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i salute you for making your own wrappers, SrG. even i don't bother with that- i usually buy store ones. so yeah, a tip for lazy people; you can buy your own wrappers, or even frozen gyoza that you fry if you don't have the time to make both components of this dish.
one of the differences the way my family makes gyoza is that we actually don't bother with cooking the meat separately the way you have in your recipe. we stir up everything, raw, stuff the gyoza and then proceed to either pan fry or boil as we prefer. however when we pan fry we do it in the way you described, that includes steam-cooking. :]
Holy hell if I had a gas range my mouth would be all up on this.
And ginger and garlic, you can never EVER have too much of either. OMG they are so good for you, and good tasting. Especially together.
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How to Trim a Chicken's Injured Comb or Wattle
When you raise chickens, it's not surprising to find a chicken with a torn comb or wattle. Chickens can tear combs or wattles in a fight or by accidentally catching them in something. Generally, these parts cannot be repaired and must be trimmed to avoid infection. You can take the bird to a vet, or you can trim combs and wattles yourself. Most birds recover quickly and completely.
Wash the area with hot water and soap.
Clean the area with rubbing alcohol.
With sterilized scissors or a sterilized heavy knife, trim off the torn area of the comb or wattle.
Apply antibiotic cream to the area. Ask a vet or poultry expert to recommend a good ointment or look for a pet ointment that says it is safe for birds. In warm weather, an anti-fly ointment may also need to be applied.
Isolate the chicken until the wound has healed.
Because the comb and wattles have blood vessels, trimming them causes some bleeding, but it's minor. Some pain is involved; however, anesthetics usually aren't given because birds are tricky to anesthetize and the pain is quickly over. If you take the bird to the vet, he or she may administer local anesthetics.

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Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments, according to the book of Exodus in the Bible, are rules for life given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai to give to the People of Israel.[1] Although the Book of Deuteronomy talks about Mount Horeb,[2] it is often considered to have been a different name for the same place. The rules were written on stone tablets. These rules are important for Judaism and Christianity.
Sometimes these rules are also called Decalogue (from Greek, can be translated as ten statements). The name decalogue first occurs in the Septuagint. The Jews received the commandments after they had left Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Ramses. There are different texts talking about the commandments. Most of them are in the Bible: The Book of Exodus, Chapter 20 and the book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 5. The Qu'ran mentions the tablets but does not list the commandments. Because the Bible has been translated many times, there are variations in the way the commandments are written.
In the Bible
The Bible in Basic English[3] translates the commandments from Exodus in this way:
- 1 And God said all these words: 2 I am the Lord ook you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house. 3 You are to have no other gods but me.
- 4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth: 5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters; 6 And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.
- 7 You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord
- 8 Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day. 9 On six days do all your work: 10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you: 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy.
- 12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
- 13 Do not put anyone to death without cause.
- 14 Do not be false to the married relation.
- 15 Do not take the property of another.
- 16 Do not give false witness against your neighbour.
- 17 Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.
Differences in teachings and interpretation
These commandments are translated from ancient Hebrew to Basic English, so the exact words chosen may not mean to us exactly what they meant to the Hebrews. There are a variety of interpretations of these commandments:
- Images
One understanding on the commandment to not make "any image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above" is as from Roman Catholicism: they hold that "likenesses" may be built and used, as long as the object is not worshipped. The Eastern Orthodox Church has a very similar position. Eastern Orthodoxy teaches that the incarnation of an invisible God as a visible human, Jesus, makes it alright to worship images (see Iconoclasm). But, for Jews, Muslims, and most other Christians that violates the commandment.
Jehovah's Witnesses criticize the use of all of the above, as well as the use of the cross. The Amish forbid any sort of image, such as photos.
- Sabbath day
Jews honor the Sabbath (Shabbat) on Saturday, the seventh day of the week on the Jewish calendar.
Most Christians honor the Sabbath on Sunday to remember the Resurrection of Jesus on the first day of the week on the Jewish calendar.
Some conservative Christians are "Sabbatarians" (most of these follow the Reformed traditions). Sabbatarians think the first day of the week or Lord's Day is the new Sabbath, because the 4th commandment has never been revoked and Sabbath-keeping is in any case a creation ordinance.
Others believe that the Sabbath remains as a day of rest on Saturday, while Sunday as a day of worship, in reference to Acts 20:7: the disciples came together on the first day of the week to break bread and to hear the preaching of the apostle Paul. Also, Jesus appeared to his followers on the "first day of the week" while they were in hiding.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church, and some others, believe that the custom of meeting for worship on Sunday originated in paganism, specifically Sol Invictus and Mithraism (in which sun god worship took place on Sunday). Instead, Adventists keep Saturday as the Sabbath as a memorial to God's work of creation[4] believing that none of the Ten Commandments can ever be destroyed.[5] Seventh-day Sabbatarians claim that the seventh day Sabbath was kept by the majority of Christian groups until the 2nd and 3rd century, but because of opposition to Judaism after the Jewish-Roman wars, the original custom was gradually replaced by Sunday as the day of worship.
- Killing or murder
There are different translations of this commandment; the Hebrew words לא תרצח are translated either as "thou shalt not kill" or "thou shalt not murder". Older Protestant translations of the Bible, those based on the Vulgate and Roman Catholic translations usually translate it "Thou shalt not kill". Jewish and newer Protestant versions tend to use "You shall not murder". There are different opinions as to which translation is more faithful to the original.
