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Sunday, December 9, 2012
November 2012 Glossybox Canada - Unboxing and Review
This month, we received a special holiday themed box. Instead of the pink ribbon and black tissue, the contents were packaged with a red ribbon and holiday themed tissue. We also received a copy of GlossyMag - I liked that the magazine contains some Canadian content. A little candy cane was also tucked into the box.
Here is what i received (in order of appearance in the video):
1. Nexxus Salon Hair Care Hydration Kit - Shampoo & Conditioner
I previously received this shampoo and conditioner as bonus samples in my August Topbox. I thought the products were ok but nothing special.
Shampoo: Travel size and sample size // 89 mL // $2.79
Conditioner: Travel size and sample size // 89 mL // $3.99
2. Curel Hand & Cuticle Therapy Cream
This was one of our bonus samples in the November Glossybox. Although Curel is a drug store brand, I really liked the Foot Therapy Cream from my May Glossybox so I was still happy to receive this generous full size product.
Impressions: I was expecting this hand cream to be very similar to the foot cream but it is actually completely different. The texture is a lot thinner and lighter than the foot cream, which is great... this hand cream absorbs very quickly and is not at all greasy. The scent is completely different from the foot cream, which I also like. I think this is a great hand cream at a very affordable price.
Full size and sample size // 100 mL // $3.99
3. Vitabath Fresh Citrus Twist Hand Cream
This brand has been around for over 55 years and I don't recall ever seeing it or hearing about it. This is why I love subscribing to beauty boxes... trying new brands is so much fun for me. :)
Impressions: This hand cream has a really lovely fruity, citrusy, fresh scent. Unfortunately, I found the cream to be very thick and heavy. It did not absorb quickly and left my hands feeling greasy. I'd probably use this cream on my hands (and maybe my feet) just before bed. When I was at the Glossy Party last week, I got to try a little of the Vitabath Original Spring Green Exfoliating Sugar Scrub... I wish I had received that product instead because I really enjoyed the scent and the effectiveness of the scrub.
Full size & sample size // 120 g // $15
4. Kryolan for Glossybox Blusher in Glossy Rosewood
Similar to the lipstick we received in our August Glossybox, this blush shade is exclusive to Glossybox!
Impressions: I am really loving this blush. It's a pretty, natural looking pink that gives my cheeks the perfect flush. It's quite pigmented and long lasting too. LOVE!
Full size & sample size // 2.5 g // $16.73
5. MNY by Maybelline My Gloss in Shade 185
MNY is a brand by Maybelline that is apparently targeted to a more young and daring market. With lip gloss shades like green and blue, I feel fortunate to have received a really pretty peachy/champagne tinted gloss - the website describes it as a warm beige. This brand is available in a few countries in Europe and I'm not sure if its appearance in Glossybox Canada is a sign that it will soon be available in the Canadian market?
Impressions: I really like this gloss. It provides a nice shine to the lips and is not sticky. It feels reasonably moisturizing. This gloss smells very sweet but has no flavour (yay!). I do, however, think the price point is a little high... for some reason, I thought this brand would be priced similarly to Essence Cosmetics.
Full size & sample size // 9 mL // $7.49
6. Nicole by OPI Nail Laquer in Kardashing Through the Snow
I haven't purchased any Nicole by OPI nail polishes lately because I can get the regular OPI line at a lower price... but I still really like the Nicole line of polishes. I always love receiving nail polish and this pretty glitter polish was a welcome addition to my collection.
Side note: The Glossy Party had a preview of the Nicole by OPI Selena Gomez collection that is coming out in January. I loved the peachy-pink shade called Selena but what was really exciting for me is that the nail polish had the big OPI brush attached to it. Nicole by OPI typically has a thinner brush, which I don't like as much.
Impressions: This nail polish looks like it contains small teal, green, red, and gold glitter suspended in a clear base. I haven't worn this yet but I think it would be perfect for the holidays.
Full size & sample size // 15 mL // $10.99
Overall, I am quite happy with this month's Glossybox. As I was typing out this blog post, I realized that this box essentially contained ALL full size products this month (since the Nexxus shampoo and conditioner are sold in travel sizes of 89 mL). I think that is amazing but I don't think it will be enough to persuade me to stay subscribed. Instead, I am going to stick to my plan of cancelling after I receive my January box. Again, there is great value in Glossybox but I don't think it is a year-round subscription for me. I may just subscribe for a few months here and there when I feel like treating myself.
We also received a loyalty card to Uber Beauty Products, which provides us with 50% off. I have never heard of this brand and I'm not sure if I will be making a purchase.
Note: it looks like Glossybox has been billing a little earlier - on the 5th of the month - something to keep in mind if you want to order a box after the spoilers are posted. :)
// Approximate value of the products in the November 2012 Glossybox: $61.01 //
Did you receive a Glossybox this month and, if so, what did you think of the contents?
If you wish to join Glossybox through my invitation, I will earn Glossydots and send heaps of good karma your way!
FTC: I paid for this box and nothing was sent to me for free.
14 comments:
I thought it was pretty decent, I like all of the products in it but I'm unsure if I will stay subscribed too. Going to give it a few more months, but I may have to cancel early next year. :(ReplyDelete
I unsubscribed as well, just cant justify paying 21$-ReplyDelete
I am totally jealous of the nail and lip color you got.
I got a reall dark purple - not bad for polish, but way too dark for my lips lol
Thank's for the review!ReplyDelete
I'm trying to do a little research on a few subscription beauty boxes to order and I find that it's unfair that the USA & British Glossyboxes have much more quality AND variety in their products. It seems like they often put several drugstore brands in the Canadian box. :(
Have you considered ordering the myglam/ipsy bag, since they now ship to Canada?
yes, glossybox canada regularly includes drug store brands! i wish we could sample brands like burberry and illamasqua too... the u.s. box tends to be pretty good. i did think about subscribing to ipsy but decided not to for the time being... i have a few too many beauty boxes and would like to cancel a few before trying any others. i'm trying to be good haha! :)Delete
- AnonymousDecember 10, 2012 at 11:55 AM
that nail color and blush are so pretty! i've been into glitter nail color lately because of the holiday season :)ReplyDelete
I liked the box this month! I actually like the box every month...but yes it's costly..and throw in another 7 subs it gets crazy.ReplyDeleteReplies
hahaaa i tend to like most of my boxes too... there are only a handful that i've been disappointed with. i can't believe i have 6 subscriptions going at the moment. when i initially started with glymm & topbox, i promised myself i wouldn't go higher than 2-3. yeah right!Delete
I nominated you for a liebster award! :) ChelseyReplyDelete
You got to go to the Glossy party too?! I'm so jealous! I don't know if I can give up my beauty box addiction yet...ReplyDelete
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So this is what I've learned in my two short weeks as a business owner: people want the cakes and sweets. Here I was fretting about a bread when really what people want is the dessert. Works for me.
Things are starting to take off. Word of mouth is starting to happen. And soon, yes, very soon, I have a feeling that I'll be baking by buns off (pun totally intended!). I can say from the perspective of the one looking for gluten-free items, there is this sort of rush that floods you when you find somewhere that actually sells it. And it's not that horrid 10 lb brick loaf of bread that in some states could possibly be classified as a concealed weapon. I hope I can live up to the expectations of my fellow GFers and my own.
Since I'm getting a little tired of eating bread (who knew someone with celiac would EVER say that?), I am going to play around with some more mini cakes and mini sweet loaves. This is going to be fun!

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Pyjamas in 100% cotton jersey, consisting of crew neck top, long sleeves with print at front and lace on rounded bottom. Pants with elastic waist. The flowers featured in this image do not make up part of the product and are not for sale.
