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By Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest | Sept. 23, 2015, 4:57 p.m.
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Civil rights activist Dolores Huerta recently took to her blog, featured on the Huffington Post, to voice her strong support for the essential services Planned Parenthood provides – especially for Latinos, who make up 22 percent of patients who receive our services.
"To put it simply: Attacking Planned Parenthood for providing Latinas with reproductive health services is another way of saying that Latinas shouldn't have access to reproductive health services at all," Huerta says in her post.
Huerta is an advocate for health care access for low-income families of color, and she has also done extensive advocacy for workers' (like the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez), immigrants' and women's rights.
She is no stranger to the reproductive health disparities of women, particularly in terms of Latinas, who are disproportionately uninsured and at higher risk of death from cervical or breast cancer.
She goes on to praise Planned Parenthood for its extensive work in communities of color, affording Latina women control over their health and future, and being there when women have nowhere else to turn.
Thank you, Dolores, for being such a fierce supporter of women's rights and for continuously advocating for organizations like Planned Parenthood. We're honored to have you on our side.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author. This content is provided for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice or an endorsement by Planned Parenthood. Check with your health care provider to discuss what is best for you.


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A few things I can watch for hours at a stretch: championship tennis on television, the ocean in winter, dogs playing and running anywhere, anyplace, anytime. Director Lee Jung-Chul's Hearty Paws 2 delivers a lot of that last simple pleasure (if not much else). When a Labrador Retriever's runt puppy is stolen by bumbling brother jewel thieves who want to gut it and put diamonds in its eye-holes, that mama dog is seen chasing a truck down Seoul's highways and byways, scampering through the halls of an abandoned building, racing through the woods and an adjacent snake-infested field, and galloping down the freeway in a rainstorm until she collapses from exhaustion (only to be ignored by a passing car). Then after our heroic dog has been rehabilitated by a vet, she's back to running again. She's a beautiful creature, and seeing her in motion is never boring. You sense that she's an incredibly well-trained animal following commands and enjoying every minute of it, even when she's fake-limping after getting shot in the hind quarters. Some dogs really love to act!
But not all dogs. For example, her on-screen offspring, a real fur-ball of unbearable cuteness, isn't relishing his role's requirements as the kidnapped puppy who must suffer all types of indignities. Disturbingly, I sensed that the shivering fetal position the runt takes on numerous occasions wasn't trained so much as induced. And did we really need to see one of the bad guys hold the little doggie by the scruff of its neck. Yuck, that made me wince. The scene between a wild boar mom and the Labrador mom made me wish that either the movie had no human beings in the cast or that all the animals had joined forces to take on mankind. What I feel: In the outside world (outside the movie), people frankly aren't doing such a good job taking care of all God's creatures or the planet which we all inhabit together. It's time for the animals to challenge the hierarchy. Let's let the dogs run the world for a change. Wild boar for vice president.


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Xinhua News Agency:BEST Express Brand Upgrading, Global Shopping "One-stop Delivery"
On May 29th, BEST Express released its brand service upgrading at the 4th China (Beijing) International Service Trade Fair (referred to as "Beijing Trade Fair"). In addition, BEST Express mascot "Dear" made his international debut.
BEST Express released its mascot "Dear"
Efficiency Enhance: Leverage Technology Innovation to Improve Service Quality
Data show that in March this year, " BEST Express" brand officially released, with "Enrich Life, Express Joy" as its goal, aimed to provide consumers with better express services. BEST Express is originally known as Huitong Express, which was acquired by BEST Group in November 2010, then it developed quickly with more than 100% average annual growth rate, and currently it boasts more than 16,000 branches and more than 130,000 delivery staff.
"The rapid development is inseparable from the support of efficient management and innovative technology. How to improve the efficiency of delivery is continuous investigatory and practical subject of BEST." Management from BEST Express mentioned, "The self-developed Storm Automated Sorting Line(????), adopting big data, cloud computing, and intelligent terminals to dramatically improve sorting efficiency by three times and achieve accuracy of 99.9%."At present, the system has been put into service in the distribution center of seven major cities, including Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing and Hangzhou. According to plan, about 21 sets of automatic sorting system will be deployed in other cities before "11.11 Peak Day" in 2016. Scanner Ring(???), which has caused widespread concern in 2014 Beijing Trade Fair, was used in all of the BEST express distribution center after functional upgrading.
"The application of these technologies, not only economizes on manpower, but also improves sorting efficiency, ensuring the quality and timeliness of delivery." The management said, "These innovative technology and equipment have been 'armed' to deliveryman."
In 2015, BEST Express launched an intelligent APP called "Tathagata Palm(????)". This APP is designed for BEST deliveryman, which can not only facilitates parcel pickup, parcel delivery and also can support inquiry function and mobile payment. So that way, it is much easier for deliveryman to provide better service with lower time cost.
Network Expansion: Expand Global Express Network under BEST Group
Network coverage of express is the basis of its development. At present, the coverage of BEST Express in the districts and cities within China has reached 100%, the county coverage has reached 98%, and township coverage was more than 70%. In 2014, BEST Express set up service stations in Hong Kong and Macao; and in 2015, achieved strategic cooperation with Taiwan Pelican Express. Data show that BEST Express has more than 280 distribution centers, and the area will reach nearly 1.2 million sq. by the end of this year.
BEST Express daily average volume is exceed 7 million parcels till now, ranked first echelon in the industry. On November 11, 2015, daily order amount was more than 25million, up 170% over the same period last year.
At present, express industry is expanding its business to manufacturing and cross boarder e-commerce on the basis of commercial and network express delivery, carrying out "downward" "westward" and "outward" project. Data show that before the 2014 Third Beijing Trade Fair, BEST had already deployed global warehousing and express network resources to support China-based customers with broader services worldwide.
With the upgrade of BEST service, the Global Shopping "One-stop Delivery" service will satisfy Chinese consumers' needs of "stay-at-home global purchase".
Consumers can inquiry status of oversea goods through BEST Express official service account in WeChat, Alipay or other channels, enhancing the satisfaction of overseas transit experience.
Up till now, BEST Express business has covered more than 200 countries and regions, serviced more than 300 cross-border customers. What's more, average daily cross-border volume is more than 20,000. "One-stop Delivery" will continuous carried out in the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea and so on.
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Service Upgrade: Further Advance its Value Added Services in Community
"In fact, perfect network distribution is indispensable factor for express delivery to gain rapid development, but improving last mile service capacity is also important." According to the management of BEST Express, "BEST Neighbor(????) is one of the representative products and innovative service model of BEST's trials to integrate resources and enhance its last mile delivery network.
From 2015, BEST Express cooperates with small and micro businesses to launch community value-added services "BEST Neighbor(????)" across the country, focusing on the "last 100 meters" of delivery. Through cooperation with Best, Small and micro stores like flower shops, convenience stores are becoming "BEST Neighbor" service station to provide services such as self-pickup. At present, agents are more than 100,000 across the country.
"The rapid development of e-business and logistics has totally changed the way of consumption, and also has bred many new demand points in traditional service industry." After one-year market research, In June 2015, O2O laundry item Youlexi (???) started its test running in Shanghai. It can not only promote the communitization and localization of express services, but also can provide consumers with a new laundry mode. At present, Youlexi Laundry has covered Shanghai, Changchun, Tianjin, Chengdu, Chongqing and so on, relying on Best Express network, Youlexi laundry will gradually cover the whole country.
"The brand image of BEST Express is upgrading, delivery service is improving, and newly launched products and services are much closer to the needs of young people." BEST Express management said, "In the next step, BEST Express will work together with BEST Supply Chain, BEST Freight, BEST Cloud, BEST Capital, BEST Global, BEST Store to expand BEST ecosystem where information flow drives business flow, logistics and capital flow."


