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Marketing constitutes a major part of the operations done by business enterprises out there today. Businesses and companies must come up with effective marketing campaigns that can reach out to as many potential consumers as possible. In an ever-changing world where technology dictates nearly everything people do, it is important to consider how technology can help you effectively market your products and services to consumers.
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Welcome to Garvin & Cousens (Gunnedah) Pty Ltd
We are a locally owned stock and station agency offering a range of livestock and property services. We pride ourselves in providing an honest, personalised and professional service to all our clients. Whether you are buying or selling a rural property, livestock, machinery or organising a clearing sale, our friendly team can offer practical advice and personal attention to help you.
When considering marketing your livestock we invite you to contact Garvin & Cousens Gunnedah first. We sell fat cattle every Tuesday and store cattle monthly at the north's leading stock selling centre – Gunnedah.

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Almost fifty years old, this paper placemat has yet to see a maple syrup stain. Tape, yes, food, no. Click pic to see in detail.
C O L L E C T I O N — A thin paper diner placemat from the sixties has survived the ravages of time relatively unscathed. I can remember seeing it for the first time, at some small diner my parents stopped at on a summer vacation. I can't imagine not spilling anything at all at the age of 7 or 8, so I can only assume my father got a couple fresh ones when we left, always ready to foster the love of cars in me even more, lol. I remember him quizzing me off of this placemat, since I was by that age, already pretty well-versed in old cars. I was stopped in my tracks by the red 1903 Ford. A) I didn't realize there was a Ford before the Model T, and, B) I didn't know there was a Model A before the '28 Model A. I remember thinking that automotive history wasn't going to be easy," lol.
The cars, clockwise from "1:00" (top right). Text from captions on placemat:
• Yellow 1913 Chevrolet. Second year of Chevrolet production. Produced 2,999 cars in initial year, all of same model. $2,150.00
• Red 1908 Stanley Steamer. A popular and powerful early car. One of 124 makes of steam cars made in the U.S. 20 hp. $1,500.00
• Green 1910 Cadillac. Won famous Dewer trophy in England for its precision manufacturing.
• Blue 1911 Ford Model T. 15 million were produced over a 19 year period. Prices ranged from $850 in 1909, to a low of $290 in 1924.
• Green 1912 Woods Electric. Clean, odorless and silent. 100 miles to one charge. Top speed 100 m.p.h. $3,000.00.
NOTE: "Wow. These stats are fine 100 years later, if they're true. I can't imagine the boxy 'telephone booth' bodystyle as pictured, ever reaching 100mph. The brakes of the time would have had a hard time coping also, lol. The 100 mile range is also interesting for 1912—current electric cars are in the same ballpark."—casey
• Red 1903 Ford Model A. One of first assembly line cars, 2 cylinder. 8 hp. Cranked on side. 2 speeds forward, 1 reverse. $750.00
• Gold 1908 Locomobile. Won 4th Vanderbilt Cup race. First American car to outclass foreign entries. 120 hp.
• Green 1909 Thomas Town Car. Highly regarded luxury car. Winner of famed New York-to-Paris race, via Siberia.
• Red 1908 Buick "Model 10" Rumble. Featured mother-in-law seat in rear. 4 cylinder. $900.00
• Blue 1903 Oldsmobile Curved Dash. America's first mass-produced car. Used steering tiller. 700 lbs. $650.00
• Blue 1903 Oldsmobile Curved Dash. America's first mass-produced car. Used steering tiller. 700 lbs. $650.00


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The Hawker Sessions: 05
Date: Fri 18th July
Time: 7.30PM - 10.30PM
Venue: Lavender Food Square
Raise at least S$5,055.60 to help three patients from the Tan Tock Seng Hospital Community Charity Fund HELP (Help ElderLy Patients) Programme
How you can support The Hawker Sessions:
- Come for the event! Bring your friends, family and colleagues!
- On the night, for every dish/drink you order, drop the money you're saving from a night out on the town into our collection jars (administered by our charity partner)
- Participate in our games, quizzes and awesome auctions for a chance to win prizes from our sponsors! Bid generously.
- Spread the word. Tell your colleagues, Like us on Facebook and share this event link!
- Donate online at SG Gives. Under the 'Special Occasion' box, type "The Hawker Sessions 05"
- Donate by cheque: We accept cheques addressed to Tan Tock Seng Hospital Community Charity Fund. Get in touch with us via Facebook or email@example.com and we can pick up the cheque from you at a central location.
Please write "Hawker Sessions 05" on the back, along with your full name, NRIC/FIN No., your contact no., and your address.
We greatly encourage this as your donations are 2.5 times tax-deductible
RECIPIENT #1: Mr A
Age: 40
Medical condition: Cervical Myelopathy - a weakening of the spinal cord typical of elderly people
Funds needed: S$1,155.60 for a lightweight motorised wheelchair
Mr A currently requires maximum assistance for his daily activities. He lives with his parents and 2 sisters in a 3-room HDB flat and used to work as cleaner but was forced to stop a year ago on the onset of his illness. The family now relies on his mother's earnings of $200/month as a part-time cleaner, and ad hoc contributions from the sisters to make ends meet.
A lightweight motorized wheelchair would reduce his elderly
parents' burden and facilitate his independent
mobility in the community.
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RECIPIENT #2: Mr B
Age: 61
Medical condition: Amputee - right below the knee
Funds needed: S$3,200 for a BK Iceross Prosthesis (leg prosthesis)
Mr B had to remove dead tissue from his previous stump wound to improve healing. Now, he is unable to fit into his old prosthesis. Although he is an amputee, he is a highly motivated man who works to support himself. He lives in a 1-room rental flat with a co-tenant and works as a security guard on an ad-hoc basis. However, he is now unable to go back to work as he no longer fits his old prosthesis. He is now left with $167.03 of savings until he is able to return to work. He receives some help from his younger sister for food and groceries to ease his financial hardship.
A new leg prosthesis would enable Mr B to return to work and
regain his independence.
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RECIPIENT #3: Mr T
Age: 48
Medical condition: Bronchiectasis - airways are damaged and hence are unable to clear out mucus; Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) - poor airflow to lungs; Respiratory Failure - requires long term Oxygen Therapy
Funds needed: S$700 for an Oxygen Concentrator
Mr C has been unable to work since being diagnosed with his debilitating medical condition. He requires an oxygen concentrator to breathe and, in the interim, has been using a rented unit.
Unemployed, he lives with his youngest brother in a 1-room rental flat. His brother works an odd-job kitchen assistant and they struggle to make ends meet. Mr C and his brother have little contact with their other siblings, and hence are unable to get support from them.
We can help Mr C cope better with his condition with his own personal oxygen concentrator.
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All funds will be collected in sealed donation tins provided by the TTSHCCF, who will dispense the funds to the beneficiaries.
The Hawker Sessions team does not have any contact with the recipients. Out of respect, their identifies will remain anonymous.
If we raise more than the targeted sum, the extra will be donated to more needy patients under TTSHCCF.
The Hawker Sessions was conceived by one of the winning teams at the first Worldwide FeastSingapore. We realised that Friday nights in Singapore are seen by many as a night to unwind, eat, drink, and catch up with friends. So we thought, why not continue this tradition, but at a hawker centre where the money saved on expensive cocktails and spirits could then be put toward something meaningful like helping a local family in need?
The team behind The Hawker Sessions is a melting pot of newcomers to the city and long-time residents, who believe giving should be simple, transparent and enjoyable for everyone. Singapore's unique blend of locals and expats is something we look to replicate in our Sessions, to foster a community that is diverse and inclusive. Get in touch with us via our Facebook page or email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Publication of employment & income research reports
For the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment we designed and developed a platform for storage and publication where researchers can quickly find and download reports.
The knowledge platform Employment & Income is responsible for sharing research. They need a way to give researchers and others involved easy access to current and past research. In the existing situation the status of any given research was not always clear. Reports were in some cases hard to localize and obtain. Deciding what research should be executed could be bogged down because of this.
In the first stage of the project we ran a proof of concept with Google Custom Search. We injected PDF reports with metadata and added project information as actual content on the cover page of each report. In a second stage we investigated whether we could improve the application by implementing Elasticsearch. The use of Elasticsearch eventually proved to be most powerful in terms of control and flexibility.
We built the application in an agile approach and collaborated closely with the client. We ensured a working application all the time that met the needs of the targeted users. Research documents are separated from the application using centralized storage. Lists with results are presented using a single page interface and combined with endless scrolling to make user interaction simple and direct.
Each research report PDF shows a nicely designed and formatted logo and a summary of the report. This is generated by a custom plug-in for the back end. Backbone.js creates a fast and lightweight client side application. The application is hosted on a virtual private cloud based infrastructure.
Elasticsearch provides fast, accurate and reliable search results and it allows the user to narrow down the results further by selecting organisations, research topics and publication dates. Once a user clicks on any result additional information from the database is obtained through the Rails API.
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European rights court opposes Qatada deportation
Britain voiced its frustration Thursday at the legal tangle in the European Court of Human Rights preventing London from deporting a radical cleric, as it hosted talks on taming the court's powers.
Prime Minister David Cameron vowed to continue efforts to remove Abu Qatada to Jordan, despite the process being thrown into doubt by the Islamist's last-minute and apparently unexpected appeal to the Strasbourg court.
The opposition Labour Party called the situation a "farce".
It said the government was presiding over "confusion and chaos", while doubts over Abu Qatada's future increased the likelihood that he would be released from jail until they were resolved.
In a rowdy session in parliament's lower House of Commons, Home Secretary Theresa May said she still believed he could be deported.
"We've always been clear that despite the progress that we have made, the process of deporting Abu Qatada is likely to take many months," she told the House of Commons.
"It should hardly come as a surprise to anybody that Qatada has chosen to use delaying tactics.
"The government is clear that Abu Qatada has no right to refer the case to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, since the three-month deadline to do so lapsed at midnight on Monday," she said.
"The government has written to the European Court to make clear our case that the application should be rejected because it is out of time."
Cameron said he wished he could take Abu Qatada to Jordan in person.
"The home secretary has made clear the issue over the timing, but the real issue is over the substance — and that is that this man has no right to be in our country," he told reporters in Scotland.
"He is a danger to our country and we want to remove him from our country. However long it takes and however many difficulties there are, we will get him out.
"I sometimes wish I could put him on a plane and take him to Jordan myself. But government has to act within the law. That is what we'll do. We will get this done."
The situation threatened to overshadow the government's efforts to push through reforms of the European court at a conference of the 47 member nations held Thursday in the southern English coastal resort of Brighton.
Britain has been trying to deport Abu Qatada, who claimed asylum here in 1993, for more than six years, arguing that he is a threat to national security.
But his removal has repeatedly been blocked by the courts amid concerns about his treatment in Jordan, where the cleric was convicted in 1998, in his absence, of involvement in terror attacks.
In the latest such ruling in January, the European court said he should not be deported due to the risk that evidence obtained from torture would be used against him on his return to Jordan.
Rather than appeal, the British government decided to seek assurances from Amman that this would not be the case.
Following months of high-level negotiations, May announced to the Commons on Tuesday that these assurances had been secured and Abu Qatada had subsequently been arrested and would be deported.
She acted in the belief that the deadline for the cleric to appeal against the European ruling had passed on Monday.
But just hours after her statement, Abu Qatada's legal team lodged its application, arguing the deadline was in fact on Tuesday.
Thursday's newspaper headlines were scathing, with The Times asking "Does May know what day it is?" and the Daily Mail splashing "What a fiasco!".
In a statement, the Strasbourg court said it was now considering whether Abu Qatada's appeal request complied with Article 43 of the Human Rights Convention.
In a letter received at 11:00pm Tuesday in Strasbourg, the cleric asked for his case to be referred to the court's Grand Chamber, believing the January ruling was "wrong to decide that he would not be at risk of torture if deported to Jordan".
"The panel will decide on whether the referral request complies with the conditions laid down in Article 43 of the European Convention on Human Rights for the admissibility of a referral request and, if so, whether the case should be referred."
The cleric's case is one of several high-profile disputes between London and Strasbourg and Cameron has vowed to use Britain's current chairmanship of the Council of Europe to streamline the court.


