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[5/31/13] The Washington Post: "Americans have rebuilt less than half of wealth lost to the recession, study says"
[5/31/13] PIMCO DC Digest: "Global DC Plans: Similar Destinations, Distinctly Different Paths"
[5/31/13] Center for Retirement Research at Boston College: How Important Is Medicare Eligibility in the Timing of Retirement?
[5/31/13] BMO Wealth Institute™: Life Events That May Derail a Financial Plan
[5/31/13] Congressional Budget Office: The Distribution of Major Tax Expenditures in the Individual Income Tax System
[5/31/13] Social Security Administration: Congressional Statistics, December 2012 ["These annual fact sheets present data on the Social Security and Supplemental Security Income programs. Data are given for the number of people receiving benefits and the amount of total monthly payments made to persons in the United States, in each state, and in each congressional district within the state."]
[5/30/13] RAND Health: Workplace Wellness Programs Study: Final Report [Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]
[5/30/13] The Washington Post:
- "New federal rules prevent firms from discriminating through wellness programs"
- "Richest 20 percent get half the overall savings from U.S. tax breaks, CBO says"
[5/30/13] Bank of America Merrill Lynch Workplace Insights™: "401(k) Wellness Scorecard -- For quarter ending March 31, 2013"
[5/30/13] Economic Collapse News: "Senior citizens' debt soars 83% since 2001, youth not saving for retirement: studies"
[5/30/13] Lincoln Financial Group: The M.O.O.D. of America: Measuring Optimism, Outlook, and Direction
[5/30/13] FINRA Investor Education Foundation: 2012 National Financial Capability Study
[5/30/13] MetLife: The MetLife Report on the Oldest Boomers: Healthy, Retiring Rapidly and Collecting Social Security
[5/29/13] Center for Economic and Policy Research: No-Vacation Nation Revisited
[5/29/13] HRBenefitsAlert.com: "Insurer: Top 10 Causes of Disability Leave"
[5/29/13] California Healthline: "Report: Employers Cut Hours, Coverage Options Before ACA Was Passed"
[5/29/13] Workforce: "Employees Opening Health Savings Accounts in Record Numbers"
[5/29/13] U.S. Senate Committee on Finance: Economic Security: Health, Retirement, Life Insurance, Fringe Benefits and Executive Compensation -- Senate Finance Committee Staff Tax Reform Options for Discussion
[5/29/13] Prudential: The African American Financial Experience -- 2013-14 Prudential Research
[5/29/13] CNN Money: "Senior citizens struggle with mounting debt"
[5/29/13] U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Social Security: Hearing on the "President's and Other Bipartisan Entitlement Reform Proposals" [Hearing held May 23, 2013, includes links to written testimonies]
[5/23/13] Towers Watson: "Defined Benefit Plans Outperformed 401(k) Plans During 2011 by Largest Margin Since Mid-1990s, Towers Watson Analysis Finds"
[5/23/13] Plan Sponsor: "DB Plans: Lump Sums More Common for Defined Benefit Plan Distributions"
[5/23/13] Stillwater Gazette: "Putting too much of your money in company stock"
[5/23/13] University of Michigan Institute for Social Research: "The New Retirement: No Retirement?"
[5/23/13] Milliman Inc.: 2013 Milliman Medical Index
[5/23/13] The Hill's Healthcare Blog: "Trend toward part-time work, cuts in health coverage predate ObamaCare"
[5/23/13] Workforce: "Explaining the Exchanges to Employees Won't Be Easy"
[5/23/13] The Washington Post: "You ask, we answer! Can employed people get Obamacare subsidies?"
[5/22/13] Plan Sponsor Council of America: 2013 403(b) Plan Survey: Highlights of Results
[5/22/13] Plan Sponsor:
[5/22/13] AllianceBernstein Defined Contribution Investments: Global Bonds: A Better Solution for DC Investors
[5/22/13] The Washington Post: "Stretching Your Retirement Dollars"
[5/22/13] Kaiser Family Foundation: "A State-by-State Snapshot of Poverty Among Seniors: Findings From Analysis of the Supplemental Poverty Measure"
[5/22/13] PricewaterhouseCoopers HRS Insight: "ACA Proposed Regulations on Minimum Value, Premium Tax Credits Help Employers with Health Plan Duties for 2014"
[5/21/13] Hay Group: "The Wall Street Journal / Hay Group CEO Compensation Survey 2012"
[5/21/13] International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans: 2013 Employer-Sponsored Health Care: ACA's Impact [Note: The full report can be downloaded at the website.]
[5/21/13] Sibson Consulting's Capital Checkup: "2014 Minimums and Maximums for Health Savings Accounts and High-Deductible Health Plans"
[5/21/13] U.S. House Committee on Energy & Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations: Hearing titled "Health Insurance Premiums Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" [Hearing held May 20, 2013, includes links to archived webcast and to written testimonies]
[5/21/13] Plan Sponsor:
- "DC Plan Administration: Packaging the DC Plan"
- "DC Plan Design: Education for 401(k) Plans Shifts to Emphasis on Participants' Need to Save More"
[5/21/13] The Pew Charitable Trusts: Retirement Security Across Generations: Are Americans Prepared for Their Golden Years?
[5/21/13] The Motley Fool: "1 Simple Step to Dramatically Improve Your Retirement"
[5/20/13] Towers Watson: "Pension De-Risking Through Lump-Sum Offers" [Q&A]
[5/20/13] Plan Sponsor:
- "DC Investments: Plans Have Turned Back to Asset-Allocation Funds"
- "Findley Davies Offers Health Reform Guide"
[5/20/13] Sibson Consulting's Capital Checkup: "Guidance on Out-of-Pocket Maximums in 2014 for Non-Grandfathered Health Plans"
[5/20/13] Kaiser Family Foundation: "Subsidy Calculator: Premium Assistance for Coverage in Exchanges"
[5/20/13] The Wall Street Journal: "Your Next IRS Political Audit - The tax agency is getting vast new power in health care."
[5/20/13] The Washington Post: "Health care in retirement probably costs more than you think"
[5/20/13] Center for State & Local Government Excellence: Survey Findings: State and Local Government Workforce: 2013 Trends
[5/20/13] National Academy of Social Insurance: Strengthening Social Security: What Do Americans Want? -- Views Among African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and White Americans
[5/16/13] The Vanguard Group Research Note: "Roth Adoption and the New In-Plan Conversion Feature"
[5/16/13] The Washington Post: "Roth-style investing in TSP continues to grow"
[5/16/13] Chief Investment Officer: "More 401(k) Options Mean Worse Outcomes"
[5/16/13] Ameriprise Financial: Retirement Derailers Survey
[5/16/13] Financial Advisor Magazine: "Baby Boomers Withdrawing IRA Money Too Fast, Survey Says"
[5/16/13] Bloomberg Businessweek: "Younger Seniors Are Burning Up Their IRAs"
[5/16/13] Plan Sponsor: "Retirees Will Need Almost Quarter Million for Health Care"
[5/16/13] Health Care Cost Institute: "New Study Tracks Impact of Aging on Health Costs" [Press Release]
[5/16/13] PricewaterhouseCoopers: "An HR Perspective: Focusing on the Future of Healthcare Benefits"
[5/16/13] U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: Frequently Asked Questions on Health Insurance Marketplaces
[5/15/13] Plan Sponsor: "What Is Derailing Boomer Retirement?"
