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From Chronicle Staff Writer Susan Slusser at the Coliseum
The A's have dealt away two first-round picks – top prospect Addison Russell, a heralded shortstop, and outfielder Billy McKinney, as well as the best starter at Triple-A Sacramento, former Oakland rotation member Dan Straily, for Cubs starters Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel. The deal was first reported by Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal, I've confirmed the deals independently and I'm adding this: The A's also will send a player to be named or cash to complete the deal.
Hammel, 31, is a free agent after this season; Samarzdija, 29, is after next. Samarzdija is 10th in the NL in ERA right now, at 2.93, and Hammel has a 2.98 ERA.
There is nothing subtle about this: The A's are absolutely going for it this year, after back-to-back trips to the Division Series that ended there. In the Billy Beane era, the club has been to the postseason seven times and advanced to the ALCS just once.
The interesting thing now is: What happens to the Oakland rotation? Brad Mills, a stopgap – and a good one, as it turned out – for Drew Pomeranz, obviously is out of the rotation now.
Tommy Milone, today's starter, likely is too, but wait a second: He's 6-0 with a 2.62 ERA in his past 11 starts. So is that an automatic? He pitched six scoreless today." Thanks, Tommy! See ya later!" I'm not so sure about that.
Jesse Chavez has been tremendous most of the season, but he's allowed nine runs his past two outings. Tough to see him coming out of the rotation, though, too.
This is not necessarily easy, nor will it be fair. And what happens to Pomeranz when healthy? He's had one bad outing all year, and he could be heading out on a rehab assignment soon. Breaking his hand on a chair in a fit of anger definitely put him in the doghouse, though. The A's lose Straily, who had been their top option at Triple-A Sacramento if needed, but with this move, they'd have (probably) Milone, Pomeranz and possibly Mills (if he clears waivers) and Jeff Francis (ditto) available there. That's a major difference in depth.
Or Oakland might opt to deal one of those starters who now come out of the rotation for a second-base upgrade, because that is next on the A's World-Series-or-bust shopping list.
Another question to ponder: What do the A's do at shortstop next year? They have….nothing. At least nothing guaranteed. Jed Lowrie is a free agent. Andy Parrino, a good fielder, has not hit at the big-league level, nor a whole lot in the minors. Jake Elmore is more of a utility player. Decent all-around shortstops cost a ton on the free-agent market. Perhaps if the A's have the success they envision as a result of this deal, they will have more money to spend on a top shortstop, though.
Maybe this points toward an extension for Lowrie, and this wouldn't be a bad time to do it: His offensive numbers have dipped this year (while his defensive metrics have gone up a ton) and the A's have the best record in baseball. A decent offer seems as if it might make sense for both sides.
The A's do like minor-league shortstop Daniel Robertson, but he's probably 2-3 years away. He's at Class-A Stockton, where he is batting .297.
Russell, 20, had been considered the A's shortstop of the future, potentially as soon as next season, but a hamstring injury set him back for several months this year and he was still at Double-A Midland, making the big leagues next spring a stretch. He was batting .333 in 18 games. McKinney, 19, was batting ,241 with 10 homers and 33 RBIs at Stockton. Straily, 25, was 4-3 with a 4.71 ERA at Sacramento, and he went 1-2 with a 4,93 ERA for the A's in April.


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Kacey Jordan on Charlie Sheen Intercourse: An Okay "Ordeal"by Hilton Hater at . Updated at . Comments
Forget being a Two and a Half Men man. Kacey Jordan now makes it clear: Charlie Sheen is a two and a half minute man!
For the second time in a few days, the busty porn star has opened up about her night of drugs and sex with the supposedly rehabbing sitcom star.
"It was okay," Jordan told E! News. "It didn't last very long... Because he was so f-cked up."
Saying Sheen made numerous "excuses" for his performance, Jordan described the intercourse as "a three-minute ordeal."
"After sex we just sat in bed and he held on to me," she added. "He was sloppy but still functioning, [he] wouldn't stop kissing my feet. He promised me he'd get me a Bentley."
Instead, she had to settle for a $30,000 check.

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
O + R (rafael ORTIZ MARTINEZ de CARNERO, architect, and fernando ORTIZ MARTINEZ de CARNERO, biologist): COLONIES is a biological installation project that proposes a DIRECT ENCOUNTER between human beings and microorganisms within an exhibition setting. In which the visitors can experience the sensation of being part of an organism that is both alive and evolving.
Encounters of this type are usually conceived in a negative way, but is itself a DAILY ENCOUNTER. The microorganisms are part of our lives daily inhabiting the air and surfaces around us. In this way, the installation aims to create a desire to explore the unknown. Microorganisms are infinitely small compared with human beings and generate processes of evolution and development barely imaginable in our time scale.
This SUPERORGANISM is composed of Colonies of microscopic ecosystems placed on columns arranged at different heights. Each column is the structure and skin of an ecosystem that is alive and evolves. In this way what is ORGANIC become part of the SPACE, occupying it.
The use of microorganisms and their inherent mechanisms in a spatial context initially lead us to create specific control-systems for the growth and evolution of each colony. Moreover, the interest is also generated in the opposite direction, the emergence of uncontrolled processes and the logic of organization without a previous planning system.
The experiments produced during the process generate development and evolution guidelines for the colonies, but each column is an ecosystem itself, that grows spontaneously establishing specific diversity and promoting the emergence of different microscopic societies that have a common basis. Thus we observe that a generic system with the same composition evolves very differently depending on environmental conditions.
sP: What or who influenced this project?
O + R: Theory of symbiotic relationships driving evolution by Lynn Margulis finding out symbiotic relationships between species in an continuous evolution. Akira, the movie by Ōtomo Katsuhiro, and the idea of uncontrolled multiplicity and evolution of hybrid natures between natural, artificial and metaphysical systems. Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical concept of Rhizome in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, and the idea of multiplicity without unity.
sP: What were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?
O + R: Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Leucocyte Album 2008, specially Leucocyte I: Ab Initio and Leucocyte IV: Ad Infinitum—we were very influenced by their music's atmospheres. The following books: Subnatures: Architecture's Other Environments, by David Glissen, the Sanford Kwinter essay "Wildness in the New Urbanism" from the book Far From Equilibrium. Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable and The Super-Organism by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson.
sP: Whose work is currently on your radar?
O + R: Always a lot of people, basically we are interested in all the expressions of art, cinema, dance, theater, music, literature and architecture that try to generate alive and uncontrolled systems. But lately interested on Sachiko Kodama, "Breathing Chaos" installation works, Bill Viola " Tempest " and " Ocean without a shore " video – installations; and Francis Bitonti Studio "Combustion Pavilion" project.
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Every Saturday, it's Monster Likes time! Well, every Saturday except last Saturday. It's the first Saturday I've skipped this year! Last Saturday I was at Evo learning about SEO and trying not to die. If you missed those posts, you can check them out 😉
Anyways, it's time for Monster Likes! I list my favorite selection of posts I found throughout bloggy land over the past week.
If one of your posts is listed below and you want the badge, just shoot me an email or leave me a comment and I'll send you the badge to put on your post!
And now on to the good stuff….
I love this idea over at Modern Day Moms for pudding paint…yep, finger paints you can make using pudding! But the best part of this post was the gift idea…go check it out!
Gigi aka Kludgy Mom had a great tutorial on Word Press plugin that allows you to tweet an old post…good stuff!
You know those posts that take your breath away? Tonya over at Letters For Lucas blew me away with her incredibly beautiful writing.
Naomi (Organic Mom With a Side of Cool Whip) wrote a hilarious post over at Aiming Low about thongs. Not tongs, thongs. It's hilarious…run over and read it now!
Ever wonder if affiliate programs are a bust? Me too. Because I've never made a cent…but Melissa over at momcomm wrote a post about how to make money doing it…and guess what? I was doing it WRONG!
How good is your parenting knowledge? Take a quiz over at Veri.com to find out! The questions are addicting (thanks @HikingMomBrooke for introducing me to this quiz!)
Did you see Twitter blow up last week about the Evo conference and Aveda? Aveda "took a stance" that they do not and will never pay bloggers. Well, not exactly. If you want to know what happened in a fair, honest assessment read Making money blogging: When and how should bloggers be compensated? It is absolutely the best post I've seen written about this so far. And make sure to read the comments as well!
And a reminder that my friend Jessica at Four Plus an Angel is hosting a meme that you MUST check out if your kids ever make messes. If they don't than you probably won't be interested (which means every single one of you should check this out!). I'm one of the judges for this contest, and believe me, I qualify because of this and this.
Still trying to Lose The Baby Weight? My friend Amelia over at Eating Made Easy can help you get rid of it! Here she is to tell you more about the program!
Having a baby is a beautiful thing. But you know what else is beautiful? Fitting back into your pre-pregnancy pants! I'm not there yet, but I'm ready to put in some effort to get there.
If you're like me — namely, anxious to get back into some healthy habits but haven't yet had the time or energy to do so — Now's your chance! Beginning July 11th, Eating Made Easy will be offering an online course for new moms who are ready to lose their baby weight without having to deprive themselves or go on some crazy diet. Participants in the program, which is run by a nutritionist who also just had a baby, will get…
- Weekly online classes that give you the nutrition knowledge and tools to lose weight for good
- Specialized healthy recipes & meal plans
- Shopping lists and product suggestions
- Weight loss tips specific to moms with busy schedules
- A forum where you can connect and share with other moms
- Free products from cool mom & baby companies
- Unlimited access via email to a nutritionist for your individual questions and concerns
The program, which begins this Monday (July 11th) is just $49 for 7 weeks. Don't miss this chance to jump start your healthy habits in a supportive environment for such a great price!
Yes it already started, but I told her I would help spread the word and I was so busy with Evo last week and trying to get caught back up this week that I didn't get this info to you…but no worries, it's not to late to sign-up! Head over and check out the program!


