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Amazon nabs the top spot for online cosmetics sales
One of every five beauty purchases online is made via the Amazon marketplace, according to a new report.
Amazon nabs the top spot for online cosmetics sales
One of every five beauty purchases online is made via the Amazon marketplace, according to a new report.
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U.K.-based Sccope expects to offer 10 million price points by early fall.
Sccope, an online comparison shopping service operated by London-based Cogenta Systems Ltd., provides 3.5 million price points to compare among about 130 retailers in the U.K., where consumers can access its data from the web as well as from apps on their mobile devices. This week it launched a similar service in the U.S., enabling consumers to comparison shop at Sccope.com and on Sccope apps downloaded to their iPhones and BlackBerrys. Additional apps for Android and possibly other phones may become available later this year, says Cogenta CEO Douglas Orr.
"We made the decision to open in the U.K. first, get it all right, then hit the bigger U.S. market," Orr says. "We're adding about 2,000 products a day, and expect to have 10 million price points for comparison by the end of September."
Orr says that Sccope is also adding to its base of about 150 U.S. retailers. Patricia Walshe, manager of business development, marketing and affiliate relationships for the U.S. market, says Sccope's current emphasis is in product categories such as books and electronics, and that it's still working on populating categories such as apparel. Retailers that appeared in a recent click on its books category included Amazon.com, Overstock.com, BiggerBooks.com and eBooks.com. Merchants that appeared in its electronics category included Abe's of Maine, Meijer, TigerDirect.com and Sears.com.
Unlike many comparison shopping sites that get their product information through direct electronic feeds from retailers, Sccope, like U.S.-based TheFind.com, uses its own proprietary web crawlers to capture basic pricing and product data from retail sites, updating it on Sccope once a day. Retailers then work through affiliate networks like LinkShare and Commission Junction to work out commission fees, Orr says.
He adds that Sccope ranks retailer listings based on the overall value they offer shoppers—for example, by factoring the total cost of receiving a package, including shipping costs and any complimentary items.
Scot Wingo, CEO of ChannelAdvisor Corp., which helps online retailers connect to e-marketplaces and comparison shopping sites, says the crawling method is not always the best way for comparison shopping engines to gather product data. "Many large web sites don't want to be crawled and inhibit it," he says.
Although Wingo says he's unable to comment directly on Cogenta, he adds that crawling web sites is difficult for comparison shopping engines to do accurately, partly because the software programs that peruse the content of web sites may capture the wrong data when a web page presents multiple price points. If a web page shows a mark-down price offer, such as "Now $329, down from $399," the crawler could grab the wrong number, Wingo says. "This can result in bad data," he adds.
Orr, however, asserts that Cogenta has more experience with web crawlers than other comparison pricing operations. He notes that Cogenta's roots are in using web crawlers to gather business pricing benchmarking data, a service it still offers through a separate service called NetPrice.
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@Narx said:This does not sell me on the quality of the game.
Think of it as a choose your own adventure book.
@Hailinel: While I will admit to my ignorance having not played the game, I am somewhat curious as to which part of my statement is incorrect. Is your goal in the game not to hook up with the high school girls?
The ultimate goal of the game is to form a relationship with one of your classmates, yes. But the sex is secondary to the overall experience of the story, and as I said before the girls' disabilities are not fetishized in any way. Simplifying the game down to "durr hurr cripple porn" is completely off base. Further, the main character becomes attracted to the girls not because of their disabilities, but because of who they are as people.

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Carbohydrate 63 g
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By Srinivas Rao, Contributing {grow} Columnist. A few weeks ago Laura Click wrote a really interesting post questioning "who really is a social media expert? " I've never been a big fan of the term and the self-proclaimed ninjas, rockstars, and gurus cause the social web to seem like a giant pyramid scheme. " . I'm a storyteller, not a strategist. Marry the two.
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The Department of Tourism launched the re-branding the tourism campaign for the Philippines last night. Basically the DOT want to depart from the "WOW Philippines" marketing plan and possibly make it to "Pilipinas Kay Ganda". The whole marketing plan is still not final yet and still open to fine tuning. I've been hearing this from my social network and initially, me thinks it's mehh. I went to the launch the other night to see it for myself.
