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Jacumba is a small community located south of Hwy 8 and just north of the California – Mexico national border. At an elevation of 2,829 feet above sea level, Jacumba is situated roughly four miles southeast of the Jacumba Mountains, a mountain chain that stretches 10 miles long and contains well-known areas such as Anza-Borrego Desert. As Jacumba is around 45 miles west of El Centro, and close to an hour and a half drive from the coastal communities, Jacumba is perfect for those who are looking to locate to an area where the stars of the night sky are not impeded by local city lights. Offering a sense of solitude difficult to find in most San Diego County communities, Jacumba also enjoys warmer temperatures in the summer and crisp cooler winters. With a population of roughly 600 residents, Jacumba is called home by those able to see the beauty of this southwestern landscape and you can discover what makes Jacumba such a great community with the help of a Sandicor Jacumba REALTOR® or real estate professional.
Jacumba real estate ranges from large properties with open land to smaller single family homes perfect for those seeking a relaxing environment for which to call home. In close proximity to the Jacumba Mountains and the In-Ko-Pah Mountains, Jacumba provides its small population with a variety of outdoor adventures ready to be enjoyed to their fullest. Jacumba real estate grants access to a different pace of life, while not being completely removed from the other aspects of San Diego County that make the area such a great place to live. Those looking to escape to the natural beauty of Southern California should not miss out on the opportunity to explore this small community and our Jacumba REALTORS® and real estate professionals can help you find the Jacumba property of your dreams.
Sandicor has a variety of listings for Jacumba real estate and Jacumba homes for sale, all of which perfectly illustrate what makes Jacumba such a beautiful community for those who decide to call Jacumba home. While not directly near to the coastal areas, or more densely populated communities within San Diego County, Jacumba homes for sale provide residents with the ability to enjoy the southwestern landscapes, high desert temperatures, and beautiful flora and fauna, unavailable in other parts of the county. If you are one who would rather listen to the sounds of your environment, enjoy the unhindered southwestern sunsets, and gaze at the night sky constellations, Jacumba homes for sale could be exactly what you have been looking for.
If you are a REALTOR® or real estate professional who is interested in specializing in East Count real estate unlike no other community, Jacumba real estate and Jacumba property could be right for you and Sandicor can help!
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Sandicor is one of the largest and most active Multiple Listing Services in the United States, providing over 20,000 subscribers with an online database of active residential listings, history of non-active listings and comprehensive tax records for San Diego County as well as all of the counties in California (including Jacumba real estate, Jacumba homes for sale and Jacumba property). All services are provided through our four local Associations of REALTORS®. Please contact one of these establishments regarding membership, applicable fees, and supplemental services.
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The Yolo County Democratic Party will be hosting its 37th annual Bean Feed Dinner on Sunday, Sept. 15, at the Veterans Memorial Center in Davis from 5 to 8 p.m.
Kathy Kneer, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, the statewide public policy office of eight independently incorporated California Planned Parenthood affiliates will be featured at the dinner.
"With changes in our health care system coming via the Affordable Care Act, it is important we understand how it affects all members of the community," said Bob Schelen, chairman of the Yolo County Democratic Party, in a statement. "Kathy Kneer will be able to explain the changes it brings forth in women's health care, and speak to the various attacks on women's rights throughout the last few years and the importance of the 2014 election in battling against them."
For 20 years under Kneer's leadership, PPAC has worked to establish Family PACT, the nation's largest universal family planning program for low income women; enacted the Contraceptive Equity Act; required sex education in schools to be comprehensive and medically accurate, among many other issues for equity in women's health care. At the dinner, Kneer will focus on how the Affordable Care Act will affect women's health.
This year, the theme of the Yolo Democrats Bean Feed is "Continuing the Fight for Justice." It honors the anniversary of women's suffrage in California, the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and the historic March on Washington.
Also speaking will be Congressman John Garamedi, State Sen. Lois Wolk, Assemblymembers Mariko Yamada and Roger Dickinson, among others. Invited to share her thoughts on the issues surrounding the theme is Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farmworkers Workers.
"It will be a great program, with great food and this year a great band. Don't miss it!" concluded Schelen.
Sponsorships are still available. Individual tickets are $35. If you are interested in sponsorship or tickets, please contact Schelen at email@example.com.


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ArtBerkshires plunges into local shows
PITTSFIELD - The poet Lord George Gordon Byron once said, "All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise."
"COVET" is name of the umbrella covering ArtBerkshires' 2012 compendium of summer programs and exhibitions; through these shows, beholders can eye everything from art collections to lectures to culinary delights to their hearts' content.
Produced and programmed by curators, moms and gallery owners Leslie Ferrin and Sienna Patti, ArtBerkshires is an initiative aimed at developing and marketing contemporary art works, programs and more related to the Berkshires.
"The Berkshires are our theater for visual arts," Ferrin said. She owns and operates Ferrin Gallery in Pittsfield and is the director of Project Art, an artists' residence in nearby Cummington. Though she and Patti often travel with works, both women want to create a more local buzz. "We love what we do, and we want to make it work here," Patti said.
She and Ferrin believe that the region is a ripe platform for offering a contemporary visual arts repertoire of programs and events during the summer season, much like local performance venues do. On Friday, the summer programs come to an end with a Berkshire Museum exhibit tour and a dinner, while art works will be displayed at Ferrin Gallery through Sept. 2.
This year, with COVET, Art Berkshires has gone beyond the art to show behind the scenes of how contemporary artists are referencing modern art through a variety of media and contexts.
One person who has quickly learned about how such programs come together is Jacqui Proctor. While finishing a painting degree and arts management minor in the fine arts program at Bowling Green State University, she is spending the summer with Ferrin Gallery through the Berkshire Hills Internship Program (B-HIP), an intensive arts management internship program based at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
"Leslie and Sienna have two very different styles, but they work well together. I'm a painter, but I've learned a lot about design and how to build programs," Proctor said.
She has also been able to travel to different art and cultural venues, meet with exhibitors, curators and artists. Ferrin and Patti have offered her the opportunity to return next summer to further work with ArtBerkshires and the website she's developed.
The website lists a menu of COVET events offered by Art Berkshires. In addition to the two exhibitions at Sienna and Ferrin galleries, there were nine "Meet Me At ," five "iCovet" and two "Dish + Dine" events, all signature titles of ArtBerkshires.
Meet Me At events included visits to arts venues and behind the scenes tours with curators and artists.
iCovet events allowed artists and collectors of all ages and backgrounds to share more details about the bodies of work they create and/or collect.
The Aug. 3 iCovet, for example, collaborated with IS183 Art School of the Berkshires to show work created by local high school students with the help of international artists in IS183's Berkshire Residency Exchange program.
Pittsfield-based photographer Bill Wright spoke in July, sharing his work displayed at Sienna Gallery. He staged photographs by re-imagining master paintings, including John Singer Sargent's " The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit," recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
"This gave me a great understanding of art works and their artists," Wright said, mulling over how it felt to create his own work inspired by a masterpiece. "I didn't know anything about that piece before I saw it, and it opened my eyes to a whole new world."
Wright said being involved in ArtBerkshires has helped him not only expand his photography and talents but also to expand his network through events like Dish + Dine and other shows, talks and events.
Dish + Dine events allow guests to enjoy a catered dinner inside Ferrin Gallery served on tableware produced by an artist and discussion with other artists, authors and curators involved with the project.
ArtBerkshires has also attached COVET to other events like Third Thursdays, First Fridays Artswalk, and Mezze Restaurant Group's "Cultural Cocktails" series.
Ferrin and Patti said these events help artists works to gain exposure to collectors and galleries and museums outside of the Berkshires.
What: ArtBerkshires and iCovet present a 'Meet Me' event: Co-curator and director of interpretation Maria Mingalone will lead a behindthe- scenes tour of the exhibit 'Rethink! American Indian Art' When: 5 to 6 p.m.
Where: Berkshire Museum, 39 South St., Pittsfield
What: Dish + Dine with artist Molly Hatch and Red Lion Inn Chef Brian Alberg. Hatch's work inspired the COVET theme.
When: Friday 6:30 p.m.
Where: Ferrin Gallery, 437 North St., Pittsfield
Exhibit: 'Covet: Art + Objects' Where: Ferrin Gallery When: Through Sept. 2 Ongoing exhibits highlighted in ArtBerkshires include:
'Rethink' contemporary American Indian art at the Berkshire Museum
Contemporary Sculpture Show at Chesterwood
'Then and Now: Photographs of Northern China' at the Clark Art Institute
'Five' at Greylock Arts
'Shalom: Weaving Threads of Peace' at Hancock Shaker Village
Photographs at Jacob's Pillow
'Oh Canada' at Mass MoCA
'A Sea Feeling in the Mountains' at Sohn Gallery
Nigerian art and Layla Ali, Williams College Museum of Art
Information: artberkshires.com (413) 442-1622, or www.ferringallery.com
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Annual EIU Health Fair
NOTICE: The 2015 health fair has been suspended due to budget changes. We hope to host the next fair in 2016. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Sponsored by EIU Health Service & University Housing & Dining
The annual Health Fair, sponsored by the Health Service, Health Education Resource Center & University Housing and Dining, is an event to provide students, faculty, staff and the community a place to find health resources and to promote healthy behaviors. There will be games, taste testing, door prizes, and plenty of information about health topics and where to find resources on campus, in Charleston and surrounding areas.
Exhibitor Information
Interested in being a health exhibitor at the health fair? There is no charge to be an exhibitor at the health fair, the only stipulation is that products cannot be sold at the event and that your booth is related to health. We encourage exhibitors to provide and hand out information and/or samples of products. The event, on average, attracts over 1,500 students, faculty, and staff from the university community. The theme of the 2014 health fair is The Price is Right with Good Health.
For those of you who have participated in the past we have some exciting changes! Health Service has partnered with University Housing and Dining for this year's fair! That means there will be healthy food options for tasting! We will now hold the fair in the University Union to accommodate 70+ vendors!
Registration for the 2015 fair will be open in July. Keep a look out!
Past Events
Here are some of the themes that the Health Fair has had. For pictures of the events, click on the theme for that year. We apologize that not all years have photos available.
- 2014 - The Price is Right with Good Health
- 2013 - Highway to Good Health
- 2012 - A Health Odyssey
- 2011 - Red Carpet to Health
- 2010(fall) - Rebuilding Your Health
- 2010 - Back to the Health Fair
- 2009 - Welcome to the Fabulous Health Fair
- 2008 - Aloha to Health
- 2007 - Yellow Brick Road to Health
- 2006 - Healthstock
- 2003 - A Safari of Health
- 2002 - Give'Em Health
Past Exhibitors
For a list of past vendors, please click here.


