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Wheee, I hate insomnia!
I've made a nifty animation using that 3D program and it's Cel renderer (because I can't get the textures right yet, they look better as line drawings right now).
These two are the same, just playing with different frame rates.
I used this pic out of the Muybridge animals book for reference. I decided to animate it too just for fun.
Wheee!...I need sleep.
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A piece of scrap plywood can become a birthday sign that doubles as wall décor following this tutorial from Jaime at That's My Letter. The chalkboard finish makes this sign very versatile. Hang it for a party like Jaime did and then later add it a bedroom or playroom as wall décor. No doubt kids would love to change the message for tea parties, restaurant, and other pretend play.
Jaime was inspired by the Peter Rabbit Chalkboard Sign in Pottery Barn Kid's Spring 2011 catalog.
Find the step-by-step tutorial at That's My Letter.


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Communities could be paid millions of pounds just to consider having a facility to bury nuclear waste in their area, the Government has said.
Community projects could receive payments of up to £1 million a year if local people engage with officials about developing a geological disposal facility to permanently store underground the radioactive waste from nuclear power, industry and defence.
The figure would rise to £2.5 million a year if drilling of bore-holes to assess the suitability of a site went ahead - money that would be "no strings attached" as the community would still not be tied in to hosting a site.
With the process of talking to communities and investigating sites taking up to two decades, communities could be paid more than £40 million without committing to accepting a £16 billion nuclear waste facility - with increased payments if it gets the go-ahead.
The Government said going ahead with a facility, which would be paid for by the taxpayer and take 100 years to plan, construct, fill and seal off, could also bring hundreds of jobs and economic benefits to an area.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) outlined the potential payments as part of its new strategy to develop facilities to safely bury radioactive waste deep underground.
The strategy comes after a previous attempt to push forward with a site in Cumbria was scuppered when leaders of Cumbria County Council voted against the plans.
Decc officials said they were continuing with a voluntary approach which would mean construction would go ahead only if the community in the area was happy with it.
But they said that while all levels of local government would have a voice in deciding on a site, no single level should have a veto - as was the case in Cumbria where the borough council backed moving the plans forward but county council leaders voted it down.
The UK has a legacy of spent fuel from existing nuclear power plants and other radioactive waste, which is stored temporarily at secure nuclear sites across the country, but storage underground is considered the best long-term option for it.
When the current fleet of nuclear power plants are decommissioned, the amount of radioactive waste which needs to be dealt with will be enough to fill six Albert Halls, while new planned reactors will eventually produce another Albert Hall's worth.
Over the next two years, officials will develop the process of working with communities and conduct geological screening across England and Wales to assess the geology that might be suitable for a storage site.
The geological assessment will not identify potential individual sites but it may rule out areas with features such as large underground aquifers, coal or mineral deposits.
Communities will be invited to come forward from 2016 to talk to the Government about hosting a facility.
Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey said: "Geological disposal provides the secure, long-term solution we need to deal with the radioactive waste we have been creating for more than 60 years, and we can learn from the experiences of other countries who are also doing this.
"Today we're setting out our plan to find a suitable site, based on a fundamental process of listening to people, to make sure we have the right process in place.
"The area that eventually hosts a geological disposal facility will benefit from significant investment in the community and hundreds of skilled jobs for decades to come."
Keith Parker, chief executive of Nuclear Industry Association, said: "This new approach should lead to much greater clarity on the key issues of underground storage, and more effective community engagement.
"This plan will provide a permanent solution to deal with the UK's waste both from nuclear power and other sectors.
"The local economy which agrees to house the site will also benefit from community investment arrangements, as well as from the long-term job creation such a facility will bring."
But Greenpeace UK energy campaigner Louise Hutchins said: "This is a bullying and bribing approach by a government that is getting desperate about solving this problem.
"First David Cameron reneged on his promises not to allow new nuclear reactors until the problem of waste disposal was solved.
"Now he's resorting to bribing reluctant communities just to talk about nuclear waste whilst stripping them of the right to veto it.
"A better use of this money and political will would be to spend it on the proven clean energy technologies that don't require thousands of years and billions of pounds to clean up."
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Hi All,
On my T410s with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, the "Safely remove hardware and eject media" function is very slow.
It need take about 30~40 seconds from me clicking on the safely remove hardware icon to the menu popping up.
But if I open the "Devices and Printer" in advance, it's only need one second to show the menu.
Is there anyone know how to solve this problem?
Solved! Go to Solution.
Have you found the solution? I googled for a solution but I didn't find anything which worked (such as setting "microsoft xps writer as default printer")
Same problem here.. "Devices and Printers" also opens slowly. Setting the XPS Writer as default printer didn't help.
I am also seeing this issue with my T410. With just a single USB flash drive in my computer, I click on the Safely Remove... icon in the system tray and it takes anywhere from 10 to 20 seconds to pop up the window (or dialog if I double-clicked on it). My theory is that it has something to do with the DVD drive being asleep to save power and the system taking longer to recognize that fact.
I have this problem as well, with a Lenovo T400s model 2801-CTO. The speed of the Safely Remove Hardware function is resolved by opening Devices and Printers first, but the Devices and Printers is slow. There is a suggestion to set the default printer to the Microsoft XPS Document Writer, but that suggestion doesn't work on my PC. I have noticed when searching the internet for solutions that the only people that have this problem are using ThinkPads - so I'm hoping that Lenovo post a solution soon.
05-24-2011 11:56 PM - edited 05-24-2011 11:57 PM
Hi, this is a known issue of Lenovo Windows 7 preload system.