[5/15/13] Aegon: The Changing Face of Retirement: The Aegon Retirement Readiness Survey 2013
[5/15/13] The New York Times:
- "Taking a Closer Look at a Proposal to Limit Tax-Deferred Savings"
- "4% Rule for Retirement Withdrawals Is Golden No More"
[5/15/13] Gallup, Inc.: "Half of U.S. Small Businesses Think Health Law Bad for Them"
[5/15/13] Congressional Budget Office:
- "CBO's Estimate of the Net Budgetary Impact of the Affordable Care Act's Health Insurance Coverage Provisions Has Not Changed Much Over Time"
- "CBO's May 2013 Estimate of the Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Insurance Coverage" [Table]
[5/15/13] PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute: "The Massachusetts Experience: Employer-sponsored health insurance post-reform" [First in a two-part series]
[5/14/13] Internal Revenue Service: Computation of, and Rules Relating to, Medical Loss Ratio; Notice of proposed rulemaking and notice of public hearing [as published in the Federal Register on May 13, 2013]
[5/14/13] The Washington Post: "Health law lets young people stay on a parent's plan or buy their own insurance"
[5/14/13] CFO.com: "Four Myths about Private Health-Care Exchanges"
[5/14/13] U.S. News & World Report: "10 Reasons Critical Illnesses Pose Retirement Risk"
[5/14/13] Investment News: "RIS 2013: Are clients saving too much money for retirement health care? - Cadillac coverage may not be a good fit for those with specific quality-of-life wishes"
[5/14/13] Transamerica Retirement Solutions: "Top Five Actions Employers Can Take to Help Employees Become Super Savers for Retirement"
[5/14/13] RAND Corporation: Designing Better Pension Benefits Statements: Current Status, Best Practices and Insights from the Field of Judgment and Decisionmaking [Working Paper]
[5/14/13] Securities and Exchange Commission Investor Bulletin: "Pension or Settlement Income Streams: What You Need to Know Before Buying or Selling Them"
[5/13/13] U.S. Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration: Technical Release 2013-02: Guidance on the Notice to Employees of Coverage Options under Fair Labor Standards Act §18B and Updated Model Election Notice under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
[5/13/13] U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP)-Only Marketplace FAQs
[5/13/13] Employee Benefit News: "ACA prep: Now, this year and in 2014"
[5/13/13] Kaiser Family Foundation Perspectives: "Pulling It Together…Can We Learn from ACA Implementation and Improve the Law?" from Drew Altman
[5/13/13] Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index: "Milliman analysis: Plunging interest rates in April inflate corporate pension funding deficit by $37 billion"
[5/13/13] National Association of State Retirement Administrators: NASRA Issue Brief: State and Local Government Spending on Public Employee Retirement Systems [Updated May 2013]
[5/13/13] PIMCO DC Dialogue™: "Retirement Outcome Focus Shared Globally." ["In this PIMCO DC Dialogue™, we talk with Towers Watson senior investment consultants Nico Aspinall in London and Lorie Latham in Chicago about how they work together to serve multinational DC plan sponsors."]
[5/13/13] Fidelity Investments: Fidelity® Intra-Family Generational Finance Study -- Executive Summary
[5/10/13] Investment Company Institute: 2013 Investment Company Fact Book: A Review of Trends and Activities in the U.S. Investment Company Industry
[5/10/13] Forbes: "Five Ways to Save Your 401(k)--And Your Retirement"
[5/10/13] Financial Planning: "Low Interest Rates Could Ding Retirement Plans, EBRI Warns"
[5/10/13] The Washington Post:
- "Requiring employers to provide retirement income estimates under consideration"
- "Agreeing to disagree on Obama's retirement package"
[5/10/13] Segal Rogerscasey Investment Brief: "When Zero Isn't Nothing: Post-Recession U.S. Monetary Policy and the Implications for Investors"
[5/10/13] The Commonwealth Fund: Insuring the Future: Current Trends in Health Coverage and the Effects of Implementing the Affordable Care Act: Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey, 2012
[5/10/13] Plan Sponsor: "Most Employers Use Wellness Incentives, Disincentives"
[5/10/13] Washington National Institute for Wellness Solutions: Middle-Income America's Perspectives on Critical Illness and Financial Security
[5/9/13] U.S. Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration:
- Pension Benefit Statements; Advance notice of proposed rulemaking [as published in the Federal Register on May 8, 2013 - Comments are due on or before July 8, 2013]
- Fact Sheet: Lifetime Income Illustration
- Lifetime Income Calculator
[5/9/13] Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation: Single-Employer DB Plan Freezes
[5/9/13] Northwestern Mutual®: Planning & Progress 2013 Study
[5/9/13] CNBC.com: "Don't Let 'Dead' 401(k)s Skew Your Retirement Plan"
[5/9/13] Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Urban Institute: Limiting the Tax Exclusion of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums: Revenue Potential and Distributional Consequences [Note: The report and infographic summary can be downloaded at the website.]
[5/9/13] Workforce Benefits: "Employees Opening Health Savings Accounts in Record Numbers"
[5/7/13] Society for Human Resource Management: "For 2014, Higher Limits for HSA Contributions, Out-of-Pocket Expenses"
[5/7/13] Employee Benefit Adviser: "AIP reports more companies dropping 401(k) match"
[5/7/13] Social Security Bulletin:
- "Contribution Dynamics in Defined Contribution Pension Plans During the Great Recession of 2007-2009"
- "The Impact of Retirement Account Distributions on Measures of Family Income"
[5/7/13] Merrill Lynch: Americans' Perspectives on New Retirement Realities and the Longevity Bonus [A 2013 Merrill Lynch retirement study, conducted in partnership with Age Wave]
[5/7/13] Accounting Today: "Men and Women Share Similar Retirement Expectations"
[5/7/13] Fiduciary News: "Exclusive Interview: Frontline Producer Explains Controversial 401k Documentary -- The Final Take" [4th in a series of 4 articles]
[5/7/13] Fulcrum Partners: Advantages to Pre-Tax Deferral of Income in an Uncertain Tax Environment [White Paper]
[5/7/13] Detroit Free Press: "Susan Tompor: Michigan's 529 college savings plan ranks highly"
[5/6/13] Congressional Research Service: Potential Employer Penalties Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
[5/6/13] The Los Angeles Times: "Many opt for high-deductible health plans despite risks"
[5/6/13] Plan Sponsor: "2013 Defined Benefit Administration Survey"
[5/6/13] Transamerica Retirement Solutions: "Top Five Ways Financial Professionals Can Boost Retirement Plans' Effectiveness for Employees -- Transamerica Retirement Solutions Releases Key Findings of Retirement Readiness Summit"
[5/6/13] Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "Retirement often comes earlier than planned, survey shows"
[5/6/13] USA Today: "Middle class struggles to get good financial advice"
[5/3/13] Internal Revenue Service: Minimum Value of Eligible Employer-Sponsored Plans and Other Rules Regarding the Health Insurance Premium Tax Credit; Notice of proposed rulemaking [as published in the Federal Register on May 3, 2013]
[5/3/13] Plan Sponsor:
[5/3/13] Deloitte, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, and International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists: Annual 401(k) Benchmarking Survey [2012 edition] -- Exploring new channels for engaging and educating employees on saving for retirement and improving overall retirement readiness
[5/3/13] Fiduciary News: "Exclusive Interview: Frontline Producer Explains Controversial 401k Documentary -- The Ugly" [3rd in a series of 4 articles]
[5/3/13] The Washington Post: "Obama has a sweet retirement deal. Will you?"
[5/2/13] U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Compensation Costs in March 2013: State and Local Government Workers
[5/2/13] The Los Angeles Times: "Part-timers to lose pay amid health act's new math"
[5/2/13] Plan Sponsor:
- "Small Business Retirement Plans Survived Recession"
- "Regulations: What's Happened and What's Coming"
[5/2/13] Financial Advisor Magazine: "Unplanned, Early Retirement Difficult to Overcome, Advisors Say"
[5/2/13] TIAA-CREF Institute: Retirement Confidence in the Education Sector: Comparisons by Race
[5/1/13] U.S. Department of Labor: FAQs about the Affordable Care Act Implementation Part XV -- Annual Limit Waiver Expiration Date based on a Change to a Plan or Policy Year
[5/1/13] Kaiser Family Foundation: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll -- April 2013
[5/1/13] Plan Sponsor:
[5/1/13] Health News Florida: "Employers Face Penalty If FL Rejects $"
[5/1/13] The Washington Post's The Fact Checker: "Obama's claim that 90 percent of Americans 'don't have to worry' about 'Obamacare'"
[5/1/13] Principal Financial Group: 2012 Trends in Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Among Plan Sponsors & Participants
[5/1/13] Fiduciary News:
- "Exclusive Interview: Frontline Producer Explains Controversial 401k Documentary -- The Good" [1st in a series of 4 articles]
- "Exclusive Interview: Frontline Producer Explains Controversial 401k Documentary -- The Bad" [2nd in a series of 4 articles]
What's new at EBRI this month:
EBRI 2013 Spring Policy Forum: "Decisions, Decisions: Choices That Affect Retirement Income Adequacy" ["gavel to gavel" webcast - Prerecorded broadcast available through the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans]
EBRI 2012 Fall Policy Forum: "'Post' Script: What's Next for Employment-Based Health Benefits" ["gavel to gavel" webcast - Prerecorded broadcast available through the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans]
EBRI 2012 Spring Policy Forum: "'After' Math: The Impact and Influence of Incentives on Benefit Policy" ["gavel to gavel" webcast - Prerecorded broadcast available through the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans]
EBRI 2011 Fall Policy Forum: "Innovations in Employment-Based Health Benefits: Lessons Learned for Public Policy" ["gavel to gavel" webcast - Prerecorded broadcast available through the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans]
"EBRI Now on Twitter" [EBRI Press Release, 2/6/09]
401(k) Balances and Changes Due to Market Volatility
May 2013 EBRI Issue Brief - "Individual Retirement Account Balances, Contributions, and Rollovers, 2011: The EBRI IRA Database"
May 2013 EBRI Notes - "Trends in Health Coverage for Part-Time Workers" and "IRA Withdrawals: How Much, When, and Other Savings Behavior"
What's new in employee benefits:
- Late-breaking news items from Business Insurance posted every business day
- Washington Report from the legislative research staff of Aon Hewitt Associates
- HR News Online -- a daily update from the Society for Human Resource Management
- Employee Plans News (IRS) [on retirement plans / current issue only]
- Retirement Plans Frequently Asked Questions (IRS)
Towers Watson U.S. Legislative Tracking Charts - Health and Welfare
- Towers Watson U.S. Legislative Tracking Charts - Retirement and Executive Compensation
The following items have been added to the Government Accountability Office's Web site in Portable Document (PDF) format:
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Enrollment and Spending in the Early Retiree Reinsurance and Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan Programs. GAO-13-391, April 30. Highlights.