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Below is a list of the M/M book reviews currently available from Creative Ink Romance Reviews, enjoy!
Historical Romance Book Reviews
A-Hunting We Will Go by Kate Roman
A Private Gentleman by Heidi Cullinan
The Broken by Stella Notecor
Brook Street Fortune Hunter by Ava March
Brook Street: Rogues by Ava March
Convincing Leopold by Ava March
Engaging Affairs by Jesse Tjaden
The Gentleman and the Rogue by Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon
Kindred Hearts by Rowan Speedwell
Less Than All by Lee Brazil
Modern Romance Book Reviews
Adore by Ann Mayburn
Again by Mary Calmes
Allspice: Recipe for Love by Sean Michael
All Stirred Up by Z.A. Maxfield
All Wheel Drive by Z.A. Maxfield
A Knitter in His Habitat by Amy Lane
A Present for Daddy by J.M. Snyder
A Taste of Chocolate by A. E. Reynolds
Artistic Pursuits by Andrew Grey
Back to Normal by Wren Boudreau
Blueberry Boys by Vanessa North
Born to Please by G.A. Hauser
Broken Colour by Carol Lynne
Broken Wings by Bethany Brown and Ashlyn Kane
Chase in Shadow by Amy Lane
Clear Water by Amy Lane
Country Mouse by Amy Lane and Aleksandr Voinov
Crankset by Kate Roman
Daddio by Mickie B Ashling
Falling for Rain by Susan Laine
Fire and Rain by DV Patton
Flawed Boys by Martin Delacroix
Get What You Need by Janey Chapel
Great Restorations by Libby Drew
High Flow by Stephani Hecht
His Convenient Husband by Robin Covington
His Father's Advice by Don Schecter
If I Was Your Man by Remy Duchene
Jesse's Christmas by RJ Scott
A Journey of the Heart by Rick R. Reed
John's Match by Viki Lyn
Krewe Daddy by Margie Church
Learning to Walk by Drew Zachary
Living Promises by Amy Lane
Locker Room by Amy Lane
Loving Lydia by Berengaria Brown
Mad Dogs and Englishmen by Kate Roman
Matters of Courtship by C.M. Jackson
Nanny Dearest by Shawn Bailey
Papi by JP Barnaby
Priceless by MA Church
Return to Me by James Oliver French
Revenge is a Dish by Stevie Woods
Second Hand by Heidi Cullinan and Marie Sexton
Second Thoughts by Terry O'Reilly
Seven Days by Andrew Grey
Soul Mate by Shawn Bailey
Stirring Up Trouble by Z.A. Maxfield
Surprise Sleep Over by Sara York
Talker by Amy Lane
Talker's Graduation by Amy Lane
Talker's Redemption by Amy Lane
Taste by Mickie B. Ashling
Too Hot to Handle by L.C. Dean
Willow by Lee Brazil
Working It Out by Sara York
Mystery Romance Book Reviews
Cut and Run by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux
Cut and Run: Armed and Dangerous by Abigail Roux
Cut and Run: Fish and Chips by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux
Cut and Run: Divide and Conquer by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux
Cut and Run: Stars and Stripes by Abigail Roux
Cut and Run: Sticks and Stones by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux
Paranormal Romance Book Reviews
A Tryst of Fate by H. C. Brown
Blood Howl by Robin Saxon and Alex Kidwell
Cinder by Marie Sexton
Crate Trained by Julia Talbot
Devotion by Blak Rayne
Feral Lust by Mia Watts
For the Bite of It by Viki Lyn and Vina Grey
The Gallows Tree by RJ Scott
Going Under by Lisa Worrall
Good Bones by Kim Fielding
Gregory's Rebellion by Lavinia Lewis
Haunting of St Xavier by Carol Lynne and T.A. Chase
Horny, Hard and Hare-y by Mia Watts
Incomparable by Julia Talbot
King's Conquest by Valentina Heart
Long, Lonely Howl by Lyn Gala
Justice's Little Nibbler by Stephani Hecht
Nate's Deputy by Lavinia Lewis
One Bratty Omega by Stephani Hecht
Pete's Persuasion by Lavinia Lewis
Pint-Sized Protector by Charlie Richards
The Pirate's Game by Heidi Cullinan
Queerwolf by Rob Rosen
Secret Chemistry by Chris T. Kat
The Seventh Veil by Heidi Cullinan
Shifting Perspectives by Nerine Petros
Temple Boy by Heidi Cullinan
Undertow by J.M. Snyder
With Abandon by J. L. Langley
Wolf Moon by Vic Winter
SMBD Romance Book Reviews
Cleave by Mickie B. Ashling
Drawn: A Hammer Novel by Sean Michael
Lion Tamer: A Hammer Story by Sean Michael
Little Jamie: A Hammer Story by Sean Michael
Shibari Auction House: Alec by Sean Michael
Shibari Auction House: Ben by Sean Michael
Shibari Auction House: Jack by Sean Michael
Shibari Auction House: Leaf by Sean Michael
Solitary: A Hammer Novel by Sean Michael
Taking Inventory: A Hammer Club Novel by Sean Michael
Vessel by Mickie B. Ashling
Western Romance Book Reviews
Cowboys Down by Barbara Elsborg
Dusty Hat Bar by LJ Hamlin
Happy Trails by Carol Lynne
Reining Him In by Wade
Remember Me by Lynn Lorenz
Sunset Ridge by Carol Lynne
Texas Wedding (Texas series book 7) by RJ Scott