The DOT feels that this is a radical change compared to other Asian countries who are already using ownership of English words i.e. Malaysia: Truly Asia, Incredible India, Amazing Thailand, Your Singapore, Charming Vietnam, etc… DOT Undersecretary Romano III says that "using our own native name and the local vernacular to express our national pride and tell our story in our way to make it rise above the competition". Yes it's true, we're being radical here by using our own language in promoting the Philippines, no problem with that. I think that it's actually a good idea but it seems that "Pilipinas Kay Ganda" does not give the "ummph" to the locals moreover to the international community. A lot of people actually think that it sounds like a game show, something like "Pilipinas, Game Ka Na Ba?".


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The entry of Ca2+ ions into the cytosol from the extracellular fluid and from endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stores is used as a signaling mechanism by virtually all cell types to regulate functions as diverse as electrical excitability, secretion, proliferation and cell death. Improved optical technology now enables visualization of a hierarchy of Ca2+ signaling events, ranging from openings of single-channel Ca2+-permeable channels ('fundamental'events), concerted openings of clustered channels ('elementary'events) and propagating Ca2+ waves. The localized free [Ca2+] elevations arising through individual and clustered channels serve autonomous signaling functions, and their activity may further be coordinated through Ca2+ diffusion and Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release to propagate global cellular Ca2+ waves. Fundamental and elementary events thus form hierarchical building blocks underlying the complex spatiotemporal Ca2+ signals that permit graded and selective regulation of cell functions. Elucidation of their generation, interaction and functional consequences is, therefore, pivotal to understand the physiological functioning of the ubiquitous Ca2+ messenger pathway and its involvement in disease. Our overall goal is to elucidate, at the single-channel level, how cells generate the hierarchy of Ca2+ signals and how disruptions in Ca2+ signaling may be involved in disease pathogenesis. We focus on physiological Ca2+ signals generated by the ubiquitous inositol trisphosphate second messenger pathway, and on the pathogenic Ca2+-permeable pores formed by amyloid oligomers implicated in Alzheimer's disease. By utilizing novel biophotonic tools that now enable the optical imaging of calcium flux through individual channels and the localization and tracking of channel proteins with nanometer precision we aim to: (i) Further refine optical and analytical techniques for simultaneously monitoring Ca2+ flux through hundreds of individual channels in the plasma membrane and ER of intact cells. (ii) Elucidate how the activity of individual IP3 receptors (IP3R) at a release site is orchestrated to generate elementary Ca2+ puffs. (iii) Employ superresolution imaging techniques to determine the nanoscopic spatial distribution of IP3R, and how this impacts their functioning. (iv) Simultaneously monitor Ca2+ flux and peptide stoichiometry of individual amyloid pores to study fundamental mechanisms of membrane incorporation, channel gating and ion permeation.
Calcium serves a 'life or death'function in virtually all cells of the body, regulating processes as diverse as the heartbeat and synaptic transmission between brain cells, and disorders in calcium signals are implicated in Alzheimer's and many other diseases. Our goal is to take advantage of recent advances in microscopy that now enable imaging of individual molecules in intact cells to elucidate the hierarchical mechanisms by which calcium signals are generated at levels from single channels to the whole cell, with the dual aims of better understanding their normal functioning and how disruptions in Ca2+ signaling may lead to disease.
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|Wiltgen, Steven M; Dickinson, George D; Swaminathan, Divya et al. (2014) Termination of calcium puffs and coupled closings of inositol trisphosphate receptor channels. Cell Calcium 56:157-68
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|Siebert, Adam P; Ma, Zhongming; Grevet, Jeremy D et al. (2013) Structural and functional similarities of calcium homeostasis modulator 1 (CALHM1) ion channel with connexins, pannexins, and innexins. J Biol Chem 288:6140-53
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Join as an ACA Associate within our corporate audit team where you will need an analytical mind as you work to provide audit and accounting services to a broad range of clients. Our corporate audit department work with clients in a variety of sectors including financial services, technology companies and sports clubs.
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The role of an ACA trainee will equip successful applicants with the necessary broad experience to start your career on the right track. In addition to a competitive salary and flexible benefits, we offer full study support towards gaining your ACA qualification and internal training to maximise your personal and technical skills. The life of an ACA trainee at Moore Stephens LLP is a busy one, full of client work, study and socialising!
Your role will involve providing a high quality service to clients in respect of the preparation and audit of statutory accounts and on occasions, other ad hoc assignments.
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Utopian ideologies of the last century rejected traditional faiths and claimed to be based in science. They were actually secular versions of the myth of Apocalypse - the belief in a world-changing event that brings history, with all its conflicts, to an end. The war in Iraq was the last of these secular utopias, promising a new era of democracy and producing blood-soaked anarchy and an emerging theocracy instead. John Gray's book argues that the death of Utopia does not mean peace. Instead it portends the resurgence of ancient myths, now in openly fundamentalist forms.
