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Friday, August 04, 2017
Law Review Submission Angsting Thread: Fall 2017
It looks to be about that time of year again. Post here for comments about your law review submission experiences. I'm wondering if the Northwestern exclusive review, with its decisions made by July 28, has moved up the process a bit.
UPDATE: You can get to the last page of the comments here.
Posted by Matt Bodie on August 4, 2017 at 08:32 AM in Law Review Review | Permalink
Submitted a week ago. Rejections from NC and Texas.
Posted by: LawProf | Aug 4, 2017 9:13:04 AM
Submitted on 7/25. Acceptances from two specialty journals and a T50ish law review. Rejection from Stanford (with subject line, "Your Article Has Been Rejected.") Under committee review at a lower T20 LR. No other responses.
Posted by: Lawprof | Aug 4, 2017 9:34:46 AM
Any sense from folks out there when places like Fordham, GW, UCLA, Utah, and Wisconsin are going to open up?
Posted by: Matt Bodie | Aug 4, 2017 10:00:27 AM
Submitted in late July. Rejections from North Carolina and Washington. Acceptances from two T50-75ish journals. Total silence for several days.
Posted by: YetAnotherProf | Aug 4, 2017 10:01:39 AM
This thread always gets unwieldy and difficult to assimilate, so I'll try to be helpful with the following information, which represents the best of my understanding based on recent personal experience.
Journals that are open, with some details about their processes:
Alabama Law Review
Arizona Law Review
Boston College Law Review
California Law Review
Cornell Law Review
Columbia Law Review (definitely reviewing, gives 1 hour for offers made off an expedite)
Duke Law Journal (definitely reviewing, gives 7 days for offers)
The Georgetown Law Journal (gives around 24 hours for offers)
Georgia Law Review
Harvard Law Review (gives 7 days)
Iowa Law Review (making offers, gives around 5 days)
Michigan Law Review (making offers, gives firm 24 hours for offers)
New York University Law Review (open and reviewing but unlikely to make offers before Aug. 7)
North Carolina Law Review
Northwestern University Law Review
Southern California Law Review
Stanford Law Review (open and reviewing but unlikely to make offers before Aug. 13, gives 7 days)
Texas Law Review
The University of Chicago Law Review (gives 7 days)
University of Illinois Law Review
University of Pennsylvania Law Review (definitely reviewing, gives firm 1 hour for offers made off an expedite)
Vanderbilt Law Review (definitely reviewing)
Washington Law Review
William & Mary Law Review
The Yale Law Journal (making offers, gives 7 days)
Journals not yet open:
UCLA Law Review (Aug. 11)
Washington University Law Review (Sept.)
The George Washington Law Review (Aug. 21)
Fordham Law Review (Aug. 15)
Journals that (I believe) are full:
Minnesota Law Review
Notre Dame Law Review (except for Fed Courts Issue)
Boston University Law Review
Indiana Law Journal
Any editors reading this can correct me if my impressions are mistaken.
Posted by: Scott Dodson | Aug 4, 2017 1:00:27 PM
I submitted 8/1. I got rejected by the Berkeley Tech Law Journal within 45 minutes (at least the rejection didn't say it came "after careful review"). Another ding by Nevada on 8/2. Neither journal stated it was full.
Adding on to Scott's post above, Georgia is promising to make decisions within 10 days of submissions and will be requiring acceptances within 10 days of an offer.
Posted by: Dancing | Aug 4, 2017 3:37:48 PM
Rejected by George Mason. Will write it because the article is leftist.
Posted by: Lawprof | Aug 4, 2017 5:49:28 PM
Barrage of dings last night and early morning today. Don't these kids go to bars on Friday nights?
Posted by: Law | Aug 5, 2017 8:15:39 AM
Submitted early this past week, and got quick dings from Nevada and Vandy. Otherwise silence.
Posted by: NCProf | Aug 5, 2017 9:31:29 AM
Thanks a lot, Scott, for that thorough list.
Posted by: Matt Bodie | Aug 5, 2017 2:37:39 PM
The UC Davis Law Review will begin reviewing submissions on August 14. As the faculty advisor, I'm told they are looking for around 12 articles during the Fall submissions season. (For what it's worth, the Davis Law Review generally fills two issues in the Spring, two in the Fall, and one through its annual symposium.)
Posted by: Brian Soucek | Aug 5, 2017 3:36:47 PM
Brian, what helpful info -- thank you! If other law review advisors want to share similar information, that would be greatly appreciated!
Posted by: LawProf | Aug 5, 2017 4:53:33 PM
dings from cornell and mich within seconds of each other this morning.
Posted by: Law | Aug 6, 2017 8:52:36 AM
I likewise received a ding from Cornell this morning.
Posted by: LawProf | Aug 6, 2017 9:09:47 AM
As faculty advisor to Hastings Law Journal, I can confirm that HLJ is open and reviewing. FYI, HLJ sends articles through a peer-review step before making an offer.
Posted by: Scott Dodson | Aug 6, 2017 12:50:50 PM
Thanks Scott. Would you mind sharing a brief glimpse into how the peer review process works?
Posted by: Axel Foley | Aug 6, 2017 1:12:52 PM
Axel, I can give a glimpse based on my dealings, but keep in mind that HLJ is run by the students, so this information is second hand. Here goes:
If an editor reads a submission and thinks it may be worthy of publication, the editor sends the article to a professor who has agreed to be called as a peer reviewer and who has an academic interest in the subject matter. A negative peer review usually leads to a rejection. If the peer review comes back positive, there is an additional vote by HLJ before any offer is made.
Posted by: Scott Dodson | Aug 6, 2017 4:02:09 PM
Scott - it's great to hear that HLJ does this. I'm a law professor at a business school, and most of my colleagues are shocked to hear that law reviews don't have formalized peer review. Too bad this isn't the norm.
Posted by: New prof | Aug 6, 2017 8:14:28 PM
What Scott describes is not really peer review. It is a peer veto system. In a peer review system, the review itself is subject to review by peers, both by the peer editors of the journal as well as through a response by the author(s). I don't know whether the peer veto system is better than a system with no peer involvement at all, but we should not confuse it with real peer review.
Posted by: lawprof | Aug 6, 2017 10:15:41 PM
There's a lot of confusion over what "peer review" is and isn't. Many judges, for example, confuse it with study replication -- something entirely different. I recently looked into this for an article I just finished with my frequent coauthor (a Ph.D.) in which we debunked some judicial misconceptions about behavioral research. I'm not terribly impressed with peer review; it sounds much better than it is. And I'm not even referring to the serious drawbacks (from the author's perspective) of peer-reviewed, exclusive-submission journals.
In the course of my research, I found this very useful article in the IL L Rev Online, "Law Review v. Peer Review": https://illinoislawreview.org/online/law-review-vs-peer-review/
As an aside, I was also surprised to learn that: (1) one of my previous publications had been peer reviewed; and (2) I had actually been asked to be a peer reviewer for an international, peer-reviewed journal. I had no idea, at that time, that THAT was what peer review was. I simply kept ignoring the multiple email requests and eventually they stopped asking. Had I known that was "peer review," maybe I would have done it. Although I knew peer review was NOT study replication, I had been under the impression that it was more than simply sending the article to outside peers for comments before deciding whether to extend an offer.