Windows 7 Lenovo preload
It will take longer time to show a list for removal device candidates than previous OS, when clicking "Show hidden icons" from task tray then clicking "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media".
Cause of the issue:
Windows 7 will start to scan some files in folders when click "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media". Due to this scanning process, it takes times to prepare a list of devices.
How to solve this problem:
Eliminating number of unuse files will shorten the scanning process.
There are lots of files for national language support of the Windows in
Usually in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\MetadataStore. It carries various icon data and resource data for displaying in some managing process such as defining printers.
There are "READ ONLY" folders like following:
cs-CZ for Czech
da-DK for Danish
de-DE for German
el-GR for Greek
en-US for English
es-ES for Spanish
fi-FI for Finnish
fr-FR for French
he-IL for Hebrew
hu-HU for Hungarian
it-IT for Italian
ja-JP for Japanese
ko-KR for Korean
nb-NO for Norwegian
nl-NL for Dutch
pl-PL for Polish
pt-BR for Portuguese (Brazil)
pt-PT for Portuguese (Portugal)
ru-RU for Russian
sl-SI for Slovenian
sv-SE for Swedish
tr-TR for Turkish
zh-CN for Chinese (Simplified, PRC)
zh-TW for Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
Each folder carries 24 device metadata files except en-US carrying 26 files. Those file name will be "hexadecimal numbers".devicemetadata-ms.
Depends on your computing environment, there may be some language folders never used. Removing those folders and files will speed up scanning process remarkably.
Note: en-US folder should not be removed. There are commonly used files in other language.
Since those folders are read only, a following dialog will come up with attempting delete a folder. Click "Continue" button will delete a folder. If you need a administrator access to delete, please consult your system administrator.
In my laptop T410 with Windows 7 professional OS, only 3 files are present in the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceMetadataStore\en-US folder. I have removed all the other folders in the 'C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceMetadataStore' directory. Still the remove USB media takes about 15-30 seconds to pop up the list of removable media.
Let me know if there is some other way to fix this.
PS: My friend got a new T420 and in his laptop, the remove USB media works very fast (~2 seconds).
I would like to thank user summerxia for his proposed solution.
I had this problem of VERY SLOW response on a Thinkpad X200 tablet (running Windows 7 64-bit) when I clicked the "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" icon in the system tray (it would take nearly 45 seconds even with a 7200 rpm disk drive). After *moving* all of the metadata folders (except for en-US) to a different location on my disk (NOT wanting to *delete* these folders so as to avoid causing other problems if they were needed for something else), the "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" option now pops up in 2 or 3 seconds.
I also have this slow response problem on an X61 tablet that too is running Windows 7 64-bit. I will report back later if this same solution works on that machine as well.
I hope others who have wondered about this slow response problem on Thinkpads running Windows 7 are able to find their way to this thread.
If you are unable to eject media, look at http://blog.notfaqs.com/2009/10/win7-safely-remove-hardware-and-eject.html for one reason for this to happen and how to fix it.
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Gods' aid, let not my bones lie in a public location
With crowds too assiduous in their crossing of it;
For thus are tombs of lovers most desecrated.
May a woody and sequestered place cover me with its foliage
Or may I inter beneath the hummock
of some as yet uncatalogued sand;
At any rate I shall not have my epitaph in a high road.
---from Homage to Sextus Propertius by Ezra Pound
Today is October 31, or Halloween, which has been one of my favorite holidays ever since I was a child. When I lived in Los Angeles, I would spend a good week decorating my house with dead bodies and skeletons, and setting up a proper graveyard under the white birch tree. I attracted kids from miles around, and some adults, too.
In fact, the first year I moved into the house in Los Feliz, back in 1988 before it was properly furnished, my sister and I decorated every room with a different spooky theme: the coffin room, the fortune teller room, etc. and threw a huge party complete with sound effects and lighting -- I even got the Frankenstein monster from Universal Studios to come, since he was a friend of mine.
It was all in good fun, and there was certainly nothing religious about it, more like a Disneyland Haunted Mansion theme. To me, any holiday that can inspire Serious White Men to get creative, dress up in costumes and loosen up a bit is providing a service to mankind. One of my favorite costumes was worn by a fellow who was normally very... uptight. He dressed all in white and carried a big black felt marker, calling himself "Graffiti Man," and had people sign his clothes all night. To me, Halloween in the States reflects Carnival in Venice more than the Day of the Dead.
When I solidly arrived in Venice in 1998, after deciding to make it my home (I had been here several times before, but that is another story), I had one of the few carved pumpkins around, and there were no celebrations except a small one in Campo Santa Margherita with the students. Halloween has been slowly growing more popular, with shop windows filled with cobwebs and witches.
This is what the Catholics think about that:
This is what the Catholics think about that:
Halloween 'pagan' says Church group
'Don't trample on our culture,' bishop says
(ANSA) - Vatican City, October 29 - Halloween is pagan and against the spirit of Christianity, an influential Catholic Church group said Friday. Chiming in with the Vatican's annual warnings on the festival, the (Pope) John XXIII Association said: "Halloween was born as the perpetuation of a pagan cult which evolved over time and linked up with esoteric and occult practices". "We are faced with a sort of revival of neopaganism which, as such, is in open contrast with the spirit of Christianity".
"Does our society really need all these messages exalting horror," asked the association's head, Giovanni Paolo Ramonda.
