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"many that life deserve death. and some that die deserve life. can you give it to them? then do not be too eager to deal out in judgement. for even the very wise cannot see all the ends."
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
bugün taksimin göbeğinde otobüse kadar beni takip edip otobüse bindiğimde bile mal bakışlarını benden ayırmayan şerefsiz orospu çocuğu, sadece senin değil ailendeki herkesin ölmesini istiyorum! işkence görmeni ve organlarının kesilmesini istiyorum!! en kısa zamanda acılar içinde geberirsin umarım pislik! hayvan herif!!!
Sunday, September 14, 2008
İkna kabiliyeti yüksek birisi babanneme, şimdiye kadar yalınayak yere bastığı için ölen kimsenin olmadığını anlatır mı? çünkü ben bi türlü anlatamadım..
Thursday, September 04, 2008
no one's picking up the phone..guess it's me and me..and this little masochist..she's ready to confess..all the things that i never thought..that she could feel and..hey jupiter,nothing been the same.so are you gay?..are you blue?..thought we both could use a friend to run to...and i thought, i wouldn't have to be with you..something new..sometimes, i breathe you in..and i know, you know,and sometimes you take a swim..found your writing on my wall..if my hearts soaking wet..boy, your boots can leave a mess..hey jupiter,nothing been the same..so are you gay?..are you blue?..thought we both could use a friend to run to...and i thought i wouldn't have to keep..with you...hiding...thought i knew myself so well..all the dolls i had..took my leather off the shelf..your apocalypse was fab...for a girl..who couldn't choose between..the shower or the bath..and i thought i wouldn't have to be with you..a magazine..no on's picking up the phone..guess it's clear he's gone..and this little masochistis lifting up her dress..guess i thought i could never feel the things i feel..hey jupiter,nothing been the same..so are you gay?..are you blue?..thought we both could use a friend to run to...hey jupiter,nothing been the same..so, what do you say?..now we're through..thought we both could use a friend to run to..hey jupiter....
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Ramen Workshop: Sat, Aug 18; 6:30-9:30pm; Chef Gaby (Oakland)
- Duration: 3 Hours (approx.)
- Location: Oakland, CA
- Product code: P3UCJD
Mushroom White Miso (vegetarian) -- Shitake, Oyster and Enoki Mushrooms, Tofu, Baby Spinach, Egg
Authentic Tonkotsu Ramen -- Chashu Pork Belly and Pork Loin and a silky, creamy, rich Tonkotsu Pork Broth, Radishes, Green Onions, Egg
Class Description:
Join Chef Gaby in an immersive workshop that teaches how to create the wildly popular bowl of ramen. You will learn to make ramen noodles as well as two different broths. Garnishes such as a perfectly cooked eggs, mushrooms and more will be covered as well.
Chef Bio:
Gaby grew up in the Auvergne region of France with his twin sisters. He was fed by his mother's cooking who always bought products from the farmer's market and meat from the butcher. At six years old, Gaby received his first cookbook for Christmas. This fostered his excitement for the culinary world and so his journey to becoming a chef began. He spent his weekends in the kitchen, cooking with his mom, making jams, preserves, savory dishes and cakes. On Sundays, he and his dad baked loaves of bread for the week - walnut bread, olive-parma ham bread, etc. At 12, he helped in a bakery learning the skills to make croissants and puff pastries. At 16, he went to culinary school, and graduated with honors 3 years later, going on to pursue a master in culinary arts in the form of an apprenticeship. He worked at La Tour d'Argent, a 3 Michelin star restaurant in Paris, and afterwards worked in one of the Alain Ducasse restaurants (2 Michelin stars). Gaby came to San Francisco five years ago to work as a sous chef at Bistro Clovis, where he became the executive chef a year later. He then transitioned to working in the kitchen of Supperclub, where he worked as the executive chef for two years.
Today he is a cooking class teacher, private chef, and catering chef for different occasions. As well as being an entertaining instructor, Chef Gaby's teaching style focuses on technique which translates into incredibly sexy food both on the palate as well as on the the plate. He believes that cooking can be a magical experience when you combine knowledge and passion with amazing ingredients.
What to wear/bring to class: Please wear close-toed shoes to all classes. If you have shoulder-length hair or longer, please wear it back and away from your face; we have plenty of hair ties in the kitchen for you to use and keep. Feel free to bring a favorite apron or a knife you want to practice with, but know that we will supply all the tools you need at class.
Class format: Start your class with a snack and a lecture from the chefs about the theme's tips & tricks. After this introduction, you will break up into teams of three or four people, and start cooking a recipe. Each team/station will make a different recipe, so the class as a whole prepares the menu in its entirety. You are encouraged to rotate from one station to another, but you won't be able to make every dish. After you've finished cooking, sit down to a dinner party with your classmates and feast on the spread that you have just learned how to prepare. You are welcome to eat as much as you'd like in class, but unfortunately Kitchen on Fire's zoning permit does not allow students to take food home.
Wine and other Alcoholic Beverages: We whole-heartedly invite class participants (who are 21 and older) to bring any beverages they would like to enjoy during their stay at Kitchen on Fire for personal consumption. We cannot sell or distribute alcohol and we uphold ABC regulations. No minor can drink and we cannot have intoxicated students attending a class. Our friends at Vintage Berkeley wine shop on Vine Street will extend a 10% discount on any bottles you purchase for your class at Kitchen on Fire - just bring in this letter.
Allergies: Please take a look at the class menu. If you think you might be allergic to anything on the menu please get in touch and we can double check the ingredient list (email@example.com).
Parking: Free private parking available at our San Pablo location! The Kitchen on Fire parking lot is located next to Novel Brewing.
Happy cooking,
Kitchen on Fire

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Lawyers for Mr Berlusconi requested that the Real Madrid striker appear at the next hearing in the long-running trial, which will take place on Monday (Nov 5).
They hope his testimony will undermine the credibility of the Moroccan-born nightclub dancer at the heart of the trial.
Karima El Mahroug, better known by her stage name as Ruby the Heart Stealer, told prosecutors that she had a fling with the Portuguese player in a hotel in Milan – a claim his lawyers vehemently deny, saying that he was not even in the city at the time.
Lawyers for the former prime minister also called as witnesses Daniela Santanche, a Right-wing MP in Mr Berlusconi's People of Freedom party, and Belen Rodriguez, an Argentinian model and television presenter who appears frequently in Italian gossip magazines.
The defence also said they want to hear testimony from Aida Yespica, a Venezuelan model and beauty queen who was among the dozens of showgirls who reportedly attended "bunga bunga" parties at his mansion at Arcore, on the outskirts of Milan.
Mara Carfagna, a former glamour model who was appointed equal opportunities minister when Mr Berlusconi was elected in 2008, and Maria Stella Gelmini, another minister in his administration, were also ordered to turn up to court next week.
They were supposed to be in the hearing on Wednesday but both said they were busy with parliamentary commitments.
Mr Berlusconi, 76, is accused of paying for sex with "Ruby" when she was 17 and allegedly working as a prostitute, and of then committing an abuse of office by pressuring police in Milan to release her from custody on a theft charge.
If convicted on the prostitution charge he could be sent to prison for up to three years while the abuse of office charge carries a maximum sentence of 12 years.
He denies both allegations and insisted in court in October that he had never had sex with the teenager, denying reports that his parties featured young women performing pole dances and strip teases dressed as nurses, nuns and in Santa Claus outfits.
Miss El Mahroug has also claimed that she saw George Clooney at one of the dinners – but the Hollywood star insisted he has only met Mr Berlusconi once and that was in Rome to talk about the crisis in Darfur.
Defence lawyers had requested that the star of Oceans Eleven appear in court on Oct 26 but his spokesman in Los Angeles said the actor had never received the summons.
Mr Berlusconi is unlikely to be in court on Monday – he is reportedly preparing to fly to Kenya on Friday for a holiday in a beach resort owned by his friend Flavio Briatore, the former Formula One boss.
Mr Berlusconi was found guilty last week of tax evasion in a trial involving his Mediaset television company and sentenced to four years in jail.
But he vowed to fight the conviction and remains at liberty pending an appeal to a higher court.
At the weekend he threatened to withdraw his party's support from the technocrat government of Mario Monti, the prime minister, a move likely to prompt panic in financial markets.


