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My roommate Mike has a beautiful 32" Sony Bravia valued anywhere between $800 and $1,700 depending on where you look.
This TV (manufactured summer 2006) was amongst Sony's first with HDMI support, consequently I believe it was released with a couple design flaws:
- Only 1 HDMI port so if it breaks you're SOL.
- This single HDMI port is oriented perpendicular to the screen surface such that if any tension is apply to a connected cable, the cable is wrenched out of the jack unevenly possibly causing damage.
These flaws become more apparent when you trip over the cable ripping the plug out of the jack with some of the male jack's plastic tongue still attached.
[edit] Repair
Approximately 40% of the plastic tongue that separates the top and bottom pins on the male jack was removed:
Before diving into the back of the TV we called around a little and found out that Sony doesn't sell a replacement jack. We would have to order the whole main board that was priced from $200 to $400.
We also toyed with the idea of having a professional service the TV but quickly dismissed that when were quoted $100 just for a technician to come and diagnose the blatantly obvious problem.
I have a fair amount of surface mount soldering experience through my working at Minco so I figured I would give a self repair a shot. I figured if we were going to go through the effort of fixing this TV we might as well provide a break away point in the connection and also reorient the jack so that in the future if someone trips over a cable again this problem will not happen.
[edit] Connecting Jumpers
The hardest part of the whole repair was soldering jumper wires to the fairly small pins on existing HDMI jack. To get better access to these pins we removed the main board from the TV and desoldered the stainless steel jack casing as shown in the above pictures.
With better access were were able to easily solder 30 gauge breadboard wire to each pin. Because the pins were so close together I decided to bend every other pin down so that distance between them was much greater reducing the risk of a short between them.
Once the soldering was complete we covered the joints in epoxy for further protection against shorts and to increase their overall strength.
[edit] Reassembly
With the jumpers attached we reconnected the main board to the TV and began screwing everything back together.
We widened all the steel and plastic holes that the HDMI plug normally goes through to give the jumper wires plenty of room.
We then cut the end off of a standard female to female HDMI cable and established a pinout on the exposed wires.
Then we cut a hole in the TV casing for the cable to dive into and soldered the jumper wires to the exposed end of the cable.
Inside the TV we placed a male to male adapter to plug the female end of the now directly soldered cable into. We cut a hole in the TV casing for the new, reoriented male HDMI jack.
[edit] Finished Product
Before we taped everything up we powered the TV and were pleased to see that the new jack functioned perfectly! Our two sets of 19 pin solder connections passed HD video and audio just as the old jack did. The finished product is shown below:
[edit] Tools
- 30w soldering iron (Radioshack)
- .022 silver solder
- Paste flux
- 30 gauge solid wire
- Dremel with cutting bit
- Various wire stripping and cutting tools
- Electric tape
- Quick set epoxy
[edit] Replacment parts
- Male to male adapter (Monoprice)
- HDMI cable (Monoprice)
[edit] Finance
- Tools = $50
- Parts = $15
[edit] Shout outs
Thanks to Aaron, Burke, and Mike for their help with everything.


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DANCE TO BRISTOL won the Honorable Miss earlier in the meet in courageous fashion, overcoming a ton of trouble to get up by a neck at odds-on. She has been in the exacta a staggering 16 of 17 times in her career and has won six in a row. One knock on her today is the tough #1 post position in a large field. She will have to break well or risk getting shuffled well back.
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Hip doesn't clearly and accurately describe these hoards of 20 somethings that are trying the Brooklyn look for the first time. Purchasing looks at stores like Urban Outfitters and Cheap Jacks, there is nothing original about the oversized plaid shirts, black spandex/ skinny tight pants, Wallabees, and big framed glasses (minus the glass of course.) Getting their influences from celebrities, store windows and magazines, they trade the old for the new (or should I say vintage.) A Hipster would be someone from Brooklyn with an original look, these on the other hand, like sheep, copy the trends and each other.
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Comments on Fashion's Piracy Paradox TypePad 2006-11-14T01:44:37Z UChicagoLaw http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/ tag:typepad.com,2003:http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/2006/11/fashions_piracy/comments/atom.xml/ Tony Sarabia commented on 'Fashion's Piracy Paradox' tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c031153ef00d834fac29f69e2 2006-11-14T20:29:03Z 2007-04-29T02:07:35Z Tony Sarabia There is at least one other important concept with significant impact upon the protection and creation of apparel. I would...
There is at least one other important concept with significant impact upon the protection and creation of apparel. I would refer to it as "historical cycling" to distinguish it from the fashion trends and cycles you describe. By "historical cycling" (for ease I shorten to "cycling"), I refer to the recurrence of trends over many years. For example, single breasted and double-breasted suits which swing in and out of fashion. The impact of cycling is extremely significant because it means that what is often claimed to be original by haute couture designers - and you correctly recognize as trend setting - is not original. Thus even under a more protective IP regime, cycling would, certainly under a copyright approach, bar protection to the creations of trend setters to the extent that the trend setters themselves dipped in the well of prior fashion - which is very common. To put it another way, cycling would eviscerate quite a bit of a more protective IP regime.