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By Mark Janzen, Trinity Western University
LANGLEY, B.C. – The No. 1-ranked Trinity Western men's volleyball team held off a rally from No. 7 Winnipeg to earn a 3-2 (27-25, 25-22, 26-28, 21-25, 15-12) win over the Wesmen Saturday at the Langley Events Centre.
With the fifth set tied 8-8, the Spartans tallied back-to-back points to take a lead they wouldn't relinquish. Then, after TWU went up 14-11, the Spartans finished the night on their second crack at match-point, with Ben Lieuwen (Abbotsford, B.C.) getting the winning kill.
After the Spartans took the first two sets, the Wesmen squeaked out a third-set victory before forcing a fifth set with a well-earned four-point win in the fourth set.
Jacob Kern (Edmonton) led the Spartans offensively with a career-high 21 kills, bettering his previous best of 14, which earned four times this year.
Adam Schriemer guided TWU's offence with 53 assists, equaling his career high. Eric Loeppky (Steinbach, Man.) added 17 kills, while libero Carter Bergen (Winnipeg) had a career-high 18 digs. Bergen finished with 35 digs over the weekend.
Daniel Thiessen and Adrian Dyck had 13 kills apiece to lead Winnipeg.
With Kern getting off to a hot start for the second straight night – he collected seven kills and committed just one attacking error in the first set – the Spartans staved off set point and rallied to take the opening set 27-25. With both teams hitting better than .450 (TWU was at .467 and Winnipeg hit .458) it was a back and forth set throughout until TWU scored three points in a row to take the set on a kill from Kern.
In the second set, it was the Spartans Loeppky going off, as he equaled Kern's opener, picking up seven kills to lead TWU to a three-point win. Thiessen had four kills for the Wesmen, but it wasn't enough, with Kern once again burying the set-winning kill. Loeppky tallied the first point of the set and TWU never trailed.
Similar to Friday's game, the Wesmen came to life in the third set, opening a 10-3 lead on a Thiessen kill. Winnipeg took its seven-point edge into the technical timeout, holding a 16-9 lead. The visitors pushed that advantage to 20-13 before TWU battled back. With Maddux Greves (Calgary) and Kaden Gamache (Abbotsford, B.C.) coming off the bench to spark the Spartans, TWU eventually evened the set 24-24. But Winnipeg held on to take the set after a Spartans attacking error.
A close fourth set swung Winnipeg's way with a 5-1 run that forced TWU into a timeout after trailing 13-9. TWU responded with a 5-0 run to put the Spartans up 15-14. But the Wesmen held off the Spartans late, securing a 25-21 win and sending the match to a fifth set.
Winnipeg took a 3-1 lead in the fifth set, but TWU bounced back to take an 8-7 lead at the turn. From there, TWU took a lead and held on down the stretch.
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"We knew this game was going to be really hard based on the way they finished the game last night. And Larry (McKay), in my opinion, is the best coach we have in Canada coaching at the collegiate level and every time we play them, that is reinforced in my mind. The subtle things that they do to apply pressure increases throughout the whole game. Everything you do well, you can't do well when you play Larry's team.
"We got exposed in so many phases in what we have to get better at to beat a great team like that again in the playoffs. We didn't have to lose to have that stuff show up, which is great.
"I thought Kern had an incredible weekend. He has come back from the break and has been really physical. He's learning how to be the killer. Overall, I thought it was Kern's coming out party as a scorer for us."
• Schriemer previously had 53 assists on Mar. 5, 2016 against Saskatchewan in the Canada West Gold Medal Match.
• Bergen's previous career high was Friday's night's 17 digs.
• The Spartans have earned wins in 13 of their last 14 meetings with Winnipeg, including regular season and playoffs.
• The Spartans and Wesmen split their regular season series last year.
The Spartans travel to play Manitoba Jan. 12-13, while Winnipeg returns home to host Manitoba.


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On first impression, it's quite nice. I can still totally see the old Lyon's layout, but somehow the architects had subliminally added in Asian elements. Like the main supports of the dining room in the rough shape of the pillars of heaven. Pretty cool. And the mural work on the side and back walls is quite beautiful. And another big plus for a sweltering Fresno day is good air conditioning. Too bad the customers were cooler than the produce in the back, but more on that later.
We're seated promptly and strangely, before seeing a menu, we're asked what we would like to drink. Since I'm interested in what unique beverage items they might have, we opt for waters. Odd that I would have to establish that, since it's pretty much the universal constant of a sit down restaurant. I've got that sinking feeling in my guts. Like I'm going to have one of those, "Oh yeah! THIS is why I blog!" moments. Damn it, I really wanted to like this place.
And so the death knell came. "Well, our freezer went out, so let me check and see if we have any." Wait, what? Your fucking freezer is down? Isn't that where all restaurants keep the lion's share of their perishables, only to be thawed for use on the same day? Shit! Half the menu is seafood! And why in the hell are the coconuts in the damn freezer? This does not bode well for our intrepid eaters.
Dick in the ear #2: The drinks arrive. The Thai iced tea is pretty straight forward and what I expect. Chai tea extract mixed with some soy milk over ice. Not exactly innovative, but whatever. The real embarrassment was the young coconut. It comes with it's little baby dome chopped off and a straw tossed into it's depths. Not exactly the Jaques Pepin school of plating, but again, whatever. I'm giddy with anticipation. And so, I lift it's little lid and scoop out the first bit of…hey! This shit is hard as hell to get off the shell! And it's…it's fucking hard! What is this crap?? Maybe the milk will…taste like the fry cook was soaking his toes in it! Mother. Fucker.
You know what enters into a kitchen refugee's mind when they hear the freezer is out? Oh shit, what is the manager going to try and save, despite the loss of quality and potential risk to the customer? Most often, the contents of a restaurant's freezer is worth over ten times more than what they have in their safe. And so, if it looks like that stuff is going to have to be trashed, whoever is doing the books will do their damndest to make full use of whatever they think they can squeeze past their customer's blunted palates. Well Mr. Mangosteen Manager, you picked the wrong dude to try and slip shoddy coconuts past. And your sins are only compounded by the remainder of the meal.
I apparently, struck out. Given my recent obsession with all things spicy, I wanted to line up for the hottest stuff they had. And (according to the menu) they had dishes that use my absolute favorite Asian chili sauce, sambal oelek. It's hot, but not the type of spicy that makes you dive for the milk or hate your best friend forever for letting you take a bite. It's got that wonderful pungent punch without the overly vinegar taste that most hot sauces have. Great on pizza, great on steak, great on burritos.
But Pook, you say, it can't possibly get worse can it? Oh yes dear reader, yes it can. You see, having already sent back 1 item and finding myself with another 2 unpalatable messes, rather than send them back as well and have a pout, I simply asked for some plain sambal oelek to dip my food in. Such is it's powers, that straight from the bottle it can overpower the flavor of shitty food. And I get…coconut curry sauce… What in the motherfuck? I'm not some rubeish redneck using imaginary Tennessee Thai terms for what I want. I asked for what was supposedly the main flavor component of my dish. For fuck's sake, it comes in a JAR! It's not like they had to make it fresh. So, try number 2. MORE OF THE SAME SHITTY SAUCE ON THE SHRIMP THAT I'VE ALREADY STATED WAS CRAP! Okay, now I'm wondering if I'm on another planet. If I go to a damn Italian restaurant and ask for more parmesan for my eggplant parmesan, I don't get a look of constipated confusion.
Right when I think I must be mad or the label on the jar has been lying to me. Suddenly, amazingly…they fucking figure out that they offer it as a goddamn dip for their spring rolls!! Finally, I can grimace my way through potential food poisoning with something resembling some aplomb. At the very least, it was able to cover the semi-rotten flavor of the tofu and gave me something more interesting to chew than the old pencil erasers that were the shrimp.
Man, where do I start on the wrap up? If I had filmed dinner tonight from start to finish, I could make the perfect training video of how not to operate a restaurant. While I personally appreciate candor, telling a customer that the freezer is busted is a fast track to making a smart (smarter than me) eater run out the door and never come back. An even faster track though is for the kitchen to fulfill every nightmarish scenario running through my head. Seriously, trying to salvage bad shrimp? The chef should be fined and horse whipped. Just for ruining my coconut moment alone, they have earned my eternal nutritional enmity.


