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Originally published: 12.01.13 by Terry Tanker
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New Finance Column
Next month we will be introducing a new column that will outline a customized stock chart of publicly-traded companies in the hvacr industry in a clear, easy-to-read format. It includes current and comparison stock prices, net and percentage change of those stocks, shares outstanding and market capitalization. Commentary and analysis will also be included. The author of the column will be Margot Crabtree from Trade Trends Inc. We haven't yet decided on a name for the
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HVACR Business Editor Greg Smith's son was killed several weeks ago leaving behind a five year old son. As a result, Greg is on an indefinite leave of absence until all of the affairs are settled. There is never a good time to lose a family member but during the holiday season it makes it especially hard. A fund has been set up for Greg's grandson Ryder. Please consider a small donation to help Ryder's future education. Any donations made by our readers will be matched by HVACR Business. Simply write HVACR Business in the memo line. Donations can be sent to the Ryder Smith Benefit Fund, c/o First Federal of Lakewood, 36839 Detroit Road, Avon Lake, OH 44011.
Terry has over 23 years of experience in the advertising and publishing industries. He began his career with a business-to-business advertising agency. Prior to forming Hutchinson Tanker Ltd. and HVACR Business in January 2006, he spent 20 years with large national publishing and media firm where he was the publisher of several titles in the mechanical systems marketplace.
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the republinecks will now, with MY F*CKING TAX dollars, bail out all of these firms, leaving the little guy holding the bag once again. all the while, bush, cheney, mccain laugh at us from their multimillion estates and will never be adversely effected by the increase in debt. ALL AT OUR EXPENSE. and then you morons go out and vote for them all over again. I can only pray the middle class guys that votes for these crooks are the first to end homeless in the streets.
. . . and clip interest coupons. The taxpayer will get paid back as all the REO & bad real estate debt gets recycled. In the meantime Wall St and the banks get a fresh start.
Obama's tax hikes will fk us just as bad so were really screwed
Al Capone was a COMMUNITY ORGANIZER!
What a bunch of 1/2 WITS; Piz on it
What about the Democrats who have controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for the last 20 years? huh? huh? The ex ceo of Fannie Mae lives in a 22 room mansion in D.C. Also a Democrat. Leave Bush out of this you fool.
Horseman #2: Demopublican Political Control
One of the most popular ideas taught in American civics classes is that the strength of the American political system lies in the fact that we have a two-party political process. This, I maintain, is akin to teaching that babies come from storks. It's a fairy tale we spin out to avoid messy details of reality we prefer not to face. The reality is that the Democratic and Republican parties, as distinctive parties, are shams. They have become nothing but two divisions of the Central Leviathan Party. This has been our political reality ever since Dwight Eisenhower defeated the "old guard" individualist Republicans under Robert Taft in 1952 and made the Republicans into a big government welfare-state party like the New Deal Democrats of Roosevelt and Truman. From that year on, there has been no voice in the world of politics for the original Founders' vision. The last vestiges of limited, decentralized government died with Eisenhower's capitulation to Keynes and the New Deal.
In the ensuing decades, the collectivists have skillfully established a deceptive ONE-PARTY dictatorial system, which their media lackeys spin to the public as "two parties" and which the collectivist power elites maintain by waging phony battles every four years, all of which the gullible public buys into. Yet every year no matter who wins at the polls, government grows larger and more fascistic. Therefore, all talk about which of these Tweedledum and Tweedledee institutions is better than the other is a game of "nonsense on stilts" (to borrow a phrase from the 19th century philosopher, Jeremy Bentham). Because both parties subscribe to the same fundamental premises, which manifest in the dictatorial paradigm of fascism, they both end up tyrannizing our lives.
To those Republican sympathizers who still hold out hope that the GOP can be some kind of a solution to the runaway lunacy of today's spendaholics on the Potomac, I offer exhibit A, Mr. Republican himself, President George W. Bush. Remove the scales from your eyes America! This man's spending proclivities (as a percentage of GNP) far exceed those of Bill Clinton's, or Jimmy Carter's, or LBJ's -- all prototypical "big spenders" that preceded him and set the standard for fiscal irresponsibility. George Bush Jr. is as Big Government as you can get! Socialism (or actually fascism) has come to America via a "conservative" administration! But this is the inevitable result when both parties subscribe to the SAME flawed fundamental premises. Those flawed premises are: 1) Government needs to be centralized and highly interventionist to be effective. And 2) it is permissible for political legislation to violate individual rights in order to convey special privileges to groups. It is upon these two dictatorial premises that both Democrats and Republicans structure the entirety of their policies. Arbitrary law has trumped objective law as a policy tool for each of them. Both have abandoned belief in a higher natural law. Both endorse the wholesale violation of rights. Consequently they both are driving us toward economic fascism and dictatorship."
fnm is the democrats nightmare. just ask barney frank, chris dodd, paul kanjorski, hillary clinton, and yes, barrack hussein obama .