Because of cycling, the impact of stronger IP protection under a copyright regime would be substantially reduced. The failure to consider cycling causes both the proponents of stronger IP legislation and the opponents (perhaps your paper) to overestimate the impact of a stronger IP regime on creativity in the apparel industry.

Another important concern is the impact of existing IP protection. While there is no copyright protection for the functional aspects of clothing, there is copyright protection for nonfunctional aspects, such as fabric patterns and decorative elements. There is also protection for trademarks. These types of protection loom very large in the fashion world. I would be concerned that describing apparel as a low IP regime industry understates the significance of the existing protection. Consider a comparison with computer chips. One may get a patent for a chip with a certain function - very important protection because chip consumers buy mainly based on functionality. But if the chip were a suit, protection for the pattern on the silicone would be more important because apparel consumers buy mainly based on appearance. Apparel companies can get protection for the appearance of their fabric. This suggests that nonfunctional protection plays a relatively larger role in industries in which appearance is a central consumer criterion.

It may also be the case that trademarks play a larger role in impulse purchases such as clothing, than in larger consumer goods. Consumers spend less time anaylyzing and comparing characteristics and are more likely to use trademarks as a guide to relative quality. Clothing's place as an impulse purchase gives greater weight to the importance of trademarks. A greater percent of purchases are probably based on Polo than on Intel.

Existing IP protection in the apparel business may be stronger then it appears.

I think the points you make, as well as the points above, apply to a variety of other industries in different combinations.

 Frank commented on 'Fashion's Piracy Paradox' tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d8341c031153ef00d834c5432c53ef 2006-11-14T13:59:13Z 2007-04-29T02:03:50Z Frank http://madisonian.net As for "Why do these plainly creative endeavors fall in the negative, rather than the positive, space of copyright?" It...
As for "Why do these plainly creative endeavors fall in the negative, rather than the positive, space of copyright?"

It would be interesting to compare the legal costs of different creative industries. We know that in the classic music business model, about 5 to 13 cents of every dollar in CD sales went to the artist as royalty. (I hope I'm remembering This Business of Music right!) But how much of the cost of the CD went to lawyers--specifically, IP lawyers?

Perhaps its very difficult to parse out IP law costs from general legal costs. But it strikes me that one plausible explanation of the fashion situation is that there is not sufficient consensus among industry players that the gains from IP protection would outweigh the costs of enforcement.
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IPRs are happening in food (at least at the seed level) and I'd argue they would happen for any field where uniqueness/novelty/stability/distinctness can be defended. Within the fashion industry, I'm trying to think of how in the world anyone can scientifically prove all these. There would need to be an objective, systematic assessment of the clothing in order to prevent another fashion company from unwittingly 'copying' the fashion.

If I owned a fashion line, in order to be sure I wasn't copying, I'd come up with the craziest designs possible and then no one would wear it...or would they? Because everything else would be so crazy we would really have the catwalk fashion finally in the streets!