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"Any brown paper will degrade over time unless it's coated with plastic or wax. Grocery store brown paper bags should work fine however, if you want the paper to degrade a little more quickly, most paper towels or paper napkins will work fine. The only thing I would worry about is that watering the plants will make both psper tubes and paper fall apart."
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Octopus alert! The Crochtopus is a pattern for a crochet octopus from Leanna Booth! This little guy makes a great gift for a child or octopus enthusiast. Use these free amigurumi patterns to make your own.
- 1 ball of DK (8ply) about 25g
- 5mm hook (US 8)
- Stuffing
- 2 safety Cat's eyes
sc dec - pull loop through next st, then pull loop through next st, yoh pull through all 3 loops on hook.
yoh - yarn over hook
I used US terminology, ie sc throughout. For UK and Australian read dc.
1. Using magic loop (Look up on Google) work 5sc into circle. Place marker (pm)
2. 2sc in each st. Move marker (mm)
3. Repeat row 2 mm
4. (1 sc in next st, 2 sc in next st) repeat to end, mm (30sc)
5-10. 1sc in each st to end, mm (6 Rows)
11. *1sc in next 3 sts, sc dec* repeat from * to end of row, mm
12. *1sc in next 3 sts, sc dec* repeat from * to last 4 sts, 1sc in next 2 sts, sc dec in last 2 sts, mm
13. Repeat row 12 (15sc), mm
14-18. Repeat row 5, mm (5 Rows)
19. *sc in 1st st, 2sc in next st* repeat from * to last st, 1sc in last st. mm
1st Tentacle: Make a chain of 24, turn, 1 sc in 2nd ch from hook, 1sc in each ch to
beg of body, 1sc in next ch of body*
2nd Tentacle: 1sc in next st of body, ch 26, turn, 1sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc in each ch to end, sc
in next st of body, turn, sc in front loop of next 10 sts of tentacle, ss in next st, turn, ss in front loop ofeach st back to body, sc in next 2 sts of body
3rd Tentacle: As 1st tentacle
4th Tentacle: 1sc in next st of body, repeat 1st tentacle to * turn, ss in front loop of 1st 7 sts, (NOTE this is ss not sc) turn, ss back to body, sc into next st of body
5th Tentacle: Repeat 4th tentacle
6th Tentacle: 1sc in next st of body, repeat 1st tentacle
7th Tentacle: Repeat 2nd tentacle
8th Tentacle: As 4th tentacle, (omit 1sc in next st of body at beginning)
Next Row: 1sc in next st of body
Fold legs to the outside and starting on the inside, pick up evenly any loop at the base of the legs and sc (about 19 or 20) ss into 1st st, pm
Next Row: (sc in 1st st, sc dec twice) 4 times, sc in next st, mm
Stuff the head
Next Row: (sc dec) 6 times - leave a longish end anduse it to sew up the base, finish off.
Eye Cups (make 2)
1. 2 ch, 6 sc into 2nd ch from hook, pm
2. 1sc in back loop of each sc, mm
3. As 2nd row - 1ss into next st, finish off leaving long enough end to sew to head
Attach safety eyes to solid end of cup, sew cups to head in appropriate position
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Feb 14, 2017
I want to call is something else, from the name that is has been given. -) However, these are super cute! I wonder if it would be baby-proof? The googly eyes... If baby cannot play with it, then I say make an octo-family to decorate the shelves in babies nursery.
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Apr 15, 2015
Maybe rename it, Octochet (pronounced Octo-Chay)
Jan 18, 2015
Brilliant! Made two of these, one pink and one blue. I adapted the pink one to make it into Professor Inkling for my Octonauts crazy grandaughter. It was much appreciated!
eapk 9800243
Jun 09, 2014
The yarn and hook size listed are not a good combination and now you can see the stuffing throughout the octopus.
FaveCrafts Editor JL
Jun 10, 2014
Hi eapk 9800243, Thanks so much for your comment. Do you have a suggestion for a correction to the hook size or yarn weight? We would be happy to change the pattern accordingly. Thanks!
stephohknee 151026 5
Jun 07, 2014
This was a great project! It worked up wonderfully and I love that all the legs are different and wiggle independently. I ended up using french knots in place of the safety eyes in a contrasting color. And it worked out nicely. I sited this pattern on my blog if you'd like to see it. www.octopusarms.weebly.com Thanks!