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text: Sofia Coppola had her 21st birthday party at the Chateau Marmont — a fact she had forgotten until Phil Pavel, the hotel manager, reminded her while she was there shooting her new film, Somewhere. It's the first feature to be granted clearance to shoot extensively inside the rooms and on the grounds of the infamous Sunset Boulevard hideaway, legendary for its starry scandal sheet. It's the site where John Belushi and Helmut Newton died, where sometime Coppola muse Scarlett Johansson allegedly had sex with Benicio Del Toro in an elevator (an event nodded to in Somewhere), from which Britney Spears was — allegedly! — banned for "smearing her dinner on her face." It is an official landmark, No. 151 on the city's list of Historic-Cultural Monuments. In contemporary pop culture, it's a symbol of Peak L.A. — a concentrated dose of a certain fantasy version of this city's secret life. Sofia Coppola, Lost at the Chateau Marmont.


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The 2017 Symposium on Financial Inclusion (SoFI) was the fifth and final symposium hosted by the Mastercard Foundation on the theme of client centricity. Haft2 was engaged to create fresh, new event materials and stage design for a large presentation space.
Shaftesbury is a global content production company with successful franchises in television drama, kids' programming and digital content. Haft2 was engaged to help amalgamate their assorted brands under a single brand strategy and create a new visual identity.
Affleck Greene McMurtry (AGM) is a boutique litigation law firm in downtown Toronto. As leaders in litigation for 25 years, they wanted to remain differentiated among other litigation boutiques and large law firms alike. In preparation for a progressive and dynamic future, they sought to refresh their brand positioning and visual identity.


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It has been long acknowledged that our population is ageing. Policy developments in adult social care in Great Britain have been influenced by this demographic change and along with this, service users now want greater choice and control over the care services they receive. The government agenda to make services more 'person-centred' or 'personalisation' has been at the heart of much policy debate in Great Britain and further afield. Frequently associated with person-centred principles, adult social care policy in England, Scotland and Wales have upheld a political commitment to achieve person-centred care for older users. Meanwhile, in Northern Ireland, policy developments have not progressed at the same pace as the rest of the UK and there has been less emphasis on a person-centred strategy. While there has been reference to 'personalisation' in Northern Ireland's policy documents: Transforming Your Care and Who Cares: The Future of Adult Social Care and Support in Northern Ireland, neither review included an explicit definition of personalisation as it might be realised or implemented beyond broad support for the idea of greater independence and a voice for older users.
One problem that adult social care in Northern Ireland faces is the current framework which community care operates under. First introduced in 1990, People First: Community Care in Northern Ireland continues to be the main legislation that community care works under despite being developed more than twenty years ago. This was designed for an entirely different set of needs and is no longer compatible with the current government's drive towards providing social care users with the control to choose the services they want, tailored to individual needs. Recent research from The Commissioner for Older People in Northern Ireland in 2015 recognised that the effect of an outdated legislation has the potential to disadvantage older people, in both the understanding of social care services that are available to them and in terms of how to access these services.
The divergence emerging between each region in the UK in terms of the nature and pace of implementing a policy framework that supports older social care users emphasises a sense of urgency to reform adult social care policy in Northern Ireland. This is currently underway through a 'three-stage' process. However, this appears to be making slow progress, with the first stage completed in 2013 and no new consultations since then. It is yet to be seen what approach this reform will take and what the impact will be for older social care users. Nonetheless, Northern Ireland remains in a good position as it has the opportunity to learn from the rest of the UK to ensure that implementation can be fit for purpose in an era of shifting responsibilities towards the community rather than the traditional 'one-size-fits-all' model which arguably still influences adult social care in Northern Ireland today.
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Social Science Research Graduate School, Ulster University


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Sholai School campus is spread over 35 acres amongst a coffee estate having fruit trees and pepper vines and is bisected by a brook. It is set within the 100 acre grounds of the Centre for Learning, Organic Agriculture and Appropriate Technology (CLOAAT) which is entirely self-sufficient in energy and practises, as much as possible, living sustainably and in harmony with its natural environment. The climate at 3,800 feet altitude is pleasant and cool all year round. Just 3 kms away from the campus is virgin rainforest, where there are common sightings of Elephant, Gaur and other Wild Animals. Sholai School follows a different approach to Education, inspired by the teachings of J. Krishnamurti. This involves a focus on creating an atmosphere in which children are encouraged to enjoy learning and to grow to be mature and sensitive individuals. It is important that your child develops intellectually, emotionally and has a healthy body. Hence we teach the usual range of academic subjects, but with a fresh appraisal for each subject: English Language and Literature, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology Hindi and Tamil, Development Studies and Environmental Studies Sociology and Psychology. Children also need hands-on experiences to confirm and support their theoretical knowledge. So we also teach Organic Farming, Woodwork and Practical Engineering. To understand themselves and to grow psychologically, young people also benefit from Theatre Workshop, Drama and Yoga. On almost every evening, the students and staff play football, badminton or cricket. And in the early morning: badminton or dance. Some students and staff also do cross-country running. Our focus is on exercising the body without undue stress. We do not encourage competitive sports. Moreover our use of Appropriate Technologies (Solar, Micro-hydro and Bio-gas), Water Harvesting practices , Watershed Management and Organic Farming provide the students with an opportunity to learn in these crucial areas of Sustainability and Future Life Skills. Since the students are involved in the use and maintenance of these technologies effortlessly, they have become adept in understanding them. They are also testimony to Sholai School's commitment to integrating and balancing educational and environmental concerns.
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The necessary of sumptuous wedding
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Semiconductor Companies Put Aside Differences
As part of the settlement, the two companies agreed to dismiss, without prejudice, all pending patent litigation between them. They also agreed not to file any more patent suits against each other for a period of one year.
Judge Maxine M. Chesney of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco approved the settlement of two of the cases late Thursday.
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Incognito Magazine Holders
If celebrity gossip, comic books or certain shades of monochrome are higher on your reading list than classic literature, no need to feel bad. Just grab your camera and library card and listen up!
In a few quick steps we will show you how to use your photography skillz to hide your favorite (if slightly embarrassing) reads in plain sight.
These photo magazine/book holders will make your shelf look perfectly respectable while your secrets are still just a quick reach away.
Go put on your dark coat and sunglasses – we are going undercover!
Learn How to Make Your Own Incognito Magazine Holders
Incognito Magazine Holders will keep your guilty pleasure on the down low while your friends think you are well read.
As a bonus, your shelf will look tidy and you can start using the cleared room under your bed for more important stuff.
- Plain Cardboard Magazine Holder
- Scissors
- Double Sided Tape
- A Camera or Camera Phone
- A Selection of Your Most Respectable Books
- Printer
- Photo Paper
STEP 1: Photograph and Print
Arrange your books, photograph the spines and print at a life size scale on matte photo paper.
Keep in mind, we want people to think these are the real deal.
STEP 2: Cut
Neatly cut out the photos of your book spines. Make them the same width as your magazine holder.
STEP 3: Tape
Stick a strip of double sided tape around the edges of the back of your photo.
STEP 4: Stick
Remove the protective layer from double sided tape and stick down your photos at the bottom of the tall side of your magazine holder.
Presto. Hide-o. Your secrets have disappeared!
Taking It Further
- Photograph the front of a book and stick it on the side of the magazine holder (in case someone peeks around there)
- Hide cake in the fridge by photographing veggies and sticking it on a container
- For another look, photograph books that are stacked horizontally, then divide up between 2 or 3 magazine holders placed next to each other on the shelf


