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There are a number of exciting new innovations that bridge the gap between fashion and technology. From online brands creating innovative pop-ups in non traditional spaces to apps that make it easier for us to find the looks we love, our fashion future lies in the hands of brands that are thinking outside the box.
#NowTrending: 3 Green Things We're Coveting This Spring
Spring is in the air and with spring comes fresh flowers, spring cleaning and an abundance of new, innovative and very green things. In a world that is becoming increasingly, technologically driven, it is important to discover new ways we can use social innovation to design a more sustainable planet. From a gardening kit that lets you grow veggies from the comfort of your own home, to a bike that can predict the weather, these are just a few of the green things we're coveting this spring.
Body Hacking: Exciting Or Terrifying?
The more connected we become, the more we begin to look for ways to seamlessly integrate technology into our lives. Advancements in technology have made it possible for us to connect in astonishing ways. Technology is rapidly nesting itself on us, in between us and even within us as humans are discovering new ways of physically putting it into our bodies. But, what does this increased and shared intimacy between technology and our body mean? What do we gain by capturing, saving and sharing everything? And more important, what do we lose?
Global Art At The Tip Of Your Fingers: The Google Cultural Institute
Are you passionate about history, the arts, and culture? Do you get excited when travelling because you get to explore another culture, its stories, interesting museums, and galleries? Congratulations, then you are a part of the global community of the culturally curious, and we have some great news! Three words for you: Google Cultural Institute.
The Millennial Mindset (It Has Nothing To Do With Age)
2016 is the year of the modern consumer. We are transitioning into a period where smart, forward thinking brands are not just targeting Millennial consumers based on their age but are focusing more on all consumers that have adopted a "Millennial Mindset".
Top 5 Innovation Trends Of 2016
Trends are more valuable now than ever. They help us make sense of all of the information we receive on a daily basis and create a framework for how we understand rapid change. According to Trend Watching, there are five major trends that are reshaping customer expectations in 2016 and beyond. These trends are a handful of near-future fragments of the Bigger Picture.
Top 4 Digital Trends In Asia
It's not the technology that changes the world, it's the dreams behind the technology. Asia is leading the way when it comes to digital technology. With over 1.4 billion active internet users, Asia Pacific accounts for more than half of the world's smartphones today. E-commerce sales are estimated to reach over one trillion dollars in 2017 and there are more tech startups than ever before.
The Future Of Travel
From an airline with a coveted "cinema class", to pop-up hotels, there are a number of exciting, new innovations in store for the future of travel. Long gone are the days of annoying airport queues and boring hotel rooms. The future of travel is human-centered, practical and disruptive.
Global Crises And Entertaining Games. Can You Have It Both Ways?
Nuclear wars, immigration, and a shortage of water resources. Sounds depressing, doesn't it? Developers of online games from the Swiss Blindflug Studios have chosen to take a different approach to the disturbing challenges of the modern age: "fun" in the face of the distressing issues of our times. They presented their two latest projects in August at the GDC Conference, which took place in German city of Cologne.
Top 5 Websites Centered Around Youth Activism
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This is a client's playroom I completed for a set of grandparents who wanted to transform their playroom into something that was more updated and that would grow with their eight grandkids (ages 5-12) as they turn into teens.
We did custom twin beds corned to make it feel like one big sofa they could all pile on together and watch tv but it also functions as a trundle bed for when they are all in town and needing extra beds.
I wanted to keep it playful but also make it functional as the kids get older and don't play with toys as much. The playhouse is the perfect way for the younger kids to use their imagination and it's separated from the tv area that the tweens and teens will be taking full advantage of.
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EXCLUSIVEDennis Rodman wants to make one thing clear ... he is 100% heterosexual -- but sober? That's not even 17% clear from this strange video of him out in West Hollywood last night.
Rodman was loitering chilling outside Hooray Henry's last night and chatting up an L.A. County Sheriff's deputy, a random dude, and chick ... who may or may not have been with Dennis.
When our camera guy opened with, "How you doing tonight?" -- The Worm responded, "I'm not gay." Dennis then starts rambling about all sorts of things ... law enforcement, quality of L.A. hospitals ... it's weird. He even goes back to the gay issue -- again, unprompted by anyone.
In case you forgot ... Rodman checked into rehab back in January after that whole North Korea debacle.
You gotta see his charming advice for his "white" lady friend, and the deputy's reaction. He's smiling, but clearly as confused by Dennis as we are.


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EPA Requires Nevada Gold Mining Companies to Correct Reporting Violations
Release Date: 02/06/2013
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) settled with three gold mining companies, all subsidiaries of Barrick Gold Corporation, for failing to correctly report toxic chemical releases and waste management activities as required by the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).
"The Toxic Release Inventory program is a vital tool for tracking toxic releases across the country, providing transparency about chemicals in communities," said Cynthia Giles, assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. "The program is undermined if companies do not report or misreport the use or release of chemicals at their facilities."
The companies, Barrick Cortez, Inc., Barrick Gold US, Inc. and Homestake Mining Company, agreed to pay a total of $278,000 in penalties and spend an additional $340,000 to conduct an environmentally beneficial project.
The violations involved incorrect reporting under the federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) at the Cortez Gold Mine near Crescent Valley, the Ruby Hill Gold Mine near Eureka, and the Bald Mountain Gold Mine near the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, all in Nevada.
After EPA inspectors analyzed the mines' records they found that the facilities failed to submit timely, complete and correct Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) reports in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, for toxic chemicals. These chemicals include cyanide compounds used to extract gold from the ore mined at the facilities, and lead and mercury compounds produced during the extraction process. Under the settlement, the Barrick gold companies will audit and correct their TRI reports for 2005 through 2011 to comply with EPCRA. There is no evidence to suggest that the violations posed any immediate danger to workers at the facilities or local communities.
The agreement requires a $340,000 supplemental environmental project at the Cortez mine to identify the metal compounds formed in its oxide mill process. The gold companies will also perform audits at other Barrick facilities in the U.S. (in Nevada and Montana), correct reporting violations, if any, and pay a $10,000 penalty per violation, not to exceed $250,000.
Under EPCRA, facilities that manufacture, process, or use toxic chemicals over certain quantities must file annual reports estimating the amounts released to the environment, treated or recycled on-site, or transferred off-site for waste management. These reports are submitted to EPA and the State or Tribe with jurisdiction over the facility. EPA compiles this information into a national TRI database and makes it available to the public.
Metal ore mining accounts for 98 percent of total TRI releases reported to EPA in Nevada. This investigation and enforcement are part of an ongoing national effort that began in 2008 to ensure that gold mining facilities are in compliance, and that the public has accurate and complete information about the facilities in their community. Barrick gold mining facilities in the U.S. produced approximately 3.38 million ounces (105.6 tons) of gold in 2011, and the Cortez Gold Mine is the second largest gold mine in the world.
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This advice… It could turn out to be the best thing you've ever done… or it could be the worst. Or, and this is far more likely, it could very well be not that big of a deal.
The number one rule of the internet is that there are no rules. Always. Never forget this. Print it out in gigantic big letters and plaster your office with it. The same applies to online social media tools. With the exception of legalities and terms of service, there are no actual rules.
What you're better off doing is adapting and applying your style of communication to the tools. If you're the type to dip your toe in the water and slowly ease yourself in, do that. If you like taking the risk of not knowing what you're getting yourself into… then do that!
Where you don't want to be is so paralyzed with fear or indecision that you make no movement at all.
But otherwise, your evolution into the online realm of connecting and communicating is only as fast or slow, easy or difficult as you make it. Take your time. Don't let fear motivate you. That's never a good place to be coming from. Instead, build your confidence. And enjoy the journey!


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FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) – In 1943, an enraged Gen. George S. Patton slapped a battle-fatigued U.S. soldier at a military hospital and accused him of cowardice, an episode that nearly ended Patton's career. Nearly 70 years later, two filmmakers _ one of them Patton's grandson _ are trying to help soldiers cope with what is now called post-traumatic stress disorder by getting them to tell their war stories through a movie.
"Their generation just didn't understand what this meant," said Ben Patton, who takes his grandfather's violent reaction as a sign that he too may have been suffering PTSD. "And that's my call to action."
With a growing demand for ways to treat the psychological damage of war, one Army pilot project is encouraging soldiers to take control of their own stories in a filmmaking class titled I Was There Media Workshop.
The Fort Carson program began last year under the auspices of Patton, a New York documentary filmmaker, and Scott Kinnamon, a Denver educational filmmaker. Some 20 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars so far have attempted to organize their combat experiences in video as a way to fight PTSD.
"You can put everything into a video or a movie, a small movie about what you want to tell people _ your story," said 1st Sgt. Jason Gallegos of Fountain, Colo., who deployed to Iraq three times and has now produced a short film called "From Hero to Zero."
