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The Natural Radiation Environment Symposium (NRE VII), the Seventh in the NRE series, which commenced forty years ago in 1963 at Rice University Texas, was held in Rhodes (Greece) in May 2002. During the intervening four decades the research work presented at these NRE Symposia has contributed to a deeper understanding of natural radiation and in particular of its contribution to human radiation exposures.It is clear from the quality and diversity of the 143 papers in this volume of Radioactivity in the Environment series that the study of the natural radiation environment is an active and continually expanding field of research. The papers in this volume fall into a number of main and topical research areas namely:View full description
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I always thought the "superior human society" aspect of early TNG (which I agree was a bad idea) was largely one of Gene's brainchildren at that point in time.
It was, which is exactly why I do not worship Gene Roddenberry to the extent a lot of Trek fans do.
Over the years, I have heard a lot of Trek fans (particularly TNG and VOY fans, but others also) bitch about how certain aspects of DS9 (particularly the darker parts, the war, etc) were 'not in keeping with Gene Roddenberry's vision' and are therefore abhorrent on their face.
And my response to that has always been "And not keeping with Gene Roddenberry's vision is a problem, WHY, exactly?"
Now, Gene Roddenberry was a great man who gave us TOS - a show that has turned into one of the most profitable cult followings in the history of TV and has made possible all the other Trek shows, including DS9.
But the man is NOT god.
He made mistakes - the grossest one being to make the TNG characters all 'evolved' - evolved well past the point of 'tedious and pompous' and into the realm of "I wouldn't even want to KNOW these people, they are so arrogant and annoying!". And in doing so, ignoring one of the key factors that made TOS (and in particular, James T. Kirk) so great!
The best thing about Kirk, after all, was that he was a flawed hero. He was a womanizer, a guy who cheated at the Academy, a guy who by all accounts lived by a sort of 'wild west' mentality and more than sometimes played fast and lose with the rules. Shatner's Kirk was certainly like this...but if any doubt remained, Chris Pine's Kirk makes it blatantly clear.
And those flaws are EXACTLY what makes him interesting and lovable. And I'm talking here about Shatner's Kirk as well as Pine's - both of whom I adore. And as a woman, I have to also state that these 'bad boy' components of his personality don't exactly hurt him in the sexiness arena either!
Then TNG comes along and Gene decides to go all Kumbaya on us. The result - Patrick Stewart's Picard. Who is an interesting character to the extent we knew him, I suppose (I never thought much of the character development on TNG - we knew more about some of DS9's recurring characters than we did about Picard!), but NOTHING like the 'technicolor' personality and presence James T. Kirk.
James T. Kirk was FUN. He's the guy you'd want with you in a bar fight. Or even hangin' out in the bar BEFORE the fight. Or if you are a woman, even going home with AFTER the fight, if you get my drift.
Picard is the guy you'd want to be your lawyer if you ever went to tax court or something.
The fun factor for Picard is WAAAAAAYYYY down.
Instead, we had the speeches. The endless speeches made to countless, hapless races about how they all needed to be like HIM! Or like 'us'. "Us" being "the Federation". You get the idea.
You know, I never realized it until this very moment, but I think Trek XI was yet another factor in my diminishing enjoyment of TNG. Because I REALLY loved Chis Pine in that movie. Or more accurately, Chris Pine's Kirk. Don't get me wrong, Zach and the rest of that cast did a bang-up job also, and they deserve mega-props for that. But Chris Pine's Kirk just made me fall in love with that adorable rogue of a character all over again. He was FUN to watch. More fun to watch than any character I have seen in any TV show or movie in a VERY long time.
Flawed? Absolutely. Evolved? Not so much.
But what a GREAT character. And one which I continue to enjoy watching, no matter how many times I see that movie.
And the thing is, guys like Kirk really have no place in the TNG universe. They do in the DS9 universe - kickin' ass and takin' names with The Sisko. But Kirk would be pitched off the Enterprise-E for not making proper hospital corners so fast he wouldn't even have time to pack his bag.