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The use of the Android O/S is growing dramatically worldwide...the problem is that until now, there hasn't been a simple way for employees to remove confidential or personal data from their mobile devices.
Deerfield Beach, FL (PRWEB) January 21, 2013
Systematic Development Group (SDG), the manufacturer of the award winning LOK-IT Secure Flash Drive®, announced today the release of an Android app that simplifies the synchronization, transfer and copying of files between Android mobile devices and the encrypted LOK-IT USB flash drives.
LOK-IT File Sync is a free app available in the Google Play Store for use with Android devices that are USB On-The-Go (OTG) compatible. USB OTG is the capability that some phone and tablet manufacturers have included on their devices and allows connectivity to peripheral devices such as keyboards, mice and USB flash drives.
According to Forrester Research, the use of personal smartphones in the workplace increased from 34% to 37% in 2012 and personal tablet use saw a single year jump from 30% to 34%. Organizations that implement Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) policies that allow personal smartphones and tablets for business use may reduce their budgets for employee devices, but increase their potential liability substantially.
Tom Kemp, CEO of Centrify, a cloud and mobile device security company, recently stated, "There are tons of security concerns. Phones getting lost or stolen can lead to someone outside the company accessing corporate information."
As a consequence of that growth, Mobile Device Management software platforms are becoming a necessity in attempt to provide some control around employee portable devices, yet it remains difficult to secure all confidential information on the devices. Reducing the amount of data stored on mobile devices is one of the top recommendations for organizations to significantly improve their security and reduce risks, according to findings in the white paper series, Personal Media in the Enterprise, conducted by Tigerspike.
George Wolf, SDG President has stated that until now, there has not been a simple way to remove confidential files from Android devices and onto an encrypted flash drive. "When confidential files are stored on mobile devices or traditional flash drives, HIPAA, State and Federal privacy regulations are being ignored and this can prove costly."
Data breaches cost organizations an average $5.5 million per incident and the loss of a portable device, such as smartphone, tablet or flash drive was the source of a breach within 39% of the organizations included in the 2012 study conducted by the Ponemon Institute.
David Navetta, one of the founding partners of the Information Law Group writes, "The failure of an organization to comply with its own security program is a key factor that can (and will) be used by plaintiffs' counsel or regulators to argue for liability after a security breach."
Wolf continued, "The use of the Android O/S is growing dramatically worldwide and companies like Samsung are developing outstanding products that are gaining broad use in the business world. The problem is that until now, there hasn't been a simple way for employees to remove confidential or personal data from their mobile devices." According to the latest data from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, Android will power 68.3% of all smart phones shipped in 2012.
John Tate, SDG Executive Vice President adds, "We want to provide organizations with the tools to protect themselves, patients and customers from the costly effects of a data breach. Our LOK-IT File Sync app and the LOK-IT Secure Flash Drive provide an easy to implement solution that decreases the chance of a data breach due to lost device."
About Systematic Development Group
SDG is the developer, manufacturer and distributor of the LOK-IT Secure Flash Drive®. LOK-IT protects all contents with 256-bit AES hardware encryption and provides the means for authentication via an onboard PIN-pad, utilizing the patents pending DataLock® technology from ClevX, LLC. LOK-IT is completely Operating System independent, working with any O/S including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, Chrome, Symbian, and even embedded systems found in office equipment and medical devices.
LOK-IT is FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified and is the preferred choice to secure portable data for large enterprises, healthcare organizations, government agencies and armed forces worldwide. LOK-IT File Sync is available for download from the Google Play Store. LOK-IT and USB OTG connectors may be purchased at LOK-IT.net.


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Last week, Facebook accidentally released a new app called "Slingshot" into the iOS App Store and then quickly pulled it. The company teased that the official launch would take place "soon" thereafter, and today that's exactly what happened.
Facebook has officially taken the wraps off of Slingshot, its new competitor to popular ephemeral messaging app Snapchat. Much like Snapchat, Slingshot allows users to capture photos and videos, write and color on them and then send them to friends.
Slingshot and Snapchat aren't totally the same, though. One big difference between them is that with Slingshot, after receiving a photo or video from a friend, you must send back an image or clip of your own before you're allowed to view it.
So why launch Slingshot? Well, Facebook already took one stab at Snapchat with its Poke app for iOS, but it recently pulled it after the app failed to gain traction with users. Facebook likely realizes that Snapchat is big now, and so it's giving ephemeral messaging another go with Slingshot, which is another way to keep users in its ecosystem.
Slingshot is available now on iOS and will launch on Android later today. The app requires iOS 7 or either Jelly Bean or KitKat. Once it officially hits the Play Store's virtual shelves, we'll give you a shout.


