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JPMorgan Chase Posts Record Profits
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — JPMorgan Chase reported record profits for the third quarter, with increased revenue in every business line.
New mortgages and refinancings were a key driver of overall results, but performance was also strong in commercial lending, investment banking, credit cards and auto loans.
"Importantly, we believe the housing market has turned the corner," CEO Jamie Dimon said in a written statement.
The bank did not reveal further information on the current size of its trading losses from the so-called London Whale — the massive bet made earlier this year in Europe that produced billions in losses. JPMorgan executives referred to a "modest loss" this quarter. While Dimon said that traders remain in "risk reduction mode," he noted that what's left of the trades could eventually make money for the bank. At the end of the second quarter, JPMorgan pegged the size of the London Whale loss at $5.8 billion. On a call with reporters, Dimon referred to talk of these losses as a "sideshow" during an otherwise stellar quarter.
Overall, Dimon and other JPMorgan executives painted a picture of an improving economy with core loan growth increasing 10%, and mortgage volumes up 29%.
Dimon said he expects origination of new mortgages to stay high over the next several quarters.
Impact of QE3: The Federal Reserve's latest round of stimulus — so-called QE3 — boosted mortgages this quarter, but Dimon said the Fed's low rate policy hurt other parts of the business. "The bottom line isn't related much to QE3 at all," said Dimon, noting that lower interest rates hit the banks profits in other ways.
Job cuts: The bank cut 3,000 jobs this quarter, but headcount overall is up 1% in the past year, to 47,412. Those cuts were largely related to cutting employees who helped service mortgage defaults. Dimon said headcount could come down slightly but largely from that segment of the bank.
European exposure: JPMorgan now has more exposure to Europe than last quarter, but Dimon said that came largely from the unwinding of short positions. The bank plans to continue doing business in Italy and Spain, Dimon said.
The numbers: Revenues increased to $25.9 billion in the third quarter, up 6% from last year's third quarter, and beating analysts' estimates of $24.5 billion. The company also beat expectations for profits: it reported $1.40 per share, above forecasts of $1.22.
The stock traded up 1.5% in pre-market trading. JPMorgan's shares have soared 26% this year. While the stock tumbled nearly 30% after the bank disclosed its massive trading loss on May 10, it has more than made up that ground.
Overall, bank stocks have outperformed the S&P 500, which is up 16% this year. This comes as most banks generated double digit losses in 2011.
Legal risks: JPMorgan declined to provide further information on any ongoing litigation related to LIBOR, the London Whale loss or the mortgage lending practices of Bear Stearns, which JPMorgan purchased during the financial crisis. The bank did tuck away an additional $684 million in reserves for future litigation expenses.
Management changes: Dimon also declined to comment on reports that CFO Doug Braunstein would be moved to another position at the bank or on any other changes to senior management. Dimon said the bank has a "deep bench."
By Maureen Farrell
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Insurance Sales Representative
- Employer
- Allstate
- Location
- Annapolis, MD
- Posted
- Aug 14, 2018
- Closes
- Aug 23, 2018
- Function
- Sales
- Industry
- Insurance
- Career Level
- Experienced (Non-Manager)
- Hours
- Full Time
Hiring an Insurance Sales Professional for a Local Allstate Agency Are you looking for a career with a local small business with the backing and support of a brand people recognize and trust? Working at a local Allstate agency may be your answer! This is not your typical sales job. As a Licensed Sales Professional, you will help grow the Allstate agency by engaging new prospects and building strong relationships with the community. You'll work as a member of a sales team focused on providing insurance and financial products that help customers protect their homes, cars, and retirement incomes, and live a good life. As a Licensed Sales Professional, you will apply insurance knowledge and sales skills to increase the customer's understanding of the value of insurance and cultivate long-term relationships as a trusted advisor. With more than 10,000 Allstate Agency Owners across the US, there are opportunities to start a career as a Licensed Sales Professional almost everywhere, including your hometown. If you have a passion for helping others and an interest in building your career with a local small business, this is the perfect opportunity for you! Job Responsibilities of a Licensed Sales Professional Be a team player to help grow the agency Achieve sales goals through leads and referrals Be organized and efficient Help protect customers by offering insurance and financial products that will meet their needs Conduct needs-based customer policy reviews and update coverage Ensure a positive customer experience Job Requirements of a Licensed Sales Professional Confident self-starter who works well independently Excellent verbal and written communication/interpersonal skills Maintain a positive and self-motivated attitude Sales experience is a plus Driven to fulfill customers' needs Must be willing to obtain insurance licenses; already possessing a license is a plus Bilingual candidates welcome

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Robi Karp is CEO of Fluffy Spider Technologies.
The Autonomous User Interface (AUI) is a revolutionary approach to UI design and implementation that goes beyond the custom themes, icon sets, and color schemes common on many mobile phones and other intelligent devices. Through scriptable, autonomous UI coding, AUI lets OEMs, developers, integrators, and other ecosystem participants completely control and customize the look-and-feel of the end-user experience.
With traditional design methodologies, application code "owns" the particulars of UI implementation, determining the type, orientation, placement, and other attributes of objects on the display (buttons, widgets, etc.), the flow of their use and the callback code that powers those elements. The attributes of a UI design are thereby set in the original design and are only minimally mutable downstream, by channel partners, third-parties and end-users. Some UI and application frameworks support theming -- customization of color schemes, menu text styles, window frames, widget sets, etc. However, the fundamental structure and flow of an application UI remains set in stone -- a closed box as imagined by the original design team.
On the other hand, the concept of an Autonomous User Interface lets application developers specify generic or abstract presentation of controls, widgets and even content, giving downstream developers the freedom to brand and customize. Benefits to this approach include:
- Letting developers bind custom functionality to individual UI elements with run-time scripting
- Supporting addition and/or removal any item from an application UI, including images, videos, and widgets, without changing any application code (i.e., with binary program images)
- Enabling existing applications to integrate reaction with new device events and capabilities, like shaking and orientation (accelerometer), location and movement (GPS), and definable data and network events (calendars, stock quotes, sports scores, wireless traffic, etc.)
- Letting integrators, operators and end users easily add new UI personalities at run-time without changing shrink-wrap application code
- Supporting transformation of UI elements, including buttons, controls, images and videos with 2D/3D graphics effects, to scale, reflect, rotate, alpha blend, shadow, etc. with minimum pre-load or post-load software development effort
Autonomous UI Architecture
Breaking out application and presentation code doesn't require radical rethinking of the core application design. Application code can still solicit input and generate output. It is still up to the application design team to determine how much control resides inside the application itself vs. the amount exposed to subsequent modification. But decoupling does require specific support from the underlying graphical and multimedia framework.
Key enablers of an autonomous UI include:
- Providing safe binding between underlying graphical system APIs and an external, open programming environment
- Exposing inventories of (public) application objects that implement UI functions
- Supporting a protocol between presentation code and the application for information exchange
It is also important to provide an open high-level API for developer use. The API is of course the main point of entry for developers, and also simplifies translation of information between the language bindings using the protocol. At Fluffy Spider Technologies, we chose C for building FancyPants (our high-performance multimedia and graphics platform for embedded applications) and for underlying libraries. For enabling Autonomous UI code, we bind to the Lua scripting language at a high level, taking advantage of Lua features and rapid prototyping capabilities.
Lua Scripting Language
Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.


