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Package pepperflashplugin-nonfree is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source
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# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.1.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20170722-11:28]/ s$
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.1.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 NETINST 20170722-11:28]/ st$
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stretch main non-free
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stretch main non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main non-free
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deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main non-free
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main non-free
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
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aptitude install pepperflashplugin-nonfree browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
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At least 29 children have been killed and 30 wounded in a Saudi-led coalition air strike in Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross says.
The children were travelling on a bus that was hit at a market in Dahyan, in the northern province of Saada.
The health ministry run by the rebel Houthi movement said put the death toll at 43, and said 61 people were wounded.
The coalition, which is backing Yemen's government in a war with the Houthis, said its actions were "legitimate".
It insists it never deliberately targets civilians, but human rights groups have accused it of bombing markets, schools, hospitals and residential areas.
Yemeni tribal elders told the Associated Press that the bus was hit as it passed through Dahyan market and that it was transporting local civilians, including many school children.
The charity Save the Children said it had been told by its staff that the children were on their way back to school from a picnic when the driver of their bus stopped to get a drink.
The vehicle was stationary when the attack happened, it added.
The ICRC said a hospital it supported in Saada had received the bodies of 29 children, all of them under the age of 15, and 48 injured people, among them 30 children.
It sent additional supplies to the hospital to cope with the influx of patients.
Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV reported that 47 people were killed and 77 wounded, and broadcast graphic pictures showing the bodies of several young children, some of them wearing school uniform.
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Flying Lotus: 'Beat Music' And The Coltrane Family Tradition
For those people who generally avoid music made on laptops, the name Flying Lotus may sound like a kung-fu move or a yoga position. But for those in tune with underground hip-hop, Flying Lotus is a household name. His latest album, Cosmogramma, may just take him out of the underground.
Lately, Flying Lotus, whose given name is Steven Ellison, has been making a lot of noise. Music bloggers, hip-hop heads and The New Yorker looked to his last two albums, Los Angeles and 1983, as guideposts to the future of hip-hop.
Thom Yorke, frontman of Radiohead, handpicked Flying Lotus to open one of his solo tours, and even lent his voice to a track on Cosmogramma.
Ellison has earned the props by trying to come up with a new sound.
"I come from a hip-hop place, so it's hard to stray away from that," he says. "But there's a lot of rules in hip-hop that we're trying to break now."
Raised in the sleepy L.A. suburb of Winnetka, Ellison grew up on old-school video games.
"A lot of my friends were athletes, and I was the guy playing Nintendo," he says.
Ellison began creating new-school hip-hop in his bedroom. For years, he traded tracks with other budding DJs and played music in nightclub parking lots. Then the scene got organized, at a club in L.A.'s Lincoln Heights neighborhood.
"Eventually, there was this party started called Low End Theory, which was geared toward this sound," he says. "It was more of a producer's lounge, basically. If you got talent and you got tracks and you hang out enough at Low End Theory, eventually someone will hear something and you can do something."
All About The Music
For Ellison and his friends, that something is called beat music. And it's not just for dancing, according to Low End Theory co-founder William Benjamin Bensussen, aka The Gaslamp Killer.
"Beat music, it's all about the music," Bensussen says. "Like jazz, there were no singers; it was just a three-piece, a four-piece, you know what I'm saying -- it was just the raw backbone of music. And that's what beat music is: simplicity."
Ellison has jazz in his blood. His great aunt is the late Alice Coltrane -- the jazz musician, composer and wife of the legendary John Coltrane. On his latest release, Ellison chose to explore his musical lineage after a death in his family.
"Right when I started working on it, my mom passed away," he says. "Really unexpected. It just changed everything, man."
To cope with his mother's sudden death, Ellison turned to the songs of "Aunt Alice" for guidance.
"I'd listen to my aunt's stuff, and I could hear why she made this devotional music," Ellison says. "I could hear her dealing with John Coltrane's passing in her music. It made sense to me. It was something I tried to capture, as well."
Alice Coltrane wasn't the only family member who helped Ellison. He also turned to her son -- his cousin, jazz saxophonist Ravi Coltrane.
"I happened to be in Los Angeles for a few days, and I basically went to his apartment and recorded my tracks right there in his crib," Ravi Coltrane says. "He has that great ability, like a painter. He adds one color, then changes that particular shade and changes the energy of it all. So I was one layer in this wild composition."
This wild album was also a wild emotional ride for Ellison.
"[I've] gone through a lot since making the last album," he says. "Good things, bad things -- thank God for music."
His fans might say the same.
The First Lady Of Bass Highlights L.A.'s 'Beat Scene'
The irritable Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull caused a worldwide ruckus when its ashy belches grounded planes and altered travel plans around the globe. With its geological middle finger raised to the world, the volcano did not win any friends. That is, except for British DJ and radio host Mary Anne Hobbs.
The renowned champion of razor-sharp electronic music and host of BBC1's Experimental Show traveled to California for the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, but got stranded in Los Angeles after clouds of ash disrupted air travel. Without a return ticket back to England, Hobbs cooked up an impromptu tour and broadcast her show, temporarily renamed the "Volcano Refugee Party," from Los Angeles.
Hobbs considers Los Angeles her second home, and she spends much of her airtime curating the bellowing bass and vinyl-scratching beats that thrive in this sprawling city's musical underground. Insiders call the scene "beat music," a diverse smattering of music unified only by the computers, samplers and the pulsing rhythms blasting from the speakers. From across the Atlantic, Hobbs has scrutinized the "beat music" emanating from a club called Low End Theory, a weekly producers' showcase in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood in Los Angeles.
The First Lady Of Bass
As the "first lady of bass," as electronic music magazine XLR8R calls her, Hobbs' mission is to hear things that have never been heard before. She connects listeners and musicians together. Hobbs even helped the fast-breaking Flying Lotus -- a.k.a. Steve Ellison, the great nephew of jazz couple John and Alice Coltrane -- connect with Radiohead's Thom Yorke, who contributed to Ellison's new album of broken beats, jazz skronking and 8-bit bleeps, Cosmogramma.
"They kind of are my children in a way," she says about Low End Theory's regulars, many of whom she has helped to break out in the U.K.
Hobbs adds that great music is never defined by genre.
"[Great music] is something that will touch the core of your soul," she says. "You can find that in any of the residents at Low End Theory."
Hear five songs from L.A.'s "beat music" scene, selected by the "First Lady of Bass" herself, DJ Mary Anne Hobbs.


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TCA's Bill Curran, part of a group advocating for West Harbour development, says the sooner development happens, the better. "It's great that it's going ahead," he said. "Getting people living down there in a proper, vital mixed-use community is going to be a great thing."
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How do you do self-care? Have you ever given it much thought or priority? Is self-care even on your list of things 'to do'?
I'd be a hypocrite if I said I was an ace at this stuff.
This week I've been reflecting on self-care because it's had to be my main focus. I came down with the flu and it knocked me on my ass so, really I've been held hostage by my body in a very physical way. (As opposed to the usual anxiety I spear tackle on a daily basis.)
The week leading up to the onslaught of gross, I had two kids home from school with goobers. The week before it was the other one home for the whole week as well. That's two weeks of full sickie-faces. That's two weeks at home with sick, whining, snotty, tv-binge watching, snuggling, sad-sack little people. With little opportunity made by me to leave the house and have my own adult time. To have an adult conversation with someone else, not my husband. To just breathe away from the point of frustration (and love.)
I noticed a few things during this time:
Knowingly not taking the time for self-care makes it a miserable place to be if I am literally left pick up house-duties all the time. In the last month, I made a decision to leave employment to focus on family & business & me. Trying to negotiate and balance these three priorities has been just that: trying. Being back at home has made me happy, and confused but that's a blog of a different colour.
It's easy to focus on what's not getting done when the household seems like a place where only I am are moving to get things done. It's easy to pass the blame and get angry about the nuances of managing a routine and to become overwhelmed with the task at hand.
and then:
When I get knocked for six and have to also completely stop, the realisation of my own wasted time seeps in. So I hope that I'll do better at not taking for granted what I have the ability to achieve when I'm not under the weather.
Being in the station of 'sit still' is not a good place for me but I have learned to surrender to it. It's hard to give in and watch other areas of my life pile up- like literally the dishes in my kitchen or hell laundry- because my entire house is flu-ridden. However, the benefit is that the downtime is usually minimal. Whereas past me would have fought so hard I'd be sick for weeks and sometimes longer.
One of my biggest achievements in self-care this year has been a work in progress and relapse for years…. In March I quit smoking! Huzzah! So maybe that is helping the recovery process of this bout of the sick even just a bit (probably a lot).
I don't think we should be leaving self-care to when our bodies force us to make it a priority. Something I am extremely guilty of. Self-care ought to be autonomous and guilt-free.


