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LANSING, Mich. — Sen. Judy Emmons has been selected to serve in leadership for the nation's oldest nonpartisan organization addressing the needs of elected women at all levels of government.
Emmons was recently appointed to serve as a 2018 Michigan state director for the National Foundation for Women Legislators (NFWL).
"It is an honor to serve in leadership for an outstanding organization dedicated to finding new and innovative solutions to real-world, everyday problems," said Emmons, R-Sheridan. "As more women enter public service, I will work to make sure they have the support, knowledge and resources to be successful."
Elected women from across the country will gather in Washington, D.C. Nov. 13-17 for NFWL's 2018 Annual Conference. During the conference, elected women attendees will identify effective solutions to some of the nation's most timely and pressing issues. Fostering a nonpartisan environment that encourages dialogue and the sharing of information and experiences, women leaders are able to build coalitions, share the concerns of their constituents, and identify out-of-the-box solutions to the most pertinent issues facing their communities today.
As a state director, Emmons will be responsible for collaborating with other elected women in Michigan to ensure all elected women have access to NFWL's top-quality resources. NFWL state directors also have exclusive access to leadership training resources so they can better serve as state leaders.
"We are so proud Judy Emmons has accepted a leadership position in our foundation," said Jody Thomas, NFWL's executive director. "NFWL's emphasis for 2018 is leadership, and Judy exemplifies this theme. She will play a key role in aiding elected women in Michigan as we continue to grow as an organization."
Emmons begins serving in her new position immediately and will hold this office through the end of 2018.
Through annual educational and networking events, the National Foundation for Women Legislators supports elected women from all levels of governance. As a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, NFWL does not take ideological positions on public policy issues, but rather serves as a forum for women legislators to be empowered through information and experience. For more information, visit www.womenlegislators.org.


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SOURCE: Metiscan, Inc.
September 24, 2009 09:00 ET
Taptopia to Launch iPhone Event Service at Georgia World Congress Center in December 2009
DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - September 24, 2009) - Metiscan,
Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MTIZ), a holding company focused on growing its
organization by making key acquisitions and developing companies and
emerging technologies, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Taptopia, will be showcasing a new and
innovative iPhone Event
Service at Expo! Expo!
2009, IAEE's Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2009 to be held at the Georgia
World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA, 8-10 December 2009 through a
partnership with the International Association of Exhibitions and
Events™ (IAEE).
IAEE is the largest association of exhibitions and events in the world
whose membership consists of show organizers, exhibitors and exhibition
suppliers who produce more than 20,000 of the largest exhibitions and
buyer-seller events around the world. Annually, IAEE hosts Expo! Expo! the
key industry event where show organizers, exhibitors and exhibition
suppliers focus on sales, marketing, operations and technology within the
exhibitions and events industry.
Taptopia will launch its event service at Expo! Expo! 2009. The service
that Taptopia provides enables attendees and exhibitors the ability to
navigate event schedule details, exhibitor information and the exhibit
floor before, during, and after the event all from Apple iPhones. The
Company's unique service provides attendees with pre-event, event and
post-event planning and networking tools, plus real-time event
notifications and updates and the ability to compile and export critical
event information.
"IAEE is always looking for new ways to use and adopt technology that
increases our effectiveness and our members' effectiveness at exhibitions
and events," said Steven Hacker, CAE, President of IAEE. "We look forward
to the launch of Taptopia's event service at Expo! Expo! 2009 and the value
it will bring to our members and future shows within the industry."
"Launching our event service at Expo! Expo! is the ideal opportunity for
our organization," commented Michael Foster, Taptopia's Executive Vice
President of Sales and Marketing. "It gives us the opportunity to
demonstrate to leading show organizers, exhibitors and exhibition suppliers
from some of the world's largest conventions, trade shows and meetings our
service and the value it will bring to their events. I believe our service
is truly going to make a positive impact on this industry."
About IAEE
Since 1928, the International Association of Exhibitions and Events™
(IAEE) continues to provide quality and value to its members through
leadership, service, education and strong relationships. IAEE is the
largest association of the exhibitions and events industry in the world,
with a membership of show organizers, exhibitors and exhibition suppliers.
Organizers of more than 20,000 exhibitions and buyer-seller events around
the world are members of IAEE. Through the 2006 consolidation with the
Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR), IAEE delivers valuable
industry research reports. IAEE also supports IAEE Services, Inc., a wholly
owned subsidiary that partners with industry suppliers and service
providers to offer high quality, low cost exhibition products and services
to the industry. IAEE recognizes its strategic partners: American Airlines,
ASP, Inc., Bearcom, IEG, Mexico Tourism Board, Orange County Convention
Center and Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau. Visit
www.iaee.com for more information.
About Metiscan, Inc.
Metiscan, Inc. is a holding company focused on growing its organization by
making key acquisitions and developing companies and emerging technologies.
Previously, Metiscan had been focused on healthcare related businesses and
is currently pursuing acquisitions and opportunities related to healthcare
and non-healthcare products and services.
Metiscan operates FirstView EHR, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, that
provides end-to-end IT services for diagnostic imaging facilities including
web based electronic healthcare records (EHR), workflow efficiency, PACS
administration, long-term archiving, professional IT services and strategic
consulting. Metiscan operates Schuylkill Open MRI, Inc., a majority owned
subsidiary that is an independent diagnostic testing facility (IDTF)
providing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) services. Metiscan also operates
Taptopia, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary that provides design and
development services for Smartphone platforms. Metiscan also operates
Shoreline Employment Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary that
provides employment services and benefits to all of Metiscan's subsidiaries
and intends to provide such services to third parties in the future.
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constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of
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date of this release to conform these statements to actual results or to
changes in its expectations, except as may be required by law.
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11:33 AM, Sunday 6/12/2016 at Jug Bay
In addition to the Annual Election of Officers, the membership will vote on a Proposed Revision of the club By-Laws. It has been 18 years since the By-laws were last revised and based on the recommendations of a Special By-law Committee and a review by the Board of Directors a revised set of By-laws is being submitted for approval at the General Membership Meeting.
For full details, please see the NOTICE OF GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING section on the Jug Bay event webpage.
From Beginner to Intermediate Orienteering In Just Three Days! Bob Turbyfill's "Zero to Orange in Three Days" course is designed to take you from knowing nothing about orienteering to the skill level you'd need to compete on an orange (intermediate) level course.
WHEN: Sat/Sun April 14-15, 2018 with the final on Sat. April 21.
EVENT: Zero to Orange Training Course
LOCATION: Mason Neck State Park (east of Lorton VA) for April 14/15; Patapsco/Granite for April 21.
Wondering how to purchase an epunch, also known as an SI-card? They can be ordered online from at least two vendors:
Scarborough Orienteering: SI Page is here
Gale Teschendorf, GO Orienteering
For additional information about epunches see our Epunch webpage.
The Orienteering USA Junior Executive Steering Committee is excited to announce the formation of a Mid-Atlantic Regional Junior Orienteering Team. The team is open to all junior orienteers (under 21) who are excited about the sport and are interested in getting better through training and racing, all while creating a group of friends from around the region.
Head directly to QOC's Long Day's Night website to read all about this exciting series of 3 races, including the 2014 Night Orienteering Championships, a Middle distance A-meet event, and the 2014 UltraLong Orienteering Championships. These three A-meet races take place Nov. 14 - 16 in Oregon Ridge, Hemlock, and Fountainhead parks, respectively.
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Harry S TrumanUS President
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The 33rd U.S. President who ascended to office following Franklin D. Roosevelt's death in 1945 and authorized the use of the atomic bomb on Japan.
He was roundly denounced after firing the immensely popular General Douglas MacArthur, who had run roughshod over his authority as president, during the Korean War.
He was photographed holding up a copy of the Chicago Tribune emblazoned with the headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" the day after he defied conventional wisdom and beat Thomas Dewey in the 1948 presidential election.
Before fame
He served in World War I as an artillery officer in France. He also owned a haberdashery for a short period of time.
Related to
He married childhood sweetheart Bess Wallace in June 1919 after proposing twice.
- The meaning of the name Truman: Faithful Man


