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Yoga Philosophy of Body and Mind
Yoga : An Art of Balancing Body with Mind
Yoga is a natural science and an art of balancing body and mind. Practicing yoga obviously means establishing a natural relation between our body functions and thought power.
Today most of us practice Yoga poses specific to some benefits that are important to us without realizing the vastness of Yoga and how it can effect our whole life, yoga is itself a complete view of life, which begins from physical level to astral level.
Once we are able to establish a cordial relation between our body and mind we enjoy everything, success seems to work everywhere for us.
This hub will not teach Yoga or any type of yoga it will just focus on basics of Yoga and its philosophy and how it can be a source of positive energy which can be used to achieve many things in life, some of which we are looking forward to while others which will be disclosed by Yoga.
Yoga Starts with Controlling Mind
First of all we must know that Yoga is not just an exercise or physical activity, which is only good for physical health. Physical activities or poses of Yoga are only a module of Yoga which too is mainly related to Hat Yoga (a branch of Yoga).
One of the most authoritative book on Yoga is Patanjali's Yoga Sutra's. Yoga Sutra clearly states that "Yogas Chitta Vritti Nirodha" which means Yoga is the art of controlling our thoughts, our mind. When our mind is active or over active we cannot concentrate on anything, we cannot perform any task perfectly. So, it is important to calm our mind, control our thoughts.
Controlling mind is described in the very beginning of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and anyone who is serious about mastering Yoga will have to spend a lot of time to control mind (as it is also one of the most difficult tasks on this planet, although there are a number of ways which can help in controlling mind).
Books on Yoga from Amazon
A really good book on Yoga by Shri BKS Iyengar, world famous yoga guru. Its one of the best book for beginners which teaches very basics of Yoga theory and principles.
More Resources on Yoga
- Mental Purity & Three Fold Yoga
Three Fold Yoga leads one from animal mind to the state of human perfection where the person identifies oneself with the universal existence of one mind and oneness of whole creation.
- What is Yoga? Basic Principles of Yoga.
Learn some basic things about Yoga, its theory and principles and philosophical nature.
- Enhancing Self-Awareness Through Yoga
A hub on improving self awareness with Yoga and other physical and mental benefits of Yoga.
Many forms of Yoga
Yoga is a philosophy, an art of living and is thus available in various forms. Which form is suitable to you depends on our own nature, what will we like to achieve etc.
Yoga can help us to be happy in everyday life, it can also help us to increase our productivity, may be used for meditation or even to improve concentration, those who are following a spiritual path it can take them to a much higher level of spirituality (which is its actual purpose).
Most people do not understand or have time to explore Yoga is such depth and thus they use Yoga as a source of physical well-being, a cure for disease and health problems, a form of exercise to improve fitness.
Today Yoga is also a brand name, a marketing tool and therefore a different types of Yoga have evolved which are not traditional but are only modern brand names for Yoga which are fundamentally based on traditional Yoga theory.
Regular practice of Yoga can bring number of changes in ones personality, helps in developing positive thinking, level of motivation in everyday life to name a few.
Please provide your views on Yoga and how it is presented on this hub?
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2011 has been a very good year for us. We've now got a team of 13+ talented people writing for us on a regular basis and the site, despite a few hiccups, is on a trajectory we're pretty happy with.
On the revenue side, things are growing nicely (which helps when you need to pay people!) but what I'm finding is forever eating up more of my time is throwing all these numbers together and preparing charts etc that compare year on year and month on month performance etc etc.
The problem is I have no idea what I'm doing.
I'm not from a business background (it took me three attempts to pass Accounting I — I switched to a BA to avoid Accounting II) and while I love making charts, I am making it up as I go.
I find over and over again that I've been summarising data in the wrong way and need to go back through 3,4,5 years of data and re-tabulate it. It's great when you're procrastinating, not so hot at other times.
Even when you get the data right, there's not exactly a central respository of averaged out data that gives you some guidelines to benchmark against. There's no point getting all excited about raising a conversion rate from 5% to 8% when the industry average for your niche in 19%.
So what I'm saying is a resource backed up with data that says ok, for hotel bookings you need to track A,B,C with moving averages over X & Y days. Track cancellations as a percentage, not raw numbers, chart time between booking and stay etc etc.
For other affiliate areas, serve up industry average conversion rates for a content site. For eg X for insurance, Y for books, Z for tours etc. Attach to this some templates for spreadsheets that you can pour data into so that now not only are you saving time but you're looking at representations of data that fit some kind of "bigger picture view".
I realise all sites are different and, especially in travel, there's many variations and vagueries, but if I'd been able to get something like this five years ago, it would have saved me an awful lot of time. An awful lot of time.
So if you're an "ebooker" looking for an ebook worth writing, there's a new pet project for you 🙂
What would I pay? I dunno — $500 to a grand depending on level of detail and, importantly, how much time it would save me.

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Some long-term sick and disabled people face being forced to work unpaid for an unlimited amount of time or have their benefits cut under plans being drawn up by the Department for Work and Pensions.From the Guardian article which broke the story. It continues:
The new policy, outlined by DWP officials in meetings with disabilities groups, is due to be announced after legal changes contained in clause 54 of the welfare reform bill have made their way through parliament.
The policy could mean that those on employment and support allowance who have been placed in the work-related activity group (Wrag) could be compelled to undertake work experience for charities, public bodies and high-street retailers. The Wrag group includes those who have been diagnosed with terminal cancer but have more than six months to live; accident and stroke victims; and some of those with mental health issues.
In official notes from a meeting on 1 December last year, DWP advisers revealed they were not intending to put a time limit on the work experience placements.So yeah, this is one of the nasty little details that Lib Dem MPs voted for. I wonder what Jenny Willott MP will have to say about it when I meet her on Monday?
And. for the record, this is nasty. I object to the principle of forcing people to work unpaid at all (it's called "workfare" and has been tried, tested and failed in the US) but it's even worse when you're talking about disabled people. Especially given that the current assessment system for disability benefits is so broken that it has been known to class terminally ill cancer patients as belonging in the Work Related Activity Group which would place them in the position of being forced to undertake work such as unpaid night shift jobs at Tesco.
Tesco are currently furiously back pedalling after the bad publicity hit but, had it not been for the bad PR, they would almost certainly have continued with the scheme which would have given them unpaid labour and saved them from having to actually go through the hassle of properly employing new workers. This isn't a specific judgement on Tesco by the way - all big companies (and plenty of small ones) are more than happy to save money wherever possible, regardless of the human cost, as long as the public doesn't find out about it.
And of course, it's not like there are any historical examples of government ministers coming out with statements and press releases encouraging the depiction of the disabled as "fakers and scroungers, while forcing them to work without pay are there?
(That's sarcasm by the way, click on the links - especially the second one.)
Still, at least no government spokesman has yet come out with saying something like "arbeit macht frei". So we can be thankful for small mercies. Except of course that the DWP believes in the "bio-psycho-social" model of disability which basically states that the only thing stopping the sick and disabled from working is that they're not working hard enough at overcoming their disability.
Meanwhile of course, we have such jollies as Atos, the company which carries out the assessments to determine whether disabled people should be forced to work or not (and which has benefited from a lucrative government contract to provide IT for the London Olympics later this year), offering help to employers in managing the impact of heart disease and how best to support employees returning to work whilst simultaneously telling people with heart disease that there's nothing to stop them from working despite, in one tragic case, the condition being so severe that the poor man died just three weeks after being deemed fit to work.
Still, Atos now are about to get a shiny new director who might change things. Well, apart from the fact that he used to be a director of Unum - a nice big health insurance company that has been described in the US as "an outlaw company", which refuses to recognise that illnesses like ME even exist and that has (along with Atos) a long record of trying to manipulate and influence DWP policy. So maybe things won't change then.
If you're interested in the incestuous, corrupt and unhealthy relationship between Unum, Atos and the DWP then all you need to do is go and read this Private Eye article which does a good job of exposing the whole sorry tale.