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Senator Chuck Wiger: Tax Conformity Needed
The issue of conforming state taxes with the changes in federal taxes is front and center at the Legislature.
The burning question is: who benefits most from the changes?
First, a little history.
In December, Congress and the president passed the biggest overhaul to the nation's tax code since the 1980s. Corporate tax rates were cut. The standard deductions for individuals and families were doubled. No committee hearings were held.
The problem is, Minnesota's tax code does not line up neatly with the federal tax code. Not by a long shot. It is left to Minnesota lawmakers to bring the two into alignment. With no action, the state tax code will become a confusing maze for taxpayers.
The goal is to pass a tax bill that is fair and aligns the governor's tax philosophy with the vision of the House and Senate. Ideally, all three sides want to come together and pass a single plan by May 21, the day the Legislature must adjourn.
Here is a look at the three tax plans.
Gov. Dayton's Plan
The governor proposes establishing a new tax credit for Minnesotans who make less than $140,000 per year, or $280,000 for married filers. He also wants to extend the working family tax credit to more people. Further, he wants to use federal gross adjusted income instead of federal taxable income as a starting point to calculate deductions.
It is estimated that Dayton's new tax credit would cut taxes an average $117 for more than 1.9 million Minnesotans. Expanding the working family credit would cut an average of $160 more for 329,000 others.
The House Plan
This plan has many features of the governor's plan. It also includes an income tax cut for the second tier of individuals and families, lowering the rate from 7.05 percent to 6.75 percent over a two-year period. Those two provisions would provide a tax cut to about 2.1 million taxpayers. Corporate rates would also go down under the House plan from 9.8 to 9.06 percent over two years.
The Senate Plan
This bill includes an income tax cut for the lowest-income families and individuals, reducing the first-tier rate from 5.35 percent to 5.1 percent. The bill also would require the state to cut the state's income tax rate and corporate tax rates by one-tenth of 1percent if there is a surplus of more than $127 million.
Under this plan, 2.1 million Minnesotans would get a tax cut next year of up to $150. About 470,000 taxpayers would see no change in their returns at all, and about 2,500 others would see an increase of up to $150.
Under the Senate plan, joint filers:
- Earning $20,000 would receive a $50 tax cut
- Earning $40,000 would receive a $95 tax cut
- Earning $150,000 would receive a $95 tax cut
Tax cuts are fine as long as short-term gains do not result in long-term pain. I do not want to starve schools, roads and other state services.
To benefit our schools, I strongly supported an amendment on the Senate floor that would:
- Convert existing safe schools levy to all-aid program
- Increase the amount of revenue available to districts
- Make charter schools newly-eligible for safe schools revenue
- Increase the amount of pass-through revenue available to intermediate districts
- Make other cooperative units eligible for pass-through revenue
Eventually we will see which provisions will become law. We need a compromise that reflects fairness and balance. A conference committee of the House and Senate will determine the final shape of the bill. Finally, to become law, Gov. Dayton will have to sign it.
In 2011, our economy was in crisis and our budget was a mess. Minnesota's schools were under-funded, 202,000 people were out of work and taxes favored the wealthy.
Now our economy is strong, unemployment reached a 17-year low, and our schools have seen new investments. Still, there is more work to do to make sure every Minnesotan shares in our state's prosperity.
I want a win for working families, businesses, senior citizens and veterans. I want a win for public education and students.
I urge everyone to pay close attention to actions at the Legislature from now until May 21. It is an honor to serve you.
As always, please contact me with questions or suggestions regarding any issue. I encourage you to visit me at the Minnesota Senate Building, Room 2219. Let me know if you would like me to stop by your home or apartment. I can be reached by email at firstname.lastname@example.com, and by phone at 651-296-6820, or 651-770-0283.


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I was driving a few week ago and was attempting to yield onto a new street.
I'm also currently (and this is a consistent, consistent, forever season,) in a season of discerning God's will for my life these days. I'm leaning into Him and attempting to learn how to trust more - which I've realized is only learn by trusting more. funny how that works
Anyways, I was driving and trying to yield.
And Jesus leaned into my thoughts and said
yield to Me in these decisions
it's just like driving
if you try to go forward on your own without looking, without checking your mirrors, without making sure it's a safe and wise decision - you'll crash
you have to yield to Me
because I've got this road
I've got your whole life in my hands
and I have never led you wrong yet
So, just like every other day, I'm making an attempt to trust Him more, to yield to His plan and to stop just moving around as if I know what is going on.
This heart of mine loves Jesus with all I've got, and even with all I've got I'm still slipping up all the time.
Sometimes the things God does look different than I want.
His grace is a stop sign.
His mercy is a red light.
His love feels like a bump in the road.
His peace looks quite like the end of a season.
His hope sounds surprisingly like a bad idea.
I've got to yield to Christ.
I want to yield to Christ.
His will is the perfect plan.
My will is near sighted.
His will sees eternity.
Okay fine - He wins.
Trusting in Jesus and yielding continually to His plan is the only way to avoid a fatal crash.


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June 30 @ 7:30 PM
MMF Opera Institute takes on one of the most beloved works in the operatic repertoire with a timeless rendition of Puccini's La bohème. This heartbreaking masterpiece has earned its spot amongst opera favorites with empathic characters and a thoroughly romantic score brimming with emotion. A great introduction for new opera-goers. Follow the young bohemians of 1830s Paris as they navigate relationships, love and loss.
Michael Rossi, conductor
Jennifer Williams, director
Caren Levine, principal coach
Ron Burns, lighting design
Camilla Haith, costume design
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Cast List:
Rodolfo...............Andrés Peñalver
Mimi...............Betsy Diaz
Marcello..............Anthony Potts
Musetta..........Jordan Stadvec
Schaunard...............Jose Cuartas
Colline...............Cory McGee
Benoit/Alcindoro...............Ismael Gonzalez
Parpignol...............Edgar Ricaud