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Okay, so I want to lose weight. The best way to do this is to stop eating cheeseburgers and fries for lunch, and to start walking around the block more than once a week. Anyone can do that, right? Well, the correct answer would be wrong, at least not without some help. I took in less calories and I exercised more, but I was not losing the weight. I decided to look at some reviews on Idealshakes flavors after a friend of mine suggested that I try a meal replacement shake to see if that would help me out more. I had heard of people drinking shakes instead of eating a meal, and I really did not see a downside to that. There was the potential, if the shakes did not taste good, which is why I first wanted to see what people were saying about the flavors. I knew that I would not have a problem if it taste good, so I was very relieved to see that people were not only enjoying the taste but being satisfied after drinking them as well. Blog this! Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
Just Started My New Job
I just started out on a new job this week. I am not really able to do much of it yet, because this requires a lot of training. You are dealing with a lot of poisons in fact when you are working to exterminate bugs. They took me out with guys who knew what they were doing. A big part of the job is act as a bed bug exterminator in NYC. The bed bug had been exterminated in the United States at one point in time, but they were brought back by some person who traveled to a country where they still existed and they have made a big comeback. That is apparently one of the big things I need to learn about because you have a lot of that to do in New York City. The big thing is to keep them out of the beds at a large hotel. Of course if you have a hotel, then the last thing you want is for your guests to go on the internet and tell the entire world that you have bed bugs. So these people have a huge incentive to do everything that they can to make sure that they do not have them. In fact they could have them brought in by any of their guests all of the time. You could just get some person who has stayed in another place where there were bed bugs and once you have a few of them, they can spread like a wild fire and soon they will be in every room that you have. So when they call us they want us to figure out which rooms are infected and then take action to make sure that they are eliminated as completely as they can be. It is that simple.
Having Our Own Gaming Server is Cool!
When my brother and I started thinking about hosting a Minecraft server, we knew that we would have to find a cheap Windows VPS because we just don't have a lot of money to throw around. We did want to do this though because we both love playing, and we knew that we would be able to make the game even more enjoyable by having our own server for it. I knew that we could not have a shared hosting site because there would just be too much traffic. We did not want the site to be slow for anyone at all, because we have both been on enough sites where that has happened. It is just flat our frustrating.
We also knew that we were not getting a dedicated server, as that was just out of our league. We knew that compromising on a virtual private server was our best bet as long as we could get a good deal for it. I wanted this mainly because we would not have any lag for anyone because we were hoping that a lot of people would end up using our server for this.
My brother wanted it not only for that reason but so we could have more control over what we would have on just a shared hosting site. He is more technically savvy than I am, so I knew that this aspect of it was a big deal for him. We looked at a few different websites that offer virtual private servers at a decent price. We ended up picking the one that has a lot of great reviews on another website we had gone to to learn more about these companies. We are paying one low price every month now, and it is so awesome to have our own server like this!
Diagnosing Hypothyroidism and Moving Forwards
Hypothyroidism remains, inexplicably, one of the most undiagnosed ailments for such a common disorder. Essentially hypothyroidism is defined as an under-production of the thyroid hormone by the thyroid gland and studies suggest that as many as one in ten women in the US may be impacted by this issue.
You body uses the thyroid hormone to regulate its metabolism which is why hyperthyroidism is often linked to slow metabolism and weight gain. Thyromine (http://www.thyromine.us) is a natural supplement that encourages greater production of your body's own thyroid hormones to counter the effects of hypoerthyroidism.
Diagnosing hyperthyroidism can be tricky given that many of the symptoms which would lead a clinician to a successful diagnosis are often dismissed by the patient as general malaise. Perhaps you're feeling worn down and tired after a long weekend partying or you reach for an extra blanket when your partner says the temperature is just perfect. These are not necessarily the things that will send you running to a general practitioner. But the inability to tolerate cold and excessive tiredness are classic symptoms that your endocrine system is not producing necessary hormones you need. Consulting your doctor may get you faster to http://www.thyromine.us and the help you need.
Furthermore, depression and weight gain can cause spiralling feelings of low self-esteem that may prevent someone from seeking the clincial help that would resolve such symptoms. It's important that we self-examine, not just our physical health, but also our mental health. Many times we can adjust the course of our mental health journey by correctly treating physical sympotoms such as thyroid hormone imbalance. Clinicl trials have proven that a thyroid supplement such as http://www.thyromine.us can help your body achieve the balance necessary for both physical and mental wellbeing.
Next time you're feeling run down, chilly, down in the dumps and bloated, consider that the source may not just be the pressures of the world weighing you down, but an underactive and treatable tyroid gland.
Beautiful Trees That Needed Pruned
I purchased a gorgeous house a few months ago. As soon as my wife and I saw it, we knew it was perfect. I really liked the architecture of the house, and my wife fell in love with the grounds, mainly because there were so many trees on the property. Neither of us had ever had property like this, so it was a dream come true. The house needed no work at all, but I knew that we would need to hire a Queens tree services company to help us with the trees.
The real estate agent had disclosed that the trees had not been professionally treated at all, so it was the first thing on my list when we bought the house. I wanted to make sure that the trees were all healthy, and I knew that they would need pruned too. They already gave the house character, but I knew that they could look so much better than what they did. Since we were new to the area, I had to rely on the Internet to find the right company to come out and take care of the trees my wife had fallen so hard for.
It did not take long to find the company we decided to use. I really liked the way they came across online, and I felt comfortable with them even before I contacted them. When I told them what I needed, they sent someone over to give a free estimate. He looked at all of the trees that were on the property so he could explain what needed to be done with all of them, then he gave us a quote on the price it would cost. The company pruned all of the trees, and the property looks so much better. We are going to have them regularly do this because it just looks so much better!
Shopping from Home Instead of at the Mall
Not long ago, a few coworkers and I started talking about how close Christmas is approaching. It just seemed like Christmas 2014 was just over, and now this Christmas is not even two months away now. That got us talking about shopping and Black Friday, something that most of us did. One of the supervisors told us that she did a search for huge Black Friday online deals 2015 to see if she could get a sneak peek at some of the deals coming our way, and she found something even better.
What is better than incredible deals on Black Friday? How about a site that lets you know when a new Black Friday ad has come out! In addition to that, they even have some pretty amazing coupon offers where people can save even more money on some already low prices. I wasn't the only person wanting to know which website she had seen all of this information on, and several of us asked her for the site address. She emailed it to all of us, and I went there that night to see just how awesome of a site it really is.
I was pretty amazed at just how nice it is. The stores that they look at for the Black Friday deals are major ones that I try to hit on every Black Friday. I don't have a lot on my list this year because I am making some more expensive single item purchases, and it looked like I would be able to save a decent amount of money on what I could see already on this site. That was without even seeing the Black Friday offers that I knew would be coming. I have a feeling that this year, I am going to be shopping from my house instead of at the mall.
Cyber Monday Deals to My Inbox
I have never really paid attention to Cyber Monday in the past because I thought that it had to do with just electronics. I feel sort of silly for that now, but I know that I cannot be the only person who has thought this in the past. When I found out that it just means purchasing items electronically instead of going into a brick and mortar store though, I thought it was something I could really get into. I am prepared for it this year, and the best deals for Cyber Monday 2015 are sure to be mine thanks to a website that I found not long ago.
I was looking for some sales, and that is when I came across the site that has all of the information for this coming Cyber Monday. Even though it is not here for well over a month, that doesn't mean I cannot start getting prepared for it. This site that I found has a list of all the stores that participated last year, but only if they had deals that would knock their socks off. They even showed what some of these deals were, and I could not believe that the prices had gone as low as they had on some things.
The nicest thing about this site for me i that I was able to sign up for email alerts. Instead of having to wait until the Monday after Thanksgiving to find out which stores are having some incredible sales, I will be emailed a notification every time that one of the stores puts out anything about a Cyber Monday sale. The people who run this website only send out emails that are worthy of being sent, so the deals are going to be amazing when I get an email from them. I cannot wait to get my first one!
There is Help to Keep Your Home from Being Foreclosed on
I was pretty happy to buy my very first house. I had a nice amount of money saved from years at work, and I used that for a down payment. I spent many weekends with a real estate agent, who is also a good friend of mine, to look for the perfect place. So, when I found myself becoming one of many people facing foreclosures in NYC this year, it was disappointing. But with time, I found that there is help.
I really wanted a home that was at the high end of what I could afford. My friend, the agent, tried many times to steer me away from that, but I did not listen. She explained that while I would certainly be approved for a loan for the higher dollar amount, I also needed to think about what would happen if I lost my job or came into some other type of trouble that made it hard for me to keep up with the monthly mortgage payment. I had been working just fine without any problems for the last 10 years, so I didn't listen to her advice.
About six months after I moved in, I got into a car accident. I spent two months in the hospital. I was suddenly two months behind on my monthly payments. When I left the hospital, I then had the struggle of keep up with paying for my house, plus medical bills and everything else I needed to pay for. I kept thinking I could make up for lost time money-wise, but that did not happen, no matter how hard I worked. I was already working 10-12 hours per day, so there was simply no more room for a second job either.
My friend explained that rather than face foreclosure, I should put my home up for short sale. This means that I would not earn extra money on the home sale, and the home would need to be sold for a little less than I paid for it. This would keep me from having my credit damaged. I told her that I would do it, and it worked.