HANG ONTO YOUR SHARES!!! this train has left the station. jmho-bucko
ps-NOW, BRING BACK HANK AS CEO!!! 2.60 IN AHRS.
By the way what the f^%&%& do you do with your tax dollars anyways? You pay it and you forget it. And then whether the govt spends it on war or on election, you dont ask a freaking question or rather you cant do anything. Then why crying now...these news reporters and politicians just make these issues as big as their asses and stupid people dont use their brains.
Problem is those over 250,00 per year income have not been paying their fair share...
Remember, somebody in America has to do the menial jobs and receives a subsistence salary for their work while those making the large salaries usually have someone under them that do the hard work and they take the gravy...
I can't wait until you rich guys have to start paying more taxes and I hope it is large enough for you to feel some of the pain that the working class has to feel......
Not as bad as Pelosi, Schumer, Kennedy, Rangle, Byrd, Obama, etc.
i do not care anybody else, but has Obama done anything yet?
Why the hell didn't you cover?????

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Another reason why they are grabbing my attention is their way of promotion. The photographs by Creative Director Johan Lindeberg are amazing. They feel moody with a sense of intimacy and have this natural feel to them. Although I doubt that Gisele lays like that on a regular basis. How many of you have become fans of BLK DNM? You can click here to purchase BLK DNM from SSENSE.
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Gisele Bundchen was spotted sight seeing with some friends and her daughter in Paris, France a couple of weeks back. The supermodel wore her BLK DNM Jeans 4 in Dusty Grey with some sandals and a simple t shirt.
I wonder if Gisele got these custom fitted? Most styles by BLK DNM tend to, well are, on the high-waisted side, but these are more of a medium compared to those. Or maybe it is just Gisele being blessed with the perfect form that gives these the illusion of looking perfect? You can click here to purchase these jeans from REVOLVEclothing for $245.
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Gisele is one of the models that is on my list of hopes to see doing a DIY Campaign for the label. One, she can just model the heck out of anything. Two, how amazing is the fit of these jeans on her? And 3, I think she embodies that natural ease that the campaign also embodies. Who would you like to see front their DIY Campaign? You can click here to purchase Rag & Bone from REVOLVEclothing.


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cancer that develops in the thin layer of tissue that surrounds the lungs, chest wall, or abdomen. Signs and symptoms of the condition can vary and often depend on which area of the body is affected. Common features include abdominal bloating, abdominal pain, chest pain, coughing, fatigue, shortness of breath, and/or weight loss. Malignant mesothelioma is thought to be caused by long-term exposure to asbestos (a fire-resistant material that was once commonly found in insulation; ceiling and roof vinyls; cement; and automotive brake materials). Most people appear to be diagnosed with the condition approximately 30 years after being in contact with the asbestos. Unfortunately, there is generally no cure for malignant mesothelioma unless it is diagnosed at an early stage and can be surgically removed. If surgery is not an option, chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy may still be recommended to help alleviate some of the associated symptoms.[1][2][3]Malignant mesothelioma is a form of
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- Malignant Mesothelioma–for patients. National Cancer Institute. September 2015; http://www.cancer.gov/types/mesothelioma.
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Home-school culture shifting away from religious ties
Gerry Broome, Associated Press
Eric Peschel and his family have different reasons for home-schooling.
One of his sons was taken out of public school for religious reasons and bullying. Another is taught at home because the public education system wasn't working for Peschel. His daughter was home-schooled too, but "bonding issues" caused the Peschels to put their daughter back into public school.
"Just seeing the difference between what is being taught in public school versus our school, it's not even close," Peschel said. "They're not even close in the vocabulary they're teaching, the math they're teaching. It's off the charts different."
Though home-schooling has been a historically popular choice for religious conservatives, it's becoming more common among secular students. A National Center for Education Statistics study showed home-schoolers no longer list religion as their top reason for opting out of public or private schools. More than 91 percent see the environment as a reason to home-school, while 64 percent (about 692,299 students) see religion as an important reason to home-school. In 1999, about 327,000 students were home-schooled for religious reasons.
And home-schooling has been on the rise, too. More than a decade ago in 1999, about 850,000 students were home-schooled, which was nearly half of the 1,770,000 home-schooled students reported for the 2011-2012 school year, according to the NCES.
Between bullying worries and lack of belief in the public education system, many parents choose home-schooling to avoid these problems, experts say.
"I've seen some remarkable quality educations given to home-school kids in remarkable ways," said John Edelson, founder and president of Time4Learning, a home-school curriculum organization. "While I see that in public schools, too, parents are a lot more resourceful to give kids quality educations."