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Street food, cafes, bars, you name it
While finding good Western food takes a bit of effort in Ubon, cheap and delicious Chinese-Thai, Isaan and Vietnamese-inspired fare is abundant throughout the city. You'll also find an atmospheric night market to go with plenty of good bars and coffee shops.
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Perhaps Ubon's best-known specialty is kuay chab yuan, a Vietnamese-inspired soup made with a comforting pork broth along with melt-in-the-mouth pork ribs, hard-boiled eggs, fresh rice noodles that are thicker and heartier than your usual dried sen noodles, and hunks of muu yor, the peppered Vietnamese-style pork sausage that Ubon is famous for. This version is entirely different — and a lot more Westerner-friendly — than the Chinese-style offal-stocked kuay chab that's popular in much of Asia. You'll also find it made with chicken, but we'll opt for the original porky version any day.
The finest example of kuay chab yuan that we know of comes from Mae Tae, an old but spunky woman who dishes out oversized 40-baht bowls to a few streetside tables that overflow with eager patrons every morning from around 07:00 to 11:00 — or whenever she sells out. To find her, head west on Phalochai Road from the northwest corner of Thung Si Muang Park, then take a left on Chongkonnithan Road and you'll see her tiny sign-less stand around 50 metres down on the left, just past an old-style coffee joint that's also worth a stop. Be prepared for a queue, and to dine side-by-side with strangers. Head around the corner to Tong Nung on Phalochai to see stacks of muu yor encased in banana leaves along with many other types of Ubon specialty sausages.
Another excellent option for Ubon's beloved Vietnamese-style soup is 99 Kuay Chab, which has more spacious confines on the east side of town at the corner of Phichitrangsan and Thepyothi roads (look for the big "99" sign on the corner). Kuay chab yuan is also served at Indochina, a more upscale restaurant offering a range of Vietnamese cuisine in an elegant wooden house.
Also on Phichitrangsan's fantastic dining strip you'll find Somtum Jinda, a popular air-con eatery serving authentic Isaan dishes. It's a great place to try another Ubon specialty, laap ped, fiery minced duck "salad" laced with roasted chillies, toasted rice, lime juice, fresh garlic and mint. They also do laap with chicken, pork or beef along with several types of som tam (papaya salad), tam tuea (string bean salad), nam tok (grilled pork-neck salad), and tom saep (spicy pork soup). The extensive menu has photos and the actual names of each dish transliterated into Roman script — snap a photo for further study and you could be set to order all sorts of Isaan dishes anywhere!
Speaking of som tam, forget the slightly sweet and playfully spicy version that you'll find in touristy Thai restaurants. In Isaan, the strips of green papaya are pounded with a generous handful of fresh red chillies, super-pungent pla raa (known locally as pla daek, fermented fish sauce) and pickled freshwater crabs that are added for a distinctive salty flavour and are usually not eaten. One of the best places to give this Isaan-style som tam puu pla raa a shot is no-frills joint Raan Porntip, where they also do a mean gai yang (grilled chicken), which combines with the som tam and khao niao (sticky rice) for a humbly unforgettable meal.
Mixed bag
If you're in the mood for Chinese-Thai food, head across Sappasit Road to Aan Tee Am Nuay Chok, a sprawling open-fronted restaurant just west of Phadaeng Road. The streetside kitchen cooks up Chinese-Thai staples like khao na ped (roasted duck with rice), pak buung fai daeng (stir-fried morning glory) and pad taohu (soft tofu stir-fried with ground pork) along with some upcountry options like frog or wild boar sizzled with red curry paste. All dishes are pictured in an English menu. The lively spot also sells cold beer and bottles of whiskey served with buckets of ice and club soda or cola.
For a quieter indoor dining experience, long-running Sakhon Restaurant does a decent version of laap ped along with a wide range of Thai and Isaan options offered by an English-speaking owner. If you simply need a quick bite closer to the river on Ratchabut Road, grab an 80-baht stir-fried rice plate — perhaps one of the many vegetarian options — in Khawhom's modern air-con cafe just south of the Ratchathani Hotel. A couple of doors down, SP House also serves quality Thai food along with ice cream and baked goods in its own air-con dining room.
For something more romantic, try Jum-Pa-Home, where you can enjoy a more refined taste of Northeast and Central Thai cuisine on a lovely garden deck, or in the air-con dining room.
Ubon also boasts one of the most interesting vegetarian eateries that we've come across anywhere in Thailand. Utthayan Bun Niyom is staffed by volunteers from the Santi Asoke Buddhist group, which promotes simplicity, harmlessness and meditation. You don't have to take an oath to enjoy a huge display of mostly vegan curries, soups, salads and desserts that go for just 10 baht, including rice, if ordering one selection, and up to 20 baht for a plate piled high with three different options. Grab a seat at one of the many tables under a high thatch roof to try the vegetarian som tam before browsing the on-site natural products shop.
In addition to the tremendous lineup of standalone eateries, Ubon boasts a fairly small but easily accessible night market just south of Thung Si Muang Park and across the street from The Ratchathani Hotel on Khuan Thani Rd. Start with a Vietnamese-style khanom pang pate (baguette, or banh muy in Vietnamese) stuffed with egg and muu yor and toasted to a crisp. Then move onto pork and shrimp dumplings, duck noodle soup with egg-wheat noodles (ba-mii ped), som tam and gai yang, or a good-old plate of pad Thai. Finish it off with a hunk of homemade khanom morkaen, a sweet Thai-style egg custard sold by a rather mean-looking woman next to the baguette vendor, and you'll be adjusting that belt for less than 100 baht. Plentiful tables are set up between the dozens of food carts for eating on site.
The Outside Inn is a guesthouse that also cooks up some phenomenal eats. The owners "work hard to serve the best Mexican food in Thailand", and judging by the carnitas burrito that we wolfed down, they just might have achieved this. House-made guacamole, chile verde and tacos made with authentically Mexican corn tortillas join a few types of burgers, crusty grilled cheese sandwiches, veggie melts, several breakfast options and Thai dishes on a well-put-together menu. They also offer some good wines, Chang beer on draft and an inspiring cocktail selection utilising house-infused vodkas and liqueurs. A margarita made with 100% blue agave tequila is the perfect antidote to Ubon's steamy weather, though we were more intrigued by the Bangkok Buffalo, a take on the Moscow Mule that blends ginger-infused vodka with orange bitters, ginger ale and lime. Prices run from 100 to 250 baht and are absolutely worth it.
If you crave Italian, make your way to the far northwest of town for lunch or dinner at Spagos Pizza (delivery available), which really is "a taste of Italy in Ubon" as they claim. The Italian owner offers quality pizza, salads and pasta accompanied by an excellent wine list. Another fine option is Pepper's, an expat-run cafe that serves breakfast, pizza and baked goods in a spacious air-con setting. Closer to downtown on Phadaeng Rd and a short walk north of Thung Si Muang Park, Wrong Way Cafe cooks up satisfying burgers, pies and salads to go with lively conversation and billiards in a pub-style setting that draws many of the local expats.
Unlike many other nightlife spots in this university town, U-Bar attracts a late-20s crowd and is perhaps Ubon's most happening club. Guaranteed to be thumping on Friday and Saturday nights, it usually begins with a live band and moves on to a DJ. If it's anyone in your party's birthday, take advantage of the buy-one-get-one-free Red Label deal, as it's not advertised anywhere in English.
Keep the party going after U-Bar goes to sleep by heading over to Mix Club, where the popular Western beats keep night owls spinning late on the dance floor. Also on Chayangkun, Swing Club is another option that aims for a more youthful crowd. If you're interested in watching a football game, Tid Soy on Suriyat Rd, directly behind Wat Chaeng, offers a suitable football-oriented atmosphere. Also offering some delicious food, prepare to play the standard guessing and pointing game with no English-speaking workers or English menu.
Maybe the best (and most convenient) options for a fun but not too crazy night out are the riverside bars setting up nightly just east of Ratchabut Road's end. Grab a seat at an outdoor table and graze on Isaan-style drinking food while sipping off a beer tower and listening to Isaan country music or Western tunes pumped from the sound systems.
Mae Tae: Chongkonnithan Rd; open daily 07:00-11:00 or until sold out.
99 Kuay Chab: Cnr Phichitrangsan and Thepyothi Rds; T: (045) 260 424; open daily 13:00-22:00.
Indochina: Sappasit Rd, just east of Phadaeng Rd and west of Wat Chaeng; T: (045) 245 584.
Somtum Jinda: Just past Phonpaen Rd if heading east from 99 Kuay Chab; T: (045) 255 223; open daily 10:30 to 21:00.
Raan Porntip: Just east of Wat Chaeng on Sappasit Rd; T: (089) 720 8101; open daily 16:00-20:00.
Aan Tee Am Nuay Chok: Just west of Phadaeng Rd; T: (045) 241 809; open daily from around 17:00-late.
Sakhon Restaurant: Phadaeng Rd, a short walk north of Thung Si Muang Park; T: (045) 241 011.
Khawhom's: Ratchabut Rd, just south of The Ratchathani Hotel; open daily 10:00-21:00.
Jum-Pa-Home: Cnr Phichitrangsan and Buraphanai Rds; T: (085) 989 6266; open daily 17:00-24:00.
Utthayan Bun Niyom: Cnr Thepyothi and Srinarong (aka Srinaruad) Rds, a 10-minute walk east of Thung Si Muang Park; T: (086) 871 1580; open Tues-Sun 06:00-14:00.
The Outside Inn: Just north of Wat Si Phradu on Suriyat Rd.
Spagos Pizza: Chaeng Sanit Rd; T: (045) 281 100.
Pepper's: Uppalisan Rd, just south of the airport's southwest tip; T: (087) 100 3260.
U-Bar: Thepyothi Rd, just south of Phichitrangsan.
Mix Club: Chayangkun Rd.
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This is only the second time I have ever seen this diecut for sale. Made for the 1929 and 1930 seasons only, this very large Dennison diecut exemplifies the radical design change that Dennison experimented with during this brief interval. It is too bad that the condition of this one is so poor in terms of coloration.
Mark B. Ledenbach's vintage Halloween collectibles blog.


