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Hey guys!!
It's been a long time since I've posted I've been busy with my new job, being married and I guess not having as many interesting stories to share with you because of that!
BUT last night that all changed. I went to the Pleasure Chest's 40 Year Anniversary party titled 'Glory Hole' last night. I've very tame when it comes to the sex industry – I like whipping out some toys now and then don't get me wrong. Last night, I saw it ALL from spanking, dom/sub couples and craziest of all – the Glory Hole. I'll let the photos speak for me. And without further adieu…..
1. Contortionist – at one point she had her legs around her head!
2. Sweet Beats — a mobile DJ spinning all types of 80's throwbacks! Great dancing music!
3. Loved her outfit! And cotton candy boobies.
4. GLORY HOLE! This was a huge enclosed room (I would say about 40 feet x 40 feet) boxed in covered with white fur. There were about 30 baseball sized holes all around and you could peep on erotic things happening inside. The first time I peeked it was a large woman masturbating with an extremely large dildo. This is the second time I looked and it was two chicks dressed as werewolves getting it on. I'm assuming they like being watched…and videotaped by 30+ people.
5. Spanking Station – now THIS would be a fun job. You could almost feel the sting just watching!! Ouch!
6. I loved this couple! I felt like I was at Carnival!
7. Strippers! You can't have a party at the Pleasure Chest without a stripper pole. This woman in particular could climb that pole like no other.
8. Baby – This guy scared me. He was dressed up as a baby and this mask looked a little to real…and creepy.
So there you have it, folks!! My evening at the Pleasure Chest. Happy 40th Anniversary!
Vibin' Vixen


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Went to a friends house over the weekend. He is a great guy, always telling me how good my beer is, even that it's better than what we can get at the local micro-brewery (ok I don't think it THAT good, they make some really nice stuff).I brought some of my own and he had a selection of Sam Adams brews. We both had two glasses of my stout, and then had a glass of the Sam Adams stout. As I was drinking it, I thought to myself "This is good, but mine is better."
I have to admit that I don't often think my beer is better than some of the best commercial beers out there. But I usually like it better, and I think that's due to the fact that I brew it for my tastes.
Because I critique the hell out of my beer and want to dump it all before it is time to drink it yet my friends and some other people ask for seconds.That's why I brew.

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text: What better time to read about Monsters than the Halloween season. Monster Halloween, by Sharon Pierce McCullough, is a fun, non-scary Halloween story for young kids ages 3 to 5. The Monsters, who originally appeared in their own app "Feed the Monster", are now being featured in their own books. In Monster Halloween the monsters are getting ready for their Halloween party. It's a fun read for kids, with surprise sound effects, and perfect for reading on the Nook or Ipad through the Nook Kids app.


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Nightly Business Report President Obama tells Congress we're not a deadbeat nation and that they need to raise the debt ceiling now. NBR's Washington Bureau Chief has the latest on what is shaping up to be the latest battle between The White House and Congressional Republicans. A sour day for Apple investors as the stock tumbles to 11-month lows over new worries about waning demand for the iPhone 5. D
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What Century is the US Export-Import Bank In?
As the U.S. Export-Import Bank (ExIm) closed its 1912 - whoops, we mean 2012 - annual conference, it is clear that the future of the 21st century, to them, is coal. Despite giving lip service to clean tech, the bank awarded its prestigious Sub-Saharan exporter of the year award to Black & Veatch for its work on the Kusile coal fired power plant.
"Using dirty 20th-century technology, this plant will ensure that South Africa's Highveld continues to exceed limits for dangerous pollutants for decades to come," said Justin Guay, Sierra Club International Climate Program Representative. "Meanwhile, apartheid-era contracts will keep the price of power below market rates for industrialists while forcing South Africans to endure extreme rises in the price of electricity, forcing many of the poor off-the-grid."
South Africa isn't the only place where ExIm is embracing coal. Reliance Power CEO J.P. Chalasani sat on the "Opportunities in India" panel. Reliance received over $800 million in U.S. taxpayer financing for its Sasan coal-fired plant, despite challenges around land acquisition and the cover-up of a smokestack collapse that killed at least 30 workers. Now Reliance's Krishnapatnam coal-fired power plant has stopped construction and could face 11 lawsuits because the high price of coal has made the plant unviable.
However, ExIm did provide perplexing support for clean technology. There even was a clean energy panel, which openly acknowledged that off-grid renewable energy is lucrative, better capable of addressing energy poverty, and less vulnerable to international fossil fuel price fluctuations. "While ExIm has dramatically increased its renewable energy financing, we are confident that the bank will continue miss the Congressionally-mandated 10% renewable energy target that would help make the U.S. competitive in this emerging global market," said Doug Norlen, Policy Director for Pacific Environment.
Nicole Ghio, Campaign Liaison for the Sierra Club. summed up the conference: "Aside from the unexpected, albeit cursory, nod to clean technology that could help reduce energy poverty and ensure a safe and healthy future for generations to come, it is clear that ExIm is working to keep the U.S. in the 20th century for another 100 years."


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pb_designs needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 240 designs submitted by 70 freelance designers.
Hi, I've been operating since 2002 with the same logo - it's not a bad logo, but looks a little flat now and doesn't really reflect what we do. Please help me to update it!
Plastic Box
This is our current logo:
At the moment it doesn't really reflect what we are which is:
- A website design company
- A friendly company that doesn't speak jargon
- A professional company
- A modern company
An outline of us: we provide quality websites to small/medium sized businesses. Our websites are valued at between £750-£2000. We have a friendly approach and do not speak jargon - we ensure that everything is "geek free".
Previously the logo was a light blue, which worked quite well, but the orange (that we adopted in 2006) has worked really well and stands out nicely (and it seems since then everyone has gone orange!). I'm happy to stay orange, but interested to see other suggestions of colours.
At the moment the logo doesn't have "web design" on it - again, interested to see variations of logos with and without "web design" on it. Equally, I'd be interested to see version with .co.uk at the end - our website address is http://www.plasticbox.co.uk.
The website will be re-designed following the new logo, so please do not feel it has to "fit in" to the current site. If you can provide something in this logo that provides a nice theme for the new site, even better!
- Variations of the following:plastic box
plastic box (with Web Design underneath)
plasticbox.co.uk (with Web Design underneath).
One graphic element to go with it - I like the box as it reflects our name, but I'd be interested to see if you can convey "internet" without it looking geeky/technical!
Should be approachable/warm looking - not cartoony - but not too corporate.
The choice of font is the most important aspect - I believe the logo will still rely on the font more than the image. Please ensure that I can easily get access to the font as I need to use it in future designs. The current font is Century Gothic, which now looks a little dated!
Please try and keep it longer than it is higher - it's easier for adding to websites etc.
The logo has always been lower case - I do prefer it that way but if you like your example looks better with a capital letter at the begining of each word, feel free to try and convert me :)
BTW this isn't only for screen - this will get printed on invoices etc!
Please also provide 2 other colours that will compliment the logo that I can use within the new website/marketing materials.
The logo must be a vector format, and must be provided in a standard vector format, along with high quality jpg and png versions.
- I don't really want Web 2.0 - it's a bit obvious!
- Nothing "American" looking
- No wishy washy pastel colours - nice strong colours please.
- Strong graphical element that could be used alone without the text.
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You can have all the wind, all the gear in the world, beautiful logoons and nice warm water, but I means nothing without your health and fitness. I sprained my medial ligament in my ankle over a week ago and am confined to a deck chair in a hotel room in paradise, watching hundreds of kiters and windsurfers enjoying the water.
I've learned something new about this sport while sitting here and that is the need to keep fit and strong in the off season so you don't injur yourself when you finally get to go out for a kite! I advise you all do the same so you don't have to endure what I'm going through right now!