"If they want to watch it, great. If they don't, then don't. But I don't have to go through the process of the `angsting' up to tell somebody something, just for them to be interested for a minute," Gallegos said.
Some 2.3 million men and women have served tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past decade. The Rand Corp. said as many as 300,000 veterans of those wars may have suffered PTSD or major depression. The Pentagon and the Veterans Affairs Department have been ramping up therapy options for several years now and the effort continues as some troops continue to go undiagnosed or untreated.
Gallegos was a tank commander in Iraq and vividly recalls what he felt after his first engagement with insurgents in 2003. He ordered a tank gunner to fire on a man who had launched a rocket propelled grenade at his tank, and he watched through night-vision goggles as the bullets cut through the man.
Another reminder of the pain of war is a picture of Army Cpl. Gary Brent Coleman, of Pikeville, Ky., that Gallegos keeps on his Facebook page. Coleman was 24 when he died in an accident that tipped a Humvee under Gallegos' command into a canal near Balad, Iraq, in November 2003. Gallegos and another soldier in the Humvee survived and Coleman died despite desperate efforts by Gallegos and the other solider to find him in the murky water.
"I did have one nightmare, where I was holding my breath and swimming underwater," Gallegos said of his memory from that event.
Filmmaking as a way to document or cope with the lasting emotional impact of combat is not a new concept. In Los Angeles, ex-U.S. Marine filmmaker Garrett Anderson is making a documentary film with video from pocket digitial cameras that was captured during the November 2004 battle of Fallujah. The 2010 Academy Award nominated "Restrepo," by author Sebastian Junger and photographer Tim Hetherington, tells the story of a platoon in combat in Afghanistan and its resulting emotional impact on the soldiers.
What's different now is that the Army is looking at filmmaking as possible therapy.
Maj. Christopher Ivany, a psychiatrist and former head of Fort Carson's behavioral health services unit, approved the trial classes to supplement more-established therapy programs for returning veterans.
The goal, he said, is to encourage soldiers to "take control of the things that happened in the past and paint that in a specific way that makes sense."
"And hopefully do that in a way that allows them to think about that as a more productive or positive and more realistic past event, and then go forward in their life easier," Ivany said.
In the case of Gallegos, making the film "From Hero to Zero" was a way for him to cope with what he describes as a letdown feeling sparked by his pending return to civilian life _ which was brought on by a diagnosis for leukemia.
The "Hero" refers to his combat experiences in Iraq. The "Zero" depicts him learning about his leukemia and trying to deal with the end of his military career.
"My time in the Army is coming to an end, and I take a lot of pride in what I did over there," Gallegos said.
The results of video as therapy haven't been scientifically validated. Kinnamon and Patton are working with medical researchers and the military to develop a way to study the possible benefits of filmmaking.
Barbara Rothbaum, a psychiatry professor and PTSD expert at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, said there's little to no data on filmmaking for PTSD but that it may follow a proven treatment known as exposure therapy. The idea is that exposure to the memory, like other methods that include talking to a therapist who might record a conversation and replay it, can eventually help a soldier face the traumatic experience at the core of distressing memories.
Ivany noted that some therapy treatments, such as sports and exercise, "were relatively new and seemingly out of left field probably eight to 10 years ago."
The term PTSD wasn't even formally adopted until 1980, five years after the Vietnam War ended.
"It's a real thing," Patton said.
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The holiday parties are over, so it's a great time to help replenish Lone Star College-CyFair's Prom Closet with dress and accessory donations.
LSC-CyFair's 10th Annual Prom Closet, a prom dress give-away for teens in need and those on a budget, will be held March 29- April 6.
"This spring we will be serving young women from more than 13 school districts in metro Houston," said Elise Sheppard, LSC-CyFair Teen Librarian and Prom Closet organizer. "Thanks to so many generous donors each year, we are helping hundreds of young women attend their prom, military awards banquet, musical performances and other special occasions with smiles and confidence."
Dress donations should be in perfect condition – clean (not necessarily dry-cleaned) undamaged, without stains, stylish, new and vintage accepted; however, no velvet, mother-of-the-bride or 1980's disco scene.) All sizes 0 to 30 are needed. Don't forget to donate accessories, too, such as shoes, handbags, jewelry, hair pieces, shawls, new and unused make-up and toiletries.
Donations can be dropped off at 9191 Barker Cypress at the LSC-CyFair Branch Library's Circulation Desk during library hours or placed in a plastic bag and left with staff at a convenient Harris County Public Library to put in delivery bins for LSC-CyFair: ATTENTION: ELISE.
For information on donations or the dress drive, contact Sheppard at email@example.com or 281.290.5248. Information is also available at LoneStar.edu/library/Promcloset.


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The revolutionary new SnuggWugg TM is an interactive diaper changing pillow that's paving the way for happy babies and parents everywhere. By fusing fun and functionality into one amazing product and surrounding babies in a plush snug fit SnuggWugg TM makes diaper changing woes a thing of the past.
Twisting, turning and "helping" hands are replaced by play and interaction via engaging sights, sounds, features and the usage of smart phones and our patent pending SnuggWugg TM apps. Making diaper changes easy for parents, fun for babies. SnuggWugg TM is the only diaper changing product to combine cutting edge technology, fun, imagination, comfort and functionality all in one experience. SnuggWugg TM is sure to be one of the most sought after baby products ever introduced into the marketplace.


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Spare Tire Mount For 1973-1979 F-Series
By Aric Waldron
I was tired of having a spare tire in the bed of my 1977 F-150
so I decided to fix it. Having no attachment parts at all I began looking at
LMC and NPD. No carrier (the sheet metal bracket that the tire mounts to) was available
and the cost was $25 for the hangers (bolts for under tank style mount). Having
changed the tire on a 1991 F150 I got curious about interchangeability. After a
few measurements I decided it was do-able.
I located the parts at a junkyard. $20 for
an early 90s F 150 setup. You'll need a 9/16" drill. I will refer to the
hangers as front (near the axle) and rear (near the rear bumper).
With my favorite third hand I help the bar up to the frame
and decided where I wanted to drill the holes for the hanger bolts. As you can
see the carrier goes diagonally. Left to right or right to
left are both options. The carrier is not heavy, but you need to
measure, mark and double-check both ends. I invariably moved the carrier trying
to look at the other end.
These are the hole positions. Yours
may differ based on specific carrier and frame dimensions.
The threaded part of the clip goes above the frame and the tab
goes below. I always have at least one thread exposed above the clip to ensure
full strength.
The finished mount. The tire is
easily removable in normal situations by unscrewing the rear hanger partially
and lifting the carrier off. This setup with no changes is OK.
However as you can see the tire is not evenly clamped or
centered. The rear bolt is a little short, and the front is a little long. You
can change this by buying a longer front bolt and sawing off the excess length
of the rear bolt. This is probably the best option.
Or you can mount it backwards. This gave me enough room to
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FORT WORTH, Texas, May 14 (UPI) -- Fort Worth, Texas, residents say they are on the alert with hand-held air horns to scare off egrets before the birds build nests.
Armament against the birds, protected by the Federal 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act ,which prevents disturbing or removing them while nesting, also includes a noisy propane-powered cannon from the city's compliance department, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Tuesday.
The idea is to make enough noise to keep the birds from nesting. Few precautions were taken last summer, resulting in bird droppings on driveways, lawns that turned brown and the air filled with flies and stench, the newspaper said.
"It was a biblical plague," said James Burr, an air horn-wielding resident of the city's Tanglewood area. "It ruined our summer and our opportunities to go outside."
After the egrets flew to their winter home, the local Tanglewood Neighborhood Association devised a plan to trim tree branches and encourage residents to arm themselves with noisemakers.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials said there are no plans to take the egrets off the protected list although their reason for being on the list, use of their feathers to decorate women's hats, may no longer be a factor.
While the birds are considered a nuisance, permits are available to remove them, but officials say they seek a system in which humans and nature can co-exist.
"We don't want the birds to get too used to coming here," said Bill Campbell, neighborhood association president. "We will probably have to do this [scare off the birds] every year."


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Virginia woman sued for $750,000 over her 1-star Yelp! review
December 05, 2012
Virginia woman sued for $750,000 over her 1-star Yelp! review
Angered by what she thought was shoddy work on her home, Fairfax resident Jane Perez did what has become the go-to form of retail vengeance in the Internet age: She logged on to Yelp and posted scathing reviews of the D.C. firm that did the job.
Perez ticked off a list of accusations, including damage to her home, an invoice for work the contractor did not perform and jewelry that disappeared. She closed one post by fuming, Bottom line do not put yourself through this nightmare of a contractor.