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We're not often updating this blog with client projects, so we decided to give you a quick look at a couple of projects that we are having a lot of fun with. Not only are these projects enjoyable but challenging in their own unique way.
Dog Star Comics
First up, we have Dog Star Comics a digital comic book publisher coming online soon at the frontier of digital comics. Dog Star Comics is both an SEO and Web design project. This site is unique in that the site online now is in a pre-launch state to bring awareness and seed SEO efforts. Once, Dog Star Comics is ready to roll out for business, a new site that is more refined with a membership/subscription option will also roll out.
Focus Floors
Focus Floors is a well established retailer of carpet tiles for residential and commercial use, based in Chattanooga, TN. This project is an ecommerce project that features a robust shopping cart system, blog, and SEO. We have been fortunate enough to work with Focus Floors on SEO before developing customer centric ecommerce solution. This site is still in the design/development stage. In the mean time, their old and archaic site continues to serve their broad customer base. We expect a full roll out on this site in December 2010.
Dog Star Comics beta/pre-launch site to seed awareness and SEO.
Focus Floors early design build that hasn't been released for public consumption.
Two very nice designs and very unique. I like the simple colors in the Dog Star Comic site. Matches nicely with the basic colors of a comic. I like the layout of the Focus Floors site. It's not too crowded. Nothing worse than a crowded site. Well done and I'm sure they are happy clients!
I went to the page and looked at the comic they have up, it looks great. I am glad to see comics come into the digital realm.
Very well developed projects. I like the basic idea of the project like dog star digital comic which show a real comic experience in digital form .Both the projects are very much interesting. good job. Looking forward to more good projects.
Really cool designs!
We are also a web design and SEO Orange County company. It seems that Web designing and SEO must go hand in hand today for the success of any business
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The Focus Floors design works well with the dark grey navigation bar acting as a nice divide between the company info and products / content.
The phone number in the top right will help people have trust in the site combined with your 'Authorize.net' link and 'view order status' should ensure enough trust for users to order their products through the website.
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I live in France, and that's funny, cause a also have an SEO and web design compagny…
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I was tired reading rubbish out there,I never read this type of blog before. thanks to providing this interesting content. I'll be waiting for your next post.
Nice website design. I think the use grey colours for focus floors is understated for the impact it gives to the overall look of the website. To me it gives a much more professional look! Some very useful examples!
The dogstarcomics site looks nice and clean – just the way I like it. It has a nice classy touch to it due to the gray color choice and is not too heavy with the design elements, which means is very user friendly.
The focus floors blog looks ok too. Is functional which is what you would expect from such a site and that's the most important thing. The last thing you want to do is confuse the buyers with weird looking layouts.
Design of the site above is very good, I check the templates are used also have been valid.
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Great content, I like the fact you really focus on SEO, with a website its all in the marketing as they say.


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Corporate Appearances, Speaking Engagements, Autograph Signings, Endorsements, VIP Meet & Greets, Store Grand Openings
Daniel Negreanu Booking Agent Contact Details
Contact AthleteSpeakers today at 800-916-6008 to book Daniel Negreanu for a guest appearance, motivational keynote speech, grand opening, autograph signing, product announcement, employee gathering, or for an exclusive meet and greet. The booking agents at AthleteSpeakers work on your behalf to get you the best price for your desired sports celebrity.
AthleteSpeakers has built very close direct relationships over the years with top athletes, agents, publicists and managers. We specialize in assisting small, medium, and large companies as well as event planners with booking athletes like Daniel Negreanu for speaking engagements and appearances at trade shows, golf outings, casinos, conferences, conventions, and corporate events. For years, companies have turned to AthleteSpeakers to get Daniel Negreanu's booking fee, appearance cost, and booking agent contact information.
Daniel Negreanu is a professional poker player who has competed on various tours around the globe. Early in his life, Negreanu dropped out of high school to pursue his love of poker, making a good amount of money from various casinos and illegal games. At just 22 years old, Negreanu left to become a professional poker player in Las Vegas, but eventually had to return home due to a depleted money supply. In 1997, Negreanu got his start in tournament poker at the World Poker Finals and other events, amassing over $55,000 in winnings from three total wins. At the 1998 World Series of Poker, Negreanu finished in the money, earning his first WSOP bracelet and earning over $169,000 from that one tournament. Overall, Negreanu has earned over $29,000,000 in winnings throughout his career, along with honors including six World Series of Poker bracelets and 78 money finishes.
To inquire about Daniel Negreanu's availability and speaking fee, contact the agents at Athlete Speakers. Let our team of booking agents make a Daniel Negreanu appearance at your next event a reality.
Disclaimer: AthleteSpeakers assists companies seeking to hire talent like Daniel Negreanu for speaking engagements, appearances, product endorsements, and business sanctions. Our speakers bureau does not claim to exclusively represent Daniel Negreanu. Our booking agency can help with finding an athlete or sports celebrity that aligns with your upcoming events date, location, and budget. When an organization request booking details for a celebrity like Daniel Negreanu, we work closely with the client to make sure the proposed dates does not interfere with the requested athletes schedule. We then confirm the sports celebrity fee based on the details of the request. The fees listed on the speaker profile are rough estimates based on the previous market rate for the talent. Our team then works with Daniel Negreanu's agent, manager or assistant on the booking request. For parties interested in hiring Daniel Negreanu, we recommend filling out the booking request form so our booking agents can help with making your next event a success.