The many examples in the Old Testament of killing sanctioned by God, are quoted in defense of the view that "murder" is more accurate. Furthermore, the Hebrew word for "kill" is "הרג" - "harog", while the Hebrew word for "murder" is "רצח" - "retzach", which is found in the Ten Commandments "לא תרצח" - "lo tirtzach".
In the New Testament, Jesus talked about who was guilty of breaking these commandments. He said that even if someone was just angry and rude to another person, he might be judged for murder, and if he just looked with desire or lust at a woman, he had committed adultery in his heart.[6]
- Stealing
Many theologians (such as German Old Testament scholar A. Alt: Das Verbot des Diebstahls im Dekalog (1953)) suggest that commandment "you shall not steal" was originally intended against stealing people—abductions and slavery. This would be the same as the Jewish interpretation of the statement as "you shall not kidnap" (e.g. as stated by Rashi).
- False witness
To "give false witness" called lying, may include all lying, or only lying in court, which is called perjury.
Different numbering
The Bible does not number the commandments. Different religious groups have numbered them in different ways. The Jews, followed by Christian Protestants, end the first commandment with "You are to have no other gods but me." as above. Catholics and Lutherans end the first commandment at "I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws." and separate in their last two commandments the desire for a man's wife from the desire for other things he owns.
The commandments passage in Exodus has more than ten important statements, there are 14 or 15 in all. While the Bible itself gives the count as "10", using the Hebrew phrase ʻaseret had'varim—translated as the 10 words, statements or things, this phrase does not appear in the passages usually presented as being "the Ten Commandments".[7] Various religions divide the commandments differently. The table below shows those differences.
|Roman Catholic, Lutheran**
|Most other Christians
|I am the Lord your God
|You shall have no other gods before me
|You shall not make for yourself an idol
|You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God
|Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy
|Honor your Father and Mother
|You shall not murder*
|You shall not commit adultery
|You shall not steal
|You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor
|You shall not covet your neighbor's house
|You shall not covet your neighbor's wife
|The Roman Catholic Church uses the translation 'kill' (less specific than 'murder').[8]
|Some Lutheran churches use a slightly different division of the Ninth and Tenth Commandments (9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house; 10. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his workers, or his cattle, or anything that is your neighbor's).[9]
Muslim understanding
Islam teaches that the Bible is a revelation from God but the text used in Judaism and Christianity has been corrupted. The Ten Commandments are not explicitly mentioned in the Qur'an but each is implied by the following verses in the Quran.
- "There is no other god beside God."(Qur'an 47:19)
- "My Lord, make this a peaceful land, and protect me and my children from worshiping idols." (Qur'an 14:35)
- "Do not subject God's name to your casual swearing, that you may appear righteous, pious, or to get credibility among the people." (Qur'an 2:224)
- "O you who believe, when the Congregational Prayer (Salat Al-Jumu`ah) is announced on Friday, you shall hasten to the commemoration of GOD, and drop all business." (Qur'an 62:9)[10]
- "....and your parents shall be honored. As long as one or both of them live, you shall never say to them, "Uff" (the slightest gesture of annoyance), nor shall you shout at them; you shall treat them amicably." (Qur'an 17:23)
- "....anyone who murders any person who had not committed murder or horrendous crimes, it shall be as if he murdered all the people." (5:32)
- "You shall not commit adultery; it is a gross sin, and an evil behavior." (Qur'an 17:32)
- "The thief, male or female, you shall mark their hands as a punishment for their crime, and to serve as an example from God. God is Almighty, Most Wise." (Qur'an 5:38)
- "Do not withhold any testimony by concealing what you had witnessed. Anyone who withholds a testimony is sinful at heart." (Qur'an 2:283)
- "And do not want what we bestowed upon any other people. Such are temporary ornaments of this life, whereby we put them to the test. What your Lord provides for you is far better, and everlasting." (Qur'an 20:131)
Other religions
In general, religions other than those mentioned (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) do not recognise the Ten Commandments as ethical standards. Many of them (Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, etc.) have similar laws or principles though.[11] In the atheist Soviet Union the Moral Code of the Builder of Communism was a set of rules that resembled the Ten Commandments.
|Ten Commandments
|Buddhist Five Precepts
|I am the Lord your God
|You shall have no other gods before me
|You shall not make for yourself an idol
|You shall not make wrongful use of the name of your God
|Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy
|Honor your Father and Mother
|You shall not murder
|abstain from hurting and killing both human and animals
|You shall not commit adultery
|abstain from sexual misconduct
|You shall not covet your neighbor's wife
|You shall not steal
|abstain from taking what is not given (e.g. stealing, displacements that may cause misunderstandings)
|You shall not covet your neighbor's house
|You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor
|abstain from bad speech (e.g. telling lies, hurting words, deceiving, manipulating)
|abstain from intoxicating drugs and drinks which lead to carelessness
The Ritual Decalogue
The term "Ten Commandments" generally applies to the list mentioned in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. However, there is a continuous story being told starting in Exodus 31:18 (where the stones are created), Exodus 32:19 (where the tablets are broken) and Exodus 34. This story lists a very different set of commandments. This version is sometimes called "Ritual Decalogue". Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the people after him who followed the documentary hypothesis, note that Exodus 34:28 seems to refer to these Ten Commandments rather than the traditional ones. These people thought that the commandments in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 show a later set of Ten Commandments, and that the ten listed in Exodus 34 were the original Ten Commandments, now known as the Ritual Decalogue (as opposed to the better-known "Ethical Decalogue"). The differences between the two Decalogues highlight the development of sacred texts over a long time and from differing narrative traditions by incorporating two differing sets of Ten Commandments.
