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Few things can get me more hyped up than the beginning of a new ski season. While we are not quite there yet, the countdown has certainly begun. For me, two things really get my mind into season mode. First is the release of the buyer's guides, which hit the stands a couple weeks ago, and the second is when Samuel Adams Octoberfest arrives at the coolers and starts to show up on the taps. Although, I might have jumped the gun a bit this year (as if that's even possible) and have already loaded up on a new set-up that I'm itching to break in.
As excited as I always get, this year takes it to a new level and brings on a whole new meaning for me as I start to take the reigns of SkiSoutheast. I imagine like most of you, I have been a skier my whole life. Growing up in Boone, NC I spent more time at Appalachian Ski Mountain during the season than I did at home (or school). There was even a time in early high school where I would take the bus directly from school to the slopes. I would arrive in time to grab my gear from the locker and get about an hour of skiing in before the end of the day session. Between sessions I would "do my homework" upstairs in the lodge and then ski the night until my Mom would arrive and pull me away. Those were certainly the days (thanks Mom!). But alas, we grow up (I'm sure you could find people who would argue that I'm not there yet), get responsibilities, and fight to make it on your own. And then, sometimes you get the opportunity to truly live your passion and reach the dream you had when younger.
I consider myself to be very lucky to have the opportunity to work alongside the SkiSoutheast team this year. We have already had our first huddle and are getting on the phone with the resorts and partners lining up what I expect to be a year for the books. The Old Farmer's Almanac is predicting a cold season ahead for the Appalachians with above normal snowfall for the Southern Appalachians – read the full report. We also have the Winter Olympics this season from February 7-23 – here's the full schedule. We are looking to team up with a few local restaurants/bars to host watching parties and I hope to have the opportunity to meet more than a few of you there. But why wait until February to get together? Let's plan a few random Après-ski meetups. We'll start a new thread in the forums to work out the details.
Here's another idea I would like to toss out there. In order to make it a bit easier for you to get the most up to date ski and weather conditions, I want to set-up daily emails to deliver a morning report right to your in-box. I would love to hear if you would be interested in this. Please email me at [email protected] with your thoughts. And while we're at it, please contact me with any other thoughts you have on how we can make SkiSoutheast even better and more informative. We can never get started too early. Just think, this time last year we had only 54 days before Cataloochee and Sugar got the party started.
Hold on to your hats!
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Amy Antoinette reviews Estee Lauder's Double Wear Foundation and Concealer.
See a sneak peak at the Nicole by OPI liquid metals collection, and a nail of the day!
Dare to wear red lips this holiday season? Check out Katie's picks ranging from sheer to bold on My Lips But Better.
Do you love rock n' roll? Find out what product Cindy at Prime Beauty uses to channel her inner Rocker Chick. Soft Rockers, don't fret; there's a look for you as well!
Shela at Confessions of a Beauty Guru is going cuckoo for Korean lip products!
Curious about more unconventional skin products? Rachel tells all about Witch Hazel Wonders at Queen of Turquoise.
Retrodiva experiments with the Estee Lauder Holiday Collection and likes what she sees.
Emma compares two similarly packaged mascaras to see if they really are the same.
Got a sticky compact and don't know what to do? Musicalhouses shows you how to clean up a sticky NARS, Smashbox, or Becca casing!
Need holiday makeup look ideas? Check out Audrey Dao's Holiday Look Book for ideas and tutorials!
At theNotice, Rae checks out a Benefit cult favourite -- but doesn't like what she sees.
Red lips are hot for Christmas! Lipglossiping trawls through her collection and uses a Red Lip Series as a great excuse to buy more!
Daily Polish falls head over heels (but manages not to lose her head!) for Rescue Beauty Lounge's 'Catherine H' from the new Tudor collection.
At Pink Sith, Joeybunny introduces you to the Wet n' Wild Night Elf Palette. See why she's swooning!
Chanukah may be over, but that doesn't mean you still can't enjoy this LUSH Fizztival of Lights gift set!
Beautywoome has published its Christmas gift guide, because you know you haven't done your shopping yet.
Hellcandy stumbles across her first dupe! Find out which drugstore brand matches the gorgeous fucshia of Nars Funny Face lipstick here.
Acquaintance gifting causing you stress? Jeweled Thumb shares her coworker holiday gift guide to put your mind (and wallet) at ease!
L from Beautifully Addicted To rediscovers Erase Paste.
Kim Porter shares some skincare tips for the cold weather.
Take a sneak peak at Dior's Cannage eyeshadow palette from the upcoming Spring collection over at Pleasureflush!
Jenn over at Spiced Beauty is celebrating her 2 year bloggerversary with a Huge Annabelle Cosmetics giveaway!
Phyrra is giving away 5 eye shadows from the Aromaleigh Wonderstruck Collection!
Over at The Glamorous Gleam, Mz. More loves Revlon's Perplex Nail Enamel so much that she is giving away four bottles to her readers!
Beauty Crazed loves Burberry Beauty and wants to give you a chance to love them too!