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Premio Lo Nuestro may serve to spotlight the best of the year's Latin music but on Thursday night it was the artists who used the limelight to show their solidarity for Venezuela.
Amid messages of hope and encouragement for the South American country currently undergoing violent political unrest, the show went on as planned. Golden statuettes were presented and the stage was dominated by this year's biggest stars, including Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Marco Antonio Solís and more.
The show began to the beat of Víctor Manuelle's salsa before the evenings hosts, William Levy and Ninel Conde, made their way to the stage. After some very flirty banter, Levy took a moment to ask for peace in Venezuela.
The first award of the night was video of the year, which the 'King of Bachata' Romeo Santos took home for his "Propuesta Indecente" music video. Afterward, Enrique Iglesias took the stage first with Mexican crooner Marco Antonio Solís for their single "El Perdedor" then the Spanish singer flipped the switch with Pitbull and their raunchy tune "I'm A Freak."
Venezuelan actress and model Marjorie de Sousa presented the award for Tropical Song of the Year, which went to Puerto Rican salsero Marc Anthony for his hit "Vivir Mi Vida." As he received the award, Anthony took some time to express support for the situation in Venezuela.
"Thank you to Univision, my work team but more importantly I want to take a moment to recognize my Venezuelan brethren, you're not alone, stay strong my people! Don't lose hope, may God bless you all," Anthony said as the crowd applauded and cheered.
Singer and actor Jencarlos Canela took the stage with his anti-bullying anthem "Irreparable." At the end of his performance the star gave a shout out the South American country: "Venezuela, I'm fighting for your peace and freedom, the world is with you."
The outpouring of support for Venezuela continued when Marco Antonio Solís received his award for Male Artist of the Year.
"Thank you to the audience that is is watching us on television and supports our music, I want to dedicate this award to support Venezuela, with all my respect and to send a hug to my Mexico," the crooner said.
Before the night's main event, the red carpet glittered with stars who also used the cameras to show their support for the people of Venezuela.
Several Venezuelan stars carried their homeland's flag with them:
Te llevamos con orgullo pic.twitter.com/VL5EfyktPk
— NACHO (@nacholacriatura) February 21, 2014
Lista para trabajar,en mi mente y corazon #venezuela @premiolonuestro pic.twitter.com/cqAuWV5VHj
— Chiquinquira Delgado (@chiqui_delgado) February 20, 2014
While being interviewed on the red carpet and holding her country's flag, Venezuelan actress Marjorie De Sousa teared up as she sent a message of solidarity to her people.
"Today I can't say I'm celebrating, today I use your cameras to plead for my country," Sousa told Raul de Molina, as shown in the video above. "Today more than ever I am Venezuelan and I'm very proud of it. I'm asking for all of the people in this war. It's very sad to see your friends and your family dying... It's very sad because these are friends, family. There is no law, we don't have a voice."
Check out the full list of winners and the fashion from the Premio Lo Nuestro 2014 red carpet below:
Premio Lo Nuestro Artist of the Year: Prince Royce
Collaboration of the Year: "Por qué les mientes" - Tito El Bambino & Marc Anthony
Video of The Year: "Propuesta indecente" - Romeo Santos
Pop Album of the Year Álbum: "Habítame siempre" - Thalía
Pop Song of the Year: "Detrás de mi ventana" - Jenni Rivera
Male Pop Artist of the Year: Marco Antonio Solís
Female Pop Artist of the Year: Jenni Rivera
Group or Duo of the Year: Jesse & Joy
Solo Artist of the Year: América Sierra
Tropical Album of the Year: "3.0" - Marc Anthony
Tropical Song of the Year: "Vivir mi vida" - Marc Anthony
Male Artist of the Year: Prince Royce
Female Artist of the Year: Olga Tañón
Group or Duo of the Year: Chino y Nacho
Merengue Artist of the Year: Olga Tañón
Salsa Artist of the Year: Marc Anthony
Contemporary Tropical Artist of the Year: Prince Royce
Solo Artist of the Year: Alex Matos
Regional Mexican Album of the Year: "En peligro de extinción" - Intocable
Male Regional Mexican Artist of the Year: Gerardo Ortiz
Female Regional Mexican Artist of the Year: Jenni Rivera
Regional Mexican Song of the Year: "Sólo vine a despedirme" - Gerardo Ortiz
Regional Mexican Group or Duo of the Year: Banda El Recodo de Cruz Lizárraga
Banda Artist of the Year: Roberto Tapia
Duranguense Artist of the Year: Grupo Montez of Durango
Grupero Artist of the Year: Los Temerarios
Norteño Artist of the Year: Gerardo Ortiz
Ranchero Artist of the Year: Vicente Fernández
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Women In This State Can Now Buy Birth Control Without A Prescription
Family planning just got a lot easier for 2.5 million women.
This week, women in Colorado achieved a major victory in the fight for contraceptive accessibility. Thanks to a new law introduced earlier this year, women who live in the Centennial State can now buy birth control right from the pharmacy, without having to see a doctor first.
Local news outlets report that all of Colorado's Albertson's-Safeway pharmacies are now equipped to sell pills and patches to female residents over the age of 18.
Colorado's the third state to pass legislation like this: California and Oregon already have it.
For Colorado women, the freedom to bypass a trip to the doctor could have positive outcomes: the state's Department of Public Health and Environment notes that right now, nearly half of all pregnancies in Colorado are unplanned. Lawmakers and residents alike hope the new laws will make contraceptives more readily available to women living in rural areas, or to those who might be too busy or poor to be able to squeeze in a doctor's appointment.
This is not the state's first initiative aimed at curbing unwanted pregnancies. It previously offered teens and low-income women free IUDs and between 2009 and 2013 saw birthrates and unplanned pregnancies drop by 40% and 42% respectively.
In order to buy contraceptives, Colorado women are required to fill out a questionnaire, have their blood pressure checked and undergo a consultation with a pharmacist. Safeway charges $45 per consultation and the chain estimates that the entire process lasts approximately 20–25 minutes, a much shorter period of time than it takes to visit both a doctor's office and a pharmacy.
Unsurprisingly, women across the state are jazzed about the new developments. And why not? Between legalized weed and accessible birth control, Colorado is living up to its reputation as a bastion of good decision making.


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I'm not sure why I expected the other side to come last night to challenge Syracuse University's Gerald Grant, whose new book posits that urban schools are a disaster in America with few very exceptions ... and posits that the one great exception, the "hope" in his title, is the Raleigh/Wake County school system. (Subtitle: "Why there are no bad schools in Raleigh.")
Anyway, it didn't happen. Speaking at Quail Ridge Books & Music, Grant asked the 100 folks in attendance how many were teachers? (Some.) How many principals? (Some.) How many other school administrators? (Superintendent Del Burns' hand went up.) Several school board members and former members were also on hand along with County Commissioner Stan Norwalk.
And how many here, Grant asked finally, want to vote the school board out and change its policies, the policies he so strongly endorses?
No hands went up.
"They're probably too busy blogging," Grant quipped.
Ah, well. They're definitely out there. I've made it to one meeting so far of the Wake Schools Community Alliance, the banner under which some of them are gathered, and there are more than a handful of folks (but fewer than you might imagine) who utterly and completely reject the policies that Grant likes so much. They might concede his point that there are no bad schools in Raleigh. But I believe they'd argue -- more reporting needed here -- that it comes at a price to "their" schools in Apex, Holly Springs, Cary, Garner and the other towns in the county where most of them live.
For now, though, they're staying in their corner, getting organized to answer the bell when the filing date comes for the Wake school board elections this fall.
In the interim, what I'll call the pro-diversity side -- the incumbent side -- lapped up what Grant had to say, which could be boiled down to this: "Both the leadership and the teacher talent in this system is just outstanding." Grant talked about why in the Indy this week: You can read either the excerpted or the full transcript of it here. He elaborated on two key points last night, though, that I think bear some more scrutiny:
++ The critics who are using Charlotte's policies as a cudgel against Wake's just don't get it about Charlotte;
++ Far from costing us money (for "busing"), Wake's diversity policies save taxpayers' money compared to Charlotte and every other urban school system in the country. In fact, he said, we've been getting great results "on the cheap."
More on these two points below.
First, the Charlotte issue.
Ex-school board member Susan Parry raised it, asking Grant what he thought of the critics' argument that Charlotte's results on tests of student achievement aren't all that much different than Wake's. (Though as Richard Kahlenberg noted, Charlotte's dropout rate is significantly higher, meaning their test results are for a smaller pool of survivors.) And Charlotte, in this decade, has dropped its Wake-style diversity policy in favor of "neighborhood schools," which is what the critics here espouse.
Grant's answer: Charlotte may look different when viewed from Raleigh. But viewed from a national perspective, Charlotte and Raleigh both are great examples of why and how diversity works -- great "outliers," he said -- in sharp contrast to virtually every urban system in the North, Midwest and West where diversity was never tried. Charlotte's relatively good test results reflect the benefits of two decades worth of the right policies, which brought prosperity to the city as they did in Raleigh.
Those benefits don't disappear overnight, he said. But they do fade with time, as UNC-Charlotte's Roslyn Mickelson's research has shown. Since going to neighborhood schools, Charlotte's teacher turnover rates are up, it's been forced to mothball some schools in high-poverty neighborhoods as parents flee (or the kids drop out), and even so, "bad schools" have developed there. "The road [Charlotte's" going down now, I think, is the wrong road," he said.
Rather than get caught up in Charlotte vs. Raleigh, though, consider Charlotte and Raleigh -- both unified, countywide systems that achieved racial and socioeconomic balance in all of their schools after 1980 -- against a system like his own in Syracuse, Grant said. There, the city of Syracuse has a school district that is 70 percent black and predominantly poor; it's surrounded by 21 suburban school districts, all in the same county as Syracuse. Test results in the suburban districts are good -- like Wake's. But the results in the city district are terrible. And because of they are, very few people with money want to live in Syracuse.
But Syracuse, Grant emphasized, is typical of the way school systems are organized outside of the South, in large part because of two U.S. Supreme Court decisions which treated the South and the rest of the county very differently when it came to integrating their schools.
In the first decision, in 1971, the Court upheld a judge's order that Charlotte-Mecklenburg desegregate its schools using busing -- but because the decision was based on the South's historic segregation, it applied only in the South. (And Charlotte and Raleigh were two of a handful of southern cities that actually followed the decision; many others, like Durham, retained separate city and county systems for years or else created sub-districts within the system.)
But in 1974, the Court overturned an order that Detroit's schools be integrated with the schools in the surrounding suburban districts of Wayne County, Michigan. No busing needed there, the Court said, even though Detroit's schools verged on all-black because of white flight to the 34 other districts in the same county. This decision, handed down by a very different court than four years earlier because of President Richard Nixon's anti-busing appointees, applied everywhere except the South.
For comparison's sake, imagine that instead of merging in 1976, the Raleigh and Wake school systems had continued to be separate. And not only that, but Raleigh was one school district and every other town in Wake County had a separate school district of its own, like Wayne County. Would Raleigh today be affluent? Or would the affluent people of Raleigh have long since moved to Cary, Apex and the rest of the suburbs, leaving a poor inner-city school system behind? And actually, for a more apt comparison with the North (which has no annexation laws), imagine that what is now Cary developed instead into several separate, much smaller towns, some more affluent than the others and each with its own school district.
Where would the affluent folks of Raleigh be living in that case, do you suppose?
Sure, Charlotte's policies and Raleigh's are diverging now, as Grant said. But there's a still an enormous gap between Charlotte and Syracuse, or Charlotte and Detroit -- a gap, however, that will disappear if Charlotte allows a wall to go up between the schools in its low-income neighborhoods and the rest of its system.
On the money issue, Grant argued strenuously against the fallacy, as he termed it, that once having erected a wall between your high-performing suburban schools and the other schools in low-income neighborhoods, a school system can redress the problems in the latter by "throwing money over the wall." Per student spending in the Syracuse city district, he said, is about $17,000 a year -- far more than Raleigh spends -- but it doesn't matter.
What does matter is the culture within a school, and the "social capital" in it -- meaning the networks that the kids and their parents (and their teachers) bring and connect to it. Kids in a high-poverty neighborhood school don't anybody with professional connections, nor do their parents (and the teachers who do quickly figure out how to teach somewhere else); they're lucky if they know anybody who's graduated from college. No amount of money can make up for that, Grant said.
Charlotte, largely because of well-intentioned efforts to raise up the schools in its "bad" neighborhoods, already spends some $500 per student more than Wake (though it, too, spends far less than Syracuse). Wake, by avoiding bad schools in the first place, is "doing it on the cheap," Grant said. But flying into RDU, he couldn't help but notice that "a lot of the schools look like trailerville." Watch out, he warned us, because your growth is running off and hiding from the money you're saving by not building enough schools to keep up with it. "This great engine of success," the schools, Grant said, "could soon go off the rails."


