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Before prescribing any medications — even lifesaving ones, such as those used to reduce blood pressure or prevent epileptic seizures — your health care professionals carefully weigh the benefits a drug offers against the possible risks of taking it, including its potential side effects. In most cases, the side effects are relatively slight: for example, drowsiness, an upset stomach, or minor aches. But in some individuals, particular drugs may produce side effects that are more troublesome.
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It's always a good idea to tell your health care providers about any side effects you may be experiencing as soon as you notice them. However, even though gum tissue overgrowth may be a worrisome issue, it doesn't mean you should stop taking your blood pressure medication! There are several options for controlling this condition, which should be discussed with all members of your medical team.
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We eat a lot of meat in this country; per person, more than almost anywhere else on Earth. (Here's a helpful map of global meat-eating.)
But why? What makes an American eat ten or twelve times more meat than the average person in Mozambique or Bangladesh?
Reason #1: Dollars and cents. Mark Rosegrant, an economist with the International Food Policy Research Institute, pulls out a graph that shows the typical trajectory of meat consumption, in country after country. "All countries eat more meat when their incomes grow and they have the economic wherewithal to eat more meat," he says. The pattern is so consistent, economists now treat it almost like a law of human behavior. "It seems to be a preference that's built in to people," says Rosegrant.
So, Americans eat meat because they can afford it. But if you take a closer look at the figures, you'll notice that Americans eat more meat than people in other rich countries, too.
Yet this difference may also be due in part to economic factors. Meat is relatively cheap in the U.S., compared to Japan or many countries in Europe.
Jayson Lusk, a professor of economics at Oklahoma State University, got a taste of this reality last year when he lived in Paris. "We literally spent twice as much each month on food, and it wasn't because we were living high on the hog, if you pardon the pun," he says. "It was really because things were just much more expensive, meat included."
Lusk says that simple economics also helps to explain some other trends in American meat consumption that appear, at first, quite puzzling.
For instance, American appetite for beef hit a peak in 1976, and has been plummeting ever since. It's now down by one-third. Instead, the average American is eating twice as much chicken. You can see the shifting trends here (scroll down to the bottom of the page).
Health warnings about the dangers of eating too much red meat played a role in beef's decline. But the main reason for chicken's rise, says Lusk, is simply the fact that it got a lot cheaper. Entrepreneurs like Frank Perdue, in Maryland, and Don Tyson, in Arkansas, turned raising these birds into an industry, and their industrial operations brought down the price.
So that's the economic explanation for America's meat-eating ways. But it's not the full story, says historian Roger Horowitz, at the Hagley Museum and Library in Greenville, Delaware. Horowitz, who is the author of Putting Meat OnThe American Table, says you have to go back a little further to understand why meat is so central to American life, and why this country has led the world in the innovations that made meat affordable.
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Almost two centuries ago, he says, meat was one reason why immigrants found America so amazing. "When the Irish come in the 1840s, they write letters back saying 'I eat meat every day,'" Horowitz says. "And they get letters back saying, 'You must be kidding. It can't be true.'"
Back in Europe, says Horowitz, the growing of livestock was often organized and regulated in a way that funneled meat straight to the wealthy or the landed aristocracy. In the new world, though, meat was much easier to find. Grazing lands were close to cities; sometimes right inside cities. Farmers quickly realized that raising animals was a good business. Cities set up markets for them. "And the result is a flourishing of the livestock industry, very early in American history."
As a result, when new technology came along, like railroads and refrigeration, American entrepreneurs were able to jump right in and use it to turn beef into a centralized, national industry.
"Why could they sell chilled beef in New York in the 1880s? Because New Yorkers had been getting beef in their markets and butcher shops for at least a hundred years. So we have this new meat coming in? It's a little cheaper, let's give it a try!" Horowitz says.
That's been the story ever since: Technological innovation, more efficient meat production, and Americans kept saying — "Hey, it's a little cheaper, let's give it a try!"
Now, though, there's a sense that things may be changing.
Each year, for the last four years, Americans have been eating less meat per person.
There's no consensus on why.
Economist Jayson Lusk believes that it's due mostly to the recession and high food prices. Ground beef is 30 percent more expensive today than it was just two years ago. "If something increases in price by 30 percent, we'd certainly expect consumers to buy a whole lot less of it," he says.
Yet there's also some evidence that tastes are actually changing. In a new poll conducted by NPR and Truven Health Analytics, just out this week, 39 percent of the respondents say they're eating less meat than they did three years ago — and the main reason, they say, is a desire to eat heathier food. (Check out The Salt tomorrow for more on the survey.)
In another historical shift, rich Americans no longer eat more meat than poor Americans. They do still eat more expensive meat, just as they always have.
"If you're a wealthy person in New York in the 1880s, you would not put barrelled pork on the table when guests came over. You put a roast on the table, or you'd be humiliated," Horowitz says. "That's not different from people in New York today, if you have guests over, maybe you get your lamb from Niman Ranch. It's grass-fed, humanely slaughtered, and you pay 70 dollars a pound for it."
