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Many scientists have believed that genetics accounted for 90 percent of a child's risk for autism. A new study, however, suggests that environmental factors could play a much larger role.
The research looked at nearly 200 pairs of twins, and found, to the researchers' surprise, that a greater number of fraternal twins shared autism than identical twins. Fraternal twins share only half their genes with each other.
According to NPR:
"Scientists have long suspected that there's been an environmental contribution to autism ... and previous studies have shown that it may occur in the early stages of pregnancy."
For a truly eye-opening look at the causes of autism, watch this interview with Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride -- a physician who cured her own son of the disorder.
Autism was a very uncommon condition when I was in medical school; it impacted maybe one in 10,000 children. Now we are seeing an explosion of cases numbering somewhere between 1 in 50 and 1 in 110 children, depending on what source of statistics you use.
Clearly something is going on, but it is most likely not a problem with genetics in the majority of cases, as conventional medicine has often suggested. Research is now clearly showing that environmental factors play an equal, if not more important, role in the epidemic of autism spectrum diseases.
Environmental Factors Play a Major Role in Autism
The latest research from Stanford University School of Medicine used identical twins to help unravel a part of the puzzle. Since identical twins share nearly the same DNA, if there were an important genetic component to autism, then if one identical twin has autism, so should their identical sibling in the vast majority of cases.
However, when researchers completed diagnostic assessments on 192 twin pairs, they found fraternal twins were more likely to share an autism diagnosis than identical twins. Fraternal twins share only 50 percent of their DNA, which means something else is probably responsible for the double diagnosis -- and researchers suspect environmental factors are likely to blame. They note:
"Susceptibility to ASD [autism spectrum disorder] has moderate genetic heritability and a substantial shared twin environmental component."
This is not an entirely surprising finding, as even though researchers did find a genetic mutation linked to autism in a study conducted in 2008, the mutations are present in only 1 percent of all kids with autism. Furthermore, no one has been able to identify one single "autism gene." And there is no such thing as a genetic epidemic -- so no way to explain today's autism explosion as a function of genetics. The majority of autism cases appear to result from the activation, or "expression," of a number of different genes and multiple epigenetic and environmental factors that interact to express autism traits.
Is Your Gut Flora the Most Important Common Thread?
When looking into the possible environmental factors for autism, they are incredibly diverse. For instance, a recent review by Helen Ratajczak in the Journal of Immunotoxicology found autism may be the result of inflammation of the brain due to:
|Encephalitis following vaccination
|Defective placenta
|Immature blood-brain barrier
|Immune response of the mother to infection while pregnant
|Premature birth
|Encephalitis in the child after birth
|Toxic environment
Russian neurologist Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride recently shared a common thread that may be linking these and other environmental factors together – brain toxicity that stems from gut toxicity, otherwise known as Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS).
What is Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS)?
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For a truly eye-opening look at the potential causes of autism, watch the interview above with Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride -- she is a Russian neurologist who now specializes in treating autistic children in the U.K. She cured her own son of the disorder using an all-natural treatment involving dietary changes and detoxification.
Dr. Campbell is convinced that autistic children are in fact born with perfectly normal brains and perfectly normal sensory organs, but abnormal gut flora, passed on from their mother and father, leads to devastating toxicity.
She explains:
"What happens in these children [is that] they do not develop normal gut flora from birth … Gut flora is a hugely important part of our human physiology. Recently research in Scandinavia has demonstrated that 90 percent of all cells and all genetic material in a human body is our own gut flora. We are just a shell… a habitat for this mass of microbes inside us. We ignore them at our own peril.
…As a result, their digestive system—instead of being a source of nourishment for these children—becomes a major source of toxicity.
These pathogenic microbes inside their digestive tract damage the integrity of the gut wall. So all sort of toxins and microbes flood into the bloodstream of the child, and get into the brain of the child.
That usually happens in the second year of life in children who were breast fed because breastfeeding provides a protection against this abnormal gut flora. In children who were not breastfed, I see the symptoms of autism developing in the first year of life. So breastfeeding is crucial to protect these children."
In children with Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS), toxicity flowing from their gut throughout their bodies and into their brains, clogs the brain with toxicity, preventing it from performing its normal function and processing sensory information.
"If the child's brain is clogged with toxicity, the child misses that window of opportunity of learning and starts developing autism depending on the mixture of toxins, depending on how severe the whole condition is, depending how severely abnormal the gut flora is in the child.
The child may manifest this condition as a number of symptoms which would fit into a diagnostic box of autism or as another bunch of symptoms which would fit into a box of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or attention deficit disorder (ADD) without hyperactivity or dyslexia or dyspraxia or obsessive-compulsive disorder or something else."
What Leads to Abnormal Gut Flora that Can Trigger Autism?
Dr. Campbell discovered that a large percentage of mothers of autistic children were bottle-fed. Then, as they received many courses of antibiotics throughout their childhood, they developed increasingly worse abnormalities in their gut flora.
She explains:
" … [many] mothers of autistic children were born at the time when … formulas just came in, a large percent of them were not breastfed. So these women acquire slightly abnormal gut flora from their moms at birth, then they were not breastfed so the abnormalities in their gut flora deepened. Then throughout their childhood they received many courses of antibiotics.
Ever since antibiotics were prescribed particularly from the 50s and 60s, they were prescribed a suite for every cough and sneeze. They really over prescribed antibiotics.And with every course of antibiotics, the abnormalities in the gut flora would get deeper and deeper in these girls.
And then at the age of 15, 16 these ladies were put on a contraceptive pill. Contraceptive pills have a devastating effect on the gut flora. Nowadays ladies are taking it for quite a few years before they're ready to start their family.
To that you can add the junk food, all the processed carbohydrates that people are consuming nowadays. These sorts of foods are almost exclusively feed pathogens in the digestive system allowing them to proliferate. Many of these modern factors created a whole plethora of young ladies in our modern world who have got quite deeply abnormal gut flora by the time they are ready to have their first child."
So, to recap, bottle-feeding along with over-use of antibiotics and use of the contraceptive pill set the stage for increasingly abnormal gut flora with each passing generation. Then, add to that a diet of processed junk food and excessive consumption of high fructose corn syrup and you have a prescription for disaster in terms of intestinal health. And this disastrous intestinal microflora is subsequently passed on to your children.
Do Vaccines Play a Role?
Vaccines represent one of the most controversial pieces of the autism puzzle, but there is reason to believe they may play a role in certain cases. Studies confirm, for instance, that babies do not respond to vaccines in the same way as adults, even by one year of age.
In your child's developing brain, immune over-activation has been shown to be particularly damaging to the amygdala and other limbic structures. In essence, what is lost is that which makes us social human beings, able to function in a complex world of ideas and interactions—and this is what is lost with autism. What we see is a vicious cycle of immune activation, excitotoxin and cytokine excretion, and free radical production. The latter starts the cycle all over again.
Russell Blaylock, M.D., a board-certified neurosurgeon, discusses this at length in his article about the dangers of excessive vaccination during brain development.
As Dr. Campbell also explains, babies are born not only with a sterile gut, but also with immature immune systems. And establishment of normal gut flora in the first 20 days or so of life plays a crucial role in appropriate maturation of your baby's immune system. Hence, babies who develop abnormal gut flora are left with compromised immune systems, putting them at risk from vaccination.
"Vaccinations have been developed, originally, for children with perfectly healthy immune systems," she says. "GAPS children are NOT fit to be vaccinated with the standard vaccination protocol."
Her book Gut and Psychology Syndrome contains an entire chapter outlining what health care professionals need to do to improve the vaccination strategy, because the standard vaccination protocol is bound to damage GAPS babies.
She explains:
"It's a matter of the last straw breaking the camel's back. So if the child is damaged enough, the vaccine can provide that last straw. But if it doesn't provide that last straw in a particular child, then it will get the child closer to the breaking point."