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We know many college students enjoy tea and find that brewing a cup stirs warm childhood memories, so it is our pleasure to present the Fine Tea and Herb Tea Gift Assortment as our September sweeps prize. It contains eight each of the following teas for a total of 64 individually wrapped tea bags:
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Have you ever dreamed what it would have been like to cruise on the legendary Titanic? Your dream may soon become a reality.
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has commissioned a 21st century "high tech" version of the Titanic that will set sail in 2016 named "Titanic II". The news comes after the 100 year anniversary of the Titanic's tragic sinking.
The new ship will be built by Chinese company CSC Jining Shipyard and will have all of the comforts of the 21st century while maintaining the ship's original appearance.
"It will be every bit as luxurious as the original Titanic, but … will have state-of-the-art 21st-century technology and the latest navigation and safety systems," Palmer released in a statement. He considers the project "a tribute to the spirit of the men and women who worked on the original Titanic."
This is not the first time investors have attempted to bring the Titanic back to life. According to Palmer, the reason other attempts to re-create the Titanic have failed was due to lack of funding. The billionaire assures this will not be an issue with a reported net worth of over $3 billion.
The replica ship will be owned by Blue Star Line PTY. Ltd, a tribute to the Titanic's owner White Star Line. The new ship will be diesel powered and feature the four trademark smoke stacks. New design implementations include replacing rivets with welds and making changes to the bow to improve fuel efficiency. When completed the Titanic II will have the same dimensions as the original as its predecessor with 840 rooms and nine deck.
Although the Titanic was the largest ship of its time, the new version will be comparatively much smaller than today's cruise ships.
"While the Titanic II would carry around 1,680 passengers, most modern cruise ships create economies of scale by catering for more than 2,000 passengers," reports the Associated Press.
A spokesman for Palmer announced that the cost of the ship is still unknown.
"A final budget hasn't been set and I don't think he'll reveal the price, to be honest," said the spokesman.
Palmer plans on having four luxury cruise ships flying the Blue Star Lines banner.


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When I sat down to this interview with Shana LaFore, I didn't know what she was going to ask or what I was going to say, and I must say I surprised myself. While those of you that are close to me, know that I've been thinking about leaving leaving teaching, it wasn't something that I had yet to make public, or even planned to.
I'd been reluctant to share that I'm considering leaving teaching for several reasons. The most important being that I didn't want my students to misunderstand. I love teaching and love my students, in fact, they're what makes this so hard , but as I mention in the interview, I've learned that the public system and my views and thoughts on education don't match. ( I'll be sharing more about education on a new site that I'm working on, so you'll have to wait a few more weeks to pick my brain on the topic. )
A few points that I want to make sure that you don't miss:
1. Missing book pages changed my life
2. Here's the link if you're interested in finding out more about the PA Guild of Craftsman
3. If you're thinking about doing a wholesale show, here's the link to Megan Auman's class Wholesale Academy.
4. Make sure that you are leaving space for YES in your life
5. Practice saying yes, and once you do, be sure to put things into perspective. The end result is usually not as scary as we make it out to be.
6. I don't want to tell a story of fear. In the comments, tell me what story your life is telling.
If you liked this interview , check out the whole Fascinate Summer Series.by


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A 2009 Pinnacle Award-winning project that paired HR professionals with more than 1,100 callers seeking job-hunting advice was so successful that the participating Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) chapters will return in a similar TV program March 3, 2010.
Seventy-five volunteers from two North Carolina SHRM chapters worked the phones feverishly during the seven-hour telethon, "Human Resources on Call," on June 23, 2009. It was broadcast on WRAL-TV 5, which reaches nearly 1.08 million households in the Raleigh-Durham area.
The program was a joint project of the Raleigh-Wake Human Resource Management Association (RWHRMA) and sister chapter Triangle Society for Human Resource Management (TSHRM), which had been looking for an initiative they could work on together.
It was patterned after a similar telethon, "Attorneys on Call," as a way for HR professionals to share their employment expertise at a time when unemployment was rising to its highest levels in 26 years. Callers were not being interviewed for jobs but getting guidance on topics like how to write a resume, negotiate a salary and COBRA.
"A lot of people are worried about losing their jobs," said TSHRM President Ronita Caldwell, SPHR, during a WRAL-TV interview that can be seen on YouTube. "If you haven't lost your job, that's constantly on your mind because you look at the economy and see what's happening. People who have lost their jobs, they're concerned about how can I find a job, what's out here, what do I need to do.So, it's a lot of worry, still."
Many displaced workers had no career transition support beyond what the state provided, and that was operating at maximum capacity, the chapters noted in their Pinnacle Award application to SHRM.
While caller demographics were not closely tracked, a majority of calls appeared to be from people who were casualties of the current economy, observed Caldwell, North America HR director at Underwriters Laboratories.
Job availability was the No. 1 question volunteers fielded, according to a post-telethon survey the chapters conducted with volunteers.
"Several of the callers had not been out of the job market for a while … so they didn't know which way to turn. They were just kind of dumbfounded; they just did not know what to do," she told SHRM Online.
The range of questions callers posed "blew my mind," Caldwell said, running the gamut from job hunt basics such as resumes to inquiries about specific companies in a particular field.
"We didn't know what to expect," said Kim Mills, PHR, RWHRMA chapter president. She is vice president, client services, for Right Management.
"I think we were all surprised at the immediate volume [of calls] that hit the phones from 12 to 12:45 p.m.," she said. Most calls came during a four-hour span, hitting a lull during a televised presidential address.
How It Worked
The program idea was the brain child of Paul Wasylkevych, SPHR, a member of RWHRMA and the North Carolina SHRM state council. RWHRMA and TSHRM pulled the program together in less than a month. In addition to helping job seekers, the program promoted the HR profession and SHRM, Caldwell noted.
Two co-chairs, representing each chapter, created a plan that included volunteer recruitment and training; developed orientation and reference materials for volunteers; and coordinated refreshments for volunteers for the day of the program.
WRAL provided the venue and phone banks and promoted the event with news stories and public service announcements on the radio.
The chapters used announcements at chapter meetings, e-mails and newsletters to solicit volunteers. Volunteers had to be active chapter members, had to be available to work a two- or three-hour telethon shift, and were required to attend at least one of four training sessions. Among the volunteers was Janice F. Sharp, SPHR, a past president of RWHRM. Sharp, vice president of HR at WRAL, died of cancer Dec. 19, 2009.
The telethon schedule consisted of three shifts with 20 volunteers per shift, with a few others available as backups.
"We didn't want people on the phone all day long," Mills said. "We tried to break it up so people weren't in such [an] intense mode" the entire time.
HR subject matter experts were scheduled for each shift. A lesson learned, Mills noted, was to have someone who can address employment questions from applicants who had been incarcerated.
The chapters created a printed guide for volunteers that included potential questions and answers, as well as employment resources they could share with callers. JobLink Career Centers, a North Carolina program offering employment and training services, provided subject matter experts. Right Management donated the cost of printing and binding copies of the guide volunteers used.
Orientation covered the resource guide, WRAL's expectations for the program, and appropriate behavior on live TV, including awareness of one's facial expressions while on camera.
"It was important that we understood how to conduct ourselves within [WRAL-TV's] world to support and enhance their brand at the same time promoting the brand for HR and being seen as the knowledgeable professionals that we are," the chapters noted in the Pinnacle Award application.
"You kind of forget you're on TV" as you focus on the call, Mills said.
The project didn't end when the camera lights shut down. Volunteers gathered for an after-event celebration with appetizers and drinks and an opportunity to talk about their experience.
As the two chapters plan for the 2010 program, they won't deviate much from their first telethon experience, Mills said.
Caldwell urged other chapters looking to replicate the project to partner with many different entities.
"We got JobLink involved, we got lots of folks who were experts in their field. When you think about career transition, it's not just about resume writing," she said. The availability of subject matter experts, including persons who could address questions about transitioning from military to civilian employment, was helpful, she said.
Kathy Gurchiek is associate editor for HR News.
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1992—the former East German city of Rostock is still coming to terms with the aftermath of the recent fall of the Berlin Wall. Youth unemployment is high, and migrant workers are housed in Soviet-era high-rises on the outskirts of the city. The Roma and a sizeable Vietnamese minority have become targets of the locals' discontent, which escalates into hostility and violence during the course of one day. [Synopsis courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival]
Deep in the Bavarian countryside Kleist's historical drama Michael Kohlhaas is being shot. But instead of shooting a huge epic with impressive costumes and extraordinary props, grown-up men in suits fight with imaginary weapons. What has happened? Young director Lehman is fighting for his film, although all funds have been canceled. He's convinced that the actor's play and the fantasy of the audience will be sufficient. He fights for his vision as much as Kleist's Kohlhaas fights for his rights. This film has to be finished. Whatever may come. Even if he has to go too far.