The Right Choice in Energy
Thanks to texasenergycompanies.net I was able to discover the numerous options that residents here in Texas have for their energy needs. I was taken back by the fact that there were so many available to a resident. Where I'm from we only had one company and it seemed like that they were raising the price of energy consumption every year. That's not cool if you ask me. We're here trying to make a living that rarely ever involves a raise for most of us, so how are we supposed to be able to afford the rising cost of energy, gas and well..everything else!
At least in Texas there is a choice for those of us who may not have the money to combat the rising tide of financial cost. I'm glad that I was able to shop and compare the different companies, choosing which was going to be best for my budget for the time being. I always thought there was a standard in which electricity should be charged but apparently that's not the case considering they're able to provide cheaper costs from different companies! I went with Reliant Energy since they were without a doubt the best that I was able to find.
I wish that other states could have more energy options. I think that might be the case should renewable energy becomes more popular as well as cheaper to produce. It's going to take us some time to reach the point where we can actually utilize renewable energy as one of our primary sources of energy but it's going to arrive at the point where we don't have a choice but to rely on it. Luckily a great deal of money and research is being placed on this bet and we'll get there before things get too bad.
Cheapest Prices on Local Television Service
I just paid for my security deposit, and the first month of rent, for my very first apartment. It feel rather liberating to be out from under my parents' roof. I think that they kind of stifled my lifestyle to an extent, and now I should be able to explore my own personal tastes more. It should be a great period of my life. I need to get some things set up, such as utilities. Searching for local television providers led me to http://tvcompanies.net and I want to explore this site in some depth, to see if I can find a good source of information for local television providers, and the cheapest prices that are available for television services in the area.
I would like to have a whole lot of channels on my TV, but I do not really have to have a whole lot of channels to be satisfied. I am willing to make a compromise, on the number of channels that I receive for my television service, if it will mean that I do not have to spend so much money on the service. I need to try to make a budget for my expenses, because as things stand, I must admit that I do not even know how much I can afford, on a monthly basis, to spend towards a television service.
That is probably the first thing I should figure out. But since, I am already on this site, I suppose I won't do any harm to look into the providers in the area. I am curious to learn how many providers are located in this area, or provide service to this area. However you want to phrase it. I would like to have a number of options to choose from, because that tends to ensure that you get a fair price.
Getting More out of Your TV with Satellite
It seems like with technology these days it just gets more and more expensive to maintain quality service and equipment that gets you the best options out there. Luckily with DIRECTV this is not the case, because you can get an amazing lineup of channels from one of the best services without breaking the bank. Not only do you get over 195 HD channels, but you get the experience and knowledge of the staff that will ensure you make full use of it. By heading over to http://directsavingstv.com/ you can sign up right now and get started in no time. In fact, the installation process is now faster and easier than ever, so you can get started with enjoying the service right away.
Of course no technology service would be complete without great bonus features and equipment. This may be where the service actually shines, as they offer everything from the amazing GenieGO DRV service to the ability to watch premium channels on the go, leaving nothing out of the equation when it comes to maximizing your potential value. Of course these are not just gimmicks either, as the lineup of channels and reliability of this service backs up all of these features with an outright unbeatable overall quality.
It should be no surprise that this company regularly gets ranked ahead of cable competitors, as they simply blow them out of the water. Whether you are looking for sports and action movies or dramas and television series, this company offers it all. Now your whole family can enjoy the media they love and you can still avoid paying the heavy bills that much of the competition brings to the table. The time is now to upgrade and start enjoying your television to the maximum potential it should have always delivered.
The Lack of Oversight for Our Internet
With so few choices available to American consumers for cable services, we have to typically take whatever we might be offered. When I was presented with Dish Cable as a provider I quickly jumped on the chance because I had only been a customer of Time Warner and Comcast in the past with poor results as a customer of both of them. Dish, however, was offering a new way of receiving my television entertainment so I decided that they could only be better than either of those other companies who are known nationwide as two of the most terrible companies around.
It's sort of wild that a company could become known as such considering they have so many customers. It makes you wonder exactly how they have so many customers when they are seemingly universally disliked by tens of thousands of people who are seemingly customers not by choice but because of the limited number of options that they have. Yet somehow they still manage to become the primary, if not the only, provider in many areas. How and why is this happening? Is there anything that we can do about the clear monpoly that they have managed to create for themselves?
They are pushing out the competition in many areas if not out right buying them out. As customers we deserve to have more choices made to us instead of being bullied into picking one company that can pretty much charge whatever they want. No company this disliked should be free to continue doing business without at least some sort of investigation into their practices. If they are simply too large to be doing this much business especially with a service that impacts our economy so deeply, then it's clear that some federal agency needs to be stepping in to ensure that no shady business practices are being conducted.
Working out What I Can Afford
I got this place here, it is about five or six blocks away from the campus and if the weather is good I just walk to class. I did not even bother to bring my car, in fact I sold it to my cousin who just got his license. I would like to have a car to do stuff in, but when you do the math it does not make that much sense. I have to worry about paying for rent and food, what sort of high speed internet plans are within our budget and most of all I have to worry about whether or not the other guy is going to be dependable. If you have some person to split the expenses it is all a lot easier to afford obviously. If your internet costs fifty dollars or thirty dollars, you want to pay half of it and you obviously want to pay half every month. People I know who have been through these situations have taught me that you really have to pick the right person to be your room mate.
I would have liked to have found a room actually. It is one less thing for you to worry about. If the other guy does not show up with his half of the rent or his half of the other expenses you can not really do too much about it. That guy has due process. He might not know it, but he can make you bend over backwards to throw him out of the place. Of course if your name is on the lease you are the one with the most rights and if your name is not on the lease, then you can just pack up your stuff and walk out with very little to worry about.
Working on My Dad's Place
Of course Dad is getting ready to move down to Florida. He has decided that he has had enough of the Winter up here and he is going to be moving to some little beach town in the central part of Florida, along the Gulf Coast not too far from the North side of Tampa Bay. I am going to buy his house, but first I am going to do some work on it. The big thing is to find a good price on roof replacement in Brooklyn NY. Dad had to do that about a quarter of century ago and as he reminded me this is the sort of roof that is only guaranteed for that period of time. After it has been up there for that period of time you have to replace it with a new one and if you do not, then you may well wish that you had.
At any rate we are going to eventually do the entire house over, but I am starting with the master bathroom. The plan is to rip out the tub and put in a walk in shower that fills up about half of the space that the tub took. We will knock down the wall and give Sheila the space for all of her stuff. In fact I figure that I may as well plan on putting my stuff in the other bathroom. It is like that, she has a huge amount of different things that she has in their own very special place and the best thing for every person involved is if no one else ever moves any of her stuff. She is not too difficult about most things, but she likes you to leave her stuff where she thinks that it is supposed to be.
The Best Way to Get Drains Cleaned
It seems unlikely that anyone has ever owned a home, but never faced the problem of a clogged drain. Sometimes these clogs are able to be fixed with products that can be bought at Wal-Mart or the local grocery store, but often times these are not enough and they can be dangerous to use. Instead sometimes it is necessary to bring in a professional to get things under control. Hiring a contractor to do drain cleaning in Mt.Vernon NY is not as easy as one might assume though, because it is hard to know whether to trust the service or not.
Fortunately drain cleaning is at least slightly more straightforward than many other contracting jobs, as most people have a general idea of the concepts behind it. However, that does not make it easy to tell if the job is being done perfect or simply good enough to get by. Cleaning a clogged drain does not simply mean getting it to the point where some water can pass, it should be fully cleaned in order to avoid future problems. If this is not done properly for any reason, then the results can be very disappointing. Of course it is also important to trust the workers in using chemicals that are safe and reliable, rather than resorting to something that could possibly cause more damage than good.
In the end, the money is being invested to get the plumbing and sewer system working fully. Saving a few bucks here or there, but getting lower quality service is definitely not recommended. It is important to shop around and make sure any quoted prices are reasonable, but sticking with a reputable and experienced company is worth it in the long run. There is no reason to settle for something subpar when a little patience can get great results.
Finding a Proper Repairman to Do Work
There is little doubt that hiring contractors for repairs can be a stressful and annoying process. It is definitely unfair and at the very least pushes the boundaries of ethics, but many contractors try to take advantage of dangerous or uninformed customers. They boast low prices in estimates, but then the quality of work, schedule, and final cost are all at risk of causing major problems. At the end of the day it is better to stick with a reputable contractor even if the initial estimate may be a little bit higher. For example, boiler repair in Bergen County NJ may require a lot of research and effort to find the right person to fix it.
Many people can claim to be qualified for jobs like these, but false promises of experience and skill will do no good for anyone. In fact, these situations are usually worse than hiring someone who at least admits their lack of experience. The false confidence will lead to problems staying on schedule and getting work done properly, which can complicate issues down the road and end up making the project even more expensive than it started.