But as home-schooling becomes more popular, it also faces added scrutiny. In Nebraska, the Department of Education is looking to add new stipulations to track attendance for home-schoolers, which requires parents to fill out more paperwork. Other parents worry about the influence Common Core Standards is already having on their ability to shape curriculum to the needs of their children. For many, taking back control of their child's education is a fight that only continues.
A new market
Edelson of Time4Learning said there are three types of home-schoolers: religious people, free thinkers and "accidental home-schoolers," who are "pragmatically doing what's best for their kids."
Because of this, academies that cater to home-schoolers or companies like Time4Learning have to adapt.
Edelson offers students a non-religious curriculum that is part online and part offline. It begins with an opening discussion, then 30 minutes of computer work and 30 minutes of desk work throughout the day.
It's a way of tapping into a new market of virtual home-schoolers, who are on the rise too, Edelson said. Instead of using the traditional method of hiring a home-school teacher, some parents want to enroll their children in an online education system, which they can also do from home, Edelson said.
Jessica Parnell, principal of Bridgeway Home School Academy, which offers curriculum for home-schooling parents, is also marketing itself in new ways by including mainstream and secular curriculums as a way to bring in families who want to avoid religious teachings.
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I like Raymond Chandler. I like him a lot. I can be obtained to expound on this for $25 a day plus expenses which are mostly whiskey and gasoline.
Chandler was a pulp writer but dear Gods his prose put most of his more "literary" contemporaries in the shade.
Did DH Lawrence ever write a line like this…
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
No! Lawrence was concerned about fretting about his "John Thomas" – I seriously defy anyone of normal sense to read "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and not collapse in histrionics. Not because it's funny – it isn't.
More Chandler…
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
I do a great deal of research – particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
Philip Marlowe is of course a wonderful creation. A profoundly decent man in an indecent world. The kinda bloke you'd like to know but not "blokish" if you see what I mean – he is an ace chess-player, reads poetry and bemoans the vileness of LA. He's good looking but not in a pretty boy way, hard as nails, ferociously independent and fiercely bright. Oh, and he'll always stand you a drink. And Hell's teeth, he got his break with probably the greatest prose stylist in English of the last century. And Chandler's essay that explains him, "The Simple Art or Murder" is to kill for.
Though don't do that in California or a guy in a coat and a hat will stick a 1911 semi-auto chambered to .38 super in your ribs.


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Is this possible and what is the best way to accomplish an upgrade from a subsite to its own site?
I would like to host sites/blogs for others using my specific settings in one installation of WP3 multisite. I can envision a time when one of the users will want to grow to have their own WP installation.
All Subsite users have limited functionality and no cPanel access. If I need to give a user access to stuff for which they need cPanel access, I would need to create their own separate account, separate WP install, etc.
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Men's Cross Country
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2014 (Cross Country): Ran in all six meets for the Brown and Gold...completed the Crusader Open 4K in 12:29.1...ran a 29:18 in the Western Invitational 8K...recorded a 27:22.2 finish in the five-mile Notre Dame Invitational...crossed the finish line of the Bradley Invitational 8K in 27:13.7...finished the Horizon League Championships 8K in 27:07...toppled the NCAA Great Lakes Regional 10K course in 34:15.
2013: Ran in five meets for the Crusaders and scored in all of them...Clocked in at 35:30 at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional...ran a 28:40.10 at the HL Championships...finished in 29:14 at Notre Dame...raced to a 29.10.07 at Iona Meet of Champions...ran a 21:22.7 at the Crusader Classic to finish 19th in his first collegiate race.
Personal: Son of Paul and Cherie Greenhagen...majoring in mechanical engineering and physics...born on June 9, 1995...member of Christ College.


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Looks like that career resurgence is coming along just nicely for Tom Cruise: The actor and alter ego of already-annoying agent Les Grossman has been offered a role in the movie adaptation of Broadway musical Rock of Ages. Yes, that means he'd be expected to sing.
Even better, the role is that of a bartender who gets to sing a lot of 1980s hair metal, according to Deadline Hollywood. Cocktail flashbacks, anyone? For that alone – well, okay, that and the fact that, Mission: Impossible aside, Cruise really needs a visible hit – I really hope that he takes the role. If his Grossman character shows anything, it's that he's at the stage where he's okay letting go of his image for the role, and having fun instead; who's to say that he wouldn't do wonderfully in a musical?
This needs to happen. Graeme, you're right — when Tom let's go, he really is at his best. When he's too busy being or looking cool, it comes off so fake.
The world needs more Les Grossman, too. There should be a Les Grossman theme park ride, where you get yelled at constantly and have to avoid being punched in the face.