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It is our privilege to work with the following supporters, whose cooperation makes our mission much easier to achieve everyday.
Corporate Sponsors
Česka Spořitelna (Czech Savings Bank)
Academic Partners
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Faculty of International Relations of the University of Economics, Prague
Czech United Nations Association
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To say Starbucks purchases and roasts high-quality whole bean coffees is very true. That's the essence of what we do – but it hardly tells the whole story.
Every day, we go to work hoping to do two things: share great coffee with our friends and help make the world a little better. It was true when the first Starbucks opened in 1971, and it's just as true today.
From the beginning, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company. One that not only celebrated coffee and the rich tradition, but that also brought a feeling of connection.
Our mission to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup, and one neighborhood at a time.
CzechTourism is engaged in the development of tourism in the Czech Republic through a number of key activities that promote tourism domestically and abroad.The main vision of the CzechTourism agency is to create a new perception of the Czech Republic, in particular its transformation from a post-communist destination to an attractive location for tourists. One of the tasks of the agency is to convince domestic clients and foreign visitors to discover the beauty of the Czech Republic.
Michelské Pekárny
Michelské pekárny a.s. is a modern food company, which is one of the most prominent producers of bakery and confectionery products in the Czech Republic, mainly in the capital Prague. It began its operations in the year 1975 as the first industrial bakery in Prague.From the very outset it made an excellent name for itself with its customers, which was primarily due to the consistently high quality of its products. At present the company employs about 300 people and its capacity is capable of supplying almost half of the capital of Prague. A proportion of its long shelf life products and specialities are delivered to every location throughout the Czech Republic. In particular, an outstanding feature of its commercial activities is the fact that it focuses on large retail chains and supermarkets, as well as on operating its own network of sales outlets.
MADETA a. s. is an exclusively Czech company formed by five stand-alone factories that all can be found in the beatiful landscape of the South Bohemian region.
The fundamental principle of Madeta is to produce dairy products as truly and according to the original recipes of more than one hundred years ago. We are among the few producers on th market who do not use any preservatives or emulsifiers and if we use colours or flavourings, we only use natural ones.
FRESH Crocodile SANDWICHES. Our goal is to provide customers with quality products and superior services. At work we follow the motto: "Everything we do must taste delicious!"
This year we celebrate our 26th year on the market. The Crocodille company has built a strong awareness in the fast food market and currently ranks among the leading European sandwich manufacturers. Our distribution centers provide a daily supply of fresh sandwiches to more than 3,600 retail customers, such as retailers, filling stations, hypermarkets & supermarkets, convenience stores, shops at transportation hubs, airline caterers, and vending machine operators; as well as sports, cultural & entertainment venues.
Prague City Tourism
PRAGUE CITY TOURISM is a modern marketing organization funded by the City of Prague. Our mission is to foster the development of both domestic and international tourism in the Czech capital. Prague City Tourism provides current and future visitors with the latest information on Prague's attractions, experiences and services through its web site and information centres. We also book tickets, guides, tours, and other experiences.


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Chapter five! I split this chapter into two parts, because it was getting a little long, and we value your time here at Stephaholics Anonymous. I expect to do this from time to time, but no chapter should be longer than two parts. This isn't Dickens, though we have a lot in common (woolen sleeping caps, mostly).
In this installment, sit back and enjoy the silky song catalog of one Mr. Kenny Loggins as Penny introduces you to her weird co-worker, Mark, who has an undying love for power pop.
Catch up on the other chapters here. Facebook the crap out of me here. Love you, bai.
Obitchuary, Chapter 5 (part 1)
OBITCHUARY, Chapter 5 (part 1)
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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The mower finished cutting its last blade of gas, heaving spasmodically and billowing a slight plume of smoke from its rear.
That was done.
Now it was time to use the beast known as weed whacker. It had a pretty big batch of stuff to trim since it had been awhile since the back 40 had been pruned.
That was done.
Earlier, my better half had cleaned the grill and everything else that needed cleaning.
We were ready for the Memorial Day barbecue. Well, almost ready as the food needed preparing. And the chef and helper needed lubrication in the form of adult libation while all the preliminary work that leads to barbecuing was being completed.
The staycation was much needed, but it was fast drawing to a close.
A lot was done around the house that otherwise gets neglected. You know, the kind of stuff that you put off doing until "there's time."
Body feels a lot better for the rest as well as all the good exercise—walks, runs and bicycle rides. The shoulder feels better. Guess it's time to test it again by grinding and piling on some non-staycation activity like keyboarding, mouse clutching and pushups.
You know you've enjoyed good time off when you're thinking how easy it would be not to return to work. That very common dictum known as "chasing a buck" always seems to take over when one is pondering how easy it would be not to go back.
Unlike robots, however, humans need time away from whatever it is they do on the professional level. While I feel there is nothing as presumptuous as work-life balance, if it actually existed, it would include staying away from work at regular intervals when at all possible.
I watch as the one who does it better than anyone else molds the patties out of raw chopped meat. It was bought at the local Farmer's Market and looks really good. I sense my salivary glands sending a primordial reminder that I am not all that far removed from my ancestors who experienced similar bodily reactions at the prospect of dinner.
While I am writing this, I see something old as new again: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary beckons me to type something in for defining. I smile at how clever an integration this is with Microsoft Word—an odd name for a word processor if it wasn't for the simple fact that it's been the mainstay writing tool of choice of authors for years.
I know I've had good time off when I'm admiring Microsoft Word. What exactly is a soft word that is of some kind of micro variety? Sounds like? Give me a clue. Alright. The writing tool's second word in the name rhymes with "turd." Microsoft Word! Ding ding ding!
This is silly, but it is also the end. It's a short week for us working stiffs thanks to the many service members who gave their lives serving their country. I was in the Navy and I went home at the end of my enlistment. For me, there would not have been a volunteer force to opt in for in the first place, if not for the ultimate sacrifices of those veterans before me.
Yes, I'm barbecuing.
But I'm also remembering what it means to pay the price.
Enjoy the short work week and remember those whose lives were lost in service for their country. Today, we are able to choose to do trivial things like barbecue, but also immeasurably more important daily activities such as the ability to work, love and live freely.


