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The usual suspects placed bets on this year's most competitive races
November 28, 2018 | Winning Democratic challengers and losing incumbent Republicans drew from very different sources of funding during the 2018 election.
Lobbying spending hits historic lows
October 23, 2017 | Note: Some lobbyists file after the quarterly deadline. Visit our lobbying page for the most current data. Washington lobbying groups spent less money and reported fewer lobbyists during the third quarter of 2017 than in any quarter since at least 2008, when Center for Responsive Politics began tracking the data. Congress spent the summer considering…
Quality over quantity: Lobbying expenses continue to rise, but with fewer lobbyists
August 1, 2017 | Note: Since some lobbyists file after the quarterly deadline, visit our lobbying summary for the most recent data. For the past five years — with the exception of a dip in 2016 — spending on lobbying in the first six months has been steadily increasing. Overall spending for the first six months of 2017 amounts…
GOP senators opposing the BCRA don't have many friends in the health care industry
June 30, 2017 | The list of GOP senators unhappy with the initial draft of the Republican health care bill continues to grow. Before Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) decided to postpone the vote, six GOP senators announced they would vote against it. Since then, that number has doubled. Due to McConnell's pushback, the Senate will not vote on…
Trump's "beachhead" teams host dozens of former lobbyists
March 24, 2017 | Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has been mired in questions about his investments in the healthcare industry. As it turns out, some of the people helping him get grounded at the department are also prompting questions about their ties with the industry. Lance Leggitt, a lobbyist at Baker Donelson since 2006, was named…
Clinton may have pneumonia, but her funding from the health industry is robust
September 16, 2016 | Many Americans, understandably, want to elect a healthy president. With Hillary Clinton's recent pneumonia diagnosis, the media has increased its focus on the relative health of both Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump as the presidential race enters its final two months. When considering contributions from employees and PACs in the health sector, though, it's…
Walgreens, a top retail sales lobbying client, looks to merge with Rite Aid
October 28, 2015 | Two of the country's biggest drug store chains are set to combine, bringing thousands of stores under one red-and-white logo. Walgreens Boots Alliance announced a deal on Tuesday to buy Rite Aid Corp. for $17.2 billion, including $7.8 billion in debt. The companies, two of the three largest pharmacy chains in the nation, are looking…
McCarthy dominates Chaffetz and Webster in fundraising, party giving
October 6, 2015 | House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) may not be the least giving House speaker candidate, but favorite Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) still dwarfs him in fundraising by $22 million. On Thursday, Republicans will choose among Chaffetz, McCarthy and Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) to replace Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) as leader of the…
Pharmaceutical industry, under scrutiny for prices, has history of big political wins
October 2, 2015 | Since 1999, pharmaceuticals/health products has poured more money annually into lobbying than any other industry, including $229 million last year alone. PhRMA led the group, plowing $16.6 million into helping advance drugmakers' priorities in Washington.
A few new faces — but not many — among megadonors to presidential super PACs
August 1, 2015 | The 2016 presidential race may be a whole new ballgame in terms of fundraising, but most of the players' names are awfully familiar — even if their faces are a bit more lined. Very few of the top donors to the super PACs backing one of the many GOP White House hopefuls or the handful…
PhRMA companies push hard on House bill to ease testing of new drugs
June 16, 2015 | Pharmaceutical interests are pushing hard in favor of a bill that could speed up Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of new drugs. But the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act, which was approved last month by the the House Energy and Commerce Committee (the members of which have all sponsored the bill) and could reach the House floor by…
Waning Influence? Part 3: Ups and Downs, by Industry
December 22, 2014 | This report is the third (part 1/part 2) in a series examining the years-long decline in both spending on lobbyists and the number of active lobbyists. Overall spending on lobbying has been on a downward trajectory since 2010 and the number of active lobbyists has seen an even longer-term and more drastic drop. Previous entries…
Divided We Stand
January 28, 2014 | State of the Union -- 9 p.m. tonight. But Obama's list of 2014 priorities may sound a lot like last year's roster, due in part to a deadlocked Congress that produced a historic year of inaction.
Spending on Lobbying Keeps Slipping
October 31, 2013 | Only 20 of the 90 industries CRP tracks upped its lobbying expenditures from the second quarter of 2013 to the third, while 69 spent less.
Big Pharma Shrinks Peddling of Big Influence
July 23, 2013 | In the first quarter of 2013, Big Pharma spent more than $66.5 million on lobbying -- more than any other industry. But its lobbying efforts in the second quarter shrunk dramatically; at least two companies spent less than half what they paid out from January through March.
Obama Keeps Most Major Contributors, Not Finance
November 14, 2012 | In the end, Obama kept most of his top donors from 2008. Wall Street was the striking exception.
Mixed Results for Challengers That Outraised Incumbents
November 7, 2012 | Some winning challengers yesterday had a cash advantage to neutralize the incumbent advantage, though a couple of races where challengers won the fundraising battle are still too close to call.
Pharma, Utilities and Big Ag Lead Lobbying in 2012
April 27, 2012 | Pharmaceuticals, utilities and big agriculture have led the lobbying charge so far this year, according to preliminary figures from latest lobbying disclosures.
OpenSecrets.org Details What Special Interest Groups Spent Most on Third-Quarter Lobbying
October 31, 2011 | During the third quarter of 2011, more than 10,000 individual lobbyists actively worked to advance the interests of their clients and monitored political developments in the nation's capital. That's roughly 20 lobbyists for every member of Congress.
Finance Sector Loves Tim Pawlenty, Whirlpool Loves Tax Credits and More in Capital Eye Opener: March 22
March 22, 2011 | Republican Tim Pawlenty, who yesterday launched a presidential exploratory committee, built a massive war chest during the 2010 election cycle to aid fellow Republicans. Who was fueling this money machine?
Google, Facebook Lead New Generation of Technology Companies Pressing Government for Favorable Treatment
February 17, 2011 | For Google and Facebook, the president serving as their pitchman is indicative of their meteoric rise both outside and within Washington, D.C. And it marks how the political landscape has rapidly shifted for computer and Internet companies, with Washington nonentities of just a few years ago now ranking among the most prominent players in the capital.
Top Industries Put Brakes On Federal Lobbying Spending During Third Quarter
November 18, 2010 | Despite expending massive sums of money, some of the industries most active in lobbying the 111th Congress slowed their spending during this year's third quarter in the face of the midterm elections and a changing political tide, according to a Center for Responsive Politics analysis of federal data.
Which Industries Won and Lost in Election 2010?
November 10, 2010 | Imagine that every member of Congress represents the industry or special interests that have contributed the most to his or her campaign coffers. Which industries and special interests, then, lost or won seats in Congress during the 2010 midterm election?
OpenSecrets Blog PolitiQuizz: How Much Did it Cost to Run a Successful Congressional Campaign in 2006?
November 1, 2010 | With Election Day looming for the most expensive midterm election cycle in history, this week's PolitiQuizz asks you to take a look back at what it cost, on average, to win a seat in Congress in 2006 – the most expensive midterm cycle ever prior to 2010.
Tea Party-Loving Republican Senate Candidates Propelled by Cash from Ideological Groups, Small Donors
October 7, 2010 | Thirteen Tea Party-backed Republicans want the U.S. Senate to experience a new brand of political brew after November 2. The question isn't whether they will or won't, but rather, how many of them will be in office? And donations from people making modest campaign contributions appear poised to play an integral role in propelling them into office.
Federal Lobbying Boom Continues, Third Quarter Reports Indicate
October 30, 2009 | 2009 is on pace to be another bumper year for lobbyists. During the third quarter, corporations, unions, trade associations and other special interests spent $849 million on federal lobbying, bringing the year-to-date total to $2.5 billion. Perhaps not surprisingly, the sectors that could be affected most by the Obama administration's domestic agenda -- particularly health, business and energy -- have been some of the biggest spenders over the course of the year.
Health Interests, Lobbyists Rank High Among Industries Increasing Campaign Contributions
August 19, 2009 | Political action committees and individuals associated with health industries, each of which are intimately involved in the nation's ongoing health care reform debate, are donating more to federal candidates during the second quarter of 2009 than the first quarter, according to a Center for Responsive Politics analysis.