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Shark Tank 2013 - Season 4 Finale
Shark Tank season 4 extended final episode ended with high anticipations of season 5. Val Brennan came in asking for $200,000 in exchange for 10% of Three Day Rule - online matchmaking company. Val started Three Day Rule after having trouble on the dating scene because she was a lawyer working 16 hours/day, with no time for online dating. Three Day Rule claims to be different than other dating website because everyone must be invited or endorsed to get in, resulting in a quality pool of singles. Once applicants are accepted, there's a $100 per month membership fee, and they can take a quiz and then receive matches and can start communicating immediately. Val says that Three Day Rule seeks to fill their roster with members who are established and accomplished, both personally and professionally. This online matchmaking company actually grew from her profitable offline venture that charged members $1,000 for three dates and brought close to $100,000 in revenue last year. Despite the fact that this start-up has investor valuing at $4 million valuation, the Sharks aren't in.
Next up was Daniela Kelly, her 11 year old son Ryan, and their dog, Barkley, presenting Ryan's Barkery. Ryan is seeking $25,000 for a 25% stake in his fresh and all-natural dog treat company. After noticing the unnatural ingredients that make up most dog treats, Ryan and his mom were inspired to make treats that smell (and taste!) delicious for dogs. Thus, Ryan's Barkery was formed, and he specializes in pumpkin apple, banana oat, and low-fat cheddar treats. With a Shark's investment, Ryan hopes to start a website and begin fulfilling orders with the use of a commercial kitchen. Ryan currently works for the company by baking treats before school, and his only debt is the $200 his mom gave him to start the business. The Sharks all like Ryan's entrepreneurial spirit, however most of them want Ryan to continue to develop this business all on his own. Only Barbara is in $25,000 for 25% and the deal is done.
Last to present were Corey Ward and Trew Quackenbush founders of grilled cheese and tomato soup shop called Tom and Chee. Two friends were asking for $600,000 for 10% of their sandwich company. Tom and Chee has been successful thanks to a menu of over 20 unique and creative sandwich options, including one top seller made on a doughnut instead of bread. The business began humbly in 2009, with the first restaurant opening one year later. Soon after, a mall offered them an opportunity to open their second store, and their first franchise opened in Kentucky in 2012. Their 2012 annual sales were $1.5 million. Tom and Chee's franchise location did $100,000 in sales in one month in 2012, with 7.5% of that coming back to corporate. Always looking for her next great food deal, Barbara is first to make an offer of $300,000 for 15%, hoping for other Sharks to join her. Kevin and Robert each agree to put up $100,000 for 5%, leaving room for one more to jump in. Mark, however wants a deal just between him and Barbara at $300,000 for 15% apiece. Also Mr Cuban wants the exclusive rights to Texas. Mark and Barbara strike a deal with Tom and Chee.