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Brad Patt, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach Sr. VP & Regional Manager, is excited to announce that the company's Lehigh Valley offices have been voted Best of the Valley 2014 by Lehigh Valley Magazine, for the 9th year in a row. BHHS Fox & Roach was recognized for Top Residential Real Estate Company, Top Commercial Real Estate Company and Top Workplace (1-50 employees). Pictured here accepting the award are (sitting, l to r) Lori Bartkus, Macungie Office Sales Associate; Barbra Andretti, Easton Office Sales Associate; Susan Patt, Sr. VP & Director of Corporate Initiatives; (standing, l to r) Steve Yost, Bethlehem Office Manager; Glen Paisley, Easton Office Manager; Doug Patt, former co-owner of Patt, White Real Estate; and Brad Patt, Sr. VP & Regional Manager.
"We are very honored to have been chosen for this great award for the 9th year in a row," remarks Brad Patt. "Thank you to all our outstanding clients, sales professionals, staff and dedicated leadership for making us Best of the Valley!" This award is the result of reader responses Lehigh Valley Magazine tallies from an online survey.


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OK in a salad dressing, but what else is it good for?
Apple cider vinegar is a very popular ingredient in the natural health culture. It is used in food items such as pickles, marinades and salad dressings, but also as a remedy for the following:
- Weight loss
- Diabetes
- Acid Reflux
- Warts
- Cancer
- Arthritis
- Athlete's foot
- Bad breath
- High cholesterol
- Poison oak
- Urinary tract infections
- Head lice
However, despite all these claims, there is very little research to back these up. Information on the internet is often unfounded and exaggerated. Out of this list of benefits, the most studies have been done on the influence of apple cider vinegar used for controlling type 2 diabetes.
There are some small studies that have been done regarding using ACV use to help lower blood sugars, however, the American Diabetes Association does not believe that there is sufficient evidence to recommend its' use. If you do decide to take apple cider vinegar to lower your blood sugars, keep a close watch on your numbers. Don't stop taking any prescribed medications for your diabetes.
Since it is very acidic, you should never take it without diluting it, or it may cause harm to your tooth enamel or esophagus. The recommended dose is 1-2 tablespoons in a tall glass of water.
– Beth Quigley, Resident Dietician and Diabetes Educator at DHAC
Here's a great blog with even more information on Apple Cider Vinegar: https://www.cookingdetective.com/23-health-wellness-benefits-apple-cider-vinegar/


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Climatic controls of aboveground net primary production in semi-arid grasslands along a latitudinal gradient portend low sensitivity to warming. Oecologia. 177. 2015.
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Coordinated distributed experiments: an emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 11(3):147-155.. 2013.
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Child friendly Camping - Gower, South Wales
Here's a parent's eye review of a camping holiday to Kennexstone Caravan and Touring Park with children:
Kennestone Camping Park from Jess July 2011
Holiday Type: Rural Getaway
Was Kennestone Camping Park a good place to holiday with children?:Our holiday was fantastic, we camped near gower swansea. It was hard to keep control of a toddler who has the art of escape in his blood. We paddled in the sea the beach was clean and had water running towards the sea so it looked lovely, We went to a geocaching mega event. Made lots of friends. The only grumble I have was the area was covered in a thick blanket of cloud.
Overall holiday rating: 4 stars
What was your accommodation in Gower?Type: Camping
Name: Kennexstone Camping and Touring Park
How was the accommodation at Kennexstone for children?:n/a Own tent.
Did you eat out with your children in Gower and how was it?We camped so we usually used a bbq
How were the things to do for the children in Barcelona?Activities for children rating: 5 stars
Yes a field full of other children!
Anything else parents should know about taking children to Gower?
Stay safe a keep a good eye on your children especially at the beach.
Does the great outdoors appeal to you? Here's the website for Kennexstone Camping and Touring Park. Take a peak at their fab pictures of the nearby rolling countryside.
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What was the appeal of 1996's 'Duke Nukem 3D'? Was it that there were relatively few first-person shooters out, and 'Duke 3D' was the only one with boobs? Was it purely the novelty of it, or was it actually an excellent, fun game?
To find out, after playing a bit of 'Duke Nukem Forever,' I fired up my copy of 'Duke 3d.' And you know what? It still works.
Which is more than I can say for 'Duke Nukem Forever.' Jeez, what a mess this game is.
There's a bit of history to the game's development, some legal drama and whatnot. But who cares about that? I ain't no stinkin' journalist! I just want to know if the game is fun, or if it truly deserves its abysmal reputation.
To be clear, I'm not looking for perfection when I play a game. I'm just looking for fun. And whatever fun 'Duke Nukem Forever' has to offer is offset by how annoying the game is. From Duke's tired one liners, to his babes' gratingly shrill voices, to everyone's sycophantic stroking of Duke's, uh, ego – the whole thing's an unrelenting offense.
I'm glad I played it, though. Sometimes, you see a turd, and you just have to know how stinky that turd is. My curiosity, I'm happy to report, is satisfied, and 'Duke Nukem Forever' is one smelly turd. I think I'll play some of 'Duke 3D,' maybe see if I can rescue a bit of Duke's dignity.
I'll be back next week with another game from my backlog. Follow along on Twitter, 7pm-ish.


text: About us What we do Our gardens In the late 1970s and early 1980s a significant re-building programme was undertaken to improve the patient care environment at Trinity. It was acknowledged at this time that the gardens needed extensive work to accommodate patient access. The history of the Trinity Garden Renowned American landscape architect Lanning Roper accompanied former Patron, the late Lady Lisa Sainsbury on one of her visits to the hospice. He offered to draw up plans for the garden and waived his usual fee. The initial restoration began in 1981 with the planting of a copper beach tree, by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, on the lawn behind No. 29. As the building work was still in progress further development of the garden plans were put on hold until a later date. Sadly Lanning died in 1983 before his ideas for Trinity had been resolved. Lady Sainsbury, Lord Palumbo and Lord Normanby launched an appeal to build the 'Lanning Roper Memorial Garden at Trinity Hospice' and John Medhurst was commissioned to design the garden with the assistance of David Foreman. His revised design included some of Lanning's favourite ideas. These were reflected in the generous curving brick paths which reveal secrets such as the sitting circle and the undulating lawns, along with the soft blue, grey, white and pink shades of the planting schemes favoured by Lanning. The strength of this original garden is the variety of existing mature tress which today include mulberry, horse chestnut, cedar, plane, robinia, swamp cypress and copper beech.In 1984, a water feature was commissioned for the pond at the end of what was then known as the Long Garden. Entitled "Four Open Squares Horizontal Tapered" the feature was by the well-known American kinetic sculptor, George Rickey. In the 1990s, further work was undertaken to expand outpatient services in Mulberry Place and a second water feature was commissioned from William Pye to provide a visual and physical link between a high terrace and the garden below.In 2009 with the building of the new inpatient unit, the need to remodel the garden became apparent. The new design incorporates sunny terraces for spring and winter access along with cool areas for summer shade and although the levels of the garden vary, wheelchair access has been maintained almost entirely across the site. The soft colours of the original planting scheme are interspersed with warm and hot colours for year round interest. As in a much larger park, not all of the garden can be seen at one glance. Much of Lanning Roper's original vision has been maintained with pathways that take one on a journey around the garden. A very beautiful circular seat made of American Oak and copper was commissioned in 2009 and surrounds the plane tree. This is a particularly peaceful part of the garden and has lovely views of both the modern inpatient unit and the historic old Georgian buildings. What's in our garden There are at least thirty different kinds of shrubs, over thirty-five types of herbaceous plants and twenty-five varieties of shrub roses. The garden also includes forty-seven different types of hellebore, a collection of twelve herbaceous geraniums, eight fruit trees (cherry, pear and apple) as well as three specimen magnolias – Magnolia x Wiesenrti, Magnolia x little Ann and Magnolia Depspota. In the spring there is an abundance of bulbs in flower – over 4,000 mixed daffodils and narcissi along with 3,000 grape hyacinths. Bird and hedgehog boxes attract much wildlife and the pond is home to goldfish, mature koi carp, dragonfly and damselfly. There are two wild flower meadows – a mixed cornflower meadow by the pond and a mixed wildflower meadow near to the five bee hives which are home to the bees producing the famous Trinity Hospice Honey.


