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|"Are you a wizard or not?"
The title of this article is conjectural. Although it is based on canonical information, the actual name is a conjecture and may be supplanted at any time by additional information released from canonical sources. If this occurs, please move this page to the appropriate title.
- Ron: "Someone must have blabbed to her!"
- Hermione: "They can't have done...because I put a jinx on that piece of parchment we all signed. Believe me, if anybody's run off and told Umbridge, we'll know exactly who they are and they will really regret it."
- Ron: "What'll happen to them?"
- Hermione: "Well, put it this way...it'll make Eloise Midgen's acne look like a couple of cute freckles."
- — Hermione Granger to Ron Weasley about the jinx[src]
This jinx (incantation unknown) was used by Hermione Granger in 1995 as a safeguard against traitors within Dumbledore's Army. Hermione placed it on a piece of parchment signed by all D.A. members so that if any of them betrayed the group, boils would form on his or her face across the cheeks and nose, forming the word "SNEAK".[2]
Known Uses
Although Hermione placed the jinx onto the parchment, she neglected to tell anyone about it at the time of the signing; she simply told them that if they sign, they are agreeing not to tell. When Ron showed her the newly placed Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four and claimed that she was naive for believing that acting honourable and trustworthy will ensure the signers to maintain secrecy, she revealed to him and Harry that she jinxed the parchment as a method to both revealing any traitors and punishing them in a humiliating way, much to Ron's glee.[1] However, as it was an external party, Willy Widdershins, who reported this meeting, the jinx did not activate on any signers.
Marietta had the marks even the following year, and on the Hogwarts Express Harry smirked when he saw Marietta was wearing a very thick layer of make-up but the pimples were still visible.[3] This, along with in the previous year where Umbridge, Cornelius Fudge and even Madam Pomfrey could not reverse it, indicates that a counter-jinx could not be found or that Hermione refused to give it to Marietta. The boils did fade with time, but left scars, likely as a warning about the cost of betrayal.
Behind the scenes
- The jinx may be related to the Pimple Jinx, which causes boils to erupt on a person wherever the spell hits.
- As not even Madam Pomfrey could reverse the effects, it may mean that the Cure for Boils and Bubotuber pus, effective for removing pimples and acne, does not affect this jinx.
- It is possible that this jinx only activates if the targets willingly break the contract, because in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Cho Chang was forced to betray the D.A. through Veritaserum, and the jinx did not activate, meaning coercion will not trigger it. However, the jinx was not mentioned at all in the film adaptation.
- It appears the jinx requires the victim to enact the specific act of revealing that the organisation exists to a teacher (specifically Umbridge) in order to activate, as Dean Thomas led Seamus Finnigan, who was not a member yet at the time, to join with no consequences. Marietta did not suffer when she told Umbridge that it would be advantageous to go to the Room of Requirement; it was only when she said a meeting was taking place that the boils appear.
- Given the apparent lack of a counter-jinx or cure apart from the boils fading on their own, as well as being specifically stated to identify traitors, it is quite likely that Hermione herself invented this spell rather than having run across it in a book.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Effect)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 17 (Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 27 (The Centaur and the Sneak)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 7 (The Slug Club)


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Today, Corning announced in a press release that it will be showcasing the successor to the massively popular Gorilla Glass 2, the Gorilla Glass 3, at the upcoming CES in Las Vegas.
Corning's Gorilla Glass series has been massively successful and is used in nearly every smartphone or tablet today including the Galaxy S series, iPhone, iPad and the HTC One series.
While Gorilla Glass is tough to scratch, it is not impossible to do so. According to Corning, Gorilla Glass 3 will be up to 3 times more resistant to scratches and will also reduce the visibility of scratches by 40%. Apart from this, Corning also states that even after Gorilla Glass 3 is damaged or has a major crack, it will still be 50% stronger than its previous versions.
Corning will be unveiling Gorilla Glass 3 at its booth in CES at Las Vegas on January 7th. The company expects Gorilla Glass 3 equipped devices by the middle of the year.

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Here it is, the first-ever footage from Captain America: The First Avenger, with the first look at Red Skull and Steve Rogers before he was a superhero. Plus, a new Thor trailer!
Here's Cap, emerging from the super serum machine and into action.
Here's Red Skull (click to enlarge)
...and here's the brand new Thor trailer, now with a lot more Natalie Portman! [Via Yahoo]


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Cassini finds atmosphere on Enceladus
The two close fly-bys of Saturn's moon Enceladus by the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft have revealed that it has a significant atmosphere.
Scientists, using Cassini's MAG magnetometer instrument for their studies, say the source may be volcanism, geysers or gases escaping from the surface or the interior.
When Cassini had its first encounter with Enceladus on 17 February at an altitude of 1167 kilometres, the magnetometer saw a striking signature in the magnetic field. On 9 March, Cassini approached to within 500 kilometres of the surface of Enceladus and obtained additional evidence.
The observations showed a bending of the magnetic field, with the magnetospheric plasma being slowed and deflected by the moon. In addition, magnetic field oscillations were observed. These are caused when ionised (electrically charged) molecules interact with the magnetic field by spiraling around the field line. This interaction creates characteristic oscillations in the magnetic field at frequencies that can be used to identify the molecule. The observations from the Enceladus fly-bys are believed to be due to ionised water vapour.
"These new results from Cassini may be the first evidence of gases originating either from the surface or possibly from the interior of Enceladus," said Professor Michele Dougherty, Principal Investigator for MAG, from Imperial College, University of London.
In 1981, NASA's Voyager spacecraft flew by Enceladus at a distance of 90 000 kilometres without detecting an atmosphere. Its possible detection was beyond Voyager's capabilities, or something may have changed since that fly-by.
This is the first time since Cassini arrived in orbit around Saturn last summer that an atmosphere has been detected around a moon of Saturn other than its largest moon, Titan. Enceladus is a relatively small moon. The amount of gravity it exerts is not enough to hold an atmosphere very long. Therefore, a strong continuous source is required to maintain this atmosphere on Enceladus.
The need for such a strong source leads scientists to consider eruptions, such as volcanoes and geysers. If such eruptions are present, Enceladus would join two other such active moons, Io at Jupiter and Triton at Neptune.
"Enceladus could be Saturn's more benign counterpart to Jupiter's dramatic Io," said Professor Fritz Neubauer, Co-Investigator for MAG, University of Cologne, Germany.
Since the Voyager fly-by, scientists have suspected that this moon is geologically active and is the source of Saturn's icy E ring. Enceladus is the most reflective object in the Solar System, reflecting about 90 percent of the sunlight that hits it. If Enceladus does have ice volcanoes, the high reflectivity of the moon's surface might result from continuous deposition of icy particles originating from the volcanoes.
Enceladus measures about 500 kilometres in diameter. Yet despite its small size, Enceladus exhibits one of the most interesting surfaces of all the icy satellites.