The contractors response to her one-star takedown? Fight back.
Christopher Dietz filed a $750,000 Internet defamation lawsuit against Perez last month, saying the postings on Yelp and others on Angies List were false and sent customers fleeing. He is also asking a Fairfax County court for a preliminary injunction to keep her from writing similar reviews. A hearing will be held Wednesday.
Lawyers say it is one of a growing number of defamation lawsuits over online reviews on sites such as Yelp, Angies List and Trip*Advisor and over Internet postings in general. They say the freewheeling and acerbic world of Web speech is colliding with the ever-growing importance of online reputations for businesses, doctors, restaurants, even teachers.
Its snark vs. status.
No one keeps track of how many suits are filed over online reviews, and lawyers say the numbers are still small but are getting larger. Most of the suits fail because juries and the courts have sided with free speech and the rights of the reviewers to express their opinions.
With 84 million visitors a month and 33 million reviews, Yelp especially has become a legal battleground given that the reputations of restaurants, nail salons, dry cleaners and other businesses can be made or shredded in a few keystrokes. For instance, a Chicago plastic surgeon sued after a Yelp reviewer said he gave her Frankenstein breasts.
Perez, a retired captain in the armed services, said she never fathomed that her Yelp review could land her in court. It has left her reeling and potentially facing thousands of dollars in legal bills to defend herself.
I dont want to see what happened to me happen to anyone else, Perez said.
Nevertheless, she stands by her reviews, saying that everything she wrote was truthfulabout the work Dietz did on the townhouse, where she lives with her dog.
Some reviewers and free-speech advocates, including Perez, see the cases as free-speech issues: They say the lawsuits are heavy-handed attempts to stifle critical but valuable consumer information that has forced businesses to be held accountable.
On the other side, business owners such as Dietz say they are forced to take extreme legal measures because the Internet has made defamation that much more damaging. A single false post can live virtually forever on a site and reach millions, causing untold harm.
Lawyers say such cases are a cautionary tale for a new era: Those who feel targeted by defamation on the Web are more likely to file suit, and judges and juries are more likely to take such claims seriously than in years past, raising the legal stakes over vitriolic reviews, nasty blog comments and Facebook feuds.
As the Internet has matured, more and more people are feeling the sting of negative posts against them, and the public and jurors are getting more educated about the impacts this speech can have, said Aaron Morris, a lawyer who handles Internet defamation cases.
Dietz said his small seven-year-old design and contracting firm had a good reputation. Two reviews on Yelp give him the highest rating five stars and one praises him as showing a high degree of professionalism.
But that reputation was devastated by Perezs reviews, he said. He alleges in the lawsuit that they cost him $300,000 in business. The situation has also taken a toll on him personally.
The impact has been awful, Dietz said. There is no one to protect businesses when people slam their name.
The Communications Decency Act shields sites such as Yelp from defamation suits over content posted by third parties. And Yelp, like many review sites, says it simply cant check the veracity of millions of reviews, leaving businesses and the sites reviewers to sort out messy factual disputes.
A 2011 Harvard study quantified just how big an effect those negative Yelp postings can have: A one-star increase among reviews of Seattle restaurants led to a 5 to 9 percent growth in revenue.
Perez hired Dietzs company, Dietz Development, when she moved to the area and needed cosmetic work done on her newly purchased Fairfax home, according to the lawsuit. Dietz, a high school friend, was to paint, refinish floors, perform electrical and plumbing work, and do other tasks in June 2011.
But things quickly spiraled out of control, Perez wrote in her Yelp post.
I was . . . left with damage to my home and work that had to be reaccomplished for thousands more than originally estimated, Perez wrote. She alleges that Dietz was the only one with a key when jewelry disappeared from her home and that he trespassed on her property, prompting her to call the police, among other issues in dispute.
Dietz says that he completed the job, that he did not damage the home, that Perez never paid him and that she demanded that he perform work beyond what was part of their agreement, according to the lawsuit. Perez denies those accusations.
Dietz also says Perezs comments about the missing jewelry and trespassing amount to false accusations that he committed crimes. County court records show that Dietz has not been charged on either accusation.
In Virginia, someone can be found liable for defamation if he states or implies a false factual statement about a person or business that causes harm to the subjects reputation. Opinions are generally protected by the First Amendment.
Lawyers say such lawsuits are on the rise because of the explosion in popularity of review sites such as Yelp. They also say that commentators are unfamiliar with what constitutes defamation and that others are lulled into a false sense of security online.
There is a right to speak anony*mously on the Internet, said Lee Berlik, a Reston lawyer who handles Internet defamation cases. Armed with that right, I think people feel safe when they are sitting in their pajamas at their desks at home. They feel they have the right to say whatever they want.
But that right does not extend to defamatory speech. Lawyers across the country are more aggressively using a combination of legal maneuvers and computer forensics to help uncover the identities of anonymous commentators and sue them.
And some of those cases are producing astronomical awards. This year, an Anaheim, Calif., technology company won a $1.6 million judgment against a blogger who had accused the company of stealing money from business associates. And in 2006, a Florida woman won a $11.3 million judgment after a Louisiana woman called her a crook and a con artist in an Internet forum.
Lawyers say businesses suing reviewers have met with less success. In fact, many such lawsuits have backfired. Some have generated negative publicity for the plaintiffs and have been looked at skeptically by courts.
Last year, a California judge ordered a dentist to pay the legal bills of the parents of a patient he sued for defamation over a negative review one of them posted on Yelp.
Mark Goldowitz, founder of the Public Participation Project, which monitors such lawsuits, said he sees a troubling trend in review site defamation cases such as the one in Fairfax. He thinks they are a threat to vibrant new communities that have sprung up around Yelp and other sites.
The suits can have a chilling effect on peoples willingness to share information, Goldowitz said. It does lead to people not posting reviews for fear of getting sued and to taking them down when threatened by a lawsuit.
His group is pushing for a federal law that allows defendants to seek early dismissal of lawsuits that are aimed at silencing voices on public issues. Twenty-seven states, including Maryland, and the District have such anti-SLAPP laws, but not Virginia, according to Public Participation Project.
Perez has removed her reviews from Yelp, her attorney said, because allegedly false comments Dietz made about her in his response post on Yelp were popping up as the first listing in Google searches on her name.
Berlik, the lawyer, has a few words of advice for those who want to avoid similar lawsuits: Stick to opinion and tell the truth, and you wont get into trouble.
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I hate this kind of crap. If you do good work the positives will outweigh the random asswipe.
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**** that's ****ed up. I won't be writing anymore yelp reviews unless they are positive.
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The really ****ed up part is buried in the fine print - these people were high school friends.
I guess not so much now.
I'm not mean; I just don't like you.
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I try to take a grain a of salt and look for a common theme, compliment or problem in reviews. Everyone knows there are morons in the world who will think shit is great and great is shit.
My personal opinion and that as a business owner is that it's perfectly fine for people to comment about your business honestly. I've gotten quite a bit of work BECAUSE people have posted about my work or product online or in topic specific forums.
The biggest thing I see is that there should be a space for the business to respond on the major sites. If someone buries you, you should have a space to contradict or explain the problem. Sometimes the best solutions is to ignore it and just work hard to get enough positive clients to drown out the hater.
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I can tell you by the time I'm ready to rant in public I'm furious.
I had something installed in my home that cost several thousand dollars. The item would work a few times and then not....within the first year, I had 5 different techs in my home, costing me at least 3hrs per visit. Most insinuated some stupid thing was the culprit. By the 6th visit, I made it clear that if the next person arrived asked about that particular item...I was going to act irresponsibly.
Then....Boom. The item essentially explodes in my home, within feet of my children, whom were up most of the night, afraid our house would burn.
I guess you could say I was angry....and took it to their facebook, since it was a sunday and not office hours. They initially "liked" my comments....before reading them.
3 visits later by one of the owners and yet another tech, I helped them identify the problem.
How should I review that company? Would I be more motivated to yelp them or a company that just did what they were supposed to do and provided a quality product?
I understand why angry people are more likely to do it............but I'm also very happy to be vocal in support of companies or people who do a great job for me.
As a business owner, I've had people want refunds or replacement over the most nit-picky minute detail that would make the average customer laugh. But my stuff is guaranteed, so I replace it.
Word of mouth is important to me, and some of the most difficult customers have resulted in the most word of mouth sales for me.
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We had a dickbag customer that we installed a front suspension on his car for, as well as paint and body. It was a $30K job and the car came out really, really nice.
The job ended up costing about $10K more than we anticipated on the estimate because after we stripped his car down, we found that it had more substantial rust than we thought.
All of this was discussed with the customer and he paid for the additional repairs beyond our initial estimate, even though he was uneasy about it.
