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Whether you need to deploy Infrastructure as a Service or Platform as a Service, K5 has a range of services to support you.
A service that uses service portal/APIs to deploy and use virtual resources. With this service, virtual systems can be built in a short period of time.
Available Virtual Operating Systems
Windows Server OS (with/without support), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (with support), CentOS (without support), and Ubuntu (without support*)
Refer to Price List for details.
* Support for Ubuntu is provided by Canonical Ltd.
A Cloud Environment Matching the Service Level can be Selected
Supports high-reliability, high-performance systems as well as systems requiring physical isolation from external systems. An optimal infrastructure from "Public", "Virtual Dedicated" and "Physical Dedicated" can be selected from the service portal according to your operation/service level.
Closed network connections between K5 and hosting/on-premises environments, as well as physical ports that can connect directly with K5 are provided. Hybrid environments can be easily deployed within a short period of time using the pre-configured and standardized closed network feature.
An application execution environment service based on the open source Cloud Foundry.
A service that supports agile development of highly maintainable applications and provides an application execution environment.
API management
API Management is a service that provides an integrated API platform that manages and publishes various web service APIs.
Note: WL-PKGs are deployable packaged systems consisting of system components, operation requirements, software stack, etc.
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6226027558113486 | Discover Credit Card Generator
you can generate valid Discover credit cards with card number 6226027558113486, expiry date, CVV, and name. The credit card number 6226027558113486 is valid because it complies with the Discover credit card rules(such as fixed card number prefix) and follow the Luhn algorithm, therefore these generated credit card can pass some validation. Expiry, CVV and name are random generated, means not real, that is to say, these generated credit card is not real, so do not use it for illegal purposes.

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It used to be that water was a simple way of quenching your thirst. Now it is a designer beverage. But is there really a difference between tap water and bottled waters?
Walk into any supermarket, drug store, convenience store, vending area, or shopping mall, and you are likely to find an array of bottled water brands. It is estimated that Americans now consume more than 400 billion gallons of bottled water per day. Yet, many people are surprised when they find out exactly what is in bottled water.
The definition of bottled water is pretty straightforward: any water (generally containing no additives) intended for human use that is sealed in a bottle or other container. What is surprising, however, is the source of bottled water. Because, in addition to natural sources, such as artesian, spring, mineral, purified, and sparkling water, approximately half of all bottled waters originate in municipal water supplies.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies bottled water as a food and regulates it according to standards from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974. According to FDA rules, bottled water products must be tested each year to be certain they are free of, or contain only trace amounts of, certain contaminants. These include:
In addition, bottled water is tested for aesthetic contaminants such as iron, zinc, sulfate, or chloride, as well as other physical characteristics which, though not posing a health hazard, can negatively affect the taste, odor, or appearance of the water. Many state environmental agencies and industry trade groups may also require testing.
Water is classified as "bottled water" or "drinking water" if it meets all applicable federal and state standards, is sealed in a sanitary container, and is sold for human consumption. Bottled water cannot contain sweeteners or chemical additives (other than flavors, extracts or essences) and must be calorie-free and sugar-free. Flavors, extracts, and essences derived from spice or fruit can be added to bottled water in small amounts. In addition, bottled water may be sodium-free or contain "very low" amounts of sodium. Some bottled waters contain natural or added carbonation.
Not necessarily. The requirements for testing of municipally supplied tap water are generally just as stringent as those required for the testing of bottled water. However, there may be other reasons to choose bottled water, such as:
There are a few reasons not to drink bottled water:
Many people now opt for drinking water filtration systems (either filtered containers into which tap water is poured or filtration systems that are directly hooked to the tap). These systems, which are more economical than bottled water, generally improve the taste, appearance, and odor of tap water and may also remove some contaminants. A note of caution, however. In most (if not all) cases, such systems should not serve as a substitute for bottled water if your tap water comes from a private water supply system subject to little or no regulation or testing, or from a municipal water supply system that has temporarily become contaminated.
Today's supermarket shelves offer an array of bottled waters. But what do the terms on the labels really mean? The International Bottled Water Association defines the following types of bottled water:
Environmental Protection Agency
Food and Drug Administration
Dietitians of Canada
Health Canada
Bottled water and carbonated soft drinks guidance documents and regulatory information. Food and Drug Administration website. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/food/guidanceregulation/guidancedocumentsregulatoryinformation/bottledwatercarbonatedsoftdrinks/default.htm. Updated April 27, 2015. Accessed April 21, 2016.
Bottled water: know the facts. Iowa State University website. Available at: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/publications/pm1813.pdf. Accessed April 21, 2016.
FDA regulates the safety of bottled water beverages including flavored water and nutrient-added water beverages. Food and Drug Administration website. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/food/resourcesforyou/consumers/ucm046894.htm. Updated April 6, 2016. Accessed April 21, 2016.
Share of popular bottled water from municipal supplies up 50%. Food and Water Watch website. Available at: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/pressreleases/share-of-popular-bottled-water-from-municipal-supplies-up-50-percent%E2%80%A8%E2%80%A8/. Updated April 7, 2016. Accessed April 21, 2016.
Types of bottled water. IBWA website. Available at: http://www.bottledwater.org/types/bottled-water. Accessed April 21, 2016.
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Have a Nice Day Card
Learn how to make this card using these free instructions. Handmade cards are the perfect way to show you care, and with these card-making steps, creating this design is easy.
SUPPLIES: Cardstock: (Pool, Tide, Grass) Hero Arts; (white) Neenah Paper Patterned paper: (Dot Mango) Memory Box Inc. Rubber stamps: (Daisy Outline Pattern; sunflower, bee from Garden Flowers set) Hero Arts Clear stamp: (sentiment from Wake Up set) Paper Smooches Dye ink: (Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko; (Soft Pool) Hero Arts Watermark ink: Tsukineko Embossing powder: (White) Hero Arts Color medium: (assorted markers) Copic Accents: (clear pearls; clear rhinestones) Hero Arts Dies: (bee, sunflower) Hero Arts; (scalloped border) A Muse Studio Tool: (corner rounder punch) We R Memory Keepers Finished size: 4 1/4" square
1 Make card from cardstock. Stamp Daisy Outline Pattern and adhere patterned paper strip; round corners.
2 Die-cut scalloped border from cardstock; adhere.
3 Stamp sentiment on cardstock strip; emboss. Trim strip and adhere to card.
4 Die-cut sunflower and bee from cardstock; stamp images on dies.
5 Color images with markers. Adhere rhinestones and pearls to sunflower; color with markers.
6 Draw dots with marker. Adhere die cuts with foam tape.
Designer Tip
Create a perfect bee trail by drawing a swirl first with pencil. Then draw dots with a marker and erase pencil lines.
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Original Trinity Hymnal, #481
Am I a soldier of the cross,
A foll'wer of the Lamb,
And shall I fear to own his cause,
Or blush to speak his Name?
Must I be carried to the skies
On flow'ry beds of ease,
While others fought to win the prize,
And sailed through bloody seas?
Are there no foes for me to face?
Must I not stem the flood?
Is this vile world a friend to grace,
To help me on to God?
Sure I must fight if I would reign:
Increase my courage, Lord;
I'll bear the toil, endure the pain,
Supported by thy Word.
Thy saints, in all this glorious war,
Shall conquer, though they die;
They view the triumph from afar,
And seize it with their eye.
When that illustrious day shall rise,
And all thine armies shine
In robes of vict'ry through the skies,
The glory shall be thine.
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Old Bay Wings
Hmmmm, Old Bay, it's not just for crabs anymore, huh?
According to the package, it's good on poultry, salads, meat, pancakes, ice cream, cream brulee, breakfast cereal, communion wafers and more (okay, I might have made up the last few). Considering Alexis bought me the 14.75 lb sized container (ok I exaggerate, but look at that jar!) from Sam's Wholesale Club last month, I decided to use it. So I made up a simple rub with
2 t Old Bay Seasoning
1/2 t dried basil
1/2 t dried oregano
1/2 t black pepper
I rubbed a bunch of drumettes with the rub and then fire roasted (it was too hot to call it "smoking") them with indirect heat on the Big Green Egg at 350f for 30 minutes. I flipped them and let them go another 20 minutes. Then I tossed them in a 50/50 mixture of hot sauce/melted butter and put them back on for another 5-10 minutes to let the sauce crisp up.