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| 13.5°C Belfast
Prime Minister David Cameron stuck the knife into Labour after saying its handling of Wales' NHS had turned the Welsh border into a dividing "line of life and death".
A war of words has erupted between the two rival governments in London and Cardiff Bay in recent weeks over their differing policies on health.
Carwyn Jones' administration in the Welsh Assembly has come under repeated criticism from rivals amid increasing waiting time lists and claims of underfunding.
And Mr Cameron sought to turn up the heat further during his speech at the Welsh Conservatives' conference in Llangollen today.
While talking up his party's record on the economy and how the upcoming Nato summit would boost Wales, he was quick to put down Labour.
He said: "Doctors and nurses are being woefully let down by Labour.
"Patients are waiting weeks and weeks for vital heart scans. One in seven people in Wales is on an NHS waiting list.
"A Cancer Drugs Fund in England - but not here.
"I tell you - when Offa's Dyke becomes the line between life and death, we are witnessing a national scandal.
"After this utter shambles Labour should never dare call themselves the party of the NHS again."
Health is one of 20 areas devolved to the Welsh Assembly.
The different policies pursued by Labour in Wales include universal free prescriptions and looking to drive up organ donation rates by changing to an opt-out rather than opt-in system.
However, First Minister Mr Jones' government has come under fire amid claims it has under-funded the NHS.
And new statistics published this week showed that more Welsh hospital patients were waiting longer for diagnostic tests than in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Mr Cameron believes Welsh Labour should take a leaf out of the Tories' book on health as well as education.
"We're arguing for more funding, more transparency, more power to doctors and nurses," he said.
"In education we're saying: in a competitive world it's not softer subjects and experimental teaching these children need...it's proper spelling in English, basic arithmetic in maths, the best of our history, proper respected exams.
"It's not more of this failed, left-wing, ideological clap-trap we need - it's more rigour, more standards, more choice, more hope."
The PM also insisted his Westminster government was making a real difference to people's lives.
He said the Tories had ensured the electrification of the Great Western railway-line went ahead as well as ensuring Japanese firm Hitachi signed on the dotted line for the Wylfa nuclear power station upgrade.
He added: "And the M4, the artery for thousands of Welsh businesses - it's finally going to get the work it needs. "
The Prime Minister also reaffirmed his commitment to income tax powers being devolved to Wales.
He added: "I believe in the Welsh Government being more responsible for raising the money it spends.
"And above all, I believe in the Conservatives campaigning as the one and only low-tax party in Wales today.
"We know it's not Government's money - it's your money - and we want you to keep more of it."
He also said the upcoming Nato summit in Newport this September was a chance for Wales to shine on the worldwide stage.
"London had the Olympics, Northern Ireland hosted the G8, the Commonwealth Games are in Scotland; now it's Wales' turn," he said.
"This is a vital summit. The biggest-ever in Britain's history.
"And with the situation in Ukraine, the world will be watching and asking.
"Do we still stand up to aggression, do we pledge our collective efforts to defend our allies..
"Do we believe in the future of Nato that's kept the peace in Europe for 65 years?
"I say a huge "yes" - and we'll be saying that here in Wales."
Mr Cameron also spelled out his party's long term five-point plan - which consisted of reducing the deficit, cutting income tax, creating more jobs, capping welfare and immigration and driving up education standards.
He added: "Our economy is one of the fastest growing in the developed world.
"The deficit is down by a third. Mortgage rates are at historic lows.
"Income taxes have been cut for 1.2 million people in Wales...and from this week, 144,000 of them will pay no income tax at all."
He also said unemployment in Wales had reduced by 32,000 people since his party came to power in Westminster and justified his party's unpopular austerity policies - saying they were necessary because no-one would "invest in a country crippled by debt".
Mr Cameron also paid particular tribute to the staff at Westbridge Furniture in Holywell, Flintshire.
Earlier in the day he visited the company's factory - where around 2,000 suites are made per week for customers such as Ikea and John Lewis - and met some of the firm's 400 staff.
"They are so proud of their craft and the job they do," he said. "These are the people of Wales. Enterprising, inventive, ambitious."
Earlier in the day, UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt launched his strongest attack on the NHS in Wales claiming it was "sleepwalking to a Mid Staffs tragedy".
He said: "If you ignore the evidence when individual problems pile up, if you stick your head in the sand and pretend all will be fine... well, that's exactly what happened at Mid Staffs under the last Labour government in England.
"And that is what the Labour government in Cardiff is risking right now in Wales.
"They are sleepwalking into a Welsh Mid Staffs tragedy and unless we shout loud enough these appalling lapses in care will repeat themselves time after time."
His comments came on the day the key and independent Nuffield report said NHS funding cuts may be behind longer waiting times, but added Wales was not lagging behind the rest of the UK.
Labour MP and shadow Welsh secretary, Owen Smith, said Mr Cameron's attack on the Welsh NHS was "baseless".
" It is ridiculous of the Prime Minister to describe Offa's Dyke as a 'border between life and death' - remarks beyond parody and beneath contempt - and especially so on the very day that an independent, Nuffield Trust study confirmed that there is little difference in health outcomes between the Health Services of England and Wales.
"Recent Tory scaremongering about the level of care received by patients in the Welsh NHS has been truly disgraceful, however, David Cameron has reached a new low with these comments.
"He should apologise to the thousands of Welsh health workers whose service he denigrates with his glib and baseless attacks, and even more so to the millions of people who use the Welsh NHS.
"The national scandal here is not the Welsh NHS, but David Cameron himself, who demeans his office with these remarks and who has clearly forgone any ambition to be a Prime Minister for the whole of Britain."


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Real Gone CD
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- Top Of The Hill
- Hoist That Rag
- Sins Of My Father
- Shake It
- Don't Go Into That Barn
- How's It Gonna End
- Metropolitan Glide
- Dead And Lovely
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- Trampled Rose
- Green Grass
- Baby Gonna Leave Me
- Clang Boom Steam
- Make It Rain
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Academy Award nominated and Grammy Award winner, Tom Waits has been long considered one of music's most influential artists because he has continuously created music outside of fad or fashion. With REAL GONE, his off-road adventures are taken into the further beyond. Mixing and mashing: worlds both sonic and ethnic, musical traditions both new and old, and rhythms both mouth-made and sampled from his own instruments, Waits has reached a new pinnacle.
Written and produced by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, his wife and long-time collaborator, REAL GONE features 15 tracks of funk, Jamaican rock-steady, blues both urban and rural, rhythms and melodies both Latin and African and, for the first time, no piano. REAL GONE is a phrase that describes a place, a time beyond reach: a lost mind, a renegade leader, war love sublime, love lost, death, desire, escape. These are the themes of the record inspired by the giddy lust, high voltage, out of orbit times—-a vertigo of splash and trash popular culture spinning alongside the gun to our head and the knife in our heart political times or as "Shake It" says, "I feel like a preacher waving a gun around."
REAL GONE is also an expression used by musicians to describe the experience of playing and losing yourself to the place where you can finally be found.