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This is for all of us who over-think. May our vibes decrease... and get re-channeled to things that matter most. Like living.
Slap you, slap you silly
make me say
oh what's the matter here?
-- 10,000 Maniacs, What's The Matter Here
make me say
oh what's the matter here?
-- 10,000 Maniacs, What's The Matter Here
I know the song has a different context but just the same, the lines above may as well refer to me.
I needed that friendly slap yesterday from two great friends over coffee. We shared our own bouts of our current affairs of the heart/loins/hypothalamus with each other and we just ranted and raved at the same time, also dishing out advice to each other about the situations we are in, at this point in our lives.
The quote that particularly struck me is something I already know anyway, as the other female-bodied in the trio told me that I HAVE NO PROBLEM and the male-bodied one echoed what I told him the other day, which was I AM OVER-THINKING, AGAIN. They both reminded me of a crucial bottomline to all of this: BE HAPPY. But we also reminded each other that the bulk of one's happiness should still rest on our own shoulders, and not to be dangerously transfixed to the other party, the objects and subjects of our affections, desires and longings.
You know what, my friends, CHECK THAT!!!
So again, let me ask: Leaf, what's the matter here?
And I should answer: ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY NOTHING!
and the search for the brain's off-switch continues...
(Amtrak-ing my way from Southern California to
Central California coast, April 2010)
(Amtrak-ing my way from Southern California to
Central California coast, April 2010)
But still, I am sometimes bound by thoughts that should not haunt me in the first place, since I still have to remind myself not to create new ghosts out of happy spirits roaming around. Of course I can't help it, still, since we are still trying to regenerate the charred soul from the burning of the heart a few months back.
But the good this is, we try. And we still try. And we will never stop trying. D'accord? Oui. So yes, universe, please, send more positive vibes, interactions, support, and best of all -- self-confidence.
But first, this exhalation:
I am crying over things
that maybe don't exist
I am crying over moments
that may not be happening
I am crying over levels
that could not be explored
I am crying over feelings
that should not be felt, at all
Oh why am I sobbing
over fences gladly torn down?
Why am I crying
over shackles already broken?
Why am I grieving
over endings that haven't begun?
Why am I shedding
tears over smiles etched in my being?
Maybe it's because of you
and the way you interacted with me
Maybe it's because of us
and the way we connect with each other
Maybe it's because of them
and the way they try to still box us in
Or maybe it's because of me
and the way I am falling--have fallen--for you.
It's actually unfinished, but I think I'll just leave it like that for now. It's the product of an emotionally defective being anyways. Will repair some other time.


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White House Bans Sale of African Ivory Within U.S
The White House is banning the commercial sale of ivory within the United States.
Officials say the ban will strengthen U.S. leadership in protecting endangered elephants and rhinos.
With very few exceptions, Tuesday's action outlaws the import, export and commercial trade of ivory, and limits sport hunting of African elephants.
The U.S. also will work more closely with its global partners to fight illegal wildlife poaching and reduce demand for illegally traded wildlife.
One U.S. official tells Reuters news agency that the appropriate place to observe ivory is on live elephants and rhinoceros in their native habitat.
The illegal ivory trade continues despite a global ban in 1989.


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With the news of our moving soon, I had to tell Lynette at my LYS that I was not going to be able to continue writing her blog. (threebagsfullcorner.blogspot.com)
We had fun while it lasted. I enjoyed showing you the things her students and staff were working on. Lynette gave me loads of freedom to write, photograph and publish as I saw fit. Thanks Lynette. I won't be gone, just not around as much.
I am making sure that wherever we move, I will have access to a good knit shop or two.
So after I diligently knitted and felted a square for my felted slippers, I decided I didn't want to knit them. Ha. Scatter brained ? Me? Just a little.
I'm knitting that Christmas Stocking I had a hankering for last week. Bought my cascade yarn yesterday; a skien of red and a skein of green. I want a felted stocking and so I shall have one.
Not talking too much about the move. It's all good, but I can't see anyone being too interested in how much crap we have thrown out and how easy I find it to toss things. No decisions yet about a new house, so keep up the good thoughts. I'll letcha know as we progress.
So glad we did the photographs to digital last winter.
Have you tossed anything out lately?


text: The 2009 Alcatel-Lucent Broadband Challenge for the Sustainable Environment (the $20,000 Eckermann-TJA Prize) This year represents the third annual round of competition for the Eckermann-TJA Prize. The Prize will be sponsored again by Alcatel- Lucent Australia, who have generously doubled the previous prize money to AU$20,000 in 2009. The competition is known as the Alcatel-Lucent Broadband Challenge for the Sustainable Environment, and is open to authors around the world. The 2009 Eckermann-TJA Prize will be awarded to the best original paper offered to TJA (Telecommunications Journal of Australia) by the deadline of 3 November 2009, demonstrating the tangible benefits of applying broadband telecommunications to supporting the sustainable environment. The best entries, including the winning paper or papers, will be published in the February 2010 issue of TJA. The Prize was instigated by TJA in 2007 at the suggestion of Robin Eckermann, in the course of his 2006 Charles Todd Oration, published in TJA. The Judging Panel will be chaired by TJA's Managing Editor, Professor Peter Gerrand (University of Melbourne), and includes Robin Eckermann (former Chief Architect, TransACT), Dr Mike Dennis (Australian National University), Associate Professor Craig McDonald (University of Canberra) and Mr Ric Clark (Chief Technology Officer, Alcatel Lucent Australia). Panel members do not vote or provide ratings on entries in which they have any conflict of interest. In addition, thanks to the generosity of AARNet (Australia's Academic and Research Network), $20,000 worth of AARNet's advanced network services, such as high definition video conferencing and international light paths, will be made available for one year to the organization employing the winning authors, to advance their research work. For more information on the 2009 Alcatel-Lucent Broadband Challenge and the AARNet offer, see http://www.acs.org.au/acstsa/index.cfm?action=load&temID=noticedetails¬ID=953 The winning papers in the 2007 and 2008 Broadband Challenges can be found at the following online issues of TJA: TJA Vol. 57 Nos 2&3 and TJA Vol. 59 No 1. http://publications.epress.monash.edu/doi/full/10.2104/tja09034