The commandments have influenced Jewish ethics and law and, through Judaism and Christianity, Western ethics and law since the Roman Empire.[12] Moses is the founder of basis of the philosophy of law as well as such modern legal doctrines as independent judiciary and separation of powers.[13]
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There have been two famous films of this name; both were directed by Cecil B. DeMille, a silent movie in 1923, and a movie in 1956, starring Charlton Heston as Moses. That one was the biggest money-making movie that year.
- ↑ (Exodus 19:23), "Did God speak at Mt. Sinai". SimpleToRemember.com. http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/G-dAtSinai.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-21.
- ↑ Deuteronomy 5:2
- ↑ "Exodus 20: Bible in Basic English". BasicEnglishBible.com. http://basicenglishbible.com/exodus/20.htm. Retrieved 2008-07-21.
- ↑ Genesis 2:1-3, Exodus 20:8-11, Exodus 16:23,29-30
- ↑ Matthew 5:17-19, Exodus 31:16
- ↑ Matthew 5:28
- ↑ Exodus 34:28, Deuteronomy 4:13, Deuteronomy 10:4
- ↑ "Catechism of Catholic Church". http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a5.htm., also see Killing or murder
- ↑ Catechism Christian Doctrine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland Church Council Helsinki 2000) [1]PDF (126 KiB)
- ↑ The Sabbath was abandoned with the revelation of the Quran. Muslims are told in the Quran that the Sabbath was only decreed for the Jews. (Qur'an 16:124) God, however, ordered Muslims to make every effort and drop all businesses to attend the congregational (Friday) prayer. The Submitters may tend to their business during the rest of the day.
- ↑ "World Scripture: The Decalogue by Andrew Wilson". http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/WorldScr/WS-02-03.htm. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
- ↑ *Coogan, Michael (2014). The Ten Commandments; A Short History of an Ancient Text. Yale University Press. .
- ↑ Barenboim Peter, Biblical Roots of Separation of Powers, Moscow, Letny Sad, 2005. ISBN 5943811230, Permalink: http://lccn.loc.gov/2006400578
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Royal Dutch Shell will not drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic seas this year, the company said on Wednesday, in a widely expected decision that follows a series of high-profile setbacks in 2012.
Both critics and supporters of Shell's controversial Arctic offshore foray welcomed its decision to give up on drilling there for 2013, while the company tries to get its drillships ready and answers to US federal investigators.
Michael LeVine, senior Pacific counsel for environmental group Oceana in Juneau, Alaska, said Shell and the government agencies regulating the company faced a "crisis of confidence."
"The decisions to allow Shell to operate in the Arctic Ocean clearly were premature," LeVine said in a statement. "The company is not prepared and has absolutely no one but itself to blame for its failures."
Few observers doubted that a postponement was coming after Shell said this month its two Arctic offshore rigs would head to Asia for repairs and upgrades.
Shell has spent more than $US4.5 billion on its search for oil in Alaska's Chukchi and Beaufort seas since it won licences to drill there in 2005. But its season last year was delayed by regulatory problems with equipment, and 2012 then ended dramatically with the grounding of the Kulluk drillship in a storm, while it was being towed south for the winter.
"Our decision to pause in 2013 will give us time to ensure the readiness of all our equipment and people," said Marvin Odum, director of Shell Upstream Americas.
David Yarnold, of environmental group Audubon, said Shell had "come to its senses," since drilling amid ice floes near the nurseries of threatened wildlife was not "smart or safe."
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The Anglo-Dutch company's move into Alaska's Arctic waters - the first by anyone since the Macondo disaster of 2010 - was always expected to face criticism, but technical problems with its rigs led to even deeper concerns.
Senator Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, said she was a strong supporter of Shell's activities off her state's northern coast if it was done to the "highest safety standards."
"This pause - and it is only a pause in a multi-year drilling program that will ultimately provide great benefits both to the state of Alaska and the nation as a whole - is necessary for Shell to repair its ships and make the necessary updates to its exploration plans," she said in a statement.
Analysts say the Arctic's allure for oil drillers remains strong given the greater complications of politics and violence they face in other parts of the world.
Even before the Kulluk ran aground on Dec. 31 after escaping its tow lines, Shell's 2012 drilling program was stalled by troubles with support vessels and regulatory scrutiny of the other rig, the Noble Discoverer, owned by Noble Corp.
After the Arctic drilling season closed at the end of October, a fire then broke out on the Discoverer. There were also engine failures on the Aiviq, the specially designed ship pulling the Kulluk, before it lost its tow connection.
A US congressman has put public pressure on Shell over the Discoverer's safety violations as the Justice Department investigates the case along with the Coast Guard.
"Shell's managers have not been straight with the American public, and possibly even with its own investors, on how difficult its Arctic Ocean operations have been this past year," said Lois Epstein, Arctic program director for The Wilderness Society.
Curtis Smith, Shell's Alaska spokesman, said Shell would continue to do non-drilling work in Alaska in 2013, including data collection and possibly site-preparation and geotechnical work. "We haven't put a scope of work together yet," he said.
About 1,500 seasonal jobs would not materialize this year, though there would be no layoffs within the company.