What hasn't changed at all, he says, is the significance of meat. If it's a special occasion in America, there's meat on the table.
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We all realize that the best time to sell anything is when demand for that item is high, and the supply of that item is limited. Two major reports released by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) revealed information that suggests that now is a great time to sell your house.
Let's look at the data covered in the latest REALTORS® Confidence Index and Existing Home Sales Report.
Every month, NAR surveys "over 50,000 real estate practitioners about their expectations for home sales, prices and market conditions." This month, the index showed (again) that homebuying demand continued to outpace the supply of homes available in January.
The map below illustrates buyer demand broken down by state (the darker your state, the stronger demand there is).
In addition to revealing high demand, the index also shows that compared to conditions in the same month last year, seller traffic conditions were 'weak' in 22 states, 'stable' in 25 states, and 'strong' in only 4 states (Alaska, Nevada, North Dakota & Utah).
Takeaway: Demand for housing continues to be strong but supply is struggling to keep up, and this trend is likely to continue throughout 2018.
The most important data revealed in the report was not sales but was instead the inventory of homes for sale (supply). The report explained:
- Total housing inventory rose 4.1% from December to 1.52 million homes available for sale.
- Unsold inventory is 9.5% lower than a year ago, marking the 32nd consecutive month with year-over-year declines.
- This represents a 3.4-month supply at the current sales pace.
According to Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist at NAR:
"Another month of solid price gains underlines this ongoing trend of strong demand and weak supply. The underproduction of single-family homes over the last decade has played a predominant role in the current inventory crisis that is weighing on affordability."
In real estate, there is a guideline that often applies; when there is less than a 6-month supply of inventory available, we are in a seller's market and we will see appreciation. Between 6-7 months is a neutral market, where prices will increase at the rate of inflation. More than a 7-month supply means we are in a buyer's market and should expect depreciation in home values.
As we mentioned before, there is currently a 3.4-month supply, and houses are going under contract fast. The Existing Home Sales Report shows that 43% of properties were on the market for less than a month when sold.
In January, properties sold nationally were typically on the market for 42 days. As Yun notes, this will continue unless more listings come to the market.
"While the good news is that Realtors in most areas are saying buyer traffic is even stronger than the beginning of last year, sales failed to follow course and far lagged last January's pace. It's very clear that too many markets right now are becoming less affordable and desperately need more new listings to calm the speedy price growth."
Takeaway: Inventory of homes for sale is still well below the 6-month supply needed for a normal market and supply will 'fail to catch up with demand' if a 'sizable' supply does not enter the market.
Bottom Line
If you are going to sell, now may be the time to take advantage of the ready, willing, and able buyers that are still out searching for your house.


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The Day the Cow Sneezed, written and illustrated by James Flora, 1957. Click to view larger.
Several years ago I was standing in my friendly neighborhood music/comic book store, Criminal Records, thumbing through one of those books on SHAG. Near the beginning there was an article written by SHAG himself that served as an introduction to the man, the myth, the legend. He talked about how he developed his style and listed some of his influences. One, of course, was Jim Flora. In the corner of one page was an image from a children's book in pink, blue and black with wild and crazy stylized characters. "Whoa!" I thought, "what the heck is that?" At the time, I was just starting to learn about this eclectic old-school illustrator. I looked closer at the image. The title "The Day the Cow Sneezed," appeared below and I made a strong mental note to remember this moment, this book.
As many of you know, I'm a big Jim Flora fan. I've mentioned him on The Ward-O-Matic (here and here) as well as on Drawn (here and here). To say that I've been influenced by Flora would be an understatement. Even though my style might not be exactly like his, there are many elements of his work from which I've taken cues. His linework, cut-out paper shapes, wacked-out characters, and brilliant use of color speak to me in so many ways that I end up speechless. He was a true artistic genius.
Inside cover. The image is repeated in the front and back.
Fast forward several years to 2005 when I did an eBay search for "cow sneezed." I wasn't expecting anything to come up because this had always been the case. The book was out-of-print and extremely rare. There was little information about it online. The book had become my "white whale" and I had accepted my fate—The Day the Cow Sneezed would never be in my possession. Whenever the book was up for bid, the price would always exceed what I was willing to pay. Until one day—it was listed as a former library book and there was no image provided, making this a bit suspicious (plus former library books are notorious for wear and tear). But by this point, I was willing to take anything that was remotely associated with this book. I ended up paying a mere $16! When the book arrived, I was surprised to find it was in decent condition. It had some unsightly library stickers on the cover, but the inside was tear- and scribble-free! I was ecstatic.