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Testing robustness of relative complexity measure method constructing robust phylogenetic trees for Galanthus L. Using the relative complexity measure
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1 Department of Biology, Abant İzzet Baysal University, Bolu, 14280, Turkey
2 Department of Medicine, BIDMC Genomics Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
3 İstanbul Bilgi University, Department of Genetics and Bioengineering, Eyüp, İstanbul, 34060, Turkey
4 Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Boğaziçi University, Bebek, İstanbul, 34342, Turkey
5 Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Sabancı University, Tuzla, İstanbul, 34956, Turkey
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BMC Bioinformatics 2013, 14:20 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-14-20Published: 17 January 2013
Most phylogeny analysis methods based on molecular sequences use multiple alignment where the quality of the alignment, which is dependent on the alignment parameters, determines the accuracy of the resulting trees. Different parameter combinations chosen for the multiple alignment may result in different phylogenies. A new non-alignment based approach, Relative Complexity Measure (RCM), has been introduced to tackle this problem and proven to work in fungi and mitochondrial DNA.
In this work, we present an application of the RCM method to reconstruct robust phylogenetic trees using sequence data for genus Galanthus obtained from different regions in Turkey. Phylogenies have been analyzed using nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences. Results showed that, the tree obtained from nuclear ribosomal RNA gene sequences was more robust, while the tree obtained from the chloroplast DNA showed a higher degree of variation.
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As a by-product of the character, possibly, but the stoic outsider getting the girl is as cliché and tired today as your lantern jawed hero getting the girl has ever been.
and the basis of more than one TOS episode?
Any Spock / Uhura inference in TOS is lucky coincidence. It's not even something I EVER saw brought up until post Trek XI
There was probably enough Kirk / Uhura interaction in TOS as well if you looked for it. Heck, even the Uhura / Scotty stuff in the movies was BLATANT.
Nope.... I flat out disagree; the stoic character that gets the girl is not clihe because it hardly ever happens. What is clihe is the pretty boy always getting the girl
You obviously no nothing about romance. ....
The most clihe aspect of a romance plot is the popular pretty boy and pretty girl living happily ever after without little effort or getting together with no real legitimate reason asides from that fact that both of them are pretty.
Those are the clihe romance that appeal to teen girls. the romance in star trek 09 or even in any of JJ Abrams movies and tv shows are nothing like that.
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In my estimation you could safely call this a dunite xenolith. Dunite is defined simply as an ultramafic plutonic rock containing >90% olivine. Xenolith means literally "foreign rock" and implies a rock sample that did not originate from the magma in which it ended up. As this sample is most likely a piece of the mantle or lower crust broken off as the basaltic magma ascended it is entirely proper to call it a xenolith. However, one should be cautious not to use the term xenolith for just any inclusion in a crystallized magma body. Sometimes enclaves (a more generic term for inclusions) can be composed of earlier crystallized portions of the same magma chamber they are later incorporated into. A fair amount of fine grained "mafic" enclaves in granitoids are actually cogenetic with the rock in which they are included. I think the following quote from Wikipedia accurately sums up my understanding of the proper usage: "To be considered a true xenolith, the included rock must be identifiably different from the rock in which it is enveloped; an included rock of similar type is called an autolith or a cognate inclusion." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autolith)
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I planted them from seed in the greenhouse and then hardened them off before planting out.
Yep, dug in some manure in January. Do you think the soil could be too rich?
The beds have been dug down quite deep so are deeper than they look on the photo.
i didn't put any stakes by them until a few days ago as I watched a clip on YouTube and it suggested that leaving them to blow about a bit makes them a stronger plant. Maybe that hasn't helped.
Gave them a really good water today. One or two signs of flowers.
Maybe next year Victoria Sponge!
Hope so on the pollination front Green Magpie. Have put some colourful plants by my fruit and veg plot to attract them over! A sort of Sainsburys for bees!
My other half was worried that they would attack him (!) but we've been walking by them all day and they are very content to do their own thing. They are so lovely and busy!
