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Recently having got my bear mount we do things a bit differently.
2 tanks (pally and feral druid)
3 Healers (CoH Priest, Resto Shaman, Resto Druid/Holy pally)
Dps: 1 warlock 1 mage 1 elemental shaman 1 shadow priest. last spot goes to a boomkin, warlock, or hunter. we take 0 melee as we aoe every pull.
The druids help a lot with down time with innervates and bres. do not have to stop for mana rotates the innevates with the prot pally and spriest and holy priest.
We have tried with 2 healers but with AoEing every pull in the slight mistake that someone pulls aggro its nice to have extra heals there.
Dragonhawk trash we kill the first scout and invis pot through the first pull. root the scout and nuke him. with the change to dragonhawk it should be easier for your tank to hold aggro on those birds instead of teleporting the tank.
As for the 3 vs. 2 healers, I typically dual heal this with a resto sham or resto druid. I am a COH Priest.
My base stats sit at 2200 + healin and 97 haste (for dual healing I find haste better simply so that i can MT heal faster.). Sham totems and buffs also pump up my stats.
Maybe your priest could dual heal it but doesn't have the gear yet? Just tossing it out there. I've never done it dual with less stats.
I'll tell you one thing though. I'm picky on the make up for my dual healing. I don't like doing it with holy pallies that much. I also need to be able to trust the skill of my other healer.
Last night we did resto druid and resto sham with me as shadow and we did extremely well on the timer and no deaths. I just respeced to COH for hex. Holy pally + resto druid go pretty good also.
My priest has 2500 unbuffed bonus healing and 131 haste, is CoH. The issue isn't if its easier to 2 heal or easier to 3 heal. the reason you bring 3 healers, is for safety. 2 healing isnt hard, but sometimes can screw you over. I've done 20+ bear mount runs successfully 2 healed, and successfully 3 healed. I just find that its safer and more predictable run with 3.


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Heading into three games at Dodger Stadium, Dave Roberts said it would be "disheartening and disappointing" if Barry Bonds were to break Hank Aaron's home-run record in L.A. and be serenaded with boos. If a Dodger were to break an important record at AT&T Park, would you "enjoy the moment and appreciate the history," as Roberts said Dodgers fans should?
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Duncan W. Haldane, Kevin C. Peterson, Fernando L. Garcia Bermudez, and Ronald S. Fearing (2013)
Animal-inspired design and aerodynamic stabilization of a hexapedal millirobot
In ICRA 2013. Karlsruhe, Germany.
Fernando L. Garcia Bermudez, Ryan C. Julian, Duncan W. Haldane, Pieter Abbeel, and Ronald S. Fearing (2012)
Performance analysis and terrain classification for a legged robot over rough terrain
In IROS 2012. Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal.
Stanley S. Baek, Fernando L. Garcia Bermudez, and Ronald S. Fearing (2011)
Flight control for target seeking by 13 gram ornithopter
In IROS 2011. San Francisco, CA, USA.
Fernando L. Garcia Bermudez and Ronald S. Fearing (2010)
Flapping oscillations versus optical flow motion estimation
In ESF-EMBO Symposium on Functional Neurobiology in Minibrains. Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain.
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Optical flow on a flapping wing robot
In IROS 2009. St. Louis, MO, USA.
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Fernando L. Garcia Bermudez (2010)
Optical flow on a flapping wing robot
Master's thesis. EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley.
Towards indoor navigation of a flapping wing robot via optical flow
In CIfAR NCAP Summer School 2010. University of Toronto, ON, Canada, August 2010.
Mili-robots biomiméticos y tecnologías asociadas
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The return of old-style investing
The aerospace move and the short covering are reminiscent of bygone days.
This aerospace theme won't quit.
When oil goes up, the sector does well because the airlines will need more fuel-efficient planes. When oil goes down, people think the airlines will do better and therefore place more plane orders. In the absence of a trend in rates -- and we don't know the trend -- it has become the de facto trade, and aerospace is even better than biotech and high-growth retail like Starbucks (SBUX).
One of the amazing things about this market is the intense and relentless run-up of the same stocks on the same news. There is no per se news about aerospace. We just keep getting more orders, and it will keep happening because of the fuel-efficiency issue. But when is it built in? When does Boeing (BA) discount it? Right now, the answer would seem to be never.
What I think is happening is we are seeing a return to some old-style investing. Boeing used to trade in seven-year cycles. A new '87 entry would give Boeing seven long years of profits with terrific gross margins, ones that get better every year. That's precisely what it seems to be happening right now, doesn't it?
That means the discounting mechanism has gone awry.
Plus, the current crop of analysts just aren't used to a market this bullish. They, collectively, don't want to hype Boeing, because they fear top-ticking it. In fact, the only stock that analysts don't seem to be afraid to top-tick is Google (GOOG). Before that it was Qualcomm (QCOM), and before that it was Apple (AAPL), although I think Google is better than those two.
It's just that the bullishness is so pronounced that they can't get their arms around it.
Plus there are tons of stories out there that people are short, and they seem to be short/cover/short/covering every time.
Take Amazon.com (AMZN). Periodically someone says something good about the stock, but we're much more likely to hear the stock is overvalued. How many people are short that?
Then there is this pattern, too. You will have a couple of days when winners like PVH (PVH) and Netflix (NFLX) are weak. That brings in the short sellers. Then something positive happens and the shorts spend the next day or two scrambling. Again, constant pattern.
That, too, is reminiscent of the 1980s and '90s, when the bears simply couldn't believe the moves and so shorted them out of disbelief.
Disbelief is a terrible reason to short something. And that's exactly what's generating a lot of these moves.
