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Nicki Minaj never fails to draw attention when making public appearances. At this year's Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York, the head Barb has been spotted all over New York for Fashion's Night Out and in the front row at numerous fashion shows like Betsey Johnson, Carolina Herrera, Prabal Gurung and Oscar de La Renta.
With her colorful over-the-top wigs, cartoon-esque accessories, and matching animated personality, Minaj has managed to gain more attention than some of the new collections being showcased down the runway. She's been photoed in everything from a pretzel necklace, to a furry tiger hat, to an "original" puffball dress accused of being a knockoff by the designer.
Devoured by paparazzi, fans, and the head honcho herself, Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour, we can't help but wonder if fashion was the only topic up for discussion between the two on the front row. Seated next to Wintour in a couple of shows, we wouldn't be surprised if there was a deal in the making to include the Harajuki Barbie on a future Vogue cover.
If you missed the wild, crazy, and fuzzy ensembles, check out Minaj's looks below. —mckenzie harris


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About the show
"Imagine All the People: A Survey of Music Business Creeps" is a decade-by-decade journey through the history of rock 'n' roll. This solo show, written and performed by Eli James, shines a light on the creeps, freaks, jackasses and wannabes that have been steadily plopping out of pop music's bottom since the 1950s. Award-winning music historian Sir Gordon Gledhill-Walker guides us through each sordid era of rock, attempting to find answers to pop music's longest-held mysteries, such as "WERE the Beatles more popular than Jesus?" "What is Payola and where can I get it?" and "Why did the '90s happen?" It's all here when you imagine all the people!
Written and Performed by Eli James
Directed by Philip Emeott
Photo by Colleen Sturtevant
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EMA Pistol Carbine Conversion Kit
EMA Tactical's RONI is a kit that converts a pistol to a carbine in less than 6 seconds by unlocking two pins and inserting your handgun. Would you spend $300 for this?
1. I can buy another pretty good handgun for $300, or a collapsible pistol-cal carbine like the KelTec Sub2k for a little more.
2. If you legally acquire it, that means you have registered your pistol as an SBR with the ATF, jumped through all their Big Brother hoops, and paid an additional $200 for the Class III stamp. Otherwise, slapping this thing onto you pistol is 6-10yrs in federal prison, learning to be a good wife for some thug. Even if this thing made your pistol into some kind of deathray (which is doesn't, pistol cal ballistics, esp. standard semiauto cartridges like the 9mm/45acp/etc are not usually that great at ending fights) it wouldn't be worth the hassles to me.
If I were to ever fall and hit my head and venture into the Class III/NFA world again, it would be for a suppressor, SBR, SBS---something that would actually increase my capabilities and/or funfactor.
agree with TX
not worth the NFA registration
"Proelium Comminus Auctoritate" "Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a muzzle flash."
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Congrats Reaper..
Like the new avatar.. I've never seen that version of it before... Don't know if this is fact or not but i've heard that the original design predates our first stars and stripes, and was designed by Franklin.
a man has to hold his word, hold his beliefs, and hold a good sight picture.
the gadsden does pre date the stars and strips. It was designed by Christopher Gadsden. Franklin did the "join or die" with the snake. This is just a Arizona Diamondbacks spin on the gadsden...
"Proelium Comminus Auctoritate" "Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a muzzle flash."
greg az
I want you to consider something... I live in AZ.. While im typing that comment i thought, man that looks familiar... sigh..
I think im going to have Gloria write my name on the inside of my underwear (heck dont wear em) .. I'll have her write the name in my waste band to deal with obvious senility issues..
a man has to hold his word, hold his beliefs, and hold a good sight picture.
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BMW's September sales in China increased 59%, a relief for the investors who believed that the world's biggest auto market is slowing.
Last month sales of BMW and Mini-brand were up 59% to 29, 631, thanks to increased demand for the extended version of the 3- Series sedan and the X1 compact SUV. Form January to September BMW sold in China 237,056 cars, up 34% compared with the same period last year.
"This strength has legs to it," said David Arnold, an auto-industry specialist with Credit Suisse in London. "China's still a growth market, but the market's normalizing, which is what we need."
BMW's rivals, Volkswagen's Audi and Daimler's Mercedes-Benz also reported strong sales last month, even if the market shows signs of weakness. This year the country's services industry expanded at its slowest rate and the manufacturing industry decreased for 11 consecutive months.
BMW hit the highest close since September 21st, increasing 3.2% to 59.76 euro in Frankfurt, Daimler was up 1.2% to 38.505 euro, while VW gained 2.9% to 45.35 euro. Audi reported September sales in China up 20% to 35,512 units, while Mercedes sold 16,806 units, up 10%.


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Big Block 454 is a semi-amorphous post-modern / situationist neo-dada cross-platform compositional construct from Manchester, England (featuring people from Liverpool, Leeds and Lincolnshire).Read More...
Since forming in Manchester, UK in 1988, Big Block 454 have unleashed a series of albums and multi-media happenings upon an unsuspecting public, combining influences such as Faust, Can, Brian Eno, The Residents, the Bonzo Dog Band, King Crimson and the BBC Radiophonics Workshop - surrealism meets Krautrock meets downright Northern stupidity.
Big Block 454 worked with famed dada artist Russell Mills (Eno / U2 / Nine Inch Nails) on the music for his multi-media project "Measured in Shadows", recording it at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios.
Big Block 454 have guested on Stuart Maconie's BBC 6 Music radio show The Freak Zone and have been championed by Sunday Times writer/comedian Stewart Lee.
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1. Review of Schweppes Cottee´s Operations
2. Planning and Organisation of the Schweppes Cottee´s Cleaner Production Project
3. Cleaner Production Initiatives
6. Schweppes Cottee´s Perspective
Executive Summary
The Cleaner Production Demonstration Project is an initiative of the Environment Australia - Environment Protection Group (EPG). The aim of the Project was to raise the awareness of Australian industry and actively promote cleaner production issues. This was to be achieved by conducting ten successful cleaner production demonstration projects in industry around Australia, documenting the benefits and experiences of the project, and publicising the results to wider industry. Dames & Moore, assisted by Energetics, were engaged as technical consultants on the project. The project commenced in June 1994, and ran for 27 months.
