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Thats why i always use free directorys like http://www.BusinessSpread.co.uk or freeindex
If it doesn't have the AT&T logo on it…stay away!!!
I own a web development company and see these "fake" solicitations all the time in my own Inbox and from clients. I can't tell you how thrilled I am that a government agency has finally shut down one of these dishonest, predatory outfits.
i got one of these emails at http://www.couriersburnley.co.uk did not fall for it at all, im glad some ones starting to get on top of these rogues i get emails like this all the time.
Telephone books are a joke these days. We have 6 directories all purporting in which we never seem to be able to locate the information. Good thing for the internet. As for AT&T Guy's comment, None have that logo and I haven't seen one for many years. Recall, that some years ago the telephone companies sold the rights to their telephone directories to the highest bidder. Now, we have no idea of what is the "official" telephone directory.
Telephone books are a joke these days. We have 6 directories all purporting to be THE DIRECTORY in which we never seem to be able to locate the information. Good thing for the internet. As for AT&T Guy's comment, None have that logo and I haven't seen one for many years. Recall, that some years ago the telephone companies sold the rights to their telephone directories to the highest bidder. Now, we have no idea of what is the "official" telephone directory.
It is not fit that you should sit here any longer.
We have been dealing with this issue for the last few months, after getting their fax a couple of years ago. We only received one 'bill' one time after the first year and had already told them to cancel within the allotted time stated before that when we figured out what was going on. We thought it had been taken care of, until we received yet another bill and collection letter last summer stating we then owed a whopping $1,068 for services we never received and had already asked to be cancelled. We did not pay it and filed this with the FTC, BBB and the state commissioner/attorney general as fraud/scam issue. The "real" yellow pages advised us not to pay it and that it was scam, as they are not affiliated. We assumed it had been taken care of and that they got the message. However, yesterday I received two new letters from them, informing us to mail our payment to a "Factoring International AG" company out of Switzerland (Yellow Page Marketing BV was the original company, who is also listed on this recent letter). I tried their webpage (www.factoring-international.com), but could not locate any information on them being associated with this company. I also could not translate the site, and could not even verify what their company actually does. Not sure yet how we plan to proceed. Just wanted to warn anyone else about this new development.
I have just received exactly the same letter with the same request and amount as reported by BG. I am simply not planning to pay it
Same problem here. Exactly. YellowPage-Hawaii.com and Factoring International AG insist we owe them… you guesed it, $ 1068.00. Many mailings, unmarked envelopes (evading Postal Fraud boys?) and they will not stop, it seems. One more negitive of the World Wide Web. Don't feed these guys!!!! CS
Same problem in minnesota, two letter with solicitation plus late fee plus threat to report to collection agency.
I have sent letter to discontinue service by registered mail. Doe anybody have a solution to this please?
Factoring AG ? They can truly get on their knees s… my c.. and prey that they don't get a malignant brain tumor because this is what they deserve.
Same here in Oregon only we (stupidly) signed their contract thinking it was free on a Google site. We haven't paid it yet and they are threatening to send us to collections. Any suggestions for us.
We also got a bill in Hawaii. I actually paid 200.00 of it because I thought the contract that they faxed us was real so I got scared and paid some. I got another bill again for $1068.00 for the 2nd year billing. I even emailed them saying we closed down and to cancel the account and they mailed us saying that they want proof of the business closing down. After reading this article and seeing that I'm not alone I will ignore these bills. I emailed them again with a link to this article telling them that I know their a scam and they better watch out.
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Mercury's retro again. Not like I couldn't tell, I just forgot to mention it.
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Mercury's retro again. Not like I couldn't tell, I just forgot to mention it.
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Tonight, 2-3 a.m on the East Coast: VILLANOVA, Pa. (CBS) — A newly discovered meteor shower may be visible in the wee hours of Saturday morning if the weather cooperates. One name for the meteor shower in "Comet 209/P Linear." The other is the Camelopardalids. Villanova astronoyy professor Ed Guinan says this meteor shower is […]
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Link: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More strokes happen when geomagnetic storms are afoot, according to a new review of stroke literature – although it's not clear what protective measures anyone could take, researchers said. Geomagnetic storms happen when the Earth's magnetic field is disturbed by solar winds or coronal mass ejections, which throw out […]
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Let's just say that I remember the grand fixed cross eclipse in 1999 very well (it was a huge turning point), and I'm hoping this one is nothing like it, but since it hits right on my ascendent, I doubt it. Keep calm and carry on, I say! If you keep up with my update […]
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My new debit card didn't work. On perpetual hold (I suspect I may have changed the password). Also, my car's radiator is leaking. Yay.
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Astrobarry on today's supermoon, Grand Cross and assorted other vises which are squeezing the collective psyche: Let's be blunt: The current astrology is kind of a shitshow, and remains so until after the first of the year. When I say 'shitshow', I mean these are the sort of aspects which make for explosive holidaytime conversations, that's for sure, […]
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In Scorpio. Details here.
