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The United States, allegedly, stands on the brink of an economic meltdown. Our Government, including our President, has told us that the only ones who can save us are the white bread members of the United States House and Senate. They have worked really hard for like a week or so to save us-and today when the votes were cast–they um…failed.
Imagine if you will the following scenario: Venom is poised to launch and attack that would destroy the entire West Coast of the United States (I know let him do it–kidding left coasters). The only one to save us all is of course, SpiderMan.
Spiderman is just a middle-aged fat guy running around naked covered in Spidey body paint. (ewww) So what happens, Venom destroys California, Oregon and Washington, but not Alaska because some tough broad up there shoots him in the face with a shotgun…but I digress.
The point is–our Government is about as effective at solving private problems as a fat naked middle-aged Spiderman. (is the metaphor stretching a bit?)
Well, never fear–we have General Pelosi at the helm–and just to give you a little comfort, here is a short list of people that secretly inspire her to lead us all to victory:
1. General Custer
2. Wanda Holloway ("The Texas Cheerleader Mom")
3. President James Buchanan
for you lacking in history–James Buchanan, faced with threats of the South leaving the Union over slavery and thinking war was equally bad–couldn't make a decision, lost the faith of his own party (the DEMOCRATS) and is largely held responsible for the break-up of the Union and following civil war.
4. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin
5. Andrew Fastow
But have no fear Americans, if Pelosi can't do it, and naked Spiderman can't do it, then we dare not lose hope, we dare not begin to believe that we are failures because after all is said and done and the bailout is over and the banks are back up and running–our true savior will rise again to pull us from the jaws of defeat.
You know who it is–it is who has been saving us for years–lending us money and making those cute little everythings that decorate our house…


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As the year comes to a close and as we get ready to walk into the new year. Just know that in 2014 no matter what happens that God Is In Control and That Everything Will Be Alright.
This year has been incredible. So much has happened for me this year. Met so many people that have left a powerful impact on my life. Done so many things this year. I would be a fool to say I did all of this on my own. But I would be very wise to simply say that God allowed me to see the promises that He spoke over my life. As 2013 comes to a close and as I eagerly look forward to 2014 promises. Im excited about 2014 for me, my family, and my friends. 2014 will be one to remember! #HappyNewYears #CheersTo2014 #GodsPromises #ImpactOvaSuccess #ImpactLiving #FaithWalk #ConstantlyConfident #Salute #Motivation #Blessed #Humbled

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Drawing pictures are Illustration
Anime is short for Animation
Manga is a Japanese term for Comic Book
Manga as a art style is not the true term. Japanese call manga art style an Illustration, not Manga. How to draw Manga involves all aspects of making a comic book. Anime falls in this as well. Manga Involves panels, dialogue, story, sequences etc, and anime involves animation of story, dialogue and sequences. An Illustration is just a picture like the one you see in the video. Why else would the japanese comic books you buy at the store are called Mangas?
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The Woodlands, TX (PRWEB) February 17, 2013
Dr. Gayle Bradshaw offers bone grafting as a means of augmenting available bone so that installing dental implants is possible, and she is now accepting new patients for this modern dental procedure. When teeth are missing, the bite can be impacted and normal eating may be affected. Implants are often used by a periodontist to replace missing teeth and improve a patient's bite. However, when teeth are missing, the bone immediately begins the process of deterioration, and sometimes there is not enough bone mass to support implants. When this occurs, a bone grafting procedure is often needed prior to implant installation.
When the amount of bone missing in a patient's mouth makes it inadvisable to install dental implants, bone grafting surgery can increase the available bone so that an implant may be possible. There are three popular types of grafts, each with their own advantages. The allograft is taken from a human bone bank and allows the periodontist access to as much bone material as needed without requiring a second surgical site on the patient. The Autogenous graft is taken from the patient, and offers a lower risk of rejection. The Xenograft is from a non-human bone bank, usually from a cow. All bone material from bone banks has been thoroughly screened.
No matter which type of graft is used, the procedure is similar. The periodontist uses tiny titanium screws to anchor the bone graft to the existing bone. Sutures are used to close up the incision. The area is allowed to heal for a number of months, and when healing is complete, the periodontist may perform the surgery to install the dental implants.
Dental implants are considered to be a long-term answer to the problem of missing teeth. However, they require a certain amount of bone density or mass in order to successfully integrate into the jaw. When the bone mass is not sufficient, bone grafting is a viable solution for augmenting the jaw. Once the graft has healed, implant surgery is possible. Information about the grafting and implant procedures may be found by visiting http://www.bradshawperiodontics.com.
Bradshaw Periodontics is a periodontal practice offering patients personalized dental care for The Woodlands, Texas since 1998. Dr. Gayle Bradshaw graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1994 from The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Dental School. Dr. Bradshaw and her family moved to Houston to complete her Master's Degree in periodontal surgery at The University of Texas Dental Branch where she completed her studies in 1998. In 2000, she earned her Board Certification from the American Board of Periodontology. Dr. Bradshaw is part of one percent of dental professionals providing the most recent FDA cleared laser procedure for gum disease and periodontal treatment. To learn more about Bradshaw Periodontics and their dental services visit their website at http://www.bradshawperiodontics.com and call (281) 377-8409.
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That is Charlie's grampa, Papa Doc. He does blacksmithing demonstrations at various venues including nearby McDaniel farm park. We visited with him a bit then toured the park on a hayride and spent time at an amazing new playground. Thank the weather gods for cloud cover.