They turned out delicious for something we made up on the spot! The next time, I'll up the Old Bay to 2 tablespoons and hit them with the butter/hot sauce a second time when they come off the grill.
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I really need to buy some Old Bay. The rub sound great - I bet the wings were mighty tasty.ReplyDelete
Looks very tasty. Never would have thought of using Old Bay as a rub. Good idea!ReplyDelete
I was about to say, "the only thing I ever put that stuff on is crabs and seafood in a boiling pot". But you beat me to it.ReplyDelete
And btw, nice touch with the design on the dip. Very French chef-y!
Looks tasty - I wish I had an egg to do smokey wings! I've never had Old Bay, what does it taste like?ReplyDelete
What a great idea! My husband is really fond of wings - I'll have to give these a try the next time we have a party.ReplyDelete
They look amazing....ReplyDelete
Next time you make them or your boston butts we're all comin to the party...Mkayyy? :)
it is 630am and i want someReplyDelete
this blog is far better than the food network
- AnonymousDecember 1, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Maryland Wings!ReplyDelete
Totally going to do this on Thursday. Just got my Smoke hollow combo cooker the other weekend. Thanks for posting this!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2014 at 10:09 AM
Sounds good. I've used Old Bay as a seasoning on burgers.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2016 at 2:36 PM
Did these today, they were the BEST wings I've ever done.ReplyDelete
Curious what sauce you are serving with them in the photo? Great idea!ReplyDelete


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MIAMI _ More than 100 days after President Barack Obama pledged to create a Defense Department position to work on emptying the Guantanamo prison, the post still has not been filled and the Pentagon's detainee policy post is under interim management.
William K. Lietzau resigned as the top Pentagon official dealing with detainees over the summer. His last day was last week. Meantime, J. Alan Liotta, who had been Lietzau's deputy, is functioning as "Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rule of Law & Detainee Policy," according to a Pentagon spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale.
Liotta has been interim boss in the past. He got to the office when it first opened in 2004 in the aftermath of the disclosure of photos showing soldiers abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib, Iraq.
Lietzau's departure leaves two detainee-related posts to fill at the Pentagon. On May 23, Obama announced that he was appointing a separate Pentagon-based special envoy to work on closing the prison in collaboration with a new State Department envoy.
As of Friday, the prison held 164 detainees _ 30 of them on hunger strike and 27 designated for forced nasogastric feedings if they don't cooperate with Navy medics tasked to renourish them. In June the hunger strike peaked at 106 captives, according to the military's count.
Captives began quitting the strike in early July once the prison leveraged eating to release from lockdown. Then, last week, the Obama administration sent two long-held Algerian hunger strikers home.
It was the first detainee transfer in nearly a year, and the first arranged by the State Department's recently assigned "closure czar," Clifford Sloan.
The White House said Thursday evening that creation of the Pentagon position was still an administration goal, but it did not explain the delay.
"There's no change in the policy/direction on this issue from the White House," National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said by email.
"We still intend to push forward on repatriating detainees in every instance possible and getting to the closure of Guantanamo, supported by the efforts of envoys at the Departments of State and Defense."


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SEP 18 Gallery Talk: Faith Ringgold
Learn something new about our popular Faith Ringgold exhibition in 30 minutes or fewer!
Looking for some artistic and intellectual nourishment during your lunch break? Join us on Wednesdays throughout the fall for short gallery talks to explore highlights from special exhibitions and NMWA's collection with museum staff.
This week, Digital Media Specialist Laura Hoffman discusses selections from American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960s. Through close looking and guided inquiry, participants will examine Ringgold's work and reflect upon its themes.
Revealed through 49 rarely exhibited paintings, Faith Ringgold developed expressive figures and adapted African designs to reflect on momentous events that shaped America in the 1960s. These bold images represent Ringgold's response to the Civil Rights and feminist movements.


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Borno State Recruitment Screening and Verification Portal
Operational Guide For Screening Applicants
- Login with your assigned credentials
- Use the search form to search for "Applicant's Registration Number" in order to fetch Applicant's Record
- Confirm their record are correct by asking their details e.g Name, Local Government, etc.
- Screen the Applicant and click on "edit" to edit the Applicant's Record
- After Editing, click on "update" to update Applicant's Record
- Click on "Search Again" on the top left corner of the page to begin screening another Applicant.
- Repeat Step 2 to Step 6.
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The Complete Guide to Clearing Your Browser History
Unless you're new to the internet, you should know about browser history. Jokes about deleting your history are rampant, and for good reason. Everything you do on the net is tracked, from your websites, your search history, your preferences and cookies. This will tell people your browsing habits. You don't want a friend, spouse, or family member to see your questionable browsing habits, so in this guide we'll tell you ways you can clear your history automatically.We'll cover all of the major browsers, so let's first look at: Continue reading


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Chinese Porcelain Antiques, Pottery and Chinese Bronzes in the UK
Nicholas Sotheby Pitcher was formerly a director of Christie's and ran the Oriental Department at Christie's South Kensington from 1976 to 1990, when he left to set up his own Chinese porcelain antiques and Chinese pottery business. Since then he has operated from a discrete 1st floor premises just four doors from Sotheby's in the heart of London's Mayfair, specialising in early Chinese porcelain antiques, chinese pottery and bronzes plus later Chinese works of art of all kinds, from antique Chinese ceramics to paintings. He regularly exhibits at New York's Arts of Pacific Asia Show and participates in Asian Art in London each year.
On the website are images and details of a variety of Asian and Chinese porcelain antiques currently in stock. Our chinese ceramics page features an up to date catalogue of antique Chinese porcelain and art. The oriental ceramics featured are from all periods, from BC to 18th Century.
For more information on the Chinese porcelain antiques on this site including all Chinese ceramics, Chinese pottery, Chinese bronzes and Oriental bronze antiques please browse through the site and feel free to contact us.
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Politics stymie UN Security Council on Gaza
Moroccan-sponsored press statement shot down as being one-sided, Russia brings counter proposal
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia's UN ambassador on Monday expressed frustration that the Security Council has remained silent about the escalating violence in Gaza between Israel and Hamas as the United States has blocked any action.
Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Morocco had circulated a proposed press statement as early as last Thursday but foot-dragging by one council member meant it "is still bogged down."
Churkin said, "To me, it looks like a filibuster attempt."
He would not tell reporters outside the Security Council on Monday which nation was blocking the press statement, which must be adopted unanimously. But he said anyone guessing it was the United States would be "a connoisseur" of Security Council politics.
"One member of the Security Council, I'm sure you can guess which, indicated quite transparently that they will not be prepared to go along with any reaction of the Security Council. Somehow, allegedly, that would hurt the current efforts carried out by Egypt in the region," Churkin said.
After Monday night council consultations, US Ambassador Susan Rice noted that the Egyptian government, President Barack Obama and others are working through all channels to broker an end to the violence.
"We think it's vitally important that this council, by its action, or non-action, is reinforcing the prospects for an agreed cessation" of hostilities, she said.
"That's got to be agreed between the parties to be meaningful or sustainable," Rice said. "That is our principle objective in these discussions."
The sticking point in early versions of the Moroccan draft statement was that they omitted a clear reference to the months of rocket attacks on Israeli land prior to Israel's air strikes last week in Gaza, several Western diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the issue had been referred back to their capitals.
They said that was unbalanced, and rejected a compromise that simply made reference to the problems "in southern Israel as well as Gaza" as being too oblique a reference to the ongoing Hamas rocket campaign against Israel.
The final Moroccan draft was sent for overnight review by capitals, which have until 9 a.m. (1400 GMT) to voice any objections.
"We do not accept that the Security Council remains on the margins," Moroccan Ambassador Mohammed Loulichki said.
"We will be getting instructions overnight on the draft on the table," Rice told reporters.
Meanwhile, Russia introduced a resolution calling for a cease-fire and halt to violence; expressing support for international and regional mediation efforts; and urging the Palestinians and Israelis to resume overall Mideast peace talks. It does not have any explicit reference to the Hamas rocket attacks leading up to the Israeli air strikes of last week, an issue the European diplomats said was essential to any statement.