About the book: The Day the Cow Sneezed was first published in 1957, and was Flora's second children's book (his first being The Fabulous Firework Family in 1955). Working in the children's book format was a change for him. Most of his career had been devoted to illustrating album covers for RCA Victor and Columbia, as well as a burgeoning freelance business providing spot illos for magazines. Flora had children at this point, and had hand-painted some rudimentary kiddie books, but he had not seriously pursued publication. Margaret McElderry, one of the top editors of children's books at the time, liked what she saw in Flora's portfolio, and asked him if he could write a book for her. This proved to be a challenge for the mostly visual guy. In the "Something About the Author Autobiography Series," published by the Gale Group (some of which is featured in The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora), Jim reminisces:
"I found it very difficult at first to write a book because I had been trained to see an idea, not write about it. Facing a blank sheet of paper and writing a story was something I found I could not do. So I devised a new way to write my story. During the day I would think about the book. I would see it in pictures in my head. At night, as I lay waiting for sleep, I would run the story through my head like an animated cartoon one sees in theaters and on television. When finally the complete story was arranged in my head I drew a seres of pictures of what I saw there. In films they call this 'making a storyboard.' With this storyboard at hand all I had to do was describe what was taking place in the drawings. That's how I wrote my first book and all of the sixteen others that followed." -- James Flora, 1988.
After The Fabulous Firework Family was published it received great reviews, prompting Flora to think about the next one. "In my new role as author I thought it best to write another book just to prove that the first one was not an accident."
Back cover detail.
About the story: "I try not to overload my stories with moral lessons or messages but I did in [The Day the Cow Sneezed]. I wanted to show what could happen when you are careless in your work and do not attend to your duties as well as you should." The story concerns a boy, Fletcher, who leaves his cow, Floss, standing too long in the cold water while stopping for a drink. The cow sneezes in the barn, sparking a chain of events that disrupts the entire town. The moral, Flora says, is that "a teeny-weeny error can grow into a whopping big mistake almost before you can say KA-CHOW!" It is a light-hearted story, told in a straight-forward way, but illustrated in typical Flora fashion—with pizzazz, humor and spunk. The black & white spreads are just as appealing as the color spreads, in my opinion.
When I first considered this post, I contacted Flora's biographer, Irwin Chusid, to request assistance. What he sent far exceeded my expectations—scans of original mock-up spreads for The Day the Cow Sneezed! I was floored. I love works-in-progress, especially conceptual and early versions of books as well as animation penciltests, so you can imagine how excited I was. In fact, this is the first time these mock-ups have been publically shown.
The mock-ups shown before each accompanying two-page spread are test runs for the artist and printer to make sure that the pages and copy (text) are properly coordinated. Notice that there are a few notations written in (what I'm assuming is) Flora's handwriting. For this late stage of the process, it's important to work with the publisher and printer so that everyone is on the same page (no pun intended) and that there are no mistakes, mess-ups, or misunderstandings with the final printed product.
After comparing the mock-ups to the final versions, I noticed that most of the spreads remained the same, including brush strokes, color choices, and character shapes. However, there were a few alterations that are worth noting.
Be sure to click on each image to view it larger:
Pages 10-11
Notice the overall layout of the barn with the house off in the distance. Flora had a knack for showing action and here, we see nice key poses for the cow, cat, and mouse in the barn. The only major change Flora made here was the pose for the cat. In the mock-up, we see the cat's profile, but in the final version we see the cat's entire face.
Pages 14-15
The Day the Cow Sneezed is printed with four color overlays: black, blue, pink, and a rusty red. In the mock-up for pages 14-15, I noticed that a 5th color—purple—was included in the layout. By the time Flora created the final version, all the purple had been changed to blue. Makes me wonder if purple was originally intended for the entire book, but had to be simplified because of printing and/or money reasons.
Pages 16-17
Throughout the book there are several black & white spreads. This was a practice that was typical of the time, mostly to cut back on printing costs. I've always wondered if the originals for these pages were done in color but photographed in black & white for the final print version, but seeing the mock-up for this spead answers that question: they were painted in black & white. And in this particular one, we see the most drastic changes made from mock-up to final. On the left page (page 16), the policeman dominates the page, dwarfing the mayor and the few buildings in the background. Page 17 remains intact. So, why the changes? A pencilled-in note at the bottom of page 17 tells us why: "Make policeman smaller + less fearsome." By reducing his size, along with adding a crying child that he attends to, Flora gives the police officer a more likable presence. It's also worth noting that by shrinking the policeman, Flora was able to add buildings in the background, allowing for a cohesion to the town square that was not present in the mock-up. Our eyes now flow easily from the left to right, as we follow the path of destruction caused by the rampant steamroller. (My favorite Flora touch: the two children in the schoolhouse have big grins on their faces, obviously delighted by all the commotion going on.)
Pages 24-25
Another obvious change from mock-up to final version is here on pages 24-25. We see in the mock-up that this spread was originally meant to be in color, but was changed to black & white. There's no mention why, just a simple "No color overlays," written in pencil on the mock-up. It's a shame, really. Some wonderful things going on with the color here. I particularly love the way that the alligator was originally rendered in pure black with a simple white line for his scales.
Page 26
I don't have a mock-up for this page, but I wanted to show it anyway because I can't get enough of all the twisted and contorted animals. Love the octopus.