The parks department has restored and maintained the farmhouse and outbuildings as a typical 1930's working farm. There was a table set up where someone would be giving a talk and demonstration about cotton. No one was around to answer our silly questions as it was early.
That shred of raw cotton in the right foreground got picked up by inquisitive fingers and dropped on the ground, from there to my pocket.
Once I got home, I examined the bit of fluff. I picked out all the bits of dry leaves. pesky business. There was almost a dozen of those little hard beans stuck in the fiber. I'm assuming they are cotton seeds and I'm going to see what I can find out about growing them.
Maybe I will spin the cotton into thread too. Obsessive. I know. There will be dye.


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Transocean Ltd. Announces Extraordinary General Meeting
ZUG, SWITZERLAND-August 25, 2015-Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) (SIX: RIGN) announced today that the company will convene an Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders ("EGM"). The EGM, which will be open to shareholders of record as of October 12, 2015, will be held at 5:00 p.m., CEST, on October 29, 2015, in Cham, Switzerland. Additional details on the EGM will be provided to shareholders and be made publicly available in a proxy statement that will be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Board of Directors (the "Board") will propose the following items for approval at the EGM:
- The election of Jeremy D. Thigpen, the company's President and Chief Executive Officer, as a member of the Board for a term extending until completion of the 2016 Annual General Meeting.
- The cancellation of the third and fourth installments of the dividend approved at the company's annual general meeting held on May 15, 2015.
- A reduction of the par value of each share of the company to CHF 0.10 from currently CHF 15.
A portion of the aggregate par value reduction amount is proposed to be used to reduce the company's balance sheet loss as recorded on the company's standalone statutory balance sheet, and the remainder is proposed to be allocated to the company's statutory capital reserves.
In light of the deterioration of the offshore drilling market and concerns regarding the timing of the market's recovery, the company is evaluating its investments in affiliates as recorded on its Swiss standalone statutory balance sheet for impairment on an interim basis. Based on analysis carried out to date, the company expects the carrying amount of these investments to be further impaired. As a result, the company may recognize an aggregate loss associated with these non-cash impairments, expected to be in excess of CHF 2 billion, on its Swiss interim standalone statutory balance sheet as of July 31, 2015. Such increase in the net loss on the Swiss standalone statutory balance sheet would result in the company's net assets covering less than 50% of its Swiss statutory share capital and capital reserves. In accordance with Swiss law, the Board will propose a par value reduction as a measure to address such capital loss. If approved by shareholders, a portion of the reduction will be allocated to reduce any net loss on the company's Swiss standalone statutory balance sheet and the remainder will be allocated to the company's Swiss statutory capital reserves. Other than an accounting realignment between the line items "shares" and "additional paid in capital" reflecting the reduction in par value, it is not expected that the consolidated financial statements of the company and its subsidiaries will be affected. The company is continuing its impairment analysis and will provide further guidance in due course.
- The cancellation of all shares of the company that have been repurchased to date under the company's share repurchase program approved in 2009, as required under Swiss law.
Forward-Looking Statements
The statements described in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements contain words such as "possible," "intend," "will," "if," "expect," or other similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and assumptions, and are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. As a result, actual results could differ materially from those indicated in these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, the final agenda and Board recommendations for voting, the dividend and timing of the EGM, any future losses or impairments, and other factors, including those and other risks discussed in the company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014 and in the company's other filings with the SEC, which are available free of charge on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize (or the other consequences of such a development worsen), or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those indicated or expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to the company or to persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by reference to these risks and uncertainties. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Each forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date of the particular statement, and we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that occur, or which we become aware of, after the date hereof, except as otherwise may be required by law.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities, and it does not constitute an offering prospectus within the meaning of article 652a or article 1156 of the Swiss Code of Obligations or a listing prospectus within the meaning of the listing rules of the SIX Swiss Exchange. Investors must rely on their own evaluation of Transocean Ltd. and its securities, including the merits and risks involved. Nothing contained herein is, or shall be relied on as, a promise or representation as to the future performance of Transocean Ltd.
About Transocean
Transocean is a leading international provider of offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells. The company specializes in technically demanding sectors of the global offshore drilling business with a particular focus on deepwater and harsh environment drilling services, and believes that it operates one of the most versatile offshore drilling fleets in the world.
Transocean owns or has partial ownership interests in, and operates a fleet of, 63 mobile offshore drilling units consisting of 27 ultra-deepwater floaters, six deepwater floaters, seven harsh-environment semisubmersibles, 13 midwater semisubmersibles, and 10 high-specification jackups. In addition, the company has seven ultra-deepwater drillships and five high-specification jackups under construction.
For more information about Transocean, please visit the website: www.deepwater.com.
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The Library
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
You awaken in the library after closing hours. You begin to wander around, finding books of interest while trying to find a way out. As you wander around, you start to think that the library might not be an ordinary library. What were you doing here?
Interactive story created as final project for the Media Design 2 course of the Interaction Design Program at Malmö Universty, 2015, by Hans Lindberg, Emilia Lindholm, Fatin Masa-e.
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WARRNAMBOOL academy EKB Fitness and Aerobics has tuned up for an overseas campaign with yet more success on the national stage.
EKB Aerobics gold medal-winning Audacity team members Sophie Bellman (left), Emma Bellman and Aylish Auchettl. 140721DW28 Picture: DAMIAN WHITE
The Kepler Street-based group emerged from School Aerobics national championships on the Gold Coast with four gold and four silver medals.