The Kulluk, meanwhile, finally departed on Tuesday from the Kodiak Island bay where it spent the past seven weeks. It is on its way to the Aleutian port town of Unalaska, in a trip that will take about 10 days, and then it will remain there for a few days while preparations are made to dry-tow it to Asia, he said.
It would then take two to three weeks to get to Asia, where Shell is still searching for a shipyard, he added.


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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath's status as a major American poet has been obscured by her reputation as a martyr, a victimized woman whose tragic life finally ended in suicide. Nevertheless, there are many who insist the poems in her posthumously published volume, Ariel, represent the most dazzling and productive short period of writing since Keats. In this verse, it is argued, Plath fully realizes the Keatsian sense of the sweetness of death--a longing to be swallowed up by something greater than oneself, to become part of the eternal.
"Love set you going like a fat gold watch." Plath describes the birth of her daughter, Frieda, in "Morning Song," one of three Plath poems at the Academy of American Poets' Plath site. While there, read the Plath biography and the thoughtful essay on daughters in poems and explore the list of Plath-related links.
From a paper on the imagery in Plath's poem "Daddy" to an interview with Ted Hughes in the Spring 1995 Paris Review, Anja Beckmann of the University of Leipzig offers a wealth of information on Plath, her work, and her life. Take time to examine the contents of this rich site.
Modern American Poetry: Sylvia Plath
Compiled and prepared by Karen Ford and Cary Nelson, this site brings together articles and book excerpts about Plath, her life and her works. The "A Sylvia Plath Exhibit" section displays photographs from throughout Plath's life.
New York University's Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database
"Dying / Is an art, like everything else." Summaries and comments on more than a dozen of Plath's works, including "Lady Lazarus" and The Bell Jar, are provided at this NYU site.
BBC Arts/Poetry: Sylvia Plath Reads
Plath reads some of her own poetry.
BBC News: "Hughes Breaks Silence Over Plath"
This headline begins the BBC report on Ted Hughes's book of poems, Birthday Letters. The site includes an audio excerpt from Hughes's poem describing his first sight of Plath.
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January 31, 2012 (Game 48, Away Game 26)
Prudential Center — Newark, NJ
1st 2nd 3rd SO Final
New York Rangers 1 0 2 0 3
New Jersey Devils 0 1 2 1 4
Team Notes:
– The Rangers were defeated by the New Jersey Devils, 4-3, in the shootout tonight at Prudential Center, and are now 14-4-1 in their last 19 games.
– New York has posted a record of 31-12-5 (67 pts) on the season, including a 16-7-3 mark on the road. The Rangers have registered at least one point in 31 of their last 40 games (28-9-3), dating back to Oct. 29, after beginning the season with a 3-3-2 mark.
– The Rangers have registered at least one point in six of their last seven road games (5-1-1 over the span), and are 11-3-1 in their last 15 games away from MSG.
– The Blueshirts maintained a one-point lead over Boston for first place in the Eastern Conference, and are currently tied with Detroit for first in the league overall with 67 points. Detroit is in action tonight at Calgary.
– 10 of the Rangers' last 14 meetings with the Devils have been decided by two goals or less.
– The Rangers are now 18-7-3 against the Devils since 2007-08, including a 9-4-2 mark on the road, dating back to a 2-0 win on Oct. 25, 2007.
– Martin Biron's start in net tonight ended Henrik Lundqvist's streak of 32 consecutive starts against the Devils. The last Rangers goalie other than Lundqvist to start against New Jersey was Kevin Weekes on Dec. 17, 2006.
Player Notes:
– Michael Del Zotto notched a goal, was credited with three hits and three blocked shots, and posted a plus-two rating in 25:21 of ice time to earn third star honors. He has tallied 19 points (four goals, 15 assists) in the last 29 games, including two points (one goal, one assist) in the last two.
– Marian Gaborik tallied two primary assists and logged 18:00 of ice time in the contest. He has now recorded seven points (two goals, five assists) in the last six games, and leads the team in scoring with 41 points on the season.
– Carl Hagelin tied his career-high for assists/points in a game with two assists, and logged 13:14 of ice time in the contest. He has tallied 11 points (four goals, seven assists) in the last 15 games.
– Anton Stralman opened the game's scoring with an even strength goal with 0:33 remaining in the first period, and was credited with two blocked shots in 19:28 of ice time. He has tallied a point in each of the last two games (one goal, one assist).
– Brian Boyle notched a goal, was credited with two blocked shots, tied for the team-high with four shots on goal, and led the team with nine faceoff wins in 17 attempts (53%). He has recorded a point in each of the last two games (one goal, one assist).
– Martin Biron made 26 saves through regulation and overtime, and stopped two of three in the shootout. He has now posted a record of 9-2-1 overall, including a 5-2-1 mark on the road. Tonight's contest is only the fourth time this season he has allowed more than two goals.
– Stu Bickel and Brandon Prust each registered an assist on Brian Boyle's third period goal. Prust has now recorded two assists in the last three games.
– Dan Girardi led all skaters with a career-high, 33:46 of ice time, tied for the team-high with a season-high, four shots on goal, and was credited with two blocked shots. Girardi has now logged 30:00+ of ice time 11 times in his career, including seven times this season.
Team Schedule:
– The Rangers will return to action when they face-off against the Buffalo Sabres tomorrow, February 1, at First Niagara Center (7:30 p.m.), to conclude their back-to-back set. The game will be televised live on NBC Sports Network and can be heard on 1050 ESPN Radio.


