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Clay Aiken's Primary Opponent Dies Suddenly
Keith Crisco, former "American Idol" singer Clay Aiken's main rival for the Democratic nomination for Congress, died suddenly Monday, less than a week after primary voting.
Crisco, 71, died "after an accidental fall" at his Asheboro, NC home, according to a statement issued by his family.
Aiken issued a statement which read, "He was a gentleman, a good and honorable man and an extraordinary public servant. I was honored to know him."
Aiken led Crisco by a slim margin for the Democratic seat in North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District, but the race was never finalized. Whoever wins the Democratic nomination will go on to face GOP Rep. Renee Ellmers in the fall.
The singer says he will suspend all campaign activities to offer prayers to Crisco's family and friends.
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In Vitro Glucuronidation of Ochratoxin A by Rat Liver Microsomes
AbstractOchratoxin A (OTA), one of the most toxic mycotoxins, can contaminate a wide range of food and feedstuff. To date, the data on its conjugates via glucuronidation request clarification and consolidation. In the present study, the combined approaches of ultra high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS), UHPLC-Orbitrap-high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) and liquid chromatography-multiple stage mass spectrometry (LC-MSn) were utilized to investigate the metabolic profile of OTA in rat liver microsomes. Three conjugated products of OTA corresponding to amino-, phenol- and acyl-glucuronides were identified, and the related structures were confirmed by hydrolysis with β-glucuronidase. Moreover, OTA methyl ester, OTα and OTα-glucuronide were also found in the reaction solution. Based on these results, an in vitro metabolic pathway of OTA has been proposed for the first time. View Full-Text
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Han, Zheng; Tangni, Emmanuel K.; Di Mavungu, José D.; Vanhaecke, Lynn; De Saeger, Sarah; Wu, Aibo; Callebaut, Alfons. 2013. "In Vitro Glucuronidation of Ochratoxin A by Rat Liver Microsomes." Toxins 5, no. 12: 2671-2685.


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I had a Dell Optiplex 760 system and recently re-installed Windows 7 on it. After some days it's suddenly getting blue screens. I tried to search the display driver and found from this site.
After installing this driver, system perfectly working some more days, but yesterday onward it's still get blue screens. Please help me to solve this issue!
You can open the properties box for the video and try updating or rolling back the driver. You can also go to "device manager" and uninstall the device and then click on "check for hardware changes" and let it auto install it again and see if it works.Just make sure you do not choose "delete from computer" you want to keep the drivers and the such and if that does not work you can find out what video card you have installed and go to the manufacturers website and download the drivers for it.
Try to roll back drivers or Try to boot in "Last know good configuration"
Check your RAM first, faulty RAM is a common cause for blue screens
1) Go to http://www.memtest.org/ and download/burn one of the bootable ISO's
2) If you get errors, remove RAM and test again using 1 stick in only 1 slot, then try the other sticks in the same slot, then try another slot. (You want to test individually to see which stick of RAM is faulty or if a slot has gone bad)
3) If you get past stage 8 without errors, your RAM is likely good.
For any system drivers, ALWAYS go to the manufacturer's website (in your case, Dell -> Support), locate your specific model, and download the drivers you need.
i have seen a video on youtube it might help you so you can check it out
run pc on save mode by pressing F8 on startup of window when black screen or dos type screen appear and enter on save mode option then uninstall a driver or update it
My comments below assume you get the blue screen on bootup if not you can probably just follow the advice above to find out why the error occurred. You will still need to find a new driver to fix the ailing driver to solve the problem.
First you need to boot to Safe Mode with Networking if you want to be able to look anything up while working. Next, I would uninstall the driver and reboot to allow Windows to use the basic display driver where you can then find the driver for your card. Once you download the driver from the manufacturers web site install it and reboot. If all is well you will be good to go. If not you might have to try an older driver until you find the correct driver for your system. Most the time the newest is best but not always. Good luck.
Go to the Dell Support page for your machine, select the appropriate version of Win7 from the dropdown list (32-bit or 64-bit) under the Drivers tab, download and install the video drivers from here. Using the vendor's site is ALWAYS the best way to get drivers for your machine. Many other sites do not have the latest versions and some have tainted versions of the drivers.
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Alessandro Petacchi of Lampre-ISD took Stage 2 of the 2011 Giro d'Italia by the width of a rim from Mark Cavendish in Parma this afternoon, with Manuel Belletti of Colnago-CSF Inox third. Cavendish left Petacchi in no doubt at how angry he was at the way in which the Italian appeared to ride across his line in the closing straight, forcing him to try and find find another way round. However, he does have the consolation of taking over the maglia rosa from team mate Marco Pinotti.
Petacchi slamming the door shut on the HTC-Highroad rider almost certainly cost the latter what would have been the sixth Giro individual stage win of his career, but this afternoon at least showed that Cavendish, who said yesterday that he had been suffering with a bad back, is in decent form and able to compete in the finale.
Cavendish was clearly still seething when the pair were interviewed together on Italian TV around half an hour later, Mario Cipollini sitting between the pair as an unlikely bouncer in what appeared to be a bizzare parody of a daytime reality TV show. Happily, the Lio King's services weren't called upon, but Cavendish will certaibly be set on revenge in tomorrow's Stage 3 into Rapallo.
Following the post-race press conference, however, Cavendish used his Twitter stream to explain to his fans that his gesticulation at his Italian rival following the closely fought sprint was made in the heat of the moment. However there was some debate amongst the cycling twitterati familiar with the normally red blooded tone of Cav's tweets who weren't convinced that the Manxman had control of his phone when he said the following, (something he appeared to allude to in a later tweet).
"Phew, calmed down now," he tweeted. "I'm always disqualified for every little move, but this is not Petacchi's fault. It's the fault of the jury or teams who have a prejudice against me. So I'm sorry to Petacchi for taking my frustration out on him.
"What happened today is sprinting and that's why I love it. It's about tactics as well as power. Let's bring back old school sprinting! Congrats to a great champion today.
Cavendish also complimented his HTC-Highroad team mates for the efforts that they had made on his behalf today, calling them, "Absolute legends."
He added: "So happy to keep the Maglia Rosa in the team. Love you guys."
At today's stage start in Alba, the Giro paid tribute to the late Pietro Ferraro, CEO of and heir to the family confectionery business based in the town, whose brand Estathe sponsors the maglia rosa. Ferrero, a huge fan of cycling, died last month while riding his bike on a business triop to South Africa.
Just 3km into today's 244km stage which, a brief diversion to the spa town of Salsmaggiore Terme apart followed the broad, flat plain of the River Po, Sebastian Lang of Omega Pharma Lotto went of the front of the peloton, and would remain ahead of the race on his own for the next 215km, at one point establishing a lead of more than a quarter of an hour over the peloton before being slowly reeled in.
Although other attacks came on the way into Parma, in a year in which flat stages are few and far between on the Giro's route, there was no way that the sprinters' teams would let anyone get away,. That set the scene for a finish that was as heated as the searing temperatures the peloton had to endure on what was the longest stage of this year's race.
Top 20 Giro d"italia Stage 2
1 PETACCHI Alessandro LAM 5:45:40 0:00 20" 2 CAVENDISH Mark THR 12" 3 BELLETTI Manuel COG 8" 4 FERRARI Roberto AND 0:00 5 BOZIC Borut VCD 0:00 6 APPOLLONIO Davide SKY 0:00 7 FARRAR Tyler GRM 0:00 8 MCEWEN Robert RSH 0:00 9 WEYLANDT Wouter LEO 0:00 4" 10 MONTAGUTI Matteo ALM 0:00 11 KRISTOFF Alexander BMC 0:00 12 TABORRE Fabio ASA 0:00 13 SABATINI Fabio LIQ 0:00 14 VENTOSO Francisco J. MOV 0:00 15 VAN WINDEN Dennis RAB 0:00 16 CHICCHI Francesco QST 0:00 17 SCARPONI Michele LAM 0:00 18 LE MEVEL Christophe GRM 0:00 19 ZAUGG Oliver LEO 0:00 20 GATTO Oscar FAR 0:00
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1 CAVENDISH Mark THR 6:06:27 0:00 2 SIVTSOV Kanstantsin THR 0:12 3 LEWIS Craig THR 0:12 4 PINOTTI Marco THR 0:12 5 BAK Lars Ytting THR 0:12 6 PETACCHI Alessandro LAM 0:16 7 MCEWEN Robert RSH 0:22 8 BEPPU Fumiyuki RSH 0:22 9 POPOVYCH Yaroslav RSH 0:22 10 MACHADO Tiago RSH 0:22 11 HUNTER Robert RSH 0:22 12 SELANDER Bjorn RSH 0:22 13 DEIGNAN Philip RSH 0:22 14 BAKELANDTS Jan OLO 0:32 15 SABATINI Fabio LIQ 0:34 16 NIBALI Vincenzo LIQ 0:34 17 AGNOLI Valerio LIQ 0:34 18 DOCKX Gert BEL 0:34 19 VANOTTI Alessandro LIQ 0:34 20 LODEWYCK Klaas OLO 0:34
Born in Scotland, Simon moved to London aged seven and now lives in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with his miniature schnauzer, Elodie. He fell in love with cycling one Saturday morning in 1994 while living in Italy when Milan-San Remo went past his front door. A daily cycle commuter in London back before riding to work started to boom, he's been news editor at road.cc since 2009. Handily for work, he speaks French and Italian. He doesn't get to ride his Colnago as often as he'd like, and freely admits he's much more adept at cooking than fettling with bikes.


