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You're never too old to get a lecture from your mother. My mom and I stayed at a hotel together this weekend — a beautiful property we regularly visit with lots of nice amenities. While there, she decided to educate me with a speech I entitled "Things Every Nice Hotel Should Offer Because Travelers Just Expect Certain Luxuries These Days."
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Mom usually travels in complete five-star style. All the amenities she loves to have in a hotel room aren't likely to be found at an average property. And my mom is a great source for ideas — she's seen a lot of good and bad practices. Her opinions count for something.
Her speech got me thinking, "why not?" What are the things that penny-pincher travelers (like me) can bring along to really enhance their stays. Here are a few five-star amenities that you can supply yourself:
MP3 dock
Portable music and video players are ubiquitous these days, and an in-room dock for such players is one of those amenities my mother likes most. I agree. I'd rather enjoy my own music and videos than try to find a decent local radio station on a scratchy clock radio or watch overpriced in-room movies. Portable docks for personal players come in a variety of prices, and offer decent sound quality. I just got this one by Sonic Impact, and so far, I love it.
Decent coffee
At least cheaper hotels do one thing right that their more expensive counterparts don't — they put coffee makers in the rooms. Most of these coffee makers use the pod-style packs of coffee, but the coffee the hotels supply often tastes downright funky. Plenty of companies make delicious gourmet brews in a variety of pod styles. The "Single Serve Coffee" Web site offers reviews of available styles. A great cup of coffee is easy to pack and easy to make, and you won't have to pay ridiculous room service prices for it!
Wake-up calls
Understaffed hotels with poorly trained employees often provide less-than-stellar service. When that bad service includes missing your wake-up call on the morning of your 7 a.m. flight, it can be a huge problem. Don't leave such an important task to those employees. Use one of the personalized wake-up call services out there. For a reasonable fee, they give you a reliable call, and they even provide features such as snoozes, weather forecasts, jokes and more.
Concierge services
Having a skilled and knowledgeable concierge at your beck and call is one of the best perks of staying at a nice hotel. A good concierge is indispensable when you want to make dinner reservations, get event tickets, mail your packages, get your broken heel repaired — the list goes on. While you won't find this type of person at a budget hotel, you can find concierge services online and in most major cities. Before your trip, find one of these services, and use the heck out of them when you're away.
Borrow a cart
When you've got lots of heavy suitcases, nothing beats a bellman. Good luck finding one at a roadside motel. However, if you ask the front desk agent nicely, you just might find a bell cart, or some other type of rolling cart. Many places have some type of cart that maintenance or housekeeping uses to move heavy items, and they may let you use it. If you do, please don't tear it up and please return it immediately after you're finished with it.
Upscale toiletries
I'm often unimpressed by the selection of travel toiletries I find at my local big discount store. And the products you find in a cheap hotel bathroom are harsh and smelly. I don't treat myself to much, but do like nice shampoos and body washes. Thankfully, many luxury lines make travel-size — and way less expensive — versions of their high-end products. Some great ones to try are Kiehl's, Molton Brown, L'Occitane and my favorite, Penhaligon's. Look for these products online, at upscale department stores and at specialty beauty stores like Sephora.
Just because you can't afford a five-star hotel doesn't mean you don't deserve five-star amenities. Be proactive, and create your own luxury hotel room. Do you have some tips for staying in high-style at low rates? Share your ideas in the comment section below or in our Talking Travelers forums.
Amy Bradley-Hole has worked in the hotel industry for many years in many different positions and at all types of properties — from small luxury boutique hotels to large resorts, both in the United States and abroad. E-mail her or read more of her articleson Tripso.com.


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When special education students graduate from high school, they face an especially daunting job market.
Teens with developmental disabilities often need extra training in how to get a job, and keep it.
A two-year-old internship program called Project Search based at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is recruiting young adults with special needs to work at the hospital. The larger aim is to prepare them to enter the job market.
At eight o'clock on a sunny weekday morning, eight young people, aged 18-24, sat around a table in a classroom at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, tackling an assignment.
Their mental challenges range from Down syndrome to varying degrees of autism. They are all eager to enter the job market, but also unsure what it might ask of them. So their teacher, Laureen Blum, turned the tables. She asked them to look at the resumes of three fictional job applicants, and decide which ones should be hired, and why.
"Dennis, who did your group choose?" Blum asked one group leader.
"We chose Maggie, because she is reliable, because she proved to stay later than needed and get there early," Dennis Jones reported.
"So the flexibility, again, was important to you," Blum commented.
She turned to another group, headed by Ryan Guidotti. "OK, Ryan, how about your team?"
"We chose Maggie because she has been in the company five years and has reliable transportation, unlike George," Guidotti explained.
"Unlike George,"Blum repeated. "So transportation was big, that they could get to work." The students nodded.
Punctuality, flexibility, reliability-all key ingredients to successful employment-can be daunting for people with mental disabilities.
So in this program, called "Project Search," trainees who are preparing to enter the workforce for the first time don't just talk about things like that. They learn them on the job. Dartmouth Hitchock is modeling this project on one started in Cincinnati, where the hospital needed to fill entry-level vacancies. But DHMC also wants to help disabled workers acquire good work habits for any job.
As she dismissed the students to their hospital job sites, Blum pulled Misty Pearce, an unsmiling brunette, aside.
"And what's your body language going to look like?" Blum asked.
"Normal?"Pearce ventured.
"And what's normal?"
"Like…. happy?" Pearce said.
"Happy, a little smile on your face. I don't want to see your eyebrows coming together like this." Blum scrunched her forehead into a furrow.
Another student, Matt Sampson, has to overcome shyness for his job leading patients to their doctors.
He headed down a seemingly endless string of corridors to a waiting room, and looked at his clipboard.
"Tommy?" Sampson called.
A middle-aged man approached Sampson. He wore wraparound sunglasses, and seemed to be vision impaired. Sampson lead him carefully down the hall to a physical therapy clinic. The patient, Tommy Wentzell, commended Sampson on a good job.
"He's smiling. He knows where he's going. That's the main thing, right? You don't want to send people to the wrong place," Wentzell said, chuckling.
When he finishes his unpaid hospital internship, Sampson says he'd take almost any paying job he can get. His first choice would be working with cars.
Meanwhile, in another part of the hospital, trainee Ryan Guidotti was donning blue scrubs for his shift in the endoscopy lab. He's responsible for rows and rows of scopes, hanging on the wall. He explained to teacher Laureen Blum how he sterilizes them.
"Hook 'em up to a machine, put them in the sink, let that run, turn the water on, let that build up. Then there's a cleaning process before they get sanitized,"Guidotti told her.
"So it's a multi-step, right?" Blum asked. "So you do hand cleaning in the sink first and then they go into those bigger things that look like washing machines that are bays. And you have to be careful to hook all the ports to the right things? I can't do that but I know you do."
Ryan hopes to get hired to do this meticulous work, or something like it.
"I am interested in health care. I hope to get a job here eventually," he said, as he hung scopes on the wall.
Two alumni from last year's Project Search class have landed jobs at Dartmouth Hitchcock. Two others are working in grocery stores nearby.
Teacher Laureen Blum believes every one of her DHMC students could be productive workers, and she works hard to find jobs suited to their abilities. Support for the program also comes from Hartford High School and VocRehab Vermont. Jobs may be scarce, but these interns say they will work hard to get them.