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Bieksa targets Couture, Thornton as embellishers
Logan Couture #39 (left), Joe Thornton #19, Dan Boyle #22, and Joe Pavelski #8 of the San Jose Sharks skate back to the bench after Joe Pavelski scored a first period power play goal against the Vancouver Canucks.
Photograph by: Christian Petersen , Getty Images
SAN JOSE -- Desperately seeking a way out of the 3-0 hole they have dug for themselves, the Vancouver Canucks played the embellishment card on Monday.
Defenceman Kevin Bieksa was the lead actor in this little drama that played out in the hallway of the HP Pavilion after Vancouver's optional practice.
Bieksa suggested San Jose's top two centres, Joe Thornton and Logan Couture, are not playing the game with integrity and accused them of using embellishment to draw penalties. He also referred to them as "so-called Canadians."
"Couture, you can't go near the guy, he snaps his head back, he flails," Bieksa told reporters. "You touch him after the whistle and he is going to jump off the ice and throw himself into the glass. These are hard calls for the officials to make and right now they are going against us.
"This isn't my opinion. The evidence is in the video. . .Hank (Sedin) touches him off the faceoff, he does a full back arch and his glove goes flying off in the corner."
Bieksa also had harsh words for Thornton.
"Thornton, another so-called Canadian, supposed to play the game with integrity. . .He gets slashed, he takes his glove off and shakes his hand. The ref takes a couple of seconds to look at that and make a call. That's a critical time in the game when we go down two men."
Bieksa's comments were clearly calculated and not a spur-of-the-moment thing. He made them first to a small group of reporters, then repeated them when all the TV cameras arrived. He even brought along a hockey stick to use as a prop as he tried to demonstrate how Couture rocks his head back after getting brushed with the butt end in the faceoff circle.
The Canucks are obviously seeking any edge they can possibly get as they try to extend the series. Game 4 goes Tuesday night at the HP Pavilion. They are also looking to deflect attention away from their own deficiencies that have become apparent in this series.
Bieksa's comments don't figure to play particularly well among many hockey observers. The Canucks -- most notably the likes of Ryan Kesler and Alex Burrows -- have long been accused of embellishment to sell penalties. And then there's the fact that a Bieksa spear to the groin knocked San Jose forward Martin Havlat out of the series in Game 1.
Bieksa said none of that matters.
"Whether or not you think we're embellishers or not doesn't take away the fact those two guys are doing it as well," he said. "So, forget about the past. Look at this series. I don't feel like we've embellished calls, and it's going the other way.
"The twins get hacked and slashed and whacked more than anyone If they ever try to draw a penalty or embellish it, they're called on it. By everybody.
"(Couture and Thornton) are making it tough on the officials. These are tough calls for the officials to make, because they're not sure on the extent of the damage.
"It's not (a problem with) the officials. This is about guys playing the game with integrity."
The Sharks have four power-play goals in the series and three of them came in Sunday's night's 5-2 win that gave San Jose a 3-0 stranglehold on the series.
"Those are two Canadian guys who are supposed to be playing the game with integrity," Bieksa said of Couture and Thornton. "Maybe our team has to do more of that. Maybe we have to try and sell calls."
He cited the current hard-hitting series between the St. Louis Blues and Los Angeles Kings as hockey being played the right way.
"I haven't seen one guy embellish, one guy trying to draw a penalty," he said. "That's hard-nosed hockey."
Reached for comment by the San Jose Mercury News, Couture said: "Really?" He then added, "there's really not much to say. I'm not going to go to the media and do any talking. I'll do my talking on the ice,"
Coach Alain Vigneault had only a terse comment on Bieksa's remarks.
"We are the embellishers," Vigneault said, referring to accusations his team has faced in the past.
Vigneault, meanwhile, said he has decided who will start in goal in Game 4, but would not say if it will be Cory Schneider or Roberto Luongo.
He challenged his team to win Game 4 and then move on from there.
"I believe we can win one game," he said. "We haven't beaten the Sharks once this year. I believe we can do it tomorrow."
The Canucks think they have have competed well five-on-five in this series, but have been hurt by the San Jose power play.
"They have gotten definite momentum from the number of penalties that have been called on us and their power play has moved the puck extremely well and has definitely given them momentum," Vigneault said. "Five-on-five this series has been pretty evenly matched, but their top players have found a way to find the back of the net."
Defenceman Dan Hamhuis hopes Vancouver's back end can help the team manufacture some more goals. The Canucks have been outscored 11-5 in the series and only three of those goals have come from forwards.
"That is one of the things we talked about," Hamhuis said. "We have good D who can skate and move the puck and enjoy being part of the offence. We want to create more of that, we haven't scored enough goals in this series and that's one thing we are going to try and do better."


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Monday, May 17, 2010
A Terrific Turquoise Dresser
41 Sunny Notes:
- Kristi~The Slipcover Girl said...
looks great! i love the color! fantastic job!
- May 18, 2010
- Decor To Adore said...
Oh what a fantastic DIY project. You are one clever and creative gal.
I finally finished a project I have been working on for 23 years.
Pop on by.
- May 18, 2010
- gail@My Repurposed Life said...
Your dresser turned out great! I love the color.
- May 18, 2010
- Gina said...
What a great project! I love the color, and the cool pulls on the drawers. Nice work!
- May 19, 2010
- Shari @ My Cottage of Bliss said...
Your dresser looks happy in its great new color and sparkly bling. And I TOTALLY get the "sticking-one-more-thing-in-the-garage" speech because I've heard it 1000 times myself.
- May 19, 2010
- Jo said...
I love the colour as well!
- June 03, 2010
- Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti said...
That is s nice substantial dresser and looks so cheerful in that color! It's so great your sons helped to paint it. Happy "T" day
- June 03, 2010
- Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler said...
fantastic color! It's all robin's eggy.
- June 03, 2010
- Theresa Plas said...
Love it! I'm a big fan of turquoise!
- June 03, 2010
- People Who Know Me Would Say: said...
What an improvement! Just beautiful!
- June 03, 2010
- laterg8r said...
very cool color :D
- June 03, 2010
- Jenny said...
Yanet! You are really the master of recycled furniture vision I think!
I loved your transformation of this plain piece of furniture into something so contemporary. But what? No alphabet stencils on here?
This was a terrific stop!
Thanks for participating!
- June 03, 2010
- A 2 Z said...
Well that looks a thousand times better. Now you need to rest and join me at my Tea Party at my blog. I'm a new follower. Cant wait to see what else you will refurbish.
- June 03, 2010
- Viki said...
I never knew that had stains that color. It turned out great. Really very colorful. Great T post.
- June 03, 2010
- Susan Freeman said...
Great transformation, great color!!
Susan and Bentley
- June 03, 2010
- Brenda said...
I love the color also. Should look quite wonderful where ever you put it.
- June 03, 2010
- Linda Bob Grifins Brin Korbetis said...
lovely blue,
very sweet t post!
- June 03, 2010
- Linda @ A La Carte said...
Love that color and I think the stain is perfect and lets the patten of the inlay show through.
- June 04, 2010
- mub said...
That's a really fun color!
- June 04, 2010
- Unknown said...
What beautiful work you have done! Lovely colour! You should be proud of yourself!
As far as your last comments about asking your husband to do you a favour. Yes, I know exactly what you mean. You try to read his mood. You clean the kitchen extra nice or cook something he likes...
But why is it so?
In any case you did a great staining job and have made a great T-post about it!
Best wishes,
Anna's Ts
- June 04, 2010
- Unknown said...
it is a great color...the piece is completely transformed--darling!
- June 04, 2010
- Rocky Mountain Woman said...
Absolutely love the color!
Do you want to come by and refinish all of the furniture in my house? Ok, maybe just some of it? Ok, maybe just my old table that looks like crap?
- June 04, 2010
- jeff campbell said...
I think Turquoise is such a swell color...I have a lot of Turquoise jewelry and stones...great post...peace and blessings
- June 04, 2010
- Terra said...
what a great chest and a great color...I love it!
- June 05, 2010
- Cheryl said...
I would be the lone dissenter since I prefer wood grain to be seen. However, given what you had to work with, using the light turquoise stain and shabby chic rubbing, I think this came out great.
Great T and awesome helper you had there even if you had to redo his artwork.
- June 05, 2010
- Unknown said...
I love turquoise....the dresser looks good.
- June 05, 2010
- Kate said...
I love this color, great job!
- July 20, 2010
- Lenore @ Lather. Write. Repeat. said...
I love the turquoise, it goes so nice with those knobs!
- July 20, 2010
- Korrie@RedHenHome said...
I've never used color stain before, but you've made me want to give it a try! It looks beautiful.
- July 20, 2010
- Life in Rehab said...
Gorgeous! I love the color, and I want to take a bite out of your little helper's tiny pot belly.
- July 20, 2010
- Karie said...
Wow! You did a beautiful job on this dresser. I really like the color. Thanks for sharing.
karie @ karieschiccreations
- July 20, 2010
- Kim @ Savvy Southern Style said...
Wonderful job on this piece and great color.
- July 20, 2010
- Ανεράιδα said...
Great color, beautiful dresser!!
- July 21, 2010
- Cassie Bustamante said...
oooh- this was from back before i followed you and i hadn't seen it. gorgeous!!!
- July 21, 2010
- Andi said...
I think this turned out beautifully!!! love the color and the distressed look! just awesome!
- July 21, 2010
- thriftytickle said...
I love the color too! I'd be honored if you would drop by and link up to Vintage Suitcase Friday!
- July 23, 2010
- chris said...
Such a happy transformation. Well done!
- September 28, 2010
- Unknown said...
I didn't even know there was such a thing as color stain. Awesome, I can't wait to try that out. You did a great job, love that you let your little one "help." I let our 21 month old son help me too on a book shelf I did for his room, it definitely added more steps to the process.
- September 28, 2010
I love it!
- October 04, 2010
- carolyn said...
i like the color- and who would have thought, turquoise stain!
i also love the little stool underneath- it's adorable.
- October 04, 2010
- Unknown said...
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- October 06, 2017