"We had a really successful weekend, I couldn't have asked for much more," coach Emma Bellman said.
"We've got four national titleholders, four silver medallists and a couple in sixth. Everyone was really happy with their rounds, they were fantastic results."
The gold medallists included Bellman, Sophie Bellman and Aylish Auchettl — collectively known as Audacity — winning the old skool trios section.
Teagan Drake and Tali Morrissey did likewise in the old skool pairs section.
Brianna Kilpatrick earned gold in the future legends solo section, finishing ahead of Bella Wallace (second) and Maddison (sixth)
Brianna, Maddison and Bella — Emma's Angels — then combined to win the future legends trios yellow stream.
Teenager Jordan Rooke was among the silver medal winners, in the secondary male solo section.
Georgia Dalton, Stella Hose and Dayna Haberfield — Mini Groovers — finished second in the future legends trios blue stream.
And eight-member fitness team called Fierce also united in style to win silver, in the old skool teams' section.
"The competition was crazy. Everyone had to bring it to finish where they did. It was an amazing competition to watch as well," Bellman said.
"This is probably the best result at School Aerobics nationals we've had in quite some years. It was good result after good result.
"They've all been switched on, training really hard lately. They definitely all deserve it against very tough competition."
Federation of International Sport Aerobics and Fitness world championships at Prague in October is the next major competition for EKB Fitness and Aerobics.
The academy will have a record 18 members compete, up from a previous mark of eight.
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Machine Learning for Your Business
Machine learning is a hot topic so we've created a new webcast series called "Ask the Expert" with Joe Dumoulin, our Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, and Jen Snell, VP of Product Marketing. This two-part series explores the basics of machine learning and how businesses should evaluate and measure it — with a particular focus on providing practical, straightforward information for today's businesses. We discuss what machine learning is and isn't, how machine learning and conversational A.I. are connected, the value of machine learning within businesses, the importance of supervised learning — and more.
What is it?
Machine learning is an application of artificial intelligence (AI) that allows machines to automatically learn new things. Data mining uses algorithms to look for patterns in a given set of information. Machine learning goes a step further: It changes a program's behavior based on what it learns.
Value for businesses
There are all kinds of machine-learning techniques that have been developed over the years, but regardless of which algorithms are running under the hood, the true value of any machine-learning tool or platform is measured in terms of business results.
No technology can define your business goals for you, so before you put machine learning to work, you need to define in specific terms what the "right" outcomes are — based on your vision.
Analysis at scale
What machine learning can provide is analysis at scale. Machine learning tools help businesses to analyze vast quantities of unstructured data, including call notes, web-based self-service notes, chat logs, emails, unstructured texts, and conversations. Rather than assuming you know what your customers want or need, this kind of analysis gives you an unbiased look at not just what your customers say but at how they say it.
Good machine-learning tools help you design the user experience customers really want, instead of the one you think they want.
Automating analytics at scale gives you the dexterity you need to enable change in your business. The important thing to keep in mind, however, is that automation only goes so far. Businesses that successfully leverage machine learning are continuously validating the quality of their machine "intelligence."
Human involvement
Business intelligence is anything but artificial, and that's why human input remains vital. Humans help ensure the integrity of the "intelligence" machine learning generates. And, humans leverage the insights machine learning gathers to critically evaluate how a business is succeeding or how it can better deliver on its promises.
Don't miss this two-part webcast series to learn more about what machine learning can do for your business.


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Stan Chiueh
Stan Chiueh represents financial institutions, private equity and investment management funds, major public and private companies, and individuals in connection with complex civil litigation/arbitration and white collar matters.
He has represented clients in numerous trial and appellate matters before federal courts, state courts, and various domestic and international arbitration tribunals, handling disputes arising out of restructurings, complex commercial contracts, pension plan contribution obligations, corporate governance, and related issues.
Additionally, in connection with his white collar practice, he has advised clients in connection with investigations conducted by federal, state, and international agencies and authorities, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority, the Federal Reserve, the New York Department of Financial Services, and several United States Attorney and district attorney offices. His areas of focus include insider trading, market manipulation, anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act controls, and investment advisory compliance and regulation.
Representative Matters
- Representation of successor indenture trustee for $250 million of unsecured notes of Nine West Holdings, Inc. in connection with Nine West's bankruptcy and potential claims arising out of the company's 2014 leveraged buyout and asset sales. Counsel on trial team in a contested bankruptcy confirmation hearing that led to a revised plan of reorganization that provided a greater recovery to noteholders and other unsecured creditors.
- Representation of former CEOs and CFO of a publicly-traded pharmaceutical products company in a putative securities class action alleging violations of Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act.
- Representation of a specialty finance company in an action alleging fraudulent conveyance and breaches of fiduciary duty in connection with a recapitalization and sale of a dialysis company.
Prior to joining Friedman Kaplan in March 2018, Mr. Chiueh practiced at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
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In my future life I predict this would be a joyous day but in my present life it's more of a game, how fast can I drain my funds from my checking account. My personal record is 9 minutes. Sometimes I forget passwords and that slows my time down but I can't be perfect all the time. I'm thinking of creating a record board that will hold the quickest times for fund draining, I've sort of got mine down to an art form. I work for a company where I get paid on the 15th and the final day of the month. My dad made me aware that most company's pay their employees every two weeks resulting in 26 paychecks a year. Whereas, I receive 24 paychecks! What the shit?!? I immediately screamed "Who do I call to sue? That's horseshit!" He shook his head, as he often does when I wow him with my intelligence, and he said "Will you relax, you get paid more money per paycheck then the people who get paid every two weeks." I nodded and said "ooohhh well duh, that makes sense." Kind of, but I'm just going to go along with it because there weren't too many Google results for paycheck outrage. So whether you're barely scraping by with a measly 24 checks a year or living the good life with 26, remember to budget wisely and always put money into savings!