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Best Communication Strategies
People that run companies today are always looking for new and innovative ways to inspire their employees to be more productive and also happy with their jobs. Once you have trained individuals that are actually contributing to the profitability of your company, you want to make sure that they stay with you for the long run. In order to maintain these individuals, and utilize their abilities over the next several years, it's important to use proper strategies internally to ensure that your workers understand their place, and also that you are there to help them. It's also important to use communication strategies when it comes to communicating with individuals or companies that you want to work with. By saying the right things, and communicating your needs and desires, it is possible to expand your company, and increase your profitability by interacting with them using solid interpersonal communication skills. Here is a brief overview of how to use communication to benefit your company both internally and extremely so that your company can become more profitable.
Why Communication Is So Important
Let's take a look at interacting with employees to show you how important communication skills actually are. Many employers use an authoritarian way of communicating what they want by issuing commands and demands that must be met. In most cases, employees that work for you understand that they must comply with your request as it pertains to the longevity of their employment. However, these employees will also be less productive as a result of not properly communicating with them on a regular basis. By using authoritative communication skills instead, you can talk to your employees, instead of ordering them around, making them feel as if they can contribute in some way that is outside of the demands that you have everyday. In the same way, you need to communicate with potential clients, and other businesses, in a way that makes them also feel comfortable.
Although you may have specific objectives that you want to achieve, by allowing yourself to interact with these individuals on a one-to-one level, it will make it possible for you to take your company to higher levels, not only by interacting with your workers in a more appropriate manner, but also by communicating with potential clients for the first time.
Prsentation Skills
Of all of the skills that you can use when it comes to interacting with employees and potential customers, it's good to use proper presentation and this includes body language. You want to make sure that your hands are to your side, that you are making eye contact, and that you are doing your best to listen to what they are saying, and that you respond to any questions or concerns that they may have. People like to know that you are actually listening to what they are saying, and that you are open to suggestions. If you are simply telling people what they need to do, or demanding certain protocols to be followed, the possibility of creating a genuine relationship with these people will be compromised, and you may also lose good workers and deals in the process.
Why A Communication Plan is Important
Ignoring your employees for a second, let's consider the importance of communication plan to help you to expand your business. Let's say that you have a company that needs to work with drop shippers, or other companies that are providing products and services. You want to make sure that they are happy with you, and that they are always looking out for your best interests. This type of relationship can be conducive to creating a much more profitable relationship for both you and the other party as a result of developing a strong relationship through proper communication. Essentially, my way or the highway is a concept of the past that simply doesn't work in a world that is all about interconnectivity and social media. In order to survive and thrive in our new digital age, it's important to have a plan in place to work with people on their level, and once you do, you can start to see the proceeds from your efforts.
How To Improve Your Communication Skills
The easiest way to become a better communicator is to become a better listener. If you are able to respond to problems that the other party may be facing, and offer positive and tangible information that they can use, they will want to do the same. Reciprocity really is the key to ensuring that you can get exactly what you want simply because you are helping everyone else get what they want as well. These communication skills take practice, as it is not in the nature of those that are in charge to actually feel obligated to work with people in such a way. By retraining your mind to think in an almost empathetic manner, you'll start to see that your efforts will be rewarded through better business relationships, as well as how you were able to interact with your employees in your company.
It is clear that communication skills must be honed over time in a way that makes people feel more comfortable when interacting with you. If they are able to feel at ease when participating with you at your company, or if potential clients feel that you are actually there to provide them with the help that they need, productivity in your company will increase, and your business relationships will be to more profitability for your company. By simply learning how to talk with people, and listen to every word that they say, it can empower you to become a better communicator, and as a byproduct, your company will also benefit from your improved communication skills. These simple strategies and techniques will allow you to take your company to greater heights, and at the same time, improve your relationships with your workers and improve your chances of becoming more profitable this year.


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Wellspring Investment Fund - Direct Public Offering for
Wellspring Harvest Cooperative
Springfield's source for year-round local produce
10,800 sq ft commercial hydroponic greenhouse, growing lettuce, greens and herbs
And a 1,000 sq ft agricultural education and training Greenhouse
An opportunity to invest in your values!
We are seeking investments of a minimum of $1,000 ($5,000 for qualified investors) with a minimum five (5) year term at 3% interest paid after two years.
Your investment will support
Wellspring Harvest
Wellspring Harvest is a worker-owned cooperative that will operate a commercial hydroponic greenhouse in Springfield, Massachusetts, supplying fresh greens all year round to institutional, retail and local community markets. Intent to purchase letters have been signed with Baystate Medical Center, Springfield and Worcester Public Schools, Squash Trucking, Big Y Supermarkets, and River Valley Market and Franklin Community food coops.
The greenhouse will contribute to the much needed economic vitality and rejuvenation of the Indian Orchard neighborhood by creating good jobs and serving as a catalyst for other affiliated ventures such as food processing and a food cooperative. Worker-owners will also be able to build meaningful equity in the company.
The Cooperative also plans to develop a certification program that will allow students from local high schools, community colleges and universities to acquire practical and "in-demand" skills to operate and manage a growing number of hydroponic projects nationwide. The site will serve as a laboratory for the community and students to gain hands on experience in urban agriculture. The community and educators are already involved in providing input into the site plan and how it can be used for projects such as community gardens, edible landscapes, composting, vermiculture, aquaponics, and energy production through a bio-digester.
Wellspring Harvest Greenhouse is part of the broader mission of the Wellspring Cooperative Corporation to create a network of worker-owned companies supported by the purchasing power of area anchor institutions that provide jobs for low income residents of Springfield, MA. Anchor institutions purchase more than $1.5 billion worth of goods and services a year, largely from outside the region. A number of these anchor institutions are working with Wellspring to keep more of their purchasing dollars circulating locally, including Baystate Health, Sisters of Providence Health System, University of Massachusetts, Western New England University and Springfield Technical Community College.
The 5 year goal of the Wellspring Cooperative is to create over 100 jobs through 10 new worker-owned companies. Wellspring Cooperative has a number of businesses in development and Wellspring Harvest is the second worker-owned cooperative that the network has incubated. The first cooperative, Wellspring Upholstery, started in 2014, and is doing well with 6 workers, 3 of whom have already become members of their cooperative.
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It was designed initially to combine the best features of KeenWright and TED5, while adding in a few features not found in either editor, such as inserting a new row or column anywhere in the level. Gradually, other features were added, such as zooming and easy creation of bridge/teleport links and SGA signs. More recent and powerful addition include the so-called "magic tool" / "automagic mode." These help in situations when where different tiles are used for, say, the top, bottom, left, right, the four corners, and the interior of a certain type of floor.
The upcoming release (version 1.4) should complete the process begun a few releases ago of completely separating the editor from any episode-specific information. All information pertaining to a particular episode is instead placed in external script files, which can be modified by the user to customize the editor for the mod. In fact, with the correct script files, Mindbelt will edit Dangerous Dave (and other games with the same engine) levels just as well as Keen's.
Here is a semi-complete list of salient features:
- Grid mode
- Tile search mode
- Zooming in/out
- Level stats screen
- Inserting/deleting rows/columns
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How could a trip to Paris be complete without paying homage to Louis Pasteur?
First up, Briony and I visited the Museé Pasteur – a museum dedicated to the legacy of the man who discovered the role of microbes in fermentation, created vaccines for rabies and anthrax and much, much more.
Since the time of Aristotle, it was thought that many life forms spontaneously emerged from water, dust, rotting flesh or the aether. But Pasteur championed the idea of biogenesis (Omne vivum ex vivo "all life from life"), famously demonstrating that sterilised meat will not rot without exposure to microbes from the surrounding air (luckily, he didn't try that experiment with a McDonalds burger).
Pasteur also famously showed that microbes were responsible for spoiling beverages such as milk, beer and wine – and invented the process of pasteurisation – where the heating of these liquids killed most bacteria and moulds, preventing the potential growth of spoiling or disease-causing microbes.
The creation of the anthrax and rabies vaccines brought great wealth to Pasteur, and led to the creation of the Institut Pasteur - dedicated to the study of microbes. Still to this day, the Pasteur Institute is a world leader in the research of microbes, particularly their role in disease. And it was here at the Institut Pasteur, that we were to encounter Professor Philippe Sansonetti.
Sansonetti vs Shigella
The anti-hero in our upcoming book The Invisible War is Shigella flexneri, the bacterium responsible for most of the dysentery (severe diarrhoea) in the trenches during WWI.
While S. flexneri still causes millions of cases of dysentery in the poorest societies on Earth each year, we now understand a lot more about how it causes dysentery – in no small part due to Professor Sansonetti.
The thing that makes all Shigella bacteria so pathogenic (that is, able to cause disease) in humans, is the ability for a very small number of Shigella cells to invade our intestinal epithelium (the wall of our gut). And once inside, these Shigella can take over our epithelial cells – stealing our energy and assimilating our building blocks to make billions more…causing continuous eruptions from our gut wall to invade new regions of our intestine. This process releases lots of blood, which mixes with the eruptions of our intestinal mucus (trying to flush them away), to create bloody, mucous stools – characteristic of dysentery!
Working on Shigella for over 30 years, Prof. Sansonetti has provided the most complete and unified view of any bacterial-controlled disease process. Perhaps not surprisingly, these discoveries are now being employed to develop a vaccine against different types of Shigella still causing illnesses and deaths around the world every day.
We sat down with Philippe to learn more about his discoveries into how Shigella cells invade the human gut epithelium and how they take over once inside – so that we were best able to describe this process in our story. Probably the most interesting thing we learned about was how Shigella bacteria can trigger the ruffling of an adjacent intestinal cell (see above image), a process of engulfing which essentially 'tricks' our intestine into swallowing and internalising the Shigella…after which, all hell breaks loose!


