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today is my first day of blogging!
i'm so excited for numerous reasons.
.first: i overcame my perfectionist tendencies
& decided to start blogging despite
the imperfect template & format
[i've been so inspired by bloggers like
vintage h&g, & sadieolive, but
seem to get the look
i want yet...i'll get there, i promise]
.second: i painted a fun bed today for a beautiful
red-headed four year old girl & i cannot
wait to show you
[pictures to come once it's completed]
.third: now i get to share my journey
of inspiration, creativity & love
.fourth: this means i'm forced to be creative
so i can blog about it and share
basically, i'm just super excited. my next post
i'll share with you some of my heart
& some inspirations of mine...
here is one until then...


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i rarely like giving homemade food as a gift, mostly because i know that people's tastes are subjective and i can't possibly know what each person likes! and also because i would hate to disappoint anyone by giving them something they can't eat (you know, food allergies, sensitive diets, etc.). so, i usually rely on a this go-to granola recipe to include in holiday gift giving, but this year i decided to switch it up, and go with a no-fail chocolate bark in 3 flavors. i love how easy it is to switch up the flavors by adding nuts, spices, fruit, peppermint candies, zest, etc., etc.! here, i've chosen to go with these: 1. a dairy-free dark chocolate w/ cardamom, toasted nuts, and citrus zest. 2. milk chocolate peppermint bark w/ white chocolate drizzle. 3. white chocolate, pomegranate and pistachio bark. the recipe for these babes, and how i like wrapping edible gifts, is over on Gardenista!
happy happy holidays everyone! xo - lindsey

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We are also pleased to be able to offer aircraft maintenance to our customers at the Charlotte County Airport. Todd Griswold and team bring a lifetime of experience and over 25 years at the airport.
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Putting together a shortlist of the best boutiques Paris has to offer is no simple task. As a trendsetting powerhouse for fashion and design, the French capital houses too many notable boutiques and concept stores to comfortably count in one succinct list.
That's why I've chosen to instead offer a more condensed list of only the most coveted, sought-after multibrand Paris boutiques-- concept stores that have managed to prevail through the fickle winds of fashion trends to become destinations and names in their own right.
Just a note before you get to the good stuff: while these shops aren't especially compatible with tighter budgets, visiting during the annual sales in Paris can allow you to treat yourself to a special piece you wouldn't otherwise be able to afford.
Espace Kiliwatch
Situated in the heart of the trendy Rue Montorgueil neighborhood in the center of the city, Kiliwatch is a local temple for the discerning vintage fashion fan. This is far from being a bargain bin, but you can often find gorgeous designer pieces here for relatively reasonable prices-- especially during the "soldes" in the summer and winter. Kiliwatch also offers some new clothing, and has an onsite fashion bookshop.
Address: 64 rue Tiquetonne, 2nd arrondissement
Metro: Etienne Marcel or Sentier
Suite 114
This relative newcomer to the Paris concept boutique scene is degrees less pretentious than Colette, but offers the same attention to promising new designers and fresh ideas in fashion. Price tags are too steep for most of us, but going here for a little inspiration can still be worth the trek to a quiet corner of west Paris, just around the corner from the legendary Bon Marché department store.
First launched in the early 80's as a men's-only concept store on the Champs-Elysees, L'Eclaireur now has several locations around the city and is the brainchild of fashionista couple Martine and Armand Hadida. One of the boutiques is housed in the former stables of a private manor, in a perfectly hidden spot near the Place des Victoires. While L'Eclaireur is specialized in men's creations, some locations also carry women's clothing, in addition to home design and objets d'art.
Housed in a sunny loft in the ultratrendy Oberkampf neighborhood, Merci is one of the few designer boutiques in the city to cultivate a cozy atmosphere-- couches, reading areas and all. Nonetheless, it still manages to come off as avant-garde. From classics like Yves Saint Laurent to creations from young local designers, Merci offers a selection that will sate both the religiously fashionable and the occasional dabbler.
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Searching for strange? Make sure to check out our guide to 9 of the weirdest shops in Paris, from curiosity cabinets to eccentric vintage stores to ratcatchers and quirky bookstores staffed by wannabe bohemians. These spots will have you cringing, giggling, or both-- and may help you find an odd gift or accessory for that cousin who reminds you of Little Edie Bouvier.


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Stay in style with L'hotel élan in Hong Kong
I recently checked out one of the hotels in Ngau Tau Kok, Hong Kong and I'm sure many of you would be surprised to know that there is actually a hotel there as it is in the industrial area.
Located approximately 40km away, the journey from the Hong Kong International Airport to the L'hotel élan takes roughly 60 minutes via car/MTR.
The check-in process at the hotel was fairly quick and my luggages were brought to the room by the porter at the same time. Unlike other hotels, the check in counter is actually located on the highest floor – Level 35 along with their skyline rooftop pool and gymnasium.
You get to enjoy the view that the harbour has to offer as well as the urban view of the building nearby. On the same level, there is a small gymnasium called "twist" which allows you to do a quick workout with a urban/harbour view. After your workout, you will also be able to enjoy a cup of tea/coffee at their lounge area beside the gymnasium.
The elan suite rooms are 60sqm in size and this is considered very spacious as compared to the typical Hong Kong room space which is very small due to land scarcity. The suite is split into different areas with separate dining and living areas as well as a beautifully sectioned off bedroom for privacy and the bathroom which connects the bedroom as well as living/dining area. The entire room also comes with a 3.5metre high ceiling and the one I stayed in came with a long balcony connected which you can access via the living room or bedroom. All hotel information as well as in-room dining can be found on the iPad in the room which comes with their application called the eGuest system.
For the shower area, it comes with a bathtub and both a handheld showerhead as well as a rain-shower. Don't worry at this hotel you are fully covered! Their disposable amenities were quite extensive and items such as loofah, comb, shower cap, personal hygiene products are all provided.
Neighbourhood & Food
Just 5minutes walk will bring you to the harbourside walk where you get to see the harbour where you can spend time with your loved ones or simply enjoy the view.
Hotel elan also have their own restaurant named Forte. They offer both a semi-buffet lunch and dinner and I would say both the interior design of restaurant and the variety of food served is highly suitable for families, business travellers and it is also a place where business meetings can take place.
The neighborhood is also worth exploring, where there are cafes as well as takeaway outlets available. You can also check out an instagram worthy spot which is the Pedestrian bridge at Wai Yip Street.
If quietness and efficiency is your thing and you would like to explore a different side of Hong Kong, be sure to check out L'hotel élan. Many thanks to Karen, Suki and team at L'hotel élan for the great hospitality.
38 Chong Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong


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Santa Claus is From Ohio: Merry Christmas Everyone!
I was wondering whether Santa Claus has ever really been in court charged with a crime. Sort of like "Miracle on 34th Street." Alas, he was. Santa was arrested and prosecuted in Ohio for knowingly possessing a fictitious identification card, a first degree misdemeanor. It seems Santa had collided into the rear of another vehicle. After handing some cash over on the spot to the other driver as compensation, the cops came and Santa dutifully provided his state-issued photo identification card. The police officer wasn't in the same Christmas spirit and arrested Santa for the "fake" I.D.


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A BIRMINGHAM car clamping firm which sparked furious complaints from scores of motorists was today raided by trading standards officers.
Armed with a court warrant they swooped on the offices of Inter-Park UK in Valepits Road, Garretts Green, to search for evidence of illegal activity under the Trade Descriptions Act.
They were joined by police and members of the Security Industry Authority (SIA), which licences clamping companies.
Trading Standards watchdogs are investigating whether false claims have been made on Inter-Park's now closed website that it belonged to certain trade bodies.
It will now sift through evidence collected from the raid before deciding whether legal action can be taken.
Inter-Park is believed to be owned by Andrew Baker, whose previous ventures Autoclamp Ltd, in Erdington, and Area Car Parks Ltd, in Hockley, were struck off the official register by Companies House in 2005 and 2002 for failing to supply any accounts or information.
He is understood to have been in London at the time of this morning's raid.
Trading standards officers have received around 150 complaints from irate motorists about Inter-Park's activities.
Last April the firm caused outrage after allegedly swooping on fans' cars parked in Cherrywood Road, near St Andrew's, before Birmingham City's match against Sheffield Wednesday.
It is believed to have raked in thousands after up to 20 cars were impounded by the firm. The owners were charged up to £380 a time to get them back.
Earlier this month motorists complained after Inter-Park's clampers towed away up to eight vehicles from a Birmingham cash-and-carry, supposedly for being less than an inch over parking bay lines.
Shoppers at Latif's store in New Canal Street, Digbeth, were shocked to see their cars being towed within minutes of them being parked.
Coun Neil Eustace, chairman of Birmingham's public protection committee, said: "We have received a large number of complaints about Inter-Park from motorists who say they have been intimidated into handing over a significant amount of money to have their cars returned after being clamped.
"Some have had their vehicles removed for trivial reasons, such as not parking straight. Many who complained were elderly or disabled.
"We take this issue very seriously and it is simply not acceptable for this sort of thing to be happening in Birmingham."