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Being a devout library user, rarely do I ever buy a book. This time I made an exception because it was by a favourite author and I was charmed by both the title and the lovely cover. But if I wouldn't have bought it, I don't think I would have finished it. As with Commonwealth (which I also oddly bought on a whim and was disappointed in), I am realising that I liked Patchett's earlier works like Bel Canto, State of Wonder, and This is the Story of a Happy Marriage much better. I must be an outlier in this, since reviews for both of Patchett's recent novels have been glowing. Incidentally, in case you plan to read it by listening to the audio, it is narrated by Tom Hanks.
This book is a classic example of an inanimate object taking its place as a character in the novel. I connected fully with the house and feel I could recognise it if I saw it, but sadly connected less fully with any of the people or the story line. Not much happens in this novel and I found it rather boring, to be honest, despite the flyleaf promises of suspense and a 'tour de force.'
Danny and Maeve are exiled by their stepmother but for years and years to come they continue to park outside of the house just to stare and remember and reflect. They go on with their lives, but the obsessive stalking clearly weighs them down. The story explores relationships tainted by loss, longing, and a sense of displacement. In the end there is a bit of redemption, but for me it was too little too late.


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Today physicists at Wake Forest University and NanoMedica, their biotechnology company partner, received a $700,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bring to market a new drug-discovery tool using next-generation genetic sequencing.
The technology, Next-Gen Lab-on-Bead, would be the first bead-based drug-discovery tool to use the latest genetic sequencing technologies, making drug and diagnostics discovery significantly more efficient.
Pharmaceutical companies would use the technology as a sort of Google search for new drugs sending the scientists a protein marker of the disease for which they want to find a treatment, and letting Next-Gen Lab-on-Bead test millions of possibilities all at once.
"Next-gen is much faster and cheaper, and no one is using it for drug discovery as far as we know," said Martin Guthold, associate professor of physics and co-inventor of Next-Gen Lab-on-Bead. "It miniaturizes and massively parallelizes sequencing on beads in little wells, so we can do millions of sequencing actions in unison to find potential drug candidates to treat a specific disease."
The NIH awarded the funding through its Small Business Innovation Research program, so Wake Forest will share the funds with NanoMedica, a Winston-Salem company that has licensed the patent for Next-Gen Lab-on-Bead.
The technology uses a roughly one-inch-square chip, similar to a computer chip. A football-shaped area in the middle of the chip is filled with millions of wells. Each well contains a bead, to which the researchers attach a potential drug molecule.
"Each chip contains millions of potential drug candidates," Guthold said. "We know the position and identity of each, because we can associate a potential drug molecule with the sequence in each well."
To find a disease-drug match, a pharmaceutical company would supply the target for instance, a protein called Src kinase associated with many cancers. The researchers would combine the fluorescently labeled protein with a neutral solution and flow it over the chip.
If a well glows fluorescently, indicating that the protein target bound to the bead in the well, it contains a drug candidate that is potentially useful in treating the disease. The pharmaceutical company then can begin testing the drug in the lab.
Though the Wake Forest-NanoMedica research team has focused on drug discovery, Next-Gen Lab-on-Bead also could be used for more accurate, speedy medical diagnoses.
"If you want to see if a biopsy is cancerous, you could use diagnostic molecules that were discovered with this technology. If a biopsy sample binds to certain diagnostic molecules, then it's cancerous," Guthold said.
The research team includes Keith Bonin, Jed Macosko and Jason Gagliano of the Wake Forest physics department.
Wake Forest and NanoMedica also have received a two-year, $160,000 Collaborative Funding Grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center to refine Next-Gen Lab-on-Bead for commercial use.
"We have made a major commitment to purchasing expensive equipment that's beyond the realm of most startups, and that's a risk we took because we are confident that applying next-gen sequencing to drug discovery is really novel," said Roger Cubicciotti, NanoMedica president/CEO.
According to a recent report by Frost & Sullivan, next-generation genetic sequencing is expected to boom in the next five years as researchers explore drug-discovery and diagnostic applications. That will make it one of the fastest-growing markets in the biomedical industry, the report says.
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Binary Phase Shift Keying describes a technique modulating a sinoid carrier frequency by changing the phase between two defined states: 0° and 180°. The amplitude of the modulated signal remains constant, therefore this is called phase shift keying. Each phase state corresponds to a symbol, as there are only two states we have here only two possible symbols.


