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Fox's Malkin Attacks Rove In Paid Speech Before Local GOP
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In a paid speaking engagement before the Lane Country (Oregon) Republican Party, Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin attacked fellow Fox News employee Karl Rove for running an "incumbency protection racket" and decried the treatment of conservative candidates "thrown under the bus by feckless Republicans."
In an excerpt of her speech on February 22 posted to YouTube, Malkin referred to Rove's "Conservative Victory Project," which is reportedly an attempt to promote more electable Republican candidates while attacking primary candidates who are unlikely to win races, as "an incumbency protection racket."
She accused Rove of "badmouthing conservatives who've had a problem with big government Republican policies of which he is the primary architect" and "badmouthing good candidates who stepped up to the plate when no one else would, who were savaged by the media and then thrown under the bus by feckless Republicans." She declared, "that's not the kind of Republican Party I want to belong to."
Malkin blamed "big government Republicans" for helping to create the "seeds that were planted" that led to the Tea Party movement because "conservatives were sick of seeing their money squandered on people who did not believe in their principles."
Other conservatives have recently panned Rove's new organization, describing them as "snakes in the GOP grass" and "the Bush insider team that helped lead to the rise of Barack Obama." Fox hosts, contributors and frequent guests like Mark Levin, Erick Erickson, Liz Cheney and Mike Huckabee have also attacked Rove for this initiative.
Attendees at the dinner paid $95 per person to hear Malkin speak (lowered from the previous price of $125). According to a report in the Register-Guard, the Lane County Republican Party paid a deposit of $7,500 towards Malkin's speaking fee, and planned a "private reception" with Malkin for "45 to 50" people paying $500 each. On her personal website, Malkin notes that "my speaking fee is high."
Media Matters previously documented that in 2012, over thirty Fox News hosts and contibutors - including Malkin and Rove -- campaigned for Republicans nationally and in more than forty states.
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With all of the new folks here it's hard to say if anyone will remember us, but I wanted to check in and say hi.
We are back in Oregon, and have been since January 2. I stayed w/my brother for about 2 months and then found a house to rent. I felt that was imperative to my personal mental health.
The house is a 2 bdrm with a huge yard; actually I divided the yard up by fencing off a back section for the dogs, and out front I have a large yard on either side of the driveway. The dogs always have plenty of room to romp out back, but prefer to dig holes if I am not out there with them due to boredom.
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The FA Girls' Football Festival will be held at Underhill on Wednesday, ahead of Arsenal Ladies' Continental Cup final against Birmingham City.
The match between the two top sides in this season's Women's Super League kicks off at 7pm and promises to be a spectacular finish to what has been a massive year for the women's game.
To add to the excitement of the occasion, girls aged five to 17 are invited to take part in The FA Girls' Football Festival, incorporating football, lifestyle and music.
The Festival, which runs from 3.30pm to 6.30pm is a FREE programme aimed at encouraging girls to participate in football and will be attended by Arsenal Ladies manager Laura Harvey.
The initiative has already visited 22 venues throughout England in 2012 providing hundreds of girls with an exciting, interactive football experience.
Activities include interactive games and competitions, the ContiWarmUp programme, skills and drills with FA approved coaches, hair braiders, face painters, prizes and goodies as well as digital stations to entertain the girls during breaks in play.
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EFL/ESL teachers use games in the conversation class. A variety of games exist- games to teach grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation; there are picture, psychology, memory, guessing , card and board games.
1. 20 Questions
Students use English to narrow down possibilities through the use of yes-no questions. To play this game, two students identify something in the room- for instance, the teacher's pen, the fan, or the calendar-and their classmates have 20 chances to guess what that object is.
2. Paraphrasing Races
The teacher divides students into groups, gives each group a sentence, and allow three minutes for the students to develop as many rephrasings of the sentence as they can. Each acceptable rephrasing is worth one point. The team with the most point wins.
3. Strip Story
Students are put into small groups and given one or two lines of a short story. They are told not to show their lines to other students. Instead, they have to negotiate who has the first line, second line, and so on. Slowly, they put the story together. An alternative way to play is to take the strips away after they've read them and have them put the story together from memory. A cartoon version exists in which students put a cartoon sequence together, each describing his or her strip to others without showing it to them.
Teachers sometimes make up their own strip stories while some others discover stories used by other teachers, passed down through the years. Here is an examply of one strip story I discovered while teaching at a Thai University.
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4. Matching game called Same or Different?
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Arsenal Ladies travel to Japan - Pictures
Arsenal Ladies set off for Japan on Thursday for an 11-day tour in a bid to raise funds for the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami relief effort.
Laura Harvey's squad have been invited by the Educational Foundation Goto Gakuen Musashigaoka College and the treble winners will take part in three matches during their stay from November 25 to December 5, with all funds raised going to the appeal.
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The diversity of our nation's landscape can be seen on a shaded relief map of the United States. There is a noticeably stark contrast from the 'rough' texture of the western US to the 'smooth' central and eastern regions. Differences in topographic relief result from a variety of processes acting on the underlying rock.
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The Adirondack province is an extension of the Canadian Shield, which is the nucleus of North America. Forming most of northern New York, this uplifted complex of Precambrian metamorphic rocks is part of the ancient Grenville Orogeny. The Adirondacks are part of the Appalachian Highlands division which also includes the Appalachian Plateaus, Blue Ridge, New England, Piedmont, St. Lawrence Valley and the Valley and Ridge provinces.
There are no National Parks in the Adirondack province. For more information visit the Adirondack State Park website.
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Stretching from New York to Alabama, Appalachian Plateaus show evidence of deformation by plate collision. The birth of the mountain ranges in this region, some 480 million years ago, marks the first of several mountain building plate collisions that culminated in the construction of the supercontinent Pangaea with the Appalachians near the center.
Basin and Range
The Basin and Range province has a characteristic topography that is familiar to anyone who is lucky enough to venture across it. Steep climbs up elongate mountain ranges alternate with long treks across flat, dry deserts, over and over and over again! This basic topographic pattern extends from eastern California to central Utah, and from southern Idaho into the state of Sonora in Mexico.
The combination of the arid climate and the tensional stress applied to the crust over the past 30 million years formed the horst and graben topography, and the block-faulted ridges and lowlands, found in this province today.
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Blue Ridge
The Blue Ridge Physiographic Province contains some of the most impressive scenery in the Eastern United States. Seen on a map, the Blue Ridge looks like an elongated teardrop and is situated between the Valley and Ridge and the Piedmont provinces. The Blue Ridge Province is fairly long, stretching a distance of over 550 miles from southern Pennsylvania to northeastern Georgia.
The province is made up of ridges, rolling hills, and mountains of the Appalachian Mountain Belt. Within the province is the highest peak east of the Mississippi River, (Mt. Mitchel at 6,684 feet), as well as 50 other peaks over 6,000 feet.