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Crazy Seed Funding – Helpful or Harmful?
In season 2 episode 9 of HBO's Silicon Valley The Pied Piper founder talks with a founder about how things might have been different if he had asked for less money during one of the funding rounds that lead to his company's demise. The decision in the show was that bigger was definitely NOT always better. What do you think? Take a look at the following article and see if you agree with their opinion….
When it comes to seed funding for startups, is bigger always better?
by Sara Castellanos – Technology Editor-Boston Business Journal
Statistics show that seed and Series A funding rounds for early-stage companies are getting bigger.
In 2014, a total of $1.3 billion in funding nationally went toward seed venture capital deals, up 49 percent over 2013, according to New York-based venture capital database CB Insights.
Global tech Series A deals of $10 million or more were up 64 percent in 2014,according to a recent study by CB Insights.
But when it comes time for entrepreneurs to raise outside investment, it might not always make sense for those investments to be large amounts.
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Large seed rounds might actually be a sign that investors are "behaving badly," said Matt Fates, partner at Boston-based Ascent Venture Partners, which invests in early-stage companies.
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Macaws are large, dramatic birds, of the Psittacidae family which also includes parrots. Macaws are easily recognisable by their long wings and long tails as they fly overhead with strong steady wing beats.
The Blue and Yellow Macaw (Ara Ararauna) is between 75-87 cm in height, a rich blue colour on the upper parts, a green forehead and yellow belly, flanks and under wing and tail coverts, it is easily recognized by its call and colour when in flight.
Blue and Yellow Macaws inhabit mangroves, boggy stands of Mauritia (Ite) palm and lowland and gallery forests. They are often seen flying in pairs or a few pairs together, flying one behind the other in a diagonal line, with the female(s) slightly ahead as they commute from their roost to feeding grounds. They feed silently on fruits and nuts in the canopy and during the heat of the day, fly to cool, shady boughs of canopy trees for a siesta, often making a raucous "raaaak" call when en route.
Macaws will often gather in large numbers at fruiting palm and mango trees. Fair View Village near Kurupukari has a conservation area of Ite palm trees to ensure that the Blue and Yellow Macaws will always return to that village when the fruits are in season.
Macaws generally mate for life and lay 2 to 3 eggs in a hollow tree. The first youngster will fledge 13 weeks after hatching and after fledging the first young, the parents stop visiting the nest. If there is a third chick and it is too small to fledge, it will often die of starvation and neglect.
The IUCN Red List redlists the Blue and Yellow Macaw as "least concern" and they are generally widespread in Guyana; however as these birds are often trapped for the pet trade, the Redlist recognises that their population trend is decreasing.
Rain forests are rich in biodiversity and are home to many different plants and animals as well as indigenous communities.
Humans, even those who don't live in the rain forest, rely on it for resources such as building materials (wood and lianas), medicine and fruits.
Rain forests also provide essential environmental services for life on earth; they create soil as well as prevent soil erosion, produce oxygen through photosynthesis, maintain clean water systems, and are a key defence against climate change.
The Iwokrama Rain Forest is 371,000 hectares, located in the heart of Guyana. Our mission is to develop strategies for conservation and sustainable development for local people in Guyana and the world at large.
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I'm not exactly sure when I became a fan of boxing. If I had to pinpoint one boxing contest that cemented my love for the sport it would have to be the "Iron" Mike Tyson vs. James "Buster" Douglas fight in Tokyo, Japan circa 1990. I am almost certain February 11th, 1:00 AM EST, in the 10th round, may have been one of the quietest moments in history as millions watched in shock as Tyson laid on the canvas unable to find his mouth piece, his legs, or his will to continue. I had just witnessed the fall of a giant. The unbeatable had just tasted defeat. Say what you may about Mike Tyson and his life outside of the ring, his lisps, and "extensive" vocabulary, but no one expected him to lose that fight, or any fight. He was well on his way to becoming the most "unforgettable undefeated" fighter ever.
Equally as memorable as the knockout was his post fight interview when he asserted, "Everyone has a plan until they get hit." The events of that night and Tyson's post fight statement underscores the unpredictability of the sport that makes it so intriguing, and why every match, no matter the opponent, is an upset waiting to happen. No matter how good or bad the opponent is, a boxer is only one punch away from being knocked out or one point away from losing a decision. One punch or one point could dramatically change the course of a boxer's life.
Let's play a little game. I want you to review the list of names below and count how many you know from each column.
Muhammed Ali Rocky Marciano
Oscar De La Hoya Joe Calzaghe
Roberto Duran Sven Ottke
Julio Ceaser Chavez Ike Ibeabuchi
Sugar Ray Leonard Harry Simon
George Foreman Edwin Valero
Joe Frazier Terry Marsh
Joe Louis Ji-Won Kim
Mike Tyson Michael Loewe
I am going to assume that you recognized more names from the left compared to those on the right. You many not have even known that the names on the right are boxers as well. What they all have in common is that they are all in the World Boxing Federation Hall of Fame. What makes them different is the fact the boxers on the left have all lost multiple fights (ranging from 3-16) and the boxers on the right are undefeated. For most of the fighters on the left, they returned stronger after each defeat. They actually became better boxers after each loss because their weaknesses were exposed and they learned from them.
Boxing is very similar to life and there is a lot we can learn from the sport.
- Having an undefeated record can be a burden. Once you have lost a fight, the pressure to be perfect is somewhat diminished. Those who have lost always seem to bring a little something extra to their next fight.
- Don't be afraid to get in the ring even when you think you are outclassed. Take on challenging assignments. If you are reluctant or afraid, ask yourself "what is the worst that could happen?" You may be wildly successful or you may get knocked out, but …see #3
- No one individual loss is the end of your career. We have become so obsessed with perfection that we overlook the opportunity in defeat.
- A good offense is often your best defense, however, you must remember to protect yourself at all times. One should be aggressive in pursuing their professional and personal goals, but we aware of the blind spots that can be developed in doing so. Examples of protecting yourself from those blinds spots may include developing relationships in other areas of the company, seeking out feedback, acquiring additional skill sets that will make you more attractive across diverse areas of the company, and building external relationship.
I don't want to take away anything from those fighters that have gone undefeated, but the reason many of them became "forgettable" is because retaining the '0′ became more important than giving memorable performances, and in the end, being undefeated didn't result it the fame they though it would deliver.
So do you want to be undefeated or unforgettable?
*Numbers in parentheses reflect losses: Joe Louis (3), Muhammed Ali (5), George Foreman (5), Joe Frazier (4), Roberto Duran (16), Sugar Ray Leonard (3), Oscar De La Hoya (6), Julio Ceaser Chavez (6), and Mike Tyson (6)