Melissa Ryan
Jun 09, 2014
we're so glad you loved it! We love it, too! Thanks for sharing it! :D --FaveCrafts Editors
crusherboo 6133559
May 21, 2014
Great pattern! Very cute! I'd work on the name though. It's very easy to mispronounce into something... inapropriate.
Oct 25, 2013
It turned out great octopus.Ive made it in a couple of hours.
pjhaessler 6571176
May 16, 2013
5 stars! I made this little guy in green in two evenings for my daughter to use as Cthulhu, an Elder God from H.P. Lovecraft's stories. I put two rows of tentacles at front where his mouth would be, added red shank button eyes in the eye cups, a few green spangles randomly on his tentacles for a bit of bling and he rocks. I'd definitely use this pattern again to do regular octopi as they rock, so smart and kinda cute.
beverlybestpitch 3 801612
Apr 24, 2013
so cute! am curious what size this pattern makes.
May 07, 2012
This one is adorable.
Samundellm 8794870
May 05, 2012
I think they are both cute but I really like this one the best and I think that it is a toy that kids would love.
ksbearcats 2565516
May 05, 2012
I used to make all sorts of critters when my daughter was little, a long time ago. This octopus is so cute I just might make several.
May 04, 2012
this pattern is awesomely adorable!!!
lnelson4 6366880
May 04, 2012
octopuses are so adorable and sound easy to make
emeraldeyesjsf 392 1339
May 04, 2012
May 04, 2012
I LOVE these little guys. I am definitely putting them on my next "to do" crochet list. How adorable!
mlvincent1 3056028
May 03, 2012
These are so creepy cute I love them!!
May 03, 2012
I LOVE this little octopus! It would make a sweet gift for a little boy, kitten or puppy!!! It looks so realistic, too!
Iluvkitties 661196 7
May 03, 2012
This wins my liking. Has a more interesting look to it...I can imagine my cat going crazy over it with just a spoonfull of catnip inside. X)
gingerquil 3232578
May 03, 2012
I like the Crochtopus
May 03, 2012
This Crochtopus is adorable!
LindY G
May 03, 2012
I just adore this little sea creature, octopus. Will go perfect with the little jellyfish I designed. Thank y'all very much for the pattern. I'm always looking for sea creatures to crochet.
May 03, 2012
This Crochtopus is adorable! I think I would like to make a smaller version as a cat toy filled with catnip for my furballs. LOL!
May 03, 2012
I think the Octopus looks fantastic because I am a Detroit Red Wing Fan. Those wouldn't be messy throwing them on the ice. (Ha,Ha) ;-)
May 03, 2012
I love the octopus because it is so unusual. It's an unusual animal and it's an unusual pattern.
May 03, 2012
I really like the pattern for the octopus, but the instructions aren't very clear. They need to be rewritten for the less experienced crocheter to really understand and follow. This pattern would make a great rattle for a baby and quite easy to hold because of the legs.
eapk 9800243
Jun 09, 2014
I agree, I found the terminology to be confusing
May 03, 2012
This is the cutest pattern I have seen for octopus.
michelebrant04 907 9772
May 03, 2012
My son is really interested in sea life and he would really enjoy these -- I think they are really cute too
May 03, 2012
This guy is really cote. I thinl I'll make one to go in a freeform crochet reef.
leosan816 9852770
May 03, 2012
Soooo Adorable!!!
kganda415 8983889
May 03, 2012
i like this a lot.. i can make it as a rattle also.. thanks! :)
Crafter 6437513
May 03, 2012
I love the croctopus , he is so cute
drusovick 1989285
May 03, 2012
This is really cute. I wish I could remember how to crochet so I could make them for my grandbaby.
rosebug13 5829500
May 03, 2012
Crochtopus is very cute for the name of these adorable little seacreachers. I love them.
schatzee 4972653
May 02, 2012
This Octopus is my FAVORITE!!! Love it!
May 02, 2012
Love the pattern.
darlaknight 339122 4
May 02, 2012
How cute!
debchap3 7359128
May 02, 2012
I made this Octopus and the pattern was great all my grand kids want one
beverlybestpitch 3 801612
Apr 24, 2013
what size did the octopus turn out to be?
May 02, 2012
I really like the octopus pattern the best out of the two.
lauramss 4312087
May 02, 2012
It will make a great end of the year present for the whole Grade 2 class! The underwater world theme is on for the last Term. Check for more amigurumi ideas http://crochettips.org/ Love the name Crochtopus...smart
taschapeavy 607259 6
May 02, 2012
This is so stinkin cute. I need to make a few of these!
marisolferrinrella n 0648988
May 02, 2012
Thank you for this great pattern, I'm sure my son will love it as it looks so real.
janisdolan 7971500
Apr 30, 2012
It's so cute, and so realistic in it's dimensions, I can't wait to get my needle on this one. Cheers.
coleandmonkey 0367 268
Apr 27, 2012
how do you say the name of this pet? just looking at the name of it makes me giggle.