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Rob Williams & Michael Dowling spoke with CBR about using their social media thriller from Vertigo and how their inventive storytelling approach.
Kicking off in October, Vertigo's fall lineup will include 12 new titles from creative talent like Darwyn Cooke, Michael Allred and Gail Simone.
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Newcomer talents Monty Nero and Mike Dowling explain the ins and outs of their incoming "CLiNT comic "Death Sentence" from the idea of an STD that give you superpowers to being discovered by Mark Millar at Kapow! Con.
For his "CLiNT" magazine now enjoying simultaneous U.K./U.S. release, Mark Millar has signed "Death Sentence," the story of S.T.D. empowered super-celebrities with a ticking time clock, as a new comic feature, and CBR has the first look.
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Some experimental concept of a super cliché sci-fi city with large buildings and hover cars because I felt like making one. This thing has been laying on my hard drive since march 2013 and I thought it was time to touch it up in some way. The city itself consists of three different Mandelbulb 3D renders based on parameters by CMDRCHAOS
I also used various stock elements (sources listed below) as well as my own stock imagery.
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Can I use this for an art piece?
look at those details o-o
wow, so detailed!
Pipe dream or the future that awaits us?
Interesting picture
Impressive - This Fractal Manipulation Rocks.
amazing, very nice color scheme
Bold And Striking. Wonderful Creation.
Excellently done!
Stunning scene truly amazing
very nice man !
Striking Image
Some great work indeed
Einfach großartig! Das Bild hat sehr viel Tiefe.
esta cool xd
Whoah...this is really spectacular work. I love the depth of the details in this
This is really cool. Great work on it.
Damn nice work! Really nice perspective, good job! DD deserved
Amazing work
Amazing work
Epic scene. Image format is adding to city dimensions impression. I like the effect of the camera lens distortion.
HOLY SHIT! This is so good!!
Imagine that image as a wallpaper on my triple monitor setup!
I love sci-fi cities like this, I wish I could live in one.
LOVE this!
simply amazing view of the future
This is amazing. I could stare at it for hours and get lost in it.
wow... impressive...!!!!!
It may be cliché, but it is fantastic
wow........ this is epically sweet.
Are we at a war or somethin'??
O-O wow
Awesome work!
Beautiful - the curvature of the virtual lens gives it a true - epic - sense of scale.
Fav button : check
Drool on my keyboard : check
All my congratulations to the author for this amazing piece of art : chek
Drool on my keyboard : check
All my congratulations to the author for this amazing piece of art : chek
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I can't seem to get my function called and I'm pulling out my hair trying to figure out why. I'm using Vantage (site origin) theme and Orbisius Child Theme Creator to create a child theme. My child theme's other code in it's functions.php is being called just fine, but even with things as simple as this:
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Visual Art Please Give a Warm Welcome to the Helm Gallery
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by Jamey Braden
The new Tacoma venue surely wants to do the same for you. The gallery is warm both literally (soft white light, honey-brown wood floors, a seeming 80 degrees on the thermostat) and figurativelythe first show was called the The Kindness of Strangers and owed its existence to the charity of artists that co-owners Peter Lynn and Sean Alexander mostly did not know.
The artists were solicited by e-mail, for a donation of artwork to be shown and sold to benefit the gallery. They came from near and far. Painter Zach Marvick is rumored to live next door to the gallery, and much of the rest of the work is international. Sweden, Singapore, Paris, Moscow, Denmark, Japan, and Australia were represented in the show, which closed last Wednesday. Daniel Johnston even sent up some prints from Texas, with an invoice, scratched out and re-scrawled as "no charge."
Kindly, Lynn held the show over for an evening so I could catch the packed salon-style show. On the drive home, my carful was pressed to find one preferred piece among the 200-plus works. I had a family of favorites: the reserved, minimal, and quietly emotional "line-scape" drawings by Jennifer Nazzaro; the lush and uncomfortably close ink portraits by Londoner Mitch Blunt; the faded acid-bright portraits by Xin that felt fractured and re-patched, as if the artist was lovingly remembering her friends as a collection of characteristics and sewing them together with memories.
The Helm has come a long way since its inception as a "let's do it better" call-to-arms after Tacoma's progressive art venture, Critical Line, closed up last winter after producing only four shows.
On one day in April, Lynn and Alexander gave birth to the concept for The Kindness of Strangersnot only an exhibition but a way to build a nest egg for the new space, especially since its directors have ambitious plans that include a residency programand about five days later, Lynn recalls, he got the keys to an old lighting showroom in an area of downtown Tacoma known as Antique Row.
The excitement in an overnight (over-week?) decision like this carries over into the energy of the gallery. Lynn talked about the work with an unpretentious passion and expressed high, even rigid, ideals for the space. Shows will change every month, and Lynn insists on displaying work "people have never seen before," in a balance of local, regional, national, and international artists. Viewers can regard The Kindness of Strangers as an epic trailer for the life the Helm would like to lead.