After the work was done and he took the car home, he decided that we over charged him because some shop down the street from us (some ****ing hole in the wall) said they woulda done the work for half of what we charged.
So he sues us.
He tells the judge that we ripped him off because we charged him more than the original estimate and that our work wasn't good enough (bullshit, this car was immaculate and we had the pictures AND video to prove it).
He won the lawsuit for $15K.
Because even though the additional repairs were listed on the INVOICE and were paid for on the INVOICE, law requires it to be on the ESTIMATE first. Therefore, we over charged him based off of the initial estimate, even though he agreed and paid for the additional work.
On top of that, we're now on Rip off report because this dick bag went on there and spewed his bullshit story about how we ripped him off.
As a small business, we need a way to protect ourselves from this kinda bullshit.
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So can you do differently to make sure that never happens again? How does it work, you estimated 30k and that was in writing? Then after further inspection, you realized it's gonna cost 40K, so you call the customer and he agrees? No paper work on that?
The way you described it, it doesn't seem very fair to you at all. But something doesn't add up.
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Well with any kind of service.....all you're going to hear about is the bad stuff more times than not. If a customer is happy..usually they're satisfied pay up for services and go about their way.
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The initial estimate was the estimate he signed and agreed upon. Verbally he agreed with the additional work, and he signed his INVOICES.
Basically, we didn't have the 30K signed and agreed upon on the estimate, just the 20, so in the judges eyes we ripped him off by luring him in for 20K and then upping it to 30K. It wasn't the estimate he agreed on, even though he gave consent for the work and paid for it.
How do we protect ourselves? Make everything into an estimate first, both parties have to sign the estimate, and then run an invoice.
Lesson learned, but still pretty lame that we got screwed over like that.
And then he has the nerve to put on rip off report.
All because he had a change of heart.
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YELP I think this is a bunch of BS on the part of business. Do your job right and take care of the customer.
Restaurants get shitty reviews in the paper all the time & I'm glad to find out about the shitty restaurants before I end up going there. They do the same on the interweb it's nice to read reviews & have expectations that way.
This is all that lady who sued McDonalds fault for her when she spilled hot coffee on her lap. Stupid bitch. America got dumber that day I am sad to say.
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Vote for the proven council
Several Sonoran News readers sent me a partial copy of My View which I wrote on April 18, 2012 concerning the council vote to allow a public vote to fund fire protection with a property tax. The challenging council slate sent some by mail but also stuffed mail boxes with an unstamped mailer, which I believe is a violation of federal law.
Yes, I hammered councilman Jim Bruce and others who chose to allow the vote, since I believe we elect representatives to make that call. But that was one vote and if you consider Bruce's contributions on the planning and zoning commission and council he deserves to be voted in again. There is no comparison of his abilities and contributions among any of the slate running for council. They are losers one and all because their agenda is flawed. First because they are a slate and secondly because they are subservient to at least two non voters, Mike Chutz and Anna Marsolo. Both want to be behind the scenes manipulators of the potential majority represented by the slate. Objective? They want to eliminate Town Manager Usama Abugbarah and replace him with the ex-Tempe Town Manager Terry Zerkle. Zerkle has tried to cause problems, calling state agencies but always getting responses he was wrong. They would like to get rid of Mayor Vincent Francia too, but he is unopposed for the reason he is the iconic mayor of Cave Creek and will always be regarded that way.
The major issue here is the slate is sending a partial copy of my editorial without my permission and that is a serious violation of copyright statutes. The copy sent to me also had, in the return address spot, a handwritten "Election Alert, Cave Creek." Investigation will reveal the sender. I have turned over the several copies sent to me to MCSO.
Discussions with several town leaders may have revealed what Chutz, Adam Trenk and company are up to. Chutz is from a suburb of Pittsburgh where politics are down and dirty and Trenk is from New Jersey which suffers from the same corruption.
Clearly they want control of the town. Beware of the innocent sounding statement of Mike Durkin, that the town would be better off if they gave the water company away for a dollar. Who would get it?
Furthermore, the water company has enormous value. Within ten years it would be priceless. There are very wealthy people chasing water rights, not water, but water rights. Cave Creek has 2,606 acre feet of water rights, more than is needed for build out. Those rights are of huge value. Slate members claim, incorrectly, the town doesn't have enough and that is a lie.
As sources of water dwindle and usage increases water rights prices will increase. Today, in many places in Arizona water rights are valued at over $12,000 per acre foot. In New Mexico prices range as high as $250,000 with many districts averaging over $36,000 per acre foot. At those average prices Cave Creek's water rights would be worth $91 million dollars. Yet, the slate moans about Cave Creek's debt of $63 million, even though the town has a surplus of over $4 million and has never missed a debt payment.
Slate members criticize the Desert Hills water utility district claiming we don't need it. We bailed out many suffering residents and the payoff, which will be huge, is down the road. Eventually, Phoenix will annex Desert Hills and the town will have the option to sell that water utility at a very high price.
Is this Chutz's plan? He enlisted David Phelps to help lead their PAC even though Phelps has a tainted background and was anti-town as a Global Water employee. Speaking of Phelps, I received a call from a local business man accusing another business man of supporting the slate because two signs were erected on the person's property. So I called the person who had signs erected and asked why he allowed the signs on his property. The person said, "Tell the guy complaining I'll give permission for him to erect signs too, if he will give me $250 a month rent like David Phelps did."
There is much concern about the amount of money being spent by the slate. Council members serve for free and it is asking too much to have to try to buy their election like the slate is doing.
Look at what Trenk must be spending. He has sent at least two colored flyers, a colored door hanger, robocalls and calls from a "campaign woman." He has signs of two sizes all over town and most recently boasted he was endorsed by Senator John McCain. I am told by politicians downtown the cost of a McCain endorsement is $25,000. Trenk served on McCain's campaign committee and his family is noted for contributions to both parties. I don't believe he is doing this and spending this much money because he is a nice guy. Only because of a "friendly" judge is he on the slate since he moved to Scottsdale. According to a friendly judge he had the "intent" to return to Cave Creek.
He has brought what is natural in New Jersey to our little town. Remember he spent over $20,000 of family and out-of-state donations in his first and only election. Yet he tied in the runoff and the luck of a card draw put him on council. He has tried to deny he is a slate member but he most certainly is. Our free council is a major bargain. How will people who love the town like they do continue to serve if they must match the prodigious investment made by the slate led by a non-voter named Chutz.
Don't let the slate buy votes and take over the town. They are up to no good!


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For the generations of men who have wondered what it is women want, this year has made it fairly obvious. We want a man of devastating intelligence, cerebrally and physically nimble, whose vast store of arcane knowledge is foundation for a super-human ability to solve problems and the fascinating, frustrating wall that protects a tender heart.
We want Sherlock Holmes.
"Sherlock": A Notes on the Year column about television in the Dec. 16 Calendar section said that the series "Sherlock" airs on BBC America. Although it is produced by the BBC, it airs in the United States on PBS on "Masterpiece Mystery." —
On the big screen, a Victorian if not traditional Holmes is one part of Robert Downey Jr.'s current franchise juggling act. But the more significant and modern versions are those of "Sherlock," which had its second season this year on BBC America, and "Elementary," which launched on CBS this year. If you count Fox's quite Holmesian "House," and I think we must, then a character created more than a century ago by a man who believed in the occult and possibly the existence of fairies has now ruled television for more than a decade. With no end in sight — "Elementary" is doing quite well, and when the BBC recently announced that Season 3 of "Sherlock" might not air until 2014, a chorus of distress could be heard on two continents.
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For literary geek girls like myself, this Mysterious Appearance of Two Sherlocks is nothing short of television nirvana. "Sherlock" is precisely the sort of television Americans expect from the Brits, mainly because BBC America and "Masterpiece" air only the very best of British TV. Created by "Dr. Who's" Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, "Sherlock" stars Benedict Cumberbatch as a modern consulting detective and Martin Freeman as Dr. James Watson. Cumberbatch, with his alabaster skin and aquamarine eyes, has that vaguely tubercular Romantic beauty known to cause women with PhDs in comparative literature to scream aloud whenever his name is mentioned, while Freeman is one of those solidly humane performers who blinks and stammers and quietly steals any scene he touches.
Serving up modern takes on Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, Moffat and Gatiss (the latter of whom also does a breathtaking turn as Mycroft Holmes) have done the seeming impossible — kept the very Victorian essentials of their characters and made them believable in modern London. Which, it must be added, looks fabulous.
So when CBS announced it would be having a go with "Elementary," many of us were prepared to wince while we watched and feel that vaguely nationalistic shame so often associated with comparisons between American and British TV. All of which made the success of "Elementary" even sweeter — Jonny Lee Miller's Sherlock is a Brit living in New York (which looks just as gritty and glorious as "Sherlock's" London); his Watson, played by Lucy Liu, is a paid companion hired by his father to aid in Holmes' recovery from addiction.