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Chef: Jeannie Hudkins
Makes: 2 servings
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 10 minutes
- any whole-grain pasta (½ pkg will make two large servings)
- 8 oz. mushrooms
- ½ red pepper
- ½ red onion
- ½ can artichoke hearts, quartered
- ½ can hearts of palm
- 1 c corn kernels
- ½ c cherry tomatoes
- 2-4 handfuls of raw spinach
- ¼ c no-oil marinara or ½ c kimchi (depending on your preference (marinara mild or kimch spicy)
- Cook pasta according to package directions. You will need about ½ package for two large servings. Drain pasta and set aside.
- Wash and slice mushrooms, place in a microwave-safe bowl and cook for 2 minutes.
- Chop red pepper and red onion. Place in a microwave-safe bowl and cook for 2 minutes.
- Slice hearts of palm into bite-sized pieces.
- Cut tomatoes in half.
- Place a handful of raw spinach on each plate.
- Place cooked pasta in a bowl and mix it with either the marinara or kimchi sauce. When well combined, place the pasta directly on top of the plated raw spinach.
- Arrange the mushrooms, red pepper, red onion, artichoke hearts, corn, hearts of palm, and tomatoes on top of pasta.
- Heat in microwave.
Eat Like You Give a Damn: For the Animals, For Your Health, For Our Planet, EatLikeYouGiveaDamn .


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Why Did Amanda & Josh Break Up After 'Bachelor In Paradise'? Forever Wasn't In The Cards
Often, relationships that begin on TV — especially on The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and Bachelor in Paradise — end unsuccessfully. But sometimes, there's more than just reality TV to blame behind a breakup. One of Bachelor in Paradise Season 3's most successful couples, who left the show engaged, Amanda Stanton and Josh Murray, broke up after their season aired. And now, with Amanda participating in Bachelor in Paradise Season 4, the question that begs to be answered is why did Amanda and Josh break up? Because it seems like there was a lot going on under the surface with this couple.
On the show, things seemed perfect between Amanda and Josh, whose whirlwind romance closely resembled Josh's former relationship with Andi Dorfman on her season of The Bachelorette. But after the cameras stopped, their relationship came to an unfortunate end. At first, when the news broke that Josh and Amanda split up, both were supposedly wishing one another well. "Josh and I did break up," Amanda said to People Magazine. "I wish him the best." Then, according to Us Weekly, reportedly Amanda and Josh kissed after splitting in January.
But everything changed in late March 2017, when Josh reportedly called the police on Amanda over "an incident where it was a dispute over a car and perhaps some items in the car. It basically resolved itself. No arrests were made. There was no criminal activity of any sort," according to Us Weekly's source at the Irvine Police Department. In April 2017, Amanda told E! News why she and Josh broke up from her perspective. "I think he knew he was going to date me, so I think he kind of pretended to be exactly what he knew I wanted," Amanda said to E!, but that she noticed "red flags" as their relationship progressed outside of Bachelor in Paradise.
After Amanda's E! interview, Josh responded with a lengthy, lengthy statement, also to E! News, saying "I just want Amanda to stop lying about me." He also said, "I moved on with my life. ... Amanda was correct in saying I want her to leave me alone, so I'm not sure why she can't just do that and not speak of me because I don't speak of her."
When he finished channeling his inner Whitney Houston, Josh also alleged that the couple were still sexually connected. "At the end of the day, in the past few months, she still had me coming back and staying in our place in LA together, being intimate, and interacting with the kids as a family again," Josh said. "She even flew to Atlanta to spend time with me and stayed with me, so obviously there was interest in being with me."
While both members of the couple see things differently, it's undeniable that this was a messy breakup. And now, in the wake of her split from Josh, Amanda is returning to Bachelor in Paradise. And based on what she's said about Josh, it seems like she'll be a bit more guarded when meeting new people in her second round on the show.


