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Like their established line of clothing and shoes, Ellen Tracy sleepwear is about comfort without sacrificing style. Chemises, gowns, tops and bottoms are made of soft, easy-care fabrics and cut generously for real women's bodies. Feminine prints are embellished with subtle lace trims and ruffles. Pretty and practical, for women who prefer their comfort with a touch of style.
The Ellen Tracy brand, long known for dresses, shoes and fashion accessories, carries the same stylishness and comfort into their sleepwear styles. Sleepwear joins the brand's extensive product line that also includes eyewear, hosiery, luggage, outerwear, fragrance, cold weather wear and home goods. Their line of chemises, nightgowns and pajamas are made from materials that are a treat against the skin. The modal and rayon knits are soft, light and easy-care. Fashionable trims and design touches elevate the styles. You'll find pleated georgette trims, ruching, lace necklines, feminine ruffles and other nice details. Always just right, never too much.
Styles are modern without being faddish, including cap-sleeved short gowns, capri PJs with swing tops, and sleeveless chemises. Some are embellished with contrast trim, tulle or ruffles. But Ellen Tracy pajamas never sacrifices comfort for fashion. Customers love the soft fabrics and roomy fit, perfect for both sleeping and lounging. Ellen Tracy sleepwear is a perfect blend of practicality, comfort and style. With the use of innovative modern materials and classic, flattering cuts, it's no wonder that Ellen Tracy sleepwear is such an enduring favorite.
Current collections include a varied range of styles in both gowns and pajamas. For warmer weather, popular pajama styles include capri pajama sets with short sleeves. Some styles have attractive draped tops that are flattering and comfortable. Customers also love Ellen Tracy's short gowns and chemises. Made in lightweight jerseys, knits and breathable modern fabrics, these gowns are ideal when the temperature climbs. The Ellen Tracy color palette is flattering, and includes solids, patterns and stripes in pretty colors like rose, pearl, pale fuchsia and wheat.
Ellen Tracy nightgowns, caftans, and pajama sets excel when nights are colder, too. Winters bring fresh new collections of cozy pajamas. For women who like a sleek, tailored cut, the brand's Perfectly Paired PJ set is just right. Made of soft jersey with a 3/4 sleeve, these pajamas have a lovely scoop neck and slim, but comfy leg. If you prefer absolute comfort and warmth, Ellen Tracy's Feel Good Fleece line will be a winner. Ultra-soft micro fleece comes in two styles, one with a hoodie top to keep even your neck and head warm. The fleece is as comfy as a second skin and comes in a few different styles; one with classic pajama bottoms and one with a shirt tail hem on the shirt and soft stretchy leggings.
Ellen Tracy sleepwear sizing is generous, guaranteeing a great fit for women of all shapes and sizes. Smalls are comparable to a 6-8 dress size and then sizing continues to 3X in many styles.
Ellen Tracy sleepwear is licensed to the Komar company, a well-respected manufacturer of sleepwear for both designers and private labels. Komar has been in the garment industry for over a century and was founded in 1908 in New York City. From an early offering of women's nightgowns and bloomers, they made a name by creating high-quality slips. Komar was the first manufacturer to introduce fabrics like rayon and nylon into the sleepwear market.


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This month, we are celebrating teacher and poet, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater! Her blog, The Poem Farm, is an amazing poetry and writing instruction resource for teachers. On the "Find a Poem" page, Amy has all the poems on her blog indexed by topic and technique. There is also a link to her amazing A-Z Poem Dictionary Hike, her 2012 National Poetry Month poem-a-day project.
Amy shines a spotlight on teachers and students and the poetry work they are doing in the classroom. On her "Poetry Peek" page, you can visit the classrooms she has featured.
If you and/or your students keep writer's notebooks, you will want to check out Amy's other blog, Sharing Our Notebooks. In the introduction, Amy writes,
"Hello, nosy friends! This blog is written by many different notebook-keepers, highlighting pages from a variety of notebooks: paper, digital, napkin, any kind! Read here, and learn how students, authors, artists, teachers, and people of all types use notebooks to strengthen their thinking. After reading, you might wish to try something new in your own writing, drawing, thinking..."Amy is the co-author of one of Lucy Calkins' Units of Study writing guides, and is in the midst of a beautiful swan dive into the crystal blue water of children's book authoring, with one published (Forest Has a Song) and FIVE more forthcoming.
If you read Amy's blog or follow her on FaceBook, you know that besides being a poet, writer, and teacher, she is mother of three, wife of a science teacher, and very much the farm girl of her blog's Poem FARM name. And you know that one of her (and her family's) passions is rescuing and placing orphaned cats and kittens. Although it veers a bit from our typical donation to a literacy or child-based organization, it just feels right to donate this month, in Amy's honor, to Colony Cats, a local organization that rescues cats as well as practicing TNR (trap, neuter, release) to support the feral cat colonies in the Columbus area. The cat who generously lets AJ and me share his house is a former Colony Cats rescue cat. He gave a twitch of his tail as the sign of his approval of this donation.


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Priyanka Chopra Says She Gets 'a Lot of S–t' About Age Gap With Husband Nick Jonas
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas may have gotten married just six months ago, but their honeymoon phase is being tainted by the media. During a cover interview for InStyle, the 36-year-old addressed some of the backlash she and her 26-year-old husband have received since saying "I do," with the biggest being that 10 year age gap.
"People gave us a lot of s--t about that and still do," she says about their difference in age. "I find it really amazing when you flip it and the guy is older, no one cares and actually people like it."
Unfortunately, that's not the only criticism the couple has endured. Just months after getting married, The Cut ran an article questioning the legitimacy of their relationship and calling the Quantico actress a "global scam artist." The article was later taken down and the author apologized, but not before Chopra's family and in-laws publicly slammed the piece.
"Nick, Joe, Sophie, my mom, his parents, everyone was there furiously typing on their phones," she recalls. "They were so mad."
Thankfully, the newly wed was not bothered by the slander. "Commenting on some stupidity means it eventually becomes important because I gave it importance," she says. "A lot of people don't understand that way of thinking. It's not a myopic thought ... it's a long-term plan."
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I've been using my Verizon Galaxy Nexus since launch day -- just under two weeks.
While I happen to feel that Google's Android Ice Cream Sandwich (version 4.0) on the Galaxy Nexus is a significant improvement over previous versions of the OS that I've encountered on various Android devices that I've used in the last two years, one thing has not changed or improved whatsoever: the abyssmal way that multitasking is presented to the end-user.
Why is it awful? Well, let's start with the basics. In Android, as you start an application, its services will continue to run in the background when you start more apps.
Provided that an application is well-written, only a stub of that app continues to run, such as GMail's message poller or perhaps a Twitter client's notifier service.
But plenty of apps still commit a significant amount of resources to memory even when you stop using them or start a new process.
Which they really shouldn't.
If these are left unchecked, your Android device's performance and stability goes straight to hell.
What's the common fix to this issue? Well, an entire cottage industry of developers have written various task killer/task managment and memory optimization utilities for Android, which can be used with a single click of a button to wipe apps and services out of memory.
One such app, called "Advanced Task Killer" (by developer ReChild) is on the top of the charts for most popular applications on both the Google Android Market and Amazon's Appstore for Android.
Shouldn't this really be a function that's built into the OS? Shouldn't the end-user have quick visibility into what programs are bogging down the system and then kill them appropriately?
I'd think this should be the case, but for some reason, Google keeps ignoring this with every successive software release and in many cases task managment has to be "value added" into the handset or the tablet by the device OEM.
Samsung, for example, wrote some pretty nice task managment software for the original 7" Galaxy Tab, and has incorporated it into many of their devices they've released since.
In Android 4.0, at least as how it is presented on the Galaxy Nexus, the task killer UI is actually buried deep in the Settings under "Applications" on a separate tab for "Running" and it takes several clicks to get to.
This should actually be accessible directly from the home screen, and it isn't.
By comparison, in Apple's iOS 5, all running programs that are either cached or have active processes can be accessed by a simple double push of the main action button and can be scrolled through and stopped quickly with a simple tap of the finger on a little "x" symbol.
While not the commercial success of either Android or Apple's iOS, both HP's webOS 3 used in the dearly departed TouchPad as well as RIM's QNX-based PlayBook tablet OS have even better multitasking methods -- you just swipe up to show all the running processes and literally "flick" the program out of memory with a swipe of your finger.
There's really no such equivalent to this type of task managment in Android. Instead, the Android evangelists at Google will tell you just to trust Ice Cream Sandwich's automated memory management and everything just sorts itself out.
You know what? I think they're full of crap, because we don't live in a perfect world where all apps behave reasonably and release resources like they are supposed to.
Well, let me clarify myself here. In Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich, there is the new "Recently Accessed" soft button (the double rectangle symbol) which shows Apps you used recently and you can scroll through them to launch those apps.
But that doesn't actually reflect what is still running. And you can't kill processes with it. You can only remove stuff from the recently accessed list.
Now, maybe I'm spoiled by how it works on my iPad in iOS 5, but to me the "Recently Accessed" soft button in Honeycomb/Ice Cream Sandwich is essentially useless and wasted screen real estate.
I mean, most people who use Android devices tend to group their favorite apps on the different pages of the Launcher screen, so they have quick access to them anyway. I'm not sure what "Recently Accessed" actually gets you, to be perfectly blunt.
It would be much better if the double rectangle soft button was actually a full-blown task manager, that showed you a graphical representation of programs and processes and allowed you to kill them as necessary.
And maybe it's just me but I'm also really pissed off that you now need to chew up Launcher real estate with a dedicated widget that that's a link to the Android Settings pages, rather than having it being one of the soft buttons.
It would seem to make sense to me that the double rectangle could allow you to jump right into settings as well as present a task manager, but I guess the developers at Google think they know better than the end-users that are actually using their products.
Does Android's lack of decent built-in task management drive you up the wall? Talk Back and Let Me Know.