Of course finding someone with a reputation can prevent a customer from getting outright scammed or misled, since most notable contractors will want to avoid ruining their reputation by doing a customer wrong. However there can still be issues that should be considered beforehand. Obviously budgeting is a major thing since financial limitations are sometimes unavoidable, but availability and reliability can matter too. For example, some projects may be time sensitive and issues with overbooking or timing conflicts are always very difficult to handle. In the end it may take some extra time to find the right contractor, but it will be worth it in the end when other hassles and headaches are avoided.
The Keys to Finding a Roofing Contractor
Most people do not have much experience with hiring contractors and some of the details can be easily overlooked, which can make the first time potentially risky. This is especially true when it comes to jobs involving roofing, as improper installs or repairs can be hugely troublesome down the road. Ultimately if a worker takes shortcuts or uses the wrong materials, work done on a roof can make the situation worse than it was in the start. It can be even harder to find a reliable work in big cities, which is why finding a roofing contractor in NYC is no trivial task.
It starts with looking at the past reputation for a worker, as obviously someone with a spotty history filled with customer complaints should be avoided. People may be picky and overreact at times, but if many customers are unsatisfied there is likely a reason for it. When it comes to important jobs you do not want to risk becoming another person filing complaints and feeling ripped off. On the other hand, finding a contractor with a pristine reputation that is highly recommended by past customers can be a godsend. After all, the hard work that went into building that reputation can be easily ruined if a job is done poorly, so there is great motivation to continue making customers happy.
Ultimately though, beyond trying to avoid someone that is unreliable or untrustworthy can sometimes come down to a little bit of luck. Once a great contractor is found they should be held on to for future jobs, but there are other factors that can matter too. Obviously budget is a huge concern because if an estimate is pushing your financial limits then any further complications or expenditures can be disastrous. In addition to this availability is also important because projects can be time sensitive in many cases.
Moving My Business out of the House into My Own Office
My wife told me to move out of the house. No, not me particularly, just my business. I had started with my cellphone and laptop about a year ago. Since then I have taken over a spare bedroom and the closed in back porch. I have boxes and equipment everywhere. When I had to hire an assistant to get all of the work done, my wife told me to move it all out of the house. I rented a place a few blocks away and called a place that sells office furniture in singapore to outfit my new office.
I was nervous and excited at the same time. This was it! I was announcing to the whole world that I was in business for myself.
Almost Got the Place Ready
Lida and I bought this place almost three months ago, but we are still living in the apartment. It was a huge project when we took it on. Some guy had already bought it and gutted the place, but for some reason he had to abandon the project. Apparently the bank took it back. They did not want to deal with it and we got a steal of a bargain. That was just the beginning though a guy who does ac repair in hudson county nj had to come in and totally rip out the AC unit, then replace it with a modern one. The thought was that this made the most sense. As the place was totally gutted when we got it we started out by insulating it as well as we could figure out how. I got my brother in law to work on the wiring, as it was obviously out of date and did not inspire that much confidence. It scared him I think, but that was not all that expensive as we worked out a barter type of deal.
Then I decided that I would use a couple of the smart home types of features. The theory goes like this. The house has a computer and the computer figures out when you are there and what parts of the house are in use. If you are in bed sleeping, then it makes sure that the bedroom is nice and comfortable, whether it needs to be heated or cooled. The rest of the house obviously does not need to be kept at a perfect temperature if there is no one there to know. You can take the concept a lot further than I have, but it takes money for it. In fact you can hook it up to your phone so it knows when you shall walk through the door.
Satellite Television Options in Mountains
I recently bought a house that is located in the mountains, that is supposed to serve as a vacation home for my family. It is a nice house, and it is in a very beautiful part of the state. I particularly love coming up to this neck of the woods, during Autumn, when the leaves are starting to change. I feel that the leaves here are the most beautiful I have seen, when they are changing colors. Anyway, I am setting up the new house, and I want to look into direct tv as an option for entertainment in the house.
I thought, at first, that I would just set the house up, and not worry about getting any sort of television plan However, after consulting my children on the matter, they protested a whole lot. They thought that we definitely needed to have television. My youngest child was especially insistent on the matter. I did not really want to give in, because I feel like the mountains should be a good place to get away from technology, and the modern world.
However, I can understand their desire for television. To be honest, I would be kind of loathe to go without it myself, even if I do think it would be good for my kids to get away from the television, from time to time. However, I am going to need to find a very cheap package. I do not want to spend a lot of money on a television service that I am only going to use when my family is on vacation. In general, I would like to pay less than 30 dollars per month, and if that means that we only get a limited number of channels, then that is what my children are going to have to live with.
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I am in the process of purchasing a new house, and I need to go ahead and get home owner's insurance on the house, before the sale is completed. I need to get a good deal though, because I don't like the idea of spending a whole lot on insurance. I think the house will be fine for awhile, because it is a brand new house. So it would be nice to find home insurance deals. At the same time, it would be a good idea to get an insurance policy that covers against a range of different possible circumstances and scenarios.
Although, I am confident that my house will not have any problems, where I would need to make a claim through my home owner's insurance in the near future. It would be reckless to just get a low quality policy, for the sake of saving extra money. That doesn't necessarily mean that I need to pay a whole lot of money, for a home owner's insurance policy either. I think that I should be able to find a happy middle ground between the two.
I know that a very low percentage of home owners actually file a claim with their home insurance company in any given year. But at the same time, there are so many random things that happen. For example, some drunk driver could just decide to drive through my front door. It is impossible to say for sure. But, I want to save money, and not have to pay a lot of money for the insurance. It is necessary for me to get this insurance policy, so that i will be able to get a mortgage on the house. I actually need to get this taken care of within the next few days, if possible.
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I think that I am about ready to switch television providers. I have been dealing with the same crap from my current provider for too long, and to be honest, I am just fed up with it. They have very poor customer service, and that is just the beginning of the issues that I have with them. I would like to find a new provider, and I am going to search for information related to arizona direct tv packages and deals. I would like to switch to a satellite provider, but I probably won't be able to do that, unless I am going to get what I consider to be a good deal.
I do not know how much it is going to cost to get a satellite television package. It is something that I am interested in though, because I am pretty sure that I would get more than twice as many channels as I currently have, if I were to go through satellite television, as opposed to my current service. I do not have many channels right now, but I think that I would be able to get hundreds of channels through satellite. At least, that is the impression that I get from all of the commercials that I have seen on television over the past few months.
I am not even sure if there is a Direct TV office that is located nearby to my house. There has to be one somewhat close to me, and it would probably be a good idea to try to find where they are located, or at the least, find the telephone number of that office. I would like to talk to someone in purpose soon, to try to find out how much it is going to cost to get started out with Direct TV.
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The beginning of this month marked six months with the current venue that I have been managing. Unexpectedly finding myself in this position was more than a surprise for me. As I had begun as nothing but physical labor help, I was shocked when the venue's operator decided to give me far more responsibility and trust than I felt that I deserved. Whatever her reasons, it has been an incredibly rewarding experience to add to my resume! We also offer promotional products in sydney as much of our venue space is actually dominated by a warehouse full of items that are fit to be used in any event. From casino games, lounges and even science fiction theme retro furniture, we have anything any company could ask for.
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I am going to purchase a new television sometime soon, and probably within the next couple of days. I have a couple of ideas as to what I want, but I am pretty sure that I am going to get an LED television. I want to get an LED television, on account of the fact that they tend to have longer lifespans than other types of HDTVs, such as plasma. Right now, I am looking into led hdtv 1080p televisions that are of high quality, and with high refresh rates.
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I think that I broke my collar bone the other day, when I fell down my stairs. At first, I figured that I was okay, but now I have this sharp pain in the area where I imagine my collar bone is located. Now I am not sure about any of this, but it is just my speculation on the matter. Regardless, it needs medical attention, and I would like to find a doctor in westchester ny to visit for my problems.
I think that my shoulder is kind of messed up as well, but I do not think it is as bad of an injury, as the collarbone problem. I am worried that this is going to require surgery, or at the least, require a significant amount of time to recover. I do not like the thought of that, but I guess there is not really anything that can be done. I guess I learned a lesson about running down my steps.


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DISCLAIMER: Though this was a gift, i was not paid by Jenny or Celine to review their product. This will be an unbiased opinion of this new brush cleaner.
As someone who loves makeup and i love makeup a lot and a lot of makeup i have, i've finally come to a small collection of brushes to apply all that makeup.
often i've been asked what i use to clean my brushes. I always say firstly, depends on the brush. if the brush is animal hair, i use shampoo AND conditioner while if the brush has synthetic hair, i use liquid hand soap.
But now we have an inexpensive alternative to all of that.
here we have the J & C Superclean Solutions.
The women behind J&C Superclean Solutions, Jenny Yrasuegui and Celine Gabriel-Lim, thus J & C are both working women and who love their cosmetics as much as I do. Such as they are they want processes to be quick and easy.One of their solutions, get it? solutions? hehehe is to have something to quickly and easily clean their makeup brushes. and now they share what they have found to be the best to clean their makeup brushes with all of us.