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Trouble Shooting
Finishing problems require you to be a detective and investigate the exact cause or causes to know what the correct remedy should be. Usually, the causes can be divided into 5 stages based on when, where, and how often the problem occurs.
- Wood Preparation and sanding
- Condition of paint and proper choice of paint for purpose intended
- Condition of application equipment, spray booth and general shop conditions
- Defects appearing during or shortly after spraying
- Defects after coating has initially dried or have developed on aging
It is our experience that 98% of the problems with finishes are not related to the paint quality but the misapplication of the paint for its intended use or the lack of technical knowledge of the finisher about the product or the equipment being used to apply the product. Therefore, an educated finisher is our most important job.
|Wrong thinner used
|If precipitation is slight, add proper solvent with constant agitation, or use stronger solvent.
|Paint too cold
|Warm paint to 70-77F
|Over reduction
|Add fresh paint to bring back
|Reducer or catalyst added too quickly or without sufficient stirring
|Add slowly, and stir constantly
|Pigment or flattening agent settled
|Check bottom of can with spatula or stick before using, and stir thoroughly
|Solvent in paint will evaporate at normal temperature and "body up"
|Use same solvent that manufacturer used to make paint. Check viscosity with cup
|Used improper solvent
|Use recommended solvent for thinning
|Catalyzed material beyond paint life
|See directions-some products can be recovered by adding additional paint and catalyst
|Air drying material that is exposed to air is partially full
|Float thinner on surface of pail and seal it, make sure container is sealed or put in new can
|Gelled material
|Usually cannot be recovered and must be discarded.
|Stored at high temperature, outside, or beyond product's shelf life
|Store inside at room temperature and use before 6 months if polyester, polyurethane, or pre-catalyzed lacquer.
|Presence of vapors or fumes in spray area
|Investigate fumes like ammonia or amines from adhesives or other sources
|Water born or acid cure react with steel parts or oxidize aluminum spray equipment
|Use stainless steel or solvent resistant plastic parts and liners for spray pots
|Improper drum or pail lining comes off
|Strain paint through fine filter or cheese cloth
|Old nitrocellulose products
|Become amber on age in can or react with steel. Use fresh material
|Chemical reaction to surface treatments
|Check pH of surface since acid cures can react with alkali materials
|Mixing too rapid
|Mix slowly; do not shake with mechanical shaker
|Foam trapped in container
|Use defoamer recommended
|Unclean conditions such as dust in spray room or drying area, dirt in air or paint line, sanding operation near air in-take of both
|Check air supply for oil and dirt by spraying air only from spray gun at white cloth or tissue and look for staining or dirt.
|Resin kick out from improper thinner
|Use correct thinner
|Paint is very cold and created seeds
|Warm material to room temperature
|Dirt in paint
|Strain paint before use
|Particles appear after spraying but not while spraying the wet film
|Make sure with magnifier that it is not air bubbles. Dip or pour paint on glass and let dry in enclosed dust free area. Examine film when held up to light for defects.
|Wrong solvent used
|Choose slower evaporating solvent
|Spray gun problems
|Atomized air pressure to high
|Lower air pressure
|Gun too far from surfaceSpray past surface-bounce back of spray
|Hold 6-10 inches and at right angles to surface, release trigger when gun passes target; check that spray booth is sucking out overspray. Increase fluid pressure and check by cutting off air to gun and adjust stream of paint to fall approx. 3 ft. from gun if gun at shoulder height.
|Fluid pressure too low
|Wrong air cap or fluid tip
|Use correct combination based on manufacturer's guide
|Paint not thinned properly
|Use correct amount of thinner and slower evaporating solvent
|Spray gun problems
|Stroke to rapid or at angle
|Slow stroke and at right angle to work
|Air pressure too low
|Increase air pressure
|Fluid pressure too high
|Decrease fluid pressure
|Spray gun too close or too far from surface
|Distance should be 6-10 inches from surface
|Air temperature too hot
|Use retarder solvent
|Overspray striking wet surface
|Avoid creating over spray or spray so that it does not strike previously spray surface
|Over-reduction of solvent is too slow
|Use proper amount of thinner and faster solvent
|Paint applied too heavy
|Apply thinner coats and more passes to get film build.
|Cold weather or no air circulation
|Use faster thinner or raise room temperature
|Gun too close to surface
|Hold gun 6-10 inches from surface
|Fat edge
|Spray edges first with thin coat, then spray piece.
|Paint too heavy
|Reduce to correct viscosity and check with Zahn #2 Viscosity cup.
|Solvents evaporate too fast
|Use slower solvent if higher air temperatures
|Improper air atomization
|Adjust spray gun
|Application too thin
|Apply material to surface by using more passes, wet on wet.
|Too much air movement
|Reduce draft
|Unclean surface or oily wood or stain
|Clean with VM&P solvent and avoid oil base stain
|Primer or sealer lifts from surface
|Make sure recommended sealer and top coat are used
|Wood sanded too smooth especially close grain hardwoods
|Use 120 grit sandpaper on close grain and 120-180 grit on open grain or soft woods.
|Stain comes off with sealer
|Apply thinner coat and wipe stain off
|Stain applied too heavy or not wiped and did not dry
|Be sure stain is dry before applying sealer
|Higher solids coating used as sealer
|High solids need a better profile to anchor. Avoid polishing wood when sanding and use 120 grit.
|Primer or sealer contaminated
|Clean surface
|Sealer or primer sanded too smooth
|Sand 220 to 280 grit maximum
|Catalyzed finish dried too long between sanding and recoat
|Check recoat window of paint and sand within 8 hours of top coat application
|Sealer and top coat not recommended
|Use only recommended system, avoid using supplier's sealer and another's top coat.
|Organic reds, yellows, oranges used in stains have not been sealed properly
|Avoid bleeding colors; Use vinyl sealer to seal to stop lacquer top coat from causing bleeding. Check Japan colors do not contain bleeding pigments or dyes.
|Certain woods contain tanins that bleed
|Seal with barrier coat.
|Oil from wood or stain floats to surface
|Use barrier coat to seal in oil.
|Humid weather above 60% humidity
|Add up to 16 fl. oz. retarder solvent in place of thinner
|Paint sprayed cold
|Bring to room temperature
|Moisture in spray equipment
|Check air line for moisture; compressor should have air cooler to prevent water condensation.
|Insufficient drying time before packing
|Allow longer drying time or use heat
|Too heavy film causing solvent entrapment
|Apply lighter coats or multiple passes
|Poor drying conditions
|Change conditions by using heat or forced air
|Improper catalyzed material
|Check measurement of catalyst
|Catalyzed material beyond pot life
|Follow recommended time to use after catalyzed
|Paint over catalyzed
|Check measurement of catalyst. A good indicator may be a shorten pot life
|Paint baked at high temperature
|Check recommendation of manufacturer
|Paint not formulated for wood
|Paint for metal are harder but do not have elasticity of coatings formulated for wood.
|Excessive dry film thickness especially with acid catalyzed materials
|Use wet film gage during application. Do not have a dry film thickness of more than 4-5 mils with acid-catalyzed materials or pre-catalyzed lacquers.
|Grain or veneer cracking
|Cracking following grain shows wood is cracking and not caused by the paint
|Cold cracking by repeated cycles of freezing and return to room temperature
|Paints are normally formulated to resist 10 cycles. Put painted wood in freezer for one hour and return to room temperature for an hour and repeat 10 times to see if fresh paint will crack.
|Film pulls away from areas of substrateCratering caused by contamination from silicone, wax or oilIf no cause can be found
|Find source of contamination in sanding aids on belts that may contain silicone or lubricants or oils or greases for machines or spray equipment, hand creams, or polishes as possible sources and eliminate their use by finding substitutes. You can use anti-cratering additive but silicone will continue to cause equipment contamination and higher amounts of additive will be needed.
|Humid weather
|Use heat or reduce humidity
|Cold weather
|Drying area should be at room temperature
|Oily or unclean wood
|Clean wood by solvent wipe or use barrier coat for oily wood.
|Oil stain prolongs drying
|Use non-oil base stains
|No air movement
|Use proper ventilation
|Trying to fill open grain wood with heavy coat of sealer which traps solvent in pore
|Use filler or high solids sealer like polyester or polyurethane to fill pore.
|Absorbent putty or filler that has not been sealed causing top coat to "strike in".
|Seal wood filler or putty.
|Not enough sealer used or sanded through allowing top coat to "strike through".
|Carefully sand especially around the edges and corners.
|Material from same container changes gloss or after a few hours of spraying changes
|Stir material at start to be sure it is uniform. Stir after several hours if highly pigmented or high amount of flattening agent was used which is causing settling in can to occur quickly.
|Gloss increases with successive coats.
|The smoother the finish after sanding, the glossier it looks with more coats.
|Incorrect thinner
|Use thinner recommended
|Over catalyzed with acid
|Resand and recoat but test inter-coat adhesion.
|See remedies for blushing
|Water mixing with paint because of air
|Clean air line separator and bleed the line once per shift.
|Over reduction
|Add more paint
|Pigment has settled to bottom of can
|Stir before using and check for settling. Low film build. Apply more paint with more passes
|Edges show through
|Edges are too sharp so round edges by sanding
|Color does not match standard-base color is showing through top coat
|Apply more paint to achieve full hiding; Color base coat same as top coat for extra hiding; organic pigments have poor hiding and require thicker film.
|Film not completely dry
|Allow more days for drying before put in use
|Emulsion base does not coalesce below 55F and will not cure
|Apply at proper temperature
|Acid and polyester coatings will not cure at low temperatures.
|Must cross link at manufacturer's recommended temperature range. They usually take 7 days to reach final hardness.
|Pot life has expired
|Must use within pot life or may be able to reactivate with fresh material and catalyst.
|Soft film
|Mar resistant additive may help but use proper system for intended use. Don't use nitrocellulose lacquer if you want a hard scratch resistant film.
|Water in air atomized
|Clean air separator and drain water from line
|Air trapped in open pore of wood
|Use a thin wash coat to penetrate pore
|Fine bubbles after force drying
|Use adequate flash off time before using heat
|Polyurethane bubbles carbon dioxide causing pin pricks to appear after drying
|Urethane reacting with moisture: use retarder and successive thinner coats.
|Viscosity too heavy trapping air
|Thin paint
|Film too heavy
|Use thinner coats
|Surface dries quicker while underlying paint remains wet causing wrinkling
|Avoid excessive heavy coats. Force drying may cause wrinkling. Polyester primers shrink if sanded to soon even if dry. Allow overnight cure before sanding
|Incompatible coating systems-solvent in top coat attacks and softens primer.
|Use compatible systems and follow manufacturers recommendations
|Exposure to UV in sunlight
|Use UV inhibitor in coating or correct paint
|Yellow on aging
|All coatings yellow, some more than others, aliphatic polyurethane's and acrylics yellow least; nitrocellulose lacquers, aromatic urethanes, oil drying alkyds conversion varnishes yellow more.
|Exposure to strong amines
|Some coatings yellow more when exposed to ammonia or other amine cleaning agents.
|Yellow blotches or brown spots.
|Yellow spots can be caused by bleeding dyes or such as hansa yellow coming to surface or oils causing staining.


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Melissa - posted on 09/03/2009 ( 30 moms have responded )
I just had my third child 7 weeks ago. I have a 3 year old and a 19 month old. How do I ever find time to spend with him? I know this sounds horrible, but at the end of the day, I am just so tired that all I want to do is sleep and during the day if I get time, it's litrally 5 minutes here or 5 minutes there...it would be barely enough time to focus. I mean, these days I can't even go to the bathroom in peace! lol! Right now, just to write on this post I'm listening to my 7 week old scream and my two boys run all over the house and get into trouble. Any ideas?? Thanks in advance!


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Kyle or KW as I call him, is one of the easiest and passionate people I have ever had the opportunity to work with.
He has been doing all of my professional photography the past 3 years and has always knocked them out of the park.
I could go on and on but it's often said that a picture says a thousand words and Crimsons Sun Studios has the photos
to speak for themselves on their quality. Check them out you will not be disappointed. Thanks again Kyle for all your great work.
Justin Yapp
Shoreline Inclusive Camping / Yappography
Kyle is amazing to work with and takes some amazing shots! Highly recommended!
Eric Salzwedel


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random variable(redirected from Statistical variable)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Financial, Encyclopedia.
ran·dom var·i·a·ble
a variable that may assume a set of values, each with fixed probabilities or probability densities (its distribution), in such a way that the total probability assigned to the distribution is unity; the random variable may be discrete, continuous, or mixed discrete-continuous.
unplanned, without direction or purpose.
random assignment
see randomization.
random mating
where each member of the population has an equal opportunity of mating with every member of the opposite sex.
random numbers
a list of numbers obtained by a standard randomization procedure; used commonly to select individual animals from a pack.
random sample
see random sample.
random sampling
a procedure for selecting units from a group in such a way that each unit has an equal chance of being selected in the sample.
random selection
selection in such a way as to produce a random sample.
random variable
a group or quantity that takes various values, each with varying probabilities.


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Lien Design thrives across the full range of premium graphic design services with the primary objective of creating visual solutions that solve real-world challenges for businesses and marketing executives.
• Logo Development
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• Custom Photography
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• Envelopes
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• Flyers
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Lien Design has a strong reputation for strategic graphic design solutions with clients across the country. With over fifteen years experience, we've adopted a friendly, flexible and efficient approach to every project and the unique needs of the client.
Our team at Lien Design has worked with clients of all sizes, from ambitious startups to Fortune 500 companies and brands including: Pepsi, Gatorade, Glaxo Smith Klein, Kimberly Clark and Miller Brewing Company.