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The Perfect Earth Plaster Course
Welcome! How to Make the Most of this Course (3:30)
Notes on Downloading
How to Download the Course (Video) (3:19)
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1. Understanding and Finding Your Ingredients.
Video Overview: Introducing Your Ingredients. (18:08)
Lesson 1: Understanding the Basics of Clay, Straw and Sand (11:49)
Lesson 1 PDF: Understanding the Basics of Clay, Straw and Sand.
How To Do A Soil Test. (2:45)
Practical Assignment: Find Some Clay. (4:29)
2. How to Mix Your Plaster for the Best Results.
Lesson 2: Mixing Your Plaster (6:30)
Lesson 2 PDF: How to Mix Your Plaster
Extra Tip: Plaster Consistency. How Much Water Should You Add? (3:13)
Extra Tip: How to Use and Slake the Clay from Your Land (2:53)
Practical Assignment: Test Your Dirt.
3. Testing Your Plaster
Lesson 3: How to Test Your Plaster. (9:47)
Lesson 3 PDF: How to Test Your Plaster
Extra Lesson (Updated 2022): Watch My Plaster Testing Process (6:00)
Extra: Making a Plaster Board. (1:37)
Practical Assignment: Mix Your First Test Batch of Plaster.
4. Preparing the Surface you Want to Plaster.
Video Overview: Substrate Preparation and Plaster Application. (9:40)
Lesson 4: Prepping Your Substrate (Updated 2021) (15:31)
Lesson 4 PDF: Prepping Your Substrate (Updated 2021)
Extra: Two Easier Ways to Prime Wood for Earth Plaster. (1:05)
Extra: Prepping Gypsum Walls, Cement. Drywall, and Non-Porous Brick (PRIMERS).
Extra: How to Plaster Rough Stone Walls (4:01)
Practical Assignment: Testing Your Plaster Part 2
5. Applying the Plaster.
Lesson 5: How to Apply Your Plaster (Updated 2019) (17:04)
Lesson 5 PDF: How to Apply Your Plaster (Updated 2019)
Extra: A Beginner's Guide to Using a Trowel with Earth Plaster (3:09)
Extra: Which Kind of Trowel?
Extra: Plastering in Cold Climates
Practical Assignment: Apply Your First Layer of Earth Plaster.
6. What Went Wrong? A Trouble Shooting Guide.
Overview Video: Troubleshooting and Maintenance. (7:20)
Lesson 6: What Went Wrong? And What to Do About It. (8:32)
Lesson 6 PDF: What Went Wrong? And What to Do About It?
Practial Assignment. Adding Your Second Layer of Plaster.
7. Other Ingredients You Can Add to Your Plaster.
Lesson 7: Do You Need to Add Extra Ingredients (Updated Jan 2019) (16:33)
Lesson 7 PDF: Do You Need to Add Extra Ingredients? (Updated 2019)
Extra: Thinking of Using Lime? Read this First!
Extra: How to Make a Wheat Paste. (2:57)
Extra: How to Make Insulating Plaster
Practical Assignment: Choose Your Additive.
8. How to Make Earth Plaster Water Resistant.
Lesson 8: Ways to Make Earth Plaster Water Resistant. (6:33)
Lesson 8 PDF: Ways to Make Earth Plaster Water Resistant.
9. Maintaining and Protecting Your Earth Plaster.
Lesson 9: How to Maintain and Protect Your Earth Plaster. (7:38)
Lesson 9 PDF: How to Maintain and Protect Your Earth Plaster.
Practical Assignment: Apply Your Top Layer of Plaster.
Final Quiz
10. Creating Beautiful Finishes (Advanced).
Lesson 10: Creating Beautiful Finishes for your Plaster (21:07)
Lesson 10 PDF: Creating Beautiful Finishes for your Plaster
Extra Video: Creating Beautiful Sculptures, Mosaics and More. (8:57)
Extra Video: How to Use the Leather Hard Stage to Your Advantage. (4:56)
Extra Video: How to Burnish Earth Plaster. (2:21)
Making Clay Paint (1:28)
Practical Assignment: Have a Go at Burnishing. It's fun!
11. From Plaster to Cob: Using a Mud Mix to Build
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Mud As Mortar (Video) (3:59)
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A federal appeals court today overturned the FCC's fine on CBS resulting from Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" in which her breast was exposed during her Superbowl halftime appearance.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said the Federal Communications Commission had "arbitrarily and capriciously departed from its prior policy" that exempted fleeting broadcast material from actionable indecency violations.
Like any agency, the FCC may change its policies without judicial second-guessing. But it cannot change a well- established course of action without supplying notice of and a reasoned explanation for its policy departure," Chief Judge Anthony Scirica wrote for the three-judge panel that heard the case.
CBS says it hopes the FCC will now revert to its past policy of "restrained indecency enforcement." [More...]
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One of the mysteries behind Stonehenge has been solved - thanks to a 60 year old sample
Stonehenge has long been one of the world's greatest mysteries. Up until now, the exact origin of the giant stones, known as sarsen, has been unknown.
Groundbreaking research - and a sample that has been missing for a few decades - means the origins of the standing stones have finally been revealed.
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The mystery of Stonehenge has baffled humanity for centuries. Finally, archaeologists have discovered where the stones originated - with help from a sample that was taken in 1958 as a keepsake and transported to the US.
The core of one of the stones had been removed by a Basingstoke diamond cutting business as part of a measure to use metal rods to reinforce the upright stones.
Company employee, Robert Phillips, kept the core in his office as a souvenir. The Stonehenge sample travelled to the US when Phillips later emigrated, and stayed with him for six decades without anyone knowing.
The sample was only rediscovered when Phillips said he wished for it to be returned on his 90th birthday. After its return to English Heritage in 2018, tests were able to determine where the stones originated from.
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By analysing the chemical composition of Phillips' sample, archaeologists were able to pinpoint the source of the stones to an area 15 miles north of the famous site, near Marlborough, in West Woods.
First, researchers carried out X-ray fluorescence testing of the remaining sarsens, which revealed that most shared a similar chemistry and came from the same area.
Professor David Nash, from Brighton University, who led the study, said, "It has been really exciting to harness 21st century science to understand the Neolithic past, and finally answer a question that archaeologists have been debating for centuries."
Susan Greaney, the English Heritage senior properties historian, said, "While we had our suspicions that Stonehenge's sarsens came from the Marlborough Downs, we didn't know for sure, and with areas of sarsens across Wiltshire, that stones could have come from anywhere."
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Detailed examination of the West Woods area by Reading University archaeologist Katy Whitaker suggests that the builders of Stonehenge likely chose the area to take stones from because of their huge size and relative flatness of the sarsen boulders.
Now that the origins of the famous Stonehenge sarsens have been discovered, the focus is likely to turn to uncovering the route that prehistoric builders took to move the giant stones - the distance from West Woods to the Stonehenge site is about 15 miles.