An Elegantly Simple Solution to Prevent Autism
It is possible to identify GAPS within the first weeks of your baby's life, which can help you make better-informed decisions about vaccinations, and about how to proceed to set your child on the path to a healthy life.
Dr. Campbell describes the entire process for identifying children who would be at risk for developing autism from a vaccine in her book, but to sum it up, in her practice she starts out by collecting a complete health history of the parents, and their gut health is assessed. Then, within the first few days of life, the stool of the child can be analyzed to determine the state of her gut flora, followed by a urine test to check for metabolites, which can give you a picture of the state of your child's immune system.
These tests are available in most laboratories around the world and cost a very reasonable amount, about $80-100 per test -- peanuts compared to the incredible expense of treating an autistic child once the damage is done.
If you find that your baby has abnormal gut microflora, or your child begins to develop symptoms of autism a year or two later, the GAPS program should be started immediately, as the younger the child is when you start the treatment, the better the results.
Initially, all babies should ideally be breastfed and from there Dr. Campbell's program involves dietary changes and detoxification including:
|Traditionally fermented foods, including kefir, yogurt and vegetables
|Healthy diet including juicing, animal fats, meats, and fresh vegetables
|Baths with Epsom salts and sea salt, seaweed powder and cider vinegar, and bicarbonate soda
|Sunbathing without sunscreen for vitamin D production
|Omega-3 fats
|Digestive enzymes
|Avoidance of grains
|Avoidance of processed foods and corn syrup
|Avoidance of vegetable oils
Dr. Campbell discusses many additional and priceless details relating to this protocol, so please, set aside some time to listen to the interview in its entirety, or read through the transcript. For more information, if you're pregnant, planning a pregnancy, or know someone who is, or if you have a child with autism, I can't recommend Dr. Campbell's book enough.
Buy it for yourself, or as a gift.
You can also find more information on Dr. Campbell's website: www.GAPS.me, and on her blog at www.doctor-natasha.com.
What Else Can You do to Address the Environmental Causes of Autism?
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There's tremendous hope for children who have the constellation of symptoms associated with autism, and we are learning more by the day about how to help these children. I have made it one of my goals to provide parents with a range of cutting-edge information that will help them find solutions to caring for their children safely and effectively.
Based on my own experience and insight from many autism experts, here are my recommendations:
- Eliminate sugar (particularly fructose) and grains from your child's diet. Sugar is in fact toxic to your body, capable of causing profound harm to your health. This includes ALL forms of sugar, whether it's regular table sugar or corn-based sweeteners like high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), honey, or agave, and whether it's found in juice, soda, French fries, or grain products (such as pasta, bagels, cereal, pretzels, etc).
- Avoid pasteurized milk. This is absolutely imperative when you're treating autism. This includes ALL milk products, including ice cream, yogurt and even whey. Even natural flavorings in food must be avoided unless the processor can guarantee, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that caseinate is not included. Note that fermented raw milk, as discussed by Dr. Campbell, may be beneficial.
- Tailor your child's diet to whole fresh organic foodsfor optimal health. In my experience, nearly ALL children seem to respond favorably to the dietary changes when properly implemented.
- Optimize vitamin D levels through proper sun exposure.
- Lower microbial burden. Any type of chronic infection, whether caused by Lyme disease or any other microbe, such as mold, can spread through your system and make you chronically ill. One of the major problems is that the biotoxins produced by the infection compete for the same detoxification pathways as do other toxins, like mercury and pesticides, and so on.
Make your child's body less of an optimal habitat for microbial overgrowth through dietary changes (less starch and sugar at minimum) and lowering overall stress. Also, consider testing for mold (in your home) and Lyme (in their body) but only after "provocation treatment."
- Lower toxic burdens: Avoid exposure to as many environmental toxins as you can, such as pesticides, herbicides, and sources of mercury, aluminum and fluoride. Also do whatever you can to establish a mold, dust, and smell-free environment for your whole family, followed by a comprehensive detoxification program. Please remember hidden toxins like fluoride and look carefully evaluate all cleaning products in your home.
- Reduce EMF exposure: Exposure to electromagnetic fields from cell phones, electrical wiring and Wi-Fi may significantly add to the problem because when toxic microbes in your body are exposed to electromagnetic fields, they respond as if they're being attacked, and start producing even more biotoxins in an attempt to prolong their survival.
- Use an effective intervention to address any emotional stresses as soon as possible – avoid having destructive thoughts and letting emotions fester. Potent tools such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) are excellent for this purpose.
- Carefully review the vaccination issue, including the conventional vaccination schedule. Know that in most U.S. states you have the right to opt out of vaccines and, if you choose to vaccinate, consider having your child tested for GAPS beforehand.
- Homeopathy may also help ameliorate some symptoms of brain- and immune system dysfunction suffered by children labeled as "autistic."


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One of my favourite places to visit in a city would probably be its museums, simply because it fascinates me how certain events, little trinkets, or even people defines a single context in time, and museums do a good job of communicating these things. A museum can exhibit anything of important value. It can be historical, cultural, scientific, or artistic. It can be about certain events, artifacts, objects, architecture, even living beings! Yep, zoos and botanical gardens are also museums.
Now, I don't go to the museum to simply gawk or to be entertained, but to learn; to satisfy my curiosity towards specific things. I may not always have a concrete objective of what I want to learn, but discovering something new is a positive value. For example, I visited the safari park several days ago because I was curious about the animals there, and at the end of the day I ended up knowing a tad bit more than I did on hawks and eagles. I visited House of Sampoerna not because I love cigars and tobacco (I don't, by the way), but at the end I learned about vintage handmade cigarettes — oh and there's a lovely art gallery there too, if I may point it out. Learning and gaining something new is a major motivation for me to visit museums. I'd rather do that than being stuck at a shopping mall date or a boring movie date.
House of Sampoerna has the prettiest museum doors
Art gallery at House of Sampoerna
Safari snippets
As it turns out, there's this interesting study on types on museum visitors based on people's motivation and characterization:
Explorers—Explorers come because attending museums interests them and appeals to their curiosity. If you asked them if they like art they would say 'yes;' if you asked them if they came for something in particular, they would probably say 'no,' they 'just like art and know what they like when they see it.' They do not have concrete learning goals, like 'I'm going to go to the MIA to learn everything I can about Expressionism,' but they like to know new things. This type could really be anyone. Exlporers' goal is to satisfy a curiosity. They may or may not know how to use the space.
Facilitator—Facilitators come because of someone else. They are perhaps bringing a friend or a group of people—possibly youth or students—because they think that the visit would benefit the other party or parties, not because of a personal need. Their personal need is to make a good experience for others.
Experience Seeker—An experience seeker is a person who is checking off a list of things to do, whether personal or as a tourist. They want to see the thing that is iconic of that place, they want to do 'what you're supposed to do in that city or area.' They may need to see the museum's highlights to feel satisfied.
Professional/Hobbiest—This category includes teachers, educators, museum professionals, artists, and people in related fields. Their goals may range by their particular role as a professional or hobbiest; a photographer may attend with the goal in mind to take pictures or to learn about photography through exhibits. An art educator may be interested in the art as in their field of interest, or they may be planning a lesson, etc.
Rechargers—Rechargers find the museum a place to 'get away from it all,' to decompress, and their visit is almost a spiritual one. They tend to avoid crowds or sensations and are fairly self-sufficient. A successful visit for them will leave them with the feeling that they have gotten away.
Judging from those 5 categories, I'm definitely the explorer type, though not always exactly so.