Health, Energy and Finance Sectors Dominate 2nd Quarter Lobbying
July 29, 2009 | Want to launch your own investigation into second quarter lobbying expenditures? Start here.
Congressional Lawmakers Invest in Their (Financial) Health
July 9, 2009 | As members of Congress assess the proper dose of reform for the nation's health care system, many of them have likewise invested hundreds of thousands of dollars of their personal funds into the very companies whose financial fortunes depend on what measures become law.
Will $1.2 Million a Day Convince Congress to Buy Big Pharma's Rx for Change?
June 25, 2009 | In the first three months of 2009, the pharmaceutical and health products industry has spent more than $66.5 million on lobbying–an amount that translates into $1.2 million every day Congress has been in session. Just how much influence will that amount buy?
Time Line of Big Pharma's Legislative Influence
June 25, 2009 | Over the years, the pharmaceutical industry has used its clout to position itself for legislative wins that have brought in billions of dollars. Below is a time line with 10 examples of the industry's influence at work.
Blue Dog Bark Backed by Insurers
June 25, 2009 | There's a particular breed of lawmaker on Capitol Hill that is pushing hard against a public health care plan, much to the delight of two seriously moneyed special interest groups-insurers and pharmaceuticals. They're the Blue Dogs: moderate, vocal and funded in part by the industries trying to protect their bottom line.
Diagnosis: Reform
June 17, 2009 | For some individuals, how Congress aims to reform America's health care system is literally a matter of life and death. For some industries, it could mean the difference between weathering the economic storm or shuttering their businesses. Over the next month, Capital Eye will be following the money as the various special interest groups continue to play politics in response to Congress's health reform proposals. Follow the month-long series here.
Not Quite the Hard-Knock Life on K Street
April 30, 2009 | Given all of the variables, measuring the impact of the economy on K Street isn't exactly a science. But the Center for Responsive Politics has conclusively found that lobbying during the first three months of 2009 has actually increased slightly compared to the same period of time last year. Here you can check out how much which industries and clients have spent the most on lobbying so far this year and which have increased or decreased the most since the start of 2008.
Washington Lobbying Grew to $3.2 Billion Last Year, Despite Economy
January 29, 2009 | While companies across the board were losing record amounts of money and laying off employees last year, at least one industry seemed to weather the recession: lobbying. Special interests paid Washington lobbyists $3.2 billion in 2008, more than any other year on record and a 13.7 percent increase from 2007, CRP has found. Corporations in the finance, insurance and real estate sector and automotive industry actually slowed or decreased their lobbying spending overall last year, relying instead on trade associations to represent them.
Power Players: With Health Sector's Money Supporting Him, Baucus Offers Prescription for Reform
January 23, 2009 | As chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., is a target for campaign contributions from Wall Street and the health sector. He's outlined his own vision for health care reform and his committee will have to decide if the overhaul is fiscally possible.
Professors Spent Their Summer Vacations Giving to Obama
August 26, 2008 | While school was out, college professors and other educators were putting money into Barack Obama's presidential campaign, according to a new analysis of the Democratic nominee's summer fundraising. Educators contributed at least $2.3 million to his campaign in June and July, surpassed only by lawyers, who make up Obama's top-giving industry since the campaign's start, and retirees.
Another Record Year for Lobbying
April 10, 2008 | Corporations, industries, labor unions, governments and other interests spent a record $2.79 billion in 2007 to lobby for favorable policies in Washington, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics has calculated.
Congress Has Wealth to Weather Economic Downturn
March 13, 2008 | As Americans worry about their own finances, their elected representatives in Washington—with a collective net worth of $3.6 billion—are mostly in good shape to withstand a recession.
Biggest Donors Are Digging Deeper for '08
November 15, 2007 | Top industries and interest groups have increased their giving over 2004 by 46 percent, Center finds. As money shifts to Democrats, giving from Republican strongholds is mostly flat.
State of the Union Preview
January 22, 2007 | Global warming, the Iraq war and balancing the budget are likely to be among the issues the president addresses. By Lindsay Renick Mayer January 22, 2007 | When President Bush takes the podium on Tuesday night to deliver his annual address, he will do so before a nation that is far less supportive of his…
New Web Tools Track Congressional Finances and Travel
October 10, 2006 | Easy-to-search databases add to free offerings of award-winning OpenSecrets.org ____________________ The non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics has added two new features to its award-winning money-in-politics Web site, OpenSecrets.org. One database details more than $2.4 billion in assets reported by members of Congress, the president and other top federal officials, making their personal financial disclosures fully…
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The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) on June 9 submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regarding its proposed rule on mandatory reporting of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The rule calls for covered sources emitting over 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent per year to report emissions of a number of GHGs, according to a press release.
This ruling would directly affect active and closed landfills and waste-to-energy (WTE) plants. As currently written, these solid waste operations would be required to begin reporting emissions on Jan. 1, 2010. In order to comply with these regulations, many would have to install new continuous emissions monitoring equipment.
In its letter, SWANA expressed many potential concerns with the rule but mainly focused on the continuous monitoring of emissions from solid waste operations as well as the relatively quick start date for reporting.
"Many solid waste operations are already reporting emissions data for a number of regulatory programs, including existing climate programs and registries," said John Skinner, executive director and chief executive officer of SWANA. "More integration and coordination is needed with other similar programs throughout the United States so that the burden of additional reporting and monitoring may be reduced," Skinner added.
The reporting rule is written to require continuous emissions monitoring of CO2 from WTE plants and suggest the option of continuously monitoring methane from landfills. This monitoring method does not improve the accuracy of the information being reported and SWANA requested the agency change the rule to allow for monthly reporting of emissions instead.
The proposed requirement to begin collecting data on Jan. 1, 2010 may be appropriate for industries already reporting air quality emissions. However, SWANA said it is too early for many facility operators who will need to train staff and install new monitoring equipment, etc. SWANA recommends that EPA have a start date of Jan. 1, 2011 with this first year constituting a phase-in period to establish and confirm sampling and analysis protocols, and Jan. 1, 2012 as the date when inventories will bear the full scrutiny of EPA. This is the approach that has been taken in the California AB-32 program.

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Police And Courts Regularly Abusing Wiretapping Laws To Arrest People For Filming Cops Misbehaving In Public Places
from the to-protect-and-serve? dept
However, apparently this sort of thing is becoming all too common -- and stunningly, many courts are siding with the cops. Gizmodo recently had a good article highlighting how police in states that require all parties to consent to recordings have been using this law against being videotaped in public, and the courts are siding with them. What's really scary is that most of those laws even have clearly written exceptions for recording in public places "where no expectation of privacy" exists.
Yet, the police and the courts both seem to ignore that part of those laws:
The courts, however, disagree. A few weeks ago, an Illinois judge rejected a motion to dismiss an eavesdropping charge against Christopher Drew, who recorded his own arrest for selling one-dollar artwork on the streets of Chicago. Although the misdemeanor charges of not having a peddler's license and peddling in a prohibited area were dropped, Drew is being prosecuted for illegal recording, a Class I felony punishable by 4 to 15 years in prison.That last sentence is the real problem here. Two-party consent laws were clearly designed to be used in situations where someone was being recorded privately -- such as over a phone call, or in a private conversation. When police are doing things (especially questionable activities) out in public, we should be encouraging the public to record those incidents and report them. The laws are being abused to try to stop people from whistleblowing on bad behavior by police. That has nothing to do with the purpose of two-party consent laws. It's really scary that the courts didn't immediately throw out these cases.
In 2001, when Michael Hyde was arrested for criminally violating the state's electronic surveillance law -- aka recording a police encounter -- the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld his conviction 4-2. In dissent, Chief Justice Margaret Marshall stated, "Citizens have a particularly important role to play when the official conduct at issue is that of the police. Their role cannot be performed if citizens must fear criminal reprisals...." (Note: In some states it is the audio alone that makes the recording illegal.)