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Formulated with enhanced extreme-pressure (EP) additives, is designed for heavy-load and high-temperature applications. This lubricant provides excellent protection and a long oil life, even in the most demanding applications and environments.
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From retirement to saving to paying off debt, our modern-day money worries are many. But some of that concern is fueled more by rumor than reality.
Mechel Glass, vice president of community outreach for financial counseling service CredAbility, shares the top five money myths she has encountered while working with a range of clients on financial education.
Myth 1: Most financial goals are unattainable. "People may sit down and set their goals, but they don't track their progress," Glass said. "They will say, 'I'm getting out of debt this year,' but they don't look at where they are each month. They don't put themselves on a plan." In order to successfully reach your goals, you need a plan to get there and a method for tracking your progress.
Myth 2: It is impossible to have enough money for retirement. "It is possible, if we start when we are in our 20s and 30s and just start saving a little bit," she said. If someone tells you when you are younger to put just a little bit of money aside, the task isn't so overwhelming. "When you are in your 60s, it does seem unattainable because you've waited so long," Glass said.
Myth 3: Children don't need to learn about money until they reach high school or college. "You don't want (children) to get their opinions about how to handle money from other people," Glass said. "My daughter is 9 years old, and we started talking about money when she was 3 years old. People want to wait until their kids are in college, and by then they are too late."
Myth 4: Living on a budget means not having fun. "Fun is allowed," Glass said. You just have to plan for it. Glass set the personal goal of getting out of debt this year — including her mortgage — but was still able to negotiate an affordable rate on tae kwan do classes to take with her daughter. "It is something we planned for and researched and it fit into our budget," Glass said. Other people may want to go shopping and they still can, she said, as long as they set aside money for each purchase. "You can't take your whole paycheck and go blow it," Glass said.
Myth 5: Marriage will end your money woes. "People get married and assume they are going to get a house, a car and go on vacations," Glass said. "Sometimes when you get married, your partner may have a lot of debt." Loved ones will often share their dreams and aspirations, but not their financial plans, and sometimes they may even hide their financial past, she said.
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What those museum guards really do at night
When Peter Hoffmeister graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2007, as an artist, he knew finding paying gigs would be tough. The first few months out of school, the Riverhead High School alum and Aquebogue native spent his days working odd jobs trying to make ends meet in New York City.
In 2008, he took a job as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the steady income and benefits.
"I always knew I would try and find my way to the Met if I needed a job," he said.
What he didn't know was that many of the people watching over the museum's priceless collection of art are, like himself, artists, writers or musicians.
"We would talk on our break about shows we've seen," he said of he and the other guards. "It's like an informal artist community."
Last year a few of the guards, realizing the pool of talent amongst themselves, got to talking and decided to show their work to the world.
In early 2010, the first issue of Sw!pe magazine, 110 pages featuring the work of 35 Met guards, was published. About 500 copies of the magazine were sold and the publication even got a write-up in the New York Times.
"I saw this was needed for a museum," said one of the founding editors, photographer and former Met guard Jason Eskenazi. "It was like a no-brainer."
This year, the magazine has grown to 127 pages and features 52 artists and writers — all current and former Met guards.
"It sort of grew from this very informal idea," Mr. Hoffmeister said. "I think a lot of people were surprised we pulled it off."
To kick off the second issue, an exhibition was held starting with a celebration Thursday night, Feb. 10, at 25 CPW Gallery located at 25 Central Park West in Manhattan. The free exhibit was scheduled to run until Sunday, when it would culminate with live music and poetry readings performed by the museum guards.
The magazine will be available for purchase at the exhibition or by visiting Swipemagazine.com. (Note the url does not include the exclamation point.)
The magazine, which does not sell space to advertisers, is also seeking public funding.
For the second issue, artists were encouraged to use literal and figurative interpretations of the museum in their submissions, Mr. Hoffmeister said. Their submissions include critical essays, photographs of people browsing inside the museum and even poems.
Mr. Hoffmeister, who first studied art under Riverhead teacher Vincent Nasta who was killed in a plane crash in 2008, said he hopes his work will cause people to rethink their perceptions of history, knowledge and power structures. His submission to the magazine is of a blueprint of the museum reconfigured to include geographical representations.
Editors hope to include work from guards at other New York City museums in the next issue and to eventually feature submissions from around the world, Mr. Hoffmeister said.
The best part of creating the magazine for Mr. Hoffmeister is the inspiration and learning that comes with working with other artists.
"[After graduating] you're used to having a dialogue with other artists," he said. "I think that dialogue is important to keeping your art healthy."


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OK so we have been down this road before with a bunch of failed experiments that could never be replicated but this time seems to be different.
The difference is the experiments have been replicated. A large commercial facility was developed and it's new owners would only buy it if it was proven to work. They bought it based on their lead scientists recommendation that it does indeed work.
The big secret is is the catalyst being used. No one knows exactly what it is other than a combinations of some base metals. If this thing is proven to work then expect Sharper Images to produce the home version followed by imitations made in China that will likely blow you and your house to hell. All kidding aside the implications are huge if this pans out. I say if it pans out because if he is running a scam then he is doing it on a scale that would make Bernanke blush.
Here is the full text of the letter Rossi sent to Obama.
Dear President Obama and Vice President Biden,
This letter is to inform you of a very important new energy producing device that was named "Energy Catalyzer" or "E-Cat" by it's inventor, Dr. Andrea Rossi. The E-Cat was demonstrated and tested on October 6 at Bologna, Italy. Scientists from around the world came to see if this wonderful new machine was real. Many chemists and physicists tested and confirmed continuous production of heat and the safety of the E-Cat. The impact of the Energy Catalyzer development is far reaching and will give the world a clean, cheap, safe and unlimited energy source.
The history of the low temperature energy production devices goes back to the 1920s. In 1956 the term "cold fusion" was used in a New York Times article about Dr. Luis W. Alvarez' and his experiments with muon-catalyzed fusion. In 1989 two electrochemists at University of Utah, Stanley Pons and colleague Martin Fleischmann, announced to the world that they had achieved nuclear fusion in a jar at room temperature. "When current is passed through heavy water from a palladium cathode, the palladium absorbs deuterium atoms, which are forced to fuse, generating heat and neutrons", they said.
The evidence is now clear; these experiments are producing heat energy and the outputs are too large to be chemical exothermic reactions. These are obviously nuclear reactions! Yet some establishment fusion and fission scientists were/are determined to discredit any claims of nuclear reactions at room temperature. This was a self-serving reaction to protect their hot fusion industries and jobs. Over one thousand experiments have produced energy and validated the process.
In recent experiments, Dr. Francisco Piantelli has shown that Ni/H LENR (low-energy nuclear reactions) are easier to control and produce large amounts of energy. Dr. Andrea Rossi and research partner Dr. Sergio Focardi have made improvements on the Ni/H reaction process and now have a 1 MW Energy Catalyzer system ready for commercial use. They are shipping this E-Cat to the United States where it will be tested and installed by the first customer. Every American can benefit from cheap, safe, and abundant energy for homes, industry, and transportation. The manufacture and service of these E-Cats will bring lots of jobs in this new industry.
The Ni/H LENR reactor/E-Cat is real and has been validated by top scientists from around the world. Let's welcome Dr. Rossi and his wonderful "Energy Catalyzer". And lets not let those establishment physicists and skeptics stop the advancement of the wonderful E-Cats.
John De Herrera
More information can be found here:
1 Megawatt test http://pesn.com/2011/10/28/9501940_1_MW_E-Cat_Test_Successful/