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âThe awarded projects presented opportunities to use technology to improve the living environment for Singaporeans, in addition to push the frontier of possibilities for future development of The Clement Canopy dwelling spaces,â both agencies said in a joint statement.
Started during, and Congress the Urban Sustainability R&D closed in August of the same year, the second call for proposals under the L2 NIC aims to challenge the research community to come up with innovative solutions.
Specifically, its goals are to improve the cost effectiveness of underground developments by 50 percent, too as enhance human comfort and well-being by reducing ambient temperature by 4°C and surrounding noise by 10dBA in urban areas.
A project by Lee Fook Hou, Associate Professor from the National University of Singapore (NUS), includes developing a prototype gear to slash the building costs of subterranean developments by empowering direct injection of cement into soft earth around corners and obstructions.
NUS Associate Professor Ho Ghim Wei intends to create a nanocomposite material for buildings that help purify the air and can transform heat into electricity.
Another suggested study by NTUâs Professor Chu Jian aims to develop a web-based three dimensional geological and geotechnical data modelling and management system, to reduce construction cost and increase productivity for future developments that are subterranean.
NTU Associate Professor Gan Woon Seng intends to create a software system that can mimic noise and how it is affected by the surroundings. Through this, he hopes to develop soundscape concealing techniques to minimize the effect of loud noises.


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Can a single family of models simulate the weather for Manhattan, Malaysia, and Mars? Thanks to a successful interagency collaboration, the answer is "yes." Barely a decade old, the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF, pronounced "warf") is already the world's most popular tool for predicting whether the next several days will be sunny, soggy, or snowy. Operational versions of WRF are used by the meteorological services of nations across the globe, and the model serves as the cornerstone of one- to three-day forecasts issued by
NOAA's National Weather Service.
The WRF framework not only provides a foundation for the weather forecasts on which millions rely; it also supports a vast amount of atmospheric research. More than 13,000 scientists in some 130 countries and 200 U.S. universities now use WRF. Among those users, more than 90% are employing the Advanced Research WRF (ARW), maintained by NCAR.
"The WRF development project is the first time researchers and operational scientists have come together in a project of this magnitude," says Louis Uccellini, director of NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). Along with NCAR and NOAA, other partners in this vast effort have included the Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA), Naval Research Laboratory and Army Research Laboratory, Federal Aviation Administration, University of Oklahoma, and more than 150 other universities, laboratories, and agencies from across the nation and beyond.
WRF's hybrid nature arose from a longstanding dilemma. From the 1950s onward, both researchers and forecasters increasingly relied on numerical weather prediction models, but the two groups rarely used the same ones. Those who predicted the weather for a living insisted on stable, thoroughly tested software, while those who studied the atmosphere often built more complex, research-oriented models—tools that might yield invaluable insight on atmospheric features but that weren't necessarily designed with day-to-day forecasting in mind.
Both paths were valuable and fruitful, yet some wondered whether a joint approach might offer even greater benefits. In 1996, a program reviewer asked NCAR's Ying-Hwa "Bill" Kuo and Robert Gall how much of an impact the center's community-oriented modeling had on operational forecasting. "We said, 'It's close to zero,'" Kuo later recalled. "But we agreed that NCAR's work should benefit society."
Shortly afterward, Kuo and Gall met with Geoff DiMego (NCEP) to lay the groundwork for the multiagency collaboration that led to WRF. By 2001, a beta-test version was issuing daily forecasts with solid results.
From the common seeds of WRF's overall structure, a number of variations emerged, including two major dynamical cores that share physics routines and a software framework. In 2006 NOAA and AFWA adopted operational versions of the model after meticulous testing. "An operational system must be reliable and accurate every day over the full range of highly varied conditions that the atmosphere produces over a number of years," says WRF program coordinator Nelson Seaman (Pennsylvania State University).
Meanwhile, the research-oriented ARW cultivated by NCAR and its university collaborators made headway on some of the atmosphere's most intractable problems. Starting in 2003, NCAR used ARW to generate daily forecasts of convection across much of the central and eastern United States. It was the first time software had modeled individual showers and thunderstorms in real time over such a large area. Thanks to suc
h testing, forecasters now have a stronger sense of what form severe weather is likely to take over a day's time—a tornadic supercell, a squall line, a prolonged rainstorm, or something else.
Both NOAA and NCAR now run WRF variants attuned to depicting tropical cyclones. In research mode, NCAR scientists have drilled down to resolutions as tight as half a city block (62 meters/200 feet), which proved enough to capture turbulent eddies that can disperse a hurricane's energy. NOAA has linked its Hurricane WRF to an ocean model from the University of Miami and will add a storm surge model to the mix. "We're building this system component by component to address the complete problem of coastal inundation," says NOAA's Naomi Surgi.
WRF's twin missions of prediction and research are tightly coupled at the Developmental Testbed Center, housed in Boulder and led by Kuo with several deputy directors, including Steven Koch (NOAA) and Barbara Brown (NCAR). Dedicated computing power allows new code to be tested for as long as several months. "The DTC is one of the shining examples of NCAR and NOAA working together," said Kuo.
In keeping with its decades-long tradition of training and user support for community models, NCAR sponsors several WRF workshops and tutorials each year at sites ranging from Boulder to Korea and England. "People keep asking for more," says NCAR's Joseph Klemp. Online resources help meet the growing demand. In 2010, NCAR and NOAA teamed for a workshop and tutorial on the two hurricane-oriented variations of WRF. And WRF offshoots continue to blossom—including one designed at the California Institute of Technology to simulate the weather on Mars.
"I really appreciate the excellent user support and extensive documentation."
—Ryan Torn, University at Albany, State University of New York
Satellites, radars, and other observing tools generate a smorgasbord of atmospheric data each day. This bounty could greatly improve weather forecasts and climate projections. However, some types of data can't be readily assimilated by a given computer model, just as the most ample, delicious meal might not go down easily for everyone.
NCAR's Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART) is smoothing the way for models to ingest the data they need to thrive. Prior to DART, most assimilation activities were tailored for specific models and observing systems—typically an exhaustive, time-consuming process. In contrast, the open-source DART employs a modular approach: a fixed core is paired with ready-to-use interfaces for a wide variety of computing platforms, models, and data types.
"One version of DART works for everything," says testbed director Jeffrey Anderson. He and colleagues launched DART in 2002 while Anderson was a visiting scientist from NOAA specializing in software for ocean-atmosphere modeling. "I got interested in ensemble data assimilation while trying to do seasonal predictions. Ensembles were quite important, but nobody was quite sure how to get initial conditions for them."
At the heart of the DART approach is an ensemble Kalman filter, which nudges the initial conditions of models toward a state more consistent with observations. Along with helping to bring data into the starting point of a forecast, DART techniques can also be used to reanalyze past states of the atmosphere and to estimate the value of a given observing technique.
Students often get their first taste of data assimilation using DART on simple models developed in the 1960s. NCAR collaborators have produced interfaces that allow DART to work with a regional air quality model (University of Chicago) and an ocean prediction model (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), among many others. DART's team of modelers and software engineers is also reaching out beyond atmospheric science to other disciplines, including geology and economics. "Lots of people outside the traditional UCAR community are using the testbed," Anderson says.
At the Naval Postgraduate School, Joshua Hacker used DART with a simplified version of WRF in order to identify systematic errors in the model's portrayal of conditions near the surface conditions. "Because DART can be easily tuned to give good results, several comparison experiments could be completed and analyzed quickly," says Hacker.
Ryan Torn (University at Albany, State University of New York) has been exploring how best to initialize WRF hurricane forecasts. "All of my recent research is based on the DART system," he says. "It allows me to focus my efforts on the basic science components of my research, rather than on maintaining and expanding code."


