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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former pro football player was ordered Wednesday to stand trial on murder and child abuse charges in the death of his girlfriend's 5-year-old daughter soon after they moved into his Las Vegas apartment this year.
A judge told former NFL and Canadian Football League running back Cierre Marcelle Wood, 28, that testimony from a detective, firefighter and medical examiner convinced her that Wood and the child's mother, Amy Taylor, inflicted physical injuries that caused the death of La'Rayah Davis.
"We know who was in that apartment during that period of time," Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melanie Andress-Tobiasson said. "We know who was responsible for the ultimate and untimely and horrific death of this child: Mr. Wood and Ms. Taylor."
Andress-Tobiasson rejected as "ridiculous" a bid by Wood's defense attorney, Thomas Ericsson, to throw out the murder charge for lack of direct evidence that Wood was responsible for the girl's fatal injuries.
"There is simply no evidence that rises to his conduct as to this murder charge," Ericsson said.
The attorney conceded, however, that the prosecution met the standard of "slight or marginal" evidence needed to put the 19 child abuse charges before a jury.
The judge cited photos of numerous external bruises and autopsy findings that La'Rayah had 20 newly broken ribs, internal bleeding, a lacerated liver and bruises to her heart, diaphragm and connective tissue.
Taylor and her daughter moved in with Wood and his young daughter on March 27, and Andress-Tobiasson said La'Rayah must have suffered before she died nearly two weeks later, on April 9.
"She's 5 years old," the judge said. "It's hard for me to even conceptualize."
Wood, who played for the University of Notre Dame before NFL stints with Houston, New England and Buffalo, is held without bail pending his arraignment next Tuesday in state court. He could face up to life in prison if he is convicted. His attorney said Wood will plead not guilty but declined to comment outside court.
Taylor, 25, is jailed and faces a separate preliminary hearing Aug. 5. Her attorneys watched Wood's hearing and declined to comment afterward.
Detective Jessica Rogers testified that Wood said he spanked the girl when she misbehaved, but Taylor disapproved so he turned to exercise as discipline and had La'Rayah do sit-ups and other exercises, including running sprints in the apartment. He called it "learning through fun."
Wood, who was released by the Montreal Alouettes in Canada in May 2018, told detectives that La'Rayah complained of chest pains and lost her appetite in the days before she died but that she was tough and could handle a lot of pain, Rogers testified.
The day she died, La'Rayah "got to a point she could no longer do a sit-up," Rogers said. Wood told police he pulled La'Rayah's shirt forward and when he let go, she fell backward and hit her head on the carpeted floor.
Wood said he could tell La'Rayah was injured, called Taylor and had his daughter call 911, Rogers said. Taylor, a certified nurse's aide, told police she was at the store at the time.
Paramedics reported finding La'Rayah unresponsive at Wood's apartment. She died at a hospital.
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Expenditures by enterprises on open source software jumped 34 percent last year and spending in 2009 is on pace to increase at least another 24 percent, according to a forecast released last week by IT market researcher IDC.
Enterprises will spend $3.9 billion on open source software, up from $2.9 billion last year, the report projected. The expenditures account for infrastructure software and middleware and associated services but do not cover software for embedded systems such as appliances.
Revenues associated with advertising were also excluded, said IDC analyst Michael Fauscette, who oversaw the research for the report. Revenue growth is projected at a compound annual growth rate of 24.4 percent during the five-year span of the forecast, reaching more than $8 billion by 2013.
Fauscette said in an interview that the accelerated growth is the result of companies looking for lower-cost solutions. "The economy has given quite a boost to open source," he said, adding he wouldn't be surprised if the 24 percent growth rate for this year does not actually turn out to be higher.
Not Just InfrastructureWhile subscriptions for Linux- and system-related software have fueled open source expenditures in recent years and remain the largest category, the latest findings of IDC's report suggest that spending is across the board, covering databases, applications and middleware, according to Fauscette.
"We are definitely seeing more growth in the application side, and particularly in the middleware side," Fauscette said.
A case in point is Ingres, the supplier of open source database software for transactional applications. After seeing revenues double in 2007, they increased again by 32 percent, hitting $68 million in 2008. Albeit a small base, the company says it is seeing increased interest in open source solutions from once reluctant customers.
"We've seen a tremendous growth in interest from companies who really feel uncomfortable with the price hikes and the pricing practices of the big players in the proprietary world," said Ingres CEO Roger Burkhardt in an interview. "Now that budgets are being squeezed, we see a tremendous interest in the economic model that we offer."
Much of the growth of open source software is also being fueled by Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing infrastructures, according to IDC's Fauscette. "Cloud infrastructure and service providers are going to really give a boost to database and middleware because that's one of the keys for them to really scale this and keep the cost down," he said.
Analysts point out that key cloud infrastructures, notably Amazon, Rackspace and Google, as well as smaller startups, have relied heavily on open source software. And not surprisingly, key open source providers are targeting their efforts at the cloud.
"Open source continues to need to pave the way such that new cloud providers can come online and offer various levels of service and differentiate their services from those of the existing incumbents in cloud computing," said Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, speaking at the company's Cloud Computing Forum, held online last week.
"There's a lot of potential for open source software and cloud computing to complement each other and perhaps for open source software to become an onramp to the cloud," said The 451 Group analyst Matthew Aslett in an interview.
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In the wake of the September 11th attacks, congressional Democrats sought to consolidate those federal agencies with a role in protecting the U.S. against terrorist attacks into a new cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The new Department would include such agencies as the Coast Guard, the Customs Service, the Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, among others. The consolidation plan, Democrats argued, would foster information-sharing among the agencies and would offer better protections against possible future attacks. President Bush initially rejected the Democratic plan but later developed a similar proposal of his own. Progressives opposed the Bush proposal for two main reasons. First, the new Department would not be subjected to the same level of congressional oversight as are other executive Departments. The new Department, Progressives worried, would be immune from congressional scrutiny and the constitutionally-mandated separation of powers between Congress and the White House would be undermined as a result. Second, the bill would allow the administration to restrict the ability of DHS employees to join a union and negotiate collective bargaining agreements (those rights which are provided to federal employees in every other executive Department). In the view of Progressives, the limitations on labor rights for DHS employees was unfair; those employees, Progressives argued, should be afforded the same labor rights they enjoyed prior to their transfer to the DHS (most DHS employees would be transferred from other federal agencies). The subject of this vote was final passage of the administration's DHS consolidation plan. Progressives opposed final passage for the two reasons described above. On a vote of 295-132, the legislation creating a new Department of Homeland Security was adopted.
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The lighter, slimmer, cheaper new version of Barnes & Noble's e-reader has a black-and-white touch screen and aims squarely at the "grandma" demographic—or at least those craving a simpler e-book reader.
The latest Nook's price tag—$139—is a sign that the book seller also is aiming to compete with Amazon and Borders Group Inc. on e-reader prices.
The focus on simplicity means the new Nook's battery can last 2 months, Chief Executive William Lynch said at an event in New York to announce the device. Mr. Lynch told the crowd of bloggers, news media and analysts the latest Nook was inspired by feedback from customers—specifically a letter asking why no e-readers were suitable for a grandma.