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Why Obama Wants to Cut Corporate Taxes
Is the president serious about encouraging business?
America doesn't feel much like the champion of the world these days. Everywhere we look, we see other countries outdoing us—in economic growth, educational performance, and men's soccer. But this year, we are expected to gain an impressive distinction: the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world.
I don't know about you, but it doesn't make me feel like chanting "USA! USA!" If high corporate taxes are a good policy, why are we the only ones embracing them?
This achievement, of course, may sound like just what you'd expect when you put a Democrat in the White House. Actually, the rate is the same now as it was under President George W. Bush. The reason we're about to ascend to the top rung is that Japan, which currently has a stiffer levy, has decided a reduction is in order.
During his speech Monday to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, President Barack Obama couldn't suppress his chronic urge to lecture business people on their obligations, such as hiring more Americans and investing more.
But he did admit that the federal government is partly to blame for their reluctance.
More important, he proposed something that hasn't been done since the Reagan administration: cutting rates on corporate income taxes. Obama would take that step in tandem with streamlining the rules to broaden the tax base. "We need something smarter, something simpler, something fairer," Obama said, in words not calculated to inspire organized labor or his party's more liberal elements.
For that matter, it offers no obvious political advantage at all. Few Americans are haunted by the fear that corporations are paying an excessive share to the government. On the contrary, the corporate income tax is most people's idea of a perfect tax: one that doesn't cost them a cent.
But this is a destructive fantasy. In reality, the tax doesn't come exclusively out of the bonus packages of super-rich executives. It exacts a toll from just about all of us.
The problem for workers is that in a competitive world, corporations can manufacture goods in a multitude of places. With such a high rate on companies operating here, our tax entices them to move their operations to Mexico, China, Ireland or any number of other locales.
If you're a factory worker whose company finds it irresistible to relocate, you pay a painful price for the high corporate income tax.
Let's say, however, that the corporate income tax reduces the income of investors, many of whom are affluent. To some people, this may sound like a welcome blow for economic equity. But even if the tax works as intended, ordinary people are worse off.
By slashing the returns to capital, the tax discourages companies from investing in plants, equipment and technology. But it's those kinds of outlays that make workers and managers more productive. Higher productivity fosters higher wages by making each employee more valuable.
Less investment means lower wages in the long run. That helps explain why liberal economists don't like the corporate income tax any more than conservative ones do.
This levy is also not very good at its only legitimate purpose—raising revenue. Despite having a high rate—or because of it—we rank near the bottom in the amount of money collected.
One culprit is the long list of loopholes that let a lot of income escape the clutches of the IRS. Another reason is that if you're a multinational company, you will pay lawyers and accountants handsome sums to find ways to move your income to low-tax places and your expenses to high-tax places.
Martin Sullivan, a former economist at the Treasury Department and Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation, says this happens all the time. In five low-tax countries whose economies account for only 2 percent of world GDP (excluding the U.S.), U.S. multinationals reap 21 percent of their foreign profits.
This oddity, Sullivan testified recently before the House Ways and Means Committee, is the direct result of "perfectly legal but economically indefensible assignment of profits to subsidiaries in low-tax jurisdictions." The problem has only gotten worse as rates have come down abroad but not here.
The left of his party may demand to know if Obama wants to accommodate big business or stand up for the interests of workers. But who says we can't do both?


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Maybe Facebook was on to something when it recently deemphasized its location check-in service. Cellphones may be capable of pinpointing your location using GPS or cell tower triangulation, but a new study says few American adults are interested in sharing their current location on services such as Foursquare and Gowalla.
That's despite the fact that more than a quarter of all American adults are using online location-based services of some kind. Getting directions or recommendations for restaurants, museums and theaters based on your current location appear to be the most popular location-based services, used by about 23 percent of all U.S. adults, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
But when it comes to broadcasting your presence at your local cafe, nightclub or city park on services such as Foursquare or Gowalla, adults don't appear to be interested. "Americans are not currently all that eager to share explicitly their location on social media sites," said Kathryn Zickuhr, a research specialist at the Pew Internet & American Life Project and co-author of the report.
In fact, U.S. adults are more likely to include their location as meta-data in tweets and social-networking status updates than to check-in. Only 4 percent of American adults use their phones to share their location via check-ins, while 7 percent have set up services such as Facebook and Twitter to automatically include their location in status updates.
Pew also found that smartphone owners are more likely to use social location-based services, with around 12 percent using at least one check-in service. That's hardly surprising since check-in services cater to smartphone users with slick apps that show your friends' activities, badges, local deals and mayorships. Feature phone users must check-in using a dumbed-down mobile site. Foursquare also offers an SMS service.
American adults may not be big on sharing their location, but the number of people using check-in services worldwide appears to be growing. Foursquare, launched in March 2009, now claims more than 10 million users worldwide. The service also appears to have the confidence of investors after recently securing another $50 million in venture capital funding. Gowalla had about 600,000 users as of late 2010, according to a number of reports.
The findings from the Pew Internet & American Life Project are based on a national telephone survey of 2,277 adults between April 26 and May 22.
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It looks like it's finally going to happen, an actual mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa — one of the the solar system's best candidates for hosting alien life.
Yesterday, NASA announced an injection of $17.5 billion from the federal government (down by $1.2 billion from its 2010 peak). Of this, $15 million will be allocated for "pre-formulation" work on a mission to Europa, with plans to make detailed observations from orbit and possibly sample its interior oceans with a robotic probe. Mission details are sparse, but if all goes well, it could be launched by 2025 and arriving in the early 2030s.
This is incredibly exciting. Recent evidence points to a reasonable chance of habitability. Its massive subsurface ocean contains almost twice as much water as found on Earth. The water is kept in liquid state owing to the gravitational forces exerted by Jupiter and the moon's turbulent global ocean currents. The good news is that a probe may not have to dig very deep to conduct its search for life; the moon's massive plumes are ejecting water directly onto the surface.
According to NASA, the high radiation environment around Jupiter and extreme distance from Earth are the primary challenges (it took NASA's Galileo six years to get to Jupiter from the sun). The space agency will now be looking at competing ideas for the proposed Europa mission. NASA is still not sure how big the mission should be, or how much it will cost.
Image: NASA/JPL; Copyright: reprocessed by Ted Stryk.