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Welcome back to the blog guys . This cute bag is from Rosewholesale . You can shop it by clicking on the link in red. The bag is also available in the colors ; pink , red and silver .
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1. Heart Home
35-minute solo, performed in a set designed of ever diminishing rooms by Louise Belson.
I wanted to work more intensively with long term collaborator Louise Belson to create a complex set to perform within. The result was a miniature theatre that through ever decreasing doors, revealed five different interiors until I was performing in a tiny box like interior. The set was painted in fresco and tromp d'oeil style and was inspired by Renaissance painting and particularly Piero della Francesca mysterious weeping, pregnant Madonna.
a superb technician, the quality and intensity of her performance is underpinned by marvellously controlled and fluid movements.
Christopher Bowen The Scotsman
a terrifically engaging performer
Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice N.Y.
a fiery imagination...
Stephanie Jordon, The Independent 1990
Solo entitled Heart Home
The piece was made at Chisenhale Dance Space as part of a research period and was revived in 1996 as Heart Home Revisited.
Revived in 1996 as part of Heart Home Revisited an evening of existing solos and a work in progress for the Islington Dance Festival at Union Chapel in three different rooms – audience promenaded.
Music by Abbess Hildegaard of Bingen
Additional sound score by Jonathan Lever
Costume and set designed by Louise Belson
Duo untitled work in progress
performed in silence
performed by Simon Whitehead and Rosemary Lee
Group Work untitled work in progress
music composed by Jonathan Lever
performed by 12 dancers
Costumes arranged by Rosemary Lee
Created over a series of 10 workshops open to anyone
2. Tenderhooks
Tenderhooks explored images of seraphic beings, flight and gravity. Danced in silence on a circle of white feathers, it premiered at the Purcell Room, SBC and toured in 1990.
I limited myself to only moving on a ring of feathers in silence, very slowly.
Tenderhooks toured within a solo programme and was later revived to be part of a duet Nightlight, created by Gary Carter for himself and Rosemary Lee, Nightlight was performed at NottDance and The Place.
I was struck by the simplicity of the movement... and by the meditative transparent quality of the performance.
Gary Carter, Dance Theatre Journal 1990
Strength, delicacy, serenity and occasionally sudden ferocity.
Mary Brennan, Glasgow Herald, 1990
Costume designed and made by Rosie Hackett
Overall design by Rosemary Lee
3. Feathered Snippet
One of Lee's first solo pieces, performed at over 18 venues throughout the British Isles. This work was toured in the repertory of Sue MacLennan's Occasional Dance Company and earned her the description of 'gracefully dizzy dance comedienne' (Donald Hutera, Time Out 1988).
I was inspired by the extraordinary music, hens, songbirds, and the behaviour and body language of preening in humans and birds. I wanted to create an accurate tightly structured, musical and humorous short solo.
Within a few superbly crafted movements, she manages to conjure an image of both a vain flippant woman, and a strutting preening fowl.
Christopher Bowen The Scotsman 1990
…the marvellous technique which informs her particular style with its cunning echoes of bird like movements. Hurrah for Feathered Snippet….Lee..preens struts fusses and flaps in such a way as to suggest, with humour and perception, the similarities between certain kinds of women and certain kinds of birds.
Mary Brennan, The Glasgow Herald, 1990
Music by Clement Jannequin
Costume designed and made by Rosemary Lee
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Blists Hill Tunnel
19th century brick-lined railway tunnel, 60-70 metres in length.
Hay Inclined Plane
One of the best examples of the ingenuity of 19th century engineers
Jackfield and Coalport Memorial Footbridge
Memorial to 26 servicemen whose lives were lost in the Great War
Maws Tile Works
Once the largest employer in the area. In operation from 1883-1969.
Craven Dunnill Encaustic Tile Works
Built in 1870 to meet the ever-growing demand for decorative tiles.
Jackfield Sidings & Severn Valley Railway
Reputed to be the widest level crossing gates in Britain.
Station Hotel & Ironbridge and Broseley Train Station
The Severn Branch line operated from 1862 - 1963.
The Iron Bridge
The world's first iron bridge, built by Abraham Darby III, opened as a toll bridge in 1781.
The Wharfage
Ironbridge was a busy river port during the 18th and 19th centuries. Many original buildings remain.
Coalbrookdale Railway Station
A 19th century station closed in the 60s but the line still supplies coal to Buildwas power station.
View of Coalbrookdale
Coalbrookdale's Ironworks at one time produced the largest amount of iron in Great Britain.
Quaker Burial Ground
Contains 18th century graves of many Coalbrookdale ironmasters and manufacturers.
Darby Houses & Tea Kettle Row
Impressive 18th & 19th century houses built for the Darby family.
Great Western Railway Viaduct
Built in the 1860s across the Upper Furnace Pool taking the railway from Lightmoor to Buildwas.
Jiggers Bank & Toll House
In 1818, a toll road from Coalbrookdale to Wellington, via Jiggers Bank, was opened.
New Pool
The 300 year old 'New Pool' provided water to top up the Upper Furnace Pool.