Health Insurance: Seven States' Actions to Establish Exchanges under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. GAO-13-486, April 30. Highlights.
Tax Expenditures: IRS Data Available for Evaluations Are Limited. GAO-13-479, April 30. Highlights.
The Federal Government's Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: Spring 2013 Update. GAO-13-481SP, April 11.
Private Pensions: Timely Action Needed to Address Impending Multiemployer Plan Insolvencies. GAO-13-240, March 28. Highlights.
401(K) Plans: Labor and IRS Could Improve the Rollover Process for Participants. GAO-13-30, March 7. Highlights.
If a title link above no longer works, click here for the GAO home page and search for the report by keyword or report number. Click here to browse by date, topic, or agency. Searches for reports can also be conducted in the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports Online via GPO Access database.
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Decorative gourd season is upon us! It is the time of year when we celebrate the transition of the seasons by adorning our porches with pumpkins and stocking our shelves with multi-hued ornamentals. Coming up with creative and inspiring Jack-O'-Lantern ideas has always been a fun challenge.
And one of the great benefits of CreativeLive is that not only can you get an in-depth education on the really important stuff, like selling your handmade goods to retailers, you can also indulge in the season fun stuff – like learning how to carve a pumpkin with power tools!
To honor the season and take advantage of Jason Hoppe's excellent tips, I went to a pumpkin patch and picked out the perfect orange pumpkin for carving.
To get started, I assembled some images for inspiration (see below!). Then I did my level-best at employing the tips he shared.
For your own power-drilled pumpkin project, you'll want to create a pattern – I prefer seasonal above spooky so I went with a simple circular motif .
From there you'll mark your pumpkin for drilling. I color-coded my drill holes to correspond with the 3 different bits I used to achieve a graduated look.
One of the best gifts I ever received was this cordless Coleman drill. I'm not the handiest person you'll ever meet (see the waaay off-center final hole below), but I've used the power drill for some legit home improvement projects and really got a thrill out of applying it to this little arts and crafts endeavor.
After I used Marthas's tip to open the pumpkin from the bottom, I simply drilled each of the holes with their corresponding bit size. I did all the holes marked for that size at once so I wasn't switching back and forth between bits.
Then I snuck in a battery-powered light and placed the pumpkin among it's contemporaries!
Now for a look at my inspiration…
This collection of pumpkins from Off Grid Home Sweet Home obviously inspired my final design. I like the symmetrical look and they get bonus points for the indoor display.
This power-drilled pumpkin series takes advantage of a super simple plan (all one bit size!) but uses it in a very creative way.
The 17 Apart pumpkin-themed posts are darling! They've chronicled two years of pumpkin carvings and the constellation-themed approach is a real show stopper.
You don't have to speak the language to spot an adorable craft idea. Remodelando la casa uses a hand saw for a more linear look – something Jason covers in his class too.
Predictably, the Better Homes and Gardens jack-o-lantern round-up had some great pumpkins creatively carved by power tools. No shortage of inspiring ideas in that slide show.
HGTV has their own step-by-step power drill tutorial and this photo reflects the look I opted for – blending carved and uncarved pumpkins together in the same display.
CraftCorners.com use a black pen to add even more drama to to his power-drilled white pumpkin.
If you want to learn more about putting your power tool to work for your own pumpkin-carving projects to create amazing Jack-O'-Lanterns, be sure to check out Pumpkins and Power Tools with Jason Hoppe – it's FREE! And be sure to tag @CreativeLive on Instagram when you upload your carved pumpkin pics! We can't wait to see what Jack-O'-Lantern ideas you came up with.
Are you ready to start selling your craft projects?
Download our free PDF: Etsy 101: A Guide to Getting Started! This comprehensive collection of notes, worksheets, and slides from Marlo Miyashiro's class, Etsy 101: Launch Your Handmade Shop gives you the tips and insights you need to launch a successful Etsy shop!

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary1. (a.) Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state.
2. (a.) Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.
3. (a.) Not complying with the restraints of order and law; tumultuous; unruly; lawless; turbulent; as, disorderly people; disorderly assemblies.
4. (a.) Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house.
5. (adv.) In a disorderly manner; without law or order; irregularly; confusedly.
International Standard Bible EncyclopediaDISORDERLY
dis-or'-der-li (ataktos): The word is found four times in the Epistles to the Thess (1 Thessalonians 5:14 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 7, 11), "Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly."; "We behaved not ourselves disorderly."; "We hear of some that walk among you disorderly." The word is a military term and has reference to the soldier who does not keep the ranks (inordinatus, Liv). Then it refers to people who refuse to obey the civil laws, and thus it gets its meaning, "disorderly." It points to members in the early church, who, by their lives, became a reproach to the gospel of Christ (compare 1 Thessalonians 4:11, 12).
Greek814. ataktos -- disorderly
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813. ataktos -- out of order, out of place
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Tumultuous (10 Occurrences)
Rabble (7 Occurrences)
Rout (6 Occurrences)
Disordered (4 Occurrences)
Mob (8 Occurrences)
Idle (33 Occurrences)
Disown (18 Occurrences)
Walking (189 Occurrences)
Urge (34 Occurrences)
Bible ConcordanceDisorderly (8 Occurrences)
Acts 19:40 For in connexion with to-day's proceedings there is danger of our being charged with attempted insurrection, there having been no real reason for this riot; nor shall we be able to justify the behaviour of this disorderly mob."
1 Thessalonians 5:14 We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
2 Thessalonians 3:6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
2 Thessalonians 3:7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
2 Thessalonians 3:11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
Titus 1:6 If any is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or disorderly.
Titus 1:7 For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;
Titus 1:10 For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds, specially those of the circumcision,
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All About Glass
This is your resource for exploring various topics in glass: delve deeper with this collection of articles, multimedia, and virtual books all about glass. Content is frequently added to the area, so check back for new items. If you have a topic you'd like to see covered, send us your suggestion. If you have a specific question, Ask a Glass Question at our Rakow Research Library.
