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My Profile
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 105 lbs.
Measurements: 33-25-36
Profession: Chief Operating Officer & Clinic Director
Relationship Status: Single
Favorite Sport/Team: Seattle Sounders
Go-to karaoke song: Shania Twain "I Feel Like a Woman"
My first job: Barista
Piercings/Tattoos (How many? Where?) Nope
What fun fact, talent, or mutant superpower of yours should guys know about? I'm like a little kid...qwirky :)
What's the most memorable pick up line you've ever heard? At Drais in Hollywood: Douchebag: "I know the Far East Movement Guys personally...I can introduce you to them.." My Reply: "KevNish is my Brother..."
What's the craziest thing you've ever done? I plead the 5th.
What's the most unusual place you've ever hooked up? How'd it go? A Lady has and keeps her secrets, secret. :)
Have you ever lied to get something for free? What was it? Nope. Never.
What do you feel most comfortable wearing? Tshirt, Boyshort and Socks.
Would you rather have boring sex all the time or an amazing romp once a year? Is that even a question? If I had to choose, DEFINITELY Amazing romp once a year.


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37-2011.00 - Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Bright Outlook
Job Zone One: Little or No Preparation Needed
|Some of these occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate.
|Related Experience
|Little or no previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a waiter or waitress even if he/she has never worked before.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations involve following instructions and helping others. Examples include taxi drivers, amusement and recreation attendants, counter and rental clerks, construction laborers, continuous mining machine operators, and waiters/waitresses.
|SVP Range
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There are 2 recognized apprenticeable specialties associated with this occupation:
Multi-Story Window/Building Exterior Cleaner; Swimming-Pool Servicer
To learn about specific apprenticeship opportunities, please consult the U.S. Department of Labor State Apprenticeship Information website.
For general information about apprenticeships, training, and partnerships with business, visit the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Apprenticeship website.

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There's often a healthy debate about the merits of various anti-piracy initiatives, particularly about their direct impact upon the legitimate marketplace. Whether it's the PROTECT IP legislation pending in Congress, legal action against an unauthorized site that doesn't compensate creators, or industry enforcement efforts, a frequent strand of skepticism arises from the relationship between those initiatives and a concrete growth in sales. Protecting rights is important, but do these efforts have a real impact upon the marketplace?
Recently we've seen concrete evidence that suggests the answer to that question is a resounding 'yes.'
But first, a look at the numbers. So far this year we've seen a modest but encouraging uptick in sales. According to Nielsen SoundScan data featured at a recent NARM-sponsored webinar titled "Delving Deeper Into This Upswing: A Sales Trend Update," total music sales on a track-equivalent basis (TEA) increased by 4.8 percent so far in 2011, compared to this time last year when total sales on a TEA-basis were down 0.7 percent. Digital track sales are up 11 percent and digital albums are showing an increase of more than 19 percent in 2011.
So what gives? Nielsen pointed specifically to the shutdown of LimeWire in the fourth quarter of 2010 that corresponded with the beginning of the uptick in digital sales. As Billboard recently noted in its coverage of the Nielsen webinar:
One factor behind the increase in track sales could be the shutting down of the LimeWire P2P service in late October of last year. The spike in sales was immediate, noticeable and lasting. From January to October 2010, the year-over-year change in track sales varied between a high of 3.6% in May and a low of -3.7% in April (there were three increases and seven decreases, all of them slight).
Then came the jump in track sales. November was up 17.2%. The gains were lower in December and January - 6.4% and 4.2%, respectively - but seasonal sales gain in December and January were probably masking the greater trend. The year-over-year gain shot right back up to 12.7% in February and has ranged from 11.2% and 13.9% ever since.
The evidence is beginning to pile up -- evidence that there is a specific migration of users from an illegal service to legitimate ones, which translates into more revenues for licensed services and more royalties for musicians, songwriters, producers, publishers, music labels – everyone in the chain of music creation. And it's even more reason why important initiatives that strengthen the protection of intellectual property are essential, and can truly make a difference in the everyday lives of people who make music.
By Cara Duckworth Weiblinger, Vice President, Communications, RIAA
Google recently posted a progress report about its copyright protection efforts. There is no doubt that Google has taken steps to combat content theft online and we are one of many that have commended these improvements. For example, we thank Google for developing tools to make it easier for us to submit takedown requests, and for significantly shortening the take down times for links in DMCA notices concerning Blogger or Web Search to less than 24 hours. In addition, we note that Google has cooperatively worked with us to develop processes to remove some of the worst content theft applications from the Android market place. In short, we have appreciated the dialogue we have had with Google, and the progress we have made to date.
But there is much more that needs to be done.
Just last spring in the House Judiciary Intellectual Property Subcommittee, Google was a key witness at a hearing that focused on illegal foreign websites that traffic in counterfeit goods. That hearing demonstrated that there is much, much more that Google must do if it wants to play a responsible role in keeping the Internet secure from these illegal parasites.
For example, Google's ad services, such as AdSense, AdMob, and DoubleClick, continue to service illegal sites that offer unauthorized music -- despite our flagging of these sites. We appreciate that Google is working with us to develop a system to send Google bulk notices about the use of AdSense on sites that facilitate online theft. However, given the significant benefits Google receives from these services and its commitments via the official guidelines that regulate advertisers, Google should do more to ensure that it does not place and profit from ads on sites that offer illegal content.