Rough Park Way
Route following the line of a tramway from Lightmoor to Coalbrookdale.
Lightmoor Crossing
Line once supplied the brickworks, mines, furnaces and factories of Lightmoor & Little Dawley.
Tub Boat Bridge
Built to carry a tramway over the Shropshire Canal.
Shropshire Canal
Built in the 18th century this part of the Shropshire canal was used by Tub boats ferrying pig iron.
Blists Hill Victorian Town Museum
Originally called Blists Hill Open Air Museum. Opened in 1973.
Coalport China Museum
Maw's Craft Centre
Jackfield Tile Museum
Museum of the Gorge
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I can still remember the moment as if it happened yesterday. I was driving back to university late on a Sunday evening when this weird feeling came over me. To this day, I cannot describe it, other than to say I didn't feel at all well and it scared the bleep out of me. When I woke up the next morning, my mind felt 'fuzzy.' I couldn't think straight. There was a buzzing sound in my ears. I had difficulty reading the newspaper and following conversations.
I had actually had two similar experiences before this, the first when I was 18 and the second, two years later. On the first two occasions, the symptoms went away after a few days. This time, they didn't.


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It is generally believed that stock markets, interest rates and investment returns move in periodic cycles. Unfortunately, these cycles are swamped with noise and only become evident with the benefit of hindsight. The current academic consensus is that they are extremely difficult to predict or measure in advance. Nevertheless, these cycles — once they do materialize — can have a profound impact on the sustainability of retirement income.
If you retire and start to withdraw money from a diversified investment portfolio just as the economy moves into a bear-market cycle your portfolio's longevity can be at risk. Your nest egg will not last as long as it would under an equivalent spending plan which started during a bull-market cycle. This observation is often labeled by the term "sequence-of-returns" risk and is used by many in the insurance industry to explain the importance of downside protection during the so-called "retirement risk zone."
I, too, have elaborated elsewhere on the role of guarantees early-on in retirement using analogies of spinning triangles, roulette wheels and Monte Carlo simulations. In this brief article I would like to take a slightly different approach to the issue — one that hopefully balances realism and accessibility.
My plan here is to illustrate exactly how a bull or bear market cycle can impact the sustainability of your portfolio by appealing to ideas from basic high school trigonometry, a.k.a. the mathematics of sine and cosine waves. And, although your skills might be rusty after these many years — and I'm not even sure they teach this anymore in high school — the main story should be accessible to all.
First, allow me to review the basic arithmetic of generating income, sustainability and ruin. Assume you start retirement with a nest egg of exactly $100 and you allocate this to an investment fund that earns a real (i.e., after inflation) 5 percent per annum during every year of your retirement. For simplicity, I take this 5 percent to be an annual percentage rate (APR) that compounds continuously over time. Remember, this implies that if inflation is 3 percent per annum, then your nominal return is (approximately) 5% + 3% = 8%. If inflation is 4 percent, then your nominal return is (approximately) 9 percent.
Now let's spend some money. If you withdraw $6 (also inflation-adjusted) per year from this portfolio the nest egg will be exhausted — and your retirement ruined — in exactly 35.8 years. In contrast, if you withdraw $7 (inflation-adjusted) per year the funds will last for 25.1 years. At $8 of spending you will be ruined in 19.6 years. Remember, all of this assumes your portfolio earns the same consistent inflation-adjusted 5 percent APR for ever.
At this point I need you to suspend your disbelief and imagine a perfectly cyclical (sine wave) financial market; and I mean perfect with no randomness, noise or real-world uncertainty. I'm going to describe two symmetrically opposed scenarios. Look at Figure No. 1 for a picture that's worth the next 200 words.
In that figure, the blue line represents how the portfolio starts out earning an APR of 5 percent on the first day of retirement. To be exact, this is 2 basis points during the first day of retirement, which is a 5 percent APR divided by 250 trading days. The market then moves into a bull-market cycle so that your annualized returns slowly increase until it peaks at 20 percent per annum (8 basis point per day) in approximately 19 months. In the language of sine waves, the market peaks after approximately ?/2 years. Remember the Greek letter ? is equal to approximately 3.14 (years), which is 37.68 months, so ?/2 is just shy of 19 months.
Then after hitting this peak financial markets start to decline so that approximately 19 additional months later the market is back to earning an APR of 5 percent. It has gone from 5 percent up to 20 percent and then down to 5 percent over approximately 3.14 years.
Bear with me here. Imagine that markets then continue to decline for another 19 months and your portfolio's investment return hits -10 percent annualized (which is -4 basis points per day). Please see the blue line in Figure #1 for an illustration of the evolution of this entire cycle from start to finish over 2? (= 6.28) years. This sine wave I have constructed exhibits the amplitude (volatility) of plus or minus 15 percent, and ranges in value from negative 10 percent to positive 20 percent.
As a perfectly symmetric alternative, consider the scenario in which you retire and start to withdraw funds while the market is earning the same 5 percent per annum, but it immediately moves into a bear-market cycle so that 19 months into retirement you are earning -10 percent (i.e. losing money) per annum, and 19 months later you are back to 5 percent per annum and 19 months after that you are earning 20 percent, etc.
Once again, the two diametrically opposed paths are illustrated in Figure No. 1. All paths earn an average APR of 5 percent over the long run.