Pages 34-35
As the story continues, the steamroller crashes into a Ferris wheel and carries with it a large assortment of animals along with Fletcher, the boy. Fireworks erupt from a truck that gets caught in the melee and suddenly the scene comes alive with explosions and color. It's a great Flora moment as he reverses the sky color to black, allowing the brilliance of the pink, red and blue to explode off each other and the page. Almost all of this scene remains intact from the early version (notice that Flora even kept the same brush strokes and shapes for all the fireworks), but two interesting things to note: 1) the first chicken on the left is missing its color; 2) there are some black pencil details missing from the cow and pig. I think that the chicken mistake was indeed that—a mistake, or an oversight. At one point I thought that maybe Flora intentionally cut back on the cow and pig details, but now, I think that that was also a mistake.
Pages 38-39
As the rolling Ferris wheel of fireworks and animals continues on its trek, the layout for pages 38-39 remain virtually unchanged, with the exception of a few minor changes like ornamental tree details, a missing rooster, and some added color. This is another brilliant scene—the rolling hill (with text underneath) on the left is neatly juxtaposed by the rolling Ferris wheel on the right, creating a wacky ying/yang of sorts.
The Day the Cow Sneezed is a wonderful children's book, gleefully playing with visuals and imagery that only Jim Flora could imagine. The storyline is simple and linear—everything moves from left to right—which makes it perfect for reading to kids. I've only posted a portion of the book, but it's worth checking out in its entirety. But is it readily available? Not to worry. When asked about the possibility of reprinting Cow Sneezed, Irwin Chusid tells me that he, along with Flora's family, are "looking into it." Thus, exposing the genius of Jim Flora to brand new audiences.
To view these images all together in a photoset, click HERE.
Another photoset featuring some of Flora's commercial work can be found HERE.
Join the Jim Flora Flickr Group and see the collections of fellow Flora Fans.
For more about Jim Flora, be sure to visit JimFlora.com.
The Curiously Sinister Art of Jim Flora, the second book featuring the art of Jim Flora, will be published early 2007, by Fantagraphics.
Images courtesy Jim Flora Art LLC; (c) Jim Flora Art LLC. Big BIG thanks to Irwin Chusid.
UPDATE: Good news! Enchanted Lion Books will reprint The Day The Cow Sneezed in Fall 2010. Details here. They'll also reprint other Flora titles if the interest is there. So, buy it when it's available!


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Here's a screenshot that shows the entry in Task Manager and the startup key from the Registry (click to enlarge):
This is the content of a text file that explains the feature:
GoogleToolbarNotifier is a companion to the Google Toolbar. This executable is necessary to enable the Search Settings Notifier feature of the Toolbar. This feature lets you keep Google as your default search engine and prevents this setting (and others as we add new features) from being changed without your consent.
To enable or disable this feature, please click the "Settings" button on your Toolbar and choose "Options." In the "More" section, check or un-check the box next to "Search with Google." As long as this feature remains enabled, GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe will run silently in the background.
This is most likely a reaction to Microsoft's intention to set MSN as the default search engine in IE7 and to other toolbars (Yahoo Toolbar, Windows Live Toolbar) that change IE's search engine by default. Winamp has a similar software that monitors if other players try to change its file associations. The setting can be changed by the user.
Update: Even if you disable "Search with Google" from the toolbar, and kill GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe, everytime you load IE, Google Toolbar launches GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe once again. The only way to get rid of the notifier is to delete the folder C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier. I think Google has started to become a little evil. The description above clearly states that the exe will run "as long as this feature remains enabled".
Update 2: Benjamin Lewis from Google says it's a bug.
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As the longtime director of design for the Dunbar furniture company, Edward Wormley was, along with such peers as George Nelson at Herman Miller Inc., and Florence Knoll of Knoll Inc., one of the leading forces in bringing modern design into American homes in the mid-20th century. Not an axiomatic modernist, Wormley deeply appreciated traditional design, and consequently his work has an understated warmth and a timeless quality that sets it apart from other furnishings of the era.
Wormley was born in rural Illinois and as a teenager took correspondence courses from the New York School of Interior Design. He later attended the Art Institute of Chicago but ran out of money for tuition before he could graduate. Marshall Field hired Wormley in 1930 to design a line of reproduction 18th-century English furniture; the following year he was hired by the Indiana-based Dunbar, where he quickly distinguished himself. It was a good match. Dunbar was an unusual firm: it did not use automated production systems; its pieces were mostly hand-constructed. For his part, Wormley did not use metal as a major component of furniture; he liked craft elements such as caned seatbacks, tambour drawers, or the woven-wood cabinet fronts seen on his Model 5666 sideboard of 1956. He designed two lines for Dunbar each year — one traditional, one modern — until 1944, by which time the contemporary pieces had become the clear best sellers.
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The holidays are almost here, which means it's the season of giving, cheer and yes… buying. With so many people out and about shopping for that special someone on their list, businesses use this time to effectively market their product or service and boost sales.
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Most BrE-AmE dictionaries will tell you that BrE jumper = AmE sweater, but this is a little misleading and far from the whole story. When referring to knit(ted) garments, AmE sweater has much broader application than BrE jumper, which refers only to (generally long-sleeved) pullovers--that is, they are donned by pulling them over the head. In BrE, jumper stands in contrast to cardigan, a word that is used in AmE, but sweater is used frequently in AmE to refer to cardigans as well. So, AmE sweater is a superordinate term or hyper(o)nym, which includes cardigans and pullover sweaters. In BrE, jumper is not the hyperonym of cardigan, but kind of its 'opposite'.