The selection of "shooters" targeted for prosecution do, indeed, suggest a pattern of either reprisal or an attempt to intimidate.


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OCCUPY THIS!WND Exclusive
'Anonymous' plans for 'violent revolution'
Hacking group that helped protests warns of 'bloody mess'
The hackers known as "Anonymous," who helped organize and support the Occupy movement's protests, have released an online survivor guide for citizens "in case of a violent revolution in your country."
The guide warns protests can be a "bloody mess." It trains rioters on how to avoid tear gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition.
The 15-page PDF document claims police will not help protesters and may actually be enemies of the revolution while warning that protest groups may be infiltrated by "fake civilians."
The Anonymous survival guide was published just before the hacker group claimed Sunday to have stolen thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to clients of U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor.
"Red Army: The Radical Network that must be defeated to save America" exposes the extremists behind Occupy Wall Street along with the radical socialist network that seized political power in Washington over decades, shaped Obama's presidential agenda and threatens the very future of the U.S.
Anonymous has promised more infiltrations and hacker jobs, saying it has "enough targets lined up to extend the fun fun fun of LulzXmas through the entire next week."
The group previously claimed responsibility for attacks on major credit card and Internet companies. It has warned it may try to disrupt the U.S. and global banking infrastructure.
"This Guide is for civilians who feel they are about to be caught up in a violent uprising or revolution to overthrow the oppressive government of their country," begins the Anonymous survival kit.
"Although a revolution in favor of the people is a joyful thing when seen from the
outside, it can be a bloody mess for those inside it," continued the kit.
The survival guide was distributed for download this past weekend by Anonymous' assorted Twitter and Facebook pages.
The guide warned citizens to be wary of those in positions of authority, stating that "in a full scale revolution the police will not help you or may even be your enemy depending on the situation."
"Band together into small squads of known friends. That way you recognize infiltrators, like fake civilians, as was seen at the G20 summit in Canada," the guide continued.
The guide's index boasts 15 sections with such titles as "How to deal with violent riots;" "First aid kit;" "Food and water;" and "Your safety when confrontations are unavoidable."
Some of the guide's main suggestions for rioters include:
- Don't panic, stay cool headed.
- Take a break and rest if your body needs to relax, lack of sleep is a major weakening factor.
- Avoid consuming mind altering substances like alcohol and drugs. They will cloud your judgment and ability to think and act rationally. You are also arming the regime with propaganda that the crowd is made up of a bunch of intoxicated rioters. Don't allow your movement to be portrayed in an unfavorable light.
The Anonymous guide urges citizens to find a secure water supply and purchase long-lasting foods such as canned goods, rice, dry grains, potatoes, noodles, dried pasta or lentils.
It suggests protesters arm themselves with cameras, including video phones, but warns those with recorders to "be covert because journalists are prone to be attacked."
The guide offers tips on how to avoid tear gas, including moving against the wind and wearing synthetic fibers. To deflect rubber bullets, the guide suggests the use of trash can lids as shields and skiing, motorcycle or motocross equipment to soften the impact.
In the event live ammunition is fired into the crowd the guide suggests an immediate retreat.
"In general the final stage of defense for a government is to use live ammunition against its citizens. If it is used the regime is nearing its end," the guide says.
Anonymous 'helped found Occupy'
Although Anonymous was founded several years before Occupy, the hacker group has been helping to organize and support the anti-Wall Street movement while evidencing Occupy ideology in its own literature.
Anonymous reportedly even helped found Occupy by setting up a secure site for a collaboration called A99, which first published a laundry list of demands in March that became the main gripes of Occupy.
That collaboration was initiated by activist David DeGraw with his 2010 book, "The Economic Elite vs. The People of the United States." Anonymous reportedly contacted DeGraw to help after his movement's site, then known as AmpedStatus.com, was repeatedly taken down by cyberattacks.
Anonymous has since pledged numerous times to aid Occupy, including with promises of flooding the central banking system, NASDAQ, the New York Stock Exchange, the Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs.
The group even warned it would target the New York Police Department, claiming police brutality against protesters.
Wrote Anonymous on September 23: "We will constitute a declaration of war against the NYPD if the brutality does not stop. If we hear of brutality in the next 36 hours, then we will take you down from the Internet."
Anonymous took credit for several YouTube videos in support of Occupy, including one this past August promising it would mobilize 20,000 people in lower Manhattan.
Sean Captain, a reporter for Wired.com, summed up the goal of Anonymous: "To this day, the real role of anonymous is the same as it has been from the beginning – Publicize the Occupy Wall Street protests as much as possible."
Captain noted that AnonOps Communications, billing itself as "only dedicated to reporting news about Anonymous," has been covering virtually nothing but the Occupy protests since September 16. The protests also dominate the Anonymous site YourAnonNews.
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Wikileaks, Intermediary Chokepoints And The Dissent Tax
from the getting-past-the-choke-points dept
What the Wikileaks furor shows us is that a dissent tax is emerging on the Internet. As a dissident content provider, you might have to fight your DNS provider. You might need to fund large-scale hosting resources while others can use similar capacity on commercial servers for a few hundred dollars a year. Fund-raising infrastructure that is open to pretty much everyone else, including the KKK, may not be available. This does not mean that Wikileaks cannot get hosted, as it is already well-known and big, but what about smaller, less-famous, less established, less well-off efforts? Will they even get off the ground?This does such a nice job of summarizing the point I'd been trying (and probably failing) to make over the past few weeks that it's worth reading again. Of course, the real question is what happens next. And what we're seeing is that the response is for a lot of smart people to start looking at all these chokepoints that have created that dissent tax, and look for ways to route around them, and build more distributed, more censor-proof infrastructure pieces, such that any such dissent taxes in the future will be minimized.
These developments should alarm every concerned citizen, even those who are thoroughly disgusted by Wikileaks. This is the issue that the Wikileaks furor has exposed, not nerd ideology. This is the story and likely will be more important than the release of diplomatic cables (which were already available to millions of people) through major newspapers after scrutiny by journalists. This question will stay with us even if Wikileaks dissolves, and Julian Assange is never heard from again.


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Tubby Time! Baby & Infant Bathtubs
My seven-month-old daughter is in transition. Too big for the much-loved Infant Bather Pad, she has now graduated to a big plastic blue thing, which we are not as enamored with. Very hard edges, not enough support, it's really big, etc. Both were hand-me-downs so we can't complain (theoretically) but we have been trying to figure out our next step in her bathing adventures.
Towel on the bathtub floor? The old kitchen sink? Or another tub? I figured I would take a look and see if there have been any advances in tub technology since big blue. Here is what I found. Click through the images above with links to where you can learn more or purchase.
Have a favorite bath tub to recommend? Let us know in the comments.


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Top chances and game-by-game information: Your comprehensive Brownlow guide
Richmond star Dustin Martin, already the winner of the AFLPA MVP prize and a string of other awards, is as close to over the line in the Brownlow Medal count as you can get.
Martin soared into hot favouritism after Patrick Dangerfield became ineligible late in the season.
Reigning winner Dangerfield could yet still poll the most votes but it would take a monumental upset for Martin to miss out on the prestigious individual award.
Our comprehensive guide has a summary of every game including votes from Age experts and profiles of the likely top vote-winners and smokies at all 18 clubs.


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The gorgeous Tony Duquette collaboration with Coach doesn't arrive in stores until February 1st—but if you can't wait that long, you can order it online at Coach.com starting tomorrow, January 18th. Check out some of our favorite pieces from the collection—major, colorful statement jewelry—after the jump!
"Duquette defines what it means to be over the top," Coach's President and Executive Creative Director Reed Krakoff said in a statement. "He lived and created with a sense of wit, irreverence and abandon I admire."
From the 1940s until his death in 1999, Duquette was an award-winning designer to the stars—creating sets and costumes for movie studios and Broadway theaters as well as stunning statement jewelry pieces. This Coach collection was created in collaboration with Tony Duquette Inc. but culling inspiration from the designer's archives and favorite motifs—"sunbursts, exotic koi, spikes, bright colors." A "more is more" aesthetic, for sure.
