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For most of New Hampshire's history, taxpayers who believed that their state or local government had spent their money improperly could go to court to challenge that spending.
But a series of recent decisions from the New Hampshire Supreme Court has stripped taxpayers of standing, leaving little recourse when elected officials break the rules. The judges ruled that taxpayers could not show they were harmed by allegedly illegal programs merely because it was their money being misused.
The New Hampshire House this week voted overwhelmingly for a constitutional amendment to restore taxpayer standing. CACR 15 passed 309-9, shattering the two-thirds threshold required to put an amendment on the ballot.
The Senate must also give two-thirds approval to CACR 15 for voters to decide the fate of the amendment in November.
Restoring taxpayer standing would allow conservatives to challenge breaches of municipal tax caps, and liberals to sue over school choice payments to private religious schools. Courts would decide these cases on their merits, rather than kicking taxpayers out of court for lack of standing.
CACR 15 would restore accountability in state and local government, giving citizens the ability to check out-of-control officials when they ignore the rules.

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Andy Murray wins first Major title in U.S. Open ending for the ages
Great Britain's long, agonizing wait is over. It finally has a champion tennis player once again. And boy, did Andy Murray ever play like a champion.
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Start the parties in the pubs, let the suds spill in Scotland, Great Britain's long, agonizing wait is over. It finally has a champion tennis player once again. And boy, did Andy Murray ever play like a champion.
Fred Perry may now rest in peace. The name has been mentioned as often as any great in the sport's past over the years. Why? Just in case you were sleeping, he was the last Brit to win a Grand Slam title all the way back at the U.S. Open in 1936. The emphasis is now on the word "was."
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As a result of Monday's 7-6 (10), 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2 thrilling win over Novak Djokovic in the U.S. Open final, the title of greatest player without a Major needs a new host because Murray no longer fits the bill.
However he might have his name next to greatest final ever at the U.S. Open.
Much as we expected, or at least hoped, Murray and Djokovic turned in a match for the ages. The rallies were long, including a 54-shot rally, and physical. Dealing with windy conditions, they would start conservatively then evolve into a defensive showcase. A few shots that would be winners against any other player in the world were returned and next thing you knew they were back to neutral. It was like that, all match long.
This is why so many believe we are witnessing tennis' golden age. We seem to get a match like this at least once a year. It makes all of those early-round routs from the top players worth it, seeing matches like this. This time Murray got to take part in one of them in a final.
Murray was curling shots as tight as his hair. It was an exhibition early of how to play in the wind. Naturally it was being authored by a Scotsman. He ran out of the gate with the first two sets, including a monster opening set that lasted almost an hour and a half by itself. The 12-10 tie-break that Murray won was nothing but drama, set point after set point being saved. Eventually Murray closed the door in the longest tie-breakin in a final in Open history.
After that second set, Djokovic came storming back. He began breaking Murray with relative ease and his serve was dominant. The match seemed destined for a fifth set and the worst heartbreak yet for Murray. That was until the fifth set came and Murray had a new wind, going up a double break right away. Not long after he was dropping his racquet and celebrating stoically, almost in shock.
At just under five hours and tied for the longest match in U.S. Open final history, it seemed too short. It was the type of match that you never want to see end. It was the first time since 1988 both the men's and women's finals went the distance.
What a way it was to win a first Major. Taking out the defending champion in a grueling five-setter with the match of your life? Obviously it's one he will never forget. He had been working so hard to get to this point, to achieve the glory that so many saw for him. It took him a fifth try in a Grand Slam final, but it has finally come.
"I want to congratulate Andy for his first Grand Slam," a gracious Djokovic said after the match. "He absolutely deserves it."
Indeed he does. There was never a doubt that he was good enough, it was just a matter of being better his great contemporaries.
Coming into this tournament, most believed this was the best chance yet for Murray to get that long-awaited first Slam title. One of the other members of the Big Four was out of the picture thanks to Rafael Nadal's withdrawal before the tournament due to injury. On top of that, Murray had the minibreak of his career with a gold medal in London this summer. While a major it wasn't, it sure had the feel of one considering it took place on the hallowed grounds at Wimbledon and came over the great Roger Federer in the final.
Further, Murray has mentioned before how much he likes playing in New York. The U.S. Open was where he made his first Major finals appearance back in 2008. The crowd, as raucous as it is, is fun to play in front of. Plus, it's not in London, a place he calls home and where he has had to deal with the pressure of ending this drought.
All the pieces were there. Sometimes, the puzzle actually comes together.
Now he won't feel any pressure, nothing but the adoration of the UK.
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You need a new winter coat and want to get the most value for the money you spend. Here are a few tips:
* The best time to buy is August and September during pre-season sales. Summer shopping means an undepleted stock. The next-best times are after Christmas and at the end of the winter season.
* The most versatile coats are full-length, single-breasted, and unbelted. Avoid those that have frog and wrap closings and models that are open at the neck. Included in this category are coats with fur collars that do not close tightly. All such garments are never warm!
* Monochromatic garments coordinate with everything from basic black to houndstooth checks. Colors that show the least amount of dirt are black, navy, dark brown, forest green, and charcoal. If you dislike dark colors, gray, tan, teal, rust, and cocoa brown are practical alternatives that show less lint than their darker counterparts.
* The warmest, softest, and most lightweight coat fabric is new or virgin wool. If you can't afford pure wool, a blend is a workable alternative. But make sure you check fiber content. You will find this on either the garment's tags or the inside facing. The higher the percentage of wool, the warmer the coat will be. Avoid any garment that contains fibers of undetermined origin or reprocessed wool; the two often go hand in hand. The unknown quantity of these combinations makes them unpopular with dry cleaners. In addition, reprocessed fabric is often stiff and uncomfortable to wear. Other materials that are low on durability but high in maintenance costs are real and synthetic fur, suede, leather, and fabrics with sponge backing.
* Examine the lining closely. It should never show below the coat; this is an indication of off-grain fabrics or shoddy construction techniques. Look for linings that carry a tag saying ''This garment is designed to give warmth without weight.'' This means your coat won't have the added bulk of an inner lining. In addition, these improved lining fabrics are much more durable than acetate taffeta, which is inclined to fray. Avoid coats with blue lining; these fade to pale purple.
* Next, check overall fit. The coat should cover your longest skirt with a hem that is deep enough to allow for lengthening. It should feel comfortable when tried over normal indoor clothing. Be sure there is no binding across the bust. Now turn slowly before the mirror. Are the coat's front and back approximately the same distance from the floor? A large discrepancy indicates the garment is made of fabric that is either off grain or was pressed out of shape during construction. Choose another coat.
* Sleeves should cover the wrist bone and fit over regular clothing without binding. Because they have more room than set-in sleeves, raglan or kimono models are good choices for outerwear. Avoid any sleeve with a pleated cap. There is no way to know how long this currently popular look will stay in style.
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In the aftermath of the Munich Agreement Winston Churchill wrote in his November 17, 1938, column titled "The morrow of Munich," at a time when he still occupied a backbench seat in Parliament:
Mr. Chamberlain is convinced that all this will lead to general agreement; to the appeasement of the discontented Powers, and to a lasting peace.
But all lies in the region of hope and speculation. A whole set of contrary possibilities must be kept in mind. He may ask us to submit to things which we cannot endure; he may be forced to ask us to submit to things which we cannot endure. Or again, the other side in this difficult negotiation may not act in the same spirit of goodwill and good faith as animates the Prime Minister. What we have to give, what we are made to give, may cost us dear, but it may not be enough….By this time next year we shall know whether the Prime Minister's view of Herr Hitler and the German Nazi Party is right or wrong. By this time next year we shall know whether the policy of appeasement has appeased, or whether it has only stimulated a more ferocious appetite. All we can do in the meanwhile is to gather together forces of resistance and defence, so that if the Prime Minister should unhappily be wrong, or misled, or deceived, we can at the worst keep body and soul together.
Collected in Churchill's compilation of fortnightly prewar columns titled Step by Step, this one echoes down the years today.