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They should peak tonight, but they're hard to see with this moon: The Orionids occur each year in mid-October when Earth passes through a stream of dust left in the wake of Comet Halley. Halley returns to our solar system every 76 years, and each time it does, it sheds bits of rocks and dust […]
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Navy reducing IT spending ahead of schedule
The Department of the Navy is finding real dollar savings by moving to enterprise software licenses, managing mobile devices and services better and reducing the number of printers and the amount printed. Terry Halvorsen, the DoN CIO, said they are on track to meet the goal of cutting 25 percent of their IT budget in five years.
January 17, 2013
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The Navy's chief information officer released an abbreviated business case analysis template in an effort to encourage IT industry personnel to propose ideas focused on cost savings. The CIO must continue to decrease IT spending by 25 percent over the next four years.
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Navy links cyber workforce training to commercial certifications
Navy CIO Terry Halvorsen issued a policy making IT security training provided by the services to sailors and Marines equitable to commercial accreditations. He said the department shouldn't have to pay for civilian education courses when DoD programs work just as well.
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The service's CIO Terry Halvorsen said the goal is to bring together the purchasing power of the Navy and the Marines Corps to obtain lower prices. He said the Department of the Navy expects to save $100 million over five years. Navy senior officials from technology, acquisition and finance make the use of these enterprisewide contracts mandatory.
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The Navy readies RFIs for email and data storage to figure out how to best reduce spending on non-mission critical systems. Navy CIO Terry Halvorsen is exploring whether DON's non-classified email can be hosted by a third party, and whether a public-private partnership can be developed around data centers. Navy has no plans to use the DISA email system.
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For all the talk about point guards in the 2014 class most of the hype has been around Tyus Jones and Joel Berry which makes sense with Jones being the #1 rated player in the class, Berry a five star stud who has called North Carolina his dream school. Those are the two PGs in the class that Roy Williams has extended offers to become Tar Heels but it's Shelton Mitchell who has shown the most mutual interest in actually becoming a Tar Heel.
Mitchell is an interesting PG prospect at 6 ft. 4 in. tall he has the ability to slide to the shooting guard spot if UNC finds themselves three deep at the point a real possibility with Marcus Paige's thin physique may keep him in college for his junior year and beyond and the arrival of Nate Britt in 2013.
Mitchell has visited Chapel Hill several times including at Late Night with Roy where he was the only 2014 prospect and at the UAB game. Roy and assistant coach Hubert Davis also visited with Mitchell on November 25th and also watched him during an open gym on the 14th and had a previous visit with him on October 6th.
Berry plans to visit with Carolina in January or February and obviously has a lot of interest in Carolina, but a player of his caliber may not want to join a program with the possibility of having two other high profile players at the same position. Mitchell doesn't seem to fit that mold and may end up being the player that fits best.


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Is this the best looking CUV ever? I'm inclined to agree. I first told you about the Mercedes GLA when the company unveiled the concept vehicle at the Shanghai motor show. It would appear not much has changed, though, and without much surprise, the video projecting headlamps have been negated from the final rendition. No biggy, though it would be daring to bring something like that to market.
Under the hood is a 2.0l 4-cylinder turbo charged engine mated to a dual-clutch 7 speed gear box that cranks out 208hp and 258 lb-ft of torque. Merc says the GLA should rocket from a dead stop to 60mph in just 6.4 seconds. Impressive? You bet it is. Initially the 4matic version will go on sale, which will then be followed by a front wheel drive version sometime in 2015.
Aesthetically, the GLA's stance is low and wide. However, I'm willing to speculate and say that this is the AMG body kit, since its lines are analogous to that of the C63 and other AMG cars. It also seems to be adorned with a matte paint finish, which is rare and highly impractical. So I suggest you manage your expectations on what the final, show room version will look like, but that isn't to say it won't be a looker, because it is.
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Yoplait PINK Lid Program Kicks-Off a Month of Activity
Schnucks Event Marketing Manager Jason Schnuck explained, "Our goal is to reinforce health and wellness by shining a spotlight on breast cancer awareness and encouraging early detection and treatment. Throughout October, our customers will notice pink packaging on popular, name brand products and Schnucks brand products."
As an added bonus, Schnuck says several vendors are tying donations for cancer research and treatment to sales of specially marked products. "It's gratifying to know that our industry, with help from customers across the nation, raises millions each year to help fund cancer research," said Schnuck.
goal is to collect as many Yoplait Yogurt lids as possible during the month of
October and beyond," Woodburn explained.
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The Pink Lid program specifically targets Yoplait Original 6-oz. Yogurt, Yoplait Light and Yoplait Smoothies during the promotional period which runs now through October.