Jim Cramer is a co-founder of TheStreet and contributes daily market commentary to the financial news network's sites. Follow his trades for Action Alerts PLUS, which Cramer co-manages as a charitable trust and is long AAPL.
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"Yes they are. JPM reported a 31% jump in profit."
Think this one through, America. This bank has a direct conduit to borrowed funds and a pretty stupid blanket credit buy-back program. They are an immediate recipient of Ben's $85 billion monthly QE. Yet... they can't lend right, they screw up in billions, invented- then were victims of their own derivatives and debt contracts! Through the 20th Century, it had the US Government bail it out FIVE times and accepted TARP monies in the 21st Century. JP Morgan is directly responsible for the Federal Reserve Act, which passed with only 4 (GOP) members of Congress in session, after hours. The 31% is based on a massive loss in difference... so... in spite of every odd in it's favor, JPMorgan Chase did really poorly and begs the obvious question... if you truly are doing well JPM... then you should be bribing Congress to end QE, right? Your aren't a bank, JPM, you're a blank check for corruption and the sooner we get to eat your executives and directors and shareholders, the sooner others will get it about financial tyranny in America.
I have trouble reading, re-reading contributions, that continually repeat or are repititious of the same agenda on a weekly or some bi-weekly basis...
We have a few posters, that suscribe to the that mantra...
And going into Political forays or rants, seldom holds my attention for long in any conversation anywhere....
I would rather sit and drink my whiskey quietly, and chat about the weather, crop yields or the price of hog bellies...Maybe even argue about Israel or the Middle East..
The name calling or inuendos in jest are tolerable, but then again some can just be clicked or rolled on by...
Life is too short, to punish yourself and others with droning on about what is,was or could be..
As you get older that realization comes into play, and sometimes it's not worth the trouble to listen or complain.....But just start whistling or singing under your breath or in your mind.
Que Sera, Sera.
Fatty Cakes, did you call me a name, did you call me a name....Think it was Racist, Buckwheat really Buckwheat?....What ever gave you the opinion I was Black..??
I don't call you bery leetle yallow man, that's the another guy.
And I didn't vote for Obama the first time he ran...
Then you wish me and other's to die...
That not bery nice, leetle yallow man.
Troubled Times...Kinda surprised if you are an investor leaning towards buy and hold along with searching out good dividends....; That you don't have some good selected Telcoms in your Portfolio.
VZ and T come to mind..I'm sure there are others, maybe even better...We hold FTR, but the depreciation has taken some toll.
Other staid and solid payers are in the Tobacco Sector...
But it also looks as if you prescribe some to Buffet....Think KO is his number one holding.
But I always relate he and Munger did this over about 50 plus some years and did it fairly well..
The problem with us or people like us, is we had to work for a living and support other endevours,
And had other obligations...Whereas they had been doing their Berkshire thing over a lifetime.
Good luck and good investing, you should do fine.
I don't know where any of you, are getting this opinion about "old style investing" is dead; Including Cramer...
Warren Buffet/Charlie Munger still do, Re-Toggy still does, many Commentors on here along with several other big players and Millions in 401Ks and the like...
Some of you are just full of shidt, or are not investors at all..
Granted, do you have to make adjustments, re-allocations and re-investments to get further ahead?
The short answer,would be yes...Most do... We alone do about 100-150 trades per year.
Small potatoes in the grander scheme of the investment Game..
401K'ers do have less choices so they are kind of locked in for the most part..
Mutual Fund managers do their part and have 7-15% churn in some cases, maybe more? I don't know the stats at this time.
Are there HFT traders, daytraders, scumbags and manipulators in the Markets, again the short would be yes...But Worldwide the Markets are in the Multiple Trillions...
And those Trillions are not moving everyday, to find new homes...
So get off this bullshidt, you included Cramer !!
And let's look at the "Bigger Picture" 5-10-20 even 25 years out...Yes, this is my Rant for the day.
Wasn't the answer to that question, it pertained to your statement about reading V_L and maybe other's incessant ramblings...
You are just to quick for me and I was doing some duties out in the kitchen....
While formulating a "statement" not a "rant"....I Do some of my best work in the kitchen or bedroom,har,har.
I call it like I see it, on a Forum or Article that's suppose to be about Investing, and not a Political sounding board...
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Laws of physics may change across the universe
18:29 08 September 2010 by Michael Brooks
Do the laws of physics change from one region of space to another? (Image: NASA/ESA/R. Thompson/U of Arizona)
New evidence supports the idea that we live in an area of the universe that is "just right" for our existence. The controversial finding comes from an observation that one of the constants of nature appears to be different in different parts of the cosmos.
If correct, this result stands against Einstein's equivalence principle, which states that the laws of physics are the same everywhere. "This finding was a real surprise to everyone," says John Webb of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Webb is lead author on the new paper, which has been submitted to Physical Review Letters.
Even more surprising is the fact that the change in the constant appears to have an orientation, creating a "preferred direction", or axis, across the cosmos. That idea was dismissed more than 100 years ago with the creation of Einstein's special theory of relativity.


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Moving HP's Global Business Services from low cost provider to value added business partner
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At the sharedserviceslink.com Summit for Leaders in Finance Shared Services, Jeff Fiorini (GBS Program Manager) presented on Hewlett-Packard's Global Business Service's journey to become a valued business partner.
HP is the world's largest provider of information technology infrastructure, software and services to both individuals and organisations of all sizes. Their Global Business Service employs 18,000 people, serves 150 countries and processes over 100m transactions annually. The GBS manages HR, Payroll, IT, Big Data Analytics, Global Reporting, and Supply Chain.