See, I also visit museums for the experience of it all. I fell in love with Surabaya and all its heat and chaos no matter how much I grumble and complain about the city, as it's the first city I've lived in out of my parent's care. Because of that, I'm determined to make it my personal mission to discover as many things as I can about the city and visit as many places as I can; thus the museum visits. What's the use of living in Surabaya if you haven't even stepped foot in Tugu Pahlawan? Or Monkasel? Or the iconic (and I don't mean it in a positive way) Surabaya Zoo? And when I have visited and experienced these sites it helps me when my family and friends from out of town comes, too. I can take them to see certain exhibits because I know how compelling the experience was, and maybe even add a little more value to it.
As an architecture student, there's a certain 'museum' that I love and have frequently visited: yep, it's Kota Tua! The area around Tugu Pahlawan is known for its old colonial architecture, remnants from the Dutch occupation era. It might not be the conventional museum, but the conservation of historical sites like Kota Tua, Kya Kya, Ampel, or even Tunjungan serves as a museum in a way; it exhibits valuable artifacts that cannot be simply removed and put behind glass. And I'm quite into photography as a hobby, so visiting these beautifully decaying buildings are often backed with photo-hunting intentions.
Around the JMP – Kya Kya Area
And when I visit museums, I never want to be with the crowd. Visiting museums are an experience, as much as it is a getaway from daily life. Who ever knew that Surabaya Zoo, with all its terrible managements and issues, can serve as a peaceful space in the middle of the city? I visited the zoo for the first time and by myself around 2012. It was such a calming place it didn't even feel like Surabaya. But that feeling didn't last though, when I saw how awful the animals there are treated. (The blatant corruption and inhumane attitude towards these animals are downright horrifying. I'm not sure what the last update on the zoo is about now, but as far as I know not much has changed. Please help raise awareness by signing a petition here)
From 2012. I couldn't find my more recent photos of the zoo… but I don't want to upload much of what I saw. The pictures circulating around the internet are already terrible enough 😦
As an avid museum visitor, it turns out that I pretty much fall into all of the categories described. I haven't visited every museum in Surabaya though, but now that I have a lot of free time I'll try to.
There are a lot of reasons to visit the museums, and it's not only divided into the five categories above. Perhaps the most appealing reason (for myself at least) is that I can spend next to nothing for an abundance of priceless experience and knowledge, bonus some pretty photos.
But how about you? Why do you go to the museum?
(I had photos from Monumen Kapal Selam, Tugu Pahlawan, Tunjungan, and others but some of the files that I had went missing, so I couldn't show much… Sorry!)

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It's time to celebrate our friendship! I've been SO HAPPY to visit your country, and you all have been so FAB, that I decided to start a BLACK FRIDAY SALE today (here in Italy is Tuesday LOL). From now to sat. nov. 29th, spending 50$, you'll get 20% discount.
To get the discount visit my etsy shop: CLIK HERE
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By Battalion Chief Henry Costo, Philadelphia Fire Department — for LION Connects
Historically in the fire service the measure of PPE quality and performance has been thermal stability. Materials such as PBI, Kevlar, Nomex, PBO, etc. were all developed to withstand changes during exposure to heat and flame. Indeed, most of the current standards-related testing has been designed to ascertain whether or not a fiber, fabric, composite, etc. possesses the required thermal stability.
Recently, however, scientists at DuPont have taken a completely divergent approach to the issue of the thermal stability of turnout liner materials. They did so by inventing a liner material possessing engineered and controlled thermal instability. This less-thermally-stable material can now be integrated into a composite turnout system, allowing for selective, and situationally appropriate, performance benefits.
The new "active" liner, which DuPont calls Nomex On-Demand, is designed to respond, i.e. expand or thicken, when the temperature of the material reaches 250 degrees F. Theoretically the activated/expanded thermal liner should provide enhanced thermal protection during situations when firefighters face the greatest potential for sustaining burn injuries.
DuPont believes that it has created a thermal liner material that's thin, breathable and flexible under ordinary operating conditions (providing routinely high total heat loss/THL), but which is capable of providing enhanced thermal protection (increased thermal protective performance/TPP) during emergent circumstances.
Keep in mind, that not even its developers believe this new material to be a PPE panacea. It's simply intended to be another tool in the PPE toolbox. In addition, the material is so new that it has yet to be truly tested under field conditions. Its actual performance capabilities and limitations have yet to be determined and questions remain to be answered.
- Will the new material best be used as part of a complete thermal liner or will its true value be realized through selective reinforcement applications?
- Once activated, what effect will an expanded liner have on overall THL and wearer comfort?
- How will the liner system perform when it's wet?
- What durability will the liner material possess?
- How receptive will turnout manufacturers be to the new liner material?
- How will these manufacturers integrate the new material into their existing liner systems?
- What is the optimum orientation of the material within a composite system in order to expand where and when it is needed?
- What will the inclusion of Nomex On-Demand add to the price point of existing turnouts?
Despite these and other yet-to-be determined limitations and lingering questions, there's NO question that this novel product shows great potential to improve the protective performance of turnout gear.
The concept of selectively increasing TPP only when needed (emergent circumstances) in order to maintain comfortable THL levels at all other times (routine operations) is exciting to say the least. Assuredly, the Philadelphia Fire Department will be among the first to field test garments incorporating this new technology. Report to follow.
(Editor's note: Battalion Chief Henry Costo is the safety officer for the Philadelphia Fire Department and serves as chair of the safety committee for the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 22. He's served with the Philadelphia FD for 35 years.)
For more on this topic, you can read Chief Costo's recent piece in the January 2010 issue of FireRescue magazine.


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The Faculty of Science Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science (CCIS)—a vibrant environment for learning and discovery.
Undergraduate and graduate programs, degrees, and admission information.
Dan Riskin ('97 BSc), host of the Discovery Channel's Daily Planet.
The Centre for Particle Physics at the University of Alberta aims to unlock the mysteries of the world of particle physics. The centre has a strong theory group and experimental groups working on high energy physics experiments and astroparticle physics.
We offer projects in experimental particle, astroparticle physics and theoretical particle physics. At the moment we have 9 postdocs, 13 PhD students and 3 MSc students.
Our experimental groups are led by nine faculty members and are part of the international IceCube, PINGU, ATLAS, SNO+, DEAP, PICO and MoEDAL collaborations. We work on dark matter searches, neutrino physics, Higgs and black hole physics as well as searches for magnetic monopoles.
Our theorists work on precision models for the next generation of experiments searching for new physics.
Please contact our faculty members to find out details about or work and potential projects students could be involved in. We hire a large number of undergraduate researchers every summer and are accepting new graduate students every year, preferentially students with scholarships. For contact information and more details on the experiments please check our list of possible PhD projects.
The Centre for Particle Physics has extensive labs and resources. We are also hosting the CPP+ major resource support centre, a resource of national significance.


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AGF's debut line of FUSIONS includes four bite size collections featuring prints from all AGF designers arranged in conceptual themes ~ Abloom, Boho, Ethereal, and Joyful!
I'm so thrilled to have three of my most popular prints from Fleet & Flourish recolored to offer amongst the Boho group in the form of three new quilting cottons, a new knit, and one as Art Gallery's newest substrate, the most luxurious rayon!
It's can't tell you how exciting it is to join fellow AGF designer's Bari J, April Rhodes, and Pat Bravo to create this new collection! I requested a bundle as soon as they could send one and when it arrived I completely fell in love! The colors and style of this Boho group are so perfectly me, I can't wait to sew with them!
How about you, which group from the new FUSIONS division is your favorite? You can see them all right here -- http://liveartgalleryfabrics.com/fusions-agf-studio/ Of course I'll be sure to share the other groups in the days ahead as well, but I'm sure it's obvious as to why these are my personal favorites! :)
Later this afternoon I plan to share on my Instagram a first peek at the super exciting, secret project that's been in the works for weeks now! I hope you stop by and join me! ♡ Maureen


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I baked a cake! From a box mix! And I used canned icing!
That's a little underwhelming.
That's a little underwhelming.