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In Power Pivot you can add descriptions for the tables, fields, and columns in Power View. When working in Power View, these descriptions will appear when you hover on the table, field, or column. By adding descriptions for tables, fields, and measures, you'll make it easier for coworkers to create reports and also easier for others to understand and use your shared reports.
Open Power Pivot > Manage.
Select the Data View: Home > View > Data View
To add a description to a:
Column: select the column, right-click, and select Description.
Table: right-click the table tab and select Description.
Field: right-click the calculated field (or measure) and select Description.
Back in Power View, hover over the table, field, or column to display the description.
Note: When you add descriptions in Power Pivot, you are making changes to the underlying data model. So when you return to Power View, you'll be prompted to refresh the data in your workbook.
See Also
Power Pivot reporting properties for Power View
Power View and Power Pivot videos
Power View: Explore, visualize, and present your data
Tutorial: PivotTable data analysis using a Data Model in Excel


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The Changing World: U.S./China Relations
Winston Lord is a United States diplomat and leader of non-governmental foreign policy organizations. He served as the president of the Council of Foreign Relations between 1977 and 1985, Ambassador to China from 1985 to 1989 and Assistant Secretary of State between 1993 and 1997. He is a former member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group, and is currently Chairman Emeritus of the International Rescue Committee, the largest non-sectarian organization that both helps refugees abroad and resettles them in the United States.
For four decades Ambassador Lord has been at the center of U.S.-China relations. As Special Assistant to the National Security Advisor, he accompanied President Nixon on his historic opening in the early 1970's, and Henry Kissinger on his secret visit to China in 1971, as well as subsequent trips by President Ford and Dr. Kissinger.
From 1985-1989 he served as Ambassador to Beijing under Presidents Reagan and Bush. From 1993-1997 he was Assistant Secretary of State in charge of all East Asian policy, including China, under President Clinton.
Between governmental posts Ambassador Lord has headed and helped direct a variety of private
organizations related to international affairs. He was President of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1977-1985. In the early 1990s he was Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy and Chairman of the Carnegie Endowment National Commission on America and the New World.
Ambassador Lord earned a B.A. from Yale (Magna Cum Laude) and an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (first in the class). He has received several honorary degrees, the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award and the Defense Department's Outstanding Performance Award. Lord has appeared on all major media networks and his writings include articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time and Foreign Affairs.
He is currently a director of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, a global advisor to the Women's Tennis Association, trustee of the Trilateral Commission, Vice Chair of the NCAFP Northeast Asia Security Forum, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations.


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we just found out we will be getting the keys to our house on thursday so we can start our move two days earlier than planned. hopefully, we will finish on saturday. i don't think the new house has internet – but wawee is still close by and i've located another coffee shop with free wifi, so i'll be around. just not as around.
thursday morning also conveniently happens to be a holiday – kids home from school. they're gonna be so excited. but, i'm afraid i've inadvertently offended our mâe bâan's husband. he's been fairly insistant that he can move us. that we don't need to get any other help. he has a vehicle and he can do it. but we're doubtful. because here's the vehicle.
so, i've managed to wrangle another family into helping. they have a truck – and, as is well known, owning a truck means helping out those in need of a truck. i'm thinking owning a truck might be a bit of a pain, but very glad they've got one.
so, i think we're gonna have a bit of a smackdown. the truck bed vs. motorcy cart. which can move the most.
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"It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed."So wrote Antonin Scalia in his dissenting opinion in Boumediene v. Bush (as noted earlier), which permits detainees at Guantanamo and elsewhere to challenge the legality of their imprisonment by filing writs of habeas corpus in federal courts.
A few days later, with no apparent sense of irony, the Supreme Court released Scalia's opinion for the 5-4 majority in District of Columbia v. Heller, which invalidated D.C.'s ban on handguns. Scalia neglected to mention that the result in Heller is absolutely certain to "cause more Americans to be killed."
While I can't say I've gotten through all 157 pages of Heller, it's interesting to see how Scalia has parsed the 2nd Amendment's reference to "[a] well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State..." In it he finds, through breathtaking contortions, an individual right to bear arms rather than a collective right, as the phrase would plainly suggest.
It's a familiar display of sophistry and outcome jurisprudence, armed to the teeth (bad pun) with cites to often-obscure sources (including a "Linguists' Brief") over two centuries. It's as if Scalia thinks an opinion creaking under the strain of so many sources would compensate for the feeble logic of his position.
Scalia's meticulous resort to centuries of legislative history in Heller directly conflicts with his long hostility to reliance on legislative and historical sources:
It says to the bar that even an "unambiguous (and) unequivocal" statute can never be dispositive; that, presumably under penalty of malpractice liability, the oracles of legislative history, far into the dimmy past, must always be consulted. This undermines the clarity of law, and condemns litigants (who, unlike us, must pay for it out of their own pockets) to subsidizing historical research by lawyers. The greatest defect of legislative history is its illegitimacy. We are governed by laws, not by the intentions of legislators. . . . But not the least of the defects of legislative history is its indeterminacy. If one were to search for an interpretative technique that, on the whole, was more likely to confuse than to clarify, one could hardly find a more promising candidate than legislative history. [Conroy v. Aniskoff, 507 U.S. 511 (1993).]Or, as Scalia wrote a few years earlier, "the main danger in judicial interpretation of the Constitution — or, for that matter, in judicial interpretation of any law — is that the judges will mistake their own predilections for the law." [1]
Scalia's contortions evoke Harry Frankfurt's notion of bullshit:
"His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose."Scalia's textualism, it seems, depends entirely on the context.
[1] Antonin Scalia "Originalism: The Lesser Evil," 57 University of Cincinnati Law Review 849, 851 (1989) [as quoted here].
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'Asylum Of The Daleks' was broadcast last night on BBC One
The first episode of the new season of Doctor Who scored 6.4 million viewers when it premiered last night (September 1), on BBC One.
Asylum Of The Daleks pulled in an average audience of 6.4 million, only slightly less than the first episode of season six, which made 6.5 million. The second episode of the popular sci-fi show, Dinosaurs On A Spaceship, airs next Saturday.
However, Doctor Who was beaten in last night's TV ratings by The X Factor, which attracted an average of 8.5 million viewers on ITV and ITV+1, with a peak of 9.7 million, which is the highest rating so far for this series of the talent show, according to the Metro.
The new episode of Doctor Who saw an early appearance from the doctor's new sidekick, as played by Jenna-Louise Coleman.
Yesterday, the BBC denied reports that actor Matt Smith wants to quit Doctor Who. Smith, who has played the iconic Time Lord since 2010 recently told Empire magazine that the role was tiring him out. "I couldn't do this for seven years," he said. "I'd be run into the ground. I don't think you can sustain it."
His comments led the Daily Mirror to place an image on their front page of Smith underneath the headline "I Quit", but BBC Head Of Communications Sam Hodges said: "He says in an interview that he won't be the Doctor forever – hardly quitting!" and insisted Smith would "be around for a good while yet".
Current Doctor Who companions Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill will make their final appearances at some point during season seven.