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Trion Worlds has pumped new life into its fantasy online role-playing game Rift: Planes of Telara by adding in-game rewards from gamer social network Raptr. The results of new rewards: 470 percent more daily active users and 58 percent longer play sessions.
After five years of development, Redwood City, Calif.-based Trion launched Rift in March 2011. By August 2011, Trion said more than 1 million people had played the game, and in January 2012, the company said it had generated $100 million in revenue. In November, Trion teamed up with Raptr to revitalize Rift's community.
The campaign integrated Raptr Rewards — where members can get certain kinds of in-game rewards — to acquire and retain new gamers. The tiered virtual rewards produced results as the number of new online players "skyrocketed," according to Raptr's Tom Curtis. The goal was to get new people into the universe and give Rift players more reason to return.
The companies create four rewards, including a free copy of Rift with a one-month-free subscription. This reward was for Raptr gamers who had reached the "experienced" rank in other role-playing games such as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, World of Warcraft, and Torchlight II. If the players met this requirement, they could get quick and easy access to Rift. To get more rewards, Raptr gamers had to play Rift and reach different ranks within the MMO, including "newbie," "elite," and "experienced." They could do so by logging more time in the game. In exchange, they got rewards such as "Smithy Goggles" and the "Exotic Spider Mount Spindrel."
Rift daily active user numbers grew 470 percent among Raptr users. Existing users played 58 percent more per day, or 6.3 hours.


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Magic Mirrors: Vintage, Danish & Art Deco
Okay, none of these are going to declare you the fairest of the land. But they do reflect light and make rooms appear larger than they are. So maybe these mirrors are magic after all.
• Baltimore, MD: Vintage Mirror - $Best Offer
• Los Angeles, CA: Mirrored Dresser - $1745
• Cortlandt Manor, NY: Danish Modern Mirror - $150
• Los Angeles, CA: Blue Art Deco Mirror - $1650
• Seattle, WA: Gold Ornate Mirror - $57
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Anthony Hopkins refused to dress down for Hitchcock rehearsals
The Silence of the Lambs star wore padding and facial prosthetics to transform into the portly, smartly-dressed director for Hitchcock after refusing to pile on weight for the role.
But he insisted on turning up to rehearsals alongside co-stars Dame Helen Mirren and Scarlett Johansson in formal clothes to perfect his portrayal of the cinema icon.
He tells Deadline.com, "I spent about an hour and half in make-up each day. I also shaved my head, because I'm quite gray and Hitchcock used dye - that awful red dye. And then, once you get into the mask, I'm not Alfred Hitchcock; I'm Anthony Hopkins playing the guy.
"So I used what I could. I wouldn't go on the set till I was completely dressed. I wouldn't go on in jeans, even in rehearsal. If you're going to rehearse a scene, become the character. I wanted to feel the illusion of what I was trying to do, and that's what I did."