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|(June 25, 2012) -- WLB and East Wrigley residents heard and saw police activity on Sunday night from about 11:00 p.m. into the midnight hour after LBPD officers spotted a stolen vehicle heading westbound in the 1500 block of W. Willow St. (at Caspian Ave.). LBPD Public Information Officer Nancy Pratt says that when the vehicle refused to yield for a traffic stop, a pursuit was initiated in which the suspect headed to the area of LB Blvd./Eagle Street (just south of Burnett), crashed into an unoccupied parked car and fled into the neighborhood on foot.
PIO Pratt says police established a perimeter and conducted a search with the assistance of a K-9 unit and CHP's helicopter but the suspect wasn't located and remains outstanding. The recovered stolen vehicle was impounded.
An area resident reports hearing what sounded very much like gunfire -- three shots our correspondent says -- before the commotion surrounding the stolen vehicle. The gunfire (whether related to the stolen car or not) wasn't immediately confirmed by us.
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Ambiance biscotte and Tout contre les étoiles are two performances by students from the École de cirque of Lyon.
Tout contre les étoiles is an invigorating, exuberant writing experiment by five students on the desire, determination, and chance that steer careers. Ambiance biscotte raises questions about individuality in the midst of a collective. Movement and sound blend on stage in a body-accord, with five musicians from the Lug Double Reed Band of the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Lyon.
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I've already made a card for this month's MFT Color Palette Challenge, but I love the color combo so much that I had to play along again. The colors are kraft, berrylicious, grapesicle, and sour apple.
I started with the berrylicious CS panel and I used the Concentric Circles stencil and some modeling paste. After a recent MFT challenge, I have become hooked on stencils! I was so intimidated, but it is really achieve to achieve this look!
I used some washi tape to adhere my CS to my mat. I positioned the stencil over the the CS and adhered the stencil down as well.
Before spreading the modeling paste I covered parts of the stencil that I didn't want to use to make this a little more mistake proof.
Peeling away that messy stencil and uncovering the neat design is the fun part!
I die cut the flowers from grapesicle CD with the Die-namics large royal rose and the Die-namics mini royal roses. I sponged some grapesicle ink onto the edges of the petals. I die cut the leaves from sour apple CS using the Die-namics royal leaves. I used the Die-namics sentiment strips to create the sentiment panel and stamped a sentiment from the Essential Sentiments stamp set. I die cut the border from kraft CS using the Die-namics solid bracket border.
For the inside of the card, I used the Die-namics Stitched circle STAX
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text: In this episode of Talk To Me In Korean, we interviewed Emily Johnson, who is from the States and came to Korea for a visit for the first time. Emily speaks fluent Korean without having studied it in Korea before, so we asked her to share her story. The day of the interview happened to be her last day in Korea, so we want to give our special thanks to Emily for spending her precious time with us! Thank you Emily! Have a safe trip back home!