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Biometrics for Banking & Financial Services
June 26-27, 2017 | New York, NY
Advanced technology and increasing mobility are ushering in a new era of banking and service delivery. Within the last year specifically financial institutions have integrated more biometric technology than ever to authenticate employees, customers, and streamline certain operations.
At the 2nd Biometrics for Banking & Financial Services Summit key leaders from the financial services industry will come together to share how to continue to develop and deliver a more integrated environments for consumers. Join us in America's financial capital this June!
Our world is more connected and mobile than ever with the benefits, and consequences, of widespread connectivity impacting every industry. As a result of the prevalence of technology and mobility in the modern world, the banking & financial services sectors have been presented a unique set of challenges and opportunities.
Future banking technology, specifically biometrics, has received a lot of attention in the last year. With growing security and privacy concerns for the financial sector, traditional PIN & password authentication are coming under significant scrutiny. More financial institutions are recognizing the value of biometric technology and are integrating biometrics to protect consumers, sensitive information, while also streamlining the banking experience for the customer.
Technological advancements have allowed for biometric technology to reach more consumers, with fingerprint scanning being widely used on mobile banking apps – but what about the contactless biometrics categories? What role will they play in future banking, and mobile strategy – and specifically for your company's technology roadmap?
These technologies will provide versatility, convenience and security to banks and consumers and at the Biometrics for Banking & Financial Services key leaders from the financial services industry will come together to share how to continue to develop and deliver a more integrated environments for consumers. Join us in America's financial capital to hear from early adopters, and industry innovators who will review the successful integration of biometrics, navigating the busy vendor landscape, as well as the security benefits to both your institution and the consumer.
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Tapasyalaya [Sanskrit] means "place of spiritual retreat for yoga and meditation". In its strict sense, the root "tapasya" refers to deep meditation and various austerities used by yogis for self-purification to achieve enlightenment and liberation. A solitary place, such as a meditation cave, is usually sought out for such an undisturbed, silent meditation retreat.
The Samadhi Hermitage Meditation Retreat Center, with two Meditation Caves located in mountainous foothills of New Mexico, provides opportunity for a spiritual retreat in the style of tapasya … not austere, but as a place of retreat for superb stillness, silence, solitude, yoga, meditation and refreshment of one's life … with undisturbed continuity, just like a monk, sadhu, Himalayan yogi, etc. Our third meditation cave, the Samadhi Hermitage Crystal Cave (India) is located in Ellora, India … a place of ancient Buddhist, Hindu & Jain caves carved into the volcanic hillside.
Fruit trees, grapes, garden beds, and cactus are interspersed with areas for sitting, walking, meditation & yoga...all to provide sanctity, serenity, natural beauty, organic food, and mindfulness (the cactus). A flagstone yoga deck is tucked among the giant cactus outside the cave; and behind us, a beautiful secluded canyon for walks, sitting, and another unique meditation retreat.
Throughout history, sages, saints, and yogis have gone to the mountains, caves and deserts for their meditation/yoga retreat. The high-elevation deserts of northern New Mexico, surrounded by mountains, provides a superb climate (moderate in all seasons), clean air, stillness, beauty, and an incredible sense of personal expansion due to the expansive vistas. One truly expands as far as they can see.
to the South.
The Samadhi Meditation Cave is on the hillside, at right edge of photo; Samadhi Hermitage Long-term Meditation Cave, when under construction, is on the Hillside in middle of the picture. The garden contains grapevines (caged in against the birds); apricot and pear trees. Town of Madrid (and Santa Fe) are to the North. The glazed roof covers the greenhouse; the shingled roof is part of the main building.
In a Meditation Cave
we are within
the womb of the Earth Mother. When
we go outside for any reason, there can be a wonderful
sensation of newness, of
a visitor" to the external world; and, of how temporary is our
presence on this planet earth. Thus, dwelling in our inner self, as one
in a meditation cave, becomes a very
viable sensation when we step out of
the cave.
The Samadhi Hermitage Meditation Caves & Retreat Center is an oasis amongst the greater oasis of New Mexico.
Also, it is a nice taste of India, and the spiritual gifts India has provided and dwelled in for centuries.
Photos of various saints, & other holy people, are found throughout the Hermitage … looking at us!
Gazing in their eyes is a meditation and spiritual journey in itself!
Other services provided by the Hermitage:(a) counseling & support - health, diet, yoga, meditation, spiritual awareness, awakening, grieving, death, comparative theology, proper relating;
(b) distribution of various writings by the founder or other hermitage associates;
(c) residence quarters and basic needs for a teacher (Monk), who will also function as caretaker and manager of the hermitage;
(d) charitable assistance for individual, family and village uplift in India, Sri Lanka, and USA; and,
(e) any other chosen contributions to the spread of peace, health, spirituality & well-being in this world.
Previously known as "World Citizens for World Peace," the Hermitage was established in the Santa Fe area of New Mexico, in September, 1985, by the Founder and Monk, Ananda Baba (Francis Ananda Love), under the sponsorship of the World Citizens Foundation (San Francisco). In 1994, the Samadhi Hermitage was established as an independant 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
1985-1994, principal activities were the construction of all
creation of the fruit orchard, charitable services in India & Sri
counseling (mostly by telephone), and peace work through mailings of
and peace-oriented writings.
|Samadhi Hermitage, Madrid, New Mexico, USA
and Logistics
Meditation Cave
|Advaita Ananda Samadhi Ashram - Ellora, Maharastra, INDIA
|Advaita Ananda Samadhi Ashram
= now -- FOR SALE =
Ananda's Ashram and the
Samadhi Hermitage Crystal
Meditation Cave
|Construction Days - 2009-2014
Six years, on and off,
constructing our India Ashram.
Stone walls, construction folks, etc.
|Glimpses from the Past - 1994-2002
Collages and Stories of two Indian families.
Still we are with two children from each!
Jyoti & Sagar in Mishra family;
Sita & Sagar in Tambe family.
Hearts and Faces in Stone
India Ashram Stone masonry fun!
"Miles of Smiles"
Families & friends… in bliss!
| Samadhi
Hermitage - India Trust
We are officially non-profit in India.
|Shivani Puri
Kids and families
at her Ashram in Amar Kantak, headwaters of the Narmada Ganga.
The Roy Family, in West Bengal
A true Gandhian family totally dedicated to village service and uplift.
|Sita's Family
Sarubai Tambe Family Residence.
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$10-20/month is NOT a hardship for most of us; yet it can do wonders in 3rd world countries!
For assistance to poor folks in any 3rd world country, no amount is too small.
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For Valentine's this year, Dan gave me something I've hinted (except without the subtlety part) about wanting for ages: a few days away from home by myself with absolutely no responsibilities other than taking dictation from my muse. No one except myself to feed or clothe or deodorize. No interruptions. No need to operate on a normal or even a sane schedule. My own personal Tuscan writer's retreat.
I couldn't have arranged it any better than Dan did. He booked me a room in a tiny hillside town that I've visited before (i.e. – no pressure for me to sightsee) and loaded up a grocery bag with tea and chocolate and sandwich fixings and ramen "nudolini." I asked him about a thousand times if he was sure he and the girls would be fine, and he assured me a thousand times that not only were they going to be fine but that they were going to party it up and have company every day. (While the introvert is away…) The man has often outdone himself in the gift department, but this one left me particularly wobbly-kneed.
We kissed goodbye, and I drove off into the Monday morning sunshine last week dreaming of my return trip in three days' time, at which point I would have twenty or thirty—or hell, why not two hundred?—brand new single-spaced pages saved to my hard drive. The prospect of focusing and digging into my current writing projects felt like a giddy secret. I was so going to win at this thing.
If you have any experience reading stories, you'll know that that last sentence portends doom.
The champagne bubbles trailing across my imagination lasted until the moment I had finished unpacking my suitcase. I looked around my hotel room, realized with an awful kind of clarity that I would now be spending 84 hours in my own company, and began losing my mind. Truly, that's the best way I can describe what happened. My brainwaves began to scatter like so many spooked chipmunks. Thoughts dropped out of my head the minute I reached for them and began running up walls, scrabbling under doors, whirling themselves down drains, and tucking themselves into the impenetrable sheet folds at the foot of my bed.
I went to bed at 8:00 that night with exactly three sentences written, each one of which had required an unmedicated wisdom tooth extraction of the soul. My plan was to bid this day good riddance and get up at 4 the next morning with all of my brain cells back in their proper places and waves of inspiration lapping my fingers. I couldn't explain what had gone wrong so far, but I was sure it was nothing that a good night's sleep couldn't cure.
This may actually have been true.
I wouldn't know though. That night, I managed about two hours of total sleep, snatched in fifteen-minute increments while insomnia was on coffee break. I can only remember two other nights of my life dragging by so agonizingly, and both of them involved childbirth. This time, it wasn't my uterus taking me hostage but a mind that had turned as spastic as a volcano full of Pop Rocks. My 4 a.m. wakeup call came and went in a fog of despair that pleated itself as firmly as hotel sheets around the corners of my room.
By lunchtime the next day, I'd realized that this retreat wasn't going to be a "retreat" at all. Not if I stayed, that is. Every minute of that morning, I'd had to consciously beat back the impulse to give up, and not just to give up on the projects I was[n't] currently working on but to give up on writing altogether, on the idea of ever again sitting down in a quiet space with the intention of creating. Fears that I had never seen before came scuttling out of shadowed cortexes. Writing, the creative outlet I took up out of pure joie de vivre when I was five, was suddenly the most terrifying construct in the whole world, and I wanted nothing more than to drive home and pretend this getaway had never happened.
I couldn't have been more bewildered by how my writing retreat was going than if I'd gone to Disney World and promptly been bludgeoned comatose by Winnie the Pooh.
[For the sake of your sanity and mine, this is gonna be a two-parter. Stay tuned! Oh, and if you've ever experienced similar terror over something you love to do, feel free to share. Misery loves company, even in retrospect.]
[Ed: Part 2 here.]