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Ever since 1998, when The Wedding Singer first resurrected Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'", the 1981 arena-rock anthem has achieved pop-culture permanence, whether soundtracking The Sopranos final scene, becoming synonymous with Glee, scoring a thousand flash mobs, or being piped into every professional sports arena in the land. With nearly 4.5 million digital units sold, it's the most downloaded twentieth-century track in the history of counting such things. Jonathan Cain's unmistakable opening piano riff reflexively inspires people all across this nation to pump their fists … although there is one spot where the arms always collectively falter, even if for just a moment: Southeastern Michigan. For nearly 31 years, this flash of distracting cognitive dissonance has struck each time Steve Perry's bright tenor lands on the iconic but geographically flawed second line: "just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit." Because, as anyone with a tie to the Motor City knows, South Detroit doesn't exist, either as a term of art or a geographical locale.
East Side? Sure. It's where Eminen spent his adolescence. West?* Home to the original Motown Records. Southwest? Best Mexican food in the state. But South Detroit is as fictional as the Shire of Middle-earth.
Yes, Detroit does have a southernmost portion, but this area is known as "downtown." Directly south of downtown, across the Detroit River, is the Canadian hamlet of Windsor. South of that lies a vast stretch of towns known collectively as "Downriver," which, at the time the song was written, was still somewhat rural. Technically speaking, this is the region the song refers to, making that mysterious male on the midnight train to anywhere* something less than a "city boy."
For three decades, this has stymied the Motor City adjacent, whose confusion is now a multigenerational phenomenon, one that strikes at the very heart of a city's identity. Why the fictional neighborhood? And, on further thought, why did a bunch of Bay Area rockers with no ties to Detroit choose it as the fulcrum point for a ballad of hope and perseverance in the first place? This is how rabbit holes are dug. So to finally free Michiganders from these nagging questions that stop them from fully embracing what is our new unofficial national anthem, Vulture decided to solve the mystery by going to Steve Perry himself.
Reached in San Diego, the former Journey front man explained that some of the enduring song's unique imagery came to him in the witching hour one morning in May of 1980 while the band was in Detroit for a five-night stand as part of the Departure tour. Perry, unable to sleep, stood staring out of his hotel room window at 2 a.m. "I was digging the idea of how the lights were facing down, so that you couldn't see anything," he says, recalling the night. "All of a sudden I'd see people walking out of the dark, and into the light. And the term 'streelight people' came to me. So Detroit was very much in my consciousness when we started writing."
Yes, but what about South Detroit? For the love of Tim Allen, what about South Detroit? To that, Perry pleads poetic license, and ignorance, despite the fact that a quick glance at a map would have alerted him to the issue. "I ran the phonetics of east, west, and north, but nothing sounded as good or emotionally true to me as South Detroit," he says. "The syntax just sounded right. I fell in love with the line. It's only been in the last few years that I've learned that there is no South Detroit. But it doesn't matter."
If the frequency of pop-cultural recycling and the number of digital downloads are an accurate gauge, Perry is right, the flummoxing of an entire metropolitan notwithstanding. In fact, the song will likely continue to go on and on and on and on …
* This post has been corrected to note that Eminem was from the East Side, and Motown is in the West, not the North. Also, the midnight train in the song goes "anywhere" and not, as we had it, "nowhere." In our erroneous version, the train is far less useful, and we hope nobody attempted to book tickets.


text: [bugloaf] tipped us off about this flower power hack. University of Washington researchers, [Babak], [Brian], and [Carlton] have developed very low power circuits to run directly off of trees. This builds upon the work of MIT researchers and Voltree Power. A voltage of up to around 200mV is generated between an electrode in a tree and an electrode in the ground. Identical metals can be used as electrodes as the process is not like that of a lemon or potato battery. The significant development here is the use of a boost converter and exceptionally low power circuits. What kind of applications can you come up with for this source of power? Maybe you could try to combine this power with the power from donuts and hair.


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Catch of the day: Maryland's famous crustacean from the Bay to the table
Tracking down Chesapeake Blue Crabs is easier said than done. These creatures have a mind of their own, and can easily migrate tens of miles a day. So naturally the chase becomes part of the job.
Here's a look down memory lane at some retro crabbing photos from The Sun's photo archives.
MORE ON MARYLAND CRABS: How to | How much | The latest


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Greg and Gabi are the ones who are behind Magic Spoon's Inception. Their passion for cereal has made it one of the most loved cereal brands. This brand helps people to remember the good old carefree days of childhood when there is no issue with eating mountains of cereal. But now this brand is bringing back those good old days with its reengineered cereal along with the same mouth-watering taste and grown-up ingredients. There is a Magic Spoon special ingredient, a natural blend of monk fruit and allulose (a rare sugar found in figs and maple syrup) which make these cereals different from other brands. This compound tastes like sugar but has almost zero glycemic impact and almost zero calories.
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text: Derick Baegert was the principal figure in a family of painters working in Germany in the last third of the 15th century and the first third of the 16th century. His style is based on elements derived from late Gothic painting, combined with references to Netherlandish art. The five panels in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza were part of a large composition of the Crucifixion that was broken up at an unknown date. All the panels reflect the influence of Rogier van der Weyden, evident in the use of luminous colours and the importance given to detail. The whole composition has been hypothetically reconstructed in a variety of different ways, taking into account three other works by Baegert. In the reconstruction proposed by Ferdinand Köhler, the five panels in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza would be arranged in the following order: on the left side, Christ bearing the Cross above, and Saint Veronica and a Group of Knights below; in the central part, The good Centurion, located between Christ's Cross and that of the Bad Thief, which can be made out in the upper two corners of the panel; Mary Magdalen would have been kneeling next to the Bad Thief's cross; while on the right of the composition was Knights and Soldiers playing Dice for Christ's Robe.