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Well, the answer depends on several factors, but in general, gold, silver or platinum plated coins will not have any significant numismatic value.
Plated coins have the beauty of the additional metal, but the added metal does not increase the coin's numismatic value. Furthermore, the amount of precious metal – gold, silver or platinum – added in the plating process is so insignificant that the precious metal is not worth the time, effort and cost to recover. In some cases, if the plating is over a silver coin, then recovering the metals may be worthwhile. This would be determined on a case-by-case basis.
Unfortunately, some people buy plated newer, cupro-nickel coins thinking the coins have significant worth due to the outer metal coating. They don't realize how little of the plating metal is required to coat the coin even if several coats are applied.
Recently, a coin dealer received a call from a lady asking if he bought gold, silver and platinum coins. Thinking of the potential treasures he could find (remember, coin dealers are treasure hunters and collectors at heart), he told her that yes, he bought gold, silver and platinum coins and that she should bring the coins to his shop.
A short time later, an elderly lady arrived and parked her car in front of his business. After meeting her in person, they walked outside to her car. She opened the trunk of her car such that the coin dealer could haul two crates of coins into his shop.
Imagine his thoughts and his excitement. He just carried two large and heavy crates of gold, silver and platinum coins. Seeing her age, he's thinking that these crates have been filled over several decades and will contain many beautiful old coins.
He opens one of the crates and finds handful after handful after handful of new statehood quarters plated in gold, silver and platinum. The second crate is the same as the first; and in front of him stands an older lady who thinks she can sell these coins for the price of gold, silver and platinum.
His disappointment was acute and became even more so when he explained to her that her treasure was worth the face value of the quarters. As is frequently the case, she took her anger at herself out on the dealer. Of course, explaining "plating" to the lady did not help either of their feelings.
If you have plated coins, enjoy the beauty unique to them. But, their value is in the beauty you and other plated coin collectors see. If you want to sell your plated coin collection, your best avenue will be to other collectors of plated coins. Another alternative would be to find a coin dealer who sells plated coins as part of his business. With one of these alternatives, you may be able to realize more than "face value" for your plated coins.


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A Runaway Problem
The proposed establishment of a team of inspectors and judges to tackle the issue of illegal or runaway workers in Bahrain could mark a step toward major changes in the country's labour market. The issue highlights growing questions over employment policy, as well as human rights concerns.
Speaking in parliament this week, Labour Minister Majeed bin Mohsen al-Alawi told deputies that a 20-strong committee of workplace inspectors and judges represented the first phase in progress toward the setting up of a fully fledged labour court.
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A Runaway Problem
Solution is simple let the Government fix a minimum wage for Locals and then make it mandatory for every employer to pay every expat a premium over what he would pay for hiring local.
This will help some people make more money in short term while making them expensive will solve the local un-employment problem.
Lower salaries to expat workers hurt the economy more as what ever is paid only minimum possible amount is spent on survival which deprives the local trade of economic activity which if paid to local would generate more activity.
Though these low wages do benefit certain class of people in Bahrain just like slave owners used to get advantage.
If you are concerned about being out priced then what percentage of work force in Japan is low paid expat worker ?
No need to build shelters use that money for locals skill development, protect your local manpower from dumping of the manpower the way any local industry is protected under WTO rules.
IMHO best way to fight for ones own right is to fight for the rights of others.
Hi All,
Me and my friends have been reported as runaway from our company, which is not true. Our boss has cheated us giving false promises since the date we have joined the company.
Now he(boss) have filed a case in court as well against me and my friends, saying we have stolen office documents and all which is again not true.
He (boss) had terminated us from job as well. We had submitted all the documents and evidence against the false runaway case in LMRA. Its been almost 2 months since then we are waiting for the result. but we havent got any feedbak from LMRA regarding that. We are not working anywhere now, and so its hard for us to survive here.
Why is it taking so long? Please help us.. We are three youngsters having good dreams about our future. Boss has cheated us and made our life difficult now. What should we do? Can anybody help us, Please?
we havent done anything wrong to anybody, but still we are suffering.
Our boss is a real fraud that all outsiders know about it.


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Hispanic Heritage month is in full force and full with celebrations, I don't know about you, but I've been celebrating a lot being LATINA! Because you should be Orgullosa of being LATINA! And that's exactly what my family and friends have been doing during Hispanic Heritage Month.
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Orgullosa
Orgullosa is an online community that looks to inspire and connect with Latinas on topics that are important and meaningful all while celebrating our unique culture. To highlight how fabulous we Latinas are, Orgullosa sent me dozens of awesome products from Procter & Gamble to throw an Orgullosa Party! From mirrors, bracelets, a
variety of CoverGirl® nail polish and lipsticks, Secret Deodorants, Olay facial mosturizers, Orgullosa notepads and my favorite, the Official Orgullosa t-shirt, that says; "Soy LATINA y tengo LA FALDA BIEN PUESTA" don't we look gorgeous wearing them!
You know Latinas like to celebrate, so I had 2 parties! (one is never enough right?) The first one was with my sisters , here they're are trying different colors of nails.
The second Orgullosa party was with my girlfriends.
We did our nails, During our Orgullosa Party, we tried on different colors of lipsticks, while talking about what makes a LATINA special, besides being fabulous of course! And we realized that we as Latinas have so many qualities; We are diverse, multitasking, multicultural, problem solvers, fighters, survivors, I bet we are missing some other qulities that makes us Latinas so unique, but I think all these are enough to make all of us Latinas feel special don't you think?
Watch the video to see how much we during my 2 Orgullosa parties, celebrating Being Latinas!
For Hispanic Heritage Month, Orgullosa created a Shareable Photo app to celebrate your nationality on their Orgullosa Facebook Page! On the Orgullosa facebook page you'll also find so many great activities planned for Hispanic Heritage month, so keep checking back!
Enter Orgullosa Heritage Giveaway!
Orgullosa is all about celebrating how smart, strong and beautiful we Latinas are inside and out and to celebrate our Hispanic Heritage every day, I'm giving away this #OrgullosaHeritage pack filled with of P&G and Orgullosa Products plus an iPod mini !
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Estoy orgullosa de ser Latina, porque el sabor lo tenemos en la sangre, nos caracterizamos por trabajadoras, luchonas, capaz de cumplir las metas que nos trazamos y defender con unas lo que mas queremos. Poniendo en alto el nombre de nuestro pais.
estoy orgullosa de ser latina ,por qme encantan mis tradiciones y costumbres
Orgullosa de ser latina por mis costumbre y tradiciones por mi musica y mi familia q siempre estamos unidos y nos gusta festejar nuestras tradiciones!
me siento Orgullosa de Ser Una Latina Maxica, Gracias
lo mejor de ser latina y mi orgulloso,son mis raices de donde vengo. mi familia es lo que mas me enorgullece. y mas que todo el tener una falda bien puesta como latina
i am proud of being latina because of the fact that we as latinos can not know each other but will instantly bond over anything thats from our culture and the fact that as family we are always there for each other
Me enorgullese ser latina por mi idioma, raices y tradiciones.
Mis tradiciones y costumbres es lo que me hace sentir orgullosamente latina!!!
I am not Latino,but my grandchildren are and they are very proud of their heritage. My granddaughter just starting talking Spanish and it is so cute!!
Lo que me hace sentirme orgullosa son mis raices mi cultura familia comida musica bueno infinidad de cosas
Gracias Por el Sorteo


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The #LGV10 was rated by many as one of the best (and underrated) flagships of 2015. The handset can now be bought for just $399.99 courtesy of a deal running via eBay. The smartphone is locked to work with Verizon Wireless networks though, so customers of other networks will feel left out here.
Also, the retailer mentions that the handset is refurbished, so it's not exactly a brand new product. But considering that you're getting a handset worth nearly $700+ for just $399.99 off contract, this deal is well worth your attention. For the time being, it seems like the seller has multiple units of the smartphone, but it shouldn't be long before they're sold out. So make sure you proceed with haste if you're interested in owning the LG V10 on the cheap.
The LG V10 comes with a 5.7 inch Quad HD display along with a secondary ticker display on top, a 16-megapixel rear camera, a 5-megapixel Duo Camera on the front, the hexa-core Snapdragon 808 chipset, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage (expandable), Android 5.1 Lollipop and a 3,000 mAh battery underneath.