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The latest numbers from the USDA firm up the outlook for this year's corn crop, and the final numbers may not be as bad as some feared.
Despite the worst drought in half a century, the government only slightly reduced total projected production for the year to 10.72 billion bushels. That would be a 13 percent drop from last year and the smallest crop since 2006.
However, many analysts expected that number to drop to 10.3 billion, and many farmers feared the numbers could go even lower.
Anticipated yield is now expected to average 122.8 bushels an acre, down from 123.4 bushels an acre estimated last month and way below the 166 bu/ac forecasted earlier this year. (Read More: The Drought of 2012.)
Still, the street was looking for a bigger drop, closer to 120 bushels an acre. "Lower yields and production in the Corn Belt and Central Plains are partly offset by increases elsewhere," the government report stated, "particularly across the South where an early harvest is boosting available supplies." (Read More: Corn Prices Jump as Crop Size Shrinks.)
"Things are better," says farmer Dan Conderman of Dixon, Illinois. He began harvesting this week. "After getting out into the field, we are seeing that it's better than we had originally anticipated." Conderman says production in his area "is all over the board," with yields ranging from 150 bushels an acre to less than 30 among farms only a few miles apart.
He and other farmers are harvesting their corn earlier than usual, even though the corn isn't as dry as they'd like it to be. The problem is that drought has made stalks weak and prone to blow over. Corn "is not worth anything on the ground." (Read More: Massive US Drought Leads to Worst Fears for Corn Crop.)
The USDA did not change its projections for how much corn will go to ethanol, and while it expects fewer exports, that is offset by how much corn it expects to go to livestock producers as feed. Tellingly, it now projects that remaining supplies of corn at the end of the season will be 83 million bushels higher than earlier anticipated, and it lowered the projected price range 30 cents to between $7.20 - $8.60 a bushel — still a record. As the news broke, the price of corn began falling on the CME.
The soybean crop, meantime, is now projected to be slightly smaller than expected, at 2.63 billion bushels, and soybean prices immediately began rising. The USDA also projects beef prices to rise due to higher demand in the second half of this year. Poultry and milk prices are also expected to rise due to fewer or smaller animals.
As the corn starts to be harvested, farmers who have a crop are able to capitalize on high prices. Dan Conderman says the situation varies from farm to farm, and while his crop will be smaller than his three-to-five year average, what corn he does have will be sold at prices he's never seen. "Everybody always said, 'Boy, it's nice to see eight dollar Board of Trade corn," he says. "It's only good if you have something to sell."
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This post was originally published in September 2012. While I am currently in the process of narrating an audiobook, I'm taking a break from my normal Tuesday posts; clients come first, of course! But since the subject of the book I'm narrating is about the importance of connecting with others, of taking pride in your work and yourself, and of making the effort to improve your life each day, I thought this was worth re-posting…
"Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well."
– Lord Chesterfield (1694 – 1773)
"Anything worth doing, is worth doing right."
– Hunter S. Thompson
"Don't half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing."
– Ron Swanson of NBC's "Parks and Recreation"
No matter how you look at it or to whom you look for a great quote about it, we humans strive for excellence. Throughout history, we as a species have faced innumerable insurmountable odds – floods, plagues, sabre-toothed tigers, the Kardashians – and have always managed to not only survive, but thrive.
It's that innate drive, coupled with our intelligence and curiosity, that has propelled us from drawing on cave walls to writing Elizabethan sonnets, from discovering fire to sending men to the moon. It is our constant quest for knowledge, wisdom, and self-discovery that has allowed us to create life-changing inventions like vaccines, automobiles, computers, and Moxie.
So why do some people just not bother?
A couple of months ago, I came across a book-review blog (which shall remain nameless). The most recent posting, dated July 2012, was a review of the book, The Hunger Games. Now, considering the fact that the book was originally published in 2008, the fellow writing this review seemed to be a tad late to the party. The movie, of course, just came out earlier this year – so a book review at this point was, to say the least, overdue.
But then I read it.
Paraphrasing – but almost word-for-word – the review went as follows: "I've heard alot about this book; if it's anything like the movie, this is probably pretty good."
I was dumbfounded. I actually started yelling at my poor computer for wasting the 40 seconds or so of my life that it took to find and read that insightful and eye-opening 'review.'
The question I kept asking this faceless 'book reviewer' was…"Why bother?!?"
If you're not going to even try to make an effort, why waste the time? Maybe it's because I value quality, perhaps it's because I value my time…but I simply cannot wrap my head around why anyone would voluntarily undertake a project they have absolutely no desire to actually DO, much less complete. Am I missing something?
The $5000 idea…that wasn't:
Here's another one: A businessman I know recently told me about his wife's idea to sell crafts at the local fairs and flea markets; she knew what was popular and trendy, she had researched what she'd need, and thought it would be fun and profitable. So my friend and his wife agreed to go forward with it.
That was three years ago.
At the time of this writing, nearly $5000 worth of merchandise remains packed away in their garage, waiting to be brought somewhere – anywhere – and be sold.
According to my friend, his wife became disinterested in the idea before she ever got the idea off the ground.
Again I ask, "Why bother??"
Is it laziness? Apathy? Disillusionment?
Forget, "if something's worth doing, it's worth doing well"…how about, "if something's worth doing, it's worth trying to do well." Or, "if something's worth doing, it's worth making an effort to try to do well." Or even, "if something's worth considering doing, at least try to pretend to do it well, so others don't write blog posts about you."
I can understand if someone poorly performs a task they don't actually want to do; I may or may not respect that, but I can understand it. I can also understand a less-than-stellar performance from someone who is still learning the task. Failure isn't always a bad thing – it's the best way to learn, in many instances. But in these cases, we're talking about people who voluntarily decided to not even attempt a goal they set for themselves. If you don't want to review books, don't! If you'd rather not hit the flea market circuit, don't purchase enough inventory to start up your own mall anchor store!
Quitting = Liberating
Don't get me wrong; if you don't want to do whatever you've decided to do…it's ok to change your mind. But isn't it better to simply cease whatever you're doing rather than turn in a half-baked performance?
Are you struggling to get that first or second book published? Ask yourself if you really enjoy the process: the writing, the revising, the querying, the rejection. If you find it difficult to be motivated to do the work…the work is probably suffering. No one said you can't stop.
Are you getting frustrated with the number of auditions or casting calls you're being passed on, and wondering if you should keep at it? Again, ask yourself if you enjoy what you're doing – and if the answer is no, find something you do enjoy. The only person putting pressure on you…is you.
Talent = Overrated
The difference between excellence and mediocrity is not necessarily talent. Very often, tenacity beats brains, practice beats natural ability, and hard work beats luck. (For the record, that last one is almost always true). Nothing against talent, it's certainly important – but it's not the be-all and end-all.
I frequently play soccer and basketball with some of the folks in town, and although I'm one of the least-qualified players on any field I step onto, I hold my own. Why? Because, as I've told them, what I lack in talent I make up for in hustle.
Do you have hustle?
Are you making an effort?
Take a look at your life and see if there are projects, activities, or responsibilities you have taken on that you would rather not deal with. Are you doing them well? Are you trying to do them well? Are you doing them at all? There are probably plenty of folks out there who can and will do them – better than you. Are you ok with that?
It's your call.
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The main prize was the Stila Party in a Box set, which I was excited to play around with since I'm a big fan of the brand. I've yet to try their iconic Kitten eyeshadow, but it seems like the All Over Shimmer Powder is more or less the same thing. You get a whopping 10.2g of product which should last an eternity. The powder itself is very smooth, soft and easy to blend — similar in texture to theBalm Mary-Lou Manizer. The colour is more distinctly peachy-pink than the champagne yellow of the Mary-Lou Manizer, but less copper than Jemma Kidd Dewy Glow All Over Radiance Crème in Rose Gold. I was fearing that the powder might be a touch too shimmery or frosty, but it's actually pleasantly restrained. I'm anticipating getting plenty of use out of this as an everyday face highlighter, though it also could function as an eyeshadow.
I also love the clear, twist-up brush applicator packaging of the Stila Lip Glaze which is both functional and eye-catching. The girly, summery Kitten is a sheer peachy bronze packed with gold shimmer that can be used alone or to dress up any nude or pink lipstick worn underneath. From my experience with the Stila Lip Glaze I have in Joy, these glosses are smooth, hydrating and super shiny, and while they're slightly on the thick and sticky side, I find them perfectly comfortable on the lips (just make sure to wear your hair up).
I'm also looking forward to testing out the other goodies, especially as the Canadian drugstore brand Annabelle isn't available in Australia, but I've been intrigued by their products after reading several reviews on theNotice. The eyelid shade in Wet n Wild Silent Treatment is one of my favourite eyeshadows, so it's always handy to have a backup (not that I envisage using mine up in the next five years). A big thank you to Ashley for holding such a cool giveaway and for my prize!