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- Fill a metal bowl or Bundt pan with water; freeze overnight. Let defrost just long enough to loosen the ice from its mold. For added flair, use a floral-shaped Bundt pan or add fresh ingredients to the water before freezing. Try slices of pineapple and mint leaves for the Pineapple-Gin Punch , sliced citrus for the Green Tea and Citrus Whiskey Punch , pomegranate seeds for the Pomegranate-Champagne Punch , or grapefruit slices for the Bourbon Punch with Pink Grapefruit and Mint .


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LSU Equipment Managers: Staff
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Greg Stringfellow
Greg Stringfellow enters his 12th season as LSU's equipment manager after being elevated to the position in the spring of 2004. Stringfellow served as the interim equipment manager during LSU's National Championship season in 2003, stepping in for longtime equipment manager Jeff Boss, who passed away in the fall of 2003 after a lengthy battle with cancer.
Stringfellow, one of the many equipment managers who learned the trade under Boss, enters his 18th season overall with the Tigers. He previously served as a student assistant in the LSU equipment room for five years.
As a member of the equipment staff, Stringfellow is responsible for the ordering and maintaining of equipment and facilities for the LSU football team as well as LSU's 20 other sports.
Stringfellow lettered two years in football at McGill-Toolen High School in Mobile, Ala., before coming to LSU, where he earned a degree in construction management in 1997.
An avid golfer, Stringfellow is a member of the Athletic Equipment Managers Association and annually works the Senior Bowl in Mobile.
He is married to the former Ashley Mitnick, a former LSU soccer standout. The couple has four children, Sarah Elizabeth, Lily Grace, Harper and Blakely..
|Jeff Grigus
Assistant Equipment Manager
Jeff Grigus begins his sixth season as an assistant equipment manager with LSU in 2016-17. Grigus oversees the day-to-day operation of the Jeff Boss Equipment Room in Tiger Stadium, while also working directly with the sports of men's and women's basketball, track and field, volleyball, beach volleyball, and gymnastics. Grigus also manages LSU's letter award program for student-athletes.
|Louis Bourgeois
Assistant Equipment Manager
Houma, La. (Vandebilt Catholic)
Louis Bourgeois begins his sixth year as a full-time member of the LSU equipment staff in 2016-17. In addition to his duties with the LSU football team, Bourgeois is also responsible for overseeing the day-to-day equipment operations for LSU's tennis program, along with the cheerleaders and the Tiger band.
|Spencer Farley
Assistant Equipment Manager
Neosho, Mo.
Arkansas (2009)
Spencer Farley enters his fourth season at LSU in 2016 where he serves as an assistant equipment manager. Farley works with the LSU football team as well as overseeing the day-to-day equipment operations for LSU baseball, softball, soccer and swimming and diving.


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The coomassie® staining protocol described below is recommended for staining Novex® Gels. You may use any Coomassie® staining protocol of choice.
Materials supplied by user:
You will need following items for Coomassie® Blue Staining.
- SimplyBlue™ SafeStain
- Colloidal Blue Staining Kit
- Staining container
- Deionized water
- Orbital Shaker
- 0.1% Coomassie® R-250 in 40% ethanol and 10% acetic acid (if using Coomassie® R-250 Staining)
- Destaining Solution consisting of 10% ethanol and 7.5% acetic acid (if using Coomassie® R-250 Staining)
- Methanol
For general use with 1.0 mm and 1.5 mm Tris-Glycine gels, 1.0 mm Tricine, Zymogram, and IEF mini-gels (8 x 8 cm).
After electrophoresis follow the instructions below. Be sure the mini-gel moves freely in water or stain to facilitate diffusion during all steps.
After electrophoresis follow the instructions below. Be sure the mini-gel moves freely in water or stain to facilitate diffusion during all steps.
- Rinse the mini-gel 3 times for 5 minutes with 100 ml deionized water to remove SDS and buffer salts, which interfere with binding of the dye to the protein. Discard each rinse.
- Stain the mini-gel with enough SimplyBlue™ SafeStain (20-100 ml) to cover the gel. Stain for 1 hour at room temperature with gentle shaking. Bands will begin to develop within minutes. After incubation, discard the stain. Stain cannot be re-used. Note: Gel can be stained for up to 3 hours, but after 3 hours, sensitivity will decrease. If you need to leave the gel overnight in the stain, add 2 ml of 20% NaCl (w/v) in water for every 20 ml of stain. This procedure will not affect sensitivity.
- Wash the mini-gel with 100 ml of water for 1-3 hours. The gel can be left in the water for several days without loss of sensitivity. There is a small amount of dye in the water that is in equilibrium with the dye bound to the protein, so proteins will remain blue.
- To obtain the clearest background for photography, perform a second 1 hour wash with 100 ml water. Note: Sensitivity will now decrease if the gel is allowed to stay in the water more than 1 day. Reduction of free dye in the water favors dissociation of the dye from the protein. If you need to store the gel in water for a few days, add 20 ml of 20% NaCl.
- Prepare staining solution for a single gel as described in the table below. For two gels, double the volume of reagents used for staining. Be sure to shake Stainer B prior to making the solution.
- Incubate the gel in this staining solution as follows at room temperature with gentle shaking:
- Tris-Glycine, Tricine, and Zymogram Gels for a minimum of 3 hours and a maximum of 12 hours .
- IEF Gels for 30 minutes.
- Decant staining solution and add a minimum of 200 ml of deionized water per gel to the staining container. Gently shake gel in water for at least 7 hours. Gel will have a clear background after 7 hours in water.
Note: Novex® Gels can be left in deionized water for up to 3 days without significant change in band intensity and background clarity.
For long-term storage (over 3 days), keep the gel in a 20% ammonium sulfate solution at 4°C.
Tris-Glycine, Tricine
Deionized Water
55 ml
20 ml
Stainer B
5 ml
Stainer A
20 ml
- Prepare the staining solution containing 0.1% Coomassie® R-250 in 40% ethanol, 10% acetic acid.
- After electrophoresis, incubate 1 or 2 gels in a staining container containing 100 ml Coomassie® Blue R-250 staining solution. Caution: Use caution while performing the following steps using a microwave oven. Do not overheat the staining solutions.
- Loosely cover the staining container and heat in a microwave oven at full power for 1 minute. To prevent hazardous, flammable vapors from forming, do not allow the solution to boil.
- Remove the staining container from the microwave oven and gently shake the gel for 15 minutes at room temperature on an orbital shaker.
- Decant the stain and rinse the gel once with deionized water.
- Prepare a destain solution containing 10% ethanol and 7.5% acetic acid.
- Place one or two stained gels in a staining container containing the 100 ml destain solution.
- Loosely cover the staining container and heat in a microwave oven at full power for 1 minute.
- Gently shake the gel at room temperature on an orbital shaker until the desired background is achieved.