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Bubble and Pearl Chain Bracelet
This bracelet is a great piece because it is a modern way to wear pearls. It is easy to wear on a regular basis, or it can easily be dressed up when worn with other pearl jewelry. Available with white pearls, peacock pearls, silver pearls, or pink pearls.
Sterling silver and freshwater pearls.
About 7.5" long.
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Connect middleware that implements csrf tokens backed by a level-session store. API-compatible with connect/csrf.
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Then to add the token to the locals for any specific request:
The middleware by default assumes that you are providing the token in a form or query parameter named
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Tourism Whitsundays
Natassia Wheeler,
"Bookeasy's feature rich products and always helpful support team are a must for any destination. Bookeasy's team of experts came onsite and provided both our staff and regional operators with intensive training and insights. In the 9 months since our organisation has seen an 81% increase in bookings revenue providing Tourism.
Whitsundays a foundation for continued success. Our destination website also benefits from Bookeasy's highly customisable booking engine, and we look forward to continuing our partnership in the years ahead!"
Kununurra Visitor Information Centre
Vivienne McEvoy - General Manager
"Kununurra Visitor Centre have had a relationship with Bookeasy for some 5 years and it is over the past 12 months that our relationship has grown stronger with the constant review of processes between both of our businesses.
Most recently we have replaced our Point of Sale System (POS) with the 'Retail' option available through Bookeasy, which has significantly reduced the costs to the Visitor Centre by way of staff wages and fees associated with the old POS system.
Through our relationship with Bookeasy, we were also fortunate enough to work with Impart Media for the update of our visitkununurra.com website, which was rolled out in November 2015. The assistance provided by the Impart Media team to the Visitor Centre not only provided us with a great new website, but they were also supportive with the ability to work within our extremely tight budget. The result of the new website has seen an increase in online bookings by some 139,000% (One Hundred and Thirty Nine Thousand percent)!
We would support anyone using the services of both Bookeasy and Impart media for projects and appreciate the guidance and professionalism in their dealings with Kununurra Visitor Centre".
Whitsundays a foundation for continued success. Our destination website also benefits from Bookeasy's highly customisable booking engine, and we look forward to continuing our partnership in the years ahead!"
Mandurah & Peel Tourism Organisation
Nadine Heinen - Marketing Manager
"Our new official tourism website for the Peel Region www.visitpeel.com.au was launched 02 Sep14.
The new website excels by offering a very modern design and quality content and ties perfectly in with the 'Anytime Adventures' brand and campaign. This website was created and developed at record speed within less than 2.5 months (!), right on time for the roll out of our fully integrated media campaign commencing at the end of September.
The conditions of the project have clearly not been easy considering the tight time schedule, the various stakeholder requirements and the fact that Impartmedia is based at the other end of Australia. But the project ran very smoothly.
I would like to thank you and your teams for your excellent work, your creativity, your ongoing support, reliability and professionalism. Please pass my thanks on to your teams.
We are very happy with the new website and look forward to an exciting summer"
WA Holiday Guide
Andrew Toulalan - Director
"At WA Holiday Guide, we've been using Bookeasy since 2006. Starting out small and working with only a couple of Visitor Centres in Western Australia we have utilised the Bookeasy platform to expand our partnerships to almost every Visitor Centre in Western Australia which is great seeing that most Visitor Centres in WA also use the Bookeasy platform.
This is really convenient as it allows us to co-operate with a large network across the state, all on the same system. We've also been able to utilise the development arm of Bookeasy, beDigital, to constantly upgrade our website and integration with Bookeasy. The result is a state of the art, market leading website that continues to perform.
Bookeasy has good flexibility which allows our business to flourish through their innovative affiliate system. We are able to channel all online reservations made on our website through to Visitor Centres instead of processing them in house or on an independent, separate system. This collaboration plugs us into a large support network that allows us to work together on reservations with Visitor Centres and for database support services. Bookeasy is easily one of the largest sources of tourism operator data in Australia and being able to shar ein and contribute to this large database is highly reqarding.
We keenly recommend Bookeasy to all Visitor Centres in Australia. We have firsthand experience that Visitor Centres using the Bookeasy system have more members and make more commission compared to those Centres going it alone. Being able to share listings from your local area also saves a lot of staff time in preparing and maintaining operator data. The Bookeasy system allows Visitor Centres to receive online bookings 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with the ability for a customer to pay themselves online."


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Marjorie Weaver: Film actress from the 1930's to the 1950s
Marjorie Weaver was an American film actress of the 1930s through the early 1950s. Weaver was born on March 2, 1913 in Crossville, Tennessee. She attended the University of Kentucky, and later the University of Indiana, with interests in music. Showing early signs of a musical talent, Weaver began to make use of her beauty and singing capabilities as she tried to find a place for herself in the entertainment business. Weaver found work as a model, band singer, and stage actress in the early 1930s, before appearring in her first film "Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round" (1934) in an uncredited role. Over the next couple years she would receive steady acting roles and began receiving credited roles in larger productions. She starred opposite Ricardo Cortez in the 1937 film "The Californian" and that same year she would appear opposite Tyrone Power in "Second Honeymoon".
Weaver would go on to star in over twenty five films the next few years with her most notable role in "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939), which also starred Henry Fonda and Alice Brady. Other films of note during that time include; "I'll Give a Million" (1938) with Warner Baxter, "Hold That Co-ed" (1938) opposite John Barrymore, "The Cisco Kid and the Lady" (1939) opposite Cesar Romero, the comedy "Sally, Irene and Mary" (1938) with Alice Faye and Joan Davis in which they played a trio of starry-eyed hopefuls, in a couple of The Ritz Brothers vehicles "Life Begins in College" (1937) and "Kentucky Moonshine" (1938), "Murder Among Friends" (1941) and "Man at Large" (1941).
In the early 1940s Weaver's roles began to be less consequential with many of them in "B' movies. She would co-star in two "Charlie Chan" and three "Michael Shayne" mysteries and in 1944 had a favorable role the serial "The Great Alaskan Mystery". In 1945, she starred opposite Robert Lowery in "Fashion Model", which would be her last role of any consequence. After a few minor roles in 1952, Weaver retired from acting.
Marjorie Weaver married businessman Don Briggs in 1943, with whom she would have a son and a daughter, Joel and Leigh. Weaver and her husband opened a business in Los Angeles, which they operated until retirement, at which time they moved to Austin, Texas. The couple remained married until her death in 1994.
Marjorie Weaver died of a heart attack on October 1, 1994, in Austin, Texas.