Churkin said he would insist that the council proceed to a vote on that, possibly as soon as Tuesday afternoon, if the press statement failed in the morning council meeting. A resolution would have to pass with 9 of the 15 council members' votes, and without a veto by any permanent member — the United States, Britain, France, China or Russia.
At Egypt's request, the Security Council held an unusual closed-door emergency debate last Wednesday night, which did not produce any statement or resolution. In that meeting, US Ambassador Susan Rice deplored the violence but made clear that the United States supported Israel's right to defend itself against Hamas rocket attacks launched from Gaza.
Russia is also calling for an urgent meeting of the "Quartet" consulting on Mideast peace — the United States, Russia, European Union and United Nations. But it was unclear what the Quartet could achieve if the United States and Europe were out of step.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Cairo to begin talks aimed at de-escalating the violence.
His spokesman, Martin Nesirky, said in a teleconference call that Ban planned to have a working dinner with the Egyptian foreign minister, Mohammed Kamel Amr, Monday night.
On Tuesday, he said, Ban would meet Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, the prime minister and the secretary-general of the Arab League.
In the following days, Ban will visit Jerusalem for talks with Premier Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders, and will go to Ramallah to speak with Palestinian Authority leader Abbas.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.


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Use the following instructions to protect and artfully display cherished family trinkets, writings, and yes, photographs, on any wall or in any room of your home.
And for more creative ways to honor and remember your loved ones, try these tips for creating audio recordings.
Display It in a Jar
"My grandfather bought my grandmother a Singer sewing machine on an installment plan in 1936. She used the machine until she died in 1994. It made everything -- her wedding dress; the First Communion dress worn by my mom, me, and my three sisters; the slipcovers in her house; even the dress she was buried in." -- Rory Evans, contributing writer online
How to Do It
Preserve multiple keepsakes related to a person or a special day in any glass vessel with a lid to keep the dust out. Arrange the items so that the heaviest ones are at the bottom.
Iron It on a Towel
"As a child, I remember my grandmother classifying milk as either 'sweet' (whole) or 'sour' (buttermilk). She also taught me about oleo. Her simple recipes are reminders that she lived and cooked through the Oklahoma Dust Bowl and World War II, when staples were scarce and expensive." -- Shira Bocar, deputy food editor
How to Do It
Virtually anything you can scan can be transferred onto fabric with Avery's T-Shirt Transfer kit. Scanning can be done on a home device, at photo-processing centers, or at office-supply stores.
- Scan your document or photo and print it onto the transfer paper. Cut loosely around the design, leaving a 1/8-inch border.
- Lay your ironed fabric on top of a flat pillowcase on a hard, heat resistant surface. (An ironing board has too much padding.)
- Lay your printed transfer sheet facedown on the fabric.
- With the iron set on high and no steam, slowly run the iron over the paper while applying firm, even pressure. Let cool, then remove paper backing.
Hang It Up
"My father always wore a pendant with his zodiac sign. When I was a baby, he bought me a tiny Leo pendant, but I was always jealous of his. Eventually he bought me a larger one. I wear the two of them on a chain almost every day. Now that he has Alzheimer's, it helps me feel closer to him." -- Caryn Prime, assistant managing editor
How to Do It
Instead of using a plain old hook to hang a necklace, hammer two nails into the wall a couple inches apart at varying heights. To dress them up, superglue decorative buttons to the nailheads.
Make a Scrapbox
"The most cherished thing I have from my grandfather is his old pocketknife. Typical of our crafty family, he etched his address into the handle. It went everywhere with him -- from archaeological digs in Crete to hikes up our beloved Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire. It even has some antique cheese crumbs inside from a long-ago picnic." -- Amy Merrick, contributing writer
How to Do It
Use a shadowbox and create a 3D scrapbook page. Larger, heavier objects can be secured using double-sided adhesive foam tape.
See more examples of scrapboxes on MarthaStewart.com.
For more creative ways to honor and remember your loved ones, consider recording and preserving interviews with them.


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Between my old website, which I started back in 2007 (which has since disappeared) and my blog, which I switched to in 2009 I have been writing and publishing content regularly for a at least 5 years.
I enjoy writing on my blog I use my blog to document what I have learned about SQL Server and other technology. Its a great way to document what you do, it can act as a great future reference when you can't remember how do something you can just go to your blog and look it up. You can even send co-workers to your blog if they need to know how to do something and you have written a post on that subject.
It can also serve as great tool to supplement your CV/Resume when looking for a new job. If you have a CV that lists a bunch of skills that you say you have and you also include a link to your blog that demonstrates your SQL Server skills it can help you secure a job over the next candidate.
If you really get to grips with blogging it can actually help you start your own consultancy business. You can end with your own clients and you own business. This is pretty cool thing to do.
But you have to blog regularly, How often is regularly I hear you cry? Well I know some people that blog every day some that blog every week and others maybe every month. I think it should probably be at least monthly. If you are going to maintain a readership you have to give them something read. I compare it to newspaper publishing. Some newspapers get published daily, some get published weekly. Some of the weekly Sunday papers are are just as successful as the daily papers. What you don't see in the newspaper business is an ad-hoc approach to publication. They pick their days and they stick to it.
I don't think blogging needs to be as rigid in terms of a publishing schedule like a newspaper but I do think you need to publish regularly. Most importantly to give your readers some fresh content for them to consume. If you don't publish anything your readers will soon forget about you and remove you from their RSS reader. Regular content is also good for search rankings. You will more likely get a decent search engine rank if you produce fresh content regularly. And finally a blog with nothing but old posts even you do get found in a search engine search just look as good as those site with new fresh content. Even if its the older posts that you want to use.
I write this post today because I realised that for the first time in my 5 years of writing, I have gone through a whole month, April 2012 and the majority of May without a single post. This can now serve as a reminder to me that I need to publish regularly or my blog will look stale…


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Our mission at the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders is to provide the highest quality care to each patient, with compassion and respect for the patient's dignity and a commitment to meeting the patient's physical and emotional needs.
CCBD receives award for highest care in Maryland.
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SCI FI Channel is now Syfy, but you can still get access to all your favorite SCI FI Channel content right here. Syfy features science fiction, drama, supernatural, fantasy, reality, paranormal, wrestling, and horror programming. Be sure to visit Syfy.com for the latest from the world of the imagination.
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It's New York Fashion Week, and I really wish I can be there. But sadly I can't, but from what people twitted, it is a mega fun party. Hahahaha. Today, I read this article on Total Beauty and wanted to share it with you guys because I think the tips are really helpful.
1. Lipliner isn't evil. Many of us have kept away, because hey, "Drag queens give it a bad rap," says makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury. But done right, it's the best way to make lips look more symmetrical, which is especially important when wearing red lipstick.
2. If you curled your hair with an iron, but it turned out a little Shirley Temple-esque, pin it in a bun and let it set for 15 minutes. The result? Soft waves.
3. So tired of the same ole black nail polish? Dilute it with a thin clear topcoat like CND Stickey for a totally new sheer gunmetal gray color.
4. After flat ironing hair, tame annoying flyways: Spritz on shine serum (try Tresemme No Frizz Ultra Light Shine Spray) and, clamping your flat iron closed, run the side edge of it over the top of your hair.
5. Layer your favorite mascaras for multiple effects. Put a volumizing formula (try Maybelline New York The Colossal Volum' Express Mascara) on first to fatten up lashes and finish with a coat of lengthening mascara (try Estee Lauder Lash XL Maximum Length Mascara), which has a shinier finish and adds extra length.
6. When lining eyes with gel liner, hold the brush flat (length-wise) on your lid as you draw the line. Only use the tip of the brush as you reach the outer corner of the eye to extend the line.
7. When choosing an under eye concealer shade, pick one with a touch of warmth to it. It will cover dark circles without looking gray.
8. Plan to create an updo or ponytail? Take the time to prep hair by blow-drying with a flat or round brush. You'll get a more polished finish and won't have to wash your hair again for another three or so days.
9. Create gorgeous beach-y waves in four easy steps: First, spritz curl-refreshing spray (our readers love Redken Fresh Curls Curl Boost) generously through hair. Next, tightly twist two-inch sections of hair all over and secure bobby pins. Heat twists with a diffuser while pinching each of them until dry. Finally, unravel twists and spritz with finishing spray while scrunching.