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Sanofi's multiple sclerosis treatment Lemtrada may not offer enough benefit to patients to outweigh risks including cancer, U.S. regulators said. The French drugmaker's shares fell.
Lemtrada's "serious and potentially fatal safety issues," which include the risk of autoimmune and thyroid diseases, may make the medicine too dangerous to approve unless there is substantial clinical benefit shown, Food and Drug Administration staff said in a report today. Agency reviewers also questioned whether Sanofi conducted adequate trials to prove the annual infusion works.
"That's like a death sentence," said Fabian Wenner, an analyst with Kepler Cheuvreux in Zurich, "It isn't what everyone expected, an issue with the safety. It seems to be a more fundamental issue here." - Read More- http://www.ms-uk.org/lemtrada


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Four style tips to sleep in beauty
To give your home a new lease of life, it isn't always necessary to embark on a grand redesign project. Simply redecorating one room can be enough to help you reevaluate your home, particularly if that room is one in which you spend a large percentage of your time. Your bedroom is often the space that most closely reflects your personality and preferred aesthetic, making it a logical place to begin any redecoration project. If you're looking for inspiration, read on for our top four E&V tips.
Choose colours carefully
As artists have known for centuries, colour is closely linked to mood. This makes deciding on a palette a crucial first step, but remember to fully consider the multiple functions your room fulfils. Red is energising, passionate and can work brilliantly with a modern aesthetic, but may not help you sleep. Research has found that pastel shades of blue, green or yellow are more conducive to rest, so if you're drawn to stimulating jewel tones like purple, focus on incorporating them as accent colours instead.
Angle the furniture
Although your instinct may be to align your furniture with the walls, rearranging your bedroom and setting some pieces at an angle can dramatically change your perception of the space. Not only does it break up rigid arrangements, it can also make your room appear more spacious and open up corners for additions like plants, standing lamps or even artworks. The best way to establish what works is simply through trial and error; experiment with as many layouts as you like until you settle on something you're happy with.
Express your interests
Nothing ruins interior design like clutter, but this doesn't mean that you should purge your room of excessive possessions. Instead, focus on finding aesthetically pleasing storage solutions that allow you to present your prized belongings in an orderly and attractive fashion. Whether you're most proud of your sporting trophies, your library or your jewellery collection, you should be able to find a layout that puts your possessions on show. You may wish to intersperse these objects with vases of flowers or lamps, to add some light and variety to the space.
Add some art
There are many ways to incorporate art into your bedroom. Traditionalists may favour framed paintings, while fans of a minimalist aesthetic often opt for edgy blank walls and modernist sculptures. The only overriding principle is to ensure that you choose investment pieces, which you truly love and feel represent your personality. This could be anything from a reproduction of an iconic work to a black-and-white photograph or even a vintage theatre poster. Try to complement your colour scheme; if you're a true artistic connoisseur, you may wish to select artworks before wallpaper or paint.
Mirrors are an essential practical addition and can also be used to make your room appear bigger and lighter. Look for a design that matches the rest of your room, but be cautious with your placement – feng shui suggests that mirrors at the foot of the bed can reflect bad energy.
To search for properties with bedrooms just waiting to be made over in your image, visit Engel & Völkers. Our collection of luxury real estate spans 38 countries, so you're certain to find an ideal new home.


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2017 Jeep Compass
New compact crossover is a serious off-road machine
By Nina Russin
The 2017 Jeep Compass replaces the former Compass and Jeep Patriot no longer in production: positioned between the smaller Jeep Renegade and larger Cherokee.
The newest member of the Jeep family is built on the automaker's small wide 4X4 architecture, providing the unibody vehicle with a rigid platform for good steering response on-road and a minimal flex for off-road trails.
There are four grades- Sport, Latitude, Trailhawk and Limited, with pricing starting at $20,995 for the two-wheel drive Sport. The off-road capable Trailhawk starts at $28,595, just below the upscale Limited priced from $28,995.
The Compass shares a 2.4-liter Tigershark engine with the Jeep Renegade, and comes with three available transmissions: six-speed manual, six-speed automatic and nine-speed automatic. Read the rest of this entry »


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The curriculum for the CMB Program is designed to provide students with the fundamental and applied skills to prepare them for future positions in research and science-related fields. The core curriculum includes coursework in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, ethics, data analysis and presentation. Students also enhance their writing skills through a grant-writing course and improve their presentation skills by attending and participating in the CMB Seminar Series and serving as teaching assistants (TAs).
After the first year, students choose from courses offered through four specific training areas to gain expertise in areas directly related to their research interests. Research starts immediately in the context of lab rotations during the first year, after which students choose a lab and advisor for their dissertation research, which culminates in the writing, presentation and defense of a dissertation.
View a sample schedule (PDF) (128.02KB).
Curriculum for CMB students (75 Total Credits):
Core Course Requirements (30 Course Credits minimum)
- BIOC 301 General Biochemistry I (3 credits)
- BIOC 302 General Biochemistry II (3 credits)
- CLBI 301 Cell Biology (3 credits)
- CLBI 401 Critical Reading & Analysis (2 credits)
- CLBI 402 Biomedical Data Analysis (2 credits)
- CLBI 394 Science Communication (3 credits)
- MPBP 395 Grant Writing (2 credits)
- Genetics (3 credits)
- Ethics (1 credit)
Advanced Concentrations
Biochemistry, Structural Biology & Biophysics
- (One of two) BIOC 370 Physical Biochemistry OR MPBP 323 Biophysical Techniques
- (One of three) BIOC 351 Proteins I: Structure & Function, or BIOC/MMG 352 Protein/Nucleic Acid Interactions, or BIOC 353 Proteins II: Enzymology
Genetics, Cell & Molecular Biology (students choose two of the following courses)
- MMG 312 Eukaryotic Genetic
- MMG 232 Bioinformatics
- MPBP 310 Molecular Control of the Cell
Microbiology & Immunology
- MMG 320 Cellular Microbiology
- MLRS 242/MMG 223 Immunology
Physiology & Pharmacology
- MPBP 301 Human Physiology & Pharmacology I
- MPBP 302 Human Physiology & Pharmacology II
Dissertation Research (20 credits minimum)
Approved courses for the CMB program (PDF)
Any questions about these courses, please contact Frances Carr, chair of Education Committee
You may register for classes at the Registrar's website or through MyUVM.


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For those considering home renovations and improvements, there are so many possibilities to consider. A proper home improvement project can enhance the value of a person's home considerably. When engaging in home improvement, there are so many facets to consider.
Find the home that is the right size and has the features that your family needs to live a happy and comfortable life. There are many features that will make living in the home more comfortable depending on the lifestyle and tasks that a person has in their life. Finding the one that meets your personal needs will keep you happy with your home longer.
Lets talk about the bathroom, Everyone loves a nice bathroom. You can do this by getting a new sink or toilet and getting boiler installation sheffield. Updating your bathroom is one of the best ways to improve your home and it will also increase the net price on your house selling it on the market.
When repairing the water instalation system, I recomend you to considering boiler repair in sheffield, All of the work performed, including the plumbing, electrical or heating especially for a your bathroom. Areas in your home that have high traffic, such as bathroom, are better to make it sure that no any troubles with the water system by selecting the right bathroom fitters sheffield company.
Create space in a cramped bathroom. Build floor-to-ceiling cabinets, and store similar items in baskets. This avoids any clutter on the countertop. A corner storage unit in your shower is perfect for holding shampoo, conditioner and any other items you may need. A great tip for creating space is to get rid of everything that isn't used on a regular basis. This can include out of date medications in your medicine cabinet or beauty products that you tried and didn't like. By clearing these out, you will have plenty of room for things that you actually use!
As was stated in this article, home improvements can be exciting but sometimes challenging process. Learning how to improve your home strategically and properly can help you enhance your home's value and earn a return on your investment. Follow the advice of this article to assist you in your home improvement project.