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Fiji Time: 12:59 PM on Wednesday 21 February
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Torika Tokalau
Thursday, May 01, 2014
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Black Sand Diva lead vocalist Cat Tunks, right, performs at a private function in Suva on Tuesday night. Picture: ATU RASEA
NEW ZEALAND band Black Sand Diva is anxious about its performance today given it does not know what to expect from the public at the International Jazz & Blues Festival.
However, according to lead vocalist Cat Tunks, this is what makes it more interesting and exciting.
"It's always good playing in front of a new audience that has never seen us before," Ms Tunks said.
"I don't know how the people will respond to us, I've no idea. But we call our music groove — a mix of jazz, blues, funk, rock and reggae. If you like reggae you will like us, we are probably the most reggae-leaning band out of all of them."
The group consists of Ms Tunks (also a songwriter), guitarist Damien Hauwai, Jason Orme on drums, bass player Aaron Coddel and Kiri Maree Kainamu Wheeler at the keyboard.
They have been together for five years and have produced two albums. The second album Chameleon was nominated for the Best RnB Soul album in last year's Waiata Maori Music Awards.
"We all met because we studied jazz at university but we don't really play jazz, we play reggae and funk and soul. Because we learnt jazz, there is a little bit of jazziness in between and that's what's so unique because a lot of the music is written by us, it's original music."
They will perform at the Royal Suva Yacht Club from 7.45pm to 8.30pm today.
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Snowflake @ Pavilion Kl Kuala Lumpur Reviews
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right amount of sweetness Jul 24, 2012
There is no better way than to conclude our sumptuous meal with a dessert at Snowflake Desserts. Snowflake Dessert is an authentic Taiwanese dessert popularized by a man who migrated to Malaysia.
It was Hayley's idea that we try this Taiwanese dessert. I agreed, provided this time she will allow; it should be "on us."
Immediately, a short joyride to the elevator took place. And before we knew it, we were at the 4th level of Pavilion Mall where the Snowflake Desserts is perching.
Snowflake Desserts may not found in a typical food service location where in you go inside a room or in a building. This one is just a "kiosk-type" café. In fact, it literally sits underneath a staircase. But don't snob the location! It is swanky and very "yuppie."
Second next thing was of course we placed our orders, and again based on Hayley's recommendations; we picked the Grass Jelly Series. There is a variety of series choice you can make. Since, I like taro, and coconut milk we opted those two for toppings. Hayley had the Green Tea Taro Balls or something...
Meanwhile, we occupied one of their small tables with four chairs, and for a while Hayley and I watched the young crews make our dessert. They were fast, so in a snap of a finger our names were called out, we picked up our tray by the counter, and voila, our desserts are right on our table! Wow, their servings are huge too! I am not exaggerating but, took me forever to finish my share!
Along with the grass jellies, taro chunk, and, of course, the coconut milk poured over, the combination and the taste were just perfect!
Only RM6.00 for an enormous bowl of a decadent dessert prepared with the right amount of sweetness, I would go to that place over and again! Pity, we don't have Snowflake here in the US!
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LeEdge Exfoliating Tool is a Modern Day Ancient Roman Device
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I recently had the opportunity to try a new exfoliating tool called LeEdge. It's a simple to use handheld tool that is designed after an ancient Roman device called the strigil.
The strigil was used to scrape dirt and sweat from the face and body of ancient Romans encouraging clean and healthy skin. First they applied oil to their skin and then scraped it off with the strigil; removing dirt and debris along with the oil. Strigils were often used in Roman baths and were crafted in different sizes to fit a variety of body parts.
The modern day strigil, the LeEdge, has been designed to beautifully promote softer and smoother skin. It has a stainless steel edge that removes dead skin cells and toxins leaving your skin clean, smooth, and vibrant.
The LeEdge tool has nice grips that keep it from slipping out of your hands while gliding it over the skin. It feels a little strange at first because it feels as though you're shaving your face. But after getting past the shaving analogy you quickly realize how it effectively scrapes away all of the unwanted dead skin cells and debris. After using the LeEdge my skin feels alive and smooth.
It's incredibly simple to use and doesn't require any batteries. Just hold the device at about a 45 degree angle and sweep it in an upward movement. You can use the LeEdge from head to toe and experience soft, smooth skin all over.
- Speeds up skin cell renewal
- Regular exfoliation promotes collagen production
- Sweeps away dead skin
- Helps your skin care products to penetrate more deeply and work more effectively
LeEdge is an Australian company that is fortunately expanding to the US giving us the chance to experience the benefits of their research. The LeEdge tool puts thorough exfoliation at your fingertips and makes it incredibly easy to get rid of those pesky dead skin cells.


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Health Promotion and Wellness
Health Promotion and Wellness (HPW) is an excellent resource for health care information and programs for Penn State students. Our goals include:
- increasing awareness and knowledge of health issues, such as sexual health, nutrition and fitness, wellness, alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, and body image and eating disorders
- promoting healthy lifestyle choices
- providing health education programs, information, and materials to students
- advocating for a healthy Penn State community.
The HPW staff includes experienced professionals and trained (student) peer educators. To request a workshop, please e-mail promotinghealthATpsu.edu. Please request programs at least weeks in advance of the workshop date.
Location and Hours
HPW is located in Room 201 on the second (entry) floor of the Student Health Center. The HPW Office is open during regular business hours, Monday through Friday. You may also call HPW at 814.863.0461 or contact them by e-mail.


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Federal Action Plan to Fight Prescription Drug Abuse Released
Johnson, Teddi Dineley, The Nation's Health
A NEW FEDERAL strategy to curb the nation's fastest-growing drug problem is taking aim at what might be lingering in the medicine cabinets of many Americans.
Responding to an alarming increase in prescription drug abuse, federal health officials in April rolled out the first national prescription drug abuse action plan. The initiative aims to reduce the death toll caused by the abuse and misuse of prescription drugs. In 2007, about 28,000 Americans--one every 19 minutes--died from unintentional drug overdoses driven primarily by prescription drug abuse.
"To put this tragedy in perspective, the number of people who have overdosed on prescription drugs now exceeds the number of people who have died as a result of gunshot wounds," said Gil Kerlikowske, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, at an April 19 news conference releasing the action plan.
Prescription drug overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in 17 states, surpassing even the death toll caused by car crashes in those states, Kerlikowske said.
Federal health officials hope the action plan, "Epidemic: Responding to America's Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis," will move them closer to a goal of reducing prescription drug abuse by 15 percent over the next five years. The plan provides a national framework for reducing prescription drug abuse by supporting state-based prescription drug monitoring programs, educating patients and recommending more convenient and environmentally responsible disposal methods to rid homes of unused medications. The plan also calls for educating the medical community about proper prescribing practices and reducing the prevalence of "pill mills," in which doctors or pharmacists prescribe or dispense powerful painkillers inappropriately.
"This alarming public health crisis is suffocating our society," said Assistant Secretary for Health Howard Koh, MD, MPH. …


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The Wendy's Co. releases its audited 2012 financial results tomorrow (2/28), which no doubt will rekindle debate over whether Wendy's or Burger King is the bigger brand in the U.S. and Canada. I believe Burger King again has the No. 2 position.
But I'm not convinced that it really lost that spot last year. Last year's "Wendy's Overtakes Burger King" media frenzy was based on assumptions that Burger King had 2011 sales of $8.4 billion, putting it slightly behind the $8.5 billion in sales for Wendy's. But now that it's publicly traded again, Burger King Worldwide's 2012 10-K report filed with the SEC shows that company restaurant revenues and franchisee sales in the U.S. and Canada in 2011 were actually $8.682 billion.
So did Wendy's overtake Burger King last year? Not if Wendy's actual sales were $8.5 billion, but it's difficult to say with certainty because Wendy's never breaks out its company/franchised North America sales. Perhaps the company will do so tomorrow if only to end the debate and debunk my estimate that it stands slightly behind Burger King still/again.
This year's numbers: In 2012, Burger King's U.S./Canada sales from 7,476 company and franchised stores totaled $8.937 billion according to the company's 10-K filing. Can Wendy's beat that? It's going to be close, but I don't think so.
At the end of 2012, Wendy's and its franchisees operated 6,186 restaurants in North America. The average unit sales volume (AUV) was $1.48 million. Multiply the number of stores by the AUV and you get $9.155 billion. So Wendy's wins?
Not so fast. As I learned during my years compiling Restaurants & Institutions magazine's annual "Top 400 Chains" ranking, it's not that clean and easy. Stores open and close; some may be smaller, nontraditional units. As proof, if you multiply Burger King's 7,476 stores by its $1.268 million AUV you get $9.48 billion, which we know is 6% above the actual total.
But I'm generously estimating that Wendy's actual sales were 96% of the (AUV X Stores) equation. I'm estimating Wendy's 2012 North America sales at $8.8 billion, which makes it the No. 3 domestic burger chain in North America once again. That seems a very parochial title, however.
Increasingly, the QSR business is a global enterprise, so true systemwide sales that include international are the real measure of brand power. Burger King's global sales in 2012 were $15.84 billion and Wendy's, with just 374 international units, isn't there yet. And neither is close to catching McDonald's Corp.'s global sales, which were $85.9 billion in 2011 and will pass the $90 billion mark for 2012 when results are announced next month.