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The election season could give way to a nasty season for stocks if Washington doesn't show a willingness to compromise on fiscal issues.
That fear is one of the biggest immediate concerns for markets after Tuesday's presidential election, which saw the re-election of President Barack Obama. Democrats retained control of the Senate, and Republicans kept their majority in the House, all a recipe for Congressional gridlock.
Stocks sold off Wednesday for several reasons, but a main one cited by traders was the possibility that now the election has passed, Congress and the White House will not be able to compromise on fiscal matters and the economy will pay the price.
The White House reported Wednesday that Obama had already made calls to Congressional leaders in both parties, looking for cooperation and a willingness to compromise on the "fiscal cliff."
The Dow was off 312 points to 12,932, and the S&P 500 slid 33 to 1394. It was the second worst post-election rout since the late 1940s. The worst was in 2008, during the height of the financial crisis when Obama was first elected, and the Dow fell 5 percent. There was also a flight to safety in the bond market, where the yield on the 10-year touched a low of 1.62, well below the 1.75 percent yield it saw earlier this week.
"This to me is likely more of a kind of one-time reset here," said Jack Ablin, CIO of BMO Private Bank. "I don't necessarily see this as a technical breakdown, or anything like that. I think equities are reasonably valued at 1400."
(Read More: Fixing 'Fiscal Cliff' Means 'High, Higher' Taxes: Gross)
"We're expecting $100 earnings (for the S&P 500) next year, and that's substantially below what analysts are expecting right now," he said. "That should be able to support 1400. I'm not too worried about the bottom falling out. Investors like scenario analysis, and they're going to scare themselves with the low probability outcomes."
The cliff negotiations could be as stressful for market as the Congressional debt ceiling negotiations, which ultimately led to the downgrade of the U.S. triple A credit rating in the summer of 2011. Traders will no doubt obsess about every comment and development, much as they have about European sovereign developments, still a worry for markets. That certainly was the case Wednesday.
"The bottom line is if the fiscal cliff isn't dealt with, you're going to see equities trend lower," said Joseph LaVorgna, Deutsche Bank chief U.S. economist and a CNBC contributor.
House Speaker John Boehner helped break the ice Wednesday afternoon by promising a willingness to raise taxes under certain circumstances. The fiscal cliff is the end of year expiration of Bush tax cuts, and the automatic spending cuts that were agreed to as part of the debt ceiling deal. Those spending cuts are viewed as onerous and are especially deep on defense spending. But the biggest hit from the cliff would be the slam on the economy if all Bush era tax cuts are allowed to expire, including a reversion to higher tax rates, and a big hike in dividend and capital gains taxes.
(Read More: What's Behind Financials' Post-Election Dive?)
"Maybe I'm naïve but I think the political edge is off on both sides. There's nothing left to prove. (Obama) He can't run again so he's not looking to be re-elected. The Republicans know they're going to have a shot next time. It's really up to them," Ablin said.
Meanwhile, Europe was also a concern on Wednesday, and traders are now especially focused on Thursday's meeting of the European Central Bank and press briefing by ECB President Mario Draghi. Draghi spooked markets Wednesday when he said the economic slowdown was now affecting Germany, the stalwart of the European economy. Later on Wednesday, Greece's parliament, by a thin majority, approved an austerity package required for its aid deal, against a backdrop of violent protests.
What Else to Watch
U.S. economic reports will also be of interest Thursday. Weekly jobless claims are expected to total 365,000, but economists say there may be some impact from Super Storm Sandy, which could impact the 8:30 a.m. ET number. There is also international trade data for September, also at 8:30 a.m.
(Read More: Why 'Rise Above?')
"Claims are tricky because if you look at the two previous hurricanes, they're different but there was no clear signal on claims initially," LaVorgna said. He said the international trade number could be important and lead to a possible upward revision to GDP for the third quarter, now at 2 percent.
There are also a number of companies reporting earnings, including Siemens, Dean Foods, Duke Energy, First Energy, Kohl's, Tim Horton's, Scotts Miracle-Gro, Wendy's and Anglogold Ashanti, before the opening bell. Disney reports after the closing bell, as does Groupon, Nordstrom, Public Storage, Energizer, Great Plains Energy, Zipcar, and Kayak Software.
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Rain CII Carbon LLC Completes Acquisition of RUETGERS N.V.
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STAMFORD, Conn., Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Rain CII Carbon LLC USA ("Rain CII") has completed the previously announced acquisition of RUETGERS N.V. ("RUETGERS"), a Belgium-headquartered Coal Tar Pitch ("CTP") and Chemicals manufacturer, from funds managed by Triton ("Triton"), after receiving the necessary regulatory approvals. Rain CII acquired 100% of the shares of RUETGERS pursuant to an agreement with Triton for a gross enterprise value of €702.0 million plus certain contingent payments not exceeding €27.0 million during the next three years. RUETGERS has achieved revenues of €877.4 million and reported EBITDA of €102.8 million for the last twelve months ended September 30, 2012.
"The acquisition of RUETGERS is complementary to Rain CII's core business of Calcined Petroleum Coke," said Gerry Sweeney, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rain CII. "Adding RUETGERS to Rain CII's operations diversifies and expands our portfolio of products and our base of operations geographically while adding vertical depth within our core business. This will strengthen the prospect of research and development for carbon supply to the Aluminum industry. Moreover, expanding into the Coal Tar Distillation business is complementary to Rain CII and RUETGERS as both companies share the same underlying business model of converting the by-products of major industries, in this case oil refining and steel industries respectively, into value-added products."
"Rain CII and RUETGERS have complementary products and geographic presences. As a result of the expected global scale of the combined company, long-standing supplier and customer relationships, production resources, application know-how, and expertise in complying with industry regulatory requirements, we believe we will be well positioned to maintain our industry-leading positions" said Henri Steinmetz, Chief Executive Officer of RUETGERS. "RUETGERS' investments in existing sites and new facilities in the Netherlands and Russia provide for new innovative products and further strengthened market positions. RUETGERS is today well positioned to continue to prosper and we believe that Rain CII has the credentials to and will be a good owner for RUETGERS."
About Rain CII:
Rain CII is engaged in the businesses of production and sale of Calcined Petroleum Coke ("CPC") and co-generation of Energy (Steam and/or Electricity).
Rain CII along with its associate company in India ("Rain CII Group"), is one of the world's largest producers of CPC with nine Coke Calcining plants in the US, India and China. Rain CII sells CPC primarily to global customers in the Aluminum, Steel and Titanium-Dioxide industries. Rain CII Group has five heat recovery plants in the US and India which co-generate steam and electricity to produce energy.
For further information, please visit http://www.raincii.com
About RUETGERS:
For more than 160 years, RUETGERS has been setting the standard as a manufacturer of high-quality basic and specialty chemicals. RUETGERS has approximately 1,000 employees at eight international production sites maintaining the highest standards to protect people and the environment. RUETGERS secures its supply of raw materials and operates an efficient logistics network to ensure on-time supply of pitch products, technical oils, aromatic resins and other basic chemicals.
For more information: www.ruetgers-group.com/en
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4. Presentation by Julie Haden, West Virginia Office of Economic Opportunity, regarding the West Virginia Emergency Solutions Grants program.
5. Presentation by Zach Brown, Executive Director, Coalition to End Homelessness, regarding homelessness in West Virginia and potential solutions to address this issue.
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On Permanent DisplayAnimals big and small come to life in exquisitely detailed dioramas that transport you around the world.From Alaska to Argentina, Africa to Australia, more than 90 wildlife and habitat scenes illustrate our planet's amazing diversity. Like three-dimensional "postcards" from places near and far, they capture moments in time, showcasing the world's wondrous animals and the delicate ecosystems in which they live.
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Author: Monica Savut, Econsultancy
Pages: 142 pages
Structure: Market trends and issues; SWOT analysis; tips and pitfalls; profiles of 12 data management platforms (DMPs); summary matrix and charts (for comparing suppliers)
About this guide
The Data Management Platforms Buyer's Guide is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to build an understanding of this fast-growing market, including advertisers, agencies, publishers and industry analysts. This report, which has a global focus, looks at market trends within this sector, with profiles of 12 leading vendors as well as advice for buyers looking for a data management platform.
The guide also includes extensive insight from individuals on the front-line of the online advertising market.
The report starts with a look at the recent trends in the data management platforms sector, as well as an assessment of the its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT).
Trends covered in this guide include:
- The importance of balancing data, intuition and technology
- More companies turn to data management platforms to tackle big data challenges
- Platform integration and consolidation: the evolving role of the DMP in the enterprise technology stack
- It's no longer about data collection, but about data connectivity
Table of contents
- Introduction
- About Econsultancy
- Executive Summary
- The Market
- Market definition
- Market trends
- Organisations have just started to grasp the importance of balancing data, intuition and technology
- More companies turn to data management platforms to tackle big data challenges
- Platform integration and consolidation: the evolving role of the DMP in the enterprise technology stack
- It's no longer about data collection, but about data connectivity
- Return on investment
- Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT)
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Opportunities
- Threats
- Costs and Pricing Models
- Tips and Pitfalls
- Introduction
- Is a DMP what your organisation really needs?
- How to find the right data management platform
- First step is to overcome internal hurdles and roadblocks
- Choosing the right solution: key questions to ask
- Market Positioning Charts
- Explanation for Chart 1: Business model
- Market positioning overview: Business model
- Explanation for Chart 2: Type of company
- Market positioning overview: Type of company
- Supplier Matrix
- Supplier Marketplace and Profiles
- [x+1]
- Acxiom Corporation
- Adobe Systems
- Aggregate Knowledge
- BlueKai
- eXelate
- Krux
- Lotame
- nPario
- Rocket Fuel
- Turn
- Weborama
The report contains profiles of the following data management platforms: [x+1], Acxiom Corporation, Adobe Systems, Aggregate Knowledge, BlueKai, eXelate, Krux, Lotame, nPario, Rocket Fuel, Turn, Weborama.
Note: The following vendors were invited to take part but declined to submit profiles for this report, or could not meet the deadline: AudienceScience, Collective, Core Audience (iCrossing).
Who is this guide for
It is primarily aimed at organisations who are looking for a data management platform or are reviewing the capabilities of their current supplier.
The report is also relevant to anyone interested in understanding the current state of the marketplace. The content of this guide is relevant globally.
Download a copy of the report to learn more.
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How to Cook Basmati Rice
Ah, basmati rice. I don't think there is a food that better represents the similarities and differences of Indian Subcontinent and East Asian cultures. Rice is the staple starch in both of these Asian regions, but the preparation couldn't be more different. In the Far East, sticky jasmine rice is typically prepared with every meal. Chopsticks are the utensil of choice, which helps explain the popularity of rice that can stay clumped together on the journey from the bowl to the mouth.
By contrast, the quality of cooked basmati rice is judged primarily by how separate the grains remain. Traditionally, people of the subcontinent eat with their hands, and the various dals and kormas do a great job of creating cohesion.
Preparing basmati rice at home is not nearly as challenging as it may seem, but as is the case with many simple dishes, precision and care are required. Like pasta, if it's cooked past "al dente", basmati rice will become mushy.
I didn't have much experience with basmati rice until I got married. After more than five years, I have not only learned how to make it, I have come to love it. In our home, we make both sticky Asian jasmine rice and Indian basmati rice everyday to satisfy the different palates. We typically eat it with dal, but the girls love to have basmati rice with a little butter and sumac. Sumac is a common Middle Eastern spice and has a deep reddish, purple color. You can see it sprinkled over the rice in the photos.
If you don't have well cooked basmati rice on a regular basis, you don't know what you're missing. I know that for a long time I didn't!
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Soniq E40S12A LED television
Soniq's small-screen Smart LED TV is under $500 at JB Hi-Fi
- Smart TV through Android
- Useful remote control
- Low price
- Low-resolution interface
- Mediocre contrast and clarity
- Unnecessary features integrated
Bottom Line
Soniq's E40S12A is a surprisingly cheap television, given that it has an Android-based Smart TV service integrated. It is not an especially high quality panel, and the interface is unnecessarily complicated at times, but it's one of the cheapest televisions we've seen that can connect to the Internet.
Price$ 468.00 (AUD)
Smart TVs have been all the rage for the last couple of years, with market leaders Samsung, LG, Sony, Panasonic and Sharp all implementing some manner of Web features into their premium panels. It's only now that we're starting to see cheaper televisions from Chinese companies start to catch on to the trend, with the Soniq E40S12A using an Android-based interface.
Soniq E40S12A: Design, connectivity and features
The 40-inch E40S12A is joined by the 32-inch non-Full HD E32S12A ($348) and the 48-inch Full HD E48S12A ($699). A $29 wireless adapter provides 802.11n Wi-Fi network access to any of the S12A series. All three TVs are available exclusively through JB Hi-Fi and Soniq's online store.
The Soniq E40S12A won't offer up any surprises in the design stakes. It's a simple and unspectacular chassis with piano black finishing on the inch-thick plastic bezel. The base of the stand is slightly larger than we are used to with big-brand TVs; this is a problem if you don't have much space on your entertainment unit, but it does offer a little more stability.
Around the back of the TV, you'll find more inputs than you could reasonably expect on a TV of this price. Four HDMI ports is a good base to start from — when you buy cheaper TVs from big brands, you usually get 3 or less — and analog ports are in abundance with two component, two composite, and one VGA connector. An SD card reader and three USB ports make for some comprehensive multimedia connectivity, too — even if you're using one port for the optional Wi-Fi adapter, you can have one port for a permanently-attached hard drive and a temporary flash drive.
The stand of the Soniq E40S12A lets the screen swivel from left to right, across an OK-but-not-great 20 degree range of motion.
The remote control that's bundled with the Soniq E40S12A is what differentiates it from other TVs of its price range, and even from the cheaper Smart TVs available from big companies like Samsung and LG. It's a regular candy-bar remote control with standard playback and power and navigation buttons on one side, but the other side has a full QWERTY keyboard with a similar key layout to the Logitech Dinovo Mini.
The remote control works well for the TV's Smart services, especially the Web browser. Typing search queries into YouTube or Google is the bane of our existence on a candy-bar TV remote, and having a full keyboard on hand simplifies the process massively. It's also a reasonably well-built remote, beating out the clickers we've tried on similarly-priced televisions from companies like Kogan.
Soniq E40S12A: Android Smart TV and interface
The interface of the Soniq E40S12A is based on Google's Android low-powered operating system. It's a forked version of the system, so it's got no resemblance to the touchscreen interface you'd find on any recent smartphone or tablet. It's based off Android 2.2.1 Froyo, but since there's no chance of updating it, that's not a particularly important thing to note.
The interface is not particularly good-looking. It's not running at the native resolution of the screen and is up-scaled to suit, so icons and text are somewhat blurry and slightly indistinct. You'll have no problems reading them or understanding what they are, but you'll get a better TV interface from a non-Android, proprietary system like Panasonic's or Samsung's TVs can offer.
What we also don't like is the complicated nature of the menu from which the Smart TV features are on offer. While other manufacturers keep the pre-installed software to a minimum and let you pick and choose what you want, Soniq has the E40S12A populated with online shopping, games, weather, and news apps, as well as the standard YouTube, Web browser, and Facebook. The Android Market (not Google Play, though, obviously) lets you install a range of other apps.
The Smart TV features offered through Android have potential, but the integration at the moment is largely useful only for easy YouTube or Web browser access. As Soniq releases other features this experience may change for the better.
Soniq E40S12A: Picture quality and performance
The Soniq E40S12A is a Full HD 40-inch TV, using an edge LED backlight for its LCD panel. Its screen is a good match for broadcast free-to-air digital TV and DVD watching, but it doesn't have the contrast to be able to do high quality movies on DVD a great deal of justice.
The LED backlight means the Soniq E40S12A performs better than a CCFL-backlit LED, but the backlight isn't able to dynamically adjust its brightness to suit the material that's playing on-screen, so with the backlight set to a moderate level dark scenes a movie can look bright, while bright scenes can look a little gloomy. This is an area where the Soniq is clearly cheaper than more expensive models from bigger brands — dynamic backlight adjustment is a definite advantage for the display quality of a TV, and local dimming (lowering brightness in one area of the screen while boosting it in another) is a further improvement again.
In general, contrast is OK, but definitely nothing special. There's a moderate amount of detail lost in both dark and light areas of the screen if you're watching a well-mastered movie on Blu-ray like The Dark Knight, but this is inevitable on a television of this type and price. For casual watching — digital TV, Saturday night movies and the like — the Soniq E40S12A is acceptable with no critical flaws.
Detail is good when you're watching flattering Full HD content. Lower-resolution video is up-scaled with a moderate amount of blockiness and blurring; nothing terrible but this is another shortcoming of cheap televisions generally. Motion is another area where the Soniq stumbles — it doesn't have any 100Hz motion smoothing, so if you're watching fast-moving video there's a lot of detail lost and the screen can tend to look jittery.
Soniq E40S12A: Conclusion
The Android Smart TV platform has a lot of potential, and it just needs some more refinement before it becomes a feasible and high-quality alternative for cheaper TV manufacturers to use in competing with Samsung, LG, Panasonic and Sony. Paired with a large Full HD TV and the kind of remote control that we liked about the Soniq E40S12A, it could be an excellent system.
The E40S12A is a perfectly reasonable small-screen television, especially given its sub-$500 price tag. It doesn't have the picture quality to flatter high quality content, but for casual watchers it's adequate — and the addition of integrated access to a Web browser and YouTube can't be discounted.
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Gaining employment
ILR's class of 2013 is faring well in the job market.
Fifty-seven percent of those who received bachelor degrees from ILR this year have supplied information on post-graduation activity, and 75 percent of them report being employed.
The ILR Office of Career Services provided additional statistics from students reporting to date. They include:
- 11 percent have been accepted and plan to attend law school in the fall
- 3 percent have been accepted and plan to attend other graduate programs in the fall
- 5 percent are seeking employment
- 3 percent are seeking acceptances to law or graduate schools
- 2 percent have other plans such as time off or travel
Ninety-four percent of 2013 graduates of the master of industrial and labor relations program -- known as "MILR" – have accepted job offers or are pursuing additional graduate study, according to survey results collected to date.
"Employers consistently tell us that ILR students stand out because of their broad, practical education and global perspective. These survey results once again show us that our students are in high demand, even in a tough economy, and well-prepared to pursue a variety of career and post-graduate opportunities," says Regina Duffey Moravek, director of ILR career services and MILR program.
Complete 2013 post-graduation data is reported nine months following graduation. Final 2012 post-graduation data for ILR students receiving bachelor's degrees includes:
- an increase in the number of students going into employment. Seventy-five percent were employed, up from 73 percent in 2011, 65 percent in 2010 and 59 percent in 2009.
- the second highest Cornell undergraduate figure for employment. The School of Hotel Administration led the university with an 89 percent employment rate.
- 12 percent, in line with a seven-year decline, went to law school.
- a mean salary of $52,365, the second highest at Cornell by school or college for the eighth year. The College of Engineering reported the highest mean salary.
- employment in a span of fields, led by human resources/labor relations, financial services, human resources consulting, business and management consulting, education, legal assistant/paralegal, government/public service/nonprofit, labor, marketing/public relations and entrepreneurial ventures.
Information supplied by 2012 MILR graduates includes:
- 91 percent were employed
- seven percent pursued doctoral or law degrees
- a mean salary of $80,413; $84,665 for those pursuing corporate positions
- a mean salary of $109,000 for a MILR/MBA degree graduate
- 29 percent of international students are employed in the United States through H1B sponsorship; 35 percent are employed in their home countries and six percent are employed outside of the United States and their home countries.
- 18 percent of international students went on to law school or doctoral programs.
Complete postgraduate survey results can be seen at http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/careerservices/postgrad/.