The process of reheating glass after it has cooled, in order to develop color or an opacifying agent that appears only within a limited range of temperatures. strike Burmese Vase in "Lace Embroidery, Queen's" Pattern
A term popularized in the 1960s for unique or limited-edition objects designed and made in a studio rather than a factory, often, but not necessarily, by the same person. studio glasses Vessel
A movement that began in the United States in the 1960s and has spread all over the world. It is characterized by the proliferation of glass artists who are not affiliated with factories, but work with hot glass in their own studios. The emergence of independent glass artists was made possible by
A vessel for serving sweetmeats, sweet food such as preserved or candied fruit and sugared cakes or nuts. sweetmeats sweet meat sweet meats Sweetmeat Glass
A group of matching objects comprising a sugar bowl, creamer, spoon holder, and butter dish. table sets table-set 4-piece Toy Table Set
(Italian) A square-ended knife used to shape or sculpt molten glass on the blowpipe. taglias
A large receptacle constructed in a furnace for melting batch. Tanks, which were first used in antiquity, replaced pots in larger glass factories in the 19th century. tanks
A tall, thin vessel for tapers. Tapers are long wicks coated with wax for use as a spill. tapersticks taper stick taper sticks taper-stick taper-sticks Spill holder 2 Tapersticks
(from Italian, "cup") An ornamental dish or cup on a stemmed foot. Tazzas were generally made for drinking, for displaying fruit or sweetmeats, and as purely decorative objects. tazzas taza tazas Drinking Tazza
A drop-shaped air bubble enclosed in a glass, usually in the stem. teardrops tear drops tear drop tear-drop tear-drops Goblet
(from Latin, "small square tablet or block") A small piece of glass or other suitable material, used in the formation of mosaics. tesseras tesserae Ring
The process of winding a thin trail of glass around an object to create the appearance of parallel lines. In 1876, W. J. Hodgetts of Stourbridge, England, patented a machine that produced very regular and closely spaced threads. threaded thread Lemonade glass
A device for holding a drawn curtain back from the window. Some 19th- and 20th-century tiebacks have glass pommels or bosses. tiebacks tie-back tie-backs tie back tie backs Curtain Tie Back
A popular term for a small pressed glass plate, made between about 1830 and 1870, presumably as a saucer under a toddy glass. Toddy is a beverage composed of whiskey or another liquor, hot water, and sugar. toddy plates toddy-plate toddy-plates Toddy Plate
A bottle for perfume or toilet water. Ancient Roman toilet bottles are frequently known as unguentaria. toilet bottles toilet-bottle Toilet Bottle
Any instrument used by glassworkers to develop and shape an object. Glassworkers' tools include the blowpipe, pontil, gathering iron, jacks, shears, clapper, pallet, block, pincers, battledore, lipper, and crimper. tools
A strand of glass, roughly circular in section, drawn out from a gather. trails Cone Beaker
(from Latin) The popular term for an ancient Roman dipper in the form of a shallow bowl with a single horizontal handle. trullas trullae Pan
(from French terrine, "flat-bottomed dish") A deep, usually oval bowl with a lid, for serving soup; also, a smaller vessel with the same form, for serving sauce or gravy. tureens turene turrene turreen Covered Bowl
A type of decoration in the stems of 18th-century and later drinking glasses, made by twisting a glass rod embedded with threads of white glass, threads of colored glass, columns of air (air twists), or a combination of all three. twists
The technique of decorating glass in high relief by cutting or carving away part of the glass between the body of an object and its decoration (e.g., on a cage cup). undercut undercuts Cage Cup
(from Latin), pl. unguentaria. A term commonly applied to ancient Roman toilet bottles. It appears, however, that the term was "invented" in the 19th century, on analogy with unguentarius (perfume seller) and similar Latin words that the Romans used in connection with perfumes. unguentaria Toilet
Glass colored with uranium oxide. The earliest reference to uranium glass appears to date from 1817. It was made popular by Josef Riedel in and after 1834. See also Annagelb (which is yellow) and Annagrün (which is green). uranium glasses uranium-glass Cut Uranium Glass Vase
(French, "vermiculate") design: A convoluted ground pattern resembling worm tracks. vermiculées vermiculee vermiculé vermicule
(Italian, "glass with threads") A type of blown glass made with canes that form a pattern of parallel lines. vetro a filis vetro a file Goblet
A first-century A.D. Roman mold-blown drinking vessel inscribed in Greek with words meaning "Take the victory." victory beakers victory-beaker victory-beakers Victory
(German, "wart beaker") A heavy glass tumbler made of forest glass and decorated with prunts. It was produced in Germany in the 16th and 17th centuries. warzenbechers warzenbecker warzenbeckers Warzen becher Prunted Beaker
A defective object discarded during manufacture. Wasters are routinely recycled as cullet. wasters
A pitcher with matching tumblers, sometimes with a matching tray. water sets water-set 7-piece Toy Water Set
Changes on the surface of glass caused by chemical reaction with the environment. Weathering usually involves the leaching of alkali from the glass by water, leaving behind siliceous weathering products that are often laminar. whethering weathered Statuette of Venus


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We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly ~Shakespeare
Welcome. Thank you for stopping by. I'm Zoie, I'm a greenie Yogini mama to three singleton boys, twin girls, and one singleton girl born still in 2007. I have a tendancy to pop into ardha chandrasana while unloading the dishwasher. I'm a dirty, dirty hippy mama which means I love you anyway.
This blog is an exploration in gentle parenting and mindful living using the lessons I learn "on the mat," in meditation, in Yoga, and other practices. I take those lessons "off the mat" and into life. I look forward to connecting with you.
Cast of Characters:
Bud is Buddha: ds3, born in Summer 2010, exists on a higher level of joy than I do.
Gan is Ganesha: ds2, born in Summer 2008, is excellent at locating any of my (hidden?) emotional buttons and pushing them repeatedly. Perhaps he's a bit too much like myself.
Saris Saraswati: dd1, stillborn in Fall 2007, always present in my heart and mind. I think I am the only one holding on to her memory on a daily basis. There's much pain and healing associated with my daughter.
Nat is Nataraja: ds1, born in Summer 2006, is prone to dramatics in affection and upset but is simultaneously calm in his center.
Twin girls, born in Fall 2012, yet to be nicknamed for the blog 🙂
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SAN JOSE, CALIF. — California`s fine wines got hard knocks in a recent $275,000 survey of 1,176 American wine drinkers.
While these consumers rated California wines ``excellent`` more often than they did French, German or Italian imports, their view of California wines was less than sterling: They said that California wines were mass-produced, heavily advertised and sold mostly in jugs. Further, they said that foreign wines were more elegant and formal and offered higher quality.


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Frugal is the new black, and the incredible turnout and support from my friends and colleagues demonstrated that my advice for getting the most out of your fashion budget is needed now more than ever.
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More than 500 budget-conscious style mavens, including Carson Kressley and Roshumba Williams, turned out last night to celebrate Kathryn Finney and the 5th anniversary of her wildly popular blog, The Budget Fashionista (http://www.thebudgetfashionista.com). Prior to the opening of the doors, there was a line of over 100 people waiting for access to the first New York fashion week event to honor a fashion blogger and blog.
For over 5 years, founder Kathryn Finney has preached the gospel of looking fabulous for less to the over 2 million of readers of her blog and bestselling book HOW TO BE A BUDGET FASHIONISTA: The Ultimate Guide to Looking Fabulous for Less (Random House). Her frank advice and Midwestern charm have earned her regular appearances on TODAY, Good Morning America, E!, CNN. Kathryn was the first fashion blogger to be credentialed by the organizers of fashion week and the first fashion blogger to receive a book deal from a major publisher.
"Kathryn Finney and The Budget Fashionista is truly amazing," stated Kressely. "She provides real women with real solutions. I love her!"
Other special guests attending the celebration included FUSE TV host Dee Vasquez, HSN star and shoe expert Meghan Cleary, VH1 Glam God's Jess Zaino, and We TV's lifestyle guru Steve Kemble. Along with celebrities, there was also major media in attendance, including People, Glamour, Forbes, NBC, several members of the international press (including Czech and German TV), Kathryn's blogger friends (including BagTrends.com, Shefinds, Papier Doll, InsidetheTents) and a few paparazzi.
"My goal was to create a fun, fabulous Fashion Week party that celebrates REAL women with REAL budgets," said Finney. "Frugal is the new black, and the incredible turnout and support from my friends and colleagues demonstrated that my advice for getting the most out of your fashion budget is needed now more than ever."
Guests were fitted for Fashion Bug and Lane Bryant jeans with Right Fit technology, an innovative fitting system that offers women of every shape the right fit at the right price, guests sipped on the Budget Fashionista's signature drink provided by Chambord, while Dashing Divas provided mini-spa treatments, and It Girl Essentials contest winner Nicoletta was on hand hosting the bloggers lounge sponsored by http://www.thepill.com. Guests went home with a Payless "I Love Shoes" goodie bags filled with Finney's Favorite Things including Dearfoam slippers, Spanx's budget shapewear line "Assets", and bottles of Febreze fabric freshener.
Simply Good Media (SGM) is an information network based in New York City that teaches the world how to live fabulous on a budget. Founded in 2006 by Kathryn Finney, Simply Good Media sites attract over 2 million impressions per month and 35,000 unique visitors each day. SGM sites have been featured in every major press outlet, including the New York Times, PEOPLE, TODAY Show, CNN and Wall Street Journal.


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And yet again, another countdown is on to summer's end. While the retail world has been all over it for over a month already, panic is setting in for many students and summer flex-time working adults. At my house, there is much lamenting about "not having done enough yet" and "where the time has gone." This mom better get crackin'!
As we prepare for the transition from carefree summer lifestyles to back to school/back to regular work hours, let's keep our health in mind! Here are three areas that deserve our attention:
Sleep schedules: Considering that health experts encourage 9-10 hours of sleep for children and teens, and 8 hours for adults, our summer schedule of going to bed later just won't cut it. A gradual (1/2-hour per week) approach to getting to bed earlier is encouraged, so this needs our attention now!
Healthy foods: Plan your strategy and stock up on good options for school and work lunches (if yours is in need of improvement). Suggestions include dried fruit, low-fat string cheese, yogurt, trail mix, celery/peanut butter, roasted coconut chips, nuts, roasted seaweed snack, pita/flatbread crisps, hummus and salsa.
Frame of mind: Pep talks may be in order here; even if we have to give them to ourselves! It's great to work through transition with a positive attitude and outlook, and realistic expectations. We need to pay attention to mental health issues, just as we would the physical ones!