Looks great Matty2. Love the variety of plants that you've chosen. Have you worked out heights and which ones should go at the back? I've made a 'best guess' but imagine that mine are a bit jumbled!
Just had a look and they really are identical to those on pansyface's link. Here is their house! Loads of them going in and out.
I've watered them every other day and when i dig under the surface the soil is warm and damp. They do look a bit weird but having never grown them before I don't know what to expect. Are yours more straight?
have planted a few more outside and they look to be doing ok. Have decided to put the dahlias in their own bed as they can be a bit thuggish. Few more to go in today. Exciting times!
Chives looking happy. They last ages in a vase too.
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First time growing broad beans. Just a couple of rows at the front of a raised bed. Should they look like this? Sort of knarly and a bit twisted? How frequently should they be watered? Any tips? Thanks.
Looks like it Pansyface, thanks ever so much for the link.
Hi GM, it's a standard size tit box (we had birds in it last year). Not sure what kind of bees they are. They look small to medium in size and don't seem to have much colour. They look fluffy though. Lots of them going in and out all day. We peeked at it this evening when it seemed less active and we could see lots of them inside.


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Aubrey Beck | September 10, 2013 | Comments
Many marketers are missing out on the possibility of greatly increasing their site's conversion rate through A/B testing the landing pages on their site.
It seems so basic, but I know from personal experience that sometimes as marketers we consider certain things to be a "given." It's easy to get wrapped up in messaging and design and all of the different channels available to us and forget to start the whole process from the first step - understanding our audience.
Especially after being in a specific industry for a bit of time, we can start to take things for granted in regards to what people are looking for or expecting in an experience with our brand. But taking the time to walk through a customer's full experience - from the specific ad she clicked to the landing page that greeted her and all the steps in between before she arrives at a final conversion stage - is invaluable. Unfortunately, whether it be due to a lack of time, resources, or just general lack of education on the issue, many marketers are missing out on the possibility of greatly increasing their site's conversion rate through A/B testing the landing pages on their site.
Landing Page Optimization Experiment
At the outset of a new product launch, an enterprise software company decided to run an A/B test on the proposed landing pages to determine which page would perform better. Performance was based on the increase in visitors who downloaded a free trial of the product upon arriving at the page. (Full disclosure: my colleagues worked with the software company on this project.)
The original version of the landing page was not designed to be an entrance point for visitors per se and relied mostly on text while offering visitors several navigational pathways to exit the conversion funnel.
The optimized landing page on the other hand was more self-contained and:
The experiment showed that the optimized landing page demonstrated a 33 percent improvement in conversion rate.
Two Copywriting Tips Gleaned From Content Experiments
Copywriting is just one of the areas that can be tweaked on a landing page to encourage higher conversion rates. Here are two tried-and-true tips from Joanna Wiebe, founder of Copy Hackers, based on her experience with split testing the copywriting aspect of landing pages:
Content experiments provide considerable opportunity for marketers to validate their hypotheses regarding which page elements are most effective at driving consumer action, and getting started with split testing is relatively pain free thanks to services like Unbounce and Google Analytics Content Experiments.
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Aubrey is the director of marketing programs at Salted Stone, a digital marketing agency in Southern California. She specializes in brand strategy and inbound marketing, working with emerging tech companies and B2B providers to identify their voice and create revenue-driving content plans.
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Oral arguments and coalition formation on the U.S. Supreme Court : a deliberate dialogue
- Author/Creator
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- English.
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- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.
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- x, 141 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- Introduction
- Justices' direct interactions during oral arguments
- Listen to me : how justices learn during oral arguments
- Predicting coalitions from oral arguments
- Conclusion.
- Publisher's Summary
- The U.S. Supreme Court, with its controlled, highly institutionalized decision-making practices, provides an ideal environment for studying coalition formation. The process begins during the oral argument stage, which provides the justices with their first opportunity to hear one another's attitudes and concerns specific to a case. This information gathering allows them eventually to form a coalition. In order to uncover the workings of this process, the authors analyze oral argument transcripts from every case decided from 1998 through 2007 as well as the complete collection of notes kept during oral arguments by Justice Lewis F. Powell and Justice Harry A. Blackmun. Both justices clearly monitored their fellow justices' participation in the discussion and used their observations to craft opinions their colleagues would be likely to support. This study represents a major step forward in the understanding of coalition formation, which is a crucial aspect of many areas of political debate and decision making.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—China is warning other world powers of global economic risks of a potential U.S.-led military intervention in Syria'a civil war.