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The Chairman of CBS, Les Moonves, announced on 15 March 2016 that the company was either going to sell or spin off their radio division, "to unlock value for our shareholders."
Let's face facts; the value of radio properties is in the toilet. Cumulus and iHeart Radio are close to bankruptcy, with their shares trading so low that they are underwater, given the values of their stations. That's the same as a homeowner owing the bank more than the home is actually worth.
What happens if they default or can't pull their properties values up? The creditors take over and have a fire sale just to recoup some of the money they invested at the height of the market. They will never regain all of the value.
This is a case of the dog chasing its own tail. The big corporations got bigger by swallowing up smaller companies and paying top dollar for them. They have homogenized the stations to the point that the programming sounds the same from city to city with voice tracking and syndicated programming.
The days of a radio station being manned 365/24/7 are long gone. The training ground of overnights and weekends don't exist anymore. The only live shifts on many stations are morning and afternoons and, even then, they may be originate from a home station and be syndicated to sister stations all over the country.
When Cumulus took over the Westwood One network, the first thing they did was consolidate its Denver and Dallas studios into one location, which was Dallas. Many on-air personalities from their live 24/7 formats lost their jobs, replaced by other Cumulus personalities at their radio stations.
Imagine being on the air live in Dallas trying to do a quality live and local show, voice tracking for a nationally syndicated show and also voice tracking for sister stations in other markets. Do you think any of that is going to be well done and engaging for the listener? I doubt it. You can't forge a connection with your audience if you're not with them, locally.
Back to selling CBS Radio, Wall Street wants to maximize the value of the properties for the shareholders. Who owns most of CBS, institutional stockholders and mutual funds, along with the Redstone family and Les Moonves. They all stand to gain in value if the radio stations spin into a separate company, with no tax liabilities. Here's what Scott Fybush, of the Northeast Radio Watch, has to say about a possible spin off. "Spinning off the whole division carries the existing tax basis forward; no capital gains accrue to the CBS Corporation and thus no liability."
Fybush also mentioned CBS would do this through a Reverse Morris Trust. The short version is that the parent company creates a new company that buys CBS and then another company takes it over. Check Wikipedia for the full version.
Here's the kicker, which Scott and I discussed. Nothing may happen. The announcement to sell CBS Radio could be smoke and mirrors; a way to placate Wall Street for years, while CBS searches for a buyer that could afford all the radio stations, in one deal.
What company might buy all the CBS Radio stations in one swoop? None of the large companies like Cumulus or iHeartradio could take on more debt. The only other large national company left in good shape is Cox Communications, nut can it afford what CBS wants.
How about the large regional companies like Alpha, Entercom, Greater Media or Connoisseur Media? Can they afford the whole enchilada; or would, it, could it, they split CBS Radio into or among separate companies?
Let's remember one big thing here. It's not only physical property, brick and mortar, we're talking about; it is lives and careers, of women and men that work hard and are good at what they do. Much is at stake in the sale of CBS Radio.
Isn't speculation fun when it isn't your money?
Matt Seinberg lives on Long Island, a few minutes east of New York City. He looks at everything around him and notices much. Somewhat less cynical than dyed in the wool New Yorkers, Seinberg believes those who don't see what he does like reading about what he sees and what it means to him. Seinberg columns revel in the silly little things of life and laughter as well as much well-directed anger at inept, foolish public officials. Mostly, Seinberg writes for those who laugh easily at their own foibles as well as those of others.
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The courthouse stands four stories high along the main drag of Lago Agrio. Like all other buildings in the town, the weather has gotten the best of it; it is tropically dilapidated. The colors, off-white with yellow trim, are ruined; the cement shows signs of crumbling; and from up close the black mold appears to be winning against all else.
The townspeople refer to the building as "la corte", though in actuality the court itself is only a series of offices on the third floor. The first floor is a credit agency, a copy and print shop, and an appliance store; the second floor is the government tourism office, full of brochures; and the fourth floor is a vacant, dark and unused terraza.
At the courthouse on the third floor, the people move slowly, deliberately. The air conditioning does not work. The air is stale and sticky. Just as any other provincial court, there are the usual characters – the judges, prosecutors, defenders, administrative workers – who shuffle in and out of rooms, swamped with any number of local civil or criminal cases. There are also, of course, the plaintiffs and the defendants, who come and go, huddle with their lawyers, wait, come and go again, always hoping never to return. In general it is an average courthouse scene.
Emergildo Criollo, leader of the Cofan people, is always there though; he never goes; he is always watching and observing. He is one of thousands of indigenous people and campesinos who have been waging a historic lawsuit against American oil giant Chevron for environmental crimes in the Amazon rainforest. For the last two years Emergildo's job has been to monitor the courthouse, and ensure that there are no improper meetings taking place between Chevron lawyers and courthouse staff or judges. Sometimes, to pass the time, he will make jewelry out of forest seeds and purchased beads. At other times he will make phone calls, but he never has enough credit in his phone to talk for too long. He arrives at 8 am just when the court opens; he leaves at 6 pm just when the court closes.
Several weeks ago as we were sitting together in the courthouse he gestured at the unnatural lighting and the strange angles of the building, and told me that when he was a boy this was all forest. "We are sitting where the monkeys used to make their homes" he said.
Outside the courthouse is the bustling life of downtown Lago Agrio. Crowds, bicycles, carts, cars, buses, 18-wheelers. Everything and everyone seems to move in concert. In this photograph, taken yesterday at 6:30 am, court workers load more than 200,000 pages of court filings and evidence from the historic Aguinda v Chevron case into a colorful court-chartered bus – all under the spirited and watchful eye of los afectados por Texaco (the people impacted by Texaco) The entire trial record was transferred yesterday to Ecuador's National Court of Justice in the Andean capital city of Quito. After eight years in the Lago Agrio court Chevron was found guilty in February 2011 for massive environmental crimes in the Amazon and fined upwards of $18 billion. In January of this year an Ecuador appellate court confirmed the $18 billion judgment against Chevron. The plaintiffs are now seeking to enforce the judgment in countries where Chevron has assets, while the high court in Quito will review Chevron's final appeal in this epic legal battle.
There are approximately 30,000 Ecuadorian plaintiffs in the legal battle against Chevron, all still living within Texaco's former oil concession area. Yesterday, community members from four indigenous tribes (the Cofan, Siona, Secoya and Quichua) and dozens of campesinos from rural towns throughout the region rented a bus to accompany and monitor the transfer of the legal case from the court in Lago Agrio to Quito – an important and symbolic moment in the 18 year legal battle against the American oil giant.
Ascending out of the Amazon rainforest into the Andean highlands, we followed the TransEcuadorian pipeline, which Texaco built in the early 70s. History was lost on no one: Forty years after Texaco began producing oil in the Amazon rainforest, more than 200,000 pages of evidence and court filings documenting the massive environmental and human health harm that the company's operations caused were now winding their way besides Texaco's pipeline on the way to the National Court of Justice in Quito.
Here in the highlands, a section of the pipeline is under repair. History has not been forgotten though; a message on the pipeline reads: Chevron-Texaco: Never again!
As our caravan reached the busy streets of Quito, we were met by a contingent of supporters from environmental and human rights groups, such as Accion Ecologica, Oil Watch, Pachamama, INREDH and CONAIE, who promised to join in helping monitor the trial process in Quito. Pablo Fajardo, the lead Ecuadorian lawyer in the legal case was leading the way.
Swarmed by press, the leaders of the lawsuit against Chevron make their way to the steps of the National Court of Justice for a press conference, where they will affirm their resolve to continue fighting for justice. After eight years of monitoring the trial process in Lago Agrio, the communities announced yesterday that they will continue their vigilance of the trial in Quito.
Maria Aguinda is a Quichua woman from the town of Rumipamba. She is the lead plaintiff in this lawsuit, Aguinda v Chevron. Her home in Rumipamba stands beside a clogged and contaminated stream from a Texaco oil spill in 1976. Here, 18 years after filing the lawsuit against Texaco, she stands on the steps of the National Court of Justice, and again reminds the world of what the American company did to her rainforest homeland.
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Strictly 4 My Niggaz
Yo Law!
Is it cool if a nigga just get fucked up for this one?
Mr. Fuck-a-cop is back
And I still dont't give a fuck
You know what I'm sayin?
I was framed
So don't make the same mistake, nigga
You gotta learn how to shake the snakes, nigga
Cause the police love to break a nigga
Send em upstate cause they straight-up hate the niggas
So what I do is get a crew of zoo niggas
Straight fools into rules and do niggas
And one time had enough of me
I'm still raw so the law can't fuck with me
They wanna send me to the pen, punk picture that
I stay strapped muthafuckas better get your gat
It ain't easy bein me I can't take it
Life as a celebrity ain't everything they make it
And ever since the movies
Ho's try to do me
If they can't screw me
They find a way to sue me
Now can you picture me coolin at a night club
Somethin for love, but muthafuckas want a? Beamer?
Since I wear a lot of gold
They plot
Don't no what I got if ya stop
With the hot ones
And all yeah, I wanna feel guilty
But you punk muthafuckas tried to milk me
You'll get stacked behind the hill
With my phone or my pager
Just beat me while I cut you with my razor
I'm not violent, I'm petrified and nervous
I got no mercy for these niggas try'n to serve us
But if you catch me outta pocket, then I'm got
You love to shoot a nigga but you scared to pop a cop
Now drop
Reflected and disrespected
Why so rejected?
Our just another rapper
Who swears he's makin records
That's what the'd said
Whenever I would walk by
I never tripped, though
Always kept my head up high
Eventually, I knew that I would find my way
After the darkest night always comes a brighter day
And some will say
That turned away is all you'll get
I just say "bet"
And never let em see me sweat
Cause in the end
I knew that I would have it all
While non-believers were prayin for my downfall
And some would call and tell me that they wish me well
But in my heart, I'm knowin that they wish me hell
Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent
I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went
Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got
Don't ever stop, just push it til you hit the top
And if you drop, at least you know you gave your all
Be true to you, and that way you can never fall
But beware, these backstabbers ain't no joke
Just like a rope, they hang on you until you're broke
And when you're broke, they move onto the next dope
And there you are, can't even pay your car, nope
And when you reminisce thinkin how you got dissed
Remember how it fealt and do remember this
Be true to you
For me that there's no one bigger
Cause they can all suck dick
Cause strictly 4 my niggaz
This is for the critics if you live up
Pick up my shit or I'll be back doin stickups
I better see five stars next to my picture
If not, Tupac will cop the Glock and come knockin and getcha
I told you once muthafucka hold the nut
Play me like a butt and you'll be bleedin when you're fucked
Niggas know what's up but they be try'n to hold me down
I'm comin outta Oaktown, bitch fuck around
And it ain't where you from that makes you hardcore
Nigga it's the way you throw the? Fangs? In the war
And to the marks that be talkin all that shit
Screamin out the next nigga's name like a bitch
And the niggas that I ran into recently
The muthafuckas at the club that pulled the piece on me
You little bitches should've pulled the fuckin trigga
Now you live in fear of a heartless ass nigga
Mr. Trump?
Niggas tried to play me with the gat
But like Terminator, nigga, I'll be back
And I'll be back with a fuckin army
You tried to harm me [Bring me along G]
Cause most muthafuckas try to act up without they're backup
When they get jacked up they crack up
It's strictly 4 my niggaz at the show
So they know not to play me like a ho
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Reference Question of the Week – 11/5
November 11th, 2006This week's question isn't funny, just interesting (to me, anyway). A little boy, who couldn't have been any older that nine or ten, comes up to the desk (mind you, this is in the adult section, not the childrens room):
Boy: Do you have any books on the world war?
Me: I'm sure we do - which world war?
Boy: Do you have any books on Hitler?
Me: Sure, I'll show you where those are.
[We walk to the YA biography section, but all those on Hitler are checked out. So I take him to the adult biography section, where we fine a couple on the shelf - even two thin books, which I was thankful for]
Me: These four books are about Hitler.
Boy: Why are there so many books written about Hitler?
Me: He was an important person who had a big effect on history.
Boy: But Hitler was bad, wasn't he?
Me: Yes, he did a lot of bad things.
Boy: So why did they write books about him?
Me: People write books about important events in history, so we don't forget what happened. That way, maybe the bad things won't happen again.
[At this point, the boy had picked a book to check out, and we're now walking back up towards the reference desk]
Boy: Is this book about Hitler's whole life?
Me: Yes, I think so.
Boy: Even about how he died?
Me: Yes.
Boy: How did Hitler die?
Me: Well... [pause] ...he was the leader of an army, and his army was losing the war. He was surrounded by the good guys, and he decided that killing himself was better than being captured by his enemies.
Boy: Is Hitler dead now?
Me: Yeah, he is.
Boy: Okay, thanks.
[He turns around and walks us the steps to the circulation desk]
At the reference desk, I don't often get to work with little kids. I think the book he chose, being thin and having some pictures, was okay for his reading level. However, I wonder if me telling him about suicide will scar him for life.
The interaction above is all a paraphrase, of course. And incidentally, I included the cover of Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five because its subtitle is "The Children's Crusade."