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Police have reportedly shown up near the home of Aaron Hernandez wearing SCUBA gear and wielding metal detectors.
From our NFL Network reporter on scene RT @richholl: AH case: Police in Scuba gear searching waters near home. Metal detectors with them.— NFL: AroundTheLeague (@NFL_ATL) June 24, 2013Advertisement
The officers are searching a creek near Hernandez's home.
Developing---MA state police suiting up to enter a body of water near Aaron Hernandez home. @NECN pic.twitter.com/JeHk3oYuWT— Kathryn Sotnik (@kathrynsotnik) June 24, 2013
Hernandez was tied to the homicide of Odin Lloyd last week after an SUV rented in his name was linked to the crime scene.
Police have questioned Hernandez and searched his home, and have written up an unissued arrest warrant for obstruction of justice after Hernandez destroyed his cell phone and home security system.
Hernandez has not been named a suspect, but has not yet been ruled out.
Police are likely searching for the murder weapon, presumably a gun. Lloyd was found in an industrial park near Hernandez's home with gunshot wounds, and police said he appeared to have been dumped there.


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Huge thanks to my BlackBerry, I am able to receive emails, important ones that make my day. I manage 3 e-mail addresses--1 for work (then job-hunting), 1 for my fashion blogs and social networks, and 1 for my blog. I still find myself jumping up and down whenever my phone sends out an alert, bearing good news that (most of the time) make my day. So excited to share this THING with you but I still am in no position to disclose any information about this THING that I am excited about. On another (but related note, trust me it is, I just won't spill) note, I will be answering 2 sets of questions--from bloggers who are nice enough to stumble upon my blog and feature me in theirs, at work tomorrow. DURING MY FREE TIME, OF COURSE!
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Marc B. Hahn, DO, FAOCA, President and CEO
Dr. Hahn became the 14th president and chief executive officer of the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences (KCU) in July 2013, after serving as KCU's executive vice president for academic and medical affairs, provost and dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine since October 2012. As president, he leads the largest medical school in the Midwest, which is a key educator of physicians and scientists for both Missouri and Kansas, and the tenth largest medical school in the nation.
He came to KCU from the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine, where he served as senior vice president for health affairs and dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine from 2009 to 2012. Prior to his tenure at UNE, Dr. Hahn served as senior vice president for health affairs at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Ft. Worth and dean of the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine for nearly eight years. Dr. Hahn's career in anesthesiology began at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he completed his internship and residency training. He completed a fellowship in pain management at both the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He then became the chief of pain management services at Walter Reed and also served as a faculty member at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. While in the military, he served as anesthesiologist for two U.S. presidents, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
He eventually was appointed chief of the Pain Medicine and Palliative Care Division at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and professor of anesthesiology at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. Dr. Hahn was a 1998-1999 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow and in that capacity, he served as a health policy advisor to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (Sen. William Roth, Chair).
A graduate of Syracuse University with a bachelor of science degree in biology, Dr. Hahn earned a doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from Des Moines University. He is board certified in anesthesiology by both the American Board of Anesthesiology and the American Osteopathic Board of Anesthesiology, for which he holds fellow status. He also holds sub-specialty board certification in pain medicine by the American Board of Anesthesiology and the American Board of Pain Medicine.
Throughout the years, Dr. Hahn has served on numerous committees for various commissions, agencies and organizations. This includes serving as the president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, for which he was the first osteopathic physician to be elected to that position. He served as the chair of the Board of Deans for the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine and was co-chair for the notable Blue Ribbon Commission for the Advancement of Osteopathic Medical Education. Special appointments include: site inspector for medical school accreditation for the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation; appointment to a key Medicaid Advisory Panel by the Governor of Texas, and member of the Institute of Medicine's Planning Committee for Graduate Medical Education. Dr. Hahn is currently a member of the Civic Council of Greater Kansas City, serves on the board of directors for the Kansas City Area Development Council and is a Trustee of Rockhurst University.
Dr. Hahn has lectured extensively at national and international meetings. He has published numerous abstracts, book chapters, reviews and has editorials, scientific papers and textbooks. He has also received scientific grant funding through various sources. His textbook, Regional Anesthesia: An Atlas of Anatomy and Technique, was recognized as the Best New Textbook in Clinical Medicine by the Association of American Publishers.
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Occupy the Hamptons is getting some pretty serious press. The Wall Street Journal reported on the movement, giving it national, and international attention. And according to the leader of the movement, Ty Wenzel, we can expect to see more Occupy The Hamptons protests when the summer months come around…
From WSJ.com: Activists in the Hamptons, many of whom started off protesting in Lower Manhattan's Zucotti Park against the banking industry and economic inequality, want to demonstrate where "the 1% vacation," said Ty Wenzel, a web developer in East Hampton.
A resident since 1999, Ms. Wenzel said the group has held a couple of marches but is focused on gearing up for the summer, when moneyed vacationers decamp to the East End, driving the area's population up fivefold from its usual 100,000.
"At first, people thought Occupy the Hamptons was a joke, that it wouldn't fly here," Ms. Wenzel said. "But this community is now completely out of reach for normal people, the rich infiltrators have driven prices and rents ridiculously high."


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I'm interested in the phenomenon of short term Dysphoria:
Dysphoria is a state of feeling unwell or unhappy; a feeling of emotional and mental discomfort as a symptom of discontentment, restlessness, dissatisfaction, malaise, depression or anxiety.
What interests me is when Dysphoria arises following moments of intense pleasure:
- Post-coital tristesse, a feeling of blues following orgasm
- Postorgasmic illness syndrome
- Dysphoria associated with recreational drug use, where X minutes of euphoria are followed by Y minutes of dysphoria ( I do not know the term for this one).
The phenomenon that I'm describing lasts from 5 minutes to a few hours, then disappears. It is experienced by only a small subset of population.
I tried to look for an explanation, but cannot find the cause - why Dysphoria appears following intense pleasure? Is Dopamine or Dopamine Transporter or D2 receptors involved in some way ? Is this some sort of sensitization/desensitization homeostasis mechanism at play?
Thank you for any search terms or hints that would help me shed light on the subject.