Wait… what's that I see there??
"Show me more!", you shout.
"I will oblige," I reply.
And so I do…
Yes, I made a Rainbow Cake.
Not the Rainbow Cake that I WANT to make. See it here.
I'm lacking 4 round cake pans, and about 10# of patience.
I WILL make it though.
On a side note, I'm taking up donations for round cake pans.
And 10# of patience.
To make the rainbow cake, which I have seen in several spots across the net, including Omnomicon and All Recipes, is much easier, or so I would assume. Still very messy, but still very fun.
First you use your basic white cake mix.
Invite Betty, Duncan, or the Dough Boy to help here.
Since I fail at life, and only had yellow… you'll understand that my colors are a little off.
Mix according to directions, then spoon out into 6 bowls (or however many colors you want to have in your cake).Color using GEL coloring if possible. These only require a little to get a vibrant tint. You'll want 5 colors about even amounts, with one color, being your base color, to have a little more batter.
Please ignore the purple in back.
She's unattractive, and she knows it.
She's very ashamed.
Then layer in pan one color at a time.
Prettttttttttty. Well, except Purple there…
Then bake according to package instructions.
When I saw these, I started to cry. Because they were ugly.
Then I realized my tears would make the cake soggy.
Then decided I needed coffee.
And a life.
Baking before 9 am is hazardous to my mental well being.
After cooling, frost. Cause you didn't know that part already, right?
I make a mean Buttercream icing. Sadly, I am out of Crisco, so I couldn't make it.
I make a mean Buttercream icing. Sadly, I am out of Crisco, so I couldn't make it.
I have canned Buttercream.
It's SO not the same.
The males in this house care not though.
It goes something like this.. "Grunt" "FOOD" "Grunt" "CAKE!".
And all is well in their world.
Once frosted, I cut, held my breath, and….
Oooooooooooooooooooo…… aaaaahhhhhhh!
And Purple isn't even that ugly! Aww…
I can already see this being used for many occasions.
Green, Red, and White for Christmas.
Red, White, and Blue for Independence Day.
Lots of colors, like this, for birthdays.
I feel like this could be topped with M&Ms for an M&M themed party.
Red and Yellow for Gryffindor for a Harry Potter Party!!!
Mmmhhhmmmm… I think I'll be doing that one.
With a whisk and a dream…and food coloring stained fingers… Tina


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House Of The Dead: Overkill Extended Cut Announced For PS3
House Of The Dead: Overkill has been a Wii only title until now. The Playstation 3 is stepping into the Wii's territory since the release of the PS Move. And that rules because we can get awesome games like Dead Space Extraction and the just announced House Of The Dead: Overkill Extended Cut on the Playstation 3. The Overkill Extended Cut will be in full HD and 3D and compatible with the Playstation Move.
The game will include all 7 original stages re-mastered and 2 all new stages. The game will also have new game modes and trophy support. Past the break for screens. House Of The Dead: Overkill Extended Cut will be out October 25th for the Playstation 3. "The House of the Dead: OVERKILL – Extended Cut for the PlayStation 3 system will send players to the shrieking mad heart of mutant mayhem. This time we went further, faster and bloodier than before. We extended everything, even the title." – Said Gary Knight of SEGA.


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Home Buyers: Lambs to the Slaughter? by Sloan Bashinsky (Menasha Ridge Press, Hillsborough, N.C., 115 pages, $10.95 hard cover)
The fact that the author is both a lawyer and a real estate broker gives a slant to this book different from most "how to buy a house" books written by real estate agents. It also gives plenty of scope to his cut-through-the-appearances approach and his wicked wit.
Bashinsky makes a strong point of the fact that the real estate agent, even the one you have "retained," is not working for you; the fact that his commission comes from the seller means that he is working for the seller and is legally bound to put the seller's interest before yours.
That view underlies the whole book, which discusses the legal, ethical and practical positions of your adversaries--all who are involved and concerned in the transaction--even "your" real estate agent. He combines this with practical suggestions on how to protect yourself in the clinches, including suggestions for putting yourself in the strongest possible negotiating position and then negotiating strongly.


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Something weird has starting to happen when I visit certain sites.
When I visit certain sites, the Office 2000 installer pops up and asks me for the CD.
I can not find any similarity beetween any of these sites that may be causing this.
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POT TV – Cannabis commentator 'Radical' Russ Belville is on the air – and now on Pot TV – with The Russ Belville Show. In this episode: Interview and press conference from downtown Portland with Roy Kaufmann from Marijuana Policy Project about the "Beer Wine Safer" Billboard.
Also: Steve Woolard from the Spring Craft Beer & Wine Festival on his support of legalization.
Music by Peso Swagg.
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Basking in the summer heat, Anne Hathaway and her hubby Adam Shulman headed over Cafe Gratitude in Hollywood on Saturday (July 20).
The happy couple showed an ample amount of PDA as they walked down the sunny California streets together.
In related news, Anne is preparing to host the 9th Annual Elyse Walker Pink Party.
Joining the ranks of Jennifer Garner and Michelle Pfeiffer, the Dark Knight Rises beauty will take the stage on October 19th at the Santa Monica Airport"s Hangar 8.
One of the reasons that The Pink Party has been successful is because we have always had incredible hosts, and this year is no exception, Miss Walker told the Hollywood Reporter. We are all thrilled that Anne has chosen to support and help raise awareness, as she is an incredible talent, and we are honored that she has committed to help our efforts."


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Yesterday was one of those that made you cry. Gladbach missed two penalties against 10 men Hamburg, then Man City managed the same feat against Everton! Rosenborg didn't turn up and drew 2-2, while Leicester did the same and lost 3-0!
Had a good look at today's action – found a few gems in the Italian leagues and then one more elsewhere:
Juve Stabia vs Foggia: BTTS + Over 2.5 Goals @ 8/5 (Lega Pro C, 1930 KO)
These two have been up there with the best in the Italian lower leagues this season – and in terms of their record against each other – couldn't be any better, with scorelines of 3-1, 3-1, 4-1, 1-1, 2-2 and 1-1 – the theme is that there are usually goals! Juve Stabia have won 4/4 at home this season, while Foggia have been average away, 4 BTTS's and three going over 2.5 as well.
Giana Erminio vs Viterbese: Viterbese Clean Sheet @ 7/4 (Lega Pro A, 1330 KO)
Viterbese have an incredible record in terms of defence – 7 clean sheets in 8 games, and 3 from 3 away. Not the strongest in terms of scoring, but they are in the top 3 thanks to their back fours' efforts. Win to Nil is 3/1, but they have had multiple 0-0 draws, which makes this near-2/1 bet a cracker!
Den Haag vs Ajax: Ajax -1 Goal Handicap @ 5/4 (Dutch Eredivisie, 1545 KO)
Den Haag have lost four in a row in the league, conceding 12 in the process. Ajax are on a hot streak of form – 8 wins in a row, and looking like they will retain their league title that they lost to PSV for the last two seasons.
For anyone looking for an accumulator – I like the Valencia Win @ 13/10 odds – not in the best of form, but have much more quality than the team they face, who are just above them.
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All students and faculty or staff traveling abroad for University purposes or on University business are required to carry University-approved international health insurance.
One requirement for all students going abroad is that the student must have comprehensive health (emergency and non-emergency coverage, for medical and mental health) insurance that will directly pay international providers, as well as medical evacuation and repatriation coverage. As a result of this requirement, students will be enrolled into and billed for the health insurance that is offered through SUNY called GeoBlue. Students will be enrolled for the duration of their program abroad and once enrolled, will receive an email from GeoBlue.
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Database wich all car with tyres and ideal pressure and Temp for tyres
Cool. Where did you source this data from ?