text: Share Share Share March 28, 2016 Technology & Learning Technology for Seniors: Instagram Instagram article source: What is Instagram and How Does it Work? by TechBoomers.com What is Instagram and How Does it Work? Have you ever created a photo album, or wanted to make one? What if you could easily make a virtual one online? What if it could contain photos AND videos? What if you could capture a photo or video, edit it, throw in some creative touches, and add it to your photo album right on the spot? And what if you could show your photo album to all of your friends and family over the Internet? If any of that sounds interesting to you, then you're in luck... an application for your smart phone or tablet computer called Instagram can do all of these things! What's more is that it's so simple to use that many celebrities have their own Instagram accounts. Popular users include politicians like Barack Obama, businesspeople like Donald Trump, athletes like Tiger Woods, and movie & TV stars like Jimmy Fallon. (Photo: Instagram.com) So, what exactly is Instagram? Instagram is an easy-to-use mobile application that lets you capture and edit photos or videos on your tablet computer or smart phone. You can then share your creations on Instagram or other various social media websites, such as Facebook (which is currently Instagram's parent company), Twitter, and Foursquare. Why use Instagram? Instagram was initially designed to support social networks, but as its popularity skyrocketed, it became a social network all its own. Instagram users can follow what other users post, or leave a "like" or comment on a photo or video that they find interesting. Or, if they feel like being more private, Instagram users can require approval before other people are allowed to see their posts, or send posts privately to specific other users with the "Instagram Direct" feature. How Instagram works: 5 of Instagram's coolest functions 1. Find people to follow If you need some inspiration for what to post on Instagram, or just want to see what the world is up to, you can follow the activity of other people on Instagram. Many other people use Instagram, from celebrities and corporations to budding photographers and blog enthusiasts. Some users may be friends, family members, or other people whom you know! You can connect with them and follow what they do, and they can do the same for you. 2. Hash out a conversation Once you start following people on Instagram, you're going to see photos and videos that they post. If you see one in particular that piques your interest, you can "like" it or leave a comment on it to let people know what you think of it. 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Then, when you post a photo or video on Instagram, you can share it on your accounts for Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, or Foursquare all at the same time with a few taps of your mobile device's screen! 5. Make your account private if you don't feel like sharing Are you the shy type who would rather use Instagram as their own private online photo album? No problem! You can set your Instagram account to private, which means that only people whom you approve as "followers" can see your stuff. You can also use "Instagram Direct" to send a private post to a friend that only they can see... it won't show up in any public place on Instagram. Want to get in on the fun and see how all of this stuff on Instagram works? Techboomers has you covered! Check out our full How to Use Instagram course, where we'll walk you through getting the most out of Instagram, from installing it on your device and setting up an account to producing, organizing, and sharing your photo and video creations. 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Genre: Lesbian, Feature, Parody
Cast: Vera Drake, Sadie Pop, September Reign, Jessica Ryan, Amber Ivy, Lily Cade, Lotus Lain, Audrey Noir
Audio/Video: Audio and video quality were both excellent.
Length: 1 hour, 48 minutes
Extras: Behind the Scenes, Blooper Reel
Condoms: No
Overview: Admittedly, I go into this parody blind since I haven't watched the Quentin Tarantino film The Hateful Eight. I am a fan of Inglorious Basterds, and there's a bit sprinkled in Tarantino XXX's all lesbian Vagnificent Seven. I'm a fan of lesbian porn especially when it includes fresh faces with veteran performers and Vagnificent Seven shows that the ladies had a brutally good time in this neo Western porn parody.
Scene 1 The Slave Vera Drake, Sadie Pop
Sadie delivers Vera to an old time movie theater with a dog collar wrapped around Vera's neck. Sadie plays a faux Nazi (though it's important to point out Sadie isn't wearing a Swastika band but it's obvious that's what she's portraying), and does what they do best . . . treat their victims like animals. Admiring Vera's exotic beauty and ink, Sadie has Vera totally nude and worships her young prey, going down on her and sampling all her holes causing Vera to squirm in delight. Vera experiences most of the pleasure early on, even having a modern day Hitachi rub one out for her. When Sadie needs to cum Vera does an equally fine job of lapping up her new mistress' bald pussy, turning her into a squealing orgasmic, very satisfied member of the Third Reich. The way the scene is shot all throughout, from the color tones that really gives it a good artistic sensibility to the scene, the way the two immediately went for the action sans any dialogue, and the eroticness that filled the 30 plus minutes certainly make this a really good, strokable way to set the tone for the rest of the film.
Scene 2 The Hoebadashery September Reign, Jessica Ryan
The scene begins as if we can expect a showdown of sorts as we see several of the major players of the film but the only showdown is between red-headed firestarter Jessica Ryan and ebony beauty September Reign. I've long argued for more interracial lesbian porn and teaming female performers together that you wouldn't normally see together in mainstream titles as most tend to pair girls with similar looks. Tarantino to his credit does both here and the magic Jessica and September create is incredible. September eats away at Jessica's firecrotch, lapping up all her sweet creamy white juices as Jessica moans in sheer delight. Jessica's need for chocolate causes her to turn the table and start munching away at September's magnificent vagina. The more dominant Jessica then finger fucks September's pussy, fitting two fingers in her tight box until September can't help but cum hard on them. The scene closes with September with a face full of Jessica's ass in another stroke-fueled scene that helps to proves that interracial lesbian porn needs to be given more of a spotlight.
Scene 3 Amber Ivy, September Reign
In a sort of chroma key effect that makes it a bit distracting to watch we see Amber and September against the backdrop of what's supposed to be a saloon. You'll soon not realize the chroma key as we see September going for it with Amber. She pulls apart her shirt and starts sucking down on her nipples hard causing her creamy white lover to moan loudly. Here, September is the dominant one and she totally undresses Amber and laps up her pussy. September doesn't let up even when it appears Amber is about to get her turn to taste some chocolate but September isn't done, not by a long shot. Off screen we do hear instructions being given a few times in this scene, plus a camera appearing in frame so we'll have to deduct a few points from the lack of quality control in this scene. But the closing 69 where Amber shoves her big white booty into September's face still keeps the momentum of this scene and the film overall sizzling.
Scene 4 She's Go A Secret Lily Cade, Lotus Lain, Audrey Noir
The slave girl, Audrey Noir, begins to remember how she ended up in the hands of Lily and Lotus. When she comes to, Lotus shows her no sexual mercy, showing this little white girl she's the master. Lotus eats her up causing Audrey to moan in a loud ecstasy while Lily looks on but not for long. She pulls out her plastic cock and Lotus and Lily take turns pleasuring their fuck toy. Lotus fingers her, commenting how tight Audrey's pussy gets when she sucking on Lily's cock really good, and enjoys getting her pussy licked while Lily fucks Audrey in mish. Lily wants some of Lotus' and starts to whip her, being reprimanded by the freewoman Lotus who says her days of being whipped are over. But Lily still fucks her from behind showing everybody who the real master is in this scene, not because she's white but because she's got the cock and the power to please. When it's Audrey's turn to get fucked she's ordered on her knees and bury her face in Lotus' ass. There's no way Lily will leave unscathed and as she pulls her pants off Audrey quickly works her way down to lap up Lily's red bush. Lily doesn't leave orgasm free as both girls do a nice job getting Lily to cum hard to close out this parody.
Summary: Without any dialogue (minus tile cards at the beginning of each scene to sort of tell the viewers what to expect) I'm not sure what the plot was if there really was one. But honestly, I just dug that it was a hot lesbian film with the girls wasting no time going at each other. It's a gonzo lesbian porn disguised as a parody of a mainstream film that celebrates grindhouse films and spaghetti Westerns. But it works simply because of this great cast that all had really good sexual chemistry, all of them looking down to fuck and fuck they did. Plus there was very rarely a slow moment as the girls kept at it all full energy levels and none of the scenes ever really going too long. I'd say they each nearly perfectly timed before reaching any kind of boredom levels. The Vagnificent Seven is certainly not boring in the least. It's a stroke-filled all girl sex action packed film that is worth a Highly Recommended rating.
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Range DescriptionThis species is found in two range sections in the Andes of western Colombia and north central Ecuador (Gardner, 2007)). In Colombia, it is found from 1,800 to 3,800 m (Alberico et al. 2000). In Ecuador, it is found from 1,100 to 2,980 m (D. Tirira pers. comm.). There is a record at 4,100 m in the eastern cordillera in Ecuador (Albuja and Patterson 1996).


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Sweater Weather
I think I really like this winter for the first time, much more than I ever did before. I can really appreciate the weather more since I love wearing big sweaters. It feels so cozy and I really like it when it has a huge turtleneck. The only thing that is missing is snow and a lots of tea.
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No words
This leaves me with no words.
I don't know, but I just get this strange, ominous vibe coming from California since November 4th, like I'm going to wake up, turn on the TV, and see riots one day soon. There is something very unsettling about the current social situation, there. But, to be honest, it's happening all around the country. Hate crimes, in general, have increased here in Michigan over the past few years, and we rank very high percentage wise for hate crimes.


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And the Biggest Beauty Trend of 2015 Is…
As beauty editors, we're required to have a keen eye for trends. Sure, we have runway experts who might help clue us in, but when it comes to product trends, we're pretty good at spotting them on our own—mainly because when something comes across your desk enough times, you start to pay attention. Such is the case with what we're dubbing the year's biggest beauty trend: a.k.a. sheer everything. Gone are the days of shine-free skin and matte lips (so 2014)—no, the latest crop of beauty products are lighter, dewier, and simply exist to help you look like a better, glowier version of yourself. This makes sense, given the season's no-makeup makeup trend, and though we've always been #teammatte, we can't help but see the appeal of a sheerer, more natural sheen. Ahead, we've gathered some of our favourite new sheer products—keep scrolling to shop them all!
Avon Ultra Colour Indulgence Lip Colour ($5)
Bobbi Brown Sheer Finish Pressed Powder ($38)
Deborah Lippmann Whisper Collection ($33)
Burberry Kisses Lipstick ($33)
Formula X Sheer Strength Collection ($13)
Estee Lauder Pure Colour Envy Shine Sculpting Shine Lipstick ($30)
Guerlain Meteorites Baby Glow ($0)
Nars Sheer Glow Foundation ($45)
Urban Decay Sheer Revolution Lipstick ($22)
La Mer The Reparative Skin Tint SPF 30 ($95)