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Date of Release: December 6, 2016
Ben Affleck follows his acclaimed Gone Baby Gone directorial debut by directing, co-writing and starring in a taut thriller about robbers and cops, friendship and betrayal, love and hope and escaping a past that has no future. He plays Doug MacRay, leader of a Boston bank robber gang but not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. When Doug falls into a passionate romance with the bank manager (Rebecca Hall) briefly taken hostage in their last heist, he wants out of this life and out of the town.


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This Cut Saturday Night Live Fifty Shades of Grey Parody Answers the Question, 'How Many Contractors Does It Take to Install a Sex Swing?'
If <i>Fifty Shades </i>were on HDTV.
Last week, Saturday Night Live wasn't necessarily light on Fifty Shades of Grey jokes, but they didn't do an actual parody. Well, it appears they did — it just was cut for time. A sex room, like all rooms, is a room, which means someone had to build it. And you thought you had an awkward conversation with your contractor when you were picking faucets for your new sink.


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Tietjens: Hard taskmaster who discovered Lomu
Tietjens, 60, who announced Tuesday he was quitting, began his tenure in the amateur era, was coaching New Zealand when the Sevens World Series was formed in 1999-2000 and bowed out on sport's biggest stage, the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
Through his more than two decades in charge, he was renowned as the toughest trainer in the game, giving his players an athleticism that dominated the Sevens circuit for years.
Some complained they vomited through sheer exertion, while one of his favourite training ground exercise was called "death", because of the dread it induced in his charges.
Current All Blacks fullback Ben Smith said Tietjens was "one of a kind", who pushed him to the limit.
"He always tries to make sure that you're really struggling, and then he tests you," he told Fairfax New Zealand.
The hard work paid off for Tietjens, resulting in 12 Sevens World Series titles, four Commonwealth gold medals and two Sevens World Cup crowns.
It was a future few had seen for a one-time Bay of Plenty forward regarded as skilled but a little too lightweight to compete in the XV5-man game.
But he ended up being a mentor to some of the greatest All Blacks in history, including the game's first global superstar Jonah Lomu, who made an immediate impact on debut as New Zealand won the 1994 Hong Kong Sevens in Tietjens' first year in charge.
Lomu went on to star for the All Blacks in the 1995 and 1999 World Cups, but would be called upon time and again by Tietjens for Sevens duty, propelling New Zealand to Commonwealth Games gold in 1998 and the Sevens World Cup in 2001 in Argentina.
"[Lomu] basically single-handedly won us our first World Cup in South America," Tietjens said.
"Quite incredible for someone who was so big, so quick, so strong. He probably wasn't as fit as I'd want as a coach but he gave me everything else."
Tietjens' no-holds-barred approach worked for years but was challenged by rivals of similar intensity when Sevens was confirmed as an Olympic sport.
The coach said he was "incredibly disappointed" his team came fifth in Rio.
"But we have to acknowledge just how far Sevens rugby has come," he said.
"It's become intensely competitive and the Olympics proved just how tough it is to win at this level these days."
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The Characters:
Santa - Every kid's favorite Alzheimer's victim.
Kimar - Leader of the Martians, he knows just how hard it is to get good help these days.
Dropo - Goofy assistant to Kimar who becomes the Martian Santa.
Billy and Betty - Earth children abducted by the Martians.
Bomar and Girmar - Martian kids, the latter is Pia Zadora! (She started doing bad movies at a young age.)
Momar - Kimar's wife, sort of a June Cleaver with green skin.
Torg - An astoundingly real robot! Santa turns him into a toy.
Chochem - Ancient and wise Martian.
Voldar - Evil Martian who hates toys, laughter, and fat guys in red suits.
The Plot:
Anytime you want to watch the worst darn Christmas movie ever this little gem is waiting for you. When Kimar and the other members of Mars' ruling council can't make their children happy a short meeting with Chochem provides a solution, kidnap Santa Claus from Earth! Kimar leads a small raiding party (Which includes Voldar, why bring the guy most against something?) to Earth, after first grabbing Billy and Betty they arrive at Santa's Workshop. At this point a silly little section occurs with the Earth children briefly escaping and wandering around the North Pole in clothes barely suited for late autumn, Torg recaptures them before reality sets in and they freeze to death. Though defended by fearless elves, one of whom grabs a baseball bat before being frozen, the chubby guy is taken at last. Having survived the trip to Mars, including Voldar trapping him in an airlock and hitting the open button, Santa is put to work making toys. This is another planet though, so the workshop is a button console, when you flip a switch any random number of times the correct number of baseball bats, dolls, etc fall out of hatches. Voldar had been glumly awaiting his trial, but he escapes and sabotages the toy machine. By a silly twist of fate Dropo happens to come dancing in wearing a Santa suit, now the bungling villains think they have Saint Nick hostage. Will Dropo escape? Can Santa bring happiness to Mars? Will Billy and Betty ever see their home again? Actually, yes to all, but it's still grand to watch. Put reality aside, especially anything you learned in science class, and revel in the badness this holiday season.
Things I Learned From This Movie:
There are worse Christmas songs than "Jingle Bells."
Santa has a reindeer named "Nixon."
Eating a hamburger in the shape of a pill is unappetizing.
Saturn is clearly visible from Mars, appearing about the same size as our moon does to us.
Ponderous B-52 bombers are scrambled to intercept UFOs.
Santa would never make it as a stand up comic.
Getting fat takes time.
Even Martian guys stuff their pants.
Four kids using ping-pong balls and soap bubbles can take on one grown man who is armed with a disintegration ray.
Stuff To Watch For:
6 mins - Why is the snow on that guy not melting?
13 mins - Septober? What sort of a goofy hybrid month?
20 mins - Paper towel tubes used as part of a radar array. (These guys were so broke.)
30 mins - You two kids are going to freeze to death; I am actually happy about this.
34 mins - Oh no! It's some guy dressed in a polar bear suit!
50 mins - They are going to escape the airlock via a duct?
57 mins - Some big guy who laughs insanely would not put me at ease, I'd run...
66 mins - These morons cannot tell the difference between Santa and Dropo in a red suit?
Audio clips in wav format
Starving actors speak out
Voldar: "All this trouble over a fat little man in a red suit."
Betty: "What are those funny things sticking out of your head?"
Martian: "Those are our antenna."
Betty: "Are you a television set?"
Newscaster: "And Mrs. Santa Claus has positively identified the kidnappers as Martians."
Martian: "Where are you going?"
Dropo: "Ho, ho, ho!"
Martian: "Can't you say anything else, but 'ho, ho, ho?'"
Dropo: "Ho, ho, ho."
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Reply #33.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM by
I found this on DVD at a local thrift store, for the amazing price of $1. Best dollar I ever spent, well at least since that last dollar I spent to buy "Plan 9 From Outer Space" on DVD.
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Reply #34.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Mikael P
And now it's legally free!
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Reply #35.
Posted on June 07, 2005, 07:16:30 PM by giant claw
A real gem in bad movies and a real lump of coal for the director i mean there are some christmas movies that will be classics like ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE,MIRICLE ON 34TH STREET ETC and then theres tha real bad ones SANTA CUASE THE MOVIE CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS POLAR EXPRESS but this one is the #1 in bad hoilday films
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Reply #36.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Julie
I used to watch this movie on t.v. with my brother every Christmas, and we loved it! This year I got it from my local library and showed it to my classroom of 4th graders during our Christmas party (Polar Express was all rented out). They thought it was awful, but they loved it. They even asked to see it again when they came back to school after the new year. I'm cultivating a new generation of bad movie lovers (your tax dollars at
work : )
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Reply #37.
Posted on December 28, 2005, 07:58:52 AM by Rob
I saw this movie as a kid 2 years in a row at the UA Oasis. They always used to run kids matinees and had all the K. Gordon Murray classics and anything else they could play.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Reply #38.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Max Alan Zoller
This is the best movie I have ever seen...SO funny that I could hardly watch the ending because i was crying out loud and tears we're running from my eyes. A true joy (if you're a masochist like me) to watch again and again. Really addictive song...can you find a soundtrack? Please name the title of this mexican Santa film, it sounds good!
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Reply #39.
Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Gary
This is the best movie in the so bad it's goog genere of film. SCCtM is the Top Shelf example of the 'Just beacuse you own a Video Camera dosen't mean you should take this weeks allowence (Probably $5-$10)and make a Sci-fi/Chrismas movie.'
Re: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Reply #40.
Posted on December 16, 2007, 12:58:04 AM by BloMor