Seems easy enough right? Just spritz your brush make sure it's damp enough then wipe your brush with a cleaning cloth and repeat until you no longer see any makeup residue on your tissue or cloth.
and the ingredients, with that much alcohol, both ethyl and isopropyl your sure that you've disinfected your brushes from germs.
and the atomizer. this is a fine mist atomizer. great to spritz enough of the product in the most densely packed brush head for a good soak.I was at the launch of this product about a month ago.
you can either follow the instructions to save product usage or like what we did here, put a small amount of product in cup and soak your brushes in the product.
then wipe off then let dry.
now since it's mostly ALCOHOL it's gonna dry VERY VERY QUICKLY. so if your the type to clean your brushes nightly, you can be assured that your brush will be DRY by morning or even sooner.
- very inexpensive compared to other brush cleaners at Php395.00 for a 120ml bottle
- i use it only on my synthetic brushes either that way of soaking or spot cleaning and it really does very dries very very quickly
- cleans very very well
- available in the Philippines
- smells great! the spearmint oil makes the brushes smell really fresh and clean even after a long time.
- the atomizer, has a really fine mist when spritzed
- very controllable pump, so i can either spritz or pump out a really small amount.
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Curiosity Mars rover picks up the pace
The Curiosity rover is making good progress towards its first major science destination on Mars.
The vehicle has now driven 289m (950ft) since its landing on the Red Planet some six weeks ago.
It has perhaps another 200m still left to cover to get to a location dubbed Glenelg, where researchers expect to find an interesting juxtaposition of three types of geological terrain.
But before it goes any further, the rover will study a dark rock.
Measuring about 25cm in height and 40cm at the base, it is not expected to have major science value.
Rather, the rock provides an opportunity for the robot to use three of its survey instruments in tandem for the first time.
The rock has been named "Jake Matijevic" in honour of a Curiosity engineer who tragically died shortly after the vehicle touched down in Mars' Gale Crater on 6 August (GMT).
The rover will zap the rock from a distance with its ChemCam laser and examine it up close with its X-ray spectrometer, known as APXS. The latter device is held on the end of the rover's robotic arm; the laser is mounted on its mast.
The investigation will give a good idea of the atoms present in the Matijevic rock and its likely mineralogical composition - although the Curiosity science team fully expects to "discover" another ubiquitous lump of Martian basalt (a volcanic rock).
"It's a cool looking rock with almost pure pyramidal geometry," said Prof John Grotzinger, the mission's lead scientist. Such a shape was not uncommon, he explained, and probably reflected wind erosion processes.
"Our general consensus view is that these are pieces of impact ejecta from an impact somewhere else, maybe outside of Gale Crater, that throws a rock on to the plains, and it just goes on to sit here for a long period of time. It weathers more slowly than the stuff that's around it. So, that means it's probably a harder rock."
The point of the upcoming exercise is to demonstrate the procedure for selecting targets of higher importance - rocks that in future could have significantly more scientific interest and which might require a sample to be drilled and delivered to two sophisticated analysis labs inside the rover's body.
In a briefing with journalists on Wednesday, the US space agency (Nasa) also released pictures taken by the rover of the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos passing in front of the sun.
These transits are relatively rare - twice per Martian year, which is once every Earth year - but are of great interest to scientists trying to understand the internal make-up of the Red Planet.
"[The moons] have tidal forces that they exert on Mars; they change Mars' shape ever so slightly," explained Curiosity researcher Mark Lemmon from Texas A&M University, College Station.
"That in turn changes the moons' orbits - Phobos is slowing down, Deimos is speeding up (like our Moon is). This is something that is happening very slowly over time.
"And with the transits, we can measure their orbits very precisely and figure out how fast they're doing this. The reason that's interesting is because it constrains Mars' interior structure. We can't go inside Mars but we can use these transits to tell how much Mars deforms when the moons go by."
Curiosity has now spent 43 sols (Martian days) on the planet. Much of that time has been spent commissioning the rover's systems and instruments.
The vehicle was sent to Mars to try to understand whether past environments at its landing location in Gale Crater could ever have supported microbial life.
That question will more properly be addressed when it gets to the base of the big mountain (Mount Sharp) that dominates the centre of the 150km-wide equatorial depression.
Sediments at the lower reaches of the peak appear from satellite pictures to have been laid down in the presence of abundant water.
Curiosity will establish whether that is so, but it is unlikely to begin this particular investigation for many months.
The mountain target lies several km to the south-west of its current location, and the desire to see the interesting rocks at Glenelg is actually taking the vehicle in the opposite direction to Mount Sharp.
The science team is in no hurry, however. Curiosity is equipped with a nuclear battery and has ample power to complete its prime two-year mission. Further funding from Nasa could yet see this project drive and drive deep into the decade.
- (A) Curiosity will trundle around its landing site looking for interesting rock features to study. Its top speed is about 4cm/s
- (B) This mission has 17 cameras. They will identify particular targets, and a laser will zap those rocks to probe their chemistry
- (C) If the signal is significant, Curiosity will swing over instruments on its arm for close-up investigation. These include a microscope
- (D) Samples drilled from rock, or scooped from the soil, can be delivered to two hi-tech analysis labs inside the rover body
- (E) The results are sent to Earth through antennas on the rover deck. Return commands tell the rover where it should drive next
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Lac Fontaine is the stronghold of Germaine the frog. One can watch clips of G-cuisiné TV show and access recipes from this truly special vegetarian frog… Kids & Parents can easily find recipes by categories.
Germaine also offers a fun and simple game to its visitors. The player must click on her friendly frogs to make them sing and play melodies. Throughout the game, Germaine encourages the player and comments its performance. As the game progresses, the melodies becomes harder to reproduce.
This game offers different difficulty levels that allow us to make it accessible to toddlers and its higher levels represent a real challenge for older children. It is available on the website and for Android and iOS mobile devices.
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Nicole Scherzinger had to call on pop star Miley Cyrus for help when she forgot her outfit at a charity event.
The Don't Hold Your Breath hitmaker was about to go onstage at the Stand Up 2 Cancer live fundraising event in 2012 when she was told she needed a special T-shirt. Luckily, Cyrus was on hand to help.
She tells Britain's Evening Standard magazine, "My most embarrassing moment was backstage at the Stand Up 2 Cancer live event. I was about to go on when they told me I was meant to wear a customised charity T-shirt, which I hadn't done. Miley Cyrus ran over and lent me hers. Next time I saw her, she said 'Do you remember when me and my mom had to dress you?!' and I was like, 'I will never forget it!"


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King NBA
What's with the overpraise for pro basketball commissioner David Stern?
Twenty-five years ago this month, Larry O'Brien —having decided that it was quite enough for one lifetime to have shepherded a Catholic through West Virginia's Democratic primary and the Great Society through Congress; modernized the postal system; twice chaired the Democratic National Committee; had his Watergate offices burglarized by the first celebrity unlicensed plumber of the crackpot right wing, G. Gordon Liddy; and, almost as an afterthought, rescued professional basketball from tape-delayed oblivion —stepped down as NBA commissioner and eased into his emeritus period as the man who, in the words of one owner at the time, made you feel "good about the league."
Appointed the NBA's third commissioner in 1975, O'Brien had done nothing less than drag the business of pro hoops into the modern era. He brokered the ABA-NBA merger, began eyeing the international markets, helped to midwife an equitable system of free agency, handled the inevitable round of drug hysteria with a remarkably deft touch, and turned what had been a fractious and litigious league into something on which cable networks lavished millions of dollars. He had done his job, and done it well, and even in an increasingly open-shop America, it should count for something that Marvin Miller, the founder of the baseball players union and an occasional adviser to the NBA Players Association in its early days, considers O'Brien perhaps the most progressive commissioner the sports world has known. (Of course, next to Kenesaw Mountain Landis, even Bud Selig looks like Mother Jones.) After O'Brien announced his retirement, the Washington Post's Ken Denlinger wrote, "[T]he league really is, to use the phrase O'Brien uttered so often during his 8 1/2-year tenure, 'in the most stable condition in its history.' "
It has been David Stern's NBA ever since, and that has been more than enough time for people to forget everything O'Brien had accomplished. This is basketball, where a pair of throwback Air Maxes counts as a sense of history. Now, on the occasion of Stern's silver anniversary, the hoops world has taken it upon itself to deliver toast after giddy toast to the man's achievements, each one more ignorant of O'Brien's legacy than the last. "I don't think it's a stretch to say that without Stern, the NBA would be on the same level with equestrian or water polo. Or worse ... the NHL," went one recent assessment. And in an interview with the Associated Press, Kings co-owner Gavin Maloof dropped the following history on our heads: "The NBA was headed for disaster, and he saved the league. The league had a lot of problems. There was disinterest, there was no fan interest, no big TV contract. I mean, David single-handedly saved the NBA."