"The Kindle 3 has 38 buttons. That's 37 more than the all-new Nook," said Mr. Lynch, taking a jab at Amazon.com's e-reader, the market's top seller.
The new Nook, to be available June 10, is Wi-Fi only, has a 6-inch touch screen and can hold up to 1,000 digital books. It features the latest E Ink technology, which significantly minimizes flashing that can occur as a user pages through an e-book. Pages seem to melt into each other on the new Nook.
The newest device replaces versions that came before the Nook Color, which still sells for $249. After the all-new Nook's release, the first-generation Nook will sell for $119, and the Nook 3G will sell for $169—until supplies run out.
Morningstar analyst Peter Wahlstrom said the newest version keeps Barnes & Noble's current on technology, while reserving the company the option to release a more tablet-like device later.
"You don't have to get into the really crowded tablet space right away," Wahlstrom said. The simplified reader—which does not allow users access to an app store like the Nook Color does—can appeal to current Nook owners who want a technology upgrade and to "the incremental consumer who is used to touch screens and used to a more simplified version of technology."
Barnes & Noble Inc. executives said the new device lets readers look up words, highlight passages, search and adjust font size. It weighs 7.5 ounces, 35% less than the first Nook, which launched a year and a half ago. The iPad 2 weighs more than 1.3 pounds, roughly three times as much as the newest Nook.
The newest Kindle is almost as light, at 8.5 ounces, but holds more than three times as many books as the new Nook.
Amazon, meanwhile, dropped the price of its Kindle last month by $25 to $114, though with a catch: The new Kindle with Special Offers includes advertisements on the bottom of its home screen and on screen savers.
Borders and its Kobo partner said Monday that they are taking preorders for a $130 touch-screen e-reader that launches in early June.
The new device from Barnes & Noble comes after cable TV mogul John Malone's Liberty Media Corp. made a surprise $1 billion offer for the company Friday. Executives did not take questions about the offer Tuesday.
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Behind the plan to slash taxpayer support of commissaries is a concept Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his senior advisers have embraced: that base grocery stores should operate as a business and not a benefit.
This shift is candidly revealed in budget documents released Tuesday and in a legislative packet for implementing the funding cuts drafted by the Defense Commissary Agency.
The documents make clear that individual stateside commissaries will survive only if they produce enough revenue to cover operating costs.
Hagel gave a softer summation to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday.
"We are not shutting down any commissaries. We recommend gradually phasing out some subsidies but only for domestic commissaries that are not in remote locations," the defense chief said. Because stateside stores "will continue to operate tax-and-rent free, they will still be able to provide people with a very good deal."
Resale industry officials and military associations dispute this and predict closure of most stateside commissaries. Only stores overseas and at 25 remote stateside bases would be funded after fiscal 2017. The Defense Commissary Agency's annual appropriation of $1.4 billion would be cut by then to $400 million.
That's enough to offer shoppers savings of 10 percent off "high priced private grocery stores," the budget documents estimate. Savings would be even "more modest" in comparison to prices at "discount grocery chains."
"In the end, patron usage of the commissaries will determine the savings and their comprehensive advantage," explains the "overview" report from the Obama administration on its 2015 defense budget request.
Commissary shoppers now save an average of 30 percent compared to prices for a range of private sector grocery stores, the Defense Commissary Agency said. The hit to those savings would be felt "worldwide," budget documents explain.
The draft implementing legislation has a telling description of commissaries run as businesses. Criteria for opening and closing stores, it says, would make cost recovery "the primary factor for their existence, as opposed to the needs of active duty members and their families or the welfare of the military community."
That statement captures what's ahead for a long prized benefit if Congress adopts the plan in the budget, said an industry official. He described the plan as carelessly conceived and devastating to the "ecology" of base stores, both exchanges and commissaries.
There were no signals of stiff resistance from the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday when Hagel and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chief, detailed the new budget with its sweeping changes impacting commissaries and the Tricare program.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., called commissaries a "core benefit" that contributes "greatly to recruitment and retention, even though I am one of those who thinks [troops] may get just as good a deal at some other retail outlets around the country." Encouraging commissaries "to act more like a business … makes sense. I agree with that," Chambliss said.
But the senator questioned whether changes to this benefit should be delayed until the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission make its report in February 2015. He and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., have introduced a bill to mandate such a delay.
Hagel and his comptroller Robert Hale explained that some savings from compensation reforms are needed now because budget cuts already are impacting training, troop support and overall readiness.
Hagel noted that exchanges operate on the same business model and are successfully self-sustaining. So senior leaders, relying on "significant analysis," decided "we knew enough about where we thought we're going to have to eventually go with commissaries," Hagel said.
On Feb. 24, the day Hagel first unveiled highlights of the budget with its plan for commissaries, he recognized "senior enlisted leaders in each of the services for [their] help and input in crafting this budget."
Two days later, however, some of those enlisted leaders told a House appropriations subcommittee that their support for compensation reforms didn't extend to the deep hit on the commissary benefit.
Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Micheal Barrett and Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force James Cody noted that young families in particular depend heavily on the shopping discounts.
Barrett called it "ridiculous that we're going to go after something that saves some young lance corporal, an E-3, $4,500 a year." If that E-3 has two kids, he added, "and every time he shops it's $240, well unbeknownst to him he just put $80 worth of gas into his car."
Base exchanges could also be at risk, say industry officials. Their profits already are stressed by base closures overseas, deep force cuts, and minimum wage hikes on service contracts. The plan for commissaries would deepen these challenges by reducing shopper traffic on base and by allowing commissaries to offer products now sold only in exchanges.
The Defense Commissary Agency's implementing legislation shows commissaries would operate far different than they do today. A surcharge of at least 5 percent would still be collected on goods sold. But to capture more revenue, the Defense Commissary Agency seeks authorities to run its stores like very much like commercial supermarkets.
That means a broader mix of products including beer and wine. Restrictions would be lifted on sale of generic or local goods to compete with brand names. A legal requirement to sell goods at cost would end so prices could climb as needed and would vary from store to store.
The Defense Commissary Agency could advertise to try to keep patrons and hire private contractors to operate specific store functions. It also wants relief from "socio-economic" laws that dampen savings, including a requirement to buy certain supplies and services from nonprofit employers of persons who are blind or have other significant disabilities.
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Over the past year I noticed a decided change in ammo being shot here in the range. It concerns me that just maybe some shooters out there may not know what they are shooting is damaging their firearms.
As we clean out the spent rounds from our rubber backstop we always examine what has been shot and what amount of this or that caliber was used. Not in detail, but just to see what happens to bullets. We see every kind of projectile imaginable in all the calibers up to .50BMG – we don't allow that here.
Just by chance we swept a large magnet across the pile of bullets (see attached PDF labeled – bullets to see what +15,000 pounds looks like), and found some bullets that were magnetic. While we have seen some bullets in the past with a steel core or steel jacket, the amount we found concerned me. See attached PDF labeled Steel Ammo.