Made in: Tunisia
Product code: 30963P229_506
100% Cotton
Clothing care
- Maximum temperature: 30°C. Gentle cycle
- Do not bleach
- Do not tumble dry
- Line dry in shade
- Delicate iron at maximum temperature of 110°C. without steam, which could damage the garment
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tokyo darling
Andrew recently shot for Aeropostale & Tokyo Darling which is absolutely so neat. Here are all of my favorite shots & everything I wore is linked below :-)
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Sequins, Stripes + Faux Fur = LOVE
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I accept credit cards, cash or checks, and payment is due at the time of service.
Do you accept insurance?
I do not accept insurance. However, I am happy to provide a monthly itemized receipt for your PPO health insurance plan or health savings account.
Why therapy?
There are many reasons to come to therapy. Maybe you're feeling more anxious or stressed than usual or you're stuck in the same old patterns and unsatisfying relationships. Often these low points can be an opportunity for growth and healing. But growing is painful, and sometimes we can't do it on our own. That's where I come in. I can offer an unbiased perspective and honest reflection and would be honored to help you navigate the journey inward.
What is your cancellation policy?
Regular attendance is essential to our work together. Should you need to cancel or change your appointment, please let me know 24 hours in advance via voicemail to avoid being charged for a missed session.
How frequently will I visit?
I see clients on a weekly basis. We will decide on a specific day and time that fits your needs best.
How long will I need to come to therapy?
This is different for everyone and depends on your unique situation. For shorter-term goals, such as processing a breakup or career change, several months may be all we need. For longer-term goals, such as exploring strong belief systems or patterns of behavior, the process may take longer. I'll check in with you frequently to determine an appropriate time to end our work together.
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What you share in our sessions is completely confidential. However, there are a few exceptions:
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We'll discuss my office policies during our first meeting.
Where are you located? Is there parking?
My cozy office is located at 4001 Howe Street in the charming Piedmont Avenue neighborhood in Oakland. It's less than a mile from the MacArthur BART station. A free Kaiser shuttle runs regularly to and from BART and stops just two blocks from my office. It's easily accessible from San Francisco, Berkeley and the East Bay.
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Orders may be placed with Arabah® at any time. To place an order with us please select all the items that you require and place them in your shopping cart and then proceed to check out. Please make sure all details are correct before proceeding as we will not be responsible for items sent to the wrong address. You may then choose a payment method. A confirmation email will be sent to your listed email address following check out.
Arabah® currently accepts the following credit cards: Visa, Mastercard and Diner's Club. We also accept direct deposit into our bank account, cheque or money orders. Cheques or money orders are to be made out to "ARABAH" and are subject to clearance.
All prices on our website are quoted in Australian Dollars and include GST.
All orders will be shipped by Australia Post. You may request another carrier, however, charges will apply. Postage prices for massage tables are in addition to the postage of massage oils etc as they are coming from a separate location and are unable to be shipped together. Express post and registered post available on request (charges apply). We recommend registering your parcel as Arabah® will not be liable for lost parcels with any carrier.
All items will are shipped within two working days of an approved order being received.
If an item is out of stock (occasionally can happen) you will be contacted and you may request a refund if the item will not be in stock within 5 working days.
ARABAH® will not refund if you change your mind. However, we will refund, exchange or offer a credit note if there is a genuine fault with an item within 7 days of receiving the item. You must contact us within the first 48 hours of receiving the order and notify us of the fault. We will let you know the best way to send the item back to our office and cover postage costs. Once the item has been received we will ship the new item FREE OF CHARGE.
All clearance items will not be refunded at all. Items will only be available while stocks last.
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LA VISTA, Neb. – June 13, 2013 – Securities America hosted its annual conference June 9-12, in Washington, D.C. Focused on the company's initiatives in the areas of technology, retirement income distribution, business growth and ease of doing business, the conference offered more than 80 educational sessions and attracted nearly 1,000 attendees.
"Now is the time to think ahead about your marketing, revenue growth, technology and people," President and CEO Jim Nagengast told advisors in his opening remarks. "Thinking ahead is about having vision, about having a spirit of hope and achievement, and cascading it forward. We help you achieve your visions for your practice, your family, your staff and your clients. You in turn help your family, your staff and your clients achieve their visions. And they are paying that forward to the people they touch in their lives."
Dick Lampen, CEO and president of Securities America's parent company, Ladenburg Thalmann, said Ladenburg continues to focus on broadening the scope of differentiated products and services we provide our network of independent advisors.
"We are pleased with the positive reception and strong uptake by advisors of the Ladenburg Thalmann programs and services," Lampen said. "Our mission is to create and support a best of breed and unique platform for our advisors. Ladenburg's focus for 2013 includes continuing to grow in business in terms of revenue and cash flows, to further improve our platform for our advisors and to continue collaboration between the Ladenburg companies."
Conference keynote speakers included:
Two of Securities America's biggest thought leadership initiatives over the years have been its hybrid advisory platform and income distribution solutions. Pre-conference workshops allowed extra time to delve into these topics. The Advisor Directed Asset Management workshop focused on advisory programs and investment management tools that can make an advisor's practice more scalable and efficient while lowering your risk and liability. The NextPhase™ University: Focus on Retirement Income workshop highlighted new technology enhancements to the NextPhase™ platform and best practice ideas from an expert advisor panel on enhancing income distribution business.
A third pre-conference session, Social Media: Building an Effective Marketing Presence, featured Matthew Halloran, co-author of The Social Media Handbook for Financial Advisors: How to Use Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to Build and Grow Your Business. Halloran helped advisors learn how to make the most of the opportunities social media platforms present for building a bigger, stronger client base, including how to compliantly set up a Twitter account, Facebook business page and optimized LinkedIn profile. Securities America provides thought leadership on technology trends including the use of social media for business purposes, and provides its advisors access to social media training, support and references to third-party vendors.
For the fifth consecutive year, the conference included the Super Women's Summit Luncheon, hosted by Janine Wertheim, Securities America Advisors president. With 75 women in attendance, this year's luncheon featured Amy Florian, author and speaker on how to better serve clients during the toughest times of life.
"Clients don't want an advisor who just handles their money," Florian said. "They want an advisor who understands their life."
About Securities America
Headquartered in La Vista, Neb., Securities America Inc. is a national top 10 independent broker-dealer (as ranked by Financial Planning magazine). For more than 25 years, Securities America's mission has been to foster the success of financial professionals so they can provide quality, objective counsel and services to their clients. Advisors benefit from the firm's industry-leading programs in practice management, advisory services and retirement income distribution, supported by state-of-the-art technology. Founded in 1993, Securities America Advisors Inc. is an SEC-Registered Investment Advisory firm that offers investment management, financial advice and financial planning through a national network of independent financial advisors. Securities America Financial Corp. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. (NYSE MKT: LTS). Securities America received the inaugural Thought Leadership Award from the Retirement Income Industry Association in March 2011 and the inaugural Bank Insurance & Securities Association (BISA) Technology Innovation Award in March 2013. Additional information is available at www.securitiesamerica.com.


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正- zhèng– upright, honest, correct, standard
I love this character, because it indicates the "proper" or "right" way to view a number of different things, whether it be the result of an action, the answer to a question, a method of behavior, etc. Let's take a look at how it is used in several words to get a grasp on how its applied. First we'll start with verbs that have a result of "正":
修正 and 改正 both translate as "to correct or rectify". So what's the difference? Unsurprisingly, the answer lies in the difference between the characters. 修 means "to repair" and 改 means "to change", so the difference is in the degree to which you wish to "correct" something.
If you are "repairing" something (修) until it is correct (the result of 正), it implies that the original thing you are "correcting" is fine overall, just needs some tweaking. For example, the American Constitution has "amendments", which get translated into Chinese as 修正案 xiūzhèng àn (literally correction file).