Cascade-Sierra Mountains
The Cascade-Sierra Mountains province is recognized as a single province that encompasses the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountains. These two mountain ranges formed by different geological forces and processes. The Sierra Nevada mountains can be thought of as an enormous tilted fault block with a long slope westward to California's Central Valley and steep eastern slope. The Cascades form an arc-shaped band extending from British Columbia to Northern California with 13 major volcanic centers that lie in sequence.
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Central Lowland
The Central Lowland province, the largest physiographic province, cover an area about 585,000 miles which extends from western New York to North Dakota and south to Texas. The majority of the province is bounded by higher relief and elevations in the region are 2,000 feet or less. The province is part of the Interior Plains division of the United States and characteristic features of the Central Lowland province are flat lands with geomorphic remnants of glaciation.
Coastal Plain
The Coastal Plain province is the flattest all of the physiographic provinces. It stretches over 2,200 miles in length from Cape Cod to the Mexican border and southward another 1,000 miles to the Yucatan Peninsula.
The Atlantic plain slopes gently seaward from the inland highlands in a series of terraces. This gentle slope continues far into the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, forming the continental shelf.
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Colorado Plateaus
This region is one of the world's premier natural showcases for Earth history. Encompassing 240,000 square miles, the Colorado Plateaus straddles the region known as Four Corners, where the states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico meet. Ancient volcanic mountains, plateaus and buttes, deeply carved canyons, and amazing ranges in color are the region's defining characteristics.
The sculpted beauty and brilliant colors of the Colorado Plateaus' sedimentary rock layers have captured the imaginations of countless geologists. This is a vast region of plateaus, mesas, and deep canyons whose walls expose rocks ranging in age from billions to just a few hundred years old.
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Columbia Plateau
The Columbia Plateau province is enveloped by one of the world's largest accumulations of lava. The topography here is dominated by geologically young lava flows that inundated the countryside within the last 17 million years. Over 170,000 cubic kilometers of basaltic lava, known as the Columbia River basalts, covers the western part of the province. Throughout the entire province over 300 high-volume individual lava flows have been identified, along with countless smaller flows.
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Great Plains
Covering over 450,000 square miles the Great Plains province is the second largest physiographic province. The vast majority of the province is plateau-like with flat plains and little relief throughout. Though this region is known for it's flatness, some isolated mountains and lowlands are included in portions on the province. The Great Plains, along with the Central Lowland and Interior Low Plateaus, make up the Interior Plains.
Interior Low Plateaus
The Interior Low Plateaus is part of the Interior Plains and the elevation of the province ranges from 1000 feet to as low as 500-600 feet. A prominant structural feature of this province is the northeast-southwest anticline that runs through the entire province. The Cincinnati Arch is the axis of the fold and is a structural high for the region.
Lower California
Dominated by faults, the Lower California province (sometimes called the Peninsular Ranges) is a group of mountain ranges that stretch from southern California to the tip of Baja California in Mexico. The core of the province consists of a large mass of Mesozoic plutonic igneous rock. This collection of plutons comprises the Peninsular Range Batholith.
Middle, Northern, and Southern Rocky Mountains
The Rockies form an impressive mountain barrier that stretches from Canada through central New Mexico. A look at the topography reveals a discontinuous series of mountain ranges with distinct geological origins that occurred from 170 to 40 million years ago.
The Rocky Mountain System is broken down into the Wyoming Basin, Middle Rocky Mountains, Northern Rocky Mountains, and the Southern Rocky Mountains.
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New England
The New England province is part of the Appalachian Highlands and contains similar rock types to those found in the Piedmont. However, the provinces differ in that the New England province contains more mountains and has been subjected to Pleistocene glaciation. Structural features on this province include block-fault basins, large intrusive igneous masses, and shoreline cliffs.
Ouachita and the Ozark Plateaus provinces comprise a division of the United States known as the Interior Highlands. The Ouachita province closely resembles the Valley and Ridge geomorphic features of ridges and valleys that have been eroded on upturned, folded strata.
The province lies in central-western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma and has an average east-west length of 225 miles.
Ozark Plateaus
Covering an area of roughly 40,000 square miles, the Ozark Plateaus is the second half of the Interior Highlands division of the United States. The Ozark Plateaus can be thought of as a high, hilly landscape on stratified rocks that is bounded by topographic lowlands.
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The Pacific Border straddles the boundaries between several of Earth's moving plates on the western margin of North America. This region is one of the most geologically young and tectonically active in North America. The generally rugged, mountainous landscape of this province provides evidence of ongoing mountain-building.
Characteristic features in this province include lowlands on the eastern margin coupled with mountains and coasts to the west.
The Piedmont province extends from Alabama to the Hudson River in New York. At its widest the province is just 125 miles wide and contains the fewest mountains of the Appalachian Highlands. The Piedmont is often considered a rolling upland with a few monadnocks, or inselbergs, that stand out from the surface.
St. Lawrence Valley
The St. Lawrence Valley is in upstate New York and north-western Vermont and extends into Canada. This region of fairly flat, low-lying topography is composed of two sections, the Champlain and Northern sections. The Champlain section has glaciated rolling lowlands that are partly covered by a plain of recent marine deposits. The Northern section contains local rock hills that are also covered by a plain of recent marine deposits.
There are no National Parks in the St. Lawrence Valley province.
Superior Upland
The Superior Upland province is the southern extension of the Laurentian Upland Province, part of the nucleus of North America called the Canadian Shield. The rocks of the Superior Upland are mostly Precambrian metamorphic rocks and overlying Paleozoic rocks (Cambrian) covered by a thin veneer of glacial deposits left behind when glaciers melted at the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age.
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Valley and Ridge
The Valley and Ridge province is a set of northeast-southwest trending valleys and ridges that stretch from central Alabama to New York. These ridges and valleys are the result of folded Paleozoic sedimentary beds that were eventually eroded away. This means that, structurally, the folds are alternating anticlines and synclinces that run nearly parallel with each other. These long narrow folds are sometimes overturned, overthrust or are plunging folds.
Wyoming Basin
Lying between the Middle Rockies and the Southern Rockies, the Wyoming Basin is an elevated depression with structural features dating back to the mountain building event that shaped the Rocky Mountains (the Laramide Orogeny). Characteristic features of the Wyoming Basin include hogbacks, cuestas, and numerous basins that are separated by mountains of varying size.
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There are few people who actually believe the Edmonton Oilers will pack up and move to Seattle but that didn't stop Daryl Katz from playing his gambit.
You see, it's no secret that Katz, the chairman and CEO of The Katz Group, which owns the Oilers among many other things, is in a battle with the city of Edmonton over the construction of a new arena and his recent trip to Seattle was nothing more than a ploy to gain leverage in that fight.
Although Katz and the city of Edmonton agreed to a plan last fall that would cover the costs of building a new $450 million (CAD) downtown arena, that agreement has seen its share of setbacks.
Last October's plan called for the city to put $125 million toward the building while Katz was supposed to chip in $100 million. An additional $125 million would be raised through a ticket tax. However, the deal failed to account for the remaining $100 million and attempts to get the provincial and federal governments to foot the extra costs have been denied to date.