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Installation applications for audio systems vary in their complexity, and many require sophisticated and flexible signal paths, while others will require only a very simple fixed-form processing path. The ProSys PS-8810 was designed specifically for the latter requirement where system designers require certain types of signal processing in an easily matrixable format. System design time is reduced because the DSP building blocks are already placed in the signal path ready to be configured. Once each signal has been routed or mixed, you''re ready to go!
The ProSys PS-8810 is appropriate for a comprehensive range of installations; from major sports facilities to even the smallest houses of worship, the PS-8810 can fill the need. It incorporates 32 user-definable Presets that can be selected from the front panel, IQ for Windows software, switch closure, or can be scheduled from its internal real-time clock/calendar. You can easily configure the PS-8810 for automatic room combining as well as "simple to use" wall station controls.
Integration with IQ Systems
The ProSys PS-8810 is setup and controlled using IQ for Windows™ software. This also supports Crown amplifiers, and so full system control and integration of processing and amplification is readily achievable via the IQ bus. Your PC can monitor and control both the amplifier status and signal processing/mixing.
Expanding the system with networking
ProSys audio channels can be networked using CobraNet™ card, available as an option or prefitted as the PS-8810C. Bundles of audio channels can be routed to further units and can also be processed along with a unit's own channels. This naturally allows the 8810 to be integrated and share audio with other CobraNet™ devices.
Signal Processing Elements
Each input path (A and B) has programmable DSP elements for:
- EQ Filters
- Delay
- Gate
- Autoleveller
- Compressor
- Automixer
Each of these elements may be enabled or disabled, depending upon the need, and parameters adjusted easily. There are an impressive 256 EQ filters available in the PS-8810, which can be assigned to one of seven different filter types.
Different filter types include Low-pass crossover Filter (1st-4th order), High-Pass crossover filter (1st-4th order), Parametric Equalisation (2nd order), Low-Pass equalisation filter (2nd order), High-Pass equalisation filter (2nd order), Low-Pass shelving Equalisation (1st order) and High-Pass shelving Equalisation (1st order).
Automixing functions include NOM (number of Open Mics) attenuation, Priority Ducking and Adaptive Gating processing. Mutes and Signal Phase the post-DSP Input path B channel, giving great flexibility in signal routing.
Presets & Scenes
On finalising the configuration and routing of your audio signals, store the design as a Preset. There are 32 presets available in the 8810, which may be recalled via contact closure from the control port, infra-red remote, or as a scheduled Event. A further feature is the 'segue' funtion that allows elegant level transitions between Presets.
To set up minor changes in DSP settings, eg equaliser and delay parameter values for a different venue function, you can store these adjustments as Scenes, which may be recalled by the methods described above.
The internal event scheduler is a sophisticated time control system integral to the PS-8810 that enables Preset or Scene recall at either a given time, or at different times according to a schedule you determine. This can be accomplished even without the PC connected and the internal clock in the ProSys can function for up to 45 days without power.
Control Options
Once you have programmed the 8810, you can disconnect the PC and leave the unit to perform its duties as a standalone device.
Simple Control Ports
A multi-function control port implements analogue and digital interfacing for control and monitoring by external circuits. The PS-8810 has 16 control inputs and 16 control outputs along with power supply outputs and common ground connections. Switches or faders may be applied to the inputs to change presets or individual DSP parameters.
Additionally, 8 of the control inputs can monitor either digital or analogue signals. The control outputs can illuminate LEDs and perform other logic output tasks.
On-Line PC
With a PC connected to the PS-8810 and running the IQ for Windows™ software, you then have full control over the PS-8810's parameters for system setup and then later as a compuet based online control system.
Infra-red control
The PS-8810 can be controlled from an infrared handheld remote. Chosen parameters can be accessed in this way to give your users a simple control interface for non-technical operators.


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More evidence that Jimmy Johns is the quite possibly the worst company to work for in America: they force their employees — even those at the bottom rungs of the ladder like sandwich makers and delivery drivers — to sign non-competes that would seem overbearing to a governmental espionage agency.
Huffington Post obtained a copy of a Jimmy John's non-compete agreement that all employees are required to sign, no matter where they sit on the corporate food chain. The agreement states that after leaving Jimmy John's for any reason, the employee cannot work for two years at any Jimmy John's competitor. That would be crazy enough, but it gets even more Banana Town when you consider what Jimmy John's apparently considers a "competitor": any business that makes at least 10% of its revenues from sandwiches within three miles of ANY Jimmy John's.
Basically, any former Jimmy John's employee can't work at ANY restaurant that serves sandwiches or even any business that provides sandwiches as a side service (10% of their revenue, remember) within three miles of any existing Jimmy John's. A company spokeswoman refused to comment, because Jimmy John's doesn't give even a semblance of a fuck about basic human decency, and they're scared that if they have to publicly comment on this issue, that'll become blatantly obvious.
As HuffPo points out, ordinarily non-competes at companies like Jimmy John's exist for executives who could potentially reveal company secrets to their chief competitors. Unless "company secrets" has been broadened to include "that guy at 1321 Pine Boulevard is a non-tipping asshole," it's hard to see how that case could be made here. Luckily, the non-compete is now part of the same proposed class action that alleges systematic wage theft at the company.
Obviously, this has nothing to do with the divestment of company secrets and everything to do with putting workers in as desperate a situation as possible where they're terrified to lose or leave their jobs. Jimmy John's seeks to control its employees lives, treat them as crappily as they feel like, and prevent them from seeking out any better situation. To say it's an actively, heinously evil practice would be a profound understatement.
Let's also make it abundantly clear that any conservative who expounds upon the importance of free market capitalism and who isn't up in arms over this bullshit is a fucking hypocrite. The entire purpose of that economic system is supposed to be that one rises to the level of one's ability (even if that's not how it usually works in practice) — this includes the notion that a competitor can lure you over with a better job offer if they so choose. But if you are prevented from taking any better job by a ludicrously restrictive agreement you have to sign if you want the first job, we at least need to stop calling it the "free" market, because that's become a total misnomer.
Can you imagine the nightmare if numerous companies started doing this and it was considered an acceptable practice? If the courts regarded it as enforceable (while that's unlikely, I have zero faith left in the American judicial system), it could do horrible things to the US economy. While I'm pretty sure a non-compete like this is actually legal (especially considering the US's repeated insistence on placing the needs of corporations above those of actual human beings), the amount of economic harm for which widespread use of this practice could theoretically be responsible could be catastrophic. What does Jimmy John's care though, right? Moar profit for their dickhead founder who donates to human skidmark Sheriff Joe Arpaio, mandates that employees be fired for unionization, and hunts endangered species for sport!*
We can get mad at Chick-Fil-A all we want over their stupid, regressive stance on marriage equality, but at least that's not an issue with the potential to poke a giant hole in the bottom of the shared boat of the US economy. I don't just want Jimmy John's non-compete agreement gone, I genuinely hope that whoever came up with it winds up in a federal penitentiary.
They never will, because this is the US, where might (in the form of wealth) makes right, but we can dream.
* No, seriously, click that link. Dude has pictures of himself murdering so many big animals that Teddy Roosevelt would be like "hey, now, hold up a sec."
Image via Jimmy John's Facebook page, and I feel dirty that's now in my search history.