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The Underground — Issue #51
Everything you need to know about in this weekly series: The new Captain America trailer, 5 of the biggest mass extinctions on the planet, what Earth would look like with Saturn's rings, why leaves change color during Fall, and have a look at Amazon's new drone delivery system.
At Social Underground we go beyond the mainstream stuff and see what's underneath the surface. What should we get into, listen to, read, eat or watch? If there is something in our culture that needs attention that's our job: Show you the underground things that you need to know about: Books, music, television, movies, comedians, art, and whatever else we can find to get you into something you never knew about. That's The Underground.
1. Marvel continues to print money with the trailer release of Captain America: Civil War. When it comes to superheroes, Captain America is pretty boring: He doesn't like swearing, he doesn't drink (well, he can't get a buzz because his body processes it so fast), the love of his life Peggy Carter is like 100, and the first 2 movies that featured him didn't really show off what he could do. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Cap finally got to be a badass and ended up being in arguably the best Marvel movie in the MCU.
Premise: After another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a governing body to oversee and direct the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two camps, one led by Steve Rogers and his desire for the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without government interference, and the other following Tony Stark's surprising decision to support government oversight and accountability.
Captain America: Civil War will release on May 6, 2016. Check out the trailer below:
2. The 5 biggest mass extinctions to happen on the planet Earth. Besides the event that caused all the dinosaurs to peace out, no one really talks about other mass extinctions that have happened on this planet. Hell, scientists are even talking about the planet going through another mass extinction right now. If you look at the monsters that scooter around at Walmart buying the worst foods that put them in the handicap scooter in the first place, you can imagine human beings coming to the brink of extinction.
Animals all over the planet are on the edge of extinction. A lot of that is due to humans expanding their territory and using up all the natural resources. Let's not forget those idiots that decide hunting endangered animals is a fun sport.
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3. What would it looks like on Earth is it had Saturn's rings? One of the most fascinating things for visual artists to do is create that look of the sky in an alien world. Tattooine in Star Wars was famous for a sky with two stars. The pictures sent from the rovers on Mars show a red sky that makes us yearn to see it with our own eyes when we eventually make the journey there, but what if Earth was different? What would Earth's sky look like if it had rings?
The sky would look a lot cooler if we had rings, but I could image getting sleep would be more difficult since the rings would give added light at night.
4. Why do leaves change color in the Fall? Living in Michigan, I get to see the leaves change color every year. After leaves change color, we get 6 months of Winter that make you look at why you live in a place that feels like the dread everyone is not looking forward to in Game of Thrones. I knew that in Fall that the leaves changed colors before eventually falling off, but I never really knew why. I just figured that's what happens.
The video below explains why the leaves chance every year before it starts to get really cold and have to break out the shovels to dig out of the hell that is Nordic hell that is Winter.
5. Amazon unveils in Amazon Air drone delivery system. We've heard about drone delivery services before. Just the other day we put up an article about how Google plans to do it in 2017, but no one can be sure if it will actually happen. Amazon seems to have a drone ready to go with what looks like a drone I haven't seen before. It looks like it could be something that's pretty great in theory, but if you know anything about Amazon, they sell a lot of things. Imagine what Cyber Monday would look like in the sky if everyone was ordering from Amazon. It would look like locusts blocking the Sun because there were so many drones.
Amazon has talked about the type of delivery system before, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see if they can pull it off. Having so many drones in the air delivering stuff could be a risk to the people below. Either way, have a look at the new promo showing off the Amazon Air that may be delivering things to your front door in the near future.
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IR Weekly Bestseller List for the Week of August 17, 2015
Oh my goodness! Summer is definitely not over yet! New books by Milly Taiden, Sosie Frost, Skylar Ward, Tiana Laveen, J.A. Fielding, Mallory Monroe, and Harmony Raine hot the lists this week.
Platform Wide Bestsellers
These are the books you can find beyond the Amazon store…
1 THE N WORD by Tiana Laveen [BWWM]
Aaron is a white nationalist, a Commander in the organization and Nazi who grew up in Frisco City and Gordon, Alabama. Much to no one's surprise, including his own, he ends up in the prison system, serving a stint for beating a man nearly to death in what is perceived as a racially driven assault. Mia Armstrong is an elementary schoolteacher from a conservative, Christian background. She also volunteers at the prison, and is asked to help spread the word about a prison pen pal program. In that process, she runs into Aaron, and before long, the two hit it off. Only there is one problem… Mia Armstrong is African American. How will Aaron deal with the truth of his feelings? Will Mia be able to stay by his side after discovering the darker edge of the man she's fallen helplessly in love with? [3.99]
2 MICK SINATRA 2 by Mallory Monroe [BWWM]
Businessman bad boy Mick Sinatra is at a sweet spot in his life. His business is flourishing, the Feds are off his back, and Rosalind Graham, his African-American girlfriend, is making her own way in a cutthroat Philadelphia marketplace. He still worries sick about her, but he respects her drive and determination. He and Roz even find time for a reunion in Jericho with his big brother, Big Daddy Charles Sinatra, and meet a family filled with love, grace, and inspiration. But when his son is nearly killed in a drug-deal-gone-wrong scheme, and Roz is targeted in a snatch and grab, Mick finds himself in a war he didn't know had been declared. He didn't start it, but he knows he has to finish it, before it finishes him. [5.99]
3 THE ARRANGEMENT by Thayer King [BWWM]
For Ariadne Morris, it was enough that her boyfriend dumped her for her cousin, but then she finds out that they plan to announce their engagement at the annual family reunion. Spending time at the beach with friends seems like the perfect getaway. Unfortunately, Asher Hollister, her high school nemesis, shows up. Asher Hollister enjoys riling up the ever so proper Ariadne. When he learns about her situation, he offers her a solution–marry him. The marriage will help him repair his reputation before his father runs for governor. He tells Ariadne that the marriage will be temporary, only Asher already knows that he never wants to let her go. [2.99]
4 KNAVE OF BROKEN HEARTS by Tara Lain [AMWM]
Jim Carney has a full time job—running from himself. Since he walked out on his wealthy family at sixteen because he'd wrecked his best friend's life over some yaoi graphic novels, Jim has lived a macho, blue-collar existence of too much booze and too little responsibility. Then Billy Ballew, the man Jim most admires, gives Jim a chance to come through as his construction supervisor. For once, Jim is determined to make someone proud. Then Jim goes in for a physical for his new job, and his yaoi dream comes to life in the form of cardiologist Ken Tanaka. Jim discovers he has two heart problems—a wonky mitral valve and a serious attraction to his doctor. But Ken is a major player, and Jim might be just a notch on the doc's stethoscope. [5.38]
5 MATT & BROOKLYN by Raven St. Pierre [BWLM]
Matteo Valente is an up-and-coming filmmaker whose award-winning documentary put him on the map two short years ago. It was that very documentary that also led him to the beautiful, intriguingly elusive Brooklyn James. From the moment he laid eyes on her through the lens of his camera, he couldn't shake the feeling that their meeting was no mistake. Their connection was instant, but Brook has been hell-bent on keeping him in the dreaded "friend zone" while she chases after her own dream. When Matt pays a surprise visit to Brook the day she graduates with her master's degree, she is forced to take a second look. "Come with me" were not the words she expected to hear as Matt prepared to leave town again. The invitation to spend a week in L.A. left her breathless, but there were so many reasons to turn him down; so many scenarios that could ruin their close friendship, but… at the risk of regretting it later… she said yes. [2.99]