We also continue to run into problems with the efficacy of Google's takedown procedures. Google's Blogger tool continues to serve as a forum for the posting of links to unauthorized music. As noted above, Google has improved its take down speeds upon receiving notices, but it has not been effective in terminating repeat offenders who are aware of Google's policies and know there are no consequences to reposting illegal content.
Google should also remove the barriers it has placed on its Web search tools which make it difficult for content owners to provide proper feedback on sites that pop up in Google's search results. Further, we cannot see how Google's posting elsewhere online the links to the unauthorized sites it has delisted is consistent with the intent of the DMCA. And while we appreciate Google's efforts to date to prevent certain terms associated with illegal sites from appearing in its auto-complete function, the clear and frustrating issue remains that Google continues to list unlicensed sites before authorized ones in its search results.
Finally, as noted above, Google has taken down some mobile apps that facilitate infringement. But the takedown times are long, and too often we see the same or substantially similar apps from the same developers re-appear a few days later. Google could also take a more proactive role by screening and evaluating apps before they are made available. Most importantly, too many apps created to harvest links to unauthorized files remain available and popular on the Android marketplace, resulting in widespread infringement of copyrighted works.
We give credit where credit is due, and Google's efforts to date give us hope that Google is truly committed to working with those of us that produce the content that Google users want to see and hear. As First Amendment expert Floyd Abrams testified at the House hearing last spring, "It is one thing to say that the Internet must be free; it is quite another to say that it must be lawless. Even the Wild West had sheriffs, and even those who use the Internet must obey the law."
Steven Marks, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, RIAA
In case you missed it, read the RIAA's recent blog post on music biz site The Comet about the successful marriage of music and TV shows from our own Mitch Glazier, Senior Executive Vice President, RIAA here: "Exclusive Blog: Trending – Tunes on the Tube, What Does It All Mean?"


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Open Post: Hosted by A Ginger With A Cock Sign
September 13, 2013 / Posted by: Michael K
And here's my Heaven: a bearded ginger holding a sign with the word "cock" on it.
While walking to the set of a photo shoot for Victoria's Secret in NYC's Central Park today, a production assistant decided to mess with the paps by holding a cock sign over model Jessica Hart. It kind of looks like he's calling Jessica Hart a cock, which is a dangerous thing to do. It's all laughs and cock signs until John Travolta takes that sign literally and wraps his Scientolohole around her.
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A few more construction cones on Tulsa roads to look out for as you begin your weekend.
The eastbound I-44 frontage road is closed between Wheeling Ave. and Lewis Ave. until further notice as part of the I-44/Lewis widening project.
The eastbound I-44 frontage road is open between Peoria and Wheeling.
Meanwhile, the eastbound I-44 off-ramp to Lewis will remain closed through September; drivers are asked to use Harvard or Peoria for access to Lewis.
Lane and ramp closures until further notice include:
· All lanes of north and southbound Lewis Ave. are closed at the I-44 junction until further notice.
· The westbound I-44 on-ramp from Lewis Ave. is closed. Use ramps at Harvard Ave. or Peoria Ave. to access westbound I-44.
· The east and westbound I-44 frontage road between Harvard Ave. and Peoria Ave. is narrowed.
· Various lane closures on Utica Ave. and Wheeling Ave. at the 51st St./Skelly Dr. junction
· All lanes of Birmingham Pl. (south of I-44) closed at Skelly Dr./51st until further notice.
Evangelist Franklin Graham prayed on a sidewalk outside the Pentagon Thursday after his invitation to a prayer service inside was withdrawn because of comments that insulted people of other religions. More>>


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IT was the moment for which we had all been holding our breath for decades - for 63 years to be precise. Palestinians everywhere watched the unfolding scene transfixed and awed. The camera followed the movements of a small group of people advancing from the mass of protesters. They were carefully making their way down a hill towards the high fence that closed off the mined field separating Syria from its own occupied territory of the Golan that borders historic Palestine, now Israel. They were mostly young Palestinians, drawn from the 470,000- plus refugee community in Syria: from Yarmouk refugee camp inside Damascus, from Khan el Sheikh camp outside it...
READING the headlines from the Middle East these days - Christians and Muslims clashing in Egypt, Syria attempting to crush its democracy rebellion and Palestinians climbing over fences into Israel - you get the sense of a region where the wheels could really start to come off. In such a moment, President Barack Obama has to show the same decisiveness he showed in tracking down Osama bin Laden. A useful analogy for this moment comes from climate science, where a popular motto says: Given how much climate change is already baked into our future, the best we can do now is manage the unavoidable and avoid the...
MES Indian School retains Traquest quiz trophy
MES Indian School won the Traquest inter-school quiz competition for the second time in a row.
The quiz competition was organised by the Thiruvananthapuram District Residents Association-Qatar (TRAQ).
It was held at the DMIS Indian School on Friday.
Seven Indian schools took part in the competition, in which the DMIS Indian School took the second spot.
MES Indian School students Sreekumar Nair and Nevin Mathew claimed the top spot by winning points consistently throughout the seven rounds.
The DMIS duo of Ahmed Rashaq and Mohmed Adel came second in the competition.
Director of DMIS Indian School Jaya Shankar Pillai and President of Traq Zakir Hussein gave away the trophy and certificates to the winners.
Addressing the gathering, Hussein said, "It was a feeling of great satisfaction to organise a successful interschool quiz.
This is the second edition of Traquest which has become popular in the Indian community in Doha.