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I couldn't wait to give these cookies a try, but note they are fairly labor intensive, at least in the decorating department. The faintly chocolate (there is only 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder added) cookie dough comes together in a snap and is easily workable without needing to chill the dough first. The original instructions would have you roll the dough into rounds balls, then insert the pretzel legs - however, I found it was a bit tough to fit in eight legs. Shaping the two dozen pieces into rounded rectangles was much easier - think a fat, slightly flattened Tootsie Roll.
Instead of using the thin pretzel sticks as they were (perhaps ours were extra long?), I did snap off about 1/4" worth of each on one side. I did this because they seemed a bit too long sticking out of the dough. I'm glad I did this because the weight of the melted chocolate poured on top may have given them a reason to snap off while decorating if I had kept them that long. When these go into the oven, I found the easiest way to check for doneness was to watch for one or two small cracks to form on the top and if you gave them a gentle press in the center, the cookie would spring back. It can be hard to tell since the dough is stained from that dark cocoa powder.
When you go to drench the completely cooled cookies in melted bittersweet chocolate, what I found that worked for me was to place the cookie on top of a fork, hold it over the bowl of chocolate and use a small ladle (or spoon) to cover the top of the cookie and pretzel legs entirely. While the original directions asked you to line the baked spiders up on a wire rack and pour the chocolate over (faster to do, yes), I think this would have been more messy and then you'd have to deal with the giant amount of excess chocolate that created a flood below. Also, you would have a bunch of sprinkles mixed into all that chocolate left behind!
I found that coating three or four cookies at a time, then going back to give them their "hairy coat" with a blizzard of chocolate sprinkles, gave the chocolate enough time to barely begin to set, leaving the tops sticky enough to hold the sprinkles. The first spider I coated I watched in disappointment as some of the sprinkles (and Red Hot eyes!) drooped off. Depending on the temperature, it may take a few hours for them to completely set - I was able to pick up them without touching wet chocolate in about three hours. I did end up with plenty of pretzel sticks and melted chocolate leftover, all which ended up together (perhaps a few Oreo's went in for a dunk too, but I'll deny that) for a salty/sweet snack over the next few days!
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|DeGrandi-Hoffman, Gloria
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Submitted to: International Journal of Acarology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 10/20/2003
Publication Date: 3/26/2004
Citation: Sammataro, D., DeGrandi-Hoffman, G., Ostiguy, O., Wardell, G., Finley, J. Testing a combination of control strategies to manage Varroa destructor (Acari: Varroidae) population levels in honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies. 2004. Inter. J. Acarology 30:71-76.
Interpretive Summary: Mite populations at the end of the study did not differ among treatments or between sites. However, colony populations at Site 2 were significantly larger and overall colony survival was greater than at Site-1. Colony mortality during the winter following the study is shown in Table 2. At site-1,60% of the control colonies and 40% of the queen/strip treatment were dead by the end of the experiment. At Site 2, one colony in the queen/strip treatment was dropped out due to American Foulbrood Disease. Site 1 had far greater mortality than Site 2. At site 1, all the control colonies and 80% of the colonies with hygienic queens +T-02 strips died over the winter. Colony survival was greatest in colonies with hygienic queens and screen inserts regardless of whether they were treated with T-02 strips. At Site 2, no colonies were lost over the winter. The study demonstrates how the effectiveness of tactics to reduce the impact of Varroa on colony survival might ultimately depend upon the location of an apiary and how if affects the growth of colony populations.
Technical Abstract: A combination of tactics to reduce Varroa destructor population growth was tested in honey bee colonies located in two apiary sites. The tactics were: mite tolerant queen stock, screen inserts and T-02 strips (AI thymol). The effectiveness of the treatment combinations differed between the apiary sites. At Site 2, all colonies survived over the winter, while at Site-1, over-winter mortality of colonies was lowest in those exposed to a combination of hygienic queens and screen inserts. There were significant differences in mite drop among colonies following the T-02 strip treatments (Table 1). At both sites, colonies with hygienic queens and screen inserts had the lowest mite drops followed by the queen, + screen, + T-02 strips treatment. Colonies treated with T-02 strips having either hygienic queens or screen inserts did not differ in mite drop at either site. At Site 2 though, colonies with hygienic queens + screen inserts had significantly fewer mites drop than those with screen inserts and T-02 strips. Colonies with T-02 strips did not differ from controls at either site. There was no difference in colony populations among tteatments in either site (Site 1: F=l.64, d.f.+4,18, p=0.21; Site-2: F=0.40, d.f.=4,19,p=0.81), so we pooled data from all treatments in each site and tested for differences in colony size between sites using a t-test. Average colony populations estimated from combining all colonies at a site were greater at Site 2 than Site 1 (t=-3.14, d.f.=39, p=0.0032).