When the amendments were written, they were not rejecting the entire constitution but adding things to it to make it even more "correct" (正). 改正 on the other hand starts with "to change" (改), and of course if you are "changing" in order to "correct" something, it implies that the correction is more drastic.
Chinese has a compound word structure called "并列式" bìng liè shì, which we refer to as "Juxtaposed". Juxtaposed words have two characters whose meaning is either the same, similar or opposite, but the primary characteristic is that they both have equal value. Here are two of them that use 正:正确 (què), 正常 (cháng).
正确 means "correct" (as opposed to "incorrect"). 确 means "true", so you can see how this is combination of "correct" & "true" could create the meaning of "correct". If we give 正 its definition of "regular", then we can get an idea of how they came up with 正常 to mean "normal". 常 means "ordinary", so "regular-ordinary" combines quite nicely to get across the idea of "normal".
It is in the interest of Chinese learners to take note of the"Biased" (偏正式 piānzhèng shì) compound word structure. Unlike juxtaposed, the biased structure does not give both characters equal value, but instead gives the second of the two characters greater value. Let's take a look at these words to illustrate how 正 works in these biased words tructures: 正面 (miàn), 正式 (shì), 正宗 (zōng), 正品 (pǐn).
All of these words consider the second character to be the main meaning, with 正 merely indicating that 面,式,宗,and 品 are on the "upright, correct, honest or standard" side of things. So what do they mean?
面 means "aspect or respect" in this context, so 正面 means "the upright aspect", or more simply positive.
式 means "style or type", so 正式 means "the proper style", aka formal.
宗 means "ancestor", so 正宗 means"to the standard of the ancestors", thus it gets translated as meaning authentic and is usually used in the context of dishes or traditions being authentic to the ancestral history.
品 means "products", so 正品 means"up to standard products", or certified goods.
I'm sure that your method of learning Chinese up until now has been great, but by focusing more on the individual characters and you'll see the 正面 influence on your progress immediately.


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For me Halloween has always been something frightening since, my best friend and I, went alone to see the movie ´Halloween` at the age of 10 in Vester Vov Vov ( if you have my age you remember Michael Myers and Jamie Lee Curtis really well, ........because you won´t be able to forget ) and then 10 years later attending a Halloween party in London which also scared the living ....... out of me ( the English like the American´s go all in when it comes to Halloween !! )
These day´s it´s a different story and I know my own limits better, for which reason I only get involved with kids stuff during Halloween. Since we went back to Copenhagen we are all in 31th of October in our neighbourhood. I was surprised the first year to see how many kids turned up. I usually don´t buy too little of anything, but that night I stood up from the couch and answered the door close to 99 times, really !!!! In the end I had to give the rest of the kids small exclusive Olive Olie bottle samples because I has out of candy. I have now learned my lesson and buy plenty :-) Another super important thing during Halloween are the right tools and you will not be standing like I did the first year with you heart up your throat while trying to carve and decorate 10 pumpkin with 9 small boys with each their butcher knife :-/ I hope their mothers won´t read this newsletter. Here is a little inspiration for next week.
Decorations of the house is important. Some go all the way with gimmick´s and scary stuff others are more simple like me.
Cakes and Candy are the main ingredient for a good Halloween. Make scary cup cakes with bleeding scares, meringue ghost´s, blood-like alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks and to serve kids "dirty-finger-free" candy insert lollipop´s in a pumpkin.
Make cute decorations and maybe not all in orange, if you are not a big fan like me, ......unless it involves Hermes ;-)
As for costumes you can do whatever you like. Cute, smart , sexy, scary, even simply through a sheet over you head and make 2 holes to peep through.
This is how it ended up this year, with Olivers good friends, great pumpkins, red wine for the parents, a beautiful decorated house and a little sickness after all the candy.
Boooo and enjoy, Christina


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Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
American Indian/Alaska Native governments and organizations budget planning and priorities, 8404-8404
Daily Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of the Federal Government
Vol. 66, No. 21
Wednesday, January 31, 2001
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
American Indian/Alaska Native governments and organizations budget planning and priorities, 8404-8404
Agency information collection activities:
Submission for OMB review; comment request, 8403-8404
Committees; establishment, renewal, termination, etc.:
National Center for Health Statistics, Scientific Counselors Board, 8404-8405
Grants and cooperative agreements; availability, etc.:
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, World Health Organization; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Initiatives, 8405-8406
See International Trade Administration
Civilian health and medical program of uniformed services (CHAMPUS):
National Institutes of Health-sponsored clinical trials; coverage methodology, 8365-8366
Agency information collection activities:
Proposed collection; comment request, 8397-8400
Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
Parametric probability distributions for exposure factors; development options, 8401-8402
Advisory circulars; availability, etc.:
Airplane propellers, vibration and fatigue evaluation; and fatigue limit tests and composite blade fatigue substantiation, guidance material, 8460-8461
Bird ingestion certification standards, 8461-8461
Aeronautical land-use assurance; waivers:
Desert Center Airport, CA, 8461-8462
Chiriaco Summit Airport, CA, 8461-8461
Passenger facility charges; applications, etc.:
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, FL, 8462-8462
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
Egan Hub Partners, L.P., 8389-8390
Woodstone Lakes Development, LLC, et al., 8391-8392
San Diego Gas Electric Co., 8390-8391
PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., 8390-8390
San Diego Gas Electric Co. et al., 8391-8391
Electric rate and corporate regulation filings:
Sierra Pacific Power Co. et al., 8392-8394
Hydroelectric applications,
Federal home loan bank system:
Community financial institutions average total assets and directors annual compensation; limits; annual adjustments, 8402-8403
Bank holding companies and change in bank control (Regulation Y):
Merchant banking investments, 8465-8493
Meetings; Sunshine Act,
Surety companies acceptable on Federal bonds:
Providence Washington Insurance Co., 8463-8463
Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.:
Prescription drug advertising and promotional labeling; regulatory submissions in electronic format; industry guidance, 8411-8412
Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
Agency information collection activities:
Submission for OMB review; comment request, 8412-8412
Organization, functions, and authority delegations:
Administrator Office, 8413-8414
Vaccine Injury Compensation Division, 8414-8415
Interdisciplinary and Community Based Programs Division et al., 8414-8414
See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
See Food and Drug Administration
See National Institutes of Health
See Health Resources and Services Administration
Antidumping and countervailing duties:
Administrative review requests, 8378-8380
Export trade certificates of review,
Pollution control; consent judgments:
Privacy Act:
Agency information collection activities:
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 8417-8417
Women's Health Research Advisory Committee, 8421-8421
National Center for Research Resources, 8415-8416
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 8418-8418
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 8416-8416
Scientific Review Center, 8419-8421
Minority Health Research Advisory Committee, 8415-8415
National Institute of Mental Health, 8418-8418
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 8417-8419
National Cancer Institute, 8415-8415
Xenotransplantation Advisory Committee, 8421-8422
National Institute of General Medical Sciences, 8419-8419
National Register of Historic Places:
Pending nominations, 8422-8423
World War II Memorial, proposed; Historic Preservation Advisory Council's comments; Interior Secretary's response,
Education and Human Resources Advisory Committee, 8437-8437
Civil and Mechanical Systems Special Emphasis Panel, 8437-8437
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee, 8438-8438
Electrical and Communications Systems Special Emphasis Panel, 8437-8438
Physics Special Emphasis Panel, 8439-8439
Domestic Mail Manual:
See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
See Food and Drug Administration
See National Institutes of Health
See Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency information collection activities:
Proposed collection; comment request, 8439-8440
Disaster loan areas:
Meetings; district and regional advisory councils:
African Growth and Opportunity Act; implementation:
Mauritius; benefits eligibility criteria, 8440-8441
Generalized System of Preferences:
Competitive need limitations; imports statistics; comment request, 8441-8459
World Trade Organization:
Brazil; consultations regarding countervailing duties on carbon steel products, 8459-8460


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Sophia Antipolis, 16 March 2018
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This year again, ETSI was present at Mobile World Congress, meeting our members and searching the halls for the latest innovations and demos of our technologies (NFV, MEC, OSM and much more).