With his request for extra money from Edmonton a few weeks back, Katz is claiming the arena could now cost as much as $475 million to construct.
So, when the city said no to the additional funding, Katz and his ownership group headed to Seattle earlier this week for a tour of Key Arena, the former home of the NBA's SuperSonics before they moved to Oklahoma City in 2008. The city of Seattle also has agreed to build a new arena, but that construction of that stadium hinges on luring a new NBA franchise to town, not an NHL one.
There is also the fact that Katz would never be able to get the deal that Edmonton's new arena offers him in another city. The Oilers' new home would generate revenue for Katz even during non-hockey events, something that his deal with the team's current home of Rexall Place does not offer.
In the end, Katz's Seattle ruse amounts to little more than a mild form of blackmail and it comes from a man whose personal wealth reportedly is in excess of $2 billion. He would stand to become even richer if the new arena is built.
Katz claims that he is losing money on the Oilers, but other reports suggest the Edmonton franchise was actually one of the few NHL teams to turn a profit last year. With an even better deal awaiting him in Edmonton's potential new home, it would seem Katz knows his best option still resides in Alberta.
Although the struggle between Katz and Edmonton is not directly related to the NHL's current lockout, it doesn't help the league's owners in the public relations' war, a battle that the players have dominated.
Katz's stance on the arena deal reflects the owners' position in the NHL's labor negotiations. Like his fellow owners when it comes to the sharing of record revenues generated by the NHL, it seems like Katz is only interested in making an already lucrative deal even more profitable for himself. That is the perception anyway and dangling the threat of relocation in the face of Oilers' fans isn't going to help the owners' reputation.
But since more money is what they're after and not winning popularity contests, there is still time for the owners to get what they want. Getting it may cost the NHL part of its season, but as Katz showed with his window- shopping trip to Seattle, some owners are willing to go to extreme lengths for leverage.
It's been two weeks since formal talks in the CBA negotiations last took place on Sept. 12, but the two sides are expected to meet Friday in New York.
Unfortunately, the meeting will not address core economic issues like Hockey- Related Revenue, so the chances of any serious ground being made this week seem slim. Still, because the sides haven't formally met in such a long time, this seems like a case of any news is good news.
Since the last formal meeting there has been little to be positive about regarding the CBA negotiations. The lockout officially began on Sept. 15 and just four days later all preseason games through September were canceled. There is speculation that the remaining exhibition games that are scheduled for early October could be scrapped before the sides get together on Friday.
The regular season is still set to begin on Oct. 11, but with so little progress having been made up to this point, it seems less and less likely the NHL will get the 2012-13 campaign started on time.
If nothing else, here's to hoping the owners and players can agree on something on Friday. At this point, an agreement on any issue -- even if it's not one essential to ending the lockout -- would be welcome news.


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Discussion in 'January 2009' started by Dlev59, Jan 16, 2009.
I missed major parts, but we got the W!
Yes we did....but what about the future?
AI had very good game( offensively) and Rip good. An outsider would think: wow, nice cooperation, they surely helped each other out there. But her comes the catch: neither AI or Rip do not need each other for good or even very good game. But still MC plays SB to keep both player on the court at the same time....
I watched game on sport+ french sport channel, so missed the chat... I was very happy with AI performance today. Finally he put one of his old performances, I missed that this year..
We won. Wooooohoooooo!
OK HQ my brother, here are the answers to your MLK holiday predictions..above in red Who are you picking for the Superbowl so that I can bet on the other team:p
I ended up missing the fourth quarter. But, despite the win, I'm not sure I want to see the take turn approach either. It looked like they were checking the scoreboard and said, "12 points? I got ya' 12 points!" and then other one went off. If one is the 1st option, do whatever you want and need, in their quarter, that automatically relegates the others to fighting for scraps. Is that going to work? I truly enjoyed hearing every commentator hint, hint at who they think should start. All except Chris Webber. A great player he was, before the knee injury. After that, he was even further from the basket and that much more of a ball stopper. If Chris ran off a screen waiting for a shot in Philly, I ran off a screen waiting for a shot. I used to participate on another board and called Chris: Pegleg Pete when he was in Philly. He was a shell of himself, Kyle Korver and Andre Igoudala had earned their shots and that's why it was "hard" for him. I reluctantly have five dollars on Allen being sent to the bench. I'd really like to lose that bet. As for the big men, I almost feel sorry for Rodney and Allen, because it's not like they aren't trying to feed them. Poor Tayshaun, he looks completely out of sorts. I've got 25 dollars on Tayshaun either already having bugged the office or being caught with his ear up against the door during THE MEETING!!! He is so ready for this to be over.
The body language was so bad. Tay, Sheed, stuckey. Sheed looks like there has been a death in the family and so does Tay. What can be done. I dvr'd the game because I had a MLK forum and pre-augural dinner at my house for the kids. I get a break because they are watching the kids concert on the disney channel. Yes it has been a long day, but fun. I will watch the game later on, but from what I saw, the stones have no life. Small ball needs to go.
lol agreed. worst predictions ever.
Star have you visited our chat room yet?? I can't recall if you have been there for the live chats or not...just thinking that we may enjoy seeing some of your in game comments... Back to the game, or actually back to the TNT comments. I think C-Webb hit it on the nail about possibly having AI come off the bench and play with the non-shooters.... It might work out that if the other guys are just defending or being decoys, he could fill it up and basically extend any second qtr lead before the other team catch on to what is going on. However.......If you notice in tonights game, AI got off in the first qtr when Rip was on the bench and then Rip got off in the second qtr with AI on the bench and then in the 4th it was AI that got off with Rip on the bench....no matter who starts or sits, still looks like Rip needs to be traded as they play better with other watching......from afar.
yea AI played great today. I thought stuck played great as well. Rip was playing well in the first half, but not in the second half. Max played well, Tay was horrible on offence although he want getting any calls, played good D tho. Sheed showed up in the second half,... what did I miss oh who can tell me why Amir didn't play?
His contract states that he has MLK day off....
That's exactly what I was going to comment on...the Chris Webber comments. He said AI needs to play with 5 robots, which I didn't get because I come up with 6 players in that scenario, but the fact that he felt AI would never pass him the ball was interesting. Still harboring some resentment. AI seemed to be passing quite a bit with the Pistons...especially when paired with Rodney. And Czar Fratello thought AI should go to the bench too...but these guys, for the most part, don't watch the games. So where is Barkley...is he on punishment? Or is he getting that tattoo?
He is taking some time off to either visit the Betty Ford clinic or is filming a few episodes of Sober House on VH1... He will probably pop up some where at the inauguaration apologizing to everyone.