Moving on to this month's content, our writers have some great articles to further our healthy living efforts. Marco Araujo offers great advice for us to help our children avoid backpack-related back injuries. Carrissa Pannuzzo shares some of her home remedies for common childhood ailments. Angela Mueller recommends a healthy treat for our summer grilling menu. William Twohig reminds us of the importance of oral health, especially as we age. And there's much more to learn, so please read on!
Here's to a smooth, healthy transition into your end-of-summer schedule!
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Entering bidirectional text
As discussed earlier, the order in which data is presented (physical sequence) can be different from the order in which the data is entered (logical sequence).
Example: To enter the string, david is 12 years old., where lowercase characters represent Hebrew or Arabic characters, the user would press the keyboard keys in the following order:
[d] [a] [v] [i] [d] [SPACE] [i] [s] [SPACE] [1] [2] [SPACE] [y] [e] ... [.]
Note: Depending on the implementation of the bidirectional entry support, the user may or may not need to enter a special hot key combination before entering the digit 1.
On a display with right-to-left orientation, the string appears as follows:
dlo sraey 12 si divad
Note that the default orientation for the bidi entry fields was right to left, but entry fields that are to receive numeric input should rather be set to a left-to-right orientation.
Bidirectional text data entry involves moving the cursor from right to left when entering national text, and from left to right when entering English text and numbers. The cursor can also remain stagnant while the characters are entered. This will cause all the characters previously entered while the cursor is stagnant to be shifted in order to accommodate the newly entered character.
A visual cue may be used to indicate the direction of the cursor movement. The cursor shape can change to point in the direction of the next character, or the direction can be shown on a control line.
There are two acceptable ways to manage cursor operation: visual cursor movement and logical cursor movement. With visual cursor movement, pressing the right arrow key should move the cursor one position to the right and pressing the left arrow key should
move the cursor one position to the left, whatever the direction of the text adjacent to the cursor (in some implementations, the cursor may stay in place and only change direction for one keypress at the boundary between two text segments at different
bidi levels). JFC/Swing implements visual cursor movement.
The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) follows whatever the underlying platform implements. Microsoft Word has options to alter both cursor movement and visual selection behavior.
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On platforms that support bidirectional scripts, your product can call upon services that are available either from the underlying software or from the platform itself to support bidirectional text entry. Handling bidirectional text becomes relatively simple for applications that run in an environment where the presentation of text is performed using standard services or APIs provided by the platform. Platform interfaces provide services for the application to correctly present and accept bidirectional text. These platforms create a flexible bidi environment, even for 'bidi-unaware' applications that were not intended to accommodate bidirectional scripts.
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-- WWE Champion Randy Orton punted Chris Jericho in the head after a hard fought match on RAW. The injury angle that took place was done to write Chris Jericho off television for the next several weeks. Jericho will be off for at least two weeks, as his metal band Fozzy will be touring the UK in October.
-- WWE has confirmed that Paul Bearer will be with The Undertaker for his World Heavyweight Title match against Kane at Hell in a Cell this Sunday.
-- "Jackass" star Johnny Knoxville will be the guest host of next week's live Monday Night RAW.
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The Williams School, an independent K-8 school located in the Ghent area of Norfolk, is seeking a full-time elementary teacher for the primary grades (K-2). The ideal candidate will embrace a co-teaching model that focuses on developing a working relationship with his/her fellow classroom teacher to play off of each other's teaching strengths. We are looking for someone who enjoys working in a small school, garnering close relationships with students and their families, and who understands the value of educating the whole child in a K-8 environment.
Candidates should have a relevant Bachelor's degree (with VA Certification). Classroom experience preferred. The listed position is available for the 2018-2019 school year. Please email a cover letter, resumé, and list of references to Michael Spencer, Head of School: email@example.com.


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is such a lovely word.
It conjures up images of luscious fruit and round, pearlescent tones
That sit like strawberries and yogurt on your tongue.
Why is it we love it so much in things
Like vases and nectarines
When we hate it so much in ourselves?
is lovely, feminine, maternal
When we tune out the noise enough to let ourselves see it.
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Happy Family; Top designer Jovian Mandagie, Puan Sri Sylvia Marican, her daughter Shiloh Marican, Tan Sri Othamn Marican and Nina Sabrina
Tan Sri Othman Marican, daughter Shiloh Marican and Puan Sri Sylvia Marican at cake cutting ceremony. The golden Hermes Birkin bag was a cake but Tan Sri Othman Marican gave Puan Sri Sylvia a real one too, which explains the Touch of Gold dress code!
Tan Sri Jason Goh kissing the birthday girl
Tan Sri Jason Goh's 4 fingers indicating Puan Sri Sylvia is now 40 years old
Top fashion designer Jovian Mandagie, Tan Sri Othman Marican and Jovian's gf Nina Sabrina
Before dinner, everyone congregated at Mumm Champagne Room for Mumm champagne which flowed nonstop till the very end to the delight of guests who racked up the bill recklessly but then you only turn 40 once?
Well, every guest vowed Puan Sri Sylvia Marican looked 40 if not less. All marvelled at her stunning hourglass figure with big boobs and waspish waist that took everyone's breath away.
On your behalf I poked and pinched and pressed Puan Sri Sylvia's waist and stomach to check if she was cheating by wearing whalebone corset to force her lumpy, sagging skin into an hourglass but nope, she was not wearing anything underneath! Just her Jovian Mandagie couture gown and nothing underneath except her pantie!
So Happy Birthday Puan Sri Sylvia Marican!
Jovian Mandagie, Puan Sri Sylvia wearing his RM 20,000 gown, Puan Sri's daughter Shiloh, Tan Sri Othman Marican and Nina Sabrina
Cutting the birthday cake---the golden Hermes Birkin was a cake! One of Puan Sri Sylvia's presents given by hubby Tan Sri Othman Marican who also gifted all her bling decorating her body!
Puan Sri Sylvia and Tan Sri Othman Marican with guests just before dinner started
Golden couple Zeny Ladores and Kee Hua Chee showing the rabbit ring given to him by Zeny
Zeny Ladores and Kee Hua Chee and his rabbit ring given to him by Zeny
Zeny Ladores with hubby Albert Ladores
Zeny Ladores and at least a dozen deserved to win Best Dressed
This couple deserved to win Best Dressed Couple
Errol and Lillian Tan looking suitably and chic-ly golden
Racquel, Nancy and Puan Sri Sylvia Marican
Sexy trio
Datin Yong Maylene and Princess Dr Becky Leogardo
Look at Datin Maylene's hot legs and Princess Dr Becky Leogardo's Michael Ong gown
Dato Farah Khan, Puan Sri Tessie and Winnie Loo
Puan Sri Tessie looking at Puan Sri Sylvia's boobs but Puan Sri Tessie has big ones too
Puan Sri Tessie covered her breasts but revealed her arms
Bet they were commenting one me
Puan Sri Sylvia Marican and Kee Hua Chee showing off their rings but Winnie Loo whose husband did not give her diamond jewels like Puan Sri Sylvia, kept her hands at her back
Puan Sri Sylvia with guests
Tycoon businessman Tan Sri Jason Goh and greatest blogger in observable universe Kee Hua Chee (Seri Kelantan, a title bestowed by Sultan of Kelantan)


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Explosion Quotes (27 quotes)
Aaaah!!! Une explosion nucleaire!
Oui On appelle ça le soleil.
Aaaah!!! A nuclear explosion!
Yes Its called the sun.
Oui On appelle ça le soleil.
Aaaah!!! A nuclear explosion!
Yes Its called the sun.
— Matyo
Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion . Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.
Despite the continuing expansion or even explosion of information, there will forever be limits beyond which the devices of science cannot lead a man.
Fun years for me, for a guy who used to like to blow up things. We had lots of explosions, lots of blowups.
I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes through the coil. The result was spectaculara deafening explosion, the apparatus disappeared, all windows were blown in or out, a wall caved in, and thus ended my pioneering experiment on liquid hydrogen cooled coils! [Recalling the result of his experiment, on 31 Mar 1930, to maximize the magnetic field by cooling the coils of an electromagnet in liquid hydrogen to reduce their resistance.]
I do not think there should be a limit on the rig's liability, because they are sitting on top of unlimited amounts of oil, and thus, there could be an explosion occur that could do untold damage. ... The amount of damage that an offshore oil rig can do is infinite.
In the beginning there was an explosion. Not an explosion like those familiar on earth, starting from a definite center and spreading out to engulf more and more of the circumambient air, but an explosion which occurred simultaneously everywhere, filling all space from the beginning, with every particle of matter rushing apart from every other particle. All space in this context may mean either all of an infinite universe, or all of a finite universe which curves back on itself like the surface of a sphere. Neither possibility is easy to comprehend, but this will not get in our way; it matters hardly at all in the early universe whether space is finite or infinite. At about one-hundredth of a second, the earliest time about which we can speak with any confidence, the temperature of the universe was about a hundred thousand million (1011) degrees Centigrade. This is much hotter than in the center of even the hottest star, so hot, in fact, that none of the components of ordinary matter, molecules, or atoms, or even the nuclei of atoms, could have held together. Instead, the matter rushing apart in this explosion consisted of various types of the so-called elementary particles, which are the subject of modern highenergy nuclear physics.