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Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky was born 17 April 1903 and died on 6 August 1976. William Walton's cello concerto was dedicated to and premiered by Piatigorsky in 1957. Before becoming an international soloist he was principal cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic.
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Now I'm not here to talk about specifics. For one thing, the terms of the agreement I signed in order to receive my very generous, as they go, severance package make it clear that I don't want to talk about the specifics. I was part of several waves of layoffs that over the years has restructured that company into something I probably would not recognize now. That's actually a relief. I had knowledge at the time of some of the inner workings and vulnerabilities that was vital to doing a good job while I had it but a dreadful burden to carry when I was let go. I harbored a secret pleasure that I wasn't in the first wave, cold comfort.
I was, of course, emotionally devastated anyway. Some of my team members who had been dedicated co-workers and sincere friends stood with me on the curb that day while I waited, tears streaming down my face, silent, desolate, hoping my husband would get there quickly so the awfulness of that moment could pass.
I think my friends were not sure I was going to get past it. It was touch and go. I was utterly focused on getting through it, past it and on to the next job. The trouble was that when hundreds of peers whose resumes are also pretty good were laid off at the same time, the local market was flooded with people who did essentially what I did if you don't look too closely at the details. It was a time when I had to reinvent myself and highlight what difference I could bring to a potential employer. I was willing to do what it took to get that new job.
First and foremost, I had to be re-convinced I had something special to give. I had worked hard to get a job that I loved as much as the one I lost. I had put myself through school to get a second college degree while still working a full time job. I had turned myself from a clerical drone into a programmer, then a database analyst, then manager and director with a credenza full of awards for business appreciation, customer focus and technology peer recognition. And then, it was over. It must have been my fault, something I did, something I didn't do. It couldn't have been the wheel of misfortune turning to the "I have no reign" position. It couldn't have been a volatile economy affecting a volatile business. It couldn't have been something like human error on a large scale. I was the cause of my crisis. Right.
My head was clear enough to realize that I needed help and one of the best benefits of my package was employment counseling. My work was cut out for me. I had to remake myself from the ground up. It wasn't just a resume refresher. It was everything, the wardrobe, the career goal, the boundaries of what I would give up and what I would not. It was gaining a perspective on the job market, how well I matched what people wanted and what I needed to do to adjust so I was not just a match but the best match. No matter what the cause of my crisis really was, I had to be the cause of my recovery.
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(c) Copyright 2010 Marcia McCord
I was relentless, 16 hours a day for months while the money dribbled away. Finally, after 10 months, when the money had just run out, I found the Ace of Pentacles. I got a job offer. I wasn't second best. I was the one they wanted. It was real. Many things made it less than ideal. The money was less than I had made before I was laid off. But it was better than $0! It wasn't a management job, but I had come to realize that I didn't want that. I wanted to solve problems that were hard for other people. The biggest compromise was that it was 400 miles from my home. But I could make it work and make my house payments. Slowly, things were getting better, at a pace only pentacles could appreciate.
It's been a long road, but that was years ago now. I was digging through a box to untangle a couple of chains and found 4 of my "Excellence in Service" pins, the only keepsakes remaining from that previous job. It was a little like reading love letters I had written to someone long ago, someone who didn't love me, someone I no longer loved. I loved the excellent service I had given and finally felt that the source of that good feeling was within me. It wasn't at a street address in the financial district in any city. That was the ace up my sleeve I had lost, momentarily.
The Ace of Pentacles is the new start of something tangible. It moves more slowly than "fire sign" people like me would like. It stays longer than you would expect. It is not just the search for wealth or chasing a buck, although, if you make it that way, it can be that shallow. It can be that deep too when it is the basis for stability, health and general well-being. No matter how high your ideals, how spiritual your path, how crisp your intelligence, how noble your goals, you have to cover the basics one way or another. The pursuit of money to the exclusion of all else, that's shallow. Reinventing yourself, regrounding, starting over, starting a new job, career, relationship, life, that's hard. Hard, but not shallow. Hard, but even if it goes slowly, suffers setbacks, gives you nightmares in the daytime, sticking with it feels like winning the prize you get to keep.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Cleaning and Organising
No, it's not really the most exciting or glamourous of activities that one associates with planning a bike touring trip...But, with only three (!) weeks left to go before our trip, we figured that we should at least start getting our apartment ready for subletters. So, closets and cupboards got emptied, winter clothes got boxed away and the kitchen got a pretty good scrub. Since we're still here for three weeks, we'll need to do this again in our last week, but it was a good start!
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Pay for parking with RingGo
RingGo allows you to pay for parking over the phone or by internet, meaning you don't have to worry about having the correct change.
To use RingGo, you will need:
- to register for the service
- a mobile phone
Paying for your parking
Once registered, RingGo recognises your mobile phone number and retrieves the information associated with it.
This means that when you pay you only have to provide:
- the location code of where you want to park (this will also be visible on car park signage or the payment machine, a list is also provided below)
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- your payment card's 3 digit security code
Ways to pay
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The Process of Forensic Dentistry
A general dentist based in New York City, Dr. Adam K. Smith has led a busy private practice for 30 years. Trained at the New York University College of Dentistry, Adam K. Smith stands out as the first dental student to complete the Armed Forces Institute's forensic dentistry course.
Characterized by the identification of dental records, forensic dentistry serves two purposes: it helps officials determine the identity of someone who has died, and it assists in the identification of crime suspects. In the case of post-mortem identification, forensic dentists thoroughly examine each tooth and compare their findings with the dental records of suspected matches.
In the absence of dental records, however, forensic dentists may search for notable characteristics such as crowns or missing teeth, which can help loved ones make a positive identification. As a further resource for identification, forensic dentists may extract DNA from the pulp of the tooth (assuming the pulp remains undamaged by fire or other causes of death).
Identifying crime suspects by dental records usually involves examining bite marks left by the perpetrator. Once the bite is confirmed as being from a human, investigators take DNA samples of the area to obtain trace amounts of saliva. Forensic dentists then measure and photograph the bite mark. These findings are then compared to a mold of the suspect's teeth, which must be obtained under warrant.
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Music: Driver Side Impact
Driver Side Impact
Double Vision EP
Victory Records
When I think of a Victory Records band or artist I think of some pretty hardcore rock but they do have a poppier side to the predominantly hardcore label. That band is Cleveland, Ohio's Driver Side Impact. These Cleveland boys have seen their fare share of ups and downs but with new lead singer Chris Reck at the front, these guys seem to be on the right track. Driver Side Impact newest album release Double Vision is only a small taste to what I'm sure will be a long and lasting musical career for these five guys. Think of Driver Side Impact as an early version of Panic! At the Disco (before they turned crazy and went into the freaky carnival music business). Double Vision is the first album of 2010 to make my "Top Artist" playlist and it should be yours too.