Schweppes Cottee's in Liverpool, NSW, were selected as one of the ten companies to participate in the project. This case study report presents a record of the progress of the Schweppes Cottee's project, from initial meeting to project completion, and detail the results of the project and any problems which may have been encountered. This case study demonstrates the application of cleaner production to the food industry.
The Schweppes Cottee's facility in Liverpool is a medium-sized manufacturing plant which produces cordial, jam, jelly, ice cream toppings, fruit snacks and coffee. The main basic raw ingredients used in production are sugar, fruit, food additives and water, which are processed on a number of production lines.
The manufacturing process typically involves the following steps:
- heating / cooking;
- blending / mixing; and
- bottling / packaging.
Completion of the Schweppes Cottee's project comprised a number of stages, as follows:
- an initial audit of the site, and discussions with site personnel to identify general opportunities for cleaner production;
- follow-up site visits and meetings to identify more specific cleaner production opportunities;
- investigation of the perceived benefits and drawbacks associated with each of the opportunities, to assist site management in deciding which of the potential projects to implement at the site;
- implementing the selected projects;
- monitoring the success of the projects; and
- documenting the results.
Many specific cleaner production opportunities were identified at the site, which are summarised in Table 1. Following a relatively long period of investigation and discussion, five projects were selected for implementation. These projects focused on water minimisation, energy conservation, and improvement of wastewater quality, and are summarised below.
Utilising sand filter backwash water
The volume of water used to backwash water filters (which is currently disposed to sewer) is approximately 5,700 kL/year or approximately 3.5% of total water usage. This water is relatively clean, containing a very low concentration of suspended solids and could be used for a variety of non-product uses, including cooling tower water make-up, boiler feed water and water for the line-lube system. Water demands in these areas were monitored or estimated (where monitoring was not possible). It was decided to recycle the backwash water to two cooling towers. The recycling system comprises piping, pumps and level control switches. Collection tanks were available onsite. The cost of installing the recycling system was approximately $3,500. The volume of water saved (and wastewater reduced) was estimated at 4,140 kL/year. Cost savings associated with water savings were estimated at $8,280 /year. The payback period of the project was predicted to be 5 months.
Installing throttle valves on the jam line capping machines
Approximately 5,200 kL/year of clean water was overflowing from the jam capping machine directly to site drains. While there were areas where this water could be reused, it was decided that the collection and recycling system was not feasible. In order to reduce water wasted at the capping machines, the installation of throttle valves was proposed to control the rate of water flow. These valves could be installed at an estimated cost of $300. It is estimated that 25% of the water wasted at the jam capping machine would be saved by installing the throttle valves, representing a water saving of 1,300 kL/year, and a cost saving of $2,600/year. The project has a payback period of 6 weeks. The valves were not installed during the time-frame of the Demonstration Project, but may be installed at a later date.
Replacement of nozzles on the container wash systems on the fruit snacks and cordial production lines
The existing shower-style nozzles were not making optimum use of the available water. It was proposed that the shower nozzles be replaced with flat water-saving nozzles. Approximately 101 nozzles were replaced, at an estimate cost of $3,390. It has been estimated that this initiative will save 7,950 kL of water annually (a cost saving of approximately $15,980 / year). The payback period for this project is predicted to be 10 weeks.
Installing container wash water recycling systems
Prior to the Demonstration Project, a system was installed on the container wash system on one of the cordial production lines which collected rinse water and recycled it for use as first-wash water. The system was installed for approximately $1,500. Estimated water savings are 2,650 kL/year ($5,300 / year). This system was to be extended to other cordial production lines, which would result in significant water savings. While this was not achieved during the time-frame of the Demonstration Project, the additional recycling systems will be installed at a later date.
Replacing the controller on the hot water maker to conserve energy
Due to poor temperature control, the hot water maker was emitting steam, representing a waste of energy. The required temperature for the hot water was investigated, and an improved controller was installed to maintain the heater at the required temperature, and prevent over-heating. The benefits of this project were difficult to quantify, as the hot water maker represents a small part of a complicated steam system at the site.
Improvements to the line-lube (conveyor lubrication and sanitisation) system were made by Schweppes Cottee's independently to the Demonstration Project, with the objectives of decreasing line-lube and water usage and reducing oil and grease concentrations in the wastewater discharged from the site. The improvements were made by line-lube supply company, at no cost to Schweppes Cottee's, and involved regulating flows and improving controls. The benefits of the line-lube project are documented in this report.
Schweppes Cottee's allocated the responsibility for implementing the projects to one of their site engineers. There was limited involvement by site management. While the projects were successful, progress was slower than anticipated. The benefits of the project could have been more widespread had management been more involved in the process, and more personnel been made available to work on the project. There appears to be some commitment from plant management to continue investigating and implementing other opportunities for cleaner production which were identified at the outset of the project.


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|"Drea", 8"x 10", Study in Oil
This study was done on Clayboard. The initial layer was absorbed immediately, even more so than on Arches Oil Paper. After the first layer on Arches, the surface feels much like canvas. Not so for the Clayboard where subsequent layers were more "fluid" than on canvas. Maybe "slick" is a better description. Still, I found it a very nice surface and plan to experiment with it further.


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I am using apache 2.0. Can anyone show me how i can do it?
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There are tons of tutorials on how to do this search Google. or go to the Apache documentaion they also tell you how to do it.
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I have tried one from googles. It didn't work. I created the .htaccess and the .htpasswd file. Put the files in the webpage directory, restart the web server. Still no good.
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Re: Apache LoginOriginally Posted by kenny2004
Go here and read that page, then... if you still dont understand go back and read the rest of the documation.
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The ESP being deployed from the WHOI ship R/V Tioga. (Photo Credit: Isaac Rosenthal/WHOI)
New robotic sensor could revolutionise red tide management
Thursday, May 09, 2013, 23:00 (GMT + 9)
A new robotic sensor deployed by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Gulf of Maine coastal waters may transform the way red tides or harmful algal blooms (HABs) are monitored and managed in New England. The instrument was launched at the end of last month, and a second such system will be deployed later this spring.
The results will add critical data to weekly real-time forecasts of New England red tide this year distributed to more than 150 coastal resource and fisheries managers in six states as well as federal agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Researchers also plan to add data from the sensor to regular updates provided on the "Current Status" page of the Northeast PSP website.