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He spoke in St. Petersburg on Thursday ahead of a summit of leaders of the Group of 20 leading world economies.
He cited estimates that a $10 rise in oil prices could push down global growth by 0.25 percent.
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incrementally associated with lower school readiness scores. (Sara Bernstein, et al., Mathematica Policy Research, July 2014)...Access to High Quality Early Care and Education: Readiness and Opportunity Gaps in America - Disadvantaged children fall behind in abilities essential to school success prior to age 3; achievement gaps are evident at kindergarten entry when children in the lowest income quintile are 20 months behind children in the top quintile. In the last decade, public investment in preschool has not been enough to address the inequality. That decade saw an improvement in state pre-K investment which might have produced very small increases in access to quality, but its impact was limited because states reduced their per-child funding as enrollment expanded. (Milagros Nores and W. 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Updates on Mazen Al-Hajjar and the Sins of Modern Journalism
There's breaking--and good--news about one of America's worst illegals. And the briefest of cameos for Zadvydas.
11:01 PM, Nov 27, 2001 • By DAVID TELL
THE EDITORIAL in our magazine's current issue suggests that Mazen Al-Najjar, an illegal alien living in Tampa, Florida, is a "free man" pending judicial appeal of his petition for political asylum--notwithstanding a Department of Justice determination that Al-Najjar has held leadership positions in two "front organizations that raised funds for militant Islamic-Palestinian groups such as the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and Hamas." I wrote that editorial. And I am happy to report, in this particular at least, that it is wrong.
This past Saturday, after The Weekly Standard had been printed, Immigration and Naturalization Service agents arrested Al-Najjar outside his Tampa apartment and the Justice Department announced that it intends to "proceed with removing him from the United States." Though the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals had rejected his asylum demand--and thus upheld a final order of deportation against him--on November 13, it was thought Al-Najjar would request a stay of that ruling from the Supreme Court, and INS officials had consequently held off. But Al-Najjar's attorneys failed to ask the Supreme Court for such long-shot relief, and having waited eleven days, the INS apparently decided to go ahead.
Al-Najjar's Florida attorney, Joe Hohenstein, tells Mary Jacoby of the St. Petersburg Times that "legal reality" indicates his client may finally have to leave the States--and that he has consequently entered into "serious discussion" with the government about compliance with the deportation order. Jacoby reports that federal officials are already "working to secure" Al-Najjar's transfer to the United Arab Emirates.
Al-Najjar's lawyers have consistently claimed that no foreign country, including the UAE, would accept their client for deportation. Jacoby points out, however, that UAE embassy officials in Washington confirmed their willingness to admit Al-Najjar as long ago as 1997--provided the United States could produce valid travel documents for him. And Al-Najjar has thwarted U.S. efforts to obtain those documents ever since. The Egyptian "refugee" visa with which he entered the country in 1981 expired more than fifteen years ago. Egypt issued Al-Najjar a second travel permit in 1998 and INS agents twice thereafter requested that he turn that document over--so that they might submit it to their UAE counterparts. But Al-Najjar rebuffed those requests and his second Egyptian visa, too, has now expired.
Jacoby reports that federal officials will now "have to persuade Egypt to issue him a third travel document and persuade the UAE to issue him an entry visa. Those negotiations are taking place quietly through diplomatic channels."
Here's hoping they succeed.
One other clarification is in order concerning this week's editorial. The Justice Department's recent detentions of roughly 1,000 non-resident Arab and Muslim men have been widely condemned as unconstitutional by newspaper columnists and other professional opinionators. My editorial pointed out that no one who has read the Supreme Court's most recent ruling on the constitutionality of alien detentions--Zadvydas v. Davis, decided this past June--could possibly make such a claim. And as evidence of "modern journalism's chronic, shocking ignorance of the law," I indicated that no major American newspaper has "mentioned a single word" about Zadvydas since the attacks of September 11.