Posted by: Michael Cicchini | Aug 7, 2017 4:50:45 AM
Would love if we could keep this thread from detouring into an overly academic debate of the term "peer review." Instead, could we stick to the intended purpose of sharing new related to THIS submission cycle?
Posted by: LawProf | Aug 7, 2017 8:07:28 AM
Penn's editors "enjoyed" my article! So that's something.
Posted by: Law | Aug 7, 2017 8:12:28 AM
Georgia ding 8/5.
Posted by: Dancing | Aug 7, 2017 10:16:59 AM
Peer review is a great idea, provided that it is double-blind. I was on a T6 law review articles committee, and even though we debated the "merits" of the article, we largely deferred to the author's reputation/school ranking. Jack Balkin's grocery list would get a better placement than a perfectly written, well-reasoned piece by a no-name assistant prof at a low-ranked school.
Posted by: peer review supporter | Aug 7, 2017 10:18:37 AM
So far I've had 3 acceptances, 2 rejections, none of them off an expedite. With my deadline approaching, I've heard nothing in response to my expedite request. While I guess silence is better than rejection, it would be nice to have some indication that my piece is being read.
I gripe about this process every time I go through it, but nothing ever changes - indeed, the submissions cycle seems to grow more arbitrary and unpredictable each year.
Posted by: YetAnotherProf | Aug 7, 2017 12:55:45 PM
YetAnotherProf: Why gripe when you have three acceptances? This is unheard of elsewhere. In the link I provided above, the author describes one article that took 583 days from submission to acceptance. And as far as timing, I think journals have always had different "opening" dates; that hasn't changed since I've been publishing.
EVERYONE: Put aside, for a moment, the "prestigious" print journals, e.g., Harvard CR-CL L Rev. My question is: What is generally considered preferable among the profs? An online companion journal to a flagship or a specialty print journal? Here's an example: Cornell L. Rev. Online or Cornell J. Law & Pub Pol? Thoughts?
Posted by: Michael Cicchini | Aug 7, 2017 1:16:38 PM
Mr. Cicchini's question invites a follow-up: has anyone compiled a list of the "prestigious" specialties?
Which specialty journals outperform the "Rank + 50" rule? Are there any that underperform, or are even the worst-ranked Harvard and Yale specialties effectively top-50 placements?
Note that W&L seems especially unreliable here. For instance, it puts Harvard CR-CL down at 866--which means it's Harvard's lowest-ranked print specialty, as well as much lower than, for example, the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review.
Posted by: Aspirational | Aug 7, 2017 1:53:57 PM
I just submitted yesterday (8/7), and this thread is causing super-angst. Do you think I'm too late?
Posted by: anonE | Aug 8, 2017 9:29:31 AM
Stealth ding from Illinois 8/7.
Posted by: Dancing | Aug 8, 2017 9:53:47 AM
I also submitted yesterday (8/7) around noon and am not at all worried that I submitted too late. I guess it's entirely possible that if you submitted yesterday after I did that that was too late. And may god have mercy on the souls of anyone that submitted today.
Posted by: Chill | Aug 8, 2017 12:30:41 PM
@Chill - how long do you think until we hear? This was my first submission. Ack! So far, nothing, so at least no one rejected it out of hand.
Posted by: anonE | Aug 8, 2017 12:40:59 PM
Best advice is to chill, no matter how hard that is. There's no reason or discipline in the process. It's entirely possible to submit to 70 journals, get rejections from 5-10 over two weeks, four weeks later get an offer from a top 20 journal, and never hear a peep from the rest.
Sometimes there's a lot more communication than that. Sometimes not. Regardless, that sort of outcome (top 20 placement) is a good one. So don't sweat the silence.
I know it's not a comforting or relaxing answer. But in my mind/experience, it's the best way to approach things.
Posted by: Chill | Aug 8, 2017 2:41:30 PM
How will the pending nuclear war affect the timing of Articles Committee decisions?
Posted by: Lawprof | Aug 8, 2017 6:30:27 PM
It's just another exploding expedite.
Posted by: Aspirational | Aug 8, 2017 6:38:49 PM
Am thinking it has flummoxed them all into inaction.
Posted by: AnonE | Aug 8, 2017 10:30:05 PM
RE: "prestigious" specialties.
I don't know about other journals, but in international law, the Virginia Journal of International Law, the Harvard International Law Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law are considered to be the top journals. These are particularly important journals for international law scholars because their work tend not to be considered in main law reviews (effectively VJIL, HILJ and YJIL become the venue for best pieces written by int'l l. scholars). Many in the field consider these journals to be better placement than top 20-40 main law reviews.
Posted by: int'l | Aug 9, 2017 1:23:34 AM
can anyone weigh in on the ranking of crim law specialty journals?
Posted by: midwest | Aug 9, 2017 2:07:50 AM
The tech journals at Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Yale, Columbia, Vandy, and Michigan are very well-regarded. I'm junior faculty, and I've had a few articles accepted in those journals and a T50-75 law review, and I've always been advised to publish in the good secondary journal. I also had one article that was accepted by a T25 law review and rejected by all of those tech journals.
Posted by: IP Prof | Aug 9, 2017 4:05:35 AM
Hi everyone, I'm very much new to the american law reviews submission process.
I was wondering how long do law reviews normally take with a expedite. I have sent an expedite request this Sunday to some reviews, and so far radio silence. Are they waiting for the final date or is non-response a normal thing?
My offer will expire this Sunday and I'm considering asking for another week.
Posted by: PhD student | Aug 9, 2017 6:19:20 AM
*an expedite
Posted by: PhD student | Aug 9, 2017 6:19:59 AM
It's fine to ask for an extension. In my experience, I have gotten them about 3/4 of the time, though sometimes for shorter periods than i requested. Also keep in mind that some journals never notify you about rejections, which I think is inconsiderate.
Posted by: Lawprof | Aug 9, 2017 6:28:05 AM
Posted by: PhD student | Aug 9, 2017 6:34:51 AM
Most of my offers off of expedites have come in on the last possible day
Posted by: AnonProf | Aug 9, 2017 9:05:40 AM
Recent dings from Cornell, Penn, Texas, Georgia, Michigan, Vanderbilt, and Columbia.
Posted by: anon | Aug 9, 2017 9:15:04 AM
9:15:04 anon -- when did you submit? Thanks.
Posted by: AnonE | Aug 9, 2017 9:26:14 AM
Posted by: anon | Aug 9, 2017 9:30:45 AM
Earlier posters have reported dings from Yale, Stanford, NC, and Illinois. Anyone hear from them lately? Thanks.
Posted by: anon | Aug 9, 2017 9:32:38 AM
I received rejections two days ago from Yale and Stanford. I've received two offers, one from a T75 and one from a lower T50.
Posted by: LawProf | Aug 9, 2017 9:39:46 AM
Submitted a week ago. Recent dings from W&M, W&L, Arizona State.
Posted by: DPRK C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. | Aug 9, 2017 9:42:58 AM
9:39:46 LawProf, did you submit on 7/25? I'm just trying to get a sense for the turnaround time. Thanks.