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A software application which handles the editing of video sequences on a computer is called video editing suite (software). It can also manage limited editing of the audio clips which accompany the video or at least the ability to sync the audio with the video.
Image editing applications like vector graphic software typically show one image on a large area on the screen and a view of the directory. To hold many files in the directory, it is possible to zoom out, so that a single file only covers one pixel-line in the editor, or even less, for rough cutting. A play button lets the software automatically advance to the next image, thus playing the video. Like slide show editing software that comes with a lot of image file format decoders, video editing software comes with plenty of video codecs.
Some of the best video editing software are quite expensive, like Adobe Premiere and Apple's Final Cut Pro. However, thanks to these valuable free and open source video editing software applications, you don't have to empty your wallet.
Jahshaka aims to become a cross-platform, open source, free, video editing, effects, and compositing suite. It is currently in alpha stage, supporting realtime effects rendering, but lacking useful implementations of many features such as the non-linear editing system. It is written using Trolltech's Qt, but its user interface is written using an OpenGL library to create GUIs.
Once finished, it would be in the same market space as Newtek's Video Toaster and Pinnacle Liquid Edition. With all promised features it would be a rival to Adobe's After Effects or Autodesk's Combustion - in fact the GUI is heavily based upon Combustion.
Since it uses OpenGL and OpenML, it could be ported to many different platforms; theoretically, it should run on any platform that supports OpenGL and has the necessary computing power.
Avidemux is a multi-purpose video editing and processing program. It is written in C/C++, using the GTK+ graphics toolkit, and therefore is truly a platform independent, universal video processing program. It is available for almost all distributions of Linux that are capable of compiling C/C++, GTK+ and the SpiderMonkey ECMAScript scripting engine. A Win32 version of this program is also available for Windows users, as well as Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD ports and packages. The program has also been successfully run under Solaris, though no official packages or binaries exist for it. The program can be run in 64bit operating systems that are non-Windows and non-Macintosh based.
Cinelerra is a free and open source software non-linear video editing system. It is designed for the Linux operating system, but has also been successfully ported to Mac OS X. It is produced by Heroine Virtual, and is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Cinelerra also includes a video compositing engine, allowing the user to perform common compositing operations such as keying and mattes.
Cinelerra was first released August 1, 2002, and was based in part on an earlier product known as Broadcast 2000. Broadcast 2000 was withdrawn by Heroine Virtual in September 2001.
As a professional editing program, Cinelerra requires significant computing power.
Kino is a free software, GTK+-based non-linear digital video editor. Its vision is: "Easy and reliable DV editing for the Linux desktop with export to many usable formats." The program supports many basic video editing and assembling tasks.
Kino can import raw AVI and DV files, as well as capture footage from digital camcorders using the raw1394 and dv1394 libraries, and export to camcorders using the ieee1394 or video1394 libraries. Kino does not support Linux 2.6.22's new firewire stack.
Kino is included in the public package respositories of several GNU/Linux distributions, including Debian. BSD ports are also available.
LiVES mixes realtime video performance and non-linear editing in one application. It will let you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or framerates. It is a very flexible tool which can be used by both VJ's and video editors - mix and switch clips from the keyboard, trim and edit your clips, and bring them together using the multitrack timeline. You can even record your performance in real time, and then edit it further or render it straight away as a new clip !
For the more technically minded, the application can be controlled remotely or scripted for use as a video server. And it supports all of the latest free standards.
LiVES is good enough to be used as a VJ tool for professional performances, and as a video editor is capable of creating dazzling clips in a wide variety of formats.