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Boy's Brutal Death Becomes Rallying Cry For Syrians
In Syria, the brutal death of a 13-year-old boy has spurred further demonstrations as the uprising there enters a third month.
Syrian protesters now shout the boy's name, Hamza al-Khateeb. He has become a symbol of the victims of the government's crackdown on dissent.
The Syrian government has promised to investigate his death. A video of his mutilated body was so gruesome that YouTube administrators blocked it, but they reinstated the images on Wednesday after a petition from human rights organizations.
The video is shockingly graphic. A chubby teenage boy is stretched out naked, wrapped in heavy plastic. The cell phone video documents the wounds that killed him — bullet holes to his arms and to his chest. The unnamed narrator describes each injury and gash, but when he gets to the mutilated genitals, the screen goes white.
The images are all the more shocking because it was Hamza's family that documented the evidence of torture and posted those images on YouTube.
According to a family member, Hamza was separated from his parents in April during a demonstration in the southern city of Daraa. His cousin, a student at a Tennessee state college, called home after Hamza disappeared.
"The security forces arrested almost everybody, even the dead. They didn't leave the bodies for the people to carry them. They took the bodies," says Hamza's cousin, Basel, who will only give his first name for the safety of his family in Syria.
'Everything Is Documented'
Basel says it's not clear exactly when Hamza died. His body was returned on May 25, and the video was shot soon after, says Basel.
"The whole family was there, everything is documented to show the world what the regime has done to this innocent kid," he says.
Posting the video was an act of defiance, says Wissam Tarif, a Syrian human rights activist.
For weeks, the Syrian army has besieged Daraa in a widely condemned crackdown to break the protest movement. Hamza was just one victim, says Tarif.
"He was given back to his family under the condition [that] you will bury your tortured son that we killed, in silence," Tarif says.
The family videotaped what was essentially an informal autopsy. When asked if that was a risk for them, Tarif notes that Hamza's father, brother and uncle were arrested.
"We can't think of a regime that will abstain from hurting a family after killing the kid," he says.
After the grisly video appeared on the Web and on Arabic satellite broadcasts over the weekend, the Syrian government mounted an official campaign to refute the charges of torture. The Syrian news agency released a statement that claimed conspirators faked the injuries after the body was returned to the family for burial.
In an hour-long news program on state television, a doctor said he was the one who released Hamza's body from a morgue. He said there were no signs of torture then.
'People Are Chanting ... Hamza, Hamza'
But outrage has spread, says Tarrif, and the protesters have a new focus.
"And definitely, they ended up going more to the streets," Tariff says. "Look at his Facebook page; it's growing ... thousands per hour. People are chanting at night from rooftops, from windows: Hamza, Hamza."
Hamza's name was repeated at the opening ceremony of an opposition meeting in Antalya, Turkey — the first meeting of its kind. Mohja Khaf, a Syrian-American, says the boy's death spurred more people to join this gathering.
"After that story started to get out, people who were wavering, people who were undecided ... I mean — it was so outrageous," she says.
The Syrian government has promised a full investigation into Hamza's death.
But a similar investigation has never been completed. At the outset of the uprising, a group of children were arrested for scrawling anti-government graffiti. Their parents claim the children were tortured while in police custody, and the anger in the town of Daraa was the spark for a protest movement that has now spread across the country.


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Well we've got some rules written up now (Thanks RMC!). I just would like to say that this is a flexible document and may change from time to time. Also, common sense should be applied to every situation. If you are acting up, the mods will warn you privately. If the offending action continues, you will be banned. This list is not all inclusive (just because we don't mention it, doesn't mean its automatically allowed) and each situation will be dealt with as best we can. As the first rule says, please be professional and we will all have a great time and this will be a great place.
Some rules:
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
First-Ever Museum Meet-up
But for me, the real highlight of the exhibit was seeing the pieces by Charles James, an American couturier who had his heyday in the 1950s. His gowns are no less than feats of engineering.
Do go check out this exhibit if you can. The Charles James pieces alone are worth it!
As for the first-ever reader meet-up, I'm declaring it a smashing success. Besides going on the guided tour, we also had a lovely lunch, complete with a sewing Q&A with Sharon. Also, my mom came all the way from Arizona to attend! (I think I promised her a prize for having traveled the furthest to get there. Hmm, will have to figure out what that will be . . . )
Didn't make this one? Don't worry, there will be more! I'm currently cooking up a visit to FIT's Eco-Fashion exhibit later this summer. (See the Threads post on the exhibit here.) Details to come!
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- AnonymousJune 23, 2010 at 7:25 AM
Gargh! Am jealous. Can I justify a flight to New York in order to attend the next meet-up?!ReplyDelete
SO JEALOUS. What a wonderful day out!ReplyDelete
that's amazing!!! What an awesome day! How fantastic was that Schia seed packet dress???ReplyDelete
What a blast. I LOVE the 5th dress. Amazing!ReplyDelete
You're torturing me, Gertie! haha! Oh wow--thank you ever so much for a sneak peek at the exhibit; I am drooling over so many of these gowns and the details! Wow!ReplyDelete
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So much fun! Just one more reason why I wish I was still based on the East Coast. Thanks for sharing these photos! I'm now curious what sort of tips I need to know about scallops...would you please share sometime?ReplyDelete
Gertie this outing was so much fun! Thank you for planning it. You did an excellent job, and I would happily attend future outings if you would consider doing this again.ReplyDelete
The outing was so much fun!ReplyDelete
One of my personal favorites was the butterfly dress/parasol....
I know I marveled to a couple people about the incredible pattern matching that was going on a diagonal seam through the entire lower portion of the dress....
it's why they call it couture, indeed!
I'm jealous too! I'd love to see the show. Ann Marie Horner posted about going to a museum show in Nashville last week and I'm so jonesen for some kind of show. Alas. Here's the show she was at: http://www.fristcenter.org/site/exhibitions/exhibitiondetail.aspx?cid=795ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 23, 2010 at 10:10 AM
What a beautiful day! I agree with MommytoAva about the sharing of scallop-secrets. Perhaps Sharon would be willing to write a guest blog on the subject for us or you could share a few gems on the subject with us.ReplyDelete
I had a great time getting to chat with everyone and see the show!ReplyDelete
For those that can't attend there is a nice video with the curator and video footage of the exhibit over on PBS.
It looks like so much fun! So jealous and so wish I had been there! What a fabulous collection!ReplyDelete
Look at you all! Cat got the cream 'cos you all got to attend! (Yes, I'm jealous... very!). Tho NY is a tad far from Australia. ;) Monique xxReplyDelete
Looks like a great outing, wish I could have joined you but Vancouver's too far :) though, I WILL make my way to New York one day!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing...the gowns are amazing, truly works of art!
- AnonymousJune 23, 2010 at 2:11 PM
I had a really fantastic time!! I wish I could have stayed for lunch. Next time, I am blocking off the entire day!ReplyDelete
I would have loved to have been there with all of you. But I am too far away. The pictures are amazing. I'm so glad you had a wonderful time.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJune 23, 2010 at 3:00 PM
I was booked last Saturday, so I'm glad you're planning another outing! And FIT = walking distance to the garment district, wink wink.ReplyDelete
Looks like such a fantastic day! I had my first blogger meet up at the weekend, fabric shopping in Edinburgh with Debi from My Happy Sewing Place. It was so strange - and so nice - to meet in person. Internet friends really exist!ReplyDelete
Wish I could have been there. :(ReplyDelete
Wow! That last Charles James dress blew my mind!ReplyDelete
Looks so fun! Wish I could have joined you all. Makes me want to take a trip to NYC.ReplyDelete
OMG I didn't know Schiaperelli did a seed packet dress! I sewed myself a skirt with seed packet applique a couple of years ago but hardly ever wear it now. I will have to dig it out and reference it when people ask!ReplyDelete
It was a great exhibit. My biggest surprise was Scarlet O'Hara's bonnet from Gone With the Wind.ReplyDelete
I am jealous of your mother. I will continue to gather details from her about the trip to the Big Apple. Please continue to inform, inspire and amuse us with your blog.ReplyDelete
It was ALOT of fun! I had a great time. Thanks again for setting it up, Gertie!ReplyDelete
OOOOOOH!!!! I've never seen that copy of Charles James' butterfly dress. The one at Chic Chicago was cream colored. He truly was a fashion engineer. I could look at his designs for hours.ReplyDelete