This is the sort of insight one would expect from a frat-boy dilettante who counts Tara Reid a close associate: Among other things, Maloof fails to acknowledge Magic and Bird (who debuted during the late O'Brien years) as one ingredient in the NBA's revival. And yet this is a fairly accurate representation of a conventional wisdom that credits Stern with everything short of nailing up the first peach basket. O'Brien's NBA may not have been the neon wizbang thing it became on Stern's watch, but it was certainly a league on the make. The day the owners agreed unanimously to install the 41-year-old Stern, then an executive vice president for business and legal affairs, the vote didn't even appear on the agenda. There were more pressing issues to attend to, among them the purchase of the Seattle SuperSonics for $21 million, a sum that, while a pittance next to the bribe Clay Bennett recently paid to smuggle the Sonics into Oklahoma, did not bespeak a league headed for disaster.
If you don't see that the roots of the modern game lie in O'Brien's tenure, then you aren't looking. It was O'Brien who, not long after taking the job in 1975, negotiated a settlement to Oscar Robertson's six-year-old antitrust suit, thus doing away with the reserve clause and removing barriers to both free agency and the ABA-NBA merger, not to mention empowering the very black athlete Stern would market heavily a decade later. Sports Illustrated hailed his first collective-bargaining agreement as "the most progressive in sports."
In 1983, within a six-month period, O'Brien, along with his lieutenants (among them Stern and current NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman), reached two landmark agreements with the union that at last steered the league out of rough weather. One was the drug program, which has been overpraised for taking a hard line on players caught with prohibited substances (originally a lifetime suspension, with reviews every two years) and underpraised for offering anonymous treatment and counseling to players who voluntarily come forward.
The other was a salary cap, a necessary expedience, the NBA argued, in a time of financial uncertainty around the league. In 1981, 16 of 23 teams reportedly lost money, and four were up for sale. At the time, the agreement supposedly offered smaller teams a chance to compete for players, though later, in the fat years, the cap began to look more and more like a kind of lampshade collar, designed to protect the owners from themselves. In 1985, with two-thirds of the teams turning a profit, Stern told the Washington Post: "The adoption of the salary cap, together with the drug program, will some day be looked at historically as the turning point in the history of the NBA."
The collective-bargaining agreements of those years created the chimerical impression of an eternal management-labor partnership in league affairs. Marvin Miller suggests now that the cooperation had more to do with the specific personalities involved. O'Brien, he recalls, "would seek me out and talk to me about labor-management problems. He was always very knowledgeable, always cooperative. It was never on a hostile basis. ... Stern was cut from a different cloth."
It's little noted that Stern has presided over three lockouts in his time, only one of which cost the league any games. In this, as in everything else, his timing has been impeccable. He took over the NBA at a cultural moment when public figures were judged by the quality of their salesmanship, and a league once run by lawyers has slowly given way to a league run by marketers. (His deputy and presumptive replacement, Adam Silver, once headed up the NBA's entertainment division.) And he has used his marketing savvy to great advantage over the years, most notably in spreading the hoop-ish gospel to all corners of the globe without much chest-thumping, a smiling sort of soft imperialism. (Stern now receives almost exclusive credit for the globalization of the game, which ignores the early inroads laid by O'Brien and even NBA Players Association General Counsel Larry Fleisher, whose sons Marc and Eric, both agents, took up the cause in the late 1980s after their father's death and imported Vlade Divac and Sarunas Marciulionis from overseas. It could also reasonably be argued that the collapse of the Soviet Union and its sports system cracked the game wide open, which means that Vaclav Havel is at least partly to blame for Nikoloz Tskitishvili.)
It's Stern's keen instinct for marketing both himself and his policies that have kept him from the public shaming you'd expect to greet a three-lockout commish. During the labor strife of the 1990s, which centered on the league's efforts to close the myriad loopholes in the salary cap and wrap its arms around the galactic piles of TV and licensing money that few could have envisioned in 1983, Stern and the owners devised a public relations strategy around the twin Selig-ian ideas that the league was hurting for money (it wasn't) and that its players were a bunch of loutish and entitled greedheads with little stake in the game itself ("Nasty, Brutish Athletes," as a Wall Street Journal op-ed put it). This was an easy sell so soon after baseball's vaporized 1994 season. "If a young player blows off practice, he knows the worst that can happen is that the club will fine him. … But what if he makes so much, he doesn't care?" Phoenix Suns executive Cotton Fitzsimmons toldSports Illustrated, which seemed to appreciate the notion of bringing "to heel ... the league's whining young players."
The league emerged from that lockout holding one of the more absurdly management-friendly CBAs in sports, on the strength of such collusive provisions as the maximum contract (something is seriously amiss when you have both Stephon Marbury and the Sherman Act arrayed convincingly against you). The cost-saving mechanisms built in to the 1999 agreement have cosseted Stern from criticism that he has failed to diversify and modernize the NBA's revenue streams much beyond ticket sales and Dazzling Dunks and Basketball Bloopers, the way Major League Baseball has with its wildly successful digital media arm.
The NBA commissioner has a uniquely difficult job. Nowhere else in sports does a commissioner have to hawk his game to the very suburban reactionaries who would turn it into a straw man for their own demographic nightmares. There has been a lot of glib talk in recent weeks that Stern has removed race from the conversation. In reality, he has merely sent it underground, where it burbles beneath everything from an official NBA magazine airbrushing out Allen Iverson's tattoos to the Pacers-Pistons brawl to the league's cynical and patronizing minimum-age rule.
Stern is by all accounts one of the few real liberals in the industry, and he has expressed misgivings over the shabby treatment of his players in the public square. But he has also implicitly accepted the premise of these retrograde grumblings about the NBA. We're now in the third season of the league's dress code, which mandates that players wear "business casual" attire whenever engaged in league activities and which the New York Times identified as part of "the NBA's latest push to look a little less gangsta and a little more genteel." This was pretty transparently a response to what everyone innocently called, in the wake of the Pacers-Pistons fight, the league's "image problem," as if it had sprouted organically from the floorboards of the Palace of Auburn Hills.
"We have a minimum standard that we set that reflects on the professionalism of our sport," Stern told reporters, presenting his plan as the harmless sort of policy any company might adopt. Behind the scenes, he enforced the code with almost creepy vigor—the league initially determined compliance by photographing players as they entered and left the arena, fining them as warranted. It was vintage Stern. He had pandered to the wide reactionary streak in basketball's audience that his handling of the lockout doubtlessly exacerbated. And he was rewarded with yet another piece of player autonomy, something that basketball's authorities have felt, in the 25 years since Larry O'Brien left the boardroom, has been theirs to take.


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Bean Leaf Beetle Returning for Late Season Feast– (John Obermeyer, Rich Edwards, and Larry Bledsoe)
While sweeping soybean fields for western corn rootworm beetles this week, we saw a surprisingly high number of bean leaf beetles. Though the numbers don't rival last year's, they are still quite noticeable. Soybeans grown for seed should be monitored as leaves begin to yellow and pods remain green. Bean leaf beetles scar the surface of pods, but only occasionally feed through the pod to the developing beans. During pod maturation, this scar often cracks leaving an entry hole for air borne plant pathogens that may cause discolored, moldy, shriveled, and/or diseased beans.
It is important for pest managers to be able to predict whether economic damage will occur based on the types and numbers of beetles that are present and the stage of pod development (i.e., green, yellow, yellow-brown, or brown pods). Once the pods turn yellow to yellow-brown, they become less attractive and less susceptible to damage. Control is normally not warranted from this point on (see the following table).
Randomly select 2 plants in each of 5 areas of the field and count the number of pods per plant and the number that show damage (10 total plants). Figure the percentage of damaged pods per plant for the field as a whole. Note if the pods are green, beginning to turn yellow, or are yellow/brown. Also determine the number of beetles per sweep using an insect sweep net. Take 5 sets of 20 sweeps in the field. Determine the number of bean leaf beetles per sweep. Additionally, note whether beetles are still actively feeding while surveying the field.
There has been considerable interest in bean leaf beetle and its association with bean pod mottle virus. Bean leaf beetle is one of several known beetle-vectors of this disease. They spread the virus by feeding on infected plants, ingesting the virus with plant tissue, and then regurgitating gut content after moving to and feeding on an uninfected plant. Bean pod mottle virus symptoms at harvest include green stem and hilum bleeding. There are many more questions than there are answers concerning this disease complex. This disease has been known to exist in the Midwest for decades and the bean leaf beetle has been around for a log time. One false perception is that the disease and beetle are the major cause for the diminished soybean seed quality and seed supply noted over the last couple of years. Treatment for bean leaf beetle to reduce bean pod mottle virus this time of the year is not recommended.
Use the following table to determine when a treatment may be necessary.