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Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Travel Guide
Martha's Vineyard Summary
- Scenic surroundings: white picket fences, rocky cliffs leading to the sea, green rolling hills
- Beautiful lighthouses dotting nearly every corner of the island
- No chain stores, only unique local shops and elegant boutiques
- Plenty of family fun, like fairs, all-age discos, and famous ice cream shops (Ben & Bill's, anyone?)
- Native American heritage at Aquinnah Cliffs
- One of the most ethnically diverse New England destinations
- Less developed than surrounding destinations, like Cape Cod
- Quiet beach town, great for weekend getaways from hurried 9-to-5 life
- Nightlife and music scene in Oak Bluffs and Edgartown (it's small, but there!)
- Prides itself on being less "stuffy" then typical east-coast beach towns, like the Hamptons and Nantucket
- Busy during summer months
- Restaurants tend to be expensive
- Not an extremely active nightlife scene (last call at bars and clubs is around 12:30 a.m.)
What It's Like
This quaint island -- a happy medium between well-developed Cape Cod and isolated Nantucket -- offers pristine beaches, boutique shops, and a taste of the region's maritime past.
Edgartown and Oak Bluffs are picturesque New England seaside towns, but still have shopping and entertainment options, like wine bars, ice cream parlors, and elegant boutiques. On the western side of the island, towns like Chilmark and Menemsha provide a more remote experience.
Although restaurants are often on the pricey side, they're typically worth the extra green. Competition in the foodie world is fierce on this island, as the restaurants here have some of the finest service and cuisine on the east coast.
Where To Stay
Visitors eager for nightlife might want to look for hotels in Oak Bluffs and Edgartown, as alcohol is less of a focus elsewhere (several towns even choose to be dry). That being said, visitors hoping to fully escape from crazy city life might prefer the western areas of Chilmark and Aquinnah, the most peaceful options. You'll find the most options within the busier parts of the island -- Edgartown, Vineyard Haven, and Oak Bluffs -- but a few decent alternatives can be found in the isolated western areas.


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- iRedMail version: iRedAdmin-Pro-MySQL-1.5.1
- Store mail accounts in which backend (LDAP/MySQL/PGSQL): MySQL
- Linux/BSD distribution name and version: Ubuntu 12.04LTS
- Related log if you're reporting an issue:
<-- as seen on this pic, theres the white/blacklist.
For some reason, after a fresh install mine is gone.
Do you have any clue as to why it wouldnt show up, after a fresh install?


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Our early training and our self-centeredness combine to make us believe that every judgement of us is about us. In fact most aren't. This is a rare case where being less self-centered will make people more confident. Once you realize how little most people judging you care about judging you accurately—once you realize that because of the normal distribution of most applicant pools, it matters least to judge accurately in precisely the cases where judgement has the most effect—you won't take rejection so personally.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
On judgements
Paul Graham has a short note on judgements which seems apropos to dealing with rejection of various kinds (papers, jobs, grants, etc):
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Thursday November 1, 2012
One Direction's Niall Horan is being encouraged to spend some of his new multi-mullion fortune by his bandmate Harry Styles.
Irish-born Niall has yet to splash any of his heard earned cash on a house, car or even a driving lesson.
The group certainly have enviable bank accounts, recently joining an under-30s rich list thanks to their £26m fortune.
The quintet reached the number five spot in a weekly magazine's annual Rich List when their combined worth of £26.33 million knocked Harry Potter star Rupert Grint down to seventh place.
But a source has said that Niall's 18-year-old bandmate Harry, who was recently reported to have forked out £3 million on a plush London home, is trying to encourage his pal to invest in property.
An insider said that 19-year-old Niall "isn't one to go around flashing his cash about. It's just not his style."
Adding that "he is mostly content playing his guitar and video games while having a laugh with the boys.
"But Harry is trying to get him to buy some properties and invest his millions. Niall doesn't own a house or a car. He gets about on a push bike."
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Right Drug pharmacy under new ownership
CALLAWAY - - When Robert Edgington died of cancer in June, it left much more than just an emotional wound in the community of Callaway. It also left the citizens and patrons of the local drug store wondering just what might become of the business they were so used to having available. Edgington was the owner of Right Drug in Callaway, a combination pharmacy and variety store. He purchased the drug store in 1972, and had run the store since - serving as the community's pharmacist for 38 years. Edgington formed his own corporation which owns Right Drug, EdgFam. Corporate president of EdgFam is now Rob Edgington, son of Robert. Rob explains that in the months since his father's death the family has desperately fought to hold on to the business, particularly the pharmacy. Rob says that in keeping with state and federal regulations there had to be a certified pharmacist behind the counter at least 30 hours a week. That, he says, proved to be a real challenge. While a number of visiting pharmacists did what they could to help keep the business going, it just proved to be too much. EdgFam was forced to make the decision to sell the business. While they were hoping someone would purchase the store and continue to run it as a pharmacy/variety store as Robert had, they were not successful in finding such a buyer. Rob says many of the parties interested in purchasing the business planned to take the patient files and inventory out of town. Luckily, that did not happen, as Right Drug has been purchased by Marge Trythall, owner of Varney Rexall Healthmart in Broken Bow. For now, Trythall and her staff are operating the pharmacy out of Right Drug; however, the location of the pharmacy will change in the next few months - as will the name. Trythall has leased the Medical Arts Building, site of the temporary medical clinic in Callaway, and plans to relocate the pharmacy there as soon as remodeling of the building is completed. She says she hopes to have the new Seven Valleys Health Mart operational in the new location by the first of the year. The decision to move the pharmacy, Trythall says, was prompted by a number of logistical issues. She says she likes the idea of the close proximity to the clinic and hospital, as well as the security that is offered in the new facility. There will also be separate patient consultation rooms for added privacy. While the remodeling itself is close to being finished, Trythall says it may take a little while to get all of the necessary equipment in for the new pharmacy. She says a grand opening is being planned, hopefully for later this year. Seven Valleys Health Mart will be open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Trythall says her staff will continue to operate the new location as they do now, with she herself making the drive to Callaway three days a week and Stacy and Sarah each going over one day a week. Rob says he does not expect the variety store to survive once the pharmacy relocates. He says the variety store is kind of like the candy dish in a bank - people just grab a piece of candy while they are waiting to do the business they came in to do. Rob says EdgFam invested a lot of time and money into trying to keep the store going in Callaway, "because it was the right thing to do." He says just as his father was hoping for a miracle after his last chemo treatment, the family hoped for a miracle to save the store. But that didn't happen. The bright spot is the pharmacy will remain in Callaway, serving the area's medical patients. Trythall says that at this time she does not plan to offer variety merchandise at Seven Valleys Health Mart, as she does not want to compete in any way with Right Drug. Both Rob and Trythall credit the employees of Right Drug for keeping the store going these past few months. "The employees, Joanie, Kathy and Mary Ann, deserve a tremendous amount of credit," Trythall says. While she is excited about the new opportunity and challenge that the added pharmacy brings, Trythall is also very aware of the emotion involved with the move. "Filling Robert Edgington's shoes will be a pretty big job," she says.