Jumper in AmE is a kind of dress, called a pinafore (dress) in BrE. (Both dialects have the 'apron' sense of pinafore.) In other words, it's a sleeveless dress that's made to be worn over a blouse or other top. Thus my mother, who finds cross-dressing unexpected and hilarious, always has something to say when Better Half says he's going to put on his jumper.
Another sweater that is not a jumper is the (AmE) sweater vest (illustration from this catalog(ue) site). Now, there are two reasons why this isn't called sweater vest in BrE: (1) sweater is AmE (as already established!), and (2) in BrE vest is generally used to refer to (more typically AmE) undershirts (with or without sleeves) or sleeveless undershirt-like things worn by sports players. In AmE, on the other hand, a vest is a sleeveless garment for the upper body that's typically worn over a shirt. This includes the kind that one finds in three-piece suits, which have buttons up the front, and which BrE speakers call a waistcoat. Vest was once used in BrE for what are now called waistcoats--originally the term for a more complicated garment:
The earliest waistcoats, intended to show through the slashings and other openings of the doublet, were often extremely elaborate and costly. They were sometimes provided with sleeves, and appear to have reached to or below the hips. (OED)So, Americans kept an old (but certainly not the original) meaning of vest, while the British adjusted the meaning of another term. A related term that I've only heard in the UK is gillet (also gilet), for a type of furry waistcoat/vest that became fashionable a couple of years ago. (Here's a photo.) I was questioning whether I've only heard it in BrE because it's only been fashionable since I moved here, but most of Google results for gillet + fur are from the UK, so I'm suspecting that it's a far more common term in BrE these days. On an American catalog(ue) site, I find similar items described as fur vests.
But I've got(ten) away from the question: what is the BrE for (AmE) sweater vest? It is, in my confused experience, tank top. Here's a so-label(l)ed photo from a UK retailer. The experience [of hearing of a dean coming to work in a tank top!] was confusing for me because of the AmE meaning of tank top: a sleeveless undershirt (nowadays often worn as an only-shirt). I was wearing one of those today, so had the opportunity to ask Better Half what he'd call such a thing, and his (sorry, honey) rather unsatisfying answer was 't-shirt', later adapted to 'sleeveless t-shirt'. A more precise BrE term is singlet (as one can see here), but it's not a term one hears a lot these days. Such undershirty things are likely to be called vests, as one can see when searching 'vest' on the Next [UK clothing retailer] website.
This brings to mind another (colo[u]rful but unfortunate) Americanism: wife-beater, which is a slang term for the type of tank top/vest that Marlon Brando wore in Streetcar Named Desire. Slangcity.com claims (I've never heard it) that wife-beater is also BrE slang for Stella Artois beer--which brings one back to Brando and Streetcar (Steeelllllaaaaa!).
Getting back to sweater and jumper, there are more ways in which the former is more general than the latter. For example, I have fine-gauge, short-sleeved knit(ted) tops (like this one on Knit Sisters) that I'd only wear on their own--not over another shirt/blouse--and that I'd call sweaters. I'd not feel comfy calling such things jumpers in BrE, though. Searching summer-sweater on Google Images brings up images of both short-sleeved and sleeveless tops and lightweight, long-sleeved sweaters/jumpers, but searching summer-jumper just results in lightweight, long-sleeved jumpers/sweaters and AmE jumpers (the one short-sleeved one is a red herring: it's on the same page as a long-sleeved one that has the 'summer jumper' label). What would one call a 'summer' sweater in BrE? My best guess is that it's just a top. (BrE-speaking 'summer sweater' wearers, what do you think?)
And speaking of top (once I get going, I just can't shut up, can I?), I find that it's used much more often in BrE than in AmE. And in AmE, one is more likely than in BrE to call a woman's blouse or top a shirt. I'm not saying that these terms aren't used in both dialects, but just that their frequency/commonality seems to be different--at least in the forms of BrE and AmE I've been exposed to. But on that intuitional note, I've got to go bed...


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More choice and lower costs when booking airline tickets: the Commission advocates more competition in airline ticket distribution
The European Commission has adopted a proposal to simplify and modernise the two-decade-old rules for computerised reservation systems (CRS). These systems are used by travel agents to book airline tickets on behalf of their customers. The revised rules will allow CRSs and subscribing travel agents to expand their offer and better compete in the airline distribution market.
'More competition in this market means lower distribution costs and airlines offering more travel options via the CRSs', said Commission Vice-President Jacques Barrot in charge of transport. 'Consumers who use the services of a travel agent for their airline bookings will enjoy an increased offer while still being protected against any abuse or discrimination'.
Computerised reservation systems[1] provide their subscribers with up-to-date information about the availability of flight tickets and fares. They permit travel agents to find flights, compare prices and make immediate confirmed reservations on behalf of their customers.