10. Line your inner rims with gel liner (try Bobbi Brown Long Wear Gel Eyeliner) instead of pencil for a longer lasting look. Just make sure it is "ophthalmologist tested".
11. To create a soft wavy style, make sure your hair is very clean for ultimate shine. Product buildup can make hair look dull. Form waves by wrapping hair around a one-inch curling iron held horizontally. Brush out curls after allowing them to cool for five minutes.
12. When choosing a highlighting cream or powder to accent cheekbones and/or brow bones and the bridge of your nose, choose a finely milled one like Shiseido The Makeup Accentuating Color Stick in S3 for a subtle effect. "You don't want to see it from space," says makeup artist Dick Page.
13. If you decide to sport a red lip (one of the trends seen on the Fall 2009 runways) opt for a matte lipstick formula. It will stay in place longer than shinier finishes.
14. You need to be generous with hair products to get the look you want.
15. Even if you don't apply mascara, do curl your lashes to make your eyes look more open and awake.


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Virginia State Police said two bodies have been recovered and one person is still missing after a hot air balloon caught fire and crashed Friday evening just south of Fredericksburg.
The body of the pilot and one woman have been recovered, but not officially identified. The two bodies were found about 1,500 yards apart in heavily forested areas, according to The Associated Press.
However, the family of the pilot confirmed their son was in the balloon. Daniel T. Kirk was a retired Army veteran who had over 30 years of ballooning experience; Kirk's father said he had flown with his son over 40 times and that he was always careful while up in the air.
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He called Friday's incident "just a freak accident."
And the University of Richmond said late Saturday that two members of the staff of the women's basketball program were aboard the balloon: Ginny Doyle, associate head women's basketball coach, and Natalie Lewis, director of basketball operations.
"As alumnae, classmates and colleagues -- and as invaluable and devoted mentors to our student-athletes -- Ginny and Natalie have been beloved members of our community," University of Richmond President Edward L. Ayers said in a statement on the university website. "Their leadership and friendship will endure in the lives of so many."
One victim has not yet been found. Although police have described their search as an operation to recover remains, Lewis' parents said they haven't given up hope.
"We don't have a loss yet, we have a tragic accident," Patricia and Evan Lewis told NBC News. "We remain hopeful."
Over 100 searchers spent much of Saturday scouring the woods and fields around the site of the crash, police said. Remanants of the balloon or its basket have not been recovered.
The incident occurred near Meadow Event Park in Caroline County, just south of Fredericksburg around 8 p.m. The balloon was one of three attempting to land in a designated landing area.
One of the balloons struck a live power line and caught fire. The pilot attempted to extinguish the fire and manage the situation, witnesses said, when there was an explosion. The balloon and the gondola separated after the explosion.
Virginia State Police spokesperson Corinne Geller said the two bodies that have been recovered have been sent to the Chief Medical Officer for autopsy and positive identification.
Searchers are continuing to canvass the area for the third person as well as the basket and balloon. Geller said they would continue overnight if necessary, but they are searching in a heavily wooded, overgrown area.
Geller said searchers have found debris and specialized teams will be spreading out from that area. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board are also on scene.
The Mid-Atlantic Balloon Festival was taking place in the area this weekend. A "Friday Flights Happy Hour" was scheduled for three hours beginning at 6 p.m. Friday.
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|WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2006 Servicemembers will receive an average 3.5 percent boost in their basic allowance for housing compensation benefit in 2007, Defense Department officials said.
The planned BAH increase starting Jan. 1 works out to about $300 million more than what was paid in 2006, officials said.
The continued improvement in housing allowances represents our commitment to the preservation of a compensation and benefit structure which will provide members with a suitable and secure standard of living that will sustain a trained, experienced and ready force in the future, Cynthia Smith, a DoD spokeswoman, said today.
Officials said military housing allowances are computed according to three key criteria: median current market rent; average utilities, to include electricity, heat and water/sewer costs; and average renters insurance.
BAH rates also are based on dwelling type and number of bedrooms in a given area and then calculated for each pay grade, both with and without family members.
For servicemembers with family members, average increases in the BAH are approximately $44 per month. For example, a typical specialist/corporal (E-4) will receive about $34 more in BAH than in 2006, while a master sergeant/first sergeant (E-8) will receive about $42 more than this year.
The BAH rate system has built-in protections to ensure that an individual servicemember in a given location wont see his or her BAH rate decrease. This provision assures that members who have made long-term lease or contract commitments are not penalized if the areas housing costs decrease.
Some areas housing costs have remained relatively stable, while others continue to rise. Most of the costliest housing in the United States with the highest BAH rates are clustered on or near the East and West coasts, and the state of Hawaii.


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Examples 1 and 2 on this page show situations in which the individuals are considered engaged in a substantial gainful activity. Example 3 shows a person who might not be considered engaged in a substantial gainful activity. In each example, the person was under age 65 at the end of the year.
Example 1. Sue retired on disability as a sales clerk. She now works as a full-time babysitter at the minimum wage. Although she does different work, Sue babysits on ordinary terms for the minimum wage. She cannot take the credit because she is engaged in a substantial gainful activity.
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LLEAP unifies the control of all PC operated Laerdal simulators as well as simulations with standardized patients and task trainers. LLEAP brings simplicity to running simulation training and efficiencies to the management and development of scenarios.
It's a true timesaver because LLEAP can be quickly adapted to several different simulation environments without difficulty.
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Straightforward logging capabilities and integrated event log allows for more effective debriefing and improved learning outcomes.
SimDesigner is the only tool you need to create or convert scenarios for LLEAP and SimPad manikins.
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Debrief using SimView, SimView Mobile or Session Viewer
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Who doesn't love New York in the fall? Crisp air, pumpkin lattes, a riot of color in Central Park -- and Barron's Art of Successful Investing conference.
If you missed the last, fear not, as the pages ahead are crammed with the best of AOSI -- namely, the wit, wisdom, and investment insights of our nine savvy speakers. At last week's eighth annual get-together, they generously shared with the public their wide-ranging views on the economy and financial markets; their best investment ideas; and, arguably most important, their time-tested strategies for finding value in a volatile market and troubled world.
You likely will recognize five of the crew -- Felix Zulauf, Scott Black, Meryl Witmer, Fred Hickey, and Marc Faber -- as members in good standing of our annual Roundtable, and a sixth, options expert Patrick Neal, from last year's conference report. Joining them in 2012 were Dan Fuss, vice chairman of Loomis, Sayles, whom my colleague Randall Forsyth calls "the Buffett of bonds"; David Herro, chief investment officer of Harris Associates and a much-lauded international investor; and Bill Priest, CEO and co-chief investment officer of Epoch Investment Partners, who is enjoying a long and distinguished career on the Street.
The interviews that follow are adapted from video interviews conducted at AOSI by Barron's Senior Editor Kopin Tan and available online at www.barrons.com. So grab a latte, and read on or listen in.
Barron's: Felix, why so glum about the EU?
Zulauf: The European monetary union goes against the laws of economics. Politics is keeping it together, and that has created enormous stresses. Europe must narrow the gap in competitiveness between Germany and the debtor countries at the periphery. This is deflationary for the peripheral nations, and creates economic pain for the system and individuals.
If you're right that President Obama will be re-elected, what are the implications for taxes and spending cuts in the U.S.?
I hope Governor Romney wins, but I fear that Obama will be the victor. Then, much will depend on the composition of Congress. In any case, the so-called fiscal cliff won't be as high as many fear. Raising taxes and cutting spending wouldn't reduce GDP [gross domestic product] by 4.5 percentage points, but something closer to 1.5 percentage points. Still, the combination could slow the economy next year.
What is your outlook for Japan?
Some interesting changes are occurring in Japan. The Bank of Japan and the government have battled but are coming to a resolution. The government is introducing some reforms that the BoJ wanted, and the BoJ eventually will cooperate by weakening the yen. The root of the changes is the deterioration in Japan's balance of payments, which will allow the Bank of Japan to weaken the currency more dramatically than otherwise would be the case. A weaker yen will help the Japanese economy and particularly export industries. The yen trades at 79 to the dollar. It could fall to 100 in the next two to three years.