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Many liberties are taken with the characters, but creator Robert Doherty has given Miller and Liu, not to mention the always welcome Aidan Quinn as the NYPD captain with whom Holmes consults, characters at once solidly modern and true to the canon.
Where "Sherlock" might be the show horse of the two, "Elementary" is just as true to the tone of the original stories. Miller's Sherlock is more boyish in his troubled brilliance, and clearly a romance with Watson is in the long-term offing, but each episode is less character-driven than those of "Sherlock," more focused on the crime, reminding us that Conan Doyle was not as interested in character development as he was in storytelling; he all but invented the procedural.
It's difficult to imagine any literary character with the resilience and elasticity to accommodate so many concurrent adaptations. Count Dracula might have spawned more offspring, but the vampires running around these days bear little resemblance to him, aside from their choice of libation. Alice, as in Wonderland, regularly makes the rounds, but frankly, the girl couldn't quite hold down a miniseries, much less a 23-episode pick-up.
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Although Holmes' occupation certainly aided his longevity — Doyle famously got sick of him long before the public did, killed him off, then had to bring him back — it's more than the cyclical nature of crime that keeps the world's first consulting detective alive. Even after 56 short stories and four novellas, Sherlock Holmes remains a cipher. Conan Doyle, good Victorian that he was, never felt obligated to deconstruct his hero's psychology, never delved into Holmes' childhood, did not pass judgment on his bachelor tendencies or use of (then perfectly legal) cocaine.
Holmes is a man of action, his main characteristic a mind in perpetual motion, a vital intelligence that constantly demands work, which makes him perfect for television. Also for highbrow, beating-heart adoration from women, and men, who too often consider themselves above such things. Because Mr. Rochester, if you will recall, got married in the end, but Sherlock Holmes remains eternally, and tantalizingly, unattached.
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Maraviroc Plus Atazanavir/Ritonavir in a Nuke-Sparing Regimen in Treatment-Naive Patients
July/August 2012
Results at 96 weeks were presented from a randomised open-label, phase 2b pilot study that compared dual therapy with atazanavir/ritonavir plus either maraviroc (n=60) or tenofovir/FTC (n=61) as a standard of care control arm, in treatment-naive patients.
Although maraviroc does not have a license indication for treatment-naive patients, the pharmacological benefits of this approach include using a 150 mg once-daily dose for maraviroc, halving the standard dose, and therefore halving the cost.
Approximate baseline characteristics for the study included mean age 37 years (range 18-68), 90% male, 75% white and 20% black. Median CD4 count and viral load were approximately 350 cells/mm3 (range 110 - 744) and 40,000 copies/mL (range 2,000 - 795,000), with 27% vs 36% having baseline viral load >100,000 copies/mL, in the maraviroc vs tenofovir/FTC arms respectively.
Viral efficacy response rates at week 96 suggested that the dual combination was not as good, with 67.8% (40/59) versus 82.0% (50/61) patients having viral load suppressed to <50 copies/mL. Using the <400 cut-off, results were 78% vs 84%. Viral load in the eight patients in the maraviroc arm with viral load >50 at week 96, ranged from 54 to 7600, with 5/8 <200 copies/mL. The single detectable patient in the tenofovir/FTC arm blipped at 77 copies/mL.
No resistance (genotypic or phenotypic) or change in tropism was detected in the patients with viral load >500 copies/mL (maraviroc = 4; tenofovir/FTC = 1).
Median CD4 increases from baseline were 269 and 305 cells/mm3 in the maraviroc vs tenofovir/FTC arms. Greater reductions in creatinine clearance (-5.5 versus -18 mL/min) occurred with tenofovir/FTC compared to maraviroc. Although serum bone formation markers were lower in the maraviroc arm at both weeks 48 add 96, baseline values for either group were not available. While the study numbers were small, other side effects seemed broadly similar, with 21% vs 18% for serious side effects, 53% vs 33% for grade 3/4 events, 3% vs 0 discontinuing due to side effects, and 70% vs 56% for grade 3/4 hyperbilirubinaemia, all maraviroc vs tenofovir/FTC respectively.
Although the researchers emphasised that the study was not powered for between-group differences, the results generated sufficient caution for the subsequent phase 3 study of this nuke-sparing approach, now ongoing, to pair maraviroc with darunavir/ritonavir rather than atazanavir/r.
Mills A et al. Once-daily maraviroc in combination with ritonavir-boosted atazanavir in treatment-naive patients infected with CCR5-tropic HIV-1 (study A4001078): 96-week results. 19th International AIDS Conference. 22-27 July 2012, Washington. Oral abstract TUAB0102.
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Terminator film moves forward
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- 18 January 2013
Skydance Productions and Annapurna Pictures have hired Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier to work on the new 'Terminator' film
Scriptwriters have been hired for a new 'Terminator' movie.
Skydance Productions and Annapurna Pictures have taken on Laeta Kalogridis - a friend of 'Terminator' creator James Cameron - and Patrick Lussier to pen the next installment in the sci-fi adventure series, deadline reports.
The pair were commissioned by Skydance's David Ellison to write an original script, based on an idea initiated by Skydance.
Though the movie series' original star Arnold Schwarzenegger's involvement hasn't been confirmed, it was recently claimed he had teamed up with director Justin Lin ('Fast Five') to plan the storyline for 'Terminator 5' which will allegedly take place in a parallel timeline.
The former Governor of California previously admitted he would like to revisit some of his old action film classics, including 'Terminator', 'Twins' and 'True Lies'.
Arnold paid homage to his infamous 'Terminator' line and said acting is where his passion lies, especially since the salary is infinitely better than that of a politician.
He joked: "I didn't take a penny of my salary during my terms. After all, it was petty cash compared to what you make in the movies."
He added: "Thank you all for coming. I'll be back."


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August 1, 2016
'Til Death Do Us Part
by Quick, Amanda
If you have read previous books by Amanda Quick you might expect this Victorian novel to have a touch of the supernatural, but in this story the supernatural is absent and not missed. Calista and her brother Andrew inherit a large house in a respectable neighborhood but no money. To survive Calista opens an introduction agency for highly respectable ladies and gentlemen with similar interests. The clients attend weekly salons with the idea being that the ladies and gentleman might become friends. If clients marry, it's a pleasant surprise but not expected. Trent Hastings, a reclusive popular crime novelist, is convinced Calista is a fraud; and he shows up demanding that Calista drop his sister as a client.
A stalker is sneaking into Calista's bedroom leaving disturbing gifts with her initials on them. The gifts are only suitable for those in deepest mourning. In order to avoid a scandal Calista is unable to go to the police, so she turns to Trent. Together they pursue the stalker and gradually fall in love.
During Victorian times, novels were frequently serialized before they were printed in book form, and a running joke during this investigation is that everyone from villains to members of "the ton" has an opinion about how the current story should continue.
Amanda Quick (a pseudonym for Jayne Anne Krentz) leads her characters on a merry chase, providing enough red herrings so that the reader is pleasantly surprised at the end. The writing is intelligent and fast paced, and I read this book in a day.
'Til Death Do Us Part is also available as an eBook, an eAudiobook, an audiobook on CD, and in large print.
--Recommended by Debbie Overshiner, Eagle Branch
July 25, 2016
by Frank, Scott
There's a cliché about writing that it's the first few pages that get people to read the book; it's the last pages that get them to read the author's next book. So I debated—a lot—about whether to recommend this book. It's 335 pages long, 333 of which were incredibly good. The writing seemed almost effortless, the story compelling, the characters came with flesh and bone and character and flaws. The LA earthquake that made Roy Cooper's best laid plans go awry. Kelly Maguire, a good cop with a lot of baggage, trying to find her way. Science, determined to make his mark in a city filled with gang violence. On and on the characters go. That's usually a deterrent for me, I can never keep them all straight. But Frank made each one an individual, pulled their stories along, wove them together with a deft hand that gradually let the big story unfold. Frank is a screenwriter: Get Shorty, Marley & Me, Minority Report, to name a few. So he's no newcomer to the writing world even though this is his debut novel. Still, those last couple of pages left me wondering what I'd missed earlier that had presaged that ending. Ultimately, I decided that the book was so good overall, that it deserved a mention. But if you read it and can explain those last couple of pages, let me know, okay? Shaker is also available as an eBook
--Recommended by Cheryl Holtsclaw, West Indianapolis Branch
July 18, 2016
Change Me Prayers: The Hidden Power of Spiritual Surrender
by Silver, Tosha
There is a reason true storytellers are so mesmerizing. They can paint picture with words and place a mirror to the soul in a reader's hands. Consummate teller of tales Tosha Silver offers a liberating view of life that models an openness to what may be.