"This deployment is a critical step towards our long-term dream of having a network of instruments moored along the coast of the Gulf of Maine, routinely providing data on the distribution and abundance of HAB cells and toxins. The technology will greatly enhance management capabilities and protection of public health in the region," says Don Anderson, WHOI senior scientist and the project's principal investigator.
The two sensors, known as Environmental Sample Processors (ESPs), are molecular biology labs packed inside canisters the size of kitchen garbage cans. In the Gulf of Maine, the ESPs are mounted to ocean buoys and will detect and estimate concentrations of two algal species that cause HABs or "red tides" and one of the potentially fatal toxins they produce.
The first, Alexandrium fundyense, a single-celled algae, produces toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP). The second organism, Pseudo-nitzschia, is a diatom responsible for amnesic shellfish poisoning, or ASP The data from the instruments will be transmitted to the shore in real time.
This year will see the first sustained deployments of the technology spanning the Alexandrium bloom season in the western Gulf of Maine and the first time the algal neurotoxin responsible for PSP will be autonomously measured by an ESP in natural waters.
Scientists want the ESPs to become an integral part of the regional ocean observatory network managed by the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS), which currently consists of 12 instrumented buoys that measure currents, salinity, temperature and meteorological variables at multiple locations in the Gulf of Maine and Long Island Sound.
"The ESPs are not a replacement for state-run programmes that monitor naturally occurring marine toxins in shellfish. Instead, they will provide valuable data on the phytoplankton cells and associated toxins in coastal waters giving managers a more complete picture of the magnitude and distribution of HAB events," says Kohl Kanwit, director of the Bureau of Public Health for the Maine Department of Marine Resources.
The ESP deployed last month will conduct sampling for approximately 45 days. The second will be deployed in late May and continue sampling for another 45 days or until the end of the bloom.
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Nuclear Forensics And Attribution Act
Mr. KING of New York. I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Madam Speaker, again, let me thank Congresswoman Clarke for her leadership on this. Let me also thank Ranking Member Dan Lungren for his work.
Let me especially thank Mr. Schiff for his efforts on this and for so many other efforts on behalf of our national security. I have the privilege of serving with Mr. Schiff on the Intelligence Committee, so I have firsthand knowledge of the dedication which he brings to issues such as this.
Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 730. Let me just say that, in many ways, this is the other side of the same coin. We just adopted H.R. 2611, which is to prevent nuclear attacks against our cities. H.R. 730 will enable us to detect where those nuclear devices came from. It's absolutely essential that we deal with the process of determining the source of confiscated nuclear material. This is a grave, grave threat to our homeland, and it must be addressed immediately and robustly. We must have a rigorous attribution program to find the culprits of these crimes and to offer a deterrent to nuclear terrorism.
The one concern I do have is that the bill, as amended, coming back from the Senate does not authorize the appropriation of $30 million. I believe that is important. It is essential that we have it; but, again, this is a major step forward, so I am pleased to support the legislation even though I wish that the $30 million had been included in it.
This bill targets an ongoing threat in a unique way. It will reinvigorate the workforce pipeline to guarantee the Nation a resource of technical experts in this vital and critical field, and it will strengthen America's attribution capabilities.
Again, this is a bipartisan effort. It's the Homeland Security Committee working with Mr. Schiff and the Intelligence Committee. It is important that we pass this and that we really, again, send a strong signal of how we do believe in layered defenses, of how we realize the need of staying ahead of the terrorist threat and of doing all we can to protect the American people in a way which certainly transcends Republican or Democrat lines or liberal-conservative lines. It is an issue that should galvanize all Americans.
So, with that, I strongly urge support of H.R. 730.
I reserve the balance of my time.
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Android Power Management: Networks, Myths and Races
Our Android devices are only as productive as they have battery power and a lot of my recent work with clients had been to improve battery life. There are a couple of golden rules about maximizing battery life that are true to all smartphones, not just Android. The first is to reduce your use of the handset, which we've covered here. And the second is to optimize your use. Unfortunately, many of the power management guides contain myths without explaining how effective, or otherwise, the optimization techniques are. Today I'm going to explore the blanket statement that switching to just use 2G networks saves battery power.
As we'll explore, in some circumstances using the older generation, slower networks can use more power.
Race to Idle
This race to idle is one of the cornerstones of energy efficiency for several industries including portable electronics. It is very relevant to Android devices because it explains why some articles are outdated or ill informed. The idea behind race to idle is that your device completes a task as quickly as possible so that it returns to an idle state. This is advantageous because modern electronics shut down when not used so that they receive no power. This can have a massive impact on power consumption.
I'm going to use the example of visiting a complicated webpage. A device needs to download and then render the page, so let me play around with some figures. Let's suppose that the webpage will take ten seconds to download over our 3G network and a further ten seconds for the device to render the web page, which it starts as soon as it has information. We will suppose that it takes fifty seconds to scroll through the page to find the next link we are looking for.
So, looking at the page using a 3G network, it takes ten seconds to completely show the page then fifty seconds before we reach the next link. That's ten seconds of download time, ten seconds of render time and in total a minute of on-screen time (because we download and render at the same time).
Power Used = 10 seconds 3G modem + 10 seconds render + 60 seconds screen on
If we now move to a 2G network, it will take a lot longer to download. Let's be generous and say that it will take sixty seconds to download; now we are working our modem for sixty seconds, we are rendering the page for ten seconds and a further fifty seconds to find what we are looking for. That means we will have the screen on for one minute, fifty seconds. If we estimate that our 2G modem uses half the power of the 3G modem over the same time period, we are using three times more power just to download the page. Our screen is burning up the battery for almost twice as long: sometimes, switching to a slower network connection is precisely the wrong thing to do!
Power Used = 30 seconds equivalent 3G modem + 10 seconds render + 110 seconds screen on
Let's model using a WiFi connection and we'll suppose that it's twice as quick as our 3G modern so takes five seconds to download. It still takes ten seconds to render the page, then fifty seconds to find what we're looking for. It's no quicker, but we are working our wireless radio for half the time. Combine that WiFi tends to use less power than a 3G modem, let's suppose it uses eighty percent, so it's the equivalent of four seconds of 3G modem power.