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Jar of Olives Falling, 1969 affirms Edward Ruscha's assertion that "paradox and absurdity have just always been really delicious to me."(1) An aspect of the painting's "absurdity" is its taking of objects that might appear in a still-life painting and rendering them, not resting on a table, but hurtling through space. "Space" seems to be the term that best approximates the light-to-dark olive green expanse surrounding the glass jar and its tumbling and spilling contents. The viewer receives no orientation, except the color values, which gradually darken from bottom to top, suggesting gradations in the sky seen when looking at the horizon at sunset. Yet the perception of celestial infinity abruptly collapses because of the shadow cast by the jar. Suddenly, infinite space becomes finite and flat, but—paradoxically, absurdly, and deliciously—only in this portion of the composition. The rest of the work maintains spatial indeterminacy in contrast to the life-size realism of the falling jar of olives.
By 1969, the painting's date, Ruscha had gained wide recognition as an artist whose compositions merged elements of Dada, Surrealism, Pop, and Conceptual art. Like many artists, Ruscha dislikes labels; for instance, being associated with Pop art made him "nervous."(2) . . . More than anything else, however, Ruscha's art was shaped by seeing a reproduction of Jasper Johns's Target with Four Faces, 1955 (The Museum of Modern Art, New York).(3)
Jar of Olives Falling shares with other Edward Ruscha compositions a fascination with visualizing noise. . . . In Jar of Olives Falling noise is anticipated: the glass jar is about to hit with a thud or crash; the olives and their juice are about to splatter. . . . In regard to Ruscha's work, 1969 might be dubbed the Year of the Olive. Besides Jar of Olives Falling and Bouncing Marbles, Bouncing Apple, Bouncing Olive, the artist also rendered the fruit in Eye and Painkillers, Tranquilizers, Olive. It appears in his pastel Adios with Olive, three lithographs (Sin; Marble, Olive; and Olive, Screw), and a silkscreen, Cheese Mold Standard with Olive. Depicting olives convincingly at actual size brings a sense of realism to these otherwise often unreal compositions. But why olives? "Well, I don't really know. They confused me so I stopped using them." Ruscha further explained, "You know what they call pure research? What you're doing when you don't know what you're doing. That's what pure art is too...Well, with the olives I never did find out what I was doing."(4) The artist's comments should not, however, be considered a sign of frustration or failure, for he enjoys the belief that "disorientation is one of the best things about making art."(5)
—Mark Thistlethwaite
(1) Quoted in Ralph Rugoff, "The Last Word," Art News 88 (December 1989): 123.
(2) Quoted in Neal Benezra and Kerry Brougher, Ed Ruscha (Washington, D.C. and Oxford: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in association with Scalo, 2000): 150.
(3) Ibid.
(4) Quoted in Dave Hickey, "Available Light," in Anne Livet, The Works of Edward Ruscha (New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1982): 26, 27. Recently Ruscha reiterated that the olives carried no symbolic meaning and that they were shapes he liked (conversation with author, 23 March 2001).
(5) Quoted in Yves-Alain Bois, Edward Ruscha: Romance with Liquids, Paintings 1966–1969 (New York: Gagosian Gallery and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1993): 19.