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The GLAMGLOW skin care collection was initially developed for use on television and film sets to give stars a way to pamper their complexions and keep them healthy. The GLAMGLOW skin care range contains a variety of rare, luxury ingredients sourced from remote locations all over the globe. The unique formulas found in the products make it possible to treat the skin to clinical-strength treatments without having to schedule an appointment at a pricy spa. Once sold exclusively to Hollywood's film and television elite, the GLAMGLOW treatment collection is now available for people everywhere and can help you appear red carpet ready wherever your day takes you.
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Despite its youth, GLAMGLOW has made a name for itself in the beauty industry. The brand launched in 2010 with a focus on its celebrity clientele. However, the company quickly expanded, making its products available to consumers nationwide just a year later in 2011. Named the Number One Beauty Obsession by Elle Magazine, GLAMGLOW has taken the world by storm and is now available in 52 countries across the globe and more than 2,000 retail stores. If your skin is due for a major transformation, GLAMGLOW has the products you need to enhance your overall look. Whether you want to address blemishes and breakouts, refine your complexion with an exfoliant, or promote a brighter overall complexion, GLAMGLOW can help.
If you aren't sure whether GLAMGLOW is right for you, consider the endorsements the brand has received from notable celebrities such as actress Natalie Portman, rocker Tommy Lee, and entertainer extraordinaire Ryan Seacrest. If GLAMGLOW is effective enough for some of Hollywood's biggest celebrities who stand in front of the cameras and walk the red carpet as a part of their job, it just might be right for you as well. You might not be able to afford star-quality treatment at Hollywood's exclusive salons and spas. However, you can enjoy equal skin-nourishing benefits thanks to GlamGlow products available at SkinStore. Give yourself a star-quality complexion with an affordable alternative to spa treatments. GlamGlow products fit well into your daily or weekly skin care routine, allowing you to discover your healthiest, most radiant skin yet. Find the right product for you today.
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In addition to just the sheer relaxation that comes from a facial mask session, the ingredients in GLAMGLOW Tingling Exfoliating Mud Mask add to your pleasure by the wonderful results. The skin is left bright and soft, with a smoother, tighter texture. These accomplishments are the result of the rich ingredients in the mask material, particularly the mineral-rich Montmorillonite (French mineral clay), volcanic particles and ash and kaolin, a refined, white clay. These absorb the excess oils on skin, without interfering the natural sebum levels. Their gentle exfoliating action also removes the old, dead skin cells and accumulated dust, dirt and impurities from the skin, unpacking clogged pores. In addition, the formula contains extracts of marigold (Calendula officinalis) flowers, ivy (Hedera helix) and chamomile flowers to promote the production of collagen and elastin cells, restoring a smooth, firm tone to the skin. Green tea extract, and actual particles of the leaves, are provided for their antioxidant benefits, as is grape seed oil, which also acts as an emollient. Use this mask just once or twice a week, or as often as you feel the desire, to achieve star-like skin quality.