Pieces are priced from $48 (for the ladybug stick pin) up to $498 (for the pink and red crystal bracelet, not shown here). The collection comprises more than 20 pieces made from amethyst, rock crystal, malachite, and rose quartz set alongside Swarovski crystals.
Which Tony Duquette for Coach piece is your favorite?
Photos courtesy of Coach
· Coach collaborates with blogger Fashion Foie Gras
· Why your purse may be making you depressed


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BNI Elite Business Networking Breakfast
BNI Elite Calgary Chapter
Event Details
BNI Elite is one of the most long standing BNI Chapters in southern Alberta. Over 19 years strong, Elite attracts the top players in their respective industries, making membership in this Chapter highly-sought after.
We pass referrals and closed business every Thursday morning over breakfast and have a great time doing it. We would love for you to join us!
What can you expect? You will meet energetic business people building their marketing team over breakfast. Our goal is to help one another grow our businesses and we are looking to do business with a variety of industries and professionals who are the best at what they do.
What are we looking for? To be right up front, we are in hot pursuit of a: Printer, Landscaper & Accupuncturist, among other industries, to join our Team. Do you know someone in one of these industries that simply shines above the rest? We want to do business with them. We would be delighted if you would share this invite with them and attend our Chapter meeting.
When & Where
Willow Park Golf Course
639 Willow Park Dr SE
BNI Elite Calgary Chapter
What is BNI?
BNI's mission is to help members increase their business through a structured, positive and professional word-of-mouth program that enables them to develop long-term, meaningful relationships with quality business professionals
91% of business owners say that networking is their most effective means of generating new business. Do you have a systemized referral program in place for your organization?
BNI is the world's largest referral marketing organization with over 148,000 members in more than 50 countries globally. BNI members meet weekly to network and help each other generate new business. Since its inception in 1985, BNI members have passed over 17 million referrals resulting in over $18 billion in business transactions.
Register and visit our Chapter! It will be a breakfast meeting you will love attending!


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Tropical cyclone forecast error charts - southern hemisphere
The graphs below show a variety of measures of forecast errors and forecast skill for the Met Office global model forecasts of tropical cyclones in the southern hemisphere.
For those not familiar with the types of error statistics used in tropical cyclone forecast assessment and their sign conventions a diagrammatic explanation is available.
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Arsenal will meet Tottenham Hotspur in the pick of the FA Cup Third Round ties.
The draw had been relatively kind to the Premier League big guns - until Andre Villas-Boas' side were forced to make the trip to the Emirates Stadium for a huge north London derby.
Both sides have already met this season, with the Gunners claiming a 1-0 victory at home back in September.
Liverpool were the first big name out, and they could face a repeat of last year's shock exit against Oldham Athletic - if they beat Mansfield Town in a replay. This season, it will be at Anfield however.
West Ham will travel to face Nottingham Forest, whilst holders Wigan Athletic host MK Dons as they look to retain their trophy with a run to Wembley.
Manchester United face a tricky challenge at home to Swansea City, and David Moyes will be looking for some rest-bite with a positive Cup run.
Manchester City will make a tricky trip to Blackburn Rovers, and Everton will meet QPR in a tie that's far from easy for Roberto Martinez.
Chelsea face a very tricky trip to Championship side Derby County side, whilst three of the remaining four non-league teams were handed home ties.
FA Cup: Third Round draw (in full):
Barnsley v Hartlepool United or Coventry City
Yeovil Town v Leyton Orient
Liverpool v Oldham Athletic or Mansfield Town
Nottingham Forest v West Ham United
Bristol City v Watford
Southend United v Millwall
Middlesbrough v Hull City
West Bromwich Albion v Crystal Palace
Kidderminster Harriers v Peterborough United
Doncaster Rovers v Stevenage
Stoke City v Leicester City
Southampton v Burnley
Newcastle United v Cardiff City
Rochdale v Leeds United
Wigan Athletic v MK Dons
Charlton Athletic v Wrexham or Oxford United
Manchester United v Swansea City
Port Vale v Plymouth Argyle
Norwich City v Fulham
Aston Villa v Sheffield United
Macclesfield Town v Sheffield Wednesday
Sunderland v Carlisle United
Bolton Wanderers v Blackpool
Blackburn Rovers v Manchester City
Everton v QPR
Brighton & Hove Albion v Reading
Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur
Birmingham City v Bristol Rovers or Crawley Town
Grimsby Town v Huddersfield Town
Ipswich Town v Preston North End
Derby County v Chelsea
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There is a swath of the youngest members of Gen Y that love Tumblr. They're extremely creative and have trouble seeing the difference between traditional disciplines like graphic design, photography, film, or music, in their own prolific creations or in that of others. Their love of the reblog and the like button is powering a new wave of artists with the same DIY, cross-discipline and cross-genre ethos.
The Internet is the world's most crowded record store; it's impossible to stand out. We're on computers so profusely that it isn't a big leap of the imagination to combine any two existing genres, and in fact this is almost cost of entry nowadays. Even a dubstep RnB singer may not stand out much longer. To reach these kids, you need to be a constant source of your own multi-platform narrative. There is no better forum for this than tumblr. Producing content is key, and the ability to tie a narrative together over video, music, and visuals will help your story get passed around by eager future art students.
But being merely proficient at CS3 and Final Cut Pro and taking influences from multiple sources will not get your free MP3 album on every blog in the universe. It takes a special sauce: mystery. A cryptic mythos. Secrets. Layers.
It started to become clear to me that this would be a key tool in the future of music marketing storytelling when MIA began seeding animated GIFs to promote her album and then went so far as to wrap her whole follow-up in Wikileaks-inspired symbology. Then came James Blake, who was an extremely obscure source of outsider-y electronic explorations until he came out of his shell and decided he wanted to be a pop star. Odd Future, of course, is the biggest and most successful example of leveraging a Tumblr shtick into a phenomenon. They simply will not tell anyone where Earl Sweatshirt, their best rapper, is, and the longer they wait the more irresistible the question becomes.
Enter the crypto-RnB group The Weeknd. No one knows who they are. All we know is they make pointedly stylish content across all the hippest digital channels and have an impeccably curated presence. Oh, and they make music so perfect for the Tumblr moment I almost think it was designed in a lab. Or in the office of a very savvy new media marketing agency.
But really it was just on some kid's MacBook.
The Weeknd is a Master's course in building an engaging presence for the cool kids. They created their own language, like Odd Future, both visual and verbal. The use of "XO" appears everywhere, but kinda means nothing. It's just a symbol. A symbol for The Weeknd that can be used across platforms, across posts, across media. Next is the visual signs that whisper, "You're seeing something created by The Weeknd": always black and white, women with faces obscured and a lot of balloons. These clues signal the band and its seeping out of Tumblr and into other platforms across the Web.
This is the language the band's story is told in, and it's crucial that every piece of the narrative unfold using this language or it will exist outside the universe they are creating for themselves, one with great mystery and therefore great appeal to jump in. Forget about the fact that the music is grounded in RnB but brilliantly blends elements of electronic music, ambient, dubstep, hip hop and indie rock. A lot of genius music goes unnoticed (and I may be leaning toward that descriptor for these guys soon). It's almost too good, like if pop mastermind The-Dream were a devious little hipster with the CD collection of the most discerning bespectacled music critic. The power here is in the grip these kids have on the complex, labyrinthine inner workings of the vast networks of the music scene online.
Kids like The Weeknd are creating multi-layered stories that make you want to jump in and stake your claim to (reblog, repost, like, love, download). One of the best parts of being in on the ground floor of the Odd Future story was that race to make your digital mark as soon as possible so you can brag to your friends later on that you were into them before they got big. This is why the impulse of "being underground", the original bug that lead to the every music subculture since jazz, will not die on the Internet. Kids who get it better than you will always tear down everything that's come before and create the coolest thing you've ever seen. Until the next Tumblr comes around.


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So as you put together your list of "must dos" – we've got your "'must read" list.
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My obsession has become unhealthy! The last few days Ive logged in just in case. I keep bringing it up to the others who were in it with me.