The students put up a splendid performance and the response to the quiz has been fantastic." Quiz Master Mansoor Moideen said he was proud to host the show in which all the leading Indian schools in Qatar participated.
There were seven rounds, which included audio visual, current affairs and sports.
The MES Indian School team scored well in all the rounds and picked up maximum points during the final rapid-fire round.
The DMIS students, who were lagging behind other teams in the initial rounds, came up with a strong performance in the last two rounds to claim the second position.
Earlier, there was a quiz competition for the organisation's family members in which 13 families took part and five finalists selected.
The Anantha Krishnan and Simi Nair duo came first while Hariraj and Manjusha took the second spot.
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House Speaker John Boehner privately told President Barack Obama that he's prepared to consider more than the $800 billion the GOP has already proposed in new tax revenues -- but only if the White House will back much deeper cuts to entitlement programs, according to several sources familiar with the talks.
Getting beyond $800 billion in revenue without raising tax rates on upper-income families would be difficult. Obama has long demanded that marginal income rates go up on the top 2 percent of Americans.
(Also on POLITICO: 12 Republicans resigned to higher taxes)
But for the time being, Boehner's private concession might not be the breakthrough the fiscal talks need. The White House has been resistant to additional entitlement savings -- their proposal has been stuck at $600 billion, and their revenue target is pegged at $1.4 trillion. Republicans insist a revenue increase that large could never pass the House or Senate.
Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner, said: "Speaker Boehner has always been and remains opposed to raising tax rates because raising tax rates costs jobs. He has said that publicly and privately."
With this stalemate, Republicans are starting to ponder a Plan B: Extend the Bush-era rates for families who earn less than $250,000 and then reopen the debate on taxes and entitlements next year, when the nation heads for the debt limit again.
"The White House hasn't come up with close to enough spending cuts and reforms to be worth $800 billion in additional revenue, let alone the -- substantial -- additional cuts and reforms that would be required for more than that," according to a Republican leadership aide.
The White House declined to comment on the president's private conversations. But White House aides say they have been asking the speaker's office for weeks to provide details of the cuts that Republicans want. The aides also argued that Republicans took a step back from a middle ground on taxes with their counteroffer Tuesday to lock in the Bush-era tax rates for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans, saying they were skeptical about a verbal concession since the speaker has yet to detail such a plan on paper.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), a close Boehner confidant involved in the negotiations, didn't knock down the idea of moving up from $800 billion in revenues. "I really don't have anything new to add on that," he said before disappearing into his office off the House floor.
Boehner's comments to Obama suggest the speaker is still pursuing a sweeping grand bargain deal, something that has been elusive since 2011, when the two men failed to reach a budget-slashing accord.
Still, Boehner's private olive branch doesn't appear to be shaking things loose in a major way. Leaders of both parties are growing more pessimistic, urging lawmakers to stay in Washington for protracted negotiations during the holiday season.
Some Republicans, sensing they have a losing hand in the fiscal talks, are increasingly signaling they would be open to folding now on taxes in order to renew their demands next year, when Obama requests an increase in the national borrowing limit, which stands at $16.4 trillion.
"I believe we're going to pass the $250,000 and below sooner or later, and we really don't have much leverage there because those rates go up by operation of law Dec. 31," said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the incoming No. 2 in his conference leadership. "I would focus on the areas where we do have more leverage."
If enough Republicans begin to sound like Cornyn, Obama would almost certainly get his wish: Congress would approve an extension of the Bush-era tax rates for families with annual salaries less than $250,000, and a tax hike from 35 percent to 39.6 percent for income above that amount. And Republicans would live to fight another day: demanding spending cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security when Obama formally requests an increase to the national borrowing limit to avoid a debt default.
Some in the right flank in the House and Senate are increasingly on board with this approach as well.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said there's little Republicans can do to prevent a tax hike if Obama continues to demand one in the fiscal talks. He said passing an extension of tax rates under $250,000 and fighting the battle over the debt ceiling "may be the fallback position in terms of limiting the damage."
"The only fiscal restraint that we've actually been able to impose on the federal government is in relationship to the debt ceiling talks," Johnson said. "That's a point of negotiating leverage that conservatives cannot give up."
Even as they game out a backup plan, Boehner and Obama are still trying to reach a compromise to avert the $109 billion in spending cuts and tax increases poised to hit every American if Washington can't get a deal by year's end. The two men traded competing proposals this week: Under Boehner's plan, $800 billion in revenue would come from closing a range of unspecified tax deductions and more than $1 trillion would be felt in entitlement program cuts.
After demanding new taxes worth $1.6 trillion, Obama has lowered his revenue target to $1.4 trillion, a bulk of which would be paid for by raising tax rates on upper-income families. He has proposed cutting entitlements by $600 billion, a level far too low for Republicans. And he has insisted on a debt ceiling increase to be included in a final deal, a proposition Republicans have rejected.
But there's a hardening sense among Capitol Hill Republicans that they are losing this battle -- and that it makes more sense to wait until next year to fight, when it's time to raise the debt ceiling.
With little negotiating leverage, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) has been a leading advocate of punting the big fights until the debt ceiling battle. He says Congress should extend the tax cuts to 98 percent of taxpayers, in line with the White House's position, then immediately turn to the debt ceiling. On Wednesday, he offered a bill to raise the debt ceiling by an additional $1 trillion in exchange for cuts out of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
"I hope that I'm wrong, but I don't think we're going to get to the size agreement that is going to mitigate a debt ceiling" increase, Corker said Wednesday.