Their Global Business Service has evolved into a valued business partner through a journey of transformation and service improvement. After establishing themselves in low-cost offshore locations, they globalised and standardised. Once stable they focussed on improving end-to-end operations supporting global reporting, and benchmarking themselves constantly. Jeff gave a complex and detailed insight into their journey, and here are some of the critical success factors for their successful transition.
Critical success factors:
Align your vision with senior management. In establishing the vision for managing end-to-end processes, the key question Jeff posed was, 'What is the strategy at the CEO level and how can we support that strategy?' Ensuring your vision supports the goals of the wider business will help you get the support you need and help you work across organisational boundaries.
Take process seriously. Jeff explained that to improve processes, they built a visual collation of process knowledge, which held all process data and knowledge, they kept these posters and collections in what they called 'Process War Rooms'. They worked with Cross functional teams to build the End to End process knowledge, using quality and improvement tools such as metro maps, data flows, drill down trees to systematically identify opportunities for improvement, ensuring these maps stay up to date.
Identify pain points. HP also runs a Bureaucracy Buster programme where people can lodge complaints about things that they feel hinder their work. Taking in these complaints, they organised the comments into 'pain points' that fell into four categories,
- Service quality (issues dealt with quickly with a single point of contact)
- Payment process (people understanding payment policies)
- Payment terms management (Payment terms policy)
- Invoice management (end-to-end visibility of invoice submission and vendor set up)
Having these issues laid out gave them a starting point to improve the parts of the process that most affected the business
Address the issues
Having identified the key issues of process, and the issues that affect the business, HP set up several initiatives to address these pain points, including:
- A collaboration portal between suppliers and buyers which give the buyer and supplier view of all necessary information and end to end visibility.
- Workflow which dynamically allocates discrepancies to reduce cycle time
- A service desk which standardises over different portals – people, process and technology. Crucially they also addressed the skillset of the people they wanted on the service desk, people who know AP, who had good people skills and that were good at thinking outside the box, and able to work with clients.
- Low Cost Financing including dynamic discounting and supply chain finance helped with the issues around payment process and payment terms management
This was a complex journey, but ultimately successful in that they became a trusted business partner. In sum, they were successful because they had
- A clear vision
- A benchmarked journey
- They were focussed on customer requirements
- Change was clearly communicated at the right levels


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The 97358 ZIP Code is centered1 in Linn County at latitude 44.768 and longitude -122.605. It is a standard type ZIP Code. Linn County is in the Pacific Time Zone (UTC -8 hours) and observes daylight savings time.
ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) 97358 has a land area of 71.21 sq. miles and a water area of 0.44 sq. miles for Census 2000. Demographic Profile
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(My current read- a special Austin connection!)
For I will give to the people purified lips,
that all of them may call on the name of the LORD,
to serve Him shoulder to shoulder.
Zephaniah 3:9 (NASB)
I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing.
And I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.
And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase,
and they shall be secure in their land. And they shall know that I am the LORD, when
I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
Ezekiel 34:26-27 (ESV)
And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before
all the nations of the earth who shall hear of the good that I do for them. They shall
fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.
Jeremiah 33:9 (ESV)
It is funny to think that I actually grew up in 2 major cities of influence in our nation- Detroit (auto capital of the world) and Washington DC (Nation's Capital- lived here age 5-age 12), okay I also did spend 13 years in sweet Austin, Texas (music capital). It opens my heart to see God wants me in the city. There is a beautiful purpose, greater than sport and career, for being here.
Becoming a part of the Redemption Hill church has stirred up my desire to get connected in our city. I desire to find where the Lord is tugging at my heart to plug in. When I walk the streets around the National mall, sit quietly on the metro, or even wait in the grocery line, I feel the intensity of the need to LOVE. I see people who need just simply a hug and a person to listen to their story- to connect with, to feel encouraged.
Within the RHC Fellows program, we are reading FOR THE CITY this month. I can't put the book down, as it ignites a fire in you. A CHURCH FOR THE CITY SERVES THE CITY (pg 105). God's heart is for the cities and the cultures of people in those cities- and we as the church are to cultivate the well being of the city- not just to bless the city, but for the very health of the church.(pg 101-102, Darrin Patrick).
As I read today a few things stood out: DON'T UNDERESTIMATE the power of prayer. DO pray often for your neighborhood (pg 99). DO live distinct but be engaged, seeking the flourishing of your city. Darrin Patrick shares that in Jeremiah 29:5-7, God spoke to Jeremiah and instructed his people to LOVE the city.
Do we REALLY LOVE our city? Or do we just strive daily on a solo mission, focused on our personal agendas? In Zephaniah 3:9 it reminds us to be obedient in our work shoulder to shoulder in one accord while Jeremiah 33:9 paints this beautiful picture of a city of joy and prosperity. What are we doing to see prosperity in DC, to see people come to know our loving God, to see the brokenness be turned to JOY?
I am not sure what the awesome Lord has planned, as I find my place to serve and love others. I do know y'all can join me on the first step- PRAYER. Praying for the city, our neighborhood- because we are just a messenger of the good news, God has the power to save. THIS IS GOING TO BE EXCITING!


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Tom Delay is the heart-throb diving superstar determined to turn his talent to gold this summer. Tom Daley has the boyish good looks of a teenage pop star, and the body of a fully grown, gym-honed beefcake. An 18-year-old man-child on whom a nation's Olympic hopes are pinned.
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Lesson 3: Distinguishing the Author's Purpose
Lesson Plan
- Learning Goal
- Distinguish between different author's purposes in texts with the same topic.