So far I have not mentioned withdrawal rates or values from the portfolio. I will get to that in a moment. For now it is important to notice that if you only invested $1 at the start of a cycle (up or down, bullish or bearish) then at the end of a market cycle of 2? (= 6.28) years you would have a compound annual return of 5 percent and the same amount of money, $1.37, in all cases.
I have reached the first of my two main points. When you are buying and holding it doesn't matter what path the market takes as long as you get the 5 percent annualized return! Whether you move up first and then down, or down first and then up, if your compound return is 5 percent you will know exactly where you end up. But the situation is very different when you withdraw money.
Next let's look at what happens when you start retirement with $100 and withdraw $6, $7 or $8 per year on a continuous basis — under fluctuating as opposed to fixed returns. This all scales up to $100,000 with $6,000 withdrawals or a million dollars with $60,000 withdrawals.
I trust you would agree that on any given day, week or month, you don't really know in which direction the market will move over the next few years. It might go north or it might go south. The relevant question is how long your portfolio will last based on the possible starting market cycles. It should be intuitive that your retirement will be worse off if markets go south versus north. But how bad will it be? That's my second point.
Figure No. 2 tells the story and Table No. 1 summarizes the main results. For example, if you are withdrawing $7 per year and you are invested in a relatively volatile asset class that fluctuates between +20 percent and -10 percent, the portfolio can last anywhere between 34.9 years to 18.9 years depending on where — in the cycle — you start retirement. Figure No. 2 is a graphical illustration of the possible range of outcomes.
As you can see from the adjacent table, if you invest in even more volatile (higher amplitude) asset classes that range from +25 percent to -15 percent per year, for example, the dispersion of outcomes is an even wider 17.1 years to 39.6 years.
Another important insight from the table of numbers is the impact of the spending rate itself. Notice that when you are spending $8 per year the gap between the "good" sequence and the "bad" sequence of returns is only 21.3 – 18 = 3.3 years in the first row (low risk) of the table. This same gap is 41.7 – 31.4 = 10.3 years when spending is reduced to $6 per year. At first glance this might seem odd. Why is the sequence-of-returns effect more powerful at lower spending rates? But of course, this is a relative effect. If you spend more (i.e., $8) you will be worse off in terms of sustainability regardless of the sequence. That said, the gap between worst- and best-case scenarios increases the less you spend. This impact becomes more pronounced at greater volatility levels. Starving yourself — i.e., withdrawing less — might push back your date with retirement ruin, but it won't immunize you from a bad initial sequence-of-returns.
In sum, no economist can tell you with any degree of accuracy whether the next few years will be sine-up or sine-down. It only becomes evident over time. The practical implications of all of this? When it comes time to withdraw, don't take sequence-of-returns chances and make sure to protect your nest egg during the fragile first decade of retirement. We will explore this in future lessons. Next month I will examine how income taxes throw another wrench into the retirement dynamics.
Moshe A. Milevsky, Ph.D., is a finance professor at the Schulich School of Business at York University and is the executive director o the IFID Centre in Toronto, Canada; see www.ifid.ca.


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Summer Cold Sores: Tips for Reducing the Burn
It starts as a tingle on the lips, and in a few days a painful blister appears, announcing to the world the arrival of a cold sore. This condition affects many and often occurs at the most inopportune times. Despite its "cold" name, it can be triggered by excessive sunlight, making summer a prime time to suffer an outbreak. Other triggers include stress, trauma (dental treatments), fatigue and hormonal changes. The typical time for healing is two weeks.
The triggers activate the herpes simplex virus (HSV-1), which lies dormant in the nerves until it infects the cells in and around the lips. In a few days the sore becomes visible and is contagious. The virus can then spread to other parts of the body and to people that have not been previously infected. For most people who suffer from cold sores, the infection has occurred during early childhood without any visible outbreaks. Cold sores can also be contracted by sexual contact from exposure to genital herpes virus (HSV-2).
There is no cure for this common but bothersome disease. The best approach is to prevent outbreaks by controlling and avoiding the typical triggers. There are, however, products to reduce the duration and severity of symptoms. Antiviral medications such as Valtrex and Zovirax taken orally with in the first 24-48 hours of the onset of symptoms can be effective in shortening the outbreak and lessening the intensity of the cold sores.
Topical ointments, whether prescription (Denavir, Zovirax) or over the counter (Abreva, Zilactin), shorten the outbreak by only a few days. The products can, however, reduce the symptoms of pain, itching and burning.
There are also some natural products that can help in recovering from cold sores. Lysine, an amino acid, taken daily (1000mg) has been found to reduce the frequency of outbreaks. For those that like the taste, licorice can be an enjoyable way to fight back. Studies have shown that the glycyrrhizic acid found in licorice prevents the spread of the virus. Licorice powder can even be added to petroleum jelly or other creams and applied to the affected areas. Lastly, aloe vera applied topically can soothe the symptoms of burning and itching. It does not shorten the duration of cold sores caused by HSV-1, but it does speed up the healing process of those caused by HSV-2 (genital herpes).
As the height of summer approaches, enjoy the long sunny days with plenty of sunscreen for the exposed areas, including the lips. If an outbreak does occur, consult your dentist or doctor or try the natural products mentioned here to deal with the cold sores. Rest assured, the summer is long and the outbreak will be short.
Dr. Hyo Lim, DMD, practices at Dental Wellness Centre, in King of Prussia. Connect with him at 610-265-4485 or DentalWellnessCentre.com.
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NUSAJAYA: Three treatment plants will be built in Johor as part of a RM430mil allocation by the state government to overcome water shortages and upgrade supply facilities.