Wow. I JUST finished watching this movie on TV 101 in Atlanta.
What can I say that hasn't already been said?!
The dialogue, the sets, the costumes. I give them an "A" for effort and creativity...didn't know Martians wore hot pants! And that green, greasy makeup that SOME of the Martians wore; I guess the others were allergic to it.
This movie is on a par with (actually, better than) the live-action crap currently on Cartoon Network (that Garth Merenghi show, for one).
Yes, Pia Zadora started making bad movies at a young age; the only other thing I've seen her in is "Butterfly."
SCCTM has an extremely high "cheese" factor! I guess recreational drugs were readily available in the 1960's..."I want my DOLLLLLLLLLLLS!" ( A quote from another cheese-fest, Valley of the Dolls, but that's a whole 'nother story).
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Your staff can be selling machines without even tryingSunday, December 29th, 2013
Salon Marketing Secrets
How to fully embrace the 'art' of seeing endless opportunities with your clients to ensure they will return and spend more in your Hair and Beauty/Spa salon without even realising it.
How easy it really can be by advising your clients on the benefits. Increasing the value of each client
Every Salon that opens its doors each morning and receives clients has mountains of "Hidden gold" that just needs to be "mined".
What is obvious though is that the majority of salon owners do not seem to know how to extract that gold. The answer, therefore, is to learn the techniques listed below and to make sure that all staff members are fully trained in their use and that these techniques are used daily.
Let me explain further: Every client that walks through your doors and sits before you is your "Captive Audience" and has already agreed to open their purse or wallet and buy services from you.
They are there because they want to be there, and willing and ready to spend whatever it takes to get that "Makeover" whether it is hair, face or body. They know the "need" that made them step inside your door is going to be fulfilled. They probably feel relaxed, happy and are looking forward to the enjoyment of the end result.
Whilst you have the client in that mood, how difficult is it going to be to sell them items that you know they will have a future need for? This concept is not pressure selling, it is providing high quality service, good advice, and is being helpful.
Would they get this at a supermarket or a bargain basement store? I think not. This method gives you a chance to "Set yourself apart" and is called "Looking after your client" after all they have agreed to open their purses and wallets. All you have to do is carefully mine the gold.
Salon Marketing Ideas
So how do you "mine" that gold? Involve your client by making sure that you and your staff consistently bring the client into the conversation. You must explain the process: what products are being used on them and why that particular product was chosen. Also, let them have a closer look so they can touch, feel, and smell and read anything on the packaging they want thus promoting it in a very subtle way.
For example, if styling hair, the client should be told about and shown shampoo and conditioner (have bottles for the client to view when he/she comes back to the chair after being at the basin), styling lotion, wax, or hair spray that can be purchased after your client's appointment.
If you look at the list, everyone uses shampoo, conditioner, styling lotion, hair spray, waxes, etc. All these products are available in the supermarket in generic form…nothing too fancy or extravagant.
However, make mention that the products you are selling can ONLY be purchased from a professional salon, which implies higher quality and exclusivity. People love to show off what most people cannot buy and will pay a good amount to do so! Why give big business any more money when you can offer a superior product to your returning customers?
This is not a hit or a miss process. This procedure should be followed with every client, every time they come into your salon. It makes them feel like you are a caring salon; and although it may seem subtle, it does bring results. You, the salon owner, need to make this a policy or risk leaving vast amounts of money on the table. At a risk of repeating myself, why risk losing customers to big business or another salon when you can keep them coming back for more by implementing these procedures.
What would happen if you could increase the amount of money coming in from your client's purse or wallet by an extra $30 or $40 for each appointment? I'll let you do the math!
One more thing, don't forget to get your staff to document any purchases made onto the client's card (is card a salon term or would record or file be more appropriate? Will let you decide that one), so it can be brought up for discussion on the next visit.
For example, the next time one of your regulars comes in you can be ready and say "Oh Mary, I see you bought, shampoo and conditioner last time, how have you found them, because your hair has never been in better condition".
This is once more complimenting Mary on her decision to buy the products, telling her the results have been worth it, thus feeding her pride, and also subtly telling Mary that she needs to purchase more in order to keep her hair looking as good as it does. After this, do you think Mary will revert back to buying the shampoo and conditioner from the supermarket? I don't think so!
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This theme is concerned with enhancing commercialisation of smallholder farming through improved access to input and output markets. This will be done by analysing bottlenecks to input and output marketing; promoting viable approaches that improve access to markets; and advocating for an enabling policy environment. Viable approaches will be supported by technologies to promote value addition to agricultural produce. The theme also focuses on continued engagement with value chains and innovation systems and emphasises the importance of trade in driving market processes.
It addresses the CAADP Pillar IV theme: "Development of Sustainable Market Chains" and expands opportunities to tackle new and emerging issues as more countries actively pursue a CAADP-based agenda. This theme also addresses the sub-optimal investment in regional solutions using a targeted advocacy strategy.
The overall objective of the Markets, Market Linkages and Trade Theme is "Enhancing regional commercialisation and competitiveness of strategic crops, livestock and fisheries". This objective will be realised through the following sub-themes and potential intervention areas:
Priority sub-themes
1. Policies for enabling domestic and regional trade: This sub-theme will have four main thrusts:
• Facilitation of enactment of enabling trade policies through analysis and advocacy. Some of the core policy areas under this will include options to minimise tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade and provision of marketing infrastructure.
• Facilitating the implementation of enabling trade policies through capacity building, advocacy and awareness creation.
• Scaling out the development, adoption and use of harmonised product standards and regulations to enable access to various niche markets.
• Developing and promoting use of appropriate models for forecasting inputs and outputs market trends.
2. Develop and promote of institutions for enhanced market access: This will involve strengthening (where they exist) and developing (where they are missing) market institutions in the sub-region.
The focus will also be on developing, validating, building capacity and scaling-up promising institutional innovations for business development, management and entrepreneurship. These will include collective action to enhance smallholder access to technologies and service functions.
The service functions will include assembly, storage, marketing, financing (including factoring arrangements) and business development services in general.
3. Value chain upgrading: Upgrading value chains of key commodity sectors in the region will include developing and promoting innovative agribusiness advisory services. This will be achieved through systematic and structured research, delivery, management and financing models or approaches of business advisory services. Further work will involve promoting, adapting and using TIMPs along key value chains and building capacity in the sub-region for participating in local and regional value chains. Market innovations around value chains (e.g. market information systems, bulk storage, warehouse receipt systems, etc.) will be developed and promoted. This sub-theme will also focus on promoting models for enhancing access to productive resources (land, seeds, finance, fertilisers, labour, mechanisation and pesticides).
Business incubation of generated TIMPs: Business incubation has become an innovative way to nurture the products of science into viable consumer products. This will involve developing business incubation models and generating lessons, and promoting and strengthening business incubation models to catalyse uptake of promising market innovations by the private sector.
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• Accelerated adoption of inputs by smallholders as a result of improved access to markets and reduced transactions costs.
• Business enterprise development through institutional innovations such as organising farmers to purchase inputs and sell outputs collectively.
• Increased private sector investments in agriculture and agro-industries.
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• Establishment of business chains and trade facilitation institutions, support organisations and business associations for improved access to domestic and regional markets.
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• Increased information, knowledge and networks to support the development and implementation of policies that favour increased agricultural productivity.
• Enhanced farm level productivity through the pull effect of output markets.
• Improved utilisation of innovations to enhance smallholder access and participation in markets.