Power Used = 4 seconds equivalent 3G modem + 10 seconds render + 60 seconds screen on
Although it's an oversimplification, it demonstrates that when being used, sometimes using a slower network is harder on the battery than using a quicker connection. It is difficult to obtain real world power consumption for the different radios in our Android devices short of experimenting with our own. We also need to consider quality of signal; one of the reasons why 3G and LTE networks use more power is that the newer generation networks have poorer coverage, so the handset boosts the radio transmitter and has to switch between 2G, 3G and LTE networks quite frequently. Locking the handset down to 2G stops it even considering using the other networks.
Where the slower networks can save battery power is during idle-but-connected time, partially because the device had fewer radios powered up and partially because it picking up notifications, emails, social network updates and similar, which are all low traffic duties. Of you are going to have your device in standby for a period of time, especially when traveling, it may be advantageous to put it into 2G only mode, just remember to use a faster network when you start using it again.


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Now, police have released a sketch of the suspect.
Authorities say the girl's father awoke to noises and discovered the suspect at 1:20 a.m. in his 3-yaer-old daughter's bedroom.
The victim was transported to Jamaica Hospital where she was listed in stable condition.
"I'm mortified by the situation, mortified," the victim's mother said. "I feel terrible."
The mother of the young girl, who we are not identifying, says that her little girl is okay, but neighbors are worried sick.
"Just three years old," area resident Dorris Goldson said. "Three years old, oh my God."
There are few words, just tears and a red face filled with emotion as Goldson, 79, and her son struggle to digest what happened to their neighbor.
"The cops said the kid was assaulted, but the cops never really explained what happened," Al Goldson said.
Detectives knocked on the Goldsons' door early Thursday morning as they investigated a 911 call about a burglar on 88th Avenue in Jamaica.
"The cops were outside and all over the place, and he was just standing in the doorway," Al Goldson said.
Police say the father chased off the intruder, but then noticed his daughter was no longer wearing her pajama pants.
"I have kids too, and this never happened on this street before," said Radha Persaud, a neighbor.
Investigators spent the day on the block collecting evidence inside the home and in search of surveillance video.
Radha Persaud says police downloaded video from her surveillance system that she monitors through a live feed on her cell phone.
The father told authorities he believed the suspect, described as a Hispanic man, was extremely drunk.
Numerous homes on the street have surveillance cameras, and detectives were examining the footage.
So far, no arrests have been made.
The NYPD says the suspect is between 25 and 35 years old and was wearing a grey shirt and black jeans.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
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Hi, I have a database in SQL and I need clients to connect to it but they don't have Internet access. I mean, they'll have Internet access from time to time, but not all the time.
They are going to be entering products into the system and they need to see if the product meets certain conditions specified on the database.
How can I create a version of it on the client's computer?
Would I need access or something like that?


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The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that Australia's GDP expanded 0.9% in the September quarter, against 0.5% growth seen previously.
Markets had predicted the economy to grow 0.8% in Q3. While on annual basis, the economy grew 2.5% versus 2.4% increase expected.
As noted by ABS,
"The largest contribution to economic growth this quarter was Exports of goods and services, up 4.6%. This was concentrated in mining commodities, which is reflected by strong growth in Mining activity, bouncing back after a decline in the June quarter. Gross fixed capital formation was the major reason for the weakness in the domestic economy."


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Performance of the assessment element functions occurs over three phases or stages: Initial
Assessments (performed to support CM program planning); Post-Implementation Assessments
(performed after the development of various CM programs, program elements, and functions); and
Ongoing Assessments (established during CM program development and performed throughout the
operational life of the facility). Figure I-B-2 shows the major assessment functions or activities, grouped
by appropriate time frame, that are necessary to fully establish the assessments element.
The initial vertical and horizontal slice assessments accomplish the initial CM programmatic
effectiveness and initial physical configuration assessments. The initial CM programmatic assessments
review various existing programs, processes, and information related to configuration management to
determine which of these are already adequate for an effective CM program and which need
improvement. One-time, post-implementation assessments provide assurance that the CM program
elements and functions have been properly developed and are being implemented effectively. The
ongoing assessments provide assurance that proposed changes are acceptable and properly
implemented, that equipment continues to meet its design requirements, and that the overall CM
program is effectively meeting Its objectives.
Some functions fall into more than one timeframe. For instance, CM programmatic assessments are
conducted in the initial, post-implementation, and ongoing timeframe; physical configuration
assessments are also conducted in each time frame. Each of the assessments element functions has
ongoing activities.
Vertical and Horizontal Slice Assessments. The main objective of the initial CM assessments is to
assess existing programs and processes related to configuration management (such as change control,
the design process, and document control) in order to identify strengths and weaknesses as early in the
development phase as possible to determine whether upgrades are necessary. The extent of existing
CM functional deficiencies can be determined by assessing the technical adequacy and consistency
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underlying cause(s) of these deficiencies establish the foundation for improvements.
Initial programmatic assessments are a combination of vertical slice and horizontal slice assessments.
Vertical slice assessments are top-down, diagnostic evaluations performed on a selected system across
various programs that affect the hardware system. The primary objective of this application of vertical
slice assessments is to determine which programs have been effective for that facility system and which
programs have not been effective. Horizontal slice assessments concentrate on a single program, such
as change control or document control, and are also diagnostic, but cut across many systems to
determine the effectiveness of the program. Horizontal assessments also include assessments of topics
(such as seismic or fire protection) across many systems and organizations. Both assessments types
use many similar assessment techniques, although the focus is different.
Each assessment type can identify problems in existing control programs related to configuration
management through different but complementary approaches. Although it is necessary to correct
specific weaknesses that could cause system unavailability or unreliability, the primary purpose of these
diagnostic assessments is to identify the underlying causes that could affect other systems and
programs. Information acquired through these assessments is used to establish the basis for the CM
program development and implementation efforts. Increased in-house knowledge of system design and
program operation is an additional benefit of the assessment.
A frequently used form of a vertical slice assessment is the Safety System Function Inspection (SSFI).
Although an SSFI is not the only method for performing a vertical slice assessment, it is the
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Date: Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013
Hi everyone!
I'm so happy to be back this year hosting a challenge for this wonderful event!
My challenge to you is to make a card that will put a smile on someone's face. It can be a fun sentiment, a silly image or maybe some bright colors. What ever you think would make person happy when they opened up the envelope.