Schnucks Store Manager Rick Kersting says, "Our store team really got behind this program and we brainstormed ways we can connect with customers of all ages. Floral manager and store captain for the program Heather Enlow built a seven-foot Yoplait Yogurt lid which will be broken at the store symbolizing that our goal is to break through with a cure."
Kersting added that throughout the month of October, the store will host events like face painting, cookie decorating and giveaways of a pink product basket and floral arrangement.
According to American Cancer Society projections, approximately 178,480 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007. Schnucks Chairman and CEO Scott Schnuck applied those statistics to his own company. "Currently, 49 percent of our more than 15,000 Schnucks associates are female. Given these statistics, approximately nine of these women will be diagnosed with the disease this year," Schnuck said.
He added, "When you think of these numbers in terms of your family, friends and co-workers, it's a very sobering number. Until there is a cure, we must all look for ways to ensure that progress continues. The pink program is just one of the ways we know Schnucks can help."
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- In his State of the State address today, New Jersey governor Chris Christie is going to call for a longer school day. Presumably so students can learn the proper ways of bullying your own constituents.
- In his State of the State address today, New Jersey governor Chris Christie is going to call for a longer school day. Presumably so students can learn the proper ways of bullying your own constituents.
I cannot decide if I like this new pope.
He is excelling at public relations either way.
"Interviews with cardinals, bishops, priests, Vatican officials, Italian politicians, diplomats and analysts indicate that the mood inside the Vatican ranges from adulation to uncertainty to deep anxiety, even a touch of paranoia. Several people say they fear Francis is going department by department looking for heads to roll. Others whisper about six mysterious Jesuit spies who act as the pope's eyes and ears on the Vatican grounds. Mostly, once-powerful officials feel out of the loop."
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That last little bit describes pretty much every reaction to reform ever. We generate rumours in order to destabilize current power because we feel out of the loop and we want to be included.
Also, I bought a ukulele.
It might be the most fun instrument in the world.
Eventually, I will post videos of me playing - probably terribly - but having hella fun.
And. Pomegranates.
I would like some suggestions on happy things to follow. My dashboard is a place I now fear.
Blogging has stopped being cathartic and started being scary-as-fuck.
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Paloma Noyola: The Face of Mexico's Unleashed Potential
When a report emerged in September 2012 that a girl from one of Matamoros' poorest neighborhoods had attained the highest math score in Mexico, some doubted its veracity. It must be fake, they said.
But it wasn't fake. Her name is Paloma Noyola, and what most reports failed to mention is that almost all of her classmates also scored very high on the national math test. 10 scored in 99.99% percentile.
Paloma and her classmates also scored in the top percentile in language. Something special was happening at José Urbina López primary school in Matamoros, and Wired went to take a look.
The high test scores turned out to be the work of a young teacher who also came from humble beginnings. Sergio Juárez Correa was tired of the monotony of teaching out of a book and wanted to try something new to help engage his students when he came across the work of Sugata Mitra, a UK university professor who had innovated a new pedagogy he called SOLE, or self organized learning environments. The new approach paid off.
Although SOLE usually relies on unfettered Internet access for research, Juárez and his students had very limited access. Somehow, he still found a way to apply Mitra's teachings and unleash their potential.
From the beginning, Paloma's exceptional abilities were evident:
One day Juárez Correa went to his whiteboard and wrote "1 = 1.00." Normally, at this point, he would start explaining the concept of fractions and decimals. Instead he just wrote "½ = ?" and "¼ = ?"
"Think about that for a second," he said, and walked out of the room.
While the kids murmured, Juárez Correa went to the school cafeteria, where children could buy breakfast and lunch for small change. He borrowed about 10 pesos in coins, worth about 75 cents, and walked back to his classroom, where he distributed a peso's worth of coins to each table. He noticed that Paloma had already written .50 and .25 on a piece of paper.
As Mr. Juárez implemented more of Mitra's teachings in his classroom, Paloma continued to stand out as an exceptionally gifted student:
Juárez Correa was impressed. But he was even more intrigued by Paloma. During these experiments, he noticed that she almost always came up with the answer immediately. Sometimes she explained things to her tablemates, other times she kept the answer to herself. Nobody had told him that she had an unusual gift. Yet even when he gave the class difficult questions, she quickly jotted down the answers. To test her limits, he challenged the class with a problem he was sure would stump her. He told the story of Carl Friedrich Gauss, the famous German mathematician, who was born in 1777.
When Gauss was a schoolboy, one of his teachers asked the class to add up every number between 1 and 100. It was supposed to take an hour, but Gauss had the answer almost instantly.
"Does anyone know how he did this?" Juárez Correa asked.
A few students started trying to add up the numbers and soon realized it would take a long time. Paloma, working with her group, carefully wrote out a few sequences and looked at them for a moment. Then she raised her hand.