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Thursday, August 29, 2013
Favorite Elmer's Glue Projects: Kid Friendly Art and Craft Projects, Tips, and Techniques
Affiliate Disclosure: Pink and Green Mama is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.
Here are some of our favorite Elmer's School Glue Projects!
Hope we inspire some sticky, crafty fun at your house or classroom.
Note: this post is NOT sponsored by Elmer's,
we just love their glue and it was my go-to brand of choice in my classroom when I was an art teacher.
* Whenever the kids are working with glue I like to remind them:
"Dot, dot, not a lot!"
* You can add a tiny bit of vaseline to the inside of a glue nozzle to keep it from gluing shut.
* Elmer's Glue school glue can be diluted with water and applied with a paint brush
or craft foam brush as a homemade Mod Podge.
* I like to stock up on Elmer's Glue during the "back to school" sales to save money!
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Labels: Create, Elmer's Glue, Preschool, School Age
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Little Passports: A Global Adventure Product Review #sponsored @littlepassports
Sponsored Post Disclosure: My family received products from Little Passports to write this review.
This post does contain affiliate links that help pay for the free lessons and crafts I provide on this blog.
As always, all opinions expressed are my own.
The girls and I love to create, play, and EXPLORE!
We were so excited when our friends at Little Passports offered to send us
our own Global Adventure pack to explore the globe.
We received our adorable little blue and green suitcase this week filled with
a map, passport, activity sheet, and a letter.
Labels: Educational Games, Explore, School Age, Sponsors
Friday, August 23, 2013
Do You Doodle While You Noodle? Pentel Pen Review #Sponsored #Pentel
Sponsored Post Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Pentel and contains links.
I received compensation from Pentel to write this review. As always, all opinions expressed are my own.
Do you doodle while you noodle?
I do. I always have.
All of my folders, notebooks, notepads,
and the edges of my handouts in school had doodles on them.
It helps me think.
Chewing gum seems to help me focus too - I figured that out while I write at my computer.
I have an easier time listening when I am drawing at the same time.
I was diagnosed with an auditory processing learning disability
in college and I always wondered if drawing (or chewing gum) at the same time
helps my brain focus on the listening that is has such a hard time with.
Labels: Back To School, Draw, Product Review, Sponsors
Monday, August 19, 2013
Get Organized For A New School Year!
Today I'm sharing some of my favorite posts about how we organize
the biggest trouble zones in our house:
School Papers, Toys, The Playroom Clutter, and Kid's Artwork.
One of my favorite posts and it gives you a tour of our home!
My labeled bin system for toys - works for non-readers, friends, and babysitters too!
Click here to learn about my system for
For more great ideas check out my
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Saturday, August 17, 2013
Ravensburger Mandala Designer Kit Review and Aquarelle Kit GIVEAWAY!
Sponsored Post Disclosure: I received compensation from Ravensburger to write this post.
All opinions expressed are my own and do not reflect those of Ravensburger.
My generous friends at Ravensburger
sent us some super FUN craft kits to play with this summer!
We spent many beautiful summer afternoons and mornings
decorating the driveway with colorful chalk and our Mandala Designer!
The plastic stencil was completely manageable for the girls.
"E" my 10 year old led the project and "C" my 6 year old was her assistant.
They worked together nicely and their Mandalas turned out beautifully!
The girls had fun embellishing the perimeter of each Mandala they made
and even made some free-form designs with a couple of our hoola-hoops!
Their final projects made our driveway very colorful and several neighbors
stopped by on walks to comment on their handy-work.
Ravensburger also sent us two of their beautiful Aquarelle liquid watercolor kits
to play with - we received a Dolphin set and a Fairy set.
"E" got to work right away mixing her color palette with the liquid watercolors from the kit.
It comes with a color mixing "recipe" sheet.
It brought back fun memories of one of our favorite food color-mixing activities
from when the girls were little. They loved mixing their own watercolors!
Each kit includes 4 pieces of heavy watercolor paper pre-printed with
the designs in raised white ink.
Reminds me of when I used to use embossing powder with my stamps!
The raised white lines show you where to paint and help keep the colors separate.
"C" my 6 year old enjoyed it at first, but quickly lost interest and got frustrated
by the small size of the pattern and handed me her painting to finish.
"C"s half-finished watercolor in progress.
Lots of tiny details make a beautiful finished project,
but may frustrate younger or impatient artists.
My oldest daughter, "E" (age 10) loves the Aquarelle kits
and has gone back to work on them several times.
She is a bit more patient (read: Type A personality) and enjoys tiny details!
She also loves watercolors so it was a perfect fit for her.
This is a great art activity for Tweens and Teenagers.
"E"s finished watercolor is below.
Pink and Green Mama,
Labels: Backyard Fun, Create, Draw, Giveaway, Invitation to Create, Markers, School Age, Sensory Box, Sponsors, Watercolors
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Head Back To School With DIY Personalized School Supplies and Gear!
FALL and Back to School -- It's my favorite time of the year!
The stores are full of new school supplies and it's time for kids to head back to the classroom.
I love new office supplies and this always feels like the start of a fresh, new year
to me (not that silly holiday called "New Year's Eve"!)
I love adding a personalized touch to store-bought goodies
and wanted to share a round up of some of our favorite projects from the past
to get those creative juices flowing and give you and your kids some
ideas for new ways to add a personalized twist to your back-to-school supplies and gear!
Wrap pencils or pens with a bit of washi tape to add some color
and stand out from the crowd!
and stand out from the crowd!
Makeover boring school supplies.
Give folders, notebooks, glue bottles, and even glue sticks a makeover
Add some store-bought or custom DIY Stickers to a boring composition notebook.
It's not so boring anymore!
It's not so boring anymore!
Makeover a boring/plain metal lunch box from the craft store with
Sharpies (permanent markers) or Washi Tape!
Make your own Shrinky Dink key chains to embellish backpacks and jacket zipper-pulls.
Labels: Back To School, Create, Markers, Permanent Marker, Rainbow, School Age, Washi Tape
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
DIY Texture Rubbing Plates With Elmer's Glue
Labels: Crayon Fun, Create, Elmer's Glue, Paper Crafts, Preschool, School Age
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Head Back to School with 5 Creative Ways to Personalize and Organize Your New School Year! #Michaelsbts
Sponsored Post Disclosure: I received compensation from Michaels craft stores to write this post.
All opinions expressed are my own and do not reflect those of Michaels craft stores.
Today, I'm sharing some fun ways to
kick off your most creative school year
with some help from craft supplies available at Michaels craft store.
First, I like to make sure we are well organized as we launch into the chaos of another school year!
I use Washi tape on my blogging calendar and on our household calendar
to write everything down and help it stand out.
I may be the only mom left in America that still has a family calendar
posted on the kitchen refrigerator but it works for my visual learning style
and everyone in the house knows where to look to see what's scheduled.
The great thing about Washi tape is that you can reposition it, you can
move things around your calendar and not have a bunch of yucky scratched out areas.
I use different colors for each activity and write on top of it with a black sharpie pen.
I picked up this Washi tape in the scrapbooking area at Michaels - I love the yellow chevron.
I also use Washi tape and black sharpie to label my file folder tabs.
The girls always like to add our own creative and personalized touches to basic school supplies.
Washi tape is a fun and easy way to do it. Remember this post from last year?
I shared how we used traditional Washi tape to embellish and personalize boring
file folders, glue bottles, glue sticks, pens and notebooks.
This year, we picked up this adorable package of GLITTER Washi tape at Michaels (scrapbook aisle)
and used it to bling out a basic (read: $1!) spiral notebook. We wrapped the whole cover
and hid the ends inside the front cover. The end result was super cute!
We even used a Michaels 40% off coupon on the glitter Washi tape pack --
Hooray for the Michaels in-store coupon phone app! I always use my phone for their coupons.
Just peel and stick the glitter tape.
Hide the ends on the inside cover.
You can even add these cute cardboard letters from the scrapbooking department
to your notebook for even more cute bling. I might have paid more attention in math class
if I'd had notebooks this cute when I was in school!
You'll have to add a bit of glue (I like Aleene's Tacky Glue) since the glitter is rough.
Goodbye Boring Notebooks and Folders.
Hello Cute, Creative, and Colorful!
Am I the only mom who doesn't like plastic-cover spiral notebooks?
They are impossible to label because stickers don't stick to them and pens don't write well on them.
Hooray for Chalk Paint Markers to the rescue!
We picked up a package of chalk paint markers in the craft paint aisle at Michaels and used them to
bling out boring plastic notebooks and folders.
My oldest daughter LOVES squids so she drew her own adorable squid on a plastic folder.
Helpful Hint: The markers will take a little while to dry (think 15-20 minutes) so be careful
while you are drawing and writing with them to not smear your hand through the wet areas!
Let them dry COMPLETELY before you stack them on each other.
If you make a mistake you can clean it off with a wet paper towel or some Windex on a paper towel.
My girls won't have lockers until middle school but I know plenty of you have middle school and high school aged kids who like to add their own touches to their lockers.
When I saw these plastic dinosaurs and mini picture frames in the $1 dollar bins
at Michaels I wanted to make this fun little project!
I started by cutting off the heads of the plastic dinosaurs (plus one hippo) with a craft utility knife.
Then, I cut the plastic "glass" out of these little frames
and snapped off the fold-out stands on the back of the frames.
I painted the cardboard black with acrylic craft paint - you could use any color.
Then, I used E600 glue to adhere magnets to the back of each frame.
This glue is stinky but it works like a charm!
After the magnets dried, I glued the dinosaur heads to each frame with more E600 glue.
The end result were these guys. I love them -- RAWR!
The girls are using them on their magnet boards in their rooms but I want to steal a couple
for our fridge. Wouldn't these be awesome in a locker?!
Speaking of lockers (or refrigerators) here's one more quick craft
we whipped up with our goodies from Michaels.
I saw these speech bubbles in the unfinished wood area at Michaels
and thought they would be cute with some black chalkboard paint.
Add some more magnets to the back with E600 glue and you have a fun way
to leave reminders for family members on a message board, fridge, or locker.
Just write on them with chalk or chalk paint markers.
Helpful Hint: Add at least two or three coats of chalkboard paint to the surface of the wood!
While we had the chalkboard paint out, I painted the cover of a composition notebook (3 coats.)
Just add chalkboard paint pen accents, scrapbook letters, or chalk when it's completely dry!
The girls and I had great fun coming up with creative new ways
to head into another great school year.
Michaels really IS where creativity happens for our house!
We do some of our best creative brainstorming there and have so much
fun with our awesome art and craft materials we buy there (always use those coupons!)
I hope this post inspires you to add some fun and creative touches
to your own back to school experience!
Pink and Green Mama,
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The errant and undisciplined ruminations of a Conservative public interest attorney, GOP activist, and father of two sons. Nothing herein should be confused with tolerance of folly, RINOs (Republicans In Name Only), sufferance of fools gladly, or endorsement of perversion.
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
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His war is on American/Christian/Western Culture. And he has declared himself the enemy.
It remains to be seen whether he is damaged more by his prior flip-flopping on the issue, or by his alignment with the radical homosexual agenda.
8 comments:
- Evan said...
Oh come on.
There is no intellectually serious argument against allowing gay marriage that doesn't rely upon forcing one's religious beliefs on others.
It's perfectly fine to believe being gay is a sin, just as it's perfectly fine to believe that drinking alcohol is a sin. In each instance no citizen should be compelled to engage in the "sinful" activity, nor should any citizen be precluded from engaging in the "sinful" activity. That's liberty - deal with it.
- Wed May 09, 06:27:00 PM EDT
- James Young said...
I published the later-submitted version of this comment, as I assume you made a correction. I trust this was your intent.
"No intellectually serious argument against allowing gay marriage that doesn't rely upon forcing one's religious beliefs on others." What are you on? No civilized society in 5000 years has held that "marriage" could be between members of the same sex.
And there is no such thing as "being gay." It's a choice, and one that society is entitled to condemn. It is certainly not behavior that society is required to endorse and affirm.
And no one is talking about precluding that particular activity. This debate isn't about that at all. The Fourth Amendment protects the ability to engage in deviant sexual activity in private. But some deviants are not satisfied with mere tolerance. It's about whether society accepts it.
Whatever else this is about, it's not about "liberty." It's about license.
- Wed May 09, 06:53:00 PM EDT
- Evan said...
Sorry, it's difficult to tell if my comment has been submitted or I've failed the captcha.
Even if being gay is a choice (a position I disagree with, but I'll grant for argument's sake), it's a choice undertaken by consenting adults.
As with my alcohol example, many faiths prohibit consumption of alcohol, but the state still licenses establishments to sell liquor and, here in Va, sells it itself.
I fail to see a good public policy reason to forbid gays the right to marry. Those states that have permitted it have been done no harm (in fact, marriage is arguably healthiest in the northeast), and those people affected are happier for it.
As for the "no civilized society in 5000 years" argument, I'd say two things. First, marriage has undergone significant transformations over those 5000 years. Second, who cares? What is the harm done by expanding this category?
- Thu May 10, 10:32:00 AM EDT
- James Young said...
No apology necessary. I was hit with a bout of spam a few years back, and had no choice but to impose some form of security. I just want to make sure that you're intended words are getting there.
Words matter. Like your repetition of the phrase "being gay." Like the word "gay," for that matter.
As for the choice issue, I've conceded, the Fourth Amendment protects homosexuals' practice of their bad choices. You (and other advocates for the radical homosexual agenda) have offered up no good reason why society should validate and affirm them by redefining marriage to mean something it's never meant (and whatever it has been, it has NEVER been between members of the same sex).
Your lack of humility in light of civilized human experience is appalling.
Just because you fail to acknowledge the good and sufficient reasons for discrimination between and among certain relationships does not mean that each is as valid as another.
- Thu May 10, 10:43:00 AM EDT
- Evan said...
I'm not sure it's a lack of humility so much as it's simply a pragmatic attempt to more fully guarantee the pursuit of happiness for all Americans.
Put straightforwardly, grammarian and historical objections aside, what is the actual harm that would come to anyone if gay marriage were to be legalized?
- Thu May 10, 07:43:00 PM EDT
- James Young said...
Yeah. Pragmatic. Right. The word that the far Left uses to camouflage its agenda.
What harm? It mainstreams sexual deviancy. And be forewarned: insults and belittlement do NOT get published. Choose any rejoinder carefully.
- Thu May 10, 09:25:00 PM EDT
- Evan said...
I apologize if anything I wrote gave the appearance of being insulting or belittling - while I disagree strongly with your position, I respect your desire and willingness to engage in civil debate.
I think we've reached the crux of our disagreement. I also agree that legal gay marriage would mainstream the behavior you term deviant. I have no issue with that, and you do.
I'd suggest that it might not be the role of government to determine what consensual "deviances" are to be mainstream and which aren't.
- Fri May 11, 10:02:00 AM EDT
- James Young said...
To be clear, you didn't. Having engaged this debate with others over the last few days, however, I wrongly anticipated that you might do so. I commend you for refraining from doing so.
"I'd suggest that it might not be the role of government to determine what consensual 'deviances' are to be mainstream and which aren't."
Possibly. However, if that is the case, then redefining marriage to do so fails your appropriate "role of government" test. No one is talking about PRECLUDING consensual deviances --- that bridge was crossed years ago, and the Fourth Amendment protects and always protected the private practices of deviance --- what is at issue here is the demand for PUBLIC AFFIRMATION of them.
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"A Republican congressman ............ the lead Republican on the House Intelligence Committee"
That was all you had to write.
By the way, it's 'Michigan'.
A Republican congressman has urged the US to unleash a retaliatory cyber-attack against North Korea over DDoS attacks supposedly launched against US and South Korean websites. Congressman Peter Hoekstra of Michagan, the lead Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, urged President Obama to mount a "show of force" …
1. There needs to be an organization to co-ordinate ISP responses and isolate hacked computers from the internet.
2. The defence intelligence community is doing all the monitoring it needs to to locate the bot net controllers. If the defence intelligence community is going to actively violating our right to privacy, then please give us some value in return.
Let law enforcement use the digested results of that monitoring to track down the bot net controllers.
3. If a bot net is controlled by people in a totally non-cooperative country, disconnect that country from the internet.
Peter "only 12 years" Hoekstra is a marketer, and a documented liar. This call for reprisals is nothing more than an advertisement for his upcoming run for Governor of the State of Michigan. Try not to give him (and other mediocre politicos like him) any more press, mkay? We're having enough of a hard time digging out of the mess the Bush administration left us in. Ta.
North Korea's cyber-attack (assuming it is NK) is just like their nuclear weapons and their rockets. They kinda almost work, only to fizzle, fall into the sea, or mildly annoy some federal webmasters on their july 4th vacation. North Korea are like scary clowns stuffed into a car, threatening a drive-by shooting. You don't know whether to laugh or be afraid.
I think I shall continue to laugh until NK manage something more like an actual missile, or actual nuclear blast, or cyber-attack that actually takes something important off-line. If NK ever get to that level of scary, then I vote we unleash all the Republicans at once. The resulting threat-storm should surely cause even scary clowns to cry. If not, well, it's not 1953 anymore. Even the Russians and Chinese find NK a pain. The next war will be far more one-sided.
Iran is way scarrier, if only because they're closer. Same problem with being clowns though.
It's embarrassing. My parents' generation had enemies (Russians, Chinese) that were actually scary. How am I going to hold up my head when old dad whines, "In my day..."
I remember Steve Gibson's site (GRC.com) getting hammered by some skiddie or other, and also CastleCops suffered similar things (whilst I was staff editor there too) - they survived because they knew what they were talking about and took proper action to reduce the effects. Then at least in the case of CastleCops they took legal action against the perp and won. All very calmly and in an orderly, legal fashion.
But that's not what the politicos go for - drum-beating all the way to the ballot-box.
Of course there's no mileage in admitting that the defences of the affected sites was a bit on the lame side - so shout out about this new form of WMD like it'll hide the weak stuff by diverting all that national fervour elsewhere. Always an election-winner, isn't it?
I happen to know a decent amount about these, and I know it was not North Korea or any other similar tinpot dictatorship. It was a fairly normal botnet attack, without any particular reason. As someone said, if they manage to troll America into destroying North Korea, they win at life. No political agenda, no North Korean government sponsored attack.
/double checks anon. Don't want those black helicopters over here thank you.
Yeah, the US should unleash cyber hell on North Korea... hey, if they put all ships on the table, the mighty merkin cyberfarfarers might even be able to bring down a whole chunk of the network for a couple hours! (only it will be *their* network of course). That is, if a slightly autistic dreamer or another is not looking for alien info in their mighty secure systems at this time, paralyzing them completely.
"old school time bomb"
Shhhht! No-one tells the CIA, they might realize that their shiny new cyberwarfare tool is crap!
I'll try again, seems my first attempt failed to pass the mods for some reason.
ANYway, Peter Hoekstra is a documented liar, and a manager, with no knowledge of technology. This latest spiel of his is just an in-advance advert for his coming attempt to become the Governor of Michigan.
Think about it ... "I tried to get the bastards bastards before they launched ..."
Remember, this is the idiot who first claimed that large quantities of "weapons of mass destruction" had been found in Iraq. He's a political huckster of the first water. Please try not to give him (and his ilk) anymore ad space. Ta.
What is it that has some Americans in a permanent state of wanting to go and kick shit out of their "ideological enemies" at the drop of a hat and on the flimsiest pretexts ? Always eager to project American power in the style of an arrogant bully; burning torch and lynch rope at the ready.
There's something seriously fucked-up with the American psyche. Not surprising many consider the USA to be the world's number one rogue nation and a danger to all of us.
"if they manage to troll America into destroying North Korea, they win at life"
Maybe it's some kids that have got bored with calling in SWAT teams on random strangers and want to try SWATting a whole country?
"just block there entire country from accessing the Web"
Really bad idea. "The USA owns the Internet and can cut off anyone who annoys us" is not going to make them popular.
"Americans in a permanent state of wanting to go and kick shit out of their "ideological enemies""
A note in a New Scientist article on "The End of War" (4th July issue) says "human societies ... also behave much more aggressively toward rival groups if they are confident they can prevail".
The USA has overwhelming military force, so they don't have anything to restrain them from attacking anyone who they don't like, or who happens to have some oil, or who doesn't grovellingly support them. And it's likely to get worse when they can send in military robots. There's no dead US troops for their voters to complain about, and there's no restraint on what they shoot. Someone playing video games in a base back in the US doesn't care anything like as much that the building he's blasting may be a school rather than a military target.