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Some thoughts on Bob Howsam, on day after his death:
It is not a strretch to say that the Reds began sliding to shape they're currently in shortly after Howsam left the franchise. Howsam's second tour ended in 1984. He left the scouting and player development departments in great shape. He had doubled them in his tenure.
The 1990 team was mostly homegrown -- Barry Larkin, Eric Davis, Paul O'Niell, Chris Sabo, Tom Browning, Rob Dibble.
But, by 1990, Marge Schott was decimating the scouting and player development. She had success by pumping money into the big leauge payroll. But that was a temporary solution.
The Reds began trying to corrent things in the late 1990s after Schott was forced to sell. But then GM Jim Bowden often reverted to the Schott quick fixes.
Dan O'Brien started to turn around scouting and player development. It's continued under Wayne Krivsky and the current ownership.
But the fact that it's taken so long to get it back to where it was tells you how good it was under Howsam.
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Down Syndrome Program | Prenatal Resources
Parents who receive a prenatal diagnosis are given an opportunity to meet and talk with a developmental pediatrician about Down syndrome and ask questions. The Down Syndrome Program works closely with the Advanced Fetal Care Center at Boston Children's Hospital. Please feel free to contact The Down Syndrome Program Coordinator who can provide materials on Down syndrome, make connections and describe support services.
During our Allen C. Crocker Speaker Series, we had Linda Zaccagnini, RN, MSN, NNP of the Advanced Fetal Care Center and Lori Dobson, MS, CGC of Brigham and Women's Hospital present a thorough and informative talk on Navigating a Prenatal Diagnosis of Down Syndrome. This talk can be used as an educational tool and resource for parents as well support staff and others! You can watch it by clicking here!
Understanding a Down Syndrome Diagnosis is a booklet that our Down Syndrome Program shares with expectant parents that visit us for a prenatal visit. It is also sold by Lettercase and was created with input from both the medical and Down syndrome communities, including representatives of ACOG, NSGC, ACMG, NDSC, and NDSS, to provide accurate, up-to-date, and balanced prenatal information about Down syndrome. The booklets cover available health and education services, common medical conditions for babies with Down syndrome, information about pregnancy options, and helpful resources about the condition. The booklets also include a Spanish translation and have been optimized for different reading levels. These booklets are now available for free download in English or Spanish for anyone with iPad, iPhone, ePub or Kindle!
Down Syndrome Pregnancy, Inc, a New Jersey charitable corporation, provides information and support to expectant parents preparing for the birth of a baby with Down syndrome. All of their materials are geared to non-political, honest, compassionate and informative support for those in post-diagnosis pregnancy or waiting until birth for a confirmed diagnosis. Down Syndrome Pregnancy offers a free, downloadable pregnancy book entitled Diagnosis to Delivery: A Pregnant Mother's Guide to Down Syndrome by Nancy McCrea Iannone and Stephanie Hall Meredith.
Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress has a Parent First Call Program. They have trained, volunteer parents who make themselves and their knowledge available to expectant parents and parents of babies newly diagnosed with Down syndrome. They offer an opportunity to ask questions and share experiences, information on Down syndrome and assistance in locating services. All their services are free and confidential.
National Down Syndrome Congress offers an Expectant Parents Guide, articles and other information for expectant parents.
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The zest of the bouquet is the decoration in the form of school symbols.
The bright spring still life image, which pleases eyes and raises spirits!
The tender arrangement, full of light, spring warmth and miracle expectations.
The «nest» with Easter eggs is a symbol of happy life and prosperity.
A figure of a tank is a symbol of active basis, confidence and strength.
Roses and strawberry are symbols of the profane love and enjoyment.
The «heart» with roses and sweets will tell a lot about sincere feelings.
Light and radiant yellow and orange colours will create the mood of a jolly festival.
A bear looks like a country dandy ready to date his girlfriend.
A lyrical composition reflects a heart languor of an affectionate man.
The «heart» for your beloved woman will express tenderness and purity of your relations.
Pay special attention towards a person keen on computers.
Auntie Snail is coming on a visit to your dear ones in order to add some comfort to their house.
The touching and cute show of affection to your beloved «bunny».
The flower toy instead of a standard bouquet can help you to skip usual solutions.
The bouquet conveys the emotions of hot southern sun, of tranquility and serenity. Such flowers are suitable for any girl or young woman.
Give the composition to the girl you love, wishing her eternal blossom and heavenly happiness.
A white castle is usually associated with treasures, a beautiful knight and beautiful lady.
The white flowers in combination with green leaves and red hypericum create the image of tender, light and refined spring.
These cold beauties – the pale lilies – are good at reflecting a woman's charm.
Both Dante's Beatrice clothes and bouquet colors combination of green, white and red symbolize faith, hope and love.
The choice of the plants and the colors is meant to convey the mood of waking nature, spring lightness and charm.
The floristics' «haute couture» cannot refuse using such refined and noble flowers as roses and lilies.
This cute spring bouquet, naïve and expressly simple, makes a nice present for a woman of any age.
This small but significant gift, a spring composition in a tiny box with a lace, will help you convey your admiration of someone special.