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Fri, 21 October 2016
Working in a Paediatric Emergency Department that has 52,000 attendances per year, means that at this point I have fallen into almost every possible pitfall associated with communicating with children and their parents, whether it be the seriously ill or the efficient disposition of the worried well and everything in between. The art of appearing to take all the time in the world whilst managing large volumes of patients can be challenging at times. It can be difficult to separate your emotional response to a patient and their parents from your professional assessment. I hope that by hightlighting mistakes I have encountered along the way that others will learn from them.
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Creating the web traffic filtering system for GM – AUTOVAZ CJSC, 2015
A project on creating the web traffic filtering system was implemented. The project included: equipment supply; granting rights of use for software; configuration and testing of the web traffic filtering system; adopting a set of rules corresponding to the current set of rules in the existing traffic filtering system; adjustment of rules in accordance with the current needs of GM – AUTOVAZ, CJSC etc.
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Who are you?
I'm a UK writer living in East Anglia. I've worked as a freelance feature writer and magazine editor, and have had writing jobs in television and radio. My current job has a less formal focus on writing, so to scratch the itch I began to write fiction in my spare time.
I've had a number of non-fiction books and humour titles that have been traditionally published, but I now self-publish fiction under my own imprint - Ketingas Press. You can find out more below...
Why the two names 'S. J. Arnott' and 'Stephen Arnott'?
It's to differentiate between my different writing styles. S. J. Arnott is the name I use for my Dark Age fiction; Stephen Arnott is the name I used on my factual and humour titles, such as The Writers' Guide and Jack Bleacher.
Are you self- or traditionally-published?
Both. My own imprint is the Ketingas Press, but you can find information on my other books here. Some of these titles were written in partnership with my friend, Mike Haskins.
Where did you get the ideas for the Leofric stories?
The first rule of fiction is to write something you'd enjoy reading yourself. I really like the work of historical fiction authors such as Robert Graves, Patrick O'Brian and Bernard Cornwell, and when I was looking around for a new project I quickly decided to do a historical adventure novel set in Britain. I eventually settled on the Dark Ages (now usually called the Early Middle Ages) as a period to write about. Originally I was going to write about the early Saxon conquests of southern England, then became interested in the settlement of the Angles on the east coast (modern East Anglia). In the end I decided to take the story back over the sea to Angeln on the Jutland Peninsular. Very little is known of the Angles, and I don't know of anyone else who's written about them. You can find out more about Leofric here.
Why did you write The Writers' Guide?
This was originally the idea of a teacher friend of mine. She thought that a 'how to' book that covered all writing styles, aimed at a teenage audience would be popular. Unfortunately, when I tried selling the idea I discovered that the main buyers of 'how to' writing books are upwards of 25. I did a complete re-write for an adult audience, but still couldn't get any interest - it turned out that publishers would rather sell a prospective author half-a-dozen writing titles, rather than just one that gave them a taste of everything. The book sat on my hard-drive for a few years before I decided to self-publish. I rewrote, updated and expanded the text and bought it out in 2013. You can find out more about The Writers' Guide here.
How did the Covent Garden Ladies transcripts come about?
I came across Harris's Lists of Covent Garden Ladies when I was researching a book for Random House (Sex: a User's Guide). I thought that extracts from the Lists would make fascinating reading for a modern audience and transcribed two editions of the Lists in preparation for a book. However, someone else got there before me. A week before I was going to submit my manuscript, Hallie Rubenhold published her book 'Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies – sex in the city in Georgian Britain'. So that was that. A couple of years ago I decided I might as well as make something from the work I'd put into the project (when I started the project, one of the Lists had been available only as an original in the British Library) and both the transcripts are now available as annotated ebooks. You can find out more about the Lists here.
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Why, yes. Yes, I am. How did you know that?
Actually, I probably shouldn't have admitted that so quickly.
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Picture the scene: the back room of a downtown Chicago restaurant owned by the Mob. Outside, the rain is coming down so hard, alley cats are surfing in the gutter. Inside, things couldn't be more different -- this is Prohibition and throats are dry... very dry.
Don Carlo's invitation didn't say much, but you can only say "yes" when he calls. The word on the street is that every Boss and members of every family from every neighborhood are gonna be there. You better hope nothing's gonna spoil the party. But then who can resist the warm glow of a shot of Bourbon at the Boss's table on a night like this? Just come prepared. And remember: load your gun before you fill your glass. Someone's gonna settle the score.
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Dominique Ehrhard
Parker Germany
Year: 1999
Players: 3 - 6
Time: 30 minutes
Ages: 8 and up
Weight: 1,050 grams
- 1 gameboard
- 60 cards
- bank notes
- 48 gangster figures
- 6 cakes
- 18 drowsy tokens
- 6 menu cards
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Average Rating: 4.3 in 3 reviews
I am a HUGE fan of this game. The reason I dont give it 5 stars, as there isnt alot of strategy and the game is more of a filler than anything else. The game is heavy on theme, its fun to wipe your friends out.
Think of it as Family business with a little more strategy.
Recommended if you like MOB GAMES.
Good clean family fun. Try to kill all the other players. This is not a deep strategy game; it is a fun family game in the vein of Guillotine. Very light but fun nonetheless. You play mobsters sitting around a table knocking each other off. Guns, knives, poison and exploding cakes that can take out 3 at a time are the weapons used. There is a lot of seat shuffling as everybody tries to get the valuable chairs or get out of the way of the exploding cakes. All in all a most enjoyable game.
This game is pure and simple fun. The Counter review above does a great job of explaining the game. If you've ever played Guillotine (and like it), you'll love this game. The rules are simple enough that you don't need the guide cards that come with the game. As an aside, those guide cards are written in German, but all the other (playing) cards used in the game have no writing on them (pictures only) and are self explanatory. The rules translation provided with the game is adequate. One reading and you'll be ready to explain the game to others and start playing away.
If the theme of a game like Guillotine puts you off (lopping off heads), then the theme in Don Pepe won't thrill you either (where you kill off your opponents with guns, knives, poison, and exploding cakes). It's all in good fun though and doesn't lessen the rating given to this game. There's a fair amount of luck in the game through the cards you draw, but there's some strategy to be found in the placing of your gang and the play of your cards in hand. The game plays quickly with various ways to reach its conclusion. Either the money runs out or only one gang's members remains. The player with the highest money total wins. This is nice since you can get eliminated first and still have a chance at winning if you have the most money.
The quality of the parts is up to German standards with everything having its proper place for storage in the box (low fart-factor). This is a great game that will be pulled out as a filler or starter game for many a games night. It plays fast and you can get two games done in under an hour if nobody ponders the strategies too deeply.
For what this game presents itself to be, I have to give it a 99db on the Mulder Meter. It deserves five stars as a lighthearted, fun, and easy game to play with good replayability. I'd recommend it as an addition to your gaming collection whether you have kids or not.
This is an atmospheric fun game, in the same mould as Family Business and Guillotine. Players represent gangs of mobsters, including the boss, knifemen, gunmen and general hoods. The graphics are good and players looking for typecasts will not be disappointed.
The gangs have agreed to meet up to divide the pile of cash between them and the setting (board) is a giant oval-shaped table. The seating plan has not been determined, but clever gang bosses will note the tableware carefully.
Each player seats their players one at a time until all mobsters have been seated. Players then receive a hand of cards, which determine what they can do on their turn. Since there is only one action per turn, (followed by a movement) speed is of the essence to make the game maintain its pace. It also limits down-time as players are eliminated.
The placement of your gang is important. At each setting there are various items left on the table. Business documents entitle players to take some money at the beginning of their turn, guns allow you to shoot the gang member sitting opposite you, while a knife lets you stab a gang member adjacent to you. It's a brutal game of elimination, but all done in the best possible taste.
Some squares are to be avoided -- settings with a glass of liquid mean players can be drugged to sleep. Each member who is knifed or shot is removed from the room (game). The most dangerous place is at the head of the table because that person is the accountant (hooray!) who doubles the income for the gang occupying this seat. Unfortunately, a gun is placed on the opposite side of the table (boo!). There are also some attractive seats that offer less opportunities to be killed, such as the rounded pieces of the table as there is no equivalent opposite place were gunmen may threaten you. These are quickly occupied by bosses. As part of the set-up, you have to balance the desire to remove opponents against the protection of people who increase your income (bosses and document seats). But if you put three of your men together, they do have a tendency to attract the exploding cakes!
Each turn the first thing you do is determine the cash you can take from the table. You earn money through occupying the seats with documents, having your boss in play and of course occupying the accountant's chair. If you forget, it's too bad.
Then you consider which of your cards to play. These activate a gang member, so the gun allows either your gunman or a person occupying a gun seat to fire (and remove) the gang member sitting opposite your gunman. The knife allows one of your knifemen or a gang member sitting at a place with a knife to stab and remove a gang member who is sitting next to your knifeman. Alternatively, if you play a drug card, you may put to sleep 3 gang members who are sitting at places with a bottle. These gang members may not act until the end of their owner's next turn. Worse still, a second drug will cause them to overdose and be removed from the game.
Perhaps the best card to play is the cake. This is delivered by one of the hostesses who place it in front of a gang member. If it is not detonated by a player earlier (by a special card), it detonates at the beginning of the next round of the player who placed it, killing the person who occupies this space and the two adjoining places either side. To avoid this, players may play a card to move the cake to the next person, which could be several spaces away by the time vacancies have been caused. The other way to be safe from its effects is to move your gang member, using a movement card. This allows players to avoid dangerous places and exploding cakes. In fact, the movement cards are amongst the most useful in the game as you can play a killing card, then move out of a dangerous position or occupy a seat that you have just made vacant.
The game ends when only members of one gang survive, in which case they claim the rest of the money or when all the money has been distributed. The winner is the person with the most money.
This is a light-hearted game with a good flavour and plenty of action. It needs to be played at speed because this increases the frivolity of the game and makes for more light relief. Anyone who does Italian accents normally gets spotted early on, as does anyone who is good at death rattle sounds. My advice is therefore make as many of these as you want: you may not win, but you'll have great fun watching your gang die.