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I know we have posted quite a lot when it comes to bandages, but what can I say, they all look super cute! Just like these Art School Bandages, not only are they adorable but creatively invented in vibrant colors too. The result? We're loving it!
So get in touch with your artistic side (even if you get a boo boo) and grab this US$5.95 tin soon. You'll get 6 different designs in 3 different shapes bandages… how cool is that? ; )


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- swizzles25
- 5 years ago
- Wedding: September 2016
Hello bees,
I had to choose between two dresses to replicate (Vera wang lark or J'aton) and I am going with the J'aton replica. However, I am having a destination wedding in africa and the heat will be ridiculous so the heavy skirt of the J'aton will be too much. I will like to replace it with a less heavy, thick yet beautiful mermaid skirt.
I have some options but please let me what you think and if you have any other choices. Sorry i can't photoshop the skirts unto the dress.
Here is the dress I am replicating… and whose skirt i don't want.
Replacement choices
1. Inbal skirt
2. Jasmine skirt
3. 3. Different j'aton skirt


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Dec. 10, 2012
Undeterred by sub-zero temperatures and a snow-covered course, Florida State senior Breandan O Neill punctuated an outstanding cross country season with a 22nd-place finish Sunday in the senior division at the 19th running of the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
O Neill was Ireland's top finisher from a starting field which included 92 runners representing 23 countries, covering the six-lap course in 30:42.
"I ran most of the race in around 10th-12th but faded back a bit in the last 3k," said O Neill, who was nonetheless pleased with his performance. "Satisfied with the run, but I was surprised how easy it felt running in the top 10 for the first half."
O Neill's performance, despite coming against a stellar field, should not have come as a surprise. The second-year Seminole who has a year of track & field eligibility remaining, was the runner-up at both the ACC and NCAA South Region Championships, then earned his first All-American honor with a 28th-place finish at the NCAA Championships meet in Louisville, Ky. last month. His performance helped the Seminole men to a fifth-place finish – the second-best in program history – in the team standings.
He earned his first appearance on the Irish senior team shortly after helping the Seminoles put a cap on an outstanding campaign. One of the Irish teammates he beat was David Rooney, who runs for McNeese State and was seventh at the NCAA Championships.
The weather wasn't the only test O Neill faced in getting from Tallahassee to Hungary. He spent 35 hours traveling and arrived early Saturday morning, but a fire at the Budapest Airport left him temporarily without luggage. It ended up in Berlin, Germany.
This was O Neill's second appearance at the European Cross Country Championships. He was the top finisher for Ireland's U23 team in his last appearance. The continued success on the big stage has him excited about the future.
"I'm excited to work on my weaknesses and put together a bigger performance in the next couple of years," he said.


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Cancer is a serious disease that can affect anyone in the country without a moment's notice. While the majority of attention goes to breast, lung or prostate cancer, there are dozens of other forms that attack specific areas of the body. Throat cancer is one form of cancer that can affect the way a person lives and, even if the person survives throat cancer, it can leave them with the inability to talk, consume food or do many of the very basic tasks they might do on their own. Understanding how throat cancer typically comes about and how a person is able to avoid this sort of cancer is very important and is the focus of this weeks "Leading Edge with Jimmy Johnson."
Throat cancer is usually the byproduct of consuming and ingesting dangerous material into the mouth. This often revolves around cigarettes and chewing tobacco. However, other materials and items can cause cancer of the throat, which requires very specific and immediate treatment in order to remove the cancer. Unlike other forms of cancer though, removing the tumor can force someone to lose their ability to talk, due to damage to vocal cords or even their ability to swallow and consume food.
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By Tom Hoepf
INDIANAPOLIS – More changes are coming to the Indy Antique Advertising Show beginning next year: a Friday afternoon preview/early buyers session followed by a one-day show on Saturday. Sundays have been dropped from the schedule.
Promoters Bruce and Donna Weir, B&D Promotions, announced the change at the fall installment of the Indy Ad Show Sept. 24-25, 2011.
Donna Weir said the announced change, made after consulting many longtime Ad Show dealers and reviewing customer surveys from the spring show, met with mixed reviews.
"A third of the dealers support the change, a third say 'I hope it works,' and a third are afraid of change," said Weir.
Noting that the last day of an antique show is never as strong as the first, Weir believes a small specialty show like the Indy Ad Show will benefit by one less day.
"A lot of our younger dealers hold regular jobs and now they'll be able to travel home on Sunday and get back to work," said Weir.
The Weirs, who concluded their first year as sole owners of the show, have already succeeded in increasing the number of dealers and attendance.
"March was the biggest crowd that show has had in 10 years said," said Weir, adding that the dealer count was up 15 percent for the fall show.
One of the dealers participating in the show for the first time was Frank Mahlich of Frank's Specialties, Minneapolis, Minn. His tables stocked with items from Germany attracted many admirers. When the crowd thinned the centerpiece of his display – a cutaway mechanical model of a 1950s Opel automobile once used to train mechanics – was gone.
"It just sold," said Mahlich, moving a less elaborate example to the center spot. "They were once plentiful but now they're difficult to find, and they have missing parts."
Among the eye-catching items still on Mahlich's tables was a working model of James Watt's revolutionary steam engine. The miniature "walking beam" engine dated to the 1930s. Anticipating that it would appeal to steam enthusiasts, Mahlich priced it at $3,200.
Mahlich also displayed a handmade wooden model of a Stutz Bearcat roadster that set the land speed record. Dating to the 1950s, the 21-inch-long model was priced at $850.
"Toys for boys, I call them," said Mahlich.
Specializing in game room collectibles, Al and Peg Araiza of Cushing, Okla., call their business Old Fashioned Fun. The brightest spot of their space was a gleaming, restored Miami Digger coin-op arcade game, which traveled with a circus in the early 1930s. The machine, which featured a model shovel controlled by the operator, was displayed atop its original wooden shipping box. It was priced $2,800.
Other coin machines displayed by the Araizas included a restored Mills "Wolf Head" 25-cent slot machine priced $1,850 and a Caille Bros. five-reel countertop trade stimulator priced $2,200.
Their tin lithograph beer tray advertising the National Brewing Co. of San Francisco was in excellent condition. "A cowboy and horse are always popular," said Peg Araiza, who priced the oval tray at $950.
Tobacco tin collectors are a demanding bunch when it comes to condition, which Sandy "The Tin Man" Rosnick of Salem, Mass., demonstrated. He displayed a rare short version Gold Dust Tobacco tin that was dotted with small rust spots. Still, the asking price was $3,000. "That's a $6,000 tin in better condition." he said.
A rare pocket-size Blue Badge Crimp Cut tin by Weiser Bros. Tobacco Co., St. Louis, was tagged $8,000. Rosnick said it was one of about four known.
Larry Garland runs his antiques business out of a former cigar factory at 9 Maple St. in Seven Valleys, Pa. Saying he likes "anything large, weird and unusual," Garland displayed a hand-painted sideshow banner for Pyro Master, a mystical performer who "controls unnatural forces." The unsigned banner, which had several small holes and measured about 8 feet by 10 feet, was priced $995.
Garland also brought a 4-foot-tall metal weather vane featuring the likeness of Colonel Sanders, which was once mounted atop a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. It was priced $1,200.
Carter and Irene Davis of Onancock, Va., were at the show with a sampling of merchandise they sell at their Studebaker's General Store, which can also be viewed at www.icollect247.com/studebakers. Highlights included a large DeSoto car dealership sign, which featured a portrait of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, priced $3,500, and a 7-foot-long wooden trade sign in the form of a rifle, priced $2,500.
Painted wood signs were focal points in the booth of Rod Bartha, Riverwoods, Ill. A "General Blacksmithing" sign, more than 8 feet long, hung on a shop near the Kansas City stockyards in the 1880s. A "Walter Gaskins Civil Engineer" painted sign from Camden, Maine, measured 7 feet long.
"You had to be pretty big to have a sign of that size," said Bartha.
Finally, Gus Brown of Piney Flats, Tenn., demonstrated an 1880s hand-powered milkshake mixer called "The Silent." The wall-mounted iron device was also marked "Whitall Tatum & Co.," which was a famous New Jersey glassmaker that catered to the drugstore trade. Brown priced the machine at $1,200.
While not an exhibitor, Steve Lefkovitz of Indianapolis, president of the Antique Advertising Association of America, made the rounds at the show promoting the long-standing collectors club. He invites antique advertising enthusiasts to learn more about the association by going to their website: www.pastimes.org.
Donna Weir said that the next Indy Antique Advertising Show, scheduled for March 16-17, will be the first ever to have an early buyers session. Dealers will set up Friday morning. Early buyers will pay $50 to be admitted to the 2-6 p.m. preview Friday. On Saturday the show will begin an hour earlier, at 9 a.m., and run until 4 p.m. Regular admission will remain at $8.
Discounted preview tickets are on sale for $40 at the Indy Ad Show website.
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Making Stuff:
MEAM Students and Faculty in Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day
Students and faculty in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) were active participants in this year's Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day, an event developed to introduce the general public to materials that are stronger, smaller, cleaner, and smarter than ever. Each exhibit in the February 5th event was designed to tie into the PBS NOVA series "Making Stuff."
Activities related to Materials Science included exhibits like "Snap-Through Materials" and "Sliding on the Thinnest Rugs," where participants could answer the question, "How does friction behave on sheets only one atom thick?" The demonstrations and hands-on experiments filled the first and second floors of the Bossone Research Enterprise Center in Center City.
Faculty participants included John Bassani, Richard H. and S. L. Gabel Professor and MEAM Department Chair, and Robert Carpick, Professor of MEAM. Students included Drew Cheney and Xin Wang, both MEAM Ph.D. candidates, and Pablo Castillo, a sophomore in MEAM.
In NOVA's fascinating new four-hour series, "Making Stuff," popular New York Times technology reporter David Pogue takes viewers on a thrilling tour of the material world we live in, and the one that may lie ahead—offering viewers a behind-the-scenes look at scientific innovations that are ushering in a new generation of materials.
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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — It's getting harder for non-investors to buy foreclosures in some parts of the country, as lenders shift their strategies on how to deal with distressed inventory.
When a home buyer looking for a place to live considers a foreclosure, they're usually looking at those listed as "REO" or "bank-owned," meaning that the lender has taken back the property and is now putting it up for sale. But REO sales have been shrinking.
There are a couple of reasons why.
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First, more properties are selling at auction, typically the first opportunity the lender has to sell the property, and where buyers are mostly investors. Buying a foreclosure at auction often requires full payment in cash, and the buyer often doesn't get the chance to fully inspect the property before buying it — both turnoffs for a home buyer looking for a place to live.
"Anecdotally, we're hearing from investors that the lenders are more aggressively pricing the opening bid at the auction to attract more bidders," said Daren Blomquist, vice president of RealtyTrac, an online foreclosure marketplace. In a more typical market, the lender sets the opening bid at what they're owed on the property, he said.
A sale at a trustee's sale or sheriff's sale auction gets a property off the lender's books before it becomes an REO. Lately, there are many investors willing to bid on the properties at auction, as many see opportunities in rehabbing foreclosures and renting them out or selling them.
Second, there has been an increase in short-sale transactions, so more distressed properties are being saved from foreclosure altogether, statistics show. A short sale is one in which the lender accepts less than what is owed on the mortgage as payoff from the homeowner.
"The longer the foreclosure timeline, the larger the severities for the lenders," said Sam Khater, senior economist for CoreLogic, a provider of consumer, financial and property information. "The foreclosure is the worst outcome for everyone involved — the borrower, the lender the community."
From the lender's perspective, one benefit of going the short sale route is that the place doesn't have to sit vacant, since the seller often remains in the home until it's sold. Legally, a short sale is also a safer move.
"It's become a lot more risky for lenders to foreclose and costly as well," Blomquist said. "You have the risk of being sued later on for improper foreclosing, because of the questions that have come up about paperwork and documentation. And the cost to maintain the property is a consideration that lenders have to take, and one of the trends we're seeing is more municipalities are imposing fines on lenders if they're not properly maintaining [foreclosed properties]."
By the numbers
Proof of these trends can be seen in recent statistics:
- REO sales fell 12% in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared with the fourth quarter of 2010, according to RealtyTrac data.
- REO inventory is down 37% since the peak in Sept 2008, according to data from CoreLogic.
- Sales of "pre-foreclosure homes" were up 15% in the fourth quarter, compared with the fourth quarter of 2010, RealtyTrac found. These are homes in default or scheduled for auction, and often are sold via short sale.
- Lately, there are more short sales than REO sales in a fifth of the top 100 markets that CoreLogic tracks. Some of the markets where short sales are surpassing bank-owned sales include San Jose, Calif.; Bethesda, Md.; and Palm Bay, Fla., Khater said.
Some of these trends are also appearing in the greater Phoenix area.
"February was the fifth consecutive month more properties sold to third parties at auction than properties going back to lenders," wrote Fletcher Wilcox, real-estate analyst for Grand Canyon Title Agency in Phoenix, in a monthly report.
Part of that is due to increased investor demand in the area: "There is demand for single-family properties that is just incredible. We have Canadian investors, local investors, people from San Francisco wanting to invest," Wilcox said.
In Maricopa County, where Phoenix is located, statistics show that in February, 1,825 properties were sold to investors at auction, compared with 1,093 that were taken back by the lender after not finding a successful bidder at auction, according to Wilcox's analysis of local records.
Meanwhile, 1,510 properties were sold via short sale, a 52% increase when compared with February 2011, he said.
Consider short sales
For the REOs that do hit the market, often cash bids will win over buyers who, say, need to purchase using a Federal Housing Administration-insured loan, Wilcox said. Many times, a cash sale means a quicker sale.
The best opportunity for non-investor buyers interested in buying a distressed property now may be to consider a short sale, Blomquist said.
The good news: Lenders seem to be improving the short-sale process, making it more efficient, he said.
More pre-foreclosure listings on RealtyTrac, for example, will specify that the bank has proactively approved a short sale price, Blomquist said. One of the elements that made short sales so difficult to close in the past was that they were often listed at very low prices to attract a lot of offers, but the offers still needed to be approved by the lender, which could take months.