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In "Cleopatra: A Life," Stacy Schiff handles the politics of the ancient world from 48 to 30 BC with the immediacy she might bring to a book about the Clinton or Bush administrations.
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During the 22 years of her reign, the Roman state was racked with civil wars. One war ended in 48 BC, when Julius Caesar defeated Pompey the Great, whom he chased to Egypt, where Pompey was murdered and Caesar was captivated by the 21-year-old Cleopatra. He was 52.
Enter Mark Antony
Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. In the war that followed, the autocrats -- chief among them the rivals Mark Antony and Octavian -- defeated the republicans.
With their treasury depleted, the victors desperately needed Cleopatra's money. She needed Roman favor for her empire to flourish.
In 41 BC, in Tarsus, she met Antony, making what Schiff describes as the most spectacular entrance in history. (Shakespeare lifted Plutarch's description of it for the "barge speech" in "Antony and Cleopatra.") Thereafter they were partners and lovers.
Nearly a decade later, Octavian finally declared war. He routed the lovers at the Battle of Actium, in late 31, closing in on them in Alexandria the following summer. Antony killed himself on Aug. 1, 30 BC, Cleopatra on Aug. 10 (probably, Schiff shows, by means of poison, not an asp).
Note the month. Octavian became Augustus Caesar, and "Augustus's ego is embedded in the calendar, where it remains to this day, commemorating the fall of Alexandria."
Wickedest Woman
Cleopatra, meanwhile, became "the wickedest woman in history" (as Cecil B. DeMille called her when he was offering the role to Claudette Colbert), because that was the image that suited Augustus's purposes.
He was a master of spin, and Schiff never has to belabor the point to bring out the parallels with present-day Washington. Ruthless, calculating and blandly mendacious, he was the Dick Cheney of Rome. The warm, impetuous and foolhardy Antony could have been its Bill Clinton.
More than a biography, Schiff has written a Fodor's of the ancient world, with stops in its most famous cities: Rome, Athens, Jericho and, of course, Alexandria, "a scholarly paradise with a quick business pulse and a languorous resort culture ... a city of cool raspberry dawns and pearly late afternoons."
After Cleopatra's death, Egypt was downgraded to a Roman province. Its capital declined; much of it slipped into the sea and remains either underwater or buried under the modern city, which barely remembers it today.
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LOUISVILLE - The Columbus Clippers (7-4) lost to the Bats (4-7) by a score of 5-3 on Sunday at Louisville Slugger Field. After falling to the Bats in the third game of the series, the Clippers will now go two-straight series' without taking a majority of the wins.
Louisville scored five runs off Clippers' ace Zach McAllister (0-1) and were able to hold on late for a win.
For McAllister, it was his first bad start of the year. In his first two outings of the season, both no decisions, he gave up three runs and went scoreless for six frames, respectively. On Sunday he went six innings while striking out five batters.
Bats' starter Brett Tomko lasted 4.1 innings, giving up one earned run and striking out one batter in the process. Columbus had twelve hits in the game.
First baseman Daniel Dorn opened up the scoring with a solo home run in the bottom of the second inning to give Louisville an early lead.
An inning and a half later, Columbus tied it up, as a grounder to second base by Clippers' shortstop Justin Toole scored right fielder Trevor Crowe.
Louisville retained its lead with four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning.
An RBI single to left field by Bats' third baseman Todd Frazier scored second baseman Kristopher Negron. The next batter, designated hitter Neftali Soto, plated Frazier on a double to center field. Three batters later, left fielder Felix Perez doubled to left field, scoring two Louisville runners.
Columbus had two more runs in them, though, as a homer to left field by designated hitter Beau Mills scored two, bringing the Clippers within two runs of tying the game in the top of the seventh inning. But that was as close as they would get.
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We've been MSG, additive, and preservative free for some time now. I've been making homemade stock, but it sometimes seems a little on the bland side. But now that I've mastered bouillon? Flavor explodes all over my kitchen!! Or maybe it's the inevitable mess I make?
1lb of ground meat (pork, beef, turkey, chicken)
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Cook all ingredients on very low heat, covered, for about an hour or so. Put contents in a food processor and zap until smooth. Spray a cookie sheet (or ice cube trays) with cooking spray and freeze. If you use a cookie sheet, pop it out after frozen and cut into cubes. Return to freezer. Use to add flavor to soups, stews, gravies.
This is a photo of my turkey bouillon. It's a little orange from the carrots, and it resembles pumpkin bars…but you won't believe the flavor this stuff packs!!
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Updated 7:14 am, Wednesday, July 6, 2011
BALLSTON SPA -- A Saratoga County man was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail for killing his girlfriend's small puppy after it wet the carpet.
County Court Judge Jerry J. Scarano sentenced Jarrod D. Lent, 38, in the March 17 death of Aeromay, a 6-month-old Yorkshire terrier.
Lent lost his temper upon learning that Aeromay soiled a carpet, and crushed the dog against a wall with a couch it had hidden behind, District Attorney James A. Murphy III said. The less-than-10-pound dog died instantly. Lent, of Warren Street, Corinth, pleaded guilty to aggravated cruelty to animals, a felony, in May.
"There is no excuse for this kind of senseless, depraved violence," said Murphy, adding that Lent's rage made him dangerous to others.
Lent had been on probation at the time of the crime for a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated. He turned himself in to county jail on Tuesday.
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The program, approved by the Board of Directors and announced this morning, will cover selected current employees and will include two components, one that allows employees to rescind outstanding restricted share awards and to be granted stock appreciation rights instead, and the other a repricing of outstanding out-of-the-money stock options that employees currently hold.
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Mapreduce & Hadoop Algorithms in Academic Papers (4th update – May 2011) by Amund Tveit.
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It's been a year since I updated the mapreduce algorithms posting last time, and it has been truly an excellent year for mapreduce and hadoop – the number of commercial vendors supporting it has multiplied, e.g. with 5 announcements at EMC World only last week (Greenplum, Mellanox, Datastax, NetApp, and Snaplogic) and today's Datameer funding announcement , which benefits the mapreduce and hadoop ecosystem as a whole (even for small fish like us here in Atbrox). The work-horse in mapreduce is the algorithm, this update has added 35 new papers compared to the prior posting, new ones are marked with *. I've also added 2 new categories since the last update – astronomy and social networking.
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Darren Pratley says the Swans must take their chances now of getting a play-off place, because you never if or when they'll come around again.
Swansea City have just 3 games to get the points they need to stay in the top 6, as Blackpool are putting the pressure on - just 2 points below us in 7th.
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'Many people in their careers don't win league or get titles but we were lucky enough to win League One and now it's a chance for us to go on and get into the Premier League.
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'If you get the three points on Saturday, it's two more games to go and hopefully we can get in there.
'There's a big prize at the end of it and it's in our hands.
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Bravo! The second Celebration video featuring fans shot in Barcelona and Milan during the S&S Tour has premiered today! Although they are still using the Benny Benassi remix rather than the original edit, this video is WAY better!
It features Lourdes in the Like A Virgin wedding dress and other tour dancers dressed up in the She's Not Me costumes. We even get a cameo from Paul Oakenfold and tour dancer Kento doing his Michael Jackson tribute. This is what I would call a real celebration!