Hi cobracat, all data come from the data.acd of each car. The data.acd is a compressed folder with a lot of files inside (tyres.ini and temp curves of each tyre). ;)
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Michael Bay's 'Pain and Gain' Hits Theaters April 26, 2013, Now Has a Poster
After spending the last five years making three 'Transformers' movies, Michael Bay decided to take a break and make his "Small" movie. Considering it's Michael Bay, and stars Dwayne Johnson and Mark Wahlberg, we're curious to see how small his 'Pain and Gain' is. We'll know for sure April 26, 2013, when it hits theaters.
The film is about (according to wikipedia) "a couple of Florida steroid-abusing knucklehead bodybuilders who become criminals involved in an extortion ring and a kidnapping plot that goes horribly awry" and is based on a true story that is likely too dark to be uses in its entirety. We shall see, as Bay has an amoral streak in him that often comes out when he's at his most entertaining (see: 'Bad Boys II').
The late April release date is a risky choice. It's the same date that 'Fast Five' had, and that worked like gangbusters for that movie, but it's also a bet-hedged release date. Often films open right before the summer season starts only to die quick deaths. In this case 'Pain and Gain' comes out a week before 'Iron Man 3,' where 'Fast Five' was going up against 'Thor,' which did not have the same want-to-see factor 'IM3' will. Regardless, we're curious to see how this film turns out.
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Don't miss the Charlotte REIA Main Meeting on Thursday, January 5th at 6PM, where our special guest speaker will be Attorney Mary Hart who is a NC Licensed Realtor and an active real estate investor, owning several properties in North Carolina and Kentucky. The meeting will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Charlotte Executive Park which is located at 5700 Westpark Dr in Charlotte, NC.
Mary believes in preserving wealth through Estate Planning, Asset Protection Planning, Investing with Self-Directed IRAs, Private Money Lending, Selling Real Estate through a Section 1031 Tax-Deferred Exchange and more.
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Mary established The Hart Law Group, P.C. in 2006 in Asheville. She has been voted the #1 attorney in Asheville by Mtn Xpress (a local independent publication) readers for the last two years. She is also the owner of Carolina 1031 Exchange, LLC which serves as a Qualified Intermediary and Exchange Accommodation Titleholder for Section 1031 like-kind tax-deferred exchanges.
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The permanganate of potash, which forms the basis of Condy's disinfecting fluid as well as Condy's ozonised water, possesses remarkable powers of purification. It is a reddish brown salt, and can be bought for a reasonable price from any respectable chemist. In cases of sickness it is invaluable as a disinfectant. Redden a quart of water by mixing a teaspoonful of the salt in it and shaking the bottle, and pour a little of this into a saucer, standing it in a room wherever the air is likely to be tainted. A little of this water may be used to slightly tinge the bath, or the water with which you wash the hands, or rinse the mouth. When the breath is offensive, either the stomach, lungs, or teeth are in fault. If the former, a little Gregory's powder is a good thing to take every morning. And three times a day, ten drops of the following mixture should be taken in a little water; twenty grains of permanganate of potash, dissolved in five ounces of pure water. If there is reason to believe that the lungs are weakly, there is nothing in the world better than moderate exercise in the open air, especially on sunny days, and the light brown cod liver oil. Begin with a teaspoonful three times a day after meals, and gradually increase till a tablespoonful can be taken. It may not seem to agree at first, but persist in it, nevertheless. It is a grand remedy for all kinds of constitutional weaknesses.
Many girls between the ages of ten and fifteen suffer from what we medical men call anaemia, or in plain English, poverty of blood. Such girls are often looked upon as merely delicate, and little that can be of any avail is attempted to be done for them. Here is a case in point, and it teaches a lesson that you will do well to lay to heart. Miss Julian A is fourteen years of age; she is an only daughter and adored by her parents. But her mother says, expressively, "Julian won't make old bones." Her mother's words may come true, because this is the way in which she is treated. She is kept and coddled almost constantly within doors, she has always a little fire in her bedroom, and the window is seldom opened. If she goes out she is positively burdened with clothes, and, in addition to all kinds of good living, she is made to drink wine "to keep her up." She is pale and blanched in appearance, too weakly to work, and suffers from back ache. This case, and all others of the same kind, requires plenty of exercise in the open air, the companionship of other girls of the same age, good food, cod liver oil, and tonics of iron, of which the following is an excellent sample; twenty grains each of sulphate of quinine, dried sulphate of iron, and the extract of henbane made into fifteen pills, and one taken twice a day. With this treatment an aloes pill should be taken at night about once a week. I ought to tell you that ten drops three times a day in a little water of the tincture of iron, or "steel drops," is an excellent tonic for pale weakly girls. But they ought by all means to take plenty of open air exercise. They should not make hot-house plants of themselves. Hot-house plants are good enough to look at, but they are of no other use that I know of.
Girls of weakly habit and constitution often suffer from fainting fits. So, too, do older people, and everyone ought to know what to do in a case of this kind. When a person faints, then, or swoons and falls to the ground, place her prone on the floor or sofa, the head being level with the body or not raised above an inch, loosen the clothes, let her have fresh air by opening doors and windows, rub the breast with brandy or spirits, dash cold water in the face, and apply smelling salts to the nostrils. The mistake people generally made in fainting fits are: first, crowding too much around the patient, then excluding the fresh air; and secondly, raising the head above the level of the body. Epilepsy or falling sickness is distinguished from fainting by the convulsions, grinding of the teeth, and foaming at the mouth. Little can be done during the fit further than preventing the patient from hurting herself or biting the tongue; the clothes should be loosened, however, and fresh air admitted.
A fit of hysterics is usually brought on through fatigue, or by mental emotion of some kind. It is too well known to need description. I cannot lay down any general plan of treatment. During the fit, some may be relieved by being gently soothed, others may need a soothing drink, followed by rest; but at all events, as it is only a weakly person who can be subject to hysterics, tonics should be taken in the intervals, quinine and iron &c., with good diet and moderate exercise, and the bath.
Have my readers ever heard of a disease called St Vitus' Dance? It is characterised by uncontrollable movements of the hands, or feet, or face, or even of the whole body, which greatly interfere with walking, or working, or even talking. It is far more common among young girls than among boys. Very distressing though this complaint be, both to the patient herself and to her friends, most cases can be cured by care and kind treatment. Patients who suffer from St. Vitus' Dance are generally irritable in temper. They ought never, therefore, to be excited, far less mimicked. They should have no worry, not even the worry of lessons to learn. The diet should be nutritious, with plenty of milk. The cold shower bath may be tried, it does great good when the shock can be borne. Or the sea-salt bath may be taken every morning before breakfast, cold if possible, if not, tepid. Two large handfuls of sea-salt should be added to each bucketful of water used. Then, exercise out of doors will be found exceedingly beneficial, if taken with regularity and judgment. Meanwhile cod liver oil must not be forgotten, and a tonic; I have great faith in a combination of zinc and steel, with an occasional aloetic pill. Take twenty grains of phosphate of zinc, one drachm of tincture of iron, one drachm of dilute phosphoric acid, and mix in eight ounces of peppermint water. Of course a chemist or druggist must compound this; the dose will be two tablespoonfuls twice a day, for a girl about fifteen; if only about ten years of age, one tablespoonful will be enough.
The old-fashioned plan of treating a common cold is by no means to be despised, and if taken in time is generally effectual. Warm drinks should be taken, according to this method, before going to bed, and about eight grains of Dover's powder for a girl of fourteen or fifteen. A handful of mustard should be thrown into a pailful of hot water, and used as a foot-bath, and an extra blanket should be put upon the bed to induce perspiration. Care should be taken to wrap up well next day, and to live as well as possible.