None of us saw our scores in the leak.
Had I not known about the leak, and subsequently the date of release, I would have continued to expect them the last hour of the month and been surprised on the 16th. Now all I do is anticipate.
I even dug back into mine to do some second guessing about my work.
Also- I didnt get a survey so you have me thinking thats a sign there is an issue 🤣😂😂
I received an email today( please see attached). This is getting too real now.
We're happy to announce your results will be available to you on December 16, 2017! As a reminder, your score report will be provided via your National Board account. Please log in to your account now to ensure you recall your username and password. If necessary, you can retrieve your username and password by clicking the "Forgot Username" or "Forgot Password" links.
If you haven't done so yet, take time now to review your certificate-specific Standards, component instructions, Scoring Guide, and FAQs. These resources will assist you in understanding your results.
Hey- I guess there is no real indication that an attempt is made on a component, other than showing that the component was ordered/paid... But you have to toggle (upper left hand side) to previous years to find previous taken items with scores.
Hope that helps.
I'm just counting the days- which is down to 2 and a half days!
Or counting the hours now- which is roughly 56 hours
Is there supposed to be an indication on our candidate management system page that we have submitted one of the components? I took Component 1 this past May, but there's no indication that I've taken it other than saying I registered and paid for the component. I'm probably making something out of nothing, but I feel like I should see something stating that I attempted Component 1 last assessment year.
While getting emails is important, if your NBs log-in works, not getting emails shouldn't affect one's ability to get scores Friday night.
You need to contact National Board immediately to make sure they have your correct contact information. If you aren't getting emails than you won't be able to receive your scores on Saturday and will have to wait. Call first thing tomorrow
I'm worried about component 4...it was hard to interpret and confusing.
At the suggestion of another poster, one of the candidates on Facebook sent the email address (edocs (at) nbpts.org) to her IT department, and they found 4 emails from NBPTS. My survey email was in an "Other" folder.
Last year I accessed my scores at 12:15 am Saturday morning. Hoping to do the same this year!
Getting worried....
I submitted all components and did not get a survey or and e-mail. Nothing in my spam folder either.
The survey was sent only to candidates who have submitted all 4 components. If you aren't that far along, that's why you didn't get the survey.
I received the survey and got to see my scores. Unless there was a horrible mistake, I passed. Good luck!
I check every day to see if the scores are out. Not sure I can wait 6 more days!!!
I didn't get a survey email either. What were they curious about?
#scoregate refers to the accidental access some candidates had to preliminary scores a week or so ago.
mn0226 what is #scoregate???
I got the survey, but according to #scoregate, I did not certify
I did all 4 components and got a survey. Unfortunately I didn't get to see my scores either ( I think it was already asked but did anyone who saw their passing scores get a survey? Wondering if the surveys are just luck of the draw and they randomly sent them out!
Check your Spam folder?
K- did u submit all 4 components?
I didn't get a survey and I didn't get an email stating scores were being released soon. It's like they forgot who I am. Uh oh.
Just talked to the two I did the process with.
Only one got the survey.
And we all three did all four components this year.
It does sound like something they may send to those who completed, as in passed all the components.
Teach4Bama... did your friends receive the survey?
Now, my survey had a heading that read: "You've completed all four, please tell National Board more". So, I guess it's just those that have all components completed/submitted... I took C1 last year, and C2, C3, & C4 this year. I also re-took one of my essay exercises just to see if I could bring my score up higher!
But for the survey, deep down in my manic-analytical-assessing-conspiring mind, I was just hoping it was for those that were "finished"! Finished meaning Certified!
I know. Reaching. Wishing. Hoping. Praying.
But yeah, I'm with you- if it hadn't been for that blooming leak, I probably would have just been less anxious about this waiting thing!
Oh well, my countdown has officially begun!!!
My obsession has become unhealthy! The last few days Ive logged in just in case. I keep bringing it up to the others who were in it with me.
None of us saw our scores in the leak.
Had I not known about the leak, and subsequently the date of release, I would have continued to expect them the last hour of the month and been surprised on the 16th. Now all I do is anticipate.
I even dug back into mine to do some second guessing about my work.
Also- I didnt get a survey so you have me thinking thats a sign there is an issue 🤣😂😂
Did anybody that saw their scores and didn't certify get the survey?
I received the survey email as well. I believe those lucky enough to get a sneak peek saw their final scores. Maybe the holdup is bc the letters were dated December 16 & they have everything set up for then? Just a guess... this last week is going to be torture!
If they're the finals scores, then why would they not send them out after the leak? That would make no sense to me. If everything was done, why make everyone wait longer?
I was wondering the same thing about that survey, and I'm glad you asked! Is it an early indicator that I made it, or did everyone get it?
I'm sure they are the final scores, because I don't see them making changes this close to the official release of the scores.
I'm the same way! I wasn't lucky enough to get a sneak peek either! I stay on the score calculator putting in hypothetical scores! I really want to pass! I received the e-mail about the survey as well!
I am in the same boat. I think everyone received the scores yesterday.
I am starting to wonder if the leaked scores are the final scores because why would they still wait?
Bear with me
With only these 9 days left to go, I'm trying to "analyze" everything! (I wasn't lucky enough to get that sneak peek the other day!)
I got a NB survey in the email yesterday... I was wondering if everyone received it or maybe just those that got certification?? Yes, like I titled this post- I'm obsessing! and grasping for somethinggggg!


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CPZ is showing that a year in the WHL is all he needed to get comfortable.
In 2 games, he has 7 points (2+5) and was a +7.
I am downright amazed that I am one of the only people that are touting this kid like crazy. He might not be the best skater, but his nose for the net and offensive capabilities are through the roof. Talk about a kid that could be a huge asset at Wing down the road.
Considering this is his last year of junior eligibility, I'd say it's pretty encouraging to see him have this type of start.
I plan on watching a few Giants games next week so I'll do a liveblog or two about his performances.
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No matter which side of the religious fence one sits, or none at all… there are some places you just don't go.
This NST article on Tok Guru Nik Aziz is like calling Mother Theresa a whore.
Like delCapo said… doesn't matter which religion or sect you adhere to, or oppose, "Nik Aziz" and "Kafir" do not exist in the same breathe.
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Fairytale fair wish finally comes true
By TRISHA WALKER
News staff writer
Once upon a time, like at last year's Hood River County Fair, I dreamed that someday I would have unlimited time to actually look at the exhibits instead of just following my kids around and watching them ride roller coasters in varying degrees of scariness (not for them, but for me).
This year, I got my wish. This was the first time — ever — that I have been on my own at the fair.
Well, that's not entirely true, I suppose. I did bring Abby, my 14-year-old, and her friend Lily Magana, but I was under explicit orders Not to Follow Them Around. (Apparently I am very embarrassing when I just stand quietly in a place minding my own business.) We agreed that as long as she kept in touch via text and phone calls, we could keep a respectful distance from each other.
This meant I actually had time to look at the exhibits. And not once did anyone ask me to hurry up, or for water, or for fried treats, or for a bathroom break, or how much longer I planned to be because the call of the rides is a strong one.
This also meant that I'd periodically get a text that read, "Don't worry, we're alive, whoops, never mind, we just died."
It was bittersweet, having my dream of unlimited exhibit time come true. I very much enjoyed taking my time and seeing who had entered what, but I also missed my previous, more chaotic fair experiences.
Exhibits under my belt, I took a look at the vendor booths. A kid (you know, someone younger than 30) tried to sell me The Best Set of Knives Ever, and then I learned about upright bathtub installation. I talked with my fourth-grade teacher, Diane Level, and then assured Hood River News reader Alan Winans that I am indeed registered to vote.
It turns out that living three-fourths of your life in a place comes in handy when you've run out of exhibits to peruse and you're left with three more hours to fill.
I chatted with my brother- and sister-in-law, Chris and Elaine, and nephew Kam by the animal arena; I had a great conversation with friend and neighbor Darla Kroll in what apparently was a shuttle service waiting area; I found high school pal Kim Yasui working the migrant information booth and gratefully accepted her offer of water. I saw old teachers, parents whom I know through my kids' schools, and people I've met through the newspaper.