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Mystery of natural hexagonal column formations solved with kitchen materialsDecember 26th, 2008 - 5:25 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 26 (ANI): Physicists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have cracked the mystery behind the strange and uncannily well-ordered hexagonal columns found at such popular tourist sites as Northern Irelands Giants Causeway and Californias Devils Postpile, using water, corn starch, and a heat lamp.
The size of the columns, which varies from site to site between a few inches and a few yards, is primarily determined by the speed at which lava from a volcanic eruption cools, said U of T physics professor Stephen Morris.
Cooling lava sometimes forms strange column-shaped formations with a remarkable degree of order.
The most famous of these hexagonal columns are found at the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
Using a combination of field observation, experiments and mathematical theory provided by Harvard University professor L. Mahadevan, researchers have solved the problem of what decides the size of the columns.
The key to understanding the size of the columns was to reproduce the phenomenon in the lab.
Using a mixture of water and corn starch, which cracks as it dries out and forms very similar columns they carefully controlled the drying process, and established a relationship between the size of the columns and speed with which the drying front moved.
Goehring also visited several sites around the world and measured certain markings on the sides of lava columns, which were used to deduce the speed with which they formed as the lava cooled.
Putting all of these pieces together showed that the columns are formed by the same process in starch as in lava, said Morris.
We identified the special ratio of speed, column size and diffusion rate that is the same for all cases, finding that the slower the cooling process, the larger the resulting columns would be, he added.
Their results allow for the deduction of the cooling rate that produces these structures and the comparison of different sites.
They also enable the prediction of the shapes of other fracture networks such as drying mud, cracking paint or the patterns of fracture in permafrost.
Its always a delight to be able to think about a beautiful natural system and even nicer to solve an ancient problem with such a simple experiment, said Morris. (ANI)
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Roberts, Hollywood's most powerful woman, is said to bear an uncanny resemblance to the woman from the small Derbyshire town of Bakewell whose penchant for outdoor sex led to her being dubbed the Bakewell Tart.
The star - famous for her feisty portrayals of controversial women such as Erin Brokovitch and Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman - will play the victim whose murder stunned the close-knit Peak District town, first with its brutality and then with the consequent imprisonment of a local boy, Stephen Downing.
Downing, a 17-year-old with a reading age of 11 who had never had a girlfriend and kept hedgehogs in his garden shed, always claimed that he found Sewell bloodied and beaten in the graveyard where he worked as an odd-job man.
But when Sewell died without regaining consciousness, two days after she was found, Downing was found guilty of beating her to death in a sexually motivated attack and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Downing, who spent 27 years behind bars, was released last February after a six-year investigation by Don Hale, a local newspaper editor, who found evidence that Derbyshire police set Downing up for the crime. He could now receive up to £8 million in compensation for his incarceration.
Hale, who faced two attempts on his own life during his campaign to free Downing, admits that the two women are strikingly similar. 'It would be a dream come true,' he said. 'She even looks quite like Wendy: they have the same slimness, hair and height.'
Roberts, who commands $20m a film, is said to have heard about the production through Bob Hoskins, who is keen to play the part of the 44-year-old Downing after his release from prison.
But despite the big-name stars lining up to take part in the production - Liam Neeson and Christopher Eccleston are also rumoured to have thrown their hats into the ring - Hale is surprised that Roberts should be keen to play such a controversial character.
'Julia has played loose women before of course, most notably in Pretty Woman , but I'm surprised that she should want to take on a character as controversial as Wendy,' said Hale, editor of the Matlock Mercury .
Hale, who was excoriated by the local police as the 'Mad Dog of Matlock' during his investigation, has been feted throughout the country since Downing's release, with 10 high-profile awards for campaigning journalism to date, meetings with the Prime Minister and a lucrative contract for his book about the case called In Denial of Murder .
'Wendy used to slip a Mars Bar into the hands of men she fancied to indicate she was interested in them,' he said. 'In the late Sixties, that was a clear come-on, but she never tried to hide what she was like. There was no point: it was a small town and everyone knew what she was at.'
Sewell was also infamous in the small, close-knit town for taking two-hour lunch breaks from her job at the Forestry Commission to meet lovers in the graveyard where she was later beaten to death.
Although married, she had numerous affairs, using the lamp in the family porch to signal to her lovers that the coast was clear. During one of many separations from her husband, she rented a flat in the centre of town where she met numerous men before her landlady finally asked her to leave.
'Wendy was a character with a complex lovelife,' said Hale. 'But if Julia is prepared to take her on, it would certainly place our small town on the map.'
Hale's triumph has attracted particular attention in the US. After producer David Hunt, president of the LA-based FourBoys Films, took up the film, Hale was approached by three major Hollywood studios, including Warner Brothers and Columbia.
Hunt, who worked with Stanley Kubrick on Eyes Wide Shut , and with Clint Eastwood on The Dead Pool , heard about Downing's case when he lived in Cambridge, four miles from Littlehey Prison, where Downing spent most of his sentence.
The producer has been in contact with Hale ever since flying to England at the time of Downing's bail hearing and, although he is unwilling to comment on the casting, concedes that the involvement of Roberts would lend the film glamour and a profile that would practically guarantee its success.
Interest on this side of the Atlantic is also high: Hat Trick productions started work last week on a script for a BBC drama about the case, based on Hale's book. Hale, who is associate script editor, will help with production.
But for Hale, the story will not be over until the true murderers are caught. 'The net is closing on the five local men who hold the key to Sewell's death,' he said.