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I wrote a rough prototype of the patch, that had a number of ideas, and proved the viability of the approach. Principal among those ideas was specialisation of the quicksort code: Formatting the code such that the compiler had compile-time knowledge of functions, with inlining used as an enabling optimisation, and a few variations produced. So rather than using complex indirection involving function pointers, a macro infrastructure was used to generate multiple specialisations, allowing the compiler to optimise the code more effectively as a result of being able to integrate everything.
A secondary problem was that comparators (i.e. the comparison functions that all sorting within Postgres currently needs) were accessed in a round-about away.
Roughly speaking, tuplesort (the part of the code that deals with sorting tuples, perhaps as part of a query's execution, or perhaps as the first step in creating a new index) is very generic code. Code very similar to the C standard library's qsort() is used directly in 9.1 - our particular implementation was lifted from NetBSD, as it happens. This qsort function is passed a function pointer. That function pointer pointed to a "tupleclass encapsulating comparator" (i.e. the comparator differs for "heap" (table) tuples and index tuples). This comparator in turn calls the "comparator proper" for each and every sortkey (i.e. ORDER BY column) to be sorted. The indirection doesn't stop there though.
Postgres comparators ("comparator propers" - the actual, datatype specific functions that Postgres uses for sorting) can be called from SQL. While they are written in C in the case of all built-in types, in 9.1, we still accessed the comparators through the SQL function call machinery, rather than a direct function call (or function call through a function pointer). This isn't ordinarily a big deal - we do use this in some other performance critical codepaths, such as the index access method code - PostgreSQL doesn't know anything about indexes other than what this "abstract interface" tells it, even when interacting with btree indexes. In this way, a module author can define a whole new index type (I don't just mean implementing a new indexing scheme based on GiST/GIN - I mean a whole new index type). Though not a big deal there, in a tight, frequently executed loop, repeatedly calling a comparison that is essentially just one or two CPU instructions, the overhead of this fmgr trampoline can start to matter a lot.
Tom Lane and Robert Haas fixed this problem. My work inspired their development of the SortSupport infrastructure as a first phase/patch towards realising the full potential of these ideas; this is essentially just a way of facilitating datatype authors in providing alternative versions of comparators that can be accessed more directly, through function pointers. Owing to the fact that Postgres has a long tradition of being highly extensible, it was necessary to generalise this entirely, so that even third party module authors could use the infrastructure. It was likely to only be immediately useful for a few built-in datatypes like floats and integers, but it's hard to predict how people may choose to use this - there was some talk of novel applications of sortSupport.
In the latter phase, we worked on producing the actual specialisations of the sort code. For heap tuples, we specialise on single sort keys and multiple sort keys, producing variant quicksort code for each. The "tupleclass encapsulating comparator" (the comparator for heap tuples in this case) is inlined. This is actually the more valuable of the two optimisations, counter-intuitive though that is.
Why should simple inlining make such a large difference? Inlining certainly isn't just about eliminating the function call overhead (though there is that too); in fact, it's generally much more important as an enabling transformation. Inlining may enable loop-invariant code motion, dead code elimination, or induction variable elimination. As a broad principle, the more the compiler knows, the greater leeway it has to apply its optimisations. These optimisations are not to be sniffed at - for quicksorting, a simple, isolated test case can show sorting 2.5 - 3 times faster when inlining of comparators occurs, rather than accessing comparators through function pointers (this indirection is necessary to support the interface of the C standard library's qsort())
Just to see where things stand after all of this, I performed this benchmark, where we measure the transactions per second after 45 seconds of executing the same simple ORDER BY query as many times as possible within a single session. I do this both with and without client overhead to see how important a factor that is (basically, no tuples are actually returned when we don't measure the overhead, and yet the underlying execution costs are the same - we do this by appending "OFFSET 10001" to the query).
[peter@peterlaptop tests]$ # no client overhead, 9.1: [peter@peterlaptop tests]$ pgbench -f sort_no.sql -T 45 starting vacuum...end. transaction type: Custom query scaling factor: 1 query mode: simple number of clients: 1 number of threads: 1 duration: 45 s number of transactions actually processed: 12159 tps = 270.180571 (including connections establishing) tps = 270.205386 (excluding connections establishing) [peter@peterlaptop tests]$ # no client overhead, 9.2: [peter@peterlaptop tests]$ pgbench -f sort_no.sql -T 10 starting vacuum...end. transaction type: Custom query scaling factor: 1 query mode: simple number of clients: 1 number of threads: 1 duration: 10 s number of transactions actually processed: 3687 tps = 368.683077 (including connections establishing) tps = 368.890864 (excluding connections establishing) [peter@peterlaptop tests]$ # client overhead, 9.1: [peter@peterlaptop tests]$ pgbench -f sort_o.sql -T 45 starting vacuum...end. transaction type: Custom query scaling factor: 1 query mode: simple number of clients: 1 number of threads: 1 duration: 45 s number of transactions actually processed: 7304 tps = 162.301377 (including connections establishing) tps = 162.316128 (excluding connections establishing) [peter@peterlaptop tests]$ # client overhead, 9.2: [peter@peterlaptop tests]$ pgbench -f sort_o.sql -T 45 starting vacuum...end. transaction type: Custom query scaling factor: 1 query mode: simple number of clients: 1 number of threads: 1 duration: 45 s number of transactions actually processed: 8977 tps = 199.470582 (including connections establishing) tps = 199.494630 (excluding connections establishing)
Boiling that down further:
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To quote Linus Torvalds, "To some degree people say that you should not micro-optimise, but if you love micro-optimisation, that's what you should do". I don't know that I love micro-optimisation, but it can certainly be well worthwhile to perform re-jiggering, or specialisation, or lowering of cache miss rates, at least in the case of an important infrastructure project's innermost loops.
I was happy that I was ultimately able to overcome objections about the possible distributed costs of creating specialisations - this can result in "binary bloat". Each specialisation needs to independently justify the resulting increase in object file size. In general it's very difficult to argue that the trade-off represented by any particular specialisation is generally worth it. There was a protracted discussion of the merits of doing all of this. That was the factor that made it stick out in people's minds, I suspect.