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If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? : My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating
|NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Award-winning actor Alan Alda tells the fascinating story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores how to develop empathy as the key factor.
Alan Alda has been on a decades-long journey to discover new ways to help people communicate and relate to one another more effectively. If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? is the warm, witty, and informative chronicle of how Alda found inspiration in everything from cutting-edge science to classic acting methods. His search began when he was host of PBS's Scientific American Frontiers, where he interviewed thousands of scientists and developed a knack for helping them communicate complex ideas in ways a wide audience could understand—and Alda wondered if those techniques held a clue to better communication for the rest of us.
In his wry and wise voice, Alda reflects on moments of miscommunication in his own life, when an absence of understanding resulted in problems both big and small. He guides us through his discoveries, showing how communication can be improved through learning to relate to the other person: listening with our eyes, looking for clues in another's face, using the power of a compelling story, avoiding jargon, and reading another person so well that you become "in sync" with them, and know what they are thinking and feeling—especially when you're talking about the hard stuff.
Drawing on improvisation training, theater, and storytelling techniques from a life of acting, and with insights from recent scientific studies, Alda describes ways we can build empathy, nurture our innate mind-reading abilities, and improve the way we relate and talk with others. Exploring empathy-boosting games and exercises, If I Understood You is a funny, thought-provoking guide that can be used by all of us, in every aspect of our lives—with our friends, lovers, and families, with our doctors, in business settings, and beyond.
"Alda uses his trademark humor and a well-honed ability to get to the point, to help us all learn how to leverage the better communicator inside each of us."—Forbes
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I'm writing today at Out of the Ordinary about Nancy Guthrie's plenary message from Nehemiah 7 and 8…
…that beautiful passage of Scripture where Ezra teaches the book of the law to the people and all who hear understand. Nancy called our attention to Nehemiah 8:1 where Nehemiah reports that the people "told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the Lord had commanded Israel."
"Bring us the book!" Nancy imagined the people crying out and as she did so throughout the auditorium various women echoed the cry. "Bring us the book!" Nancy called out again and again the cry reverberated throughout.
It was obviously arranged beforehand yet striking just the same. As we called out for the Book, Nancy replied with the obvious application: O, that God would raise up women hungrier for the Book!
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Holidays To Transylvania
Terminology and geographical localization
The term Transylvania in politico-geografico two distinct accepțiuni: the first refers to a restrictive meaning, just intracarpatică to the region bounded by the Carpathians, Southern Carpathians, and West of the Apuseni Mountains. This region was called in medieval Transylvanian Voivodship (in Latin "the country beyond the forest"), its total surface area measuring approximately 57.000 km ².
The second meaning of the name refers, by extension, also from Maramureș, Crișana, Szatmár, lands known as Partium, i.e. "parties" of Hungary after 1526 kernel-side of the Transylvanian plateau, with the Principality of Transylvania. It's about Maramureș counties, Sălaj, Satu Mare, Bihor and Arad. The region Partium was even higher. For example, according to the Treaty of Speyer (1570), in Partium was Mr. counties Bihor, Zarand, Közép-Crasna, inside (the country), as well as the counties of Chioar Arad.
Sometimes Transylvania is given a very broad meaning, it is also the territory west of the Carpathians and North of the Southern Carpathians, thus including the Banat. The content of the term fluctuating is explained by the evolution of complex historical and political, in the "erdeuleu" in modern times.Geographically the Area is a high plateau, separated in the South of the country through the Southern Carpathians in Romania and in the East of Moldova through the Carpathians. The area west of Transylvania (Crișana) borders with Hungary. To the North, it borders with Ukraine (Zakarpattia regions – which comprises the northern part of Maramureșului history-and Ivano-Frankivsk). The plateau with heights between 305 and 460 meters is watered by the rivers Mureș, Someș River, tributaries of the Danube, and the Olt River, tributary of the Danube.
The territory of Transylvania proper is ten counties: Alba, Bistrița-Năsăud, Brașov, Cluj, Covasna, Harghita, Hunedoara, Mureș, Sălaj and Sibiu.
Historical Population
The first official census in the County in which he made a distinction between nationalities (a distinction made on the basis of mother tongue) was carried out by austro-Hungarian authorities in 1869. Prior to this year there are only estimates of the proportions of the various ethnicities of Transylvania. Thus, Elek, Hungarian: 2TP statistician in the nineteenth century, in 1842 the population estimate of the 1830s-1840s was composed in Romanian and Hungarian 62.3 -23.3 .
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Tourist resorts in Transylvania
Holding of Transylvania, Transylvania, as it is known, is a region with a tumultuous history of the ages, being situated inside the arc of the Carpathians. In its existence, Transylvania, was part of the Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, but was also a period in which it was independent under the name of Principality of Transylvania. Holding in its component counties of Alba, Bistrita Nasaud County, Brasov, Cluj, Covasna, Harghita, Hunedoara, Mures, Salaj and Sibiu. In the 1st century until the beginning of the term, the current territory of Transylvania was the political center of the Kingdom of Dacia, Sarmizegetusa Regia, fortress in the mountains Orastiei. Transylvania is named from the Latin Trans Silva, what does the country beyond the forests, due to the dense forests that covered the mountains that surround it.
Paraul Rece resort is a resort located in the center of general interest throughout the County. It is located at the confluence of the Rasnoava and Meets Little, very close to the Prahova valley, one of the most frequented tourist areas in Romania.
The Resort Village is located in geographically in Harghita County, Tarnavei Valley, at the foot of the mountains, in the Praid depression; – Sovata. This is a balneal situated at an altitude of 580 metres, just 6 km from Sovata, which attract tourists in particular by Salina Praid.
Rim resort is located in geographically in the Middle Carpathians chain, in the northern part of Harghita County, in a depression intramontane with average height of 880 meters, toured Mizanur N-Borsec and little of its tributaries and surrounded by Mountains, Bistrita Mountains, Calimani Mountains and Ceahlau offers panoramic views of neuitat.
Baile Tusnad are located in Harghita County in the southern part of the Ciuc depression, at an altitude of 650 meters, representing one of the most important spas spas in the region of Transylvania and also th throughout the Country.
Touristic resort Bran is located in the Centre of the country, relative in Culoarul Rucar-Bran, old commercial and strategic road between Wallachia and Transylvania, at 24 km from Brasov, between the Bucegi mountains and Piatra Craiului mountains, in the situation called Bran Platform. Together with the localities situated in the nearby Resort Bran is a core of the Romanian tourism, being a resort in full ascent, which promotes both rural tourism and cultural tours.
Natural cure factors in tourism
Romania has an exceptional Spa that focuses a potential variety of moral factors of cure. Natural cure factors in tourism: 1. mineral waters and several 2. Therapeutic 3 lakes. 4 MUDs. Therapeutic gases fumes 5. Salinele 6. Medicinal plants 7. Climatic factors of cure 8. Aeroionizarea the existence of them favored the development of tourism and exploitation of their climate and thermal treatment of a wide range of conditions. 1. mineral waters and several reserves volume, quality, variety of their contents, they represent the main natural cure factor in Romania, which links an important part of balneoturistica. Mineral waters in Romania have a particularly diverse in chemical elements and therefore has a great complexity and diversity in the physico-chemical, minerologic,. They are located mainly in the contact zone between hills and loessial plateaus with mountain range (Cebu City resorts, Tușnad, C, Herculane, Dorna Vatra) 2. Lakes, due to physical-chemical qualities of the waters and of particles as the phenomenon of heliotermie and salinity, presents a particularly therapeutic interest, these waters are chlorinated soda Lakes, iodurat or suflatate.http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turismul_%C3%AEn_Rom%C3%A2nia
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2012 Call for Editor: The Physics Teacher
The American Association of Physics Teachers is seeking a new Editor for The Physics Teacher to transition into the post by July 2013.
Duties of the Editor
In addition to supervising these tasks, the Editor solicits some papers to be written, reviews the editorial policy of the Journal in consultation with the Editorial Board, writes editorials, reports twice a year to the AAPT Publications Committee, nominates members of the Editorial Board for appointment by the AAPT Executive Board, and is at the center of every editorial emergency. The Editor is a member of the AAPT Publications Committee, and an ex officio, nonvoting member of the AAPT Executive Board.
More information can be found in the October 2012 issue of The Physics Teacher.
The arrangements for the initial appointment are flexible. Editorial appointments are normally for three years. It is AAPT policy to conduct periodic reviews of each of its editorial functions.
The Search Committee is primarily interested in the qualifications of candidates, and thus present or past arrangements should not discourage anyone from applying.
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Sukesha Hair Spray Review
Best Hairspray For Hold
Although Sukesha is a relative new-comer to the hair spray game, they provided us with one of our bigger surprises during testing and review. It competes with L'Oreal's line of maximum-hold hair sprays in terms of strength, shine and hold duration, at a slightly lower price. This particular product stood up time and again to prove its dominance when it came to hold strength. Once used, your hairstyle will not come undone, regardless of what stress you put it through. Overall, a great discovery and one you should try!
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This Paul Mitchell hair spray is ideally suited to fine-haired individuals who are looking for a product to hold their style in place for 5 to 6 hours. Due to the lightweight nature of this hair spray, your hair will shine and your style will retain movement while holding its integrity. On the downside, those with thicker hair might want to consider other options. Overall, this is a great product for use in specific situations such as social events or nights out with friends. it gives enough hold for a laid back hair style while keeping form long enough to enjoy yourself.
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The firm: Lewis Rice, a regional powerhouse law firm headquartered in St. Louis. The firm has more than 150 attorneys and over 100 years of history.
The challenge: Over the years, many of the other top-tier Missouri law firms had merged with national and international behemoths. As a result, Lewis Rice now finds itself competing with law firms many times its size. It needed a website that would position the firm as a regional juggernaut that is on par with elite national firms.
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The Lewis Rice website won Second Place for Total Website Refresh/Overhaul/Rebrand from the Legal Marketing Association in 2016