I also saw a lot of Abby's friends, many of whom actually stopped to talk to me like I wasn't an embarrassment at all. I kind of appreciated that. I didn't mean to, but I did run into Abby a few times. For all her ground rules, she seemed happy to see me. (Teenagers are confusing.)
She even organized a group photo with some of her friends ("Hey, you guys wanna be in the paper?") as they waited in line for the Tilt-A-Whirl, boosting my self-esteem considerably. I wasn't allowed to stand there and watch her perfect head get snapped around on that ride, but honestly? I'm not sure I wanted to see that anyway.
Photography exhibit abounds with young talent
By BEN MITCHELL
News staff writer
I'm an indoor cat. In an area with countless recreation opportunities, I seek out almost none of them. With Irish, English, and Russian heritage, I only have trace amounts of melanin in my skin tone and any fun I've ever had outside has been curtailed by the omnipresent threat of sunburn.
While others may be fond of cruising the midway at the fair with a deep-fried Yule log or some other culinary abomination and or riding loop after loop on the Ali Baba ride until they hurl, I prefer the indoor exhibits.
It's calm, it's quiet, it's cool depending on the time of day or if there are fans nearby, it's less populated — all things I enjoy.
After covering the livestock auction for a story in this week's edition, I immediately headed for the art and photography exhibits not just to get out of the heat and the dust but to see what the young talent of the Hood River Valley had to offer.
Now, I've never had formal training in photography, but I was blown away at just how many professional-grade photos I saw at the fair. I was even more shocked when I looked at the tags hanging from their frames and saw how old some of these kids are — their skills far exceeding their years. My girlfriend, who graciously accompanied me to the fair, felt the same way and is far from a photography novice.
I know this is an oft-repeated sentiment to the point that it's almost a cliché, but it's truly amazing to see how many talented young people we have in this area. Who knows — maybe someday we'll have them aboard the Hood River News and they'll get to shoot the fair and look back fondly on the place that gave them their start.
Dancing horses return to arena after eight years
By GILBERTO GALVEZ
News intern
The show began with a quick run-through as Antonio Galvez of Parkdale and his friends, Salvador and Yesenia Arias, rode their horses around the Frank Herman Arena to the music being played by Los Amigos de la Sierra. The horses and riders then left the arena.
After a while, Galvez and his friends entered, each one on a black horse, Friesians. Behind them came Christian and Cesar De La Mora, roping, and Marcos Galvez, Antonio's son, dressed as "el Ranchero Chido."
The horses left the arena, and Marcos, dressed in a costume made up of orange pants, a black button-up shirt and a tie, did his performance. On either side of him, Christian and Cesar did their rope tricks.
When they were done, the horses re-entered; this time for the main event. Antonio and his friends made their horses dance and do some tricks while Los Amigos de la Sierra kept playing traditional Mexican music.
This was not Antonio's first time playing at the fair. Eight years ago, he had been asked to perform along with some other friends. This year, he was asked to perform again and said yes. He did wish he had had more time to prepare, but in the end, he liked how the performance went, having organized everything himself with very limited time.
Hood River News intern Gilberto Galvez is Antonio's son.
'Gab cab' drivers give weary fairgoers a lift
By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA
News editor
"Is this the cash cab?" Marie Mallon jokingly asked drivers Red Lago and Jerry Petricko one day at the fair.
More like "gab cab."
Petricko and Lago, two longtime fair volunteers, took turns driving the shuttle around the fairgrounds. Mallon and Elaine Walker, who joked that they are "the fair princesses," hopped aboard during a lull, and got a ride from the fair office to the livestock barns.
"I just enjoy talking to people; I was told at one time I could talk to a post, and that's probably true," said Petricko, in car with fair board president Vickie Ward.
"I've lived here all my life and I've been to a lot of fairs, and I can answer a lot of questions."
"It's important people see smiles when they come to the fair," Lago said. "We're like ambassadors.
"The nicest thing is to come to the fair and see people coming in and smiling," said Lago, who on Thursday had started at 7 a.m. volunteering with Lions, "and then I came over to relieve this Corvette driver."
That was a tip to Petricko's hat of the day.
"I wear a different one every day: the Corvette was for Senior Day. I told people, 'I'll have my speed up!'" Petricko said.
For several years, a golf cart has been made available for people who needed a lift from one end of the grounds to another.
In past years Nick Kirby had the honors but he was in West Virginia for national Boy Scout Jamboree so Fair Manager Clara Rice turned to Lago and Petricko. This year the fair rented a larger, five-passenger Shuttle 6 EZ Go.
One of Petricko's favorite moments came when a little girl about 5 years old rode with her mom and grandma and asked Petricko, "Where are the horses?"
"I told her the 4-H show won't be there, and she started crying; but then I told them there will be cowboys and cowgirls later (for adult horse and cattle events), and then she did a happy dance."
Petricko concluded the fair by driving around in his UO Ducks hat Saturday. Asked what he would tell OSU Beaver fans, he said, 'They have to ride on the back.'"
Margaret Taylor finds pleasure in floral design
By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA
News editor
What holds Margaret Taylor's flowers in place?
Hidden hairspray lids and pill bottles were used by Taylor in her County Fair floral entries.
Reuse is part of the beauty of award-winning Artistic Display by the retired Hood River math teacher.
"If you are into flower design then you become obsessed, looking for containers and things you can use," said Taylor, who won five Artistic Design categories, in addition to the top prize, the Emily Plog Arrangers Award, for her "Down the Winding Road" creation.
In it, she used a twisting, 2-inch-wide ribbon to accentuate the stated theme, and Pom, Fuji and Daisy chrysanthemums and Oregon grape sprigs.
Taylor, who loves the challenge of combining beautiful flowers with found objects in keeping with prescribed themes, also won the "Majestic Mount Hood," "Old Red Barn," "A Summer Garden's Beauty" and "Ducks in a Row" blue ribbons.
The winding ribbon she found in the décor section at a home supply store.
"Someone put it out on the sale table and I saw it," Taylor said. "I thought, 'Hmmm,' and stuck it back in the closet for a year or so before I used it and I had an occasion to do it and here it is."
Taylor continues her wry explanation of how the occasion arose:
"We got the Fair book, and I saw the categories and I thought, 'That looks like a winding road.' At least it's winding."
"Ducks in a Row" required three similar flower arrangements, and Taylor's winning entry used the unlikely combination of circular Gerbera daisy and the more linear pink crocosmia — and Irish coffee mugs, which she happened to have on hand.
Taylor said she has been entering floral design for "maybe four years."
"I didn't really get into this until I retired," said Taylor, who taught math in high school and at Columbia Gorge Community College.
"I've taught everybody," she said.
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The folks over at IGN finally ended their search for the ideal intern with a Ghost from Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Not only does he efficiently carry out your daily needs like coffee and a new pen, but think of all the infiltration missions you can send him on.
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well I joined the league but don't have a clue? Points wagered--for what? To stay? to go? To be cute? Help please team?And are we doing the out-something picks?I want to play but I can't find the instructions!
oh! I found this ca bb fan! But I don't see you registered on the team? Did you sign up for puddin's team?? And I still don't know if we are playing the out-picks something as a team?? Or maybe we can't if we are spoiled??http://survivorpickem.com/help.phpHow do I enter picks and what do they mean? From the Picks Page, clicking on the "Edit" link will bring you to your "Votes" page. It is on this page that you will wager a given amount of points on each Survivor. You are betting that each Survivor you put points on will be voted off that week. You have 100 points total to wager and you may spread them among the remaining Survivors as you wish. If you are fairly confident about a certain Survivor being voted off, you should wager a lot of points on them. If you are unsure, you might want to spread your points out more equally. Once the episode airs and the Survivor that was voted off is determined, your score will be increased by the number of points you wagered on that particular Survivor. If you did not wager any points on that Survivor, you will not receive any points. The object of the game is to get the most points. Each week there are also at least 2 bonus questions offered. These bonus questions ask about the reward and immunity challenges, and in the case of the finale, who the Sole Survivor will be. The challenge bonus questions are worth 5 points each if you get them correct. The finale's 3rd bonus question is worth 100 points. These are free questions: you do not have to wager any points on them and points are not deducted from your total of 100 that you have to spend on the Survivors. Now some weeks there may not be a reward challenge, or perhaps the merge occurs as a surprise and the system did not change over to asking about individual reward and immunity. In cases such as these, if the bonus question as stated does not apply, no points will be awarded for that particular bonus question
We aren't playing the outpick-em peach's
Warning: this game can get VERY intense at times. At times the drama within OutPick'Em games has rivaled anything you've seen on the show. You must remember that it is just a game and within the game, people may assume alter-egos that do not necessarily reflect how they feel in real life. I will warn you in advance that because the simulation is so real, people have forgotten that they are only in a game and have let their emotions within the game carry over to their real life outside the game. If you play this game with people you know, I recommend you agree at the beginning that what happens in the game stays in the game and any actions or backstabbings that take place in the game are all just part of the game!