This would be terrific news for Japanese multinationals, which aren't on the radar of global investors. Nor are they widely owned in Japan. The market capitalization of these companies is a fraction of what it was 20 years ago, whereas the Japanese debt market has exploded in size in the past 20 years. We are in the embryonic stages of a major shift of assets from bonds to stocks in Japan.
What is happening in China?
The biggest recorded credit and investment boom in history has gone bust. The Chinese stock market has given back almost 90% of its rally off the 2008 lows. After the government changeover in mid-November, expect some economic stimulus. That could help Chinese stocks rally. In the next six to nine months, Chinese stocks are an interesting bet, and Chinese exchange-traded funds such as the FXI [ iShares FTSE China 25 ] and the GXC [ SPDR S&P China ] could be good vehicles.
Are you still bullish on gold?
Gold is in a secular bull market. The correction to the low-$1,500s is over. There is a lot of optimism in the market, and gold needs to come down a little. If Obama wins, the price could shoot up again. If Romney wins, the market could be weaker going into December, after which the price will rise. Next year, gold will go to new highs.
Barron's: Few know the bond market as well as you do. What are your short- and long-term expectations for U.S. interest rates?
Fuss: In the short term, rates will stay in the foothills, trading up and down in a narrow range. Longer-term, they are going up. The bond market is pretty well shopped over, no matter where you look. There are individual opportunities, but they are small, and away from the main market. No one area of the bond market is predominantly cheap today.
Do you like corporate bonds better than Treasuries?
Yes. Treasury yields are artificially low because of the Federal Reserve's quantitative-easing regimen. It puts downward pressure on all other yields, but the gap between corporate and Treasury yields is wide. Initially, when Treasuries rise, corporate yields will rise at a slower pace. Then they will catch up.
You lifted your asset allocation in high-yield bonds to 35% from 25%. Why?
First, it is the below-investment-grade bond market, because the high-yield market, as it normally is defined, no longer is high-yield. The outlook for this market, relative to current prices, isn't good. Credit risk is rising, yet prices are going up. When that happens, find the bonds you think are overpriced, and hopefully they will be maturing. If not, find a bid for them. The world is full of bids for so-called high-yield bonds right now.
Barron's: You did well with energy stocks this year, although the sector hasn't been a top performer. What do you like now?
Black: Bonanza Creek Energy [ticker: BCEI] is based in Denver and came public about a year ago. Production will grow from roughly 8,900 barrels of oil-equivalent per day to 10,100 by the end of year. That is an increase of about 150% year over year. The stock trades for $23. Next year it could earn $2.60 a share, which implies a price/earnings multiple of nine. Discretionary cash flow will be north of $4 a share, so the shares trade at 5.5 times discretionary cash.
Even if oil prices don't rise from $89-$90 a barrel, Bonanza Creek's earnings will increase because the company is enjoying good growth from the drill bit. It is a domestic driller, and oil and natural-gas liquids account for 72% of production. Bonanza operates in the Greater Wattenberg Field in Colorado, in the Niobrara oil shale, and in the Cotton Valley formation in Arkansas. Its net debt-to-equity ratio is 0.11.
Health care has done better than energy. Where do you see value in that sector?
We own Medical Properties Trust [MPW], a health-care REIT [real-estate investment trust] that yields 7%, so you get paid to wait. The company is based in Birmingham, Ala., and develops and leases health-care facilities, mostly acute-care hospitals. It has about 72 facilities, concentrated in Texas, California, and the New Jersey/Pennsylvania area. Operating earnings, or funds from operations, are growing by double digits, helped by bolt-on acquisitions.
How do you feel about tech stocks?
I would avoid personal-computer companies. I wouldn't own Dell [DELL] or Hewlett-Packard [HPQ] or Intel [INTC], even though Intel is a great company. I like Qualcomm [QCOM], however, and recommended it in the midyear Roundtable ["Caution, Sharp Turns Ahead," June 11]. The company, based in San Diego, makes chip sets for cellular phones. The addressable market for 3G and 4G mobile communications is growing at a compound annual rate of about 15%. It doesn't matter whether you buy the Samsung Galaxy S3 or an iPhone. Qualcomm makes their CDMA chips. The company's earnings will continue to grow at a 13% to 15% clip. Qualcomm has more than $15 a share in cash. If you back out the cash, it has a P/E multiple of 11, which is cheap.
We also own EMC [EMC], the leader in large-scale data-storage systems and software. EMC, based in Hopkinton, Mass., is the largest owner of VMware [VMW], a cloud-infrastructure company whose earnings are growing about 20% a year. Traditional storage arrays are growing by less. Blended, EMC's earnings are growing by 11%. EMC has close to $4 a share in excess cash. The stock trades for $25, or $21 net of cash. That's 10.5 times next year's estimated earnings of $2 a share.
You're a big art collector. Is there any piece of art you bought recently that you are excited, even thrilled, about?
I'm not as big a collector as I used to be because there are a lot of wealthy people, and the market has gone up. But I bought a major piece by Max Ernst last fall. I have a nice collection of surrealist pieces, but I didn't have an Ernst. The painting slipped through the cracks at Sotheby's, which was good for me, as Ernst prices are starting to take off. I didn't get in on the ground floor, but probably on the second floor.
It's good to know you're a value investor in art as well as stocks.
Barron's: Tech stocks have had a tough year, Fred. What do you see ahead?
Hickey: Earnings reports have been pretty terrible across the board, with Intel, Google [GOOG], and IBM [IBM] all disappointing. That's because the underlying fundamentals are poor. The enterprise business is weakening mostly because the economy is slipping in Europe, China, and now the U.S. IBM talked about business declining in Mexico, Australia, and Brazil. In addition, PC sales have declined year over year by 8% to 9%, partly because of the economy and also because Microsoft [MSFT] Windows 8 ships Friday [Oct. 26] and buyers have held off purchases. Semiconductor sales are expected to drop year over year.
Is there any sign of a turning point?
A turning point probably will come soon. You have to be invested because of all the money-printing going on around the world. I don't like cash and bonds for that reason, and you can only have so much gold.
You have been a long-time fan of Microsoft. Do you still own the stock?
I owned it for years but sold some of my position into the company's recent release of quarterly earnings because I knew they would be difficult. Now I am waiting to see how Windows 8 is received. It will be sold first to consumers, not businesses. Microsoft also is introducing the Surface, its Apple [AAPL] iPad competitor. The Windows 8 operating system will be completely different from what has come before. If the initial reaction is good, I'll be buying the stock.
Are you upbeat about Apple?
Short term, Apple is going to rebound. This is probably a good moment to buy, after the stock's recent $100 drop. Longer-term, I am worried about Apple's profit margins. The company has only 7% of the mobile-phone market and less than 5% of the PC market. Yet it has the highest market capitalization in the world because of its fat profit margins, which will be difficult to sustain.
Is a rebound in the offing for gold, too? At around $1,720 an ounce, gold is down 10% from its September 2011 high.
I have owned a large gold position for a decade. I sold some of my gold in September when I saw excess enthusiasm in the market. I was expecting October to be difficult for gold, as it has been before, but November, December, and January normally are positive for the metal. Lately I have been buying. If it looks like President Obama is going to win re-election, a lot of people will be buying guns and gold.
That's a scary thought.
It will put a floor under the gold price. If Romney looks to be the winner, there could be one more selloff in gold. Then it would rise.
Barron's: Let's start with Europe. Fears about the big picture have obscured value in individual stocks, a situation you favor.
Herro: That's right. My premise is volatility and instability move share pries more than company fundamentals. Take Daimler [DAI.Germany], which makes cars and commercial vehicles and is best known for its Mercedes-Benz brand. It is a German company but sells products all over the world. The stock is selling at a low valuation. The company has net cash on its balance sheet.
European financials also have been slammed. Do you see opportunities?
Financials were the ground zero of price destruction. We are looking for companies with good, safe balance sheets and strong capital positions. Two good franchises that have withstood economic shocks are BNP Paribas [BNP.France] and Intesa Sanpaolo [ISP.Italy].
The Japanese stock market is trading below book value and has been cheap for a long time. Any sign of a change?
A few things are different now. First, although the market has been weak for a long time, valuations haven't. More important, if you use price-to-book to measure value, you also have to look at the return on book value, which has been dismal. But returns are improving at many Japanese blue chips. Companies such as Toyota Motor [TM] and Canon [CAJ] are starting to increase profit margins and do a better job of utilizing their cash.