I did a complete search through all of our ammo and found that the only steel encased bullets were the Wolf and Tula brands. Nothing else we sell had a steel jacket, including our reloads. We started watching what was being shot and we did not find the supplier of the steel jacketed rounds. We did ask some of our known reloaders if they were using steel or bimetal jacketed rounds, but they all assured us they were not.
We just did a de-leading operation here and found a considerable increase in steel jacketed rounds being fired. So much so that I felt inclined to write this up and post in where I could. I know that this ammo has to be "cheaper" to purchase and is the primary reason for the increase in use.
I don't think that shooters fully understand the damage being done to their firearm when they shoot copper flash coated, steel jacketed, lead filled rounds. No matter what, the steel will come into contact with the steel of your barrel. The very light copper flash coating of the bullet quickly burns off as it moves down the barrel. I would guess that by the time the bullet moves more than two inches the copper is gone on the sharp edges of the rifling and then you have steel to steel contact. I have looked at some of these bullets taken from the pile randomly and without exception they all have zero copper left where the edge of the rifling meets the jacket.
I cannot, nor will I, mandate someone use a specific kind of ammo in THEIR firearm. I can with our range guns and with my personal firearms. Having a background in manufacturing I know firsthand what happens when you rub steel against steel at high speed and add heat to the process. Eventually the barrel will become smooth and all sense of rifling will be gone. Then what do you have?
I know what a new barrel costs and the problems with replacing them. Shooting this steel material through your firearms is a disaster waiting to happen. Don't think for a minute that it will hurt just to do a box or two. Even once is too many times.
Please note I am talking about PISTOL ammo in 45acp and 9mm as well as some .223. All of these are NOT bimetal jackets, but steel with a flash coating of copper.
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After some further investigation I have found some of the ammo and had it tested as best I could.
Nothing on the box says "Steel Jacketed Bullets" see attached PDF
Steel appears to be fairly soft alloy, and since they are from Russia we could not totally quantify the exact alloy, but it appears to be in the 1006, 1008, 1010, 1015 alloys. Low carbon and easy to cold form, and cheap to produce. Generally there is a lot of scrap metal recycled into these alloys.
Please review the attached PDF for the SAE specifics of SAE1010 alloy. All of the listed alloys are very close to the same in properties and to save time I just picked a middle of the road alloy.
NEXT, we tried to determine the copper wash/plating of the bullet. As best we could measure it and try to determine it's alloy as well, it doesn't look good for the shooters. It is a "Wash" of a copper alloy. little copper and lots of tin.
There is a VERY thin coating of a Copper/Tin "washed" onto the outside of the bullet. Thickness was measured and guessed at .0002 to .0004 thousandths of an inch.
To be a proper "safe" bullet to shoot out of any rifle or pistol there is supposed to be a copper alloy coating on the bullet of .003 to .005 thousandths of an inch. This is the lubrication and protection needed to fire bimetal or steel jacketed rounds from any firearm.
Based on our findings we can only warn shooters that they are saving money in on area that will cost them more in the end.
We are not allowed to use steel jacketed rounds on our range guns and any of the manufacturers that finds us doing so can and would yank our ability to be a certified range for their programs.
Each time you fire one of these rounds you are rubbing steel against steel under pressue and heat. It will cause permanent damage in a short period of time to your firearm. But then, like anything else, do as you want. It is your firearm and problem. We are here to help if we can.
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While the Burmese government has re-opened a key border checkpoint between Thailand and Myanmar to accommodate thousands of migrants fleeing Thailand's flooded factories, undocumented – and now unemployed – migrants face extortion and abuse as they try to return home, according to migrants and activists.
Aye Than, a 35-year-old Burmese employee, was working in one of Thailand's hardest-hit provinces, Ayutthaya, in a furniture factory until it flooded.
"Ive lost everything in the flood, but I cannot leave because I have no money to feed my family in Myanmar,"
said Aye Than. Thousands of Burmese migrants have been fleeing flooded industrial parks in the provinces of Ayutthaya, Nakhon Sawan, Nakhon Pathom and Pathum Thani, according to migrant workers groups. As quoted in local media, the Federation of Thai Industries estimates losses from the seven hardest-hit industrial estates could reach US$13 billion, covering 891 factories and 460,000 workers.
"Many people want to stay and get their unpaid wages back, but some simply gave up because they were traumatized and have lost all contacts with their employers,"
said a representative from the Thailand-based Migrant Working Group NGO coalition. More on floods The risk of "warning fatigue" in disaster preparedness Hospitals fear floods will hit drug supplies Disaster "is imminent and inevitable"
Livelihoods at risk as more flooding expected Agencies gear up for possible water-borne diseases Aye Than said since his work permit expired in October, police have arrested him several times, with immigration officers on both sides of the border demanding up to $80 each time as a condition of his release. He is now earning $4 per day doing odd jobs. "It is impossible for me to pay the fees," he said.
Risking arrest Without cash, identity documents or social connections, migrant workers are among the most vulnerable groups in the ongoing floods, said Claudia Natali, labour migration program coordinator at the International Organization for Migration IOM office in Bangkok.
"Irregular [undocumented] migrants who have no passport or work permit risk being arrested, but also those with a work permit or ID risk arrest and deportation when they leave the provinces where they are registered."
Under Thai law, migrant workers – except domestic, fisheries and water transport workers – are forbidden to travel outside their registered provinces.
But as an emergency relief measure during one of the country's worst natural disasters in recent history, the government has ordered the police not to arrest migrants fleeing floods, said Jackie Pollock, director of the MAP Foundation, a Chiang Mai-based NGO working with Burmese migrants in Thailand. However, immigration services are still pursuing undocumented migrants, said Pollock. Meanwhile, illicit brokers are charging migrants unreasonable transport fees to take them to the Myanmar border, said Andy Hall, a consultant with the Thailand-based Human Rights and Development Foundation. Many of these trips are at night, said Hall.
"This is very dangerous and makes them even more vulnerable to the extortion by immigration officers [in Thailand and Myanmar] and militia groups [in Myanmar]."
More than one million legally registered Burmese migrants work in Thailand, making up to 80 percent of the country's total migrant population and 5 percent of Thailand's labour force, according to IOM. While the number of undocumented migrants in Thailand is unknown, IOM estimated there were 1.4 million unregistered workers and family members in an October 2011 report. Nationwide, more than 500 people have died in this years monsoon, with more than seven million households in affected areas, according to the government as of 7 November.
via IRIN Asia | MYANMAR-THAILAND: Undocumented workers exploited post-floods | Myanmar | Thailand


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In an attempt to bolster the economy, the Federal Reserve announced a fresh round of bond purchases to replace Operation Twist, the stimulus program that is set to expire this month. It will spend $US45 billion a month to buy treasury bonds, in addition to the $US40 billion of mortgage bonds it has been buying since September.
Senior lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Sydney, Graham White, explains the concept of quantitative easing.
The term "quantitative easing" is typically used to refer to central bank actions in recent years - namely in Japan during the early 2000s and in the US, England and Eurozone since 2007 - to inject liquidity into the financial system as a means of providing a monetary stimulus to the economy at a time when the normal mechanics of monetary policy are difficult to apply.