text: Brand MarketingStudy: Direct Mail to SufferBy Katy Bachman |May 20, 2009 ShareBy Katy Bachman |May 20, 2009 ShareNEW YORK The rise of the Internet has taken its toll on a number of media and is about to claim its third analog victim: direct mail. The largest of the print media, printed direct mail will decline 39 percent over the next five years with annual spending dropping from $49.7 billion in 2008 to $29.8 billion by the end of 2013, according to a study from Borrell Associates to be released today at BIA's Winning Media Strategies conference in Washington, D.C.If Borrell's prediction holds up, direct mail, once topping ad spending on Internet, broadcast TV and newspapers, will slip to No. 4.One of the media expected to replace direct mail is e-mail. Last year, e-mail moved to the No. 1 online ad category spot, surpassing all other forms of interactive advertising. Last year alone advertisers spent $12.1 billion on e-mail marketing, more than was spent on display/banner advertising or search advertising. Over the next five years, e-mail advertising will grow to a $15.7 billion business, Borrell forecasted.Most of the e-mail growth will occur on the local level. Local e-mail advertising is expected to climb from $848 million in 2008 to $2 billion 2013, driven primarily by small businesses abandoning direct mail couponing and promotion offers.Companies that could be challenged by the emerging trend in direct e-mail marketing are direct marketing giants such as Valpak and Valassis, which send out packages of coupons and offers to consumers' homes. In first quarter this year, Valassis' "shared mail" revenue declined 12.7 percent from a year ago.While coupon usage is up, it is being delivered more frequently via e-mail and the Web, or directly in stores. Last year, 36 percent of adults picked up a coupon inside a store and used it, compared to 28 percent two years ago. About 8 percent of consumers are using coupons delivered in e-mail or on the Web.Other companies are poised to benefit from the trend such as ConstantContact, Bronto, iContact, Silverpop, MailChimp and Yesmail. Constant Contact, one of the larger e-mail service providers, reported a 52 percent increase in mailing last year. Revenue was up 73 percent to $87 million.For local media, e-mail marketing represents an "overlooked opportunity," the Borrell report said."Nearly two-thirds of Internet users check their e-mail at least once a month, while one-third go to the Web. Yet most local media companies toil exclusively on the Web following the mass-media model of packaging and delivering more and more content, which will generate more and more traffic, which will create inventory to sell more and more advertising adjacencies. While that model works and shouldn't by any means be abandoned, selling banner ads on Web sites has almost certainly become a mature business with little opportunity for growth," the Borrell report concluded.To take advantage of the trend, Borrell recommended that local media companies require site registration, run contests and promotions, and hire a database manager.Source: Mediaweek.com Sharehttp://adweek.it/2kL8wTq copy Adweek Adweek


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Well, I had to do it! I've been wanting to do my own fabric dyeing and finally got started at it yesterday. My daughter is here visiting this week and I've taken a few vacation days so we can play together!
We used a low water immersion method to get colors with "texture".
I got all my dyes and chemicals as well as pfd fabrics via internet order from Dharma Trading Company, and the "tools", bins, spoons, measuring cups, buckets, etc. from the local dollar store.
This batch was done with just two colors of dye, deep purple and fuchsia, and is for my daughter, who loves purple.
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One of my favorite magazines, which I've been reading for 30 years, is Guideposts magazine, founded by the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale and his wife, Ruth Stafford Peale. I've enjoyed that particular publication in good times and bad. One of the aspects of it I think I'm most fond of is that it embraces all religious faiths, without showing prejudice or preference so none are segregated or left out. This matter of finding our way in life, following our own guideposts, seems to be independent of any particular religious faith. Faith is faith. I apologize if that offends any of you; but it is my belief as I have lived a considerable number of years and witnessed the hardships of the Jews over the years, the bigotry toward the Catholics in some parts of the country and the judgment aligned against the Protestants over the ages. Doesn't our faith depend on how we learn faith and love as a child? Sometimes the lack thereof caused a need and that is the direction we choose. We need direction: more so when our lives are thrown into turmoil.
Is there any aspect of life that is more personal than how we decide to follow our inner voice, seek our own path and what guideposts we choose to follow? We all know you could throw any two people in the world into a crisis and they will react differently. Most individuals either go for the way out of the pit or they throw an enormous pity party and wallow around down there. They remain surrounded by darkness. These same persons immediately go for the gloom and doom "bit." Others experience the grief of what they've lost and then look for the light, after a reasonable, human time of grieving and eventually find their way up and out of the hole they're in.
It's been my experience that we learn the guideposts of our behavior very early in life. Some believe we are born with a certain predisposition to the negative or the positive side of life. We each, basically, respond to large and small, enormous and insignificant challenges in our own unique manner. We may increase our decibel level of yelling and screaming, we may tear out a little more hair with the "big" events and changes but basically, we are who we are. I'm not sure I completely agree with that way of thinking. I believe people can change. Just because we have a predisposition to think in a positive or negative way, doesn't mean we can't work at having the kind of thinking we want to have.
Our attitudes are kind of like our plants. We both are what we "eat." Some days we need to turn off the news and turn on the music. We may need to read something more inspirational than depressing. At other times it really pays off to talk to a friend who has a good attitude as opposed to a doomsday buddy. There are an infinitesimal number of choices and possibilities for us: take a walk, plant a geranium, eat a piece of fruit or candy, find a new type of herb tea and on and on the list goes.