But Democrats have bad memories from the debt ceiling fight from summer 2011. After Republicans demanded dollar-for-dollar cuts to raise the borrowing limit, Congress approved about $1 trillion in spending cuts, with at least $1.2 trillion to come from a special supercommittee created to find additional savings. But since the supercommittee couldn't reach a deal, Congress imposed across-the-board spending cuts worth $1.2 trillion over 10 years, something lawmakers are now scrambling to reverse before they take effect in 2013.
Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. credit rating as a result of the debt ceiling fight.
"We're not going to go through this every 60 or 90 days," Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Wednesday. "It would be devastating to our economy with this kind of uncertainty, that they would threaten to shut down the government or the economy every 60 to 90 days. That may be a tea party dream but it's a nightmare for our economy."
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The Angels announced a major move on Tuesday when they fired hitting coach Mickey Hatcher and replaced him with Triple-A hitting coach Jim Eppard. The switch means much more than a potential for the team's hitting to improve; it indicates a major change within the organization.
Hatcher was one of Mike Scioscia's original assistant coaches from the time he took over as Angels manager in 2000. He is the first Scioscia assistant to be fired (previous assistant coaches Joe Maddon and Bud Black moved on to managerial gigs). The two were teammates with the Dodgers and Scioscia has been incredibly loyal to Hatcher, riding with him through the team's ups-and-downs. But the organization finally decided to fire him on Tuesday.
Many people believe Hatcher was fired in part because he upset Albert Pujols a few weeks ago. They feel the firing was a response to that issue, and that the move indicates Pujols is running the team.
I think it signifies that there is another powerful voice in the organization, but it's not Pujols'; GM Jerry DiPoto is now the one running the show.


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She dreamt of beauty
and she slept
she slept forever
until the flowers crawled through her hair
and the ground stained her skin
because nobody kissed her frozen lips
and nobody cared to.
And the clock struck the hour
and she tripped
and she shattered
and her feet turned red as she ran through the glass
to escape.
And she saw the sun through the blue
but her screams went unheard
and she splashed about wishing for the impossible
and she drowned in the future.
And she sacrificed her life for a man
and she was locked away
and she never returned
because love doesn't grow on flowers
to be discovered when time is winding down.
And she ran from her home
to expel the past
to die in the unknown
and evil really was chasing her
with a knife and a box
but one bite of naivety poisoned her hope.
And she reached for freedom
and fell on poverty
she died alone with the street rats
and she wasn't satisfied with the world
and she contradicted herself when she hated the rich
but wouldn't be live with those beneath her.
And she claimed to love her family
but just hated their ways
and she was shunned
and her hair fell in pieces to the ground
and was trampled by an army
so that she could never return.
Full Poem Read By Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz, who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated, who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkan- sas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull, who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall, who got busted in their pubic beards returning through Laredo with a belt of marijuana for New York, who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their torsos night after night with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls, incomparable blind streets of shuddering cloud and lightning in the mind leaping toward poles of Canada & Paterson, illuminating all the mo- tionless world of Time between, Peyote solidities of halls, backyard green tree cemetery dawns, wine drunk- enness over the rooftops, storefront boroughs of teahead joyride neon blinking traffic light, sun and moon and tree vibrations in the roaring winter dusks of Brooklyn, ashcan rantings and kind king light of mind, who chained themselves to subways for the endless ride from Battery to holy Bronx on benzedrine until the noise of wheels and children brought them down shuddering mouth-wracked and battered bleak of brain all drained of brilliance in the drear light of Zoo, who sank all night in submarine light of Bickford's floated out and sat through the stale beer afternoon in desolate Fugazzi's, listening to the crack of doom on the hydrogen jukebox, who talked continuously seventy hours from park to pad to bar to Bellevue to museum to the Brooklyn Bridge,
Writing takes practice.
You must feed it
and water it
and love it
maybe even talk to it when you're alone in bed at 3am
if, that's something people do to plants.
Regardless, writing takes effort.
To do it well eats at your insides
gorges itself on your insecurities
and feasts on your fears.
My writing has changed.
It used to seep out when I hadn't slept in days
when my eyes were red and swollen
and when my fingers shook from sadness
But now it leaps off of my bare fingernails.
It's starving and gasping to be heard
dancing out of me, strong and full,
instead of limp and convulsing
My words have found themselves.
They are comfortable with themselves
they belong with themselves
and they can come when I call, instead of only when I scream.
May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there—not in heaven—not perished—where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"
Jack Kerouac
I love this because it captures the difficulties of writing so perfectly. Writing is so hard because an image already exists in your head, but your hands can't ever seem to get it out onto paper.
Kurt Vonnegut
I believe that people only show themselves when they truly have to. When I read, I want to get involved with a character and believe that they are realistic. Everyone is fake for the most part, but in a dire situation, their insides spill out and that is much more interesting to read about.
Kurt Vonnegut
Reading should be a use of time, not a waste of it. I would say that a good rule would be to write something that you would love to read. Nobody deserves to wish for part of their life back, especially at you, the writer's, expense.
Jack Kerouac
I love this quote so much. Even though it doesn't directly relate to writing, the message can be applied to it. Everything that we, as humans, produce has the potential to be art. This means a lot to me because it reminds me that nothing anyone creates is "bad."