"At a time which should be devoted to the holy memory of our saints and souls, people unthinkingly set up 'noir' banquets, crime dinners and afternoons for children in macabre masks. "Everyone should be reminded that Halloween comes from an ancient pagan ritual in the British Isles practised by the Druids, the Celts' ferocious priestly caste".
The Northern League also disapproves:The Northern League party, which jealously guards northern Italy's Celtic past, also came out against the feast this year, accusing it of being "inauthentic". "Halloween is not part of our identity," said the Northern League's mayor of the town of Calalzo di Cadore, Luca De Carlo.
It may surprise some of you to learn how fierce the Northern League is about their Celtic roots, but if we take a quick look at a map, you will see that the Celts were here in Northern Italy and Austria before the Romans came along and started started conquering everyone.
Overview of the Hallstatt and La Tène cultures. The core Hallstatt territory (HaC, 800 BC) is shown in solid yellow, the eventual area of Hallstatt influence (by 500 BC, HaD) in light yellow. The core territory of the La Tène culture (450 BC) is shown in solid green, the eventual area of La Tène influence (by 250 BC) in light green.The territories of some major Celtic tribes of the late La Tène period are labeled.
The ancient Celts celebrated Samhain, which was a festival to welcome the dark part of the year.
From Wikipedia:
Samhain ( /ˈsɑːwɪn/, /ˈsaʊ.ɪn/, or /ˈsaʊn/)[1] is a Gaelic festival held on October 31–November 1. The Irish name Samhain is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end". A harvest festival with ancient roots in Celtic polytheism, it was linked to festivals held around the same time in other Celtic cultures, and continued to be celebrated in late medieval times. Due to its date it became associated with the Christian festival All Saints' Day, and greatly influenced modern celebration of Halloween.
It also had a dark element. From Wikipedia:
"The ancient Celts believed that the border between this world and the Otherworld became thin on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family's ancestors were honoured and invited home while harmful spirits were warded off. It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks. Their purpose was to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit and thus avoid harm. In Scotland the spirits were impersonated by young men dressed in white with masked, veiled or blackened faces. Samhain was also a time to take stock of food supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. Bonfires played a large part in the festivities. All other fires were doused and each home lit their hearth from the bonfire. The bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames. Sometimes two bonfires would be built side-by-side, and people and their livestock would walk between them as a cleansing ritual."
I don't know what goes on in other parts of Italy, but in Venice, the Day of the Dead is still a big holiday. There are special colorful treats called fave or "beans" in the shop windows. I found an interesting article that appears to be from the early 1900s called "All Soul's Day - Venice" from a website called "Old and Sold."
"There is one old custom connected with this festival of the dead which still survives in Venice, and recalls a Latin, or even an earlier superstition. The pious man in Ovid's " Fast rises at midnight to fling black beans behind his shoulder. Nine times he flung his beans, and then the ghost was laid. The Venetian does not fling away his beans; he eats them. In Venice this custom of eating beans through the octave of All Souls' is extremely ancient. The monks of every cloister in the city used to make a gratuitous distribution of beans on All Souls' Day to any of the poor who chose to come for them. A huge caldron was placed in the middle of the courtyard and the food ladled out to the crowd. The gondoliers did not come with the rest, but had their portion sent down to them at their ferries. This grace was granted to them in consideration of the fact that all the year round they rowed the brothers across the canals for nothing. In-deed, though the custom is almost extinct, they still do so you may sometimes see a brown-cowled friar crossing a ferry with no other payment than a pinch of snuff or a benediction.
As the Venetians grew more wealthy true beans became distasteful to the palates of the luxurious, who were yet unwilling to break through the custom of eating them on All Souls' Day. The pastry cooks saw their opportunity, and invented a small round puff, coloured blue or red or yellow, and hollow inside; these they called fave, or beans; and these are to be seen at this time of the year in all the bakers' windows. If a man should happen to be courting at this season it is customary for him to make a present of a boxful of these fave to his lady. But the pious mind has never been quite at ease under the gastronomic deception; and so, though you may hate beans and keep your hands from them as scrupulously as any pupil of Pythagoras, should your cook chance to be a good Catholic you will assuredly, about the month of November, have beans set before you for dinner in Venice."
For me, there is a way to celebrate each holiday, Halloween, All Saint's Day and the Day of the Dead, though I do share the Church's concern that the commercialism of Halloween could consume the other two days entirely as it seems to have done in the United States -- though I really don't see that happening in Venice since mass at the Basilica was standing-room-only this morning, and the cemetery is always full with people tending tombs every single day of the week, holiday or not. It would be interesting to know how the Day of the Dead was celebrated by the ancient Venetians, and whether masks were involved.
Also buried on the Island of the Dead: Igor Stravinsky, Joseph Brodsky, Jean Schlumberger, Sergei Diaghilev, Luigi Nono, Franco Basaglia and Zoran Mušič
Ciao from Venice,


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Testimony by former Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman confirmed involvement of ousted President Hosni Mubarak in killing protesters, the state-run daily Al-Akhbar reported on Thursday. According to Suleiman, the former president ordered the armed forces and the intelligence services to monitor the protests, the report mentioned. Mubarak also got updates every hour from former interior minister Habib al-Adly on developments.
The prosecution questioned Suleiman in April on the shooting incidents during the protests as well as the wealth of Mubarak and his family.
Suleiman claimed during investigations that Mubarak was aware of every shot fired at Tahrir Square, along with the number of dead and injured including children. Mubarak also knew of the violence practiced by the Interior Ministry in dispersing protesters and running over people with vehicles, according to Suleiman.