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Have you ever heard the saying, "If you don't have a goal, then you'll wind up hitting it with amazing accuracy."? In other words, if you have no idea where you want to be in your future life, then it really doesn't matter what you do because wherever you end up will match your goal…which apparently was never important enough for you to think about in the first place.
While I believe that's certainly true, I think many people need to step back even further. They need to question their starting point.
It's quite often that I hear people tell the story of their financial destruction, and somewhere in the mix they typically say something like, "I always heard of people living paycheck to paycheck and thought they should change their ways. It never occurred to me that I was one of them!"
If you don't get real with yourself about your starting point, then how on earth do you expect to get to the finish line??
Many times, we become blind to our own financial blunders because we've lived with them for so long. It seems only natural to live the way we do without ever even considering that we're going about it all wrong!!
At this moment, I want you to seriously consider where you are financially. Of the examples below, where would you place yourself?
1) Financial Disaster
Put simply, you're going backwards. You have debt. Your expenses are bigger than your income. You may not even realize it, but your credit card balance is rising every single month. You are a financial disaster, and if you continue to spend more than you make, you'll go broke.
It sucks being here. I get it, I've been there. But it's time to get real about your situation. Admit it to yourself, and start taking the first steps to fixing the problem. It's the only way things will get better.
You are a financial disaster.
2) Paycheck to Paycheck
You maybe have a few hundred bucks in the bank account. You get paid on Friday, quick pay all the bills that have been stacking up, and then your entire paycheck is gone. *poof* just like that.
The next paycheck is used to buy food, clothes, and maybe a little bit of fun if there's anything left over. When the account goes back near zero, you stop spending and you wait for the next paycheck.
This cycle happens every month, every year, every decade. You might never feel strapped, but you're living paycheck to paycheck. If your income ran dry, you'd quickly default on some bills and your credit card balance would shoot through the roof.
You're living paycheck to paycheck.
3) Stagnant Savings
Sometimes you get ahead, sometimes you get behind, but your savings account actually looks pretty decent. You like the cushion of that $5,000 emergency fund. It gives you security. But…it never seems to grow.
In part, your savings doesn't increase because you don't earn a ton each year, but you also spend lavishly once in a while on trips, concerts, and random toys. You could probably save and invest more, but you never felt the need to push it.
You are a stagnant saver.
4) Getting Ahead Slowly
You get it. You realize that in order to get ahead, you must take action today. You income is larger than your outgo, but the progress seems sooo slow. In this stage, you likely still have debt and you're trying to bust your way out of it. The credit card probably isn't an issue, but the car loan and that pesky student loan are keeping you down. You'll get out of debt someday, but it really would be nice to speed up the process!!
You my friend ARE making progress. You're just getting ahead slowly.
5) Socking Away Money
The debt is dwindling (or gone) and you're able to sock away a few hundred bucks or more each month. You finally feel like you have traction and are getting ahead financially. While you're able to save and your accounts are growing, you aren't necessarily investing in your future.
You're at a crossroad. Part of you wants to upgrade your life (bigger house, better car, or maybe even a vacation home), while the other part wants to earn money with your money but doesn't quite know how to do it.
You are socking away money.
6) Starting to Develop Passive Income
You have wealth on the brain. You're out of consumer debt and you're starting to learn and invest – first in the stock market (likely for the dividends) and maybe even in real estate.
You realize that your investments can grow exponentially and could make you very wealthy in the distant future.
You are starting to develop passive income.
7) Earning a Living Through Passive Investments
It probably took a while, but you did it. You got out of debt, invested in the market, in real estate, and perhaps even in your own business. You now earn enough from your passive investments that you can do whatever you want – travel the world, work at what you love, or simply sit on the beach and work on your tan.
You're earning a living through passive investments.
Be Real
Alight, so be real with yourself. Where are you on this crazy financial journey? Are you a financial disaster (P.S. If you want help, always feel free to email me at derek[at]lifeandmyfinances[dot] com)? Or are you getting ahead slowly? Take the poll below!
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In case you had to miss the meeting today, here's a quick summary
ME 495/ ME 499Winter 2013, Professor Ganter will be offering the ME 499 option (1-2 cr) of Spring 2013's ME 495's projects. There is a choice of three projects:
1) Large frame printer
2) Sand printer
3) Molten glass printer (requires some time off campus at a glass studio in Ballard)
Those interested are asked to pick up a ME 495/ME 499/ME 498 Permission Request form from the ME front office (they are located in a spinning tower of forms by the mail room)
Fill out the form and post it to Professor Ganter's pegboard outside his office on the third floor. Please also e-mail him that you've done so.
Also feel free to e-mail him or myself (Bethany) if you have any questions.
If you plan to graduate Winter Qtr or need ME 495 offered that quarter for any other reason, let Professor Ganter or myself know.
Other Winter Course OfferingsProfessor Storti is also offering a ME 498 called Voxel Modeling Winter Quarter. It is at the permission of the instructor, so if you are interested in using Voxel Modeling to develop a smooth surface, send him and Margo Segimoto an e-mail.
Professor Ganter is also offering a DIFFERENT ME 498 called Advanced Rapid Prototyping. So if you are interested in working with the Zcorp powder printers or Stratasys take his course Winter.
3D4D Challenge WinFor those who have been curious: Matt, Brandon, and myself needed some time to figure out how the 3D4D Challenge Win was going to affect WOOF. In short, the company that is being created is a separate entity. We are still your fellow members and deeply committed to the WOOF cause of helping members out with their own printers, improving and expanding current 3D printing technology, and just generally spreading awareness of the capabilities of 3D printing. We three will be using part of the winnings to help fund some of WOOF's projects and look forward to working along side everyone on open-source projects.
WOOF's Constitution and CharterI have created two new pages on our blog: one with the Constitution required by UW SAO in order to get an RSO status, the other with WOOF's actual structural Charter. The Charter is still under construction and I am constantly looking for people to fill vacancies. Feel free to read through either and give me feedback on anything.
Printing in PLA?Do you have a printer up and running? Want to help out a fellow WOOF member on an awesome project involving: microwaves, molten metal, and 3D printing? Corwin is looking for some assistance in his research into lost-PLA casting with his microwave furnace.
If you are interested in getting in contact with him (and don't know how) send me (Bethany) an e-mail and I'll get you two connected.
Keep Fab-ing,


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My review of SFC Plus – this is a good restaurant to get in a cheat meal with a good variety of fast food options to choose from. Of course, most people who come here would immediately get the fried chicken, but I chose to try out the pizza.
The pizza here was different from what usually pizzas are known for, and the one key thing that stood out was the fluffy and thin crust. I would have to compare the crust to the crust that is found on a pie. I really liked the crust on this pizza, and how it did not overpower the flavours of the toppings. There was a good amount of cheese, and it was a simple pizza overall.
This restaurant deserves a rating of 3/5.
I ordered the medium margherita for 30DHS.
The pricing of the pizza here is not too bad, but the combos would be a better deal of course.
The service was slow through their online delivery. I had to call into the call center twice questioning whether the delivery man got lost or they were just very slow at making my pizza? After an hour and a half later, the pizza finally came to my place.