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For sensitive or rosacea type skin, this gentle rosehip and maize flower exfoliation is followed by a Red Rose Treatment Masque. Skin is soothed and calmed, and glows with new found clarity and brightness.
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To detoxify and calm acne prone skin, this treatment includes one of two fresh facial masques - Eight Greens Phyto Masque or Hungarian Herbal Mud Masque - as a effective anti-blemish treatment.
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A powerful cleansing and exfoliating facial without the fluff. Pampering still included.
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A cleansing and healing treatment for acne prone skin on the back.
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1 hour with Glycolic Peel.......... $135.00
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Minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles on your skin. Skin resurfacing by microdermabrasion is one of the single most popular non-surgical cosmetic procedures performed. It is a non-invasive skin rejuvenation treatment that involves abrading away the top layer of skin known as the stratum corneum that consists of dead skin cells revealing younger fresher skin.
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Body Treatments
Pear and Green Apple Sugar Scrub....................... $105
When you want your skin to shine this natural sugar scrub increases circulation and supplies nutrients to the epidermis. Packed with protective antioxidants it helps to refine and smooth your skin. Sugar Plum Souffle Massage cream to be applied afterwards for a delightful finish.*
Mango Enzyme Body Wrap .......................... $105
A luxurious treatment filled with vitamin rich nutrients and antioxidants for the skin. This wrap also detoxifies and tones with ginseng and nettle, leaving skin silky and hydrated. A soothing foot massage is included for a little extra indulgence.
Cell-U-Less Herbal Wrap................. $360 for six sessions
This six-session treatment melts cellulite with a highly stimulating cinnamon paprika treatment, flushing and smoothing problem areas. (Not recommended for extremely sensitive skin.)
* Golden Tan Add-on........... $35
For a safe beautiful bronze tan, a sunless tanner application can be included after the Sugar Scrub treatment.
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Lash and Brow Tinting
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Reiki Services
Reiki is a stress reduction and relaxation technique that also promotes healing. The practitioner places their hands on different parts of the body allowing the Reiki energy to flow through the hands. Reiki is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.15 Minutes: $25
30 Minutes: $40
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Please arrive 15 minutes prior to your appointment to fill out necessary paperwork and to change into treatment attire. Reservation time is actual treatment time.
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Please be considerate of your scheduled appointment time. We require 24 hours notice for any changes or cancellations. Cancellations with less than 24 hours notice will be charged for the fee of the reserved service.
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Joe Sharkey of the NY Times on hotel WiFi:
Largely because of the broad use of iPads and other mobile tablets, which are heavy users of video streaming, the guest room Wi-Fi networks that most hotels thought they had brought up to standard just a few years ago are now often groaning under user demands.
This amplifies the problems that exist when non-tech businesses try to do tech-related things. The problem is that in technology "bringing up to standard" doesn't mean making it acceptable now. Technology moves too fast. You have to think five steps ahead, not zero.
I get aggravated when I stay at a hotel, especially a nice one in a big city that doesn't even offer paid WiFi in their rooms. I don't care if it's free or paid, but have something. And if it's paid, it better be fast and reliable. I am not counting on it though.
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[The Sky Forge]
June 30 2009 12:26 AM EDT
I usually get like $600 and 250exp per battle.
June 30 2009 12:27 AM EDT
You had one bad fight, no biggie.
June 30 2009 12:29 AM EDT
I believe you can get reduced rewards if someone else fought them just before you did, and did most of the work.
So if someone leaves them with 1 HP, and you fight them, you wont get much for it.
[Ministry of Pain]
June 30 2009 12:33 AM EDT
I have run into the same bro, this is why I have learned to pay very close attention when I am clicking away. As soon as I start seeing the rewards going down I stop and inspect if someone else is fighting I stop and let them finish. I might as well pay attention if the next guy wont :/
June 30 2009 12:34 AM EDT
It is as Daz says.
Check your opponents battle log. You will see someone lost to them just before you attacked. They did not have a chance to heal and took heavy damage from the first attack.
Since you only took out a portion of their character, you only get rewards for that amount.
[The Sky Forge]
June 30 2009 12:40 AM EDT
Good Call Daz. Evidently CC had just lost to him.
June 30 2009 1:44 AM EDT
It's a sign to stop farming my clanmate. ;)
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Stocks tend to be most volatile around earnings season, when a good or bad report can make or break it. However, a good or even great earnings report doesn't necessarily translate into a huge pop for a stock.
During earnings season, BullMarket.com publishes a comprehensive 25- to 40-page Earnings Preview report for the week ahead each Friday.
In its latest earnings preview, BullMarket.com looks at several popular stocks, including NetFlix (NFLX), Deckers Outdoor (DECK), Apple (AAPL), Visa (NYSE:V), Qualcomm (QCOM), Facebook (FB), F5 Networks (FFIV), Starbucks (SBUX), and Amazon.com (AMZN).
Here is just a tiny sample of what BullMarket.com wrote about F5 Networks:
F5 has beaten analyst EPS estimates five of the past eight quarters, missing the consensus twice and meeting it once. Over that period, the stock has risen the next session six of eight quarters. Seasonally, the stock has risen three times in the last four years.