In Change Me Prayers: The Hidden Power of Spiritual Surrender, Ms. Silver uses the skills of a master storyteller to open the mind and heart and lift the soul. Opening a window into her experiences gives the reader a delightful opportunity to realize integral truths in buried in daily life. The quirky humor of her perspective is a definite plus and adds color and texture to the narrative.
Her openness to 'the Divine One' leads the reader gently to a place where the storms of life become opportunities rather than liabilities. She ends each tale a poetic prayer to the Divine in clear, understandable terms that fit the situation.
The second half of the book offers prayers arranged by subject in alphabetical order – just in case the reader finds that need. However, she stresses that anyone can compose their own odes to the Divine at any time. Indeed, Divine Wisdom is open to all.
— Recommended by Mary Kay Greenawalt, Central Library
July 11, 2016
Beautiful Ruins
by Walter, Jess
This is terrible. I'm the person who schedules the adult Staff Picks reviews. Nobody is supposed to review books that are already at the center of attention, and I'm reviewing a book that is being made into a movie. Selector Jessica Lawrence included this title in a Before You See the Movie blog post back in 2014.
And the book is being discussed at the Irvington Branch on Thursday, July 14th.
But I couldn't stop reading it, once I had started; and I'm vocationally incapable of reading a book and not yakking about it on the web. So here goes.
Beautiful Ruins begins in Italy in 1962, when the disasterous Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton film Cleopatra was being created there. Pasquale Tursi operates an unsuccessful hotel in an almost uninhabited fishing village, and a beautiful actress shows up, in flight from the Cleopatra set. She is ill, but the nature of her illness is a point of confusion.
The novel jumps in time to the recent past and the not so recent past, circling back regularly to 1962 and Pasqule's predicaments. One minute you're reading a chapter from an unfinished World War II novel, and the next minute you're reading a movie pitch about the Donner Party. Modern-day Hollywood hustlers interact with folks we've met in 1962.
I love the time and format jumps, and I recommend the novel with all my heart.
If you're interested in the movie, here's a nice trailer. In fairness, I should say that it begins as a movie trailer but is really sort of a trailer for the novel. The movie advertised here was to have been directed by Ang Lee, but I don't think that's happening.
Todd Field is directing the movie, now. Or maybe two different versions are being filmed, one by Todd Field and one by Ang Lee. I have no idea how either director will take the mash-up of novels, movie pitches, memoirs, plays, and straight narrative, and make it into a film.
And in fact another film called Beautiful Ruins was scheduled to be released back in March. I'm pretty sure that one has nothing to do with the Jess Walter novel.
Confused? Read the book. It's like having a bunch of movies showing in your head, and watching them come together gloriously.
Beautiful Ruins is also available as an eAudiobook and an audiobook on CD.
STAFF PICK BONUS FEATURE #1 If you feel that author Jess Walter is having too much fun with the cross-eyed Italian priest in Beautiful Ruins, listen up here where Walter answers questions from GoodReads, and, when discussing his love of basketball, claims to be "the best one-eyed point guard of my size and age."
STAFF PICK BONUS FEATURE #2 "[Dick] Cavett's four great interviews with Richard Burton were done in 1980 . . . Burton, fifty-four at the time, and already a beautiful ruin, was mesmerizing." -- Louis Menand. That quote from The New Yorker appears at the beginning of Beautiful Ruins. Here are the interviews. I think all four are there.
— Recommended by Glenn Halberstadt, Communications Department
July 4, 2016
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Golden, Arthur
This is a beautiful tale of the life of a little girl named Chiyo, telling her story on growing up to become a Geisha. Chiyo gets sold to a Geisha house when she is very young, and she can either be working in the house like a slave all her life or take the chance and become a Geisha herself. Before, during and after World War II, she goes through her struggles with school, and with trying to make a reputation for herself while competing with the other Geishas in Kyoto. The saying "Pain is pretty" is an understatement when it comes to this story.
Memoirs of a Geisha is also available as an eBook and an eAudiobook.
--Recommended by Mikaela Smith, Garfield Park Branch


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Spartanburg native and naturalist Rudy Mancke will lead a nature walk Sunday along the banks of the Tyger River for the Tyger-10 Park grand opening.
Spartanburg native and naturalist Rudy Mancke will lead a nature walk Sunday along the banks of the Tyger River for the Tyger-10 Park grand opening.
The park at 3100 Walnut Grove Road is the first public park on the Tyger River in Spartanburg County, encompassing 10 acres and more than a quarter mile of river frontage, according to a written statement from the Tyger River Foundation (TRF).
The grand opening is from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Along with walking along the river's scenic banks, those who attend the celebration and fundraiser also will see TRF properties not open to the public, enjoy live music and food.
Spaces are limited, and today is the final day to purchase tickets. Minimum donations are $30 per person or $50 per couple. Children younger than 18 are admitted free.
TRF President Julian Hankinson said spaces were still available as of Monday afternoon.
Mancke's nature walk begins at 2 p.m. He is the former host of SCETV's "Nature Scene."
Hankinson said Mancke told him he has a personal connection to the Tyger River Basin — he got his start as a naturalist exploring the Tyger rivers.
Tyger-10 Park is just below where the three rivers converge.
"The Tyger River is a largely untapped amenity for improving the quality of life for Spartanburg County residents as well as attracting regional visitors," Hankinson said in the statement.
He said TRF is establishing a 65-acre piece of property that will be preserved for future generations, a place where people can be surrounded with natural beauty. Along with a scenic escape and recreation, TRF wants to be an educational resource.
TRF board member Tom Foster said the Tyger River will promote healthy lifestyles, providing children a place to explore the outdoors in an era where many seek entertainment in front of screens.
"We want a calm, peaceful environment for families to come and enjoy in Spartanburg County," Foster said.
Sunday's event will raise awareness about other TRF projects.
Hankinson said TRF acquired Anderson Mill in 2010. He said the grist mill dates to the 18th century. TRF hopes to restore the grist mill on the shoals of the North Tyger. Foster said they have discussed purchasing corn grown in Spartanburg County to grind at the mill after its restoration.
With property donated by Cryovac and partnerships with school districts 5 and 6, the town of Duncan, and other organizations, TRF plans to start building the Tyger Berry Trail in the coming year, providing a "green way" along the South Tyger River between Reidville and Duncan.
There are plans to turn a 5,000-square-foot building on TRF's property into a nature center and ongoing efforts to gain public access to the waterway from landowners and entities.
Foster said they welcome involvement from sponsors concerned about the environment, promoting active lifestyles and protecting beautiful spaces.
He said board members are unpaid volunteers. Every dollar collected is used to maintain the property and acquire more land, Foster and Hankinson said.
Tickets are available at www.tygerriver.org or by calling 864-574-6336.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Jul 2011 22:12 UTC
"One of Microsoft's hottest new profit centers is a smartphone platform you've definitely heard of: Android. Google's Linux-based mobile operating system is a favorite target for Microsoft's patent attorneys, who are suing numerous Android vendors and just today announced that another manufacturer has agreed to write checks to Microsoft every time it ships an Android device. Microsoft's latest target is Wistron Corp., which has signed a patent agreement 'that provides broad coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio for Wistron's tablets, mobile phones, e-readers and other consumer devices running the Android or Chrome platform', Microsoft announced." That's the reality we live in, folks. This is at least as criminal - if not more so - than Microsoft's monopoly abuse late last century. After the Nortel crap, it's completely left the black helicopter camp for me: Microsoft, Apple, and several others are working together to fight Android the only way they know how: with underhand mafia tactics. Absolutely sickening. Hey Anonymous, are you listening? YES I WENT THERE.
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RE[8]: Patents are patents
by pantheraleo on Wed 6th Jul 2011 17:27 UTC in reply to "RE[7]: Patents are patents"
When you sense bullshit, you say bullshit.
Except it was Thom's claim that software patents were not granted until 1998 that was BS. And I pointed out multiple examples that prove his statement was wrong.
FYI: EPC has explicitly excluded software from being patented as of 1973.
That's not entirely true. Computer programs as a whole are not patentable. But software patents, although harder to get under the EPC, are in fact, sometimes allowed.
Also, it should be noted that the EPC has no legal enforcement authority. And the EPC interpretation and enforcement is basically left up to individual countries that are involved in it.
Something your side is battling to overturn to this very day. How's life on the side of Lodsys these days?
Cute. And again, an example of how those who are opposed to software patents see everything in black and white. Just because I don't think software patents should be completely done away with does not mean I think there aren't stupid software patents out there that should be invalid, or that there aren't abuses of the patent system. But that's not unique to software. Many things have been patented, both hardware and software, that fail to pass the "non-trivial and non-obvious" test.