Oh yeah, there is still resentment. Their relationship changed drastically by Chris' behavior in Philly. They may have gotten back straight...up until tonight. Jim O'Brien once drew up a play that required Chris to go down to the blocks, to which he replied, "I don't play on the blocks anymore." Chris destroyed that team. I've never seen Allen freeze out a player that could do something with the ball. I don't have the time or real inclination to find it, but Matt Harpring revealed in an interview that Larry Brown forbade the other Sixers from shooting the ball unless it was like under five seconds on the clock and they couldn't find Allen. I can't believe that no one has watched Allen play since 2001, but the whole Allen and The Robots mindset makes it look like that is exactly what has happened.
This is the same way I saw it too; 4 weeks ago. Rip needs his teammates but AI doesn't. AI can create and make opportunities for his teammates while Rip is limited to catch and shoot. AI to the second unit and keep them a threat to score and run. The other advantage is better defensive players will be with AI on the second unit.
The guys doing the game kept reiterating that over and over (AI coming off the bench). It's sad when a win over the Memphis Grizzlies is cause for celebration. Why do all the players look so damn depressed ?
Cuz most of them are playing out of position and know that it isn't a recipe for success.
The issue is not who starts. They are going to make a big announcement tomorrow, it's so silly, because other teams don't make it a national emergency when they change the starting lineup, but anyways, they are going to call a big press conference, to buy themselves another 10 games. The problem is, there are not enough minutes. Even if a guy comes off the bench, AI is going to play 40+ as the backup point and possibly starting 2. Now assuming Rip plays the other 8 minutes (as opposed to Afflalo) then we will have about 28 minutes of Rip and AI on the court together. And some of that will have Stuckey on the floor as well. This talk about the starting lineup, is 100% misdirection, just like trading CB to start Stuckey, when AI was the starter after CB left (and no one was talking about Stuckey). 3 Years from now, people will totally forget that AI started after CB left. And 10 games from now, people will wake up and realize the problem wasn't who started (because it was ongoing) but rather that there are too many guys, demanding too many minutes, and it's killing the development of AJ and AA.
Exactly. And if the players are sad, and if i am sad, it is because we are are not really a good team though we have good players. In fact, a number of good players who at one time or another were able to find a way to contribute to making a great team. for me, there is nothing worse (in ball or in life) than seeing talent squandered by stupid and cowardly decision-making at the top of the hierarchy. Smash the state.
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Nicely done....Good Job!One piece of friendly advice...lose the gloves and life as a Beek becomes a lot simpler. :)
You'd have countless bee stings at my hot hive right now if you lost the gloves. For instance, was just stung 2 times - once on each wrist - while mowing the grass. My yard is 200 feet from the bee hives.Some times they are a necessity! Just sayin!David
So is a hot aggressive hive a sign that the queen is in trouble or dead? I have read so many contradictory facts about that.I guess the theory is that if the queen is laying and producing good then the hive will be less aggressive?
David,I can promise you this...If I had bees wearing me out while I'm trying to cut grass 200 feet from their hive, I wouldn't be worried about getting gloves! I'd be worried about getting new bees, or a new queen instead....Just sayin! :-D
Moots - Make no mistake about it - I am in the process of requeening this hive however until this process is complete I just have to bear with this nonsense they are putting me through. I 100% agree that glove-less is the way to go for all the reasons mentioned however there are times when they are an absolute necessity - that's all I'm sayin! :-D As my general rule - I don't wear gloves while performing inspections etc but when I get hit 4 times in less than 2 minutes I'll break them out. They are always in my beekeeping supply kit.


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Just got my first sound effect pack reviewed and I found out that mono is not approved. But it makes no sense to bounce stereo files from a mono sound. It only doubles the size of the file. Is there a proper reason to not allow mono files in the sound effects category?
Also it is a lot faster to export mono files as mono files out of Pro Tools when you can have hundreds of different mono sounds that need to be bounced one at the time if I want to make them stereo files, whereas mono sounds that have all processing done and have been named properly already only need to be selected and exported with a couple of clicks.
As a customer I'd certainly want to get mono sounds as mono files to avoid having to convert stereo files into mono files myself and to save hard drive space.
Also, if inappropiately summed in mono the stereo file can cause severe clipping distortion in some software when the in-phase signals from two channels are summed to one channel. And if the customer doesn't understand basic principles of audio, then there can be cases where the sound will be distorted without them ever noticing it.
Maybe it has something to do with the watermark.
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Maybe it has something to do with the watermark.
Can't be because the preview was stereo 320kbps and all files in the main item are 44.1khz 16-bit and obviously don't include the watermark. The reason for rejection was quite clearly stated: "The files need to be stereo."
Interesting, because I heard that in some cases buyers prefer mono sounds and even prefer the ability to run a sound or track in mono. Stereo is not always needed or preferred, as crazy as that sounds.
Probably AJ wants to standarize submissions. BTW stereo is better than mono, because you may always change stereo to mono. In opposite direction you change only format not a sound.
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Interesting, because I heard that in some cases buyers prefer mono sounds and even prefer the ability to run a sound or track in mono. Stereo is not always needed or preferred, as crazy as that sounds.
Any serious, professional game developer will, or at least should, never use stereo sound effects. In fact, they'd stay far, far away from MP3 as well. From the perspective of serious, professional game development, the presence of MP3-format game sound effects here is unprofessional, and nonsense to say the least. Evenmore so for loops, on which I've already elaborated before. Now that it's being mentioned: so is the presence of stereo game sound effects. It shouldn't be so that clients are expected to audio-proces the items themselves (e.g. from stereo to mono). There should at least be an option to include mono-versions. All in all, this says a whole lot about the type of market/developers Envato aims for, and which not. Take your advantage of that knowledge.
I regret having uploaded a few game sound effects myself when I was very new here. Having a history of game development, it makes me look silly in the eyes of the people I know.
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Probably AJ wants to standarize submissions. BTW stereo is better than mono, because you may always change stereo to mono. In opposite direction you change only format not a sound.
True stereo, 2-channel audio is very different from having mono sound in a stereo file. You could, in theory and practise, make a 8-channel wav-file for 7.1 surround sounds, but it makes no sense if the sound is supposed to be 1-channel mono sound.
Stereo files are only needed when the sound is using both channels as in music that is mixed in stereo or sounds that are recorded using stereo micing techniques.
There's already a support to use 1-channel files here. It is just not allowed here. I would suggest a change to this policy, because the mono soundfx items should not need converting from 2 channel to 1 channel wave-files by customers. There's a possibility that something goes wrong if someone without proper knowledge uses these files without converting or converts them in an unsuitable way. For example: If I normalize the mono-stereo sound file close to digital zero and someone converts the mono sound in a stereo file into a single channel mono file using software that takes both channels and sums them together, the sound of the resulting file will have clipped samples and will sound bad. The right way to convert would require splitting the stereo file into two mono files and using one of them.
Mono sound in a stereo file is basically the same as having 2 identical mono files playing in sync with each other.
Also, in theory, if any development company with some knowledge in game design, could convert a Mono sound into a stereo, it's just a matter or track splitting, copying and manipulating (probably decreasing the level). And, actually it would probably be easier to get the desired effect to go from mono to stereo in this way, than to go from stereo to mono. Albeit, I have no technical training in sound design, but what I have learned from my own experimentation and curiosity—and reading online here and there.