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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Thanksgiving Joan Dress
This dress was used in promotion pictures for Mad Men, and i finally got to make my version of it!
It's not really a Thanksgiving dress but i thought the color was appropriate for today.
I draped the bodice and collar and used a vintage skirt pattern adding the front pleat. The fabric is a silk/cotton blend and i must say i really like this fabric, it irons nicely and doesn't water spot! it is very light weight so i lined it in cotton, and i used the matte side of the fabric, the other side looks like satin. The only downside that i found was it does wrinkly easily but that is to be expected with silk
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If Dirk had gone to high school he would have been voted most likely to run into a burning building on the off chance that he could help someone, get rich, or get a woman.
And so we begin:
Throughout his life he has been a risk taker and thrill seeker so long as there was a chance for gain. That's why travel to the new world never really appealed to him much, at first. The journey was too much risk for too little reward. The Norskans (Viking types from the lands north of Empire of the Mad Overlord) had been in and out of that land for centuries. It never seemed to come to any good. He heard about expeditions, but all the reports said one of three things: They never came back, only a few made it back, and everyone came back. While mad, the Overlord hedged his bets, and like Dirk wasn't going to touch that place with a ten foot pole.
Then one day, Dirk heard about Ulric's expedition. The Norskan had cut a deal. He called to Odin asking why their efforts in the new land had been for naught. The rune-casters of Odin read that the continent had been given to the Raven King Hugin and that all access to the continent was under his rule. Ulric then sought out Munin, the Raven Queen the consort of Hugin. He appealed to her with a great sacrifice. Then he set out to strike a deal with "The People Between the Forest and the Sea." Traders and merchants were able to settle on what had once been called "The Bleak Shore."
Dirk still thought that the risk was too high, besides, he had a good gig working in the Overlord's ranks. But one day, he encountered a traveler, who showed him a coin from further south on the far continent.
"Gold," said the traveler, "Cities of it, if you have the guts." But that wasn't all. There were other rumors. Magic. The likes of which rivaled even the greatest works of the Mad Overlord's lands. "Magic and gold you say?" "More than you can dream! Seems the lands of the Raven King, and the People in between Forest and Sea have a lot to offer."
This set dirk thinking. The risk barely even scratched the surface of the reward now. And Ulric's expedition had been what 10 years ago? He began to make plans without even realizing it. After a winter, Dirk decided that it was too good. But where there was magic and gold there was sure to be death, and where there's death there's the thrill of adventure. This meant he needed some magic of his own. That's when they brought in the girl. Seems she was a gypsy kid that had taken out an inquisitor that had killed her mother for unauthorized consort with a devil. The circumstances were strange said the reports. Had she not killed the inquisitor she would have been sent to "the school" to hone her talents. Getting the drop on an imperial inquisitor was no small feat.
The very night they brought her in Dirk sprung her from her cell and before the alarm was raised, they were on a ship headed out of the harbor. They would probably need some more backup. It seemed that having a god on your side was a requirement for survival in a place like the new world. Dirk started to look for an opportunity...


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The holiday season is stressful, particularly on your wallet.
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According to the National Retail Federation's 2011 Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, shoppers plan to spend an average of $704.18 this year on gifts and seasonal merchandise. This is down slightly from 2010's average of $718.98. However, the survey forecasts an overall retail sales growth of 2.8% in November and December to $465.6 billion.
Many consumers are not prepared for the spending surge that comes during this time of the year-particularly the "underbanked," or those who lack access to mainstream financial resources and services.
According to a recent survey, more than half of underbanked consumers do not have enough money set aside to cover holiday expenses this year.
The survey, from financial product developer Think Finance, questioned 500 adults who play a significant role in household financial decisions, make an annual income below $50,000 and lack access to financial resources.
With 34% of respondents reporting they are "barely getting by" and 39% saying they are "stretched by managing to pay for necessities," it will be a slim holiday for many families. Underbanked consumers plan to spend $500 or less on holiday gifts this year (77%); the same amount plan to spend less on gifts than last year.
But there are steps cash-strapped consumers can take to survive the holiday spending season with their bank account intact and avoid a cash crisis.
Scott Gamm, founder of HelpSaveMyDollars.com, says the first step shoppers should take is to identify who they want to buy for and how much money they want to spend in total. Then they must create a budget by looking at their available funds and calculating how much they have to spend after covering essentials like mortgage and car payments.
"What is the maximum amount you can spend?" Gamm says. "Be honest. Consumers get into trouble in January when that credit card bill comes and they don't even realize they've spent $2,000 on gifts."
One surefire way to avoid overspending this year is to only pay in cash for gifts. Spending physical cash is a much different experience than swiping a card, says personal finance expert Lynette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach. Paying with cash also tends to make consumers spend more judiciously than they normally would.
"You feel like these are my hard-earned dollars. If you use credit, people tend to buy more higher-price ticketed items. If you use cash, you avert those problems."
After determining your recipient list and price point, Khalfani Cox says it's time to get real about what you can actually spend.
"If you can only spend $50 per person, there's no point in looking at the latest iPad or cell phone, or that cashmere sweater. You have to be really hard and fast with yourself."
Layaway is another way to budget your spending, Khalfani-Cox advises. "You take goods now, pay for them later and it might take three, six or even 12 months to pay it off. When you have layaway you have a finite time to pay it off, so you don't roll over the debt like you do with a payday loan or credit card balances." With that said, Gamm warns that consumers be aware of the fees often associated with layaway plans and to take those into consideration when budgeting.