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Crown Asset Management (Cam), the entity set up to handle assets from failed finance companies backed by the Government's deposit guarantee, will take up what is left of Hanover and United Finance property assets from Allied Farmers.
The deal sees Cam take the assets on to its accounts at their $13.5 million book value and pay $385,433 owed to a trading bank which had a claim on sections at Jacks Pt in Queenstown, according to a statement to the NZX.
The transaction will satisfy $13.1 million of the $18.7 million owed to the Crown agency, and any proceeds from the Jacks Pt sale will go towards paying down the rest of the debt.
Allied Farmers was selling off most of its assets to repay debt, and Cam had indicated it might offer more significant funding support when those were sold, the Hawera-based company said.
NZX Market Supervision granted Allied Farmers a waiver from having to seek shareholder approval as the size of the transaction exceeded more than half the stock's market capitalisation.
"If the funding facility was not provided the directors would need to seriously consider whether ALF could continue to trade, in which case significant value would be lost for shareholders, creditors and other stakeholders," Allied Farmers said in its submission to the regulator.
The property assets came as part of its disastrous acquisition of the assets of the failed Hanover and United Finance companies.
The Hanover and United deal was valued at $394 million when the assets were acquired in a debt-for-equity swap at the end of 2009.
In the latest accounts, the assets of Allied Farmers' Asset Management Services unit, where the former finance company assets are held, were valued at $22.4 million, down from about $37 million a year earlier.
Allied Farmers said it had unsuccessfully tried to sell the Jacks Pt sections, with buyers demanding a significant discount. The deal will let the blocks be sold in a gradual way over the next two to three years.
Cam ended up with the debt because of a related party loan between Allied Farmers and its failed finance unit. The Crown agency does not hold security over Allied Farmers' NZ Farmers Livestock joint venture, whose assets have been ring-fenced.
Allied Farmers shares closed up 16 per cent yesterday at 2.9c.