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Hi Bees,
I need advice. I inadvertently learned that my SO purchased an e-ring on Sunday, so I'm assuming he's going to propose to me in the next couple of months . I've spent the better part of yesterday in a state of euphoria. Today is quite different because I came crashing back to reality. I've been spending this morning in an anxious/nervous state of mind because I realized that he'll have to know my financial history. Backstory: I'll be completing my master's Spring of 15′ and I just realized that I'll have to start paying back my loans. I come from a humble background so in order for me to attend college my family and I agreed that I'd use loans. I just checked my loan account and I'm $80,000 in debt.
My SO is aware that I have slight debt, he believes it to be around one semester worth and not 6 yrs worth. He wants us to combine our income for now and when we move to use only one income and save the other for the future i.e. kids, home. I don't know what to do. I'm scared to think of how he'll react. I'm most scared because I keep thinking that this can potentially eliminate any future for us. I decided I have to tell him fairly soon.
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A Revolution in Cut with Ric Pipino at Bendels
Listen up, NYC beauties, for there is a fun beauty event on the horizon! Those who love having awesome hair should be especially excited, for hairstyling superstar Ric Pipino is coming to town!
Beginning Tuesday, June 8th, Ric Pipino and his team of expert stylists from Pipino Downtown and Spa Chakra will be on hand to offer blowouts, light styling and color consultations in celebration of Revolution In Cut.
Ric Pipino will be making a special appearance at the event on Tuesday, June 8th and Thursday, June 10th from 11am to 7pm, so try to stop by those dates for an extra special treat.
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The average rate on the 15-year fixed-rate mortgage hit a record low of 2.61% in the week ending April 25, down from 2.64% in the prior week, Freddie Mac said Thursday in its weekly report.
A year ago, the 15-year rate was 3.12%. Meanwhile, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage ticked down to 3.40% in the latest week from 3.41% in the prior week, nudging closer to a record low of 3.31%.
The average rate on the 5-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgage also hit a record low in the latest week, declining to 2.58% from 2.60% in the prior week. The data on the 5-year mortgage go back to 2005. The 1-year Treasury-indexed ARM ticked down to 2.62% in the latest week from 2.63% in the prior week.