Of course, the event was dominated by everything related to mobile networks. 5G was on everyone's lips, and on every stand, sign and brochure. 3GPP Release 15, the first full 5G system specification set, expected later this year, is highly anticipated. And once again we held our popular ETSI Networking Cocktail, this year marking the 30th anniversary of the institute! It's always a pleasure to see the many faces of those who have helped build ETSI and 3GPP, and to welcome new faces into the fold.
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This is the start of my blog series "In Praise of Gluten." I'm going to say it upfront: I love gluten. I know people who say it makes them feel sick and they feel better if they cut it out of their diet.
If they do, that's great. But I hate seeing gluten demonized. It annoys me to walk through supermarket aisles and see "Gluten-Free" commercial foods. Saying something is "Gluten-Free" is like saying gluten is a prison people need to escape. It's not.
Here's my own personal hunch. I believe the real problem many of these gluten-hatin' people have is not gluten. It's that people don't bake their own bread any longer. Plus they don't live in places where there's a local bakery that makes bread from scratch in-house.
I think most of us have memories of great bread we've eaten: crusty baguettes we dipped in sauces and soups, rye bread that made a perfect sandwich, brioche that created the best French toast -- or in the case of Marcel Proust -- the madeleine that made him write all seven volumes of "In Search of Lost Time." I have a very hard time believing the generation raised on "Gluten-Free" baked goods will have any Proustian memories of those cardboard things they're eating made with xanthan gum.
So I'm thrilled to kick off this blog series by interviewing Susan Brown, a charming and passionate baker who co-authored the cookbook "Salt-Rising Bread: Recipes and Heartfelt Stories of a Nearly Lost Appalachian Tradition." And just so you Gluten-Free readers know, the book also includes a way to make Salt-Rising Bread with a recipe just for you.
My own introduction to Salt-Rising Bread was recent. I've been baking all of our bread for two years. However, I became intrigued with making Salt-Rising Bread only two months ago. I was told about it by my friend, Bill Stern, former food columnist for the LA Weekly (I wish they'd run an archive of his reviews) and now director of the Museum of California Design in Los Angeles. Even though Bill didn't grow up eating Salt-Rising Bread, he had great memories of eating it in Kentucky.
I'd never had Salt-Rising Bread, let alone heard of it. But when Bill says something like that, I take note. I had to find out more. I researched the internet about Salt-Rising Bread and found a recipe on the King Arthur website. There were warnings about making it. For one thing, it's tricky because it doesn't use yeast. It rises without yeast. And when the starter for it is really working, King Arthur said your place would smell like dirty socks.
Indeed, our place did smell like dirty socks. So it was working!
Yet, after the loaf was baked and cooled enough to slice into, the stinky sock smell was gone and that bread became deliciously cheesy. And it made the best toast that my husband and I had ever tasted.
I researched further. I discovered that Salt-Rising Bread had cult-like devotees. People talked about it the way Proust did about his madeleine. They searched long and hard for it, just so they could go back in time. What was it about Salt-Rising Bread that gave it this miraculous ability to inspire such loyalty?
I found the cookbook "Salt-Rising Bread" by Genevieve Bardwell and Susan Brown. (Bardwell owned Rising Creek Bakery in Mt. Morris, PA, where Salt-Rising Bread was a beloved fixture on the menu.) I read through it in a way I don't read through many other cookbooks. I was riveted -- and I was moved. I made a recipe for Salt-Rising Bread out of the book. Yes, it was stinky. Less stinky than the King Arthur Recipe, but still stinky. And delicious -- the toast was the best ever!
There's something about Salt-Rising Bread that's so personal you feel a connection with the people who make it. I found the website "Salt-Rising Bread Project" which Susan Brown runs and contacted her. She generously agreed to the following interview (and Salt-Rising Bread will be known as SRB):
Polly Frost: You write very passionately in your book about Salt-Rising Bread. Would you describe yourself as a passionate person in general or is there something specific about Salt-Rising Bread that you just love?
Susan Brown: I feel passionate about Salt-Rising Bread because of my grandmother, Katheryn Rippetoe Erwin. She made Salt-Rising Bread all of her life, as did her mother and her mother's mother. I loved my grandmother, and I loved her Salt-Rising Bread. It is to Grandmother that I owe my appreciation for this bread, and to her that I attribute my commitment to carry on this family tradition in any way that I can. Whether it was for church bazaars, PTA bake sales, funeral dinners, ailing neighbors, or just "baking day," Katheryn Erwin's Salt-Rising Bread was famous in her hometown of Ronceverte, West Virginia. My memories of those early morning awakenings to check to see if her starter had come, and her wonderful breakfasts of fried bacon, eggs-over-easy, and Salt-Rising toast eaten at her kitchen table, stay with me and propel me year after year to keep the Salt-Rising Bread tradition alive. Although my grandmother is no longer with us, I never butter a slice of Salt-Rising toast without feeling her right there by my side.
PF: You mastered the quirky and temperamental art of making Salt-Rising Bread. Were you always a baker?
SB: I began baking at a very young age. I grew up in a large family, and cooking and baking were ways in which I could help my mother. In a family of many children, it was one way to get some positive approbation, which I think I yearned for.
PF: Can you tell me a bit about how Rising Creek Bakery came about?
SB: Two friends and I raised our daughters together in the same small community. During those years, we often talked about someday opening a bakery together in the town. In 2010, when the girls were out of school and had gone away to college, we opened Rising Creek Bakery. Only one of us owned it, and that was Genevieve ("Jenny") Bardwell. From the start, one of our most important goals for the bakery was to bake and sell SRB in an effort to help revive and keep alive this nearly forgotten Appalachian tradition. Jenny sold the bakery earlier this year, and the new owners hope to continue baking, selling, and shipping SRB. It was a fun ride, but definitely better suited for a younger generation than we have each become.
PF: In your book you discuss the question of the start of Salt-Rising Bread, and say that the exact origin of it remains a mystery. Do you think the mystery of its origin will ever be solved?
SB: Because eating SRB was a tradition for many generations on both my mother and father's sides of the family, I always assumed that this tradition was brought with them from their native Scotland, Ireland, and England. However, we have found no evidence of this bread ever having been made in those countries. Based on our research, Jenny and I conclude that SRB originated in the Appalachian mountain region in the early 1700s when yeast was not available for baking and when women, out of their own ingenuity, discovered by necessity how to make a risen loaf of bread for feeding their families. It is likely that they left a mixture of flour and milk, or flour and water, in a warm place (near an open hearth or by a fire used for cooking) for several hours or perhaps overnight and discovered it bubbled and rose after setting several hours. This led them to realize that they could make a risen bread this way.
PF: Most people reading this blog posting sadly will never have tasted Salt-Rising Bread, even those who buy bread from artisanal bakeries or make bread themselves. What would you say they're missing? And what is the home baker missing by not making it?
SB: People love bread for many reasons. With SRB, many, many people love it because they connect this bread with a memory of a loved one who made it for them. They also love it because it has a wonderful taste and can't be beat for the best toast on the planet. People who haven't tried SRB are missing out on enjoying this unique tasting bread. The home baker who doesn't make SRB is missing out on the enjoyment and personal satisfaction received when giving friends and family this bread that happily fills their stomachs and warms their heart and soul.
