane:
– Laptop compartment – My MacBook Pro 15" goes in here. The back compartment is watertight, keeps the computer from being crushed and is padded to protect from bumping and jostling. (It comes with additional pads that can be quickly installed so you can customize the interior according to the size laptop you are carrying.) I also like that when I go through customs, I just flip open the top and pull the laptop out without having to lay the case down on its side or move anything else aside. I don't need another laptop cover as it is protected just as it is in the compartment.
-There is a zippered pocket on the top front of the bag that is perfect for my plane tickets and itinerary as well as my phone.
-The top compartment opens with the adjustable, sturdy clips on the front of the bag to reveal two sections.
– Top – Part One: In the zippered front half, I keep my valuables, wallet, pen, sharpie, stylus, business cards, 16 GB thumb drive, Western Digital 1TB portable external hard drive, and extra 32 GB SIM cards because they are so small they have a tendency to get lost unless you take special care with them. I actually have them in orange cases so they are easy to see. This is another reason why I love that this bag stands up on its own. You can set it on the ground, reveal the contents and work without worrying that something will fall out of the top compartment.
– Top- Part Two: Open the top compartment and the main section is roomy enough to hold some rather large items, I have mine configured so that it measures 11×6 inches. I use it to carry a mini tripod or my gorilla pod, extra batteries in their own separate small case, charger, flashlight or Petzl light, my laptop charger, mouse and small keyboard and… my food supplies on the set because I sometimes am too far away from video village, especially when shooting in the mountains or a race, etc. I like that it is bright yellow so I can see the contents and not have to struggle with a "black hole."
– Main front compartment: This is the real workhorse of this unit. It is removable for those days when you might want to use this pack for a travel bag, NICE and necessary: the zippered cover for this compartment is rigid and protects the delicate gear from being bumped and serves as a landing pad in a pinch if you need to change a lens on the fly. Like the top compartment, this one is also bright yellow and can be customized with the very sturdy dividers to fit your gear.
Here's what I bring with me in the main compartment:
– DSLR (today it is the NEX7)
– Extra lens
– H4N recorder (in it's own Petrol case)
– Shure SM58 microphone
– Two sizes of cable for the mic (3' and 6')
– Purasol – both kinds, optical and plasma, and clean cloths
– PowerEx small see-through plastic box with AA & AAA batteries
– Microfiber Envirosax (approx 14×18" with shoulder straps) that wraps into a small 2×3" ball and snaps shut
– A small plastic bag with connection cables for all my devices (mini, micro, iOS, etc),
– Bose "Quiet Comfort 15" headphones in their own hard case (either go here or in the top compartment, depending on how much other gear I have with me)
– Small roll of black gaffer's tape
– Small roll of white paper tape
– The outside: There are sling straps on the outside (underneath the bag and on the sides that allow you to hook up a tripod, jacket, bedroll, or other extra gear. I use one of them for my waterproof roll-up jacket, but don't use the one on the bottom since I like to be able to set the pack down firmly on the ground.) I also like the comfort of the rubber handle for those times when you want to grab and go quickly without strapping on. The lumbar support and padding keeps the pack from being hot and sweaty against your back, a nice feature for those of us in the elements. And there is a water bottle pocket on one side.
Surprise/Additional Features (that I like and that you won't find in the specs):
-It stands up on its own. How many packs have you had that fall over when you take them off and set them on the ground? Doesn't sound like much, but when you have delicate equipment or just want to make sure you are keeping things as clean as possible. This is a great feature.
– This is tailored for big guys too, but I am 5'4" tall and it is always difficult for me to find equipment that FITS. This not only fits, it is so comfortable that I was able to lug around 40 pounds of gear for eight hours at a time with NO fatigue and work hands-free without taking off the pack. The design of the pack allows the weight to rest on your lower back and hips rather than pulling on your shoulders and neck all day. Anyone who needs to carry gear with them will surely love this feature. (Note: I had a friend who was 6'3" tall try on this pack and it fit him as well!)
As I noted in the beginning of this review, this is the best backpack for my gear I have ever owned. It weighs 7.14 lbs, so is not meant for backcountry hiking, but definitely will be a must-have investment for anyone who needs to haul gear during a shoot.
The Pelican ProGear S130 is currently on sale for approximately $170 at Amazon Pelican S130 or from Pelican and is also available through any Pelican dealer, most photo and video shops.
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The STC Group along with the Maxis and Oger Groups and part of their global synergy creation activities, have selected Ericsson as one of their preferred global vendors for network infrastructure, it was revealed on Sunday.
The agreement will allow Ericsson to offer its portfolio of network infrastructure equipment though a global price structure based on total business in Bahrain, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey.
The STC Group along with the Maxis and Oger Groups have reached a leading position in the global mobile and fixed telecommunication markets. In 2010 the groups jointly launched a series of global initiatives focused on capturing synergies across their 9 operating companies and on working with best-in-class global suppliers to become preferred partners based on value creating agreements.
One of the initiatives is to focus on technology infrastructure synergies, with an objective of developing a global price book and formalizing volume discounts based on overall groups scale.
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Casey Stoner and Red Bull Racing Australia have taken the covers off the two-time MotoGP champion's new V8 Supercar ahead of his four-wheeled racing debut on Friday.
Stoner, 27, who hung up his riding boots at the end of the 2012 MotoGP season, will compete in the #27 Red Bull Pirtek Holden VE Commodore built by Triple Eight Race Engineering – the very same car that claimed victory at the 2010 Bathurst 1000 with Craig Lowndes and Mark Skaife at the wheel – in the V8 Supercar Dunlop Development Series.
Stoner said he was excited about getting to race the 640hp Holden Commodore after months of build-up.
"I can't wait," Stoner said. "It's exciting to finally get the chance to be at a race weekend after so much time thinking about it."
"I think it's going to be fantastic and I'm very much looking forward to it."
The shift from two wheels to four seems to be going well for the former rider despite the fact he has only spent two test days behind the wheel around Queensland Raceway.
"I have a fair idea of what's involved, but unfortunately nothing can really replicate what I'll have to do when I get out there," Stoner said.
"I'm not expecting too much too early. But the racing looks like a heck of a lot of fun, so I'm looking forward to getting out there."
Casey Stoner is the first international motorcycle rider to make the transition into the V8 Supercars series since 1987 MotoGP champion Wayne Gardner made the switch almost 21 years ago.
Round one of the Dunlop Development Series starts today with practice at Adelaide's Victoria Park street circuit, before Friday's qualifying and Race 1 and Saturday's Race 2.
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SSNW President Josh Schott and former CIA officer Ray McGovern protesting CIA recruitment on Stanford's campus.
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*This background photo depicts Vietnam War protesters as they marched to the Capitol in April 1971.*