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Beyond Oasis (known in Japan and Europe as The Story of Thor) is the Sega Genesis console's answer to The Legend of Zelda. If you've just recently become aware of it, that's not surprising. It was originally released back in December of 1994, when the Sega Genesis was on its last legs. On top of that, Sega hasn't included Beyond Oasis in any of the company's various classics compilations over the years, which means that the Wii's Virtual Console shop is the only opportunity most people have had to own and play the game since its original release.
A good way to describe Beyond Oasis is that it's a more combative take on The Legend of Zelda. You play as Ali, a young adventurer that found a magical gold armlet while searching a cave one day. He's then tasked with collecting the four elemental spirits necessary to stop the bad guy that's been unleashing all sorts of nasty monsters on the land of Oasis. As you travel around the overworld and make your way through the various dungeons scattered around Oasis, you'll fight monsters in real time, solve a myriad of switch-based puzzles, and collect a multitude of weapons and objects that will help you on your quest. The action is presented from an isometric-style top-down viewpoint, and combat mainly involves fighting individual monsters with whatever swords, crossbows, or bombs you happen to have handy. Besides walking around and stabbing things, you can make Ali run, jump, and perform different sword attacks. You can also use his armlet to summon and command the different elemental spirits that you collect during the quest. Once summoned, a spirit will follow you around, reveal secrets, and attack enemies until your magic counter is depleted. On the whole, you'll spend much more time fighting than you will exploring or solving puzzles, though the puzzles and bosses in each dungeon certainly do require you to put all of Ali's abilities to use.
After all these years, the game still looks nice. The 2D graphics are roughly comparable to what you'll find in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the Super Nintendo. Thanks to the isometric viewpoint and a masterful use of shading, the environments convey a three-dimensional sense of proportion and depth. You can climb up stairs, jump off of ledges, and splash around in shallow ponds. Decorative details, such as waterfalls and leaping fish, also help bring the world of Oasis to life. Ali and the various enemies are large and fluidly animated. At the end of each dungeon, you'll encounter a giant spider, a massive dragon, or some other boss that occupies at least half the screen and usually stretches far off into the distance. The game's sound effects consist of generic slashes and clangs, along with a few grunts and growls here and there. The music isn't composer Yuzo Koshiro's best work, but the medieval anthems he concocted set the appropriate mood. For the Wii's part, the system has no trouble emulating the graphics and audio exactly as they'd be on an actual Sega Genesis console.
Beyond Oasis moves along at a brisk pace. There's not much backtracking, the map always points you to the next objective, and some events will whisk you to the next region of the island without forcing you to walk there. As a result, the game doesn't have many dull moments. However, because you don't have to waste time exploring, the quest doesn't take very long to complete. Your first time through may take about eight hours, and subsequent plays will require half that. The game provides four slots for saves and ranks your best times. In 1994, its $50 price tag might have been hard to swallow given the quest's brief length. Now that the game costs 800 Wii points ($8) from the Wii's Virtual Console shop, the price seems about right. You probably won't mind forking over the cash if you've been looking for a game like The Legend of Zelda that's not so much about wandering the countryside as it is slaughtering hordes of ugly monsters.


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I am trying to find all real solutions to the following set of equations: $$\begin{align*} b(a-c)-ad&=0\\ 2ab+cb+ad-2cd&=0 \end{align*}$$
My algebra is a bit rusty, and I really have no idea where to begin (aside from maybe a long sequence of 'brute force' by substitution). I would appreciate help with this.
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Microsoft and Twitter Tumble as CES Kicks Off
The Dow Jones Industrial Average kicked off the week with a move to the downside, shedding more than 40 points as of 11:30 a.m. EST. Dow component Microsoft led the index lower, falling nearly 2% in early trading. Other tech stocks were mixed, with Twitter notching another notable decline while shares of chip maker NVIDIA got a slight boost.
ISM nonmanufacturing PMI disappoints
The Dow Jones' sell-off may have prompted by disappointing Institute for Supply Management nonmanufacturing PMI data. The index, which measures the strength of the nonmanufacturing segment of the U.S. economy, came in at a reading of 53, while economists had anticipated a 54.5 reading. Still, there's reason to be hopeful: Any ISM reading of more than 50 indicates economic expansion. Monday's data, however, shows the expansion isn't as great as some expected.
Can Microsoft find a new CEO?
Microsoft's sell-off was pretty substantial for a company with a market cap of more than $300 billion. Investors were likely selling Microsoft shares in the wake of a Wall Street Journal report that it is taking the company longer to find its next CEO than it had anticipated. With both current CEO Steve Ballmer and Microsoft founder Bill Gates likely to stay on the board, would-be CEOs could have a difficult time managing the company.
Twitter hit with another downgrade
Microsoft's drop was tame compared to Twitter's -- the high-flying social media IPO was down nearly 5% early on Monday after yet another stock downgrade. This time, Morgan Stanley cut its rating on the stock to underweight with a $33 price target. Morgan Stanley believes that Twitter's success is far from guaranteed. It will have to compete fiercely with other social media giants for ad dollars; while Twitter could win out, Morgan Stanley thinks the risk/reward profile is far from attractive.
NVIDIA enters the car market
NVIDIA's stock, meanwhile, was up more than 0.80%. Admittedly, that isn't a huge gain for a company with just a $9 billion market cap, but there was some relatively big news for NVIDIA investors. During its presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NVIDIA unveiled some new mobile chips, including a Tegra K1 graphics chip.
NVIDIA also landed a deal to supply chips to car makers. In the years to come, many cars with center consoles powered by the Android operating system could sport NVIDIA chips.
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FOXBORO — Fifty-two more points. Three more Tom Brady touchdown passes, giving him 30 at the halfway mark.
FOXBORO — Fifty-two more points.
Three more Tom Brady touchdown passes, giving him 30 at the halfway mark.
Another Randy Moss touchdown reception, his 11th.
Nine more Wes Welker receptions, giving him 56. Another TD, pushing his total to six.
The return of All-Pro defensive lineman Richard Seymour, in a limited role.
Another chance to run up the score.
Everything we dreamed of in the offseason is coming true. It's been like Christmas in October, which is a problem for Patriot fans.
It's not Christmas yet. There will be no gifts next week.
The preliminaries are over.
Next up, Peyton Manning and the Super Bowl champion Colts.
The 8-0 Patriots have scored 48, 49 and 52 points in the last three games.
They are averaging more than 41 points per game.
The scoreboard numbers keep rolling up higher and higher, getting more and more staggering each week as records fall.
Their games have been over by halftime, including yesterday, when they led the Redskins 24-0 at the break.
The NFL has noticed, and so have the oddsmakers. Last night, the Pats opened as 4½-point favorites for Sunday's game at the undefeated Super Bowl champion's home dome.
Great numbers all, and all meaningless come Sunday.
So let's drop the special talk for now, pleads Brady.
"It's a long season," he said. "It's not even November yet, and we've got a lot of room for improvement left and we've got a long half of the season ahead."
Starting with the Colts, a midseason Super Bowl, this year's Game of the Decade.
It's a chance for one team to prolong its undefeated dream, a chance to grab the lead in the battle for AFC home-field advantage.
Yesterday at Gillette, the Patriots annihilated the Joe Gibbs-coached Washington Redskins. It was billed as a matchup between two coaches with three Super Bowl championships each, but only one had Brady and company on his side.
Brady, who completed 29 of 38 passes for 306 yards, actually saw his passing rating drop from a perfect 158.3 last week in Miami to a still ridiculously high 125.5 yesterday.
At this point, I think even the Patriots are looking forward to a little competition. A little excitement. They know the first eight games have been a walk-through for the real season, which starts against the Colts.
And then possible land mines await against the Steelers and Ravens, and who knows, maybe even the Giants.
Then we'll find out just how great these Patriots are.
Right now, we just shake our head in awe. The nagging question is, are they this good, or is the rest of the NFL this bad?
Until now, the Patriots have been chasing and rewriting statistical history. Now, they get to battle the defending Super Bowl champs, a team that has beaten them three straight times.
There will be little laughter in the Foxboro film room this week. Talk of history will be put aside.
"You have to play who's on the schedule, but also when you get a chance to play the best team in football, you have to get excited," said safety Rodney Harrison. "You have to get ready."
Oh, this team is ready. On top of yesterday's offensive exploits, the defense had a shutout until three minutes remained. Mike Vrabel had three sacks, three forced fumbles and caught his 10th career touchdown pass in the goal-line offense. Rosevelt Colvin returned one of those fumbles 11 yards for a defensive score.
It all went their way.
Just like it has all season.
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This normally-prolific Militant hasn't been clicking on the the big orange "Publish Post" button for a few days, and it's not just because of the All-Star Break, which, by the way, this NL-leaning Militant has been rooting for a win by the Batting Pitchers League for a loooong time and was thusly crushed by Tuesday's results (what do you expect, it's Frisco...). Nor, on a related note, will I let the knee-jerk booing of the words "Los Angeles" being echoed in the PA system of Pacific Be, er, SB, er, AT&, er, Telecommunications Company Park by them Frisco Fans get to me (I swear, they would even boo at hearing "Los Angeles was destroyed by a 9.7 earthquake" just because it mentioned the name of The Greater California City).
No, see, the Militant is a living paradox. He likes to call attention to himself, yet is ever-so-cautious about revealing his identity. He rails against the slavery of East Coast Colonialism, yet is a virtual slave to his own community commitments. And worse yet, he likes to refer to himself in the third person.
But without saying too much, the Militant would like to note down, from an observant militant eye peeking under this sweaty Dodger camo cap, some of his recent activities...
Monday, 6:30 p.m.: Congress of Neighborhoods Planning Group Session
DWP Building, Downtown Los Angeles.
For those not aware, the Congress of Neighborhoods is a bi-annual event put on by the city of Los Angeles' Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (a.k.a. DONE) which is basically a pow-wow of sorts for the city's 89 neighborhood councils, but open to anyone and everyone who is concerned about neighborhoods. This militant has attended most of these events in the past, including the last one at the Westin Bonaventure in April. Since then, the new folks now at the helm of DONE (who replaced a woefully unpopular and incompetent interim general manager last Spring) have opened up the planning of the event to the councils as well as concerned community people in general, a welcome sign from what I have sensed from the NC people.
The next Congress event is slated to take place on Saturday, October 27 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the aqua-and-blue colored wonder that is the Convention Center. This particular meeting polled the participants on what sort of topics and themes the event would have. Ever the diversity watchdog, this Militant would rate the representation of the group (on a scale of 1-5) a 3.5...definitely not a snowfield, but still not a full bag of Skittles. It was interesting, though to see what topics the participants felt was important to them: Those representing whiter, more well-to-do neighborhoods were concerned about planning/land use management, budgetary and procedural issues while the interpretation headphone-wearing Spanish speaking contingent were more concerned about the essentials: safe streets, quality schools, places for their kids to play, some even bought up the issue of racism in neighborhood council boards. Evidence The Great Divide definitely exists, but at least everyone in the group is pulling together to make a great event this Fall.
Tuesday, 6:30 p.m.: Neighborhood Council Review Commission Workshop
Salesian High School, Boyle Heights, The Real Eastside.
It's been said that the Los Angeles' Neighborhood Council system is a "great experiment in participatory democracy" when approved by voters in 1999 as part of an update to the city's charter. But like any killer app, it was prone to have various bugs. So the Neighborhood Council Review Commission (a.k.a. The 912 Commission - yep, that's a charter reference), made up of L337 community leaders and neighborhood council folk, would re-write the neighborhood council code and roll out "Version 2.0," as they like to say. Again, many NC-folk, both current and former, along with other concerned community peeps , attended this workshop, which was designed to gauge the community's opinions on the 912 Commission's recommendations, and voice their input on the NC system in general. But at the end of the meeting, a number of concerned Real Eastsiders voiced their disappointment at, in their own experience, a system that failed them due to infighting, backdoor deals, Brown Act violations and conflicts of interest. In other words, they were pwn3d by teh h4xx0rz. There's great concern that experiences like these turn off and turn away people who should be involved in the NC system, not to mention sour the reputation of a largely unknown entity to most Angelenos. Some voiced their opinions at the workshop that the City take upon itself to publicize, market or outreach the whole NC to the general public, rather than the NCs themselves relaying to the people 89 different versions of what the NCs are.
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.: An Unspecified Neighborhood Council Meeting
An Unspecified Location, An Unspecified Part of Town.
So yes, this Militant attended a certain neighborhood council of a certain community of which he is a stakeholder in. This militant may or may not have been involved in the planning and outreach process of such a meeting. But needless to say, at the end, it was a good meeting, with the deputy of an unspecified city councilmember in attendance talking about a relatively successful unspecified program from their office that deals with an unspecified urban issue. There were also senior lead officers from two unspecified LAPD divisions present, who gave community members present an update on crime (both of which reported fairly low levels of crime as of late). The people seemed glad to be there, there were much information and resources shared and in all it was a very productive meeting for this unspecified neighborhood council. Even the Board Meeting section was swift and to the point and even put at the tail end of the entire meeting so as not to bore/alienate community people who preferred to put their community concerns into motion, instead of hearing board members move motions. The board wasn't just civil, but they even lightheartedly joked around. Way to go, unspecified neighborhood council! I'm glad, and proud, to be involved.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
The Militant Does The Neighborhood Council Scene
Commandeered by Militant Angeleno @ 1:54 AM
Labels: Community, Neighborhood Councils
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The two members on the far right of the table the board was sitting on just wanted to go home. Great meeting nontheless. GO UNSPECIFIED NC!
Actual dialogue from those two members.
Hey unspecified board member.
Can you please stop yawning, its really fucking contagi(yaaaaaawn.
(Both loling)
- July 12, 2007 at 8:38 PM
- Silent Android said...
Militant...you're crazy, dude.
- July 13, 2007 at 1:02 AM
Mr. Militant, please tell me you're not the guy who sat in the front row wearing the light blue dress shirt.
- July 13, 2007 at 2:31 AM
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Home Inspection
We put this video together for our clients so that everyone knows what to expect on a Home Inspection. Big thanks to John Bouley @ Tiger Home Inspection for helping us out!
March 1st Market Update
Kyle sat down with a fellow agent to talk about the emerging Spring Market.