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Rents can rise in cities and jurisdictions that are experiencing growth. It's one of the double edge sword effects of a growing economy. Let a major corporation move a department or division into a city and the need for more housing can increase.
Rent costs lean on growth and healthy economies
When this happens, apartment management companies and individual house renters may start to see dollar signs. Let a housing shortage be created after a company moves into the area and rents could increase by several hundred dollars a month.
Major events like the Olympics, a growing number of conventions being hosted in a city and large international government events being held in a city also see rent costs spike. The events attract so many people to an area that everyone can benefit.
Retailers, apartment management firms, individual house renters and transportation companies can all come out ahead when local economies grow. That's the smooth side of the sword.
On the sharp side of the local economic growth are rents that rise so high that many people can no longer afford to live in expanding neighborhoods, places where these people may have been born and lived for years.
Take action to keep rents from rising
Although you may not be able to keep rents from rising out of your reach, there are steps that you could take to keep rents from pushing you out of neighborhoods that you want to live in. The first step that you could take is to speak with managers at apartment homes where you currently are renting or where you want to rent.
Clearly communicate to apartment managers that you want to remain in the apartment home but that you won't be able to do so if rents continue to spike. If apartment managers that you speak with tell you that they are unable to do anything about the increases, ask to speak with a business leader at the apartment management company that owns the rental space.
You may get better results if you simply ask for the website or contact information of the company that manages the apartments. Negotiate with the business leader to see if he will make concessions for you. If you're a loyal renter, they just might do that.
There's more that you could do to lower rents
Other steps that you could take to lower rents also lean on communication. Some steps only require a bit of creativity and openness to change. Among these steps are:
Just because rental prices rise doesn't mean that you don't have options. If you stay open to speaking with apartment managers, you could negotiate a lower rental price. Being a good tenant, someone who pays her rent on time, helps.


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Why Does a Druid Ride a Lawn Mower?
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Our industrial civilization seems to me to be in a state of suspended de-animation. The narcissistic techno imagadget cyborg drones are anything but animated. Their avatars are all over the internet while their bodies are aimlessly burning fossil fuels in support of an insanity continually left unnoticed. A new reality has come into existence. It's a reality never before seen, and it's a direct result of the lottery our species won which has paid us in concentrated golden energy derived from the sun. Most first world inhabitants have no idea how this lottery pay off has distorted our collective reality, or that it's a miniscule fraction on the time line that is the human experience on this living Earth. The portal by which our first world society now sustains this ridiculous electronic virtual contrivance, is the imagadget "smart phone."
The smart phone may be smart, but it's made us stupid. It's become a perpetual soul vacuum that's sucked the human spirit into it's electronic clutches. It's attached horse blinders to our collective imagination and crushed our bodies into useless meat riddled with nuclear powered cancer and super bugs. Super bugs that are hard at work creating a future misery the likes of which our anesthetized imagination cannot imagine. We look through this device to see a matrix composed of artificial constructs designed to be nice. The device keeps us all endlessly distracted from looking at one another, all while we spend all of our time looking at one another while scrolling through a multitude of lives taking place virtually. What more does one need than the phenomenon that is the "selfie?" How have we come to a place where it is considered completely normal to take a picture of one's self and then post it amongst a cascade of other selfies? Everybody is looking at themselves through this electronic mirror. Narcissist's reflective pool broadcast ubiquitously and completely. It's come to a place where putting down the drug is no longer possible. The will just is not there. The truth is that we all know how pointless this distraction has become…at least deep down in the recesses of our collective psyche.
We continue to wake up day after day stuck in this suspended de-animation. There are simply to many disgusting creatures crawling around just beneath the surface of the early 21st century human experience for us to fathom. This pretend land we take selfies in is made possible by third world wage slavery. The clothing we pay too much for that is featured in our masturbated pics was stitched together by a people whom might as well be living in a dumpster full of our second hand hedonistic stickyness. A dumpster that receives the shitty end of the planned obsolescence they slave away to create for us. Then there is the Earth that supports us which we have turned into a sewer of cast off desires which catches the overflow from the dumpster those unfortunate slaves live in. Each of us kings and queens entitled to create suffocating trash in a ritual of daily consumption. Drones fly and innocent brown people die for the energy to keep this diseased tragedy going and growing. Of course, none of this matters in the nice imagadget reality we all inhabit. Well, maybe not all of us inhabit that reality. I don't.
My world mostly takes place outside. Everyday I make it a point to pay attention to the natural world. That world doesn't require a grid to sustain itself. It doesn't require ancient fossil energy either. What it requires is a willingness to participate in the struggle for life. I'm attempting to learn how to participate in that struggle with grace and equanimity. This dance happens on the bio side of biophobia, and it requires acceptance of the gooey, slimey, smelly, living bodily fluid that is required to support life. It crawls in the soil and smells of Earth. It grows out of the ground and has an enduring intelligence the likes of which we should strive to possess. It pays us in natural splendor, taste, and fertility. It's time takes place in rotations, tilts, and revolutions. It's life follows the sun and sleeps on the Earth. This marvelous happening dazzles the senses in slow motion. The natural magnificence I'm describing does not show up on the imagadget. It doesn't fit that artificial electronic mold.
Where does all of this leave me and people like me? It leaves us stuck between artificial sustenance and quality starvation. Between pointlessness and a natural sanity thought putrid and insane by the imagadget followers. Followers that do not support the efforts needed most to keep our species healthy and thriving in the nonindustrial future which we have guaranteed our children will get. Which isn't a bad thing, it's actually good, but there's a lot of pain between now and the backside of that good. There's a lot of disease, starvation, marshal law, war, death and suffering to go before anything like good will come of it. At least the imagadget will eventually go the way of the dodo. What this all means to me is that I must labor at destructive, soul crushing, BAU support to keep my family out of debt and fed. I'm a nuclear engineer medic turned riding lawn mower/weed eater operator. I've dropped out of everything this society has offered up to me. I've done so because none of it could stand up to my personal sense of ethics. The nuclear engineering created toxic waste and killed lots of brown people. The once healthcare turned wealthcare and supported nothing but rich fuckers and their corporations. We have a large industry that makes people rich by parasatizing human bodies, and I'm not talking about the war machine here either. I'm talking about our wealthcare system.
This is all how a Druid has come to ride a lawn mower for money. This is all why a Druid cuts down trees, pulls up vines, trims ornamental shrubbery, and does all of the other trappings of conventional landscaping for money. It's one of the most pressing ironies of my life (and my employer is a 69 year old retired army Sergeant Major to boot). I do battle with nature for money, and then I come home and practice permaculture. I have a permaculture business named Ancient Earth Design, but nobody wants to pay for permaculture because they don't see the need for edible landscaping. They all see a need for the most worthless plants imaginable. Plants that only yield pretty and nice, but not medicinal and edible…or even useful for that matter. All of the nice ornamental plant growth gets carted off to that dumpster full of our stupidity to rot in the landfill with the diapers. Society pays a lot of money to keep the grass and ornamental landscapes trimmed up and under control. Society won't pay shit to have whole systems implemented on their landscape. Natural systems that work with nature to create abundance by way of food producing plants and animals. Society has no use for food and medicine. They're to busy texting, sexting, selfying, and just plan virtual masturbating to care about the natural world that sustains us all.
Eventually the permaculture system I have in place here on this one acre I live on will mature, and maybe I won't have to work at cutting grass for other people as much then. I don't care about money, but money cares about me. I don't care much about society either, but here I am, cutting their damned grass. I've thought about going back to college, but then I realized that college doesn't result in a job, it just results in debt. I know how to read books, and books are free at the library. Even if college does result in a job it's just more BAU support. BAU does nothing but destroy life. It produces food by killing everything in the soil with multitudes of poisons. It turns brown people into wage slaves and gives everybody cancer. I suppose none of that matters because the selfie nation doesn't care. At any rate, in the morning I'm off to go ride a lawn mower and operate a weed eater. At least nature will forgive me…I hope. It has to forgive me. After all, I have five different species of bamboo growing on this acre. I'm nursing the bamboo monster in hopes that it will grow up and destroy BAU. Consider this your warning! The bamboo monster is coming to getcha, and when he does this Druid will stop riding god foresaken lawn mowers. I much prefer the sickle.