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I am the founder and director of the FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA SAFOTO photography festival, as well as a producer, curator, and promoter for art exhibits and cultural events.
I have been exhibiting, publishing, performing, recording and broadcasting my visual and musical work for several decades.
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The 4th Annual Organic Mechanic Poetry Contest is over. The results are in and Everybody Wins a Mix CD. I received so few entries this year that I decided everyone wins. There is still Mega-Jumbo-Super-Happy-Joy-Sauerkraut Grand Prize winner but all the other entries are now ROFLMAO-Indigo-Kielbasa-Opium-Heavenly-N-People-Tied-For-First-Runner-Up First Runners Up. Details past the hippityhopotamus.
An entry by Lauren Spisak:
In the morning when
the cock presses its hard, wet
noise against me–joy.
An entry by Alesha Coleff:
The End of Us
Filling my head with you tonight,
I take your breath in mine
crawling through shards of a broken heart
I bleed like tears are cried
I found it like a sickened thing
this love that made me weak
I welcomed pain and injury
and screamed for you to leave
Secret words are heard in whispers
warm breath upon my skin
you pulled me close and ran away
then asked to be my "friend"
I don't remember how love felt
only flashes in my mind
it smelled of sweat and tears and truth
and I craved it like a high
Goodbye is not an easy word
it hides beneath my tongue
I chew it up and spit it out
and say that I am done
Walking away, I dare myself
to steal a glance at you
smiling as I know this time,
this love and I … are through
A series of haiku by James Sherwood:
the crocus shoots push
up through the warming soil
straining for the sun.
crickets sing loudly
in the sweet honeysuckle
through the brief, still night.
Persephone's fruit;
slowly sucking sweet pulp
from pomegranate seeds.
the sun carves a path
slowly across the carpet
as the day slips by.
An entry by Jef Taylor:
Top of Seoul, windy.
One bird chirps, and my heart beats
slowly, then quickly.
Two poems by Maura Rogers:
water into wine
we watch pink curves of flesh flush red
water into wine.
bending wrists
breaking time into broken moans.
your limp hand
dangles from a mattress frame
wet in wrinkles of sunlight.
we are staining white cotton with muddy earth tones.
the warm scent of touched thighs
drifts through a broken window.
satisfaction carries into the wind.
Mother's day
White whicker chair woman
wise, rising phoenix red
hair hennaed Hallelujah! bright.
Silk wrinkled hands
held me like a pearl in a pressed pant pocket.
Rubbing rough
to smooth,
memorizing grooves of each one to eleven.
I am number eleven, at 7:14 p.m.
1977 fresh.
Call me baby.
You stood still
by my sui-cide and sinus drainage
by my other suicide
and my silly swelling kidney.
I stab you plenty.
You stand Rocky Mountain strong.
What will I do when you leave?
Will I?
Raise freckled faces that bloom breasts in spring
and die wicked in winter?
Surrender sleep to milk nine moaning mouths?
Wrestle women into my wings
and wait for Jesus to bring them morning?
I am not you.
Just peeped through you,
wordless and whining.
Want a watermelon myself,
A girl will know me well.
Will time be swell
and let her know you?
I bribe my watch daily.
A haiku from Eric M.:
Just short of the line
the runner quits the long race.
A rock in his shoe.
An entry from Daniella:
Coup de Foudre
You fall in love from different places in your life
Sometimes it is your eyes that become mesmerized
Sometimes it is your ears that love what you hear
But when your breath slows down and you break into a sweat
Just at the sight of him, your skin tingles and your mouth gets wet
That is when your heart has been captured and you have no choice
But to surrender to the pleasure and let the fire of Zeus
Hit you with a zillion bolts
Unfortunately, Lauren Spisak. Her Cock senryuu wins because it could be read innocently or completely not innocently. I choose the latter so I'll call it a senryuu.
I liked the lyrical quality of Alesha Coleff's entry, the feeling of seasonal progression that Mr. Sherwood's series of haiku evoked; Mr. Taylor's haiku made me think that nature can even be found in the city; Maura Roger's mother poem impressed me because I know how hard it is to write something for a parent; Eric M.'s senryuu is brimming with postmodern ennui a la Brak.
I would like to thank the six of you for sharing and writing. Email me your addresses and I'll get your CD's in the post by this weekend.