Is what you are doing fun? Of course, physics is also funindeed it is an enjoyable way of life. One reason physics is fun is that each element of progress transforms an area of ignorance into knowledge, but it also creates, as a by-product, an amount of new and additional ignorance in excess of that which was reduced to understanding. Thus, the volume of delicious ignorance we produce is ever-expanding, like our exponentially exploding universe.
It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin condensed in a glass bowl. ... When the bowl was heated over a spirit lamp, an extremely violent explosion occurred, which shattered it into small fragments. On another occasion a drop was heated in a test-tube, and exploded with such violence that the glass splinters cut deep into my face and hands, and hurt other people who were standing some distance off in the room.
[Describing early experiments on his discovery of nitroglycerin.]
[Describing early experiments on his discovery of nitroglycerin.]
One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is a relic of the violence of this explosion. This big bang idea seemed to me to be unsatisfactory even before detailed examination showed that it leads to serious difficulties.
Overdrafts on aquifers are one reason some of our geologist colleagues are convinced that water shortages will bring the human population explosion to a halt. There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you look at the results which science has brought in its train, you will find them to consist almost wholly in elements of mischief. See how much belongs to the word Explosion alone, of which the ancients knew nothing.
Stars look serene, but they are incredibly violent furnaces that occasionally erupt in incredibly violent explosions.
Suddenly there was an enormous explosion, like a violent volcano. The nuclear reactions had led to overheating in the underground burial grounds. The explosion poured radioactive dust and materials high up into the sky. It was just the wrong weather for such a tragedy. Strong winds blew the radioactive clouds hundreds of miles away. It was difficult to gauge the extent of the disaster immediately, and no evacuation plan was put into operation right away. Many villages and towns were only ordered to evacuate when the symptoms of radiation sickness were already quite apparent. Tens of thousands of people were affected, hundreds dying, though the real figures have never been made public. The large area, where the accident happened, is still considered dangerous and is closed to the public.
The disaster was caused neither by carelessness nor human failure. Unknown natural factors that we are still unable to explain today have made a mockery of all our efforts. The very substance intended to provide food and life to millions of our countrymen and which we have produced and supplied for years has suddenly become a cruel enemy for reasons we are as yet unable to fathom. It has reduced our site to rubble.
From the memorial service for the hundreds of people killed by the explosion of the ammonia fertilizer factory at Oppau, Germany. At the time, the explosive nature of ammonium nitrate was not understood.
From the memorial service for the hundreds of people killed by the explosion of the ammonia fertilizer factory at Oppau, Germany. At the time, the explosive nature of ammonium nitrate was not understood.
The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorationsmore, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.
The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
The explosion of the Alamogordo bomb ended the initial phase of the MED project: the major technical goal had been achieved . The feat will stand as a great monument of human endeavor for a long time to come.
The mass starts into a million suns;
Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst,
And second planets issue from the first.
[The first concept of a 'big bang' theory of the universe.]
Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst,
And second planets issue from the first.
[The first concept of a 'big bang' theory of the universe.]
The most striking impression was that of an overwhelming bright light. I had seen under similar conditions the explosion of a large amount100 tonsof normal explosives in the April test, and I was flabbergasted by the new spectacle. We saw the whole sky flash with unbelievable brightness in spite of the very dark glasses we wore. Our eyes were accommodated to darkness, and thus even if the sudden light had been only normal daylight it would have appeared to us much brighter than usual, but we know from measurements that the flash of the bomb was many times brighter than the sun. In a fraction of a second, at our distance, one received enough light to produce a sunburn. I was near Fermi at the time of the explosion, but I do not remember what we said, if anything. I believe that for a moment I thought the explosion might set fire to the atmosphere and thus finish the earth, even though I knew that this was not possible.
The trick in discovering evolutionary laws is the same as it is in discovering laws of physics or chemistry—namely, finding the right level of generalization to make prediction possible. We do not try to find a law that says when and where explosions will occur. We content ourselves with saying that certain sorts of compounds are explosive under the right conditions, and we predict that explosions will occur whenever those conditions are realized.
There is a place with four suns in the skyred, white, blue, and yellow; two of them are so close together that they touch, and star-stuff flows between them. I know of a world with a million moons. I know of a sun the size of the Earthand made of diamond. There are atomic nuclei a few miles across which rotate thirty times a second. There are tiny grains between the stars, with the size and atomic composition of bacteria. There are stars leaving the Milky Way, and immense gas clouds falling into it. There are turbulent plasmas writhing with X- and gamma-rays and mighty stellar explosions. There are, perhaps, places which are outside our universe. The universe is vast and awesome, and for the first time we are becoming a part of it.
There was a loudspeaker that reported on the time left before the blast: T-minus ten minutessomething like that. The last few seconds were counted off one by one. We had all turned away. At zero there was the flash. I counted and then turned around. The first thing I saw was a yellow-orange fireball that kept getting larger. As it grew, it turned more orange and then red. A mushroom-shaped cloud of glowing magenta began to rise over the desert where the explosion had been. My first thought was, My God, that is beautiful!
They were in orbit around the planet now, and its giant curving bulk loomed so huge that he could see nothing else, nothing but the bands and swirls of clouds that raced fiercely across Jupiters face. The clouds shifted and flowed before his eyes, spun into eddies the size of Asia, moved and throbbed and pulsed like living creatures. Lightning flashed down there, sudden explosions of light that flickered back and forth across the clouds, like signalling lamps.
— Ben Bova
We have seen that a proton of energy corresponding to 30,000 volts can effect the transformation of lithium into two fast α-particles, which together have an energy equivalent of more than 16 million volts. Considering the individual process, the output of energy in the transmutation is more than 500 times greater than the energy carried by the proton. There is thus a great gain of energy in the single transmutation, but we must not forget that on an average more than 1000 million protons of equal energy must be fired into the lithium before one happens to hit and enter the lithium nucleus. It is clear in this case that on the whole the energy derived from transmutation of the atom is small compared with the energy of the bombarding particles. There thus seems to be little prospect that we can hope to obtain a new source of power by these processes. It has sometimes been suggested, from analogy with ordinary explosives, that the transmutation of one atom might cause the transmutation of a neighbouring nucleus, so that the explosion would spread throughout all the material. If this were true, we should long ago have had a gigantic explosion in our laboratories with no one remaining to tell the tale. The absence of these accidents indicates, as we should expect, that the explosion is confined to the individual nucleus and does not spread to the neighbouring nuclei, which may be regarded as relatively far removed from the centre of the explosion.
[After the flash of the atomic bomb test explosion] Fermi got up and dropped small pieces of paper a simple experiment to measure the energy liberated by the explosion [W]hen the front of the shock wave arrived (some seconds after the flash) the pieces of paper were displaced a few centimeters in the direction of propagation of the shock wave. From the distance of the source and from the displacement of the air due to the shock wave, he could calculate the energy of the explosion. This Fermi had done in advance having prepared himself a table of numbers, so that he could tell immediately the energy liberated from this crude but simple measurement. It is also typical that his answer closely approximated that of the elaborate official measurements. The latter, however, were available only after several days study of the records, whereas Fermi had his within seconds.
[Lifting off into space] I wasnt really scared. I was very excited, and I was very anxious. When youre getting ready to launch into space, youre sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosionbecause if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.


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Recently, a number of Taylor Swift fans have been asking that I give them my Tumblr. For a few days I was puzzled by this surge in interest as it wasn't obvious these young women, who had tracked me down on Twitter, were her fans. Today I realized she has new a song out called Bad Blood, which is also the name of my account.
Revisiting the site, with it's modest 87 followers, I wonder why I refuse to give it up. What does it mean, to change the name? Why bother to maintain it all? It would make some fangirl ecstatic, however briefly. Yet, I feel a pinprick of stubbornness, like a child digging toes into the sand, sinking deeper just so it takes the ocean a few more seconds to fill in my footprints once I finally step away. A small, strange pleasure. I have been on Tumblr over five years, a place where everything sinks to the bottom, by design. Which means I am some kind of fossil, internet ancient. I want a testament to that, for no other reason than having existed; this absentminded, nearly context-less cascade of other people's images is still there.