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Elegance Wedding & Evening Wear is joining in with Brides Across America's Operation Wedding Gown.
Website design by Loose Lid Creative ©2014 Elegance Wedding & Evening Wear
2820 Highway Ave. Highland, IN 46322 Phone: (219) 923-0977
Thank you to everyone for a successful November edition of Operation Wedding Gown!
Our next Brides Across America event will take place in July of 2017. Contact us to schedule your appointment ASAP! Appointments are required to participate at our salon. This ensures you have a consultant and a dressing room, as well as the best experience possible. Please note, we are on Central Time (CST).
The region's most popular bridal salon, Elegance Wedding & Evening Wear, is partnering with Brides Across America to make wedding dreams come true for military brides throughout the Midwest. Elegance Wedding & Evening Wear will host a wedding gown giveaway, "Operation Wedding Gown," donating designer dresses valued up to $5,000 as a special thanks to our service men and women. The event will be hosted at their Highland, IN salon, located at 2820 Highway Ave, Highland, IN. Operation Wedding Gown has grown and we are now able to grant weddings to our military couples in need. Oftentimes military couples find it difficult to plan their "fairy tale" wedding due to deployment, injury and/or economic hardship. With the collaborative effort, Brides Across America has donated over 17,000 gowns to military brides and has gifted 20 weddings.
People who want to help the cause can donate gowns or financial gifts online at www.bridesacrossamerica.com. We hope to convey how grateful we are for the service of our military families by giving them an opportunity of a lifetime. Heidi Janson, Founder and CEO of Brides Across America was recently on the Steve Harvey Show. She was surprised by ten brides who shared their stories and gratitude. Elegance Wedding & Evening Wear was honored to provide the wedding gowns worn during the show.
About Brides Across America
A national nonprofit, Brides Across America continues to honor our heroes by giving weddings and wedding gowns to our deserving military and making wedding dreams come true. Brides Across America has provided assistance to thousands of military couples since its inception in 2008. All donations that are received go directly to provide support to our couples. To date, Brides Across America, in collaboration with bridal salons, designers, and individual donations has been able to donate more than 14,000 wedding gowns and 20 weddings. This spring we partnered with Boot Campaign and Bridal Guide to give away a Dream Southern Wedding at Las Brisas Farm in Texas. Operation Wedding Gown has also made headlines when it was featured in PEOPLE magazine and honored at the White House.
About Elegance Wedding & Evening Wear
Elegance Wedding & Evening Wear bridal salon offers brides a personalized experience with knowledgeable consultants. Elegance Wedding & Evening Wear offers a full service experience. They carry everything from wedding gowns and accessories for the bride, to dressing her bridal party. They also carry mom's dresses, tuxedo rentals, invitations, shoes and accessories. Bridal gown designers include; Casablanca Bridal, Maggie Sottero, and Mori Lee. They can be reached at 219-923-0977, by their website www.elegancewedding.net, or through Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter: @EleganceIndiana.
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We are here to help you find your PERFECT wedding gown so we've created a helpful list of
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For more information on how to qualify and register for an event visit www.bridesacrossamerica.com. Please note, appointments are required to participate at our salon. This ensures you have a consultant and a dressing room, as well as the best experience possible. You can schedule your appointment at Elegance by calling 219-923-0977 or by visiting
In order to qualify, brides or their fiancé must be serving in the military; either currently deployed, have a future deployment, or have been deployed within the last five years to Iraq, Afghanistan, Middle East, Korea, or Japan. Brides must pre-register for the event and bring proper identification along with deployment papers to be presented the day of the event.
If you are a military bride you must pre-register at www.bridesacrossamerica.com. You must also arrive to the salon with proof of deployment (check qualifications) to select a wedding gown.
1. You must be engaged and planning a wedding within the next 18 months.
2. You or your fiancé have had a deployment within the past 5 years or have an upcoming deployment.
3. Areas that qualify are Iraq, Afghanistan, Qatar, Bahrain, Libya, Kuwait, Korea, Japan, Africa, Syria, Ukraine and other areas overseas. *USCG protecting our waters or boarders and on a ship for 3 or more months during the year.
4. We accept submarine, special ops and navy orders.
5. You may qualify if you had a civil ceremony and now planning a formal wedding.
What to bring to the event:
Bring driver's license or military ID for verification; Qualifying proof must accompany the bride on the day of the event.
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I am currently in San Sebastián, known in the local Basque language as Donostia. San Sebastián is renowned as a gastronomic wonderland, with more Michelin stars per capita in the immediate vicinity than any other city. Arzak and Martín Berasategui lead the pack with the maximum three stars, Akelarre and Zuberoa with two each and Mugaritz, Fagollada and Miramón Arbelaitz with one a piece.
However, as I've mentioned before, my personal interests lie more in becoming acquainted with the traditional, regional cooking of Spain. San Sebastián has much to offer in this category of dining, too. First, it is the capital of pintxos (roughly pronounced peen-chos), the Basque version of tapas that are reputed to be the best in Spain (although some in Andalucía would no doubt dispute that claim). Second, being a port city on the Atlantic, San Sebastián and, more famously, the nearby town of Getaria are renowned for their restaurants that specialize in freshly caught fish grilled over an open fire. Third, the local men take their traditional cooking so seriously that they have organized gastronomic brotherhoods and compete annually to decide who is the best.
I've decided to divide my posts on the Basque country into several categories, roughly along the lines outlined above. I'll guide you through a tour of my favorite pintxos bars. Then we'll explore the excellent local market, La Bretxa (La Brecha in Spanish), to check out the beautiful fish and travel to Getaria to taste it (I just got back and, yes, they had sardines!). Next, and I'm very excited about this, I managed to snag an invitation to lunch (tomorrow) at the Cofradía Vasca de Gastronomía, one of the Basque gastronomic societies. Finally, I hope to take you along to a meal at one of the area´s culinary jewels (if I can get a last minute reservation).


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A plan by the inhabitants of Spike Milligan's Australian home town to walk backwards in his honour has been quashed by the local council on safety grounds, the organisers said.
The former Goon lived in Woy Woy, 45 miles north of Sydney, in the 1950s after his family emigrated from England, and it is to hold its first "Spikefest" next month.
As part of the 10-day festival a parade was planned in which residents would walk backwards in tribute to one of Milligan's nonsensical songs, I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas, recorded in 1956 with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe.
But in a turn of events that would no doubt have appealed to Milligan's sense of the absurd, festival officials have been told to change their plans by the local authorities, who fear that any injuries could land them with a hefty claim for compensation.
Milligan's younger brother Desmond, who lives in Woy Woy, said: "It's because of insurance problems. They feel that if everybody did walk backwards, they'd be liable to trip up."
However, the organisers have come up with a compromise - festival-goers will walk normally but wear their clothes back to front, with face masks on the back of their heads.
Mr Milligan said: "It will appear as though they are walking backwards. It will look ridiculous but I think they will all enjoy themselves."
Spike Milligan, who died last year of liver failure at the age of 83, mercilessly lampooned Woy Woy as a somnolent retreat for retirees.
Until recently the town was unsure how to view its most famous son, but, in the hope of boosting tourism, locals have gone out of their way lately to identify with the former Goon, establishing a room in the library dedicated to his comedy and even planning a memorial.