Apr 27, 2012
hahaha......I love it! Great Pattern P.S. wasn't there a 007 movie called Octopussy? hahaha ok I'll leave this one alone.
Apr 26, 2012
Crochtopus? Really? As if Octopussy wasn't bad enough. Thanks for the laugh.
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What type of cross do you think he is?
I am told he is an american warmblood and I would like to get a horse if not exactly like him :lol: as close as possible any ideas? I was thinking along the lines of dutch warmblood/ percheron/ TB.
thank you so much for your help! :)
he is roughly 15.2 hands and a gelding.
It's hard to see anything without a stand still photo of his conformation. An American warmblood can be anything as long as there is some draft in the blood. I had a horse who was a Belgian/some sort of gaited horse/standardbred. Fancy word for him was "American warmblood", that's why other countries kind of scoff at American warmbloods. They are basically big boned mutts, while the warmbloods in other countries have specific guidelines, brands, and tests...
They have to be inspected and approve to keep their nuts, earn a brand or be bred. If they don't fit the bill, they can't be used to reproduce.
Anyways...I definitely see tb in him. I'm thinking one side was a tb, the other side was a draft cross possibly. From what I can tell in the video, he doesn't have very thick bone to be a direct draft cross. I could be wrong though, it's hard to tell.
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I don't see any Percheron. I think I see TB in there though.
I see zero percheron or any draft for tht. matter but maybe trakkener or tb.
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I agree...probably Trakkener and Thoroughbred...
it looks like a dutch warmblood to me ... i'm from holland and he looks exactly like one i had, but TB .. well maybe , i'm not sure .
I have heard standardbreds referred to as "american warmbloods". But its such a non-discript term and this one does not appear to be freeze branded so if a standie he is either lip tattooed or no registered with USTA.
probably tb
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Call center needed to contact home owners and offer/sell them a security alarm systems all over the states, we have 5 call centers and expanding fast as our product is the best one in the market. commission structure will be $150 per sale and will be raised 20% after each 3 month, you will not ask for any bank details and one of our representatives will knock the doors on the customer you called. you will get paid at the end of every week. the top producers every month will get free laptops and ipads, remember the higher product cost the harder you will sell, This product is an essential at every home and its the same ones in AT&T and a lot cheaper. shift hours will be from 9:00 am eastern time - 9:00 pm eastern. you can call anywhere between the shift hours, the more you dial the more sales you will make. we generate million leads per week and we want as much seats as possible, so no leads required on your behalf. i will be contacting each one who applies to this opening and we may hire few call centers. please mention inside your private message your skype id and seat numbers that you will provide.
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Álvaro José Arroyo, better known as "Joe," died Tuesday of multiple organ failure on the intensive care unit of a Barranquilla hospital. The Colombian singer and composer was 55.
On Tuesday, July 26, Colombia mourned the death of its salsa star in a six-hour funerary procession in Baranquilla. In both his hometown of Cartagena on the Caribbean coast and his adopted home of Baranquilla where he died, the municipal governments declared an official three-day period of mourning. The outpouring of sympathy from colleagues and politicians continued on Twitter and Facebook. "I'm sorry to hear of Joe Arroyo's death," Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said in a tweet. "A great loss for music and for Colombia." Venezuelan salsa star Óscar de León announced he will dedicate his show on Saturday to his "brother" Arroyo's memory.
Born in a poor neighborhood of Cartagena, music gushed through Joe Arroyo's veins for practically as long as he lived. He started singing at age 8 and by the time he was a teenager, he was singing in the bars and brothels of his hometown.
Arroyo got his first professional break in 1973, when he joined the legendary salsa band Fruko y Sus Tesos, with whom he recorded one of his biggest hits in 1975, "Tania." The song celebrated the birth of his first daughter, but took on a different meaning when she died suddenly of heart failure at the age of 26 in November of 2001.
In 1981, Arroyo went on to front his own group. Heading La Verdad, he penned the song he is perhaps best known: his 1986 Afro-Colombian anthem "Rebellion." Set in the 17th century, the song tells the story of an enslaved African man who attacks his Spanish overlord for hitting his wife. In a driving refrain that carries the song, he sings that you can still hear the man's voice in Cartagena yelling "don't hit my negra!" ("Negra" is a Spanish-language term to refer to a black woman.)