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Judge Claire V. Eagan
September 2012: Median Prison Sentence
District Court - Oklahoma North
Referring Agency: Federal Bureau of Investigation
Lead Charge: Withheld by govt from TRAC (FOIA challenge pending)
For all cases disposed of in the current fiscal year (2012) that were credited to Judge Claire V. Eagan in the Northern District of Oklahoma, the median prison sentence was 65.0 months, when looking only at cases referred by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with a lead charge of "Withheld by govt from TRAC (FOIA challenge pending)". During the current fiscal year, Judge Claire V. Eagan has sentenced 4 defendants compared with 2 defendants during the twelve months of the previous fiscal year.
Over the last five years, the median prison sentence imposed on defendants that were credited to Judge Eagan was 70.0 months. This was 37.3% higher than the 51.0 months typical in Oklahoma North and 42.9% higher than the 49.0 months median prison sentence for the nation. Judge Claire V. Eagan sentenced 15 defendants during the past five years.
(CAUTION: The kinds of cases handled by individual judges influences statistical information about their sentences. It therefore is important to consider the breakdown of cases that each has handled, available below, when making judge-by-judge comparisons.)
Figure 1 compares Judge Eagan's numbers to those for judges in this district and in the United States as a whole for cases of this type over the last five years.
During the last five years there were 3 other judges in the Northern District of Oklahoma with information on convictions during that period. Median prison sentence numbers passed down for those judges ranged from 24.0 months to 58.5 months, putting Judge Eagan's median prison sentence of 70.0 months at the higher end of the range. The median prison sentence for the whole Northern District of Oklahoma during that time was 51.0 months.
Professional Biography
Born 1950 in Bronx, NY
Federal Judicial Service
Judge, U. S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma
Nominated by George W. Bush on , to a seat vacated by Thomas Rutherford Brett; Confirmed by the Senate on October 23, 2001, and received commission on October 24, 2001. Served as chief judge, 2005-2012.
Trinity College, Washington, DC, B.A., 1972
Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 1976
Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. Allen E. Barrow, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, 1976-1978
Private practice, Oklahoma, 1978-1998
Program Areas of Cases Handled
Cases disposed of by Judge Claire V. Eagan for the past five years fell into a number of broad categories. The lead category for these cases was Withheld by Govt from TRAC accounting for 100.0% of cases.
Program Area Judge District US Not specified 100.0% 100.0% 98.6% More
Table 2: Composition of Cases for the Past Five Years (Top 10)
Number of Defendants in Judge Claire V. Eagan's Cases
Case Def. Sentence (Months) Sentencing Date Program Category 1 1 10.00 07/27/12 Withheld by Govt from TRAC (FOIA challenge pending) Details 2 1 151.00 06/26/12 Withheld by Govt from TRAC (FOIA challenge pending) Details 2 2 60.00 06/22/12 Withheld by Govt from TRAC (FOIA challenge pending) Details 2 3 70.00 04/10/12 Withheld by Govt from TRAC (FOIA challenge pending) Details
Table 3: Individual Cases and Defendants Disposed of in Current Fiscal Year


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In 2011, Revolution players stress the importance of keeping possession in matches, something the team struggled with last season. ESPN Soccernet discusses how responsibility in the midfield will not be put on captain Shalrie Joseph alone, as he will have assistance this season from returning players and the experienced new signing, Ousmane Dabo.
NE Soccer Today recalls Zak Boggs' promising start as a rookie in 2010, which took an unexpected turn due to a mid-season head injury. Returning as a non-contracted training camp invitee, Boggs is dedicated to earning a spot on the roster and picking up where he left off last season.
Shalrie Joseph is a captain who leads his crew on the field by example, whether it's denying opponents the path to goal or finding his teammates with accurate passes. The Revs' midfielder talks with MLSSoccer.com's Kyle McCarthy about his desire to become a coach following his professional career as a player, and although he already demonstrates many of the traits, he is interested in gaining further knowledge of the technical side of the game.


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Most people do not think twice about scheduling routine medical checkups for themselves or family members. Responsible pet owners need to do the same for their pets and companion animals.
Dr. Elisabeth Giedt, director of Continuing Education, Extension and Community Engagement at the Center for Veterinary Health Sciences at Oklahoma State University, said animals need routine medical care throughout their lives.
"Your veterinarian is a great source of information before you even bring a new pet home," Giedt said. "He or she can give you vital information on things such as pet behavior, diet and spaying or neutering. Routine exams, including the pet's mouth (teeth or dental exams), can detect problems and address disease early."
Just as our children benefit from immunizations, pets benefit from receiving a series of vaccinations to build their immunity to diseases such as parvo virus and distemper virus for dogs, and panleukopenia and respiratory viruses in cats.
Giedt said when pets are properly vaccinated, not only are they protected, but humans benefit as well.
"Vaccinating our pets against rabies not only protects the pet from the deadly disease, but also protects us and our community by helping to limit the spread of rabies," she said. "In addition, the strategic prevention of fleas, ticks, heartworms and intestinal parasites keeps pets, and us, clean from the multitude of diseases these pests can cause."
Regular checkups are not just for vaccinating your pet. As animals age they can develop geriatric problems, including issues with their kidneys, liver and hormone systems.
Early indicators of problems can be seen in routine blood work long before your pet begins exhibiting signs of illness.
"During an annual wellness visit your veterinarian can help tailor your pet's care to fit its life stage," Giedt said. "If you're getting your pet as a new puppy or kitten, or acquiring an older animal, it's important to take your new furry family member in for a complete checkup with your veterinarian. Getting started on a healthy note will help ensure you and your four-legged friend will have a long and healthy life together."


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Paolo Scaroni, born on 28 November 1946 in Vicenza, Italy, is chief executive officer of Italian energy company Eni SpA.
In 1969, Scaroni graduated from Bocconi University of Milan in the field of economics. In 1973 he obtained an MBA from Columbia Business School.
In 1969, Scaroni joined Chevron Corporation for three years. After obtaining MBA, Scaroni was an associate at McKinsey & Company. In 1973, he joined Saint-Gobain, where he held different positions, culminating with his appointment as president of flat glass division. In 1985, he was appointed to the post of CEO of Techint. In 1996, he moved to the United Kingdom to become Chief Executive Officer of Pilkington.


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A man charged with brutally attacking a New Jersey woman as she watched cartoons with her 3-year-old — a beating captured on a hidden "nanny cam" camera — pleaded not guilty to multiple charges Tuesday.
Shawn Custis, 42, entered not guilty pleas to attempted murder, robbery, burglary and child endangerment in Essex County Superior Court. He was ordered held on $750,000 bail following his arrest Friday in Manhattan.
The June 21 attack in Millburn was captured on a so-called "nanny cam" hidden inside the home's living room.
The recording shows the woman sitting on a couch watching television with her child, then getting up to investigate a noise in the back of the house. She backs up toward the couch as a man comes into the room and starts savagely beating her
The recording then shows the man going upstairs where authorities said he rifled through the family's belongings. The video shows him coming downstairs multiple times, beating the woman, and finally throwing her down a flight of stairs and eventually running out the front door.
The child cowers on the couch the entire time. Police said a 1-year-old was sleeping upstairs.
"We believe it was his intent to kill the mother," said Essex County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Fennelly, at a news conference. A public defender representing Custis did not comment after the hearing.
Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray said she does not know why the camera was taping while the mother, whose name is being withheld, was home with the children. But more and more people are employing this type of technology in their homes, she said.
"The video is very helpful and increasingly there is video evidence. People in the community who are inclined to do criminal acts should probably be aware that it's often a help for us," Murray said. "The video shows what violent crime looks like."
Prosecutors said the woman is out of the hospital.
"The family is intact, they're together," Fennelly said. "They're trying to move on."