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Kick off 2016 with some beer, metal, hammers and fire. Goat n Hammer will be bringing their blacksmithing knowledge, experience and all around swagger to warm you up and show you the ways this ancient craft is alive and well. Maybe even take a swing at the anvil yourself!
About Curiosity Club:
What could be better than capping off your hump day with an evening of know-how? Join Eventide Brewing and The Homestead Atlanta for a series of talks and demonstrations by some of the city's coolest artisans, growers, makers, doers, and shakers. It's like sharing a friendly pint with your most interesting friend – except there might be metal hammering involved.
Eventide was created by three friends with a dedication to the integrity of the handmade, and it shows in the brewery itself. For only $30 you'll enjoy unfettered brewery access with a tour, a tasting of Eventide's delicious brews in a souvenir pint glass, the company of Atlanta's coolest & most curious folks, and a brain full of sweet, sweet knowledge.
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British Gas said on Thursday it had cut domestic electricity prices by 5pc with immediate effect while SSE announced a 4.5pc cut to household gas prices from the end of March.
The moves came the day after EDF Energy announced a 5pc cut to domestic gas bills from February.
The reductions received a cautious welcome from consumer groups, which urged the remaining three largest suppliers to follow suit but said that savings for consumers would go only a small way to offset the significant price rises implemented last year.
Suppliers blamed rising wholesale gas prices for the 2011 increases but, as wholesale costs have fallen again since the autumn, they have faced mounting pressure to pass savings on to consumers.
British Gas was the first of the Big Six to implement its price cut and said the 5pc reduction on domestic electricity bills would make it the cheapest standard electricity-only supplier, a claim supported by analysis by Consumer Focus.
The average annual savings of £24 per year for the 5.3m British Gas electricity customers compare with an increase of £71, or 16pc, last summer.
The company said it was unable to reduce prices for its 10m gas customers, despite having raised them by 18pc, or £121, last year.
EDF Energy said that, even before the price cut for its 1.4m gas customer comes into effect in February, its dual-fuel tariffs were cheaper than British Gas's new rate. This was also supported by Consumer Focus analysis, which found EDF Energy the cheapest major supplier for typical gas and duel fuel customers.
EDF Energy has not cut electricity prices for its 3.5m electricity customers but said that it had raised them far less than its rivals last year, as its nuclear power generation capacity had helped insulate it from wholesale price rises.
SSE, which has 3.5m gas customers and 5.1m electricity customers, did not claim to be the cheapest major supplier on either standard tariff comparison but said the gas price cut would mean average savings of £28 on gas bills.
Experts predict that the remaining three largest suppliers, E.ON, npower and Scottish Power, will announce cuts soon and so could potentially still undercut their rivals.
Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, said customers should "vote with their feet" and switch supplier should their current provider not cut bills.
Ann Robinson, consumer policy director at uSwitch.com, said: "Suppliers are falling like dominoes but, disappointingly for consumers, none have implemented cuts for both gas and electricity. The bottom line is that these cuts will go nowhere near cancelling out the £224 or 21pc hike in prices they've seen in the last 18 months."
British Gas said it could not cut gas prices because its large customer base meant that, to avoid the "irresponsible" risk of running out of gas, it had to buy its supplies in advance – before wholesale prices fell.
Ian Peters, British Gas managing director of Energy, said: "Our gas costs are effectively locked in through the winter, so while we have seen a very warm spell which has reduced the spot market, we don't have the flexibility to pass that on to customers." He added the trend for wholesale prices for 2012 was upwards.
However, industry experts noted that other large suppliers also bought in advance, and that some analysts forecast a fall in wholesale prices.
Adam Scorer, policy director at Consumer Focus, said: "Consumers have heard different interpretations on wholesale gas prices from different energy suppliers. We need a set of figures that consumers can believe."


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Leave your hire car at your accommodation when you explore the city itself. The Loop downtown service is a CBD service which will get you from one end of town to the other. It runs Monday to Friday every ten minutes so you can simply hop on at the red bus stops. The Spring Hill loop runs between 8am-6pm Monday to Friday with twelve stops in the CBD and Spring Hill. All children under four travel free on Brisbane's public transport system. There is also a new service that links the city to the airport which means you can skip the city traffic when heading to or from your flight.
Just an hour's drive north-west of Brisbane you'll find yourself driving along gorgeous, winding mountain roads lined with gum trees and stretches of rain forest. This road is favoured by motorbike riders and people on weekend pleasure drives - and you might see the occasional brave hiker or jogger pushing themselves to the limit. Make no mistake, this is a steep climb at times.
If you're keen to head north on your day trip then the Sunshine Coast and Noosa should be top of your list of priority destinations. The drive will prove picturesque as you discover the Glasshouse Mountains on your left as you pass by pineapple farms on your way to Noosa. The world heritage listed Fraser Island is also a must-do. It is dotted with beautiful fresh-water lakes.
If you are after a real road-trip, consider the Whitsundays which are some of the most beautiful tropical islands in the world. Located in far north Queensland, the Whitsundays got their name from the history books. Captain James Cook passed through Whitsunday passage on Sunday the fourth of June - which happened to be Whit Sunday, the seventh Sunday after Easter. The Whitsundays are usually accessed from Airlie beach, about a 12 hour drive from Brisbane.
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If you're in the mood for a serving of culture with a side dish of history then make sure you check out the St Lucia University of Queensland campus. This university has some culinary delights on offer - students favour the popular Pizza Cafe which serves a different pizza for every letter of the alphabet and is made with a fairly healthy pita bread base - but, even better, it has a rich history unique to Brisbane


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Adam Winnick hasn't been on a stage since his late teens well he was involve in High School productions and Improv theatre competitions. For the past nine years, Adam as been a professional soldier with the Canadian Armed Forces, Afghanistan Veteran(2008-2009) and a Skydiver Instructor. Adam comes from a family of actors, his brother Markjan Winnick has been in many Toronto productions and sister Katheryn Winnick is the star of the hit show VIKINGS on The History Channel. He returns to the stage as The Commander of The Berkut - the special police of the Ukrainian militsiya.