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Serious Fraud Office intensifies Icelandic banking inquiry after Kaupthing leak
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Tuesday August 4, 2009
The Serious Fraud Office is gathering extensive intelligence on the Icelandic banks in the aftermath of last autumn's crash that left thousands of UK institutions nursing millions of pounds of losses.
By Rowena Mason (The Telegraph)
The SFO's team has intensified its inquiries following the leak of Kaupthing's loan book on to an internet site, Wikileaks.org, over the weekend, according to sources,
A team is understood to be examining the document connected to the failed Icelandic bank, which had a large UK client base. It has also received information relating to the UK operations of the Icelandic banks, apparently from a number of whistleblowers ranging from employees to investors and depositors.
The SFO is now believed to be looking for further whistleblowers to step forward following the leak of Kaupthing's loan book and risk analysis.
The document detailed huge sums allegedly given to companies linked to a key director of Kaupthing and its major shareholders with little or no collateral. A number of clients were also allegedly given loans to buy stakes in the bank itself with no collateral but the shares themselves.
Although it has not launched a formal criminal investigation, a team from the SFO is known to have been looking closely at Kaupthing, Glitnir and Landsbanki for a number of months, following their collapse in October last year.
The three banks were nationalised by the Icelandic government, which put their foreign operations into administration, while relaunching their domestic operations as new banks with different names.
The SFO's interest in Kaupthing's loan book is likely to prove embarrassing for the bank's London advisers and its high-profile banking clients, although there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing.
High-profile individuals such as Kevin Stanford, the retail entrepreneur, and Robert Tchenguiz, the property investor, were among Kaupthing's biggest clients, according to the loan book.
A closer look at the document appears to give a snapshot of Kaupthing's highly unusual lending practices as they stood just two weeks before the Icelandic system failed last October.
The papers show that Kaupthing's highest loans, totalling more than €6.4bn (£5.45bn), were given to companies connected to just six clients, four of whom were major shareholders in the company. Kaupthing granted its largest loans, totalling €1.86bn, to companies connected to Exista, its biggest shareholder with a 22pc stake – some of which were "unsecured and with no covenants".
Mr Tchenguiz, who sat on the board of Exista, borrowed €1.74bn to finance his private investments, including stakes in Mitchells and Butler, and Sainsbury's. Mr Tchenguiz has confirmed that he was the bank's biggest client, but declined to comment further.
Thanks to Rowena Mason and The Telegraph for covering this material. Copyright remains with the aforementioned.
Source documents:
- Financial collapse: Confidential exposure analysis of 205 companies each owing above EUR45M to Icelandic bank Kaupthing, 26 Sep 2008
- Icelandic bank Kaupthing threat to WikiLeaks over confidential large exposure report, 31 Jul 2009
See also:
- Iceland mulls bank secrecy reform
- Iceland court lifts gag order after public outrage
- Kaupthing leak exposes loans
- Iceland's Independent People: It's Time To Clean House
- Islands Finanzelite am Pranger - Eigner plünderten Kaupthing
- Kaupthing-Bank von Großaktionären geplündert
- Kaupthing Leaks Expose Unusual Lending Practices


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PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has for the first time used the camera on its arm to take photos at night, illuminated by white lights and ultraviolet lights on the instrument.
Scientists used the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) instrument for a close-up nighttime look at a rock target called "Sayunei," in an area where Curiosity's front-left wheel had scuffed the rock to provide fresh, dust-free materials to examine. The site is near where the rover team plans to begin using Curiosity to drill into a rock in coming weeks. The images of the rock Sayunei and of MAHLI's calibration target were taken on Jan. 22 (PST) and received on Earth Jan. 23.
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OLD HOLLYWOOD: Throughout their careers, these two A++ singers, one male and one female, hated each other and for good reason.
Back when they were on the brink of fame in the late 1930s, he tried to hook up with her with disastrous results.
After dining and seeing a show at a nightclub, the married crooner parked his car in the local lover's lane and went in for the kill.
He was one step close to sexually assaulting her, after he unsnapped the back of her bra and exposed himself to her. She did the only thing she could… slap him so hard that it left a mark on his face.
She slammed the car door shut and yelled at him "I'm not going to be one of those cheap floozies you fuck around with!
Your wife will love it that you put the move on a black girl!"
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Flash forward several years later and they're both working at the same movie studio.. and on the same movie: an all-star musical extravaganza which they both sang a few numbers in.
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During the filming of this movie, the diva was scheduled to sing at a charity concert with many of the performers from this film, but when she found out he was going to be on the bill with her, she called up her friend to fill in for her and explained to her why she couldn't go on.
When friend #1 died a few decades later, she moved her seat at the memorial service so she wouldn't go near her arch enemy.
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Female A++ singer: Lena Horne
Male A++ singer: Frank Sinatra
All-star muscial extravaganza: "Till the Clouds Roll By"
Very good female friend: Judy Garland
A/B-list actress wife: Ava Gardner
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