I joined Tumblr on the cusp of my mid-to-late 20s, likely older than these women contacting me now. Tumblr was, to me then, just the latest cool new thing to early-adopt. There had been many other website/network/communities prior to Tumblr, that had burned brighter merely because I needed them more at the time of encounter. So vital in shaping who I became, how I connected with others. All of which have since faded. Listing them here would be like reading from the directory of a large cemetery. I will name one though, a precambrian LiveJournal account, existing now only as a massive PDF file on my hard drive. Later, when I was ready to disembark from readymade communities, there was a version of this blog, also called Soft Graffiti, hosted by an ex who let it quietly disappear after our breakup. I was too dumb to back up the posts so it's really gone, no PDF. Years and years lost to the ether or what bits can be dredged from the Wayback Machine.
That blog, Soft Graffiti V1, let's call it, was so much more personal and active than what I sporadically maintain today. Not Livejournal personal, not a diary nor a series of pithy status updates. It was something public yet liberating in it's nicheness; a conscious presentation open to the world, yet innocent of branding. It had even more ancient roots, inspired by a time when I made zines and DJed freeform college radio.
It was, truthfully, a blog very much of it's time. Roughly five-to-ten years ago, just before the famous bloggers and their ever-widening wake of affiliates, linkbait, and permanent guest contributors. Before it was normal to see double columns of ads, SEO-friendly titles, and the subtle insidiousness of "sponsored content."
I am not here to hate on making money from your work (though I will judge your style and ethics). Lately I just want to get back to something reminiscent of the old Soft Graffiti, as well as the online miasma it floated through; when the internet still felt like the blank expanses on Medieval maps. Before this compulsion to tie everything back to your LinkedIn or Facebook profile. To revive a soft anonymity that extends beyond Craigslist encounters and torrent sites. Nostalgia plays a part, sure. But so does the thrill of just putting it out there, to be stumbled upon, thoughtful and lightly polished. Like today.
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Leadership Opportunities
Peer Leaders
Peer Leaders are successful and dedicated upper-class students who have proven themselves as leaders in and outside of the classroom at Lyndon. They provide outstanding student models for new students, as well as serving as mentors and as a bridge between new students and instructors. Without question, they are truly one of Lyndon's most valuable resources.
Student Ambassadors
Student Ambassadors are student leaders that are a vital part of interacting with prospective students and their families the moment they step foot on campus. They provide our visitors with a full campus tour, which informs our visitors of our degree programs, campus life, housing, resources and most importantly, the Lyndon experience. Additionally, they are the backbone of our admissions events and make a truly memorable and impressionable campus visit for all our visitors.
Resident Assistants
The Resident Assistant (RA) is a unique, live-in student leadership position in the Department of Student Life and is an important member of the Residence Life team. The primary responsibility of the RA is to help residents have a positive residence hall experience at Lyndon State College. Generally, the RA is an undergraduate student who works with a group of approximately 35 residents and has numerous leadership roles including community builder, teacher, programmer, resource informant, and role model.
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The woman who wrote Beyonce's Sorry hit has found her long-lost brother after 16 years.
Diana Gordon, who came up with the line 'Becky with the good hair' on the Lemonade track, launched a campaign to find her brother David last year (16), and just before Christmas he showed up at a bus stop in Los Angeles.
"After the first decade went by, I lost hope of ever finding him," she wrote on GoFundMe. "These last few years, I accepted the fact that we were never going to find him. In my heart I had put him to rest.
"Los Angeles has a population of nearly 10 million people. How is it that he was sitting alone at a bus stop less than a few miles from my home? Also we are all from New York, so it is a surprise to find him here."
Homeless David didn't recognize his sister at first.
"As I continued to talk to him, I quickly realized my brother, who had once built computers and gadgets out of spare parts, has suffered severely in ways I have only begun to understand. His memory is fragmented. His spirit defeated. He has only had his own thoughts to comfort him during this long stretch of time and because of that, a form of mental illness has set in."
Gordon has since taken her brother in after convincing him she was family.
"After showing him some old photographs of us in my phone and FaceTiming my sisters in New York, I convinced him to come back with me to my house with the promise of a warm bed and food," she added. "He was hesitant, thinking it was a trick. He is not used to any sort of kindness."
She has now turned to crowdfunding site GoFundMe in an effort to raise money needed to pay for medical care and psychiatric help.


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I found that when installing wine with yum from EPEL repo, there will be a blackscreen after rebooting. Remember to download all the i686 packages from EPEL and install it half-locally~(I don't know why but it works!)
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CentOS is lack of EPEL(Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux). A proper EPEL repository should be installed.
1.Download epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm(backup link)
2.Install the EPEL repository
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VIDEO: Jamie Foxx Responds to Reports He Was Attacked at Catch LA Restaurant
Jamie Foxx is speaking out after reports claimed he and his friends were involved in a fight over the weekend.
The 49-year-old actor headed to Catch LA on Saturday (January 7) in West Hollywood, Calif.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Jamie Foxx
According to TMZ, a group of diners came up to Jamie's table and complained that they were being too loud. After some back-and-forth conversation between the groups, things allegedly got physical.
""F–k. The word is out, man," Jamie said in an Instagram video he posted on Monday night, in which he adds a little humor to the situation. "I know y'all heard about this s–t and saw some videos. I just want to address what happened on Saturday from my perspective."
Watch the full video below.
Don't miss Jamie in Sleepless, set to hit theaters on January 13!


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Professional residential cleaners are considered a boon to most homeowners who rarely get time for cleaning their homes. Today many agencies offer such services. This makes it difficult to choose one that will give you the best services. You need to take a look at some tips that can help you through this.
Guide to choose the best residential cleaning service
Check nearby services
As a customer, you want your work to be done as soon as possible. You, therefore, cannot wait for a couple of days just to book an appointment with a cleaning agency. It is advisable that you go for agencies that work closer to your locality to avoid waiting for long.
If you are not sure which agency to choose, the best thing to do is seek client references. You may alternatively talk to your friends and neighbors for cleaning service recommendations. This way you can get a good agency for cleaning your home.
Understand what you need
Before you can go to find residential cleaning services, you first need to understand your cleaning tasks. Some of these residential companies may not want to deal with bathroom cleaning.
Quality pricing
Low prices do not imply that a given company is good at cleaning. The quality of services relates to the rate that a company charges. This means therefore that if you settle for a company offering competent pricing you are likely to get the best service.
Service detail
Professional residential cleaning agencies usually give you the details of inclusion and exclusion for you to have a realistic expectation of the work they will do. You need to know if the cleaners will vacuum your carpets and rugs or they will clean your countertops and appliances.
Pricing matters
Most home cleaning services are flexible. It is, however, prudent to select a service offering complete packages for all your rooms. You also need to know if you want to hire the team for full cleaning or just a single room depending on your needs.
Cancellation policies
There are situations that you may not be able to control. You may want to call off a booking made earlier so you should check that the terms and conditions, as well as policies, are transparent and fair without massive cancellation charges. If the company cancels the service, then it should be in a position to replace the appointment.
Today most homeowners are busy at their work places and find it difficult to clean the house. Residential cleaning services, therefore, become useful to them and has to be chosen wisely.…


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The gifts represent a subconscious desire that can change the destiny of the relationship between the person who gives the present and the person who receives it. Continue reading
New Moon in Gemini: Things to leave behind, affirmations, and wishes
These are the things to leave behind, affirmations and wishes to make during today's New Moon in Gemini until June 9, 2017.
New Moon in Aquarius: Things to leave behind and what to wish for
Today is a New Moon in Aquarius. These are the things to leave behind, affirmations, and wishes to make. Continue reading
Purification and protection ritual for Halloween
Today is Halloween or Day of the Dead. It's also a New Moon in Scorpio, an excellent moment to heal, purify, and transmute deep wounds or experiences that have marked your life. Here's a ritual I like to call The Witch's Bath.
This bath is a ritual to cleanse negative energy from the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies. At the end, the body is bathed with protection and abundance. For us witches and all kinds of healers, this is a powerful bath because we work with other people's negative energy to transform it into a positive one. At the end of a day of energy work with other people, a long day of stress, tiredness or challenging situations, this bath is ideal to purify and cleanse away any unharmonious energy of yourself or others that you may have absorbed. Then, you're ready to impregnate new and energizing vibes and, at the same time, be protected by the divine power. Continue reading
Tarot Horoscope: October 2016
With discipline and hard work you have achieved your goals or the path towards them. October is a new beginning after many endings. No matter how difficult, painful, or drastic those past experiences have been, face your new beginnings with enthusiasm, joy, and hope. Don't let the bitter moments of life to embitter you. Learn the lesson and keep going without forgetting what you learned. You're at the threshold of a new life. You finally let go of attachments and unhealthy situations, things, or people. You now feel lighter, proud of the results of your sacrifices.