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I had a pot bellied pig a number of years ago and it was the sweetest pet. I used to be living in Phoenix, AZ at the time and he or she would spend the hot summers sitting a kiddie pool. She was also greatest friends with my canine. They might sleep collectively. Thanks for the interesting hub.
I had a good friend, who needed to have the residence supervisor see all of his pets to resolve whether or not he may hold them in the residence or not because she wasn't positive what a few of them were. So hold this in mind before bringing an animal into your apartment to search out that it isn't allowed and you need to discover another residence. This really can stress out a pet.
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The Congress general secretary, who had been a known detractor of Arvind Kejriwal, also said that the Aam Aadmi Party's victory in the Delhi polls is good for electoral politics of democratic India. (Agencies) Latest News from India News Desk
"It strengthens the people's belief in democracy, which they were fast losing," he acknowledges. Singh strongly dismissed suggestions that the drubbing of Congress in Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh was some sort of a referendum against the leadership of Rahul Gandhi.
"No, there is no referendum because Rahul Gandhi was neither leading the elections nor fighting the elections. Rahul Gandhi's canvas is not Delhi state, his canvas is pan India. The point you raised is quite unrelated. These elections were fought on state issues not on national issues. It would be reading too much in these results," the AICC general secretary said.
Singh, who served as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister for two consecutive terms before the BJP came to power in 2003, feels early projection of a chief ministerial candidate could have made the results different for his party this time in "simplifying a very complex subject".
However, he agreed with Jyotiraditya Scindia that there is a need for "major reconstruction" in the party.
Singh, who along with many other party leaders, have been maintaining in the past that it is not in the tradition of the Congress party to declare its prime ministerial and chief ministerial candidate, now says such a move will benefit Congress.
The trigger is obviously party president Sonia Gandhi's statement on the day of the results that Congress will declare its prime ministerial candidate at an appropriate time, which was interpreted as the party is all set to name Rahul Gandhi for the coveted post.
The BJP has handed a severe 4-0 drubbing to Congress in Assembly polls, snatching Rajasthan and retaining Madhya Pradesh with landslide wins. It also held on to power in Chhattisgarh and is the single largest party in Delhi where AAP has made a dream debut.
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Such is human nature in both respects! Take for example two recent articles in the International Herald Tribune (on Wednesday and Thursday the 29th and 30th November respectively) in one of the world's leading, English language daily news papers about the reopening of Myanmar's constitutional convention on Tuesday 28th November. First of all why did both articles refer to the country as Burma., the former name given by the British colonial administration, instead of Myanmar the historic name of the country before the British came. To persist in doing this is basically an insult to the country. Is it because Aung San Suu Kyi refuse to call the country Myanmar and sticks stubbornly to the name Burma, and, in turn the international media, with its biased and obsessive focus on her and her activities, slavishly follows suit? This behavior is indeed curious, as many other countries when, or after, they achieved independence have renamed their countries and the rest of the world accepts such new names. This behavior is even more curious in that a simple poll of the average Myanmar citizen reveals that the overwhelming response is a preference for, and a national pride in, the traditional name Myanmar rather that the British name Burma. Maybe it is because Suu Kyi, having lived abroad for (28) years - most of her adult life doesn't really feel in her heart that she is a true Myanmar national. Alternatively, maybe it is both because the original BAMAR (changed by the British to Burma as it was easier for them to pronounce) people came from the Yangon to Mandalay region and also from the delta region and because Suu Kyi and her family are originally from the town of NATMAUK (between Yangon and Mandalay), she feels that she is a Burmese person rather than a Myanmar person. If this is correct or even partly correct, how can she claim that she represents the country of Myanmar which incorporates many different regions and so many different ethnic groups. Surely she must realize that the current government thinks of the Myanmar country as a whole and that one of its principle objectives is to develop a sense of national unity which is critical for the future, peaceful, social and economic development of Myanmar. Her continuing resistance in referring to the country as Burma (BAMAR) must cause other ethnic groups to question her true agenda for the future of the country as a whole. Or is her reaction possibly also a rather childish way of rejecting the current government because the previous government under Senior General Saw Maung (1988-92) renamed the country Myanmar. Again an attitude which is not exactly helpful in developing a sense both of fairness to all ethnic groups and of national unity. Returning to the two newspaper articles, the first 29th November article was very short and the only substantive point was that "Suu Kyi's party the National League for Democracy (NLD) attended the reopening of Burma's Constitutional Convention, a meeting she had threatened to boycott." No journalist name was mentioned. The second 30th November article was very negative about the current government. It was written by Phillip Shenon for the New York Times Service and reprinted in the International Herald Tribune. It is interesting to note that while he is no doubt a very competent journalist, he is also a very close friend of Michael Aris, the English husband of Suu Kyi! In his article he states that "the NLD would boycott the Convention." This is an example of the journalistic bias I referred to above. In fact the NLD actually attended the convention on Tuesday 28th November - it then walked out because they claimed that the opening speech by the National Convention Session Chairman Lt. Gen. Myo Nyunt was not to their linking - what an absurd pretext! Apart from this inaccurate and biased reporting what is more interesting to question is the NLD's motives in walking out of the Convention. It could be argued that from a strategic point of view, if the NLD had actually boycotted the Convention (i.e. without attending it at all) , this would have made them seem petty and unreasonable. So instead it is probable that they attended briefly knowing full well they would walk out using any pretext at all and thus get maximum international positive press coverage. What Suu Kyi and the NLD party don't seem to care about, because of their own self - interest agenda, is that their "game- playing" could lead to the international press becoming even more sensationalist, biased and hostile towards the current government. Much more importantly this will in turn negatively affect international investor's attitudes towards Myanmar and thus reduce the level of foreign funds being invested in Myanmar. What these naive and irresponsible people don't realize is that the current government under senior General Than Shwe has made remarkable strides since late 1992 in opening up the Myanmar economy to serious foreign investment. What they and the ordinary people of Myanmar also don't realize is that the international investment community which is practical, open and fair (quite different to the international press community) is becoming increasingly unsatisfied by both China's and Vietnam's lack of a proper legal system, the frequent breaking of signed contracts, the high level of corruption and the general confusion caused by all these factors plus the old communist ideologues fighting with the new business oriented ones. By contrast Myanmar with its resources and in particular, with the pleasant and highly, moral disposition of its people makes it a very attractive investment alternative to these other two countries. As a result of the current Myanmar governments strong and positive efforts and of the above dissatisfaction with some countries there is a clearly defined swing of widespread, international investment interest towards Myanmar. If the NLD party, which is hardly a cohesive one due to its squabbling factions each with its own different agenda, continues to behave in this irresponsible and selfish way, the victim of these actions will not be the current government. Instead, the victim will be the ordinary Myanmar citizen whose opportunity to gain better education, health care, better infrastructure services ( such as electricity, water, sewerage, roads and so on) and the chance over all to improve their lives, will be severely damaged if foreign governments do not offer aid and foreign investors do not invest. All because of their perceptions that the country might have more civil unrest or even civil disturbances due to the NLD's actions. It is therefore time that the ordinary Myanmar person (not just the Burmese people) took a more active interest in the other dark and selfish side of the NLD activities. 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In ads that ran about four years ago, Kellogg's marketed Frosted Mini-Wheats as being able to improve children's attentiveness, memory and other cognitive functions by 20 percent. Following a 2009 false advertising case brought against Kellogg's by the Federal Trade Commission, the brand changed its marketing message.
Kellogg's has set up a website where customers can claim a refund for boxes of Frosted Mini-Wheats purchased between Jan. 28, 2009 and Oct. 1, 2009.
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