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Chapter 1
Hollywood was turning out to be every bit as much trouble as Georgia had feared he would be. He'd already reduced her to begging.
"You have to help me. It's not like my phone is full of stuffed-shirt society matrons I can call. You're the only rich person I know."
Georgia bit her lip at how pathetic she sounded. Trudy sniffed at her request as she refilled her coffee mug. Was that a yes sniff or a no? She couldn't tell.
"I'm not sure how you think I can help, Georgia. I suppose we could visit my red room. I'm sure there's some things in there you might be able to use," Trudy said, shrugging at her thoughts.
Georgia stiffened on her bar stool. "Red room? Are you saying all wealthy people are into kinky sex these days? Okay, that's a show stopper. I'm too old to get hung up by my wrists."
Trudy barked out a laugh and spilled her coffee on the floor. "Who said anything about chaining you up? I'm saying you need to learn the proper etiquette for chaining a handsome plastic surgeon to the wall. Did you know that you have to use the fur lined handcuffs so you don't damage his evil money-making hands?"
"Are you serious?" Georgia demanded.
Trudy laughed harder and then shook her head slowly. "You have some strange ideas about wealthy men, Georgia. Have you ever considered getting professional help for that neurosis?"
"No. I raised a head shrinker from scratch. Mariah's been laying mental guilt on me since she was a teenager. When she left home, I decided I'd had enough therapy for one lifetime."
Trudy rolled her eyes. "I love you like crazy, and I guess I have no room to talk. Heaven knows, I'm no better in the attitude department when it comes to men. Not a single one has ever stayed with me more than a year or two. But don't rule out the kinky stuff. You may need to do some of it. You and I have to be damn good in bed for a man to put up with our level of shit."
"What are you talking about? I was happily married for a very long time. And I'll have you know it's taken me sixty years to hone this attitude." Georgia pushed away thoughts of Hollywood staring at her breasts before she answered the rest. "We will not be getting far enough on our bogus date to have sex. I just need to fulfill my obligation without embarrassing me or my daughter. The man is used to dating younger women and I'm in over my head. Now are you going to help me or not?"
"What do you expect from me, lady? I'm not a freaking miracle worker," Trudy declared.
Georgia lifted both hands. "I'm nearly triple the age of his typical dates, Trudy. A couple of his other wives were Mariah's age. I still don't know how I got myself into this mess, but I damn well don't want to show up looking like I feel. I need to create an image he'll believe for a night."
"What are you talking about? Are you calling yourself an old, grumpy ass, granny Cinderella?"
Georgia thought about it and shrugged. "I can live with that. So will you play my fairy godmother?"
"Well, just you showing up to ask for help at all is a shock. I can see you faking a severe illness before I see you giving in some man's emotional blackmail. Damn, you must really like him. Come on, Granny-ella. Let's see what I can do for you."
Georgia grunted at Trudy's nickname, putting all the indignation she felt into it. "I do not like Hollywood. I made a promise and he's going to do something amazing for Mariah's business. I'm being altruistic for my daughter's sake."
"Bullshit. You're acting all female because he's handsome and charming. You obviously like him well enough to care what he thinks. You're not doing this just for Mariah. You need to get honest with yourself," Trudy declared, walking briskly away.
Georgia followed Trudy through her huge house which still managed to feel homey. Chef Trudy Baker had a lot of friends—famous friends—who liked to come for the kinds of visits family only did in Georgia's world. Entertaining semi-strangers for weeks on end wasn't something Georgia could imagine doing, but Trudy seemed to enjoy turning her home into a bed and breakfast stopover once in a while.
Trudy's house was a u-shaped, well architected ranch. She followed her down one long side until Trudy stopped in front of a closed door. Taking a big breath, Trudy let it out slowly as she pushed the door open and walked inside. She flipped on the overhead light and sighed in disgust.
Georgia stood back, afraid to go in after watching and hearing her friend's reaction. What the hell was in there? Trudy wasn't afraid of much.
"Don't hover in the freaking hallway, Granny-ella. You wanted my damn help, so get your cranky, old ass in here."
Georgia rolled her eyes to the hallway ceiling, swore under her breath, and then braced herself. It still hadn't been enough to prepare her.
She walked into what had probably been intended to be a medium sized bedroom, but that had been converted into a giant walk-in closet. Three-tiered racks circled all the walls, and some required the tall stepstool standing nearby to reach the clothes on the top tier.
In the center of the room were two enormous, back-to-back dressers, obvious storage for folded items and accessories. Installed on either side of the dressers were department store looking shoe racks with dozens of shoes on each shelf. On nearby shelves against the wall, stacks and stacks of shoes were still in their boxes and towered to the ceiling. In the bare spots where the clothing racks ended, there were also two six foot tall jewelry armoires.
"Holy shit, Trudy." Georgia's wandering gaze took in the lavish clothing with astonishment. There was every conceivable color and style. Her mind couldn't even imagine how much money had been spent to buy what was in this room. The thought of Hollywood having something close to this, filled with his watches and expensive suits, made her want to vomit. She had one black dress… well, two now after the dance she'd gone to with Ann.
"I bet I spent at least a half a million dollars on these clothes," Trudy said, looking around. "That's why I still have them. I tell myself that at least I didn't collect something really dumb, like salt and pepper shakers, or gravy boats. Can you imagine having a room full of either or those? People would think I was crazy."
"Were all these clothes for your TV work?"
Trudy shrugged. "Some were for the show. Then there were local appearances. Oh, and every time I was interviewed on a talk show? Well, that required a new outfit. And the schmoozing—God… the lunches, dinners, parties, not mention holiday galas. This is a decade's worth of crazy clothing purchases. I'm not a real trendy person so most of this is classy. Since you and I are nearly the same size, I'm sure we can find you something suitable for your blackmail date."
Ignoring the sarcasm, Georgia stared at Trudy's body hard. "We're not necessarily the same size. You merely borrowed a pair of yoga pants once and thought they fit you well. Spandex is very forgiving that way. I have way more boobs than you do."
"The pants did fit well and I now own four pairs. I'd wear them every day if I never had to go out of the house." Trudy snorted as she eyed Georgia's breasts. "I have just as much boob as you do. Mine just aren't as perky."
"Hey, I've worked damn hard for these perky girls," Georgia said, rubbing her forehead as she tried to ease the growing tension there. "I didn't want to borrow clothes—I just wanted some advice. I was planning to buy something new if necessary. I'm just trying not to embarrass myself… or my daughter."
"Or Brentwood Colombo wherever he decides to take you?" Trudy finished.
Georgia sighed and nodded. "Yes, damn it. Him too." She looked around the room. "Can't you just pick something for me?"
Trudy shook her head. "No. I hired a personal dresser who helped me buy and coordinate this stuff. Now I'd call Ann to come help. She has excellent taste."
"You're right. I should probably have called Ann, but she's so busy these days. Do you think she can tear herself away from Cal long enough?"
Trudy sighed and rubbed her shoulder. "They're still new to each other. We'll get our friend back in time. That initial lust happens to everyone, but it doesn't last. I've felt it many times and it always goes away."
Georgia shook her head and frowned at Trudy. The woman was the most jaded person about love that she knew—worse even than her. Even Mariah hadn't been this cynical about finding herself attracted to another cop… and she'd had good reasons to be.
"Lust lasted nearly an entire marriage with me, which was a fortunate thing for my military husband who wasn't romantic by any stretch of the word. Cal's a good man and he adores Ann. Hollywood was right about that. I don't want to screw up their happy buzz by whining about my stupid date."
"I still can't believe he helped you chase down Calvin Rodgers. Sounds like Dr. Colombo is a good man too. Don't you think?"
Georgia shrugged. "I wouldn't know."
Trudy chuckled. "Well, I hope you have a lot of fun finding out. Feel free to snoop around in here and pick a few things to try on. I'll be in the kitchen if you need me. A cookbook writing friend is coming to dinner. I'm making something special for her."
Still in shock over the contents of Trudy's red room, named no doubt from the ugly wall paper peeking between the racks, Georgia looked around numbly after Trudy left her alone. Finally, she walked to the center of the room and picked up a three inch pair of red stiletto heels from a shelf. They had pointed toes and two thin straps to go around your ankle.
"Not on your life, Hollywood. Not even if you turn out to kiss as good as you look."
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The remains of U.S. Air Force staff sergeant, who was among the six fallen heroes killed by a Taliban suicide bomber on a motorcycle, was returned to Northampton County's Palmer Township Monday located in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, home of his wife's family.
The fallen warrior is survived by a 3-year-old daughter and his wife, who is expecting their second child.
State police and motorcyclists, including Patriot Guard Riders, Rolling Thunder, and Warriors' Watch Riders, braved the frigid conditions to provide their tribute respect as they escorted the fallen hero's body to Finegan Funeral Home in Northampton County's Palmer Township from Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
"Services will begin with a viewing 9 to 11 a.m. Friday at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 330 Ferry St. in Easton, the church of Taub's family. The funeral service is 11 a.m., with the church's Rev. Susan Ruggles presiding," the Express-Times quotes Dave Williams, funeral director at the funeral home, as saying.
"A handful of motorcyclists from the Lehigh Valley left about dawn Monday to go to Dover Air Force Base to accompany to Palmer Township the cremation casket containing Taub's remains," reports the Express-Times. "Temperatures didn't make it out of the 20s as the Patriot Guard Riders, Rolling Thunder and Warriors' Watch Riders motorcycle detail accompanied the procession north on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension [Interstate 476) to Route 22."
Local fire companies reportedly set up along the route to salute the fallen hero from Delaware to the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania.
"Forks and Palmer Township fire companies raise the flag between their aerial trucks in honor of US Air Force Staff Sgt. Peter Taub," adds the Express-Times.
Staff Sgt. Peter W. Taub, 30, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was one of six U.S. airmen killed on Dec. 21 when a suicide bomber crashed a motorcycle packed with explosives into a joint patrol of NATO and Afghan forces near Helmand Province's Bagram Air Base, the largest US military facility in Afghanistan.
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A resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan claimed responsibility for the attack. The Afghan security forces failed to detect the explosives-laden motorcycle when the suicide bomber passed through security checkpoint before carrying out the attack, which has been deemed the deadliest attack on American military personnel serving in Afghanistan since 2013.