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BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- Democratic front-runner for governor Martha Coakley is sidestepping questions about the ongoing DCF controversy.
And when asked if she would fire DCF Commissioner Olga Roche, she said "My feeling is we need to look at that audit, we need to look at the scope of what they find, and I think that decision is going to be up to the governor."
When pressed about why at this point, one would wait, she responded, "partly because you need someone at the helm, and she has experience and unless you have someone who is ready to come in and turn this agency around I'm not sure that's the immediate solution."
Coakley also said any time a high profile mistake is made, the urge is to say "let's replace that person." she went on to say "the private sector doesn't do that, and neither does the public sector."
Over the last few days watchdog groups have ranked Massachusetts near the bottom for child welfare, and even that DCF allows 100's of foster parents with prior criminal convictions to take in children. Coakley told FOX 25 "it raises a significant question in my mind, but again, we do this kid by kid, family by family."
When asked if she'd want to take a second look at this, she did respond, "absolutely, absolutely."
In the meantime, Republican candidate for governor, Charlie Baker, is now calling on the Patrick administration to fire Roche. A change from his position one month ago. He says he was looking for "proactive change" and hasn't seen it yet from the administration.
"For the past four or five weeks there simply hasn't been any evidence of that kind of proactive movement forward," Baker said. "I think at this point the best move for the department and for the kids would be for the commissioner to step down."
Baker is the former Health and Human Services secretary under Governor Weld.
On the FOX 25 morning news, he glossed over questions about failings in the department when he was in charge, saying, "Well there are always going to be specific cases and I share the governor's view and others' that you can't really manage this whole thing based on one case, but you should absolutely use the learning's that you can take from one case to think about what they mean more broadly across the organization."
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by David P. Greisman
Former 115-pound champion Jiro Watanabe was arrested last week in Osaka, Japan, for allegedly being part of a trio of yakuza who were accused of hiding that fact while playing golf on a course that bans yakuza members, according to English-language newspaper The Japan Times.
Watanabe, the newspaper said, "is a senior member of a group affiliated" with "major underworld syndicate Yamaguchi-gumi." Also charged were a "senior gangster" with the syndicate and "another yakuza figure who was not identified," the article said. They were on the golf course in March 2011, according to the article.
"Police have recently been cracking down on mobsters who play at golf courses that ban yakuza," the article said. "There have been cases in which prosecutors have been unable to establish criminal cases against mobsters who were unaware of local ordinances banning them, and others in which at the district court level gangsters were found not guilty."
Watanabe, 57, fought as a pro between 1979 and 1986. He won a World Boxing Association title at 115 pounds in 1982, defending it six times before vying for the World Boxing Council's belt in 1984, according to BoxRec.com.
Watanabe is listed on Cyber Boxing Zone as having been the division's lineal champion from 1984 to 1986. He lost that distinction with his fifth defense of the WBC belt, a unanimous decision loss to Gilberto Roman in 1986.
That was his last fight. He retired with a record of 26-2 with 17 knockouts.
David P. Greisman is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America. Follow David on Twitter @fightingwords2 or send questions/comments via email at [email protected]


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All these days people have been cursing Apple's app review policy and saying that Google's Android Market is open and better. Well, here is a slap on the face of the open Android market. The publisher Myournet has been publishing scary malware apps that root your phone and steal your data. According to Android Police, the apps have the ability to steal your phone's IMEI/IMSI, Product ID, Model, Partner (Carrier/Manufacturer), Language, Country and User ID. What's even more scary is that the apps can download more malware code from the Internet which can do pretty much anything to anything in your phone
Myournet had published 21 free apps in the Android Market that accounted for 50k-200k downloads in just 4 days. As of now they have been taken off the market but here is a list in case you want to see whether you've already downloaded any of the app.
The malware apps were discovered by Reddit user Lompolo who explained the situation as follows.
Link to publishers apps here. I just randomly stumbled into one of the apps, recognized it and noticed that the publisher wasn't who it was supposed to be.
Super Guitar Solo for example is originally Guitar Solo Lite. I downloaded two of the apps and extracted the APK's, they both contain what seems to be the "rageagainstthecage" root exploit – binary contains string "CVE-2010-EASY Android local root exploit (C) 2010 by 743C". Don't know what the apps actually do, but can't be good.
I appreciate being able to publish an update to an app and the update going live instantly, but this is a bit scary. Some sort of moderation, or at least quicker reaction to malware complaints would be nice.
EDIT: After some dexing and jaxing, the apps seem to be at least posting the IMEI and IMSI codes to http://22.214.171.124:8080/GMServer/GMServlet, which seems to be located in Fremont, CA.
Looks like Google needs to start monitoring the Android Market more seriously. Such openness is not welcome.
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Zoeva Rose Gold Brush Set - One of the more exciting things that I purchased this month is this brush set. I have been lusting after it for such a long time but always put off purchasing it, but after receiving some money for Christmas I decided to bite the bullet and buy them. I cannot wait to start using them!
Botanics Micellar Water - I saw that A Model Recommends had mentioned this in one her recent skincare posts and also saw that it was reduced to £1.50 in Boots so decided to give it a go.
La Roche Posay Effaclar Duo + - I've read so many posts on products from this brand and have wanted to try some out for ages now. This is another product that was on offer at Boots so impulsively popped it in my basket. As you can tell I'm just a sucker for a good bargain! Haha.


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Tech IPO's are always "overpriced." It's almost tautoligical.
Does anyone know what this company is worth? It seems to be nearly entirely potential; and nobody knows what the upside is -- it's practically incalculable; but so are the contingencies.
How long does the average user sit in front of a Facebook page? How many man hours are spent viewing facebook pages each day globally? What is buying time in front of that captive audience worth? Somebody run the numbers. I'm sure it's huge.
The problem is that with a half billion shares out, it's no slam-dunk bargain.


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•3rd CIHM Finisher's Medallion (or a 10K Achiever Medal)
•Runners' Briefing (@ R.O.X. on Nov 24 & 25)
•3rd CIHM Victory Rave Party (Dec 01, Saturday night)
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•P1,000 SOLEUS Gift Voucher
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•P900 (Limited Edition CIHM Windbreaker)
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D. Day trip – departure on Dec 01 @ 5:00 am
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F. Departure on Dec 02 @ 2:30pm
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R.I.P. Shane McConkey
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NEW BRAUNFELS — Fatigued after a few days of hard workouts, San Marcos junior Allex Austin, the No. 1-ranked prep high jumper in the nation, nevertheless won a regional qualifiers meet at New Braunfels Canyon today with an effort of 6 feet, 4 inches.
Austin, the 17-year-old son of 1996 Olympic champion Charles Austin, has been in training to high jump for only eight weeks.
Despite the lack of experience, the shooting guard on the San Marcos varsity basketball team broke out with a clearance of 7-2 at Judson on April 13 to win the District 25-5A championship.
That was the best jump in the nation this year by a high school athlete.
Austin didn't come close to that level on Thursday in a tuneup for the Region IV-5A meet, scheduled May 2-3 at Alamo Stadium. He jumped 6-4 on his second attempt and then missed three times at 6-8.
"My main focus is the regional," Austin said. "I'm not going to let this get me down."
While he insisted that basketball remains his favorite sport, Austin said he has enjoyed his meteoric rise as a high jumper. He is still shaking his head at a photo that captured his clearance of 7 feet at the district meet.
The photo showed him several inches above the bar.
"I knew I cleared it without touching it but didn't know I was that high," Austin said. "I just felt an adrenaline rush. I was just really excited."
He learned today that not every day is a good day — even for the best in the nation.
Sitting on the artificial surface on the field at Canyon and gathering his things to go home, America's top prep high jumper accepted a hug from San Marcos principal Michelle Darling.
He looked up and asked his father, "Why did I come to this?"
"Because you needed to come," Charles Austin said. "This is training."