Last quarter, F5 reported results that were in line with the guidance it provided in a pre-announcement on April 4th. Revenue for Q2 was $350.2 million, down -4% sequentially and up 3% year over year. GAAP EPS was 80 cents per share compared to 88 cents per share in Q1 and 86 cents per share in Q2 of last year.
Revenue rose 7% to $263.8 million, well above the $253.4 million analysts had been expecting. Retail sales increased 38% to $63.6 million from $46.2 million, while same-store sales rose 6.6%.
Adjusted EPS was $1.07 per share compared to $1.14 per share in the prior quarter and $1.09 per share a year ago.
Product revenue of $185.1 million represented 53% of total revenue, down -10% from Q2 2012. Service revenue increased 23% from a year ago to $165.1 million, accounting for 47% of revenue. Revenue from F5's Application Delivery Networking business was $345.1 million, and revenue from the ARX File Virtualization business was $5.1 million. The book-to-bill for the quarter was equal to one.
Revenue from the Americas represented 54% of total revenue, down -4% from Q2 2012. EMEA contributed 23%, up 13% year over year. Asia Pacific accounted for 16% of revenue, a 21% year-over-year increase; and Japan was 6% of revenue, a -5% decline year over year.
The company guided for Q3 revenue of $355 million to $365 million and adjusted net income of $1.06 to $1.09 per share. Both were below the Wall Street consensus estimates of $372 million in revenue and EPS of $1.13. ...
Outside of earnings, F5's stock took it on the chin after a negative earnings pre- announcement in early April, with the miss largely coming from weakness in the telecom sector. However, the telecom equipment market is lumpy, and given F5's current product refresh cycle, there is a good probability that orders were just being pushed out as new offerings were being evaluated.
One of the main bearish tenets on F5 has largely focused on the impact Software Defined Networking (SDN) (virtual) would have on its business. But as we've said before, a virtual network layer lies on top of the physical network layer, and we'd add that F5's custom OS is built to operate on a proprietary hardware platform to create a barrier to entry to protect against SDN-only based competitors.
F5's hardware growth is indeed slowing, but that's partly because the focus is moving towards high-margin software due to virtualization in data centers and networks. Meanwhile, the company has solid incremental growth opportunities in security and even perhaps Toll Free Mobile Data. ...
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1. Ireland, Venice, and the Middle Ages
November. The wind roars across this hillside acre as if it wanted to wrench my garden-shed studio off its foundations and scatter the pine boards across the face of Sliabh na mBan. I live on a mountainside in a remote corner of remotest Tipperary, at the end of an unmarked lane, three miles from the nearest stop sign, four miles from a newspaper or a bottle of milk. Even when the wind is still, there is no traffic noise—no sirens, no horns. If one hears a motor, usually it means one of the neighbors is driving his tractor up the lane, bringing hay to the cattle. When a solitary airplane flies over high above, its silent passing is a singular enough event to make one look up and follow its progress across the sky.
The wind is relentless. It whispers, whistles, swoops, and swerves, rattles gutters and windowpanes. The rain-saturated meadows I see out the window glow intensely green, and there is a velvety denseness in the foliage of pines that grow along the demarcations between fields. Here and there the ghostly gray trunk of a beech tree shows through, and the black and white of Friesian cattle decorate a field. The only color other than earth's natural tones is that of our red car parked in front of the house.
But another place fills my mind's eye tonight. I have just returned from Venice. While I was gone a gale blew the hinges off the henhouse door, then blew the door off, and the fox killed one of the chickens. This morning when I got up I saw him out there, trying to sniff out another opening. He pranced away when he saw me, looking for all the world like a Renaissance dandy in a russet-colored tunic, his gorgeous tail pluming behind him. He was light on his feet and carried himself with the style of young courtiers in paintings by Carpaccio in the Accademia Gallery.
One goes to Venice for the intoxication of spending a few days in a place that is utterly beautiful. By comparison with many parts of the world, I already live in such a place, even though Ireland is changing every day, and not necessarily for the better. It has been many years since anyone could with a straight face call this country the land of saints and scholars.
Both Venice and the Irish hinterland still carry some flavor of life in Europe during the Middle Ages. The contemplation of both these ancient cultures raises us for a few moments above the day's trivia. In the eighth century, when Venice was first establishing herself as a city-state with a more or less secure foundation in its lagoon, trading for salt and grain between the mainland of Lombardy and [End Page 58] the Byzantine Empire to the east, Ireland had already achieved a rich monastic culture that produced illuminated manuscripts like the Book of Kells and dispatched missionaries to nearby Scotland and England, as well as to Germany and Switzerland on the continent. The first Viking invasions lay a century or so in the future, and Irish monastic culture was thriving. The monks can hardly have suspected their way of life was about to be threatened and ravaged by predators sailing fast ships down from the northern fjords.
After the breakup of the Roman Empire the problem for cultures all over Europe was how to sustain commerce, trade, prayer, and the making of art and artifacts as they had been carried on under the Romans, and at the same time to keep things safe from marauders like the Vikings in northern Europe, the Goths, Visigoths, and Huns in Central Europe and Italy, and barbarians at the borders of the Byzantine Empire—the New Rome that had supplanted the old imperium. Ireland, protected from outside interference by its remoteness, never had the Romans either as conquerors or as overlords who could provide a garrison of centurions to keep watch over the sea while a monk slowly shaped the capital letter at the beginning of...