Staff Sgt. Taub and three of the other American troops killed—Maj. Adrianna M. Vorderbruggen, 36, of Plymouth, Minnesota; Staff Sgt. Michael A. Cinco, 28, of Mercedes, Texas; and Staff Sgt. Chester J. McBride, 30, of Statesboro, Georgia—were assigned to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI). The other two deceased American airmen—Technical Sgt. Joseph G. Lemm, 45, of Bronx, New York; and Staff Sgt. Louis M. Bonacasa, 31, of Coram, New York—were assigned to the Security Forces Squadron at Stewart Air National Guard Base in New York. They were both laid to rest last week. Sgt. Lemm was a 15-year veteran of the NYPD.
A Facebook post by Brittany Cuciti, who is engaged to marry Taub's wife's brother, revealed that the staff sergeant was taken to the Finegan Funeral Home at 4080 William Penn Highway in Palmer Township, where he will be buried.
The Air Force staff sergeant married his high school sweetheart, 2006 Easton Area High School graduate Christina Taub. Her family resides in Northampton County's Lower Saucon Township in the Lehigh Valley region.
"Easton Area grad mourns death of husband killed serving in Afghanistan," notes the Express-Times. "As of late Sunday night, it was expected the procession would be at the Lehigh Valley turnpike interchange between 1 and 1:15 p.M [Eastern Time]."
Staff. Sgt. Taub served for eight years. He had recently re-enlisted and was saluted by local emergency personnel as he was taken to the funeral home.
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A new Banksy artwork popped up this week in London. It can be found (for now) on the wall of the Poundland shop in Wood Green, on the corner of the High Road and Whymark Avenue.
The image depicts a young boy, working on a sewing machine barefoot, and attached to a pipe on the wall, is some cheap union jack bunting to envisage the boy is sewing it on the machine. Very clever. The bunting was earlier fixed right up the wall but has now become attached as per above. In fact I very much doubt the bunting is still there now. Probably on Ebay by now.
Apparently Poundland, the shop wall that the artwork appears, were accused a couple of years ago for buying product from a supplier using cheap child labour in India. Very well placed and thought out image then, and throw in some union jack bunting, couldn't be more current and clever and Banksy could it?
Well this website claiming to be his own says it is, although I'm not so sure this is for real? Banksy has been so carefully secretive and now he has a blog and a Pinterest page? I doubt it. Nice that some fan out there though is keeping us all up to date.
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A new study in JAMA reports what some of us have long suspected: price transparency tools may not curb healthcare spending. The study examined data from two large employers and concluded that only 10% of employees offered price transparency tools used them. Furthermore, tools were associated with an $18 increase in out-of-pocket spending.
Why would a tool designed to cut costs actually have the opposite effect? As the New York Times headlined in a recent article focused on transparency giant Castlight, "Online tools to shop for doctors snag on health care's complexity." Since many consumers have a deductible of $2,500, there may be little motivation to shop for services above that amount, the big ticket items in healthcare. And when consumers do shop, the cost and quality information available can be befuddling. It may be easy to locate the lowest cost service or the provider with five stars, but price transparency tools don't help consumers answer two fundamental questions: what care do I actually need? And, who is the best provider given my condition?
The "Choosing Wisely" campaign and related work by Consumer Reports such as "When to Say Whoa to Your Doctor" have started an important dialogue about basic tests and procedures that tend to be unneeded. But how do we figure out what care is needed? What about the woman with the recent breast cancer diagnosis wondering what treatment is not only needed, but best, given her tumor and its pathology?
It's a scary and daunting process. Consumers have never had the tools or processes in the American healthcare system to answer these questions. And now tech companies are trying to fill in the void. But do you really want just an app when you get diagnosed with cancer? Patients need and deserve more.
See also: Employees are still unprepared for increasing healthcare responsibilities
This summer our organization commissioned an independent survey of employees with high-deductibles to learn how they process health information and make medical decisions. The survey revealed that half report making medical decisions without the right information. Moreover, 80% research medical decisions while at work, and report spending several hours doing so. This is clearly a drag on employee productivity and has enormous potential to rack up healthcare costs, especially when consumers choose higher cost care options when a lower cost, higher quality alternative is available. Perhaps most concerning, people who spend significant time making big medical decisions are likely older, sicker or have the most complicated health conditions, which means they are our most expensive employees.
Research out this month from the American Health Policy Institute helped further quantify this problem: a handful of employees are responsible for the bulk of employers' healthcare spending. The new report documented that among 26 large employers, 1.2% of employees are high cost claimants who comprise 31% of total healthcare spending. For a company with 10,000 employees, this means that only 120 employees cost more than $31 million each year in medical expenses. And sadly we know that this money is not all well spent on people getting the highest quality care.
See also: 10 ways to fine-tune benefit design and improve ROI
In response to this problem, many large employers are taking new approaches to address cost and quality for high cost employees. Many are turning to strategies like narrow networks, Centers of Excellence, reference pricing, shared decision making, and second-opinion services. The expert medical opinion strategy, one of the services offered by our organization including both in-person and remote options, has untapped potential to improve care quality and generate savings. Another study in JAMA showed "cases of delayed, missed, and incorrect diagnosis are common, with an incidence in the range of 10 to 20%."
Furthermore, numerous studies show talking to consumers about their condition and the pros and cons of various treatment options can have a positive impact both on healthcare spending and on long-term health outcomes. Getting back to our example of the woman with the recent breast cancer diagnosis, she'd likely benefit from both a second opinion and a decision support expert to talk to about different treatment options.
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Someone with a cancer diagnosis wants more than an app and more than an email from a doctor they have never met — they want someone they can really talk to. Honeywell offered this option to their employees with high ROI and employee satisfaction. Through independent research, the company documented that they achieved $5.6 million in savings with only 251 employees by encouraging — and later requiring — them to participate in the company's Surgical Decision Initiative for five surgical conditions that tend to have huge variation in cost and quality.
In light of the research in JAMA and the new work from the American Health Care Policy Institute, the challenge and the opportunity for employers is, as it always is, to marry promising strategies with benefit design to get the desired outcomes. This may be a mixture of art and science, though we are getting more data about what really works.
For example, an independent actuarial study on claims data from Honeywell found that when the company switched from an employee incentive to a penalty to drive utilization of decision support services, utilization and savings rose fourfold with no negative impact on employee satisfaction. That's a powerful marriage of strategy, service and benefit design.
What consumers need to navigate the healthcare system and what employers need to tamp down spending and improve care quality is a strategy that helps employees understand what care they actually need, what that care costs, and where they should get that care — the right care at the right time, delivered at the right place.
And consumers need to understand the bigger picture of their care journey. After all, many of the most expensive medical conditions, like diabetes, are not a one-time shoppable opportunity online; they are diseases that needs to be managed for life. Given what we are learning about the ROI of price transparency tools, now it is time for employers to take a hard look at the data related to their benefit designs, programs and vendors to understand what is actually saving money while meeting the needs of their employees.
The research is starring us in the face — 1.2% of employees generate 31% of costs. These are the people who need the most help and have the most to won or lose if they don't get the best care. When we help them, everyone wins.
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The EU and Peacebuilding: From European Peace Project to Global Actor was an 18-month project co-financed by the European Commission (Europe for Citizens Programme) from January 2013 until June 2014. Its aim was to engage a broad range of actors, including European citizens, European civil society organisations, academic institutions, research centres and think tanks, as well as national and EU-level decision-makers in a dialogue on the EU's role in conflict prevention and peacebuilding, and its history as a peace project.
The project consisted of a series of public events in EU Member States in the form of dialogues and round-tables which discussed opportunities and challenges for the EU to increase its peacebuilding potential and analysed the role EU Member States play both in certain EU policy fields and certain conflict-affected regions where the EU has a presence. By encouraging a wide range of EU stakeholders to engage in advocacy work on the EU conflict prevention and peacebuilding policy, the project aimed at increasing both the effectiveness of the EU's contribution to conflict prevention and peacebuilding, and European citizens' awareness of the history of the EU as a peace project.
The following ten events were organised under this project:
- Belgium: The EU as a peace actor – peacebuilding in the EU and its neighbourhood (June 2014, Brussels)
- Italy's role in EU peacebuilding and civilian CSDP (June 2014, Rome)
- France:Réponse aux crises et fragilité des Etats: Les leçons de l'engagement français (April 2014, Paris)
- The Netherlands and the EU's engagement with fragile states (March 2014, The Hague)
- Finland: A Finnish view on EU peacebuilding and civilian CSDP (February 2013, Helsinki)
- Germany: What role for Germany in strengthening EU peacebuilding and civilian CSDP? (October 2013, Berlin)
- The Netherlands: Mediation in context – Understanding the role of the EU (September 2013, The Hague)
- The future of CSDP: The French approach / Quel avenir pour la politique de sécurité et de défense commune de l'Union européenne? L'Approche française (July 2013, Paris)
- Cyprus: Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and the EU (June 2013, Nicosia)
- The Netherlands: What role for the Netherlands in EU policies related to peacebuilding? (February 2013, The Hague)
Written outputs from the project, including meeting reports, summaries of key recommendations to EU policy-makers and civil society, are available to download from, the dedicated page on the EPLO website.
For more information about the 'The EU and Peacebuilding: From European Peace Project to Global Actor' project, please contact Catherine Woollard.