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Mayor Bloomberg is shocked and stunned that teachers want more money. How dare they make such frivolous demands when he's trying to enact a junk-science-based evaluation system? Clearly they don't grasp the nature of the emergency in city schools. Mayor Bloomberg simply cannot fire enough teachers under the current system, and unless he gets a legal basis to fire them for no good reason, he won't be able to fire them for no good reason.
Bloomberg is aghast that the UFT would claim teachers haven't had a raise in four years. Don't they get step promotions for experience? Aren't they raises? Just because all other city employees got 8% between 2008-2010, does that mean teachers should get it too? And those uppity teachers, rather than bow down to his financial superiority, say things like, "Cops and firefighters get step increases too."
It's difficult being mayor when people throw things like that in your face. Over at the Panel for Educational Policy, what passes for a Board of Education in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg has 8 of 13 votes and can pretty much do whatever he goshdarn pleases. And collective bargaining, to Michael Bloomberg, means he tells you what you're going to get, you take it, and then you shut the hell up.
So Bloomberg has made a complaint to PERB. If he can't have a system that will hold teachers' feet to the fire, and that can be monitored by the public, he won't agree to anything. Let's ignore the fact that state law expressly prohibits public monitoring of these evaluations. For now, we'll also ignore that the law appears to have no teeth, and that parents will almost certainly be able to leak the results to the press. Bloomberg is not concerned with quality teachers or quality education. He simply wants to get rid of teachers and privatize, so his rich buds can benefit from the all the money that goes into education.
And all this posturing to the press is nothing but a never-ending temper-tantrum, from a megalomaniac surrounded by sycophants who enable and encourage the disease Michael Bloomberg mistakes for educational expertise.
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
One of the films listed here is the Worst Film of the Year
Zhang Ziyi wants to wish you an even happier Lunar New Year!
"This stuffed cow has seen me naked, too!"
In other news, the annual LoveHKFilm Awards will be announced Sunday, March 15th, 2009. I would tell you to mark your calendars, but because these awards are less important than the day-old donut sale at Dunkin' Donuts, I won't presume to do so. Instead, I ask that you drop by to see the results if you would be so kind as to deign us with your presence. You'd be surprised at how many people don't deign.