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RE[9]: Patents are patents
by JAlexoid on Wed 6th Jul 2011 20:11 in reply to "RE[8]: Patents are patents"
It's still not software patents. EPO does sometimes grant overly wide patents, where
But it only shows what happens when you have a powerful organisation to get funds via the number of operations they make.
And in reality, courts of participating countries have applied the wording of the EPC software patentability rule based on local laws and freedoms judges get(common vs civil legal systems). I know quite a few cases where judges were strict and UK/IE judges were lax. But then again, EPC was designed to be a convention to share patents, not enforcement rules.


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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg warns that his city could return to the bad old days of high crime without "stop and frisk." It's the controversial policing tactic that a federal judge struck down on Monday.
The judge ruled that New York police have systematically violated the civil rights of tens of thousands of people by wrongly targeting black and Hispanic men.
Britain has its own version of New York's policing tactic: it's called "stop and search." It's controversial, too.
Nick Glynn is 46 years old and black. He says he's been stopped and searched about 30 times in his life. But Glynn has an unusual perspective, he's an inspector in the Leicestershire police department.


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I was cleaning my tank and my Silver Arowana jumped out and landed on my table. I quickly grabbed him after wearing gloves that were on my table luckily and put him back in.
Well he was dazed for a few minutes and now he's fine swimming around.
I noticed one of his fins have been ripped in the event and is dangling while still attached to his body.
I think it's called the Pelvic fin but correct me if I am wrong.
I am sure it will detach from his body within a few days, but will it grow back?
I hope it does.
I have attached a pic that was taken 3 months ago, it doesn't show the damage, I am just indicating the fin that got damaged.


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Epilepsy in children is a brain disorder that causes seizures. A seizure happens when there's a surge in the brain's normal electrical activity, often causing involuntary movements and other symptoms.
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Discussion in 'General' started by ikrudolf, Jun 24, 2012.
I have a huge cpu usage on PERL? What could be causing this?
Its a perl script running in one of your websites.
Is there a way to find out which script is causing this?
klogd -x is eating my CPU.
What can I do about it?
Try to find the program file with the find command, I guess it must be somwhere in /var/www or /tmp (not in /usr or other system directories). This is most likely a hcked or trojan script that uses the name of a common Linux application (klogd) to hide itself. But the real klogd would never run as www-data, so this fake program must be somewhere in one of your sites or in the tmp folder.
Tnx when the CPU is high again will try fo FIND it. (with "FIND KLOGD" right?)
Btw when I reboot the server the high usage and the klogd is stopped.
Linux is case sensitive, so the find command as well as the name of the application have to be in lowercase. See:
man find
for all options of the find command.
Tried to find klogd but
"find: `klogd': No such file or directory"
This issue is not always running, 1 per 2 weeks this issue is there.
if it is malware then there is some kind of vulnerability to let it get uploaded and started. When you restart the process is not run on startup but the vulnerability is still there. It might be exploited again when the "hacker" realizes it is not running anymore.
Any tips for locating the script that is causing this?
Because "find klogd" is not working.
Do you have suexec enabled in all websites as recommended? When suexec is on, then the scripts of each website run under the user of the website so that you can locate the website which causes the issues by the username of the user that runs the script.
I enabled suexec for all sites but still I get this:
I'm still experiencing issues with KLOGD and hihg CPU usage.
Anybody tips for me?
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Davidson College will kick off the fall performing arts season Saturday evening, Sept. 7, with a rare and heart-felt concert by the college's most notable vocal duo. Longtime performing partners Jacquelyn Culpepper and Dan Boye will present a program of songs that chart the life cycle of love - from those first smitten moments through loss to eventual reconciliation.
The program, titled "Do You Love Me?" will include songs from a half-dozen Broadway musicals written by composers including Gershwin, Cole Porter, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Irving Berlin.
The show will begin at 8 p.m. in Duke Family Performance Hall. Tickets are $8 to $15, with proceeds benefitting music lessons for Davidson students. Reservations may be made by calling 704-894-2135 weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or reserved any time online. For more information contact Amanda Preston at 704-894-2848.
Though they have performed for 30 years at prestigious venues around the globe, this will be the first time Boye and Culpepper have been on stage together in Duke Family Performance Hall since the venue opened in 2001.
Soprano Jacquelyn Culpepper is an artist associate in voice at Davidson, and bass-baritone Dan Boye is a professor of physics. The two musicians met as graduate students at the Brevard Music Center, but didn't begin performing together until they coincidentally both found employment at Davidson College.
From 1989 to 1991 Culpepper worked as an adjunct professor in the music department, and Boye had just joined the physics department. She left the college to focus on singing, and rejoined the faculty in 2001 as an artist associate. Time spent singing in the same church choir soon cemented their friendship and launched their career together. Since then, the duo has sung together at venues across the nation, including their annual performance as featured guest artists at the Breckinridge Musical Festival for 15 years in a row.
Boye has appeared since 1991 in 30 Opera Carolina productions, including "Tosca" last season. He also played the leading role of Curley in the Davidson Community Player's production of "Oklahoma."
Boye's academic research involves development of new optic material. He has developed a way to to blend his teaching and vocal careers in a course titled "Musical Technology" that explores how music and sound is produced. "Everyone likes music of some sort," said Boye. "It conveys emotions and the human spirit. Physics helps students understand how music communicates those things."
Culpepper teaches voice lessons to students, organizes musical performances such the college's opera workshop, and serves as musical director for college musical theatre productions. "I'm fascinated by the pedagogy of teaching voice," she said. "Every person is a puzzle, and it's fun to push their buttons and see how they work."
Culpepper's career highlights outside the college include concerts in Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Atlanta's Symphony Hall. She has also appeared on PBS singing in An Evening with Cole Porter and Salute to Masterpiece Theatre.
As a teacher for the nonprofit organization American Voices, she has travelled to South America, Asia and Europe to spread an understanding and appreciation for American music. She views these experiences as opportunities to engage in soft diplomacy and cultural exchange. "I love learning about the different ways people approach and use music," she said.
Culpepper now sings mostly concerts and oratorios. "I have a romantic heart," she said. "When I sing Brahms' or Mozart's Requiems, it's like putting on a worn out pair of jeans I love."
Culpepper said mutual respect has maintained her relationship with Boye. "We have healthy boundaries," she said. "If I ask Dan's opinion, he'll give it to me. Sometimes colleagues will try to be your voice teacher, but we both know when to keep our mouths shut."
No matter what they are singing, Culpepper and Boye always appreciate the opportunity to sing together. "We never get bored," said Culpepper. "We're both students and teachers, and so we're always learning from each other."


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2013 British & Irish Lions
The Lions' Keepers
John Griffiths
December 12, 2012
Sir Ian McGeechan salutes supporters at the end of his fourth and final Lions tour as a coach in 2009 © Getty Images
For fifty years the word "coach" did not enter the Lions lexicon.
The early tours between 1888 and 1938 were headed by a manager and his assistant, with a tour captain to lead the side in the field. The manager was invariably a worthy from rugby's administrative ranks, a headmaster figure to hold his young charges in check, with the assistant acting as a secretary to keep on top of the paperwork and tour logistics. The captain was chosen more for his ability to make after-dinner speeches than for his qualities of leadership on the field.
Change happened slowly. The first post-war Lions were the class of 1950 who toured New Zealand and Australia under the captaincy of Karl Mullen, the hooker whose tactical nous had steered Ireland to back-to-back Triple Crowns in the 1948 and 1949 Five Nations. Mullen's party was the first all-international squad to leave these shores and the first to take an interest in what was quaintly called "preparation". Mullen took responsibility for drilling the forwards while Bleddyn Williams, his vice-captain, supervised the backs.
A similar unofficial role was filled for the 1955 Lions by Jeff Butterfield, the Northampton and England centre. He was a Loughborough P.E. graduate and star performer for a side that shared the Test series with the Springboks. He concentrated on conditioning and no better tribute was paid to his efforts than by Tom Reid, the big Irish forward who later confessed that he had never been as physically fit in his entire life than on that tour.
Butterfield performed the same role with the 1959 side in New Zealand where skipper Ronnie Dawson strived to get his forwards working as a unit. Great strides in coaching were taking place in South Africa and New Zealand by these times and after the failures of the 1962 Lions in South Africa, where manager Brian Vaughan mucked in preparing the team with captain Arthur Smith and senior player Dickie Jeeps, the Home Unions began seriously considering the advantages of coaching at the highest level.
For the 1966 tour to Australia and New Zealand, a break with tradition was finally made with the appointment as "assistant manager" of John Robins, a respected lecturer at Loughborough who had played in Welsh Grand Slam sides in the early fifties and toured with Karl Mullen's Lions. Robins was in the vanguard of the coaching revolution in the Home Unions and he was specifically detailed to carry out such duties on tour.