The revision of the Code of Conduct for computerised reservation systems will bring more competition in the field of airline ticket distribution by reducing booking fees and pushing airlines to offer more travel options via the CRSs. The revised rules will also ensure that all booking channels compete on a level playing field, again for the benefit of consumers.
The revised Code of Conduct introduces pricing freedom into the CRS market. Unlike today, CRSs and airlines will be free to negotiate the booking fees charged by the reservation systems and the information content provided by the airlines. More competition will contribute to higher efficiency in the sector in terms of price and service quality.
At the same time, the revised Code maintains safeguards to protect against competitive abuse by airlines that own or control CRSs. It contains provisions to ensure an unbiased presentation of travel options in the CRS displays as well as the display of 'all-inclusive' air fares. The Code also provides for the protection of personal data.
The Commission's proposal and its impact assessment report are published on the following website:
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/air_portal/consultation/2007_04_27_en.htm .
[1] Also known as Global Distribution Systems or GDS.


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This is what I wore, though I don't know what made me gravitate towards the 3 belts. Inspired by a DIY Nice & Shiny epicly created, I tied measuring tape around my waist a few days ago (I guess I'll post that outfit this weekend) and thought I'd do it again. I didn't attach a clasp though, just tie it. Lazy? Cheap? Me? Yeah.
Well, I am currently listening to the billion Christmas songs my sister's iTunes possesses, and I don't feel guilty about it! Now it just needs to freaking SNOW and we will all be SATISFIED. Look how sunny these pictures are! Wtf, weather man? Do I have to come down to the news station and demand you make it snow AGAIN like I did LAST YEAR? You know, weathermen are supposed to be good at predicting weather; wouldn't you be able to predict that tons of children want it to snow by now? Or are you just a really BAD meteorologist? Yeah, I'd say the second one.


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"Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging (DKI) reveals an early phenotype (P30) in a transgenic rat model for Huntington's disease", ISMRM conference proceedings, vol. 2009. p. 359, 2009.
, "Identification and characterization of Huntington related pathology: an in vivo DKI imaging study", NeuroImage, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 653-662, 2012.
, "Microstructural changes observed with DKI in a transgenic Huntington rat model: Evidence for abnormal neurodevelopment.", NeuroImage, vol. 59, pp. 957-67, 2012.


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When it comes time to sell your home, you will likely be put in a situation where home updates, repairs, and upgrades are recommended in order to boost the value of your home for maximum returns! Now before tearing down a wall or throwing your money at everything it's important to understand not all home renovations are equal. Below you will find a list of the top 5 home renovations that have significant impact on your selling potential:
1. Improve energy efficiency
This one is often a surprise to people – when you think of home improvements, they are generally the physical changes you see with your eyes. The secret is that potential buyers are taking energy efficiency very seriously when making considerations on what to buy.
Just to give an example, attic insulation projects return approximately 120% of their costs! Other energy-efficiency upgrades that are effective include updating HVAC, water heaters, and windows. If you do these changes early in the process (enough to get utility bills), your real estate agent can show potential buyers the difference between the monthly costs before and after the upgrades!
2. Spruce up your curb appeal
First impressions matter, and it starts the moment a potential buyer lays eyes on your home. These exterior improvements don't need to be radical either, there are many subtle touches that have huge impact. Some examples include power washing the home exterior, re-painting window frames and doors, and installing some potlights. If your property has abundant green space, you should consider landscaping services which beautify the lawn with mulch, shrubs, and planting seasonal colorful plants. If you have the means for it, adding new stone veneers, entry doors, and garage doors almost always recoup 100% of their cost.
3. Minor kitchen remodeling
The heart of the home; the kitchen. Buyers often report that the kitchen is their favourite room – and so it's easy to see how a gorgeous kitchen can entice even the most reserved buyers. In fact, if the kitchen is impressive enough, buyers may be more forgiving to other outdated spaces.
As the title suggests, I'm not recommending that you spend tens of thousands to improve the kitchen. I'm talking about the minor renovations that bring the most impact. Some examples include re-painting cabinets, installing new handles, installing stainless steel appliances, upgrading countertops, and putting up a new backsplash!
4. Bathroom remodeling
Next to the kitchen, buyers will zipline to bathrooms to develop their opinion of the home. Studies have shown that a minor bathroom remodel can provide a 102% return on investment – consider re-grouting tile and replacing the caulk around the shower, tub, and toilet. In some cases it may be best to replace the toilet – accomplshing both a modern look as well as energy efficiency (remember, energy-efficiency is a huge selling point).
5. A fresh coat of paint
A clean coat of paint is the facelift every seller can benefit from – we are talking 109% returns on investment here! New paint will lighten rooms and hide any defects. If your home has rooms with non-neutral paint colours, then painting over those spaces with neutral tones can have huge benefits! Ther buyer wants to enter the home and impose their personality within it, and areas with too much personality often work against your goal of selling effectively.


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https://www.greenlandmx.eu/en/vertex-piston-ktm-exc%2Fsx-125-01-15-2-rings/4234.htmlVertex Piston
- Italian made, pistons for high-performance motorcycle racing applications.