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Did anyone else watch the premieres of Dexter and Homeland last night? What did you think? Both seasons look like they're going to be crazy good this year! Speaking of crazy good, guess what happened to me/my blog yesterday?
It was around 10 am when I rolled over to check my phone to see what time it was. At some point during the night my phone had shut itself off so I took the battery out, put it back in and turned my phone on.
After it booted up, I started checking my e-mails and saw that I had one from Twitter that contained a tweet from Chelsea at Two Twenty One that said this:
Ummm, what?! I didn't believe what I was reading at first so I hopped out of bed and got on my computer to confirm the news. Yes, Censational Girl did in fact feature the $15 chunky wooden floating shelves I DIY'd in her 'Best of the Blogosphere' roundup earlier in the morning!
Shocked doesn't even begin to describe how I was feeling when I saw my shelves on her site. I'm forever grateful to whoever (whomever?) pointed her or her scout, Amanda, my way and I'm so happy that my little blog didn't crash as my page views skyrocketed throughout the day haha
Anyway, welcome new readers!
I had planned on revealing my newly painted powder room to you today but a lot of people had commented on the styling of my shelves and one person asked if I could do a roundup of where I got everything so that's what's in store for you today!
I tend to shop for decorative accessories in the same places and my two go-to stores are HomeGoods and Target:
Occasionally I'll find something at IKEA or West Elm but neither store has a retail location less than 2 hours away and shipping can be expensive. I like going to Goodwill to find things too but it's always hit or miss when I go so I don't shop there as often as I should.
Funny story: the night before I posted my tutorial, I actually stopped at HomeGoods and bought the following things to style my shelves with:
- The two rusted balls on the top shelf
- The thick black and tan book underneath the white vase (it was only $5!)
- The mustard yellow Ginger jar
- All 6 hand towels in the "ETC" basket (that I bought from Target the weekend before)
- The mustard yellow monkey
I also bought some other things that didn't make the cut but those will be used in future vignettes :)
To style the shelves, I mixed in a variety of items I already had on hand with the new HomeGoods finds and tried to keep things as simple as possible. None of the items were very expensive and I think the most I spent on one of them was $20.
I'm definitely not a styling expert and after looking at these pictures, there's some things I'd like to tweak but I'm happy with how everything looks for the most part!
Make sure to check back tomorrow to see what color I painted my powder room and to see if I mixed things up on the shelves :)
Does styling come easy to you? Where do you go to shop for decorative accessories?