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The Giants, Mets and other teams have done "Star Wars" promotions, but Friday's postgame fireworks to a "Star Wars" sound track is a baseball first, say club officials.
And with Rozzi's Famous Fireworks choreographing the 15-minute show to music provided by Lucasfilm (see full list below), it should be a memorable night for "Star Wars" fans.
Vote: Reds players as 'Star Wars' characters
"It's the perfect opportunity to reach out to a group of people who wouldn't usually come out to the ballpark," says Adam Lane, who oversees the Reds video board production and in-game entertainment.
With the Brewers here through Sunday, May 4, it is the perfect weekend for those who like to say "May the 4th be with you." It's a crucial series for the Reds, who are 7.5 games behind the surprising Brewers in the Central Division. (I hope the Force is with them all weekend!)
The Reds weekend comes days after the big "Star Wars Episode VII" news that original cast members Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Peter Mayhew, Kenny Baker and Anthony Daniels will be joined by John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson and Max von Sydow.
Here's another Reds' "Star Wars" first: Cincinnati is the first MLB team to do a weekend instead of a one-day promotion. The entire galaxy at GABP – the "Star Wars" characters roaming the ballpark, T-shirt and poster giveaways, video board clips, fireworks soundtrack – had to be approved by Lucasfilm, Lane says.
About a dozen "Star Wars" characters in the Fan Zone before the game, and roaming the stadium, for photo ops all weekend.
Reds' "Star Wars" T-shirts will be given to the first 20,000 fans Saturday, and a Reds "Star Wars" poster (shown above) to the first 20,000 on Sunday, May 4.
For those going to the Friday game – SPOILER ALERT!! – here's the fireworks soundtrack:
1. Main Title
2. Main Title, part two
3. Imperial Attack
4. Cantina Band
5. The Imperial March
6. The Moister Farm
7. Princess Leia
8. Victory Celebration
9. Throne room and end title.
I've got my tickets for Friday. See you there.