- Duration
- Approximately 50 minutes
- Necessary Materials
- Provided: Direct Teaching Dog Passages, Example Direct Teaching Passages, Guided Practice School Passages, Example Guided Practice Passages, Independent Practice Water Splashing Festival Passages
Teacher Modeling
will explain that several authors can write about the same topic, but for different purposes. I will read aloud three short passages about dogs. (See Direct Teaching Passages in Teacher and Student Materials below.) I will identify the author's purpose in each passage. I will underline details in each passage that supports the author's purpose. (Example is provided; see Direct Teaching Passage Answer Key below.)
Think Check
Ask: How did I identify the author's purpose in the passages? Students should respond that you underlined details in the passage that gave you a clue as to why the author may have written the passage.
Guided Practice
will read three short passages about school. We will identify the author's purpose of each passage and underline the details in each passage that support the author's purpose. (Passages and example are provided; see Guided Practice Passages and Answer Key below.)
Independent Practice
will read three short paragraphs about the Water Splashing Festival. For each paragraph, you will identify the author's purpose and underline text evidence that supports the purpose you chose. (Student Independent Practice is provided below.)
Build Student Vocabulary reinforcement
|Tier 2 Word: reinforcement
|Contextualize the word as it is used in the story
|"You can teach your dog many words with positive reinforcement using kind words and yummy treats."
|Explain the meaning student-friendly definition)
|Reinforcement means that you are trying to make something stronger. If you give your dog yummy treats as positive reinforcement for learning to sit, you are trying to strengthen the dog's understanding of the word when you say it.
|Students repeat the word
|Say the word reinforcement with me: reinforcement.
|Teacher gives examples of the word in other contexts
|If you reinforce a wall, you are strengthening it and making it stronger. Getting good grades will reinforce your belief that if you study you can succeed.
|Students provide examples
|What kind of positive reinforcement might your teacher give you if you answer a question correctly in class? Start by saying, "If I answer a question correctly, my teacher might give me positive reinforcement by _________________."
|Students repeat the word again.
|What word are we talking about? Reinforcement.
|Additional Vocabulary Words
|breeds, adoption
Build Student Background Knowledge
Before distributing the "Water Splashing Festival" paragraphs, explain that you are going to read a passage about an event that takes place in China. Show your students where China is on a map and explain that China has the largest population in the world. Just like in the United States of America, there are different cultures, language, and ethnicities in China. The majority of Chinese (92%) belong to the Han culture, but there are 56 other recognized minorities in the country. There are many cultures that overlap with surrounding countries. The Dai people in the passage are closely related to the people of Thailand and Laos, which are countries next to China.
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Social networking is exploding online. Don't be afraid, say pros, just jump right in to create communities and build your business.
Various websites let you do online what you've been doing daily: networking and socializing with friends, clients, industry peers and consumers. The difference: Online, you can do it faster, from your home and for free.
Unlike your salon's website, social networking sites allow you to create pages, make immediate updates on your own and enjoy simplified two-way communication. In fact, you can get your message out to thousands of friends or fans with the click of one button. Although Facebook and Twitter are getting all the buzz lately, other behemoths include Yelp, MySpace, YouTube, Digg, Friendster and LinkedIn.
It would be impossible to cover even the basic features, dos and don'ts of various networks, which are continually evolving. Your best and fastest inroad is to jump in and explore—or have someone who's adept at using the sites give you a short, visual walk through.
Peter Shankman, the founder of Help a Reporter (which has more than 36,000 journalist members) is nationally recognized as a social networking innovator. His advice is to treat all social networks as tools that you must learn to use.
"It's not always about you," says Shankman. "Helping others, providing information and becoming the person they want to turn to is the best way to network."
Today, more than three-quarters of potential employers check out job applicants on social networks, and millions of consumers search for businesses and people on them. To avoid the wrong kind of publicity, adhere to Shankman's "preacher, parent, boss" rule: Never post anything that would offend any of those three. Also, only join a network if you are going to actively monitor your pages and update your information regularly.
Once you've joined and navigated your way around, your communication power is limited only by your creativity. For inspiration, take a look at some of the innovative ways industry pros are leveraging social networking sites:
- Maria Bowman, manager of digital media for Matrix (matrix.com), created a "Beauties Who Love Biolage" group on Facebook to interact with consumers. On Matrix's professional Facebook pages, a question about what would create more interaction brought requests by stylists to post their work; the company will now accommodate that request in 2010. The biggest benefit, says Bowman, is the ability to post questions and get immediate responses: "People are more passionate when they engage with your brand."
- At Redken (redken.com), senior director of interactive marketing Rachael Weiss says she uses Facebook to update fans on what's new, host a contest for new fans to get product samples and drive consumers to the website's salon finder. Her advice: Test and master Facebook on a personal level with friends before creating a business page, which attracts "fans" as opposed to "friends."
- Pivot Point International (pivot-point.com), in Evanston, IL, created a Facebook page for its new Snap Cap "recyclable" mannequin head, who has her own friends thanks to a playful "SWF seeking relationship" ad. The company's VP of global marketing Ken Angermeier says the best online networking communicates with potential students the way they are used to communicating. Example: His Facebook posting heralds Pivot Point grad Rahni Flowers, who was chosen as Michelle Obama's Inaugural hair stylist. There's a recruitment video adjacent to the posting.
- Tom Brophy, co-owner of Tom Brophy Salon (tombrophyhair.com) in Beverly Hills, says using social sites is a great way to network. "Many people don't have the time to get out and about; utilizing these websites to obtain business information is effortless," he says.
- Catherine Kofler, e-commerce marketing associate for DePasquale Companies (depasqualethespa.com) in Fairlawn, NJ, says she uses MySpace to promote the New York Streets brand by posting news, messages, promotions and educational videos. She recently added music to create a feel for the brand, something you can't do on Facebook.