Harvest Restrictions for Soybean Insecticides– (John Obermeyer, Rich Edwards, and Larry Bledsoe)
The following listing includes many of the insecticides registered for soybean insect control, including rate per acre and harvest restrictions (refer to the label for insects controlled and specific rates and application information):
Sexual Dysfunction in the Corn Field– (Bob Nielsen)
Déjà vu or serendipity? Several weeks ago I shared with readers the ins and outs of the corn pollination process (P&C Newsletter, 29 July) and the ways in which the pollination process or subsequent grain filling period could go wrong (P&C Newsletter, 11 Aug). Since that time, quite a few reports have come in describing pollination or grain filling problems in fields around the state.
For the record, let's remember that pollination failure in corn is caused by either lack of viable pollen, failure of silks to emerge or non-receptive silks. Kernel abortion is most likely to occur early in the kernel development process when photosynthesis is restricted (cloudy days, leaf disease, hail damage, severe N deficiency) or when photosynthate availability to the kernels is limited (excessively warm nights, competition with older kernels).
There seems to be a perception that one or two hybrids are especially affected this year. This may not be correct; especially if folks are concentrating on walking fields of those hybrids and ignoring fields of other hybrids. Indeed, I have observed serious tip fill problems and severely scattered kernel set in more than one hybrid and from more than one seed company.
Many fields exhibit some degree of pollination failure or minor kernel abortion near the tip of the ears. Typically, one finds one to two inches of barren cob. The bad news is that the yield loss is about five bushels for every absent 'ring' of kernels around the cob. The good news is that ear length potential this year was often quite exceptional owing to the generally favorable growing conditions prior to flowering.
In such fields, ear length potential was so long that the tip silks likely emerged after pollen shed was complete. The number of successfully developing kernels in these affected fields is still 'normal' (from 30 to 35 kernels per row), even though one or two inches of the ear tip are barren. So, count your kernels before you get all bent out of shape with the poor tip fill in your fields.
In some fields, the poor tip fill includes some number of aborted kernels in addition to simply blank portions of cob. Kernel abortion can be caused by any number of stresses, including excessively warm nights (low to mid-70's) during silking or severe moisture deficits. Some areas experienced several days of heavy overcast clouds during or shortly after the pollination process. Such excessive shading or lack of intense sunlight soon after fertilization of the ovary occurs can easily abort kernels. Instances of all three climatic conditions occurred in areas throughout the state during pollination. The cause of the abortion revolves around a limited photosynthate supply to the younger developing kernels.
Unfortunately, the tip fill problems in other fields are not related to exceptionally long ears or simply to warm nights or limited photosynthate supply. Harvestable kernels per row of ears in some fields sometimes number only 15 to 20. Moreover, varying degrees and frequencies of severely scattered kernel set also exist in many fields.
In the fields I've walked, the more severe kernel set problems are usually associated with significant levels of clipped silks. In most cases, it is unclear whether corn rootworm (CRW) or Japanese beetles were the culprits, although goose-necked plants in many of these fields were a good indication that serious CRW larvae feeding injury to roots was a problem earlier in the season.
The kernel set problems seem to be most prevalent in fields where uneven plant development occurred due to uneven emergence or uneven seedling growth. In the fields I've walked, severe silk clipping and resulting kernel set problems were most evident in delayed plants than in 'normally' developing plants. Normal and delayed plants side-by-side typically exhibit ears that are night and day different in the success of pollination. Plants in fields with more uniform plant development exhibit less silk clipping in general and fewer problems with severe scattered kernel set.
Uneven stands or plant development can be attributed to a) uneven seedling emergence, b) injury from the Mother's Day frost event, c) uneven plant development catalyzed by late May/early June cold snap, d) injury from postemergence herbicide applications, e) chilling injury from the mid-June cold snap, f) chilling injury from the early July cold snap, or g) injury from CRW larvae root feeding. Any combination of the above stresses could have set back plant development unevenly throughout a field. The delayed plants would silk later and be more attractive to CRW or Japanese beetles than would 'normal' plants.
The severe tip fill problems or scattered kernel set associated with insect silk clipping are interesting because few people, including yours truly, thought it was much of an issue back in early July when fields were pollinating. Maybe we were simply avoiding corn fields during the heat and humidity and did not notice the problem.
There are also indications that earlier planted fields and earlier maturity hybrids are less affected than later planted fields or later maturity hybrids. My own planting date study at the Purdue Agronomy Farm illustrates the worst-case scenario for CRW/Japanese beetle silk clipping in late-planted corn. Over many years of conducting planting date studies, I have never seen such extensive CRW beetle feeding on the silks in later-planted corn.
There are also a couple of weather-related issues that may have played a role in setting up the corn plant for pollination failure. Above normal temperatures experienced in some areas during pollen shed could have caused faster pollen shed completion at the expense of later silk emergence from tip ovules of long ears or delayed silk emergence due to excessive CRW/Japanese beetle silk damage.
An admittedly farther stretch of imagination suggests that it is possible that the one or two cold nights in early July (remember the frost injury in low-lying muck fields) interfered with normal pollen maturation, resulting in less total pollen or some frequency of unviable or defective pollen. Similarly, the late May/early June cold snap may have interfered with initiation of tassel branches and spikelets due to the timing of the chilling injury with the initiation of tassels occurring in corn that was at growth stages V5-V6. Interference with either tassel development or pollen maturation would have left the corn plant more vulnerable to the effects of severe silk clipping by insects.
Related Research References:
Bechoux, N., G. Bernier, and P. Lejeune. 2000. Environmental effects on the early stages of tassel morphogenesis in maize (Zea mays L.). Plant, Cell & Environment. 23(1):91-98.
Cantarero, M.G., A.G. Cirilo, and F.H. Andrade. 1999. Night temperature at silking affects kernel set in maize. Crop Sci. 39(3): 703-710.
Reed, A.J., G.W. Singletary, J.R. Schussler, D.R. Williamson and A.L. Christy. 1988. Shading effects on dry matter and nitrogen partitioning, kernel number, and yield of maize. Crop Sci. 28(5): 819-825.
Late-Season Hail Damage to Corn– (Bob Nielsen)
Recent hailstorms in areas of the state caused some defoliation, a lot of leaf tattering, some stalk bruising and some ear bruising in corn fields unfortunate enough to be in their paths. Yield loss from such late season hail damage is due primarily to the defoliation, but the extent of the defoliation can be tricky to quantify.
Hail damage to leaves typically looks worse than it really is, because most of us tend to assume tattered leaves will no longer function. This assumption is correct if the tattered leaves actually dry up and wither away. However, if the tattered leaves don't actually die, they can still contribute to the continued functioning of the photosynthetic factory. Most of the hail-damaged fields I visited today in westcentral Indiana were 20 to 50 percent defoliated and only a few were greater than 50 percent defoliated. For the sake of argument, though, let's assume on average the defoliation was 50 percent.
Yield loss to defoliation is dependent on the growth stage of the crop. Corn that is pollinating is at most risk of yield loss to hail damage and becomes increasingly less susceptible to yield loss as grain maturation nears. The good news is that most of the fields I walked today ranged from early dent to late dent (half-milkline) and not younger. Using my average defoliation estimate of 50 percent and the range of growth stages observed, the average yield loss from the storms over the weekend would be in the neighborhood of five to nine percent.
Minor bruising of the stalk or ear husks will be of little consequence and should not result in any appreciable development of stalk or ear rots. Where hailstones were large or intense enough to actually gouge into the stalk, then the physical structural integrity of the stalk is compromised and standability may be an issue before harvest. None of the fields I walked today, however, exhibited anything other than minor bruising.
The hailstorms packed quite a bit of wind and significant stalk lodging occurred in some fields from the wind, especially where the corn rows were oriented perpendicular to the direction of the wind. The good news, though, is that most of the lodging appears to be more of a stalk leaning and not actually stalk breakage.
A minor bit of good news is that the significant defoliation in these hail-damaged fields may actually contribute to faster grain drydown because of better wind movement through the damaged crop canopy. Grain maturation timing may be hastened a bit, also.
Don't forget, this and other timely information about corn can be viewed at the Chat 'n Chew Café on the World Wide Web at <http://www.kingcorn.org/cafe> . For other information about corn, take a look at the Corn Growers' Guidebook on the World Wide Web at <http://www.kingcorn.org/>.


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Since the late 1940s, when it was first developed for military applications, Krav Maga has been crafted into a system successfully used to train law enforcement personnel, SWAT teams, Air and Sea Marshals, and intelligence agencies across the globe. Krav Maga is lauded in law enforcement for its base in natural movements making it easily learned, retained, and applied; practical techniques to maximize both effectiveness and simplicity; reality-based training to improve performance under stress; and, specific to Law Enforcement Krav Maga, use-of-force and civil liability issues that impact training and contribute to programs designed exclusively for officers of the law.