"The answer is 5,050," she said. "There are 50 pairs of 101."
Juárez Correa felt a chill. He'd never encountered a student with so much innate ability. He squatted next to her and asked why she hadn't expressed much interest in math in the past, since she was clearly good at it.
"Because no one made it this interesting," she said.
Although this Wired piece focuses mostly on Sugata Mitra, it does once again highlight the story of Paloma Noyola. Unfortunately, after a brief spurt of media attention, little on Paloma was ever mentioned and, as was pointed out by Wired, nothing was ever said of Mr. Juárez.
As with most stories in the Mexican press — and with in the middle-class — things suddenly become very important once it's featured in a gringo publication. Which is a very sad commentary. We hope, however, that this story pushes those in the press, state and federal government to look not to the United States for validation but to Mexicans like Sergio Juárez doing good work in places like Matamoros.
The clear message in this story is that there are thousands of Paloma Noyolas going to school in Mexico who, just like her at one time, are not being challenged and therefore aren't very interested in school. This story can, if we want it to, raise enough awareness to shift the discussion from poverty to opportunity.
Paloma truly personifies both Mexico's challenges and unleashed potential.
Read the entire Wired story here: How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses
Editor's note: As an addendum, Wired provided information on helping support Sugata Mitra and his School in the Clouds project, and although they donated school supplies and equipment to José Urbina López School, we're interested in seeing if we can help set up a similar fund for Sergio Juárez, the teacher featured in this story.
Also, $9,300 was raised to help fund Paloma's education last year. We going to follow with the economist who led the fundraising campaign to see how she's doing. Stay tuned for updates.
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Thanks to leading eBook self-publishing website Lulu.com, 20-year-old Emily Kwissa was able to share her own account of surviving years of domestic violence and sexual molestation at the hands of her former stepfather — the version that's been doubted and ignored by doctors, lawyers, and other adults throughout her life. But when her abuser complained, Lulu quickly and impersonally removed her memoir from the site, even though Kwissa changed her ex-stepfather's name and other identifying details to protect his privacy. Have you read that all-too-familiar story about silencing the victim to protect the offender?
This story is personal for me, as I have been a friend of the author of the memoir for the past few years. She's a dear friend, a clever and original source and a far stronger person than a great deal of people I know.
Please spread the word on what she is going through,
Just in case you were wondering, I'm on hiatus (mostly) for now.
I'm working full time, plus I'm trying to finish my first novel and get it sent off. I've several editors sort of pursuing me to finish so they can get their hands on the final product.
Also, I'm suffering from depression and just can't stand information right now.
No news. No marches. Blackout.
Love dearly.
Once upon a time, the world changed.
Then the girl woke and cried.
Because it hadn't.
Rafems know somuch about trans* ideology that's why we're able to critique it, we have to know a lot because we have to constantly defend our opinions. Trans* people don't bother to take the time and look at our ideas come from. They get to dismiss us all as bigots. I don't hate trans* people,…
Hi, I've been looking for you! You have all the answers for me, and really I'm in a bit of a bind
I've mutilated my body by having myself sterilized and my penis all chopped up, and I've gotten myself into this situation where all these people who see me think that I have the ability to get pregnant.
I get it! I fucked up! If only you were there to let me know my persistant plan to do this to myself since I was a kid is simply manifestation of hatred for myself. But, that didn't happen.
So what now? I'm all ears (and mutilated body parts).
This woman, "MildlyHipster1983", is my fucking hero.
Hero, Goddamnit!!
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"If Baggins loses, we eats it whole."
"………………….Fair enough."
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The Baseball Photographer Trading Cards, 1975 - Mike Mandel
135 cards originally sold in randomly sorted packs of ten, 3.5" x 2.5"
The project satirized the phenomenon of the fine art photography community being consumed by the larger art world and commercial culture. I photographed photographers as if they were baseball players and produced a set of cards that were packaged in random groups of ten, with bubble gum, so that the only way of collecting a complete set was to make a trade. I travelled around the United States visiting about 150 photographic "personalities" and had them pose for me. I carried baseball paraphernalia: caps, gloves, balls, a mask and chest protector, a bat, as well as photographic equipment, and made a 14,000 mile odyssey. Out of this experience came 134 Baseball-Photographer images. I designed a reverse side for the card which would allow for each photographer to fill in their own personal data that in a way referred to the information usually included on real baseball cards: Favorite camera, favorite developer, favorite film, height, weight, etc. I used whatever information each photographer provided me. In a sense, each of their responses provides an insight about how they each approached their participation. I had 3,000 cards made of each one: 402,000 cards plus 6,000 checklists. The cards were packaged in polyethylene bags, with bubble gum, in random groups of ten. I sold cartons of 36 packs to museums and galleries all over the country. I received press attention from Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, and all the major print media. Thus, the cards were a media event even though they were intended to satirize the media's impacts.