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Cai Guoqiang 蔡国强
Chinese, born 1957.
While living in Japan from 1986 to 1995, Cai Guo-Qiang began exploring the properties of gunpowder in his drawings. Cai's use of gunpowder has become central to his practice, leading to his experimentation with explosives and the development of his signature ignition events. Drawn to the medium for its myriad of associations, his gunpowder work, in addition to his repertoire of large-scale installations and social projects, draws upon Eastern philosophy, Maoist sentiment, and contemporary social issues. Though his fireworks are immediate signifiers of Chinese culture, Cai's aim is to transcend these boundaries, establishing dialogue between viewers and the world around them. His site-specific work often alludes to the culture or history of the city or region where his work is presented, as in his series of ignitions "The Century with Mushroom Clouds: Project for the 20th Century" (1995-96), conducted at symbolic locations in the United States to, as Cai has said, "depict the 'face' of the nuclear bomb that represents modern-day technology."


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Female-specific model and GHRH alone is being injected
Model Status
This model has been curated and is known to run in OpenCell and COR to recreate the published results. The units have been checked and they are consistent. Please note this particular version of the model is specific to females and also GHRH alone is being injected. To simulate the injection of GHS and L-arginine the CellML model will have to be adapted slightly - this is relatively simple to do and will require changing a few initial conditions and parameters according to the description in the original paper.
Model Structure
ABSTRACT: Models of physiological systems facilitate rational experimental design, inference, and prediction. A recent construct of regulated growth hormone (GH) secretion interlinks the actions of GH-releasing hormone (GHRH), somatostatin (SRIF), and GH secretagogues (GHS) with GH feedback in the rat (Farhy LS, Veldhuis JD. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 288: R1649-R1663, 2005). In contrast, no comparable formalism exists to explicate GH dynamics in any other species. The present analyses explore whether a unifying model structure can represent species- and sex-defined distinctions in the human and rodent. The consensus principle that GHRH and GHS synergize in vivo but not in vitro was explicable by assuming that GHS 1) evokes GHRH release from the brain, 2) opposes inhibition by SRIF both in the hypothalamus and on the pituitary gland, and 3) stimulates pituitary GH release directly and additively with GHRH. The gender-selective principle that GH pulses are larger and more irregular in women than men was conferrable by way of 4) higher GHRH potency and 5) greater GHS efficacy. The overall construct predicts GHRH/GHS synergy in the human only in the presence of SRIF when the brain-pituitary nexus is intact, larger and more irregular GH pulses in women, and observed gender differences in feedback by GH and the single and paired actions of GHRH, GHS, and SRIF. The proposed model platform should enhance the framing and interpretation of novel clinical hypotheses and create a basis for interspecies generalization of GH-axis regulation.
The complete paper reference is cited below:
Model-projected mechanistic bases for sex differences in growth hormone regulation in humans, Leon S. Farhy, Cyril Y. Bowers and Johannes D. Veldhuis, 2006, American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, volume 17, 788-803. PubMed ID: 17185408
A schematic diagram of the primary interconnections assumed among growth hormone (GH), growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH), somatostatin (SRIF) in the periventricular nucleus (SRIF PeV) and arcuate nucleus (SRIF ArC), growth hormone secretagogues (GHS) and GH feedback in the human. The small green arrows denote greater potency (P) or efficacy (E) in women compared with men. |


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Networking & Wireless | News
A Canadian university recently performed a simulation to see how well its network would hold up under the collective congestion of 100 Apple iPads running a multitude of common, bandwidth-hungry institutional applications. The University of Ottawa tested an Aruba Networks wireless network in its 250-seat auditorium in order to understand how real-world network performance would perform in a dense environment.
"The devices that students use and the way that they use them has shifted dramatically in the last two years," said CIO Sylvain Chalut. "Where we used to see about 75 percent laptops and 25 percent desktops, we now see maybe 50 percent laptops and the rest using other mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Students used to scramble for the library and the computer lab between classes, but that is over. We once had a list of 'approved devices' that could access the network. Those days are behind us."
The university's test included both first- and second-generation iPads, with and without 3G capabilities, running on an IPv6 802.11n WiFi network. The network infrastructure included an Aruba S3500 Mobility Access Switch, four Aruba AP-135s, and an Aruba 6000 Mobility Controller with an M3 controller module running Aruba OS version 6.1 (see figure 2). Test administrators managed the network via Aruba AirWave.
The applications tested by the university encompassed:
The university used VeriWave WaveInsite to set up and run the test and to measure performance.
Each application was delivered simultaneously to all 100 devices. According to a statement issued by Aruba, the applications performed "with the highest quality and without any noticeable jitter, delay, or frame loss."
About the Author
Dian Schaffhauser is a former senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal, Campus Technology and Spaces4Learning.


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Did you know that your AirBnB rental income can help you qualify for a refinance loan? In the past using any rental revenue from your "primary residence" was not acceptable on mortgage applications. However, starting in 2018 mortgage government-sponsored entity (GSE) Fannie Mae partnered with lenders to allow borrowers to both claim a property as a primary residence and use AirBnB rental income to qualify for refinance loans. If you'd love to refinance your loan, here's what you need to know:
Why Refinance?
As a homeowner and a vacation rental host, you may want to make your earnings stretch even farther by refinancing into a lower interest rate. The savings could free up cash to make improvements to your AirBnB or allow you to work on other financial projects.
You might also want to refinance if you want to have more financial freedom sooner. You could refinance from a 30-year loan into a 20-, 15-, or 10- to pay less interest and own the property outright in a shorter time frame.
Maybe you need a large chunk of cash to do some serious repairs or renovations on the property. Or perhaps business is going so well that you would like to acquire another AirBnB rental. You could choose a cash-out refinance to pull equity out of the house and put it toward your goals.
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In order to qualify for a refinance mortgage, you will need to have sufficient income and assets, as well as a low enough debt-to-income (DTI) ratio. That's where your AirBnB rental income can be a huge help now. That consistent revenue stream can count as income and can reduce your DTI, making it easier to meet the loan requirements. With traditional investment properties, refinancing often comes with tougher restrictions and the interest rates are usually slightly higher than on primary mortgages. By allowing you to count your AirBnB as primary residence (assuming you do live there some of the time) and still accounting from the rental income in your overall financial positives, lenders are making refinancing much more affordable and achievable.
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Once you apply for a refinance on your AirBnB property, you will need to provide certain documents proving your AirBnB. The lender will want to see your mortgage documents showing you have owned the property for at least 12 months. You will also need to provide your contract with AirBnB, as well as your "Proof of Income" statement from the company. The lender will use that record to verify that you have been renting part or all of your primary residence for at least 12 months, and it will average your earned rental income during that time to determine how much extra income to add to your mortgage application. (If you've been renting for longer than a year, many lenders will want to average your income from the past 24 months, rather than 12.)
This documentation is important for the mortgage industry because if borrowers were allowed to simply state that they may have extra income from rents, or if they just showed income from one or two months, they might be qualified for loans larger than they could afford, putting them at risk for foreclosure down the road.
So if you participate in AirBnB hosting, refinancing for better rates and terms or some extra cash may be easier than you thought!