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The outlook for retail giants is looking positive based on various fundamentals, according to S&P Capital IQ. Three select exchange traded funds that track a handful of mega-retailers have an "Overweight" ranking from the ratings company.
"We see (certain) factors positioning hypermarkets and super centers to gain market share given their price advantage compared to more traditional retail formats. Also, because they largely sell such everyday consumer staples as food and beverages, this should make their sales less sensitive to changing fashions and demand for other discretionary goods than those of some other retailers," S&P Capital wrote in a recent note.
Super centers such as Wal-Mart (WMT) and Costco (COST) will benefit from modest upticks in sales and improved operating efficiencies. Most club-style stores are benefitting from small business customers and higher-income consumers. Fundamentals supporting the growth of mega-retailers include market share growth opportunities, lower investor expectations and defensive characteristics. [Consumer Staples ETFs Losing Defensive Allure]
Mass merchandise retailers have underperformed the broad market by 6 and 1 percentage points, leaving them positioned for outperformance later this year.
Exchange traded funds such as Vanguard Consumer Staples (VDC) , Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR (XLP) and the Market Vectors Retailers (RTH) are rated "Overweight" by S&P Capital. This rating is based on a combination of performance, risk and cost metrics. [Retail ETFs Tick Up on Higher Sales]
The positive trend in mass market retailers is just beginning, as both Target and Wal-Mart management lowered current year outlooks for sales and earnings. This move was based on lackluster second quarter earnings reports. However, going forward, this will give more opportunity for upside potential instead of downside risk, should economic growth continue to improve. [Retail ETFs May Ring Up Gains on Sales]
Other consumer-focused ETFs:
- iShares US Consumer Services ETF (IYC)
- PowerShares Retail Fund (PMR)
- Guggenheim S&P Equal Weight Consumer Discretionary (RCD)
Tisha Guerrero contributed to this article.
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Eight years ago, Shiv Vaithyanathan and his colleagues started work on ideas that would evolve into SystemML, the powerful machine learning platform for distributed computing frameworks like MapReduce and Apache Spark. By separating algorithm input format from optimization, Shiv and his team gave data scientists a way to to be "super-creative": to express algorithms in simpler, more flexible terms — without sacrificing speed or scalability. Following on from last month's conversation about SystemML with Fred Reiss, we'll hear about the origins and evolution of SystemML, as well as Shiv's own vision for the future of machine learning in light of IBM's landmark decision to donate SystemML to the open-source community.You are the original creator of SystemML. How did it start? What problem were you trying to solve?
In 2007, my group was already working closely with Hadoop. Most of the processing was ETL and it was major work to parse documents and extract meta-data from them. Even then parsing was only the first step; our goal was to do more advanced processing with the parsed documents. As a first step, because the parsed documents were already on HDFS, I started to experiment with writing the first machine learning algorithm on Hadoop. To have experience with more ML algorithms, I hired a summer intern — a really bright graduate student from Wisconsin — and she and I planned to work on and have multiple algorithms running on Hadoop over the summer of 2008. Long story short, at the end of the summer not a single one of our algorithms was working efficiently.
When did you know you had a solution — or something new and meaningful? What did that feel like?
By the end of that summer, my intern and I decided the current direction of writing every algorithm against lower-level API (for example, map and reduce) wasn't tenable. Not only did we need to re-think the algorithm and re-write it in the context of a distributed system's choices and idiosyncrasies, but such open-source systems were themselves a moving target. From release to release of the systems, we would have had to put in effort to keep the algorithms running efficiently. There simply had to be an easier way!
The answer wasn't actually far away. Almaden, where I work, is the birthplace of SQL — the original declarative system for data-management. We needed to think along the same lines as SQL, by separating the "what" from the "how". In other words, we had to separate the specification of the algorithm – and make the specification easy – from the way we optimized the algorithm.
Once that was evident, I just needed to define our initial scope. I remember that once I defined that scope I dropped an email to a faculty friend to get his reaction. I sent the email late in the evening and got a strongly positive response within a couple of hours. That was enough for me to get management approval to put together the larger project — and SystemML was born. Of course, we've worked out many details since then, but that was the start.
So how does this change the life of a data scientist?
This was the major motivation for SystemML. In 2007 / 2008 my intern and I played the role of data scientists. However, we also had the luxury of world-class systems folks in Almaden to help whenever we ran into an issue. Not the case with every data-scientist! Separating the "how" from the "what" enables two different personas to bring their best to the problem. First, the data scientist can be a data scientist and not a systems hacker or an open-source developer. It lets the data scientist be super-creative – not encumbered by how to optimize the algorithms and consequently make compromises to accommodate the constraints of the system. Second, separating the how enables the larger systems community to get involved in a fundamental way. The creative data scientist continues to push the boundaries by writing new algorithms — and the systems programmer continually gets new workloads to keep moving the system forward. That's a marriage made in heaven and tailor-made for open-source!
I've heard questions about merging SystemML with the Spark code database— that the SystemML DSL optimizer is different. Do you think this'll affect integration with Spark?
I'd like to bring some SystemML optimization capabilities to Catalyst. Operationally, we can minimize changes to Spark since Catalyst is already available. Further, we can optimize on end-to-end workloads ranging from data prep to the core Machine Learning algorithm. There's potential not only to bring innovation to customers but to bring value to the entire analytics pipe.
I hear people wondering whether SystemnML being written in Java is going to impact adoption by Spark users. Do you think that matters?
For the SystemML users, I don't think there will be a difference. We'll have a Scala API for users of algorithms written in SystemML. And we're working on a flavor of Scala DSL (to augment the R and Python DSLs in SystemML). That's still on the drawing board and not in plan yet.
We expect open source to drive the direction of SystemML and IBM is being very aggressive about support for it. IBM will do what it takes to make SystemML successful.
Now that it's open, are you and the other original creators of SystemML still maintaining it in the open-source world, or are you just putting out a snapshot and going back to other research?
Absolutely! We're not only maintaining it but growing the team both in Research and in the STC. This is a major commitment for us and we'll be working with it in open-source very aggressively.
Any thoughts of open-sourcing SystemT in a similar way?
At this point, we haven't started that discussion, but I do encourage folks interested in SystemT to have a look at the tutorials available here:
What was it like to do machine learning in 2010 versus today?
Until a few years ago, data was only available to a small set of companies who provided insights from data as their core business, but in the last few years virtually all enterprises have realized that they've been collecting a lot of valuable data as part of their regular business operations. I have the luxury of working with many customers, and the question enterprises are asking now is: "How do I monetize my data?"
If they're already in the business of monetizing their data, then they want to know: "How else can I monetize my data?" Or often: "What other data sources can I acquire or partner with to increase the value of my data?"
The first step in monetizing data is to derive insights — and to do that you need machine learning. There's no paucity of data and the main concern for the data scientist is how to run machine learning algorithms on the largest possible data sets. Data scientists live and die by intuition gained from running their algorithms on data, and in today's world they need to run their algorithms on larger and larger data sets to truly validate their intuitions with insights from the data.
What's your vision for where machine learning will go from here? Any clues from IBM Research or elsewhere?
ML is going in multiple directions from here. For one, we'll see concentrated attempts to make ML easier for business analysts to use. This is a no-brainer and very good work is already happening — and there will be significant advancements here soon. At IBM Research, we're also exploring ideas at the other end of the spectrum. For mathematicians, who until now have not even bothered to test their algorithms, can we help them test those algorithm against data without forcing them to learn anything else? We're also working on multiple applications of large-scale Machine Learning, Deep Learning, pushing ML algorithms down to hardware, and so on.
What are you doing with Watson? How is it different than what you were doing before?
I'm responsible for the core Watson Content Services. I've got the opportunity to work with the varied Watson applications and build a back-end Content Analytics / Services system that can support both the semantic and systemic requirements of those applications.
I read you started your career as a tech reporter in Mumbai, when tech was first booming there. How did that experience compare to the tech boom in Silicon Valley?
Very different experiences. The tech reporter experience was very early in my life and a fascinating experience. In some ways, it's what motivated me to move toward a career in tech.


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Oil above $62: Crude hits six-month high before holiday weekend
Published 7:00 pm, Tuesday, May 19, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) - Oil prices hit a six-month high Wednesday, climbing above $62 a barrel after a government report showed a drop in U.S. oil supplies for the second straight week.
Benchmark crude for July delivery rose $1.94 to settle at $62.04 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange before noon. Crude prices jumped to $62.14 earlier in the day, the highest price for crude since Nov. 11.
In London, Brent prices increased $1.67 settle at $60.59 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
Crude stockpiles dropped by 2.1 million barrels for the week ended May 15, according to Energy Department's Energy Information Administration. Gasoline inventories dropped by 4.3 million barrels.
That was a bigger decline than analysts had expected, especially for gasoline.
One of the main drivers this year for energy prices has been the enormous amount of crude and gasoline in storage. Recently, benchmark crude prices also have been heavily influenced by the stock market and the strength of the dollar.
A number of other issues, from fires at refineries, to falling inventories, to the first big driving holiday of the year, are sending gas prices upward.
Retail gasoline prices have risen every day this month.
"If you mix that with fires at refineries this week, and the optimism that's in the equities markets right now, you have the ingredients for a rally" in energy prices, said Tom Kloza, publisher and chief oil analyst at Oil Price Information Service.
Still, oil supplies remain at 19-year highs as Americans cut back on spending. For weeks, government data has shown that the country's consumption of petroleum products has dropped to its lowest levels in a decade.
At the pump, gas prices added two cents overnight to a new national average of over $2.334 a gallon Wednesday, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. Gas is 27.6 cents a gallon more expensive than a month ago, but it's $1.466 a gallon cheaper than last year.
Kloza said he expects gas prices to continue to climb near $2.40 just before Memorial Day weekend as a drop in refinery activity forces pump prices higher.
In other Nymex trading, gasoline for June delivery fell less than a penny to settle at $1.8095 a gallon and heating oil rose 5.45 cents to settle at $1.5411 a gallon. Natural gas for June delivery added 6.8 cents to settle at $4.098 per 1,000 cubic feet.