Posted by: AnonE | Aug 9, 2017 9:48:27 AM
Rejections from Columbia (Articles) and Georgetown this morning. Submitted early last week.
Posted by: Angster | Aug 9, 2017 9:55:25 AM
Ack! My first law review batch submission through Scholastica, and I did not attach a cover letter. Should I go back and add one through a discussion? Or withdraw the batch submission and re-send? Any other ideas?
Posted by: JSH | Aug 9, 2017 10:42:20 AM
I would leave it alone. A lot of people do not bother to attach a cover letter. As this thread, including an interview with editors, revealed a couple years ago, law reviews are so pressed for times that they rarely read the cover letter. This fact is all the more reason why your abstract must be included in the body of article, not left to a form-fill in the submission process.
I do "think" that the cover letter does help pull in a few editors who bother to read them, but I don't think any small benefit with that justifies the downside of the negative signals a post-submission conversation or a withdraw and resubmit would likely convey.
Posted by: anon | Aug 9, 2017 11:05:34 AM
AnonE, I submitted July 27th to all who were open and then to the other T75 journals as they came online. Hope this helps!
Posted by: LawProf | Aug 9, 2017 11:37:19 AM
Just to confirm the randomness of the fall submission season and (hopefully) ease some tensions for those who worry they submitted to late. Last fall I submitted an article on October 6 (October 6!) after my colleagues said I was crazy and wasting my time. Granted, many journals had closed by then, but after a grueling two weeks of waiting I received and accepted a T30 offer. I wouldn't recommend waiting that long - who knows if I might have gotten a better placement at one of the closed journals - but the experience goes to show that anything can happen at any time.
On the other hand, I dutifully submitted to all available T100 journals on 8/1 and have continued submitting as new journals open. Complete. Radio. Silence. Maybe no insta-dings is a good-ish sign?
Posted by: Chillangster | Aug 9, 2017 12:56:44 PM
I have some technical questions.
If an offering journal agrees to grant an extension, how do I let other journals know they have more time? Do I send a new expedite request or just send an email to explain?
Is there an advantage in asking for an extension if none of the recipient journals asked for more time?
Posted by: PhD student | Aug 9, 2017 1:39:46 PM
Synthesizing submission/response dates, it seems that, while a couple of journals send immediate dings, the norm is about a week turnaround for any response. Anecdotally, people are referencing some T50-T75 acceptances, but no one has mentioned any T20, or even T20-49. The process creeps glacially along.
Posted by: AnonE | Aug 9, 2017 2:54:05 PM
Has anyone else tried to view their submitted "manuscript" on Scholastica, only to find that it loads partially? Mine shows up as 15 blank pages until page 16. But, if I "download" the pdf, it looks fine. I'm concern editors will ignore my piece if it doesn't load promptly and completely.
Posted by: Darby | Aug 9, 2017 5:18:44 PM
Darby--that's a perennial problem with Scholastica, and I don't think it affects anything. (I assume most editors download a PDF or Word doc). Don't sweat it.
Posted by: anon | Aug 9, 2017 5:34:06 PM
How do you all keep track of different formatting specifications when submitting through ExpressO/Scholastica? Journal A wants double-spaced text and single-spaced footnotes, Journal B wants all double-spaced, Journal C wants wide margins, etc. If you get an offer and would like to use it as a basis for expedite, does the system recognize all of these versions as the same "article" for purposes of electronic verification of the original offer?
Posted by: anon | Aug 9, 2017 6:50:37 PM


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It's natural, especially within a circle of friends, to talk about memories. That time you broke your ankle after falling out of that tree in your backyard. The time you threw up at your birthday party because you ate too much cake. But the time your organs started to shut down because your body was overcome with infection doesn't exactly have the same place in the discussion.
Recently, a few friends and and I were talking about our favorite Halloween memories. I told them about the first time I was Dorothy (there were at least three more times that I can recall). I was in the hospital and I had no hair which was a problem. Since wigs are expensive and it was only a Halloween costume, my mom decided to make me some hair. She fashioned me a pretty stellar Dorothy 'do out of brown yarn. It is one of the best memories I have and definitely my favorite Halloween moment, though yes, the circumstances were less than favorable. When I was done recounting, a friend (who really is a lovely person) said, "Wow. Way to make everyone depressed."
In his defense, he was kind-of kidding and this response is something I've heard before. But. Sorry this really beautiful example of how much my mother loved me and a memory of Halloween that I hold close to my heart made everyone so uncomfortable. Sorry that I don't have a story to tell of any "normal" Halloween. But this is all I have.
Am I just destined to be ostracized from normal conversation because my memories are more "depressing" than yours? I don't look back on that time in my life and think, "God, I wish I had someone else's experiences." Why must my memories somehow be about you and your level of comfort?
I recognize that there is a time and place for things. And I recognize that my experiences are definitely unique, but why is it when we're confronted with something different we just shut down? And why am I "depressing" or "negative" because I want to, as everyone does, talk about my experiences?
Once, when I was changing for gym, a girl asked me what was up with my stomach. I explained that I'd had cancer and had my kidney removed. She responded, "I would kill myself if I had a scar like that."
Now clearly that's a horrible thing to say. But I really don't think she knew what she was saying. I really don't think she processed it at all. The first thing she did was think about how this thing that happened to me would have affected her. She did that so quickly that she didn't even remember that I was a person and that this was my experience. Her response, while particularly cruel, is nothing unusual.
Another common (and by far the most annoying) reaction is dismissal. This usually happens with men. Something I've had to do with everyone I've been romantically involved with is explain (as gym girl so eloquently put it) what's up with my stomach. Some guys wax poetic about how "it's really beautiful" and while I guess I appreciate the intent here, it's still bullshit. It's not beautiful. It's actually pretty horrifying. But that's OK. Why does it need to be beautiful for it to be OK? Why do we consider denial to be a valid way to approach people's life experiences and concerns?
You're not doing me any favors. In fact, if anything, you're taking away my autonomy. I have been with wonderful men who love all parts of me equally. But they don't feed me a bunch of BS about how "it's not that bad." They recognize that it's not their place to interject any opinion.
One guy actually said to me, "Well I wasn't expecting that." Well buddy, neither was I. Sorry I didn't live up to the unfair representation of my naked form that you created in your head upon meeting me. Sorry if my silhouette didn't suggest to you that I had a real life outside of your purview. Nobody wants to feel like their naked body is disappointing.
I had multiple surgeries to remove my kidney and then corrective surgeries due to infection, which have left me with a foot-long scar on my stomach. It's not a clean scar and I still have sutures in place that poke out close to the skin's surface that are both visible and touchable. Since it happened when I was very young, my body formed around it, leaving my stomach uneven. Point is, it's pretty fucking bad. I could definitely get it cleaned up (as many people have suggested I should) but that costs money and means more surgeries. I also don't really care.
Sometimes the sutures hurt and I do wish I could fix that. But I don't wake up every morning thinking about how I can be more pleasing to other people. Or how I can make my life experience less physically visible. I don't feel defined in any way by it. When bathing suit season comes around and I'm limited by what bathing suit will fit me and not make people stare, I get a pang of sadness. But mostly, I'm really glad I was given the opportunity to become a more empathetic human being. I find it to be an extreme honor.