Mentri Besar Datuk Mohamed Khaled Nordin said Pengurusan Aset Air Bhd would build the plants in Buloh Kasap, Segamat; Pagoh, Muar; and Kahang, Kluang.
He said all old pipes throughout the state would also be replaced.
"We hope to improve the water supply with these initiatives and resolve water-related issues, especially in Pasir Gudang and Pengerang," he said when tabling Johor's 2016 budget at the state assembly yesterday.
He said RM1mil would be allocated to identify areas prone to flash floods and short- and long-term plans to prevent such floods.
Khaled told the assembly that the Johor Water Regulatory Body (Bakaj) would also study water regulatory methods and the creation of buffer zones in catchment areas.
"The RM57mil allocated by the Federal Government under the 11th Malaysia Plan will enable the state to conduct feasibility studies on water sources in Sungai Muar and environmental impact studies in Mersing.
"The funds will also be used to build infrastructure, like barrages and dams, and upgrade existing dams," he added.
Khaled said the state also planned to improve flood mitigation works, drainage systems and sewage maintenance projects by increasing the developers' contribution collection rate by 150%.
He said developers would now be required to pay RM10,000 per 0.4ha for areas under the jurisdiction of local councils while those areas under municipal councils would be set at RM5,000 per 0.4ha.
Earlier, the Mentri Besar announced the state's highest budget so far, with an increase of 47.7% in development expenditure for 2016.
Khaled said the estimated development expenses for next year had been raised to RM541.10mil, from RM366.20mil allocated this year.
A total of RM213mil would be spent on economy-generating projects and programmes while RM95.1mil has been allocated for administration, infrastructure and amenities.
A sum of RM33mil has been set aside for irrigation and drainage projects
Khaled said social and physical development programmes would receive RM155mil while RM45mil would be spent on the development of Islam.
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Ep 58: Myf Warhurst & Ollie English
November 4, 2018
Spicks & Specks, Triple J and Eurovision, Myf has done so many great things we all love so dearly, but what is the one thing they all have in common? MUSIC! Myf takes up through the Spicks & Specks Reunion and her fondest music memories. You also meet Ollie English an Adelaide singer songwriter with a voice that will blow you away!
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John Ulin is a leader in the intellectual property bar and a recognized trial lawyer, concentrating on copyright and trademark litigation.
Mr. Ulin's copyright clients include major television networks and movie studios, large music publishers, jeans wear designers, toy companies and the company that licenses the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. He earned recognition for his role in the litigation against television streaming services Aereo and FilmOn, which led to important victories, including at the Supreme Court in 2014.
Mr. Ulin has litigated more than 200 trademark cases throughout the country and first-chaired five recent successful trials. His trademark clients include several of the world's leading brand owners. In addition to litigation, he counsels clients in creative strategies for trademark enforcement and counterfeit prevention.
Mr. Ulin is a frequent speaker on copyright and trademark, including at leading law schools. He was recognized by the Daily Journal as one of the "Top Intellectual Property Lawyers" in California for 2014 and 2015. He serves on the executive committee of the University of Southern California Intellectual Property Institute and chairs its copyright committee.
Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Ulin served as judicial law clerk to the Hon. Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., US District Court for the Central District of California (1992-93); and the Hon. Ferdinand F. Fernandez, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1993-94).
- Advised media company about enforcement options against entity seeking to stream television network broadcasts over the Internet without authorization.
- Developed anti-counterfeiting program for international manufacturer of industrial chemicals and water treatment systems.
- Advised major sports leagues on enforcement options against websites that facilitate unauthorized streaming of live broadcasts of sporting events over the Internet.
- LLM, Harvard Law School, 1995
- JD, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, 1992, Order of the Coif
- AB, Brown University, 1987, with honors
- California
- US District Court, Central District of California
- US District Court, Eastern District of California
- US District Court, Northern District of California
- US District Court, Southern District of California
- US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- US District Court, Central District of California, The Honorable William Matthew Byrne, Jr.
- United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, The Honorable Ferdinand F. Fernandez
- Member, American Bar Association
- Board of Governors, Association of Business Trial Lawyers (2005–07)
- Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Board of Directors, ACLU Foundation of Southern California (2011–present)
- Board of Directors, California Common Cause (2002–Present)
- Camp Dudley Board of Managers (2003–07; Executive Committee 2004–07)
- Board of Directors, Constitutional Rights Foundation (2007–08)
- Board of Directors, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (2004–Present)
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Charlton 5-2 Ipswich Town (SSE Womens FA Cup Rnd 3)
Report by David Brenchley
Page last updated at 9:36PM UTC, Monday, 08 January 2018
The Charlton Women`s team needed extra-time to overcome a spirited Ipswich Town team in the 3rd round of SSE Women`s FA Cup at Felixstowe on Sunday.
In truth the Addicks should have sealed the tie in the first-half but failed to take their chances in a goal-less first 45 minutes. Ipswich keeper Sian Fagg pulled off a number of fine saves including tipping a Charlotte Gurr effort onto the crossbar.
It was the home side who broke the dealock two minutes after the break as a speculative long range strike from Craddock flew over Addicks keeper Katie Startup and into the top corner.
Charlton`s possession and pressure finally paid off with 20 minutes to go with two goals in four minutes. The equaliser coming after Hannah Churchill`s long range effort crashed off the crossbar for Charlotte Gurr to head home from close range.