Start with a Plan
The online options can be overwhelming, unless you start with a plan. Pivot Point's Angermeier conducted a detailed survey to learn where he should focus the beauty school's efforts.
"It's like any marketing program; learn where your target-market members spend their time and what they're doing online," he says.
Although Facebook emerged as the best choice, he notes that people expect you to find them on Facebook, not vice-versa. Even though Facebook is free, you need valuable time resources to make it work for you, he adds.
Creating and Attracting a Community
It no longer costs more to get new clients than it does to retain current ones—a revolution in itself. Now, a simple time investment lets you do both simultaneously. Once you join any social network, encourage clients, media and others to visit your pages or sign-up for your tweets on Twitter. For example, add a "Find us on Facebook" logo to countertop cards, business cards and your existing website.
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Karie Bennett, owner of Atelier SalonSpa and Atelier Studio (atelieraveda.com) in San Jose, CA, and a 2008 Global Salon Business Award winner.
SALON TODAY: What social networks do you use?
KARIE BENNETT: I've been on Facebook for five years; one of the founders is a client. I was on MySpace but don't manage it now. I've been giving Twitter a test; I use it on my mobile. If I had enough followers, I'd send an 8 a.m. tweet: "We have three open appointments today; first person to book one gets 20-percent off." At Yelp, I have a paid business account, which lets me reply privately to posters. On our gift bags, we have a sticker that says, "Inspire others, please give us a compliment on Yelp."
ST: How have you used Facebook lately?
KB: I have a personal page and I created a group for business. On the group page, I posted that I was doing hair at our lifestyle center's fashion show, and added links to their pages. Ticket sales doubled within days and we sold out. On Facebook, you can create a "global event," like a model search, so that anyone searching for "hair model" in your area will see your page on the global event page.
ST: What's new on your personal profile page?
KB: I keep that for friends and salon owners. Recently, a hair and make-up artist from Britney Spears' tour found my Facebook page because she gets Aveda color and wanted her color retouched by an Aveda pro in San Jose. I already had concert tickets, but she invited us backstage.
ST: What's your best social networking advice?
KB: Use your privacy settings, so you have to approve any photos posted. You can also turn on and off posts from others. Respond to everyone; even a negative comment is an opportunity to learn. Use keywords people search for on Facebook and have "salon" in the name of your business. Also, use your brand—Aveda branding has been awesome for us. If you accept a fan who becomes bothersome, you can easily remove or block them—remember, you're judged by whom you associate with.
"I put white text on my Facebook pages' white background, so anyone searching for certain groups will find my page," explains McIvor. You can add 'best salon in Champaign, IL," for instance; no one will know it's there but you, and it'll drive Facebook members to your pages."
Ellen Marth, the publicist for Nick Arrojo (arrojostudio.com), a New York salon owner and Wella special creative artist, created separate Facebook pages for Arrojo Studio, products, education and cosmetology. She uses YouTube to host videos, which are linked to Arrojo's Facebook pages.
"Managing your pages allows direct and relationship marketing; you're sending messages to people who want them," notes Marth. "There's a rhythm to managing social networks. In the morning I update Facebook pages and respond to new fan requests. Don't post everything new on Monday. If two bloggers or newspapers wrote about Nick, I post one link on Monday and the other on Wednesday."
Kyle Schoeneman, director of new media and markets for Empire Beauty Schools (empire.edu), says Empire's annual national student competition, which attracts students from 88 schools, was once the only way for alumni to meet. Now, students connect on Facebook before the event and check winning photos from the previous year.
"It's a great tool to get them excited about attending the event," he says.
As you build your own online community, add client makeover photos, promotions, styling tips or news about a class—just about anything can be posted or sent to all your fans at once. You don't have to create all the content yourself—Marth's use of hyperlinks allows Arrojo's ventures to get a boost from positive blogs, websites and articles that occur anywhere on the internet.
Business Building
To attract new clients and keep existing ones involved, Greg Sarway, co-owner of Spiff for Men (spiffnyc.com) in NYC, used New York-based GoLoyal Inc. (goloyal.com) to create his database of 6,000 names, e-blasts and social network pages. Recently, he promoted a $59-value service bundle (shampoo, cut, manicure, shoe shine) at $39 for first-time visitors, and says of every 10 new clients, seven were from Facebook. His advice: Keep it simple and use expiration dates on promotions.
John Simpson, a stylist at Lewis Hair Salon (lewishairsalon.com) in Pittsburgh, PA, prefers Facebook for business, since you can run a full webinar on it. He also hosts private discussions with colorists. His tip: Link everything together for integrated marketing; the more information you provide, the better.
McIvor created a Facebook fan site for each of his studios, as well as a private group for "hair color nerds." His business is up 37 percent from this time last year, he says, and in February of this year, he got 20 new guests over a two week period—13 came from various internet sites. The best use of Facebook says McIvor: Post your makeover photos. Bonus: Video yourself doing them, post the video on YouTube and, now, you've got your own channel. Between the two, he got 40 comments within 24 hours on his makeovers.
Twitter, which allows users to send 140-character messages to phones as a text message, should be used with intent. Marth signed up for Twitter in April because journalists use it, making it an easy publicity tool. How do you get followers? Just send out an e-blast and post on your various sites, "Follow us on Twitter."
What's a good business-building "tweet?" Provide styling tips and original ideas, says Marth. She recently sent a tweet about a new braiding technique, along with a link to the how-to on Facebook. McIvor advises weather-based tweets: "It'll be humid today, be sure to flatiron and use Blow-Down Extreme Crème."