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A quick look at the comments on any of our celebrity posts make at least one thing clear: you guys are pretty savvy to the not-so-transparent ways that brands try to market things to you via their famous friends. And while no celebrity gets everything for free (seriously, we see most of them shopping all the time), the art of the celebrity placement, as it's called, is alive and well. What we want to know, though, is if the tactic affects your shopping habits.
I've been thinking about this topic ever since Fashionista ran a piece on the tactic's evolving use a couple of weeks ago, but the fact that the Louis Vuitton Soft Lockit keeps popping up on the arms of A-List celebrities is what really started my own examination of how these tacit celebrity endorsements affect my perceptions. Since the bag first turned up on Karlie Kloss at the tail end of April, we've published three other posts on celebrities carrying the bag, plus an introduction to the bag itself. Yesterday, I opened up our photo agency's archive to find Naomi Watts ready to join their ranks.
It's impossible to say whether that success rate is because of an especially aggressive campaign to get the bag onto notable arms or just because Louis Vuitton is especially effective at flexing its considerably influential muscles among its clientele, but either way, the company generated a lot more publicity by giving out roughly $20,000 worth of bags than it would have by using the same amount of money for additional ad placements. (In the world of luxury advertising, 20 grand doesn't buy you a whole lot.)
Although brand's can't track what kind of return on investment these placements have, reaction to the bag in our comments sections has been overwhelmingly positive, which is particularly notable when you consider how controversial Vuitton's wares have become among bag lovers. That could be because the bag itself is beautiful (which it is), but if you're like me, it might also be because seeing a bag in context on someone graceful and stylish is more powerful than just seeing it, period.
I'm pretty good at visualizing how bags will look in real life; after all, I've been at this for a few years, and I'm familiar with the leathers, hardware and finishing that most brands use. Still, every now and then, I'll come across just the right person wearing just the right thing and carrying a bag that I thought I hated, and I can almost feel something click over inside my head, like a little kid who's just found exactly the piece of a puzzle that she was looking for. And in that moment, it doesn't matter whether or not the star chose the bag herself or was given it by a brand who hoped it might change my opinion. All that matters is that small epiphany.
That same moment has never happened for me when looking at an advertisement; my feelings are the same when looking at those as when I'm looking at a stock or runway photo. Something about seeing the bag out in the wild, though, on a real human who is going to the airport or the grocery store – sometimes that works, even if I know all about the machinations and PR maneuvers that went into setting it up. I'm not too proud to acknowledge it.
Now we want to hear from you – has seeing a handbag on a celebrity ever changed your feelings about it?
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Discounted Engagement Rings
Browse our collection of stunning and unique preowned diamond rings. As we have a few select high end partners within the diamond fine jewellery sector, we have taken on this collection to offer you. In our case, the term Preowned diamonds purely relates to the fact that we brought these in from a partner jeweller. These are not second hand rings and have never been worn.
Currently only available as one of a kind pieces as seen on site, but you may be inspired by the wonderful stones and design to customise your diamond engagement ring or simply create your very own unique piece. Perfect for moments such as an anniversary, birthday or birth celebration. This diverse selection also offers some great alternative engagement ring ideas...whether you want a Fancy Yellow diamond central stone instead of the traditional colourless diamond or whether the beauty of the precious gems reflects your or your partner's colour taste in fine jewellery.
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Oval Ruby 1.48ct and two Round Diamond 0.61ct 18ct YG TrilogyExcl. Tax: £1,820.00 Total £2,184.00
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Ruby 0.33ct and Diamond 0.21ct Halo Trio YG ringExcl. Tax: £490.00 Total £588.00
Pear shaped Sapphire duo 3.63ct,Diamond sides 0.15ct PlatExcl. Tax: £3,010.00 Total £3,612.00
Radiant (0.59ct) and Trapeze(0.51ct) Diamonds Platinum TrilogyExcl. Tax: £1,755.00 Total £2,106.00
Radiant FCY Diamond 0.55ct with Dia sides 0.23ct in PlatinumExcl. Tax: £1,885.00 Total £2,262.00
Oval Ruby (1.36ct) and Half Moon Diamonds (0.44ct) 18ct Yellow Gold TrilogyExcl. Tax: £1,890.00 Total £2,268.00
Princess cut Diamond Trilogy - 1.52ct GIA- in PlatinumExcl. Tax: £3,120.00 Total £3,744.00
Emerald cut Sapphire(1.40ct) and Trapeze diamonds (0.68ct) Plat TrilogyExcl. Tax: £2,380.00 Total £2,856.00
Fancy Yellow Heart Diamond(1.01ct) halo(0.12ct) Platinum solitaireExcl. Tax: £3,055.00 Total £3,666.00
Oval Ruby (1.21ct) and Diamond (0.64ct) 18ct White Gold Cluster ringExcl. Tax: £1,540.00 Total £1,848.00
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Brexit: One Year On
Today is one year since the people went to the ballot boxes to vote on the future of the UK in the EU. The referendum created deep and undeniable divides across the UK. Families, communities and nations were torn even before the referendum results were announced. One year on, many of the issues and concerns that emerged in the immediate days and weeks following the referendum result have still not been addressed. Confusion, mistrust and instability have become a norm over the past year, and without a codified constitution and rules governing referendums, the political state of the country seems to be in freefall.
What's happened so far?
Article 50 was triggered in March this year after 51.9% of voters, or 37% of the population, and two of the four nations in the United Kingdom, voted to leave the EU. The government had wanted to trigger Article 50 using outdated Royal Prerogative powers, and was only stopped by a legal case and a ruling by the Supreme Court. Now that Article 50 has been triggered and the "divorce" negotiation has begun, we are still waiting to find out what form Brexit will take.
Given the small majority in the referendum, the mandate for Brexit lies on shaky foundations. Theresa May attempted to gain a mandate for the Conservatives' Brexit plan by calling a general election but was instead left with a reduced seat count and a minority of seats. The general election failed to give us an answer on what form Brexit will take, and with no DUP coalition deal, this question remains.
Many of these unanswered questions can be traced back to the ballot we were presented with a year ago; a simple yes/no vote gave the voters no chance of telling government what direction they wanted Brexit to take. "The Government has a plethora of options and decisions to make, many of which are arguably mutually exclusive. For instance, do we prioritise immigration over single market access? Different voters were motivated by different priorities, but the simple yes/no question has left the government and the public none the wiser about what direction should be taken. This has left both leave and remain voters feeling let down by Parliament, against a backdrop of an already disillusioned electorate.
More troubling, however, was the lack of a plan for the UK leaving the EU. Perhaps the Westminster elites, comfortable in their power, had not anticipated the popular sovereignty that had passed Brexit, and failed to organise a tangible plan for any outcome as a result. Or perhaps, it was just as large a shock to the government as it was to the people. Either way, the country was left with more questions than answers, and no plan on how to move forward with Brexit. This is particularly obvious in the case of Scotland and Northern Ireland, who as recently as the Queen's Speech are still demanding a guarantee that Scotland's interests will be taken on board during the negotiations.
How can we make sure these issues do not occur again?
In our Democratic Brexit report, we have some ideas!
1. A Referendums Act to set out clear and consistent rules - the government should introduce a Referendums Act that places a requirement on the government to have a plan for each outcome of any given referendum, regardless of which side they support. This means that the government can't make up major political changes as they go, but have a coherent plan no matter the outcome. The public would also have a clearer idea of what it was they were voting for.
2. An independent public education programme - The public should have access to free and fair information for any referendum. Accessible and unbiased, this should summarise the key facts and arguments for any referendum outside of campaigns or media influence. This should be done by an independent body with the capacity to share this information with everyone.
3. Implement a supermajority rule - Perhaps, the issue of mandates could be addressed if we had a policy of a supermajority - or a vote of 60% or above and a turnout of above 75%, which means that over 50% of the population will have voted to remain or leave. Supermajorities protect major and long lasting constitutional change from being passed on a whim. Denmark, for instance, has referendums for all constitutional changes and all referendums must be passed with 40% of the population voting. In comparison, only 37% of the registered electorate voted for Brexit. With a supermajority, the outcome of the EU Referendum would have had the legitimacy to go forward without the questions that this referendum result has faced. Without a doubt, supermajorities should be explored in any analysis of UK electoral law.