So a word to the wise, the next time someone tries to talk to you about something "depressing" that happened to them, be aware that maybe you are actually the one making things uncomfortable.


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In the apocryphal literature, Lilith was the first wife of Adam, sometimes portrayed in ancient lore as an evil demon, but also, in medieval mythology, as a powerful, independent woman who refuses to be subservient to Adam. Ron Koertge is a well-known, greatly admired poet with a quirky wit and a genius for imaginative and playful narrative. He is also the author of several brilliant, award-winning young adult novels. "Lilith" was originally published in a collection of Koertge's poetry titled Diary Cows, published by Little Caesar Press. Photo credit, Sonia Sones. The poem is reprinted by permission.


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'Transition from cutting-edge curiosity to practical work horse'-is what many new-gen development technologies promises. But very few are able to live up to it and drive the challenge.
Of all the options which exist, one reliable option which occurs to most start-ups and enterprises is MEAN Stack Development. Perhaps this is what explains the cause why so many are hiring a MEAN Stack Development Company in India for their web and mobile app development operations.
If you are someone who has little know-hows about the rudiments of MEAN Stack as well as the benefits of hiring its service providers, then you have landed at the right blog.
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Simply putting it, MEAN is a horde of JavaScript Technologies which makes way for effective and countable web and mobile applications. It's an accumulation of 4 popular web development frameworks!
Lets hop into details.
High-end companies include in their MEAN services-
A NOSQL database, this framework makes use of JSON documents for proper representation of data.
There is no existence of SQL database and choosing MongoDB means you are maintaining consistency by using just a single language for the entire process.
Primarily an HTTP server for developing web applications, it presents users essential modules and components to function on a common web task.
Providing you with a simple interface, it gives you the liberty to carry out end point requests and also handle your cookies.
Plus, it also enables easy REST routes, handles HTTP headers and supports Connect middleware with its plug-in sync functions for managing reactions and requests.
It's a top-notch framework for developing intricate client-oriented apps using a data binding user-interface and modular code. It also serves utility when creating single page apps with MVC architecture.
This is also an open source cross-platform put to use for developing durable and web applications.
Prior to execution, it compiles javascript to its built-in machine code and also supports intuitive JavaScript libraries and modules making it highly supportive for easy and real-time applications.
Hopefully, now you have a fair idea of what is MEAN Stack. Now let's move over to the pros of hiring a good MEAN service provider. Keep on reading…!
Upscale companies will surely include all these aforementioned web development frameworks as their primary MEAN services.
But along with that, they will also present some perks such as-
Top notch MEAN service providers ensure adequate cloud compatibility. And they do that through their optimal MongoDB functionality.
Their highly skillful technicians implement M of MEAN and spread it across the client-server cluster offering ample failure support and auto replication.
A MEAN Stack Development Company gives you flexible MEAN-oriented apps. You will find coding very easy as they make use of similar JavaScript for the app.
If anything, top companies send out only one of their technicians to manage your complete project. Whether it's moving from NodeJS to AngularJS, their technician will be able to manage it without headaches.
With the use of MEAN Stack framework, these experts develop applications with faster loading time.
They do this with the use of Model-View Controller architecture and integrate it within your app with the JavaScript framework.
Another great benefit of hiring a MEAN Stack development company in India is they bring into their development process, the latest industry-specific tools and technology apart from MEAN JS and Meteor. Some of the other high-end software which they bring into usage includes-
However, that's not all. Top-class MEAN Stack development Company in India also present:
This is a common subject which has been a subject of debate for a long time now! And though both MEAN and LAMP is had its individual high-points, in a recent survey it was found MEAN to be winning slightly in this popularity contest.
Does it mean an end to LAMP? Obviously not! It is still high in popularity in the web development circuitry. But in comparison MEAN in many ways proves to be an apt option for numerous start-ups businesses and enterprises.
Experts state that MEAN outweighs LAMP simply by the fact that its JAVAScript code is reusable by various servers as well as end-users.
Employing such JavaScripts for back as well as front end makes life very easy extremely easy to swap and switch between them. The entire workflow homogenizer giving developers the liberty to function on apps as a whole.
It is a fact that changing from PHP to Python and then utilizing HTML and JavaScripts is very daunting.
Most developers have a soft corner towards JavaScripts, and henceforth they recommend MEAN Stacks as a more effective option to go with.
They also add choosing MEAN over LAMP allowing the advantage of speedy data retrievals and flexibility in arrangements.
After going through all this, it is safe to declare that MEAN is more adequate option for you. So without thinking too much of its variable options, simply look up online and find out a reliable MEAN Stack service companies for your business.
To know the best names, you can check out online reviews and make your own shortlist.
Options concerning a MEAN Stack development company in India are available in plenty. So you will not find scarcity of options. Simply make use of these choosing tips and hire one immediately.
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WASHINGTON - The Lady Cards bounced back from their opening day showing with a first place finish in the 800-yard freetsyle relay, as the men notch a second place finish in the 200-yard medley relay and a third place finish in the 800 relay.
Joanna Ladas, Christine Loughery, Elizabeth Malia and Julia Wisler took first place with a new CUA swimming record time of 7:57.62. The record finish also broke the Landmark record previously set by a CUA quartet.
The men earned their top finish in the 200-yard medley relay, breaking another CUA record. Caleb Capozella, Joe Cihak, Dominic Grillo, and Matt Wagner took second place with a time of 1:34.93.
While taking third place in the 800-yard freestyle relay, Capozella, Haas, Mark Solace and Guido Saccaggi notched a new school record with a time of 7:03.31.
Both the men's and women's teams are now in third place with scores of 383 and 334, respectively.


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Naoto Matsumara is the only resident living in the 20km exclusion zone around Fukushima nuclear power plant. He has refused the government's plea to leave his hometown of Tomioka as he vows to take care of the animals left behind. The high levels of radiation meant that all 16,000 residents were evacuated in 2011 when the earthquake caused a nuclear meltdown at the nearby power plant. Two years on, Naoto still vows to stay on.
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2. Go to photoshop and find your picture. Follow the TRANSFER PROJECT DIRECTIONS to make it high contrast
3. Print (scale it to size you want). I did mine at 30%
4. Cut it out so it is the same size as your "canvas".
5.Paint it, use color pencils, crayons, water color, anything you want.
When dry, glue it onto cardboard/box (if you paint the box with paint, just stick paper on, it will stick and later you will "mod podge" over it. No need to use paint and glue. One or the other
6.Mix half Elmers glue and half water to make "mod podge"
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What do you guys thing about the article? He's got some good points especially how many company are now making cheap phones (which is good for us consumers) but not for Samsung. I am keen to see what the profits for Samsung this quarter will be.
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So, lets bring this analysis up to the present, and see how it all compares. Unlike 2002, there is no similar software glut in either applications or infrastructure. Au contraire companies have been cautious in introducing new infrastructure in recent years, and as far as I can tell, most are planning to continue long-term upgrade projects that will easily take them through 2008.