Jack Kerouac
Though this appears to not be related to writing, it was written in Belief and Technique for Modern Prose by Jack Kerouac. I love this quote because it is so simple and definitive, yet it could mean so much. It could mean that in order to be a good writer you must be able to accept things in your life, or it could mean to not continuously bring characters back to life.
Jack Kerouac
I love how this addresses the actual substance of writing. As a poet, Jack Kerouac never allowed himself to be constrained by conventional rules of writing. Instead, he let himself say what he wanted to say as purely as possible.


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The seasonal change in NM is amazing. It's comfortable during the day and cold at night. I can't wait for the leaves to turn bright yellow!
Crispy air in the mornings and I saw the first leaves falling today.
Love this time of year.
To the Fall....
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To enjoy the change of season here, you have to love rain. We will be getting lots and lots of it between now and Summer. But the trees this produces are so exquisite in Fall, every color of the rainbow and some that aren't. We get your usual yellows and reds, but we get the softest oranges and the tawniest browns.... every shade from pink to red to indigo. And all of it studded with evergreens. It is just breathtaking. I am so lucky to live here in Oregon. Thank you for this thread so I can appreciate it all over again. Love, C.
P.S. You haven't lived till you have seen the Oak trunks covered with soft green moss....
P. P. S. I really had to degrade this pic to make it small enough to post.... but it gives you an idea of the colors. And no, this is not one of the oak trees I am talking about. Those are OLD and HUGE. :)
WOW - such stunning color. Ours are just beginning to get a little golden :)
This pic was taken a few years ago.... we still have our beauty ahead of us.... so looking forward to it. Love, C.
Fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors....dressing in darker colors....decorating the house for Halloween.
The season shifted almost immediately on Sept. 1st. The days cooled off-they are in the low 70's-and now the nights are pretty cold....for me. ;)
We had another strange, humid summer with summer thunder/lightening storms galore, but now the moisture is gone-like it was sucked out-and the air is crisper and drying for the skin....as you would expect in the "dry" desert.
It's snowing!!
After all the heat and wind and rain we are having a serious snow! It's the earliest sow with accumulation in over 50 years. The leaves haven't finished changing colors or fallen from the trees, but they're decorated with huge puffy flakes and bending from the weight.
Nothing like the first snow to feel cleansed and renewed! (for me anyway)
would love to see a photo, Brit!
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Here it is as of 7:30 this AM
Flippin' gorgeous!
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Wilton 399-801 Plastic Cake Dowel Rods - 12 1/4" x 3/4" 4 / Pack
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- Heavy-duty, hollow plastic
- Strong, sanitary support
- Use a serrated knife to easily cut rods to desired length
Use the Wilton 399-801 plastic dowel rods to support your tiered cakes and pastry displays! Made of heavy-duty plastic, these hollow rods provide strong, sanitary support for your tiered cakes, so you can ensure your customers that their made-to-order cakes won't topple during their event! Easier to use and more sanitary than wooden dowel rods, simply use a serrated knife to cut each of these 12 1/4" rods to the lengths required by your signature stacked cakes without worrying about splintering!
Sold four rods per pack.
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Internet ETF is a long-term play
This fund is headlined by stable industry leaders such as Google, Amazon and Yahoo.
By Don Dion, TheStreet
The breakneck expansion of the ETF universe has introduced investors to a diverse collection of products that track new and increasingly narrow corners of the global marketplace.
While some of these funds have struggled to gain a following before fizzling away, others have grown in prominence, earning a respectable following and establishing a sturdy foothold in the industry.
The First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index Fund (FDN) exemplifies a narrowly focused ETF that has risen to prominence.
With its well-diversified portfolio and the increasing importance of the Internet in our daily lives, the fund has grown from being a small, short-term niche position to a long-term fixture that can be found within a number of my ETF portfolios.
When I initially took on exposure to FDN, my goal was to use the fund as a short-term way to capture the increasing popularity of online retail during the 2009 holiday season. FDN is ideally suited to play online retail, with a large percentage of its portfolio in companies like Amazon.com (AMZN) and eBay (EBAY). Together, these two companies account for close to 15% of its total portfolio.
Thanks to companies such as AMZN and EBAY, consumers no longer have to battle crowds and wait in long lines at the mall to get their holiday shopping finished. Rather, armed with just a laptop or smart phone, consumers can deal with their holiday retail fix in the office or from the comfort of their own homes.
In recent years the appeal of online retail has caught on in a big way. In 2010, sales on Cyber Monday managed to surpass those on Black Friday for the first time, totaling $1 billion, a 16% increase from the previous year.
As I initially theorized, the fund performed well during those holiday months. However, throughout 2010, FDN has continued to earn its keep as a way to play our growing interest in technology and our need to stay connected with the world around us.
In 2010, the fund has performed well, with a 40% lift year to date, handily beating out other tech-heavy funds such as the PowerShares QQQ (QQQ), which, year to date, has gained only 20%.
Part of FDN's long-term strength lies in its diversification. The fund's index is headlined by industry leaders such as Google (GOOG), AMZN and Yahoo! (YHOO), which will help provide the fund with stability.
However, FDN also boasts exposure to popular momentum players such as Netflix (NFLX) and Salesforce (CRM), which has given the fund some welcomed pop.
In order to work effectively and stay constantly connected to our fast-paced interconnected world, we are becoming increasingly reliant on our computers, smart phones and other gadgets.