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Toptal Community Gathering: Nizhniy Novgorod
The young Nizhniy Novgorod Toptal Community is coming together. If you are a freelancer, developer, tech lover as we all at Toptal are, feel free to join us for drinks and talks around the newest trends in the Dev Community. We are meeting on the 13th of May at Harat's Irish Pub.
Meet local developers and share your experience as an independent developer, talk about what projects you are working on, and ask questions.
Please RSVP here to give us an accurate head count. For questions regarding this event, or if you are a non-Toptal developer who would like to attend, please contact organizer Alexander Rusanov.
Organizing and curating Toptal events takes a lot of work, but it's certainly rewarding. We welcome all Toptalers who are excited about organizing and executing awesome events in their city. These events are great for meeting tech leaders, making new connections, and helping your community to grow. Sign up here or contact firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.


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Tottenham Hotspur have targeted reclaiming third place in the Premier League from Arsenal after securing passage into the semi-finals of the FA Cup, with conviction restored within Harry Redknapp's squad that the team can carry momentum from the knockout competition into their eight-game run-in.
Victory over Bolton Wanderers on Tuesday saw Spurs confirmed as Chelsea's semi-final opponents at Wembley on 15 April, even if the success was only Tottenham's second in eight games. A five-match streak without a win in the league has allowed a rejuvenated Arsenal to leap above them into third place, eroding a 10-point deficit in the process, though Spurs will consider the point gained at Stamford Bridge last Saturday and the dismissal of Wanderers as evidence that form has returned.
"It is football, with lots of paradox and things can quickly change," said the forward, Louis Saha, who scored Tottenham's third goal at White Hart Lane. "Arsenal have had a run so they are confident. They are in the front seat, they are in a good position but it doesn't mean we cannot do the same. We have shown consistency during the season. We may have dropped a few points during the past weeks but we have shown that we have closed the gap in terms of our performances. We have players like Emmanuel Adebayor, William Gallas and Rafael van der Vaart, who have won lots of things, so I think experience is on our side."
Another of the club's senior professionals, the New Zealand international Ryan Nelsen, is still pinching himself to be in this position at all having spent the first half of the season at Blackburn Rovers labouring at the opposite end of the Premier League. "I've got to admit, the quality of players is pretty phenomenal here," said the centre-half, who had opened the scoring against Bolton. "And playing alongside them is a real privilege. I'm just so glad that the manager gave me the opportunity in January to come here, and hopefully just trying to help out as much as I can and trying to do my best for the club.
"I don't think [the recent run] was ever a 'blip'. The games against Everton and Manchester United could have easily been won by us. But now we've got to look forward to Sunday and Swansea City because that's a huge game. We have to forget about Wembley and focus on Swansea, who are a very good team. That will be vital."
Tuesday's occasion was an emotional affair for Bolton, coming 10 days after Fabrice Muamba suffered a cardiac arrest in the original fixture. Memories of that incident affected the visitors. "I felt we were slightly withdrawn," said the captain, Nigel Reo-Coker. "Sometimes I felt the occasion was getting a bit too much. So I was telling the lads to calm down and play football. We couldn't keep playing at 100mph.
"Personally, when I came on the pitch before the game, I had to walk over to the area where the incident had occurred, just for my own benefit. As I say, there was a tingly feeling down my spine, but I couldn't tell you how I felt as the game wore on. We had a job to do and I had to control myself as much as possible. But, in a way, we had to face our fears. We had to eventually come back here and play so we had to face it sooner or later. We have a young team and I felt they dealt with it very well."


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Hello Everybody, You have a very nice web site and convo here! I dont know if anybody here use's potato's in their starter, But I have had very good results with this and have a two year old crock going with great results. More on this if anyone wants . Have a good day, Santiago Graham
Potato Sour Starter
I'd like to read it, and matbe try. I am using KAF starter. They claim it is 200 tears old! I have had great results with it, but am always up for something new!
This formula is from the 49'er days of the gold rush in America,
Also known as the San Fransisco or Alaskan Sour pot, so it is very old. The starter is base on a potato/flour/sugar mix. Really simple. Rule number one: DO NOT ALLOW OR USE ANY TYPE OF METAL to come in contact with Starter or Mixing~ ONLY USE WOODEN SPOONS or Plastic Utensil's and Ceramic Crocks & Mixing bowls. Peel and slice potato's and fill a one or more gallon crock to level comfort zone for natural Levin rise in crock. Fill to level of potato's with clean water, for one gallon crock of this mix you start with 1 cup of flour and a quarter cup of sugar, Then 4 heaping table spoons of flour of your picking, to one table spoon of sugar to feed one gallon crock ratio every three days or so, fermentation will develop preferred flavor of sour flavor after two weeks or so, you can start on your way to using it in your sour dough formula's. You also need to add fresh potato's to the pot every so often and every once in a while take entire old potato's out, Maybe every three month or so and put complete new batch of fresh cut potato in to freshen the pot. The longer you work it the more tasty the crock of sour becomes over the years.
This also can be called by pioneer wagon terms as friendship bread as the Farm Lady's would welcome new neighbors with some starter to get them going on bread production in their kitchens. Here's a simple formula to use with this: 44 oz. flour ~ 18 oz. sour ~ 8 oz. milk ~ 10 oz water ~ 4 oz. sugar ~ 1 oz. salt ~ 6 to 7 oz butter or fat source ~ also two 1/4 oz. yeast packets ~ Mix All liquid with half flour together and one packet of yeast, let sit over night covered, Meanwhile mix remaining flour/sugar/salt together and cut 6 to 7 oz butter or fat source into it. Mix all together with other packet of yeast next day and nead and fold several times on floured table until desired. Make loaves and rest for at least thirty mins. for crust development then make final loafing and pan and rise with 90 degree heat source until ready, usually 110 minutes, bake at 340 degrees for 24 to 27 minutes or until it's finished depending on size of loaves. I know using added yeast instead of soda or using it's natural Levin properties is kind of cheating but it will cut alot of time in waiting for a natural rise or a soda flavor type of bread. BUT it works well with with all of above and produces a very Delicious flavor of sour. Hope you might give it it a try. Santiago Graham
American Indians also made bread this way.. I have friends now, who still make it that way.
Thank you for the recipe and instructions, I will copy it and give it a try.