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The Force will be with Netflix users in March.
"Star Wars: The Clone Wars" fans can binge on the unaired sixth and final season of the animated series when it premieres on the streaming service March 7, Lucasfilm and Disney announced Thursday.
Following the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney, its new owners canceled "Clone Wars" after its Season 5 finale, despite Lucasfilm already having begun work on a sixth season. As part of the deal explained at starwars.com, all five seasons of "Clone Wars" that aired on Cartoon Network, with director's cut episodes and the feature film, will be available to stream.


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OverviewSome notes on surface formats accepted as input to 3D printing process.
Some termsCPV: Color-per-vertex
UV texture map: Maps a 2D image containing color/texture onto 2D surface (in 3D space). U and V correspond to two spatial dimensions of the texture map image, which are mapped in some way onto the surface.
- No color support
- Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STL_(file_format)
- Standard format for fabbers: http://www.ennex.com/~fabbers/StL.asp
- Does support color
- paulbourke.net/dataformats/ply/
- www.cc.gatech.edu/projects/large_models/ply.html
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLY_(file_format)
- www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fx_files/5459/1/content/ply.htm
RelatedHead and Face Color 3D Scanner Samples http://cyberware.com/products/scanners/pxUVs.html
Note from ThingifyRegarding input to ZCorp, which requires color value associated with each tile:
VRML, OBJ, or PLY files that have a UV mapped texture works well with ZCorp machines. STL does not retain color information so it is not as useful for full color 3D prints. We normally work with full color meshes with 2 to 10 million triangles using those formats, so I don't expect to have problems in our workflow related to triangle count. So long as the color is individually mapped to each triangle we can work with it. If you are able to make a watertight mesh that helps us out.
My notes: Seems like OBJ customarily uses UV map, while PLY uses CPV, which would be easier to generate for Freesurfer surfaces.