Point number one: Theres still a lot of infrastructure as in enterprise services and the like to sell, even if the overall economy starts slumping. Reinforcing point number one is the fact that those line-of-business buyers havent lost the mandate to buy software that can improve the top and bottom line.
Which brings us to point number two: Theres still a healthy demand for innovative applications. If a software expenditure can be justified with respect to improving revenues or lowering costs, the green light is still on. Surely, sectors like financial services and retail may be in for a serious slow-down, but by and large line-of-business buyers realize that, even if things do slow down, enterprise software can increase productivity, improve competitive advantage, and otherwise have a positive ROI and positive net effect on the business.
Finally, theres point number three. So far, despite the very negative news that seems to arrive every day, whats happening in the credit and financial markets aint nothing compared to the meltdown when the dotcom bubble burst. Lets remember those heady days of disintermediation and e-commerce: that bubble was all encompassing, with the entire economy, including many many ma-and-pa investors, playing the stock market like hedge fund managers. When the bubble burst, everyone got dinged, or worse.
Now, while every investor is getting dinged by the fallout from the falling market, the big losers are, very unfortunately, a lot of poor people who were sold mortgages they never should have bought, and, much less unfortunately, some very wealthy individuals and institutions who bought the securities built on this sub-prime mortgage house of cards. When you see companies like SocGen roiling a big European exchange because of a rogue trader, its actually a relief to know that the whole business model of the Western economy isnt being challenged by a reality check that was long in coming.
Thats the difference between then and now the fundamentals are still fundamentally strong, and the koolaid from the sub-prime mortgage mess hasnt been drunk by an entire population of investors.
And thats why point number three is so important, and why a lot of strong tech companies turned in strong fourth quarters. Theres still a lot of strength in the economy, and still a lot of reasons why businesses wont just disappear they way they did in the last recession.
So, take a breath and think of 2002, and then be glad its 2008. Enterprise software is still a strong bet for buyer and investor alike. And will continue to be so, despite the chaos in the rest of the economy. See you at the upturn.
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Hiding In Plain Sight: Picture Table By Ivydesign
We do love transformers, furniture that changes functions or folds up to allow multiple uses of the object or the space. Verena Lang of Ivydesign has created the Picture Table: " A usually space consuming functional piece of furniture can be turned easily into a decorative, space saving object."
While down, it is a perfectly reasonable table;
Rather nicely detailed, too. More at Ivydesign, found on Dvice, who deserves credit for the title too.
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Pink Papaya is a home party company for spa and beauty products that was started by two sisters, Susan and Karen. They had a mission to create a line of quality products women love, a strong economic platform, a place for women to shine, a community of women supporting women and also have a spirit of giving. This is an amazing company with a wide range of amazing products. I recently had the ability to review a few different products from their current catalog.
The Aromatherapy Creamy Body butter in lemon yuzu, The Aromatherapy Hand Wash in Lemon Yuzu, the Mini Lotion Candles which come in Lavender Sweet Orange, Grapefruit bergamot and lemon yuzu as well as the most amazing Felt Tip Liquid Eyeliner Pen in Black and YUMMY Vanilla Bean Brown Sugar Lip Exfoliator.
The Aromatherapy collection that I received smelled wonderful. I loved the high quality skin care that it offered. The Mini Lotion Candles where a lot of fun to burn and use. They smelled wonderful and felt amazing. I really enjoyed all the amazing scents that they offered however my favorite was the Lavender Sweet Orange it was amazing and left the room and my skin feeling amazing.
The hand wash is very nice, goes on really well, and rinses off fully. I love the way it leaves your hands feeling and smelling. This would be awesome in the kitchen or bathroom. The lemon yuzu scent is also nice and refreshing.
The two products that I could not wait to try when they arrived was the Felt Tip Liquid Eyeliner Pen in Black and Vanilla Bean Brown Sugar Lip Exfoliator. The Felt Tip Liquid Eyeliner Pen is AMAZING. It gives you nice clean lines, goes on well and looks amazing once on. I have really enjoyed doing my makeup because this pen has made the process quicker and easier.
The Vanilla Bean Brown Sugar Lip Exfoliator first off smells (and tastes) wonderful. At first when you first put it on it feels a little weird however once its on and starts working its amazing. I love the way it leaves your lips feeling and the yummy smell and taste associated with it. A MUST try!
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Streaming: Take the Time to Test To Learn What Works
Resources in the video production and streaming industry are endless, with no limit to what you can accomplish using multi-camera systems, studio lighting rigs, high-end encoding devices, multi-staff teams, etc.
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The most important thing, though, is to recognize that cameras allow our worship services to reach beyond the four walls of the local church.
After successfully creating a streaming strategy for your church, determining who you are targeting with your stream as an audience, the purpose behind why you are streaming, the budget and staff needed to pull it off, as well as determining what type of cameras and encoders would be quality choices of equipment, there are a number of additional considerations, beginning with the capture device, that should be part of the overall decision-making process relating to streaming.
Capture Device
In my piece last week, I referred to "Bob," a volunteer that I have previously worked with in the past. Using his MacBook Pro, I directed Bob to purchase the UltraStudio Mini Studio Recorder from Blackmagic Design. This is a bare-bones capture card that OBS will recognize, resulting in a decent encoding suite, for around $150.
For those whose systems are running on Windows, consider the Elgato Cam Link. There are many options for Windows, mostly fueled by the gaming community. Elgato is widely used, and will get the job done.
Encoding Setup
With the camera, HDMI capture, and encoding software in place, Bob and I were ready to get started, to test his encoding platform. Understanding his requirement to stream into Facebook Live, I walked Bob through the OBS settings, based on the Facebook streaming requirements:
• A maximum resolution of 720p (720 x 1280), at 30 frames per second.
• A keyframe (I-frame) at least once every two seconds throughout the stream must be sent.
• A recommended maximum video bitrate of 4 Mbps.
• An audio bitrate that must be 128 Kbps mono.
• An audio sample rate that must be 44.1 KHz.
With these settings in place, we navigated over to Facebook's Create A Live Stream and selected "Start Streaming". The first task was to copy the streaming URL, which typically remains the same when using Facebook Live. We then copied the stream key, which is a unique code that routes the video from the encoder into your Facebook Live account.
Recently, Facebook made it possible to opt for a "Persistent Stream Key" (see screenshot). This option enables you to enter the key in your encoder, one time, and never need to change it again. This is a nice option that makes life easier, because all you have to do, on Sunday morning, is start broadcasting from your encoder, using the previous settings.
NOTE: It is critically important to prevent the stream key from falling into the wrong hands. A person with malicious intent could use your stream key to virtually vandalize your church, by broadcasting inappropriate material to your Facebook Live page. If you do lose track of your stream key, generate a new one when creating a new stream.
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The March-April 2018 issue of Worship Facilities Magazine offers articles about how to prepare, prevent and respond to church violence, a look into what church management software can do for your church community, and a piece on how a once popular nightclub venue was transitioned to become Shoreline Church's new home.


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Checking Your Models and Delta Math of Your Choice
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Objective: SWBAT choose what they want to practice and develop mastery of the learning targets of their choice.
Big Idea: Web-based tools offer new opportunities for what can happen in the math classroom. This lesson offers two examples.