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I got to look after some spirae japonica. From diverse sources I found out just recently that they need pruning in late spring. However, when I started looking after this garden I thought they needed to be pruned in autumn like many shrubs ... In short, I missed the deadline and didn't even deadhead them! They've been long established and are a bit too prolific. Could I simply cut them hard back this winter then prune them the 'proper' way not next spring but the spring after that?
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Family blaming rescuers in man's death
Updated 11:20 pm, Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Robert Esquivel was a fun-loving guy who had a habit of staying up late and falling asleep in unusual places, especially after drinking, his family said.
After a night of partying at a friend's house early Sunday, the 23-year-old apparently was spotted lying on the side of a rural Southwest Bexar County road by a driver who called 911.
Two Emergency Service District 5 firefighters were dispatched into the foggy, predawn darkness in a Ford F-550 truck about 6:16 a.m. to look for Esquivel near Atascosa in the area of Kelly Road where it turns into Hackelberg Road.
But they said they didn't see Esquivel until he was only about 15 or 20 feet in front of them after they rounded a bend. The driver slammed on his brakes but couldn't stop in time, and ran over him.
Esquivel's family holds the Fire Department responsible for his death but officials haven't said whether the fire truck killed him or he was already dead. The medical examiner's office said autopsy results won't be available for 12 weeks.
Officials said Esquivel was found in the middle of the road, not on the side as the 911 caller had reported. And, they said, he also was a half-mile closer than the caller had described. He was especially hard to see because he was wearing a black jacket, they said.
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"This has never happened to us. I pray to God it never does again — not to anybody," District 5 Fire Chief Kevin Aulds said.
An accident such as this one is unusual but not unheard of. Just this week, prosecutors, citing an absent witness, dismissed a misdemeanor case against a Bexar County sheriff's deputy who ran over a hitchhiker on the shoulder of Interstate 10 three years ago.
Clifton Bailey, 54, was responding to a 5:50 a.m. report in May 2009 that there was someone lying on the shoulder when he felt a bump and discovered Bradley Wayne Millar, 34, wrapped in a sleeping bag. It was undetermined whether Millar was alive at the time.
Bailey initially didn't mention the impact to investigators, but two hours later he revised his statement, authorities said. He remained on administrative duty with the Sheriff's Office while awaiting his trial.
Esquivel's sister Maria Salas said he often walked home after drinking, but he was miles from home that night and relatives don't know where he was going.
"I don't know how he ended up in the middle of the road," Salas said. "He was probably walking."
She said the firefighters should have been watching the road more closely.
"He was drunk. But just because he was drunk, I don't think he (should have died) like that," Salas said. "It was a fire truck not paying attention."
But fire district President Herschel Postert noted the men were working in tough conditions.
The road has lots of twists and turns, and to make things worse it was foggy and "pitch dark," he said.
"It's just a bad area out there — poor lighting," he said.
Although the speed limit is 35 mph, the men were driving 20 to 25 mph because of the conditions and because they were scanning the road, Aulds said.
Both volunteers are trained medics, so they worked on Esquivel after hitting him until EMS arrived about two minutes later, Postert said.
Immediately thereafter, the driver of the fire truck gave blood and urine samples, Postert said. The vehicle was inspected and wasn't found to have problems with its brakes or lights, he said.
Emergency Service District 5 officials declined to name the two volunteers, citing an ongoing investigation by the Bexar County Sheriff's Office. Both are on administrative leave and have been offered counseling, Aulds said.
Fire officials did say both have volunteered with the rural department for more than a decade. One works for the San Antonio Fire Department, the other as an EMT for a private medical company in San Antonio.
Postert and Aulds described them as "great guys" who are upset but holding up well.
"These guys are real knowledgeable of the area. They know what they're doing," Postert said. "It's pretty dang tough — they run out to save someone's life and this happens."
Aulds said there are "a lot of concerns about the person that passed away and a lot of concerns for the staff at the fire station. It's just a terrible tragedy and a terrible accident."
Salas said her brother was "the crazy one," a guy who made everybody laugh and was always clowning around at parties. She said his jovial personality will be hard to forget.
Esquivel, who was working as a roofer with Salas' brother, is survived by a 5-year-old son.
"He was always knocking on doors at 5, 6 in the morning and asking, 'What are y'all doing?'" Salas said. "He was just crazy. He would fall asleep anywhere — on top of my table, on my kitchen floor. I would find him sleeping outside. He was the crazy one."