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In this modern age, our Indian kids spend most of their time on a day-to-day basis at schools. If not anything related to schools or school-oriented relationships. What is wrong if they are so? might be your question. Nothing is wrong until they are in a better path. Don't forget that school is a learning campus and they can learn anything. As long as they learn better things that could constitute to their abilities for their future, it is well and good.
However, one cannot always expect his son or daughter to be in the right track. A mother says about her daughter, "My daughter goes to school in the morning at 7.30 in the morning and comes back in the evening after her tuition classes". Almost 9 to 10 hours they spend directly at school. After the school hours, they call their friends over the phone and talk to them for any topic, good or bad.
In public we see our kids say "hi" "bye" to their friends they meet on the way. From where did they get these friends from? Its from school campus or the campus that led to make friends outside the campus. Whatever the case is – 95% of their relationships are rooted from school.
Now, it is their new-found relationships which takes a major role in moulding their attitude and ability for the rest of their lives. Schools cannot effectively teach about how a kid should think. Though the schools play their part in it, major part is with parents. We could assist our son or daughter to make them think for their life. It could sound funny or very simple but this is the root and simplest way to bring a kid in a better.
Don't take control over their thoughts instead assist them on how to think for their future. Our teenage kids at school tend to discuss a lot of factors and it is very obvious too. They learn from there without their knowledge – on how to think for their future.
Observe them carefully and liberally to teach them in their own way to say them how to think for their future.


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We encourage students to explore as many resources as possible when considering study abroad in order to gain a more comprehensive picture of the issues they may face in other cultures as well as the opportunities to develop deeper intercultural awareness and understanding.
The links below and to the left will provide you with some information and resources to explore different perspectives on diversity issues abroad. You may also want to consider talking to students who have studied or lived abroad, your faculty advisors, a study abroad advisor in GEO, or the administrator of the program you are considering.
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The office for diversity and multicultural education is responsible for the general advancement of diversity in the life of the College.
An online resource with a mission to ensure that students from diverse economic, educational, ethnic, and social backgrounds are aware of, have equal access to, and take advantage of the benefits and opportunities afforded through global education exchanges. This site includes directories of programs abroad and sources of funding, international travel articles, and discussion forums.
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Egypt says rolling blackouts to end in 4 months
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials promised Wednesday to end rolling power blackouts that have plagued the country within four months, blaming the outages on a fuel shortage, hot weather and poor maintenance of power plants.
Neighborhoods in Egypt sink into darkness for hours during the day, leaving millions without power. The crisis has caused water cuts, affected hospitals and cut communications as many had difficulty recharging their mobile phones.
Parts of the capital lose power numerous times a day, plunging entire neighborhoods into darkness for an hour or more each time.
In one incident, doctors were forced to carry out a two-hour surgical procedure to remove a woman's uterus at a public hospital in Ismailia city with only lights from cellphones to see with, after the frequent power cuts also ruined the building's generators. Pictures of the operation were posted by Egypt's official Doctors' Syndicate.
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehlab described the outages as a "severe problem" and "complicated." He linked them to several factors, including a shortage of natural gas, out-of-service power plants needing maintenance and hot weather.
He had previously blamed some of the outages on 300 attacks by saboteurs on electrical lines, which he said had led up to a 15 percent reduction in production by up to 15 percent. At the time, Mehlab was referring to Islamist supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
On Monday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who led the overthrow of Morsi, told governors during five-hour meeting to guard electrical lines from attacks.
"The needy people are in pain because of attacks on pylons that cause blackouts for one, two or more hours," el-Sissi said during the meeting, parts of which were broadcast on state television.
Electricity Minister Mohammed Shaker on Wednesday blamed the problem on a gap between consumption and production, but promised the government will add a total of 4,810 megawatts to its more than 22,000-megawatt total production by November. Shaker said that will be a "breakthrough" in the crisis. He said the government will end all power outages in the country in four years by building new power plants.
The blackouts in Cairo and other cities have increased amid an energy crunch linked to shrinking revenues and the government's inability to pay its debts to foreign oil companies. The crisis has caused public anger, especially with most Egyptians still reeling from an increase in fuel prices, a gradual increase in the price of electricity, a new property tax and a rise in cigarette prices.
The measures were part of government's attempts to decrease its budget deficit — which now stands at around 10 percent of Egypt's forecast gross domestic product for 2014-2015— and break free from a massive subsidies program that eats nearly a quarter of its budget.
Egypt's government has promised to introduce a minimum wage for public sector workers, increase pensions and make more food available in state-run outlets selling at discounted prices.


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Chris Christie in Wake of PAC Formation: 'We Will See' on 2016
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday that the opening of a federal political action committee will help him to assess the challenges facing the country.
Mr. Christie is weighing a presidential bid for the presidency in 2016, and the formation of the leadership PAC was one of the clearest signs yet that he's pursuing a run. The PAC—called Leadership Matters for America—can be used to hire staff and secure offices that would support a possible run, along with give contributions to like-minded political candidates.


text: I know it's not much to talk about lol but, it's enough to let me know I'm going in the right direction. I just need to scale up. If you remember, I made a thread a few weeks ago about wanting to make $30,000 in 6 months. I might have to expand that deadline . As for the thread, to be honest, I could've been further along had I not spent alot of time over analyzing, researching and scaring myself before I actually put things into motion. I have some savings (<5k) and I didn't want to blow it on some bullsh*t idea. (Paypal screenshots) hxxp://i41.tinypic.c00m/2zfvjls.jpg hxxp://i42.tinypic.c00m/fbc36o.jpg Anyway, I've delved into e-commerce, as I have some history with that. I put up a website on March 8th, 2012 and as of now, I've made $217 and some change. My goal is to scale the site up to $500/month in the next coming months. My idea is to build 6-8 additional websites (all e-commerce/service/product based) and attempt to make $500.00 from each. I will put up a new website every 1-2 weeks (slow but, i have college to juggle). Doesn't sound too difficult right? 6 sites making $500.00 a month - $3k/month, $18k/6 months 8 sites making $500.00 a month - $4k/month, $24k 6 months If I can automate quickly (as in only checking Paypal -> Filling Orders -> Sending Emails + Promotions), I might try for 10 or more. I wanted to thank BHW for inspiring me again. I earned somewhat good money online before but, I got seriously discouraged after massive failure. Posting on here made me realize that I needed to get back on the horse.