- Vertex are the unique piston profiles and compression ratios that are offered in a, b, c and d sizes.
- This variation in sizing, a mere 0.
- Allows the piston to be perfectly sized to the cylinder for maximizing power and performance while reducing blow-by and oil consumption.
- You can specify in remarks, piston details.
Brand | Vertex |
Modality | Cross/Enduro |
The pistons of any internal combustion engine, two or four-stroke, are conical and oval, to control its expansion in its operation. To get to know your maximum measurement you have to measure at 10-12 mm. of the skirt, in the opposite part to the bolt.
When we see a mark on the head of the piston, for example, 80 mm. or we have a cylinder of 80 mm. this measure is corresponds to the cylinder, when meassuing the piston we will see that actually measurement is 79.95 mm., the tolerance between piston and cylinder would be 5 cents (0.05 mm.).
In the aluminum cylinders with hard chrome interior treatment, already in disuse, or NIKASIL the measure of 80 mm. It is usually fixed to 80 mm.
The pistons work with tolerances between 4 to 6 hundredths (0.04-0.06) for two-stroke engines and 3 to 4 hundredths for four-stroke engines (0.03-0.04). To fix a deformed cylinder, the interior of the cylinder shall be polished first and the measurement is adjusted with pistons that are over-measured for this purpose, marked with letters A-B-C-D (selection); the lowest measure being A, increasing 1 hundredth per letter; that is, selection B 0.01 mm. greater than A, C 0.02 mm. greater than A, etc.
New Cylinder Ø 80.00 mm. mounts a piston of Ø 79,97 A Factory Tolerance 0.03 mm.
Polished Cylinder Ø 80,01 mm. mounts a piston Ø 79,98 B Factory Tolerance 0,03 mm.
Polished Cylinder Ø 80,02 mm. mounts a piston Ø 79,99 C Factory Tolerance 0,03 mm.
Polished Cylinder Ø 80,03 mm. mounts a piston Ø 80,00 D Factory Tolerance 0,03 mm.
The important thing is to maintain the tolerance, which the manufacturer recommends, between cylinder and piston.


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Stage Manager Jonathan Marks has worked on some of the most successful live and live-to-tape shows on TV, including The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Price is Right.
Eric Henriquez has traveled all over America as a 1st AD—working in as diverse cities as New York City, Baltimore, and New Orleans.
1st AD Michele Panelli-Venetis' natural gift for organizing led her to a 30-year career working on films as diverse as Alvin and the Chipmunks and Endless Love.
From Radio City Music Hall to the Oscars to Peter Pan Live!, Stage Manager Lynn Finkel discusses the excitement and pressure of working in live television.
Second AD Tony Eng discusses how his experiences being a DGA trainee on ER helped pave the way to working on such diverse TV shows as Liv and Maddie and How to Get Away with Murder.
Short profiles of Guild members in all categories sharing their experiences at work.
1st AD Jennifer Reiss and 2nd AD Jason Melius discuss the challenges of filming the season finale of CBS' All Rise, which was prepped and filmed entirely remotely.
1st AD Shawn Pipkin-West brainstorms simple solutions for seemingly complex problems.
1st AD Leo N. Bauer take his time on set.
1st AD Michael J. Moore's scheduling system worked like a charm on A Wrinkle in Time.
1st AD Rebecca Strickland filmed all around the world, including on international waters, for The Romanoffs.
1st AD Lisa C. Satriano uses cover sets rain or shine on Black Panther.
1st AD Gerard DiNardi has made a name for himself as a go-to horror AD.
For 1st AD Marty Eli Schwartz, making sure the actors feel comfortable is all part of the job.
1st AD Carol Vitkay explains how she prepped for a house fire in How to Get Away With Murder
1st AD Toby Hefferman on the "biggest challenge" of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
1st AD Lars Winther fights inclement weather on Marvel films.
1st AD Chris Della Penna loves the challenge of the job.
Danielle Rigby's love of all things equine has made her a better assistant director.
1st AD Richard Styles spends lots of time traveling across the Atlantic from the U.K. to American locations like Oklahoma, Atlanta, and Beverly Hills.
While working the sometimes treacherous water locations on Baywatch, Ken Wada learned staying safe is a team effort.
Not many ADs who have worked on four Martin Scorsese features can say they owe their career to their janitorial services. But that's how 1st AD Chris Surgent got his foot in the door.
Rick R. Johnson talks about what it's like being a 1st AD on a variety of projects, from family features like, D3: The Mighty Ducks to hit TV dramas like Being Mary Jane.
Eric Fox Hays discusses working in Louisiana on such shows as Common Law, Star-Crossed, and NCIS: New Orleans.
Bruce Moriarty explains how his experiences training horses prepared him in becoming a skilled 1st AD.
1st AD David Webb discusses how his early interest in political science and journalism helped pave the way to working on such films as Argo, The Ides of March, and Milk.