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Elzybells challenge #19 is a fab sketch from the lovely Rachel, and here is my interpretation. I used the 'Kitty Flowers' stamp on my card – isn't she beautiful?! I coloured her with Promarkers, and used a double-sided paper by Stampin' Up for the background. The various blue cardstocks are Bazzill and Bazzill Bling, and I've embossed the circle with a Cuttlebug folder and cut it out with Nestabilities dies. Lastly, the blue grosgrain ribbon is from my stash. Do pop along to the Elzybells blog and have a peek at all the gorgeous Design Team cards for this fortnight!
Elzybells Challenge # 19
30 Apr 2009 11 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: Bazzill, Bazzill Bling, Cuttlebug Embossing folder, Elzybells, Nestabilities, Promarkers, Stampin' Up
That's Torn It!
29 Apr 2009 5 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: Hanglar & Stanglar, HOTP, Ranger Distress Inks, Tilda and Friends
This week's theme at Tilda and Friends is to add something torn to your ATC. I've used a cute Hanglar & Stanglar image on mine, and he is coloured with Ranger Distress Inks for a change. The papers are scraps left over from other projects, and the brads are from HOTP. I hope you'll come and join our challenge this week. There are some fab examples by the other DT members to inspire you over on the Tilda and Friends blog.
Happy St George's Day!
23 Apr 2009 2 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: Bazzill, Cuttlebug, Elzybells, Gorjuss Girls, Papermania, Sugar Nellie, Tilda and Friends
I'm sorry for not posting my ATC yesterday, but I had a bit of a manic one, and was without the internet for part of the day, but here it is now!
The theme at Tilda and Friends this week is 'Red and White', in honour of St. George, the patron saint of England. I used one of the Gorjuss Girls from Sugar Nellie, coloured appropriately, and a heart button, which I think is an H&S image. The background Bazzill cardstock was embossed with the Swiss Dots folder on the Cuttlebug. The sentiment stamp is by Elzybells, and the little red flower gems are by Papermania.
If you are feeling a little patriotic today, come and join our challenge, and make a red and white ATC. There is some great inspiration on the Tilda and Friends blog.
Final Peek!
20 Apr 2009 7 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: Bazzill, Crate Papers, Cuttlebug, Elzybells, Nestabilities, Poppicrafts, Promarkers, Stampin' Up
Here are my last two cards for this Elzybells release. I'm using the Daisy Chain teddy again, simply because she's so adorable! The lovely sentiment is also part of the new release. The image was coloured with Promarkers and, although it doesn't show up well, the card has little touches of fairy dust here and there. For those of you who don't have fairy dust about the house, fine crystal glitter is an excellent substitute! I used Nestabilities to die-cut the frame, and the cardstock is by Stampin' Up. The flowers are from Poppicrafts, the leaves were punched with a L-Em punch, and the pink brads are from my stash, as is the DP.
Following my comment yesterday about the 'Gardening Ted' stamp being suitable for a Father's Day card, I decided to make a second card that would be suitable for this occasion. I coloured the image a little darker, and used a Crate Papers DP, in masculine colours, along with some deep shades of cardstock by Bazzill and Stampin' Up. The letters were die-cut with the Olivia alphabet dies on the Cuttlebug. The fab Philips screw head brads were an Ebay purchase.
All the new stamps are available from today, so why not pop along to the Elzybells online shop, and see what goodies Elizabeth has in store for you? Don't forget to check out the blogs of the other Design Team members – links in my side bar- to see what they have to show you today.
Spring is in the Air (Sneak Peek Three)!
19 Apr 2009 9 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: Elzybells, Nestabilities, Stampin' Up
I have another gorgeous Elzybells spring stamp to show off to you today. This one is called 'Gardening Ted' and, although I've used pretty feminine colours for my card, I think it would work equally well for a Father's Day card if made in more masculine shades. The sentiment is also by Elzybells. The green cardstock is 'Certainly Celery' by Stampin' Up, and the textured pink card is from my stash, as are the buttons and grosgrain ribbon. I punched the pink borders with the Stampin' Up scalloped punch, and the stamped and coloured image was matted onto a die-cut made with Nestabilities Labels 3.
The new Elzybells stamps will be available from the online shop from tomorrow, but don't forget to call back for my last sneak peek for this time too. I have thoroughly enjoyed playing with the new set of stamps, and I'm sure that you'll love them too.
Sneak Peek Two
18 Apr 2009 6 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: Bazzill, Elzybells, Promarkers, Rita Marie & Co, Stampin' Up
Welcome to another Elzybells sneak peek. Let me introduce you to the Graduate – isn't he cute, and obviously very smart too! The stamp is called 'Grad Boy', and I have coloured him with Promarkers and highlighted his gown with a white gel pen. The cardstock is by Bazzill (Brocade), and Stampin' Up (Not Quite Navy), and the paper is by Rita Marie and Company. I printed the sentiment on the computer.
And here is the inside of my card, with the perfect verse for a graduate. This stamp is called 'Celebrate Graduation' and, like the others that we are previewing, it will be available on Monday 21st April from the Elzybells online store.
The new stamps from Elizabeth are stunning, aren't they? Don't forget to call in at the Elzybells blog, and those of the other DT members, for some more gorgeous creations. I'll be here again tomorrow with another card to show you!
New Sneaks from Elzybells
17 Apr 2009 7 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: Basic Grey, Elzybells, Stampin' Up
Welcome to the latest sneak peeks from Elzybells Art Stamps. The stamps we are previewing this time are the wonderful Graduation and Spring releases. On my card I used the Daisy Chain Teddy, and the 'Spring is in the Air' sentiment. The DP is Lilykate by Basic Grey, and the cardstock is by Stampin' Up. I used a scalloped punch, also by Stampin' Up, to cut out the sentiment, and embellished the card with flowers, ribbon and brads from my stash. Please come back tomorrow for another peek at the new stamps; I'm sure you won't be disappointed!