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I have a theory about fashion and food, it's all about balance and contrast. Finding the perfect balance in a dish is similar to finding the perfect balance in an outfit. For example, my favorite outfit is a dainty, flowing dress with some chunky wedge sandals or a structured leather jacket. My favorite dessert is a hot blueberry cobbler with crunchy topping and cold creamy ice cream. It's the contrast that makes the outfit and the dessert memorable. All of the components come together to form something greater than the individual parts.
With such a strong correlation between fashion and food, why do we usually keep fashion out of the kitchen? My PJs and a grilling apron are my usual cooking attire. I want to be comfortable and chances are during the early stages of dinner prep, no one is around to care what I'm wearing.
I admit though, when I watch the show Mad Men (if you haven't seen it, it's based in the 60s) and Betty Draper is gliding around the kitchen with perfect hair, a cute dress, a stylish apron and kitten heels, I want to be her! Her look says to me "I am so amazing I had time to do my hair, put together the perfect outfit, AND make dinner."
Retro chic aprons from Saucy Girl aprons bring the days of cooking in sassy aprons and dresses back in fashion. A Wisconsin mother and daughter came up with the idea after seeing their mom/grandma make a fashion statement in the kitchen. Saucy Girl aprons give a nod to the past, but they are thoroughly modern with a pocket perfect for an iPod and vibrant prints. They bring together the past and present, as well as function and fashion.
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Recently, retrenchment has become the scariest word ever as far as an employee in Nigeria is concerned. Everyone seems to be complaining about how difficult life has become with the harsh economy. The fact is that the "jobless" and the "jobful" are all complaining bitterly. Somehow, everyone has woken up to the reality of having a side business as the basic monthly salary is not just enough and since complaining would not add a naira note to the little or nothing left after settling bills, there is no point sitting or standing to complain.
First things first, these businesses are side ones- something to get extra money from, of course, extra money do not fall from the sky, we work for every extra penny earned. Hence, humility on our part plays a wonderful role even as our economy seems not to be friendly.
With careful research, these are businesses you can start with little or nothing right from your home, grow into something big that you might never have dreamt of and would keep you focused and healthy.
1. Dinner preparation:
No, I am not talking about preparing dinner for your family members which is usually free but about preparing dinner for families who are too busy to cook especially dinner for themselves and you get paid. This does not mean you are a house maid or a steward. You are only rendering services to these families that need to eat something nice, natural and really home-made. If you especially enjoy the kitchen so much, you can make cool cash from this business when you even have more than one family to make dinner for. Tell a friend to tell a friend and there you go. With proper planning, you can turn your business into a successful one.
2. Tutoring:
Teachers are very important around the world and here in Nigeria, they are as important. With the dwindling economy, parents even want more for their children as they want them to become educated and earn a living. Advertise your skill as a personal tutor, get a child/client, then do your job and see referrals coming in and as more as you get, the more the pay. As a part-time job, it could be done over the weekends and this business practically keeps you up to date and more knowledgeable.
3. Sales of cosmetic products:
Really these can be carried in your hand bags wherever you are. These products should be affordable and of great quality since these are reasons why the ladies would want to buy and refer people to you. Items like the lipsticks, concealer, foundation, brow pencils or fillers, eye liners and more are very handy and can be introduced anywhere even in the bus. Oh yes, you must be smart enough not to sell on credit to customers who are strangers, friends and relatives who would not want to pay. Make your family and friends realize that you are serious about what you do and they will get serious with you by paying up as soon as they buy.
4. Make-up artistry:
The truth is when you attend parties, you see a lot of pretty faces and that is because a lot of work has been done on those faces to get them prettier. Every lady wants to look pretty every day. You can perfect your skill, go to parties with your own face looking so pretty, in fact make the ladies ask you who got you all made up, tell them who did it and introduce yourself properly as a make-up artist. You can also do this with the "gele" tying. My younger sister would wear denim and a shirt, then tie a beautiful "gele" on her head to gain attention from guests and she definitely gets it. They ask her who tied her "gele", she greets and tell them who did it and you see all the ladies around her getting theirs tied and each one tied comes with a fee. Every time, she tells me, "how I love Saturdays". Well, you can love Saturdays too not because of attending parties but because of the cash you'll make from attending parties. Get creative, get extra money.
5. Event decoration:
We all cannot deny the fact that these days, it is all about the "owanbe" parties. From Facebook to Instagram and all the social media you can think of, we get to see beautiful pictures and you begin to wonder the person behind all the decorations. Yes, you can be. If you are someone who likes classy and colorful things, you should learn event decoration. It pays. Even when the month is yet to end for the "alert" to come in, you are okay and able to pay bills when it comes up.
6. Making of Cakes:
Talking about cakes makes me want some. Is there anyone who does not like cakes? Cakes are beautiful, sweet in taste and smell, interesting to look at and praises are always showered on the human behind the cake. One robust idea is baking of cakes for sale. You can bake some cupcakes, sell to friends or supply a school where they would be bought by children and even teachers. On a larger scale, learn your craft well, advertise on social media, tell your friends or you can even make a free wedding cake for a friend, relative or colleague who is getting married and someone might get interested in your cake and ask about who did that beautiful cake and yes, your first job is here and with your job well done, watch referrals coming in and the extra cash piling up.
There are a lot of things to do aside your job that can fetch you extra income. Get creative. Remember that there are a lot of business ideas out there that can fetch you more than extra because they will cater for your needs and foot bills that you may never have done with just that basic salary.