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First off, I abhor this piece of literature. It is a failed attempt at portraying the intricacies of an alternative lifestyle that is already overly misunderstood. What was instead produced was a long, drawn out story (which started as Twilight fan fiction, unfortunately) of an abusive relationship (hey, much like Twilight!) and a woman too silly and misguided to understand the difference. Considering my view, why would I call it 'real literature'? Because it tried. The author had a vision and a world and sets forth to portray them and bring them to life. The abusive eroticism is not uncommon and is more telling as a sign of our current generation than anything else. Do I hate it? Yes, emphatically. Do I still consider it literature? Yes, I do. And until a new wave of authors steps up to guide the trend in a more positive direction, we can look forward to many more works of this caliber.
Although I hate admitting it, 50 Shades of Grey definitely counts as literature. Literature is defined as anything that is of printed matter that portrays an idea. So yes, this book is literature - it's just BAD literature. It's along the same line of "is all music 'art'?". If you consider one type of music to be art then ALL music is art. (It's just that there is good and bad art, depending on what you like.) If something isn't art then none of it is art. The same goes for literature. It's an all or nothing situation, though you can define it (based on personal preferences) whether or not it is "good" or "bad".
Yes, I think that the popular book '50 Shades of Grey' is in fact literature. The book provides readers of all different background with a unique experience, and the book explores different facets of the imagination. I think that all it takes to be literature is to challenge and engage readers '50 Shades of Grey' does.
There is a fine line between simple BDSM and abuse, when you force someone to sign their rights over to legitimately become no less than a slave and justify it as " romance ", that is when it lost the respect pf being classified as good literature. It started out as a fanfiction, as much as I despise Twilight, S.Meyer has the right to sue.
It holds no literary merit, no artistic truth to the people it attempts to represent. It holds no secrets to be revealed through careful reading and rereading. It is merely entertainment that is meant to be read once. It doesn't even represent the bDSM subculture that well either, many consider it a tale of abuse and Stockholm syndrome sugar coated with a love story.
A book that doesn't have a substantial plot line, is poorly written and is full of grammatical errors cannot be classified as real literature. It saddens me that many people see 50 Shades as a well written book, clearly they have not read many books in their lifetime! Definitely not real literature by any definition!
It started out as fanfiction for another piece of tripe that never should have been published, the Twilight series.
It is poorly written, full of horrid grammar and insipid or missing character development, and a mockery of the talented writers that cannot get published because the industry caters to the lowest common denominator now.
There is a world of difference between a "book" and LITERATURE.
If 50 Shades of Grey is real literature then Sasha Grey is a Hollywood actress that just really gets into her role. 50 Shades of Grey a lot of women will tell you serves a purpose and which purpose that is isn't exactly a secret, but just because it's successful doesn't make it something beyond what the author is fully aware it is.