Today's class is in the computer lab. As students arrive I tell them that it's a work period, and that there are Delta Math assignments available for five different Student Learning Targets. Anyone who wants to can get started on the Delta Math right away.
"There's one thing you might want to see first," I say, "especially if you need a little help finishing the Interpretation Questions for the Class of 2017 Fundraiser." I'm referring to yesterday's work, in which students had to write a linear function and quadratic function to model a fundraising situation.
I provide links to two graphs on Delta Math. Watch this video to see how students use these graphs. Here is a link to the first graph, which plots y=n(x), and here is a link to the second, which plots y=R(x).
I give students as much time as they'd like to play with the graphs, to manipulate and see how close they can get. If they're totally frustrated, I'll reveal the solutions, but usually I don't have to do that. Some students ignore these graphs completely and just straight into a Delta Math assignment, and that's fine too.
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For most of today's class (and one day in each of the next two weeks), students will work on the assignment of their choice on Delta Math. I created these assignments based on the work requests I've received from students (see the first lesson of this unit for a description of work requests).
For today, there are assignments for five Student Learning Targets:
- 1.3: I can interpret expressions that represent a quantity in terms of its context.
- 1.4: I can create equations and inequalities in one variable and use them to solve problems.
- 2.2: I can compare two or more different data sets by using shape, center, and spread.
- 5.3: I can use algebraic substitution to solve a system of equations.
- 6.3: I can complete the square in a quadratic expression to reveal the maximum or minimum value of the function it defines.
Check out this narrative video for an overview of what these assignments looks like and how I use them. If you've never used Delta Math before, I recommend taking a look. It's not the only tool of its kind, but it's simple, to the point, and it was created by a high school math teacher who wanted to make his job easier. He's still in the classroom. I share a brief suggestion for how to get started exploring the site in this video.


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That may be overstating things a bit. But Wal-Mart certainly is doing well these days. Wasn't it a year ago or so that everyone was talking about the Bentonville behemoth stumbling and perhaps hitting the limits of its business model? It seems to be doing extremely well now as we face recession with so many customers trading down. This doesn't change its growth prospects for future locations--something it's become very cautious about. But it is obviously good for the chain that it's existing locations are doing very, very well in today's climate.
Sales at department stores and specialty retailers are in free fall. They are cutting staff, discounting merchandise and closing stores to survive. But even as the financial turmoil strangled discretionary spending at many stores, it sent struggling consumers into the arms of Wal-Mart — and left it, the world's largest retailer, poised for a blockbuster Christmas.
"In my mind, there is no doubt that this is Wal-Mart time," H. Lee Scott Jr., the company's president and chief executive, said recently at a meeting of analysts and investors in Wal-Mart's hometown, Bentonville, Ark. Referring to the discount chain's founder, he added, "This is the kind of environment that Sam Walton built this company for."
During the nation's last severe recession, in the early 1980s, Wal-Mart was mainly a regional chain in the Southeast with fewer than 300 stores. Old-line national discount chains like Woolworth's were fading into irrelevance, but nothing had risen to take their place.


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Title: Windfall
Author: Jennifer E. Smith
Pages: 432
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Release date: 4th May 2017
Blurb from Goodreads:
Alice doesn't believe in luck, Alice believes in love. Mostly that she's been in love with her best friend, Teddy, for the last three years. When she buys him a lottery ticket for his birthday and he wins 32 million dollars, they are thrown together with the world at their feet. Teddy decides that he will spend his money committing random acts of kindness, and who better to go on that adventure with him than Alice? In the process they get to know themselves and each other better than they ever have before, but money can't buy you love . . .
My Review:
*I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thanks to Pan Macmillan and NetGalley*
Alice has had her fair share of bad luck so she doesn't expect anything to happen when she buys Teddy, her best friend who she's secretly in love with, a lottery ticket for his birthday.
But the ticket makes Teddy a millionaire and changes his and Alice's lives.
What will Teddy do with the money?
Can Alice come to terms with the loss of her parents all those years ago?
I felt that Windfall was a realistic take on what would happen to a teen/someone if they won the lottery.
I liked how family orientated Windfall was - Alice was close to her cousin, Leo, and Teddy had a close relationship with his mum.
Alice was a good protagonist and I enjoyed reading as she realised things about herself. I didn't mind Teddy, but I preferred Leo.
The romance wasn't a huge part of the plot, which I appreciated.
The plot was enjoyable enough but it dragged a little and nothing happened that shocked me.
The blurb was a bit misleading in the sense that it takes Teddy a long time to decide to 'commit random acts of kindness' (around 70% of the way through).
I liked the writing style and found it easy to follow.
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in july, msn hotmail will also offer free anti-virus protection to all 170 million customers. msn hotmail claims that it will be the only free global e-mail service to protect incoming and outgoing e-mail for viruses before messages reach a user's mailbox.
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no one really expected microsoft just to sit back and watch all of the other free e-mail services raise their mailbox sizes without doing anything. that's the beautiful thing about the market when it works. due to competition, if one company offers a service or discount none of the other companies are offering it's only a matter of time before they all begin to offer the same service or discount. every once in a while capitalism works.
msn hotmail was smart to throw in free anti-virus protection as well. by doing so msn is attempting to differentiate itself from the other free e-mail services. plus, microsoft could seem hypocritical by not offering the service. if it's going to put a bounty on the heads of virus and worm writers, it is only right that the company offers free virus/worm protection to its customers as well.
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|a little late (9:59am est mon jun 28 2004)
c'mon folks…4 full days late on an msn announcement? sheesh…
[h]ardnews 2nd edition thursday june 24, 2004
hotmail rumors true:
the upgrade will increase hotmail's free e-mail storage limits from 2 megabytes to 250mb and its paid e-mail service, which costs $19.95 a year, from 10mb to 2 gigabytes. the changes will begin in early july. "with these new offers, storage will not be an issue for msn hotmail customers," corporate vice president of communication services for msn, said in a statement.
– by so slow
|free-wars (10:00am est mon jun 28 2004)
yes, the free-wars are on. how much can they give away? how far will it go? personally, i want stock if i sign up. – by cd
|timing is everything (10:02am est mon jun 28 2004)
it's about time ms steps up to the plate on this one. of course…gmail will still be best in the end. think google will go long without implementing av? – by we win
|finaly (10:04am est mon jun 28 2004)
even so hotmails upping the size, isnt that just more room fro spam? come on a hotmail account is a spam account it will be nice to see how g-mail handles spam – by adz
|so slow (10:05am est mon jun 28 2004)
i have to agree with so slow…geek, if you wish to remain a site that people frequent often, you really should try to keep a better handle on goings-on in the geek world. kudos to having a good site, but lets keep the content current, eh? – by oh canada
|apple, are you paying attention? (10:14am est mon jun 28 2004)
the paltry 15mb of mail storage that you give me on .mac for $100 per year is looking kind of pathetic at the moment.