To understand this a bit better, it is useful to consider first the similarities and differences between quantitative easing and conventional monetary policy.
Conventional monetary policy
Conventional monetary policy operates by manipulating the quantity of short-term liquid reserves that banks hold with the central bank (called exchange settlement accounts in Australia). This is done to maintain a particular target rate of interest on funds lent between banks in the overnight market. In Australia this is known as the cash rate, and in the US as the Federal Funds rate.
Monetary policy changes in Australia typically involve the Reserve Bank changing the target overnight rate and supporting that new target by injecting funds or withdrawing funds from these accounts. It does this by purchases or sales of short-term securities with banks.
By changing the cash rate, it is hoped that this will ultimately feed through into other interest rates, in turn affecting expenditures by consumers and firms and, eventually, inflation.
Quantitative easing
By contrast, quantitative easing comes into play when there is a need to stimulate economic activity and/or prevent deflation (falling prices), but the overnight target rate of interest (and the preferred instrument of monetary policy in "normal times") is near its lower limit – in other words, close to zero.
If this occurs, the central bank would purchase financial assets across a wider spectrum rather than only short-term securities to inject liquidity into the system.
The central bank may also inject funds through lending to some financial institutions usually at a rate (in the US known as the discount rate) above the target rate of the central bank.
For example, early US Federal Reserve responses to the GFC involved reducing the discount rate and also widening the pool of institutions that could access funds this way.
In effect, the policy of quantitative easing renders the asset balance sheets of the banks and other institutions involved more liquid. The balance sheet of the central bank becomes bigger as it purchases more assets and correspondingly injects more of its own liabilities into the system, which is another way of looking at currency and liquid reserves of the banks.
The act of the central bank purchasing these types of assets may push their prices up and their yields down.
In terms of affecting a sluggish economy, quantitative easing is therefore intended to work by making banks more liquid and affecting longer-term interest rates somewhat more directly.
A key aim of this type of policy is to bolster confidence in the liquidity of the financial system. In turn, it's hoped this confidence will support the financing of the real side of the economy in the face of the depressing effects of shocks like the GFC.
In other words, it is hoped that the policy will support the financing of expenditures by households and firms which drives aggregate demand for goods and services, the rate at which the economy is growing and what's eventually going to happen to the unemployment rate.
But "conventional" monetary policy - as it's sometimes referred to - need not be just about bolstering liquidity for the whole financial system; it can be just as much about strengthening particular parts of the financial or credit market.
This is the view taken by Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, who prefers to call the US version of the policy "credit easing".
For Bernanke, it's about focusing on asset purchases and loans to the parts of the financial system that most "affects credit conditions for households and businesses".
Does it work?
How successful is quantitative easing likely to be?
The answer depends on whether the key constraint facing sluggish economies is the banking and financial sector's willingness to lend and thus whether the key problem is what one may call a because economies are liquidity-constrained. If they are, then quantitative easing may be useful.
On the other hand, if the problem is a general expectation of low growth constraining investment expenditure by firms, and uncertainty about income and employment constraining expenditure by households, then liquid credit markets and cashed-up banks alone will not necessarily do much to help.
In these cases, quantitative easing may be likened to "pushing on a string", as noted by Keynes in the 1930s.
Arguably, this may have been the problem for the lack of success of this kind of policy in the case of Japan between 2001 and 2006.
As noted by Shigenori Shiratsuka from the Bank of Japan, while the Bank's quantitative easing may have helped stabilise Japan's financial system, "such stimulatory effects failed to be transmitted to outside of the financial system" with "limited effects on aggregate variables such as output" (Bank of Japan Discussion Paper, 2009).
In this regard, it is tempting to suggest that quantitative easing — to use the words of the economic theorist — is at best a necessary but not sufficient condition for stimulating depressed economies. To borrow a phrase,which is usually used inappropriately by politicians to excuse under-resourcing of the public sector and which seems more appropriate in relation to quantitative easing, throwing money at the problem may not be the solution.


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But what if you can't cook?
If I hooked up with a girl who cooked and she brought me to one of these parties. Would I be okay to eat? I figure I could save so much money on food. I assume you can take stuff home with you afterward. I would bring a bunch of those food storage container things they show on the infomercials at night. I figure I would have to average two or three parties a week to cover all my meals. I just have to track down a girl to get me in the door.
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Promotional products are unparalleled in their ability to attract new clients, increase brand
awareness and ultimately grow your business.
We've all heard that phrase "you have to spend money to make money" haven't we? But what, exactly, are we supposed to be spending our money on?
I'll tell you what.. Promotional Products!
They are a proven, cost effective way of marketing your company to an extremely large audience while doing minimal work. Sounds efficient, does it not?
If you're new to the idea of promotional products, I understand that you might be hesitant. Despite any fears you may have, I strongly urge you to continue reading and discover just what quality promotional items can do for your company.
The law of reciprocity: Give, and you shall receive.
More often than not, giving a gift or item to an individual promotes a feeling that he/she should reciprocate for your kind gesture. In terms of promotional products, the giving of a product to someone else will make him or her more likely to do business with you.
L.J. Market Research did a study that found 52% of participants given a promotional item, ultimately did business with that company. The remaining 48% of participants said they would be more likely to do business with that company in the future because of their gesture.
Giving out promotional products is also a very effective way of starting a conversation with a potential customer. Handing something over allows you to "break the ice" and engage that person in conversation and because you gave them something, he or she is likely to listen to what you have to say.
"Hey, Hey! Look at ME!"
Everyone wants to be the popular table at the trade-show, am I right? We all want attention for our companies and our brands and promotional products are a great way to attract that attention!
There is no more powerful word in the field of marketing than the word "FREE", so why not offer free stuff? You now know how promotional products can help open lines of communication, but they can also get people to you all on their own!
Your trade-show booth can only be viewed from so far away, so how do you reach people all the way on the other side of the convention center?
Easy! Send a promotional product after them!
Those who receive one of your promotional items will likely be wandering all around the trade-show where others will see them. That will strike up conversations similar to the following:
"Where did you get that awesome T-Shirt? Really? [Your Company] is just giving them away? I'm on my way!"
"Oh darn I lost my pen.. oh how convenient, this booth is giving out [Your Company] pens!"
To prove these outrageous claims, we turned to Exhibit Surveys, Inc. who did a study that determined that there was a 176% increase in trade-show traffic to a booth that gave out promotional items.
"How do I still have this thing?"
Conventional advertisements generally run for a set period of time. TV ads might run for a few weeks, billboards for a few months, etc. Promotional products are a unique form of advertising that could potentially continue advertising to new target markets for an unlimited amount of time.
Think about what promotional products generally are: note pads, pens, t-shirts, key chains etc. These items are not large or expensive; instead, they are simply useful. These types of items can easily be used in every day life, making them susceptible to long term exposure.
L.J. Market Research completed yet another study that interviewed random business travelers. These interviews took place at a variety of airports across the country. According to L.J. Market Research, 71% of the participants said they had received a promotional product sometime in the last 12 months.