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This is one of those generic "looking for things to do" questions. I am currently reading Java Concurrency in Practice, and I am liking it, however; I am not sure of any good exercises to get some real practice.
Does anyone know of any good exercises from moderate difficulty + to use for learning threading in a practical sense?
Right now, I understand a bit about concurrency but feel like I would barely know how to do something practical with it.


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Judy Anderson's patterns
I am intrigued by all forms of needlework, and spent several years studying bobbin lacemaking when I came across a picture of a Shetland lace shawl in a British lace journal. Since I "knew" how to knit (having learned as a child), I decided I could do that (ignorance is bliss?); and proceeded to fall in love with all forms of knitting. An accountant by profession, I abandoned the Corporate world in 2004 to work full time designing knitwear and teaching knitting classes - a decision my very understanding husband and two Yorkiepoos have totally supported.


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Can anyone help me out......?
I just got my laptop back after getting it sorted out for a virus. Now, when i get a web page up, i can't see all of it on the 1 page. I have to scroll to the right to read it all.
I tried lowering the zoom level to 75% but all this did was shrink the text and pics.
I used to be able to get the whole page on and it's starting to annoy me now and i've only had my laptop back a couple of hours! Even THIS page only has part of it showing!
Any advice on how to get me view back to how it used to be would be great.