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Discussion in 'BlackHat Lounge' started by zoomsixx, Jun 15, 2012.
Someone is pissed. lol
bwuahahhaha STOP THIS IS NOT A DVD , Too funny
WIN and FAIL at the same time
Stop! This is not a dvd!
I located the link to the auction. Pretty funny:
You need Quicktime to hear him screaming
I can relate with the guy honestly. You get some pretty dumb people ordering things then complaining later. He probably got tired of the complaints. He sold 18 of these cards alone even with the audio.
I just realized the seller died by looking at his feedback. Probably a heart attack.
I totally feel for this guy. I've listed items before that have a very clear description and then people get it and leave me negative feedback because they can't read.
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About Dr Rachel RichRachel Rich got her BA in history from McGill University in Canada, before moving to the UK where she studied for an MA and PhD at the University of Essex. Rachel taught at the University of Manchester and Aberystwyth University before coming to Leeds Beckett University in 2010. Rachel's teaching and research interests are in the cultural history of modern Europe, as well as in the history of food and eating habits. She is a member of the editorial boards of Women's History, and Food & History, and sits on the steering committee of the Women's History Network.
Rachel has published in the history of food and eating, including a Manchester University Press monograph Bourgeois Consumption: Food, Space and Identity in London and Paris, 1850-1914 (2011). Recently, she has turned her attention to the history of timekeeping practices in modern Europe, looking at clock ownership, women's diaries, and cookbooks for what they can tell us about how people thought about and organized their time. Her most recent publication in this area appeared in Cultural and Social History in 2015.
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Many people may have already known Strangers' Reunion. Barista Ryan Kieran Tan opened a new venture at Prinsep Street in 2015 - Curious Palette.
I visited the cafe for the Save a Stranger Tuesday. Curious palette was opened for business five Tuesdays from 12 noon to 9pm. All staff working on Tuesdays will be volunteering their time and all proceeds from Tuesdays' sales will go to a fund to support Sebastian - the head chef of Strangers' Reunion through his cancer treatments.
The soft shell crab burger comes with wasabi slaw, homemade aioli, roasted butternut squash, salted egg togarashi, chili oil and petit salad. The hint of wasabi is a perfect combination with the coleslaw and crispy soft shell crab.
For sides, we opted for stuffed nachos. The gooey cheese ooze out from every bite. If you are a fan of cheese, this is a must try!
The star of Curious Palette is Berry Ricotta Pancakes.
The dessert looks like a garden of berries, sunflower seeds and vanilla ice-cream. The pancake is spongy on the inside, crispy on the outside. And of course, maple syrup enhance this masterpiece.
Curious Palette offers one of the best cafe food.
I'll definitely come back again for more.
Food: 9.5/10
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This is it, a chance at the majors. For nine young singers, the central region finals for the Metropolitan Opera happen this Sunday at Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston.
WFMT will be there. The winner(s) will head to New York for the grand nationals on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. Past winners of the nationals include Paul Groves and Thomas Hampson (both in the upcoming Lyric production of Parsifal


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Cecil Sharp House, a folk arts centre located in Camden, is home to the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) and the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.
Mission and activity
While Cecil Sharp House was founded in 1930 as a memorial to the folk music and dance collector, Cecil Sharp, the EFDSS has a longer history. Founded in 1898, the Society has remained faithful to its mission: to preserve and promote the best of folk. Through various programmes and events EFDSS provides access to folk music, song and dance to people of all ages and backgrounds. The organisation distinguishes between three areas of activity:
· Learning and participation: everyone from small children to elderly people can benefit from classes, courses, projects and events run by the Education Department of the EFDSS. One can drop in to an Irish dance class, learn to play banjo or sing in a choir. The organisation also works with schools, community groups, etc.
· Performance and artists' development: providing training and development support to artists at all stages of their careers through showcases, including the EFDSS's emerging Folk Rising platform. There is also an international programme that helps to promote the work of English folk artists overseas.
· Advocacy: the English Folk Dance and Song Society works with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Folk Arts to help raise the profile of the folk arts within the Palace of Westminster through events and by inviting the members to folk events around the country.
As well as the various programmes and projects, EFDSS also publishes the Folk Music Journal aimed specifically at scholars and the English Dance & Song magazine. Members of the EFDSS benefit from free access to both, while the general public can get access through a relatively cheap subscription system.
The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library is also part of Cecil Sharp House, for it once used to be Cecil Sharp's personal book collection. It is now England's national collection of folk music and dance. Recent projects include Take 6, implemented in 2007, which saw the Library digitise six major manuscript collections, and The Full English - a learning programme of workshops, lectures, training and community events in nine regions of England involving the world's biggest digital archive of English folklore, song and dance manuscripts.
A short documentary about The Full English training programme can be found here:
Cecil Sharp House is run by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), a registered charity which receives about 70% of its funding through subscriptions and donations from 3000 individuals and 800 organisations, as well as ticket sales and venue hire. The rest of their funding comes from Arts Council England (ACE), beginning at £400,000 per annum in 2009. This funding was reduced to £300,000 in 2012. However, as of this year, ACE has announced a huge increase in EFDSS' funding, to £432,046. In a statement coinciding with this decision, ACE pointed to the commercial success of bands such as Mumford and Sons and Laura Marling, who trade under the folk music banner. Here ACE is backing a winning product in the globalised music industry, rather than concerning itself with abstract ideas surrounding the preservation of cultural heritage. Many academics, as well as members of folk music communities, define folk music by its non-commodified or commercialised nature, and may be troubled by ACE's rhetoric.
It has, however, secured vital funding for EFDSS: this funding is being used in educational and outreach projects such as a national youth folk ensemble, as well as expending operations in Cecil Sharp House.
Global Context
Other projects include digitalising the Vaughn Williams Memorial Library of folk songs, located in Cecil Sharp House, and making the archive available for free online. This project, funded through a lottery grant, is an enormous step in returning this music to the public domain, and dispersing it on an international level. Interestingly, success in the globalised music industry, which is so often seen as damaging to traditional music, helped draw attention to EFDSS and secure funding for their conservation work.
In 2013, the society became involved in cultural diplomacy, by forming an association with the British Council's ongoing 'Folk Nations' project in Kolkata, India. This involved bringing performers of each county's traditional music and dance together for a week-long residency, culminating in a collaborative concert. The British Council runs these projects all over the world, so it is perhaps a missed opportunity for the EFDSS only to be involved in curating one residency. EFDSS also facilitates exchanges of musicians in Canada.
Is the organisation doing enough to provide access to folk music, song and dance?
How should national folk traditions be managed in a globalised context?


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Many of us love to keep photographs of family and friends in order to remember good times we have had together with them. Although photo albums are great and easy way to store and preserve the most special and memorable photos, however there are several ways in which we can display drawings, poems, decorations, and photos in an appealing frames to decorate our homes.
One of the challenges involved with home decorating is to determine where to place the framed photos. This is because putting up too many family photos might bore your guests or they might feel that you are self-centered. If done properly and in a balanced way, family photos can add a warm feeling to any room. You can place your favorite family photos in individual or in group shots. Making a 'wall of fame' photo display in the family room, staircase wall, or any other living space is a great idea to remind viewers that loved ones are very special.
Another idea that can add beauty to your home is to use framed art. This type of art comes in a wide variety of artistic wall hangings that are framed by using frames of metal, acrylic, or wood. General rule is to match the frames with household fixtures or furniture, or select the ones that may create interesting accents for the rooms. Some of most wonderful framed wall pieces include delicate dried flowers, a kid's handprint, personal poem, and a favorite Bible verse.
Framed art is not only limited to the walls only as these framed art pieces can also be used to set table framed pieces on the bedroom dresser, plant stands, coffee tables, end tables, atop corner shelves, bookshelves, window sills, and even on the bathroom vanity. If your kitchen counter space and dining room tables have free space then you can place beautiful curios on them.
If you are fond of collecting antiques and other items then you can get a lighted collector's cabinet to keep the most appealing or recent on display for family, friends and guests.