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But today I saw a lady whose migraines had changed between pill brands, so I looked them up to see what the difference was between them.
Under side effects one of them listed "temporary infertility".
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
That's amazing! LOL
I am so glad I found youre blog the other day! I've loved what I've read!
Actually, if it's a 100% progesterone pill, it can make your period go away completely after awhile, and then if you go off of them, can take months or even years for the cycle to start normally again. At least that's what I was told when I went on that kind for a little while a few years ago.
HI! I just found your blog today and spent a good hour giggling uncontrollably in my office instead of getting work done. I work for a pharmaceutical company (not as a rep) so some of your posts actually had me in tears.
I'm so happy my first comment has the word PERIOD in it, as I like to make a good first impression. Ha!
Side effect? Well then, what's the "effect" supposed to be?
My guess, another CYA for the women that think they should get pregnant the first cycle that they are off. This is usually followed by wanting a referral to repro-endo.
...and I heard a rumor that Restoril makes you drowsy, too. You'd better check on that.....
Hey, drug manufacturers have to get their jollies some way. Every dot, dash, and period has a be legal in the labeling and package inserts. Imagine lawyer and science writers joy at putting something 'temporary infertility'
as a side-effect for BC.
And the warning on my hairdryer says not to use it while showering...
Who da thunk it?
Side effect? lol
Love it! Not the Pill though it's what gave my migraines in the first place. I was OK for the first nine months on it, but then all hell broke loose and I was swapped on to three other pills which didn't change the situation, and the POP was the worst of all!
I'd say that's good ;)
My sleeping pill bottle says, "May cause drowsiness. Use caution when driving or operating dangerous machinery." Duh.
Who would have thought?!?!
Um, the drowsiness warning on the sleeping pill is there for a very good reason: it can make you drowsy the next day as well. (Dalmane, for one notorious example, had a t-1/2 of something like a week in elderly patients; when they woke up the next morning, assuming they did, they've still got ~80% of what they started with. I'm glad nobody prescribes that anymore.)
Sounds legit to me: It may leave you infertile for a while after you quit taking them. You have to disclose everything you know or you're putting yourself in the lawyer's sights.
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Beefed up cattle markets forecast
An Alice Springs stock agent is predicting cattle markets for central Australian pastoralists will improve over the next few months.
After two good years, cattle producers across the region are holding a lot of stock and are now facing a dry winter.
Jock McPherson says abattoir prices are equal to what they were at the same time last year and he is expecting markets in the south to open up.
"Got to remain positive. I think that there'll be a break in the south," he said.
"They had a terribly dry spring last year and the southern country didn't buy cattle and ... their numbers are depleted.
"I just believe that as time goes on we'll find markets."
He says a lot of cattle are on the market at the moment but prices are holding.
"A lot of people do have cattle in reasonably good condition and the actual abattoir prices right at this point in time, particularly in the south, are equal to what they were last year at this point in time," he said.
"So realistically, maybe not for some of the cows ... certainly for younger cattle and any heavy cattle, the abattoir prices are quite reasonable."
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Designing or updating your business model becomes easier when you think through your offering, monetization, and sustainability. As you work on your business model, keep important tips in mind, ask questions to stay on track, and browse different pricing models to determine what's best for your business.
Generate Ideas with the Business Model Wheel
When you're ready to create and analyze your own business model, jot down your ideas while using the business model wheel. This practical tool is also useful when you revisit the ideas you come up with during your annual planning process. The business model wheel focuses on the following areas:
Market attractiveness: The industry, niche, and customer segment you will sell to.
Unique value proposition: The significance of the opportunity to stand out in the marketplace and how strongly your offering does so.
Profit model: The streams of income created by the offering and the associated margin generated.
Sales performance model: Converting the marketing expectations into actual paying customers.
Ongoing competitive advantage: Creating meaningful differentiation and advantage today and tomorrow.
Innovation factor: Balancing the need to innovate to keep up with competition with your ability to do so.
Pitfall avoidance: Making sure a good model doesn't succumb to regulation, litigation, fads, or excess reliance.
Graceful exit: Creating a model that allows the owner to sell the business for a large sum of money or run it as a CEO Emeritus.
Things to Remember when Designing a Business Model
When designing a business model, you have a lot to remember. Refer to this handy list of business-model reminders to make sure you stay on track:
Different is always better than better. The better mousetrap plan rarely works.
No margin, no mission. Great business models have great margins.
If it's not easy to sell, it's not worth doing.
A surfer doesn't see the wave, and then catch it; she has to guess where the wave will be and paddle in front of it. Many times, getting lucky means guessing early. Wayne Gretzky called this "skating to where the puck is going to be."
Only the market decides which ideas are good.
Most great ideas aren't appreciated by the mainstream until they work. Don't worry about what everyone thinks about your ideas.
Think about your exit strategy as you're building your business model. There's no point building a job.
Questions to Ask Yourself about Your Business Model
If your current business model is no longer effective, it's time to make some changes. When you're designing or re-designing your business model, keep these questions in mind:
Does the model generate margins superior to the competition?
How easily can your idea be copied?
What can you do to slow down the competition?
What happens if a larger competitor copies your idea?
Are you aiming for non-consumers or to have existing customers of a competitor switch to your brand? A is easier than B.
How will you get the product into consumer's hands, and how easy will it be to get consumers to pay for it? Think about Twitter and other great products that couldn't monetize the offering.
How will changes in buying habits, trends, interest rates, increasing competition, and the general economy affect your model?