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thanks so much for the review. It is probably the best review of a newer production boat I have read so far. Thanks again!!
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Re: Beneteau Oceanis 40. Experiences??
Saw one with 50 fragile plastic thru hulls, mostly below the waterline, which could be easily broken with a slight kick, or a shifting of gear. A very fragile, minimumly built, "style over substance", type of boat.
Re: Beneteau Oceanis 40. Experiences??
When I looked at the Beneteau 40 she was about 18 months old and hardly used.
Regarding "tender". Looking at most cruising boats I saw that the weight of ballast devided by total weight was about 30% i.e. ballast/displacement about 30%. If I looked at more of a performance cruiser such as a Beneteau First, C & C etc this was closer to a 35% ratio. A "racer" even higher. The Beneteau 40 was about 25% and I had not seen anything so low. I was told there is much more to "stability" than this ratio and with a test sail (light wind) I was fine with it and bought her. I do find that with about 12 knots of wind, depending also on sea state, I need to put in a reef (furl) and at about 18 knots (true) I need to furl to what beneteau call the second reef position. This is not a boat you can sail with the rail in the water as she will round up. As I sail mostly with my spouse (who prefers to sail at a sensible degree of heel) I just make sure I reef early ... especially if the sea state is challenging. So sail in 15 knots with all sail up and get hit by a gust would cause you a bit of excitement ... but we have sailed in tough conditions with the sails well reefed and all is well.
The boat is somewhat lightly built ... get what you pay for. To hang a fairly small outboard on the stern rail I needed to add a couple of supports going from the rail down to the swim platform as the rail was so wobbly. I then put radar on a pole which was also joined to the stern rail ... I needed to have a bit more support added but all is strong now.
If you look at the deck cleats, they are huge ... if you look under those cleats there are no backing plates, just rather small washers and nuts. The stanchions/lifelines are far from robust but I'm not going to cross oceans and I haven't had any worry about strength so far ... just don't let folks pull too hard on them ... again no backing plates.
A few other small points that perhaps show a bit more quality control would have been good. It took me ages to get the bilge dry. Most of the leaks were from the domestic water system and just needed to tighten up some clamps ... but there are plenty to find!!! The drain fixture on the head sink leaked as someone had cable tied heavy hoses from head/holding tank to the drain which pulled things lose ... easy to fix but who does these crazy things?
The fuel guage always showed full. I did take this back to have it fixed ... it still doesn't work. I have a Webasto heating system which is great except the metal fixture holding the fuel uptake tube into the diesel tank leaked. I had that fixture replaced ... two months later it started leaking again. This is not Beneteau I guess but the folks who put the heating in.
She's a beautiful cruising boat .. so much light below. We sailed 100+ days last year and have over 70 planned so far this year ... retirement is tough! If you want a "tougher" and better made boat then a Tartan, Saber etc would be much better but for the money a Beneteau 40 I believe is good value and sails well.
I intend to get a gennaker soon and again there could be a design issue. The halyard comes out the top of the mast, runs a couple of feet down the mast and goes through a metal loop (spectacle) which is VERY close to the forestay attachment. I've been told things could easily get snarled up if I don't move that spectacle up a bit ... if that's true it's again sort of annoying when the boat was sold as "rigged for a gennaker".
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But overall said was great boat for us. But the reply seems to have disappeared. I'll redo it if still of interest to you. Let me know.
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I'm back. I gave a long reply to expand on the "tender" comment plus gave a list of problems we have had in last couple of years. But overall said was great boat for us. But the reply seems to have disappeared. I'll redo it if still of interest to you. Let me know.
all the best, JohnB40
I said my boat was 2011, it is in fact a 2009 that we bought in 2011.
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No harm done...still curious, where are you at in the SV search?
If you had said so in the first couple of lines, I would had been more than happy answering your questions. This forum, like many others, have a huge population of members with too much time and not enough reading comprehension. Nearly every thread gets off on a tangent within 5-8 replies, so over time it is very hard not to get very annoyed by abundant non-contributory posts. I wasn't trying to be nasty to you in particular, although reading back my reply I can see how I came off that way.
I doubt you'll find a lot of newer beneteau reviews here. Or any other modern production boat for that matter. Few people here, at least for what I personally have gathered, have anything newer than 15 years old!
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When we went to Ethiopia to adopt our sons, we were lucky to meet one member from each of their birth families. In those people, we can see our sons. We have photographs. The boys don't have to wonder who they look like. They can see it for themselves. I think that helps. It's only one part of being adopted, but it matters. When I was growing up, especially in my preteen and teen years, I would have given a lot to see a photo or to even know their first names.
I was 20 when I met my first biological relative. It was my birth father, Tim. He couldn't get over how much I looked like him. I couldn't see it. Absolutely not.
About a year later, I met my birth mother, Jean, I could some similarities, we have the same eye color and skin tone and my laugh sounds like hers. I wanted more than that. I actually wanted to be the spitting image of someone but I wasn't.
Not long after that, I was in Boston with a friend and ran into Tim. As soon as he was out of earshot, my friend said, "I know you don't want to hear this, but you look just like him."
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I went back to thinking about Tim. Perhaps I did look like him. But how could I look like someone that I felt no connection to? Someone, to be honest, that I didn't like. A person who had a long history of drug and alcohol abuse, an extensive criminal history, and who was an absent father to the two other children he fathered? I felt embarrassed that I was a part of him. How could I look like him?
After Tim's death 5 years ago, I met his siblings for the first time at his memorial service. I liked them instantly and I liked them a lot. I felt a genetic weight lift off my shoulders as I got to know them. I wasn't from 'bad stock'. Tim's life was a product of his own tumultuous childhood, choices he made and other factors that have nothing to do with me.
After the service, Tim's sister (my aunt), handed me a photo album of pictures of Tim from his babyhood to near the time of his death, I felt myself soften toward him for the first time. I looked slowly at each photo. In many of them, I could see myself. It has taken the better part of 50 years, but I know who I look like and I have made peace with it. I look like my birth father.


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This year I have graduated from university and got my degree (MA in translation studies). I have been teaching English for about 2 years. I'm teaching one-to-one, sometimes two and maximum 3 people (I don't like bigger groups). I'm thinking about my teaching career seriously and I'm wondering what to do next. I am constantly improving my English, watching TV programmes, films, reading books, articles, going online, preparing a lot of different things for my students. However, I'm doing all these things on my own. I am wondering if it's desirable to do some course in English teaching - do I really need it? Can I learn something there? Actually, I was studying English and German for 5 years and have my degree, I'm constantly working on the quality of my lessons, I'm learning to teach in practice... and I am having second thoughts about doing a TEFL course.
Could you guys express your opinion on this?
I'm not going to look for employment anywhere abroad as I'm running my own company - language "school".
Is it best to learn on your own or do a course and get a certificate?