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FRIDAY, Nov. 4, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- A gene variation associated with an increased risk of autism in boys has been identified by scientists.
Boys are three to four times more likely than girls to be affected by autism.
In this study, U.S. researchers analyzed genomic data from more than 3,000 children with autism and their family members, as well as children without autism.
The results showed a link between a variation in the gene for transducin beta-like 1X-linked (TBL1X) and an increased risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in boys. TBL1X is part of the Wnt-signaling pathway involved in the system that controls embryonic neurological development and the maintenance of brain function in adults.
The study is published in the Nov. 3 online edition of the journal Molecular Autism.
"The [variation] in TBL1X is associated with an increase in risk for ASD of about 15 percent. This could reflect either an unidentified rare mutation (or mutations), which has large impact, or a more common change with a more subtle effect, on the development of ASD," study leader Eden Martin, of the Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, said in a journal news release.
"Further study of TBL1X will help us to pinpoint the DNA changes involved and help us to understand exactly how these changes and the Wnt-signaling pathway is involved in ASD," Martin added.
Autism affects about one in 110 children and can cause problems in language, communication and understanding other people's emotional cues.
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The U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has more about autism.


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The Atomic BCT pole is a seriously versatile all-rounder for backcountry touring.It's telescopic so you can adjust the length, and the shaft is made from an aluminum alloy developed to be as lightweight as it is durable. We've also wrapped the upper shaft in foam so when you're climbing you can grip the ski pole lower down. It then has an 85mm Powder Basket, plus a Carbide tip to protect against rocks and trees.


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Q: Who is your choice for the Heat to sign as a free agent? Caron Butler knows Dwyane Wade very well and has a great work ethic, and probably would accept minor minutes. Danny Granger, even if he doesn't play, could give up Pacers' secrets. And Metta World Peace doesn't play like Ron Artest anymore. -- Martin.
A: First of all, of the three you mentioned, only World Peace currently is on the market, and, to be candid, with good reason. As you mention, he hasn't been the same player for years. As far as Butler and Granger, I might lean toward Butler, only because of the deep and enduring affection he has for the organization. But neither Butler nor Granger currently are available. I think what you might see is the Heat sign a player to a 10-day contract, and then survey the full field of those available. Remember, a player has to be waived by March 1 to be playoff eligible, but can be signed any time thereafter and still have playoff eligibility elsewhere.
Q: The Heat have the same record as they did last year at this mark, better than two of the previous three seasons, and only three out of our next 12 games are against teams with winning records (Spurs once and Rockets twice). All of this while the Pacers have pushed the hardest they ever have and Miami was on cruise control with health and rotation issues. -- Julio.
A: Got to be pretty discouraging to the Pacers, doesn't it?
Q: LeBron James losing out on Player of the Week doesn't matter. LeBron doesn't need to be reminded every week of the kind of player he is. He already is the best player in the world. -- Rafael.
A: Fine, but to have not won it since the first week of December, with no Heat player winning this calendar year? It's not Player of the Week, it's the NBA's let's-get-the-name-of-another-player-out-there weekly honor. Again, since LeBron won Eastern Conference Player of the Week on Dec. 2, among the winners amid LeBron's absence have been Thaddeus Young, Jared Sullinger and now Kemba Walker. Really? The save grace: Later this week LeBron will be named Player of the Month for February, with Erik Spoelstra Eastern Conference Coach of the Month for February.


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KITT makes an appearance at CES 2009View gallery - 15 images
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January 10, 2009 Mio needed a little help promoting their Knight Rider GPS at CES 2009, and we can't complain about their choice of KITT - it's certainly holding up a lot better than David Hasslehoff. Whether you're a fan of the TV show or not, you'd be hard pressed to convince any of the team at Gizmag that this isn't a gorgeous machine. Having said that, two things disappointed us - the fact that no-one was keeping it clean, and the fact that we weren't allowed to jump in the driver's seat! Don't miss the gallery.
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Belle & Sebastian announced for Electric Picnic 2015
Announcements, News, etc from the good people of the Electric Picnic - Lineup announcements, festival details etc
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We are very excited to tell you that the incredible Belle & Sebastian will be at Electric Picnic in September 2015. Playing the Heineken Electric Arena, they will be headlining the stage on Friday.
The band, fronted by Stuart Murdoch, paint intricate pictures with their music; personal and nuanced, every listen reveals another layer of both their history and future.
Their ninth studio offering 'Girls in Peacetime Want To Dance' due for release on January 19th is available to pre-order now.
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The Herpetology Collection is a state-supported facility that is part of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture located on the University of Washington (UW) campus in Seattle.
Herpetology Collection staff and resources play an important role in undergraduate and graduate education within the UW's College of Arts and Sciences, and especially the Biology Department. We also provide a variety of tours for other interested parties and field inquiries about reptiles and amphibians.