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Prices may vary, especially if your character has a full armor set like velder imperial guard for example.
I will accept items and elcoins as payment if ED isn't an option for you.
If you want to pay with items, these are the ones I'm currently searching for (list will stay updated):
+9 Scrolls
|1 full body lineart or 2 full body sketches
|400 Energy Shards
|1 full body sketch
[Nasod Battle Suit MK2] Hair, Aisha (normal ver.)
|1 full body sketch or 1 bust lineart
|[Evil Tracer 2] Hair, Aisha
|1 full body, full color artwork
[Salvatore Rosso] Hair, Ara
|1 half body lineart or 2 full body sketches
|[Salvatore Rosso] Top piece, Ara
|1 half body lineart or 2 full body sketches
|[Salvatore Rosso] Bottom piece, Ara
|1 half body lineart or 2 full body sketches
1. Commissions are for digital art only.
2. Commissioned artwork is for personal use only.
3. I have the right to refuse your request for any reason. I don't have to tell you said reason.
4. I will put my signature on the finished artwork.
5. You may use the artwork for forum avatars, signatures and/or banners.
6. If you, for what ever reason, decide that you don't want the commission anymore, you will pay me for the time I worked on your request.
This results in a 70% refund for you.
7. If I, for what ever reason, can't or won't finish your commission, you will receive a 100% refund.
8. You cannot ask for a refund after the drawing is finished.
9. Art isn't my full time job and I'm not at home 24/7 either. Your commission can take 2 days or 1 month to finish. Don't pressure me, don't ask how long it will take. I can assure you I'm working on your request. If I'm not, you will get a full refund.
10. Please keep in mind that english isn't my first language.
1. You will send me a PM containing following information:
Your ingame name:
Type and format you chose:
Type of payment you chose:
The character(s) you want me to draw: (include a good quality screenshot in here. Please take off your weapon and any weapon accessories. Your screenshot should look something like this.)
Name(s) of the character(s) you want me to draw:
(Optional) Ideas on how you want your character(s) to be portrayed:
(Optional) Pose references, if you want a specific pose:
(Optional) Everything else you want to add:
(Optional) The drawing of mine you like the most, so I have an idea of what you might like:
2. I will send you a sketch. At this point, you should point out everything that's bugging you with the sketch so far, since I absolutely won't do any major adjustments after I started working on the lineart. As soon as you're happy with the sketch, you will send me the full payment and I will start working on the lineart afterwards.
Stuff I dislike/won't draw:
1. Wings, especially feather wings (feel free to include them in the screenshots though, maybe I'll do them)*
2. All things NSFW
3. Complex backgrounds
4. Pets (again, feel free to ask)*
*Does only apply to full color artworks. Feel free to request pets and wings for sketches and flat coloring.
E: forgot to include that I will open 2-3 slots at the same time, depending on the commissions.


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In this second installment, the team at Nasa Djeca picked out some photos of the After School Club. This was one of their first initiatives which started way back in February 2011. The club is still very much active today and continues to provide activities and support for the children of the Egipatsko Selo children's home, Mostar.
Thanks to the After School Club, the children have the opportunity to attend workshops such as jewelry making, cooking, art, dance and sports. They also have educational workshops which help them to prepare for life beyond the children's home.
The Club also takes the children on social outings as well as cultural and artistic events, helping the children to become integrated into the community.


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Book | Katachi: Japanese Pattern and Design
This book was published in 1963, and it is one of my favorite on Japanese design. Katachi means form: this book is a perfect collection of Japan in form. It shows a broad spectrum of traditional designs and patterns, which are as much a part of the landscape and language, as they are art. The incredibly charming photos by Takeji Iwamiya are as simple and deep as their subject. A lot of these photos remind me of my first trip to Japan and the photos I took those many years ago.
It is fascinating to flip through images and see shapes interact with materials, and how the combination of those define Japan's arts and crafts. This book is required reading if you are at all interested in seeing how the cultural and daily patterns of Japanese life surface in the crafts and everyday items.


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An Email Intervention...
My email inbox has zero messages in it. None. Zilch. Zip. Nada. Why? Nobody sends me messages. Well, not quite but that might be preferable compared to some of the dribble that comes my way via email. My inbox has zero messages in it because I subscribe to Merlin Mann's InboxZero method.
It goes a little something like this:
Your inbox is not a to-do list. Items should arrive in your inbox and then be immediately processed. You really only need three or four folders to squirrel all that email away. Beyond the inbox, something along the lines of "archive", "action", and "hold" should do the trick. So much has been written in this area that I am not going to regurgitate it here. Take these links and read up. Wouldn't you like to be staring at an inbox with zero messages in it? It's a great feeling, trust me.
Merlin has found so much success with his InboxZero method that Google asked him to speak recently:


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The mission of the SKPTSA Council is to provide leadership, services, training, information and support to local units; promote cooperation among local units; and support and encourage projects in the community that benefit children.
Promote networking, team building and sharing among local units. Facilitate recognition and awards within and among local units. Encourage community partnership. Encourage local units to participate in National PTA Reflections program.
SK PTSA Council President:
Erich Gent
(360) 340-3833
SK PTSA Council Vice President
Tracy Hopkins
(360) 731-1660
SK PTSA Council Co-Secretary:
Carey Alvestad
(360) 536-2620
SK PTSA Council Co-Secretary:
Erin Simon
(360) 620-7441
SK PTSA Council Treasurer:
Alanna Speidel
(720) 935-6333
The South Kitsap PTSA Council meets every second Monday of the month. We meet at 6:00 pm at the district office (SKSD Administrative Building at 2689 Hoover Avenue SE, Port Orchard, WA 98366).


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Two tech giants get the once-over from a giant among tech investors.
Dan Niles, Chief Investment Officer at AlphaOne Capital Partners, is considered by many to be one of the best tech investors around. On Talking Numbers, Niles discusses both Facebook and Apple.
(Watch: Icahn: I pushed for a $150 billion buyback from Apple CEO Tim Cook)
Niles was negative on Facebook just before it went public. However, his opinion changed when it launched its sponsored news feed. The stock is up nearly 80% so far in 2013 and has nearly doubled in the last two months.
Now long the stock, Niles says there are three upcoming events that he believes will further boost Facebook's share price.
As well, Niles gives his take on comments made by Bill Miller, chairman of Legg Mason Capital Management, on CNBC's "Squawk Box" yesterday regarding Apple:
"It's the biggest no-brainer in the history of the earth, right? That's what Apple is right now to me. It just makes no sense for Apple to trade where it is. Seven times enterprise value to free cash flow. Fourteen percent free cash flow yield to enterprise value. Ten percent simple free cash flow yield. If Apple was a junk bond, it would trade 40% higher."
(Watch more: Why Bill Miller loves Apple and Microsoft)
Niles gives his initial reaction to Miller in the video above. And, he has written for Talking Numbers this follow-up, too:
"Bill Miller's arguments about free cash flow, dividends, etc. were all the same arguments being made by investors about the cheapness of Motorola, then Nokia and finally BlackBerry as all those stocks went from innovators to also-rans. The only reason to bottom fish a stock with worsening fundamentals is you believe fundamentals are finally improving, not because of some historical metrics of profitability which may be a lot worse in the future.
"By the way, these arguments of Apple being cheap were made at $700, $600, $500, $400 and finally below $400. If you look at Apple with the launch of iTunes and the iPod in 2003, then the iPhone in 2007 and, finally, the iPad in 2010, they were producing products that you could not get from anyone else. Others were struggling to copy them. Revenues accelerated as did profit margins during that period of time. The stock followed.
"Since the unfortunate passing of Steve Jobs, you have seen others – in particular Samsung – actually take the lead in phones that have bigger screens or lower price points for emerging markets. It is easy to forget that Apple missed the June quarter of 2012 and estimates have been coming down ever since.
"Apple has seen revenue growth go from 59% year-over-year in the March quarter of 2012 – the last time estimates went up – to only 1% year-over-year revenue growth in the just reported June quarter of 2013. You had events like a big buyback and an increase in dividends during that period in time but that did not stop the stock decline. Their gross margins during this period of time peaked at 47.4% in that March quarter of 2012 and have declined every quarter sequentially to 36.9% in the June quarter of 2013. When your products are not that unique anymore, you make less money on each one.
"I am long the stock for the first time for fundamental reasons, versus for short-term price appreciation due to the expectations of an increasing dividend/buyback or product launch, for the first time since early last year. Apple pre-announced that revenues and gross margins would be near the high end of their previously guided range. Most importantly, the about-to-be reported September quarter may be the first time since the March quarter of 2012 when forward estimates for Apple go up.
"Second, we think a new iPad should be launched before the end of the year. Finally, we expect Apple to announce a deal with the largest telecom carrier in the world, China Mobile which has over 700 million subscribers and launch a lower priced phone to service that market.
"However – and this is the big question – if the products that are coming are not that unique or do not open up the availability of the iPhone to more cost conscious consumers, you are likely to see margins continue to compress as the business gets more difficult going forward and this will turn out to be a short lived bounce in their stock price and business prospects."
To see more of Niles' interview on why he's long Facebook and what he thinks about Apple, watch the video above.
[Disclosures: AlphaOne Capital Partners has positions, either long or short, in FB, YHOO, AAPL, GOOG, AMZN, INTC, XLNX]
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the perfect unpeeled fried potatoes ala French
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Napier's Bones
In Sharon's dream world of Harry Barker, the Napier's Bones are much like their real world equivalent: an abacus created by John Napier in 1617 for the calculation of products and quotients of numbers. This abacus consists of a board with a rim and a series of rods or "bones". The user places Napier's rods in the rim to conduct multiplication or division.
However, according to the hacker-only version of Wikipedia (as opposed to the luddie-sanitized one familiar to most denizens of the Internet), an additional legend states that Napier also postulated a form of "universal algorithm", a single unifying mathematical formula to explain the known universe. A hacker possessing knowledge of this universal algorithm could, in theory, control literally anyone or anything by manipulating the mathematical formulas governing its existence. Napier supposedly encoded the secret of this universal algorithm into models of the Bones that he himself created. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your point of view), all but one of the Napier's self-built sets of Bones have been lost or destroyed, with the last remaining set removed from public display for unspecified reasons.
Harry Barker and his friends postulated that rumors that the last set of Napier's Bones were held in an unnamed vault in Groklots could be connected to the fact that Dexter emptied a vault at the bank the same day that the bank was broken into. The children suspected Gnawthrylilees, either directly or via proxy, might be in pursuit of the Bones to restore himself to power and take over the world. This theory was eventually proven correct: Professor Quux, the quiet, stuttering Defense Against the Black Arts instructor, was really in league with Gnawthrylilees and secretly attempting to acquire the Bones. Harry and his friends managed to track the Bones to their hiding place deep within the castle of Hollerith's, where Professor Dumpingcore hid them within the Mirror of Awkandsed. Harry managed to extract the Bones from the Mirror (since, after all, he didn't really want them) and destroy them by crushing them beneath his feet. With the destruction of the last set of encoded Bones, it is assumed that the secret of the universal algorithm will be lost to the hacking world forever.