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I am starting to think that I may be working on too many projects at the moment....I have an ever growing list, but I've been inspired and I don't want to miss out on any opportunities!
Here is my ever growing project list:
-SEWING PROJECTS: I got a sewing machine for my birthday (yipee!) and need to start working on some projects so I get familiar with the machine and educate myself further. I have decided to make a nice flowy maxi skirt as well as some polka dotted scarves. I also would like to make a DIY heart sweater (a la the J.Crew one I would like to, but should not purchase). While I'm at it I think I will add some elbow patches to some old sweaters, perhaps even in the shape of a heart! And although not sewing related, I am making my own polka dotted skinnies since the ones I am obsessed with at Anthropologie are nearly $300 (boo).
-PAPER PROJECTS: I recently learned how to book bind (I even taught a class on it! oo la la!) and as a result I have decided everyone I know needs their own personalized hand bound journal. I have made 3 handmade journals in...2 weeks? I also learned the magic of DIY stationary and LINED ENVELOPES. Let me tell you- once you line an envelope you'll never look at an unlined envelope in the same way EVER again. So two lucky people in my life will be receiving their own handmade stationary complete with lined envelopes. Those two people shall remain unnamed as they have not received this yet. :) I also decided I needed to get to work on the many scrapbooks we were gifted around the time of the wedding. The Italian Honeymoon book is almost complete, but I still have the wedding and family books to finish up.
-PAINTING PROJECTS: I have 2 paintings in progress, and would like to finish at least 2 more by mid to late September. This really should be PRIORITY NUMERO UNO. These actually have deadlines unlike the rest. MUST FOCUS.
-HOME PROJECTS: I have come up with a spiffy (yes, I said spiffy) way of displaying the sweet and lovely cards we receive or give to each other. DIY and photos to come! I got Mr. Butter the PERFECT card the other day (if I do say so myself, which...I just did). It says "Life is so much BUTTER with you". A-dorable. It was made for us. I would also like to make us a fun pair of curtains for the bedroom and perhaps a lovely fall tablecloth.
Don't even get me started on fall decorations...Fall is only MY FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR and there are so many fun things I want to make!!!!
Time to get back to those paintings! Poor Mr. Butter is already in bed, but I have to dedicate myself to this for the next few months. 8 hour work days followed by a night of painting? You gotta do what ya gotta do.
A Butter Life
Monday, August 13, 2012
Friday, August 3, 2012
This one might be the best one....So you should watch it.
Because it's been too long
And you can never, ever have too much John Lennon in your life. You should definitely take a few minutes to watch this video. His style! Amazing!!! I can't even begin to express how happy I would be if I got to play with elephants in Central Park with John Lennon. I mean...look at all of the wonderful things happening in that sentence. John Lennon. Elephants. Central Park. All AMAZING things.
Happy Friday!
PS. You should watch this one too because John and Yoko are the best.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Third and Fairfax
At 3rd and Fairfax you will find a little place called the Grove/Farmer's Market. This is another place that I used to frequent as a teenager living in Hollywood that has now become a tourist attraction and home of tv's Extra (why??). But it still has a soft spot in my heart and I love roaming the stalls at the Farmer's Market and trying some new delicious meal. Although, let's be honest here- most of the time I end up at the French crepe stand. Look at the goodies we found!
On this particular day it happened to be very hot outside so my sister and I decided to treat ourselves to a nice air conditioned lunch at the French restaurant inside the Grove. I adored their wall near the entrance and had to snap a shot...
I love how perfectly imperfect it is.
Well, that's all for now. Have a great evening!
Butter goes to...
A visit to Los Angeles just would not be complete without a trip to the beach! We always seem to end up at Venice beach (the part off Washington, not so much the boardwalk). It's less crowded than the touristy Santa Monica beach and there are lots of fun places to visit near by. We usually end up taking a stroll down to the boardwalk but quickly return once we are feeling overwhelmed by the masses of people, body builders, and smoke scented air. If you are feeling hungry I always enjoy C&O Trattoria just up the street- their garlic rolls are amazing!
As you can see the weather was perfect and it was great to spend some time relaxing in the sun (with sunscreen, of course!). Julian was the only one brave enough to enter the water this time (it was very cold!) but even that was a short lived adventure. I ended up burying him in the sand after just so he could warm back up!
Nothing quite beats the California coast.
The Good Urth
Oh, Urth Cafe. I loved you long before you became a mecca for the "see and be seen" crowd that flocks to you in hopes of accidental fame these days. Your strong Italian lattes stole my young heart when I was only fifteen years old and I will never stop loving you. Your bake sale pastries and deserts fill me with joy and you are still the only place I will order a restaurant pie. Mr. Butter and I often catch ourselves saying "if only we could go to Urth Cafe right now..." and daydreaming about the treasures you offer.
Note to visitors: My favorite treats are the decadent chocolate pound cake (they give you three huge slices) and the deep dish peach pie. Always ask for your treat warmed- it will make it taste 1,000 times more delicious! The belgian waffle with strawberries and bananas is also delightful!
These visions of creamy coffee treats are going to dance around in my head as I drift off into sleep tonight...
To Infinity and BEYOND!
In all of my years spent in Los Angeles I am surprised to say that I never actually visited the Griffith Observatory. When I first arrived in the City of Angeles it was under renovation but I remember there was a big to do when it reopened. I have visited the park on numerous occasions but this, my friends, was my first trip the the observatory itself.
We went with the intentions of viewing one of the planetarium shows about vikings and the Northern Lights (sounds amazing, right??), but much to our surprise the place was packed. We had to park so far away that we practically got in another hike. We missed our viking show and had to settle for one about the Mayan prediction of the end of times. It wasn't nearly as dramatic as we had anticipated but very fun indeed!
I think my sister fell in love and this is her new favorite place/soon to be second home. She was quite smitten with the Tesla coil and the Cafe at the End of the Universe. I even caught her pondering the ways of the universe with Albert Einstein.
Another must see next time you are in Los Angeles!
Until next time- May the force be with you.
(Yes, I am aware I am a total nerd.)
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Warning on Royal Devon hospital emergency visits
Officials at a Devon hospital say "10-20%" of accident and emergency patients could be treated elsewhere.
The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital's Emergency Department (ED) sees between about 200 and 350 patients a day.
ED consultant Adam Reuben said many patients could be treated elsewhere, either with their GP, at a walk-in centre or at a pharmacy.
The hospital and clinical commissioners have started a campaign to tell patients about alternatives to ED.
The hospital trust said that more than 92,000 people had attended ED so far this year, with the busiest day in July when it saw 346 patients.
Service 'stretched'
Mr Reuben said: "We are busier than in any previous year.
"Our priority is to give the highest quality care possible. but clearly when it's busy that's harder to achieve.
"On a relatively quiet day we might see 250 patients and things are calm, quiet and organised.
"When that figure reaches 350 things become much more stretched."
The kind of conditions that could be treated elsewhere included back pain and gastro-related and viral conditions such as coughs and colds.
"All patients who turn up here will receive the appropriate treatment," said Mr Reuben.
"But the resources we have are finite, so the busier we are the less time we have with other patients who are perhaps more needy of our time."
The Choose Well campaign is aimed at reducing pressure on EDs by giving people information on where to get treatment "at the most appropriate place".
Dr David Jenner, a Devon GP and chair of the Eastern Locality of Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group, said: "Our message to people is to choose the right service that meets their needs this winter.
"That may be their family GP practice, local pharmacy, or a walk-in centre/minor injuries unit. If you're unsure, before turning up at the emergency department, call NHS 111 or go to www.nhs.uk.
"I'd also remind people who aren't already registered with a GP practice to do so as soon as possible. This will help avoid any delay in getting a doctor's appointment."