A teaspoonful of the solution of the acetate of ammonia, with fifteen to thirty drops of the spirits of sweet nitre, taken in cold water, three or four times a day, is a nice mixture to reduce the heat of the body, and the feverishness caused by a cold. So simple a remedy should find a place in every family medicine chest. When the cold attacks the chest, there will be at first a harsh, dry and painful cough; the pain gets less or goes away entirely when the cough is accompanied by expectoration, which it is in the second and last stage. A mustard poultice may be applied to the front of the chest, or friction, till the lower part of the throat and upper part of the chest are well reddened with turpentine. You apply the turpentine by pouring about a tablespoonful of it over a piece of flannel, wrung from water as hot as you can hold it. This and the same treatment as that recommended for a common cold will usually give relief.
Many young girls are greatly troubled with indigestion. This tiresome complaint, trifling though it may seem to some, should never on any account be neglected, because it is the forerunner, and even the cause, of many dangerous and fatal illnesses. Independent of this, no one can look well who suffers from it; the complexion of a dyspeptic girl is never clear, nor is her eye bright and full. Anyone suffering from indigestion should first and foremost find out the cause. Let her ask herself these questions: Do I take sufficient outdoor exercise? Do I practise early rising and always take my matutinal bath? Do I eat intemperately or eat in haste? Are my studies too long and tedious? The lighter and the more easily digested the food which a dyspeptic person takes the better, too long intervals between meals are injurious, and so, of course, is overloading the stomach. Milk is the best beverage, and tea should be avoided. Ginger ale may be taken with dinner; of medicines the fewer the better, but gentian bitters will do good if taken about half-an-hour before meals, and if there be paleness of the countenance, or inside of lips and gums, iron will do good (steel drops). If the tongue be yellow or white in the morning, the liver is probably somewhat in fault, in which case dandelion tea may be taken in doses of half a wineglassful three or four times a day. The proportion is,, of dandelion root sliced and bruised, one ounce boiled for a quarter of an hour in a pint of water. It is then simply strained, and enough water added to make it measure a pint. A teaspoonful or two of cream of tartar may be mixed in water, and half a teaspoonful of Howard's carbonate of soda added, and taken first thing in the morning; this medicine is very cooling and agreeable. A small teaspoonful of carbonate of soda in a wineglassful of water is an instantaneous cure for heartburn.
I know that many of my youthful readers suffer greatly from that most dreadful complaint called tic doloureux, or neuralgia of the face. The pain is usually confined to one half of the face and head, and comes on in paroxysms of great severity; an attack may last for days or even for weeks. Then it may be absent for quite a long time, when some little irregularity in diet or accidental chill may bring it all back again. It is most common in weakly girls.
To get rid of tic, the first thing to do is to have the teeth examined by a proper dentist. The removal of a bad one will often in itself suffice to effect a cure; a mild pill of aloes and pepsine combined may be taken about once a week, but stronger medicine is objectionable. An ointment composed of one grain or a grain and a half of aconitine with sixty grains of lard may be carefully and cautiously rubbed into the painful part of the cheek in front of the ear. A skilled chemist would tell you exactly how to use this. Liniments of chloroform, belladonna, and aconite are also worthy of a trial. But there is one medicine for the relief of neuralgic pains that I must not omit mentioning, because it often - mind I do not say, always - acts like a charm; I refer to sal ammoniac. The dose for a grown-up person would be twenty grains in about half a cupful of water, repeated every hour till four doses were taken. If relief is obtained, the medicine should be taken three or four times a day for a week. About half the dose would do for a girl of about twelve.
Having got rid of the torture, a great effort ought to be made to improve the general health, and so prevent its return. Quinine wine should be used three times a day, with steel drops if the patient be pale and bloodless looking. The diet should be nourishing. Milk should be substituted for coffee or tea. The clothing ought to be warm, and the feet especially kept comfortable, white flannel must be worn next the skin. The Turkish bath twice a week is worthy of a trial.
I hope my readers will get any prescriptions I may give from time to time, either in my papers or in my Answers to Correspondents, made up by a regular chemist, except indeed, the more simple of them, such as dandelion or chamomile tea, &c. I would also remind them that unless attention to the ordinary rules of health is paid, such as regulation of diet, exercise, fresh air, early hours, and the bath, medicines will not work the wonders which they ought.


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Looking back over the quarter, one of the areas where I have grown the most is with feedback. I wasn't always comfortable with feedback. I worried that I wouldn't respond well to what someone was saying, or that I would take it too personally. I've come to see feedback as a gift. When someone gives me thoughtful feedback, I see it as a gift of their time and energy. The feedback that I have received from classmates, professors and my Cooperating Teacher, Principal and Field Instructor has been so valuable to me. Gaining insight from these individuals has expanded my thinking, deepened my perspective and allowed me to justify my own position at times. I've also been able to take this feedback to set growth goals for myself.
This feedback is part of the larger process of being reflective. I feel that I have become more reflective as I move through this program. I've been able to get to know my students better over the past several weeks and a lot of this is due to reflection. Almost everyday after school, my CT and I sit and talk about how the day went, specific students and general plans for the future. We don't get much down in writing in the plan book, but this reflective process has been so powerful. I've been able to use what I've uncovered to help plan lessons and differentiate my instruction for specific students.
I look forward to translating this new approach to feedback to benefit my students. I'm planning on building in more opportunities to give my students feedback. I hope they will use this as an opportunity to think more deeply about their own learning and to take more ownership.


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For a friend's birthday I made a fabric card.
She was very happy with it and I thought it would be nice to share the way I made her (actually my first) card.
Take a nice picture and make it fitting for a postcard.
You can use a graphic program like Photoshop, Corel or Photoimpact etc. to change or crop the size of your digital picture.
You also can use a scanner to make a digital version of a picture or drawing. This one is for free from the HP's creative studios for Home or HP's Activity Center:
Print the picture on inktjet fabric.
You can cut excess fabric away, but leaving some fabric around the print assures easy handling during the next steps.
Fuse some fabric to the picture:
Put stabilizer on the back and stitch some fancy stitches with the sewing machine. Use a stabilizer that gives the postcard a permanent stiffness.
Layer it with batting and a backing fabric and quilt it.
Trim the outside edges to a postcard size.
Finish the edges with a satin stitch
Embellish with beads and your card is ready:
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When Google was founded in early 2000, the basis of the unofficial slogan was that a company could be successful without "exploiting [their] users." Since then, the 2003 CAN SPAM Act has restricted outright underhanded tricks by email marketers, but a good email campaign shouldn't have to worry about legality in order to be successful. There are many strategies that your company can do with an email list to promote your reputation as reliable and honest. There are also things companies should never do with an email marketing campaign.
For example:
- Never buy email lists. It's probably illegal, you'll lose subscribers as fast as you get them, you'll be pinged as a spammer so many times you may have you IP address blocked from sending email, or be dumped by your email marketing provider.
- Don't sell your customers' information. This is also illegal, unless you clearly inform customers that this is your policy before they sign up. Note: to most customers, this is a major turn-off to signing up for your newsletter, or even buying your products.
- Be honest. It's not only against the law to misrepresent your email content in the subject heading, it's a poor way to retain customers. Personalized, specific subject headings and informative content will get your higher click-throughs and conversions than big promises that are too good to be true. Most customers would rather mark you as spam from the inbox than open a suspicious-looking email to find the unsubscribe link.
- Make sure you are checking your email direct mail company's reports regarding bounced emails and unsubscribes. Keep your list updated.
Similarly, your email list has the power to leave a positive impression; they can assuage the most common worries customers have when they place their trust and their money in a company.
- Be an open communicator regarding the ordering and shipping process. Send an email confirmation when an order has been placed, a shipment has been sent, and if a shipment has been delayed.
- Include important information in every communication with customers like: tracking number, customer service phone number, a short order confirmation number, and a printable invoice.