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When 35-year-old journalist Nadine Morgan (named after South African novelist Nadine Gordimer) is attacked in Mexico City, she wakes up to find herself in the care of her father in Cape Cod. As she recuperates, she reads about a young, black South African woman ready to testify about the murder of a white man and apply for amnesty from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Nadine flies to postapartheid Cape Town to find out more from the murdered man's parents. As she delves into his diary, she recalls her own past—her years in Cape Town covering apartheid and her tragic love affair—and the difficult choices she made along the way.
Random House. 236 pages. $23.95. ISBN: 0345494466
Charlotte Observer
"Amanda Eyre Ward writes novels that are intellectually, emotionally and morally satisfying. … The novel starts slowly, but ultimately readers will find this book compelling and deeply satisfying in a way that is uncommon in contemporary fiction." Pat MacEnulty
Dallas Morning News
"Once you're on the journey with haunted freelance journalist Nadine Morgan, you won't want to get off the train until the final stop. … Ms. Ward also knows how to deliver a surprise; in one major subplot, she gently leads the reader toward what we believe is a foregone conclusion, only to have the road turn down a completely unexpected, and unexpectedly dark, side street." Joy Tipping
Denver Post
"Emotional distance and the price it extracts drive the thoughtful and compulsively readable Forgive Me. … The characters and situations are resonantly drawn, so much so that this is a novel that is over much too soon." Robin Vidimos
Providence Journal
"With staccato bursts of vivid writing and dialogue, Forgive Me has cinematic drama but sacrifices prettiness for grit. Throughout the novel, Ward offers the reader a glimpse into subjects both foreign and familiar and maintains interest to the end." Lisa Palmer
San Francisco Chronicle
"Ward connects her reader alternately to Cape Cod and Cape Town through cultural signifiers; Whale's Tale beer brewed on Nantucket, a Patriots game on TV or the occasional word in Afrikaans. But she struggles to make the reader feel a real intimacy with these places." Michelle Quint
Critical Summary
In her first two novels, Sleep Toward Heaven and How to Be Lost, Amanda Eyre Ward asked questions about loss and forgiveness: Is salvation possible to achieve? What are the costs of achieving it? Does everyone deserve it? Forgive Me, as the title suggests, blatantly explores these questions and other big themes—from apartheid to race, globalization, and motherhood. Filled with plot twists, Ward intersperses Nadine's story with the first-person journal entries of young boy in Nantucket. Her spare, compelling prose touched most critics deeply; as Nadine travels back to South Africa, her own questions also captivated them. In sum, Forgive Me is a page-turner with deep moral underpinnings.


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The ruling is interesting because the RIAA can charge up to $30,000 USD per every "pirated" song but usually charges around $750.
To give a background on the case, in January of last year Warner Brothers, Sony BMG, Maverick, UMG, and Arista Records sued Steve Harper after MediaSentry said that someone on Harper's computer was downloading copyrighted songs from Fasttrack. Harper had of course not downloaded any such music, but his daughter Whitney had. By December she had been added as a defendant to the suit.
She is now accused of downloading 39 copyrighted songs through Kazaa. The original MediaSentry investigation found that Whitney was sharing 544 audio files through Kazaa but after a Windows reformat, the files were effectively deleted.
Whitney now claims that she used Kazaa to listen to songs but thought the program was a streaming program like Imeem. She was unaware she was downloading the tracks or sharing them.


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Babies everywhere discover words whether they spend their early years swaddled to their mother's back or facing their mum in their pram.
It demonstrates language development is surprisingly robust and can be picked up by babies almost as instinctively as learning to walk, says Telethon Kids Institute Professor Cate Taylor.
She said the findings came as a relief to parents who had felt guilt for not talking or reading enough to their children.
"In our western culture we place a lot of emphasis on face-to-face communication with children, which is very helpful, but one of the important findings of the work we've done in WA is that starting to talk is really about the child's biology," Professor Taylor said.
"It's been a reassuring message for parents that it's not parenting that can cause the problem in the first place."
The other good news is 80 per cent of children with language problems at age two will catch up by about age six. The dilemma, however, is researchers have not yet figured out which children will be among the 20 per cent not to catch up.
It means a cautious approach is taken so children diagnosed with a language impairment, typically at around age three or four, are treated as if the problem will persist even when chances are it won't.
"While we know most children will catch up, we just don't know which ones," Professor Taylor said.
"We are not at a point yet where we can pinpoint a number of risks and see which children will have more trouble than others."
Language milestones: What to expect
Of the information that has been gleaned in a 2013 study, which used data from a longitudinal study of 5000 Australian children, neighbourhood disadvantage was one significant factor determining whether a child caught up or not.
"Overall though, children who talk late and have most of the risk factors actually end up talking just fine," Professor Taylor said.
"A good example would be children who are premature or who had poor foetal growth — all risk factors for language development — but the overwhelming majority of those children end up talking well."
One of the warning signs of language impairment is immature grammar.
It can be subtle to spot but an example might be a four-year-old who says "I walk home" instead of "I walked home."
The once common belief that boys are more affected by language problems than girls also does not hold true with current research. While it is true that more boys are late talkers at around the age of two, by school-age boys and girls are equally affected.
This is because language impairment tends to show up later in girls.
"Once upon a time we thought that the pathway into language impairment was through late talking but language impairment can show up later," Professor Taylor said.
"The number one reason parents seek help is if their children aren't saying many words so they have a very small vocabulary, or they are very hard to understand and have a very small number of speech sounds."
She adds that by school age, 11 per cent of children who had normal language development at age two fell behind at age seven. So while late talking increases the risk of language impairment, it's not the only warning sign.
"You wouldn't want a parent thinking that at age two and three my child was good with language, so it can't be the case they are falling behind, because research shows that can happen," Professor Taylor said.
She said although parenting was not to blame for language impairment, talking and reading regularly to children remained vital, adding: "Parents should do what is good for all aspects of a child's development, which is a lot of one-on-one stimulation in a warm, secure environment and that includes encouraging reading."
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