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The season is upon us for donning sparkles, sipping egg nog and general merriment. For today's Font Friday, I'm pairing the font Ostrich Sans, available for free from The League of Movable Type, with some completely lovable outfits holiday outfits from Ruche. Ostrich Sans comes in 6 different styles including an ultra thin dashed and a double line bold. It's an all caps font, best suited for headlines.
The outfit above is part of Ruche's holiday lookbook. (Also check out this giveaway they are doing.) The red "Passion Within Pleated Dress" is a classic, wearable design and the "Save Me the Waltz Sequined Bolero" is pretty much to die for.
Here's another winning outfit from the Ruche holiday lookbook - the "Golden Girl Scalloped Brocade Dress" and "Art Nouveau Necklace". Gorgeous, no? The dress design reminds me of Simplicity 1873.
Last but not least is this gorgeous blouse skirt combo. I really, really love the "Gumdrop Peplum Blouse". The puffed sleeves, flouncy peplum, princess seams. All gorgeous. Oh and then the flirty "Everlasting Evening Sequined Tulle Skirt". You could definitely dance all night in this sparkly number.
I have a work holiday party to go to next week and I honestly have no idea what I'm going to wear. My closet is full of dresses so I'm bound to make up my mind sooner or later. Are you dressing up this holiday season? What's your go-to outfit?
Happy party time!
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Wed, 26 March 2014
This week on 7 Days a Geek the guys are amped up and geeking out on a variety of things. Would you believe it's a totally sober geek think tank as well?
In Trailer Talk we discuss the world of The Maze Runner, we get hung up on the early demise of Paul Walker and how cool one of his last movies, Brick Mansions looks. It's a remake of District B-13 for those of you out there that are into "Running With Style" as Bacon calls it.
In what was meant to be a brief mention of the new trailer for The Peanuts, turns into a foul-long winded soap box speach from Tk1 to that mean one...Lucy! Buckle in folks, you're not ready for this one.
In Geek news we talk Reboots, Remakes and The Incredibles 2...to give you a hint. Some where between here and Tech talk... we drop grenades on Liam Neeson like any non terrorist daughter would do looking for her father who has a very particular set of skills and may have been Taken 2.
In Tech Talk Facebook and Google go to war! Not really, but Ginger sees it that way. TK1 get's scared and wants Snake Plissken to just hit the restart button already!
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Thu, 20 March 2014
This week, TK1, Oz and The Angry Ginger sit down to discuss the plot holes, the reason these films should exsist and while all the elements in between may not be loved...one thing is for sure, we had a good time watching them and talking about them. Even if you may not be a fan of The Human Centipede, Iron Sky or Dead Snow doesn't mean you won't enjoy us having a good chat about them.
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Thu, 13 March 2014
In this episode the Angry Ginger is joined by Bibbles and Bacon. Things discussed are as followed...with a dash of humor don't forget.
Trailers: Guardians of the Galaxy and Godzilla
What are you Geekingout about?:
Bacon: Roadkill and Mythbusters
Jer: ......
Jay: Entourage (again, but it's my show so F off:-)
Tech Talk:
Google gets loony, women have not one but two items of love and joy to write home about.
Oh, and Bibbles goes nuts on the NASA/Mars program!
Also...a documentary about preserving male genitalia. Yeah, you read that right! You have to hear about it to believe it!
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Tue, 11 March 2014
Level 7 continues to bring you all the latest Marvel news and we've got a packed show for you. Get our take on the controversial Fantastic Four casting, Sony's plans to release a Spiderman universe film every year, Beast "Hulking" up, the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer, the Marvel's prime time television special "Assembling a Universe", and of course Agents of Shield righting the ship. We've also got an update Neflix series, and Marc (in non Marvel news) continues his love affair with Arrow. As always, stay all the way to the end for bonus funny.
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The first picture shows (quite badly, unfortunately) two knitted turtleneck dresses I found in the ZARA sales. It's hard to show them well in a picture when they're not worn, but I'm sure that outfit pictures will follow soon, as I'm already wearing one of the two dresses right now. I had been looking for these kind of knits since November but never found ones I liked or I found them to be too expensive. When I had a look around the ZARA yesterday, I finally found some of these dresses and immediately bought two of them. The navy one was reduced to 17€ (original price was 26€) and the grey one was less than half of the original price (50€) - I got it for 20€ only, hellooo bargain! They're easily one of the cosiest items I own and I can already see myself living in these over the next few weeks, before the weather decides to get nicer again.
In DM, I finally bought some lip pencils, which I something I had been meaning to do for months now, wanting to put more effort into putting on lisptick. The red and dark pink lipliners I bought matching with two lipsticks I already own in these colours and the darker beige/nude-ish lipliner I bought together with a matching lipsticks. All lip products are from the brand P2 and only cost me about 2€ each, plus they're cruelty free, which is always a nice added bonus! Lastly, I also picked up some face masks, which is something I haven't used in years, so I was curious to try some out again. I really enjoy buying beauty products in DM every now and then, a I dislike spending a lot of money on make-up and the like, so shops like these are always fantastic to find cheap but good quality products.