I am grateful to an alert reader, Ryan Tate, for informing me by e-mail that I wasn't quite right about this. Mr. Tate points out that reporter Jess Bravin of the Wall Street Journal has, indeed, recently published stories which referred to Zadvydas--and accurately summarized its central, relevant holding. Another reader (and fellow fourth estater), Tom Curry of MSNBC.com, has called my attention to the excellent analysis of Zadvydas included in his October 24 story, "What Rights for Non-Citizens?" MSNBC isn't technically a "newspaper." But I apologize to Mr. Curry--and to the Journal's Jess Bravin--for the oversight, just the same. And I commend their work to the rest of the country's working pundits. Who, I continue to maintain, haven't got a clue when it comes to the constitutionality of recent federal anti-terrorism initiatives.
David Tell is opinion editor of The Weekly Standard.


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The Reaction to LeBron's Cramps Shows We Still Have Some Dangerously Stupid Views on Masculinity
We need to get over this "play through the pain" crap, because young men die as a result of it.
Last night's Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat was quite memorable, largely because the air conditioning in the AT&T Center in San Antonio broke, forcing players to swelter through 90-degree on-court temperatures. As a result, LeBron James developed cramps and asked for an uncharacteristic breather down the stretch. He went back into the game with about four minutes left, hit a nice layup to cut the Spur's lead to 2, and then stood paralyzed at the wrong end of the floor while the action continued. He looked like he was in tremendous pain, like his legs simply couldn't carry his 260-pound frame the 50 feet over to his bench, and eventually had to be carried part of the way.
The Heat lost — partly because LeBron wasn't on the court, but also because the Spurs hit a brutal late cavalcade of three-pointers. After the game, the jerks of Twitter had a field day:
If my girl can be on her period and still slide me some top , LeBron you should have played the last minute— Smokey (@SmokeyComedyy) June 6, 2014
LeBron James just got a new endorsement deal with Midol. #NBAFinals #AuntFlow— Mike Tsirklin (@russiancomic) June 6, 2014
Pretty cool how Lebron's period synced up with mine. #Cramps— Jenny Johnson (@JennyJohnsonHi5) June 6, 2014
Yes, it's easy to highlight some nasty tweets after just about any news event and overgeneralize based on them. And surely if you called up the individual tweeters and inquired as to their motives, they'd say it was all in good fun, that they're just kidding around. But there were a lot of these tweets, and they fit a long-standing pattern. In addition to the obvious misogyny on display here ("LeBron is a woman! Having her period! Hurr!"), this view of masculinity — you play through the pain, and if you're not on the court or field when it matters most, you are a failure or a coward — is both stupid and dangerous.
As the Daily News reported last year, a recent study showed that about a dozen high-school and college football players drop dead on the field every year, and half the time it's not because of a traumatic injury sustained during play:
Kelly Dougherty, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, said she found the number of heat-related deaths in particular "quite alarming."
Many of those deaths happened in the South during preseason play, including at two-a-day practices.
"These are preventable deaths," said Dougherty, who has studied heat acclimation but wasn't involved in the new study.
"This article highlights the urgent need for future research studies that would investigate children's and especially football players' body temperature responses during practice (and) during games," she told Reuters Health.
Usually when we talk about gender norms we're talking about women, and for good reason — overall, women have to deal with a lot more crap on this front, have to worry about all sorts of societal pressures that men don't. But guys aren't immune, and these deaths aren't occurring in a vacuum: They're happening as a result of a very specific, culturally reinforced view of masculinity.
It should tell us something that not even LeBron James, the best basketball player on the planet and a freakishly athletic embodiment of, yes, toughness, is immune to it. Imagine you're a second- or third-string marginal athlete on some high-school football team in the middle of nowhere. What's your reaction to this? What do the tweets about Midol tell you about the need to "man up" the next time you're struggling during practice under a hot August sun?