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A PIECE OF THE ACTION How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class. By Joseph Nocera. 464 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $25.
ONLY a generation ago, financial decisions required little thought. To earn interest, you took your money to a bank and opened a passbook savings account. For dividends or capital gains, you bought shares of Ma Bell or I.B.M. And to pay for everyday expenses, you either dug into your wallet or else wrote a check on your commercial bank checking account; until 1980, only commercial banks were allowed to issue checkbooks.
Now things are different. A savings account is no longer the only choice open to thrifty households -- money market deposit accounts, negotiable order-of-withdrawal accounts and money market mutual funds offer alternative opportunities. More adventurous investors no longer have to like AT&T or I.B.M. in order to make a killing; there are mutual funds tailored to suit any taste, as well as an array of index funds and stock futures and options that allow you to buy or sell groups of stocks, or even the whole stock market, all at once. And for daily expenses, we can all be as aloof as the Queen of England, who is said to carry nary a farthing in her purse. Nowadays credit cards are often more convenient than either currency or checks, and in an emergency, automatic teller machines stay open around the clock.
In "A Piece of the Action," Joseph Nocera, a financial columnist at GQ magazine, traces how we got from yesterday to today. He emphasizes the role of double-digit inflation in the 1970's in making middle-class households interest-rate conscious, the restless revolutionaries in double-breasted suits who unearthed ways to circumvent restrictive Government regulations, and the philosophy of financial deregulation that took hold in the Carter Administration and gained momentum in the Reagan years.
For example, Mr. Nocera notes that money market mutual funds might never have come into existence in the 1970's if it had not been for Government regulations that kept an unrealistic lid on the interest rates that banks were allowed to pay. Depositors became upset because Government-imposed interest-rate ceilings prevented them from getting market yields on their savings. Even banks that wanted to pay market rates in order to keep their old depositors, or attract new ones, were not allowed to do so. Bank certificates of deposit carried market interest rates only if they were in denominations of $100,000 or larger. Depositors with a few thousand dollars turned to Treasury bills to get a better yield, but the United States Treasury countered by raising minimum bill denominations from $1,000 to $10,000.Continue reading the main story
In that atmosphere of frustration, money market mutual funds were created by entrepreneurs who saw an unfilled need and figured out a way to satisfy it. They gathered together the funds of many small savers, in batches as small as $1,000, and packaged them in amounts large enough to meet the minimum denomination requirements of certificates of deposit, Treasury bills and other money market instruments. Since money market mutual funds were brand-new and politicians had not yet had a chance to shackle them, they were free to offer competitive interest rates.
Technology, the traditional stimulus to change in business and industry, is powerful in financial markets as well. Mr. Nocera shows how the computer explosion created the foundation for financial innovation. It would be impossible to have automated teller machines without computerization of the deposit and withdrawal functions. Nor could credit cards have become so ubiquitous without the instant storage, retrieval and transmission of vast amounts of information. Computers have revolutionized the speed and cost of processing data, with financial consequences that are probably still in their infancy.
MR. NOCERA is especially fascinated by the flamboyant group of talented innovators who dreamed up the concepts, tried to figure out which would work and which wouldn't, and embarked on stormy shakedown cruises of the new financial instruments. We get to know, among others, the fun-seeking Charlie Merrill, who dreamed of "bringing Wall Street to Main Street" and in 1914 founded the firm that would become Merrill Lynch; the handsome Gerry Tsai, the first celebrity mutual fund manager; the mercurial Dee Hock, who ran Bank of America's (later Visa's) credit card operations from 1970 to 1984; the quiet Ned Johnson, the head of Fidelity, who actually did bring Wall Street to Main Street; the brilliant Peter Lynch (not related to the Lynches of Merrill Lynch), the former manager of Fidelity's Magellan Fund and the most successful of all mutual fund managers, and the mathematics and computer genius Andrew Kahr, inventor of Merrill Lynch's cash management account and the Schwab One Account, who still found time to devise the ingenious concept of a "nonbank bank."
The "nonbank bank" idea had enormous ramifications. Above all, it undermined the functional separation of commercial and investment banking, a bedrock financial principle that had been sacrosanct since the enactment of the Glass-Steagall Act in 1933. Commercial banks are defined in the statutes as institutions that both accept demand deposits and make business loans. Mr. Kahr reasoned that by dropping one of these functions, usually the making of business loans, institutions could transform themselves into "nonbank banks" -- that is, they could continue to deal in checking accounts but no longer be bound by the numerous Government restrictions that had historically confined the activities of commercial banks.
Once the Federal Reserve Bank gave its reluctant approval to the "nonbank bank" concept, "the consequence," writes Mr. Nocera, "was that companies felt restrained only by the limits of their own imagination." Thus Bank of America promptly acquired Charles Schwab & Company, a discount brokerage house; Merrill Lynch, Dreyfus and Prudential-Bache bought commercial banks, and Security Pacific National Bank bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. With banks in the securities business and brokerage houses in the banking business, it soon became difficult to tell one kind of financial institution from another.
"A Piece of the Action" is not a complete financial history of the last quarter-century, nor does it pretend to be. International monetary problems, the savings and loan debacle, junk bonds, leveraged buyouts, insider trading and derivative financial instruments (options and futures) are hardly mentioned. Mr. Nocera sets out to demonstrate "how the middle class joined the money class" and he does just that: credit cards and mutual funds have indeed, for better or worse, transformed the spending and saving habits of millions of middle-income Americans. More than 70 million households use credit cards today. There are 4,900 mutual funds, and they hold assets of more than $2,000 billion. The assets of mutual funds exceed that of life insurance companies or savings institutions. How it all happened is a story worth telling, and Mr. Nocera narrates it admirably, with rare insight and considerable flair.Continue reading the main story


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Discussion in 'GBAtemp & Scene News' started by shaunj66, Jun 26, 2007.
nobody wants to post, because of this stupid "first post !" habit. But I usually read in here to know what a game's about, so, if anyone who tried it would like to kindly explain what this is about, I'm interested.
first post!
and does it have anything to do with uno?
"Touching" on the title and "loli" image...
This game will sell millions I tell you! MILLIONS!!!
Meh, anyone know if Nervous BrickDown has been dumped yet?
"Touch de Uno DS fell off the radar, even though it is going to be released in Japan. Its history is sort of odd, Touch de Uno was originally an arcade game and even though the name suggests it is not a touch screen version of the card game. Touch de Uno has more in common with Big Brain Academy, you're given mind teasers to solve and everything is controlled with the touch screen. In one game you see pieces of a broken sign on the top screen and you have to piece them together in your mind and tap on the appropriate sign. Another game tests your memory by showing a grid you colored hexagons. After a quick glance the board flips over and you need to remember which blocks were colored.
Touch de Uno DS is geared at the emerging market of neo casual gamers that picked up Brain Age, but passed on Mario Kart DS. What really makes this release interesting is it is another sign that Sega is continuing to dig in their vault of arcade games for appropriate releases. Touch de Uno heads to the DS because it has an audience ready for it"
Uno is a word for the right brain in Japanese.
Basically, it`s a logic game for training your "right" brain.
That explain the absence of cards in the cover
So it's a game for right-handed people? Which is 75% of ppl? I pulled that # out of thin air
Japanese people have two brains?!
Now it all makes sense...
Asian people have two brains, Yes, but with normal people our brains are divided into two sides, Left and Right.
Dominance of either brain depends on what hand you write with.
For example, if you are Left handed, your Right side of your brain is dominant
while if you are Right handed, your Left side of your brain is dominant.
Now each side of the brain "specializes" in different things.
The Right side of the brain is more catered towards Reading/Writing/Language
The Left side of the brain is more catered towards Science/Math
So this is essentially a game with Reading/Writing/Language?
Again, I'm no Science major, but If I do recall, this is all correct?
No problem.
Is this playable w/o Japanese knowledge?
Both sides of the brain are responsible for language, and to some degree, mathematics as well. The simplest way of understanding the left/right brain is that the right brain deals with creative, contextual ideas while the left brain is involved with concrete/literal analysis.
As well, there is no guarantee that being left-handed or right-handed will make one side of the brain dominant.
MMMmmmm....brain game..