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The Connection Between Eating Disorders and Substance AbuseResearch indicates that eating disorders and substance abuse often go hand-in-hand. In fact, one article published in Social Work Today indicates that as many as 50 percent of all people with eating disorders also abuse drugs and/or alcohol. This is more than five times the amount of someone without an eating disorder, as their risk of substance abuse is closer to 9 percent. The opposite is also true. While around 3 percent of the population struggle with some type of eating disorder, that amount raises to around 35 percent if the individual has an issue with drugs and/or alcohol. What makes someone with an eating disorder more susceptible to drug and/or alcohol abuse issues or vice versa? According to the same Social Work Today article, answering that question is not easy. First, you have to consider which one appeared earlier—the drugs and/or alcohol, or the eating disorder. For instance, if the eating disorder appeared first, then it's possible that drugs and/or alcohol were used to either aid in the weight loss or to deal with the discomfort associated with the disorder itself. And if the substance abuse issue appeared first, it's possible that the eating disorder was sparked by either 1) the substance inhibiting appetite, thus resulting in an extremely low caloric intake, or 2) by attempting to overcome the substance abuse addiction, which usually results in an increased appetite because drugs and alcohol are often appetite suppressants.
Identifying Risk Factors and CausesAfter determining which issue began first, the next step is to identify the causes or risk factors that led to each one. While some studies point to poor impulse control contributing to this type of dual diagnosis, other pieces of research have found that there are often external contributing forces to the development of issues with eating and substance use. Of these, abuse suffered in the person's childhood is one that is frequently discussed. Anxiety and brain chemistry can also potentially play a role in the development of these two disorders, according to information provided by the National Institute of Mental Health. Another potential risk factor that scientists suggest plays a rather big role in both of these addictions is genetics. So big, in fact, that they estimate that a person's genes alone can make him or her 40 to 60 percent more vulnerable to these types of behaviors. While we tend to hear more about substance abuse treatment and recovery, eating disorders are less commonly discussed. Yet, statistics suggest that it remains a major issue that many people contend with today. Just how prevalent is it?
Eating Disorder PrevalenceThe National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD) reports that approximately 30 million people in the United States alone suffer from some type of eating disorder. Of these, between 85 and 95 percent are believed to be female and the age range most affected is individuals between 12 and 25.8 years old, highlighting that these disorders have a high propensity of occurring in young people. Sadly, as many as one out of every two teenage girls and one out of every three teenage boys have used some type of unhealthy behavior or behaviors in an effort to help control his or her weight. This includes skipping meals or fasting, throwing up, or taking an over-the-counter laxative. Athletes in this age range are highly impacted as well. That's especially true in sports where a person's figure is an issue (like gymnastics), with 42 percent exhibiting some behaviors consistent with an eating disorder. Although ANAD further indicates that eating disorders "have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness," due largely to either health issues caused by the disorder (like heart or organ failure) or suicide, only 10 percent of those afflicted actually receive some type of treatment. That makes this particular issue a huge concern, not only because of its prevalence but also because of its lack of treatment. But what exactly is an eating disorder?
3 Most Common Eating DisordersWhile there are many types of eating disorders, some are more common than others. According to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), the American Psychiatric Association's Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) lists the top three eating disorders as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. Anorexia Nervosa – Anorexia involves taking in too few calories, resulting in becoming extremely underweight, which is described as being 15 percent or more below "normal" body weight for the person's age, sex, and height. A person with this type of eating disorder has a self-image that relies heavily on body appearance alone, causing him or her to be overly fearful of gaining weight. There are two types of anorexia:
1. Restricting Type: In this case, the person simply restricts his or her calorie intake by eating barely enough food to sustain healthy life function.
2. Binge-Eating or Purging Type: A person with binge-eating anorexia, also known as purging anorexia, binge eats and then either purges to reduce the number of calories digested or regularly uses other products to "lose weight" even though that's not their intended use. These items include laxatives, diuretics, and enemas, all of which can cause damage to the person's organs and bodily systems when used in this manner consistently over time.Bulimia Nervosa – A person with bulimia tends to overeat often, subsequently hoping to reduce the amount of calories the body actually consumes by self-inducing vomiting. Whereas a person with anorexia is typically underweight, a person with bulimia oftentimes is either normal weight or overweight. This is due to the higher number of calories consumed during the binge sessions, some of which are absorbed prior to the purging. Furthermore, the binge-eating sessions typically make the person feel as if they've lost control and, like those afflicted with anorexia, this particular condition is also tied to a poor body image that leads to low self-esteem. Binge-Eating Disorder – This third most common eating disorder is characterized by behaviors such as overeating and vomiting, but there are also frequently feelings of shame and guilt along with a feeling of lack of control during the binging sessions. Additionally, a binge-eater often eats even when he or she isn't hungry or already overly full, or because of emotional reasons (like the same and guilt this type of eating behavior typically creates). There are other eating disorders, and they include binge-eating without purging, "night eating syndrome" (which involves overeating later at night), and pica (the eating of substances not ordinarily considered food, like paint or dirt). However, the three outlined above are the most common. In order for any of them to be diagnosed, the criteria for each must be met for three months or more.
Signs of an Eating DisorderHow do you know if you or someone you love may be one of the 90 percent with an eating disorder that is currently undiagnosed? Here are some behavior-related signs to watch for:
• Obsession with food, especially with regard to whether certain foods are "good" or "bad"
• Extreme restriction of food, subsisting on barely enough food to survive
• Putting together foods that wouldn't normally go together, which is common with binging
• Irritability when it comes to food or eating rituals
• Negative body image regardless of actual body size or fitness level
• Excessive exercise habits, such as working out for numerous hours every day
• Development of obsessive-compulsive eating rituals, such as cutting foods into extremely tiny pieces or chewing a specific number of times
• Pushing the body to the point of physical exhaustion in an attempt to lose weight
• Avoiding eating in front of others, even if they are the one who cooked the meal
• Fear of eating in restaurants or other public places, often eating aloneThere are also some physical signs that could signal an eating disorder. These include:
•Appearance of fine body hair which is almost fur-like in nature
• Skin that is dry and/or blotchy
• Yellowish skin
• Sunken in cheekbones, or cheeks that are swollen along the jaw area
• Sunken in eyes, or eyes surrounded by dark circles (due to malnourishment)
• Constant fatigue
• Always feeling cold or dressing in heavy clothes, even in warmer weather (due to decreased body temperature)
• For females, menstrual periods that become irregular or stop entirely, potentially causing infertility
• Issues with constipation
• Low blood pressure
• Electrolyte imbalances
• Calluses on knuckles (which often appear if the disorder involves purging)
• Chronically sore throat or excessive tooth decay (again, appears with purging)
• Decreased bone density
• AnemiaNot all of these signs are indicative of an eating disorder. However, if several of these issues are present at one given time, it could indicate that some type of eating-related issue exists.


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MARIETTA, GA – The Huntsville Stars clinched the Southern League Western Division first-half title with an exhilarating 6-5 win over Birmingham on Thursday night at the Hoover Metropolitan Stadium. The championship-clinching win came one night after the Carolina Mudcats claimed the Eastern Division first-half title with a 9-8 come-from-behind victory over the Chattanooga Lookouts at BellSouth Park on Wednesday.
By wining their first-half division races the Mudcats and Stars will both host the first two games of the divisional playoffs in September. The Mudcats will host the second-half Eastern Division Champion September 3rd and 4th at Five County Stadium while the Stars will host the second-half Western Division Champion September 3rd and 4th at Joe W. Davis Stadium.