Canon earns good profits. Normalized return on equity probably exceeds 15%. The stock has a low valuation, and the company generates lots of free cash. Besides expanding in emerging markets, Canon has bought back more than 13% of its shares in the past five years.
Toyota had some prominent product recalls. What is going right for the company?
As soon as the recall problems ended last year, Japan was hit by a tsunami and earthquake. Then came the Thai floods. These are temporary problems. On a more permanent basis, Toyota is a low-cost producer, the leader in fuel-efficient automotive technology, and a cash-rich company that now is managed by a more modern business thinker, Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the founder. Among other changes, he cut the board from 27 to 13 members.
Why are you negative on Chinese stocks?
Good-quality companies are expensive. Inexpensive companies are basically wards of the state, meaning they are controlled by state-owned entities or provincial entities that aren't working to build value for all shareholders. There are better ways to play China's growth story at this stage.
Barron's: What tempts a value investor?
Witmer: We aren't finding a lot of stocks to buy. Usually, when this happens, the market is high and comes down.
We like Spectrum Brands Holdings [SPB], a consumer-products company. It just acquired a division of Stanley Black & Decker [SWK], and we see the potential for great after-tax free cash flow. With modest growth, some debt reduction, and the refinancing of some high-cost debt, the company could generate about $7 a share in after-tax free cash in 2015. Then, there are a few dollars of excess depreciation and amortization, so reported earnings will be lower than free cash flow. As housing improves, Spectrum could increase free cash flow to more than $9 a share. It is No. 1 or No. 2 in almost all its product categories.
You also like Colfax, a small industrial conglomerate. What is the attraction?
The company's main division, ESAB, makes welding equipment. Its current profit margins of 6% to 8% could be significantly higher, like those of its main competitor, Lincoln Electric Holdings [LECO]. As ESAB improves, along with the other divisions, Colfax [CFX] could go from $2 a share in earnings and $2.85 in after-tax free cash flow to $4 to $4.50 within a few years. They need the world economy to improve a bit.
Colfax deserves a P/E multiple of 13 to 15, because it can grow without having to spend a lot of capital. It has an excellent management team, led by Mitchell Rales.
At last year's AOSI conference you recommended Macquarie Infrastructure [MIC], which has done well. Do you still like it?
The stock is up sharply, so we have sold some of our shares, although we see more upside. Macquarie yields 5.8%. With some improvements and refinancing, it could pay out even more in the next few years. The company still is somewhat unappreciated.
In seeking good investment opportunities, it helps to remember hedge-fund manager Louis Bacon's saying, "You must embrace disorder and chaos." Or, as I have said, bring a sharp pencil but leave your emotions at home. Sometimes a disaster befalls the market, and it overshoots on the downside. You want to be ready with cash, and willing and able to invest it in great companies at great prices.
Barron's: It's time to talk options. You are long the dollar versus the euro, and using the FXE, or CurrencyShares Euro Trust exchange-traded fund, to structure your trade. Explain, please, how this works.
Neal: The U.S. is focused on how to achieve growth. In Europe, Spain is likely to ask the European Central Bank for assistance, which comes with conditions that likely will be growth-limiting. The growth differential will favor the U.S. in coming months, and the dollar. Also, any systemic risk would tend to favor the dollar.
We recommend buying FXE put spreads -- specifically, buying a put with a higher strike price and simultaneously selling a lower-strike put. With the FXE trading near $129 recently, we might buy the January $127 put and help finance it by selling the January $122 put, essentially hoping for a limited decline in the FXE below $127.
You also have a trade involving Wal-Mart Stores. How is that structured?
Wal-Mart [WMT] has been a terrific stock. It yields 2.1%. It has benefited from rising government transfer payments that have given customers more money to spend. The stock has been helped by improvements in employment, housing, and the stock market, as well.
It is time to hedge a long holding and sell an upside call against the stock. You're collecting premiums upfront in exchange for agreeing to give up some potential upside if the stock rallies. This trade makes sense under three scenarios. If the market falls, you'll be happy you sold the call. If it goes sideways, what you collected upfront enhances the yield. Finally, if the market rises and the economy grows, Wal-Mart likely would underperform.
Would you sell an out-of-the-money or in- the-money call?
With shares trading near $75, we might sell slightly out-of-the-money January $77.5 calls. You collect premiums but commit to sell shares if they top $77.5 before mid-January.
Young people, you have said, aren't joining country clubs. They are spending their money on Apple devices that link to everything they care about. How, using options, would you trade Apple's stock?
The long-term secular trend in Apple still is alive and well. The stock recently sold off with other tech stocks, providing a better buying opportunity. But we are taking a more risk-adjusted approach. We would replace Apple shares and instead hold Apple call spreads, buying January $645 calls and financing these partly by selling January $695 calls. These call spreads should appreciate if Apple rises before mid-January, although your gains are capped with the stock above $695.
Barron's: Bill, what do you make of the global economy?
Priest: The U.S. probably is the best house in a bad neighborhood. We are going to eke out some growth. Europe is in recession. Japan is struggling, and emerging markets will have a lower growth rate than they've been used to.
Where does it leave equity investors?
There are three drivers of equity returns: earnings, dividends, and price/earnings ratios. Management has a lot to say about dividend policy and earnings, but not much control over P/Es, which are driven by interest rates, market volatility, and the growth rate of the economy. Low interest rates and low volatility are associated with higher multiples. Slower economic growth is a head wind, although quantitative easing is helpful to P/Es.
You have called Anheuser-Busch InBev one of the best-managed companies in the entire world. Why such praise?
Anheuser-Busch [BUD] does a phenomenal job of allocating capital. It generates about $40 billion in annual revenue. The company's free cash flow is growing in the high single digits. The dividend yield is only 1.5%. But the company has paid down a lot of debt, and dividends should be defined as the sum of cash payouts, share buybacks, and debt paydowns. All return capital to shareholders.
You believe in investing in emerging markets through "global champions" such as Nestlé. Why Nestlé?
Nestlé [NESN.Switzerland] is a great company. Global champions have the ability to reconfigure the factors that determine production, including land, labor, and capital. If Nestlé decides it is more efficient to make chocolate in Poland than Switzerland, it can switch production to Poland. If it wants to sell that chocolate to China rather than Europe, it can do that. Such companies have many pieces they can move around to maximize return on capital.
What is your beef against financials?
There is a lack of transparency at diversified financials and banks. It is virtually impossible to take a dollar into the revenue line and follow it down to the bottom line. As a matter of principle, we don't buy companies we can't understand.
Barron's: The Chinese, you note, invented paper and aren't afraid to use it to print money. Will monetary easing spur growth?
Faber: The Chinese economy was driven by massive credit growth in the past three years, and economic activity was centered heavily on capital spending. Now China has massive overcapacity in several industries. If easing leads to further stimulus directed at capital spending, you will have more misallocation of capital. The Chinese can postpone a more serious recession by easing, but it won't solve the problem. The Chinese stock market could outperform for a while.
What do you like in Asia?
If the yen weakens, Japanese shares will be attractive and Japanese bonds, unattractive. I recommend some exposure to Japanese equities.
What does your portfolio look like?
I'm 25% in gold, 25% in equities, 25% in bonds, 25% in cash, and 25% in real estate. I use the same accounting standards as the U.S. Treasury.
Very funny.
In fact, I'm invested in real estate through ownership of real-estate companies and REITs. I also own corporate bonds and am holding cash, which I have added to since April. The whole world believes the asset inflation of the past 10 years -- in equities, bonds, art, high-end real estate, and so forth -- will continue. But it will come to an end. Asset markets such as equities are vulnerable to at least a 20% decline. If you have cash in reserve and the market falls, you can start buying.
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SEASIDE PRIDE: Whenever a major publication releases a "best of" list, count on California occupying at least a few of the slots. Honest? It doesn't matter what the list is. Yes, we're definitely preening, because we happen to live here, and yes, that isn't all that attractive, but you cannot deny that you know exactly what we're talking about. Best hot dog? Best five-star hotels? Best of the West? The Golden State is going to make a cameo or two or three. But any list that involves the ocean in any way tends to be, well, if not California-centric, than very favorable of the place. That is, because, spoiler alert, California has a lot of stunning coastline. And, also, spoiler alert, a lot of charming towns occupy that coastline. And giving it up for several of them is Coastal Living, which recently named 15 of "America's Happiest Seaside Towns."