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Game of Thrones – Season 3 – Video Blog #2 – Molding The Book Into A Series
Here's the latest video blog from Game of Thrones Season 3: "Molding The Book Into A Series".
Executive producer and writer Bryan Cogman talks about the challenges of bringing the book to life on the screen. I am so excited! The new season starts on March 31, 2013.
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If you're the kind of person who likes to watch football games with a laptop sitting beside the chicken wings and popcorn, then you may want to add Twitter to the party mix for today's Super Bowl.
But will you be watching the game, or the commercials? For some of the Twitter crowd -- as is true for many others watching the game between the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers -- the big deal will be the ads.
Hence, the 2009 Twitter Bowl, the second annual microblogged "conversation about Super Bowl ads," where participants will discuss and rate the ads by adding "#superbowlads" to their tweets.
Writes PR maven Brian Solis, who'll be involved in summing up the results:
This year, we've also rallied the support of Louis Gray, Guy Kawasaki, and Jesse Stay, founder of SocialToo. Since Twitter is rooted in public interaction and provides the ability to extend its functionality, I wanted to find a Twitter application that would allow us to not only monitor discussions and ratings related to #superbowlads, but also provide the ability to capture and present votes. This might be one of the biggest "social" focus groups to date...
Here's one response to an ad early in the game from automaker Hyundai, from Twitter user practicalwitch: "Um, my Hyundai doesn't look nearly as cool as the ones in these commercials. Can I get a ruling here?
Meanwhile, there seem to be a number of general Super Bowl threads at Twitter, including one from the NFL itself.
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There are four general styles of hearing aids, and while it used to be that each one was for a different degree of hearing loss, technology has made it so that almost any hearing loss can be fit with almost any style. The following are the most common types of hearing aids.
Custom Hearing Aids
In-the-Ear; In-the-Canal; completely in the canal
Behind the Ear (BTE)
BTE instruments are used for all types of hearing loss, from mild to profound. Most offer advanced directional microphones for improved understanding of speech in noisy situations.
BTE hearing aids are fit behind or on top of the ear. An ear hook attached to a tube that runs from the hearing aid to the entrance of the ear canal. An earpiece or ear tip attaches to keep it in the ear.
There are two kinds of BTE's:
Traditional BTE: Thicker tubing is used for more stability and power. The tubing can handle the extra sound pressure without dissipating or distorting it. Standard-tubed BTE's are the most appropriate fit for profound hearing loss but also work well for mild through severe loss. These three-piece devices can be difficult for some, especially older users, to manipulate, and the ear molds require more detailed cleaning.
Slim-tubing BTE: Also known as a mini BTE, an open BTE, or an open ear fit hearing aid, this style became available in the past decade. For high-frequency hearing loss, it is the hearing aid of choice. With an open tip, the low frequencies escape before getting to the eardrum, this allowing for a more natural sound for high-frequency loss. The slim tubing can't handle as much power as the larger tubes, so it is better for mild through moderate hearing loss. The discreet fit and size has made the slim-tubing BTE very popular.
KEEP IN MIND: Because of their flexibility and ease of upgrade, BTE's are the most common type of hearing aid for children. As a child grows, new ear pieces can be made without needing to change the hearing aid itself. In addition, parents and other adults can monitor the usage since BTE's are easier to see.
Receiver in the Canal (RIC)
RIC open fittings look quite similar to the open fittings. But instead of resting behind the ear, the receiver is placed within the canal. RIC hearing aids are, at first glance, often mistaken for BTEs. Since the receiver is no longer within the behind-the-ear (BTE) unit, but inside the canal – and connected to the BTE component via thin tubing – the BTE unit is particularly small, light, and inconspicuous.
The body of the hearing aid remain on top of and slightly behind the ear, but the receiver (speaker) portion of the device is moved from the primary casing to inside the ear canal–hence, receiver in canal.
This provides two primary benefits.
- It makes the body of the device much smaller and lighter.
- The sound quality at the eardrum is a clearer representation of the desired sound.
When using a traditional BTE, the desired sound waves travel through tubing, which can affect the output at the eardrum. Consequently, the RIC hearing aid has become the most popular hearing aid on the market today.
RITE: Receiver-in-the-ear is another name for the RIC. While both are technically correct, RIC denotes the location of the receiver-in the canal-more specifically.
KEEP IN MIND: With BTE and RIC hearing aids, you may be able to sample the device the same day you are tested, as customized fitting is not required. This means you can actually test the sound quality yourself before you have to make a purchase decision. However, a hearing healthcare professional will still need to adjust and tune the device to your specific hearing needs.
In the Ear (ITE)
In-the-ear (ITE) hearing aids were the first custom hearing aids available. Although they are less popular than their newer, smaller cousins, they are still appropriate for many individuals. ITE hearing aids use a larger bater (size 13 or 312) and can sometimes provide more power. They are usually more secure because the top of the ear helps to hold it in. This device is best for people who have difficulty with dexterity or vision. Its twin microphones afford better directionality and noise reduction than just one microphone.
HS: Half-shell hearing aids are just a smaller version of ITE aids. They are best for individuals who have difficulty putting a full BTE in their ear due to the anatomy of the ear. They are usually less secure than the ITE, but they can still hold more power than smaller devices. They use a size 312 battery. Always request twin microphones in a half-shell for improved directionality and noise reduction.
In the Canal (ITC)
In-the-canal (ITC) hearing aids fit in the concha, or bowl of the ear. Depending on tour ear size and other options you require, they may or may not be available with twin microphones. They can still allow either a volume control or program control if size permits. They typically use a size 10A battery but sometimes a 312 can be installed.
CC: Custom-canal hearing aids are another name for the ITC, but is is used less often.
CIC: Completely-in-the-canal hearing aids are made to fit fully in the ear canal and can be minimally visible. Due to the CIC's small size, only one microphone can be installed, but the deep fit provides some natural directionality that is lacking that is lacking in larger hearing aids.
The benefits of the CIC are not only cosmetic. Because the microphones are better hidden in ear, there is less wind noise distraction, and the devices allow for easier wearing of head gear such as helmets. They use the small 10A battery, and usually provide room for a program button. These work for a mild to sever hearing loss, depending on the size of the ear canal.
Extended Wear (Lyric)
Lyric is the first extended wear hearing device that is 100% invisible. It is comfortably placed in the ear canal by a Lyric trained hearing professional and can be worn 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for up to 4 months at a time. No surgery or anesthesia is required.


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Law Enforcement personnel issue thousands of parking citations yearly. These
tickets can now be paid online; which
in turn reduces the chances for additional penalties.
Please be advised that tickets may take a couple of days to appear in our system.
Please call the toll free number at 877-263-6026, if you do not know your ticket number.


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Here's the answer I gave yesterday to somebody who had asked about accurate information and Ouija Boards.
As far as the accuracy you're getting with your own use of the Ouija board, it's all up for grabs. My own experience has been if I ask a question that Spirit will not answer (like something that is going to interfere with my own life lessons) they are likely going to say anything at all rather than not say anything. It's up to me to realize I just asked a really dumb question and Spirit is jerking me around because it's not something they are going to answer.
Also, your intention I believe needs to be pure in the sense that you're not all psychologically challenged or clouded. For instance, you're paranoid and want to know who the people are who've been following you. In actuality, nobody is following you, but you really think there are because you're paranoid. Spirit is going to say there are three people hiding around the corner. So, this isn't a whole lot of help for you. The help you need is to address your paranoia. And, it's probably not likely that Spirit is going to say to you to get your butt into a psychotherapist's office.
It doesn't say a whole lot about the accuracy of what gets said via a Ouija Board. And, you can get solid advice via the Ouija board and via channeling. But, you just have to practice at it a lot, want the good advice a lot, be willing to do whatever needs to be done to keep and get yourself psychologically well and be prepared to not be disappointed with the answers you get. Just use your common sense.
Also, the feeling of not knowing whether it was Spirit or you who made it move will go away eventually. In the beginning, depending on how much you practice, it is going to feel like you made it move. Just set aside the 10 or 15 minutes you are practicing to say in your own mind, "For the next few minutes EVERYTHING that comes through via the Ouija is my guide." whether it really is or is not. You have to believe that it is them. In reality it is both of you. And, as time goes by you're going to be able to sense when it is Spirit talking and when it is you. But, for awhile it is confusing. This is the time NOT to go blabbing to all and sundry about what the incredible, super fantastic news your guide just told you to go buy stock options on pork bellies. NOT. Don't believe it for a minute. Just keep it to yourself, don't believe it until you have proof and keep practicing.


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House GOP reminds leadership their constituents STILL want Obamacare gone
(NationalSentinel) Healthcare: It shouldn't need saying, given the massive opposition Republican voters have always had to Obamacare, but some House GOP members are reminding their leaders that constituents have not changed their minds.
As reported by the Washington Times, one Florida GOP rep says that not only will Republicans eventually repeal and replace the failing Affordable Care Act, but that voters remain committed to its repeal as well:
Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis said on Fox's "America's Newsroom" that voters in his district "absolutely" want Obamacare repealed and replaced, despite recent polling that indicates the public view may be more favorable to fixing the current law rather than scrapping it entirely.
Mr. DeSantis said that his constituents told him it was their unhappiness with the replacement plan that caused them to withdraw support.
"Voters are frustrated with the product that was produced," he said.
But Mr. DeSantis said he believes the party can come together on a replacement plan in the near future.
"I absolutely think we can pass something relatively soon," he said.
They'd better, or 2018 will be brutal. Worse, Democratic victories will be horrific for the country. Remember where it was headed when they were large and in charge under Obama?