According to the results of a new survey from Forrester, U.S. consumers are spending as much time online as they are watching television. This all bodes well for FDN's long-term future. To meet our technological demands of our everyday lives, the products and services provided by companies such as Google, Yahoo and Amazon will become only more essential.
As we move ahead, I expect to see FDN continue to grow in popularity. Once again, this fund should gain strength in the short term as consumers continue to look online for holiday deals. However, risk-tolerant investors looking for a well-diversified way to track our growing need for technology in our lives may want to consider adding FDN to their portfolios for the long term.
Don Dion, president of Dion Money Management, is a contributor for TheStreet.
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- Pabitra Mukhopadhyay
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What leads us to decide?
We need to take decisions in life almost every day. In work or outside of it, life takes us on crossroads where decisions are necessary, without which we cannot move on. It is in these situations we take decisions and we believe that the decisions are independently taken, weighing pros and cons and utilizing our best judgments.
That may not be the case. Our decisions may not be as individualistic as we normally think. Our judgments may not be the best under the circumstances. We are often influenced by authority that comes from an expert or an institution or even a belief system but all of which, either solely or in combination are relied on as of authority. Yale University Psychologist Stanley Milgram, in 1963 published his research paper which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. They went on to impart lethal doses of electricity (as they believed to do) to some other participants just because they were deciding under authority. There are interesting videos available in Youtube which you can check.
We can project this authority beyond science. Religion is one. Market in another. Media is yet another. From small to profound we rely on authority almost obsessively for making decisions and yet think that our decisions are free and independent. If we need a reference for making decision, we should be seeking help from authenticity and not authority and they are different. Authority is beyond question, it regulates where as authenticity is free to be tested and it creates trust.
What leads us to decide – authority or authenticity?
Closing Statement from Pabitra Mukhopadhyay
It seems that we take help of both authority and authenticity to decide things. It may not even be an either/or choice as the question seeks to see decision making as. At times we can find authority and authenticity merging and at other times, at the very fringes of human choice the decision making may be so spontaneous that our sub-conscious plays a vital role. Moreover, our decision making process works over a range of our faculty, our brain conserves resources/neuronic energy while decision making.
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Apr 11 2013: Great Question.
I initially think about this from a neurological perspective. We now know exactly which parts of the frontal lobe of the brain are responsible for specific kinds of decision making. We know this based on decades of brain scans of patients with brain injuries. For example, one part of the front lobe is required for controlling your urges (I am deciding not to have that chocolate bar), and another part of the frontal lobe is required for decisions where a reward is involved. Some decisions involve several of these brain centers at once. As all humans have these decision making parts of the brain in the same place, I suspect there is partially a genetic element to the design of our brain which creates these decision making centers.
As we constantly physically rewire our brain in response to our own thinking and experiences, these pre-wired decision making centers of the frontal lobe interact with other parts of our thinking that are of our own creation.
The amygdala functions as an instant decision making system, making instant fight or flight decisions without taking the time to decide, "Gee, should I run from this lion?" In patients with PTSD, this can override the decisions they would like to consciously make.
Another observation I have about decision making, is that the reasons we actually make a decision may be quite different from the reasons we think we made that decision. Sometimes I think we make up our justification for our decision after the fact, perhaps to resolve cognitive dissonance.
I think it's fascinating to consider the decision making process of a person "trying" (unsuccessfully) to quit smoking cigarettes. I've asked a number of ex-smokers what caused them to finally quit, and there does seem to be this "aha" moment where they finally make the conscious decision to quit and stay quit.
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On Wed. February 16th, Chris Garrett was back for Part 2 of his 3-part blogging series at WebDesign.com. This second session focused on "How to Build a Sticky Blog".
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Be sure to check out the Insights From Part 1, as well.
The way to create a "sticky blog" is to build relationships and community, and an environment that encourages people to come back – by making them feel safe, like they belong, and that supports them in achieving their goals.
What's the big deal about having a sticky blog?
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Chris G. talked about a number of ways to increase the stickiness factor of your blog.
- Build an environment that encourages comments
- Develop a sense of belonging for your readers – according to Chris, this will help any blog.
- Build community
- Watch out for the pitfalls – no or few comments, personality clashes and/or rude behavior in comments, not providing structure or accountability to help people get what they want, not engaging with your readers.
How do you create an environment that encourages comments?
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Don't make your readersjump through hoops, like having to register before they can comment. Comments are more of an "in the moment" response from someone. The more they have to do in order to comment, the less "in the moment" they are, hence the less likely they are to comment.
- Respond to comments.
People want to know they are being heard and valued. They want to belong. Respond to every – or virtually every – comment you get. This helps create a safe and welcoming zone.
- Be friends/social.
Let people know something about you. Share about yourself when you reply to comments. It helps them know you, which helps them like you, which helps them feel good about spending time and money with you.
- Comment on other blogs.
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- Ask questions.
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Bill description: Introduced by Sen. Ted W. Lieu (D-Torrance), it would prohibit hunters from using packs of dogs to pursue bears and bobcats in California. In "hounding," radio-collared dogs are used to track, chase and run down animals. Using a portable receiver, the hunter can determine when the pursued animal is trapped in a tree and then comes to shoot that animal at point-blank range.
In their frantic retreat from the dogs, bears and bobcats endure a tremendous amount of stress. In addition, hounding may separate mother bears from their cubs, leaving the young orphaned or even caught and torn up by the dogs. The dogs themselves also placed at extreme risk of injury from encounters with wild and terrified bears and bobcats.