This Thursday, the Helm opens a show of brand new work by Seattle-based Chauney Peck and Whiting Tennis.
Peck's work "draws inspiration from unconventional living situations in third-world countries," the gallery's web site describes. "Peck has created two-dimensional and sculptural work that imaginatively illustrates the lifestyles of the poor and downtrodden."
Tennis, winner of this year's Neddy Fellowship for painting, makes work that "explore(s) the spiritual nature of everyday objects and materials…and through painting and sculpture will display how the completely ordinary can be imbued with life by the simple act of observation."
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The film follows the journey of two new riders, from canyon roads to track as they encounter their own limitations and uncertainties in their riding and then learn to overcome them with the correct techniques that apply in each scenario. They gain confidence and control, start to have fun and improve. The film delivers precision techniques for barriers to cornering such as rider input, fundamentals on steering, visual skills, braking body position throttle control and more." I realized early on in the project that every technique needed to be covered visually in MANY different ways to really show it so that it could be understood and that's what we set out to do" says Code. "It was painstaking, precision work that paid off, this film shows riding technique in ways that have never been done before."
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Beginner or Intermediate, this video is a must have for any serious rider who wants to ride safer and faster around the track and even in the streets!
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Great production quality! Keith really breaks down the tech. behind cornering/riding correctly and show what happens when you don't do it right. From beginners to advance, this dvd is a must for every rider out there.
I checked this DVD out on Youtube when it started popping up in magazines. I had a 7-year break in riding until recently and the topics of performance riding that Keith covers are exactly what most of us know but few of us focus on when we ride. Cornering is broken down with loads of visuals and mechanical explanation for how and why we as riders and our bikes handle and perform. For intermediate riders, significant improvements can be made just by taking a few notes from experienced riders. This DVD is a great compilation of such notes one needs to make improvements or at least to develop an awareness for what he/she is doing on the bike when riding. I passed it around to my co-workers after watching it a few times. Its been 2 months and it has not been returned... guess that says something!
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Episode List
Season 1
5 Mar. 2002Episode #1.1
Nikki leads Jamie on and uses him as he thinks he's getting the chance to date her. Instead, he's left holding the bag (literally, as he's left holding Nikki's handbag) as she ditches him to rondevou with a sexy stranger in a dark corner of a nightclub. When the handsome stranger leaves, Nikki is left humiliated and devastated -and Jamie has no sympathy and leaves her too.
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Nikki learns her lesson after hooking up with a wealthy stranger who turns out to be a con man. After putting her love interest ahead of her friends, Nikki is left devastated and humbled when she nearly losing everyone important to her.
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its good, I randomly clicked on a page and scrolledfaced down and this is what I hit, I think the sequencing is fucking great, this is really what I am aiming at myself but my form is sloppeh still xD.
Was really digging the style you had, and just wish the drop was harder not gonna lie, everything else was smoooth sailing, Im not one to complain about drops since I cant even figure out how to make them yet but just my imo, not trying to be a dick :], & not final like you said so I can see it going big
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Really AWESOME!
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
I like the build-up allot!
Yes I would say just stick with it and the end result would be much pleasing!


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Pop over to It's Frugal Being Green this morning, where you'll find a post by yours truly on Why I Love Microfiber Cloths. I'm a big greenie when it comes to cleaning, and I've continued to pare down my chemicals more and more as the years go by and the number of children in our house goes up. (UPDATE: See my own post on How to Use Microfiber Cloths for Cleaning.)
For example, I've only used a product containing bleach twice in the past year: when feces rained down on our laundry room from the upstairs bathroom (oh, how I wish I had been blogging at the time! What a post that would have been!), and when I washed a dark green tablecloth with the whites (another reason this blog isn't called "Laundry Stewardship"). We don't even have toilet bowl cleaner in the house anymore. I keep cleaning simple, safe and inexpensive.
The Mrs. Meyer's Dishsoap Giveaway kicks off a little series on natural cleaning. During the month of August, I'm going to give you some of my tips and tricks for cleaning and still being able to breathe safely in your kitchens, as well as some products you can buy if you're not into the whole homemade thing.
Be sure to visit frequently for a few more giveaways (TWO start next week – GREAT local gals who make nursing bracelets and very affordable natural products for lots of needs, from baby's bottom to Mommy's face) and all the homemade cleaning solutions and time-savers.so you don't miss a thing!
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I use this Omega 3 product because it has a higher value of EPA -410mg and DHA -274mg than any I have seen. This allows you to take less pills per day and get the maximum benifit.
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Released: Dec 01st, 2005
Running Time: 87
Director: Anita Rinaldi
Company: Private U.S.A.