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Australia were eliminated from the Champions Trophy last night with a 20-run defeat to Sri Lanka at the Kia Oval.
Baggy Green attention now switches to this summer's Ashes series, which begins on July 10 at Trent Bridge.
Clarke has missed all three of Australia's Champions Trophy games due to a back injury he suffered during his team's 4-0 defeat in India, but it looks like the skipper will be fit to play at Taunton in the first of two pre-Ashes warm-up games.
"I would imagine he would be fit for that game," said George Bailey, who stood in for Clarke as skipper for the Champions Trophy.
"There was a real chance that (Clarke) would have been fit for the Sri Lanka game but with the circumstances of the game, he did not play."
Clarke has had to watch on from the sidelines as his team went through almost the worst possible preparation for the series against England.
Alastair Cook's men drew first blood in the battle between the two old enemies, defeating Australia by 48 runs in their Champions Trophy opener.
The Australians were then unable to beat New Zealand – thanks to the weather – and they could not beat Sri Lanka in south London last night.
They were up against it from the off at the Oval. The draw against the Kiwis meant they had to record a comprehensive win over Sri Lanka to qualify for the semi-finals.
Knowing they needed to reach their target of 254 inside 29.1 overs to progress, Australia went on the attack from the start, but they ultimately fell short and only a stoic 43-run last stand from Xavier Doherty and Clint McKay restored some pride.
"There is probably not a great deal of confidence there," Bailey said, tellingly.
Bailey thinks Australia were fighting a losing battle once they lost to England by 48 runs in their first group game.
"We said at the start that you need to start the competition well in order to get your confidence up so losing to England was a major cock-up," Bailey said.
"The weather then played its part unfortunately, that was a bit of bad luck because we posted a good score (before rain stopped play against New Zealand) but that's part of the game I guess. There's not much more we could have done."
Last night's result means Sri Lanka will now play India on Thursday, 24 hours after England host South Africa at the Oval in the other semi-final.
Mahela Jayawardene's unbeaten 84 helped Sri Lanka post a score of 253, but for most of his innings he scored slowly – something Australia stumper Matthew Wade sledged the batsman for towards the end of his knock.
"It was nothing much, just a bit of banter," Jayawardene said afterwards.
"He said something about the way I was batting in the last few overs and I told him not to worry because it was all part of the plan.
"I guess I had the last laugh."
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Welcome to the latest issue of "Hindastry News" - Hinda's corporate newsletter.
"Hindastry News" brings you the latest on the happenings at Hinda.
This issue includes:
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Title: Favors
Author: Mink
Rating: PG - Gen - Humor
Spoilers: General (for all aired episodes)
Disclaimers: DA & characters are owned by their various creators.
Summary: Alec needs some backup sometimes.
"What're ya doin'?"
"What's it look like?
Max slammed another quarter into the battered and tagged Jam Pony pay phone. Giving it a well placed and practiced smack so the coin would fall right through back into the return slot, she punched in the well memorized number yet again.
With a sigh, Max turned to lean in the other direction to avoid sharing her facial airspace with Alec who was standing way too close. He did that a lot and she was pretty sure he had no idea how creepy it was let alone how strange it looked. Max made a mental note to give him a talk about that later.
"But... When... Are you goin' to be long?"
"I don't know." Max murmured under her breath as she listened to the phone ring and ring and ring—
"Because I was wondering if you'd like to um, you know…"
She was planning on having a talk with him anyway. With just a few months out of Manticore he hadn't quite gotten a handle on just about all of the idiosyncratic manners of life on the outside. Well, even putting it kindly to herself, the guy wasn't even close. It made her wonder just exactly she looked and sounded like when she had reached the big wide world.
The thought made her cringe just a little bit.
It wasn't as if Alec wasn't trying. It was just that, how do you try to do or stop something you are completely unaware of? Max had noticed a few things that came to the forefront as he stopped doing his best to be X5-494 and was becoming more and more of Alec every day. Some things stood out more than others. For instance, Alec still didn't quite get that he should pause sometimes in conversations in order to give the other person a chance to respond. 494 would have shut right up on command.
Not anymore.
Max cursed when the answering machine picked up again.
Alec had made his way over to the front of her again and was pretending to be interested in the various numbers and offensive statements that had been scribbled on the wall.
He cleared his throat.
"Because if you had some time and you know, weren't doing anything right now then maybe we could go maybe up north Fremont right now and um—"
"Alec." Max slammed her hand down hard on the receiver. "What the hell do you want?"
Having finally won her full attention, Alec suddenly shrugged and regarded her in mild surprise. Max had to hand it to him, he could look like he was put out even when he was standing around doing absolutely nothing with that fancy cel phone in his hand.
"Well," Alec began almost in a bored tone. "I have to go down there on Fremont and since you were going that way--
"I'm not going anywhere near that way."
"--I figured well, why not just tag along with you and well, see what happens!"
Max carefully put the phone back on the hook and crossed her arms.
"See what happens?"
Alec gave her one of his better smiles and shrugged again.
Max tilted her head at him.
"What did you do?"
Smile fading, Alec scratched at the back of his head and looked around to see if anyone was near enough by to overhear his response.
"Look, it's not my fault? It's a total huge stupid misunderstanding. It's actually a really funny story, ya see, last week I borrowed some cash from this guy and I think he might be waiting around for me with some of his guys and--"
"Wait." Max held up a hand. "What am I? Some kind of hired thug?"
"Well, not exactly hired, but I could use maybe a… a… hand or two?" Alec was trying to do his humble face and check who was calling his cel at the same time. "Y-You know, just in case."
"Alec?" Max asked. "Did you get some kind of amnesia?"
Alec blinked at her.
"What ass in this city can you not kick back?" She knocked him ungently on his forehead. "Or did you happen to forget who you are?"
"Well, I did have this bitch of a headache the other day and I haven't been able to find my apartment key for almost like a week!" Alec rubbed at the spot on his forehead absently. "I've been coming in through the damn window and oh that reminds me I really need my lock picks back—"
"You got five seconds to tell me the deal or I'm outta here."
"Ok, sure? Ya see, here's the thing? There might be this guy who might just happen to be a Manticore alum..."
"Might be huh?"
"You might even know him, he calls himself Walter..." Alec was trying to smile again. "I know, I know, what's with the name! I mean he gets to pick a name and he comes up with that? It's kinda weird but mostly sad--"
"Figures you'd get messed up with the only other transgenic in town that deals in …in.. puppies or whatever the hell it is you're doing now."
"Puppies?" Alec seemed genuinely insulted. "The wholesale exchange of animals, such as the canine, is not only cruel but to tell you the truth not really that lucrative—"
"Fine!" Max grabbed her backpack off the floor. "I'll go with you."
She could hear Alec's sigh of relief from behind her.
However, Max wasn't doing any favors out any sense of social good will. Glancing back at the pay phone, she wasn't about to tell Alec but she wouldn't mind a good fight right about now. She hadn't worked out in almost two days and she was about 24 hours away from her genetically enhanced spoke of the cycle that the glorious XX chromosome promised every month. And what was better than a brick wall to put a fist through than some overgrown X-5 that was trying to push his stuff around downtown? And if this Walter guy was a no show there was always the bonus of Alec being around and completely unarmed if need be...
She stopped half way out of double doors, making Alec almost walk right into her.
"I have one condition…"
"What? Name it. You want a few pitchers tonight? They're yours. Even better, if you happen to like pink python boots I happen to have 14 pairs of them laying around and I'm pretty sure they're real—"
"No, whatever it is that you owe this guy, I want ten percent."
Alec was slightly outraged.
"Ten?! For ten I'll go down there and take my chances with Walter the seven foot freak among freaks of nature—"
"You got it."
Max smiled.
Some extra cash. Some potential ass kicking. Maybe even giving Alec a smack just for the hell of it.
Maybe this day was shaping up after all.
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[an error occurred while processing this directive]According to a new CNN/TIME poll of 1,044 adult Americans conducted on Friday, October 12th, support is strong (87 percent approval) for continued military strikes against Afghanistan, and the idea of sending ground troops into the conflict is gaining acceptance as well. Seventy-one percent of those polled October 12th favor the use of U.S. ground troops versus the 64 percent who favored the idea on September 27th. Support for the use of ground troops remains high (52 percent) even when as many as 1,000 U.S. fatalities are projected approval drops off (to 31 percent), however, when the number hits 10,000.
The public doesn�t want to see troops get ensnared in a drawn-out battle, however; while 62 percent of respondents favor the use of U.S. ground troops in a "limited excursion," while only 34 percent favor their use in a "large-scale invasion," defined as "thousands of troops stationed in Afghanistan for an indefinite period of time."
When it comes to choosing a target for the ongoing strikes, Americans are united: Seventy-seven percent feel capturing or killing Osama bin Laden is "necessary," while only 17 percent feel that task is "important but not necessary." A full 61 percent of respondents say a campaign that "achieves most of its goals in Afghanistan but does not capture or kill bin Laden" could not be qualified as a victory. Unequivocal suupport is also strong (87 percent) for "destroying all terrorist facilities in Afghanistan" and for removing the Taliban from power (78 percent). Americans also see their old nemesis Saddam Hussein as a target: Seventy-one percent feel the U.S. should try to remove the Iraqi leader from power.
Back on the home front, President Bush continues to enjoy high approval ratings, with 57 percent of respondents calling his response to the terror attacks "very good." That�s up from 45 percent a month ago. The administration is also getting high marks for its handling of the media question; 72 percent feel that "government withholding information from media" is not a problem. Freedom of the press does not seem to be much of a concern; 41 percent believe the television networks should not show Al Qaeda/bin Laden videotapes at all, while 23 percent say only portions should be broadcast.
Americans appear to be slightly less concerned about terrorism in general than they were a month ago; 32 percent "personally worry about terrorism in public places," down from 34 percent on September 13th.
The public response to the ongoing anthrax scare is surprisingly calm, if not wholly logical. While just under one half of Americans are concerned that they or a member of their family will be exposed to anthrax, only 15 percent characterize themselves as "very concerned," and another 32 percent consider themselves "somewhat concerned." A full 52 percent are "not concerned" about anthrax becoming a personal threat. That said, 63 percent say their local officials are unprepared to prevent a terrorist attack involving anthrax.
Americans disagree when in comes to bin Laden's involvement in the anthrax exposures: 40 percent believe he is behind the anthrax incidents, while 44 percent say he is not; 16 percent say they're not sure.
On a positive note, the media gets high marks for not feeding the anthrax frenzy: 71 percent of respondents say the media has been responsible in its reporting on the anthrax incidents.


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Last of tonight's triple play (I must be feeling inspired).
Let's consider the "Run IT as a Business" concept. Let's say your IT budget is $250 million for a $25 billion corporation. The accountants probably consider that amount part of your corporation's SG&A (selling, general, and administrative expense). You're a paltry 1 percent of that overall revenue base.
But what if you were your own $250 million firm, managing an IT value chain for your (now separate) client? What if you had your own P & L?
Well, you would have overhead: salaries, rent, heat, lights, and (just like your parent company) you would have IT. What would your IT look like? It would be all the stuff you use to run the ITSM processes:
- Help Desk
- Management Framework
- Portfolio Management
- CASE & architecture tools
- Provisioning system
and the like. (See A simplified ERP for IT architecture )
You would be entitled to your own budget for these tools. I think 1% is a bit paltry - why not say 3%? That would be a healthy budget of $7.5 million per year for your internal IT tooling. Not enough to purchase all of it at once, but certainly enough to implement a sound infrastructure and keep it supported over time.
Are you spending 3% of your organization's overall IT budget on your internal tools? More? Less?
At least it's a baseline thought experiment that may prove useful to some of you if the business is questioning why you need to spend money on a CMDB.