Your welcome HopesHope & Turtle. Let me know how it turns out for you. I also have a delishous chocolate cake formula I'll pass along that uses this same starter as the base, I'll share later if you are happy with Bread . Both formula's are my own, but I'm willing to share them as they really are tasty as well as very interesting. Good Luck to you!
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Weekend Cook and Tell: Cohorts in Comfort
Welcome to the Weekend Cook and Tell. Every Wednesday we make our way through the food sections of various national newspapers to create a weekend cooking project. We hope you will cook along with us and share your experiences, recipes, and photos here.
For many folks, the middle of February is when the charms of winter start to wear thin. The days are short, the weather is cold and spring seems to be nowhere in sight. This last stretch of winter is the time of year when many of us need a little extra comfort in our lives, especially in the kitchen.
M.E. Malone of The Boston Globe has undoubtedly been beaten down by the chilly weather and in dire need of some serious comfort food. In The Warmth of Comfort Food Malone rounds up favorite comfort foods from a diverse group of Bostonians. Favorites range from cottage pie to borscht, and even tuna casserole.
For this week's challenge we want to hear about what kinds of comfort foods are helping you weather the winter. Are you baking your blues away? Or perhaps braising to keep warm? Tell us all about your cold weather coping and cooking.
Show us your photos on Photograzing (make sure to include "Cook and Tell" in your submission title) and tell us about your recipes here! If you'd like to blog the experience, please leave a link in the comments below. We'll post a round-up of your photos and recipes next Wednesday with all of your most comforting dishes.


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This month I've witnessed an evolution of file infectors/viruses in manipulating system infection. The diagram below shows the development from the old malware file to its new structure:
Notice that unlike the "old" malware structure where all malware routines are contained in a single complete module, the PE file is now stripped into three parts, with propagation and download routines thrown in the picture.
This new infection routine starts with the "mother" file infector, which essentially contains the infection procedure. This part searches for executable files, where it then adds its code.
The infected files, in turn, contain the malware's download routine, as well as an encrypted text file. When decrypted, the said text file points to another URL from which it downloads the executable file (which is a split module of the mother file infector), thereby restarting the whole infection routine. Note that the use of encrypted text is done to create a static site where the malware author can modify the data and source URL, especially when the link is already detected by an Internet security or anti-malware product.
An example of malware using such a method is PE_LIJI.A-O (the mother file infector). Its infected files are detected as PE_LIJI.A, which, in turn, downloads malicious files detected as WORM_DROM.AI.
In addition, WORM_DROM.AI performs routines that can disable anti-malware products. It displays an error message upon the execution of the software, as shown below:
The LIJI-DROM tandem is yet another example of how threats are getting complex (routine-wise, to avoid immediate detection), how they are using the Web to leverage their malicious motives, and how "traditional" Internet security/Web blocking solutions is not enough.
Fortunately for customers, the security industry is evolving along with these threats — what with proactive and heuristic detection, and in the case of Trend Micro Web Reputation Services. Otherwise, the cleanup for this type of file infection will take NOT only three steps.


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Interview: Peter Bagge Pt. 4 [of 4]
Categories: Interviews
We wrap up our Peter Bagge MoCCA panel by discussing Libertarian in-fighting, Buddy Bradley condoms, and why you shouldn't care what Dan Clowes has to say about your licensing deals.
[Part One][Part Two][Part Three]
I assume that most of Hate's fanbase doesn't fall in line with you, politically. Is that a fair bet?
Yeah, of course.
Was this something that you were hesitant to speak about openly? Were you afraid of alienating people?
Maybe I should have been, but I didn't think about it too much. Because I've always been freely expressing myself. Maybe this is more overtly political—though not always. But everybody has different thoughts, so there's not a strict line of thinking when it comes to Libertarianism.
That's sort of the point of Libertarianism, right? No strict set of rules.
Yes. Well, some people try to enforce rules. There's a Libertarian party, and they try to come up with a platform. But that's why a lot of people who are Libertarian don't want to run for office under that ticket is that they don't agree with what's on that platform. People who read Reason disagree with me. Some of my best friends who are editors, who work for the magazine, they don't always agree with some conclusions that I come to, but they publish them anyway.
When did you begin to associate with that viewpoint?
Well, I always did. Even before I knew there was a word for it, I leaned that way. All my life, growing up and becoming more aware of people's political views, I would always be shocked that people didn't feel this way. I'd always have a hard time grasping why people didn't believe in freedom, to put it bluntly.
Did that viewpoint really manifest itself in your work? Can we see it Hate at all?
I never really thought I'd be doing this, but again the editors of this magazine, the contributors, they either sensed it from me or they picked it up from my comics. It came across in my work for Suck, and the editors there leaned that way, so it became an open secret amongst them. They never told me what angle or political viewpoint to take, but when they sent me somewhere, they felt confident that it would fall in line with the magazine's politics. And again, everyone who writes for Reason don't all fall in line. I'll never forget, a short while after I started working for them, I was shocked that a number of Reason editors actually supported us attacking Iraq. That just flabbergasted me. I was like, "how could you possibly be a Libertarian and be in favor of starting a war from scratch? And then they finally realized that they were wrong.
They read enough of your comics.
I remember, I was at a Libertarian event, and the science editor was on a book signing tour. A lot of people went out to lunch afterwards. These very young Libertarian guys were at the table and we were talking about the Iraq war, and they were asking me how I could be against it. I was like, "we're just starting a war against a sovereign country. And these young Libertarians who were in favor of the invasion, they said, "sovereignity is an abstract concept. It's not something that we have to adhere to, and I said, "okay, if that's true, then why is anybody upset over 9-11? Our country was invaded, but sovereignity is an abstract concept, so why can't Al-Qaeda blow us up whenever they want to? What's the big deal? Who cares? It's just an abstract rule that nobody has to adhere to." That stumped 'em.
We still have a little bit of time. I wanted to open up the conversation to audience questions.
Audience member: My memory is a little shot. Didn't you used to do The Bradleys for Punk Magazine?
Punk Magazine? No. Punk Magazine was the first punk fanzine. It came out in 1975.
Legs McNeil—
Yeah, Legs McNeil and John Holmstrom. John Holmstrom was the an editor and he was the one who did those Ramones covers. I loved Punk Magazine. It came out 75 to 79. I finally worked up the nerve to show them some of my comics. They loved it and they were going to publish some of it, but they went out of business. What happened was, they had a whole bunch of material to do one or two more issues.