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18. Disclaimer. Any use and/or browsing of this Website is performed at your own risk. This Website (including, without limitation, all information, content, materials and functions made available on or through this Website) is provided to you "as is" without further representation or warranty of any kind, either express or implied. To the fullest extent permissible by law with regard to the contents of this Website, Star Pubs & Bars explicitly disclaims and makes no representations or warranties of any kind whatsoever: (a) for the accuracy, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement of any content published on or made available through this Website by any visitor to our site or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents; or (b) that the server or means that you use to access the server that makes this Website available is free of viruses, bugs or other components that may infect, harm or cause damage to your computer equipment, network connections or any other property when you access, browse, download from or otherwise use this Website.
19. Limitation of Liability. Under no circumstances, including but not limited to Star Pubs & Bars's negligence, will Star Pubs & Bars, Star Pubs & Bars's group companies or any third party involved in creating, producing, hosting or delivering this Website, be liable for: (a) any losses, costs or expenses of any kind (including, without limitation, legal fees, expert fees or other disbursements); or (b) any damages whatsoever, whether direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive or of any other kind or nature; whether arising out of or through your access to, the use of or browsing of this Website, or through your downloading of any materials, including, without limitation, anything caused by any viruses, bugs, human action or inaction, failure or malfunction of any computer system, phone line, hardware or software programs, or any other errors, failures or delays in computer transmissions or network connections, or otherwise, even if Star Pubs & Bars has been advised of the possibility of such losses or damages or the same is considered reasonably foreseeable. This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Star Pubs & Bars further assumes no responsibility, and will not be liable for, any loss or corruption of data on account of your access to, use of, or browsing of the Website, or your downloading of any Materials from the Websites. In no event shall Star Pubs & Bars's total liability to you for all damages, losses and causes of action (whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise) exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for access to the Website.
20. Indemnification. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold Star Pubs & Bars and each of its agents, directors, employees, information providers, licensors and licensees, officers, parents, subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "Indemnified Parties") harmless from and against any and all liability and costs (including, without limitation, legal fees and costs) incurred by the Indemnified Parties in connection with any claim arising out of any breach by you of these Terms of Use. You will cooperate as fully as reasonably required in Star Pubs & Bars's defence of any such claim. Star Pubs & Bars reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you. In no event shall you settle any such matter without the express prior written consent of Star Pubs & Bars.
21. Reporting Intellectual Property. Star Pubs & Bars respects the intellectual property rights of others. It is our policy not to permit materials known by Star Pubs & Bars to infringe another party's copyright to remain on any portion of the Website. If you believe any materials on any part of the Website infringe a copyright, you should provide Star Pubs & Bars with written notice that at a minimum contains: (a) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; (b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works; (c) identification of the material claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity that that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled and information reasonably sufficient to permit Star Pubs & Bars to locate the material; (d) information reasonably sufficient to permit Star Pubs & Bars to contact you, such as an address, telephone number and, if available, an electronic mail address; (e) a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (f) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
22. General Provisions. These Terms of Use together with our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy set forth the entire understanding and agreement between you and Star Pubs & Bars with respect to the Website and your use thereof. You agree that Star Pubs & Bars may transfer its rights and obligations under these Terms of Use to another person without consent. You acknowledge that any other agreements between you and Star Pubs & Bars with respect to the Website, if any, are superseded and of no force or effect. If any provision of these Terms of Use shall be deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable for any reason, then such provision will be deemed severable from these Terms of Use and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Questions or Comments If you have any further questions or comments regarding our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy or Cookie Policy, please send us an e-mail with your questions or comments through at email@example.com. These Terms of Use were last updated in January 2018.
STAR PUBS & BARS Privacy Policy
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As you access this Website (as defined in the Heineken UK Terms of Use), Star Pubs & Bars Limited ("Star Pubs & Bars", "we" or "us") recognises your desire to safeguard your personal information, and we are committed to protecting your personal information that you share with us.
This statement sets forth our privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") regarding information you provide to us through the use of this website ("Website"), which is dedicated to users in the United Kingdom. This statement also provides you with information on how to prevent your personal information from being collected or shared when you visit our Website or send us an e-mail. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website.
What information do we gather? Star Pubs & Bars collects information at various points in your user journey: • "personal information", (which means any information about an individual whose identity is apparent or can be reasonably ascertained from such information); and "non-personal information", meaning it relates to you but can't be used to specifically identify you, e.g. your age and gender.
How we collect your information
Personal Information
You can use the majority of our Website without being required to divulge any personal information to us. To participate in or use some of the activities or areas available on our Website (such as contacting us or Joining our members club) you may be required to provide certain personal information, such as your name, e-mail address, postal address or telephone number. We also collect information about your IP address (as well as mobile information if you access our Website through your mobile device) through our use of cookies and other technology (more information on our use of cookies is contained in our Cookie Policy).
We may also collect the following types of information:
• Device Information We may collect information about the type of browser you are using, your operating system, as well as device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL. We can also track your navigation paths and search queries.
• Log-in Information We may use cookies and other technologies to collect non-personal information such as 'pixel tags' (also known as 'web beacons' and 'clear gifs'). These let us know, among other things, whether you received and opened one of our e-mails. To view more information on what cookies we use and how we use them please click here to review our separate Cookies Policy.
If you choose not to provide certain personal information, you may not be able to take advantage of certain activities and promotions available through our Website.
Children's Privacy The Website is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 18; and we do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under the age of 18. Where we become aware that we have received such information, we shall use our reasonable endeavours to remove it from our records.
Combining information
We may combine the personal and non-personal information with any information collected about you which is publicly or commercially available. We may also collect information through any other platform (such as Facebook or Twitter), that you use to access our Website, subject to your privacy settings and permissions on that platform. All this information may be combined to give us a clearer picture about who you are and what your interests are, to allow us to provide a more personalised service to you.
How we protect your information
Security for all personal information is extremely important to us. To prevent unauthorised access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the correct usage of information, we monitor and adjust our physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. In addition, we invest appropriate resources to protect your personal information, from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. However, no internet-based site can be 100% secure and we cannot be held responsible for unauthorised or unintended access that is beyond our control; therefore any information that you transmit to us through our Website is at your own risk.
We encourage you to review the privacy statements of other websites you choose to link to from our Website so that you understand how those sites collect, use and share your information. We are not responsible for the privacy statements or other content of websites you may link to from this Website; which shall not be governed by this Privacy Policy.
How we use your information
We use the personal information that you may share with us or that we may otherwise observe and collect, for the following purposes:
• to improve the content of our Website and enhance your experience through a more personalised service;
• to manage the customer relationship including by answering queries or complaints;
• to measure consumer demand or interest in various offerings;
• for marketing and promotional purposes, including to provide you with information about services offered by us and, where we have your permission, our subsidiaries and nominated affiliates; and
• for sharing data with organisations potentially or actually acquiring some or all of the rights in the entity and to comply with legal obligations, such as regarding sales administration.
Insofar required by law, we will ask for your consent if we would like to use your personal information for other purposes than those set out above.
We will not send you any marketing information unless you have consented to receiving such information, e.g. by ticking an opt-in box to receive marketing information when joining our members club through our Website.
When we might share your information
We are very careful about who we share your information with, but we would like to give you more detail about the limited circumstances where we may share your personal information with external parties in order to create the best, seamless and most dynamic service we can:
1. Sharing information with our Service Providers
We may use third party service providers to help us enhance our marketing abilities and operate our business and to fulfil our legal obligations to you. Sharing information with these parties may include combining personal and non-personal information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. These service providers administer activities on our behalf, such as sending emails, transaction fulfillment and promotions administration. For instance, if you participate in a promotion, game or other programme resulting in a prize or award, we will share personal information about you with our centralised data collection agency.
We may also share information with third parties employed by us to perform functions on our behalf such as analysing data and providing marketing assistance, including in relation to our interest based advertising and targeted ads. We may also combine information in our database about you with other information available from third parties to optimise our ability to communicate with you and similar consumers. These companies will have access to the personal information needed to perform their obligations, but we have put in place contractual obligations to ensure that they may not use it for any other purpose and are required to maintain the confidentiality of such information.
2. Sharing your information with our social media partners and third party marketing partners
We may provide aggregated anonymous information, usually obtained through cookies, to third parties (such as marketers, ad server companies and advertisers) that make use of such general data for statistical purposes.
3. Sharing information with other third parties
We may provide information to others (such as governmental or law enforcement agencies) in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (i) enforce or apply our Terms of Use; (ii) comply with any legal claims raised against Star Pubs & Bars; (iii) protect the rights, property or safety of Star Pubs & Bars; or (iv) protect the rights, property or safety of the public.
If Star Pubs & Bars becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transaction involving the sale of some or all of our assets, user information, including personal information collected from you through your use of our Website, could be included in the transferred assets. Should such an event occur, we will use reasonable means to notify you, either through email and/or a prominent notice on the Website.
These parties may be located in the UK, other countries in the European Economic Area or elsewhere in the world. Different privacy laws may apply in these countries and you unambiguously agree to the transfer of personal information to these countries and parties. We only make these arrangements or transfers where we are satisfied that adequate levels of protection are in place to protect any information held in that country or that the service provider acts at all times in compliance with applicable privacy laws.
How long will we retain your personal information?
The personal information that you provide will be kept for as long as legally required or for as long as necessary to provide you with any requested services in accordance with applicable laws. We will take reasonable steps to destroy or anonymise any personal information we hold if it is no longer needed for the purposes set out above. In particular, if you provide us with your email address so that you can receive our newsletters, we will continue to store your email address until you notify us that you no longer wish to receive our newsletters. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you have the right at any time to notify us that you want the personal data we hold on you to be deleted.
Your rights in relation to your information
You can request us to provide an overview of personal information we have of you and how we use it, or to correct such personal information if you think any of the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate. You also have a right, in certain circumstances, to require us to stop processing your personal information and/or to withdraw your agreement to processing based on 'consent', but this does not apply where we have other legal justifications to continue processing your data. In addition, you have the right to object to processing carried out for the purposes of profiling, and, subject to narrow exceptions, to not be subject to automated decision making. You also have the right to prohibit us from using your personal information for direct marketing purposes and we will only send you marketing information where you have consented thereto. You will always have the option of removing your information from our e-mail mailing list(s) so that you will not receive further e-mail promotional communications from us. In order to ensure immediate removal from any list, it is best to follow the specific instructions outlined within the communications you receive from us (for example, an unsubscribe button) since we operate numerous sites and e-mail lists. If you are unable to complete the process indicated in such communications, please send our customer care team an email at firstname.lastname@example.com with subject heading 'Privacy Policy Communication'.
From 25 May 2018, you also have the following additional rights:
1. Data portability
To the extent that we are relying upon consent as the legal basis for processing, and that personal data is processed by automatic means, you have the right to receive all such personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and also to require us to transmit it to another controller where this is technically feasible;
2. Right to restriction of processing
You have the right to restrict our processing of your personal data where:
• you contest the accuracy of the personal data (until we take sufficient steps to correct or verify its accuracy);
• the processing is unlawful but you do not want us to erase the data;
• we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but you require the personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or
• you have objected to processing justified on legitimate interest grounds pending verification as to whether we have compelling legitimate grounds to continue processing.
Where your personal data is subjected to restriction in this way we will only process it with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
3. Right to withdraw consent
You will also have a right, in certain circumstances, to require us to stop processing your personal data and/or to withdraw your agreement to processing based on 'consent', but this does not apply where we have other legal justifications to continue processing your data or an overriding legitimate interest i.e. where processing is necessary for the provision of a service.
4. Right to object to processing justified on legitimate interest grounds
To the extent that we are relying upon a legitimate interest to process your personal data, then you have the right to object to such processing, unless we can either demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights and freedoms or where we need to process the data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Please also use the email@example.com email address if you would like to exercise any of your data rights set out in this Privacy Policy, with subject heading "Exercise of Data Subject Right(s)". Please note that we may charge a small administrative fee up to £10, until May 2018, and/or request proof of identity. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (i.e. your local data protection authority) once you have tried to resolve the issue with us.
Privacy Policy Updates
By using our Website, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this policy at any time. Visitors are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy from time to time to stay abreast of any changes. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy means you accept those changes, however, changes in its terms will not apply retrospectively to actions already taken. If you do not accept the amended Privacy Policy, please stop using the Website.
Questions or Comments? If you have any further questions or comments regarding our Privacy Policy, please send us an e-mail with your questions or comments.
If you are dissatisfied with your response or how we deal with your queries relating to privacy and personal information, you can escalate the matter to the Information Commissioner's Office.
This Privacy Policy was last modified in February 2018
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I was once told by an immature teenager that my gloves were gay. It wasn't even my rainbow gloves, which i'd have to admit, yeah, they're pretty gay!
Even my purple gloves, i'd concede that the kid had a point. No, it was my white and black striped gloves; they're not even gaily coloured!
"Your gloves are GAY!"
So i said, "Oh really? Do you think they are attracted to other gloves of the same gender?"
To me the term "gay marriage" is as ridiculous a concept as "gay gloves". Marriage doesn't have a sexuality. And if you're trying to say it's for gay people, no it's not. It affects bi, trans and straight people too, in all kinds of combinations. What we're really looking for is an equality of marriage: the same opportunities available to everyone.
Some examples:
1. Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle have been trying for nearly two years to get a civil partnership, because they don't want the historical baggage associated with marriage. They have been denied because of their sexuality: they are both straight.
2. A friend of mine changed gender and had to get divorced and form a civil partnership instead, in order to achieve gender recognition.
3. I am bisexual and married to a man. Do we have a straight marriage? If i had wanted to marry a woman, would it be a gay marriage? No, because i am not gay.
4. Gay people can get married right now! There's nothing to stop a gay man marrying a gay woman. You might be surprised how often that happens, just for the convenience.
It bothers me whenever i see the term "gay marriage". This morning i saw journalists Emma Kennedy and Victoria Coren both use it, so i tweeted:
your periodic reminder that "marriage equality" is preferable to "gay marriage" .. thank you!
Emma agreed with me, but claimed that on twitter, "gay marriage" is more convenient, to avoid getting hundreds of tweets asking what "marriage equality" means. I didn't realise that there was so much ignorance. It can't be that hard to explain, surely? I think that if more journalists and politicians would start using the terms "equal marriage" or "marriage equality" then people would get used to it and understand what it means.
If we can't go that far, "same-sex marriage" is at least slightly preferable to "gay marriage" because it's more descriptive, and it doesn't exclude bisexual people. It highlights the thing that is currently unequal about marriage. I still don't like it because it implies that we're talking about a different, separate thing, when what we actually want is equal access to the same thing.
One friend suggested that we should call it "Marry Who The Fuck You Want" .. people should be able to grasp that concept! Another friend recommends that we do away with marriage altogether, then we'd have equality of non-marriage!
It seems that the terminology of this thing is becoming my big bisexual soapbox of 2012, haha! And yes .. i know .. soapboxes do not have a sexuality. Well done if you spotted my irony there! ;)
Relatedly, for anyone who is trying to preserve the "sanctity of marriage", the whole "one man, one woman" thing, remember that marriage is a human invention, and is always changing. I loved this poster that i saw the other day.