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One man deals with unemployment
In an attempt to rein in expenses after the unfortunate loss of my job, (I believe it was captured by hack pirates in choppy waters off of the Rio Abajo.) I switched medications.
The pill I usually take to fend off unpleasant thoughts regarding the amount of perceived bodily fluids in my Hot Pockets doesn't work well anyway and costs $120 a bottle without insurance.
My sanity is not worth that much, so I began dating the older sister of my usual pill, a bargain at four dollars a bottle. The new pill made me feel both tired and nervous, two unpleasant sensations now available at the same time.
I tried cutting the pills in half and now seem to be half as nervous and 63 percent less tired (this amount of self analysis is exhausting, by the way.) The only problem: being too tired to think did prevent any invasive thoughts about theoretical fluids being present in frozen foods or condiments. That's back. Yay.
If only I could start smoking again. I never had any of these problems when I sucked down 33 Marlboros a day. My clothes had holes burned all over them and there was that pesky lesion in the back of my throat, but no fluids.
Smoking is not an option, however. At seven dollars per pack, two packs a day, I would have to resort to petty theft to get my smoke on. This would undoubtedly lead to prison, where they would give me the generic sister of my crazy pills. The net result would be the same except the fluids in the food would be quite real.


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|2012-08-11, 23:09
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Like the protagonists state, their lives aren't toys. The antagonist refuses to let up for the simple fact that the whole thing is "interesting to him", and that's so deliciously mysterious and evil to me. How sick would your mind have to be to find pleasure in taking apart people's lives by slowly running a razor through their weakest emotions? I'm sure it'll all be explained further, but at the moment it's pure madness, and I love it.
And as mentioned, Nagase Iori's entire script in this episode was riddled with hints at what's to happen next. I can't wait to see what happens, as I have a few theories.
|2012-08-11, 23:36
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This arc is interesting for afew reasons
First, Taichi's desire to literally throw a punch. He's not all bunny rabbits and rainbows after all, he certainly is suppressing some darker side of himself.
Second is Inaba, in the first arc we witnessed her pushing the others together, at what seemed a possible self loss. She also seemed to be the most vulnerable yet hiding it from them. In this arc, we see she likely IS attracted to Taichi, but again, suppressing it for his and Iori's sake. She may call Taichi the selfless freak but...she may be the same thing herself, even if less obviously.
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The plot itself of Kokoro Connect feels rather shallow and forced - a lot of the issues the characters have are surfacing inorganically - it just doesn't feel right. I know it's technically because of heartseed or whatever, but still, I think it could be done better.
Everytime heartseed comes into the scene, it just feels like a load of bull. I hate his character and how they are using him - he feels like a terrible deus ex machina, and trust me, I like tons of shows with deus ex machinas (code geass).
To be honest, this show is really propped up by the amazingness of Inaba. She's just an great character, and I'm only watching the series for her.
I prefer Tari Tari as of right now.
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I'm happy that the event on your pic didn't happen just before Yui barged in. If it did, that'll make Taichi one hell of a "quick ejaculator" and I doubt Inaba will be satisfied that way .
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@SRanger Oh, that's right. I forgot I haven't really mentioned Heartseed in my complaints with this show (because currently, he's the biggest complaint I have). Quite frankly, he needs to stop. I don't know what he's doing, why he's doing it, what the hell he calls what he's doing, but he needs to stop. He is an awful character. He's an awful plot device. He had no right to ask for an apology regarding what he did because he didn't earn it. He is about as remorseful as Chris Brown.
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My current idea is that Taichi is getting frustrated with his friends. We see a bit of this in the next episode preview where he's calling out Inaba.
Taichi is constantly having to deal with his friends' issues and personality quirks, while he himself isn't causing similar issues (outside of romance conflict that is as much a complication for Taichi as it is for Iori and Inaba). At some level, I couldn't fault him for thinking 'Good grief, can't these people just get over their issues and take things more in stride like I do? Do they have to make such a big deal about everything?'.
I think that Taichi might be getting weary of playing counselor to his friends, and maybe feels like it's time for him to start caring about his own needs and wants for a change.
But this is all just an idea.
I do think that Taichi is a genuinely and sincerely nice guy, but there are times when the niceness seems a bit forced to me - Based more on a sense of duty or obligation than on a more natural outpouring of his true personality. The way he tried to quickly resolve the issues of his three female friends had a slight element of fakery to it to me. I do think he genuinely wanted to help them, but I also get the impression that part of Taichi is grappling with impatience with his friends (which is partly why he aimed for quick and simple solutions).
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And this episode exponentially magnifies the problem that carried over from last episode. Heartseed continues to be a poorly written character in that his purpose is to be a plot device to drive the story, rather than be a character that forms part of the story. It's extremely silly and far-fetched that the purpose of making the cast suffer is for his own "personal enjoyment". Sure, I've seen antagonists that derive pleasure from the suffering of others, but it was more in the grand scheme of things such as revenge at the world for making that antagonist suffer in the first place, or as a side element to world domination. But here, here's doing it for "the hell of it" which makes a very unimpressive and unconvincing goal. Heartseed reminds me of one of those internet trolls that cause a ruckus and derive satisfaction from it because they have nothing better to do.
Because of Heartseed, most of the other problems branch from that namely the rather forced drama that's being portrayed here. This series completely lacks in subtlety and although I wouldn't call it melodrama per se, the emotions and actions that are being portrayed by the cast feels artificial in the same way [forced] melodrama artificially tries to make the audience cry. In Kokoro Connect's case, the one reaction it's definitely trying to gouge from the audience is to hate "Heartseed", which it is more or less succeeding in a literal sense. However, there is a difference between loving to hate a character and just hating a character because it's poorly developed. For example, Fate Zero's Kotomine and Madoka's Kyuubey were excellent examples of characters you love to hate because they had legitimate goals and the actions and means to achieve those goals. In Heartseed's case it's just a case of poor character development and a laughable purpose in his quest to make our characters suffer in the way they are atm.
I'm also beginning to feel tonal whiplash in this series in that it seems to shift from slapstick/"semi-ecchi" comedy to near-melodrama, a problem that existed from the very start, but now it's starting to take a toll. In particular I am starting to groan at the way the series is treating its male characters.
Spoiler for Comparison to Hanasaku Iroha:
So please Kokoro Connect, fix this s***. I appreciate the way Kokoro Connect is trying to be ambitious compared to the average slice of life and the way you are taking the hard route of not making a joke out of the body swapping (or in the case of this episode, body hijacking) premise, the execution of it leaves it requiring significant levels of improvement.
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And the mystery around "Heartseed" is interesting in itself. We know he is finding the intelligent zoo animals amusing, and we know that he sees them and himself playing roles. But we don't know his motivation. I don't "hate" him, and I don't see the show trying to make me hate him. The characters don't react with hatred, but with confusion and acceptance. Not even fear.
Crossing all the t's and dotting all the i's of normal storytelling would make this show less interesting for me. Nor I do demand absolute consistency of tone: I'm not getting "whiplash," but interesting modalities of feeling.
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Like I said though the main reason there's overreacting is because it's being forced by Heartseed. Take him out of the equation (whilst keeping the supernatural elements) and the series won't be forcing out reactions. The series would have lost absolutely nothing and actually have gained because at the point it's not making any sense...or making sense in a laughable far-fetched manner, which is just as bad.
|2012-08-12, 03:14
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@Kauro_Chujo: Hmm. Are you sure the characters don't hate Heartseed? I think they do, however they have accepted that they're powerless to stop him and can only learn to adapt (barely) to his whims. I'm sure any one of them would gladly destroy the troll if it was within their power.
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And I would expect to be punched in the guts if I was Taichi and I would still say it. That's too good a tease to pass.
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Thanks for the review! Looking forward to hearing what you think of Animale.
When I first heard some time in 2009 that Histoires de Parfums would be releasing a fragrance revolving around the tuberose, I couldn't help but got all excited. Tuberose to me is an exotic flower with alluringly sensual undertones. If ever I were to entrust a fragrance house with the task of capturing this very essence in a wearable fragrance, it would likely be Histoires de Parfums. With a string of seductive baroque-inspired scents already under its belt, a creative endeavor involving tuberose seems like a match made in heaven. I am thus thrilled to discover the house has come up not with one but THREE tuberose-inspired scents – The Tuberose Trilogy.
TUBEREUSE 1 - Capriceuse
Notes: tuberose, iris, bergamot, saffron, ylang-ylang, cocoa, suede
The first of these is Capriceuse or Capricious. With the connotation on unpredictability or impulsiveness, I am not particularly surprised to find a doughy note of iris greeting my nose right from the very first whiff. But the tuberose blooms soon after - slightly indolic but far from heady, with ylang-ylang adding just the right touch of sweetness. I do wish the tuberose is a little richer but that's hardly surprising considering I'm such a fan of this nocturnal flower.
As the scent develops a hint of suede grows apparent but somehow remains firmly in the background and avoids turning this into yet another floral suede/leather-type of scent. I'm not very familiar with the saffron note so I cannot confirm if the tiny spice note I detect up close is indeed saffron. The cocoa too comes up only as a smidgen late in the drydown.
In the end what I smell here mostly is a refined blend of tuberose and iris over soft suede, with the selection of iris as partner to the tuberose being particularly inspired. Capricious only in its gender appeal, I find Capricieuse beguilingly seductive for its sillage invites the nose to nuzzle right up to the skin of its wearer.
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The scented journey continues... Will post back some time later with thoughts on Virginale and Animale.
TUBEREUSE 2 - Virginale
Notes: tuberose, mandarin, cherry, tiare, jasmine, frangipani, patchouli, blond wood, vanilla
On my skin, the citrus note of mandarin fails to materialize while the bitter-sweetness of cherry seems to have submerged under the somewhat heady family of white florals. Unfortunately the tuberose does not stand out either. Instead, a sweet caramelized vanilla laced with earthy patchouli and cedarwood shine right through, resulting in a floral fragrance that feels decidedly tropical and feminine in character.
Nothing groundbreaking to report here considering the white floral-and-woods-layer-over-vanilla is a well-populated genre. In fact the whole composition is rather reminiscent of Kenzo's FlowerByKenzo Essentialle, only less sweet.
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Next.... Animale.
TUBEREUSE 3 - Animale
Notes: tuberose, neroli, kumquat, prune, dry herbs, blond tobacco, immortelle
With a name like Animale, I was half-expecting a roar of a beginning. But all I got was a low growl. Not a drop of civet to be found here though a little castoreum or labdanum may be responsible for the musky leathery presence that lurks around the edges of a tuberose bouquet a little way past its prime.
As the scent descends into its heart, I catch hints of salty plum-like notes doing a John Varvatos but these feel more like bit players. Even the immortelle seems much more subdued than it does in 1740.
The star player, at least to me, has to be the blond tobacco. Its creamy-smoky richness blends flawlessly with the tuberose to create one intoxicating scent that places Animale alongside the likes of Sonoma Scent Tabac Aurea, Lutens Daim Blond, Chanel Cuir de Russie and quite possibly Caron Tabac Blond.
But I didn't find any animal in the end.
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Thanks for the review! Looking forward to hearing what you think of Animale.
I have samples of all three, but only tried #3 Animale so far.
I found it to be nice, but not very animalic. I ended up going with Mona di Orio Nuit Noire for my animal fix.
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I have to agree. Animale could certainly do with a little skank. But it's done more in the floral-luxe leather style of Chanel Cuir de Russie...
Of the three, I'd pick Capriceuse and Animale. They are both easily unisex in appeal though Animale has the edge with a little more depth.
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Tubereuse #3 Animale - An absolutely outstanding fragrance with first rate ingredients.
Highly recommended!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It's like they named the frag first, and tried to make a scent match the name, but were unsuccessful
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I tried out the trio at MioMia in Williamsburg yesterday. My favorite of the three is 3 - Animale. Contrary to the other posters, I found it to have plenty of skanky, animal notes. It starts out with a barnyard-like tobacco and something that's both sharp and musty, civet perhaps? The immortelle joins in big time and makes me think that perhaps HdP is working with a house base as this one has a huge chunk of 1740's formula going on. I love it, but found its evolution a bit too quick, the top and mid notes had my interest, but the dry-down - 1/2 hour in - became too sweet and too soon for my tastes.
I've got Animale 3 on my Christmas list since it's available locally. Got turned on to this one at Jovoy earlier in the year and have just re-tested it again last week.
Something very intoxicating about this one, even with it's well blended seamless simplicity, hits the spot for sure.
I own Tubereuse 3 Animale and like it. The only one of the series of three I feel I could pull off.
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I love this house and I received all three of these samples but non sparked my interest to move for a full bottle. Maybe I will revisit these later.
They're all really well-made perfumes that end up feeling unremarkable. Animale is my favorite of the lot, but it's not very animal - mostly hay, musk, sort of creamy abstract florals in a classical style. I own it, but sadly, rarely ever reach for it.