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We believe the Gospel changes people. It's really the only thing that can truly bring about change in our lives. Because of Christ's life, death, and resurrection, we have hope, and that hope compels us to worship. When we gather on Sunday morning, we do so because God has brought us from death into life (Ephesians 2:1-10), and He deserves to be glorified through our worship.
When we gather...
- We sing songs of worship.
- God has commanded us to worship him through song (Psalm 150). When we sing, our voices join as one in praise to the King of creation, the only one who deserves our praise. We proclaim our adoration through theologically rich songs that are grounded in Scripture. The music we sing is a blending of the timeless hymns written in centuries past and modern worship music that reminds us of God's continued faithfulness in the midst of our ever-changing world.
- We hear the Word proclaimed
- The Bible is the foundational document for all that we believe, all that we do, and is the very reason we can have hope in Christ. Because God chose to reveal Himself to us through His word, we can know how we should live, why we don't live as we should, and how we have hope in Christ through His death, burial, and resurrection. Since the Bible is so very important to our faith, we believe that we are commanded to faithfully preach the entire Word of God.
- We pray.
- When Christ died on the cross, the effects on the world were tremendous. Scripture tells us Christ's finished work has made a way of salvation for sinners to become children of God (John 1:12; 2 Corinthians 5:21). Because of this, and the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8), we may now approach God through prayer. We pray as a church because God has commanded it, because the Bible tells us prayer is powerful (James 5:16), and because we can lift one another up through prayer (James 5:13-15).


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This topic is for people with advanced command of English. I will write grammar material in English. If you are confused, just ask me. Hope it will be effective for many people who want to improve their knowledge of English. Just try to understand rules written in English!
Present Simple
1. Habitual or repeated actions in present
2. Universal truth
3. Hobbies, traditions
4. 'Immediate' present actions
- feelings, attitudes
- sport commentaries, recipes
5. Timetables, schedules (with time)
6. Past events in summaries with books, stories
7. Future actions in Subordinate clause (of time and conditions)
8. Future actions in offers and suggestions
Present Continuous
1. Actions in progress
- at the moment of speaking
- about the moment of speaking
2. Parallel actions (simultaneous)
3. Planned actions
4. Changing and developing situations
5. Actions of frequency (irritations) — emotional colouring
6. Actions in progress in the past with historical events
Past Simple
- Habitual or repeated actions in the past
- Single events in the past
- Succession of past events
We use «to be used to» to show that someone has a habit to do something and now he has this habit too. (Привык)
I am used to travelling a lot.
We «used to + infinitive» to refer to past habits or states (Раньше имел привычку, сейчас нет)
He used to smoke a lot. (he doesn't smoke anymore) — contrast with present
We use «would» — когда переводим » бывало» (Личностная характеристика)
Past Continuous
- Past actions in progress
- Parallel actions (past)
- Past actions of unusual frequency
- Reported present time actions
- A polite request (I was hoping he would change his mind)


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Every new smartphone concept has gradually shed features to highlight design. There's a certain sense of sexiness that manufacturers strive to achieve with each new form factor. The most popular trend is a large display which takes up most of the smartphone's face, all the while using higher quality materials for the rest of the chassis. But I'm not ready to forego additional ports, battery capacity, or touch input accuracy just because OEMs want to compete on such trival matters.
Smartphone bezels are the latest example of a trend that makes as much sense as a small battery powering a huge display. An edge-to-edge screen is an achievement many manufacturers are trying to claim as a feature of their device, and I really wish it wasn't a topic of discussion.
Present day devices like LG's Optimus G Pro and Samsung's Galaxy S 4 have bezels in the neighborhood of 2.5mm, and glancing at the device, it's hard not to be impressed. As compared to any of the iPhone's released over the years, or even HTC's new flagship, the One, both LG and Samsung are clearly leading the bezel disappearing act. Most recently, an image posted by @evleaks depicts an unnamed LG smartphone with a near bezel-less 5.5-inch display. It's quite a looker and really highlights LG's determination to be taken as a serious contender in the smartphone arena. But why no bezel, LG?
To me, the bezel disappearing act is equivalent to the "thin smartphone war." It seems manufacturers are creating an imaginary race to erase smartphone bezels in the same manner they're shedding features to make a thinner device. Though I might prefer the look of a device without a bezel, the display is an important part of a smartphone to protect. And don't even get me started about thin smartphones because I'll take a thicker device with a larger battery eight days out of the week.
There are a few reasons smartphones need bezels, and one of them isn't because it makes smartphones look sexier. Looks aren't everything, OEMs.
Much like a picture in a frame, a smartphone's bezel balances the face of the smartphone while providing structural rigidity. Technology is partially responsible for the aforementioned bezel disappearing act, and it's likely we haven't seen the end of it. As smartphones become more a showcase of design rather than a product of practicality, OEMs shouldn't forget that there's nothing worse than a cracked screen. And considering smartphones with unibody designs tend to be much harder to repair, a chassis which is less rigid becomes a serious flaw when you can't repair a broken display without shelling out a kidney as payment.
After watching a drop test of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 and the iPhone 5 conducted by TechSmartt, it's clear that the bezel plays a role in keeping your smartphone's display intact. Likewise, the iPhone 5's screen with its thicker bezel faired much better in the drop test. But the Galaxy S 4 isn't the only device which isn't as strong as it looks. Pantech also released the Vega Iron which has a "zero bezel display" with a "world beating" 75.5 percent viewable-to-total area ratio. This means 2.4mm separates the 5-inch 720p display from the frame of the device and less than 25 percent of the face of the smartphone is not display. But what for, Pantech?
To top it off, a bezel is a functional addition in one-handed operation. Try this: grab your smartphone and cup it in your hand like you normally would while reaching across with your thumb. On a device without a bezel, your palm comes into contact with the near-side while the thumb is also in contact with the further side. The result is a device registering two points of contact. Input errors occur. I sometimes have this issue with my LG Nexus 4, though it's easily avoided and not much of an issue if I try hard not to touch two points at once. But I'd be lying if I said it wasn't somewhat of a nuisance when holding it with one hand, and I can't imagine the unnamed LG device above, the Pantech Vega Iron, or the Samsung Galaxy S 4 won't suffer from the same issue in daily practice.
Lastly, a smartphone's display is outlined by the bezel for the same reasons photos are put into picture frames - it highlights the foreground as the central point to focus on. Displays are no different than pictures within frames. The purpose of any image is to highlight its importance by putting it front and center. A smartphone without a bezel loses the "picture frame effect" and looks incomplete. Imagine a car with no bumpers, a plane with no wings, or a chair with no arms. Each shape is rounded out by the frame of the object in the same manner bezels house the visual information of a smartphone's display. The result is a better looking image which is easier to differentiate from whatever is in the background.
Even though I might think a smartphone looks better without a bezel, it doesn't make sense not to have one. I prefer more accurate touch inputs, the "picture frame effect", and the rigidity a bezel provides. LG, please make the smartphone above strong enough to withstand a subtle drop. I'd hate to give up a limb to replace that enormous display.
What say you, Dear Reader? Do you think smartphones need bezels? Does a bezel detract from a device's appearance, or is it a worthwhile characteristic? Let me know in the comments down below!
Images via @evleaks (Facebook), Phone Arena and GSMarc.