But it gets better.
Of that group, 33% of those participants had that product on their person!
The number of impressions with traditional advertising stops when the ad stops running on TV or in the paper or wherever. Promotional products never stop collecting impressions because they are constantly in use or being passed from one person to another. The cost per impression using promotional items is drastically less than that of traditional advertising.
Who can argue with more impressions at a lesser cost??
Repetition, Repetition, Repetition!
Brand recognition requires repeated exposure to the brand name, slogan and logo. Seeing the same thing over and over again is often one of the best ways to remember something and that's where promotional products come in.
Customers are more likely to remember your company if they have been exposed to it hundreds, even thousands of times. A promotional item has the ability to show off your brand on a daily, hourly and even minute-to-minute basis.
According to Schreber & Associates, 39% of all people who have received a promotional product in the last 6 months can remember the name of the company associated with it.
Expand Beyond Your View.
Are you getting enough brand exposure with traditional advertising methods?
Promotional products to the rescue!
Promotional items have an uncanny ability to reach an audience far beyond your targeted boundaries. The most obvious examples of how this is accomplished are by using pens and t-shirts.
T-Shirts: These can be viewed as walking, moving, breathing billboards for your company. Promotional t-shirts are often worn to the gym or simply while out on the town exposing themselves to hundreds, even thousands of people each trip.
T-shirts generally account for 30% of total promotional product sales (Advertising Specialty Institute)
Pens: These change hands at an alarming rate. People are constantly taking notes, jotting down grocery lists or writing entire reports with pens, but most importantly, they're sharing. This allows your branded pen to reach an astronomical number of demographics during its life cycle.
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Brand reputation can sometimes take a lifetime to develop into one that is particularly positive. Why not cut down on that time by using promotional items? 71% of participants in a study done by Louisiana State University could remember the company's name that gave it to them. You can bet these people also had a favorable impression of the company as well, simply because of their gesture of goodwill.
Promotional items can also be given to employees to reward goals met, accomplishments and even just hard work in general. That particular employee will then, more than likely, continue their hard work at an equal or greater level because of the feeling of appreciation they received because of the gift.
This was useful to me, now I want to share it with you!
Re-gifting is generally a forbidden practice. The thought of someone passing on a well thought out personal gift to someone else generally promotes blood boiling anger but not in the case of a promotional product. If your promotional product is being passed along, you should be elated!
People share; people share stories, emotions and most importantly, people share stuff. Recipients of promotional items are more than likely going to pass them along to someone else and this is exactly what we should hope for!
The more a promotional item is passed along, the greater total audience it sees, the smaller our cost per impression gets and the bigger our smiles become. It's a know fact (thanks to the Advertising Specialty Institute) that 62% of those who receive a promotional product will give that item away before throwing it out.
Think of it this way:
1 person is given a promotional product.
That 1 person exposes that product to 100 people.
If you give out 100 promotional items and each of those items was passed around 100 times by its recipients, you will have gained 1,000,000 impressions with just 100 items!
That's what we in the business call incredibly effective advertising.
More impressions = more business generated.
We've all heard, been taught, or thought about a target audience. What we often don't think about is the possibility that our perfect customer is outside of our current targeting boundaries. That's where promotional products can come in handy!
Promotional items have no geographic or demographic limitations and because of their mobility, items such as USB drives, t-shirts and pens have the ability to reach a vast number of people you may have never gotten the chance to advertise to.
A simple pen could be the reason for your largest client.
The whole purpose of advertising is to generate revenue for your company. The fantastic thing about promotional products is, that's what they're designed to do!
Baylor University did a study that concluded, companies whose sales people utilized promotional products did 22% more business than those sales people who didn't.
Due to high exposure rates, promotional items create a positive affiliation with your company and can help to generate sales at an alarmingly rapid pace. This means you're going to be recommended more often than a company who did not use promotional items because of your giving reputation and that's a great feeling!
Seriously what are you waiting for?
You've seen the evidence; you've seen the examples, now its time for you to take the dive. Promotional products are an extremely effective and efficient form of advertising and they can do wonders for your business.
It's understandable if you're still cautious of diving into uncharted waters but if you believe in your company and your product, there is nothing to be concerned about.
Online, Internet and digital marketing are emerging as the basis for future marketing efforts but that doesn't mean we should abandon past, proven tactics. Learn from the past, embrace promotional products, and enjoy the ROI that comes with them.
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Tamoxifen trial should prompt breast cancer patients to reconsider treatment options
A groundbreaking clinical trial involving the breast cancer drug tamoxifen should prompt certain breast cancer patients to reconsider their treatment options, according to Loyola University Medical Center breast cancer specialist Dr. Kathy Albain.
The trial is called ATLAS (Adjuvant Tamoxifen Longer Against Shorter). It included women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer that had not spread to distant organs. Women who took tamoxifen for 10 years had a lower risk of recurrence and lower mortality rate than women who took the drug for 5 years, which is the current standard of care.
"I think this is going to create a need for women with this type of breast cancer to readdress their treatment options," Albain said.
Dr. Richard Gray, on behalf of the ATLAS trial investigators, announced results Dec. 5 during the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Albain moderated the opening oral session in which the results were announced and discussed.
A worldwide team of investigators enrolled 6,846 women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer who had been taking tamoxifen for five years and were free of recurrence of their breast cancer. Women were randomly assigned to either stop taking tamoxifen, or to continue taking the drug for another five years.
During the second decade following diagnosis, women who continued taking tamoxifen had a 25 percent lower recurrence rate and a 29 percent lower breast cancer mortality rate, compared with women who stopped after five years. Overall, taking tamoxifen for 10 years cut the risk of dying of breast cancer in half.
Albain noted there are risks to taking tamoxifen, including a higher risk of endometrial cancer in postmenopausal patients and an increased risk of blood clots. But endometrial cancer generally is curable, and in certain women, the benefits of taking tamoxifen for longer periods may outweigh the risks, Albain said.
Premenopausal women may benefit by taking tamoxifen for 10 years rather than 5 years, Albain said. The picture is more complicated for postmenopausal women. Depending on the patient, a regimen could involve taking tamoxifen for a period of time and an aromatase inhibitor for a period of time.
"Each woman's situation is different, which is why she should consult her doctor on the best course of action in light of these exciting and significant new findings," Albain said.


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At first the idea sounds nuts, like barbecuing in the nude, or a Madonna concert. But then when you think about it ... why shouldn't kids get paid for playing in the Little League World Series? In a column on MSNBC's sports site today by Bob Cook, our man claims, only somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that Little Leaguers should reap some of the benefits of their labor.
Let's look at the Little League World Series. Oh, I'm sorry, the Little League World Series presented by Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, its official name. The Little League World Series presented by Kellogg's Frosted Flakes that takes place on national television, and whose preliminary rounds take place on national television. The Little League World Series presented by Kellogg's Frosted Flakes that has sponsorships out the wazoo (not a Marxist term, technically), including the likes of ReMax, the official real estate company of Little League Baseball.
Tell me, Little Leaguers — when was the last time YOU bought real estate? Exactly.