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Stowe, Vermont - July 8, 2011
Stoweflake Mountain Resort and Spa is celebrating its 25-year-old Hot Air Balloon Festival and helping grant an 8-year-old Ryegate boy his wish this weekend.
Stoweflake partnered with the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Vermont to treat Caleb Nelson and his family to a day at the annual festival in Stowe, an overnight stay at the resort and a hot air balloon ride.
The event kicks off at 4 p.m. Friday and lasts until Sunday morning. More than 25 balloons will launch daily and tethered rides are available for $10 per person. The event includes live music and a beer and wine garden.
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This partnership will bring together both companies� tremendous array of data visualization and spatial analysis experience. Azavea�s expertise in building complex geospatial web and mobile applications meshes well with CartoDB�s versatility. Built using the open source PostGIS database and running on a large-scale cloud infrastructure, CartoDB enables users to easily create location aware applications and dynamic map visualizations, while Azavea�s experience with web-based high performance geoprocessing operations makes the firm a strategic partner for the creation of extremely fast geospatial applications. In particular, CartoDB-based applications could seamlessly leverage Azavea�s GeoTrellis open source geographic data processing engine to offer scalable analysis and spatial modeling applications, especially with very large data sets.
In a recent blog post, John Branigan of Azavea wrote, "Wordpress revolutionized the process of publishing content on the web, significantly lowering barriers to entry. CartoDB is like a user-friendly CMS for geographic data. It takes the pain out of setting up servers with PostGIS and Geoserver, and serving data to the browser ..."
Both, Robert Cheetham, CEO and President of Azavea, and Javier de la Torre, CEO of CartoDB are excited about this partnership and the possibilities it creates to implement innovative, user-friendly approaches to geographic analysis and web applications that in turn, have the potential to benefit communities around us.
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WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – The Wausau school district and teacher's union have accepted a state mediator's offer for a new contract.
The union ratified the proposal at a meeting Sunday, according to a district news release.
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Urban Outfitters; $78If you're like me (or Michele), swimsuit season post-babies is all about coverage, but the right kind of coverage, because some coverage just causes rolls. But is the roll or the uncovered stretch mark worse?
Okay, swimsuit season is all about crying in the dressing room.
Luckily, I found a bathing suit this year that's working for me and I must share. That's it in the picture, only I've got breasts.
Which brings me to my how to wear it advice for swimwear: Wear it with confidence.
We all have our flaws, and the point of getting into a swimsuit is to have fun, not look like the supermodel we are not.
I'm not the only one who's been on the mad hunt. Rebecca Woolf is showing you all how to rock the post-baby bathing suit at Girl's Gone Child. She even explained (convincingly!) the beauty of the string bikini.
I'm blown away by the different cuts and colors she's found out there because I feel like every year I search and I never find. I'm bookmarking this list so next year when I'm on the verge of tears again, I'll remind myself, "Confidence!" Because if I can't find an esteem-boosting mom option in her picks, then I should probably just stay out of the sun.
Pins and Needles Polka Dot V-Neck One-Piece ($78) -- Urban Outfitters
Where did you find a great bathing suit this year?
I absolutely ADORE that red polka-dot bathing suit and will be rocking it asap -- but I do so wish they didn't have it on a barely pubescent model!
I love that swimsuit!
I'm wearing a one piece for the first time this year, post partum. I found a retro black swimsuit (sort of an Esther Williams knock-off) at Target. I love it. It's a black bandeau "swimdress" that has shirred gatherings in all the right places.
Actually, I was really surprised at the selection of retro-inspired swimwear at Target this year!
All these swim suit are cute for the right body me I need a one piece and I got one from walmart 3 years ago. I'm has a little skirt on the bottom and it coves al my prolbem areas.
I just purchased a one peice at target, its a "swimdress" and halter with a low back and a little bit of a skirt around the bottom, but you can adjust it to show some cheek if you want ;) its also shirred on the sides. I ordered it online and have yet to try it on, but the reviews were awesome from a size 2- size 14! and everyone said they looked great in it... so we shall see ;) I needed a cute 1 peice that is toddler friendly from pulling down my bikini bottom like last year!
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I placed the cash register on a small table and set out many different types of props, and waited to see what would happen.
One child showed interest right away this morning. So, I began asking a few open ended questions to help extend his play.
Our conversation went like this....
"What are you going to do with that cash register?"
"I want to have a toy store."
"OK. what kind of toys?"
"Cars. And trucks and tractors."
"How will the others know its a toy store"
"I need a sign."
"OK. Let's make a sign."
Notice the letter "a", letter "L" and the letter "u"?!
These are all letters that are familiar to him, as they are found in his name!
I was told the two straight lines are shelves.