Branding and Integrating Marketing
Try to test each social network one at a time, so you can ensure that your tone, images and messages are consistent across each one. Then, cross promote them with hyperlinks, so each can support the other.
For instance, Redken's Weiss recently sent out an e-mail to invite the brand's Facebook fans to interact with the company's various experts. "Ask the Experts" pages are integrated with Redken's consumer website because "at the end of the day, Facebook doesn't have a salon finder."
Empire's Schoeneman manages the schools' Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube accounts. "We link all of our sites to our homepage at empire.edu, as well as different informational sites like beautyschooladvisor.com," says Schoeneman. "We also produce YouTube videos that we link to our Facebook and MySpace pages."
Just some of Schoeneman's advice includes: log on daily, interact on a consistent basis, have a procedure for handling various questions and avoid forcing anything on users; let them opt-in.
"Social media is driven by its members, and your network won't grow if you aren't genuinely communicating information that's relevant to them," he adds.
If you plan to create several different networks, keep friends, colleagues and clients separated. By using different pages for each, says McIvor, you avoid sending the wrong person a promotional offer, and control who sees what. Planning for this in advance allows you to evolve in sophisticated ways you never imagined, intertwining the branches of each network and integrating new technology.
Already, Matrix uses an opt-in mobile site (a truncated version of its website), so stylists can download wallpaper images to show clients new styles, then look-up how to create the looks, right from their phones. Now that's integration.
Fast Facts
WHAT: Social networks are primarily websites for building online communities. Most combine categories, friends and various ways to communicate.
COST: Free
DO: Use your real name when you sign up—it's how others find you.
DON'T: Start a group or business page until you've experimented.
(Statistics courtesy Pivot Point International's April 2009 research.)
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If you've read my About page, you already know that my paternal grandmother, Ida, has been a huge influence on my cooking style. She is Sicilian, and firmly believes that fresh ingredients and simple preparations make the best food. Her recipes are always satisfying – loaded with flavor, texture and color – but never fussy. Rosemary and Garlic Chicken is the perfect way to showcase this cooking philosophy. It's also the best way I can think of to welcome you to my kitchen. Buon Appetito!
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Nationwide Food Section Roundup: Fish Tacos and Clambakes
National papers waver between late summer and fall in their food coverage this week - late summer produce, fall cooking.
In Chicago there are ten tips to defeat chicken blues - breaking out of the same old boring chicken dishes.They also have a love letter to fish tacos and a video guide to choosing glassware.
In Washington, D.C., they have recipes for vegetarian fried rice, fall scallop and corn chowder, and chicken paillard. They also suggest adding a potato to muffins and they have an inspiring article by Nick Malgieri on Bartlett pears.
In Cleveland they have a history of Spam (which happens to be quite interesting!) and an ongoing profile of a 4-H teen and her competition steer. They also offer nine steps for a clambake and a lively discussion of the price differences in shopping at farmers markets.
In Boston there's a recipe for a fun kids' party - Chefs at Play. They also give advice on choosing fall fruit, a recipe for chocolate pinata cake, and a review of the new Italian cookbook Cucina del Sole.
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curious as to why the DC roundup always includes the Wash Times and not the Post. Not a criticism, but it's an interesting choice.
I've been wondering about that too.
Silly reason: I made up a list of bookmarks awhile ago, quickly, and still work off that. (Nothing ideological ;-) I will add the Post, and if anyone else has local newspapers with good food sections post it and I will include in roundup from time to time.
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Alaska health officials are reporting a sharp increase this year of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, as well as a recent spike in influenza cases.
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Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: Picking the Right Stocks
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"Then what are you to do with me? Surely a slave has no place on the council, or amid your warriors. You seek to keep me in this room, and even if you feed me the finest foods and see to it I am in good health, a man cannot live on that alone. A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. I will die, Laufeyson, be in not in body in will."
He stares at the back of the Jotun prince, awaiting an answer or a reprimand.
Loki has nothing to say. He just wants Thor to stay, he doesn't exactly know why, he just does. He can't bear to look at him, but finally he speaks, his voice soft, and raspy.
"Just, please, just… rest, all right. That is all I am asking you to do, just rest."
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He wonders if he can guilt the prince into releasing him. Should he discover a soul buried in the icy depths of his heart, perhaps he can use that against him.
"I am trying to be kind to you, stop questioning my motives, Thor. And I have a name, I would ask that you use it if you're going to continue to speak to me instead of going to sleep." He pulls his legs up to him and places his chin atop his knees as he ponders this whole situation.
He still wishes for Thor to stay, but there is a part of him that is beginning to wonder if he should just let him go. But he won't, he can't. He doesn't particularly want to. He'd rather Thor stay with him.
"If you wish to be kind to me, then let me return to Asgard," Thor says, trying to keep the pleading from his voice. "None of this needs to break our realms' ties further…Loki. I will make no mention of this to my father, and inform him no threat exists."
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Organizations Across Country Send 4th of July Reminder to All Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People and Allies
Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) National Policy Roundtable today released the following statement in response to the Bush Administration's past and ongoing abridgements of civil liberties and ongoing and misleading statements about the LGBT community (i.e. Santorum, Frist). Endorsers of this statement are: Family Pride Coalition; Gender Education & Advocacy, Inc.; L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center; Mautner Project; National Association of LGBT Community Centers; National Center for Lesbian Rights; National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs; National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; National Transgender Advocacy Coalition; National Youth Advocacy Coalition; Pride At Work; and, World Congress of GLBT Jews.