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The Vermont Historical Society made its sixth home on the first floor of the state office building located at 133 State Street, on the west side of the State House green. The building had been constructed for the National Life Insurance Company and vacated when the insurance company built a new headquarters building on a hill overlooking Montpelier. The VHS occupied this cramped space from 1960 until 1971.
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I chose this infographic and article from Blackbaud because it helps you go from social media to social business. It was written for non-profits but it definitely applies to any business as well.
By understanding how to evaluate people by their degree of influence and their ability to help change behavior in others can be invaluable to you and your organization.
**It's also important to use this information to understand how you and your organization fit into this mix. They say knowledge is power, once you have a clearer picture, you can shift what you're doing and take your business or cause to the next level for greater results.
"Understanding the Value of Your Social Media Influencers: How to Identify and Empower Those Who Can Engage an Entire Community!
(Download the White Paper Today!)"
Here are some highlights:
**Learn how to use the information your consitiuents are sharing to attract more people to your mission, campaign.
**Learn how to analyze your database and assign social scores to engagers that represents their ability to interact with and influence others across their online networks
**Based on the social score you assign to these individuals, you can then segment them into one of four categories, each of which plays a diferent role on social networks, relevant to your business
Here are the categories:
Key Influencers - They have a powerful impact not only the people they know but also others they don't know. Their posts are widely spread and shared by more people than many other people
Engagers - These people have well-established social networks and are strong influencers of people they know personally
Multichannel Consumers - They enjoy keeping up with social media conent and occasionally participate. Their influence is not a dominent part of their persona
Standard Consumers These engagers read and watc updates more than they create new content or make comments. They are more influenced by family and friends.
Selected by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"
Read article and see infographic here: [http://bit.ly/N4a2Km]
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The Samsung Hope Relay app for Android, iPhone and Samsung Wave phones allows users to record a distance they travel and will translate each mile into £1, which the Korean company will donate to charity. You can run, walk, cycle or wheel yourself along - as long as you don't go over 25 miles per hour, it will be registered.
Alternatively, you can do what adventurer and Samsung Ambassador Kenton Cool has done to record his first mile: vertically... up Mount Everest.
Armed with a Samsung Galaxy Note with the app pre-loaded (there's not that many internet cafés on the slopes of Everest, surprisingly), Cool plans to climb to the peak of the mountain and will document his progress using the phone, including some exclusive pictures he sent Pocket-lint yesterday (23 May).
He has also made a documentary video of his first Samsung Hope Relay mile, which we also present to you exclusively. He's faced some extreme weather conditions on the way, and you can see in the clip that his mile could well be one of the hardest faced.
The Samsung Hope Relay is active in the UK now and will end on 12 August. It will also be available in a further 17 countries soon. All monies raised will be distributed to charities including the London-based Kids Company, London 2012's international sports legacy programme, International Inspiration and an IOC-designated charity.
To find out more, check out Samsung's dedicated webpage or download the app from Google Play (for Android), iTunes (iOS) or Samsung Apps (Wave, Wave II and Wave 3). It's free and you can even help donate even when going to work.
How have you recorded your Samsung Hope Relay? Let us know in the comments below...


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Oct. 28, 2005
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -
The No. 14 Gauchos (10-12, 0-3) scored eleven goals, netted by eight different players, to knock off Cal Baptist 11-5 on Friday afternoon at Campus Pool on the campus of UCSB.
The No. 14 Gauchos scored eleven goals, netted by eight different players, to knock off Cal Baptist 11-5 on Friday afternoon at Campus Pool on the campus of UCSB.
Neither squad managed to find the back of the net in the first quarter, but Lancer goalkeeper Jon Miller did tally five saves in the opening period. The second quarter proved much different for both teams when the Gauchos posted three goals to Cal Baptist's two. Senior driver Ramiro Saldain netted the first Gaucho goal when he scored in the first minute of the second quarter. The Lancers quickly bounced back to even the score at one when Charlie Weaver netted his only goal on the match. The Gauchos and Lancers traded scores once again in the period before freshman Chris Lantz gave UCSB a 3-2 halftime lead with his only score on the day.
UCSB carried the momentum into the third quarter when it tallied three more goals and didn't give one up in return. Robbie Bauer became the first Gaucho to score in the third when he found the cage within the first minute of play. Leading goal scorer and sophomore Coulson Lantz also managed to score his first of two goals on the match in the third period. Sophomore driver Matt Tilburg scored the third and final goal of the period to give the Gauchos a 6-2 lead headed into the final period. UCSB added to its lead in the fourth by outscoring the Lancers 5-3. Two-meter defender Marc Morimoto netted his first goal of the season with 4:33 to play in the match. After another Lancer goal, Travis Watts and Coulson Lantz each scored for the Gauchos. Following John Olds' second goal for Cal Baptist, Gauchos Brett DeMuth and Tilburg each netted their second of the afternoon. Brandon Jung tallied the last goal in the match when he scored with eight seconds left to make the score 11-5 in favor of UCSB.
Sophomore goalkeeper Rick Wright tallied four saves in the first half of play. Sophomore James Street posted three saves in the third quarter, and senior Jon Bonafede earned three saves in the fourth quarter.
Following the match, Gaucho Head Coach Wolf Wigo said "The whole team played very well, and to be able to come out and defeat a team that [the Gauchos] beat by a single goal earlier in the season by six goals shows that the team is improving...[Cal Baptist] has gotten better over the season, but [the Gauchos] have also improved a great deal."
The Gauchos return to action this Sunday when they play host to Chapman at 10 am and Occidental College at 2 pm at Campus Pool.
Team 1 2 3 4 Total UC Santa Barbara 0 3 3 5 11 Cal Baptist 0 2 0 3 5 Scoring UC Santa Barbara goals: Bret DeMuth-2, Coulson Lantz-2, Matt Tilburg-2, Chris Lantz-1, Robbie Bauer-1, Marc Morimoto-1, Ramiro Saldain-1, Travis Watts-1 Cal Baptist goals: John Olds-2, Charlie Weaver-1, Mike Looy-1, Brandon Jung-1 Goalie Saves UC Santa Barbara: Rick Wright-4, James Street-3, Jon Bonafede-3 Cal Baptist: Jon Miller-6


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In Search of the Perfect Person for Won-Won
Jun 26, 2007
Previously we told you there was to be an open casting call in the coming weeks for the roles of young Tom Riddle as well as Lavender Brown for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film. MTV now has an article online quoting director David Yates about his quest to cast the perfect person to play Lavender Brown, the girl who will capture WON-WON's fancy in the sixth Harry Potter film. The director has a test in mind, and it involves…snogging.
"You know what I'm going to do?" Yates said. "I never did this before, but I'm going to get Rupert together with the top five Lavenders, get him to come and read with them and snog with them. It's a chemical thing, and you want to feel that chemistry between them. That will help me decide."
"Really?" Grint asked " since this was news to him. "Oh, wow, I didn't realize that. That's going to be interesting. It's going to be embarrassing."
Also confirmed in the article is that the role of Tom Riddle will not be performed at all by previous actor Christian Coulson. David Yates says
"I think Christian's a brilliant actor, and I thought it was a terrific piece of casting, but he's too old now," Yates said.
"What I want is that equality of spirit," Yates said. "Someone who is odd, charismatic, cool, has a quite cold spirit which Voldemort embodies. If I find that, that's the most important thing."
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will begin filming later this summer and is due in theaters November, 2008. Thanks Ryan!


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In a behind-the-scenes look at her new perfume commercial for the scent Unforgettable, Christina Aguilera reminds the world that this blonde bombshell isn't going anywhere.
The ad focuses on Xtina's glamorous side, as well as her sultry, sensual side -- all expressed by her wardrobe (slinky, silk outfits) and the shirtless man she drapes herself on.
And you thought her 'Voice' performances were steamy.
You can check out the full video above.