"I need to line my stuff up to buy like at the store."
Much more conversation happened between the children, as they bought and sold.....
Counted and exchanged money....
Bagged their purchases.....
(Even the little ones helped with bagging!)
...And loaded up their cart.
We even had to call the front desk for a price check
on a red Farmall....
(He used the price gun to make the call, problem solving at its best!)
....For a cowboy who was looking for a new tractor.
We spent a full hour at our toy store, actively engaged in literacy,
pre-writing, math, fine motor, problem solving, social skills,
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You may notice a new addition to the cover of this magazine. Its the tagline Engaging minds. Transforming lives. that appears above the masthead.
This phrase is more than just a catchy slogan. Its a new way to describe the impact Southwestern has on its students. We developed this branding statement after more than a year of careful research.
With the help of an outside consulting firm, we surveyed our alumni about what their Southwestern experience meant to them, and we surveyed prospective students about what they were looking for in a college. Interestingly, the results from both groups were remarkably similar. Our alumni told us how Southwestern was a place that changed their lives. Prospective students told us they were looking for a college that would offer a transformational experience. Alumni and prospective students alike value the quality of our faculty and teaching, as well as engagement with faculty members. As a result, we came up with Engaging minds, Transforming lives to help define Southwestern for all of our audiences. We plan to incorporate this tag into all our institutional messaging and into conversations we have with our various constituents.
Our alumni told us how Southwestern was a place that changed their lives. Prospective students told us they were looking for a college that would offer a transformational experience.
We learned a lot about this institution in our recent research efforts, and these findings now guide everything we are doing, from a future redesign of our Web site to creation of new recruitment materials.
Our research found, for example, that many potential students are discouraged from applying to Southwestern by the cost. As a result, we are making a special effort to communicate to students and their parents that what they actually pay to attend Southwestern is much less after grants and assistance. Weve even developed an affordability calculator that gives prospective students and their parents an estimate of what it will cost them to attend Southwestern. You can go to our home page for the link to try it yourself.
In all, the research produced 57 recommendations, on everything from creating more compelling content about our Paideia® Program to increasing our alumni relations staff so that it can do a better job of engaging alumni in the life of Southwestern.
We hope that by implementing these recommendations, we will be able to raise the visibility of the University, convey more accurately the real cost of attending, attract a larger number of applicants across Texas and the nation, and reflect the outcome of the Southwestern experience through the accomplishments of alumni and their impact on their communities. Thats why we undertook the project in the first place. We hope it will lay the foundation to move Southwestern to a level that provides an even greater transformational education.
In this issue of Southwestern@Georgetown, we show how we are engaging minds and transforming lives when it comes to teaching and research in the natural sciences. We hope you will help us share these and other stories about your Southwestern experience.
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Categories > Games > Silent Hill > Red Bows and Bare Knees
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The first time.
A gust. The girl lay flat on the floor and the papers were scattered. She whimpered breathlessly. I felt her pain. She got onto her elbows and looked up at the bird.
Hovering between walls a little further ahead. It was like something I drew once, but many things were different though. It was ugly. Like a huge bat, but the head and the body were all wrong. It landed on the ground and turned to us.
It screamed and glared at the girl. Pink fabric dropped from its open mouth. I looked at the girl. Her pullover was ripped at the shoulder. She was bleeding. The bird had bitten her.
I called for the girl and the monster gazed at me instead. Its eyes were intimidating. I looked at the ground. The girl had made it back. She was hugging my knee, looking frightened. The monster didn't scare me.
Anger rose within me, warming my face, facets, and fists. I didn't feel angry very often and now the heat spread like a wildfire as if trying to make up for all the silence and covering up. I narrowed my eyes and glared back, clenching my fists even tighter, trying to make a stand.
The monster nodded, accepting the invitation. It spread out its wings and leapt while I pulled my right hand back and prepared to strike. It screamed again and shot toward me and I moved my arm forward with as much force as I could.
My hand stopped in front of me and I opened it, showing the monster my palm. From behind came years of imprisoned rage in its purest form. Without looking I felt the buildings shake and shatter and bricks floating freely through the air.
It embraced us briefly and continued toward the monster, taking the book and scattered papers with it, ripping the alley apart before hitting the pathetic creature dead on and sending its torn body straight through the wall next to it.
Waves of excitement and pleasure ran over me and I smiled at the silent alley where papers and bricks settled down just nicely. I wanted to hurt the thing again, but the feeling of the girl against my leg told me it was enough.
I knelt before her and cupped her cheek. She smiled back. Her shoulder bled in silence. The wound wasn't big, but it needed treatment. A bandage was required. I knew just where to go.
Another brick hit the floor. I looked up to and entire wall tilting. Quickly I pulled her up and started running. The building fell apart and closed the alley behind us.