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Boxed Volumes
By Dale Keiger
Gilman Hall was built for books. It was built around books. The building's core was a system of central stacks that for decades comprised the university's humanities library. As the first academic building on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus, Gilman was designed to sustain scholarship. It had everything a man of letters — they were all men in the early days — needed for his work: offices, classrooms, seminar rooms, and books. Eventually it had a bookstore in its basement, books in all its offices, books in its heart. When it had to be vacated last month for two years of renovation, Gilman Hall was without books for the first time in 93 years. The building that housed Lovejoy and Boaz, Albright and Singleton, Barth and Pocock, had not one text within its walls, save for the contractor's blueprints in Room 38.
The exodus of the printed word, though temporary, seemed to focus an attendant anxiety. In this building, humanities scholarship and pedagogy had been conducted in the Johns Hopkins manner for nearly a century. The study of humanities was the study of books (though eventually "texts" became the operative term) and the discussion of them around seminar tables, in book-stuffed offices, among faculty from various departments, and with visiting scholars who delivered papers, then girded themselves for vigorous challenges from an audience of Hopkins faculty and students who gave no quarter. As current faculty slid their books into one box after another, some expressed a measure of concern. The books would return. But would something else essential to Johns Hopkins depart Gilman Hall and not make it back?
I came to Johns Hopkins near the end of 1992. During the next 15 years, I watched one building after another go up and fill up: the Mattin Center, Clark Hall, the Ralph S. O'Connor Recreation Center, Hodson Hall, the succinctly named Chemistry Building, the Maxine F. Singer/Carnegie Institution Building, Charles Commons, the Computational Science and Engineering Building, Mason Hall. This was the first time I'd ever watched a campus building empty out. In May, I strolled Gilman's corridors, dodging transparent sacks bulging with discarded papers and academic journals, checking the spines of books left for adoption in stacks on the floor or on tables, peeking into open offices at shelves gradually growing empty — or not, in the cases of professors who hadn't yet made much of a start. Already there were closed-off stairwells and signs warning that the basement, what was left of it as workers dug out a new one, was now a hard-hat area.
I paid visits to various faculty members, mostly men and women whom I have known for 10 years or more. They were in the process of stuffing their scholarly lives into cartons. They packed books, files, offprints, journals, dissertations, lecture notes, maps, prints, slides, photographs, lamps, hat racks (one), statuettes (one, of Edgar Allan Poe), swords (two, if you count a foil), and ashtrays (secret — no one's supposed to smoke in Hopkins buildings). They faced decisions: what to send to Dell House, the Hopkins apartment building south of campus where they would have temporary offices; what to take home; what to give away.
Boxing all those years of work had faculty variously contemplative, unsettled, bemused, resigned, reflective, optimistic, wary, and curious, which stands to reason. If you are bookish, your mind's life maps to your bookshelves. The organizational schema of your personal stacks reflects how you order your thinking. Accumulated volumes reveal the paths taken by your work. In Gilman 219, doctoral student Fabio Bonetti helped pack the books of P. M. Forni, professor of civility. That's not Forni's actual title — he's a professor of Italian literature — but for many years now he has pursued the study of courtesy and public manners. In the course of that work, he assembled a civility library that he believes to be unique in the United States. By the time we chatted in his office, it was already gone, donated to the Eisenhower Library. Atop one set of shelves were cartons labeled, in black marker, "Archivio Boccaccio" — evidence of Forni's specialty before he began devoting himself to civility. Packing his books had put him in a pensive mood. "It's a rediscovery of your life," he said. "You find humble but significant signposts that mark the journey of your intellectual life. It's sort of an archaeology of the heart and of the mind." He found notes for projects started then abandoned, and marginalia that indicated what he was thinking at the time he last read various volumes. "What you discover are things you have done, thoughts you have entertained and forgotten, and also things you were considering doing and never brought to fruition. You are reminded of the many roads not taken."
Sifting through his papers in Gilman 237, Stephen Nichols, chairman of the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, came across an exam book from when he was a graduate student studying with the late renowned French scholar Daniel Poirion at Yale. He leafed through it and checked the front page. "I did well," he said. "Graded in the 90s." History professor Louis Galambos, Gilman 235, came across lots to remember, but lots to discard. He said, "You find these things and can't imagine why you have them, why you kept them. It was therapeutic in that regard. Cleansing, you might say." Wilda Anderson, Gilman 328, a professor of French literature, took note of what she still had, but also what was missing. She found herself wondering, "When did I lend that to a grad student? Oh yeah, eight years ago, and now he's in Canada."
Books changed hands. Graduate students were the beneficiaries in some cases, and faculty gave books to a Baltimore nonprofit exchange called The Book Thing. But book people grudgingly give up the libraries they've spent decades assembling. As English professor Frances Ferguson, Gilman 138, put it, "Having books is like having two or three additional members of a family." You're not always sure what to do with them, they can be a burden, but you part from them unwillingly. For some people, that meant construction projects. Italian literature professor Walter Stephens, Gilman 221, installed a hundred feet of new shelving to accommodate what was coming home with him from Gilman. Galambos, possessor of "a big ole house," installed his library on its third floor, where he plans to leave it even past Gilman's reopening. Nichols didn't know what he was going to do with much of his library. "That's a major problem. I have no more room at home. I guess I'll have to put a lot of them on shelves in my barn in Vermont." Stephens, the man who had the pair of swords in his office — one a stage prop, neither showing recent use — said, "I dream of being Montaigne, up in a tower surrounded by my books."
Why Sara Castro-Klaren had to part with much of her library is a poignant story. A professor of Latin American literature, she was teaching at the University of California, Irvine. Though she was merely on leave from Hopkins, she left Baltimore assuming she would be relocating to California. At Hopkins, as part of her work, she had assembled two significant collections of Spanish American and Brazilian books. She had no room for them in her new Cal-Irvine office and no room for them in the small house she and her husband rented in California. But she had to get them out of Gilman, so she gave most of them away. Some went to the library at George Washington University. She gave many of the Brazilian books to a very grateful grad student. "Finally," she said, "I just had to put books in the Gilman hallway." After she'd done all of this, she and her husband realized they could never afford to buy a house in California. So now she is returning to resume her post at Hopkins. The 2,000 books she considers her working library were always safe at her Baltimore home, but she hated giving away the others, to facilitate a cross-country move that, in the end, she will not be making. "Every last book was a book that I'd read," she said, which gave them all meaning. "It's so hard to part with them. I think it would be easier for me to part with jewelry than to part with books."
There's a painting I like, by an obscure Czech artist named Johann Michael Bretschneider, who worked in the early 18th century. I have seen it labeled Philosophers in the Study and Scholars in a Study, and it portrays three bearded figures hard at work. Books are on shelves overhead, books are on the floor, books and manuscripts rest open or drape like fabric from desktops and tilted reading stands. The ceiling is high enough to be out of the picture, at least 20 feet, and sunlight streams through a tall vertical window. Art adorns the wall above the stuffed bookcase.
I know of a startlingly similar photo of the Hopkins faculty office of John Holladay Latané, who joined the history department in 1913 and taught there until his death in 1932. Light streams in from the left, as in the painting. The ceiling is high. Framed artwork hangs above nine bookcases brimming with thousands of books, and more books and papers have been piled on Latané's desk. The photo apparently dates from a year or two before Gilman Hall opened in 1915, so it must not have been taken there, but it's easy to imagine similar photographs coming out of Gilman in 1920 or '30 or '50.
Moving their books was inconvenient. But what seemed more on the minds of some professors was something deeper. Most of the people I spoke with were, like me, in their 50s, or older; several had been at Hopkins for 20 or 30 years. Gilman Hall, as it had been designed and as it was throughout their careers here, was a place where scholars worked a certain way: in collaboration with students and each other, surrounded by books and professional journals, in rooms with high ceilings and natural light, every office different, every seminar room different, every space inhabited by the spirit of scholars past and present. As a Hopkins humanities professor, you read there, you wrote there, you taught there, and you had fruitful discussions there. Gilman embodied the humanities at Johns Hopkins as studied and taught in a time-honored way, before digital technology and intense academic specialization and online electronic libraries. In sorting their books, some faculty realized that they don't necessarily have to work surrounded by the traditional forms of text, like Latané or the scholars in Bretschneider's painting. They don't need a library in the core of Gilman. They don't need thousands of books within reach. Gabrielle Spiegel, Gilman 340, professor of history, tossed all her old copies of the American Historical Review, journals that had accumulated throughout her career. They had been not just a resource but a tangible timeline of her professional life. She was melancholy about throwing them out, but she didn't need them anymore; now if she has to find an article in a past issue, she can do so online. "It's like the end of an era, the end of paper," she said. "Everything is available digitally on JSTOR [a digital archive of scholarly journals]. But it's not the same, if you're my age."
Professors worry that the Hopkins tradition of scholarly interaction, and of weekly departmental seminars, will suffer during the two years away from Gilman. "A lot of us count on running into each other in the halls," Nichols said. "It's the way we function. The seminar system depends on that. Many are worried about the culture of the humanities fostered by the proximity of so many disciplines in Gilman Hall." Galambos wondered the same thing. "Academic life, because of specialization, has fractured anyway," he said. As do other departments, the Department of History has a long, revered tradition of faculty and visiting scholars delivering papers at weekly seminars. Dell House is more than a half-mile from Gilman; how many people, Galambos wondered, will traipse down there, especially in winter, to attend seminars? And when the faculty return to Gilman, will something else be absent, besides the hideously clanking radiators, which nobody will miss? "I'm so concerned they'll take the charm out and just turn it into a Marriott," said Anderson. Will the new Gilman retain the old Gilman's soul?
No one knows. But when the books come back, and the scholars and the students return, it's hard to imagine that so much will have been lost. Some of the faculty look ahead and regard the next two years as potentially interesting. Anderson put aside her doubts for a moment and said of Dell House, "I'm going to see colleagues I haven't seen in years. There will be a sort of camping-out mentality." Amanda Anderson, a professor of English (and no relation to Wilda), said, "I have a slightly more positive view of disruption. And I think the new building is going to be really wonderful, and coming back will be really energizing. I tend to be an optimist. I can't help it." Ferguson observed, "People hate having to move their stuff around. But I can't imagine it's going to hurt anyone's soul to have good heating and cooling."
When they examined Gilman Hall prior to starting the renovation, engineers found a surprise. The building's top story was supported by the infrastructure of the central stacks. Though not strictly accurate, it's satisfying to think of the entire fourth floor of Gilman Hall as resting on books. In June 2010, the humanities will return to Gilman. Thousands of volumes will come out of cartons and go back on shelves and desktops and, before long, floors and windowsills and chairs and filing cabinets. Not everything will be the same, and no doubt something will be lost. But it's hard to believe the soul of the place will not have survived. When the books come back, so, I suspect, will the rest.
Dale Keiger is associate editor of Johns Hopkins Magazine.
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Why worry
Worry can lead to all sorts of problems, including depression and other illnesses. It isn't healthy to worry and we don't need to. No matter what happens in your life (or in mine) remember 1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Because once we do, our worries will melt away. He is caring for you and me.
And to take Him at His Word;
Just to rest upon His promise,
And to know, "Thus says the Lord!"
Precious Jesus, Savior, Friend;
And I know that Thou art with me,
Wilt be with me to the end.