"Rebellion" became an instant hit throughout the Caribbean and it remains a staple in salsa clubs from New York to Buenos Aires. It's success owed as much to its message as its danceability. With 9.4 million African-descended people, according to the CIA World Factbook, Colombia has South America's largest black population. Racial injustice shaped the environment that Arroyo, himself Afro-Colombian, was born into. The lyrics celebrate an uprising against the state of "perpetual slavery," Arroyo sings of. "It's how Joe condenses the history of the black population of Latin America," Arroyo's biographer Mauricio Silva told the BBC.
Arroyo's musical career continued for another two decades. By the end of it, he had amassed a collection of over 40 records, 300 songs and cultivated a style unique enough to merit its own name -- "Joesón." He described it in a 2004 interview with Rolling Stone as "a sound that has elements of soca, salsa, African sounds, cumbia, sea breeze and about 50 percent of it comes from inside me, but I don't have any damn idea which."
Inspiration came to him mostly at night, as he slept. "It happens when I'm sleeping, but still in reality I'm conscious. That's when divine, sublime ideas come to me. Most of the time, they get lost. For a long time, I've kept a recorder by the bed and when it comes, boom! I record the idea. And the next day, I'll say 'shiiiiit! What's this!'" Arroyo told his biographer Silva. "For example, I dreamed 'Catalina del mar' entirely. Just as I dreamed it, that's how I wrote it."
Arroyo also charmed people with his flamboyant character and his booming sense of self-confidence. "Another 300 years will pass before someone else like me appears," Arroyo used to say, according to Colombian daily El Tiempo. "I humbly believe I am the most important voice in Colombian tropical music in the last 40 years."
But Arroyo's exuberant lifestyle came at the expense of his health. He struggled with drug abuse and suffered from a host of illnesses, ranging from thyroid problems, to diabetes, to hypertension. He survived several close-calls -- including a diabetic coma while on tour in Barcelona in 2000. His health completely collapsed last month, when he entered a Baranquilla hospital with pneumonia, heart failure and kidney problems.
Immediately following the news of his death, the Latin Grammy Awards Committee announced the Colombian singer would receive the prize for musical excellence in September.
Roque Planas is co-founder of the Latin America News Dispatch. He currently writes for the website of the Americas Society.
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The snapshot build I use are not made to be reproduceable. The snapshot builds are performed by a continuous build that is there to test (automatically) the integration of all modifications. It is there to detect very quickly any regression. I sometimes have used some sort of build "promotion". With ivy, what I did was to promote a set of jars (of different project) from one repository to an other. The continuous build is building one sub-project at a time, and put the jars on a local repository. At the end, if all subprojects have build (= +/- tested) successfully, the result is promoted to a share repository. By doing I know that the jars in the share repository are "compatible". The share repository is available for the developpers that don't want to have all subproject build in their IDE. In practice, I realised that's rarelly used. I implemented that using a simple install ivy task. I have also some experience with promotion process. But there also, it was not extremelly usefull. In that project, each build had a status, saying up to wich environment it goes. The problem was that this information was useless. Nobody never looked at the status of the build. The only question that was interresting was "which version is currently in which environment". And I think that there are a lot of simple solution to provide the answer (keep a file somwhere with 1 line per environment, or provide something in the code of your deployed application). Finally, my personal advise would be to keep the build promotion separated. Your build should just provide a build number. And you should keep somewhere else the 'status' of that build. My experience is that it is easier for everybody that say "version 1.3.12" than "the verson that was in staging last week". I hope it help. Gilles 2007/1/3, John Williams <email@example.com>: > I read about to idea of build promotion at > <http://www.jaya.free.fr/ivy/doc/bestpractices.html>, but I can't find > any documentation on how to actually do it. Is the best way just to > manually edit an Ivy file in the repository to change the status > declaration? That sounds easy enough, but the presence of the > checksum files in the repository makes me think that editing the ivy > files after the fact is frowned upon. > > Alternatively, does anyone have experiences to share with "snapshot" > revisions? My understanding is that every snapshot revision should > eventually be replaced by a non-snapshot revision that is identical to > the last snapshot, but then what happens to the snapshot revision? > Does it just get deleted? Or do you keep two identical revisions with > different numbers? > > --jw >
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An alleged prick—and confirmed Irish TV star—who showed up in a Facebook photo being depicted as a prick is threatening to sue the guy who posted it. This prick does not like being called a prick one bit.