More People joined. Although, I was kinda wishing it would be just puddin and I.
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HWSD - Health Wealth Style Daily
We are a small team of dedicated followers of all things Health Wealth & Style
Many experts in our chosen fields, we aim to share our knowledge and expertise as well as updated information with aspirational women via a modern, glossy and easy to navigate online magazine
Women aged 18-59 who aspire to a life of Health Wealth & Style
This is essentially a fashion, beauty & lifestyle site
The colours to be incorporated are black, white, grey, fuchsia pink & cobalt blue
Think: Slick, Modern, Glossy
Titled HWSD with HEALTH WEALTH STYLE DAILY written underneath re-sized to fit under the capital letters, a pink line separating the two. A head and shoulders shot of a woman to be placed somewhere alongside the title.
and Search field
Three columns are desired.
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Video screen desired underneath 'look of the day' graphic titled VIDEO OF THE DAY
Picture box desired underneath video screen titled WE LOVE
Centre column to have large picture box for 'front page' story and approx 5 thumbnail stories underneath.
Right side column to have space at top for advertisers, space at bottom for HWSD POLL (a question and vote tool), centre space for thumbnails operated by a scroll tool.
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Dashcam shows Texas deputy dragged by suspected drunk driver
WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KEYE) - Surveillance footage shows a sheriff's deputy outside Austin, Texas put in a dangerous position during a traffic stop.
The video, published on Twitter, shows the deputy talking to the driver before she is dragged by the car down the street.
It's unclear exactly how far she was dragged or how she became stuck when the driver hit the gas.
"Stop!" she shouts.
"You have my foot!"
According to the Sheriff, Robert Chody, the deputy was lucky enough to walk away without any major injuries.
The driver was arrested on suspicion of possessing marijuana and cough syrup. Charges were pending at the time this post was published.


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the semiconductor industry. To further improve the performance and extend the functionalities of Si-based electronics, the best approach is to combine these well-developed materials and related technologies. Our group has been investigating integration of III-V devices on a Si platform. Using metamorphic growth of III-V materials, high quality devices can be directly grown and fabricated on Si substrates that will allow continued use of the traditional and ever improving manufacturing technologies for Si. In this talk, I will discuss various hetero-epitaxy techniques, including III-Nitrides growth on Si and metamorphic devices (latticematched to InP) on GaAs/Si substrates. The former allows the use of low cost and large size Si substrates for manufacture of LEDs and hightemperature/power electronics. InP-based HEMTs and HBTs are high performance devices normally grown on high-cost and fragile InP substrates. We have successfully grown high-speed HEMT devices on Si
substrates for digital applications. Various metamorphic growth issues
pertinent to devices performance and manufacturability will be addressed.
Strain management and cracking are major concerns, as well as resistivity and dislocation density in the buffers in relation to device leakage and performance. All these issues and how we address them will be
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Hepatocellular carcinoma is cancer that starts inthe liver.
Alternative Names
Primary liver cell carcinoma; Tumor - liver; Cancer - liver; Hepatoma
Hepatocellular carcinoma accounts for most liver cancers. This type of cancer occurs more often in men than women. It is usually seen in people age 50 or older.
Hepatocellular carcinoma is not the same as
In most cases, the cause of liver cancer is scarring of the liver (
- Alcohol abuse
Autoimmune diseasesof the liver Hepatitis Bor Cvirus infection
- Inflammation of the liver that is long-term (chronic)
- Iron overload in the body (
Patients with hepatitis B or C are at high risk of liver cancer, even if theydo not develop cirrhosis.
Abdominal painor tenderness, especially in the upper-right part
- Easy bruising or bleeding
- Enlarged abdomen
- Yellow skin or eyes (jaundice)
Exams and Tests
The doctor will perform a physical exam and ask about your symptoms. The physical exam may show an enlarged, tender liver.
If the doctor suspects liver cancer, tests that may be ordered include:
Abdominal CT scan Abdominal ultrasound Liver biopsy
- Liver enzymes (
liver function tests)
- Liver
MRI Serum alpha fetoprotein
Some high-risk patients may get regular blood tests and ultrasounds to see whether tumors are developing.
Treatment depends on how advanced the cancer is.
Surgery may be done if the tumor has not spread. Before surgery, the tumor may be treated with
Radiation treatments in the area of the cancer may also be helpful. But many patients have liver cirrhosis or other liver diseases that make these treatments more difficult.
Ablation is another method that may be used. (Ablate means to destroy.) Types of ablation include using:
- Radio waves or microwaves
- Ethanol (an alcohol) or acetic acid (vinegar)
- Extreme cold (cryoablation)
Support Groups
You can ease the stress of illness by joining a
Outlook (Prognosis)
If the cancer cannot be completely removed, the disease is usually fatal within 3 to 6 months. But survival can vary depending on how advanced the cancer is when diagnosed and how successful treatment is.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider if you developongoing abdominal pain, especially if you have a history of any
- Preventing and treating viral hepatitis may help reduce your risk. Childhood
vaccination against hepatitis Bmay reduce the risk of liver cancer in the future.
- Do not drink excessive amounts of alcohol.
- Persons with certain types of hemochromatosis may need to be screened for liver cancer.
- Persons who have hepatitis B or C or cirrhosis may be recommended for liver cancer screening.
National Cancer Institute: PDQ Adult Primary Liver Cancer Treatment. Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute. Date last modified 09/20/2013. Accessed September 24, 2013.
National Comprehensive Cancer Network. NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology: Hepatobiliary Cancers. Version 2.2013. Accessed September 24, 2013.
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Donate to the Annual Garden Party!
The Annual Progressive Dane Garden Party and Potluck will be at Brittingham Park from 5-9pm on Friday, July 19, 2013!
The Garden Party is a great opportunity for Progressive Dane members, electeds, and supporters to get to know each other and have some fun, as well as one of our most important fundraisers. There will be food, drinks, music, and some of the best people in Dane County, so you don't want to miss it.
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Springdale salutes vet with songs, dance
Students remember meaning behind holiday, thank area heroes who fought for America
STAMFORD -- Magda Chrzanowska's bright pink boots tapped, shuffled, slid and twisted against a wooden stage Monday morning as she sang along to "God Bless America," the two layers of pink fringe slapping the sides of her legs as she swayed to the patriotic anthem.
They popped in time as she moved with the beat, singing "You're A Grand Old Flag" along with her fellow Springdale Elementary School third-graders a few moments later. During "I'm Proud to Be An American," she kicked her ankles closed, snapping her left to her right with a shake of the fringe, as she stood at attention, like a pint-sized, 8-year-old soldier. The boots -- tiny, but loud -- kicked, padded, swung, twisted, hopped, flexed, pointed and skipped across the floor as she led classmates in a dance to two other patriotic songs.
While many of the third-graders performing in the Veterans Day assembly were clad in patriotic colors -- such as Magda's friend and co-choreographer Bella Rumack, who wore a white tunic with red stars and a pair of blue leggings -- Magda's feet stood out from the pack.
She has the right to do that -- to express herself with bright, loud little piggies. Someone fought for that right, she said.