AND THEY ARE... Laguna Beach, which is dang happy, what with its art and its wine and those egg salad sandwiches at Zinc Cafe (we can't talk the LB with talking about that sandwich). Half Moon Bay is on there, which fits, what with its pumpkins and its beauty and the quaintest name of all the choices. And, for the slightly more metro entries? Tiburon and Sausalito each get a spot. The list is practically flush with California-ness, so check it out. Could you visit all four seaside towns this year and feel the happy? We want to, right now.


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They pull their panties down, They take their pants off.
Then they started getting freaky on the dance floor.
Shake it mommy give it to me like you need some love.
I got some bottles in the caddy that we can open up.
Lets get drunk tonight, baby we don't have to f***.
And bring your friend along, maybe we can have some fun.
Lets get freaky now, lets get fuc*** freaky now. (x4)
I got these bitches all tipsy trying to sex me.
I know they want it, alcoholics are some sex freaks.
This ex and chronic gots me wanting to get messy.
So lets get messy girls, Come on lets go get messy girls.
Come on bitch, you know you want this.
That hardcore shit will make you feel the toxic.
Fursachi, Rolex watches.
Bently coups with the 20's droppin.
Convertible top, and the wheels spin.
I can taste that ice when my grill is in.
If you want me baby feel me in.
Cause I don't waste my time with lesbians.
Lets get freaky now, lets get fuc*** freaky now. (x4)
LIAR! (x8)
Oh baby why did you have to lie to me.
I can't play no more games.
These thoughts are slowly controlling me.
You're turning off the flame.
So GO baby GO baby.
You don't want me.
So GO baby Go baby.
Come and get me.
So GO baby GO baby.
You don't want me.
So GO baby Go!
Come and get me.
Lets get freaky now, lets get fuc*** freaky now. (x4)
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Harold K. Bush, Ph.D.
Department of English
M.S., Indiana University, 1986
M.A., Indiana University, 1991
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1994
Research Interests
American Literature and American Studies, Historical Approaches to Literature, Cultural Studies, Mark Twain, the Profession of English, Christianity and Literature
Publications and Media Placements
- Regular contributor to Christian Century, Books & Culture, The Cresset, and other popular publications
- Continuing Bonds with the Dead: Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors.
This project considers how the loss of children has been a surprisingly constructive source of cultural power for nineteenth-century American authors. Theoretical premises derive from recent psychological discussions of generativity and "redemption sequences" (Erikson, McAdams), parental bereavement narratives (Klass, Neimeyer, Valentine), as well as recent theological considerations of hope (Moltmann, Ricoeur). Major authors under consideration include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, W. D. Howells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois.
The Mark Twain -- Joseph H. Twichell Letters. Co-edited and co-written with Peter Messent, University of Nottingham, UK.
(under contract with the University of Georgia Press; forthcoming in Fall 2017)
This project consists of a chronological publication of the known and extant correspondence of Mark Twain with one of his best friends, the Rev. Joe Twichell of Hartford, covering a long period of almost 40 years. The volume will include extensive contextual commentary and other apparatus, written by the co-editors, and will represent the first major new volume of the correspondence of Mark Twain with one of his three closest friends in over 20 years.
Above the American Renaissance: Continuing the Legacy of David Reynolds. Co-edited and introduction co-written with Brian Yothers, University of Texas-El Paso.
This project consists of a volume of essays on the spiritual and religious elements "above" the work of this important period of American literature, roughly 1835-1865. This volume will also present a further rethinking of David Reynolds's achievements in Beneath the American Renaissance, particularly as major innovator within the mode that has come to be known as "cultural biography." The list of contributors features many of the field's top scholars, including Reynolds.
Lincoln in His Own Time (University of Iowa Press, 2011)
More than any other American before or since, Abraham Lincoln had a way with words that has shaped our national idea of ourselves. Actively disliked and even vilified by many Americans for the vast majority of his career, this most studied, most storied, and most documented leader still stirs up controversy. Showing not only the development of a powerful mind but the ways in which our sixteenth president was perceived by equally brilliant American minds of a decidedly literary and political bent, Lincoln in His Own Time provides some of the most significant contemporary meditations on the Great Emancipator's legacy and cultural significance.
Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age (University of Alabama Press, January 2007)
This book focuses on Mark Twain's knowledge of and engagement with nineteenth-Click Here For Amazon Linkcentury Christianity, the Social Gospel, and more generally, as the title suggests, with the spiritual crises that peppered his major period as a writer. It includes extensive treatment of Twain's deep friendship with his pastor in Hartford, Joseph Twichell‹a topic of great concern (though generally neglected) in any attempt to come to terms with Twain's views of the Bible, religion, and the Christian life throughout his major period. This book constitutes a major addition to recent work on Mark Twain, particularly in its attempt to historicize the religious milieu of the period, as reflected in Twain's achievement and thought. It includes selections from Twichell's personal papers, thus making available to scholars heretofore unpublished documents. The upshot of the volume is a full reconsideration of Twain's immersion in, and often sympathy with, the religious cultures of his era.
American Declarations: Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural History. (University of Illinois Press, 1999)
Significant moments in American literary history, such as public speeches that generate considerable reaction, are widely publicized precisely because they strike a powerful resonance within the American public sphere as manifestations of key cultural conflicts. Moreover, such public performances have frequently drawn upon such key mythic models as the Declaration of Independence and the act of Christian repentance. American Declarations clarifies how public debate has served to define, defend, and reshape the regnant myths of America and considers how both major and minor literary figures have participated in such debate. Figures studied include Nathaniel Hawthorne, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, and Robert Frost.
Articles and Review Essays:
- "Continuing Bonds and Emmett Till's Mother," Southern Quarterly 50.3 (Spring 2013): 9-27.
- "Christianity, Literature, and American Empire," Christianity and Literature 62.3 (Spring 2013): 275-96.
- "A Moveable Feast, Contemporary Neuroscience, and 'One True Sentence,'" forthcoming in Moveable Feasts: New Essays on Hemingway's Posthumous Works (Kent State UP, 2015).
- "Nakeder than Adam and Eve": Theodicy, Empire, and 'Systemless System' in the New Edition of the Autobiography of Mark Twain," Hokkaido American Literature 29 (summer 2013): 2-27.
- "Travels with Dan Brown." The Christian Century (Sept. 9, 2013): 36-8.
- "Finding the Face of Jesus: Studies in Race, Religion, and the American South." The Cresset (April. 2013): 51-4.
- "What the Historians Think About Spielberg's Lincoln." Cineaste (March 2013): 22-33.
- "Abraham Lincoln and Spiritual Crisis." In The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln,ed. Shirley Samuels, Cambridge UP, 2012: 126-40.
- "'The Pandemonium That Went On': An Unpublished Letter by Jean Clemens." American Literary Realism 44.1 (Fall 2011): 68-73.
- "Kissing the Bricks and Fly-Fishing for God: Teaching Literature as Spiritual Discipline." Renascence (Spring 2010): 237-53.
- "'Transfigured by Oratory': Thomas Paine, Robert Ingersoll, Mark Twain, and American Civil Religion." Co-authored with Joe Webb. Mark Twain Annual (Fall 2009).
- "The Prophetic Imagination, the Liberal Self, and the Ending of No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger," in Centenary Essays on No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger, eds. Joe Csicsila and Chad Rohman, University of Missouri Press, 2009.
- "Whitman's Café: Reviving the American Conversation." The Cresset (Fall 2009): 17-25.
- "Rereading Old Books: Symbol Drain and 'The West Wing.'" The Cresset (Spring 2009): 60-65.
- "The Real Deal: The Words of Barack Obama." The Cresset (Fall 2008): 30-36.
- "Rereading Old Books: Baldwin's The Fire Next Time." The Cresset (March 2008): 29-32.
- "The Measure and Style of Acceptance: A Conversation with Richard Ford." Co-authored with Fred Arroyo. Michigan Quarterly Review (Fall 2008).
- "Mark Twain's Interviews: Supplement Two." Co-authored with Joe Webb. American Literary Realism 40.3 (Spring 2008): 272-80.
- "Grief Work: After a Child Dies." The Christian Century (Dec. 11, 2007): 36-9.