1st AD Thomas Kuk says he loves the unpredictability of non-scripted television, working on dozens of reality shows, including Punk'd, Fear Factor, and Stars Earn Stripes.
Mark Little went from managing a helicopter courier firm to a 20-year career as a 1st AD, working with directors such as Brett Ratner, Jay Roach, Thomas Carter, and the late George Hickenlooper.
1st AD Anne Berger credits directors Michael Watkins and Michael Dinner on Justified for teaching her to schedule big stunt scenes with special effects in a fraction of the time they're done.
With a career that includes sterling art house indies and mega tentpole movies, Michael Lerman has seen the full horizon of the AD's craft--and the view has never been less than incredible.
Assistant Director Carla Bowen does what it takes to ensure a smooth production-even if it means sitting on a surfboard out in the ocean for six hours.
New York-based Julie Bloom says her favorite part of being a 1st AD is visiting places she's never been.
As an AD in the busy production world of New York, no one gets more out of less than Doug Torres.
If there were an Ironman award for production professionals, Moore would have won hands down. His career began in 1916 as a child actor.
Richard Cowan, a film school dropout from Vancouver, Canada, says becoming a 1st AD by the tender age of 25 was a dream come true.
1st AD Josh King, whose partial resume includes movies starring Mike Myers, Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy, says running comedy sets is rarely all fun and games.
On the set of the recent USA Network miniseries, Political Animals, 1st AD Richard Coad's biggest challenge was uniting crews from a trio of production centers in the most diplomatic way.
Her love for spontaneous filmmaking began on the streets of her hometown Baltimore, where she worked on her first feature as a production assistant on Barry Levinson's Avalon.
Some are born to it, and others just fall in. For 1st AD Justin Muller it was the former. His grandmother was one of the first women film editors in Italy and his grandfather was head of publicity for MGM Italia.
First Assistant Director Peter Kohn laughs when asked what it is with him and water. "I have spent a fair bit of time around islands," he admits.
One of Hollywood's most sought after 1st ADs is Adam Somner, whose résumé before he even crossed the Atlantic included some of the most revered names in the British film industry.
As one of the first female assistant directors in Hollywood, Daisy Gerber has been called a lot of things, but studio big shot was not among them.
Charles Washburn, would never have come to Hollywood if not for experiencing the same racial bias in Chicago that blacks in the industry had endured for so many years.
Callow was among the original ADs to join the Guild in 1938 and became one of the savviest nuts and bolts production pros in the industry.
The first black member of the Screen Directors Guild and the second black stage manager to work in network television, Franklin was as determined as he was skilled.
The first Mexican-American admitted to the Guild (in 1937), Day was known for his professionalism - so much so that C.B. DeMille told him he'd never do a picture without him.
With one letter of reference and a British taxi, Stacey arrived in LA from England and worked his way up to AD, a profession he chose because it paid $5 more per week than DP.
Starting out cleaning lights at Biograph Studios, Jacobson worked his way up to 1st AD with on-the-fly solutions like substituting iced tea for whiskey to keep W.C. Fields sober.
A former theater stage manager in San Francisco, Koster - a 1st AD on Private Practice who spent time as 2nd AD on JAG - says the stage is Spanish and film is Portuguese.
A veteran of Six Feet Under and True Blood, this graduate of the DGA's Assistant Director Training Program jokes she's the go-to AD for shows about death, dying, or the undead.
After switching majors from engineering to film, this AD has fulfilled childhood dreams of chasing pirates and launching rockets.
Comparing his job to that of a flight attendant's, this 1st AD maintains that each film can make for a bumpy ride.
A veteran of Home Improvement and One Day at a Time, this 1st AD has had almost as many yucks behind the camera as when the red light went on.
As a 1st AD, Robinson sees his job as balancing the needs of the crew with the director, actors, and department heads and walk a political tightrope every single day.
Having spent the majority of her life on set, Blymyer finds herself now making the move from 2nd AD to 1st.
Twohie, a Queens native (and Mets fan), has spent seven seasons - over 525 games - as an AD for the New York Yankee broadcasts in the Bronx.
Working on tabletop food commercials and network dramas, Harris says he'd rather work with a group of infants over a tray of deli meats any day and that there's a right way to AD beer.
Known for his laid-back rapport with the crew, the Samoan-born Porter will still dash through burning buildings or wade through farm refuse to keep the production on track.
A former stockbroker at Merrill Lynch, Hausman calls himself a "repeat customer" for directors such as Milos Forman, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee, and Sydney Pollack.
Choosing filmmaking over the family restaurant, this AD helped cement Chicago's straight-shooting image on-screen in films like Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Home Alone.
Though his shot precedes him, the longtime AD, UPM, and producer gets a kick out of how his name has become standard production slang.
Working as a messenger boy at Columbia in January 1936, McWhorter attended the DGA's first public meeting at the Hollywood Athletic Club.
After moving to LA after college (a trip given to her by her parents), Green enrolled in the DGA Training Program and began building her two decade career in television.
Like his boss, Scorsese's 1st AD is an avowed cinephile, mentally storing the images he comes across at MOMA, Film Forum and Lincoln Center for visual references later.