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SWELL Artist of the Day
Erik Davis-Heim
Davis-Heim is an aspiring Concept Artist currently residing in Rhode Island. He is a graduate of MICA where he studied painting and illustration. He is interested in writing, paintings both new and old, and has an abiding fascination with science fiction.
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by Brad Houle, CFA Senior Vice President
With the bond market closing early and the capital markets closed on Friday, Brad Houle, CFA, gives a brief update on Cyprus for this week's Weekly Market Makers entry.
The S&P 500 closed today at a new record, surpassing its previous closing high from October of 2007 and resulting in a 10-percent gain for the first quarter of 2013. Over on the other side of the Atlantic, the news was less celebratory, with focus on developments in the relatively small, but significant sovereign state of Cyprus.
Banks in Cyprus started reopening after two weeks during which a bailout was being negotiated with the European Central Bank. The reopening of the banks was less dramatic than feared as only small crowds of depositors lined up to withdraw the limit of €300 limit per day. The government has temporarily put in place strict capital controls on removing cash from Cyprus to limit the damage of a wider run on the banks.
Ordinarily, this story would be receiving little international attention due to the small size of the Cyprus economy; however, the news coverage we are seeing is a by-product of the nature of the bailout. Depositors' funds in banks are thought to be sacred as the financial system runs largely on trust. Because this bailout involved the "taxing" of depositor's money in order to assist in funding the bailout, it is seen as a taboo in the financial world to not give bank depositors their money back. Although these depositors are receiving equity in their banks, it's just not the "standard operating procedure" we have seen from both sides of the Atlantic.
Initially, the plan involved a deposit tax on all accounts— regardless of size. This week, we saw the Cyprus solution altered to tax only deposits over €100,000. This policy change was more politically feasible because it was perceived to be impacting wealthy Russians who were using Cyprus banks as a tax haven, as opposed to local senior citizens.
While this crisis has not reignited the broader European financial market stress, it has potentially given pause to investors and depositors all over Europe. Europe lacks a central deposit insurance organization, such as the FDIC. As a result, their deposit insurance is a comparatively more fragmented infrastructure. Using depositors' money to fund a bailout may cause investors in bank bonds to be wary. Senior debt holders have mostly been made whole in bank bailouts both in the United States and in Europe. If bond investors fear the jeopardy of holding these European assets has risen—confidence may be further eroded in a business that functions on trust.


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LG Introduces Rugged GoPro Rival
Outdoor adventure live streamers in the market for a new camera can now add the LG Action Cam LTE to their shopping list. The Korean electronics giant unveiled the GoPro-like device today, billing it as the first action camera to come with built-in LTE connectivity.
The camera can also connect to the Internet via 3G and Wi-Fi, or to a smartphone or computer via USB Type-C and Bluetooth. Since it's waterproof and dustproof, those additional connectivity options mean it will also be useful as an outdoor home security camera.
As for video-recording modes, you can choose from Ultra HD at 30fps, Full HD at 60fps, or regular HD at 120fps. Live streaming is limited to 30fps HD. LG says you'll get four hours of recording in Full HD mode, thanks to the 1,400 mAh battery.
If you're not live streaming, videos and stills that the 12.3-megapixel camera captures can be written to a microSD card. The camera has 4GB of onboard memory, but it's entirely reserved for the operating system.
The Action Cam will ship next month to customers in South Korea. European and North American launch dates have not yet been set, nor have details on which wireless carriers will support the camera.
While the Action Cam may be the first rugged camera to come with built-in LTE, GoPro owners have a variety of streaming options if they connect their cameras to their smartphones, like Periscope.
LG's Action Cam will require separate service from a wireless carrier at an additional cost, but should nevertheless appeal to hardcore adventurers who want to leave their smartphones at home to avoid damaging them.


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By Susan King
Los Angeles Times
British actress Carey Mulligan was anxious when she played F. Scott Fitzgerald's American heroine Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's 2013 adaptation of "The Great Gatsby."
The 1925 novel, she said, was the "most read, loved book in America."
"Daisy is described in such adoring terms. I found that really intimidating, because I had always played normal women and normal girls," she added. "Of course, everyone who ever read that book knows exactly how they see Daisy in their own minds."
She felt the same way with her latest role, portraying yet another celebrated literary female protagonist, the strong-willed, independent and willful Bathsheba Everdene for Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's "Far From the Madding Crowd," based on Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel.
"You can't dive into every single person's imagination and pick out the qualities they see in the character," Mulligan said by phone from New York, where she's starring in the Broadway revival of David Hare's "Skylight." As an actress, the 29-year-old noted, "you have to go by your instincts," no matter how well known the character is.
In the romantic drama shot in England's picturesque West Country, often referred to as "Hardy country," Bathsheba is a young woman without means whose life and fortunes change when she inherits her uncle's farm. The fearless Bathsheba is determined to run the property, much to the shock of the local male farmers.
("Hunger Games" author Suzanne Collins was inspired to name her resourceful Katniss Everdeen after the self-assured Hardy heroine.)
Bathsheba is also pursued by three very different suitors — the loyal, handsome shepherd Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts); the wealthy older neighbor William Boldwood (Michael Sheen), who becomes obsessed with her; and the magnetic and reckless army sergeant Frank Troy (Tom Sturridge).
The Oscar-nominated actress ("An Education") didn't watch John Schlesinger's 1967 film adaptation of "Far From the Madding Crowd," starring Julie Christie as Bathsheba, preferring to use the book as her guide to the story.
"I loved the character," she said. "What I loved so much was the first thing she does in the book is refuse an offer of marriage. I found that so refreshing. So often so many of these period dramas are about women trying to find men to fix their problems and sort of start their lives."
Bathsheba's early feminist leanings weren't the only unusual aspect of the story Mulligan admired. "I mostly associate costume dramas with people standing in stiff corsets in dark mahogany rooms and talking in low voices. This was going to be about people really living in the land and riding around on horses and facing real problems," she said of the film.
Vinterberg ("The Hunt"), who had seen most of Mulligan's previous work, thought from the outset that "she was the right person for the part."
"She was the perfect combination of being very vulnerable and yet very strong and smart," he added. "I thought she could capture this very independent spirit, because it is somehow part of herself."
Mulligan, he noted, also had "faith in my work."
"She is a woman who read the book many, many times — more times than I had — and sort of carried it with her as a kind of witness to everything we did," he said.