Law enforcement officers are faced with a unique dilemma: subduing and/or restraining an assailant while protecting the law. They must be aware of limitations on use of force as well as dangers to themselves, their fellow officers, and the civilians they protect. Krav Maga is a flexible tool that can be adjusted to comply with any country's set of laws. It teaches officers how to deal effectively with escalating levels of violence, from empty-handed combat to active shooter situations, and can be applied in self-defense, third-party protection, or arrest procedures. The law enforcement program teaches officers to maximize the efficiency of the tools at their disposal. Trainees quickly learn to operate under extreme stress and complicated scenarios while staying within their unique legal guidelines.
Areas of Krav Maga law enforcement training include:
Third Party Protection in Krav Maga covers a wide range of situations and applications, but can be split into two basic sections: civilian and professional. The civilian program incorporates techniques used to protect family, friends, and other acquaintances in threatening situations that might arise in everyday life. These situations can range from street fights to muggings to walking an unruly friend out of a bar and away from conflict.
The professional program caters to close protection operatives responsible for the safety of a VIP. Politicians, celebrities, and high-level executives are among the VIP who have maximum exposure due to the public nature of their careers and are at risk of attacks. CPOs often work in teams to ensure the safety of their VIP, and must possess a variety of skills to carry out their duties in high-stress situations of conflict. These situations can occur out in the open, in a crowd, in a vehicle, or any number of other difficult environments. Students will learn to navigate their unique circumstances and utilize their Krav Maga training in congruence with the operating procedures of the their job or team.
VIP Third Party Protection offers training in the following areas:
Air and Sea Marshal programs are adapted to suit each job's distinct characteristics, particularly their environments. Air and Sea Marshals work in enclosed, limited space and may deal with a variety of dangerous situations from disorderly passengers to hijacking attempts. The restrictions of movement and firearm use onboard an aircraft make Krav Maga a useful tool for Air Marshals, while Sea Marshals are often away from shore (and backup) for long periods of time and benefit from stress training and simple retention of Krav Maga. Both programs train how to make use of the unique surroundings Marshals work in, such as being seated in an airplane, and how to use these to their advantage.
Members of SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) units are tasked with handling the most difficult and hazardous situations, and in challenging environments that require a high level of training and experience. SWAT teams must be prepared for and capable of levelheaded decision-making during attacks, arrests, raids, hostage rescues, etc. that occur on a regular basis and the resolution of which is a primary concern to SWAT team members. The daily routine of a SWAT team member demands the mental and physical stamina to repeatedly tackle high-stress, often violent confrontations. A correct and well-rounded arsenal of skills can save lives, so it is essential that SWAT units are properly trained in the technical, tactical, physical, and mental capabilities necessary to the development of determined, complete combatants.
Krav Maga training for SWAT teams comprises but is not limited to:


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For Or With, That Is The Question
Over the past three months, I have asked more than 20 people, "How many jobs have you had since you started working?" Their answers ranged from 1 to 35 jobs. I then asked them, "With whom did you work?" Nineteen of the 20 responded that they worked "for" the companies. Only one said that he worked "with" them.
While you may think the difference in the two words is just semantics, I contend it means much more than that. In fact, I believe the difference is worth millions of dollars to the individual and the company.
When I finished questioning, most people asked me how many people I have worked for. I responded, "None." I said I always felt I was working "with" the companies and universities I tried to help.
If an owner of a business or a corporation can develop an environment of working together, employees will feel they are working "with" the company and not "for" the company.
I've seen many cases, especially in agriculture, where the employees are so tightly controlled that they are allowed to do only what they are instructed to do. As a result, when they finish one job, they must wait to be told what the next job is. If the boss isn't there, they just sit and wait for instructions as to what their next task will be.
On the other hand, those workers who are free to make their own decisions feel they are making a significant contribution to the company. They enjoy their work and are much more productive both for the company and themselves. They also are happier and more satisfied with their working time.
In fact, many people who work "with" their companies commit more time to projects than just 40 hours a week. Some invest 60 or even 80 hours a week because they feel their work is important and they are making a significant contribution to the company.
Of course, this can go to the extreme so that they get so wrapped up in their work they sacrifice other areas of their lives, such as family, leisure and sometimes even health. This can also cause the employee and the company difficulties.
Good Management
How do you manage a company in order to take advantage of the secrets of handling employees?
I knew a CEO in the horticultural printing business who was hired as a graphic artist with the business. He worked day and night and got to know everyone at work. There were probably 20 employees at that time. He knew how to work with people. He would remember their names, spouses' names, children's names, birthdays and what they liked to do in their leisure time. He learned everything about the company. Because of this, he became the plant manager and the plant grew to employ 100 people.
He still knew every person by name and the facts about each one. This continued for over 40 years until the company employed several hundred people and he became the president and chairman of the board. When he arrived, the company did less than $1 million in sales a year. When he retired, it did over $50 million annually.
His secret was he knew everyone, everyone liked him and they loved to work "with" him. He treated everyone, from the professional designers and printers to the people who cleaned the building, with equal respect and opportunities.
Another one of his secrets was that he always said, "We have accomplished this. We need to improve this. We have these goals for next year." The company held regular meetings so everyone could share ideas on how to improve their jobs and what needed to be done to make the company better.
He never used the pronoun I because I is a lonely word. I immediately indicates that people are working "for" you. If that is true, then you have just lost the team spirit. You have to make all the decisions yourself, and people will wait for your next instruction. They will be afraid to make decisions themselves. Thus, the "I" approach is a very costly one. It will cost millions of dollars in lost productivity and low employee morale, and it will also reduce the potential growth of the company.
I Versus We
An article in the 2004 Harvard Business Review cited the famous management guru Peter Drucker. Drucker surveyed many CEOs and found they had different types of personalities. They ranged from extroverts to almost recluses, but they all followed eight basic practices that made them successful.
Here are those eight practices:
1. Ask what needs to be done.
2. Ask what is right for the business.
3. Develop action plans.
4. Take responsibility for decisions.
5. Take responsibility for communicating.
6. Focus on opportunities, not problems.
7. Run productive meetings.
8. Think and say "we" rather than "I."
These steps provided them with the knowledge they needed and converted that knowledge to actions. They made the whole organization feel responsible and accountable.
Show me a well-run and profitable greenhouse business and I'll show you a strong leader who practices these basic principles. The fact that the leaders of successful companies may have varied personalities does not make that great a difference if they follow sound basic management practices.
I believe this is the greatest problem of the small greenhouse operation. While most small operators learn the basics of growing plants and know how to produce them commercially, they don't have or take the time to master the basics of good management. As our industry matures, we can see many small growers going out of business. I would venture to say the "I factor" is a major part of the problem.
There are levels one can reach with a sole proprietorship or partnership or small corporation where the strong boss approach works. Usually that approach can work until sales reach $1 million and then the business starts to "shake," becoming difficult to maintain or handle. At that point, some sort of organizational structure and professional management are needed. If this isn't done, the boss approach may still work until the company reaches sales of $3 to $5 million. Then it will shake again, this time more violently. It may even start to fall apart. Beyond this point, the "I" will die and the "we" will survive.
People who start their own businesses and make them survive and grow almost always want to keep control. They have made all the decisions that made the business successful to this point, and they are afraid someone else will never be able to handle it.
Most of these folks have never understood the basics of management and do not know how to work "with" other people in a non-threatening way. They have not learned the simple difference between "for" and "with" and that can cost them their business. I hope you enjoy working "with" people.


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Book Discussion "Outsourcing War and Peace": Too Much Jurisdiction? – Contractor Liability After Brehm and Ali
[Steve Vladeck is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Scholarship at American University Washington College of Law.]
This is the third day in our discussion of Professor Dickinson's book Outsourcing War and Peace: Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs. Links to the related posts can be found below.
One needn't look far for proof that the issues raised by Laura Dickinson's Outsourcing War and Peace with regard to the absence of liability for military contractors are at the forefront of contemporary law and policy. If outsourcing is here to stay, then it seems only right to ask how we might ameliorate some of the concerns that such privatization raises. And although I think Deborah Pearlstein is exactly right to link the problems of contractor liability to the broader "waning public accountability for national security and military affairs more generally," the specifics also matter, since a host of recent legal developments have focused on the case for (or against) contractor accountability as such. To that end, Professor Dickinson, who champions the need for greater civil and criminal liability, already noted last Friday's decision by the en banc Fourth Circuit in the al-Shimari case concerning whether victims of torture at Abu Ghraib can pursue state law tort claims against the military contractors allegedly at fault (for now, they can). And we should hear soon from the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, which heard argument in April in United States v. Ali on the question whether the Constitution allows the military to court-martial civilian contractors accompanying U.S. forces in the field during overseas "contingency operations."
But for all the attention that al-Shimari and Ali have received from observers like Professor Dickinson, I want to suggest in this post that we would do well to also consider United States v. Brehm—a less-noticed appeal argued yesterday before a three-judge Fourth Circuit panel—as a reason to search for nuance in the quest for a coherent approach to contractor liability.


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