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Ugh. I really wanted to like this recipe, as I love kimchi. It almost never happens that I can't finish a dish, but I only had a few spoonfuls before stopping. The pork was tasty, but everything else was gross. The soup itself tasted like watered-down kimchi, the tofu was a weird addition. I happened to make the sesame salad on the same page, so I took the pork out of the soup and put it on top of the salad. I fished out the rest of the pork for leftovers and dumped the rest. Bleh
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love love love this soup! i do however, use a 1/4 red pepper instead of celery because i don't like celery. for those who think it is bland, that probably helps.
Canadian Cheese Soup with Pumpernickel Croutons
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Preparation time: 5 minutes
Yield: 8 servings (serving size: 1 cup soup and 1/4 cup croutons)
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 203
- Calories from fat: 30%
- Fat: 6.8g
- Saturated fat: 3.8g
- Monounsaturated fat: 1.9g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.4g
- Protein: 13.2g
- Carbohydrate: 21.9g
- Fiber: 1.8g
- Cholesterol: 23mg
- Iron: 1.1mg
- Sodium: 671mg
- Calcium: 318mg
- 3 (1-ounce) slices pumpernickel bread, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1 onion, peeled and quartered
- 1 carrot, peeled and quartered
- 1 celery stalk, quartered
- 1 teaspoon butter or stick margarine
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 (16-ounce) cans fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth, divided
- 3 cups 2% reduced-fat milk
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 1/2 cups (6 ounces) shredded reduced-fat sharp cheddar cheese
- Preheat oven to 375°.
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Family friend, Karen Unger, said William Berger had just closed on a house in the area and his father was in town to help. Berger's father had dropped him off at Oz Fitness and when he returned to pick him up he witnessed him being tased.
The Medical Examiner said Berger is brain dead and still in the hospital.
Brain death refers to the irreversible end of brain activity. It differs from "clinical death" which is when blood stops circulating and breathing stops.
Witnesses said a Spokane County Sheriff's Office deputy tased the man, believed to be Berger, around 7:00 p.m. outside of the gym. Investigators said the man became unresponsive as deputies struggled to arrest him. Deputies and EMS provided life saving measures according to deputies.
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Overall mobile penetration in China stands at 75%, which is lower than other large emerging economies like Mexico and Brazil, where penetration is well over 80%.
The TD-SCDMA (TD) technology is an air interface developed in China in an attempt to avoid dependence on Western technology. However, in January 2009, the Government assigned licences for different 3G mobile phone standards to three carriers. TD was assigned to China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) while licences for the W-CDMA were assigned to a subsidiary of China Unicom (Hong Kong) (NYSE: CHU) and to China Telecom (NYSE: CHA).
All three have very healthy financial positions, so pursuing growth opportunities should not be a problem.
The giant
The largest mobile carrier in the world, China Mobile, currently has 64% of Chinese mobile market share. The Chinese government controls over 71% of the company.
The carrier enjoys unrivaled scale efficiency, strong brand recognition, and greater network coverage than any of its peers. A strong brand is especially useful to attract and retain high-spending subscribers.
In recent years, China Mobile has struggled to grow its 3G services as it is based on a less mature technology: TD. This means slower network speeds compared to rivals and less attractive handset selection. To the company's relief, number portability has not been implemented in China. Also, competition for subscribers, especially in the profitable but saturated urban markets, has intensified, which forced the company to seek subscriber growth in lower-income rural areas.
Despite these challenges, China Mobile's ability to stay competitive is not in question. It has been installing WiFi hotspots in major cities to improve connection speed for subscribers. Also, the company recently announced that it plans to spend around $6.7 billion to build out its 4G LTE network. This is a significant move, allowing the firm to take a step closer to a deal that would introduce the iPhone on the TD network, which would allow it to increase it share in 3G phones, currently at 13%.
Competition is rising
China Unicom is the second-largest mobile carrier in China. Its state-owned parent company owns more than 70% of shares.
Mobile services account for nearly half of China Unicom's total revenue. The company's future depends on whether it can successfully execute in the 3G race to expand its subscriber base, and gain better scale efficiency, based on the W-CDMA technology. This won't be an easy task.
While China Mobile currently has the largest number of high-spenders on mobile services, rivals like China Unicom may take advantage of the numerous frustrated China Mobile 3G subscribers, whose main complaints are slow connection speeds and a dearth of handset selection options. Still, lack of number portability makes it hard for subscribers to move from one company to another. A wide selection of W-CDMA handsets help China Unicom appeal to Chinese subscribers.
The other half of China Unicom's revenue is derived from fixed-line and broadband services, although it's not management's main focus at the moment.
China Telecom: Dominant position in Southern China
Another strong competitor is China Telecom, an integrated telecom service provider. It operates the largest wireline network in China and serves over half of China's broadband access subscribers. The government controls over 70% of its shares.
China Telecom officially entered the wireless market after acquiring the CDMA business from China Unicom in 2008 and launched its 3G services a year later. Offering plans that bundle mobile service with fixed-line and broadband access, China Telecom has successfully converted a significant number of mobile subscribers from rival carriers. Investment in network infrastructure and marketing campaigns also played an important role in narrowing the gap with rivals.
For instance, although China Mobile and China Unicom enjoy better scale efficiency and stronger branding, China Telecom has managed to double its overall mobile market share to 14% over the past two years and gain control of a third of the 3G market.