And then there was a punk documentary movie called DOA that came out. Holmstrom was hired to do a magazine to go with it, so you could buy it when you went to go see this movie. And basically all he did was take all of the material from the issues that didn't come out, so it was Punk Magazine, but it just came out for the movie, so it was just this weird little standalone thing.
Audience member: I remember picking it up in '81.
What happened was me, Holmstrom and all of the other cartoonists from Punk did three years of a tabloid called Comical Funnies. And then, after that, I contributed to a magazine that that same crew did called Stop. Stop came out from '82 to '84 or something like that. It was the usual gang of idiots.
Audience member: How did your grotesque cartooning style evolve?
That was the type of cartooning style that always appealed to me. I loved everyone in Mad, but my favorite guy was Don Martin. I liked the more stylized, exaggerated drawing styles. I loved Al Jaffee, the way his arms and legs were a bit curly. And also, even though I never wanted to be an animort, I loved Bugs Bunny cartoons, especially the ones directed by Bob Clampett, where everything was super rubber and super exaggerated. So again, I didn't want to be an animator, but I wanted to drawn that way. And again, the garish faces, like Basil Wolverton and Big Daddy Roth.
When I was a kid, every time I'd see anything by Basil Wolverton or Big Daddy Roth, my own first response was revulsion. It was so disgusting. But then I couldn't stop looking at it.
And I'd hate it, but I'd buy it. So I was very influenced by them. It Becomes your own signature. People would tell me that they liked it. But then, of course, so many people hated it. So many people told me that they can't stand my drawing style. They hate the arms and legs. My drawing style has cost me a lot of work, too. But you can't please everybody.
If you go back to The Bradleys, you can see that you're well on the way to developing that style. Is there a point that you get to where you're settled. That you're drawing the way that you want to draw?
Yes. Especially when I was doing a comic called Neat Stuff, which I did all throughout the late 80s—it predated Hate. I kept experimenting with drawing style. You could always tell it was me. It would be super stylized where the bodies would be little and the heads would be big. Other times it would be my more generic style, which I even had back then. I'd experiment with cross hatching, zipitone. I had a relatively realistic style where I'd keep realistic proportions and give people elbows.
But what you're looking at now [A page from Hate Annual #9 on the screen], this generic style just works. I still will try to tweak my style sometimes, depending on the work, but this just seems to work. It's such an easy way to tell the story. My work has calmed down a bit as I've gotten older. People's heads don't explode quite as much as they used to. But sometimes I still feel like I'm going a bit overboard.
There aren't as many curly noses, either.
Yes, yes, and the huge sharp teeth. But now I always think of the story, and everything follows that. What's the most direct way to tell the story and not distract from it?
Audience member: What's the weirdest thing that's happened in your career, apart from the Grunge pencils?
Well, all through the last 10 years, my career has been full of false starts. I did a comic strip for two years for the now-defunct Weekly World News. That was very strange.
That was their idea. They said, "do you want to do a Bat Boy strip?" I'd never done a weekly strip, so I thought that would be a lot of fun—and it was. I did it for exactly two years. I didn't want to do it forever. And they were running out of money and didn't want to cut my page rate—it wasn't that great to begin with.
Related to the Grunge pencils, probably three years ago, the Buddy Bradley condoms came out.
Nobody bought those, amazingly.
Again, that was somebody else's idea.
You've just got boxes of pencils and condoms at home, don't you?
Before it went out of business, the Weekly World News had an actual comic section. It had my Bat Boy strip and it also had a big full-page drawing that Sergio Aragones did. I was at San Diego Comic Con, when that first came out. I just walked past him, I was going down a crowded aisle and he was signing autographs. I wasn't going to bother him, people were having him sign stuff, but he saw me as I was walking by, and he said, "Peter!" And I said, "yeah?" And he held up a copy of Weekly World News and he's point at it, because our strips were right next to each other, and he goes, in that thick Mexican accent, "we've both hit rock bottom."
I said, "yeah! Mission accomplished."
But at least you were in good company while you were there.
The most lucrative job I ever had, and it was so easy, was designing for or five 15 second ads for Round Table Pizza.
Are you clapping for the pizza or the ads?
They came out pretty good. And I added another floor to my house with my Round Table Pizza money.
I've seen Buddy and Lisa in animated ads from another country.
Greece. They licensed Buddy and Lisa to sell their new friends and family phone service, or something like that. That was really absurd.
For 10 years, I was just doing the most ridiculous stuff. I did a magazine ad for Toyota. You know those toddler toys where it has a big arrow and you point to a cow and pull the string? They came up with different people who would want to buy the new Toyota minivan for things like shopping, groceries, camping. It was the same thing, "pull the string to find out why you should buy the new Toyota family van." For just stupid money. Man, I wish those days would come back."
It seems like you were never too afraid to let the characters get out of your hands, if they were doing wireless ads in Greece.
Sure. Because why not?
I used to be a bit precious about it. There's a filmmaker, a really nice guy, but I can't stand his movies—he's really nice, that's why I won't name him. He asked me, all I had to do was take a cover of Hate and not change anything except the faces. He wanted me to change it into an ad for one of his movies where I'd replace the faces with actors from his movie. It was for fantastic money—would have been the easiest money I ever made, but I just didn't want to be associated with his movies that publicly.
I turned it down. It was really hard to turn down thousands of thousands of dollars for basically an afternoon's work—not even. But I just couldn't do it.
Now I'd probably do it.
That's just it. What difference does it make. Like Dan Clowes would have given me shit about it. But fuck him.
I just to worry about what my peers thought. That's a big mistake. Never worry about what your peers think, because then you always find out that they would have done it in a heartbeat.
If you take anything away from this conversation, it should be "fuck Dan Clowes."
Yeah. That's one.
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You couldn't get through the debate about health care reform without hearing about McAllen, Texas, which spent more per Medicare patient than any place in the country. New Yorker health scribe Atul Gawande even wrote a 2009 piece in which he went to McAllen and (anonymous) doctors told him why they were spending all that money.
But the numbers behind the vilification of McAllen, which came from landmark work by Dartmouth, looked at Medicare data only. It didn't tell us what was happening for patients covered by private insurers like UnitedHealth or Humana.