Ten Pricing Models to Help Raise Margins
Great business models command better margins than the competition. Sometimes, a business model can be improved simply by clever pricing strategies. The list below offers some methods to potentially raise prices and corresponding margins.
Premium pricing: You can't help but think that expensive products are better. Tiffany's, Starbucks, Rolls-Royce, and high-end New York restaurants have used premium pricing to create a perception of luxury to generate high margins.
Penetration pricing: Using artificially low pricing to gain distribution makes sense if you're trying to establish a beachhead or build economies of scale.
Economy pricing: This model uses the perception of thrift. However, just because the product is priced lower than other offerings doesn't mean that margins must be lower. Generic brands earn more for grocery stores than name brands earn. In other instances, economy pricing is necessary to drive the initial sale and thereby secure add-on sales. Low gasoline pricing is needed to secure cigarette and soda sales for instance.
Price skimming: Charging a high price when an item is new or has little competition. As demand and competition increase, prices are lowered. For instance, when DVD players were new to market, they cost around $800. As demand increased, pricing decreased in kind.
Psychological pricing: Human beings can't help but feel that $499 is cheaper than $500. Walmart uses sevens instead of nines because consumers have become savvier.
Product line pricing: For decades, General Motors used the same body style and components to brand the same vehicle under more profitable lines. The Chevy Cavalier, Buick Skyhawk, Pontiac Sunbird, Olds Firenza, and Cadillac Cimarron were virtually the same automobile with differing emblems on the hood.
Optional product-pricing: The base-model or initial purchase is sold at lower margin but related items are sold at much higher margins. Mobile phones have low margins but adaptors and cases have very high margins. A plain cup of Starbucks coffee isn't particularly expensive, but start adding milk, spices, and some froth and it doubles in price.
Captive product pricing: Movie theaters, amusement parks, resorts, and airlines have customers trapped and can charge much higher pricing as a result.
Product-bundle pricing: Microsoft increased overall margins by bundling all its Office software. Southwest is attempting to bundle all the costs of airline travel while other airlines nickel and dime customers. Another example is highly profitable service agreements bundled with copiers and other equipment.
Geographical pricing: If you have a geographic advantage, such as remote markets with little competition, you may be able to charge a premium. Examples include "last gas for 100 miles," and "prices higher in Alaska and Hawaii."


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I hemmed the edges and sewed velcro at 10 inch intervals on the back of the fabric. Then I stapled the other velcro side to the back of the island. I think it makes a huge difference :) The hubby thinks it looks like something out of the 70s but I love it :)
I had some small pieces left over that I wanted to use. I had some small canvas covered frames I got from Big Lots for $2. They had some bland picture on them so I covered them with some left over fabric and ended up with some wall decor :)
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By Ray Fittipaldo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Steelers coach Bill Cowher is anxious to watch veteran running back Duce Staley work with the first-team offense tonight in the preseason home opener against the Minnesota Vikings. Staley only played in five games last season because of a crowded backfield that included Jerome Bettis, whom Staley wanted to see ride off into the sunset.
Staley, 31, had been the starting running back in 2004, the year he signed as a free agent. But he was injured midway through the season and only played in three of the final nine games because of a hamstring injury.
Willie Parker is the unquestioned starter this season, but Staley is vying for the backup job and third-down role against fellow veteran Verron Haynes. Cowher said he has been pleased with Staley's play through the preseason.


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Its definitely the record, and if this is indoors, she will definitely go sub 9:30 2 miles outdoors. Crazy stuff! We're talking a junior who can already win boys meets in many states.
It's "states meets". And you must have a really crappy state if the winner runs 9:30.
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She could win boys state meets.
her 1500 of 4:11 time equates to about a 4:28, so she has already done that.
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She has the tools to go sub 4:30 for the mile before her high school career ends, if not this year!


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Hiya Poutlings
The wonderful Miss Sandylashxx, has previously mentioned the Miss Pregnant pagent that is held… Well, my blog is about something of a similar nature…. pregancy and pageants….
In Houston Texas, this past Thursday 40 expecting mothers all in their third trimester strutted their stuff in the 8th ANNUAL PREGNANT BIKINI PAGENT.
The women in this competition are not only competing who looks the best, pregnant, in a bikini, but their are events throughout the day designed to to "test" their mommy skills too, like the nappy toss and baby change.
Here are some of the contestants!
Now PLEASE bear in mind my opinion is based on my experience of being around pregnant women. I have never been pregnant, so this is possibly incorrect, but I have all the necessities if I wished to be so… I also never wish to be pregnant or have children of my own, so let's just put that out there before I give you my thoughts.
I believe that I understand why these women think its a great idea to enter such a contest, simply because generally speaking due to the change that happens to a womens body during in pregnancy CAN result in the women feeling insecure and unattractive, especially around friends who are still skinny with their social lives and sex lives intact. So, I'm sure it's a fun experience to be around a bunch of other girls going through the same thing.
However, bikini contents can be trashy to begin with (yes, NOT all are, but most of them are…) I have no problem with pregnant women in general, or even a pregnant mommy-to-be in a bikini on the beach… but to parade around and seek attention just before giving birth really gives me the impression that once your new baby starts to get attention you used to get (by parading around in bikinis/generally from your looks) you will start to get jealous of the attention the baby receives, instead of yourself and well, I don't think later on in life or when you are supposed to be "bonding" with the new infant that its going to bode well emotionally with that child.