Now, Little League Baseball itself is a non-profit organization, and all of the money it makes from product tie-ins goes toward its own funding. But Kellogg's and ESPN are under no such restriction. Of course, this doesn't apply to the kids from the recently eliminated Staten Island team, most of whom are already employed as dockworkers.
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To install libiptc follow these steps:
Download iptables-1.2.6.tar.bz2 from http://netfilter.samba.org/.
Copy the iptables tar file into /usr/local/src:
bash# cp iptables-1.2.6.tar.bz2 /usr/local/src
bash# tar xjvf iptables-1.2.6.tar.bz2
Go into the iptables directory:
bash# cd iptables-1.2.6
Check to see if your kernel needs some aditional patches with:
bash# make pending-patches KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux
If your kernel source is located somewhere other than in /usr/src/linux, replace the kernel source directory in the command line above with your source directory.
Be careful with this option. This command invokes patch-o-matic, a new patch verification utility by Rusty Russell. The utility will show you a list of new patches (some proposed, some submitted, some accepted) available for your kernel source. As Rusty himself says, "Some of these new patches have bugs", and you do not have to apply all of them.
Read the information showed for each patch carefully and answer with y (apply the patch) or N (skip this patch). In some cases answering y will try to apply the patch, but if the patch finds some differences between your sources, it will be skipped and the next new one presented.
I did not apply any of the proposed patches and kept my kernel in its original state before continuing to the next step.
Make the iptables package with:
bash# make KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux
Again, if your kernel source is not at /usr/src/linux, replace the kernel source directory in the command above.
If all goes right the compiler will finish without errors.
Before the next step, check to see if you have installed iptables package by typing:
bash# rpm -q iptables
If the iptables rpm is installed, you will see the name and version of the package, similar to:
In this case un-install with:
bash# rpm -e iptables
Install the new created package:
bash# make install KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux
Again, check your kernel source directory.
This command will install the binaries (iptables, iptables-save, iptables-restore) in /usr/local/sbin, the manuals in /usr/local/man/man8 and the modules in /usr/local/lib/iptables.
Finally install the headers, development libraries and associated development man pages, with:
bash# make install-devel
This command will install the libiptc library in /usr/local/lib.
I think something must be wrong with this command. It does not install all headers files properly, so you must install them yourself using:
bash# cd /usr/local/src/iptables-1.2.6 bash# cp include/iptables.h /usr/local/include bash# cp include/iptables_common.h /usr/local/include bash# mkdir /usr/local/include/libiptc bash# cp include/libiptc/libiptc.h /usr/local/include/libiptc bash# cp include/libiptc/ipt_kernel_headers.h /usr/local/include/libiptc bash# cp iptables.o /usr/local/lib
iptables.o is needed above to compile programs to get rule information from netfilter.
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Bangladesh: Indigenous Peoples engulfed in Chittagong Hill Tracts land conflict
The Bangladeshi government's failure to address rights to traditional lands in the eastern Chittagong Hill Tracts region has left tens of thousands of Pahari Indigenous people landless and trapped in a cycle of violent clashes with Bengali settlers, Amnesty International said in a new report released today.
The report, Pushed to the Edge, documents how the Pahari are still waiting for the government to live up to the terms of an accord signed more than 15 years ago, by restoring their traditional lands to them.
Clashes between the Pahari and Bengali settlers in the region over land use are all too common.
"The current situation, with violent clashes being fuelled by disputes over land, continues to cause immense insecurity and suffering for the Pahari Indigenous People, and the Bangladeshi authorities have to address it immediately," said Andrew Erueti, Amnesty International's Researcher on Indigenous Peoples' Rights.
"That the Pahari Indigenous People are being denied their traditional lands, or adequate compensation for land taken away from them, is a clear violation of international human rights law."
The Chittagong Hill Tracts region in southeastern Bangladesh has long seen internal armed conflict following Pahari demands for greater autonomy and protection of traditional lands.
A 1997 peace accord included a series of reforms to restore Pahari traditional lands to them, but these have only at best been partially fulfilled despite repeated promises by the current Bangladeshi government.
"The government has still time to fulfill its promises before the general elections in 2014", said Erueti.
The conflict had a devastating effect on the Pahari and still today it is estimated that more than 90,000 Pahari families remain internally displaced.
A Land Commission – set up under the Peace Accord to settle land ownership claims after the conflict – has yet to make a single ruling on a land dispute.
Thousands of Bengali settlers who have moved to the Chittagong Hill Tracts during and after the conflict have gradually occupied and encroached on traditional Pahari land, giving rise to renewed violent clashes. During the conflict, the settlers – mostly landless families from the plains districts – were encouraged to move to the Chittagong Hill Tracts with offers of land as part of a counter insurgency strategy.
Pahari tend to suffer disproportionately in the clashes, which have over recent years left hundreds of Pahari families homeless as their houses have been burned down in mob violence triggered by land disputes.
In February 2011, for example, a mob of some 200 Bengali settlers burned at least 23 Pahari homes in the Longadu after a Bengali settler accused the Pahari community of murdering his brother. Nobody has been held accountable for the attacks on the village.
The authorities have remained ineffectual throughout, failing to protect the Paharis' right to security and their rights to traditional lands – as well as their livelihoods and way of life, which is inextricably linked to those lands.
Pahari women are especially negatively affected, as one Pahari woman told Amnesty International:
"We are now left with no land to dojum(farming) and grow crops, or forest to go to for collecting fuel wood, and fruit. Life has become very hard as we have [the] army at very close proximity and I feel very insecure even walking short distances. Our home has become an insecure unsafe place to live in. I'm now constantly worried about getting food for my family and security of my children."
"For many Pahari Indigenous people, in particular in rural areas, their traditional lands are linked to not just their livelihood but also their very way of life. It is inconceivable that after 15 years the Land Commission set up to restore Pahari to their lands is not operational," said Erueti.
Despite the 1997 peace accord promising to remove all temporary army camps from the Chittagong Hill Tracts, the region still remains Bangladesh's most militarized with a substantial army presence. Many Pahari view the army as providing support for Bengali settlers' continued occupation of Pahari land.
"This violence is likely to continue as long as these serious land disputes remain unresolved. It is also indicative of the Bangladeshi authorities' failure to adequately protect Pahari people at risk, despite the huge security presence in the region," said Erueti.
Amnesty International calls on the government of Bangladesh to respect its obligations under international human rights law, including the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the ILO Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples No.107, and take concrete steps to return the Paharis' traditional lands to them, with the effective participation of Pahari women and men in the process.
Amnesty International is also calling on political parties in the lead up to next year's general elections to include the restoration of Pahari right to their traditional land in their election manifesto.
Lees het rapport Bangladesh: Pushed to the edge. Indigenous rights denied in Bangladesh's Chittagong hill tracts


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RSS feeds send users automatic messages if a news item is published on the website.
RSS reader
To read an RSS feed, you will need an RSS reader. This is a computer program that automatically retrieves RSS feeds for you and combines them in a single list. Several free RSS readers are available on the internet. A commonly used one is Feedreader. If you use Firefox or Safari, you won't need to download an RSS reader; these two browsers have built-in RSS readers.