Distribution Companies: Pure Play Media
Cast: Nikki Rider, Simony Diamond, Victoria Swinger, Tera Bond, Lilit, Horst Barron, Lili Love, Susane Brend, Choky Ice, Laura Giotto, Antonio Ross, Bob Terminator, Ricardo Bell, Zafira
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Feature
Plot-wise, there's not a lot to cling to: A bunch of college girls get their revenge. On what, exactly, isn't clear, but, as long as their revenge consists of screwing their brains out (and the fact that the "college girls" are stunning Euro broads), the plot is pure genius.
Check out the scorching threeway where raven-haired honey Simony Diamond takes a hard dicking and keeps on ticking. And sucking and everything else. Petite hardbody Nicky Rider turns in a stellar performance, clearly enjoying bending herself into a fuck pretzel to absorb the schnitzel like a learned slut. But then she is a college girl, and one seeking revenge at that.
Retailing: Top notch Euro fare, sizzling sex.


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Consumer, Enterprise and Big Time Datacenter
Seagate already has two generations of enterprise SSD's under its belt, Pulsar and Pulsar.2. Today the company launches four new products that range from consumer SATA SSD to enterprise PCIe. We have concrete details on three of the four products. The new Enterprise SAS 12Gb/s part was displayed at CeBIT, but we won't have a sample in hand for at least a couple of weeks. We do have SAS 12Gb/s parts from another manufacturer though, so expect full coverage from Seagate, Toshiba and Hitachi in a round-up format before too long.
On the consumer SATA side, Seagate released the new 600 SSD. This is a consumer SSD designed for desktop and notebook use. One step up is the 600 Pro SSD, another SATA product that crosses over into the enthusiast / power user space, if the price is right. Both drives use custom Link_A_Media Devices (LAMD) controllers, the same physical silicon used in the Corsair Neutron and Neutron GTX.
On the enterprise side, the new 1200 SSD with a 12Gb/s SAS interface should prove to be the fastest 2.5" SSD on the market, but faces steep competition from upcoming 12Gb/s parts from both Hitachi, now a Western Digital company and Toshiba.
At the top of the scale is the new enterprise PCIe product that comes from Seagate's partnership with Virident Systems. At the time of writing, less than 48 hours to go before the NDA breaks, we don't have a lot of information on three of four of the new products. We're still fishing, even for products we have in hand right now.
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On the Treatment of Finance-Specific Factors Within the OLI Paradigm
This article argues that the body of foreign direct investment (FDI) literature in general and the ownership, location, and internalization (OLI) paradigm in particular would be enriched if finance-specific factors are explicitly incorporated as drivers of FDI. We suggest that financial strategies involving factors such as debt/equity swaps or equity-listings in foreign equity markets affect the firm's relative cost and availability of capital, and motivate a firm's engagement in FDI. Large, research-intensive firms, predominantly resident in the US, UK, Japan or other liquid markets, have in the literature been identified as typical prototypes of MNEs undertaking FDI. These firms are assumed to have no restrictions as regards their ability to achieve a competitive cost and availability of capital, a focus that has made financial capabilities and resources less of an issue in FDI research. Our article mitigates this by emphasizing the relevance of finance-specific proactive strategies for FDI to occur. We generate eight testable hypotheses based on the recognition of finance-specific factors as active drivers of value creating FDI.
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web ninja is a good plug, but it slows down the listing of posts in admin interface... :( And not just a little bit, A LOT...
web ninja is a good plug, but it slows down the listing of posts in admin interface... :( And not just a little bit, A LOT...
I was using it on a multi-site install up until this morning. It slowed down the site to the point that it was keeping it from loading in people's browsers in addition to keeping me from updating the site via the admin back end.
It's a great plugin but it is a serious resources hog.
Yes that is true, it slows down so much that it starts overloading server.
I didn't realize it until today when I decided to solve it.
My research is posted here - Web Ninja Google Analytics Plugin Slows Down Admin Post Listing Page
The delay isn't due to the plugin but the downloading of data from Google Analytics for your stats. The more traffic you get the more data it has to download. There are a few ways to help it.
1. Only have it display the last 7 days so it's not downloading data from the last 30 days.
2. Change your "Cache Timeout" in the options. Right now it is set to 60 seconds. That means every minute it is going to download data from Google. Unforunately, there is no way with their API to download partial data. Really, you can only download all the data each time. So, if you set the cache timeout to download every 3600 seconds it will only download the data hourly instead of every minute.
3. Disable the page/post stats. When it downloads the data for post and pages it has to download the data for each page and post. If you have a lot of post or get a lot of traffic this could take a while for the site to download all that data. If you don't want to wait for the data to download you could disable the stats on the post and page admin pages.