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Biofilm is a protective home for bacteria that's composed of microorganisms. Biofilm can be found in wet places such as ponds, sewers, and bathroom drains, and it also grows on metals and minerals.
But biofilm can also be found in your mouth, in either healthy or diseased form. Both are composed of the same compounds, but when they combine with certain amino acids or chemicals, diseased biofilm will begin to destroy your enamel. You might notice this as a slimy yellow buildup of dental plaque on the surface of your teeth.
Biofilm takes form when free-swimming bacterial cells land on a surface and attach in a cluster. The cells begin to multiply and form a micro-colony that promotes diverse bacterial species to grow. To prevent biofilm from settling in your mouth to begin with, make sure to keep up your daily oral routine.
Any mouth appliances you use should also be scrubbed or soaked in cleaner as often as possible. You should pick a toothpaste that has antibacterial ingredients, rinse with mouthwash, and floss daily.
There are many ways to treat diseased biofilm. One is to kill the microorganisms through the use of chlorhexidine, triclosan, and mineral agents that reduce the degree of plaque formed in your mouth.
Another way is to make sure to go to your regular cleanings every six months with the doctor. During your cleaning, we remove excess biofilm that's accumulated on your teeth over the past six months.
Don't forget that it's also essential to keep a healthy amount of biofilm in your mouth, though. This type of biofilm protects your body from disease and is replicated every twenty minutes. If you have a healthy amount of good biofilm, the chances of your mouth producing harmful bacteria decreases.
Ask about biofilm during your next appointment at our ANGOLA, Indiana office if you've noticed any irregular yellow-colored buildup on your teeth. the doctor will make sure your mouth has a healthy balance of biofilm.
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She smiled. She knew she should probably get up and go to the bathroom, but she wanted to retain the moment for as long as possible. The bed linen could wait until morning; it had been worth it.
John had taken her – probably both of them, to be honest – to a place she hadn't been for years, had thought perhaps she wouldn't ever visit again. He knew: he always insisted that he could tell from the glow around her neck.
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Grizzly Bears Feast On Diverse Diet
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- February 19, 2007
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- University of Alberta
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- There's no such thing as picky grizzly bears -- they'll eat almost anything they can find. A new University of Alberta study that tracked food habits of the Alberta grizzly bear living in the foothills sheds some light on the animal's varied diet and their activity pattern.
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There's no such thing as picky grizzly bears--they'll eat almost anything they can find. A new University of Alberta study that tracked food habits of the Alberta grizzly bear living in the foothills sheds some light on the animal's varied diet and their activity pattern.
"Alberta bears have remarkably diverse diets," said Dr. Mark Boyce, biological sciences professor at the U of A and co-author on the study. "They'll eat just about anything."
Ants, fruits, moose and plants are a few staples of the Alberta grizzly bear's diet. This new research study was the most comprehensive examination of grizzly bear foods ever conducted in Canada. Using global positioning system (GPS) radiotelemetry technology and analyzing 665 feces collected from 18 grizzly bears over a period of three years, the scientists found that the bears packed a lot of activity into 24 hours. The research was recently published in the "Journal of Mammalogy."
Much is known about what bears in mountainous areas eat but little is known of the diets of grizzly bears living in boreal forests also used by humans. As well, this new research looked at five different activities the bears use to find food--whether it feeds on flowers, insects, fruits, digs for plants or kills other animals, specifically ungulates.
The diverse diets of the Alberta grizzly bear helps cushion them against climate change and other vagaries of the environment, said Boyce. Specifically, the research team found that the bears living in the foothills are effective predators on moose and deer. They are especially good at killing moose calves during the difficult spring period when other foods like berries are not yet available, said Boyce. Mountain bears are largely vegetarian, by comparison.
The scientists identified 40 different food items, examining each for seasonal patterns of use and differences among mountain and foothills environments. Digging the root of sweet vetch plants dominated early spring diets, while preying on ungulates--or hooved animals--was greatest during late spring, although the timing varied between foothill and mountain bears. Moose were the most common ungulate eaten by the bear (83 per cent), especially newborns (54 per cent), with white-tailed and mule deer (16 per cent) and elk (1 per cent) more minor in comparison. Rodents, insects (primarily ants), and birds were also consumed. Green vegetation dominated early summer diets and as fruit ripened in early August, berries such as soopolallie and mountain huckleberry were added to the bears' menu. The scientists also learned that most of the activity of the east slopes bears takes place in the daytime, especially morning and the evening. This is in contrast to bears living in spots where more frequent contact with humans take place, such as Banff National Park where most bear activity has become nocturnal.
Although the bears are filling up on these different food sources, being so near to highways and roads is dangerous for the animals.
"Bears are eating substantial amounts of clover and alfalfa, which are common roadside plantings," said Boyce. "Because these roadside plantings are attractive to bears, this can put the bears at risk of contact with humans. Nearly all new roads being constructed in the province are built by industry, either for timber harvest or oil and gas development.
"We should encourage industry to avoid using such attractive food items when planting in ditches and roadsides. It would be much better to use native grasses and other native plants to stabilize road banks and ditches. Most bear deaths occur near roads and we want to avoid attracting bears to areas near roads."
The other co-authors on this paper are Robin Munro, a former U of A Research Associate, Dr. Scott Nielsen, a post-doctoral fellow at the U of A, M.H. Price from the University of Victoria, and Gordon Stenhouse, from the Foothills Model Forest.
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Our T-shirts features a relaxed fit, with double-stitching on all seams. After dyeing they are washed and dried, so they arrive to you comfortable, pre-shrunk & ready to wear. This 100% Cotton tee will last you years and years.
- Pre-Shrunk, Medium Weight, 100% Cotton
- Relaxed, Classic Fit
- Hand-Dyed and Printed Using Soft, Non-Toxic Water-Based Inks
- Reinforced Double-Stitching On All Seams


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Crowdfunder is making it 100% free for community and charity crowdfunding projects during the coronavirus crisis. The Covid-19 epidemic could affect millions of people in the next few weeks.
These are unprecedented times but together, we are stronger, and the response is coming from communities across the country.
Volunteer groups are springing up to tackle the logistical problems faced in our communities – but they need urgent support. That's where we come in.


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Toolchain bump and rebuild of all packages, switch to MariaDB and libjpeg-turbo
To mitigate the known vulnerabilities Spectre v1-v3 we bumped gcc to version 7.3 and enabled some hardening compile flags als also bumped the whole toolchain glibc to version 2.27, binutils to version 2.30 and all major languages. Ffmpeg bumped to 3.4.x and the Linux kernel to version 4.15.4. That lead to a mass rebuild of all packages. While at it we did the long overdue switch from MySQL do MariaDB and from libjpeg to libjpeg-turbo.