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AZ screen recorder is among the best apps for screen recording in android devices. It has a lot of following for its ability to record the screen, but actually, it can also record the system audio which very few people know. After you download and install the application from the Google Play store, launch it you will see a bubble floating. Tap on the bubble and click on the settings gear icon to tweak its settings.
In the options, scroll down to find the option record audio and click on it, then move the slider to turn it on. You don't have to change any video recording settings as you are only concerned about the system's audio recording, you are done with the settings.
Now just leave the app and click on the bubble icon of the AZ screen recorder, to start the audio recorder, just tap on the red video record button and do what you want to record, after you are done, just pull the notification bar down and tap on stop to stop and save it.
Remember that the application records the audio through your device's microphone, so avoid any noises in the background.
Thus you can simply record the system audio of your android devices using this screen recorder tool, you can transfer them to the system if you want.


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Continuing with my winter Olympics craze is 23 year old hockey whiz Erika Lawler. The Fitchburg, MA native grew up playing hockey, and played for Cushing Academy in MA, the University of Wisconsin, and now... [#image: /photos/5582ba7f941a95530d04b929]||||||Continuing with my winter Olympics craze is 23 year old hockey whiz Erika Lawler. The Fitchburg, MA native grew up playing hockey, and played for Cushing Academy in MA, the University of Wisconsin, and now plays for Team USA!
How did you get started playing hockey? Was there ever another sport that you were interested in? I first started playing street hockey in a local league in Fitchburg right down the street from my house. Family friends of mine were doing a learn to skate/play hockey clinic and my brother, Trevor, and I decided we wanted to join as well. I absolutely loved it as soon as I stepped foot onto the ice. My parents signed me up for other sports like baseball and soccer but nothing interested me as much as hockey. In high school, I played field hockey and lacrosse. I loved lacrosse but hated field hockey.
What do you love about your sport?It's just so much fun. Being a part of a team and playing a sport with all my closest friends is probably my favorite thing about it. There's nothing like being in the locker room with stories to share and good music to sing and dance along with, while surrounded by people who make me happy. I also love that hockey is my outlet to anything stressful in the world I live in. It can completely clear my mind... any sort of anxiety that I might be experiencing off the ice and in the real world is entirely forgotten as soon as I hit the ice.
How do you keep yourself motivated?I usually turn to my teammates for support and encouragement. I remind myself that it is such a privilege to be able to play hockey, and an immense honor, especially at the national-team level. When I have that perspective, I am reassured that I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world and that all the hard work is well worth it. It's difficult in the off season to train alone, but I have to remind myself that in order to be the best player I can be, it's the little things, like waking up early and going to the gym for a couple hours, that matter most.
If there were ever times when you wanted to quit, what made you stick with it?I wanted to quit hockey in 8th grade because I was more concerned with my social life than hockey. I just wanted to be a "normal" kid and do the things that "normal" kids got to do on weekends. My parents urged me to stick with it and all the sacrifices I have made to get where I am today have been entirely worth it. I have no regrets and am grateful that my parents encouraged me to keep playing.
How did it feel when you found out you had made the women's Olympic team?That's an impossible question to answer... there are really no words to accurately describe how amazing this experience is and has been up to this point! It's just such an honor and privilege for me and all of my teammates to be representing our country by simply playing a sport that we all love to play. I have goose bumps right now just thinking about how truly amazing this opportunity is for all of us. From here on out it will only get better as we are packing up to leave for Vancouver in a couple of weeks.
Did you ever think you would make it to this point?It has always been something I have dreamed of doing, something I have been constantly striving for, but to actually be living this dream seems surreal to me!
What has your experience with the Qwest Tour been like? The Qwest Tour has been so much fun. it is also a great learning tool for our team to grow and develop from. Any time we have the chance to promote the sport of hockey we take advantage of it because the growth of our sport is important to us. So whether it's on Tour playing games or off-ice doing things like visiting schools and speaking to kids around the country, we make a conscious effort to positively impact those around us. I am also involved in the Qwest All Access podcasting, which has given people around the world a chance to see what we do on a day-to-day basis - it's been a great way for us to connect with friends, family and fans, while generating new awareness and interest in our sport.
What advice do you have for other young female athletes?I think patience and hard work are two key ingredients to anyone's success. Things are not always going to go your way. It is a constant battle where patience and diligence are essential if you want to persevere. Focus on the things that you have control over because it is easy to get caught up in the things that you can't. Play to your strengths, build up your weaknesses... and always be true to yourself!


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This week seems that all the internet heavyweights, from Google to Facebook, have twitter in their minds. From Mr. Schmidt saying that the service is a poor man's email, to facebook adding capabilities to "follow" celebrities… seems that everybody loves twitter. The only problem is that the real one is not yet close to making any money out of the service, while others just add the same features and keep the cash flowing.
Again high hopes of being bought by someone or just burn all the money they have to serve the enthusiasts that keep posting and posting updates to their lives… the digital, shared, public ones.