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Hello! Below are the videos and slides used during the Chmiel/ Harrison talk at ISTE 2010 during the Bring your own laptop session on Wednesday, June 30.
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Gaming across the curriculum: Finding and evaluating educational games.
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This post shares resources from Trevor and my games workshop at ISTE 2010. We kicked the workshop off with a brief talk. Here are the slides for that short presentation. ISTE Gaming Presentation View more presentations from tjowens. Integrating Games … Continue reading →
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Self-Insurance (Religious Organization)
Statutory reference: Section 303.220, RSMo.
A religious organization which prohibits its members from purchasing insurance and has at least 26 members with private passenger motor vehicles registered in Missouri, may apply for a certificate of self-insurance by submitting the following:
- A written request to be considered for self-insurance, signed by an officer of the church, on church letterhead;
- A list of at least 26 church members, each owning private passenger motor vehicles registered in Missouri. The list must include the name and address of each member, and a description of each vehicle (year, make, VIN, and plate number);
- An affidavit from the minister, deacon, or officer of the church, certifying that based on its religious tenets, the church prohibits its members from purchasing insurance in any form;
- A written explanation of how the church intends to pay for damages caused by a member involved in a motor vehicle accident;
- Examples or statements showing how the church settled claims in the past; and
- A completed Agreement to Pay Judgments (Form 5317).
The above items must be submitted to:Missouri Department of Revenue
ATTN: Self-Insurance
PO Box 200
Jefferson City MO 65105-0200
Within two weeks of receiving your request, our staff will issue your certificate of self-insurance and identification cards, or issue a letter denying your request.


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Whatever the intentions, all the recent guest-star announcements emanating from "The Office" – first Will Ferrell, now Ricky Gervais and Will Arnett – only serve to highlight the void that will be left by Steve Carell's impending departure from show.
"The Office" returns Thursday after a month's hiatus, then we'll have just over a month before Michael Scott's final bumble out the door on April 28. His trip on the way out might be how we remember him – but future memories of life at Dunder Mifflin Sabre could rest in one of the guests.
There's probably zero chance Ferrell, who's set to star in a four-episode arc bridging Carell's departure, would sign up as the new boss. Ditto for Gervais, the co-creator and star of the original UK version of "The Office" who made a memorable cameo in January, laying the groundwork for a role in the May 19 season finale.
That leaves us with Arnett, who is poised, in terms of his career and his talent, to make a great bad boss.
But he'd have huge clown shoes to fill.
Carell carefully sculpted Michael Scott into a distinct, iconic character out of the mold of Gervais' David Brent. Both characters are childish, oblivious comedians in their own minds, with delusions of being father figures to their respective office pseudo-families.
Both make you cringe – but Brent, in his worst moments, prompts anger, while Scott often inspires the audience and his office mates to want to save him from himself.
The softer edge is partly a function of a show well into its seventh season. Brent's painful-to-watch self-destruction, which came one verbal paper cut at a time, worked brilliantly over the series' 12-episodes life, but would have been hard to take for the more than 10 times as many half hours Carell has given us. Although Michael Scott is more likeable than David Brent, Carell is no less a master of the comedy of the awkward than Gervais.
If he's tapped for the role, Arnett's challenge would be to distinguish himself as the new boss while filling a familiar seat in "The Office." He's adept at playing the clueless man-child, most memorably as self-obsessed, trust-fund magician Gob Bluth on the late and lamented "Arrested Development." Arnett imbued the cartoonish buffoon with a pathetic quality that occasionally gave grounding to a show flying on a plane of heightened reality.
He's stood out in recurring role as Jack Donaghy's ruthless corporate rival on "30 Rock," as a bizarre boss on David Cross' ambitiously odd "The Increasingly Bad Decisions of Todd Margaret," and as another immature rich guy on the disappointing "Running Wilde."
But the actor – who is married to Amy Poehler, star of "Parks and Recreation," which follows "The Office" on Thursday nights – hasn't found a long-term spot back on TV since the Bluth Family's adventures ended in 2006. Arnett could make "The Office" his own, as long as the quality of the writing keeps pace with the changes.
It's entirely possible, of course, that Arnett's guest shot could be a red herring for those fishing for clues about Carell's replacement. Others have been mentioned for the part, including Danny McBride of HBO's underrated "Eastbound & Down," who has proven he's equally capable of offering entertaining bluster and deceiving nuance, both qualifications for the job.
But even if Arnett is around just for one episode, we're looking forward to seeing him put his paper mark on "The Office."
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