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Background information and testing notes in the Manifesto, underlined text are links, bring you to a new page in a new window. Click / tap images for full-screen glory.
In the video
Direct sampling modded generic chinese RTL-SDR dongle: $8 from eBay, push a wire through a hole (detailed picture guide here link), connected to an outdoor wire.
Premium RTL-SDR with Upconverter: Nooelec SMArt (review link) with Ham-It-Up v 1.3 Upconverter (review link) in a metal case, yours for ~80 dollars from Nooelec (manufacturer link).
SDRPlay: All-in-one DC to daylight software defined radio receiver. $150 or thereabouts (review link, manufacturer link).
The AirSpy platform consists of a receiver and an upconverter. Can't comment on performance as I don't have one. Reviews praise excellent performance (such as this one, link).
Chinese all-in-ones: most of them are rip-offs, direct conversion receivers in nice wrapping (post how to avoid them link). Some of them feature an upconverter for 40-50 dollars, not tested so can't comment - I won't spend 50 dollars on a product with 30 day warranty when I've seen what's inside a chinese dongle (see images here, link).
Software choices and testing methodology
SDRUno for SDRPlay, SDRSharp for RTL-SDR with upconverter and direct sampling, because:
1) beginner RTL-SDR users will likely start with SDRSharp, so a familiar software environment can be presented,
2) two separate programs let me to use SDRPlay's dedicated software on one screen, and SDRSharp for RTL-SDR based dongles on other screen,
3) SDRUno requires a restart when removing a dongle, and I'm not immortal.
Hunting for signals: Find a station with SDRPlay, adjust gain and LNA for best audible audio, record, find same with RTL-SDR based setup, adjust settings for best audible audio, record, find same with a direct converter, record. Or the other way round. Switching between receivers took less than a minute.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm nowhere near proficient with either SDRSharp or SDRUno; nobody is, save the guys who's written the software. I simply adjusted available settings to enjoy a particular broadcasting station, then recorded results.
Broadcasting stations only due to availability, plus moral issues with ham SSB or CW conversations.
Personal moaning: how much I hate SDRSharp, especially after this: constantly crashes. Wanted to record more, but given up after two days and the umpteenth computer restart. SDRUno was stable as a rock.
Testing setup
Two 20 foot / 6.5m multi-stranded 1mm diameter copper wires strung from a first-floor window.
SDRPlay and RTL-SDR with upconverter sharing the same antenna with the SMArt's supplied antenna cable and mount, antenna wire wrapped around base screw.
Wire for direct conversion dongle wrapped around RG6 coax center conductor on one end, other end of center conductor goes directly into direct sampling RTL-SDR dongle.
Above antenna configuration takes less time to sip a cup of tea: throw wire out from a window, wrap antenna wire around center conductor, connect other end to receiver. Done.
Yes, grounding, capacitors, antenna isolation, better antenna to receiver connection, metal shielding, devoting time to software intricacies, a dedicated antenna tuner, an LNA4HF, bandpass filters, soldering, living in the Australian Outback, a T2FD, inviting NASA radio engineers over to dinner and listening to suggestions, a better sunspot cycle, plus countless other variables will undoubtedly increase receive performance.
The video
First: Direct sampling modded generic chinese dongle (frequency in SDR#), then
Second: Nooelec SMArt with Ham-It-Up v1.3 versus (125+frequency in SDR#), then
Third: SDRPlay (frequency in SDRuno).
Same stations, displayed frequencies are off due to drift and no TCXO in generic dongle and SDRPlay.
If doesn't play here, copy-paste the following YouTube link:
Direct sampling works to an extent, such as a <insert crappy automobile name here> is better than walking. Inserting a wire into an RTL-SDR dongle can be done in a few minutes, and provide an opportunity to listen to stations below 30 MHz.
Using an upconverter, such as the Ham-It-Up v1.3 here, is better in most cases, but an upconverter costs around $50.
The SDRPlay is a great receiver, however, it costs $150 - you get what you pay for.


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Candle Centerpiece
This candle centerpiece will add a special holiday glow to your dinner table. Before you sit down for a delicious holiday dinner, feast your eyes on this festive candle centerpiece! This easy candle centerpiece craft is made from recycled toilet paper tubes, and takes minutes to create. No need to worry about fire hazards with these candles—they'll keep on shining without a flame all through the winter. Make a candle centerpiece with your child this holiday season.
What You Need:
- 3 toilet paper tubes
- Coffee lid or paper plate
- Scissors
- Glue
- Construction paper
- Red pom-poms
- Gold paint
- Glitter (optional)
What You Do:
- Have your child cut two toiler paper tubes into shorter lengths, for different candles. Show her show to measure and cut off half an inch on one tube and one inch on the other tube.
- Now she can paint the tubes gold.
- Draw three teardrop shapes on yellow construction paper to make the flames of the candle, and cut them out.
- Do the same with smaller sized teardrops on red paper.
- Glue the small red flames in the middle of the larger yellow flames.
- Glue the candles to the center of the coffee lid, which serves as the base.
- Show your child how to draw and cut out holly leaves from green paper. Scatter and glue them all over the coffee lid, until the lid is completely covered.
- Embellish the leaves with green glitter, if you wish.
- Now your child can either take red pom poms or circles of red paper and glue them to the holly for cllusters of berries.
These candles will brighten up any room!


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"When you start working, everybody is in your studio - the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas - all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you're lucky, even you leave."
John Cage to Philip Guston
A few-odd years ago I enrolled at Pacific Northwest College of Art. While I was there I met some of Portlands greatest artists who taught me how to paint, and more importantly, how to see. After completing the program in four years, I was invited to join Gallery 114 in the Pearl District. For the next five years I learned how to run a gallery and coordinate exhibitions for myself and others. The relationships that I developed at PNCA and Gallery 114 are key to my success today, providing friends that collaborate with me and offer much needed criticism and encouragement.
I create paintings by entering into a call-and-response relationship with nature. It's a negotiation. Nature suggests colors, shapes, and textures which I work with to develop a painting that is ultimately independent of the scene that influenced it. My goal is to simplify the inputs and translate all of natures language (clouds, branches, leaves, etc) into the language of paint (strokes, smears, splatters). This process generally results in paintings described as abstract, but to me just show varying degrees of likeness to the objects that influenced them.
My process builds on history yet remains contemporary. Some of the materials I use have remained unchanged for hundreds of years (brushes and canvas) and some are contemporary or uncommon to art-making (wiper blades, brooms,& BB guns). By using un-traditional materials and local scenery as my subject, I strive to make paintings that are of my time, and of my region.
I meet monthly with a half-dozen other painters to discuss work in progress. Those paintings are here: PDX Crit Group
Publications I have been featured in:
November 18, 2011 Pacific City Sun
Lakewood Center for the Arts SPOTLIGHT November 2011


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Today's New York Times published an extensive summary of a 90-minute interview with Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi as a way of introducing himself to the American public.
The interview, of course, touched on many aspects of America's relationship with Egypt and the Arab world. Comprehensive and succinct, surprisingly candid and open-minded with but one clear digression in either perception or honesty, when President Morsi was quoted:
"Successive American administrations essentially purchased with American taxpayer money the dislike, if not the hatred of the peoples of the region' he said, by backing dictatorial governments over popular opposition and supporting Israel over the Palestinians."
Well, perhaps those are the issues to be bridged in Morsi's view, but where he is decidedly wrong is in referring to "American taxpayer money." The money exacerbating hatred and misunderstanding does not emanate from the "American taxpayer" per se, but rather from the American consumer both directly and symbolically, that is the American consumer of heating oil, diesel, gasoline and on. It is the hundreds of billions if not trillions that are and have been transferred to Arab oil nations and their near limitless monetary support of Wahhabi mullahs, Wahhabi protocols, most especially emanating from Saudi Arabia, as well as the Arabian Peninsular, extending to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Indonesia and most everywhere, preaching Jihad, controlling the curriculum of the Madarssas, indoctrinating young minds with hatred not only of America, but all Western culture.
Leon Uris hit the bull's-eye when he wrote in his novel The Haj:
"... before I was nine I learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother, me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world. And all of us against the infidels".
The riots and demonstrations this past week throughout the Muslim world show how deeply imbedded these Wahhabi teachings reside, and how combustible they are. If there is true goodwill between the Egyptian and American interlocutors these malign preachments should become the focus of real Egyptian-American dialog. It would go a very long way to establishing mutual cooperation and respect.


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Spring Break Essentials: SHOP Outfits & Accessories For Your Trip
Ready for some fun in the sun? Don't jet off without checking off our list of spring break essentials! From trendy accessories to flirty outfits and classic staples, you can't go wrong scooping up these looks! So be sure to pack your passport, sunscreen, and camera — and start shopping.
Spring break is just around the corner and we are here to help you pack! It gets a little overwhelming, sorting through all your winter sweaters and digging out last summer's bathing suits — so let us save you the hassle! Relaxing mode starts now, read on and check out everything you will need for the best sun-packed spring break!
Spring Break Outfits 2014:
We can already hear the sun and sand calling your name, but first let's decide how to sport the best vacation looks so you can be sure to rock your spring break in style! First things first,check out some funky geometric-style swimsuits to really make a splash by the pool!
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From flirty dresses and bikinis to denim shorts and sandals, you don't need much to get ready for your trip! Have fun and incorporate how new trends into your spring break wardrobe by rocking florals or crop tops — you're sure to turn heads when you step out in style.
We also recommend packing a pair of jeans or a jumpsuit — you never know when the temperature will drop! Flaunt the cutest sheer coverups for a walk on the beach and don't forget to grab your gladiator sandals to preserve your perfectly painted bright pedicure. For a stroll by the boardwalk shops, rock some patterned colored shorts and a simple tee to look totally casual and cool.
Simply shop our picks and follow our tips and get ready to have a fabulous, (fashionable!), time!
— Sarah Lombard


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Board of Education meeting
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