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* Reaction to U.S. election seen muted, short-lived
* Austria sells 1.3 bln euros of bonds
LONDON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Low-risk German government bonds were steady, with investors wary of placing big bets before Tuesday's close-run U.S. election and a Greek parliamentary vote on crucial austerity measures.
Polls indicate the race between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney will be very close with the risk of a change in fiscal and monetary policy in the world's largest economy keeping investors on the sidelines .
Bunds are likely to be buffeted by any moves in U.S. Treasuries following the election, although concerns related to the euro zone debt crisis will remain the main driver of the market.
Some analysts say a win by Obama would be positive for U.S. government debt, with U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke perhaps staying on beyond January 2014 when his term expires, while a Romney win could be positive for stocks, helped by business-friendly policies and tax cuts.
``The worse case would be an uncertain outcome over who the next president will be... that would be positive for the likes of Bunds,'' said Gary Jenkins, director of Swordfish Research.
``If we get a definite victory for either opponent, it may not make a huge amount of difference to Europe in the short term. Europe has got its own problems.''
December Bund futures were flat on the day at 142.13 after rallying on Monday.
``There doesn't seem to be massive positioning either way,'' a trader said.
``The feeling is that if Obama wins, it's going to be fairly dovish from the Fed point of view but I'm not sure we're going to see major moves either way,'' he said, adding that while Bunds traded above 142.00, markets would look for more gains.
In Europe, the focus was on Greece as another parliamentary vote loomed on austerity measures required to secure further aid to keep the country afloat.
This pushed two-year German bond yields into negative territory on Monday for the first time in two months.
They were last down half a basis point at -0.015 percent , with the 10-year equivalent little changed at 1.43 percent.
EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said on Monday that international lenders and Greece were on track to reach a deal to unfreeze the emergency lending at a meeting of euro zone finance ministers on Nov. 12.
The renewed demand for lower-risk assets this week was supportive for Austria's sale of 1.3 billion euros of 2019 and 2022 bonds, allowing the country to raise funds at record low rates and complete over 90 percent of its target issuance for this year..
``Austria is a higher quality issuer so it wasn't really a big surprise the 10-year auction was a strong one,'' said Nomura rate stragist Artis Frankovics.
``There's a lot of important events coming up this week...and also going forward we have the (meeting on Nov.12) so we can see the risk off sentiment continue for a few days.''
Spanish yields eased after rising since Friday when Madrid surprised markets by announcing the launch of a new five-year benchmark bond this week, as well as a tap of a 2032 bond -- its first attempt to sell debt with a maturity of more than 10 years since July 2011.
Dealers typically try and cheapen the paper - or build a concession - before sales.
``We might see a little bit more concession building ahead of Thursday but most of it has probably been done now,'' the trader said.
Spanish 10-year bond yields were 5.5 basis points lower on the day at 5.72 percent with Rabobank noting they were at a ``technically interesting juncture'', having broken above a downward trend channel and now testing resistance from a longer-term trend line which began in March.


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Cheteshwar Pujara, Shikhar Dhawan and Ajinkya Rahane were included in the 30-man probables list for the 2011 World Cup, while there was no place for veteran Rahul Dravid.
Irfan Pathan too was not part of the list, but his brother Yusuf made it to the list of probables following his good performances against New Zealand in the recently concluded ODI series.
Also named in the squad was Parthiv Patel, who hit two half-centuries in the last two matches of the five-match ODI series against New Zealand.
Chairman of selectors Kris Srikkanth said whatever be the final combination, it would do well at the quadrennial mega-event starting February 19 and to be played in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
"As you know there are no big surprises. This is a probables team and everyone selects himself. There is one more month to go to select the final team and we will sit down and think calmly before finalising the team," Srikkanth told reporters after a meeting of the selection panel.
"I am confident that the team will do well in the World Cup. They have been doing well in one-day cricket. The World Cup is happening in the sub-continent and I am confident that the team will do well," he added.
The batting had the expected names of Tendulkar, Sehwag, Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina. The ones who are likely to be competing for a place in the final fifteen are Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahana, Saurabh Tiwary, Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara.
The pace department had the established seniors such as Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Sreesanth, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel and Praveen Kumar, while Vinay Kumar also found a spot. The spinners were led by Harbhajan Singh and included Pragyan Ojha, Amit Mishra and R Ashwin, while Yusuf Pathan and Ravindra Jadeja made it as the bits-and-pieces men.
The side had four wicket-keepers with Wridhiman Saha, Dinesh Karthik and Parthiv Patel joining skipper Dhoni.
The final team is to be declared a month before the commencement of the World Cup as per the rules of the International Cricket Council (ICC) and would be pruned to a squad of 15.
30-man list: MS Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Sreesanth, Munaf Patel, Ishant Sharma, Vinay Kumar, Murali Vijay, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Ajinkya Rahane, Saurabh Tiwary, Yusuf Pathan, Parthiv Patel , R Ashwin, Wriddhiman Saha, Dinesh Karthik, Shikhar Dhawan, Amit Mishra, Piyush Chawla, Cheteshwar Pujara, Pragyan Ojha, Praveen Kumar.
No place for Irfan, Dravid in WC probables
Cheteshwar Pujara, Shikhar Dhawan and Ajinkya Rahane were included in the 30-man probables list for the 2011 World Cup, while there was no place for veteran Rahul Dravid.


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Associate Dean for Research
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Posting Number: F000961 Academic Title: Associate Dean for Research Rank: Administrative Title: Discipline Nursing Specialty: Research Contract Type: Tenure Track Required Licenses/Certifications and other Specific Requirements: Criminal History Screening, Education/Degree/Certifications Verification, Social Security Number Trace, and Sex Offender Registry Search, This position requires a licensure, certification, or special requirements Proposed Start Date: 01/01/2017 Full-Time/Part-Time: Full-Time Position Description Summary:
The George Washington University (GW) School of Nursing invites applications for an Associate Dean for Research to begin as early as fall 2016. The ideal candidate for this position will be at the rank of Associate Professor/Professor and tenured or eligible for tenure. We seek an experienced educator, administrator, and researcher whose area of focus includes one or more of the following: health policy, quality of life, and/or health disparities. Rank and salary will be commensurate with experience .Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
Responsibilities of the Associate Dean for Research include:
• providing leadership in achieving the research and scholarship goals of the school and university
• providing research mentoring for tenure/non-tenure track faculty
• facilitating the growth of the research foundation for GWSON
• collaborating with the School's academic administrators, faculty, and students in planning research and scholarship
• development activities for faculty and students
• coordinating SON activities such as grants for extramural and intramural funding, and publications and presentations of scholarly work
• leading the planning and development of a new PhD program
• providing leadership in strategic planning, budget and resource allocation, and operations related to the SON's research activities
• promoting visibility of School of Nursing research and scholarship within the School, University, and within
local, regional, national and international nursing organizations and communities
• serving as the SON liaison on research matters with internal and external constituents
• represents SON on university wide and community research committees and projects
• advising the Dean on national research trends and implications for the School of Nursing
• participating in the recruitment of faculty
Applicants must have: (1) A PhD in nursing, public health, public policy or a related field; (2) a nursing degree (any level); (3) an established body of scholarship as evidenced by peer-reviewed publications in high impact journals; (4) experience working with/teaching diverse groups/diverse students; and 5) a demonstrated history of obtaining and sustaining external funding.Advertised Salary: Rank and salary will be commensurate with experience . Other Benefits: Other Information: Special Instructions to Applicants:
Please complete an online faculty application at http://www.gwu.jobs/postings/36800 and upload the following: (1) a cover letter outlining qualifications and research interests, (2) a CV, (3) two recent teaching evaluations, (4) copies of two recent key publications or writing samples and (5) contact information for 3 references. Cover letters should be addressed to Pamela Jeffries, Dean, GW School of Nursing, 1919 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20036. Review of applications will begin on September 23 and continue until position is filled. Only complete applications will be considered.
All faculty hiring decisions will be contingent upon final approval by the Provost.Department Link: Posting Close Date: Open Until Filled: Yes Background Screening Successful Completion of a Background Screening will be required as a condition of hire. EEO Statement:
The university is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer that does not unlawfully discriminate in any of its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law.Quick Link http://www.gwu.jobs/postings/36800
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