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Are you a fan of succulents? Seems like brides everywhere are including these unique plants into their wedding décor – and for good reason. Succulents are available year-round and are quite hardy, so they're easy to transport and will look great all day long. Plus, you can use them throughout your wedding day from your bouquet to your wedding cake. Check out these ways to incorporate succulents into your décor:
If you like succulents, be sure to watch this space! We have a real wedding coming your way this afternoon that features this super-cool plant. And if there's a flower you're lusting after, let us know in the comments and we'll feature it on the blog in the coming weeks!


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New Study Released at CSCMP Conference Addresses "Big Data"
October 28, 2013
The fact that we've entered the Big Data era was among the major themes surfacing at the recently-concluded Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals convention in Denver. When Capgemini analysts unveiled the 18th Annual Third Party Logistics Study, they emphasized that shippers (97 percent) and 3PLs (93 percent) feel strongly that improved, data-driven decision-making is essential to the future success of their supply chain activities and processes.
But shippers differ widely in their levels of interest, understanding and adoption, says Capgemini Consulting analyst Melissa Hadhazy. "While other surveys have reported higher levels of participation, 30 percent of shipper respondents and 27 percent of 3PLs indicated that they are planning or currently undergoing big data initiatives," she says.
Interestingly, about half of each group disagree that Big Data fuels these decisions. In spite of this, shippers and 3PLs concur that Big Data can be leveraged in both functional and strategic aspects of supply chain operations, and to support visibility and make supply chains more agile.
The 18th Annual Third Party Logistics Study—done in collaboration with Penske, Penn State University and Korn/Ferry International—also showed the continuing, positive overall nature of shipper-3PL relationships. Both parties view them as being successful, while shippers report they're seeing positive results again this year. There's an average logistics cost reduction of 11 percent; average inventory cost reduction of 6 percent; and an average fixed logistics cost reduction of 23 percent.
According to the results, shippers agree that 3PLs provide new and innovative ways to improve logistics effectiveness, and that they are sufficiently agile and flexible to accommodate future business needs and challenges. Despite ongoing churn in shipper-3PL relationships, in general shippers are increasing their use of outsourced logistics services, and shippers and 3PLs now say they're about equally satisfied with the openness, transparency, and communication in their relationships.
As suggested in last year's report, however, several ongoing factors are having an impact on the progress toward the advanced end of the maturity model for shipper-3PL relationships.
While gainsharing and collaboration with other companies—even competitors—to achieve logistics cost and service improvements would appear to be markers for advanced relationships, it seems that these approaches are more preferred in certain shipper-3PL relationships, and less in others. Capgemini says that there are some encouraging results that suggest a slight increase this year in outsourcing of strategic, "customer-facing," and IT-intensive logistics activities.
Hadhazy and others involved with the survey observed that innovation – when it finally surfaces in the optimization process – is fast but not disruptive.
"And disruption is precisely what we need," concludes Hadhazy.
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Welcome to the New BeautyTalk
We are very excited to share with you the new look and feel of BeautyTalk! We've redesigned our community to make it more dynamic, easier to use, and prettier (we are a beauty company, after all). Discover the differences: New design & improved layout Read and reply to threads faster. Join the conversation from any page. Ask a beauty question or start a discussion all from the same place. Updated search Ask a beauty question or search the community from one universal search bar. Activity streams See a dynamic feed of the most recent activity from around the BeautyTalk community. Photo gallery Get inspired by viewing all of the user submitted photos in each category and board. Photo sharing Upload a photo to any post in a few simple steps. New avatars Personalize your profile with over 100 new images to choose from.* There are also a ton of exciting new features yet to come. This community is for you and we value your feedback, so let us know any questions or comments in this thread> http://seph.me/Ufchf6 Please be patient as we are still ironing out a few kinks, but we want to hear it all! *To change your avatar: 1. Sign into BeautyTalk 2. Go to your profile page. To get to your profile page, click on your avatar on the left under "My BeautyTalk Profile" 3. Click on your avatar from your profile page 4. In the "Choose My Avatar" box, click on "From the Community" 5. Choose your avatar
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New Avatar Gallery!
BeautyTalkers, we're very excited to announce a new avatar gallery with over 50 new icons to choose from. Personalize your profile with cameo silhouettes, new male avatars, color splashes, and Sephora-inspired logos. To view the new avatar gallery, follow these easy steps: 1. Sign into BeautyTalk. 2. Click "My Settings" (directly below "My Profile" in the black welcome box on the right) 3. Select the "Avatars" tab. 4. Choose your avatar. Examples of the new avatars you can choose from: And there are many more! Go check them out!.
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How-to: Join the Conversation
Ask a beauty question When you submit a question in BeautyTalk, you will get answers from Sephora beauty experts, as well as other members of the BeautyTalk community. To ask a beauty question: 1. Click on the red " START A CONVERSATION " box in the right nav under "My BeautyTalk Profile." You must be signed into the community for this box to appear. 2. A Post box will pop up on the page. This is where you enter your question. 3. Click the " Q&A " option to ask a question to the community. 4. Type your question in the subject box, and add more context to your question in the body of the message. 5. Add Photos to your question by dragging a photo from your computer into the gray box on the right side of the post box, clicking "Choose File" to upload a photo from your computer, or "link to a picture"to enter a photo URL. 6. Choose which board you would like your question to be posted in. 7. When you are done creating your question, Click " POST. " To reply to a question: Use the "type your reply here" box located under the anchor post to reply to the message or to answer questions. When you post a message as a reply, it will be added to the existing thread instead of creating a new one. To comment on a question: If you would like to comment on a question as opposed to answering it, or to comment on someone's answer to a question, hover over the post you would like to reply to. A black "comments" button will appear. Click on that button to comment. Start a new conversation: You may want to start a conversation in BeautyTalk that is not a specific beauty question, or not related to beauty at all. You can do that too. To start a conversation: 1. Click on the red " START A CONVERSATION " box in the right nav under "My BeautyTalk Profile." You must be signed into the community for this box to appear. 2. A Post box will pop up on the page. This is where you type your message. 3. Click the " Discussion " option to start a conversation. 4. Enter the title of your message in the Subject field and add more context to your message below. 5. Add Photos to your message by dragging a photo from your computer into the gray box on the right side of the post box, clicking "Choose File" to upload a photo from your computer, or "link to a picture"to enter a photo URL. 6. Choose which board you would like your message to be posted in. 7. When you are done creating your message, click " POST" . To reply to a message : Use the "type your reply here" box located under the anchor post to reply to the message or to answer questions. When you post a message as a reply, it will be added to the existing thread instead of creating a new one. To reply to another user in an existing thread, hover over the reply that you would like to reply to, a red button with the message " REPLY TO " will appear. Click on that box to reply. To report an inappropriate message 1. Click the gear icon to the right of the post (for replies, the gear icon will appear when you hover over the reply) 2. Click Report Inappropriate Content. The message will be sent to a moderator for review.