Irish actor Phil Penny has gained infamy and notoriety over the past few years for his role on Tallafornia, an Irish reality show that opened on the country's TV3 last January. Today it's widely considered to be the leprechaun land's answer to MTV's Jersey Shore.
He's earned a reputation as the silk-shirted party boy with gelled hair and a devious womanizing streak—he's like The Situation on Guinness.
For that, he's become Public Enemy No. 1 among Irish folks who like to make fun of reality shows. One time, after a fellow cast member leaked his phone number to the public, Penny received more than "1,000 missed calls and almost as many text messages," almost all of which contained wild forms of verbal abuse and even a few death threats.
So it should come as no surprise that, when a jocular Irish bloke named Jamie found Penny drinking coffee at an airport, the jocular Irish bloke wrote the word "prick" on his arm and nestled up next to Penny for a picture, lifting his tagged arm up ever so slightly so that the "prick" denotation would get explicitly reserved for Penny.
Jamie took the picture and immediately uploaded it to Facebook, where it surely got a hundred million likes and comments.
One such comment came from the mighty Phil Penny himself, who wrote this message: "Just to let u no ur being sued.goodluck"
Jamie tried to remind Penny that it was just a joke, but Penny wasn't having any of it. He continued with his tirade, telling Jamie that he wants a "public f*cking appoligy" and demanding that Jamie take the photo down immediately.
The whole kerfuffle ended up on Reddit, where a since-deleted post of the picture attached to a note about Penny's lawsuit threat has generated more than 4,000 upvotes in r/funny.
It's popular, but it does raise the question: Could Penny actually get the last laugh?
According to Hunt v. Star Newspaper, a court case from 1908, the answer is no. Jamie arrives at the crucible protected by the "fair comment" act, which allows for freedom of speech, even if such speech is quite slanderous, so long as the "fair comment [appears] as comment" and not as fact.
"The law as to fair comment, so far as is material to the present case, stands as follows," the ruling reads. "In the first place, comment in order to be justifiable as fair comment must appear as comment and must not be so mixed ups tim the facts that the reader cannot distinguish between what is report and what is comment … In the next place, in order to give room for the plea of fair comment the fact use be truly stated. If the facts upon which the comment purports to be made do not exist the foundation of the plea fails."
In the hypothetical case of Jamie v. Penny, the comment in question was scribbled onto a forearm with magic marker. Penny has the right to sue anybody for anything, but odds are he stands no chance.
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It couldn't have been easy for Borough President Marty Markowitz, but he pulled it off, more or less. Jerry Armer, longtime chair of Brooklyn Community Board 6, was honored last night with the Park Slope Civic Council's (PSCC) annual Lovgren Award for his service to Park Slope. (Armer got the Lovgren Volunteer Award, while Sean Andrews of the Prospect Park YMCA won the Lovgren Professional Award.)
Markowitz was there at the 9th Street YMCA in Park Slope to provide Armer with a proclamation on behalf of the BP's office. Then again, Markowitz last year quite conspicuously failed to reappoint Armer and some other CB6 members after the board strongly opposed Atlantic Yards, the Borough President's favorite project.
So what could Markowitz say? He saluted Armer for his service and said that his choice to not reappoint Armer did not diminish his respect for him. (That was probably a white lie.) He said that "you could ask me" about the reasons for the non-reappointment, "but that would be another conversation." And he noted that Armer, though no longer an appointed member, still serves on the board, a sign of his commitment.
PSCC members I spoke to informally mostly thought Markowitz had made the best of an awkward situation. Given that some in the audience might not have known the back story, one thought, it might have behooved Markowitz to not mention the controversy at all. But others thought that Marty was just being Marty, not papering over the controversy and acknowledging Armer's continued service.
Actually, Markowitz may have gotten off easy. Consider that last year it would've been way more awkward for him to honor the Lovgren Award winners.
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#1 Jul 12, 2012
Salinas produces another mexi-scum gang banger.
#2 Jul 12, 2012
How can the Salinas residents tolerate this type of activity in their neighborhood. I Have been saying this for a long time, "Call the National Guard" the SPD are out numbered and outgunned. They have been putting a lot of bangers away recently. Kudos to SPD! They need outside help.
#3 Jul 13, 2012
The vast majority of Salinas residents tolerate this type of activity because the vast majority of Salinas residents are criminal mexican illegals and so are their criminal anchor baby gang bangers. In Salinas, crime is a tradition, a way of life, so to speak. It's a family thing. If you're not bangin' you're considered to be a traitor to your own people.