To be frank, I'm happy these women have the confidence to do this, I simply wouldn't ever have the confidence to this normally, never mind if I happened to be pregnant. It doesn't however mean I anyway condone this type of behaviour, my honest first reaction to seeing these pictures were: WTF A BUNCH BREEDERS, WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU DO THIS, and WHO THE HELL IS THE FATHER OF THAT CHILD? I suppose this type of behaviour feeds the strange and weird pregnancy fetishes?
Anyway, at the end of the pageant, Jennifer Clay, who is 32 weeks pregnany was crowned the winner based on her grace, presentation, and what the judges called "it" factor. In six weeks she'll be getting a crown of completely different kind… So um, well done to her for being beautiful, having good mothering skills (?), having the "it" factor, getting knocked up and well, winning this daft contest, I guess….
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The Truth About Speed Reading
Thorin Klosowski, Gawker Media
Mar 14, 2014, 11.16 AM IST
Speed reading has long been a skill peddled by supposed experts, and recently a slew of cheap apps claiming to teach the technique have put it back in the spotlight. So, let's take a look at the claims of speed reading and if it's really possible to read 1,200 words a minute.
Most of us tend to read at about 200-400 words per minute. Speed readers claim to hit around 1000-1700 words per minute. To get a better idea of whether these claims have research to back them up, I spoke with professor and eye tracking researcher Keith Rayner from the University of California, San Diego.
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Moe>http://www.lifehacker.co.in/life/The...w/31958391.cms"If the Bible is true why don't we have any urns or vessels that like say expires 6/15/300 BC on the bottom?"
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Somebody try this and report back.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...libno?hl=en-US"If the Bible is true why don't we have any urns or vessels that like say expires 6/15/300 BC on the bottom?"
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tl;dr"The efforts of the government alone will never be enough. In the end the people must choose and the people must help themselves" ~ JFK; from his famous inauguration speech (What Democrats sounded like before today's neo-Liberals hijacked that party)
I remember taking a short course in this in high school, long ago. It's not really correct to say a speed-reader really reads 1200 words a minute, he or she just scan 1200 words in the time it takes a regular reader to actually read 300, getting most of the meaning and blowing off the details and qualifications, which can lead to incredible disasters in technical or legal documents. As a method of test preparation, the best I can say about it is that it's better than not reading the material at all.
...Which brings to mind a quip that an SF LTC friend made to me in a staff course where we were both enrolled years ago - "There sure is a lot of reading in this course, if you actually do it."
It actually works quite well on some of the painfully long DU posts like some of Will's, I used the spreed plug in for Chrome."If the Bible is true why don't we have any urns or vessels that like say expires 6/15/300 BC on the bottom?"
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Like Tank, I took a speed reading class in high school. I already was a fairly fast reader. It was difficult for me to use the technique-I lost a lot of my reading comprehension skills when I did, and we were using really easy books, like The Incredible Journey.
I didn't continue to use the speed reading technique, but I think the class made me a more deliberate reader in the long run, and I improved my overall reading comprehension skills in time for college.
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I am going to agree with Jay Carney on this assessment of
Slow Joe Biden often wrong, he is always wrong.
There is an old saying that even a stopped clock is right twice
a day, but this does not apply to Slow Joe Biden.
WASHINGTON — The White House pushed back Wednesday against a harsh critique from former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who in an upcoming memoir accuses Vice President Joe Biden of being wrong on foreign policy and national security issues over the last 40 years.
President Barack Obama did not have much foreign policy experience when he chose Biden, the former longtime chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as his running mate in 2008.
But Gates' criticism follows a long line of complaints from Republicans that Biden has been wrong more often than right.
Republican Mitt Romney in 2008 accused Biden of being "wrong for 30 years;" former George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove in 2010 accused Biden of being "on the wrong end of virtually every foreign policy dispute" since he was elected in the 1970s; and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, in a presidential debate in 2012, said that taking an opinion counter to Biden would ensure accuracy "100 percent of the time."
Republicans say Biden got it wrong in the 1980s when he said that President Ronald Reagan's defense buildup would strengthen the Soviet Union rather than defeat it; that he wrongly opposed the 1991 Persian Gulf War under President George H.W. Bush; was wrong after the 2003 U.S. invasion to champion a controversial proposal to divide Iraq into three regions, for Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites; and was wrong when he opposed the surge of extra troops for Iraq in 2007.
On another, Biden now says he regrets one decision: voting for war in Iraq in 2002.
And Biden acknowledged in 2012 that he had advised Obama against launching the mission that ultimately killed Osama bin Laden.
Gates, in his book, called Obama's decision to order the raid "one of the most courageous decisions I had ever witnessed in the White House."
But his critique of Biden was tough.
The White House sought Wednesday to portray Biden as a trusted presidential adviser, allowing news photographers to shoot Obama and Biden eating lunch together in the president's dining room, as the two paused between a national security briefing and a flurry of meetings with intelligence community leaders and Secretary of State John Kerry. They noted Biden had spoken with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki to pledge U.S. support and aid as his government battles al Qaida-backed insurgents.
Press Secretary Jay Carney said the timing of the luncheon was a coincidence – and that photographers were allowed in as part of the administration's promise to improve press access. And he said Biden routinely attends major national security meetings when he's in town.
Carney said the White House disagrees with Gates' assessment.
"As a senator and as a vice president, Joe Biden has been one of the leading statesmen of his time and he has been an excellent counselor and adviser to the president for the past five years," Carney said, adding that Biden has played a "key role" in every major national security and foreign policy debate in the White House, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
During White House policy debates on Afghanistan, Biden was often portrayed as playing the role of devil's advocate and reportedly pressed for a more rapid withdrawal of troops from the country than Gates and the military had proposed, citing concerns about the strain of the war on the federal budget and growing opposition to the decade-old conflict.