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London Joining BET's 'The Game'
When fans of BET's "The Game" heard that its two lead actors weren't returning for the show's sixth season, many wondered who could possibly replace them. Now it looks like producers for the program have found an answer in actress Lauren London. The model and ATL star will reportedly help fill the void left behind by Tia Mowry and Pooch Hall. As previously reported, Mowry and Hall announced in May that contractual issues kept them from coming back. "I had a great time on the show," said Mowry who's been adamant that their departure was amicable.
According to TV Line, London will play Kiera, a former child star who stars in a "Cosby Show"-esque sitcom. And while details are skimpy, the show will also introduce the character Bryce "The Blueprint," an Ivy League grad turned No. 1 draft pick and Kiera's current boyfriend. "The Blueprint" will take the place of Derwin as a lead. Before snagging her role on "The Game," London appeared on "90210," and in the films Madea's Big Happy Family and I Love You, Beth Cooper.
With one role secured for the sixth season, who do you think could join London and replace Derwin? Check out three of our guesses below. –danielle canada


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Snow Alert - The big chill coast to coast; Alaska, Washington , Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Maine
Alyseka - Alaska
In the last 24 hours, we have received 8" of new snow at the base, 7"
at midway and 7" of new snow at the top. All main trails have been
groomed and off-trail is windblown powder! Come and check it out!
Currently, the skies are snowing and blowing. We have a temperature of
22 degrees at the base, 20 degrees at midway, and 17 degrees at the top
of the mountain. The winds are currently 5-10 mph.
Total snowfall this season is 408" at the top of the mountain.
Chair 3, 4, 7, & the Tram will run from 10:30am to 5:30pm. Chair 6
until dusk.
Chair 1,3, & Tram will run from 4-9pm for night skiing!
For a full report of current conditions at Alyeska Resort please check
out our website at www.alyeskaresort.com
Jackson Hole
Low pressure doesn't just bring warmth - snow is also in the forecast, with a significant storm coming our way Monday. Think of today's 3" as a preview - icing on the "cake" (our beautifully groomed corduroy.) Smooth & speedy. Don't forget to stay safe: Observe signs & warnings, keep off closed trails. Know how to use lifts safely
Lifts Open: 11 of 11
Trails Open: 116 of 116
Groomed Trails: 37 of 48
Advanced Terrain Park: coming soon!
Intermediate Terrain Park: Open
Beginner Terrain Park: Open
January 26-27
The Chevrolet Gas Friendly to Gas Free Tour will be at the JHMR base area!
January 27
Come on out and cheer 'em on!
Jay Peak
It snowed all yesterday and we picked up another3-5" which puts us at 40 +" since the storm first hit late Sunday/early Monday. Was still snowing hard yesterday evening - click through for updated totals.
Weather today will include temps of 7-11ºF at the summit and 18-32ºF at the base with snow giving way to partly sunny skies. We'll have 5 lifts open including the Jet Triple, Bonaventure Quad and Flyer accessing at least 64 snow covered trails. I was out yesterday morning for a few runs and it was really, really unbelievable. Amazing to have conditions like this the first week of December and we were still finding untracked, fresh powder 3 days into the storm. Most of the Northway and part of Angle's wiggle are closed for snowmaking and you can't access Canyonland b/c of snowmaking on the Northway.
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WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon brushed off a warning from President Bush not to allow further West Bank settlement growth, indicating Israel would continue to solidify its hold on areas it considers of strategic importance.
Sharon, speaking to reporters before flying to Washington for talks Tuesday with U.S. lawmakers and Jewish leaders, said the dispute was decades-old and did not mar the meeting between the two leaders, which he called a great success.
Sharon, who won renewed support for his plan to remove Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank at Monday's joint news conference on Bush's ranch in Texas, also dampened the president's expectations that the tempo of peace talks would pick up after the withdrawal.
Differing interpretations
At the ranch, Bush told Sharon that any further building on the settlements would be in violation of the internationally backed "road map" peace plan, which both the Israelis and the Palestinians have formally accepted, but which has been long dormant with both sides failing to carry out their initial obligations.
"I've been very clear. Israel has an obligation under the road map. That's no expansion of settlements," Bush said.
But later, Sharon said that while U.S. opposition to the settlements dated back to when Israel first captured the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war, Israel has nevertheless continued to build communities to keep a hold on the land.
"It was not to antagonize the U.S., but to keep areas that seem strategic to Israel," Sharon told reporters.
The latest dispute stems from differing interpretations of a statement made by Bush last year, and reaffirmed Monday, where he recognized Israel's need to keep large settlement blocs in the West Bank. Bush cited "new realities on the ground."
Israel believes this allows for expansion of exiting settlements, while the U.S. says this would endanger peace with the Palestinians.
Some construction will continue
The issue reappeared last month when Israel announced plans to add 3,650 homes to the West Bank's largest settlement, Maaleh Adumim. The plan would cut off Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. The United States objected.
Sharon said Israel will keep large settlement blocs like Maaleh Adumim. "The blocs will be part of Israel, with everything that that entails," Sharon said, indicating the construction that will link Maaleh Adumim to Jerusalem will continue.
At the summit Bush expressed optimism that Sharon's plan to withdraw from all 21 Gaza settlements and four others in the West Bank — which he praised as courageous — would jump start the tenuous peace process.
If Israel's withdrawal from Gaza comes off successfully, then, "I think we'll have a different frame of mind" more conducive to pursuing peace, Bush said. "To me, that's where the attention of the world ought to be, on Gaza."
But there will be no progress after the Gaza pullout unless "the Palestinians completely fulfill their obligations of stopping terror attacks, waging a war against terror, destroying the terror infrastructure and reforming their security services," Sharon said.
"I have no intent, in no way, of progressing with the road map ... until they fulfill all their obligations," he said.
Measured praise from Bush for Abbas
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who is set to meet Bush next month, has failed to confront militant groups, preferring to try and co-opt them through negotiations.
On Monday the Palestinians launched a jobs-for-guns program to grant gunmen government jobs in exchange for giving up violence.
Bush had praise for the Palestinian leadership, but also made clear more must be done. "We want to continue to work with them on consolidating security forces," he said.
Sharon wants Palestinian leaders to guarantee that Israelis will not come under fire during settlement evacuation.
Sharon to NBC: Mood in Israel 'like eve of civil war'
On Saturday, Israeli troops shot and killed three teenagers in disputed circumstances in the Gaza Strip, shattering weeks of calm and raising tensions. In response, Palestinian militants fired at least 21 mortar rounds at Jewish settlements there, the army said.
Referring to the mood in Israel, Sharon said in an interview with NBC News, "The tension here, the atmosphere here looks like the eve of the civil war. All my life I was defending life of Jews. Now for the first time, steps I'm taking to protect me from Jews."
Sharon also told NBC that "maybe for the first time, there is a possibility to try and solve the problem" after there being no chance when former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat — "a murderer," he said — was still alive.
The meeting was the first in a series of Bush meetings with Mideast leaders over the next month.
At a lunch meeting following the news conference Bush and Sharon turned to other subjects, including European diplomatic efforts to persuade Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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But. And.
I remember learning about conjunctions in my second grade classroom. After watching the famed Schoolhouse Rock classic, "Conjunction Junction," my teacher passed out a list of conjunctions for us to memorize for an upcoming test. This was back when tests and homework were exciting, when, to an eight year old nerd like me, any extra work to be done outside of the classroom was considered a major bonus. Yes, I would cheer, I get to learn even more! Those were the days before term papers and theses and annotated bibliographies and endlessly monotonous lectures only slightly more painful than a drip to the dentist.
But I digress.
I learned my conjunctions quickly, and subsequently learned their uses. A sentence could not start with and, or, or but. That was forbidden. To do so, would to be to break a grammar rule as old as my native language itself. I remember feeling enlightened by this information. I had never before thought about what words I had started my sentences with, and all of a sudden, there was this new rule by which I had to abide. I took it very seriously.
And then one day, I was disillusioned. I was reading a book out of my favorite series during silent reading hour when I noticed a capital A followed by an n and a d. And. At the beginning of the sentence? Had no one edited this trash? Had I been deceived in the second grade or had the author of The Babysitters' Club merely neglected the formative rules of writing? I rushed up to show my teacher the massive error, proud to have found something so important in published literature. She shook her head and laughed. "Published authors can do that."
I was enraged. How could they, adults, get away with writing improperly, when I, a little second grader, had to go through endless worksheets and identify the errors these
Similar to writing, we need to learn the rules of life in order to break them.
And we can only break them by living.
In your first relationship, you're concerned with doing everything right. Sending the right text message, arriving at your dates the appropriate amount of minutes late, holding hands at the right time and allowing the other person the right amount of space. Everything is textbook. Everything is learned via magazines or gossip or late night chats with best friends or by avoiding mistakes you're too afraid to make.
In your first year of college you learn that you don't actually have to do all the reading, that something you've once done automatically is all at once unnecessary and nearly impossible.
In your first apartment you're not always going to have back up toilet paper, a light is going to go out and you won't be able to fix the lightbulb. You'll prop the door open even though you know it could be dangerous, but it's just for a second while you take out the trash, why bother finding the keys? You'll scuff the wall and blame a previous tenant.
And suddenly you've made mistakes, by attempting to do everything perfectly, and that once perfect thing doesn't exist any more.
And it's all ok.
You learn. You learn to put ands and buts and ors at the beginnings of sentences, at the beginning of paragraphs, essays even. You learn that not everything has to be perfect, that it's an impossible goal.
You learn that you can text someone you just met four times in a row, and they probably won't hate you, that's not a real rule.
You learn that you can choose hanging out with your friends over going on a date, because they're the ones that matter.
And ironically enough, while you're figuring it all out, you can write it all down, using whatever grammar pleases you best.
You learn that you can be yourself, write your own rulebook, because at the end of the day, even if your eight-year-old self would criticize it, you've got to do you!