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Minicom – HyperTerminal replacement in Ubuntu
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Install minicom using the following command
sudo apt-get install minicom
Now you need to check your serial ports using the following command from your terminal
dmesg|grep ttyS
You should see similar to the following output
[ 1.430818] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 1.431528] 00:0c: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
This means the device correspond to my serial port is ttyS0.
Configure minicom using the following command
sudo minicom -s
Use the keyboard keys to select the menu item Serial port setup.
Enter A to change the Serial Device to /dev/ttyS0, and then enter E to change the line speed to 9600 8N1
Using arrow keys, select Save setup as dfl
Select Exit from Minicom.
Next time, from the terminal you only need to run sudo minicom in order to access your Cisco box or you make the user a member of the 'dialout' group. Then you don't have to run minicom with sudo after the initial default configuration. The Dialout group owns all of the serial ports in Ubuntu.


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I wanted to post this in January… but I have to say, I actually completely forgot I'd taken these photos and considered writing this post. I've been writing these blog posts for a couple of years now, meaning I have a written diary of my favourite (or not so favourite) products for most of my adult life. So I still really thought it was worth discussing with you where my 2016 favourites have gone… and whether I'm still using them
I mean the main difference between now and then is my blog photos style… at the end of 2016 I discovered the marble paper… which I still very much use. But I used to only use the marble paper.. ie there was literally nothing else in the picture other than the makeup and the marble… anyhow, that's not why we're here:
Max Factor Face Finity All Day Flawless Primer | Still love this primer, and the foundation! Although, I have to say, if I was going to buy a primer from Max Factor it would be the Smooth Miracle Primer
Bourjois City Radiance Foundation | OMG I used to LOVE this foundation. I used it off recommendation from Emily Rose and instantly fell in love. It's still a good foundation, but I really do feel like I've discovered better foundations since… still would be intrigued to try this again though..
Benefit Boing Concealer | This makes me so so sad, because I lost this concealer. I literally have no idea where it went. However, it was a really good full coverage concealer, and I really do want it back in my life…
Bourjois Radiance Reveal Concealer | Minus the shocking shade range I still LOVE this concealer. It is the most beautiful under eye concealer ever! Stunning
Rimmel Match Perfection Concealer | This is a good one, and I still do use it a fair amount. But you just don't get much product in this, and it seems to run out almost instantly. Therefore, not sure I'd really recommend this…
Soap and Glory One Heck of a Blot Powder | I actually haven't used this since I had this one… I do remember it being a very good setting powder, but I've found I'm so much more into loose powder, that I don't think I'd ever need to pick this up…. now watch me buy this!
Smashbox Contour Kit | I still adore this product! However, I've actually found myself using more of the palette since back in 2016. I used to only use the contour shade, which is such a shame, because the bronzer does a really nice job of warming the skin and the yellow setting powder is really nice to set the skin (with a really light layer). If anything, I love this product more!
Body Shop Honey Bronzer | Still a stunning bronzer… I've loved mine so much I've cracked my packaging. But I still use this regularly
Benefit Hoola Bronzer | I feel like, back in the day, Benefit was the only 'high end' makeup brand I really tried – par the odd product here or there. And the Hoola Bronzer still is an all time classic, do I need to say anything else? Not really.
Model Co Blush in Cosmopolitan | I went through a stage of loving blush, then I hated them, and now I'm so back into them again. And this blush really is just the perfect blush shade. The packaging is bulky af, but the formula is really good!
Rimmel Royal Blush | A really good cream blush, but I've just come to accept that I never ever use cream blushes… and so while these products are good, I just never use them.
Sleek Solstice Palette | Still a classic, although so many brands have launched a million highlighters since this, I feel like it's been completely forgotten. Still only use one shade out of the whole palette, but still a stunning shade
Miss Sporty Quad in Smokey Brown Eyes | Oh, the first palette I ever hit pan on. I used to LOVE this, and I still really do think it's a great bargain and a great travel palette. I just have soo many eyeshadow palettes that I feel like this one gets forgotten
GOSH Eyeshadow Palette in To Enjoy in New York | Still one of my more unique palettes, I still love this palette and still use is super regularly. I went through a stage of using this on the daily – when I had purple dipped hair. However, since writing this post, I've discovered the highlight shade at the top of this palette is GORGEOUS!
Max Factor Smokey Eye in Sumptuous Gold | Still a stunning mini palette. Quite expensive for what it is. Very very shimmery. But still really pretty, easy to wear, long lasting and the look you can create with it really does suit me!
Soap and Glory Supercat | I don't really find myself wearing a cat flick much anymore, but this is still one of the best eyeliners out there and still the one I'd recommend!
Maybelline Lash Sensational & Bourjois Volume Volume Reveal | Thought I'd put these together because I feel the same way about them. Stunning, brilliant mascaras that are still probably my favourite mascara (alongside the Benefit Rollerlash Mascara). However, I just have so many mascaras, I'm just holding off buying them
Maybelline Brow Satin Pencil | Still a favourite, still the best brow product ever, still really annoying that it doesn't have a spoolie on it.
Mac Lipsticks in Faux and Hot Gossip | This makes me super sad… because my Hot Gossip melted last Summer and just became a hot mess (no.. still not funny). However, Faux is still a firm favourite and my Mac lipsticks are still my go tos
Rimmel Kate Moss Lipstick in My Nude | I actually got rid of this, and don't really find myself using the Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks. They were incredible, and I'm sure they still are. But I feel like makeup has come so far since these came out and there are just better lipsticks out there now
No.7 High Shine Crayon in Delicate Pink | Still a really good lip crayon. And I still find myself using it… and OMG this was pre-liquid lipsticks? Crazy!
NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream in 19, the Collection Velvet Kiss Lip Cream in Caramel and the Bourjois Rouge Edition Velvet in Nude-ist | Oh whoops, here they are. Anyhow. These are all good liquid lipsticks an I do still stand by them all. But I wouldn't say they're my all time favourites… also why did I have three favourites…
Do you remember what your favourites were from 2016? Do you actually use any?
I feel like it's such a weird thing to look back at products you used to love and see if you still do love them anymore!
Katie x


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Video: Track-day fun in the Lexus LFAThu, 06 Oct 2011
As promised, the third installment in our supercar video extravaganza--after the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 and the Porsche GT2 RS--gives you the lowdown on the hyperexotic Lexus LFA and its insane 552-hp V10 powerplant.
Best described by senior editor for motorsports Mac Morrison as "shrieking like a melting witch," the Lexus LFA emits a wail unlike anything this side of a Formula One racer, and its performance isn't too far off that mark, either.
Check out the walk-around and some on-track fun, then come back for the VBox lap on Friday.
By Andrew Stoy


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Stumpwork Beetle
I completed the stumpwork beetle yesterday afternoon and, whilst I think I need more practice, I'll share with you how it was done here. Hope you enjoy and find it at least a little interesting, and maybe even useful too!