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Our Pattaya Office Contact Details - Get in Touch Today
Being one of the main providers of rental homes, villas, condos and other properties in Thailand we decided it would be a good idea to open offices in some of the more busy locations so that we could continue to provide the very best service in the market place. Having some of our highly trained staff located in each of these tourist hubs of Thailand enables us to complement our fantastic rental properties with a first class customer support service that is friendly, efficient and with an abundance of local knowledge and tips. To find out more about any of our properties in Pattaya, or anything about our service in the local area you are interested in, please get in touch today. We have various ways in which you can get in contact - fill in the form below and we will get back to you as soon as one of our team is available, use our online help feature, send us an email or pick up the phone and speak to one of us now. We are looking forward to hearing from you & helping ensure your stay in Thailand exceeds your expectations!
Holiday Homes (Thailand) Co.Ltd,
Thailand Holiday Homes is the trading style of
Holiday Homes (Thailand) Co.Ltd,
Registered at Bangkok
Number: 0205551006458.
Registered Office:
Viewpoint Village 138/70 Moo 12,
Soi Chaiyapruek, Jomtien Beach,
Tourism Authority of Thailand Licence
Number: 14/01313
Dated 14th August 2012
E-mail: [email protected]


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Don't go on a spending spree using credit if you are thinking about buying a home, or in the process of buying a new home. Your mortgage pre-approval is subject to a final evaluation of your financial situation.
Every $100 you pay per month on a credit payment could cost you about $10,000 in home eligibility. For example, a car payment of $300/month could mean that you qualify for $30,000 less in a mortgage.
Even if you have accumulated enough savings, you should consider not making any large purchases until after closing. The last thing you want is to know that you could have purchased a new home had you curbed the urge to spend.


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SKU Code: CLA/UNB/W10
This retro pattern MWC military watch is based on the typical designs used by the British Army in the 1960s, it has been upgraded from acrylic to a glass crystal to enable it to reach modern water resistance standards. The watch offers the benefit of retaining the original outward appearance whilst having the advantage of a few discreet updates to improve its suitability for use on a day to day basis. One major upgrade is the hybrid mechanical/quartz movement. MWC hybrid watches essentially combine the best of new and traditional watchmaking technology. They encompass features from both our conventional automatic and quartz models resulting in a hybrid ultra-low maintenance movement. The hybrid movement has a battery powering the movement through coils and a quartz oscillator, but the hands are mechanically actuated and controlled. Essentially the movement is mechanical except it's powered by a battery and regulated by a crystal the only thing it doesn't have is a spring. This watch offers the ideal choice for buyers who would prefer the sweep secondhand as seen in automatic watches with the hassle-free maintenance benefits of a quartz watch.
This watch has a heavy stainless steel satin finish case made from Military Grade 316L stainless steel, sweep second hand, hacking function, black dial and luminous markings. It also has two straps one grey and one black.
- Width Inc Crown: 40mm
- Width Exc Crown: 38mm
- Hardened Crystal
- Thickness: 11.5mm
- Weight: 52g
- Lug Size: 20mm
- Lug to lug is 45mm
- 100m Water Resistance
- Screw caseback and crown
- Hybrid movement with "Hack System"
- 20mm Canvas Strap
- Gift Box


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Lawrence Gowan Explains Why Styx Started Playing 'Mr. Roboto'
Styx singer Lawrence Gowan explained why they recently added "Mr. Roboto" to their live set list, saying that they'd been considering it for the past five years.
The band had never performed the song live, although the band's former singer Dennis DeYoung had sung it to backing tapes during Styx's abandoned tour in support of Kilroy Was Here, the 1983 album on which the song appeared. Despite its popularity, "Mr. Roboto" had been avoided because the fallout from the Kilroy era led to the collapse of the band.
DeYoung recently commented on "Mr. Roboto" being performed as part of the current lineup's encore, calling it "a reversal of fortune from derision and ignominy" and adding that he'd said for years that "people will go bananas when it's played cause they like it, it's fun."
"Believe it or not, that conversation started about five years ago on our bus," Gowan said in a new interview with I'm Music Magazine. "Tommy [Shaw] said, 'You know, I'd really like to play "Mr. Roboto," but there's just so much baggage that we had to go through when we made that record. It ultimately led to the band breaking up, but I actually like that song. I just didn't like the experience of making that album.'
"Really, it's the convoluted interpretation of that statement that really has stuck with the band. … It was the experience around that concept record that left the band at odds with each other, but that's not disparaging of the song. That's the part that you have to separate from it. I was all for it because for a song like that to last as long as is has with numerous cultural references to it, it's part of the history of the band."
Gowan said Shaw and James "JY" Young had struggled to recall what they'd contributed to the song. Drummer Todd Sucherman, who had seen the band on that 1983 tour when he was 13 years old, reminded them that they hadn't actually played it onstage.
"That was kind of a great moment, because it kind of opened it to 'In that case, let's make it a little heavier and add some guitars to it,' Gowan said. "I intend to sing it with a bit more anger; I love the built in drama of the lyrics. Someone who is forced to hide their identity; I think it's a great concept. The robots are here to stay, and we're living with them and with a little bit of fear of just how high they will rise, whether we like it or not. On top of everything else, the song is fun, so why shouldn't we play it?"
Styx are currently touring North America with dates booked until Oct. 5.