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Here's a look at the heavy surf sea trials of Safehaven Marine's new XSV 17 craft during several days of recent storms to hit Ireland. The vessel here is the Thunder Child, powered by Caterpillar C12.9 1,000hp engines. Safehaven says during trials they managed to get 50kt winds and 6m waves, during which the vessel handled "fabulously". Make sure to turn on … [Read more...]
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Curious how NOT to capsize your fishing vessel in heavy seas? New Zealand journalist Geoff Mackley decided to visit the infamous Greymouth Bar, grab the saltiest old sea-captain he could find; an unintelligible yet undeniably talented Kiwi fisherman, and ask that very question. The dialogue in this video is impossible to understand but, trust us, amid … [Read more...]
Ship Photos of the Day – 'Barracuda' Law Enforcement Vessel in Heavy Surf Sea Trials
Scroll Down For Video Following up on yesterday's ship photos of the day of Safehaven Marine's Interceptor 48 rescue vessel in heavy surf sea trials, here's a look at the company's new 'Barracuda', a high speed Interceptor designed for military and law enforcement. According to Safehaven Marine, "'Barracuda' is a high speed low RCS Interceptor for military and law … [Read more...]
Ship Photos of The Day – Interceptor 48 Rescue Boat in Heavy Surf Sea Trials
These ship photos from the gCaptain archives are from off the coast of Ireland where Safehaven Marine conducted sea trials for one of its Interceptor 48s, a self-righting all weather pilot and rescue boat. Sea trials were held off Cork Harbour, Ireland during a series of storms in 2013 which maxed out at winds of Force 11 and 20 foot seas. All photos … [Read more...]
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Well, this happened. All that sandsliding as a kid finally paid off. Use the launch ????. I piss myself laughing watching this now, but we were all pretty puckered up at the time! ???? @jayjohnsonasp A video posted by Mark Healey (@donkeyshow) on Dec 21, 2014 at 11:08pm PST Editor's note: The Youtube video previously posted was removed by user. The one above was the … [Read more...]
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Safehaven Marine is taking perfect advantage of recent heavy weather and surf off the coast of Cork, Ireland. Last week they we saw the heavy surf sea trials of one of their Interceptor 48s, a self-righting all weather pilot and rescue boat. You can see those photos HERE. This week, Safehaven was out conducting acceptance trials for an Interceptor 42 patrol vessel … [Read more...]
When Coast Guard boat crews go out to train, they like to make things as real as possible. That means that when rough weather rolls in, it's time to go out. Station Cape Disappointment (apparently) doesn't take a break just because their "real" is a little more real than most. To get good at driving in the surf, you have to go out and drive in the surf. And there is … [Read more...]


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I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you
I believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do
I believe that beauty magazines promote low self-esteem
I believe I'm loved when I'm completely by myself alone
I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye
I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality
I believe that trust is more important than monogamy
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul
I believe that family is worth more than money or gold
I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair
I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires
I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye
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For months on end ive had my doubts,
denying every tear,
I wish this could be over now,
but I know I still need you here...
You and me we made a vow,
for better or for worse,
I cant believe you let me down,
but the proofs in the way it hurts.
You say, im crazy,
cause you don't think I know what you've done,
but when you call me baby... I know im not the only one.
Problem of the day: A bear stole my cheese :( -_-
For my Panda:
My panda brings all the boys to the yard and their like, hes better than your, damn right hes better than yours...
Dae see me rollin, they hatin *Panda roll*
I like big pandas and I cannot lie You other brothers can't deny that when a panda walks in with an itty bitty waist and a round thing in your face you get sprung.
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A loud crunch sound fills my ringing ears as the bilious man digs his sharp fangs into my bare. exposed neck. The pain is unreal and I cannot help but scream, silently... Electrical shocks run through my stiff body, my heart beats painfully into my rib cage. He pushes his body closer to mine and then puts his hand over my mouth. I try to squirm but he just pushes harder against me. Forcing me to stay put. I can feel my blood run down my neck and onto Yuki's red, shinny dress. The red of the dress is only just a shade lighter then my blood, soon it over whelms the dress, seeping onto my bare skin. I try not to think about the sound of him drinking my blood, the massive gulps ringing through my ears, the sound of blood trickling smoothly through his throat, finding its way to his unsatisfied hunger. However, every time I try to hear something else like the black and white cat near the disgusting bins hunting or the gravel beneath my feet crunching loudly as I try to move. The sound of him drinking my blood gets louder and louder until finally, he lifts his head from my neck and takes off his dark black and grey hood. He looks into my eyes with fulfilment. His eyes have a blood coloured lustre that sparkles in the flickering light of the street lamp at the end of this gloomy, damp ally way. Cars go past noisily but don?t seem to notice us standing by the wall. I look down to his mouth that?s dripping with blood, smirking he wipes it away. I look over his broad shoulder to see the same cat that is still trying to find food. I watch as it pounces behind the dumpster and crawls out with a small mouse squirming under its paw, at that, the cat rips its flesh open, blood sprawling all over the walls and pavement. Soon the dizziness overwhelms me and I find it hard to stand, soon, I flop and he, the mysterious killer, gently lowers me to the dirty floor. Finding it hard to focus, I roll with a grunt, on my side and look up. Nothing, just darkness, my vision had completely blurred. I yawn majorly, before clonking onto the hard floor...
wanna know about me? ask. Also, im the one with the glow stick wrapped around the earing.
imma start to do challenges. Starting with the I LOVE YOU challenge!
Now what I have to do is say I love you to 3 people randomly, copy what they say and put it on my BIO for the world to see.
maxine123(who by the way is my sister): ew sis just ew.
Princejohan: pardon???
kerokee: -chokes on my monster- come again?
Blue=i want a second chance
Yellow=you're cute
Green=i want a kiss
Purple=i will die for you
Red=i want you to kiss me
Pink=let's cuddle
Orange=i owe you a kiss
Black=i want a hug
Rainbow=i really like you
White=i'm crushing on you
Brown=i love you.
She calls out to the man on the street
"Sir, can you help me?
It's cold and I've nowhere to sleep,
Is there somewhere you can tell me?"
He walks on, doesn't look back
He pretends he can't hear her
Starts to whistle as he crosses the street
Seems embarrassed to be there
Oh think twice, it's another day for
You and me in paradise
Oh think twice, it's just another day for you,
You and me in paradise
She calls out to the man on the street
He can see she's been crying
She's got blisters on the soles of her feet
Can't walk but she's trying
Oh think twice...
Oh lord, is there nothing more anybody can do
Oh lord, there must be something you can say
You can tell from the lines on her face
You can see that she's been there
Probably been moved on from every place
'Cos she didn't fit in there
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Dan Bacalzo • New York City • Oct 13, 2008
Black is well known as a comedian, with live appearances across the country and around the world, as well as television programs such as Comedy Central's Lewis Black's Root of All Evil and his "Back in Black" segment on The Daily Show with John Stewart. He is the author of two best-selling books, Nothing's Sacred and Me of Little Faith, and 40 plays. His involvement with the Williamstown Theatre Festival includes the establishment of the Bill Foeller Fellowship for emerging young directors; hosting WTF's Cabaret series; teaching at the festival; and performing in productions including Once in a Lifetime, Camino Real, The Matchmaker, and Dead End.
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Anna Sergeeva and Fei Xiao founder of Planana, a company formally known as TrueRSVP their platform helps event organizers to fill up empty seats.
From winning the DEMOgod Award (2011) to being named one of the Coolest Startups in America (2012) by Inc Magazines, Anna Sergeeva and Fei Xiao are making a statement with their new startup venture, Planana. Formally known as trueRSVP, this new web platform helps event organizers fill empty seats by offering rewards to attendees who spread the word through social media.
Q: Before we get started I just want to say thank you for this interview. It's not everyday that I get to chat with one of the Coolest Startup in America. Now what is Planana and how did you guys come up with this idea?
Anna: Thank you! Planana in our opinion is a natural extension of trueRSVP. With trueRSVP, we were focused on predicting event attendance. However, we found out that increasing event attendance is much more of a value add for event organizers and that's how Planana was born. Planana allows event organizers to create customized rewards – like VIP benefits or discounted tickets – to incentivize their attendees to promote their events. For example, on Planana, I can get 20% off my ticket if I share the event on Facebook and like the organizers Facebook page.
Q: Planana formally known as TrueRSVP. -What's the story behind the name change, who came up with the new name and did this change work for the better or makes no difference?
Fei: Because our mission and brand was changing, we needed a new name. The name came out of a brainstorming session when we were trying to find names that still had available .com domains. We like Planana because it is more fun – event planning should be more fun.
Q: Watching your pitch at the DEMO God Award, Fei presented wearing a wedding dress – so tell me how much preparation went into winning this competition?
Anna: A ton of preparation! We wanted to do something original and memorable and that's not easy. We played around with a few different approaches and then worked diligently practicing the pitch. We only had 90 secs so the timing and execution had to be perfect.
Q: TrueRSVP was named one of the Coolest College Startups in America in 2011 by Inc Magazine. – How has that change your lives as young entrepreneurs?
Fei: To be honest, I don't think it really changed our lived. I think it was great to get recognition, but besides that startups are a lot of work and we kept moving forward.
Q: Share some tips and advice on how to win a pitching competition such as the Student Alpha Pitch at DEMO?
Fei: Most importantly, don't be nervous and have fun. If you follow these two guidelines, you'll be able to connect with the audience and they'll have fun too. Practice. Think outside the box. And, practice some more.
Q: What are the top 3 things you wished you knew before you became entrepreneurs?
1- Listen to your customer. These four simple words are too easy to forget. You are building your product for your customers so make sure they love it.
2- It's really hard to start a company so make sure you are obsessed with the problem you are trying to solve.
3- Learn to code.
Q: Say I wanted to start my own version of Planana today, what are some of the most important things I need to know?
Anna & Fei: We don't give away industry secrets 😉
Q: What are some of the projects you working on right now, and what can we expect form Planana in the next 5 to 10 years?
Anna: We are focused 100% on Planana so there are no other projects. We are working on new features and customer acquisition. In 5-10 years, we want to have built a sustainable and successful company that helps organizers achieve their biggest goal which is selling out their events.
Q: What's you favorite entrepreneurship quote?
Anna:"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. " — Calvin Coolidge
Fei: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." — Ghandi
—DEMOgod Award pitch competition in 2011
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188889944584047508.post7963811619134325491..comments2017-11-29T12:00:56.120-08:00Comments on No Fenders -Formula 1, IndyCar and A Whole lot more..: Max exposureTomasohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188889944584047508.post-25548502335238051202008-04-08T14:31:22.422-07:002008-04-08T14:31:22.422-07:00Oh definitely! I agree that we indeed need to make...Oh definitely! I agree that we indeed need to make fun of Sir Maxxum's per-dick-a-mint… OOPS, musta been a Freudian slip?