Mike Campbell-Lamerton was the controversial choice as captain of that team. The big Scot was a popular man, an old-school skipper chosen by the Four Home Unions Tour committee for his abilities to lead off the field. He had been a Lion in 1962 and saw his role as continuing the age-old Lions tradition. As a result, Robins was sidelined for most of the visit and never really had a chance to impose any tactical plan on the side. Campbell-Lamerton's loss of form on tour led to his being dropped from a Test side that was the first to suffer a complete whitewash in a Lions Test series.
David Brooks was determined that no such confusion about roles should arise in 1968 when he managed the side that toured South Africa. His coach as assistant manager was the former Lions and Ireland captain Ronnie Dawson, who had taken a studious interest in coaching since retiring from the Test scene four years earlier. Home Unions rugby was not at its strongest, but through his thorough research of the opposition and by making good use of experienced players like Syd Millar and Jim Telfer - two future Lions coaches - Dawson shaped an unpromising side into a tight outfit that gave the 'Boks a run for their money in the first three Tests of the four-game rubber.
Everything came right for British & Irish rugby in the early seventies when first Carwyn James and then Syd Millar were coaches to sides that won Test series in New Zealand and South Africa. Both had impeccable CVs for the job, but what is often overlooked about their successes is that they were outstanding man-managers. James was happy to consult with his players and use their knowledge. His skipper John Dawes had moulded London Welsh into one of the best club sides in the UK and his forwards, particularly Ray McLoughlin and Willie-John McBride, were technical experts who helped the coach to draw up match-winning plans.
Syd Millar brought a different skill-set to the job in 1974 when his charges enjoyed an unbeaten tour. If James was the quiet influence behind the 1971 tour, Millar shone the torch that lit the way for the success of the entire exercise in 1974. Dr Doug Smith was the inspirational manager of the 1971 team but he was still undoubtedly a headmaster figure who was very much in charge of the team. By 1974, it was Millar who was definitely the lead figure of a party managed by Alun Thomas of Wales. Millar, above all, showed that for future success the leading personality on Lions tours had to be the head coach, though it certainly helped to have another outstanding personality in skipper Willie-John McBride to take the reins on the field of play.
British and Irish rugby was in decline relative to the southern hemisphere powers in the late 1970s and early 1980s and with South Africa in the wilderness in the 1980s, there was a six-year gap between the tours to New Zealand in 1983 and the next visit, the first for ninety years solely to Australia, which took place in 1989.
England and Scotland were the strongest of the Home Unions at the time and, taking a leaf out of England's approach to international team preparation, the tour organisers selected a lead coach (Ian McGeechan in the Lions role for the first time) and assistant coach (Roger Uttley). McGeechan took the overview and worked with the backs while Uttley successfully reprised his England role as forwards coach. Clive Rowlands, no mean captain and coach himself for Wales earlier, filled the post of new-era Lions manager with typical panache. The Lions came from behind to win that Test series and the management template for the next decade had been forged, McGeechan even bringing a semblance of continuity to the team by becoming the first lead-coach to go in that capacity on successive tours (to NZ in 1993 and SA in 1997).
The game had become professional in the mid-1990s and the technical side began to make big strides. Technical coaches - analysts who brought a wider eye to how games developed and devised techniques for monitoring playing patterns at both team and individual level - became worth their weight in gold and for the first tour of the pro era, to South Africa in 1997, Andy Keast went along as the Lions analyst - their "third coach". It was a successful development, the Lions winning a famous series by going two-up with a Test to spare.
Graham Henry was in charge of Wales when he went to Australia in 2001 as the first overseas head coach of the Lions. He tweaked the coaching team by taking defence, kicking and fitness coaches before Sir Clive Woodward assembled the biggest Lions squad ever - more players, coaches and back-room staff than before or since - on the ill-starred 2005 trip to New Zealand. Matters were scaled down under Sir Ian McGeechan for 2009 in South Africa, which was a more successful operation than the 2005 visit, and it is likely that Warren Gatland's supporting cast in Australia this summer will be more in line with Sir Ian's structure than Sir Clive's.
Lions designated coaching teams since the position became official in 1966:
1966 - Coach: John Robins (Wales)
1968 - Coach: Ronnie Dawson (Ireland)
1971 - Coach Carwyn James (Wales)
1974 - Coach: Syd Millar (Ireland)
1977 - Coach: John Dawes (Wales)
1980 - Coach: Noel Murphy (Ireland)
1983 - Coach: Jim Telfer (Scotland)
1989 - Head coach: Ian McGeechan (Scotland), Assistant coach: Roger Uttley (England)
1993 - Head coach Ian McGeechan (Scotland), Assistant coach: Dick Best (England)
1997 - Head coach: Ian McGeechan (Scotland), Assistant coach: Jim Telfer (Scotland) with Andy Keast (analyst)
2001 - Head coach: Graham Henry (Wales/NZ) , Assistant coach: Andy Robinson (England) with Phil Larder (Defence), Dave Alred (kicking) and Steve Black (fitness) with Alun Carter (analyst)
2005 - Head coach: Sir Clive Woodward (England), Assistant coaches: Ian McGeechan (Scotland), Eddie O'Sullivan (Ireland), Gareth Jenkins (Wales) & Mike Ford (England) with Phil Larder (defence), Dave Alred (kicking), Dave Reddin (fitness) & Craig White (fitness) with Gavin Scott & Tony Biscombe (analysts)
2009 - Head coach: Sir Ian McGeechan (Scotland), Assistant coaches: Warren Gatland (Wales), Shaun Edwards (Wales), Rob Howley (Wales), Graham Rowntree (England) with Craig White & Paul Stridgeon (fitness) with Rhys Long & Rhodri Brown (analysts)
2013 - Head coach: Warren Gatland (Wales), Assistant coaches: Rob Howley (Wales), Graham Rowntree (England), Andy Farrell (England) with Adam Beard (strength & conditioning), Paul Stridgeon (fitness), Rhys Long & Rhodri Brown (analysts)
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When Kyle Noone arrived at the XPoNential Music Festival on Friday evening, he was simply excited to see one of his favorite bands – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Little did the 13-year-old Cherry Hill drummer know, he'd be performing with them by the end of the night.
It all came about because singer / frontman Alex Ebert was losing his voice. So rather than talk between songs, he asked members of the crowd if they had any stories to tell. He got to Noone as the band began the opening vamp of "Home," and the excited fan told Ebert "Honey is good for your voice" and "I'm your number-one fan, I bought your album the second it came out on iTunes, and I know all your songs on drums."
"You play drums?" singer Jade Castrinos asked. "You should come and play some drums."
Noone says he was in shock when he landed on stage.
"I was trying to look calm but on the inside I was happier than I have ever been in my life," he tells us over email. "I was very nervous about messing up." But he held it down, sitting behind Orpheo McCord's drumkit and keeping the beat going on "Home," launching into an explosive drum solo (you can see it at about the 3:11 mark of the video below) that had Ebert on his knees doing a "we're not worthy" bow.


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Cons 36% (32%)
Libs 30% (31%)
Greens 7% (7%)
The regionals show Ontario at a virtual deadheat, not much change from the last AR poll:
Cons 37% (37%)
Libs 34% (35%)
Greens 9% (8%)
A bit different from EKOS, but again it speaks to volatility.
In Quebec, not much change. Liberals at 27%, the Conservatives up to 16%, Bloc at 38%, NDP 12%.
Overall, AR gives the Conservatives their highest percentage of any pollster since March.
Behind the numbers, there are some revealing trends for Ignatieff, which partially explain the Liberal stagnation. I would describe these numbers as "worrying":
Part of the Conservative lead seems to come from a decline in the economic credibility of Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff. About one-third of Canadians (32%) say their either completely or moderately trust Ignatieff to do the right thing to help the economy recover, a drop of seven points since April. Also, the proportion of people who "completely distrust" Ignatieff to do the right thing to help the economy has risen from 19 per cent in April to 27 per cent this month.
The performance of Prime Minister Stephen Harper on economic issues is essentially unchanged since April. Harper is completely or moderately trusted by 41 per cent of respondents (no change) and completely or moderately distrusted by 48 per cent (down four points).
Harper's numbers are quite poor, but they are no longer as pronounced, relative to Ignatieff. Clearly, the election threat fallout has hurt Ignatieff's reputation. Or, maybe more correctly, the blank slate is being filled with negative connotations. Economic management will be the first, second and third most important issue in any campaign, so I'd address this growing weakness immediately and proactively. You don't want to read too much, or overreact, but you also need to recognize the potential liabilities with some foresight in mind.


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