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Meet Margaret Cho! You've seen her in movies, on Dancing With The Stars, and on numerous late night talk shows. Margaret Cho is an amazing comedian as well as a HUGE advocate of gay rights and equality for all. She's currently on tour performing songs from her new album Cho Dependent. Enjoy the interview and get to know Margaret Cho a little better!
The Fab Femme: Let's talk about your new album titled Cho Dependent. What is your favorite song from the album and what inspired the lyics for your song "Eat Shit and Die?"
Margaret Cho: My favorite song from the album is 'baby im with the band" which I wrote with Brendan Benson. I love the dynamic way he pushed my voice up. I love the whole album. Eat shit and die was a song I wrote when Iwas very upset at someone who forgot my birthday, not a lover, a friend, but it was hurtful and upsetting and only a song could solve it.
TFF: The video for your sing "I'm Sorry" is hilarious. I heard that the inspiration for that song was drawn from a strange discovery you made about a past love interest. Can you elaborate on that a little for us?
MC: The song was inspired by an odd discovery that someone I had loved – very very much, who didn't like me back at all and actually was quite callous toward me, turned out to be a murderer. I was horrified, but didn't know how to deal with it, except to write a song. Sometimes dark humor is the only want to get through things, and I was very grateful for that.
TFF:Tell us about the song "Intervention" you worked on with Tegan and Sara. Did you enjoy working with them and were you a fan of their music before you guys worked together?
MC: I love Tegan and Sara and I called them first when I decided to make the album. They are incredible and I am a longtime fan. The song is about not just the tv show but the whole process of recovery, and how terrible and yet funny and necessary it can be.
TFF: You were recently seen on Dancing With The Stars talking about how you were bullied as a child and how you were called a "fat ballerina" by your peers. How did the teasing you endured as a child help mold you into the strong individual you are today?
MC: I figured out that I could do anything alone, that I didn't need friends to go with me, that I didn't need anyone to cheer me on. It sounds lonely but actually it was very empowering. I am still kind of a solitary person and a bit of a lone wolf at times, which is carried over from my childhood.
TFF: You looked great on DWTS (especially in the rainbow dress). Were you upset when you were eliminated and do you plan on continuing to dance and embrace your inner ballerina?
MC: I love the gay pride dress! I was disappointed but I am determined to keep dancing. Its something that I love and the experience of becoming physically active while on the show is going to add many years to my life, so I owe them a lot!
TFF:The gay community adores you. At what age did you start interacting with the lgbt community and why do you think you connect with us so well?
MC: I grew up within the lgbt community, in the Harvey Milk San Francisco of the 70's era, so when you grow up in his shadow, you learn the importance of activism. I became very political at age 8 and spent my teens working for aids organizations. the community is my family and my home.
TFF: What advice can you pass on to kids who are dealing with bullying or depression? What did you do to pass the hard times?
MC: I built a whole world by myself, became a comedian, lived on beyond being bullied and 'not included'. My advice to kids who are dealing with bullies is to hang in there, to rise above it because they can, that no one should have the power to make you feel bad.
TFF:Will you be performing any of the songs from Cho Dependent at any gay pride events next year and do you plan on releasing a new album in 2011?
MC: I would love to perform songs at gay pride!! Hopefully that will happen! and yes, I will put out another album! Already in the works!!!


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SALT (Salem Advanced Leadership Training) is open to all New Salem members.
SALT will take place the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm at New Salem.
The leadership session will be followed by departmental meetings.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Use Google Forms for teaching? This handy tool can accept file uploads making it easier to organize student assignments. @FreeTechforteachers
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Alternatives to physical clickers in the classroomPublished 10/20/2013 instruction , technology Closed
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Have a large class and want a tool to help you engage students and receive instant feedback about how students understand concepts you're teaching? Already tried Clicker technology? Here's an alternative. Get all the benefits of teaching with Clickers but use something more software based. @ETC blog
Using collaborative sabotage (aka collaboratage) to teach tech/design/researchPublished 02/25/2013 information literacy , instruction Closed
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Authored by Char Booth of Claremont Colleges library, an advocate …of transparent co-creation and exploratory play, which can diffuse the anxiety and confusion that often attends learning a new tool, this post describes three examples of productive collaboratage. Read more… @Info-mational
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Published October 2012, this is a little gem. Shannon R. Simpson explains how to get instant feedback for library instruction using Google Drive spreadsheets, which allow up to 50 users to access a spreadsheet (composed of assessment questions) at one time (note: Google Docs is now known as Google Drive). Read full text here
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15 octobre
Beaucoup de vent, pluie aussi. Un jour vraiment sauvage! Les feuilles pareil les oiseaux vite. Now that the leaves are going, gone, the neighbouring buildings seem closer. Basterache is considering the evidence and writing his report. Cary Price is stopping pucks, gaz de schiste is still in the news, along with les adieux triste pour les quatre jeunes homme qui sont mort dans un accident à Drummondville.
Experience overtakes the time, rather the patience I have to record it. Also, reflections self-organize according to theme, rather than time. Jour-nal. Dia-ry. Day-book. This netbook is handy but bad for the neck.
Already time is going fast. I have been here three weeks, and my progress? Tres bon à parler avec Marie et Mireille. Marie is better at English, and yesterday we walked around la Musée National des beaux-arts for our practice session. The wonderful Riopelle interested me as much as the Spanish work, because je n'ai pas su son oeuvre, and many of the Spanish artists I knew from having seen them at the Prado or the Reina Sophia in Madrid. Un cadre is a frame and there were many with beacoup d'ornamatation. But the more modern works included the wonderful Sorolla, Dali, Picasso. Marie is good at correcting me. Mireille, who is uneasy en anglais comme moi en français, is a natural teacher and she, also like me, has a desire to get to know the other solitude, as per the phrase, Two Solitudes.
Lanugage: seldom think about the platform it provides for communion. I see how immigrants can feel so estranged. Here, people generally are more patient with me outside vieux quebec, and women more than men, with some exceptions. It's the accent that immediately gives me away, and makes for misunderstandings. French requires more nose and throat, je pense.
Marie-Josée said, many quote the title (Two Solitudes) of Hugh MacLennann's book, without having read it. M-J and John met me for coffee one morning. I wanted to thank them for helping me find this place pour rester à Québec. Une couple tres sympathetique. M-J m'a donné son livre de contes, Tokyo Express. Peut-etre je les verrai encore.
Et Annie! La visite de ma cadette! C'était super. Le premier nuit, elle, Pascal et Russ et moi avons eu du vin et h'ors-d'oeuvres, et Russ told a good joke: what is the question to the answer, 9 W? Is Wagner spelled with a V? Nein, W! Fun to walk around the city, along the river, through the neighbourhoods I like. She introduced me to poutine, bought me a café irlandais at the Chateau Frontenac. With her, Pascal and his parents, we celebrated a bilingual Thanksgiving dinner. Or the potential for one. Malhereusement, we spoke English, but I learned much about the culture here and in New Brunsick from Michel and Janette, both literary types,Michel a Radio Canada journalist. Good talk avec ils.
La langue, la langue! Un bon dimanche parce que I conducted myself comprehensibly at Nektar, my favourite coffee bar, and then, after much self-persuasion, initated a conversation with the woman sitting next to me at lecture by Alberto Manguel, full auditorium at la musée de beaux arts. I understood Alberto, too. Oh that felt good. Il a dit que la fête litteraire autour Borges était meilleur que autour Dan Brown. Un festival historique pour Québec and pour Canada aussi. Manguel has always preferred the imaginary, more than the realistic, the importance of the word, of language as symbol. Il me fait à penser. Peut-etre, I really can become binlingue...someday. Meanwhile, the concentration, thinking about words, has to be good for writing.
A debate described, typically, as raucous, as the Charest government pushes through new rules regarding the schooling of children in English. The language debate continues. I wish it weren't a matter of law but of desire, that everyone appreciated the beauty of binlgualisme. Sitting in the gallery of the National Assembly, the afternoon following the forcing of the law, j'ai écouté the PQ's Pauline Marois accuse Charest of abandoning le Quebecois. Could we trust good will, the nationwide recognition of the gift bilingualism is for a country, a person? Reading responses to the issue on the CBC Montreal site makes me doubtful.