Well, the health care unit of Thomson Reuters just conducted exactly that experiment among people in employer-sponsored health plans, capturing data from 23.5 million Americans in 382 metropolitan statistical areas in 2009. Although it's not quite technically correct to do so, I'm calling these cities because saying "metropolitan statistical area" or "MSA" is jargony and annoying. You can read the whole report here.
|Ten Highest-Spending Cities For Private Health Care
|Anderson, IN
|Punta Gorda, FL
|Racine, WI
|Naples-Marco Island, FL
|Ocean City, NJ
|Barnstable Town, MA
|Flint, MI
|Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ
|Ocala, FL
|Carson City, NV
You'll notice that McAllen is nowhere on that list. But if you click through to the next page, you'll see that it does make a second list. People with employer-based insurance in McAllen don't get hit that hard...


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Rising Sun Schools Calculate New Math Requirement
By Mike Perleberg
(Rising Sun, Ind.) – Rising Sun-Ohio County Community Schools are subtracting from the amount of math credits a high school student must have to graduate.
The Board of School Trustees met Tuesday and voted unanimously to reduce the high school requirement of four years of math to just three years, says superintendent Branden Roeder. The change will go into effect starting in the 2015-2016 school year.
"We were above and beyond what we needed. The state says only three years of math is needed to be eligible for the Core 40," Roeder said.
College bound students will still be able to take four years of math if they desire.
Roeder said the school district is going to survey parents and students to learn exactly what math classes will be offered. He expects to deliver the survey results to the school board in December.
Relaxing the minimum math requirement to fall in line with many other school districts could aid in boosting Rising Sun High School's graduation rate.
In April, the Indiana Department of Education released 2013 graduation rate data for individual high schools across the state. It stated that Rising Sun High School's graduation rate was the lowest in the state at 65.5 percent, but Roeder says that the IDOE has admitted that the number was not correct. Rising Sun's true graduation rate for 2013 was in the 80 percent range, according to the superintendent.
Local HS Graduation Rates For 2013; Rising Sun Contends Status As State's Lowest


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NEW YORK (AP) -- Francesca's Holdings Corp. shares rose before Wednesday's opening bell after the women's accessories and clothing store chain announced better-than-expected fourth-quarter results and issued a strong outlook for the current quarter and full year.
For the quarter ended Feb. 2, the Houston-based company reported late Tuesday that its profit jumped 78 percent to $14.9 million, or 33 cents per share. Revenue increased 41 percent to $86.7 million.
Analysts, on average, expected a profit of 30 cents per share on $84.7 million in revenue, according to FactSet.
The company said that an extra week in the quarter compared with the prior-year period boosted its earnings by 3 cents per share and revenue by $3.9 million. Revenue at stores open at least a year increased 9.2 percent. The metric, which excluded the extra week in the quarter, is a key measure of a retailer's health, because it excludes sales at stores that recently opened or closed.
Francesca's projected a first-quarter profit of 25 cents or 26 cents per share on between $79.5 million and $80.5 million in revenue. The guidance assumes an increase in revenue at stores open at least a year of between 4 percent and 5 percent.
Analysts expect earnings of 26 cents per share on $78.4 million in revenue.
Janney Capital markets analyst Adrienne Tennant backed her "Buy" rating and $41 fair value estimate for the company, saying that it has some of the best growth prospects for this year.
Tennant noted that the company's prediction for revenue at stores open at least a year comes on top of a 15.5 percent increase in the year-ago period and despite bad weather conditions that have prompted other retailers to issue conservative sales outlooks.
For the full year, Francesca's said it expects earnings of $1.27 to $1.30 per share on $365 million to $370 million in revenue. Analysts expect a profit of $1.27 per share on $370.7 million in revenue.
In premarket trading, shares of Francesca's rose $1.12, or 4.2 percent, to $28.10.


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The girl, who had braces on her teeth, accidentally nicked the Girls Aloud singer as she embraced her.
Cheryl, 25, was then quickly escorted back into the Malmaison Hotel in Belfast by security.
'She was left shaken,' her rep tells The Sun. 'As a result the girls have been more cautious greeting fans.'
Meanwhile, Cheryl is reported to have been offered a £2.1million deal to commit to ITV.
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User - posted on 08/03/2012 ( 6 moms have responded )
my son loves being sung 2 , anyone know any lullabies cause i only know itsy bitsy spider & twinkle twinkle little star
User - posted on 08/03/2012 ( 6 moms have responded )
my son loves being sung 2 , anyone know any lullabies cause i only know itsy bitsy spider & twinkle twinkle little star
Sophia - posted on 11/20/2012
make up one just for him.... you know using his name..
Katie - posted on 09/06/2012
I sing anything- from nursery rhymes, to random songs, hymnns, even a list of stuff I probably should do! My son loves to hear me sing- and when I can't remember a song I make stuff up. My son absolutely adores our version of itsy bitsy spider (nothing like what its supposed to be).
The point is -just sing.
Lizzie - posted on 08/13/2012
I sing stay awake which was in the Mary poppins movie when she sings the children to sleep. I sing it to my now 3 year old since she was born.i now also have a 3 month old baby and every time I sing that song he calms down and listens ( I guess he heard it so many times in the womb it's soothing to him)
Robin - posted on 08/09/2012
I sing "Lullaby for Teddy" which really soothes him. The CD is A Childs Gift of Lullabies. It is quite unique and not your typical lullaby song. By r=the end of the song my son is usually asleep. There is a sample track at www.Lullabies.com
Chaya - posted on 08/04/2012
You can sing anything to him or make something up.
Anything Woody Guthrie, Carole King, Peter, Paul and Mary, is good, but if you wish to sing the sports section, or Blood, sweat, and tears is fine, if that's what you like.
Carole King sings a song about an honest lulaby, I don't thimk it's entirely appropriate for an infant, but to each their own.
Kimberly - posted on 08/04/2012
If you google Mother Goose nursery rthyms it gives you a huge list of songs that you can sing!!!! Rock a bye baby, Here is the sea, Ba Ba Black sheep, Mary had a little lamb are just some off the top of my head. You can also look in book stores for books that come with cd's of the songs as well as the book you can read at bed time!!! Check you local library too cause they could have programs for young babies and story time for tots as well. Music is a great thing for kids and is enjoyable when you see them get excited over certain songs!!!
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