- "Cradling Lives in Our Hands: Towards a Theory of Cultural Biography."Christianity & Literature 57.1 (Fall 2007): 119-38.
- "Mark Twain's Lincoln as 'Man of the Border': Religion, Freethinking, and the Civil War." In There Before Us: Religion, Literature, and Culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry, ed. Roger Lundin. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. 141-71.
- "Writing's 'Privileged Gesture': An Interview with Richard Ford." Co-authored with Fred Arroyo. Indiana Review 28.2 (Winter 2006): 89-106.
- "Searching for Home." (Review essay on Richard Ford's trilogy). Southern Review 44 (Spring 2007): 461-66.
- "Wendell Berry, Seeds of Hope, and the Survival of Creation." In a special issue devoted to Berry. Christianity & Literature 56.2 (Winter 2007): 297-316.
- "'Hunting for Reasons to Hope': A Conversation with Wendell Berry." In a special issue devoted to Berry. Christianity & Literature 56.2 (Winter 2007): 214-234.
- "'A Passion for the Impossible': Richard Rorty, John Okada, and James Baldwin." In The Gift of Story: Narrating Hope in the Postmodern World, eds. Emily Griesinger and Mark Eaton (Waco: Baylor UP, 2006): 171-86.
- "The 'Metaphysics of America' and the 2004 Presidential Election,"Integrite 3.2 (Fall 2004): 65-71.
- "Mark Twain's American Adam: Humor as Hope and Apocalypse," Christianity & Literature, 53.3 (Spring 2004): 291-314.
- "Ecclesiastes and Revelation: The Embodiment of Authentic Hope in the Classroom," Integrite 1.2 (Spring 2003): 5-16.
- "Christ as Telos: 'The End' of the Christian University," The Heithaus Forum (Spring 2003).
- "Harriet Beecher Stowe." Commissioned essay for the Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals. Ed. Timothy Larsen (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2003). 641-4.
- "'Broken Idols'": Mark Twain's Elegies for Susy and a Critique of Freudian Grief Theory," Nineteenth-Century Literature 57.2 (Sept. 2002): 237-68.
- Notes for Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis. Modern Library edition, Winter 2002.
- "'A Moralist in Disguise': Mark Twain and American Religion," chapter for The Oxford Historical Guide to Mark Twain, ed. Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Oxford University Press, 2002). 55-94.
- "Personally Speaking: Mark Twain and the 'Autobiographical Critic,'" in Mark Twain Among the Critics, ed. by Richard Hill & James McWilliams (Whitson 2002).
- "Politics," in The Robert Frost Encyclopedia, ed. by Nancy Lewis Tuten and John Zubizarreta (Greenwood Press, 2001): 283-87.
- "Demythologizing Adam: Mark Twain and the Nature of Man," in Critical Essays on the Myth of the American Adam, eds. Viorica Patea & Maria Eugenia Diaz (University of Salamanca Press, 2001): 147-62.
- "Emerson, John Brown, and 'Doing the Word': The Enactment of Political Religion at Harpers Ferry, 1859," in The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform, ed. T. Gregory Garvey (Univ. of Georgia Press, 2001): 197-217.
- "Hope, Eschatology, and Literary Studies: Prospects for a New Millennium," Religion & Literature 33.2 (Summer 2001): 97-110
- "The Outrageous Idea of a Christian Literary Studies: Prospects for the Future & A Meditation on Hope," Christianity & Literature 51.1 (Autumn 2001): 79-103.
- "Our Mark Twain? or, Some Thoughts on the 'Autobiographical Critic.'" The New England Quarterly 74.1 (March 2000): 101-22.
- "The Declaration of Independence and Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Rhetorical Criticism Approach," in Approaches to Teaching Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, ed. by Elizabeth Ammons and Susan Belasco (MLA, 2000): 172-83.
- "'Absorbing' the Character: James Whitcomb Riley and Mark Twain's Theory of Performance." American Literary Realism 31.3 (Spring 1999): 31-47.
- "Richard Henry Dana, Jr.," in the Dictionary of American Biography: Travel Writers, 1800-1865 (Gale Research, 1998), pp. 78-89
- "'Our Great Confused West': Further Attempts to Define Mark Twain."College English (Spring 1998): 192-201
- "Acting Like Mark Twain: Performance in Nineteenth-Century American Culture," American Quarterly (June 1997): 404-13.
- "Structural America: The Persistence of Oppositional Paradigms in American Literary Theory." College Literature 23.2 (June 1996): 181-88
- "The Mythic Struggle Between East and West: Mark Twain's Speech at Whittier's 70th Birthday Celebration and W. D. Howells's A Chance Acquaintance." American Literary Realism 27.2 (Winter 1995): 53-73
- "Robert Frost Writing the Myth of America: Rereading 'The Gift Outright.'" The Robert Frost Review (1995): 45-55.
- "Re-Inventing the Puritan Fathers: George Bancroft, Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Birth of Endicott's Ghost." ATQ: American Transcendental Quarterly 9.2 (June 1995): 131-52.
- "Poststructuralism as Theory and Practice in the English Classroom." ERIC Digest (1995).
- "A Brief History of PC, With Annotated Bibliography." American Studies International (Apr. 1995): 42-64.
- "Reader Response Theory: Reading, Writing, and Literature Practices in Classrooms." Reading Research and Instruction 33.4 (Summer 1994): 326-30.
- "'Beating Back the Monsters': George Orwell and the Morality of Fictions." Christianity & Literature 42.2 (Winter 1993): 333-41.
- "Using Television Commercials To Help Students Discover Their Audiences." Exercise Exchange 39.1 (Fall 1993): 9-13.
Community Work and Service
Chairman of the board for New Covenant Legal Service, a local non-profit offering legal advice for the poor and the displaced.


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Here in the U.S. we're super suspicious of a tyrannical federal government. That's why this column is here to report a recent observation of our federal government invading a citizen's privacy.
Here in the U.S. we're super suspicious of a tyrannical federal government. That's why this column is here to report a recent observation of our federal government invading a citizen's privacy.
Date and time: March 21, 2013, 1:25 p.m.
Observation: A federal employee parked a government vehicle in a private residential development. Exiting the vehicle, he looked left and right and then walked onto the private property of a nearby home. Swiftly, he made his way to the front porch. Without the owners knowing, he pushed some secret documents through a slot in the door and then made a hasty retreat.
Yes, this is our U.S. Postal Service at work — just one example of a vital service provided by our central government that's in the interest of the public good, even if the service encroaches on our privacy.
Societies need strong central governments, because only they have the might to harness the necessary resources for environmental safety, military defense, educating children, helping the disenfranchised and supporting transportation infrastructure, among other things.
Leaving these functions solely to municipalities or states can create a hodgepodge of bureaucracies that trip over each other.
Leaving these functions to private enterprise creates earnings for profiteers seeking to leverage money out of trusting citizens.
Only a strong central government can effectively foster relationships between human activities and the environment to advance the public good.
For example, in Sweden a strong central government has regulated water quality so strictly that people can drink right out of the lake in the middle of Stockholm, the nation's capital.
In Germany, a strong central government has built autobahn highways so well that people drive on them smoothly and safely at any speed. Why shouldn't we be able to drink water out of New York's Hudson Bay? Why shouldn't we have an interstate highway system with no speed limits?
Of all the possible forces for public good, a strong central government is the least contaminated by ulterior motives. Of course our federal government has inadequacies. Of course our federal government is not a panacea for all our societal needs.
But let's stop demonizing our federal government as an invasive and tyrannical beast that needs to be beaten back at every turn.
When it comes to creating the greatest public good, we need a central government that won't be deterred by snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night.
Rob McKenzie is a professor of communication studies at East Stroudsburg University.


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I know everyone has been wanting me to make some human versions of their favorite My Little Pony characters and after contemplating whether or not I will fill such needs, I went ahead and decided yeah, definitely. So what I have here for you is a lesson that will teach you "how to draw human Rainbow Dash", step by step. I absolutely love how she came out and one of the things that makes me smile when I look at this drawing, is her hair, face expression and her childish pose. I truly had so much fun creating a new version on one of My Little Pony's more popular figures. So enjoy the fun and be sure that you have tons of time so you can tackle this lesson with ease. Adios people and enjoy!
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