- Make it easy for customers to complain and seek a refund or exchange. If your customer has expressed dissatisfaction with your product or service, send them an email apology with a link or phone number to customer service. If you can offer a refund, shipping label for a return or exchange, or compensate them for the problem your company or product caused, then you have retained this customer and generated a positive story they may relate on their Facebook or Twitter.


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Broomfield-based Level 3 Communications announced Monday that Walter Scott Jr. intends to retire as chairman effective with the May 2014 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Scott, 82, has served as chairman of the board since 1979 and has been a member of the board since 1964.
Level 3 said that in connection with the announcement, the board has adopted a transition plan for the chairman's role.
As part of the transition, James O. Ellis Jr., will be appointed Scott's successor immediately after the stockholder's meeting.
Ellis is currently a member of the board of directors of Lockheed Martin Corp., Dominion Resources Inc., and Inmarsat PLC.
Ellis has been a member of the Level 3 board since March 2005 and is the chairman of the board's classified and security committee and a member of the nominating and governance committee.
Ellis retired with the rank of admiral in the U.S. Navy after 35 years of service.
Jeff Storey, president and chief executive officer of Level 3, said that Level 3 and the company's stakeholders have been the beneficiaries of Scott's "steady leadership, guidance and insights.
"I believe that in no small measure we are in the position that we are today as a result," Storey said in a statement.
"I look forward to working with Jim Ellis to continue to build on the company's successes," Storey added.
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This seminar is designed for credit managers in business and industry, bankers, commercial lending professionals, accountants and attorneys.
This seminar is designed to provide you with a solid understanding of the common issues associated with debt collection liability and lawsuits. You cannot afford to miss this opportunity to gain valuable insight on these key debt collection issues!
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• Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
• Litigation And Discovery
• Trial
• Post-Judgment
• Fair Credit Reporting Act
• Truth In Lending Act
8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
I. Overview
8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
II. Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
9:45 a.m. - 9:55 a.m.
9:55 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
III. Litigation And Discovery
A. Offer Of Judgment
B. Discovery
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
IV. Trial
A. Evidentiary Objections
B. Credit Cards
C. Auto Loan Deficiencies
D. Auto Lease Deficiencies
E. Landlord/Tenant
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (On Your Own)
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
V. Post-Judgment
A. Stay Of Enforcement
B. Setting Aside Judgments
C. Garnishments And Executions: Exemptions And Third Party Claims
D. Foreign Judgments
E. Judgment Expiration
3:00 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.
3:10 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
VI. Fair Credit Reporting Act
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
VII. Truth In Lending Act
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My random photograph during my first autumn in Paris.. Far far away from the comfort zone.. Being a total stranger in this new place without knowing someone before, met lots of new people, new school, got lost and found.. A major new experiences to me.. and yes i do love being lost in new place :) well i do let the picture continue the story..
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New Left Review I/168, March-April 1988
David M. Gordon
The Global Economy: New Edifice or Crumbling Foundations?
It is now virtually a commonplace among left observers and activists that we have recently witnessed the emergence of a New International Division of Labour and the Globalization of Production. [*] I am grateful to Lyuba Zarsky for excellent research assistance. I would also like to thank seminar and conference participants at the New School for Social Research, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Cornell University, as well as Perry Anderson, Samuel Bowles, Mike Davis, Bennett Harrison, Timothy Koechlin, Arthur MacEwan, Alain Lipietz, Hugo Radice, and Bill Tabb for helpful reactions to earlier formulations of some of these arguments. For many, these twin tendencies manifest such deep structural transformations in the world economy that group or government efforts to swim against the currents are becoming increasingly ineffectual, if not futile. The power of labour, community and the state has seemed to wither as multinational corporations sweep irresistibly around the globe. The roots of these concerns, at least in the advanced capitalist countries, are obvious—manifested, for example, in rising unemployment, sectoral devastation in many traditional industries, and insistent corporate demands for concessions on wages, benefits and working conditions. Intensifying international competition appears to be casting its shadow more and more broadly across the economic landscape, chilling the spirit of growing numbers of organized and unorganized workers alike.
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April 19, 2013
Angler's Trout-Pointing Pal
19 comments:
Poor Daisy! She so wanted to play with the trout. But at least she had a good excuse to get into the water. Steve and Daisy were in a beautiful area.ReplyDelete
Beautiful place, beautiful photographs, magic land:) GreetingsReplyDelete
Oh my. How I wish I'd been there flyrod in hand. I'll be Baron would have like to follow Daisy's lead as well....:)ReplyDelete
Oh my. How I wish I'd been there flyrod in hand. I'll be Baron would have like to follow Daisy's lead as well....:)ReplyDelete
that was a lovely fish. They do grow them big in the Green River. I love how clear the water is.ReplyDelete
Wow---gorgeous place... I love the next to the last photo --with Daisy looking at her 'new friend'... She just wanted to play with the trout!!!!! ha haReplyDelete
Was it bitter bold there? Steve is covered from head to toe.... Daisy doesn't look cold though--even after being in that COLD water.
That pleading look on Daisie's face said it all. Great post!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful place, I love the colors of the water, blue from a distance and green close up. It does look cold, but Daisy doesn't seem to mind swimming in it!ReplyDelete
I'm impressed by the early hatch as well as by Daisy Dog's attempt at fetching.ReplyDelete
I love that boardwalk. Better than knocking about on the rocks. That was one big trout Steve and Daisy caught. Kudos for letting it go.ReplyDelete
I've heard of bird retrieving dogs but never fish retrievers. Leave it to Daisy.ReplyDelete
Have you read A River Runs Through It? It's all I know about fly fishing but what beautiful accounts of it!ReplyDelete
Daisy is so cute. My JRT would have been a hazard if I'd tried fishing with her. She did have basic obedience training but if there was anything like fetch involved, well, her enthusiasm knew no bounds. She loved to swim, too, but she was no lab. With all her muscles she didn't float at all and always took on a lot of water. lol
Gorgeous fish! I could almost smell it cooking when you told me it was released. Lovely area.ReplyDelete
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Hanukah and Vayeshev (Genesis 38): Tamar Sheds Light on Immaculate Conception
The twice married, upright תמר Tamar courageously conceives the ancestor of King David by playing a prostitute. She was not born Jewish, but she desperately wanted to fulfill the promised Levirite marriage, and to bear the destiny of Judah's path. A most non-Immaculate Conception of the Messiah !
The Hellenic re-write of conceiving the Messiah involves an engaged Jewish virgin named Miriam/Mary who does not consent to a "Leda and the Swan" -style supernatural conception. Active vs. passive; real/fantastic; Jewish-universal/Jewish only to replace the Jews; sex can be abused, but is the divine vehicle for giving love and life/ sex is filthy but necessary for the lowly masses. There can be no greater contrast, nor more important one, between these two heroines of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Gospels.
The name תמר Tamar is about being "upright." תמר TaMaR is a tall, straight palm tree, and a pillar (Jeremiah 10:5) [E-Word entry: TRUNK]. Do you really think the Greco-Romans invented the pillar? Or did the Creator of our Natural Universe show us the way?
Back in graduate school in American Literature I had a nominally-Jewish professor who was a respected author and expert in Greek Mythology and the sources of modern literature. We were learning Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, whose climactic scene has Reverand Dimmesdale condemning Hester Prynne in court for adultery -- for carrying HIS own baby, which he would not confess to . Dr. S. was stunned to hear from a kid in the back that this is the precise scene of Genesis 38 -- except that Judge Judah mans up when Tamar presents evidence that Judah is the father of the child… who would give rise to David and the Messianic line of actual Judean kings.
Could our Creator be telling us that courageous human endeavor will engender redemption?
Hanukah is the time to hold a candle up to the black and white differences between the Hebraic and the Hellenic. Happy Hanukah.


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Chloe Khan shows off tiny waist – but is this the clue it was photoshopped?
The Barbie wannabe has always been proud of her tiny waist and big boobs - but has she edited her pics?