"Veterans gave up a lot for us, so our lives would be as good as they are. You know, so we'd be free," she said shortly before taking the stage for a Veterans Day concert Monday morning.
Originally, school was not supposed to be in session Monday, to allow Stamford students and teachers the opportunity to honor veterans at home as a sign of respect. But after the school district had to use six inclement weather days due to Superstorm Sandy over the past two weeks, Superintendent Winifred Hamilton called for Monday to be a regular school day.
So instead of performing the veterans concert just once on Wednesday in front of an audience of veterans, parents and second-grade students, Springdale's students offered a preview performance Monday morning, showcasing their work for fourth- and fifth-grade students, and spreading awareness of what Veterans Day is all about, Springdale music teacher Sandy Errico said.
"It's the actual day of Veterans Day. Had we known we were having school, we would have done it today in the first place. But this works out great, because it gives them a chance to honor this day by truly learning about and appreciating veterans," Errico said.
"Veterans Day is every day also, and sometimes you can forget about that," she said. "There's so much advertisement about the sales and all those kinds of things. You don't really hear much about the veterans, but this is what this day is really all about. What they and their families sacrificed for our country. And this is just our way of recognizing that."
For Magda and Bella, it was more than just a chance to put the final touches on their song-and-dance routine before Wednesday's performance in front of veterans: it was a chance to perfect something that they said deserved perfection.
"We want this to be really good, because we want to make them really happy, and we want to support what they did and we want to tell them thank you for serving our country and saving our country too," Magda said.
The girls also wanted to show their respect.
"It's good to honor them, because if no one was respectful, then what's the point of them sacrificing their lives. We either need to respect them, or don't make them do this," Bella said.
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Beyonce's Dad Calls the Elevator Incident a Ticket Selling Stunt
Beyonce's father Mathew Knowles is claiming that his daughter's incident in an elevator with hubby Jay Z and sister Solange Knowles was a "Jedi mind trick" to sell tour tickets.
The comment came when the music manager made an appearance on Houston's Roula and Ryan Show.
"[They needed something to] ignite that tour. It's called a Jedi mind trick. A Jedi mind trick fools you a lot of the time. [Snaps fingers] All I know is everyone is talking about it. Ticket sales went up, Solange's album sales went up 200 percent…" Mathew said.
Later in the clip, Mathew makes sure to remind us that he's still the manager of Destiny's Child, even though he is no longer Beyonce's manager. He even hints that a new album and reunion tour could be happening soon.
WHAT DO YOU THINK of the comments made by Beyonce's dad?
Beyonce's Dad Calls the Elevator Incident a Ticket Selling Stunt


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Backman, Kearney Score Twice
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Four straight goals erased a one-goal deficit in the third period and sent the No. 10 Yale men's hockey team to a 7-4 win over No. 4 Quinnipiac before a frenzied sellout crowd at Ingalls Rink. It was the first meeting of the local rivals as nationally ranked teams.
The Bulldogs (6-3-2, 3-1-2 ECAC), who now have three wins over top 10 teams, ended Quinnipiac's win streak at eight games while outshooting the Bobcats 41-22 and converting two of seven man-advantages.
Sean Backman and Denny Kearney both had two goals while Brian O'Neill had a goal and two assists to lead the Blue to its third win in four games. Mark Arcobello and Andrew Miller each had two helpers. Freshman Jeff Malcolm, making his second straight start, made 18 saves including some nifty stops in the third.
Quinnipiac (12-2-0, 7-1-0), despite going 3-for-5 on the power play, lost its first conference game after earning its highest national ranking ever. Dan Clarke made 34 saves, including 13 in the first period, but lost his first game of the year.
"I am really happy with the way we came out and executed our game plan," said Keith Allain '80, Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of Hockey. "I was impressed how we stuck with it and stuck with it. That showed a lot of character."
The first period was a power-play bonanza that included 25 shots on goal and a pair of man-advantage goals for both sides, just what was expected from the top two scoring teams in Division I.
O'Neill sent a perfect pass to Backman, who was cutting across the left circle toward the net. Backman, who notched his seventh of the year, did not have a defender in the way. He deked right, went left and tucked it behind Clarke with his backhand at 3:08.
The Bobcats, outshot 15-10 in the frame, answered a little more than three minutes later when blueliner Loren Barron (3rd goal) smacked a rebound home. Eric Lampe's shot was stopped by Malcolm, but the puck slid out to the low slot where Barron was waiting. He waited for an opening before sending it on the ice into the net.
Quinnipiac took the lead 2-1 at 13:30 when Brandon Wong, who two goals, took a Lampe feed from behind the net and skated in untouched from the boards. The senior center scored his ninth of the year by wrapping a shot around and inside the far post from the goal-line extended.
Lampe, who had three assists, was called for roughing after the goal and that helped the Bulldogs even things again less than a minute later. Arcobello fired a perfect slap pass from the point to O'Neill (6th), who re-directed it inside Clarke's far post from the left edge of the crease at 14:28.
The Bulldogs dominated the first half of the middle period. Quinnipiac did not get a shot on net until late in the ninth minute. That helped Yale protect its second lead. Thirty-two seconds into the second, Jeff Anderson took a lead pass from Ryan Donald and skated in with one defender closing in. Anderson held the puck until reaching the middle of the slot and then flicked a low one stick side to make it 3-2 and give the junior forward his first of the year.
The visitors made the most of their five shots on goal in the second and tied it again with 4:42 left. Greg Holt (3rd) sent a rising wrister from the point through some traffic that may have hit Malcolm's glove before bouncing off the right post.
Backman made a great play to fight through the defense and get a shot on goal before getting pushed into Clarke, the Division I player of the month for November. The Quinnipiac goalie went down hard into the net and the Yale senior was called for roughing. That call led to the visitors notching their third power-play goal and a 4-3 lead.
In a wild scramble in front of the net, Malcolm made a save as bodies flew around the ice. Wong got his stick on the puck and flipped it in at 6:24. That was the end of Quinnipiac's scoring, and the flood gates were about to open at the other end.
Almost two minutes later, Donald's wrister from the point whizzed through traffic and went top shelf at 8:34 to even things at 4-4. The Yale captain got the puck off a faceoff win by Miller.
"I was just trying to get it by the first guy," said Donald, the captain, about his game-tying goal. "I wanted to get it on net and let the forwards go to work."
Miller was in on the next goal as well. He took the puck low and left it for Broc Little, who carried to the crease and lost the puck. Kearney was following and reached out to bang it in at 15:24 for the game-winner.
The crowd nearly broke a rib on the Yale Whale. That frenzy came back a minute later when O'Neill made one of the great offensive moves of the year. The sophomore forward skated into the middle slot, waited for a falling defenseman and his stick to clear out while two defenders on each side closed in. O'Neill, with the goalie coming out to key on him, then sent a perfect pass to a coiling Backman, who uncoiled and released a one-timer into the open side for his eighth goal of the season.
"Ingalls was rocking tonight," said Backman, who now has 64 career goals after putting eight shots on net tonight. "Having some of their [Quinnipiac] fans in the building helped get us going too."
Seven Yale goals kept that enthusiastic crowd on its feet, which is where it spent most of the third period. They were jumping up and down when Kearney finished off the Cats with a behind-the-back clear/shot from center ice that trickled into the net with 33 seconds left.
Malcolm made a few big saves during the Yale run to earn his second win. "Jeff played really well. We sensed he would be able to handle this environment, and he did," said Allain.
Image of Sean Backman by Sam Rubin '95
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A customer came in the other day and mentioned how he cleaned up his 30+ year old handlebars to the point of looking like new just with aluminum foil and water. So in the spirit of Arts and Crafts, I had to give it a try. Conveniently, there was a pie plate kicking around from when Heidi rebuilt her son's bike. Here goes nothing.
Do any of you have other bike restoration tricks that we should know about?


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Banks Prepare for Smaller Bonuses, Job Cuts
A sudden slowdown in mortgages and trading has left bankers across the U.S. bracing for smaller bonuses and a wave of job cuts in the months ahead. Justin Baer reports on the News Hub.
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