Obama eventually settled on a middle-of-the-road approach between the military's recommendations of a slower drawdown and the push for a faster withdrawal.
Carney said the White House knew Gates, who served under President George W. Bush and Obama, was writing the book, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War," but didn't obtain a copy until Tuesday night. The book is due out Tuesday.
Obama also comes in for criticism in the book. Gates wrote that Obama lost faith in the troop increase he ordered in Afghanistan and it was ultimately "all about getting out" of the country, according to the newspapers that obtained copies of the book.
In a lengthy excerpt published in The Wall Street Journal, Gates called Obama's White House "the most centralized and controlling in national security of any I had seen since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger ruled the roost."
Congress fared even worse.
"Such difficulties within the executive branch were nothing compared with the pain of dealing with Congress," Gates wrote. "I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at fulfilling their basic constitutional responsibilities (such as timely appropriations), micromanagerial, parochial, hypocritical, egotistical, thin-skinned and prone to put self (and re-election) before country."
Biden and Gates did find themselves in agreement at times. Foreign Policy magazine in 2012 – in an article that dubbed Biden the "most powerful U.S. vice president in history save for his immediate predecessor, Dick Cheney" – noted that among other issues, Biden had opposed the intervention in Libya – as did Gates, then the defense secretary.
Biden recently returned from a weeklong trip to Asia, aimed at soothing tensions in the region, an indicator that he's seen as a skilled diplomat by the White House and by key foreign leaders, said Joel Goldstein, a scholar of the vice presidency at the Saint Louis University School of Law.
"They haven't been sending him to peripheral countries where nothing is happening, and that doesn't happen unless the president and his foreign policy team believe he's someone who can handle those missions," said Goldstein. "Of course, anyone who serves 36 years in the Senate and as vice president is going to have some issues they'd like to have a do-over. You don't get always get the easy ones."


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Recap: No. 25 Missouri beats NC State 68-64
RALEIGH, N.C. Missouri coach Frank Haith learned how his 25th-ranked Tigers would respond both to a loss and to a hostile road environment Saturday night.
Jabari Brown hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 55.1 seconds left to help Missouri beat North Carolina State 68-64, rallying from 10 down in the second half to win in its first true road game of the year.
"We wanted to have a game like this going into (Southeastern Conference) play," Haith said. "Obviously we've had some high-level games already: UCLA, Illinois and West Virginia. But those were either at neutral sites or home games, so it was important for us to have a game like this as we move into SEC play."
Things didn't look promising for Missouri for much of the night. The Tigers seemed unable to stop N.C. State leading scorer T.J. Warren. They played what Haith called probably their worst half of the year in the first half. They twice trailed by 10, the second time coming with 8:56 left.
Yet the Tigers hung around until Brown and Jordan Clarkson made the late plays that put Missouri in control.
"Coach just told us to stay composed and keep playing and just do what you do," Clarkson said. "If you knock down 3s, if you rebound, you've just got to keep doing that. We knew the shots were going to fall at the end."
Brown's 3 over Wolfpack freshman Anthony "Cat" Barber was the biggest shot in a back-and-forth final 4 minutes that saw the teams trade the lead three times before Brown's shot made it 63-62.
Brown was 1-for-5 from behind the arc before his big shot.
"I'm comfortable," Brown said. "I've got confidence in myself. Most of my shots weren't falling, so I knew I was bound to hit a couple."
Clarkson scored 21 points to lead the Tigers (11-1), including a three-point play with 3:51 left that gave Missouri its first lead and two free throws with 20.1 seconds left that gave Missouri a 65-62 edge.
Brown finished with 17, while Johnathan Williams hit a free throw with 3.7 seconds left to make it a two-possession game and effectively seal the win.
Missouri was coming off its first setback, a 65-64 loss against Illinois in which the Illini hit two free throws with 4.6 seconds left to spoil the Tigers' perfect start. Beating the surging Wolfpack (9-3) was a good way to bounce back in the team's next-to-last nonconference game before opening SEC play against Georgia on Jan. 8.
As for N.C. State, it was a hard one to swallow.
The Wolfpack had won seven straight games, including a win at SEC member Tennessee 10 days earlier. But after leading 53-43 on freshman Kyle Washington's jumper with 8:56 left, N.C. State just didn't do enough to keep its hold on to a likely win.
Warren, the Atlantic Coast Conference's top scorer at 23.9 points per game, finished with 24 points on 11-for-23 shooting with 13 rebounds. But Warren didn't score for the final 12 minutes and didn't even take a shot in the final 5:50.
"I think we were in control," N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried said. "You've got to give those guys credit. They stepped up and made some big shots. They're difficult to defend because they're so good at going to the basket. You're playing them to drive it because you have to respect their ability to drive the ball to the basket, then they stepped up and made some big-time 3s."
Desmond Lee added 12 points for N.C. State while Washington scored all 10 of his points after halftime. Ralston Turner also had two key 3-pointers during those final minutes after making just one shot to that point.
The first 3 answered Clarkson's three-point play to give N.C. State a 59-57 lead. But Clarkson hit one over Tyler Lewis at the 2:55 mark to put Missouri back up 60-59.
Turner followed with another 3 that put the Wolfpack up 62-60 with 1:39 left, only to see Brown respond with the go-ahead shot.