But I thought you were pining away over those wretched ink stained boobies on the RASSCAR Shopping Cable Networks… And besides, what are you doin' checkin' out Michele Fu-Fighter, as I thought you said Gretchen Carlson and Julie Banderas are kinda hot…

As for the Littlest Curve, who seems to be overly fatuated with Sir Maxxum's tiddlywinks games... "Juan" must wonder if perhaps this is The Ronster's pen name… As I'm certain Mr. Dennis is quite enjoying the spotlight shining brightly upon his bestest friend MAD AAX, eh?

As it seems kinda funny that a Barrister is seeking Pubic Relations help from the shysters who got the residual retainer fee from Sir Paul's ex…Tomasohttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6188889944584047508.post-1248694853274090852008-04-07T13:28:34.682-07:002008-04-07T13:28:34.682-07:00Thanks for the props Tomaso, but really, if you ca...Thanks for the props Tomaso, but really, if you can't poke fun at the entire Mosley situation you'd go as insanely mad as Max is.

Eventually "The Littlest Perv" will step down from his lofty FIA perch and we will be free write about more "important" things like whether Bernie is actually a Hobbit or who takes over the Best of the Rest title now that BMW is part of the "in crowd." (I vote Toyota)

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File this under things you'd never expect. Grant money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helped create a popular ringtone that repeats the same word over and over again – "condom."
The foundation gave the BBC World Service Trust $5.9 million in 2006 "to prevent HIV transmission in high prevalence districts of four Indian states by using mass media to promote condom use."
The result? A massive multimedia campaign that launched the surprisingly catchy "Condom A Cappella" ringtone this month. Downloaded more than 60,000 times in the last two weeks, it appears to be a hit in its Indian target market, where 2.5 million people are estimated to be living with HIV.
Here's the Indian TV ad that promotes the ringtone. Read more about the three-phase initiative here. Would you put it on your phone?