The kit came with just an oval outline on the fabric. The first thing to do then, was to pad the outline with felt. There was no pattern given for it, so I just guess-timated and then trimmed to size. Then you stab stitch it in place. No need for lots of stitches, just a few are OK. You could even just put a few stitches in the centre of the felt and that would be fine too, but I prefer to have the edges secured so they don't get in my way when I'm working the next part.
Next we move on the green wings and, as you can see in this shot, the satin stitches are worked from top to bottom, along the diagonal line formed by the five black stitches. You need to close them up slightly at the head end to both fit them all on and to stop them slipping off the side of the body.
Here you can see the completed satin stitches.
The next element is the legs and antennae. These were worked in just one strand of black stranded cotton and done in straight stitches and detached chain (lazy daisy), thus making the 'double' look of the first section of each leg. The antennae, of course, are just one straight stitch each coming out from the front of head (where else???!)
Finally, just stitch the eyes, two blue- or green-black seed beads, on to the front of the head and here he is, your stumpwork beetle!


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WASHINGTON (NNPA) – With a largely uncooperative, highly-partisan Congress headed into a mid-term election, President Obama declared in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night that he will have 'a year of action' by expanding economic opportunity through executive orders and other action that do not require legislative approval.
"I'm eager to work with all of you," Obama said in a speech that lasted a little longer than an hour. "But America does not stand still – and neither will I. So wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, that's what I'm going to do."
Repeating many of the themes he sounded in his State of the Union speech a year ago – and having seen congressional inaction on most of them – a frustrated Barack Obama promised to be more aggressive in using the power of the presidency.
In glowing review of his first five years in office, Obama said, "Here are the results of your efforts: The lowest unemployment rate in over five years. A rebounding housing market. A manufacturing sector that's adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s. More oil produced at home than we buy from the rest of the world – the first time that's happened in nearly twenty years. Our deficits – cut by more than half. And for the first time in over a decade, business leaders around the world have declared that China is no longer the world's number one place to invest; America is."
He continued, "…The question for everyone in this chamber, running through every decision we make this year, is whether we are going to help or hinder this progress. For several years now, this town has been consumed by a rancorous argument over the proper size of the federal government. It's an important debate – one that dates back to our very founding. But when that debate prevents us from carrying out even the most basic functions of our democracy – when our differences shut down government or threaten the full faith and credit of the United States – then we are not doing right by the American people."
A major theme of the president's speech was providing expanded opportunity for all Americans – an opportunity to get a job, to earn fair wages, to get an education and to have access to affordable health care.
"Today, after four years of economic growth, corporate profits and stock prices have rarely been higher, and those at the top have never done better. But average wages have barely budged. Inequality has deepened. Upward mobility has stalled. The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by – let alone get ahead. And too many still aren't working at all."
Unlike past State of the Union speeches, Obama did not call for higher tax rates on high-income earners. He also toned down his rhetoric on income inequality from a month ago when he called it "the defining challenge of our time" and referred to a "dangerous and growing inequality and lack of upward mobility."
A recent report by Oxfam, a London based organization that seeks to eradicate poverty, found that the wealth of 1 percent of the richest people in the world ($110 trillion) is 65 times the total wealth of the bottom half of the world's population.
The Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, collected data that shows the top fifth of the U.S. population receives 66 percent of tax-expenditure benefits, the middle 60 percent of the population receives slightly more than 31 percent and the bottom fifth receives just 2.8 percent of tax-expenditure benefits. The top 1 percent of the population alone receives 23.9 percent of tax-expenditure benefits.
According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, 60 percent of Americans believe the "economic system in this country unfairly favors the wealthy." And even larger margin – 65 percent – believe the gap between the rich and everyone else has increased over the past 10 years.
But instead of getting into what his Republican critics like to call a class war, the president framed the issue Tuesday night through the lens of a lack of progress for working-class Americans.
"Let's make this a year of action," President Obama said. "That's what most Americans want – for all of us in this chamber to focus on their lives, their hopes, their aspirations. And what I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead."
In an action on Tuesday, President Obama issued an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contract workers from $7.25 an hour to $10.10.
To raise the minimum wage beyond federal contractors, as Obama has been urging for more than a year, he will need the support of Congress. He will also need cooperation from the House and Senate to act on other issues such as immigration, extending unemployment benefits, tax reform and expanding pre-K education.
Although White House officials are predicting some progress on farm legislation and immigration, they recognize that partisan politics traditionally grow even more partisan in a mid-term election, especially during a president's second term. Consequently, the administration is advancing a series of modest initiatives, including:
• Directing the Treasury Department to create a starter retirement savings account, called "myRA";
• Hosting a White House summit on working families;
• Having Vice President Joe Biden lead a review of the federal job training system;
• Streamlining federal regulations covering construction of manufacturing factories that rely on natural gas and
• Convening a group of CEOs to solicit their ideas on how best to get unemployed workers back into the job market.
On CNN Tuesday night, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich criticized President Obama for taking so long to use the authority he has to issue executive orders, which are presidential directives that interpret the constitution and federal laws without needing the approval of Congress.
According to the National Archives and The American Presidency Project, President Obama has issued 168 executive orders. His 147 during his first term was the fewest by a president in more than 100 years. By contrast, in their first terms, Ronald Reagan issued 213, Bill Clinton 200 and George W. Bush 173.
Obama defenders say many of his executive orders have been far reaching, delaying enforcement of certain sections of the Affordable Care Act, federal recognition of same-sex marriages and delaying deportation of some illegal immigrants.
At a White House briefing with a small group of reporters Tuesday afternoon, a senior administration official responded to critics who contend that President Obama would be more effective if he socialized more with House Republicans.
But that's been impossible with the Tea Party wing of the GOP, the official said.
"They said he should schmooze a little bit more, if he would just go play golf with them," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "They don't want to be seen playing golf with him. They don't want to be seen having dinner with him. They don't want to work with the president and they've told us that every way they know how."


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Durga Puja is a famous Hindu festival when Goddess Durga is worshipped. Durga Puja is also known as Durgotsava. Durgotsava refers to all five days festivity and these five days are observed as Shashthi, Maha Saptami, Maha Ashtami, Maha Navami and Vijayadashami. (According to Hindu religious texts Durga Puja, including Chandi Path, should begin from the next day of Mahalaya Amavasya. Mahalaya is the most important day of Pitru Paksha, when Hindus pay homage to their ancestors, is not considered for starting any auspicious work.)
Most states except West Bengal do Ghatasthapana on Pratipada which is the next day of Mahalaya Amavasya. Ghatasthapana is equivalent to Kalparambha during Durga Puja when Goddess Durga is invoked. Kalparambha mostly falls on Shashthi Tithi during Devi Paksha. According to regional customs and beliefs Durga Puja during Shardiya Navratri varies from nine days to one day only which is also mentioned in Dharmasindhu.
The Goddess Durga arrives on the Earth on the first day of Devi Paksha which starts on the next day of Mahalaya Amavasya during Pitru Paksha. She departs on Durga Visarjan day. The weekdays when she arrives and departs are significant and considered as omen of coming time.