sure, i can add capacity for extra $$$, but with everyone else giving it away for free, unless apple ups it capacity, i won't be remaining a subscriber – by cmm
|hotmail sucks (10:25am est mon jun 28 2004)
ok, having used hotmail for several years i happen to think it sucks. i have been using gmail for 1.5 weeks and couldn't be happier. 1.5 weeks and not one single spam…not one. i agree with we win…gmail will win in the end. oh and one quip about microsoft's war on v1rus and w0rm creators…if they want them to stop, just take them off the m$ payroll. – by happy buddha
|re: hotmail sucks (10:39am est mon jun 28 2004)
"1.5 weeks and not one single spam."
this does not prove anything about gmail, since it is unlikely for someone to get any spam after using a new e-mail account for only 1.5 weeks anyways.
|re: hotmail sucks (10:51am est mon jun 28 2004)
i opened an alternate hotmail account as a dump account and without sending any email at all received spam in 1 day. doesn't matter any way, only thing anything m$ is good for is games and multimedia…and even that is an iffy statment. i am off topic and for that i apologize to all. i guess having to deal with a myriad of problems with m$ at work and no problems with the aix servers and linux servers/workstations has got me a little frustrated. truth is, after installing firefox and litestep on my xp workstation(my company requires m$ on all personal workstations) my box is a lot more stable. excuse my m$ hating…i hope i didn't offend anyone. hotmail is ok, but i see gmail being better…with little exposure. thanks for reading this post, and again i apologize for wandering off topic. – by happy buddha
|finally! (10:52am est mon jun 28 2004)
it's about time hotmail increased its account size. with all the spam, there is not enough space for normal mail and you can't send huge attachments without the fear of filling up someone's inbox. for one of the first free e-mail providers, it took them a while… – by fraktl
|re: adz (10:53am est mon jun 28 2004)
the only people responsible for spam is the owner of the account. i've said it many times before that my hotmail account collects zero (zee-row) spam emails. nothing…zip….zoople (wtf is zoople? :)
oh yeah… and gmail will be scanning your messages so that it can send you offers tailored to your tastes….. umm…. doesn't that sound like spam to you?
before you start trashing hotmail… maybe you should being a slut with your email addy (as in letting it get around). ) – by johny-d
|re: hotmail sucks (11:02am est mon jun 28 2004)
i opened a hotmail dump account and had spam in 1 day…and i hadn't sent any emails. the address just fell into a sequence of names. i fully expect to see spam in gmail…in fact i think spam will never go away. the problem is just too big to police. in any event, gmail will win in the end just like we win stated. i am an open m$ hater…i don't hate the business model…its quite successful..i hate the products (which may be a product of the business model). one week on suse made me give up m$ entirely…except for my game box. – by happy buddha
|i'm glad (11:06am est mon jun 28 2004)
finally they do something about upgrading mailbox storage! geez, i was expecting soooner than now, come on, yahoo had announce their upgrade since april or may?
either way, i cant said i'm really happy about this. especially since i didnt get a gmail acct and now, with 2 hotmial, 2 yahoo, i think i'm ok:) – by eleoopy
|how? (11:32am est mon jun 28 2004)
how are they going to have 42.5 petabytes? are they assuming it won't get filled. that is a lot of money in hard drives. – by myhellokitty
|re: brian osborne (11:35am est mon jun 28 2004)
"the enhancements will take effect later this summer."
no it won't. from the hotmail itself.
summer: virus cleaning of incoming email
fall: 250mb of storage for your inbox
fall: send/receive up to10mb of attachments – by hotmail user
|micro$ucs (12:27pm est mon jun 28 2004)
don't open email for 30 days and they'll delete everything. yahoo is 100x better
sucking bill and 2-ton bertha had a child after visiting the middle east. sucking bill keeps on asking 2-ton bertha: how did you do it that the kid looks like arafat? bertha: you tell me sucking, how did you do it? sucking boy: i don't know. there you have it. buy from the sucker and he'll screw you like his uncle araf – by anti$ucs
|30 days (1:07pm est mon jun 28 2004)
if you don't check your e-mail in 30 days, you probably dind't need it. – by net dependent
|whats spam… (1:20pm est mon jun 28 2004)
i havent had any spam mails in almost… maybe…. 4 or 5 months :) yeah for me! woo hoo! you suckers can keep your spam. i am good. i am all over the internet, signing up with my newsletters and downloading my free programs that all these sights offer, but not once in months have i received anything unsolicited. well, maybe once i got an offer for free breast enlargement pills, but im a guy, so i deleted it – by happy hacker
|headline news!!!! (2:08pm est mon jun 28 2004)
this just in………apparently we landed on the moon!!!! – by ………………..
|dude (2:15pm est mon jun 28 2004)
you landed on the moon? hmmm, pretty neat trick there son. you are a shoe-in for the x prize then, just get that ship back here and back into space again. by the way, have a look around for me, i can't find my keys and i swear i had them with me when i landed there. – by niel a.
|re:niel (3:21pm est mon jun 28 2004)
er if you had read the previous posts i suppose you might have caught on it was in relation to the fact this news is old news…does that make more sense?:) – by ………………..
|dude (4:22pm est mon jun 28 2004)
i got it, it's not that complicated and made perfect sense. i was just hoping you could find my keys. oh, and i was picking on you for using "we" in the sentence….get it? – by neil a.
|leave it to microsoft… (4:37pm est mon jun 28 2004)
…to be at the tail end of innovation and progress. – by rbmusician
|hmmmm (6:14pm est mon jun 28 2004)
i just read an email written by bill gates, saying they are taking large measures to stop spam. and, that hotmail blocks about 3 billion spam emails per day.
those spammers really need to be found and put down.
|promises, promises (7:47pm est mon jun 28 2004)
i'll believe it when i see it kiddies
untill then, i remain, skeptic. – by �briannauna�
|more space…. (12:17am est tue jun 29 2004)
i'm waiting for my 250mb on hotmail… when's this supposed to take effect – by x-plattform
|msn premium (8:35am est tue jun 29 2004)
i get msn premium bundled with my dsl service and this is supposedly bumping from 10mb to 2gb
thats a sweet deal
– by skeiner
|still only at 2mb (5:28pm est tue jun 29 2004)
i just checked my hotmail account and i'm still sitting on 2mb of space. they must be doing a gradual migration to 250mbs… doesn't matter though because i switched to yahoo 3 weeks ago. – by me
|i have all 3 big-ones (8:56pm est tue jun 29 2004)
i got a g-mail, yahoo, and hotmail account. i'm looking forward to getting hotmail beefed up because i use msn messenger alot, so it would fit nicly. if gmail began making a im program, watch out msn. – by coo-coo 4coco puffs
|rediffmail.com@1gb (12:40pm est fri jul 02 2004)
hi folks , you are all talking about yahoo and msn…but here is an indian company ofering 1gb since last one month.its very reliable.i have an account with this site for last three years. – by dominic
|why??? (12:59pm est sun jul 04 2004)
why is hotmail so determined to remain the best free email provider.
think about it logically, smaller accounts, less people to worry bout, cheaper to run, bigger profits!!!
so what, they have a reputation, and there losing it anyway, so why not lose it whilst makin a profit.
regardless of what i just said
|why??? (5:23am est fri jul 09 2004)
ghjtyh – by geek basher
|rg (5:23am est fri jul 09 2004)
stupid geek skum – by sfgbdrghdr
|the spam thingy (5:56am est mon jul 26 2004)
hi! i have been using msn,yahoo n few other since years and joined the gmail some 6 weeks back.
reading the discussion about how each handles spam, i must say that you cannot guarentee that any of these would be 100% free of spam. its just the time since spammer know your id, and you would start getting the junk stuff. well atleast they all put the most obvious spams to separate folder.
gmail is still in development phase. yahoo/hotmal atleast tell us that we have some mails in junk/bulk folders. gmail doesn't. i recently made some online purchases and the confirmation mails were all being put in my gmail.spam folder. it didn't show the count or highlight it when it has some mails in this folder so i didn't check it. finally after some 10 days delay i have to ask my vendor to send confirmation mail on separate email account.
well… lets hope we shall be getting some better service from all of these. :) – by aneedz


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Poetry, memoir,blogs and photographs from my world on the west coast of Canada.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Happiness is a Perfect Cloud
Driving the back way into town, suddenly:
Oh! My! God! LOOK at those clouds!