The Salinas PD will never in a million years take enough of the scumbag mexicans off the streets to reduce the rampant crime. For every one they take off the street, or put in jail, or put in prison, and for every one of them that gets planted 6 feet under there are 2 new mexiscumbags coming out of a baby momma's womb to take their places.
The mexicans in Salinas are nothing more than 14th century uncivilized barbarians and savages.
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#4 Jul 20, 2012
White boy kills 12 hmmm. Hey white people go into schools, theaters, etc. And start shooting. You guys have your own too. These people were enjoying a movie with family and friends... You white people are sickos
#5 Jul 21, 2012
Hey vato, how many innocent people have mexicans killed in Salinas so far this year?
Oh, I remember, it's 15 to date. That's a lot of murders for just 7 months in a small town of 150,000 people. But I forgot, Mexicans have worked hard at keeping Salinas ranked as the number one town in the the State, for two years running, that has more murders per capita than any other city in the State. But then mexicans are blood thirsty uncivilized heathens anyway. Maybe they should just build some Aztec/Mayan temples with sacrifice altars on them and make Sunday sacrifices to the Gods to satisfy the Mexican thirst for blood. Maybe sacrifice a few virgins too, if there are any left in Salinas.
#6 Jul 21, 2012
Haha racist you say 15 in x amount of months. But it takes one of you crackers to do it in 20 min. In a movie that might sit a hundred. I knew you would have nothing to say about that. Fuk you if I'm an aztec warrior its in my blood. Virgins, better check your daughters, o I forgot that too, you white people like to molest your daughters. Lol you white people snap another words go postal white people. Looking at most of tragic events that have killed many in US it would be white people. Starting off with serial killers most white. School shootings most white. Etc you get the picture. Ask your wife if she wants some chorizo well your at work puto:) my RAZA will live on. By the way when you grow a pair and see a Mexican gangbanger tell him what you post on here (hiding behind a computer or phone) you will get your a$$ beat.
#7 Jul 22, 2012
Mexican gang bangers travel in packs there would be a 20 to one situation.
#8 Jul 22, 2012
POS, I don't know if you are a Mexican gang banger or not. Seriously, what do you think of the Mexican gang bangers bringing down the reputation of all Mexican people, including the good Mexicans, some who are my very best friends?????? What are these bangers going to do, bang at 50 or 60 years old. You know the answer, they will be in prison wasting their lives or dead. I just want to know your hones feelings. Every time I ask a Mexican friend they say "they are crazy" drug addicts????
#9 Jul 22, 2012
I'm Mexican not a gangbanger. I've worked since I was 14 yrs old and cont. to work. It starts at our prison systems regardless of race. Execute. show these people we are not going tolerate crime. From killers, dope dealers, another words low lifes. For the officers of Salinas if its that bad. Officers should shoot first and ask question later. It's not just gangbangers its anyone in a click. When I first moved to seaside to attend mpc my first month there I got shoot nothing serious but wasn't by mexicans. Yes I was furious but that doesn't excluded all black people. I don't know if your from Salinas but I would think they would have town hall meetings voice your concern. Lived in MTY and only been to Salinas once because of work. I'm not afraid to stand toe to toe to a gangster as long as its one and one and no weapons. I was even rushed in P.G. going to the movies with my date. White guys to say. Is it my looks. Now that I older I don't let these childish punks effect my life I have a son to care for and support. But more power to you on fighting a on going battle. It comes down to tougher laws and not slap on the hand.
#10 Jul 22, 2012
You sound like a productive citizen. I have ZERO problem with Mexicans, I have a lot of issues with Mexican gang bangers. Our legal system will not punish gang bangers correctly. Their parents are breaking their backs picking all day, we don't want to change that. Can you see a whitey picking in the fields?? Good Luck Man! Stay away from Salinas. You look Mexican, if you are asked what gang you are in, these ignorant animals will shoot or kill you. Their life is worthless and killing someone would be a heroic act in the ignorant gang banger life.
#11 Jul 23, 2012
Any city Mayor, or City Council members, or Police/Sheriff's Departments, or any other "Community Leaders" that allows this gang banger out of control B.S. crimes and murders to go on 24/7/365 is no better than the gang bangers that are committing the crimes and murders.
They are "all" worthless scumbags. The so called "City Leaders" as well as the gang bangers. The "City Leaders" are responsible for allowing this B.S. to continue day after day.
Salinas is the epitome of a filthy stinking toilet.
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