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How-to: Private Messenger
The Private Messenger allows you to send private notes to other users.You need to be signed in to use the Private Messenger. If you have any new messages, the word "new" will appear under the Private Message link in the black sign-in box with the number of new messages in parenthesis. If you click on the link, you will be taken to your Private Messages inbox. To send a Private Message Sign in. Click the Private Messages Link From your Private Messages inbox, click the Compose New Message tab. If you have created a Friends List, and you want to send the message to a listed friend, start typing the person's nickname in the Send to field and the full nickname will appear. If you want to send to someone not in your Friend List, type the person's user name in the Send to field. Type the subject of your message in the Message Subject field. Type the body of your message in the Message Body field. Click Send Message at the bottom of the page. The message will be sent to the other user. The message will also appear in your Sent Messages . To read a Private Message: Sign in. If you have any new messages, the word "new" will appear under the Private Message link in the black sign-in box with the number of new messages indicated in parenthesis. Click the New Link. You will be taken to your Private Messages inbox. Click the Subject of the message you want to read. The full message will be displayed. After you have read the message, you can click on links to Reply to the message or Delete Message buttons at the bottom of the page. You can also click on the Add to Friends button to add the sender to your Friends List. Or, if you don't want this user to send you any more messages, you can click on the Ignore User button to add the person to your Ignore List. To reply to a Private Message: Sign in. Click the Messages Link. Click the Inbox link. Your Inbox will be displayed. Click the Subject of the message you want to read. The full message will be displayed. Click the Reply link at the bottom of the window. The Send Message window will be displayed with the Send to and Subject fields pre-populated. Enter your message in the Note field. Click Send Message . To delete a Private Message: While reading a message, you can click the Delete link at the bottom of the window to delete the current message. While viewing your Inbox , you can delete several messages at once by checking the checkboxes next to the messages you want to delete, then clicking Delete Checked from the Message Options drop down menu To see Private Messages you've sent: When in the Private Messenger, click the Outbox link to see all the messages you sent to others. To add BeautyTalk members to your Friends List Your Friends List has three functions: If you have entered information on your Personal Profile page, and if you have checked the Friends Only option for Profile Privacy on your Display & Privacy Settings tab, then only people on your Friends List will be able to see your personal information. Similarly, if you have checked the Friends Only option for Online Status on your Display & Privacy Settings tab, then only people on your Friends List will be able to see when you are online or not. When you send a message in the Private Messenger, all your friends will appear in a dropdown menu that you can select from. You can then send one of them a message without having to type their user name into the Send to field. To add a user to your Friends List: Go to that user's profile page by clicking on their avatar. In the gray "Contact" box, click "Add to Friends" To add Beauty Talk members to your Ignore List: Adding someone to your Ignore List will stop them from being able to send you Private Messages. To add someone to your Ignore List: Sign in. Click the Messages Link. The Instant Messenger window will be displayed. Click the Find Users link. Enter the user's screen name in the Search box. Click Search . When the user's name is displayed, click the Add to Ignore List link on the same line as the user's name. You can also click the Add User to Ignore List link in any message the user has sent you to add that person to your Ignore List. To see who's on your Ignore List, click the Ignore tab in your Private Messenger. You can remove them from your Ignore List if you've changed your mind.
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How to: Manage your email notifications
You can change your BeautyTalk settings to receive as many or as few email notifications as you would like. Here's how. Subscription Notifications Subscribing to a message in BeautyTalk ensures that you will never miss information that is important to you. If you subscribe to a message, the system will send you an e-mail every time someone replies to that message. To add a message to your Subscriptions: Sign in. Go to the message to which you want to subscribe. Open the Options menu in the right corner of the message and click Subscribe To view or delete your Subscriptions: Go to My Settings Click the Subscriptions & Bookmarks tab Click Email Subscriptions To delete any of your Subscriptions, place a checkmark in box next to the subscription you want to delete from the list and click Delete Selected Subscriptions from the Email Subscriptions Options drop down menu. To automatically subscribe to all topics that you participate in: Go to My Settings Click the Subscriptions & Bookmarks tab Check the " Automatically subscribe me to topics I participate in" box You can also choose to be notified whenever someone responds to one of your posts. When posting a message, check the "Email me with new posts in this thread" box on the right side of the page under Subscriptions. Private Message Notifications Whenever someone sends you a Private Message in BeautyTalk, you receive an email notification. To change this: Go to My Settings Click the Preferences tab Click the Private Messenger tab Under Private Messenger settings, uncheck the box next to " Receive email notifications for new private messages"
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How-to: Personalize BeautyTalk
How do I change my avatar? Your avatar is the picture displayed next to your name. You can personalize your avatar by uploading a picture you would like to use from your image gallery on your profile page, or by choosing an avatar from our gallery. If you do not upload a picture or choose an avatar you will be given the default avatar. To choose your avatar: 1. Sign into BeautyTalk. 2. Click "My Settings" (directly below "My Profile" in the black welcome box on the right) 3. Select the "Avatars" tab. 4. Choose your avatar. To upload an image to your image gallery: 1. Go to your profile page 2. Click the "edit" link in the top right corner of "my image gallery" 3. You will be taken to an upload page. Click on "browse" 4. Upload your image. For the best results, the image should be a square and measure 195 x 195 pixels. 5. Your image will appear on the right. Click "save to gallery" 6. Click on the newly saved image. 7. From the "Image Options" dropdown menu above the image, choose "use image as avatar". To delete an image: 1. From the image gallery on your profile page, click on the image you would like to delete 2. From the "Image Options" dropdown menu above the image, choose "delete image". How do I tell other users about me? Your Personal Profile contains information that let other BeautyTalk users know a little about you. You have control over what information you post, and whether it is visible to all users, your "Friends," or to no one. Whatever your choice, please do not post any confidential information, or anything you don't want others to see. The "About Me" "My Top 10 Favorite Products" and "Image Gallery" sections of your profile page can all be edited by clicking on the "edit" button in those sections, or by going to "My Settings." The information next to your avatar on your profile page (birthday, hair color, eye color, etc.) is taken from your Beauty Insider profile and can be updated by editing your profile from the Beauty Insider account page. You will see the changes reflected to your BeautyTalk profile after you have logged out of sephora.com and then logged back in. What is my Friends List? Your Friends List has three functions: If you have entered personal information on your Personal Profile page, and if you have checked the Friends Only option for Profile Privacy on your Display & Privacy Settings tab, then only people on your Friends List will be able to see your personal information. Similarly, if you have checked the Friends Only option for Online Status on your Display & Privacy Settings tab, then only people on your Friends List will be able to see when you are online or not. When you send a message in the Private Messenger, all your friends will appear in a dropdown menu that you can select from. You can then send one of them a message without having to type their user name into the Send to field. To add a user to your Friends List: 1. Go to that user's profile page by clicking on their avatar. 2. In the gray "Contact" box, click "Add to Friends"
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How-to: Registration and Sign-in
Why do I need to register? Registration allows you to take full advantage of BeautyTalk. If you register, you'll be able to: Ask beauty questions Answer beauty questions Talk to other members of the BeautyTalk community Receive e-mail notification when someone responds to a message that you've subscribed to Exchange Private Messages with other members Give hearts to messages you like What can I do if I don't register? As a "guest," you can search for beauty advice, and browse and read messages posted by others, but you can't post messages of your own. How do I register? If you already have a Sephora.com login and password and you have previously written a review on Sephora.com, you do not need to register again. Just sign in with your email and password. The nickname you created to post your review will remain the same in BeautyTalk. If you have a Sephora.com login and password and you have never written a review on Sephora.com, you will need to login with your email address and create a nickname to use in BeautyTalk. Nicknames must be under 16 characters and cannot include any spaces or profanity. If you have never registered on Sephora.com, you will be prompted to do so when you post a message in BeautyTalk. What do I do if I've forgotten my password? Click on the "Forgot Your password?" link on the Sign In page, and enter your registered e-mail address. We will send you an e-mail with the information you need. You can also call Customer Service at 1-877-SEPHORA.