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What the… Doilied Denim?
I sized them up, snickered, then scoffed. Lace on jeans? Wedding lace?
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Was it ever appropriate to wear such disasterous jeans, even in the late 80's/early 90's? Yikes. Well, baggy boyfriend jeans made a comeback…so you just never know! Could these come back into style in the distant future?
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Viridis Luxe had some really rad denim contributions for Los Angeles Fashion Week. Some were No-No's and some were fabulous. The continuation and theme seemed to be simply cuffed jeans- regardless of the level of distressing. The collection has some very apparent peaks and valleys. Overall, I'm impressed with denim and I wonder how it compares price wise to Alexander Wang.
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whoa clever.
One of those that gets you at first, then gets duller the longer you look.
why is it clever or nice?... maybe it's me, but it's so predictable that it's almost literal.
i've seen like 2 similar concepts before: argentina with aerolineas (tv), plus brazil with Tam. The first was the boy capturing the plane's reflection on the water, the second was also with reflection. The only thing different here is the shadow.
sorry, for me it's boring.
actually it was a boy capturing a planes shadow in his rooftop.
and this ad is so dull, that seems like a cover for a panflet or something.
It made me smile and feel welcomed. Well done.
This is nice. The dog fleas are just acting up. Fumigate.
Anyone notice that when there's an idea about.
There's a lot of it about?
the other very recent clever shadow thingy.
I think this captures a nice warm mood. Its not amazing but good work.
It's Christmas... it's all about that warm fuzzy feeling... It's supposed to be old school, because we've all forgotten what Christmas is all about. It's not exactly stellar, but it gets to the point.
so interesting there is no luggage in the picture, they keep loosing it.. hahahaha (at least they are not making a false promise)
I think this is a good ad, you guys are all looking at it from a creatiove agencies point of view, when in fact you should be looking at it from the point of view of joe bloggs in the public.
The public wont be looking so deep into it, they'll see the people hugging the shadow of the plane and think yeah christmas and BA, then they'll move along. it does its job nicely even if it is an old idea. Sometime the old ones are the best. Just my thoughts.
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He was once the greatest player to grace the planet, once he realised that ambition, he seemed to just drift away. Reknowned for partying all night, missing training and being a general smug git, he just isnt even an option to any club in the league. He is destined for China or Dubai but somehow, not even they are interested in a cross bar hitting, goofy knob.
Sad though isn't it? Not only one of the greatest players but a joy to watch and always with a smile (even when hitting the cross bar!!). Tells you how much dedication being a professional footballer takes. A little slip in the barcelona nightclubs and the career of one of the most skilled players ever goes down the drain...He could have given us a lot more memorable times and could have been one of the true greats.


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Which of these two books should I read first? Is one of them more advanced than the other? I'm planning to use them to self-study geometry. Thanks.
If you are planning to self study and are just beginning geometry, I would recommend neither at this stage.
Geometry Revisted is from a specific viewpoint: Visiting Elementary Geometry from the viewpoint of transformations.
A snapshot of the backcover of Geometry Revisited:
So you will miss out on some portions which are not covered by this book.
Introduction to Geometry is an advanced book and presumes fairly high familiarity already.
Note: The books are excellent. I suggest you revisit Geometry Revisited after you have done some amount of study and then perhaps take a shot at Introduction to Geometry.
Having read it at some point myself, I can vouch for Geometry Revisited. It is an excellent book and ought be read at some point.
If your only choices to self learn were Geometry Revisited and Introduction to Geometry, then I would recommend Geometry Revisited.
Geometry Revisited is much more elementary, aimed at high-school teachers and bright high-school students or college frosh. For example, K. Strubecker wrote in his AMS Math Review
If you are talking about "Introduction to Geometry" by Coxeter and "Geometry Revisited" by Coxeter and Greitzer, the consensus seems to be that both of them are pretty advanced, but "Introduction to Geometry" is significantly more so, while "Geometry Revisited" is closer to something 'right after high school geometry class,' so I guess you should start with the latter (assuming you do have some geometry knowledge already).
Geometry Revisited has a much narrower domain of content than an Introduction to Geometry. If your goal is to get a sense of what different kinds of problems, techniques, and concepts geometry has evolved to deal with, Introduction to Geometry is a "dated" but somewhat comprehensive choice. (For example, the whole "world" of computational geometry came on the scene after Coexeter's book.) One typically does not read mathematics books from cover to cover and one can dabble in Introduction to Geometry to see some of geometry's many parts. If one has heavy sledding in places than looking at the wiki article of the topic causing trouble might help.


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I got to stop obsessing about coffee.....
This is Eomer from T.L.O.T.R. who it seem's likes
his coffee just like Thor's.