PF: What do you think of the gluten-free thing?
SB: To tell you the truth, I don't think much about this. It does seem to me to be a bit of a "food fad" right now, but I'm sure that, for some people, gluten is a problem for them. Mostly, I just feel sorry for them because they have to miss out on so many wonderful breads and other foods that contain gluten.
PF: How popular was SRB at its most popular?
SB: Salt-Rising Bread had its heyday from roughly the 1930s through the 1970s. This is mainly due to the work of a Kansas (and later Pittsburgh) scientist named Dr. Henry Kohman. In the late teens and mid-1920s, he studied the science of SRB and discovered the bacteria that grow in the starter that enables the starter to ferment. From this knowledge, he was able to make a dried starter and patented that recipe. He then sold it to bakeries all across the United States. With this commercial starter, bakeries were able to make SRB much more reliably than ever before, so it was made in many states. In the early 1980s, the manufacturers of this dried starter stopped selling it, which was the end of most bakeries making SRB. It was simply just too tough to do it without the boost and reliability of Kohman's Salt-Rising Bread Yeast (even though it was not really a yeast).
PF: This is a great era for artisanal bakeries, wineries, beer making, old cocktails and fermentation. Young people are rediscovering old ways of making and growing food. Two young women bakers took over Rising Creek and are continuing the traditions of food. Are there other artisanal bakeries right now who are making SRB?
SB: Of course, I cannot know for sure who is out there making SRB in bakeries right now, but I am pretty confident that there aren't many. Jenny and I believe that there is currently no bakery that makes and sells as much SRB as Rising Creek does. We are aware of a few small bakeries that make a handful of SRB weekly. It requires a tremendous amount of dedication, time, patience, and hard work to make SRB on a constant and reliable basis. Sadly, few people are willing to commit to an endeavor like that.
PF: How do you find young people who didn't grow up with it reacting to it on first taste?
SB: It has been my perception that newcomers to SRB have been pleasantly surprised at its good taste. It has been very gratifying to me and to Jenny to know that we have helped to pass on and to keep this tradition alive through our work at the bakery, through our book, and through the SRB classes that we teach throughout the year.
PF: I began making SRB right after we had a major fire and mudslide where we live in Montecito, CA. The air was full of toxins for months afterwards. Nonetheless, my SRB flourished! What do you make of that?
SB: First of all, let me say that I am so sorry to hear of the destruction and sadness that your area suffered. It is hard to imagine going through something like that. As for why your SRB flourished at that time, I dare say that it had anything to do with what was occurring with the disaster. SRB was first made and has historically been made by women who were enduring hard times. It has, itself, endured for a long time since its beginnings in our mountains some 300 years ago. History shows us that SRB has lasted and continues to last because women (and a few men) have persisted and not given up on it, even during the tough times, whether they be due to weather or personal circumstance.
PF: I'm hoping my blog readers will buy your book and start making SRB regularly! Do you have any advice for them?
SB: We tell perspective SRB bakers that when you make SRB you need to have patience and perseverance. It takes a long time to make, and it doesn't always work, so you need to be willing to keep trying.
PF: What's the difference between making SRB with just cornmeal and making it with potatoes and cornmeal and do you think one is better?
SB: It is interesting that there are actually many recipes for making SRB. However, the one similarity that all recipes share is that every recipe will use at least flour, cornmeal, or potato in the starter. Beyond that, any differences in the recipe will not affect the bread in the end. Sometimes I think that I find the potato starter makes a little moister loaf, but that is not necessarily so. Certainly, the taste is not affected by the variance in the starter of cornmeal only or cornmeal and potatoes. The difference you will see when potatoes are added to a starter is in the way the successfully fermented starter looks. Typically, a potato starter will rise more than a cornmeal starter.
PF: I love the stories and photos of Salt-Rising Bread home bakers in your book. What did it involve for you to find them and how did they enrich your knowledge of it?
SB: I have lived around women who made SRB all of my life. No matter where I have lived in the hills of West Virginia, there have been women nearby who made SRB. When Jenny and I began writing the book, we actively sought out women who made SRB and arranged to visit them in their homes. Even though many of them were strangers to us, they never turned us away, and they were always very kind in sharing their knowledge and stories with us. Sometimes, the women we interviewed would tell us the names of other SRB bakers in their area, so we interviewed them, as well. West Virginia is a small state, so it was possible for us to travel all over the state to find these women and to learn all we could from talking and visiting with them. Indeed, this was one of the most fulfilling experiences we had in writing the book. Not only did they teach us so much about SRB, but they shared some wonderful stories and memories with us that we will never forget.
PF: What have been some of your favorite letters, emails and other feedback from readers? What do they ask, does it seem to work in every part?
SB: We often say that Salt-Rising Bread is food for the body as well as for the soul. In fact, almost everyone who has eaten Salt-Rising Bread has a story to tell about it. These stories loom large in the hearts of those who love the bread. They are, indeed, another reason why the Salt-Rising Bread tradition lives on in our Appalachian homes and why it is so important and so special to preserve this bread and the stories that help keep this tradition alive. I have received hundreds of emails and letters over the years from lovers of SRB. As well, Jenny has received many at the bakery. Mostly, they tell us about someone beloved to them who made SRB. Often, they retell stories of the past that include SRB in them. Some write to ask questions about how to make the bread or how to help them solve problems they are having making the bread. Here are a few of my favorite stories that you might enjoy:
"I grew up in Sacramento, CA and would visit my grandmother in Southern California when I was a kid. That would have been in the '60s. She had two huge avocado trees in her back yard (along with wonderful walnut and Meyer lemon trees). We would go to Van De Kamp Bakery in her area and would buy the Salt-Rising Bread. As kids, my sister and I were fascinated with the windmill logo that turned and was lit up. You could see it for miles. The bakery smelled wonderful but it was even better when we would toast the Salt-Rising Bread back at the house. It made the whole house "stink" and we referred to the toast as "stinky toast". We would mash wonderful, fresh avocados from my grandmother's trees onto the buttered, still-warm toasted bread for breakfast. A little salt on top. We always looked forward to this breakfast when we would visit my grandmother. We would also buy 4 or 5 loaves of the bread to bring back home to Sacramento, and we would put them in the freezer and use them sparingly. We loved the bread."
"I grew up in Spelter, WV, just north of Clarksburg on Rt 19 (where the zinc factory used to be). My grandmother baked this bread EVERY Saturday morning of her life. I don't think she ever bought bread. She would make several loaves and a couple of cookie sheets full of wonderful large buns. We lived next door, and she would call me over just before she took the bread out of the oven. I would race over and wait (usually impatiently) until the bread came out. Then I would take one of the buns and poke my finger into the middle and wiggle it around to hollow it out a bit. I would then put fresh, real butter and my daddy's homemade blackberry jelly down into the hot bread. It would melt, and I would sit and eat that bun with a glass of cold milk. I'm 50 years old and my granny has been gone for nearly 40 years. If I close my eyes and let myself go back in time, I can still smell that wonderful aroma as the bread was baking and still feel my finger burning from sticking it into the bread (you'd think I would have learned to use a knife or fork!!!!) and I can almost taste that wonderful treat. It's one of my most treasured memories of my grandmother, who was my favorite person in the world!"