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Tonight, as the victorious contestant in ITV's The X Factor is finally anointed, the race for the Christmas No 1 spot in the charts will begin in earnest. Whether Rebecca Ferguson, Matt Cardle, Cher Lloyd or perhaps the boy band One Direction turns out to be the winner, the end of the television talent show will offer a chance of lasting fame for all the runners-up.
It is not just the acts taking part in the live final who stand to benefit from the X Factor factor, a bemusing array of satirical and novelty tracks are also making the most of the publicity surrounding the show by defining themselves as alternatives to the mainstream fare promoted by Simon Cowell's one-man music industry.
As students rampage through the streets of London, Captain Ska's anti-cuts, anti-coalition government song, Liar Liar, goes on sale today aiming to provide an anthem for this winter of discontented youth. Excerpts from the speeches of George Osborne, David Cameron and Nick Clegg are intercut with the urgent lyric, "He's a liar, liar," sung along to a reggae beat. Proceeds from the single are to go to causes helping those affected by the cuts, including the homeless charity Crisis, the Disability Alliance, Women's Health Matters and to a campaigning website, False Economy, designed as a repository of information on the cuts.
"I've never much been into politics before," Captain Ska said last week, "but the spending cuts are going to really hit millions of people who did nothing to cause this recession. And ska can be the soundtrack for the campaign, just as 2-tone was one of the few good things to come from the 1980s."
Subversive contenders for No 1 position at Christmas are still led by Cage Against the Machine, a "performance" of avant garde musician John Cage's notorious 1952 composition of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. Those behind the hugely popular Facebook campaign promoting this single took their inspiration from the success of last year's single Killing In The Name by the band Rage Against the Machine, which managed to beat the 2009 X Factor winner Joe McElderry to the top slot, raising more than £100,000 for the housing charity Shelter in the process.
A sideswipe at the X Factor machine might also come from singer Gamu Nhengu, who went out of this year's competition at an early stage but who is entering the race for this year's Christmas No 1 with a charity single. Last year's outsider contestants, Jedward, the Irish brothers John and Edward, are also tilting at the top again with a new single.
For the four acts still in the running to win this year's X Factor, the week ahead means serious business. Secret plans for the immediate release of the winner's single are already advanced, ensuring maximum impact on the market, before their names start to fade in the memory of rival camps of supporters.
If the five fresh-faced members of One Direction, the boy-band who were put together by the X Factor judges, win tonight, they plan to sing Young Forever, a track by Hudson based on an original by Alphaville. If the guitar-playing Cardle is triumphant, he plans to perform Many of Horror by the Scottish Mercury prize nominees Biffy Clyro.
The two remaining solo divas, Ferguson and Lloyd, have yet to announce what they will sing should they win. As competition favourites, they are already entering the marketing-led purdah that blankets the lives of the most profitable stars in the music business.
The sassy yet fragile Lloyd has had a bumpy ride in the competition so far, yet many suspect that Cowell privately hopes this teenager will win. Although Lloyd is "mentored" on the show by fellow judge Cheryl Cole, the all-powerful Cowell appears to approve of her more unconventional attitude.
For those looking for a light-hearted way to thumb their nose at Cowell, the comedian Harry Hill has released an album of satirical songs for Christmas, including the single I Wanna Baby, about a teenage wannabe mum. Ellie Goulding's cover of Elton John's Your Song has been a download hit since its use in the John Lewis Christmas commercial.
Conventional Christmas-hit-peddlers Cliff Richard, Mariah Carey and George Michael, and the late Michael Jackson are also all in the running with new singles or charity re-releases. Among the remaining unlikely competitors are: Welsh opera singer Bryn Terfel, who duets with the late Bing Crosby courtesy of technology; the Pogues' Shane MacGowan, who has joined up with the Priests for a new version of The Little Drummer Boy; and the cast of Glee, the hit US television show, who are releasing a song from their Christmas special.


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Jessica Alba: 'A.C.O.D.' Official Trailer - Watch Now!
Jessica Alba enjoys a cup of coffee while heading into her Honest Company office on Thursday (August 16) in Los Angeles.
Earlier in the week, the 32-year-old actress' husband Cash Warren tweeted, "Obsessed with the new album by @sunnylevine #hushnow … Just dropped today. Give her a listen!"
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Check out a newly released trailer below of Jessica's upcoming film A.C.O.D., which is still awaiting a release date. Stay tuned!
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — An official says the son of Senegal's former president will be tried for illicit enrichment following an investigation into how he amassed his multi-million dollar fortune.
Soro Diop, an adviser to the Justice Ministry, said Thursday that Karim Wade will be tried in two months, ending speculation that the charges might be dropped.
Wade, who was a minister in the government of his father Abdoulaye Wade, was arrested last April following a months-long investigation into how he amassed a fortune estimated at more than $1.3 billion. He remains in detention.
Diop said the amount Wade will be accused of illegally amassing has been reduced to around $700 million.
The former president was voted out of office in 2012 and several officials in his government have been charged with illicit enrichment.