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On 19 okt. 2010, at 08:53, Guy Harris <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> On Oct 18, 2010, at 10:01 PM, Jaap Keuter wrote:
>> Guy is right, the GPL voids this approach. Any Wireshark API call from your dissector makes it applicable, and I can't envision a plugin without one.
>> You do have proto_mark_private() which limits exposure of your plugin, by blocking Wiki access for your protocol fields.
> ...not that, if your protocol is private, you should have any documentation of it in the (public!) Wireshark Wiki anyway, so that's more of a UI politeness feature than a protection feature (after all, somebody could just build a version of Wireshark with proto_mark_private() stubbed out).
Of course it's not a prevention on distribution of the code itself, but plugs a possible information leak when a careless user likes to create wiki entries.
Any layer of information protection may be beneficial to help convince "the management" to support Wireshark use and development.
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Diana Rypkema
Class of 2013
Hometown: Lynnwood, Wash.
What was your College Scholar project?
As a College Scholar, I focused on quantitative marine ecology. I began my freshman year with a passion for the environment and a desire to help mitigate climate change. These interests led me to take a broad variety of science courses my first two years at Cornell, and my introductory ecology and conservation biology courses captured my focus. Throughout the next two years, I took as many natural resources classes as I could and along the way realized I could combine my love of mathematics and ecology! The marine focus of my degree predominately stemmed from my summer experiences when I participated in an internship at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill's Institute of Marine Sciences and took a field animal behavior course at Shoals Marine Lab (operated by Cornell and the University of New Hampshire). Finally, my ecology and statistics coursework, and my summer experiences, collided in an internship at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Biogeography Branch. I worked on a project statistically modeling seabird group sizes in the Atlantic Ocean to help determine optimal placement of offshore wind turbines. An offshoot of this project became my senior honors thesis: "Modeling seabird group size: implications for ecological impact assessments."
What are you doing now?
After I graduated from Cornell, I began a PhD program in Biology at Stanford University. I am working with Dr. Shripad Tuljapurkar focusing on theoretical ecology. My thesis is a continuation of my interests as an undergrad; I'm using mathematical modeling and statistical tools to understand the combined impacts of land use change and climate change on wildlife populations.
How do you think your experience as a College Scholar has shaped your life or your career? Are there ways that you have applied the skills/knowledge/life lessons you learned as a College Scholar throughout your life?
My experience as a College Scholar shaped my life and my career by simultaneously teaching me the value of independence and of asking for help. The program gave me the freedom to choose my own intellectual path, completely driven by my specific interests; there was no one else doing exactly what I was doing, so I had to make decisions to forge my own best program of study. However, such independence comes with its own challenges, and I learned to ask for advice from my advisors in the College Scholar Program and my professors. At first, I was worried that my mentors would think less of me for struggling, but I was met with tremendous support, which made my studies and my mental health stronger. Professionally, these experiences prepared me well for graduate school--a journey that you have to strongly direct yourself, but also seek support to avoid complete isolation. Personally, I strive to take control of my life, making active decisions and self-reflecting, and I have consciously created a strong support system that I can lean on when needed.


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August 2006, Auto Dealer Today - WebXclusive
by Harlene Doane
- Also by this author
You pay for this party in the form of higher expenses (floor plan, maintenance) and lower gross profits due to market changes. So how do you stop the party and maybe even recover some of your cost through retailing out of these aged units instead of wholesaling?
Here are a few ideas that have been submitted to AutoDealerDaily.com.
Pay the sales staff a flat spiff on the units starting at $100 and climbing to a maximum of $400 depending on the age of the unit. This allows for quick disposal of the unit while allowing the opportunity to make a back end profit instead of wholesaling out of a unit.
--Chuck Parker
As a retail piece is traded, the salesman that is responsible for the trade has his name on the stock sticker, and he is responsible for that trade as it comes into inventory. If he sells that car, his commission reflects an additional flat or an increase in percentage of commission. If someone else sells it, he has to split the commission.
This holds the sales rep accountable for the vehicle traded. They have a vested interest in making sure it sells quickly.
--Tim Sethna
Listing Agents
Review your inventory to calculate the amount of adjustment that it would take to bring your aged inventory back to market prices. Instead of making the adjustment take a percentage (50 percent) of that and set it aside for the following month long promotion bonus (make sure whatever amount you chose can be divided evenly by the number of units and then evenly by three. Example: $1,500 divided by 10 aged units is $150, which divided by three is $50.
Put each aged vehicle on a separate card and drop them into a hat. Each sales person draws until all cars are gone. For each card drawn the sales person becomes the listing agent. Every time one of their vehicles is sold they receive a listing fee equal to one third of the per unit bonus ($50 in our example). Every seller receives a selling fee equal to two thirds of the per unit bonus ($100).
The sales staff will go to great lengths to ensure that their "listed" vehicles are sold as quickly as possible, and you will have the opportunity to actually retail out of the aged units profitable even after paying the bonuses.
Rainbow Disposal of Aged Inventory
Buy round stickers in nine different colors. Stick them on the lower left hand corner of the back glass. The first month is white, and then each month afterwards used the rainbow-sequence that was taught in school - ROY G BIV (Red, Orange, Yellow, etc).
Every month after the current month the cars get an additional $25 bonus. It is easy to remember the order of the colors, and the sales people are always focused on the older vehicles in stock.
--Neal Weinstein
Adaptation of Rainbow Disposal
Start it on 90 day old units. Spice it up by having "hidden spiffs" on some specific vehicles on a Saturday for only test driving a vehicle. The salespeople never knew which ones have the hidden spiffs on them, so as a consequence, almost all the tagged vehicles would be shown.
--Andy von Busse
Used Car Manager Inventory Incentive
No one wants 90-day-old units on the lot, but it is a constant battle to eliminate them. One way to help eliminate the problem is to give your used car manager a raise; a raise based on inventory control. Set an amount, for simplicity sake in our example, use $12,000 per year or $1,000 per month. At the beginning of each month the used car manager has the $1,000 available to be paid at the end of the month. However at the end of the month each unit that is aged is deducted from the $1000.
Any unit more than 90 days old cost $100
Any unit 91-110 days old cost $150
Any unit 111 days or older cost $200
Vehicles must be delivered or wholesaled and paid for by the last day of the month. You can set the dollar figures for each component, as well as the age to fit your dealership.
It keeps your Used Car Manager focused on the aged units and will cost you less in the long run than if they aged out and you take a bath at the auction on them.
Inventory aging commission
Keeping your sales staff focused on aged units is tough. Instead of putting large spiffs on ancient units, put an ongoing bonus on aging units.
$2 per day for every day that a used vehicle is on the lot beyond 60 days.
$2 per day for every day that a new vehicle is on the lot beyond 120 days.
You can set the per-day amount and days in inventory at any level that works best for you. It keeps the staff constantly focused on older units since this is bonus money on every deal even on mini deals.
Maybe by implementing one or more of these, you can keep your unintended celebrations to a minimum at your dealership and add gross profit back to your bottom line, which is a real reason to celebrate.
Vol 2, Issue 6
Tags: inventory
By Jim Ziegler
The Alpha Dawg charts the brief rise and long fall of Johan de Nysschen, the recently departed president of Cadillac and author of the business plan that effectively crowned Lincoln as the new king of American luxury.
By Jim Ziegler
Ziegler believes Uber's directors should face criminal charges for their role in an Arizona woman's violent death.
By Jim Ziegler
By Tariq Kamal
Hindsight is 20/20, but at least one industry member saw GM's latest mishap coming a mile away.
By Tariq Kamal
The Dealers' Choice Awards are the Yelp of vendors and finance sources.
By Jason Heard
Heard knows delegation and outsourcing are the quickest path to a work-life balance.
© 2018 Auto Dealer Today. All Rights Reserved.