The Wolfpack has plenty to regret after this one. In addition to Warren's quiet finish, Barber had a chance to put N.C. State back in front moments after Brown's 3 only to come up short on the front end of a 1-and-1 opportunity at the foul line with 26.8 seconds left.
Clarkson followed with his two free throws to push the lead to three, then Tony Criswell added two more that made it 67-62 with 7.4 seconds left.


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At least it doesn't say "Learn how parts relate to holes."
- January 3, 2011 at 6:45 AM
I feel like a lot of the discussion on Leiter's blog (and elsewhere) regarding APA interviews has unjustifiably bound non-APA interviews to Skype. But it's not obvious that Skype/video interviews are necessarily superior to phone interviews. So, let me ask:
What are the reasons for preferring Skype/video interviews over phone interviews? And do those reasons apply for both one-on-one interviews and interviews with committees of 2-5 people?
- January 3, 2011 at 2:43 PM
- Mr. Zero said...
It has been my experience that interviewing via Skype/videoconference is way, way better than interviewing over the phone. This is because you can see the people, which has (at least) the following benefits: it helps you know who's who; it helps you know who it is that's talking to you at any given time; it helps you keep track of who said what over the course of the interview; and it helps you to avoid the thing where you start talking at the same time as someone else, and then you both realize it and stop talking at the same time, then you both realize the other has stopped talking and start talking again at the same time, and it's really awkward and weird and feels like you did something wrong even though you didn't. Also, in my experience, Skype's sound quality is vastly better than that of your average speakerphone system.
It is true that these benefits don't apply as much if you're only talking to one person. But every tenure-track job interview I've ever had has involved at least two, if not six, interviewers. As have almost all the non-TT ones.
- January 3, 2011 at 3:20 PM
I've not interviewed by Skype, but I have been interviewed by phone, and like Mr Zero says, it is hard to talk to a group of people by phone. Not impossible, but hard. Now, having used Skype to talk to individuals, I found that the two people talking at the same time problem happens there too, maybe because there is a tiny delay in Skype transmission. But being able to see who is talking in a group situation makes Skype somewhat better than phone.
That being said, I have my current job as a result of a phone interview (with one person), and most of my colleagues were hired the same way, and we are a remarkably collegial and congenial group, and nobody turns out to be utterly crazy or jerkwaddy or unhygienic or whatever else a face-to-face interview is supposed to prevent.
- January 4, 2011 at 8:13 AM
The reasons given thus far for preferring Skype over phone interviews only seem to apply to interviews involving multiple SC members. But I'm curious as to whether interviews necessarily need to take that form.
One of my interviews in Boston was canceled. As an alternative, the SC decided to use a series of one-on-one phone interviews (i.e. each candidate had a separate phone interview with each of three committee members). I thought this was great. The interviews felt like normal, productive phone conversations. This by itself made them preferable to the unaffordable, inconvenient, noisy ballroom interviews at the APA. Importantly, though, the one-on-one phone interviews also seemed far superior to a Skype interview, with all of the unfamiliarity that entails for most of the parties involved.
Maybe interviewing candidates via a series of one-on-one phone conversations isn't feasible for all committees. But, for those which can, this is obviously the easiest, most convenient, least expensive way to conduct first-round interviews. It also avoids the concerns raised about the role of physical appearance (esp. for women) at this stage in the interview process.
- January 4, 2011 at 1:30 PM
I agree that Skype interview is better because both interviewer and interviewee can SEE when to shut up. With phone interviews, the audiences need a short period of silence before knowing that they can start to talk.
It also helps when one can see the facial expression of the interviewer and know who to address for a particular question. I once had a phone interview with 7 people, although they tell me their names before they spoke, I could hardly keep track of the names and the voices! There was a short period of silence when I finished discussing my dissertation,(presumably because they did not know that I was done.This make it a tiny bit awkward.
That said, I have to admit that camera adds 10 pounds.
- January 4, 2011 at 2:05 PM
- BunnyHugger said...
I have done several phone interviews that involved several committee members. I got my current job on the basis of one of them. I don't find it bad at all. In fact, because I am somewhat insecure about my appearance, I felt a bit more confident in my phone interviews.
- January 4, 2011 at 7:20 PM
Well off topic, but how's this for a PFO (found on Worst Professor Ever)?
- January 5, 2011 at 9:16 AM
As a member of a search committee, I'd rather use Skype than the phone, but only because I can then see the various applicants. It's tough to discriminate against people based on race and general physical ugliness if I can't see what they look like.
Head shots would be a nice option, but HR seems to frown on them.
- January 8, 2011 at 10:14 AM
I ask for physical measurements including member size, both flacid and erect. This gives me a better sense of who the candidate is.
- January 8, 2011 at 5:37 PM
Off topic but of interest.
This is the info on the APA online paper submission page:
2010 Eastern Division Meeting
Boston, MA
Start date: 12/27/2010
End date: 12/30/2010
Eastern Division Meeting
Washington D.C., DC
Start date: 12/31/2010
End date: 02/16/2011
The Boston meeting is over but they still have it up there.
The dates posted for this meeting suggest that "start date" and "end date" refer to the dates of the meeting. But then why do they have 02/16/2011 for the D.C. meeting? And we can be sure the D.C. meeting won't start on 12/31/2010.
Can't they do anything right?
- January 9, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Anon 10:45. I believe those dates are for submitting a paper. You have from the 31st of December to the middle of February to submit a paper for the 2011 Eastern.
- January 9, 2011 at 9:08 PM