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This is a very moving survivor's account of the flooding at the Kedarnath shrine. It is hard to imagine the scale of destruction and the suddenness of it, even reading news reports. To actually live through that is horrific beyond words.
I keep reading reports about how the Government is not doing its job, evacuating people too slowly etc etc. While I'm sure there are lots of things the Government can do/ could have done better, the evacuation itself is being done by the Indian Army/ Air Force/ ITBP and they seem to be doing a fabulous job at high risk to their own lives. I understand the anxiety of relatives, but I am not surprised they are being evacuated at the rate of 10-15 people per helicopter. It is not exactly the sort of terrain one can land transport aircraft in. Not only is the hillside steep, but the roads too are about 3 inches wide at the best of times, and now even that has been washed away. We are talking about rappelling and rock climbing here.
We know the rain was torrential, but we don't know whether it was unusually torrential. Do we have records for the last 100-200 years? What constitutes average rainfall during the monsoons? Time was when Kedarnath and Badrinath used to see very few pilgrims precisely because they were so inaccessible. Now devotees pour in by the thousands, so any disaster gets magnified in terms of loss of life.
The rains were not the problem, in my opinion, the landslides were. That region seems to be getting a lot more landslides in recent times. As far as I know, landslides are caused by loss of tree cover, and unless all the trees in Uttarakhand are dying mysteriously of disease, the cause of the landslides (and this whole tragedy) is indiscriminate logging. I am surprised that no one is focusing on this issue.
It is not going to stop raining in Uttarakhand. People are only going to go in greater numbers to Badrinath and Kedarnath. And unless we do something about the landslides, this sort of tragedy is only going to keep occurring.
So can we please have more of a national debate on how to stop those landslides ? If logging is the cause, can we talk about the logging ?


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When we found out that Real Food Real Kitchens was invited to cover this year's Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival (SOBEWFF) we could not have been more excited! After all, the SOBEWFF is one of the biggest food festivals each year and includes everything and everyone on the forefront of the food universe. Not only are all the big name Food Network celefs on hand, but the event draws out celebrities of all genres to take part in everyone's favorite… FOOD!
Now that the opening day festivities are over :O( , we are ready to focus on what we came for: fun, food, and fabulosity! One goal this year is to come away from the SOBEWFF with not just a year's worth of stories under our belt for 2014 in to 2015 but also with some basic cooking skills from amazing chefs that we can pass on to our readers and to people out there that can take this knowledge to help communities around the world make better and more simple food choices. To do this we will be attending the Fun and Fit as a Family sponsored by Carnival featuring Goya Kidz Kitchen hosted by Robert Irvine event which is all about well... fun, food, and family. It helps educate parents and kids to learn the basics of a healthy lifestyle in a fun way, very similar to what RFRK is all about (Family, Food, Culture & History). At this event we will be interviewing two of our favorite Chefs: Andrew Zimmern and Robert Irvine.
We are then moving on to the Whole Foods Market Grand Tasting Village for the rest of the weekend to get our 'fill' (yes we plan on pigging out) on all there is to know about food trends and developments for 2014. We have our eyes set on chatting with as many Chefs and tastemakers as possible. Some of the chefs that will be doing demos or discussions on Saturday or Sunday include: Marcus Samuelson, Tyler Florence, Martha Stewart, Emeril, Rachel Ray, Anthony Bourdain, The Deen Family, Anne Burrell… just to name a FEW! What a perfect way to round out this weekend of food in beautiful South Beach Miami.
There is plenty to see and do for every taste under the rainbow so come out to an event or two this weekend and share in the celebration. We can't wait!
For more information visit www.sobefest.com
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Put your life on autopilot and make your business processes efficient with the magic and power of Python!
About This Book
Who This Book Is For
Our audience is programmers who know Python but need not be experts. They will however know a lot of the basics of the syntax and some basic experience with the command line. Ultimately, they're people who see themselves as busy and want to find cool hacks to automate all the mundane and time-consuming tasks they find themselves doing on a daily basis.
What You Will Learn
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This book gives you a great selection of recipes to automate your business processes with Python, and provides a platform for you to understand how Python is useful to make time consuming and repetitive business tasks more efficient. Python is a mature high level language, has object-oriented programming features, powers various apps, has a huge set of modules, and great community support. Python is extremely easy to use, can help you get complex tasks done efficiently and is an apt choice for our needs.
With a classic problem-solution based approach and real-world examples, you will delve into things that automate your business processes. You will begin by learning about the Python modules to work with Web, Worksheets, Presentations and PDFs. You'll leverage Python recipes to automate processes in HR, Finance and making them efficient and reliable. For instance, company payroll — an integral process in HR will be automated with Python recipes.
A few chapters of this book will also help you gain knowledge on working with bots and computer vision. You will learn how to build bots for automating business use cases by integrating artificial intelligence. You'll also understand how Python is helpful in face detection and building a scanner of your own. You will see how to effectively and easily use Python code to manage SMS and voice notifications, opening a world of possibilities using cloud telephony to solve your business needs. Moving forward, you will learn to work with APIs, Webhooks and Emails to automate Marketing and Customer Support processes. Finally, using the various Python libraries, this book will arm you with knowledge to customize data solutions and generate reports to meet your business needs.
This book will help you up-skill and make your business processes efficient with the various Python recipes covered in this book.
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Recipes to automate your life with Python will open your eyes to new ways to automate nearly anything you can achieve with a mouse and keyboard.In it, you'll learn how to construct Python scripts to scrape data, super-charge Excel, manipulate files, access websites APIs and much more. Our recipe-based approach will ensure that you know the purpose of a code block, and the steps you need to take to achieve that are presented in an easily digestible manner.
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i try and keep my blog as honest and real to me, for this is the space i've created over the years that shares a lot of my personal life and adventures. this space is very special to me and i thank all who come and visit. those of you who know me, and from what i've shared the past few months, you know this move has not been the easiest transition. i am still that 20 something year old running wild, learning so much about myself every day and trying to figure this "life" thing out. i truly believe you have to take chances in this life and never be afraid of adventures or change. everyday people ask me, why vegas?? why did i move cross country to las vegas? my reply is always the same, why not? i'm still so young.. who knows what's next or what tomorrow will bring, but living in the adventure is so much better than doing nothing. i hope if anything my story inspires all to always follow your heart and dreams. i am very much looking forward to the upcoming months, and what they will bring. i can only hope for the best and at the end of the day.. at least i can always say my heart is true and full of love.
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Mocking Stacey Osburn's unwillingness to comment is a popular theme here, but, damn, there are times when she comes off as the smartest person at the NCAA. Take, for instance, this… um, remarkable official statement about the EA settlement in O'Bannon.
I mean, man, read that righteously indignant first paragraph! If the NCAA doesn't consider the money going to the players payment for their athletic performance, what the hell is it doing in court in the first place?
If the first paragraph comes off as clueless, the second one is incoherent. Assuming it's an attempt to bash lawyers for getting paid – is Donald Remy an amateur, by the way? – well, guys, I don't think "benefactors" means what you think it means.
The whole thing comes off as a misdirected pile of passive-aggressive resentment that somebody besides the NCAA is exploiting student-athletes for financial gain. (Although, unlike in the NCAA's case, there are student-athletes actually receiving money as a direct result.)
Next time, folks, just write the last sentence and call it a day. Or let Stacey do your talking for you.
UPDATE: About that second paragraph – somebody found the dictionary at NCAA headquarters.


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A translucent glass screen frames the view this glazed wall offers, and suggests a division to the dining area alongside, without interrupting the flow within the open-plan living areas. The natural slate paving of the courtyard reaches into where the outside once did, further adding to the sense of continuity that is inherent in the design. Oak boards coat the remainder of the interior floor, with the natural finish contrasting warmly to the cool tones of the surrounding materials, and maximising light throughout.
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