As leaders of organizations that serve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals in this country and beyond, we appreciate the protections embodied in this nation's Constitution and Bill of Rights. On July 4, 1776 the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence. While there have been moments is our collective history where we have ignored the eloquent assertion "all men are created equal," the Declaration of Independence nevertheless embodies some of our highest aspirations. Yet this year the noble commands of equality and creating a "more perfect union" have been run roughshod by a government virtually unchecked in ravaging of some of our most cherished freedoms.
Many in this country and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community continue to suffer the pain of discrimination, racism and justice denied. Moreover, in recent months immigrants and even citizens of color in this country have been targeted, spied on and swept up in a manner that makes a mockery of the symbol so many fly proudly today. But even against such a backdrop we are mindful that the noble aspirations of liberty and freedoms that form the bedrock of our democracy always make possible great strides forward.
The critical importance of our Constitution and Bill of Rights in setting forth principles to which we always hope this nation will aspire, now requires us to express our profound lack of confidence and deep concern over the direction and decisions of the President of the United States, Congress, and Attorney General John Ashcroft.
We have grown increasingly alarmed at the current Administration's blatant disregard and disdain for the fundamental principles of our American Democracy-the First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and association, the Fifth Amendment right to due process, and the willful defiance of the checks and balances that are designed to prevent unfettered exercise of power by any particular branch of government.
Since the horrific events of September 11, 2001, the most basic freedoms and protections have been undermined and eroded. We cannot and will not stand silent while the very principles which ideally make this nation strong and vibrant are cast aside in pursuit of ill-defined goals and undisclosed threats.
In the shell-shocked aftermath of September 11, Congress passed the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism" known by shorthand as the USA Patriot Act. The Patriot Act steamrolled through Congress with very little debate. It is likely that very few members even read the 342-page law which gives law enforcement agencies like the FBI sweeping surveillance powers, powers curtailed by Congress after the well-documented FBI abuses of the 1960's and 70's. Only Wisconsin Congressman Russell Feingold voted no, pointing out: "There is no doubt that if we lived in a police state it would be easier to catch terrorists, but that would not be America."
In the past year the Patriot Act has been deployed to detain or deport thousands. American citizens have been questioned, homes have been searched, all while the most basic protections of due process, right to counsel and right to a fair trial have been unilaterally eliminated or curtailed. Earlier this month the Justice Department internal oversight unit released a report highly critical of the tactics employed by the Bush administration and the Justice Department. The scathing report notes that hundreds of immigrants, with no connection to terrorism, were systematically detained indefinitely with no access to family or a lawyer. As if all this is not enough, it was recently reported that the Ashcroft Justice Department was at work on Patriot 2, described as a "wish list" of changes to various laws to "tweak" the original USA Patriot Act.
The potential elimination of the most basic privacy protections detailed in Patriot II are so stunning that a landslide of criticism from both those on the political left and far right have joined the chorus denouncing the draft law. Under Patriot 2 American citizens could be stripped of US citizenship if he or she "becomes a member of, or provides material support to, a group that the United States has designated as a 'terrorist organization', if that group is engaged in hostilities against the United States." According to the New York Times Magazine under Patriot 2 "[a]n American citizen suspected of being part of a terrorist conspiracy could be held by investigators without anyone being notified. He could simply disappear." Patriot 2 expands all kinds of surveillance powers and grants the government authority to obtain information without subpoena or warrant.
As a community that is legally marginalized in this country, we understand that civil liberties protections are already tenuous for many communities in the U.S. We also know from long experience that those in our community who are of-color or poor will suffer the most under a regime that restricts constitutional freedoms.
If we come to a point in this country where the protections and guarantees embodied in the Bill of Rights only apply to a few-mostly white-citizens, then we have lost the battle and the war. As lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans we understand that we can love our country AND be highly critical of our government. We know what it means to suffer the pain of discrimination and the sting of scapegoating. Thus, we must raise our voices in dissent of bankrupt and dangerous policies. We can make a difference in the course of action this country pursues.
We call on all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans and all individuals of conscience to express our collective refusal to sit quietly while the rights we cherish are systematically eroded. The freedom we celebrate July 4 is more vulnerable and fragile than ever before. Our celebration must mark a renewed commitment to stand strong against any further encroachment. We must speak out and fight back.
Contact information for your members of Congress can be found at the House Web site and the Senate Web site
The September 11 Detainees: A review of the Treatment of Aliens Held on Immigration Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the September 11 Attacks; U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, April 2003.
Justice Department Contemplates Seeking More Sweeping Powers, Bill would Further Erode Limits on Antiterror Powers, Report of American Civil Liberties Union, 2003
New York Times Magazine, February 23, 2003.
The mission of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is to build the political power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community from the ground up. We do this by training activists, organizing broad-based campaigns to defeat anti-LGBT referenda and advance pro-LGBT legislation, and by building the organizational capacity of our movement. Our Policy Institute, the movement's premier think tank, provides research and policy analysis to support the struggle for complete equality and to counter right-wing lies. As part of a broader social justice movement, we work to create a nation that respects the diversity of human expression and identity and creates opportunity for all. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., we also have offices in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis and Cambridge.
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Have you ever played with a Spirograph? You know, the little plastic gears that enable you to draw all sorts of cool geometric patterns until you work yourself up into such a creative frenzy that your eyes glaze over, you wear holes in the paper, gears and drawing materials start flying all over the place and your pets run for cover…er, maybe that was just us.
Anyway! We ask because it might help you appreciate an art project we recently discovered that was created by an artist who did something that we always think is awesome. She took an object designed for a very specific purpose and successfully altered it to do something wildly different and a whole lot of fun.
In this case the artist is Rosemarie Fiore. While some people go to amusement parks to ride thrilling rides and eat ridiculous fried foods, Rosemarie apparently went to one and was inspired turn one of those rides into a giant instrument for creating works of art.