CHLOE Khan has posted a new skimpy pic from her exotic travels - but may have accidentally suffered a photoshop fail in the process.
The Celebrity Big Brother babe, 26, couldn't help but strike a pose as she was sipping on cocktails at a bar in Barbados for her Instagram.
However, despite the flattering angle helping her curves be shown at their best, a bend in a mobile place on top of the table suggests she may have retouched the picture before posting it online.
The mum-of-one has become known for her ample bust, tiny waist and newly enhanced big bum - as well as her willingness to flaunt it.
However, her quest for the perfect body has come at a price and she revealed earlier this week that her new Brazilian bum lift has meant she has been unable to sit down for SIX WEEKS.
Her painful procedure saw her have fat removed from her waist and injected into her buttocks - which left her with nasty bruises on her upper thigh during the recovery process.
and she told Closer magazine: "Because it's a fat graft, the cells have to take, so I can't sit on it or I'll ruin the results. It means I can't dine out and can only stand at a bar.
"I also can't drive and have to lie face down to sleep, which is uncomfortable – but I'm used to it."
She added: "I'm happy to look like a Barbie doll and I enjoy it. I just feel that to get the perfect look, it takes more than simply going to the gym."
The star also revealed she has spent over £50,000 to change her look after she first came into the limelight on The X Factor in 2010.
She explained: "I've spent about £20k on my boobs, £8.5k on veneers, my nose job was £9k and my lips were another £10k, – so it's about £50k in total."
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As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I am taking Professor Peter Singer's "Practical Ethics" course via Coursera, and am enjoying it immensely. This week, I got a special acknowledgement by Professor Singer on the course page which I am pretty excited about. What happened?
Last week's theme was the "Giving Game". An anonymous donor had giving the Coursera group $10,000 to divide up among four charities - Population Services International, Cool Earth, Give Directly, and the Wikimedia Foundation - in the manner we mutually decided was best. The point of the week's classes and assignments was to understand the best way to divide the money. Since all four are top-notch charities in their areas, this is a tough decision to make. The "Giving Game" doesn't end for another week, so I can't tell you who wins.
So what was my role in this? Well, as soon as I saw the week's theme, it came to mind that donating someone else's money wasn't perfectly in line with the theme of the course. So I started a message thread where I pledged to donate an (admittedly modest) sum to whichever charity(s) won the "Giving Game". The feedback from other students has been substantial and my little pot multiplied many-fold. The class may well surpass the very generous sum provided by the anonymous donor!
In any case, it feels pretty good to have started something that turned out so well, and to be recognized by a pretty famous intellectual. I hope my little string of fortune inspires my friends and readers to check out the four charities above. They really are best-in-class. If you have $10 or $100 or more to spare, please consider giving what you can.


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What are you doing?
This latest firestorm regarding gender in the genre is unbelievable to me. I know that this is nothing new, but it's the first I've actually witnessed first hand and I can't believe what I'm seeing.
Is he a she? Is she a he? I have a better question. Why does it matter? Why is it anyone's right, author or reader, to know the answer to the question?
Are we really doing panty checks before buying books? Am I really supposed to give a flying fuck if AJ Llewellyn sits to pee? Or if Josh Lanyon stands? Who has a penis, who doesn't? And who flippin cares? Are they writing books with it? If they are, I might care because that would be damn impressive.
This is utterly riduclous. Not to mention shameful.
What about the female authors? How do I know they are really female? Shouldn't we be checking their panties as well? *gasp* What if they really have a penis hiding in there? What about the trans writers? What are you going to classify them as? And who decides the validity of their claim?
What a bunch of bullshit this all is.
Why is this even an issue? I don't understand. I've seen the words deception and exploitation thrown around. How about the word hypocrite? Every author out there is using a pseudo. If they aren't, they should be. There's a lot of whack jobs out there, authors, readers alike, hell, the general public as a whole is packed plumb full of nutjobs. A pseudo should be used. As far as pseudo matching gender, I have a hard time understanding… if you use a female pen name and you're a woman, or male pen name and are a man, you are more righteous …why? You're still hiding behind a false name. Who you show me online is NOT all of the "real" you. And what about pictures? A lot of authors don't use faces, a lot use book covers for profile pics…hmm… I don't think they really look like that. Let's lynch 'em!
I don't get it. When I buy a book, I am owed only one thing by that author. A good book. I want my monies worth for the book I bought. I'm not owed answers on their gender. I'm not owed details on their sexual orientation. I'm not owed a head shot, info on who their sleeping with, details of their real lives, where they work, grew up, kids names, nothing. I am owed $10 bucks worth of good fucking book. That is all.
I'm seeing witch hunts all over. I'm seeing authors defend themselves by trying to "prove" they aren't "misleading" anyone. It makes me sad and it pisses me off. Here's an idea. Instead of being the panty police on gender patrol, why doesn't the M/M community come together to further itself instead of trying to bully each other, name call and "out" authors. Why don't authors just write their books, and readers just read them, come together and make the community flourish and grow.
Dear authors, male, female, gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, trans*, or visitors from fucking mars, please just continue to write me the books you write. Please don't let the fuckwits get you down. Hold your heads up high, all of you... and make good book.
All my love,
Dear those who want to have a panty policing gender patrol party, an author's name, life, gender, sexual orientation and all the rest is... nunya.
Nunya fukkin' business.
Fuckwittery running amuck. Enough already.
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- A federal judge in New Jersey rejected a defence motion last week to suppress computer evidence gained in a US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case against an accused Mafia loan shark, possibly clearing a path for the government to use secretly installed keystroke logging tools to defeat encryption.
FBI agents acting with a warrant in May 1999 installed a keystroke logging device on the computer of Nicodemo S Scarfo Jr, hoping to record a password for a file encrypted with PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) software. Scarfo's attorneys hoped to suppress the evidence as unconstitutional, a violation of the US Constitution's Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure. The defence also objected to the government's effort to keep the workings of the keystroke logger secret.
Federal prosecutors call Scarfo a mobster -- Scarfo's father is jailed mob boss Nicodemo S "Little Nicky" Scarfo Sr. The DOJ charged the younger Scarfo with racketeering, illegal gambling and loan sharking.
Prosecutors invoked the Classified Information Protection Act in August of 2000, asserting that the technical details of the computer keystroke logging tool must remain a secret in the interest of national security, a move more typically associated with protecting military or espionage secrets like those involved in the Wen Ho Lee nuclear secrets case or the spy case of Robert Hanssen, who was an FBI agent.
The warrant permitting the keystroke logger to be installed specifically prohibited the government from monitoring Scarfo's internet communication. Scarfo's attorneys claimed that by keeping details of the logger's mechanisms secret, the defence could not determine if the warrant had been breached.
"We didn't capture any kind of electronic communications," says Ronald Wigler, an assistant US attorney for the New Jersey district. While the judge received a classified briefing on the workings of the keystroke logger, he concluded based on unclassified parts of the briefing that no communication interception occurred, Wigler says.
US District Court Judge Nicholas H Politan rejected defence arguments in his ruling, indicating that the summary description of the keystroke logger made public in court meets the defendant's need to know what facts or documents the prosecutors are likely to use at trial to make their case.
"We must be ever vigilant against the evisceration of Constitutional rights at the hands of modern technology," Politan wrote in the ruling. "Yet, at the same time, it is likewise true that modern-day criminals have also embraced technological advances and used them to further their felonious purposes."
Scarfo's attorneys plan to file a motion asking the judge to reconsider.
"The government's philosophy is that you shall have no secrets that they cannot reach, and I think that is a chilling philosophy," says Norris Gelman, a Scarfo defence lawyer in Philadelphia.
Privacy advocates objected to the nature of the government's intrusion into Scarfo's office -- done secretly with no notice to the target until long after.