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BeautyTalk Guidelines
Welcome to Sephora's BeautyTalk Welcome to BeautyTalk! Here, you can ask for advice, chat about your beauty experiences, and exchange ideas, tips, information, and techniques with fellow Sephora addicts. To participate in the BeautyTalk community, all you need to do is be a registered user of Sephora.com. It's totally free and easy, we promise. When interacting on BeautyTalk, please follow our User Guidelines, Sephora Terms of Use , and the Sephora Privacy Policy , all of which are available here for reference. (Basically, it just says to play nice.) A heads up: We can modify them at anytime without notice, so be sure you keep up-to-date. What is BeautyTalk and how does it work? BeautyTalk is an online community. It is a place for discussion, asking questions, and sharing experiences. Users can post questions and answers to problems they have been encountering, search for advice, and even talk about their favorite subject with others that share the same interests. A little forums history: Because online communities feature questions, answers and feedback provided by their own users, they are unique knowledge hotspots that have the potential to reach hundreds and thousands of people at any given time. While anyone can search BeautyTalk for information, only registered users can post new questions, answers, or comments. Additionally, members can track discussions and even receive notifications whenever new posts are made. Keep the following common-sense rules when participating in BeautyTalk discussions. Be nice. Sephora's BeautyTalk involves participants with a wide range of beliefs and ideas about the subjects they're discussing. We encourage an open dialogue, but require that participants remain courteous and respectful at all times. Please avoid any language that may be considered abusive, intimidating, or discriminatory. This includes having a tone that is consistently critical, derogatory, or otherwise negative toward other clients. If we see any of the above, we will exercise our right to edit or remove any post that violates these guidelines. We will also limit or suspend the access of any participant who violates these guidelines. Have good etiquette. When posting in the community, please remember that the people who read your posts sometimes can't tell what you meant to say or how you intended to say it. Avoid "screaming" your thoughts in ALL CAPITAL letters. And remember that people who do not know you will read your comments. If you think your comments could be misinterpreted, they probably will be. If you think someone has misunderstood you, or has challenged your position, address it calmly in a non-threatening manner. The moderators will be able to help, but it's always best for the participants to work it out. Keep the peace! Additionally, while we do not set formal limits on how much you can post, voluminous posting—whether in terms of number of posts or their length—can majorly interfere with other conversations. There's room here for many points of view, so don't feel like you need to have the last word. No "trolling!" Sephora does not permit trolling, which may include hijacking or taking a thread drastically off-topic, rudeness, shaming, personal attacks, bullying, threats or inflammatory posts, impersonating others or creating multiple accounts in order to do any of the actions listed here. If you are trolling, we will take your posts down and your account will be permanently banned. If banned, for trolling, you will not be permitted to participate again. Sephora reserves the right to contact law enforcement if we suspect your behavior to be unlawful. If you see something inappropriate. The participants themselves do the best monitoring of a community. If you see any offensive, abusive, or otherwise inappropriate content (including posts, pictures and videos), please click on the "Report Abuse to a Moderator" link that is attached to the message. Sephora.com will not discuss one user's actions or account with any other user. That means we won't tell the user who filed the report, but it also means we cannot tell you what action we've taken. In addition, any user who reasonably believes they are at risk of imminent physical harm by an aggressor should contact their local law enforcement agency. What is my role in the online community? Everyone is essential in an online community. Without you, there wouldn't be a community. By visiting often (and participating) you not only add to the user-created knowledge base, but you also encourage others to do the same. (Trendsetter!) If you come with your toughest beauty issues, you'll probably be able to find someone else that has the same problem or can point you in the right direction. Then if you're able to find a solution that works for you, you can add your own insights and experience. Chances are that you may have an answer that someone else has been seeking. Everyone wins. Remember that online communities should be fun, friendly, informative, and appropriate for everyone. Privacy. BeautyTalk is a public forum widely accessible on the Internet. Whenever participating in any online community, always remember that what you post is viewable by the general public. Please do not post any confidential or potentially embarrassing information about yourself or anyone else. Posting someone else's confidential information will result in the termination of your access to these services. Information that you should never post includes the following: Your full name Your telephone number Your mailing address Your credit card number(s) Your social security number Your Beauty Insider number Order numbers Other receipt information Personal email address As a registered BeautyTalk user, you get to decide what content you include in your Profile, and who gets to see it. Please familiarize yourself with these settings, located in the " My Profile " area. Best and worst practices WE LOVE WE DON'T LOVE Using a descriptive title for your posts. Using vague subject titles like "HELP!" Reading other responses before posting. Repeating information already provided. Asking for clarification when necessary. Making assumptions. Contributing to the discussion. Excessively quoting previous messages. Focusing on your areas of beauty expertise. Offering advice on unfamiliar topics. Being as concise as possible. Overwhelming readers with information. Trying to use correct spelling and grammar. Worrying if your spelling isn't perfect. Staying on topic. Getting off topic. Remaining positive. Disparaging people. Trying to understand opposing viewpoints. Arguing with other posters. Being friendly! Using foul language or off-color humor. No solicitation. Please do not use these forums to submit or publish any marketing communication, or to advertise or solicit for any business or enterprise. Direct links to other commercial websites are inappropriate for our BeautyTalk conversations. Those postings will be removed, and can result in the suspension of your access to these services. Private Messages. As a registered user of BeautyTalk, you have access to our Private Messenger tool, which allows you to communicate with other users outside of the public message boards. Adding other users to your Friends List will make it easier to communicate with them. Adding users to your Ignore List will prevent their Private Messages from getting to you. Please note: Private Messages are subject to the same Guidelines and Terms of Use as the public message boards. If your access is suspended. Violation of these User Guidelines or Terms of Use may result in the suspension or termination of your access to these services. If your account is suspended, you will not be able to sign in, but will instead receive a message indicating your account status. Copyright and Intellectual Property rights. By participating in BeautyTalk, you give Sephora.com the perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free right and license to use this content in this service or in the marketing of this service. Participants do not have the right to copy or redistribute the content of this service outside of the message boards. More details are available in the Sephora.com Terms of Use .
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