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How to Create and Use Content for Social CRM
Social CRM is most successful when you create and use content that will drive business to your brand. The key to understanding the type of content that you'll create is knowing who your audience is. Are you speaking to a shareholder audience? Does your content need to convey a serious tone for potential investors?
One of the mistakes that content creators make is to use the same tone for all their content. Your social media channels are read by a multitude of audiences. You want to sing a coherent song, but you need to use more than one note.
You can find lots of paradigms used to present the ideal content process. There are three key components to creating great content. You want to
Write or curate content.
Use the content.
Share the content.
Write or curate social CRM content
As anyone tasked with writing content knows, it can be challenging. You'll find books filled with advice about the many facets of developing good content. To start, you should think about the "why."
You need to ask yourself why you're writing it. What's the goal? Do you want to sell something, educate, or entertain? Probably a mix of all three would be ideal. When you know the tone of the piece and the intended audience, you're ready to write.
Before you starting writing a piece, assemble all your material: images, links, and anything else that must be included.
Curating content means that you find great content on the web and share it with your constituency. The web has unlimited content. Much of it is good, but there's a lot of junk, too.
Curating content adds real value because a person with expertise is involved in selection instead of a search engine. You take the time to read and select what you consider to be the most informative material.
The following tools can assist you in content curation:
Scoop.it: This tool enables you to pick topics you want to curate and display those topics on a page for others to see. In turn, other people can rescoop the content you've shared. You can also find topics that other people are curating and follow them. You can scoop with both free and paid versions of the tool.
Storify: This is a different type of curation tool. It allows you to pull together your own social media content into a story. For example, if you were launching a product, you could pull together your content from your social platforms, Instagram, Flickr, YouTube, and other URLs to tell the product story. Storify is free.
The Tweeted Times: This tool gathers all your tweets and turns them into your own newspaper. It's free to use and displays your tweets in an easy-to-read way by categorizing them and displaying them on one page rather than in a stream.
Curation Traffic: This full-featured tool curates content and has a plug-in version and a standalone version. This means you can curate directly from your WordPress blog or a new blog you create for this content. There is a fee. Curation Traffic has lots of sharing features built in to grow your traffic.
Use social CRM content
When you're writing a specific blog post or a sales letter, you know where your content will be seen. If you're writing more general content, make sure that content is used immediately for some purpose. The reason for this is simple: You have a hungry crowd that constantly wants to consume new material. People are attracted by what's novel. If you don't supply fresh content, they won't seek you out.
If you're not sure about all the ways your content can be used, you can always repurpose it (use it in different ways, such as turning a post into a video script) at a later date. You'll learn something about what your customer wants whenever you publish content, so keep working. You should consider everything you post as an experiment.
As the Greek philosopher Heraclitus is quoted to have said, "You can't step in the same river twice." That's a great mindset to have when you're doing anything online. A river is always flowing and changing; so too is the web. You're speaking to different people all the time. Popular culture is also shifting so that what works for you today may not work tomorrow.
If you've written something that gets a great response, you'll know you need more on that topic. If no one reads it or comments, you'll know that writing more about it will be less valuable. Make the time you or your team works on content as productive as possible.
Share social CRM content
When it comes to social media, sharing is what it's all about. A customer using your content to learn about your products is valuable, and that customer becomes even more valuable when she recommends that product to her network. Then she becomes part of your sales force.
Following are some free tools that you can use to share content:
AddThis: This tool allows you to put share buttons on all your channel content. Channels include social media platforms like Facebook and your blog. It also includes analytics so that you can see how your content is shared. These types of analytics include user statistics such as how many people clicked a link, shared content, and so on.
ShareThis: This application enables your customers to share any content they like on blogs, websites, Tumblr, and other channels.


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Life-saving stories from those that have been moved to
Get It Dunn and take action to protect themselves after being inspired by Amy's story and participating in Run for Dunn.
Email firstname.lastname@example.com to share your story!
I was 28-years-old when my physician's assistant at my dermatology clinic found my Stage I Melanoma on my left upper thigh. I probably would not have caught it and been so proactive if it weren't for Amy. I was a television reporter for KTVB in Boise, Idaho, and I covered Amy's story after she passed away...
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Michael and Holly Simis noticed a "wart" under their 4-year-old daughter Shaelyn's (Shae) chin/neck area. It looked like a wart but the pesky thing wouldn't go away no matter how it was treated, so they went to urgent care to get it removed. As a precaution, the doctor sent the wart on to pathology for examination.
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I have a really ironic story and I feel that sharing with people will bring awareness to something we don't think about…Melanoma.
Amy's premature passing was a shock to many. I was in college at the time and was at an age when you felt invincible. My health was on the back burner as I focused on graduation and beyond, but the loss of Amy changed that.


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February 10
Please email email@example.com for event submissions
Sunday February 10
Valentine's Craft Day
Living Art Marine Center, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m., free admission, material fee for craft supplies. Show your friends, family and loved ones how much you love them and make your own gifts such as shell necklaces, carved cowries imprinted with your names or initials or a unique heart-shaped shell. (841-8080, livingartmarinecenter.com)
A Night of Magic and Miracles
Magic of Polynesia Showroom, Holiday Inn Waikiki Beachcomber Resort, 4:30-8:30 p.m., $250. Celebrate the miracles of St. Marianne Cope, Hawaii's newest saint. Illusionist John Hirokawa performs. Proceeds will support St. Francis Healthcare System's vision for geriatric care at the Liliha campus and outreach services to the homeless in Waianae through Our Lady of Kea'au. (547-8031)
Valentine Fantasy Bazaar
Pearl City Hongwanji, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., free admission. The Valentine Fantasy Bazaar will feature home-baked goods, Chinese New Year items and more. Proceeds help with programs for the elderly at the temple and in the community. (488-5920)
Abstractus Auscipii Ad Mortis
HPU Art Gallery, until March 1, free. Dead birds in the street. (hpu.edu)
Paintings by Lynne Boyer
Gallery on the Pali at the First Unitarian Church of Honolulu, exhibit runs through Feb. 28, Mon.-Friday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat.-Sun. 2-6 p.m., free.
Windward Wanderers Artist Reception
Hoomaluhia Botanical Gardens, 4-6 p.m., free. Meet the artists whose works are currently on display. Featuring watercolors, acrylics, goahce, oils and pastels. (254-2757, 233-7323)
Boating Skills and Seamanship
Kalaheo High School, Mondays and Wednesdays through April 10, 6-8 p.m., $45 for book and materials + $10 registration fee. The Coast Guard Auxiliary holds its Boating Skills and Seamanship course. Participants learn about handling your boat, navigation, equipment and safety. (254-7955)
Osteoporosis Class: Prevention and Treatment
Waipio Clinic – Conference Rm. 1A, 10-11 a.m., call for cost. Come to this one session class and learn the early signs of osteoporosis, risk factors, prevention and treatment strategies, and how nutrition and exercise can help strengthen your bones. (432-2235)
Women-Only Boxing Basics
Boxfit808 Boxing, Aiea, Mondays and Wednesdays in Feb., 7:45 p.m., $110 (only five women in a class allowed). Women who have absolutely no boxing or gym experience can learn boxing and training fundamentals. (256-1770)


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This discussion is about how Attensity is using unstructured data analysis to prevent churn in customer bases of Telecom, Consumer Electronics, and other verticals.
Sramana Mitra: Howard, let's start with introducing our audience to Attensity. Tell us what the company does. Also give us some of your background.
Howard Lau: Thank you for this opportunity. Attensity is a Big Data company. The value that we bring is we ingest a tremendous amount of data. With the advent of social networking, a lot of the volume of this data that we ingest is obviously social data. It includes Facebook, Google Plus, and Twitter. As you know, Twitter has exploded onto the scene. At this point, it generates about 500 million tweets per day. We ingest that information into our system and then we analyze that information so that we can do query analysis based on topics defined by our customers. We have this listening post where we do the suggestion. We have this analytical tool that does the analysis and annotation of the data. Other times, there's a specific tweet that our customers want to be aware of. We engage with that customer. We support that type of engagement model as well.
Sramana Mitra: Your customers are enterprise customers?
Howard Lau: We target the Fortune 2000. We're working on verticals such as telecommunications, financial service, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and hospitality.
Sramana Mitra: It would be helpful to our audience to take one example from each of the vertical that you mentioned and do a use case.
Howard Lau: One vertical is in telecommunications. I'll use two use cases for that. One of our customers is the leading provider of prepaid cellphones in the United States. They use us as a listening post. They target their customers using Twitter. They also mine the data that they get from the surveys as well. They want to be aware of situations as soon as possible so they can react. By using us as a listening post, they are able to effectively reduce consumer churn by 25%. The way that this works is that 25% reduction in customer churn translates into 25% increase in revenue. That's a very substantial impact on bottom line.
Sramana Mitra: Let's double click down a little bit on what kinds of information you gather from what you're extracting and analyzing. Let's give us a bit more color on that.
Howard Lau: Let's say we're talking about the level of happiness of a consumer – happiness with a service program or unhappiness with a customer satisfaction. By providing this type of information to the company, they can then either respond to that consumer directly or put in place programs to improve customer service levels or improve pricing points for some of the service programs. It's about being aware and listening to consumers and being able to respond to them as soon as possible to prevent problems.
This segment is part 1 in the series : Thought Leaders in Big Data: Howard Lau, CEO of Attensity
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