Puffy white picture-perfect storybook clouds
ringing the valley, outdoing themselves,
truly, the most spectacular clouds
I have ever seen, against
a perfect blue summer sky.
And there it was:
perfect happiness.
for Susan's prompt at Mid Week Motif: Happiness. I didnt have my camera, so the photo is from another day of beauty-happiness. But yesterday's clouds were the most astounding I have ever seen. Taking my camera with me from now on! I SO wanted to share them with you.
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This is splendid Sherry :D I too love the clouds.. there is a certain shade of joy & happiness in them! :DReplyDelete
Beautifully executed :D
Lots of love
Clouds I am convinced have personality. My favorites are the puffy white ones against an aquamarine sky - glorious. I went for the clouds today as well.ReplyDelete
My poem today is dedicated to all the special people who make me happy - like you Sherry!
Clouds have a bad reputation - as being about sadness. Yet, like you when I see the spectacular forms they can take, I feel sheer joy. Glad you enjoyed some yesterday.ReplyDelete
Clouds have this effect on me, too, Sherry. My eldest grandson and I often find messages and meaning in the walk-from-school sky.ReplyDelete
Oh, I am waiting for the clouds of happiness to float over...we are 'blessed' with the grey clouds that bring feelings of anything but!ReplyDelete
Wanting to share is another kind of happiness. Thank you for the clouds, for the sense of seeing them this minute, for the idea that they are out-doing themselves in raising our level of joy!ReplyDelete
We are kindred spirits, ma'am. :)
NIce. The clouds give me lots of joy as well. So many things to see in them. Getting near home as well after traveling carries its own happiness as well.ReplyDelete
thanks for the photo Sherry. i would have stopped too lolReplyDelete
oh i can really feel your excitement in your words
I love watching the clouds...this was a lovely moment to share - thanksReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 20, 2015 at 8:35 PM
Clouds and canines, what more could you ask?ReplyDelete
I feel this way about the mountains....they outdo themselves day after day and it is pure bliss to get to look at them :-) YES, always take the camera!!ReplyDelete
Clouds are magical. You feel you can almost touch them.ReplyDelete
The cloud gives a sense of liberation...great shot and lovely moment indeed, Sherry!! Enjoyed reading...:)ReplyDelete
Clouds have a life of their own ever changing, pleasing us, teasing us they are such flirts!ReplyDelete
"Puffy white picture-perfect storybook cloudsReplyDelete
ringing the valley, outdoing themselves,"..aw..i LOVE this Sherry :)
- AnonymousMay 21, 2015 at 1:15 AM
Oh I am a cloud-wonderer too - you've captured something lovely here.ReplyDelete
Clouds have a way of forming themselves into lots of wonderful images. The best thing is it is not static. There is always something new! Truly said Sherry!ReplyDelete
My ipad is going bonkers. Yesterday it only showed one picture. Today I see a beautiful collection of lake and puppies. So glad you got out. This inspired me to break my routines and get out into nature. I must!ReplyDelete
That is JUST my kind of happy Sherry!! So wonder-full!! ♥ReplyDelete
I love the stories in clouds--this feels like a perfect moment Sherry!ReplyDelete
You are quite right about the observations and reactions to cloud arrangements. Some instantly make you feel so upbeat and positive; while the clusters and sheets of greys, simply depress my attitude, especially here in UK! I agree with Mary's comment about those grey clouds..Happiness thrives on a lovely sunny day:)
Beautiful clouds..and the essence of happiness..being in the moment and seeing something good in the world - perfect!ReplyDelete
at least we still have clouds, yes ? ~ReplyDelete
Those amazing moments of pure joy.ReplyDelete
Cloud - another semiotic, which fills our heart with joy, providing an instant dose of happiness...Beautiful!ReplyDelete
Yes, Sherry, I know exactly what you mean by your "happiness is a perfect cloud" poem - I have experienced a similar feeling. We don;t spend enough time looking, really looking, at the sky and clouds...ReplyDelete
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Decker expects a statement from the SEC within days.
State Treasurer Steven Grossman gave the keynote address in the morning, citing the conference as a tool for enhanced disclosure. Grossman, a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014, has emphasized expanded disclosure since taking office in 2011. Related moves have included an annual investor conference and frequent investor calls, a new investor website and technical enhancements.
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Earlier in the day, investors discussed market trends in transportation, higher education and new variable-rate products such as floating rate notes.
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Lindsay Lohan had a few uncomfortable moments at pal Kim Kardashian's wedding reception on Saturday night (20Aug11) when the event band played a cover of Pitbull's hit Give Me Everything - just days after the actress filed suit against the rapper for poking fun at her in the lyrics.
Lindsay Lohan sat chatting with her mother and other guests as the former number one record played, according to Life & Style magazine.
Last week (ends19Aug11) Lindsay Lohan took offence to the line, "Hustlers move aside, so I'm tiptoeing, keep flowin'/I got it locked up like Lindsay Lohan," and accused Pitbull of making "disparaging or defamatory statements... destined to do irreparable harm" to her.
Her suit seeks an injunction to stop the broadcast of the song. It also seeks unspecified damages.


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The Great Recession officially began four years ago December, and although we may be in the third year of recovery, for more than 13 million Americans without jobs it doesn't much feel like a recovery. Even as the national unemployment rate inches down below 9 percent, the massive job hemorrhaging that began in 2008 has left a legacy of widespread suffering. Of the 8.7 million jobs lost since December 2007, fewer than 2.5 million have been recovered. With population growth factored in, we are 10.9 million jobs short of what we need to get the nation back to pre-recession levels, when the unemployment rate was 5 percent.
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If you have any reason to be concerned about the safety or well-being of a child or vulnerable adult, even for reasons outside parish activities, you may raise your concern with Gareth Hayes, on firstname.lastname@example.com
If you are the leader of a parish ministry which is recruiting new volunteers to work with children or vulnerable adults, contact information for the new volunteer should be given to Sheelagh Hubbarde on email@example.com – she will arrange for the paperwork to be done for the DBS check (what used to be called a CRB check). Emmanuel Ogbonna will then contact you to arrange for the new volunteer to be interviewed – normally the interview will be conducted jointly by Emmanuel and yourself as ministry leader.
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