China Telecom has a very important advantage in southern China: a monopoly in the fixed-line telephone and broadband markets. Its fixed-line network is so extensive that makes it almost impossible to duplicate. Although the fixed-line business now faces increasing competition from wireless services, its position in broadband access services remains unchallenged.
Bottom line
Although growth in the mobile market will be slower than the double-digit rates registered in previous years, there is still room for growth as penetration rate is 75%. I believe China Mobile is the most interesting choice and investors will be rewarded in the long run. Its unrivaled scale efficiency, strong brand recognition, and greater network coverage should ensure a continuous flow of funds and growth in profits over the years. Competition is rising, but China Mobile is keeping up.
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- Protein: 5.4g
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- Fiber: 3.8g
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Provo • Right before Thanksgiving in 2011, BYU receiver Skyler Ridley suffered a concussion and injured his shoulder when he was hit by teammate Daniel Sorensen in practice during his third season as a member of the scout team.
The walk-on from Murrieta, Calif., woke up the next morning, and decided he'd had enough. The 2011 season would be his last.
Ridley's journey from walk-on to starter
2007 » Spurned offers from UTEP, USU to walk on at BYU, redshirted
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"I realized, man, I am just getting beat up, for not even an opportunity to run out of the stadium with the team. For nothing. I think that was the lowest point in my experience at BYU."
Ridley told coaches he was finished, that he was going to concentrate on finishing his schoolwork, going to medical school and marrying his ever-supportive sweetheart, Jasmine, who is getting her master's degree in accounting at BYU.
For about two weeks in the spring of 2012, Ridley's college football career was over. But just before camp, then-offensive coordinator Brandon Doman and then-receivers coach Ben Cahoon met with him, and talked him into giving it one more go.
The 6-foot, 182-pound senior is obviously thrilled that he did, and so are BYU coaches. Ridley was BYU's leading receiver — albeit for just three catches for 29 yards — in Saturday's 19-16 loss to Virginia.
"It was a thrill," Ridley said of his first-ever start. "To be a part of the team, the program, and to play a significant role in helping our team, it is a privilege."
Ridley's parents, Kevin and Kimbur, and wife made the trip to Charlottesville to watch the historic moment for the family, and were on the front row near the tunnel to BYU's locker room. It was a trip down memory lane for Kimbur Ridley, who graduated from a high school in Virginia.
"My parents played a big role in helping me to push forward in hard times," said Skyler Ridley, who was awarded a scholarship in 2012. "My wife has played a significant role, too, in helping me go forward. I think they were all proud and excited."
Actually, Ridley made his first mark in the program the first time he suited up. He caught a touchdown pass against Washington State in the 2012 opener and had a career-high six catches for 54 yards. He finished the season with 20 catches for 206 yards.
Ridley supplanted Ross Apo as a starter on the depth chart last spring, and coach Bronco Mendenhall said during fall camp that when NFL scouts stopped by practices to watch Cody Hoffman, several of them asked about Ridley.
"He just goes one speed," Mendenhall said. "He runs great routes, and he's quick, fast and tough. He is one of those guys that this program is all about."
A baseball and football star in high school, Ridley drew some interest from UTEP, Utah State, Utah and others, but coaches backed off when he told them he had decided to walk on at BYU.
Now, the former walk-on is preparing to face Texas on Saturday at LaVell Edwards Stadium (5 p.m., ESPN2), two years after almost giving up. His dedication to the program was rewarded last week when teammates voted him a team captain.
"It's been quite a journey, but I wouldn't trade the experience for anything."
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Blackhawks winger Marian Hossa accepts that his play will be scrutinized while center Jonathan Toews sits out with a concussion.
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But Hossa said he believes he's nearing the pace he was at before the All-Star break. He has four goals and seven assists in the 11 games Toews has missed, including five assists in the last three games.
"Some nights I feel much better and I don't get points," said Hossa, who has a team-high 18 multipoint games. "It all depends. But if I'm handling the puck and I'm strong on the puck, that's my game."
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One of the most common challenges facing many small business owners is knowing what to do next. This often leads to being stuck and non-productive for the business.
If they are a home based business, this is often remedied by cleaning, doing the laundry, going shopping, gardening or doing other household jobs that have no
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Yes, the tasks need to be done but allocating business hours and doing business related activities in those hours matters more.
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Mashpee Fire Department quickly contained a kitchen fire at 7 Forest Drive shortly before 9 PM on Wednesday.
Forest Drive is located in the northeast corner of town, near Santuit Pond.
Mashpee Fire Chief Thomas C. Rullo said that the fire began when a cast iron pan full of cooking oil was inadvertently left on a hot stove and ignited. He said that the occupants of the home were not cooking and they were not sure how the stove was turned on.
There were no injuries reported, although one of the residents of the home is elderly and wheelchair-bound.
"If the pan were left to burn for three minutes more, then we would have had a different situation. The fire had already spread to other items on the stove, including a box of cereal. The kitchen cabinets, and microwave oven were also burned," Chief Rullo said.
The home sustained minimal smoke and water damage, but Chief Rullo said that the cost to clean up the damage could be upwards of $15,000.
Chief Rullo, who was sworn in just a week ago, is adamant that the community learn something about fire safety from each incident that occurs in town. This fire was no exception.
"One of my most important rules is to never leave anything on or around a stove that could catch fire. Obviously, you should never leave a stove unattended when it is turned on, but people think that it is okay to place items on a cold stove, such as a bag of groceries. It is a bad habit to get into," he said.