We can choose how we feel, at least mentally. Often, I have found we feel "down" or have the "blues" because we are in an arthritic or fibro flare. Sometimes I can feel it coming over me and I realize I have been sitting on my sad old sitter too long and have to lie down. Still other times, I have let the time go by and forgotten to take a pain pill or a muscle relaxant. Over time, we learn to know ourselves. We may not be the same selves we used to be. We are faced with the limitations and aggravations of "new bodies" or maybe I should say recycled bodies. Since our bodies are constantly changing, more for some of us than for others; why not let our minds change, also.
No one knows you as well as you know you. You can choose to change because everyday we are faced with choices. "Who's in charge here, anyway?" Let's all open a window and surprise the neighbors and shout out, "I am in charge of this lousy body and I want the world to know." Okay, then just say it to yourself; write it on a piece of paper and tape it to the bathroom wall or just mutter it throughout the day as a mantra.
There don't have to be any victims here. The choice is up to you.


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Louis Vuitton Moet Hennesy has successfully sued San Jose-based on line auctioneer eBay in French court over sales of luxury perfumes on the site, and has fined eBay $2.5 million.
Arguing that the sales were not by authorized resellers and hoping to enforce its exclusive distribution agreements with retailers, LVMH objected to eBay's trade in scents and cosmetics from the likes of Dior and Givenchy.
eBay argued that the agreements were anti-competitive, and that the company was doing its best to filter out offending items from listings for French shoppers.
The company even accused LVMH of deliberately listing items so that they would evade the filters in order to present them as evidence at trial.
Normally, eBay has been on trial for the market in knockoff products, not legitimate offerings.
The company plans to appeal the ruling.
Jackson West wears Clubman Bay Rum because it's old-timey.


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Bolivia's dramatic scenery and setting make touring this country a must. With the vast Salar de Uyuni, breathtaking Lake Titicaca, lush Amazon Rainforest and infamous "World's Most Dangerous Road", hitting the highlights means just scratching the surface in Bolivia.
Setting up a tour, either ahead of time or as you go, is a good way to see it all, or at least, all that you want to see. This could mean action-packed whitewater rafting or a four-day jeep excursion through the altiplano, an all-inclusive resort or an indigenous jungle home stay. Either way, with all the types tours Bolivia has to offer, your travel options are not limited—even if your time is.
Other Tour Operator pages in Bolivia that may be of interest: Northwest Bolivia Tours, Trinidad Tours, Tours, Vallegrande Tours, PotosĂ Tours, Tour operators, Tarija Tours, Town Center Tours, Tupiza Tours and Copacabana Tours.
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When on one hand, Google and Oracle are tied in a fierce battle over the use of Java in Android's Dalvik code; a group of hobbyists has ported the Dalvik core to C#. The project is called XobotOS and it comes from the same guys who made Mono for Android.
XobotOS is a Xamarin research project that explored porting Android 4.0 from Java/Dalvik to C# to explore the performance and memory footprint benefits of C#.
The C# port is semi-automated. A major part of the codebase was created using a tool called Sharpen, that can port Java code to C# effectively. The rest of the port was created manually. You can visit the project's GitHub page for more details. The C# port of Dalvik is released under the Apache 2 license, and the Sharpen tool is released under GPL.
Android being ported to C# is good news. It is good to see that people are hacking Android and creating their own versions of awesomeness. But wait, it gets better! On comparing the port to the actual Dalvik core, it was seen that the ported C# version had drastic performance improvements over the existing Java based Dalvik core.
XobotOS started out as a fun project and has achieved a marvelous feat. Sadly, the Xamarin team has a different focus going further. It has announced that XobotOS was an experiment, and it will not be developed any further. Nonetheless, this project has demonstrated clearly that when it comes to performance on mobile devices, C# beats Java hands down.


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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell reinstates Saints coach Sean Payton
MOBILE, Ala. — With a still-angry city waiting to, uh, welcome him during Super Bowl XLVII week, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell pretty much played the only card he had to appease the masses.
He reinstated New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton.
"I am thankful today Commissioner Goodell has granted me reinstatement," Payton said in a statement Tuesday. "As I stated back in March. I, along with Mickey Loomis take full responsibility for all aspects of our football program. I clearly recognize that mistakes were made, which led to league violations. Furthermore, I have assured the Commissioner a more diligent protocol will be followed.
"Lastly, I feel we have learned from our mistakes and are ready to move forward. I want to thank our owner, Mr. Benson and all of our great fans for the overwhelming support throughout this past year. I am excited to be back as Head Coach of the New Orleans Saints!"
The league announced Tuesday morning Goodell had informed Payton his season-long suspension for his role in the bounty case had ended. Payton, whose suspension lasted 281 days, can attend practices in nearby Mobile, Ala., for this week's Senior Bowl and can take part in Super Bowl festivities next week.
The NFL's press release announcing Payton's reinstatement said the coach met with Goodell on Monday and "acknowledged in the meeting his responsibility for the actions of his coaching staff and players and pledged to uphold the highest standards of the NFL and ensure that his staff and players do so as well."
The evidence Goodell gathered in the bounty case indicated Payton took part in a cover-up by asserting the players and coaches involved should make sure they had their "ducks in a row" before being questioned.
"We had a very productive discussion," Goodell said. "Sean fully complied with all the requirements imposed on him during his suspension. More important, it is clear that Sean understands and accepts his responsibilities as a head coach and the vital role that coaches play in promoting player safety and setting an example for how the game should be played at all levels.