"I connected a gas generator and air compressor to buckets of paint and secured them into the seats of a Scrambler amusement park ride. Once the ride was in motion, paint sprayed out of the benches onto vinyl tarps placed underneath. The result is a series of enormous hypocycloid designs which recorded the hidden patterns created by the ride as it turned."
That's right, for the project, created in 2004 and titled "Good-Time Mix Machine: Scrambler Drawings", she basically turned a carnival ride into an enormous spirograph. The very concept makes us smile.
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Sigh... I love the outside views!
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Beautiful! I want to go there and disappear into a good book while listening to the birds outside. <dreamy sigh>
I'll see your spiders and raise you mice!
I'll see your spiders and mice and raise you wicked witch to grow thorny vines around the house! I now officially want that sink faucet for my place. I hope it's not a one-off or high-end.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said he does not have total confidence in the LIBOR system for setting interest rates on financial transactions. The system, based in London, has been called into question recently over allegations that Barclays Bank of London tried to manipulate interest rates for its own financial gain. Chairman Bernanke defended the Fed's response to the initial news of the scandal in 2008.
On the economy, Mr. Bernanke said the top two threats remain the European debt crisis and the fiscal situation at home, a reference to various tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect next January. Chairman Bernanke delivered his semi-annual testimony before the Senate Banking Committee
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Thiensville, WI 53092
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M. Night Bottoms Out With 'Airbender'
Mary Pols, Special to MSN Movies
The actual title of the incomprehensible, pretentious, dramatically inert new movie written, directed and produced by M. Night Shyamalan is "The Last Airbender," but I prefer to think of it as "The Last Chance." As in, his last chance to convince me he has any skills as a filmmaker.
It's the story of a little boy named Aang (Noah Ringer) who has been chosen, sort of like the Dalai Lama, to be the world's Avatar, the reincarnated being who creates order among the four peoples of a world we will not call Earth. Wherever it is, they've got their own global warming problem. The Fire people are world dominators. They've taken control of the Earth people (who use their chi and dance moves to throw clods of dirt, also known as bending) and the Water people (who do the same but with ice, waves and giant raindrops). Aang is the only Air person left, and he has the gift of swishing, blowing and, occasionally, functioning as a fog machine.
Aang never wanted to be the Chosen One, the rotten brat, so he sailed off on his giant furry cockroach -- the movie's coolest piece of CGI -- and hid himself in a ball of ice for a hundred years, until a pretty pair of teenaged siblings in furs, Katara (Nicola Peltz) and Sokka (Jackson Rathbone, just as stilted and stiff as he is in the "Twilight" movies) found him. Only the Avatar can restore balance and put the brakes on the various nefarious plans of the Fire Lord Ozai (Cliff Curtis), his right-hand man Commander Zhao (Aasif Mandvi, who has the distinction of being the worst actor among many candidates) and his son Prince Zuko (Dev Patel), who has been banished to sail the seas, with the warning that he's not to return home without the Avatar.
It was painful just to write that synopsis, because it meant I had to revisit my notes, which are mostly filled with locations. Shyamalan drags us to a head-spinning number of places, stopping briefly in, say, the Southern Earth Kingdom for a slow-motion fight, then tripping off to the home of the Northern Earth Kingdom for some Avatar meditation, or back to the Fire Kingdom for some hissing villainy. People catch the Avatar, let him go, then try to catch him again. All the while, Shyamalan creates an ever-growing sense of "Who cares where we are; when will this be over?"
I went into "The Last Airbender" as I have with Shyamalan for the last decade, hoping that the guy who made 1999's "The Sixth Sense" might finally deliver something equally as exciting and satisfying. It's been a hope against hope -- I praised "Signs" in print but knew as soon as I started to argue on its behalf with an outraged friend that I couldn't put my heart into it. "Aliens!" my angry friend said. "What hooey!" She was right; I'd been suckered by mood, cinematography and the classy presence of theater actress Cherry Jones into accepting a load of crap. Visual style and strong casts made me softer on "The Village" and "Lady in the Water" than I should have been. It happens.
You might ask then, why would I, with these lessons behind me, have still held out any hope for "Airbender"? Two reasons: If you love movies, you tend to be an optimist. And this story was not based on an original idea of Shyamalan's, so maybe there was a chance it wouldn't turn out half-baked. (Aliens!) Its origins lie instead with Nickelodeon's animated series "Avatar: The Last Airbender" (which, obviously, required a title trim after James Cameron had his little Avatar-related idea). It's a popular show, and I know parents who enjoy watching it with their kids. Poor dears, now they'll have to pay out the nose to see it in 3-D, one violent explosion and action sequence after another.
Once upon a time, Shyamalan was right in tune with the spirit and pacing of a movie, but he's now completely tone-deaf. Half of the dialogue produced waves of titters from a preview audience primed to appreciate. That dialogue was delivered with all the cautious, uncertain pride found in the performers of a fifth-grade production of "Stone Soup"; you almost expect every youthful actor -- with the exception of Peltz, who shows the smallest signs of promise -- to break character, turn to the wings and ask their teacher if they're doing it right. Even Patel, the cute boy from "Slumdog Millionaire," looks like an amateur in this production. I was so grateful to finally make it to the Kingdom of My Earthbound Car, to make my final escape from Shyamalan's disappointing clutches.
Mary Pols is a Bay Area-based journalist. She reviews movies for Time.com and was for many years a film critic for the San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times. She is also the author of a memoir, "Accidentally on Purpose," published in 2008 by Ecco/Harper Collins. When she's inspired, usually by something weird, she blogs about it at www.maryfpols.com.


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