We soon found ourselves back where we were hiding before. The place was still messy. There was blood everywhere. The girl announced her discomfort and we hurried past it. We climbed the fence and reached the end.
Buildings had fallen apart here as well. It didn't look much like the thing I caused though. I could see the street through a hole near the ground. It was just big enough to crawl through. I looked back over my shoulder before pushing the girl though.
It was the same town outside. It was the same lonely, silent, and unfriendly town. There were houses and probably people in the mist, but to me it was darkness. The silence was threatening. The only thing that kept it from being unbearable was her breathing.
Her heart. The girl's heart. I could hear it. The snow didn't fall straight, but I couldn't hear the wind. Only the sound of her heartbeats. That was the only thing in the world. In our abandoned world.
Music. I longed for music. Her heartbeats, steps, and breathing sounded like a beat. The wind played with her hair and so did I. She looked at me with her big brown eyes. There was a trace of sadness. Or was it really sadness? It could be pain. I glanced at her wound. It still bled. Slowly, but is didn't stop.
The girl would die if she didn't get help soon. The sound of her heartbeats was slowly fading. She needed help. She needed and I was the only one who could give. I had to save her. Somehow.
I recognized a sign. The street's name was written on it. I knew where I was. All I had to do was to get her to a place with a first aid kit. The street was familiar. I knew where to go. I took her hand and we started running.


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(05-08-2013 04:41 AM)DrMitchJ Wrote: Okay, maybe I'm a dimwit too .... Or maybe I didn't have my coffee yet ...but Why exactly did you give him grief over that ball?
You did good ... Juan Marichal was a good pick up, depending on the price of the box, of course.
(05-08-2013 07:49 AM)jaykayzee Wrote: I was just giving him the business, very jokingly since I know the guy pretty well, for not knowing the difference between an ONYX ball, which comes in a wood box and usually features prospects, and TRISTAR balls, which come in plastic bags inside of cardboard boxes and usually are REALLY bad. TriStar has a ....DIFFERENT!...... definition of the term "STAR" then others might define some of the players included.
Example. This product in particular includes such "STARS" as :
Randy Gumpert -(Win/Loss = 51-59) - Claim to fame is that he is the pitcher that Mickey Mantle hit his first Home Run off of.
Tracy Stallard - (Win/Loss = 30-57) - Most remembered as the pitcher Roger Maris hit his 61st(*) Home Run from in '61.
That all being said,this was all before I actually opened one of the balls and got the Marichal...As far as the price, the boxes sell for about $90, which is roughly about even money with what a Marichal auto balls seems to sell for on most respectable sites..
(05-08-2013 07:42 AM)RobbinsDynasty Wrote: I don't think it was over the ball but he was more interested in the Onyx balls over Tri STar


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I have so much to do today that I took the morning off work to get some things accomplished. So far all I've done is drink too much coffee and put lazy Maynor on the lazy Susan.
Today has been a complete success.
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How to Watch Netflix Outside US
By Paul Nash | 15 October 2011 at 1:56 pm CET | 19 Comments
Netflix is an online streaming service that is only accessible in specific countries. Many love Netflix simply because it offers a wide range of internet videos to "Watch Instantly" on computers or mobile devices.
But in order to watch Netflix, you need to be at least in the US soil. In this article we'll describe how you can watch Netflix outside US.
Just by visiting Netflix, the system would immediately determine your current location. And if you belong to a restricted geography, you basically cannot watch Netflix. If you try to watch videos on Netflix outside US, this would only get this message, "Sorry, Netflix is not available in your country yet."
So if you live outside the US or is travelling abroad, you will surely miss all your favorite American TV shows. But if you think the only way to access Netflix is physically being in the US, you're definitely wrong.
Even though the service is only available for US, the Caribbean, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland, there are various services that can make you appear as if you are in any of the countries where Netflix is readily available.
How does Netflix determine my location?
When you try to stream Netflix videos, the server will immediately detect your IP address, and this would allow them to determine your current location. So if Netflix realize that you are not located outside the US, you will be prohibited to watch videos.
What we can do to trick Netflix into believing that we are in the US is to fake our IPS address with an acceptable American IP address. Once you are connected to the internet with a supposedly US IP, Netflix will then allow you to stream its wide range of video contents.
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The economic consequences of droit de suite in the European Union
AbstractIn the EU the author of an original artwork enjoys 'Droit de suite', a right to an economic interest in successive commercial sales of that work. This is intended to insure that artists benefit from successive 'exploitations' of their artwork. The ensuring royalty is a percentage of the sale price. It is argued that it worsens the position of contemporary artists, but dimishes trade in the tertiary art market, is detrimental to their position on the international art market for those states introducing it and is severely anti-redistributive. It dimishes purchaser's property rights, reducing the price of artworks. This most severely affects early career artists who value the ensuing marginal decreases in income most highly, but whose work has not yet reached the secondary market.