"We are committed to delivering football that fans love and the safety players deserve. Coach Payton agrees and I look forward to working with him going forward to do that."
Payton recently signed a five-year contract extension to remain coach of the Saints. The league had taken issue with a clause in Payton's contract, first negotiated in September 2011, that allowed him an escape hatch if general manager Mickey Loomis was suspended or fired.
Payton's suspension originally was to run through the Super Bowl.
Saints owner Tom Benson said in a statement: "We are all thankful that Sean Payton has been reinstated. We have a lot of work to do and we are in the middle of it right now. He is our head coach and we welcome him back. We look forward to a great 2013 season and making another run at a World Championship for our fans!"
Payton – along with several coaches, general manager Mickey Loomis and four players – was suspended in connection with the league's bounty investigation that found the Saints had a performance pool offering cash rewards for key plays, including big hits. The league said that Payton, after being made aware of the pool, did not end it.


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This week on "1st Look," it's all about alternative lodging. Find out what topped our list this Saturday, Sept. 22 after "SNL."
In the meantime, if you're having trouble finding a place to crash, try to get a little shut-eye at these alternative options across the country.
Castle on the Hudson - Stray from Manhattan for the royal treatment at this beautiful Hudson Valley retreat.
Kate's Lazy Meadow Motel - A cabin-fever fantasy brought to you by a few founding members of the B-52s. It's a love shack, baby.
Saugerties Lighthouse - Lighthouses are always beautiful to visit. Here, stay for a while and take in the views.
Villa by Barton G - The former Versace Mansion on Ocean Drive. Living large never looked so good.
Jules Undersea Lodge - Continue down US-1 to Key Largo and hold your breath, literally! Check-in is 21 feet below sea level, so come scuba-ready.
Winery B & B Lynfred Winery - After a day of grape stomping and wine sipping, try these four high-end suites in the outskirts of Chi-town.
AirBnB - There's nothing like a good snooze on the couch. Here's a website where you create a profile and pay discount prices to stay in people's abodes.
Wigwam Motel - Just as it sounds, bring camping back to its roots and sleep under the stars in these thrifty L.A. teepees.
Madonna Inn Resort and Spa - A 50-year tradition, this unique lodging has 110 rooms all decorated in a different theme.
The Queen Mary - This ocean liner permanently docked at a port in L.A. now serves as a hotel.
Keating Hotel - Very cool boutique-y hotel with a great restaurant in the gaslight district.
Treebones Resort - Don't just visit Big Sur, rest amidst its beauty at the West Coast's most natural escape.
See alternative lodging at its best, with an all new episode of 1st Look on Saturday, Sept. 22 after SNL!


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Praises for Victoria FD
If you've ever been awakened from a deep sleep by the sound of a smoke alarm in the early hours of the morning and find your house is filled with smoke as you frantically make your way to the telephone to call 911, you have experienced one of the most terrifying moments of your life.
Within minutes of that call, the first firemen were on the scene, followed by three fire trucks, 11 trained firefighters, an ambulance, two police officers, and others engaged in the field of service. These people truly are heroes who risk their lives to serve our community as a labor of love. They volunteered.
The Victoria Volunteer Fire Department names 22 men and one woman on its roster. I want to personally recognize those who answered the call at 1:15 a.m. Friday morning, June 7. A big thank you to Chris Brungardt, Glenn Dinkel, Cole Dreiling, Bill Geist, Verlin Hammerschmidt, Kevin Klein, Doug Kuhn, David Mason, Tom Tholen, Leon Wellbrock and Scott Wellbrock.
While firefighters are human heroes, working smoke alarms are mechanical heroes. They save lives and homes. The most important message I want to send to the readers is this: If you have smoke alarms, replace the batteries in them annually. If you have only heat alarms in your home, also add smoke alarms. If you don't have any alarms, get some. Without the smoke alarms, I would not have awakened until damage had occurred to my home.
The city of Victoria is fortunate to have the volunteer fire department, an ambulance and police service. If there are young men or women interested in serving as volunteer firefighters, contact someone on the department to find out how you can become trained and certified. Your service will be rewarding, and they're a great bunch.
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Featured ListingsJeffrey Phillip Weinstein, AIA
Office of Design and Construction
Santa Monica, CA
California Licensed Architect since 1982, with Masters Degree in Real Estate Development, experienced in development, design and construction of office buildings, high-rise condominiums, multi-family residential and mixed-use projects, retail, neighborhood shopping centers and regional malls, hotels and resorts, hospitals, and schools (K-12 and University). Manage design and construction on a broad range of building types, working closely with clients, owners, architects, engineers, consultants, general contractors, subcontractors, vendors, specialty contractors, and government officials to move projects forward on time and within budget. Experience in real estate development, acquiring government approvals, entitlements & permits, architect's standard of care, construction management, claims & defects, A/E/C agreements. Expertise includes building envelope & water intrusion, zoning & building codes, errors/omissions, destructive testing & repair, schools (DSA), hospitals (OSHPD), condominiums, commercial/retail/mixed-use projects, high-rise structures, hotels & resorts. Previous employers include Nadel and Callison Architects, Tishman Construction, Trammel Crow Company, California State University, Great Wolf Resort and Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital. Testified as Expert (30+ cases) for Plaintiffs & Defendants. 35+ years Design/Build experience as Licensed Architect, Construction Manager, and Owner's Representative; 25+ years as Expert Witness. Offices in Santa Monica and Ventura County.