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Sunday, December 27, 2009
Lady Sovereign - Random
God, for some stupid reason the remix of this song is stuck in my head. The track production reminds me of something I heard when I saw Del the Funkee Homosapien perform @ a venue in San Jose about 7 or 8 years ago. I think Cut Chemist was the DJ at that time. I've been using Serato to isolate the end and scratch over it. It has it all: pounding bass, a ticky-ticky synth pattern, the sound of a horn @ either a soccer game or a club, and some eerie church music. Yeah it's funky.
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One Thousand and One Ways to Love You.Thursday, April 06, 2017
I used to know of one thousand and one ways to show you I cared.
One thousand and one recipes for love,
and you craved every single one.
Each one started with a little piece of me:
My heart
My time
My service
My late nights
My early mornings
My lunch breaks
My dreams
My hopes
My future ...
My happiness
My laughter
My sanity
My reality
My safety
My well being
Trouble was that I kept losing myself,
and you really didn't want an incomplete lover.
I don't blame you.
It's hard to love someone who isn't whole.
I still know of one thousand and one ways to show that I care.
One thousand and one healthy recipes for love.
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Top-Seeded Virginia Holds Off No. 9 UCLA To Reach National Semifinals
May 23, 2010
Courtesy of Virginia
ATHENS, Ga. ----- The top-ranked University of Virginia men's tennis team held off No. 9 UCLA, 4-2, to advance to the semifinals of the 2010 NCAA Men's Tennis Championships at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex Sunday afternoon.
UCLA had won the doubles point to take an early 1-0 lead over the Cavaliers, but Virginia responded by winning four of five singles to secure the win. In doubles, UCLA got wins at one and two. On one, the 16th-ranked pair of Amit Inbar and Nick Meister defeated No. 14 Michael Shabaz and Drew Courtney in a tiebreaker, 9-8(4). Court two came next as the Bruins' Haythem Abid and Matt Brooklyn rolled past No. 41 Houston Barrick and anam Singh, 8-2, to secure the point.
But Virginia won the first singles match to even it, as 11th-ranked Shabaz defeated No. 71 Meister, 6-3, 6-2, on court one. The Cavaliers then went up 2-1 as court four ended with No. 46 Courtney posting a 6-3, 7-5 decision over No. 117 Inbar. Next off was 14th-ranked Singh, who increased UVA's lead to 3-1 with his three-set victory over No. 51 Abid, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1. UCLA stayed alive and pushed it to 3-2 with a win on three, as Ni. 58 Brooklyn edged No. 57 Jarmere Jenkins, 6-4, 6-3. But the Cavaliers closed it out on court six as Julen Uriguen bested the Bruins' Tabatruong, 5-7, 6-2, 6-0 after losing the first set to give Virginia the 4-2 win and the first place in the semifinals.
Virginia Head Coach Brian Boland
"It was a great match, certainly. I am thrilled with the outcome. UCLA is a great team and I'm very proud of the effort after a tough doubles point. Our guys played with a lot of toughness and resilience."
UCLA Head Coach Billy Martin
"I thought we played a great match. For a long time during it, I thought we had a good chance to win. Doubles went well and when Matt won on court 3 I felt we were in a good position. Right now, I don't really know what happened. Virginia turned it around on the bottom courts, and Singh played a great third set to clinch it. Overall, I still felt we played well and fought hard. Today, Virginia was just the better team."
#1 VIRGINIA (39-1) def. #9 UCLA (17-7), 4-2 Head Coaches: Brian Boland (Virginia) and Billy Martin (UCLA) Doubles (Order of finish: 2,1) 1. #16 Amit Inbar/Nick Meister (UCLA) def. #14 Michael Shabaz/Drew Courtney (VIRGINIA), 9-8(4) 2. Haythem Abid/Matt Brooklyn (UCLA) def. #41 Houston Barrick/Sanam Singh (VIRGINIA), 8-2 3. Lee Singer/Jarmere Jenkins (VIRGINIA) vs. Alex Brigham/Holden Seguso (UCLA), 8-7, unf.
Singles (Order of finish: 1,4,2,3,6*)
1. #11 Michael Shabaz (VIRGINIA) def. #71 Rick Meister (UCLA), 6-3, 6-2 2. #14 Sanam Singh (VIRGINIA) def. #51 Haythem Abid (UCLA), 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 3. #58 Matt Brooklyn (UCLA) def. #57 Jarmere Jenkins (VIRGINIA), 6-4, 6-3 4. #46 Drew Courtney (VIRGINIA) def. #117 Amit Inbar (UCLA), 6-3, 7-5
5.#106 Houston Barrick (VIRGINIA) vs. Holden Seguso (UCLA), 2-6, 6-4, 2-3, unf.
6. Julen Uriguen (VIRGINIA) def. Maxime Tabatruong (UCLA), 5-7, 6-2, 6-0


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The dawn of 2016 is not a happy time to be an executive in the fossil-fuel industry. Like Gulliver, who awakens to find his limbs and trunk tied down by the tiny but industrious Lilliputians, the industry is under assault on many fronts at once, and it's not clear whether it can free itself.
Economically, the prices for oil, coal, and natural gas have been falling, even as production costs remain high. Industry stocks are tumbling, and small and large companies alike are going out of business. Arch Coal, one of the largest coal companies in the United States, declared bankruptcy on January 11. Outside investors are wary or fleeing. Many are embracing solar and wind energy, drawn by plummeting costs that have driven stratospheric growth and market penetration worldwide.
The political terrain is no more favorable. At the United Nations climate summit in Paris last December, virtually every nation on earth promised to all but eliminate the use of fossil fuels after 2050—to abandon oil, gas, and coal in favor of renewable energy. In the United States, one of the nation's most powerful legal authorities, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, is investigating whether ExxonMobil, the industry's alpha leader, committed fraud by lying to investors and the public for decades about climate change. Schneiderman's investigation and the Paris Agreement in turn exemplify a third threat: an increasingly aroused civil society, spearheaded by a climate-justice movement that continues to grow in size, impact, and global reach.
The fossil-fuel industry remains an immensely rich and politically powerful enterprise, and volatility has been a theme throughout its history. This particular episode may yet prove to be a passing storm. Depressed oil prices can also discourage investment in renewable energy and conservation alternatives. But ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy, and their fossil-fuel brethren at home and abroad appear to be in a fight for their lives. And for the moment, at least, the momentum is against them.
On January 15, US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced a three-year moratorium on new coal-mining leases on publicly owned land, as well as a comprehensive review of the "environmental and public health impacts" of coal mining. This ranks as perhaps the strongest climate action the Obama administration has taken to date; publicly owned coal in Wyoming's Powder River Basin alone accounts for 10 percent of the country's annual greenhouse-gas emissions.
The world's other climate-change superpower did much the same, two weeks before Obama did. China will halt new coal-mine approvals for three years and close roughly 1,000 existing mines, the head of its National Energy Administration, Nur Bekri, announced on December 29. Together, China and the United States are responsible for about 60 percent of global coal consumption. Their rejection of coal is fresh evidence that the industry is "a dead man walkin'," as Kevin Parker, former head of global-asset management at Deutsche Bank, first noted back in 2011.


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Experts at Premier Education Technology Conference to Showcase Digital Classrooms of the Future Transforming Schools Now
Experts at Premier Education Technology Conference to Showcase Digital Classrooms of the Future Transforming Schools Now
SAN ANTONIO, TX--(Marketwired - Jun 24, 2013) - As thousands of educators from around the world converge in San Antonio this week, digital learning experts will showcase how digital classrooms of the future are helping boost student achievement in schools now.
The 2013 national superintendent of the year, pioneer in digital learning, and renowned author on the subject, Mark Edwards, will present an "inside look into digital conversion" at the ISTE 2013 Conference & Exhibition on Wednesday, June 26. Dr. Edwards will be introduced by one of America's top authorities on digital learning, Pearson Senior Vice President Scott Drossos, who will share how educators are blazing the path toward digital classrooms in a bold effort to help students like those in Superintendent Edwards' schools achieve real academic gains.
The Mooresville Graded School District led by Superintendent Edwards made the transition to digital classrooms by tearing down barriers, including dated budgeting models, to improve student achievement and better prepare students for college and careers. In just five years since the conversion to laptops and digital curriculum, the school district catapulted to the second-highest academic achievement in North Carolina with graduation rates skyrocketing to the third-highest in the state.
"Digital resources not only transform teaching and learning, they are essential preparation for today's workplace," said Mark Edwards, author of Every Child, Every Day: A Digital Conversion Model for Student Achievement. "The time is now for schools to move to digital."
Pearson works side by side with educators to help them build a tailored strategy based on its proven 1:1 Learning Framework that incorporates powerful personalized learning tools like interactive digital curriculum, online assessments, education apps, and digital training resources for teachers. The classroom, instruction and learning are all digitally transformed, which allows for immediate feedback on students' skills and knowledge, so individualized support from teachers and digital curriculum are precisely targeted.
"Digital learning is right now transforming the education experience for children across the nation," said Scott Drossos, Senior Vice President of Pearson's 1:1 Learning. "In this environment in which school leaders have to deal with tighter budgets at the same time as they prepare students to be more ready for college and the workplace, school systems are turning to the latest technology and comprehensive digital learning resources to help them shift to interactive, engaging ways for students to learn rigorous curriculum standards."
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This is the most tear-jerking Pokémon GO story you'll ever hear
It seems the entire world is playing Pokémon GO—looking for and finding Pokémon all over the place—but where this one young man found Pikachu will either have you wiping away your tears, or wondering why he was playing the popular game on his smartphone in such a location in the first place.
The world is going Pokémon GO crazy. Just a few days ago, while enjoying a beautiful summer day in Central Park with some friends, I saw countless people playing the game on their smartphones. Just today, I read about some police officers in Queens that were caught playing the game while on patrol. So yes, the fever is real. According to estimates, Pokémon GO has been downloaded more times in a week than the dating app Tinder has in the four years it's been around. Yes, people are obsessed with Pokémon GO, and can't help but play the game whenever they're outside (people play indoors as well, of course).
One person who happened to be playing outside found something very special. An unnamed young man, who netizens are speculating to be Dutch, found Pikachu at the site of his Pikachu-loving deceased younger brother's grave. Yes, you read that correctly. A man was playing Pokémon GO while visiting his brother's grave, and found Pikachu right next to his little bro's Pikachu gravestone. What makes the story really crazy is that, apparently, Pikachu is a rare find for anyone playing the game, so for the man to find one at his little brother's grave, who loved the little character, was like a message from the heavens.
Yes, it seems that everyone is playing Pokémon GO, everywhere. Even when visiting graves.
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