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Professor Jonathan Turley is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law. He has written over three dozen academic articles that have appeared in a variety of leading law journals at Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, University of Chicago and other schools.
After a stint at Tulane Law School, Professor Turley joined the George Washington faculty in 1990 and, in 1998, was given the prestigious Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law, the youngest chaired professor in the school's history. In addition to his extensive publications, Professor Turley has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades including the representation of whistleblowers, military personnel, judges, members of Congress and a wide range of other clients. He is also one of the few attorneys to successfully challenge both a federal and a state law — leading to courts striking down the federal Elizabeth Morgan law as well as the state criminalization of cohabitation.
In 2010, Professor Turley represented Judge G. Thomas Porteous in his impeachment trial. After a trial before the Senate, Professor Turley (on December 7, 2010) argued both the motions and gave the final argument to all 100 U.S. Senators from the well of the Senate floor — only the 14th time in history of the country that such a trial of a judge has reached the Senate floor. Judge Porteous was convicted of four articles of impeachments, including the acceptance of $2000 from an attorney and using a false name on a bankruptcy filing.
In 2011, Professor Turley filed a challenge to the Libyan War on behalf of ten members of Congress, including Representatives Roscoe Bartlett (R., Md); Dan Burton (R., Ind.); Mike Capuano (D., Mass.); Howard Coble (R., N.C.); John Conyers (D., Mich.); John J. Duncan (R., Tenn.); Tim Johnson (R., Ill.); Walter Jones (R., N.C.); Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio); and Ron Paul (R., Tx). The lawsuit was before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
In November 2014, Turley agreed to serve as lead counsel to the United States House of Representatives in its constitutional challenge to changes ordered by President Obama to the Affordable Care Act. The litigation was approved by the House of Representatives to seek judicial review of the claims under the separation of powers. On May 12, 2016, the federal court handed down a historic victory for the House and ruled that the Obama Administration violated the separation of powers in ordering billions to be paid to insurance companies without an appropriation of Congress.
Other cases include his representation of the Area 51 workers at a secret air base in Nevada; the nuclear couriers at Oak Ridge, Tennessee; the Rocky Flats grand jury in Colorado; Dr. Eric Foretich, the husband in the famous Elizabeth Morgan custody controversy; and four former United States Attorneys General during the Clinton impeachment litigation. In the Foretich case, Turley succeeded recently in reversing a trial court and striking down a federal statute through a rare "bill of attainder" challenge. Professor Turley has also served as counsel in a variety of national security cases, including espionage cases like that of Jim Nicholson, the highest ranking CIA officer ever accused of espionage. Turley also served as lead defense counsel in the successful defense of Petty Officer Daniel King, who faced the death penalty for alleged spying for Russia. Turley also served as defense counsel in the case of Dr. Tom Butler, who is faced criminal charges dealing with the importation and handling of thirty vials of plague in Texas. He also served as counsel to Larry Hanauer, the House Intelligence Committee staffer accused of leaking a classified Presidential National Intelligence Estimate to the New York Times. (Hanauer was cleared of all allegations).
Among his current cases, Professor Turley represents Dr. Ali Al-Timimi, who was convicted in Virginia in 2005 of violent speech against the United States. In 2020, the federal court found that there was merit in the challenges raised by Professor Turley and his co-counsel Tom Huff. Accordingly, the judge ordered his release to protect him from Covid-19 while the Court prepared a decision on the challenges. Pursuant to a court order, Dr. Al-Timimi was released from the Supermax in Colorado and the two drove across the country so that he could be placed into home confinement. He also represented Dr. Sami Al-Arian, who was accused of being the American leader of a terrorist organization while he was a university professor in Florida. Turley represented Dr. Al-Arian for eight years, much of which was in a determined defense against an indictment for criminal contempt. The case centered on the alleged violation of a plea bargain by the Justice Department after Dr. Al-Arian was largely exonerated of terrorism charges in Tampa, Florida. On June 27, 2014, all charges were dropped against Dr. Al-Arian. He also represented pilots approaching or over the age of 60 in their challenge to the mandatory retirement age of the FAA. He also represented David Murphee Faulk, the whistleblower who disclosed abuses in the surveillance operations at NSA's Fort Gordon facility in Georgia.
Professor Turley also served as an expert defense witness in the extradition proceedings of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London. Turley was asked to testify on the likely pre-trial, trial and appellate issues facing Mr. Assange as well as the prison conditions that he could expect upon extradition to Northern Virginia for trial.
Professor Turley also agreed to serve as lead counsel representing the Brown family from the TLC program "Sister Wives, a reality show on plural marriage or polygamy. On December 13, 2013, the federal court in Utah struck down the criminalization of polygamy — the first such decision in history — on free exercise and due process grounds. On September 26, 2014, the court also ruled in favor of the Browns under Section 1983 — giving them a clean sweep on all of the statutory and constitutional claims. In April 2015, a panel reversed the decision on standing grounds and that decision is now on appeal.
Professor Turley was also lead counsel in the World Bank protest case stemming from the mass arrest of people in 2002 by the federal and district governments during demonstrations of the IMF and World Bank. Turley and his co-lead counsel Dan Schwartz (and the law firm of Bryan Cave) were the first to file and represented student journalists arrested without probable cause. In April 2015, after 13 years of intense litigation, the case was settled for $2.8 million, including $115,000 for each arrestee — a record damage award in a case of this kind and over twice the amount of prior damages for individual protesters. The case also exposed government destruction and withholding of evidence as well as the admitted mass arrest of hundreds of people without probable cause.
Professor Turley also served as the legal expert in the review of polygamy laws in the British Columbia (Canada) Supreme Court. In the latter case, he argued for the decriminalization of plural union and conjugal unions. In 2012, Turley also represented the makers of "Five Wives Vodka" (Ogden's Own Distillery) in challenging an effective ban on the product in Idaho after officials declared the product to be offensive to Mormons. After opposing the ban on free speech and other grounds, the state of Idaho issued a letter apologizing for public statements made by officials and lifting the ban on sale for "Five Wives Vodka."
Turley has served as a consultant on homeland security and constitutional issues, including with the Florida House of Representatives. He also served as the consultant to the Puerto Rico House of Representatives on the impeachment of Gov. Aníbal Acevedo Vilá.
Professor Turley is a frequent witness before the House and Senate on constitutional and statutory issues as well as tort reform legislation. That testimony includes the confirmation hearings of Attorney General nominees Loretta Lynch and William Barr as well as Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Professor Turley is also a nationally recognized legal commentator. Professor Turley was ranked as 38th in the top 100 most cited "public intellectuals" in the recent study by Judge Richard Posner. Turley was also found to be the second most cited law professor in the country. He has been ranked in the top five most popular law professors on Twitter and has been repeatedly ranked in the nation's top 500 lawyers in annual surveys (including in the latest rankings by LawDragon) – one of only a handful of academics. In prior years, he was ranked as one of the nation's top ten lawyers in military law cases as well as one of the top 40 lawyers under 40. He was also selected in the last five years as one of the 100 top Irish lawyers in the world. In 2016, he was ranked as one of the 100 most famous (past and present) law professors.
Professor Turley is one of only two academics to testify at both the Clinton and Trump impeachment hearings. In December 2019, Professor Turley was called as the one Republican witness in the House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings. He appeared with three Democratic witnesses. Professor Turley disagreed with his fellow witnesses in opposing the proposed articles of impeachments on bribery, extortion, campaign finance violations or obstruction of justice. He argued that these alleged impeachable acts were at odds with controlling definitions of those crimes and that Congress has historically looked to the criminal code and cases for guidance on such allegations. The committee ultimately rejected those articles and adopted the only two articles that Professor Turley said could be legitimately advanced: abuse of power, obstruction of Congress. Chairman Jerrold Nadler even ended the hearing by quoting his position on abuse of power. However, Turley opposed impeachment on this record as incomplete and insufficient for submission to the Senate. He argued for the House to wait and complete the record by seeking to compel key witnesses like former National Security Adviser John Bolton. His testimony was later relied upon in the impeachment floor debate by various House members and he was cited by both the White House and House managers in their arguments before the United States Senate in the Trump impeachment trial, including videotaped remarks played at the trial.
Professor Turley's articles on legal and policy issues appear regularly in national publications with hundreds of articles in such newspapers as the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal. He is a columnist for USA Today and writes regularly for the Washington Post. In 2005, Turley was given the Columnist of the Year award for Single-Issue Advocacy for his columns on civil liberties by The Aspen Institute and the Week Magazine. Professor Turley also appears regularly as a legal expert on all of the major television networks. Since the 1990s, he has worked under contract as the on-air Legal Analyst for NBC News, CBS News, BBC and Fox News. Professor Turley has been a repeated guest on Sunday talk shows with over two-dozen appearances on Meet the Press, ABC This Week, Face the Nation, and Fox Sunday. Professor Turley has taught courses on constitutional law, constitutional criminal law, environmental law, litigation, and torts. He is the founder and executive director of the Project for Older Prisoners (POPS). His work with older prisoners has been honored in various states, including his selection as the 2011 recipient of the Dr. Mary Ann Quaranta Elder Justice Award at Fordham University.
His award-winning blog is routinely ranked as one of the most popular legal blogs by AVVO. His blog was selected as the top News/Analysis site in 2013, the top Legal Opinion Blog in 2011 as well as prior selections as the top Law Professor Blog and Legal Theory Blog. It was also ranked in the top 20 constitutional law blog in 2018. It has been regularly ranked by the ABA Journal in the top 100 blogs in the world. In 2012, Turley was selected as one of the top 20 legal experts on Twitter by Business Insider. In 2013, the ABA Journal inducted the Turley Blog into its Hall of Fame.
Professor Turley received his B.A. at the University of Chicago and his J.D. at Northwestern. In 2008, he was given an honorary Doctorate of Law from John Marshall Law School for his contributions to civil liberties and the public interest.