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Q: I have a 1963 Pontiac 421-SD that I am rebuilding. I have been told that I can switch out the SD rods for Chevy 427 high-performance I-beam rods. Also, I am building a '72 455-HO, and again I've been told that I can use Chevy 454 I-beam high-performance rods. Is this correct? Are Chevy rods really better than the Pontiac rods I currently have?
A: There are two issues here: quality level and interchange possibilities. Looking first at quality, Pontiac guru Ken Crocie says the vast majority of '63-and-later Pontiac rods are nodular cast iron; all big-block Chevy rods are forged steel. Pre-'63 Poncho rods were forged steel, but on most, the material is soft and not properly heat-treated. The big exceptions are your '62–'63 421-SD rods. These are forged from good material and are properly heat-treated. Assuming they're rebuildable and pass magnetic-particle inspection, these rods are nearly the best factory Pontiac rods out there (only the '73–'74 455-SD rods are better); I wouldn't hesitate reusing them with modern ARP rod bolts. Most of the 421-SD rods had 3⁄8-inch rod bolts (use ARP high-perf replacement rod bolt kit PN 190-6002). There are some very rare 421-SD rods machined for 7⁄16-inch bolts; fasteners for them would probably need to be custom made.
The 455-HO has typical Pontiac cast rods that should be limited to about 5,700 rpm in a 4.21-inch-stroke 455. Lightweight aftermarket pistons would help those rods survive, as would ARP bolts (PN 190-6001). Even better would be a set of aftermarket forged I-beam or H-beam rods. "Real" Pontiac rods as offered by Eagle, Pacific Performance, Scat, and others are much stronger than cast rods. Prices have come down, and they are now cost-competitive with refurbishing OE rods for high-perf use. Pacific Performance's 5140 forged-steel, pressed-pin, stock-length, I-beam Pontiac rods go for just $239.95/set.
But can you swap big-block Chevy rods into a Pontiac V8? Factory Rat motor rods are far from being a direct interchange. The deal-breaker is that the stock center-to-center lengths are significantly different—6.625 inches for a Pontiac versus 6.135 inches for all OE production big-block Chevys. That's nearly a ½-inch difference. But the other critical dimensions aren't that far off. The Pontiac rod journal's fore-and-aft length is about 0.006-inch shorter than on a big-block Chevy's, the Pontiac's journal diameter is 0.050-inch larger, and the stock Pontiac piston pin is just 0.010-inch smaller than the common 0.990-inch big-block Chevy pin (table, page 150).
That means if you broaden the universe from stockers to aftermarket big-block Chevy rods, there are a whole slew of different center-to-center lengths and a wide variety of Chevy rod bearings and materials to choose from. In fact, most aftermarket Pontiac cranks—particularly stroker cranks—are machined with big-block Chevy rod-journal diameters. As for pistons, you can install thicker bushings in the rods and float the slightly smaller stock Pontiac piston pin, but who uses stock pistons any more in a hot-rod mill? Getting your new pistons made for the Chevy 0.990 pin with the proper compression distance to match your new Chevy rods is a no-brainer, and (again) it's typical aftermarket practice today. Stroker kits based on a 6.700- or 6.800-inch center-to-center big-block Chevy aftermarket rod and custom pistons are common and affordable.
If you really are on a budget, a production Pontiac crank's rod journals can be offset-ground to the big-block-Chevy size to slightly increase the stroke and gain a few more cubes. In theory, going from a 2.25-inch Pontiac to a 2.20-inch big-block Chevy rod journal should allow as much as a 0.050-inch stroke increase on a virgin (not previously ground undersize) crank if the journal is reground with the maximum possible offset (relocating the journal centerline outboard by 0.025 inch). However, in the real world this much of an increase isn't practical: π (pi, the math operator used to define the boundaries of a circle) is an infinite figure, so trying to exactly intersect the tangent point of two different-diameter circles is impractical; there is tool chatter to overcome, and, usually, you're starting with a used crank that requires normal undergrinding to make up for wear. For these reasons, crank grinders typically allow (depending on the condition of the crank) a 0.010–0.020-inch "safety factor"—so the real-world, obtainable stroke increase from offset-grinding Pontiac rod journals to the big-block Chevy size is really about 0.030–0.040 inch. Using your 455-HO as an example, if its bore remained stock at 4.15 inches but the factory crank was offset-ground 0.040 inch to increase its stroke from the stock 4.210 inches to 4.25 inches, the displacement would go up from the stock 455.6 ci to 459.9.
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In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
Who God is makes His promises completely reliable!
"It is impossible for God to lie." The writer of Hebrews has just been talking about God's promise to Abraham and Sarah that He would bless them with children. It was a promise that seemed totally impossible, as Sarah was way, WAY beyond childbearing age.
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