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"Leda" 2012, colored pencils on paper, cm 40x50
"Ophelia" 2012, colored pencils on paper, cm 40x50
"Saskia" 2012, colored pencils on paper, cm 40x30
"Lament" 2012, matite colorate su carta, cm 40x30
I have been such a HUGE fan of Marco's work for awhile now - his work grips me everytime! So strangely beautiful and exquisitely composed, with these unnatural elements that merge together effortlessly.
Marco is influenced alot by 'Italian folklore....mystical women who seduce, bewitch, curse and cure.'
Heavily metaphorical, each piece tells a secret story of life, knowledge, power, beauty, religion, death - the eyes often removed or hidden, to avoid distraction from the 'moment when a woman takes control of all, in harmony with nature'.
Another master of the humble coloured pencil, his skill in capturing and creating light/dark space and a spectrum of unqiue colours is astounding and often requires a second look to appreciate the artistry that has been put into each peice.
Check out his tumblr or facebook for his current updates and progress shots, which he always has plenty of!
"My Purple Past" 2012, colored pencils on paper, cm 40x30
"Apnea" 2012, colored pencils on paper, cm 50x40


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🍄 It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not. - W.C. Sellar
The bliss of gardening on my little piece of African soil. A year-by-year record of the progress in my new garden. My "new" garden, started in 2004, is now just "my garden" where my chooks free-range and supply me with breakfast every day.
Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank the Universe for this gardening year.
Monday, 30 March 2015
Monday - what a day!
I had quite an impressive "to do" list for today and was able to mark off quite a few off; do the filing, buy some compost, paint a little slatted table white, sort out my walk-in dressing room, clean and pack all the kitchen utensils and cutlery, replant some sword ferns and taking pics for this post. What a day and a great start to this week, it feels like Wednesday already and it's only Monday!
March is when the first sign of autumn arrives in the garden. Leaves start falling and your garden starts readying itself in anticipation of the colder months. My Tree Fuchsia (Halleria lucida) has already lost almost all her leaves, a sure sign for me that we're going to have a cold winter.
A little extra help and encouragement such as a layer of mulch and fertiliser will not go amiss and is a perfect way to prepare your garden for the cold that will shortly follow. Just hope the frost is not going to be as severe as last winter...
Indigenous plants are always in fashion because they save water, grow well in our environment, are fast growing and colourful, especially the Aloes, which should be flowering shortly, providing bursts of colour during the cold months. These are just a few indigenous plants that you can get from your local garden centre:
Vygies (Lampranthus)
Various Aloes, in particular Aloe ferox and Aloe marlothii
Agathosma ovata 'Kluitjieskraal
Babiana hirsuta
Buddleja auriculata
Carpobrotus quadrifidus
Celtis africana
Chlorophytum comosum
Dioscorea elephantipes
Ekebergia capensis
Elegia equisetacea
Encephalartos transvenosus
Faucaria tigrina
Felicia amelloides
Gasteria armstrongii
Gazania krebsiana
Juncus kraussii
Kalanchoe thyrsiflora
Kiggelaria africana
Melinis nerviglumis
Mentha longifolia
Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea
Olea europaea subsp.africana
Olinia ventosa
Pachypodium namaquanum
Pelargonium inquinans
Podocarpus henkelii
Portulacaria afra
Restio festuciformis
Rhus lancea = Searsia lancea
Rhus pendulina = Searsia pendulina
Scabiosa africana
Sorghum bicolor
Syzygium cordatum
Thamnochortus insignis
Tricholaena monachne
Urochloa mosambicensis
Viscum crassulae
Welwitschia mirabilis
Ximenia caffra
Zantedeschia aethiopica
Hope your Monday was just as good as mine!
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Sunday, 29 March 2015
Blooming in my garden - February/March
Tiny Erigeron fills the sunny spots with splashes of white. Hailing from Mexico, these perennials with small daisy-like flowers flower over a long period in summer
Lots of rain, and insects enjoying a refreshing drink
The Marigolds put up a grand show this year
Bulbine frutescens almost at the end of their flowering season
A Hoverfly enjoys some nectar
In the middle of March, the plump Hydrangeas started waning
Lots of rain always produces these lovely toadstools all over my lawn
The middle of March and the Nasturtiums were still going strongly
Salvia still clinging to its flowers
Syzygium cordatum (pronounced si-zig-ee-um) is home to many birds and insects and produces these lovely berries at the end of summer
Other names : Waterbessie, umdoni, water berry
Weeping Anthirucum (Chlorophytum saundersaie)
Summer memories - Autumn is well under way and soon the cold will be with us.
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Friday, 27 March 2015
Cleaning the wildlife pond
Every Autumn and Spring is pond cleaning time. As soon as the frogs have stopped singing at night and just before the water gets too cold, we empty it out, scrub and re-arrange and fill up again. Same procedure in Spring, just before the frogs surface again from their hibernation.
With all the rain we've had, accompanied by hot temperatures, the pond is a haven for algae and mosquito larvae, which I'm sure the frogs enjoy!
The first thing to do is to pump out all the water (my garden thrills at that!) as low as possible. The suction pipe is at the lowest point of the pond and when it starts sucking thick sludge, it's time to remove all the thick sludge by hand with buckets.
Solly emptying the sludge while Chrissie sweeps the sides clean
Much of the wildlife in the pond flees to the bottom of the sludge and lands up on the lawn as the pond is emptied. I stand by to save any tadpoles, water beetles, water scorpions and anything else I might find in the sludge, with the chickens revelling in anything I might have missed! I used to try and squirt the sludge away with a hose pipe, but Chrissie "instructed" me to let it dry and then it's easy for her to rake up. You live and learn every day!
With the job almost finished, Solly poses for the camera.
Time to fill the pond with lovely fresh water. I also return all the insects I rescued from the sludge (and had in a bucket of water) to the pond to settle down before I switch on the pump again.
At the same time, the plants at the edge of the pond are trimmed and cleaned up
The finished product. Now, should I get some ducks...?
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Net-a-Porter's Editor-in-Chief, Lucy Yeomans, hosted a cocktail reception in honor of Supermodel Natalia Vodianova for the unveiling of her namesake limited-edition footwear collection for Centro for the Naked Heart Foundation. Select styles are available at Net-a-Porter, and all profit from the sales will benefit the Naked Heart Foundation, a charity Natalia founded in 2004 to support some of the most vulnerable children in Russia.
When I received the above bit of news with the featured photo, it was difficult for me to concentrate on the shoes, especially that the photo featured fashion's biggest movers and shakers, all squeezed in one photo, all super skinny, and all dressed to the nines of course: Natalia Vodianova, Natalie Massenet, Karlie Kloss, Carine Roitfeld, Ulyana Sergeenko and Vika Gazinskaya. Can't imagine what Fashion Week would be without you.