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This is it; we're almost at the three-month mark for Christmas Day. We have 93 days to get all the right gifts planned, purchased, and wrapped. If you're like most people, you see holiday decorations, hear Christmas music in shopping centers and wonder, "why on earth stores are pushing it so early?". You might think it's to get a head start on the busy season, but that's not entirely true. Most companies want to meet the demands of smart shoppers and early birds. It might be a little surprising, but a wealth of consumers start shopping in late August and finish within a few months.
According to a recent poll conducted by creditcards.com this summer, 32 million adults have already started their gift shopping for Christmas. Moreover, 1 in 4 shoppers predicted they'll be completely finished before November! Responders to the poll offered a variety of solid reasons for shopping so early. The most common motives included evading the holiday crowds, protecting budgets, and avoiding out-of-stock issues that most last-minute shoppers experience.
Well, as experts in all things holiday, we couldn't agree more. You can still enjoy the scents and sounds of autumn while preparing for Christmas. Don't feel as if holiday shopping will detract from the beauty of the harvest season; you can easily make holiday shopping in fall one of your favorite traditions. It's all a mindset really – once you discover the benefits of early shopping, it too will become one of your favorite autumn activities.
Below we've listed the best reasons to start holiday shopping in September (or sooner)!
Avoid Stress
Not only do large crowds breed stress, but so does procrastination and searching for a specific item. The saying goes, "if it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done". Don't let this be the case when looking for the perfect gift. Too many people miss out "waiting for a good deal". There's a variety of sales in the harvest seasons that come close to what holiday deals can offer. Factor in online ordering instead of searching eight or nine stores, and it pays for itself.
Shop through a Vast Selection
While most retail companies do our best to stay in stock, it can sometimes be difficult to keep up with the demand. Last-minute shoppers often have fewer options from which to choose.
Save Money
Holiday sales are great for hot items and Christmas themed gifts… but think about back-to-school and end-of-summer sales as well. You can find unique, quality items on clearance that you might not even think about during Christmas season. This is especially great if your recipient wants a vacation item or funky school supplies. Bargain shopping is not only fun, but it frees room in your budget to give more gifts AND cooler gifts.
Free Time for Helping Others
Towards the end of the harvest season, you'll likely be attending many family parties and planning Christmas events. The more time you have on your hands, the better. If you have extra time, you can use it to volunteer to the less fortunate – bringing the true meaning of Christmas into your life.
Get Ahead on Credit Card Bills
A common New Year's Resolution is to pay off bills accrued during the holiday season. Well, if you start shopping earlier, you can pay them off earlier. This will free you up to start fresh in the new year, instead of having old bills hanging over your head creating stress.
Relax at Home Instead of Fighting in Crowds
Okay, well online shopping does help with this, but many of us still like to visit a few retail stores for holiday shopping. The experience of gift shopping is part of the holidays we love so much, but do we have to share that experience with thousands of other stressed-out shoppers? While everyone is running around in stores doing some last-minute frantic shopping, you can relax and find last-minute online deals from the comfort of your home.
When Do You Shop?
Let us know your favorite time to shop for gifts; we'd love to hear from you. Remember to share your ideas and shopping tips with our other readers.


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Artist: Sunday's Best
Song Title: Los Feliz Arms
leaving Los Feliz, Griffith Park,
and the breakfast spots where we used to haunt.
The shine of Hillhurst days:
broken windows of my car,
neighbors setting off their fire alarms,
crisp nights you could feel.
Remember the view from the hill?
Moon dividing up the man-made lake...
Don't forget those days we stayed in to escape the race.
Days we hid from the phone and made out.
Left the world alone.
We were standing in the light,
hoping to catch a glimpse of what we thought was right.
Thursday night at Bigfoot Lodge,
rubbing shoulders with the slobs…
Passed us a Walker on the rocks.
Crisp nights too unreal…
We are standing in the light,
waiting to catch a glimpse of what we know is right.
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