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Bill Nolte, C.S.H.O.
Fort Worth, TX
Licensed Master Electrician with 45+ years of experience, IBEW Journeyman Inside Wireman 39+ years (in Good Standing), Certified Safety and Health Official 2005 present (OSHA Region VI Southwest Training Center - Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service. Authorized OSHA Instructor, Electrical Safety and Technical Trainer 2011 present. Converting the technical into lay terms or translating the electrical installation into appropriate Code and or Standard references. Forensic Electrical Accident/Incident investigations.
Dale Wheeler
Dale Wheeler, PE
ruther glen, VA
SPECIALTY AREAS: Fire Protection system design, installation and operation: Fire detection, Smoke detection, Fire alarm, Central Stations, Sprinkler Systems, Fire Suppression Systems, Fire and Smoke Barriers, Fire Safety, Life Safety, Code Compliance, Fire Cause and Origin, Arson, Fire Hazard, Building Materials, & Fire Resistance Rating.
James Rappoport, AIA - NCARB
Rappoport Daroff Design
Philadelphia, PA
Many recent legal cases in consultation with attorneys representing both Plaintiffs and Defendants have focused on premises liability, supported by on-site investigations, research and documentation, building code citations, ADA accessibility law citations and related local, state and Federal laws governing the built environment. Some of these premises liability legal cases have involved personal injury complaints, and some have involved wrongful death matters.
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Peter Combs, Architect
Atlanta, GA
28 years as a trial experienced expert witness specializing in architecture, construction, ADA compliance, building codes, disabled access, contract disputes, water intrusion and forensic reconstruction of accident sites from photographs.
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Michael Plunkett Offices: NC and RI
South Kingston, RI
Thirty five years experience in the design analysis, inspection and auditing of piping, pipe supports structural and other mechanical components. Extensive experience performing design reviews, safety and hazards & engineering risk analyses. Office: Homosassa, Florida Office: Wakefield, Rhode Island
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Michael C. Head, PE, LEED AP BD+C
Atlanta, GA
Mr. Head has more than 35 years of structural engineering analysis design and project/construction management experience throughout Saudi Arabia and the United States. His investigation design and construction experience make him highly qualified to engage in forensic investigations and to assist the design construction and legal communities.
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John Hartlein
Jackson, MS
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Brad Avrit, PE
Marina Del Rey, CA
40+ years as an industry leader in construction management. Expert in Building Codes, Safety Engineering, Safety Regulations, Claims & Claims Prevention. Our staff has investigated over 10,000 cases, delivered over 2,000 depositions & testified in over 600 trials.
Clark Richards & Associates, Inc.
Clark Richards
North Fort Myers, FL
Over thirty years experience in the private and public sectors of the development and construction industries. Private sector background in residential and commercial construction, owners representation, forensic investigation and expert testimony, government relations, construction and regulatory approval. Public sector experience in large and mid sized multiple division Community Development / Building / Code Enforcement / Zoning / Licensing agencies.
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How are galaxies clustered together? What is fueling the accelerating expansion of the universe? Just what is dark energy?
These are the big questions that scientists working at the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) are asking. Brookhaven National Lab is a member of BOSS, the largest of the four surveys that make up the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III, which maps the sky over the Northern Hemisphere with New Mexico's 2.5-meter Sloan telescope in an attempt to define dark energy and measure its effects.
Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and SDSS-II, the SDSS-III collaboration is working to map the Milky Way, search for extrasolar planets, and solve the mystery of our expanding universe.
BOSS studies dark energy—the mysterious force thought to be responsible for the universe's accelerating expansion—by mapping the distribution of luminous red galaxies and quasars. The clusters and voids of galaxies currently found throughout space are a result of sound waves that spread through the early universe, like ripples through a pond. Those fluctuations imprinted patterns on the cosmic microwave background—the residual radiation from the Big Bang spread out through the universe as a faint glow of light. These patterns, called "baryon acoustic oscillations," account for the way galaxies are distributed and can help pinpoint the origin of cosmic acceleration and test different theories of dark energy.
To survey the sky, BOSS uses two spectrographs, which split incoming light into two cameras, one for red light and one for blue light. These cameras allow scientists to measure the redshift of light from distant galaxies—as an object moves away from a fixed point, the wavelength of any light it emits stretches and becomes redder. The team at BOSS targets luminous red galaxies and records the spectrum of light they give off to identify the patterns in space that can help reveal the nature of dark energy.
In addition to targeting luminous red galaxies and contributing images of the night sky to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III, Brookhaven scientists use BOSS's wide-field camera to map thousands of quasars at a time. Quasars are extremely bright masses of light and energy, making them ideal backlights for a picture of the universe as it existed 11 billion years ago.
Using the BOSS cameras, Brookhaven scientists are pioneering a technique to measure the "Lyman-alpha forest" using a kind of reverse astronomy that measures the expansion of the early universe more accurately than ever before. Instead of the standard approach of measuring light emitted from galaxies, Lyman-alpha measurements focus on the intergalactic hydrogen gas that blocks the light coming from the brightest beacons out there – quasars. BOSS researchers map the irregular patterns in the light from distant quasars, which are created when the light passes through hydrogen gas clouds. It's a bit like determining the shape of someone's hand by watching a shadow puppet show.
When the BOSS survey is complete, the team will have mapped 160,000 quasars and 1.5 million luminous galaxies.


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