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What Are Your All-Time Favorite xoVain Articles?
It's gonna get sappy up in here.
You may think you're not a fake lashes type of girl.
"What do I need those things for?"
"They're way too much work for me."
"I couldn't possibly do them myself."
Well, YES, you can.
Fake lashes make your eyes look big and (even more) gorgeous. And once you get the technique down, applying them isn't so bad.
Selecting the Lashes
You can buy falsies in any drugstore. I'm talking about strips here, but you can also buy individually applied lashes. (I'm just not skilled in that art yet.)
For me, personally, I buy strip lashes that are the most natural-looking. Each brand numbers their different styles, so once you find yours, go with it. Then buy some Duo Glue (the dark tone in the pink-striped bottle), make sure you have some fine-point tweezers and you're good to go.
Before You Apply
Putting these puppies on will be the messiest part of your makeup application. You'll want to do them first, before anything else, so you don't screw up the rest of your makeup.
Line your top lids with black eyeliner (so the glue blends in). Then curl and apply mascara to your real eyelashes.
Hold the fake lash to your eye for measurement. You may want to make them a little smaller. Sometimes I cut off the ends -- but make sure you cut on the wide side, not the narrow side. If you don't cut them, they might get too long and the insides of your eyes, close to your nose, will get itchy.
By the way, that's how you distinguish the right lash from the left -- the narrow part goes closest to your inner eye.
Applying the Glue
Take the lash in your tweezers. Hold it at the end of the lash, but make sure you have a firm grip. Apply a thin line of Duo Glue to the base of the lashes.
You don't need much because the glue will smear and get everywhere if you're not careful. Make sure the most glue is on the edges. Let it sit for about 30 seconds so the glue gets tacky.
Putting on the Lash
Hold the lash to your eyelid using the tweezers. Put it as far down on your eyelid as your can. Even farther. Till it feels like it's almost in your lashes. If you don't put it far enough, you will be able to tell they're fake.
Once you have it in place, use the top part of your tweezers to tap it and secure the glue. HOLD VERY STILL FOR, LIKE, A MINUTE. If you blink, the glue will go everywhere, your eyelids will stick together, and it will be a real mess.
It takes a lot of stillness and patience, but you should be good to go. You can apply mascara to these things, but that's up to you.
Removing Them
Just pull them off! If you remove all the used glue with makeup remover, you should be able to get about three uses out of these guys.
Do you have any tricks for making this even easier?


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Todd Graham was not going to leave Pittsburgh for just any
Sure, other schools called, but the only one he was
interested in was Arizona State.
"My connection to this city is really…a lot of our
supporters there at Tulsa also had homes at Desert
Mountain, so we've been coming to Desert Mountain for
quite some time and loved this city and love this place,"
Graham told Arizona Sports 620's Burns and Gambo.
"Obviously, my interest was really in Arizona State, it
was the only job, really."
Graham said he and his wife had talked about someday
retiring in Arizona, and while he's not spending much time
thinking about his post-coaching life, it is something
that attracted him to the job.
"It was a perfect situation for us, not only just for my
family, but I came here as a young coach," Graham said,
"my former superintendent when I was a head high school
coach at Allen High School, she moved and left Allen and
came to Scottsdale and became the superintendent out here
and I actually came out and visited."
Graham said he had a chance to meet ASU coach Frank Kush
and "marvel" at the football stadium.
"Dreamed of being at a place like this," he said.
Now he's at the place of his dreams, and the work has
already begun. Graham said he's already been on the road
recruiting, looking to separate himself from the rest of
the Pac-12's coaches.
Jude LaCava, Fox 10 Sports
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Jude LaCava gives us some updates on the ASU defensive coordinator search, the D-backs hot stove and
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Jude LaCava gives us the latest off-season rumblings surrounding the Diamondbacks.
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Jude LaCava thinks the Cardinals should now take a look at their young guys. LaCava also believes th
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Monday December 4
New ASU head football coach Herm Edwards tells us why he wanted to get back into coaching and how he
Freddie Coleman, co-host of the Freddie and Fitz Show
Friday December 1
Freddie Coleman thinks Herm Edwards will be a good fit at ASU and will be an upgrade over Todd Graha


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'Young Victoria' a good fit for costume designer Sandy Powell
Empty"Who are you wearing?" is a question that will be heard many times Sunday as stars parade down Oscar's red carpet. If the same question were put to characters from such movies as "The Aviator," "Shakespeare in Love" or "The Young Victoria," they'd all have the same reply: Sandy Powell.
Powell's costume-design Oscar nomination for "Victoria" is her eighth. If she wins, her new statuette will rub shoulders with ones she received for "Aviator" and "Shakespeare."
Having already won the BAFTA and Costume Designers Guild's period film award this season for "Victoria," Powell certainly is an Oscar front-runner, but she takes nothing for granted.
Asked whether she's excited about her latest nomination, she insists she is because "you never expect this."
When told that Oscar handicappers expected her to be nominated for "Victoria," directed by Jean-Marc Vallee and released domestically by Apparition, she laughs that she hadn't.
Why on Earth not?
"I didn't because when this film came out in the U.K., it didn't have the same acclaim as it has had in the States," she says. "It's been much greater appreciated here than it was there."
Regardless, creating costumes for a period film like "Victoria," with its 1837 setting and royal characters, is exactly the type of assignment Powell enjoys most; on the whole, she prefers working on films that aren't contemporary.
"If you're doing a period film or stylized film, you get to design and make the costumes, whereas contemporary films generally involve shopping," she says.
Even more important to Powell is that a film's screenplay is well-written and tells a good story. She felt that way about "Victoria" three years ago when she read the screenplay by Oscar winner Julian Fellowes ("Gosford Park").
"It was nice to read something that had good dialogue and was obviously written by somebody who knew his history," Powell says.
When she first reads a script, she doesn't envision costumes -- it's just to get a feel for the story. She says she knew very little about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, played in the film by Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend, respectively.
"Like most people, your image is that Victoria was a mad old lady in black," Powell says.
Her next step always is the same: "Then you research it, basically, from written material, painted material, anything. In this case, there's a lot of royal portraiture and a lot of written reference. Diaries are very specific."
Powell was able to see Victoria's coronation robe and wedding dress at Kensington Palace.
"We went to the archive and were shown them," she says. "The actual wedding dress still exists, (as does) the black dress she wears when the King dies, and the coronation robe."
Powell then creates a visual reference: "I compile scrapbooks of visual images," she says. "The next thing I do is shop for fabrics and materials that are suitable, before even designing a costume."
Unfortunately, today's fabrics are nothing like those used during Victoria's time. "The fabrics were of much better quality then than they are now," Powell says. "We have, maybe, harder-wearing things now, synthetic things, but the techniques are completely different."
That means she couldn't truly replicate what Victoria wore.
"If a dress is made of velvet from 1837, it's not going to be anything like the same fabric that we can find now, which means the dress isn't really going to look the same," she says.
What's critically important in designing costumes, Powell says, is knowing who's going to wear them.
"You might have an idea in your head of what the character is or what shape they are or what physicality they are," she says. "You design something, and the actor cast could be physically totally different. He might be a short person and you might be designing for a tall, slender person."
For "Victoria," Powell was in the happy position of knowing who the actors were and had access to them early enough to design and fit their costumes.
Paul Bettany, who plays Lord Melbourne, the Prime Minister, was the exception.
"He was cast but didn't arrive until the day before he was on," Powell says. "He was wearing a diplomatic, which is a heavily embroidered coat, and we had one. It's not the kind of thing we could have in pieces lying around waiting to make up. We had one that actually existed already that we hoped would fit."
In the end, she got everything together just in time.
"I don't think it fit as well as it could have, but no one else is going to know that," she says.


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It's that time of year again, when film fans salivate and film critics duck for cover. It's film festival time. Movies. Lots and lots of movies, some of them good, some of them bad, some of them strange, some of them weird, but all of them . . . movies.
It's the 23d edition of the annual Baltimore International Film Festival, opening April 1 at the Senator Theatre and then running at the Baltimore Museum of Art for the next four weekends in April. The festivities accumulate until 21 different features, a double-feature program and three programs of short films have been shown.
"We've put together an eclectic festival that brings the best of current world cinema to Maryland audiences," said Victoria Westover, festival director and executive director of the Baltimore Film Forum, which administers the festival.