"Some of the best memories I have of home revolved around Salt-Rising Bread (it was "Ketterings"). Whenever both my sister and I could make it home to Clarksburg, WV, at the same time, Sunday morning was Salt-Rising Toast Time. We'd have Ma's brewed, sweetened ice tea and all the Salt-Rising toast we could eat. We'd always buy 2-3 loaves so we'd be sure there was enough toast to go around because Daddy liked it, too. We'd all sit around the table or on the floor by the table and read the Sunday paper and have our toast. Our Saint Bernard, Benjamin, even got a piece or two! Ma and Daddems are gone now. My sister lives in South Carolina, and I live in Texas. I have no doubt that the toast you send will be wonderful, but the memories that I'll have with that toast will be even better."
"I am ninety years old and have very fond memories of salt '"risen"bread. As a preteen, I spent most of my summers with my widowed grandmother and her niece on the farm. Thursday was baking day and Wednesday night "cousin Mag" prepared the starter from I don't know what except there was a potato and meal and possibly some milk. The meal was our own, having been ground from our corn at a local mill. The starter was placed in the warming oven of an old wood burning stove, and how they kept the temperature up during the night I don't know, but it worked. Thursday the baking began, and we had fresh bread with homemade butter and homemade jam that day and for a few days longer."
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#SteemFleaMarket utilizes the power of not only the STEEM blockchain but also the power of our community.
- Use the power of STEEM blockchain + @steemfleamarket as the storefront for our very own, native FLEA MARKET.
- Give away your stuff and make everyone benefit using our equal wealth distribution solution. Anyone who engages with #steemfleamarket earns a percentage of the reward pool.
- Prices set for products are SIGNIFICANTLY lower than any other second-hand offerings on other systems such as eBay and Amazon.
Check out my $1400 camera that I'm giving away for nothing here. ;)
- We have an abundance of people with creative mind sets who can make a real change in the world with the right tools at their disposal that @steemfleamarket can give them. Bear with me for a moment.
- Steem Flea Market is not just a place to buy and sell for SBD. It's a place where volunatryism is at the center of the economy. Giving is healing and our goal is to enable people to give freely and by doing so, grow our steemit economy in a meaningful way.
Using STEEM as a means to feed our families.
Holding STEEM and SBD is rewarding in a number of ways. But to fully benefit from its power, in the future, and now, we need marketplaces. Sources of incentives to trade our STEEM and SBD internally. With an initiative such as #SteemFleaMarket people have a real incentive to use the power of their up-votes or trade SBD for real goods and services, knowing that there will be others interested in the exchange.
The creation of marketplaces such as our @steemfleamarket is incentivizing us all to keep our SBD inside the STEEM blockchain and grow our up-vote strength so can help grow this platform into a powerful source of income.
Users of STEEMit Participating in different markets around the STEEM blockchain (there are a few following in our footsteps) can use our system of equal wealth distribution just by bidding on the item they are trying to secure.
How are we different from those who have followed this idea on steemit but are strictly in the buy/sell facilitation business?
One sentence: Upvote Lottery Style Give Away If The Upvote Meets The Minimum. With the power of steem anyone can give anything away. What does this mean? It means that the item you want to give away has a minimum target price you want to reach in up-votes so you cover the initial costs you paid out of your pocket for the stuff you're giving away. In turn this means that curation guilds and users can upvote #SteemFleaMarket and almost always allow for successful raising of number of upvotes to make any giveaway possible.
The other flexible feature of Steem Flea Market is that users could list as an auction where they could set a minimum upvote plus set a min auction amount. Highest bidder wins after 7 days. The benefit to this approach to listing your stuff with #SteemFleaMarket is that it would be harder to scam the system because several people would be bidding. Of Course, since actual SBD would exchange hands there needs to be a clearing house and that would be @steemfleamarket This is the optimal way to ensure that everything is contained within certain parameters of security and accountability when using such blockchain-based markets.
Circular flow of steemconomy: Flowing goods and services through the STEEM blockchain.
We have two things happening here. One, is injection of money into the STEEM eco-system and two, leakage of money out of the STEEM ecosystem. Goods and services flow in one direction and money flows the other way. This economic relationship is an important motivator behind #SteemFleaMarket.
Suppose steemit is a sort of a banking system and curators' up-votes are the lending money. Content creators/steemians/borrowers of "up-votes" use the rewards to buy goods and services through #SteemFleaMarket, which then creates an injection of that money to go back into the circular flow of the STEEM economy. If you had to pay taxes on steemit, then this would create leakage - however we are interested more in spending our SBD and STEEM right here to inject it back into the circular flow of the STEEM economy. When you "export" or give away something through #SteemFleaMarket - you are injecting, earning income from upvotes for the goods or services that you give away. I read something about @ned mentioning circular markets but so far, it has only been the community that took action and started to create these markets organically, without outside influence or sponsorship/delegation.
Why now?
Because the time is now and the place is here. When @binkley and I started brainstorming #SteemFleaMarket - no one showed us any signs of doing anything similar. I announced the project through Utopian.io and saw the feedback from people. There wasn't a single negative comment and people jumped on board using #steemfleamarket the same day and with great success.
There are similar (but not anywhere near the same!) markets such as #kr-market @classifieds @steembay and a bunch of others. Some were created before us (#kr-market) and some right after (@steembay). It makes me happy to realize that perhaps this is what @ned was referring to when he said that he wanted to see circular markets happen on his STEEM blockchain. The more the merrier and no one is in a direct competition with us. Today, steemians have options like never before to accommodate their specific needs and wishes with services like @steemfleamarket.
Who's behind #STEEMFLEAMARKET?
The Community owns #steemfleamarket - they can choose to kill it or heal it.
Currently @binkley is the main developer backing #SteemFleaMarket helping create a storefront where users will be able to browse and bid on goods and services through SteemThat.com He already has identified some of the potential issues and continues to work on solutions to further make #SteemFleaMarket the best hashtag and @steemfleamarket marketplace to sell, give away, and trade your goods and services.
Some things cannot be controlled and rectified by our two-minnow team. Things like:
Community consensus, reward distribution, willingness to up-vote, the future of Smart Media Tokens etc...
There will be an announcement from us about a bot system that is being build to deal with giveaway winner selection, equal rewards distribution system and improving the UX of SteemThat's #SteamFleaMarket UI. We are open to suggestions and partnerships
How exactly does it work?
It would be nice to have a bot monitor a hashtag such as #steemfleamarket and do the rest. However there's a big PROBLEM with using such a bot, in example, that if someone decides to use #steemfleamarket just because they see it available to use as a hashtag but not for the purpose of selling or giving anything away. Such approach could and WILL create clutter on steemit.com and turn this place into a dump. We propose to aggregate all posts through @steemfleamarket where everyone who is serious about using the service can post their stuff up for giveaway/sale on @steemfleamarket and eliminate the inconvenience of having these offers clutter people's blog rolls and steemit.com in general.
We will issue a posting key to people whose accounts are in good standing so anyone can post with that key exclusively to @steemfleamarket and people can follow this account to stay updated on the latest offers. This account will be monitored and organized into categories a la Craigslist on steemthat.com for your convenience. SteemThat integration will also have a private messaging service where users can negotiate details like shipping address and costs of shipping. This is something that our competitors here on the steem blockchain cannot offer: privacy and private communications.
Users have a choice and multiple styles of placing offers available to them.
- First is the "Upvote Lottery Style Give Away If The Up-vote Meets The Minimum" offering style which we will simply call "UPVOTE GIVEAWAY." This means that a user sets the target price to reach and it's the community that ends up giving away the item, philosophically speaking, essentially covering the original poster's expense on that very item he's giving away by giving away their up-votes in the name of steem, freedom and good cause.