About 5 hours this one
All the usual suspects
This is Eomer from T.L.O.T.R. who it seem's likes
his coffee just like Thor's.
About 5 hours this one
All the usual suspects
This is so incredibly awesome!!!!
i love this man! what a man, awesome job
Coffee ? addict ? Very beautiful drawing.
What would the point be if there was no coffee....I mean put a gun to my head or something...
I dislike coffee ! I'd rather drink chocolate, ou water, ou evrything else. ^^
Ahh a non believer......
Fear me !! I can live without coffee !! MouHhhaahhha !
hahahaha, love the humor
Ha! Awesome Possum! You should do one of Golem; he'd look like he'd be wanting some coffee BAAAAAAD!!!!!
You got me thinking now, i just might do a whole l.o.t.r. coffee series.....
haha the title made me laugh xD I feel like emoer would like his coffee VERY strong...
beautiful pencil work!!
beautiful pencil work!!
AWESOME job on Eomer! The shading is especially good.
Ha, love the gallery view! Makes me wish I were the bearer of fine coffee, lol.
Hey what you saying! you holding out on me,have you got COFFEE your not telling me about........
really amazing expression xD i love it!! and awesome shading on this one ^^
I just had this mental image of the Thor and Eomer pics next to each other; like they're staring each other down and screaming, "I like black coffee MORE!" at each other. LOL!
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The assumption that the future is open makes well known problems for traditional semantics. According to a commonly held intuition, today's occurrence of the sentence 'There will be a sea battle tomorrow', while truth-valueless today, will have a determinate truth-value by tomorrow night. Yet given traditional semantics, sentences that are truth-valueless now cannot later 'become' true. Relativistic semantics has been claimed to do a better job of accommodating intuitions about future contingents than non-relativistic semantics does. However, intuitions about future contingents cannot by themselves give good reasons for shifting to a new paradigm, for despite the initial appearances, standard non-relativistic semantics (plus an account of truth-value gaps) can accommodate both intuitions about future contingents.


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Sanchez Has Dominated When Faking Handoffs, Despite a Weaker Running Game
Grilled by fans and prodded by his coach, Mark Sanchez has watched things come to a head recently for both himself and the Jets club he leads.
But for all the things that people can fairly criticize Sanchez for, there is at least one area in which his play has improved this season. And that attribute could go a long way in helping him pull his team out of its slump this Sunday against Buffalo.
The play-action pass.
Although analyzing Sanchez's play-fake statistics won't make anyone forget about his struggles this season, the numbers—if only he could post them in any situation and over the course of a full season—are the kind that would make Jets fans salivate.
This season, when Sanchez has thrown after faking a handoff, he's completed 63% (52-for-83) of his passes for 722 yards, five touchdowns and just two interceptions. That line, good for a 100.6 quarterback rating, is considerably better than his 55% completion rate, his 9-8 touchdown-to-interception ratio and 73.2 rating when he's not using play-action.
While it's not unusual that Sanchez does better when faking handoffs—"I think you'd find that almost all quarterbacks have better numbers out of play-action," CBS analyst Charley Casserly said—it's interesting that his play-fake stats are much better this season as opposed to the previous two years.
Fake handoffs are most effective when the defense is preoccupied with stopping a strong running game. But New York's ground attack, averaging just 3.6 yards per carry, has been much less successful this season as opposed to the previous two, when it picked up 4.5 and 4.4 yards per attempt in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
Call it the curious case of the play-action pass.
"It is interesting, because we're not running the ball quite as effectively as we have in years' past. That's obvious," Jets coach Rex Ryan said. "If we do [start running it better], just think of how effective [play-action] is going to be."
Sanchez said he, too, lacked theories on why the fake handoffs were having so much success despite the slumping running game. But he said there's been a large "emphasis in practice [on play-fakes], because when all that stuff looks the same to the defense, things will really open up on the edge and allow our receivers to work."
It wouldn't be a stretch to assume that the Jets will use a healthy amount of play-fakes Sunday against Buffalo, as Sanchez had an absolute field day out of play-action when the teams played each other earlier this month. When faking handoffs, he was 11-for-12 for 125 yards and an eight-yard touchdown pass to Santonio Holmes.
Bills coach Chan Gailey said his team's previous four games against the Jets—in which New York averaged a sky-high 279 rushing yards per contest—might have influenced Buffalo's linebackers to be more concerned with stopping the run. He said that strategy left his secondary a bit more vulnerable than usual, and Sanchez capitalized.
"The one thing I've learned [against the Jets] is that you have to stop the run," Gailey said during a Wednesday conference call. "But once you commit to stopping the run, it puts a little bit of pressure on your corners to be able to play one-on-one in coverage. And we've got to do a better job with the one-on-ones. It's a fine line, but you have to stop the run."