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Here's one of the best-loved Thanksgiving carols, along with, uh…dozens of others I'm sure! This is sort of a swinging rock and roll big band version with a sax section, jazz piano, and guitar tones as round as a slice of cranberry sauce. Let's go Thanksgiving caroling! (A version without the horsey sound effects is included, as heard in the demo.)
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Bayern Munich's 2012-13 season has been a testament to the efficiency for which Germany is known across the globe: stingy defense, making the most of scoring opportunities, and avoiding flash. That strategy has put them well in command of the Bundesliga, and has them a very quiet top contender to win the UEFA Champions League.
Also quiet? Emirates Stadium yesterday. Bayern Munich made easy work of an often pathetic-looking Arsenal, earning a 3-1 road win and lubricating Wenger & Co.'s slide out of the UCL knockout round. This Bavarian who made the trip to North London was less quiet.
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It should be a cakewalk says Vancouver Canucks Insider Josh Hall. With the Calgary Flames all but out of playoff contention, do they have the energy to spoil Vancouver's chase for the Western crown? Can Henrik Sedin follow up a 3 Assist night vs. Dallas with something better? Will Roberto Luongo be ready to go come puck drop after sitting out with a sore neck Friday?
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LONDON (AP) — 4:30 p.m.
Britain's prime minister is holding talks with a key pro-Western Arab ally, as she is embroiled in a row with President Donald Trump over his perceived stoking of anti-Islam sentiments.
Theresa May was meeting on Thursday with Jordan's King Abdullah II at the end of a Mideast tour meant to bolster ties with the region before Britain leaves the European Union.
The king champions religious tolerance and is a key partner in the battle against Islamic militants.
Trump sparked outrage Wednesday when he retweeted inflammatory videos from a fringe British group purporting to show violence by Muslims.
May's office rebuked Trump, saying he was "wrong" to have done so. Trump countered that May should instead "focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom."
3:15 p.m.
Britain's ambassador to the United States says he has complained to the White House about Donald Trump's retweets of a far-right U.K. group.
Prime Minister Theresa May has said Trump was wrong to retweet anti-Muslim videos posted by a leader of extremist group Britain First. The government says the group's views are anathema to most people in Britain.
Britain's envoy in Washington, Kim Darroch, tweeted Thursday that "British people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right, which seek to divide communities & erode decency, tolerance & respect. British Muslims are peaceful and law abiding citizens."
He added that "I raised these concerns with the White House yesterday."
1:30 p.m.
British Prime Minister Theresa May says President Donald Trump's retweets from a far-right group were "the wrong thing to do."
May says the group, Britain First, is "a hateful organization" that runs counter to "common British decency."
May has been under pressure to condemn Trump directly over the retweets of anti-Muslim videos. Her spokesman has already said the retweets were wrong.
Speaking in Amman, Jordan, May said Britain and the U.S. have a special relationship but she is not afraid to criticize friends when they get things wrong.
Asked about a tweet by Trump urging her to focus on Islamic extremist violence rather than on him, May said Britain takes the danger of extremism very seriously.
10:40 a.m.
The mayor of London has added his voice to calls for President Donald Trump's state visit to Britain to be canceled over his retweets of a British far-right group.
Sadiq Khan says Trump has promoted "a vile, extremist group" and an official visit by him to Britain "would not be welcomed."
Trump's retweeting of anti-Muslim videos from far-right group Britain First has been widely condemned in Britain. Prime Minister Theresa May's official spokesman said the president was wrong to have done it.
In response, Trump urged May to focus on "the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom," rather than on him.
Downing St. and the White House both say a state visit by Trump is planned, but no date has been set.