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Britton Low v. Pfizer Canada Inc., et al. (SCC #36848) — leave dismissed
The Supreme Court has dismissed Britton Low's appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia (2015 BCCA 506). We had previously summarized that decision the week of December 14, 2015, wherein the Court of Appeal had overturned the certification of a class action relating to the drug Viagra, dismissing the action.


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A proposed expansion of the Palm Beach County Stockade received preliminary County Commission approval Thursday and commissioners also prepared for a further expansion.
Sheriff Richard Wille recommended the county move ahead with development of a dormitory-kitchen complex to hold 256 minimum- and medium-security inmates, and begin planning for an additional 256-inmate complex to be built in the near future.
The new facility, which would be built on seven acres of county-owned land adjacent to the present stockade on Belvedere Road west of West Palm Beach, not only would ease the overcrowding that has plagued the main jail in recent months, Wille said, but also would be a more economical way of housing inmates who do not require maximum security.
``This is a better way to go as long as you don`t run out of the type of inmate you put in this facility,`` Wille said.
The stockade, although housing 291 inmates, has a capacity of 242, Wille said. The jail, meanwhile, has 631 beds, but is housing 681 inmates.
Only a third of the inmates in the jail, however, are considered maximum- security prisoners who could not be moved to the stockade, Wille said.
Wille pointed out that $800,000 for new stockade construction is in the current county budget, although nearly $300,000 more would be needed to staff and equip the first phase of the expansion.
Sixteen additional guards would have to be on the job by Sept. 1, Wille said, meaning they would have to be hired and start training by July 1.


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DICKINSON, Texas – While the business pages are filled with stories about a collapsed housing market, massive job layoffs and an economy in seeming free-fall, LL Auctions reports it is off to a record start so far for 2009. The firm specializes in estates, personal property and business liquidation auctions. Its next big sale will go online April 21, at www.texas-auctions.com.
"When the economy started to sag a few years ago, we made the decision to refocus our direction and make more options available to sellers. We began offering online-only auctions as a way to get more items out to a larger pool of bidders. It's a strategy that worked," remarked Lisa Gay, owner of LL Auctions.
Gay explained that part of her success lies in the fact that, in rough financial times, sellers are plentiful. "Since money is tight," she said, "people look around for things they can convert into quick cash. They need money, and they need it now. That's where we come in."
LL Auctions first introduced the online-only option about three years ago. And, while the firm still conducts traditional live auctions, the online-only component of its buisness model has carried it through what has been a rough patch for many other auction houses. "Technology has changed the industry forever," Gay said. "Auctioneers who haven't recognized this fact are in for tough times."
Last year, online-only auctions comprised about 80 percent of LL Auctions' business. For 2009, Gay estimates that figure will jump to 90 percent. "We are seeing people buy online who had never been to an auction before, but who had heard about us from a friend," she said. "Folks won't drive 60 miles to sit and wait for that one item to come up for bid. But they will sit at their computers and bid."
Many of LL Auctions' new customers have been younger people, in the 18-35 age range. "This is the generation that grew up with computers and the Internet," she pointed out. "It only follows they would embrace online auctions. Many have never been to a live auction, but they're completely comfortable bidding through a computer."
What may be more surprising is what these new bidders (and many veterans, too) are bidding on. "People are looking for things they need, but they're also looking for bargains," Gay said. "Suddenly, that lithograph or figurine that would have sold for big bucks several years ago is taking a back seat to practical, everyday, useful items, like washers, dryers, microwaves and chests of drawers."
That's right, people are buying gently used washing machines online, at auction prices that can seem supremely appealing when compared to even a discount outlet. "It's certainly a better value than a new appliance bought from a showroom or furniture store," Gay stated.
Appliances are a current hot-item category, Gay said. She named a couple of bargains from recent online auctions: a stainless steel microwave oven ($83) and a stainless steel refrigerator ($810). Meanwhile, a Fenton glassware Persian Medallion bowl brought $145, while a pair of Frankoma urns realized $79. "So you see, the great deals can be had in a broad range of categories," Gay added.
She continued, "The fun part of an auction is that you never know what's going to come up in the next one. Every auction is different from the one before it, and the variety is almost limitless. "
Gay was quick to point out that, no matter how high-spirited the sale itself, the current economic climate has produced auctions born of hardship and emotional pain. "For some of our sellers, any government help is already too late," she said. "They are facing foreclosure and have to liquidate. For them to sit by and watch as their precious belongings and memories are sold is heart-wrenching."
LL Auctions is a full-service auction company. The firm conducts auctions for corporations, privately-held companies, law firms, individuals and not-for-profits across Texas. It also assists with specialty auctions in other states. LL Auctions uses all available means possible to sell clients' items, to include an extensive mailing list of potential buyers and a heavy focus on advertising and networking.
Gay is a graduate of the Southeastern School of Auctioneering in South Carolina. She holds a Texas auctioneer license. She also serves on the board of directors as the Texas Auctioneers Association president-elect and is an active member of the National Auctioneers Association (NAA). She also serves on the editorial board of the official NAA magazine, Auctioneer. In June, Gay will become the first-ever female president of the Texas Auctioneers Association.
To consign an item, an estate or a collection, call 713-248-6186, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. To learn more about the company and the upcoming April auction, visit www.texas-auctions.com.


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- ne11y23
- 4 years ago
- Wedding: December 2014
Hi bees,
I just weighed myself and was upset to discover that according to my BMI I am not just overweight, I am actually obese. I am aware that I need to make changes to improve my health. I actually have a thyroid problem which makes weight loss really hard and weight gain kinda easy. I guess I am looking for some reassurance that I can still look ok for my December wedding. I would happy with just losing 10 kilograms. I don't need to be skinny! But if I can't lose weight, do I look ok? Or do I look obese? To make matters worse a lady asked me if I was pregnant yesterday. I wish I was but I'm not! Sorry bees, just need some female support. It's scary when your weight feels out of control. Luckily my Fiance always says I look good, bless his cotton socks – I worry that he is just being nice. By the way, I follow a mostly paleo diet due to my thyroid condition (no wheat, minimal dairy – lots of lean protein and vegies), but I am slack with exercise and probably drink too much wine.