As explained in this infographic:
..and demonstrated from a real #steemfleamarket use case here:
- The second style of offering your goods and services is a bidding auction-style post. This is the simplest thing ever. People can start their offer at 1.00SBD and use comments section to bargain. Our bot records the highest bidder and announces the winner at the end of the 7 day period. You don't need to use @steemfleamarket and can have any one of our hashtags available at your disposal including, but not limited to:
USA Worked - https://steemthat.com/steem-flea-market-usa/
France Worked - https://steemthat.com/steem-flee-market-france/
Australia Worked - https://steemthat.com/steem-flea-market-australia/
Steem Flea Market Worked- https://steemthat.com/steem-flea-market/
Korea Failed - Now Works - https://steemthat.com/steem-flea-market-korea/
Germany - Works But No Posts Yet - https://steemthat.com/steem-flea-market-germany/
India - Works But No Posts Yet- https://steemthat.com/steem-flea-market-india/
Philippines- Works But No Posts Yet- https://steemthat.com/steem-flea-market-ph/
Japan - Works But No Posts Yet - https://steemthat.com/steem-flea-market-japan/
UK - https://steemthat.com/steem-flea-market-uk/
- The third style is a direct sale. Meaning people will post to @steemfleamarket and leave [FOR SALE] in their title and set the price in SBD. We expect too see many interesting things start showing up using this method. This is a direct your SBD for my goods or services method - all easy to find and uses the steem powered blockchain to perform lighting-fast transactions. The security afforded by having one account for all to post their offerings is the first of it's kind.
- And the fourth style of a post concerns a trade offer. A classic now available on the block chain :) People can trade goods and services with #SteemFleaMarket and again, use SteemThat.com integration for private chats and detail negotiation after the sale.
What sets #STEEMFLEAMARKET apart from other circular markets?
Everyone who participates and comments on a give-away will receive a percentage of the total payout generate by the post. For example, I wanted to give away my camera, but the community decided not to include @steemfleamarket to their curation guild ;) and my post didn't generate enough up-votes to cover the initial cost of the camera that I paid out of my pocket - but the post did reach say $10 - what happens then? Well according to our model, our bot will select 20 random people with worthy comments and pay out 5% to these 20 random people. And if it's only 3 people that bothered to show interest in the item, then each one of them will receive 30% deducted from the total payout. Neat.
This is exactly what steemit is all about - supporting each other as outlined in the whitepaper. This is our equal wealth distribution solution that we talked about in the beginning. And the curators who use their big up-votes on any of the #SteemFleaMarket post? They get a loyal following and people remember acts of kindness. It's bigger than us. We all benefit.
Problems solved so far and the future:
- Bidding is not necessary. Bot selects winner at random. The system is not prejudiced and has no favorites. All winners are random people empowered by the community of steemit.
- Based on users reputation and trust in the community, using @steemfleamarket as a clearing house ensures no miscommunication occurs between parties and human error is kept to a minimum.
- Full catalog of items will be available on SteemThat.com/steem-flea-market and most posts contained within @steemfleamarket to keep steemit.com clean and sorting issues at bay until better solutions are developed.
- Android application locked in on @steemfleamarket and revolving around #steemfleamarket tag planned in the future
- Members can use SteemThat.com to fill out a special form with Item Description, Details, Select country (shipping), set the price target and designate wherether their post is UPVOTE-GIVEAWAY, DIRECT BUY/SELL, TRADE, or AUCTION. This ensures that all posts will have a standard layout with all the necessary information available to fill through a simple form that will then be posted to @steemfleamarket on your behalf.
- Private chat through SteemThat integration. Everything is wide open on the blockchain. How can we enable bids be hidden from everyone to see? direct message the seller.
Steemians who wish to remain anonymous can not be guaranteed this. The service requires people either meeting in person or sharing their shipping address when exchanging goods and services on @steemfleamarket Use the service at your own discretion. We have taken all the steps necessary to facilitate a painless experience conducting p2p business on the steem blockchain using our methods as outlined above. We are thinking of reviewing the posts first before they get published on the blockchain to make sure we're dealing with legitimate users and this doesn't turn into Silk Road or something :)
How much?
#SteamFleaMarket is every steemians own Flea Market space. It is free to use and improve by anyone, at anytime. We are open to suggestions. It is here to give us the freedom to barter/sell between individuals of the steem-o-sphere that we all love and adore. You could add us to your SteemVoter if you wish to support this project and ease our bot server costs. This will also ensure that every post gets boosted as necessary to make it work:
Your up-vote and a quick resteem will help this post drastically. If you like the idea, please resteem so others can start using the #STEEMFLEAMARKET service and keep your eye out on some amazing things people will start giving away and/or selling. We already have a sony camera up for grabs here!
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Great post and an incredible idea! A place to buy, sell, trade or just simply to "give away!" Many proceeds going to feed the many less fortunate in this world where many have more than what they need and bigger numbers do not. This is something that should be supported by all and used by many as this idea should be a part of the loving fabric of humanity and life. If this were so, we'd all would be better off in many more ways than one. Supported. Enjoyed.
This is pretty big. Everyone involved is doing such an amazing (and extensive) job, I am proud!
This can only grow the platform. Awesome work!
Great Idea and well thought out. Looking forward to my first purchase!!!
I personally think more services like this need to be available !
This is a very good development. Givers never lack. When you give and never expect anything in return, reward will surely come.
Very well thought out, thanks for taking the time for this. Love these things that add value to STEEM.
This looks like a great idea. We all accumulate way more "stuff" than we want to keep. Thanks for sharing!
Interesting concept and most generous gift. Every day there is more new and interesting things to explore on steemit. Thanks for your contribution.
I knew people are crazy innovators (in a good way). You guys are awesome to start things like this.
Amazing!! I really can't wait to see all the awesome things that will happen with Steem!
Wow, you're onto something here. This is where @jerrybanfield's budget proposal would come in handy https://steemit.com/steem/@jerrybanfield/steem-budget-proposals-whitepaper
@kaliju has a great idea, and gets some community support, maybe even tests it on a small scale like I'm doing. Then gets some funding from the community to build it. This will put many people to work on the Steem Blockchain and cause a fury of people to get creative and increase what the Steem Block Chain has to offer the world!
Your original idea can help someone that really needs something. People could even Upvote the comment of the person they want to receive the Item based on their comment. That would allow people to help others who are not interested in the item for themselves. That also would utilize the confines of the existing platform we are trying to run on. The concept of a community pool for the purpose of helping someone in need is central to the Steemit mission I think.
Now THIS is exciting. I love the whole Steemit concept, from the blockchain to the cyrptocurrency, but I REALLY love fleamarkets and bartermarts. I live in a fairly secluded area and the small neighboring communities do a lot of bartering. From our eggs and firewood, to scrap boards and art. These ideas make my heart sing :)
GREAT IDEA! will definitely follow this project, and I would already have some stuff to give away ;-)
SUPER COOL IDEA! Thanks for being an innovator on Steemit!
It will definitely help the aspiring steemitians to fulfill their dreams.
What a great idea! Resteemed for my followers! I will be giving away some stuff soon! Thank you!
I found this to be a good idea but well maybe not only giveaway but if someone sells secondhand paperback book ( Preferably mythology book or classic novels) I am down to exchange with some SBD. Like the Amazon or Ebay style ^^
This is a great idea. Let's see how many people do it. I have launched something cool already just as a sample so people could kind of see what it might look like... https://steemthat.com/steem-flea-market/
This is a great idea! Good luck dude! 🍀 It might be cool to have a "buy it now" feature. So, if someone just wants to pay for the whole thing, they can do it immediately.
That sounds like an awesome idea. I have some inexpensive crystals that I sell and this would be an awesome way to give them out. Under $10 shouldn't be hard to raise. Thanks for thinking of new ways to make steemit better.
Just ran across an AWESOME post/idea HERE from @kaliju and I'm going to give it a shot. It is a good idea, and I've been on a tear with eBay lately so I was locked and loaded with this thing. I've got lots of other stuff too but want to see how it goes.