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Do you love those cute little undies that say "Bride to Be" or " Soon to Be Mrs. SO and SO"? Me too! I of course always want to make my own, and I actually like them better than any of the ones that I saw on-line to buy and they were way cheaper to make myself. Here is a short and simple tutorial on how to get those adorable panties to wear around on your honeymoon.
Step 1: Find some super cute and comfy underwear that have a large backside. Preferably 100% cotton as the transfer method is the most successful with cotton. I found these ones for around $5 or $6 bucks for a pack of 3 at Wal-Mart. (Hanes) Wash and dry them before you begin.
Step 1: Find some super cute and comfy underwear that have a large backside. Preferably 100% cotton as the transfer method is the most successful with cotton. I found these ones for around $5 or $6 bucks for a pack of 3 at Wal-Mart. (Hanes) Wash and dry them before you begin.
Step 2: Find an image that you would like to transfer to your panties. I found mine at Wedding Chicks.
You can get the image above here. Just input Brides name as Mrs. and grooms name as your new last name. Then where it says Month Date Year, you can input whatever you would like the bottom to say.
Ex: Month-Forever, Date-&, Year-Always. Get it?? Then you pick your color and click submit. For this project, I chose a dark color and all the same color for each element. Keeping it simple makes the transfer easy to read.
Step 3: You are going to need to flip your image. Mine is already flipped above, but all you have to do is right click your image once you save it to your desktop and open it in Paint. Then go to the top where it says ROTATE. You will flip your image vertically and then rotate it 180 degrees so it is upright.
Step 4: Print your image onto transfer paper and then cute around image, leaving rounded edges. While you are printing, you can preheat your iron. Next you need to find a hard surface to iron on. Preferably something that won't burn. :) I chose a cheap tv table to iron on. It also helps if it is about waist level as you can get more leverage to apply pressure.
Step 5: Then you are going to place something stiff, like a piece of cardboard inside the underwear to create a nice tight fit and to separate the layers of material. Next, place your design carefully in the middle of the butt and iron firmly. Make sure you get the edges really good, they tend to peel away. Iron for a few minutes and then remove from heated area and let cool completely. Then you can peel away the backing and VOILA!
Panties for under $5 each! These would be a super easy gift for your bridesmaids with their names or something funny on them too. You could even tie-dye white underwear and then go nuts with the transfers. The possibilities are endless and they take less than 20 minutes to make from start to finish!
Here is another little something you could use as an iron on. I just used a free bird graphic and typed Bride underneath and flipped it. EASY AS PIE! Good luck!


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Kai Ryssdal: And the word of the day this Friday is Generation C. C as in Connected. The folks at Nielsen came up with it to describe 18- to 34-year-olds -- those that are, Nielsen says, truly connected in the digital sense.
We went to the campus of George Washington University today in our nation's capital to see what some of the newly-minted Gen C-ers think about how they're being labeled.
The C could stand for Generation of Consumers. You know, that's the first thing that comes to my mind.
I don't know that I think that Generation C is a good way to categorize us. I mean, everyone is more connected now. My grandparents on Facebook, so...
We as a generation are clearly not labeling ourselves as anything.
Narrowing it down to Generation C and calling us all this one thing is about as thin as the connections that we have on things like Facebook and Twitter.
So deep thoughts from a college campus. Nielsen is in the business of measuring things. Trying to quantify our lives, whether it's what we're watching on television or how connected we are, so it kind of makes sense for them to come up with a term like Gen C. But what use is it really?
For that we've called Ian Schafer, he's the CEO of Deep Focus; that's a digital marketing firm. Ian, good to have you with us.
Ian Shafer: It's a pleasure.
Ryssdal: So I have to tell you: My first instinct is torn -- I can't decide whether I want your professional opinion on Gen C, or whether I should just say, 'Come on! Really? Gen C?'
Shafer: We, as a species, we love to label things. Sometimes we get more egregious than others, and in this case, that which we don't have a name for, we try to find a name for it. And you know, labeling a demographic -- a certain generation -- based upon their behaviors seems like a natural thing to do because it's what we've done in the past. I think this time is different, though.
Ryssdal: How so?
Shafer: I think this whole notion of connectedness is more a state of human evolution than rather a generational thing.
Ryssdal: As opposed to Baby Boom, born between 1945 and 1963, and Gen X and all that stuff?
Shafer: Yeah. I think we've gradually moved from baby boomers -- which are really a demographic, right? -- to a progressively more psycho-graphical terms. I think this is arguably just as much techno-graphic as it is psycho-graphic.
Ryssdal: Yeah.
Shafer: We're rapidly merging with technology.
Ryssdal: What does it do for you, this division, this labeling? What does it do for you as a marketing guy? Is it helpful for you to be able to go after these people?
Shafer: It will helping PowerPoint presentations a world over. It will be great search engine optimization. But I think it simplifies the notion that consumer behavior is changing, but I do think it's a little restrictive in the sense that if we think about it as a youth thing, or a generational thing, we're doing a disservice to all of humanity. We're benefitting from the fact that, you know, everything is connected.
Ryssdal: You know, it seems to me there's a little bit of fallacy in the general premise, right? Because Nielsen, if I remember, broke it down 18 to 34, right, is the Gen C block?
Shafer: Right, right. Which is also what a lot of folks consider Millennials, or youth marketers.
Ryssdal: But here's the thing, right? If you're 34, 35, 36 years old, you're twice as old as somebody's who's 18. And when I was 18, somebody who was 35 might as well have been dead.
Shafer: Yeah. I mean, there are lots of -- I think in order to make it accurate, the designation of Generation C, you have to cover several or actually at least maybe two generations. I mean, a 34-year-old can have an 18-year-old child. So that's an issue at stake here with lumping them all into one category rather than, again, speaking about connectedness as a state of evolution.
Ryssdal: How old are you?
Shafer: I am 36.
Ryssdal: Oh, so you didn't make the cut.
Shafer: I didn't make the cut, but I grew up learning how to code, so I feel like I'm an honorary member.
Ryssdal: All right, that's right. Ian Shafer, he's the CEO and founder of Deep Focus; it's a digital marketing agency. Ian, thanks a lot.
Shafer: A pleasure. Thank you.
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The Northern Forest is one of the most resilient and valuable forests in the world. This huge, still largely unspoiled ecosystem lies within a day's drive of a third of the nation's population. Intense pressures are now disrupting centuries-old patterns of land ownership and use, causing economic, ecological, and social upheaval.
Dobbs and Ober closely focus on the lives of Northern Forest residents—a mill worker, a forester, several loggers, a fishing guide, and a Christmas tree-farming family—and discover an extraordinary sense of place that arises in those who have a continuous, working relationship with the land.
The relationships of these people with the forest are too often misunderstood by those hoping to preserve the region. The authors assert that environmentalists must finally reinvent their approach to land conservation by creating meaningful, respectful alliances with residents of the special areas they would save.
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Freelance journalist Dobbs and environmentalist Ober here deftly weave the concerns and dreams of loggers, landowners, foresters and resort owners into a rich tapestry demonstrating that people with widely divergent perspectives can share a vision of the land they love--in this case, the forests ...| Read Full Review of The Northern Forest


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There are thousands of chocolate manufacturers across the world, but Mars Incorporated, Mondelez International, Ferrero Group and Nestle are three of the largest. Some smaller craft chocolate manufacturers include Amano Artisan Chocolates, Black Mountain Chocolates and Divine Chocolates.
Chocolate is the prepared product of cacao beans, which are the seeds of the cacao tree. Farmers harvest the seeds in order to ferment and dry them before shipping them to manufacturers for final processing. When a manufacturer obtains a shipment of cacao beans, the product is cleaned and inspected first, and then it is roasted and ground into a paste called chocolate liquor. From there, each manufacturer's proprietary recipe is then followed to create its signature chocolate treat.
Cocoa trees originated in Central America, where the crop is a valuable export. Production of the popular bean has spread globally, but it is still confined to an area that stretches no more than 10 degrees north and south of the equator, where the temperature is hot and humid. This area is sometimes called the Cocoa Belt or the Chocolate Belt.
Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana and Indonesia are three of the world's largest cocoa producing countries, totalling over 3 million tons of cocoa beans produced as of 2012, according to WorldAtlas.com. The same report projects the chocolate industry to reach $98.3 billion in revenue by 2016.