We are at the month of Libra until October 22, when the Sun enters Scorpio. Create a balance in your life, harmony within yourself. You must make amends with those things you don't accept about yourself, those things you criticize and don't forgive about yourself. This is the month to create new relationships and strengthen the ones you have. Go on a romantic date with your partner, go out with your best friends, go to social events. Relationships are a mirror of the relationship you have with yourself. The exchange of ideas, expressing yourself and listening are a priority. This is the month for arts and beauty: visit museums and galleries, take an art class of the art form of your choice, redecorate your home, change your look with a new style. The idea is to surround yourself with those things that make you feel good and happy. After so many difficulties, the time of peace and harmony is finally here, but you can't sleep in the laurels. You must keep the achieved discipline. There is no bigger satisfaction than leading yourself.
Once relationships are strengthened, when the Sun enters Scorpio on October 22, you'll know with whom you can partner, with whom you can be vulnerable and intimate, with whom you can share your power both in love and in business. This is relevant in partnerships, sex, and finances. This is the moment to face your fears and you inner demons, to heal your deepest wounds and be reborn. At the end, you recover the joy of living. Continue reading
How to cleanse the energy of your home with coffee in 2 easy steps
Coffee is well known for its stimulant properties. Nonetheless, in magic rituals, it is used to move energy.
What is commonly known as "negative energy" is really stagnant energy, energy that doesn't flow. In this ritual, coffee is used for smudging. To cleanse the energy of your home, follow these two simple steps: Continue reading
11 Things You Should Do During Mercury Retrograde
Mercury Retrograde has won a bad reputation of creating obstacles and difficulties with communication and technology but, like everything, it has a good side. It forces us to slow down and go over things we have begun but not worked on them enough to succeed. Here are 11 things you should do during Mercury Retrograde to get the best of it and an extra bonus at the end. Continue reading
9 Lessons You Could Learn From a Wolf
You are protected at all times. Trust that! The physical, emotional, and psychic barriers that you have erected to protect yourself from past hurts and woulds are simply no longer needed. You've moved beyond your need for the illusion of safety that these habitual defenses have provided. It's time to trust that Spirit is always available to aid in your protection when you really need it. Continue reading
Tarot Horoscope: July 2016
July is the month to administrate well all the projects that were planned or started this year. Now they get form by refining details and how things are done based on experience. These experiences dictate the direction of those plans because now you know better which things work and which don't. Whatever seemed to be erratic or out of control takes shape. Things need to be ordered, follow the rules and routines. Focusing on the final goal is crucial to be able to focus on today's details.
New businesses move easier. It's important to keep a clear vision and goals as much as deadlines to achieve those goals. Now you feel better prepared to face the twists and turns of the daily battles because your mind is clear.
This is also a month where relationships strengthen or become oficial, in business and in love. Maybe you found the perfect person to be your business partner or your spouse. Whichever is the case, you must be absolutely clear about what it is that you want and what you're looking for so you can take the next step with conviction. This month you're looking for a connection because you've been alone or feeling lonely for a while. To achieve this, you must not be afraid to show your sweet and noble side. You have noticed that your strong side establishes a protective barrier that scares everyone away, specially those you'd like to keep close and have shown to be worthy of it. Obviously, this is not something you do with everybody, but you must try it with those whom you'd like to attract. Give yourself the chance. You'll be surprised. Continue reading
Full Moon Horoscope in Sagittarius: May 21 – July 4
The last time the New Moon was in Gemini was on May 17, 2015. During that tie, you began to leave behind those things that gave you a false sense of mental security. Now you realize that after so much research, studying, and getting knowledge from the outside world, what really matters is the knowledge that comes from within. You'll learn that "truth" is relative and individual and now you not only formulate your own truth, but you experience it. There is a lesson of authenticity, to be true to your truth. For that to happen, a time of solitude for reflection is important so you don't contaminate your thought with someone else's, to not confuse your inner voice with someone else's. In the end, you make your own decisions and suffer or enjoy the consequences. Sometimes, these decisions are difficult because, in order to build your own truth, you must discard the one that is not working for you anymore. Remember that the last New Moon in Taurus, which happened two weeks ago, made you reevaluate your values, those things that are important and non-negotiable for you. And in order to create tangible results with new values means that your old belief system prevents you from growing, which results in modifying or changing it completely to adjust to your new reality. Today's Full Moon in Sagittarius, which its effects last until the next Full Moon in Cancer on July 4, support you on developing your self-confidence along with other planetary aspects, such as Saturn Retrograde in Sagittarius — to define your limits and your truth — and Mars Retrograde in Sagittarius, and later in Scorpio until May 27 — to avoid reacting because of fear of seeing your truth destroyed. The second Full Moon in Sagittarius will be on June 19, so these same lessons will be worked on for a longer period of time. Take advantage of this opportunity because it is very important.
Now you practice your new rules, your new philosophy of life, the one that lets you expand and grow. For that to happen, you need to be centered in your convictions, understand your life mission and purpose, and know your place in the world. That requires a sense of freedom, which will make you feel attracted to traveling, other cultures, other philosophies, study deeply a subject of interest related to the "truth" — whether it's sciences, philosophy, politics, or religion — or go deeper in your intuition and spirituality. This new system is not imposed by others — your family, your culture, your community, your education or social conditioning — but comes from all the personal knowledge obtained through experience. The more you learn, the better informed are your decisions to adjust to your present needs and reality.
Remember that not even this is forever, that it needs to bee adjusted while you and your life change. It's also important to remember and highlight the respect others' path towards their own truth. The exchange of ideas is always welcome with the purpose of learning, never to impose your ideas on others, or for the righteousness of feeding the ego because "i know and you don't". This corrupts the other's free will, creates separation, and can even induce violence. There is no such thing as absolute truth. This new sense of security will give you the optimism, self-confidence, and motivation to work on those postponed plans and projects because now your convictions are planted on firm ground.
Look for your zodiac sign to see which aspect of your life needs to expand, find its truth, and a sense of spontaneity and adventure until July 4:
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Tips for installing curtain rods include selecting rods and hardware that withstand the weight of curtains and drapes, and installing curtain rods and draperies near the ceiling to make the room feel taller. Select a double curtain rod when hanging curtains along with inner sheets, and use a return rod to avoid gaps between curtains that may allow unwanted sunlight to enter a room.Continue Reading
Measure the width of a window before installing a curtain rod. Wall-mounted rods should have 1 to 3 additional inches on either side of the window in order to accommodate open curtains. Rods may also protrude up to 6 inches past the window frame to create the illusion of larger windows. Wall-mounted rods are typically installed 4 inches above the window, although ideal placement may vary depending on tastes and environmental needs.
Hang curtains that graze the floor to create a classic tailored look and allow 6 to 8 inches of extra fabric in order to allow curtains to puddle and create a more formal style. Measure and mark the wall with a pencil before installing brackets. Use plastic wall anchors to provide additional support for heavier rods and curtains and consider the use of a center support to prevent sagging for curtain rods that are longer than 4 feet.Learn more about Decor


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With Key Lime Pie, Android 5.0, right around the corner, everyone with an Internet connection is laying out what they hope to see in the next big update to hit Android. I have my own wants for Key Lime Pie, like a final solution to Android's terrible backup situation.
Every time I bring this up, I hear the same thing over and over again.
"Android has a backup function built-in! When you sign into your Google account, all your apps download, and your wallpaper is there. And there's Picasa. And there's Play Music. And there's Google contacts. If that's not good enough, use a third-party app. Or root and use an even more in-depth third-party app."
I love and greatly appreciate what third-party developers have done for Android, and the problems they've come up with solutions for. But there are still areas where Google needs to step up. The backup and restore functions already available in Android are shoddy at best. Picture syncing is great, but app data is absent. My setting usually load correctly, now where are my text messages and call history?
There are times when I hate to compare Android to iOS, but there's too much Google could learn from Apple in this instance. If you've never used the backup and restore function in iOS, you don't know what you're missing. Just like with Android, when you boot up a fresh iOS device or new install, you're prompted to sign into some accounts, and asked whether or not you want to sync and backup your phone with Apple's servers. If you choose yes, and restore a previous backup, everything, and I do mean everything, is ready to go within a relatively short time.
What kind of stuff is restored after using an iOS backup? Game progress, app installs, emails, text messages, account sign-ins, pictures, settings and much more. As I touched on earlier, Google has a solution to backup some of these things, but they still aren't as easy and fluid as they should be. Motorola, who is owned by Google, has released their own migration assistant service because Google's solution doesn't cover all the bases.
You already get a set amount of storage with Google Drive when you sign up for a Google account. Throw a big backup file on there, and use things like Play Music and Picasa to sync across devices. That's what they're best at.
When Key Lime Pie is released this fall, I hope Google unveils a comprehensive backup and restore utility. I'd love to get a new Nexus phone, and after a few prompts, have it set up just the way I like it. That's the first item on my Key Lime Pie wish-list. Now, on to item number two…