Great idea!
I think the idea of a #steemfleamarket-philippines is a great idea and I believe over time, it can evolve into something really unique and functional.
I believe it is a novel concept which will need to be carefully considered. I see it being potentially a great thing for honest people with needs but obviously may be corrupted by those with greed.
This looks like a great idea. Definitely going to stop by and check out some goods. Great work.
This looks like a good initiative. Going to read this more thoroughly to learn about the #steemfleamarket. I've got a lot of junk to give away/sell.
This seems like a great idea will read again and start thinking as we all have stuff we want to sell.
.. and many more are seeing the good in it. Thank you for stopping by our Flea Market, we hope you come again and set up your own tent here :)


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A Fresno State nurse has been appointed to the California Board of Registered Nursing by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Pilar De La Cruz-Reyes, 68, of Sanger, has been director of the Central California Center for Excellence in Nursing at Fresno State since 2013, the Governor's Office said.
She was dean at the United States University in Chula Vista School of Nursing from 2011-13, a project manager at the Hospital Council of Northern and Central California from 2007-11, a faculty member at San Joaquin Valley College from 2003-07 and a staff nurse to the chief nurse executive at the Community Regional Medical Center from 2002-06.
De La Cruz-Reyes has a master's degree in nursing from California State University, Dominguez Hills.
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I'm loving these simple little tins I found for my DVD's. They are clean and basic but with a sweet little vintage ribbon and personalize name tag they feel so much less sterile and way more soft and classy. I think everything is better with a personalized touch and come on- who doesn't love some pale blue, vintage ribbon?
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Here are Some of the Things You Should Do After an Accident
So you've experienced a car crash. It happened abruptly, and now your mind is rushing, and also you are not sure how to proceed. These specific things happen, and they are not expected by any one, but stay focused and nonchalant and take things one step at the same time. Everything will soon be all right if several steps that are easy are followed by you.
Never leave a car crash's picture. The worries and shock of getting right into a car wreck may feel like more than it is possible to handle, however it is not. Keep aimed and calm rather than leave the car crash's scene. If the anxiety and worry overwhelm you, and you flee the picture, you've committed a crime far worse than simply creating a car crash (that might not have actually been your fault!). Being convicted of the hit-and-run is significant, far worse, and may land you in jail compared to distress to be charged with creating a vehicle accident.
You may need to exchange your personal details with all the people required. Get their insurance data, their driver's certificate numbers, telephone, and handles. Get yourself a set anybody who saw the car accident in any way, of witnesses.
Make sure to find medical attention if you have been hurt. Even though you don't think you've been injured just after the car collision, signs may express even days or themselves hours later. It's best to determine a health care provider straight away so you could be examined. Some internal injuries may give no symptoms, but might be deadly in a couple of hours or times. Find medical attention.
Create a police statement. A car accident is a significant matter that could affect finances your insurance, and your health. It's a good thought to make the car crash a matter of official record having a police statement. Contact law enforcement to come quickly to the vehicle crash's picture. If in your area, the authorities merely react to accidents that need an ambulance, head to the area police stop and record a report. Make sure to document law enforcement report's number.
Take photos of the picture of the car crash. Some individuals even hold a camera in their glove pocket for this reason. Take pictures of the automobiles engaged and of any destruction that has been performed. Take images of any incidents also, like cuts. Lastly, protect their state of the automobile before it is fixed to ensure that insurance brokers can inspect it. the precise injury is better, although it's much better than nothing in case a picture is all you've got.
Once you have obtained the necessary information to create a report, it is possible to go about every day. You will need to call the insurance carrier to offer the info to them.


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Main cast: Lindsay Lohan (Maggie Peyton), Michael Keaton (Ray Peyton Sr), Matt Dillon (Trip Murphy), Breckin Meyer (Ray Peyton Jr), Justin Long (Kevin), and Dale Earnhardt Jr (himself)
Director: Angela Robinson
What is Lindsay Lohan doing? She is on her way to being a credible actress with her well-acclaimed role in Mean Girls and being a gloriously coked-up anorexic socialite when she decides to revert to her inner Hilary Duff and star in a movie featuring an intelligent car named Herbie. Is her mother still managing her? Maybe it's time for Ms Lohan to consider getting a new manager.
This movie is a Disney movie, which is to say, there is the predictable daughter-daddy blues, some earnest G-rated romance between the heroine and some goofball guy, and an intelligent thinking car in the role of the usual singing animals to steal the show. Maggie Peyton is born to a family of sports car racers but his father Ray Sr is retired while Ray Jr is struggling as a racer. Maggie doesn't want to race because her father has forbidden her to, after she was involved in a car accident when she was a child. When she receives Herbie as her graduation gift, however, she ends up challenging nasty race car driver Trip Murphy (the sound you hear is Matt Dillon flushing what's left of his career completely down the toilet) and soon she will have to confront the dilemma of winning her father's approval by being a nice girl or winning his approval by being a race car driver.
Herbie: Fully Loaded is strictly for kids and for adults who love the original Herbie movies. Me, I'm not even aware of those movies since they were released at a time when American movies aren't widely available in Malaysia, so I'm watching this movie without nostalgia to give the movie some rosy hue. What I get is a predictable, fairly entertaining but ordinary movie best suited for watching on TV rather than paying to watch at the big screen.
Oh, is it just me or there is something really creepy about Herbie eyeing Maggie's legs and backside when they first meet? Throughout the movie, I get this impression that Herbie is some kind of pedophile car that skeeves me out. You have no idea how many times I want to scream at Maggie, "No, don't touch that gearstick, eeuw!"


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More often than not, average people tend to look to celebrity fashion trends for inspiration when they're revamping or changing their wardrobe. And this being the case we, at YEN, saw it only fitting that our readers see these uploads from Berla Mundi and Mona because, I mean, who else would you rather be inspired by other than these two.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Three astronauts successfully launched Monday morning on a Soyuz rocket, the first crewed launch of this type of rocket since an issue forced an emergency landing back in October.
- American, Canadian and Russian space explorers launched from Kazakhstan
- OSIRIS-Rex arrives at Bennus asteroid Monday at noon
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NASA astronaut Anne McClain, along with Canada's David Saint-Jacques and Russia's Oleg Kononenko, launched from Kazakhstan at 6:31 a.m. ET Monday for a 6-and-a-half-month mission at the International Space Station.
The crew boarded the ISS around 2:30 p.m. There will now be six crewmembers onboard the ISS.
It was the first manned launch of a Soyuz since October 11, when NASA astronaut Nick Hague and a Russian cosmonaut had to abort their mission, just two minutes after launch because of a damaged sensor on the rocket.
The pair made an emergency landing and made it back to Earth in good health.
Even before they launched, McClain said she was confident in the rocket.
"You know going to space is not easy, the crew in October was lucky, but so is every crew that has flown in space over the last 50 years, 60 years," said McClain. "And I'm very familiar with the rocket, with the redundancy of their systems, and with their safety systems and I'll be frank with you, I would have gotten on a rocket the day after that happened."
It is a busy day for NASA, but now the agency's attention turns to 185,000 miles away from Earth at asteroid Bennu.
That is where a spacecraft that launched from the Space Coast two years ago arrived on Monday.
OSIRIS-REx will spend nearly a year studying the asteroid before it reaches out and collects a sample. The spacecraft will then bring that piece of asteroid down to Earth in 2023 for analysis that could help understand more about asteroids and their potential impacts on Earth.
On Tuesday, SpaceX is preparing to launch a Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon cargo capsule with science experiments and supplies for the ISS.
Tuesday's launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is set for 1:38 pm ET.