Shortly after Kit Graham gave the Addicks the lead with a superb shot on the turn that dipped over keeper Fagg.
The Addicks joy was shortly lived as poor defensive play presented Craddock with the chance to fire home her second of the game after 76 minutes.
Charlotte Lee almost clinched the tie at the death but fired wide and the game went into extra-time.
The first period of extra-time saw the Addicks put the tie to bed with two goals in as many minutes. Eight minutes into extra-time good possession play set up Graham to fire Charlton ahead. A minute later Sam Pittuck gave the Londoners a two goal cushion with a peach of a goal from outside the area.
The result was put beyond all doubt with four minutes of extra-time left as Lee latched onto a Graham pass to fire home.
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The sweetest time of year is quickly approaching. Whether your kids wants to make homemade Valentines or plan to surprise someone with a special heart-themed gift, you and your children will love these five arts and crafts projects. There's something here for every age and skill set, and many require items you're likely to have laying around your house. Nothing says love quite like a homemade Valentine's Day gift!
1. Heart Stamps
Rust and Sunshine's Heart Stamps are perfect for toddlers. All you need is an empty toilet paper roll, some red paint, and a few blank cards.
Flatten the cardboard tube, so it has a crease on two sides, then push one crease inward to form a heart. To help the heart hold its shape, wrap a piece of tape around the tube. Pour a little red paint on a plate, and dip an end in it. Hand your homemade stamp to your little ones, and let them make their very own cards. Feel free to use some pink paint, too!
2. Baking Cup Flower Valentines
With the help of masking tape, a hole punch, wire, scissors and suckers, you can turn plain paper baking cups into bright-colored, flower-shaped Valentines. For step-by-step instructions, visit Skip to my Lou.
3. Crayon Valentine's Hearts
Rather than having your children pass out store-bought Valentine's cards, have them give their friends Crayon Valentine's Hearts instead. To make your hearts, grab some old crayons and chop or break them. When you're done, put them in a bowl and have your kids stir them. Place the crayons in a heart-shaped mold pan, and bake them at 250 degrees for about 15 minutes. Make sure you give them plenty of time to cool before removing. Visit Chef Messy for more detailed instructions.
4. Pixie Stick Hearts
To prepare Real Simple's project, you'll need construction paper, scissors, metallic ink pens, pixie sticks and craft glue.
Cut out an assortment of hearts from the paper, fold the hearts in half, and make a small circle in the middle (this is where the pixie stick slides through). Have your kids design their hearts with drawings and phrases, and then slide the pixie sticks through the hearts. On a separate piece of paper, draw and cut out arrow heads and backs. Use glue to attach the tops and end of the bows to your pixie sticks. Set aside to dry.
5. Magnets and Coasters
Your kids will love making heart-shaped magnets to display on your fridge.
To make Parents' project, paint small wooden hearts, let dry, and glue a magnet on the back. If your kids would like to make lacy coasters instead, simply cut craft foam shapes into hearts and glue doilies in between them. This is a great gift to have your littles ones make for their grandparents!


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Adventure dwells in all of us. It sits quietly like a shadow, waiting to launch us into something spectacular. We all dream of incredible places. We all dream of incredible heroes. We all dream of incredible lives. Sometimes, those dreams become real.
JJ Sterling has that same yearning for adventure. To break free from the norm … to be the best he can be … to save the world … to be a hero. Enter, the Museum of Grandovia, home to a million incredible secrets. JJ has a curious encounter amid a trove of ancient treasures. Someone is calling him. Someone needs him. It's time for a new hero to rise.
A long-time feud between two powerful brothers, Seth and Horus, threatens the fragile peace in ancient Egypt. JJ and his best friend, Linc, must transcend time to save the day. Joined by new ally, Rani, they embark on a perilous race through scorching deserts, and temples full of hidden chambers primed with deadly traps. All the while, an army of deadly statues, known as Uberdiles, are determined to stop them at all cost.
It's up to the three to find the mysterious Golden Scarab, defeat the threat of evil and save history. If they fail, the impact on the future will be a disaster.
Praise for JJ STERLING and the GOLDEN SCARAB
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"This story is unique, action-packed and exciting … I was totally hooked …" – THIS KID REVIEWS BOOKS
Once you've caught your breath, continue to ride the incredible JJ STERLING adventure series:
JJ STERLING and the CURSED NILE (Book 2)
"…absolutely wonderful – even better than the first." – MOTHER DAUGHTER BOOK REVIEWS
JJ STERLING and the FALLEN PHARAOH (Book 3)
"Wow! This third book is absolutely awesome." – GOODREADS
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"Look out Rick Riordan (author of The Kane Chronicles), you've got some competition … This book was, quite simply put, a rockin' good time. The story is solid, the characters are likable, the action is non-stop … I would recommend this book to boys and girls aged 8+…"
★★★★★ review – Mother Daughter Book Reviews
"I was enthralled by it and happily look forward to reading the next book in the series. … One thing is certain: it can be classified as good entertainment. It reminded me in many ways of the Indiana Jones series of movies, and … would make a very decent movie itself. I strongly recommend this for any reluctant readers in the target age group, with the understanding that mom and dad will also want to read it."
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" … Lothian has created an awesome adventure for young and old alike. I honestly can't wait to see where this time traveling trio will end up next! Bravo!!"
★★★★★ review – Jennifer Moss / Amazon
"… I thoroughly enjoyed this beautifully written adventure novel for young people. The action was fast paced, and in places extremely gripping … I'm very much looking for the next novel in the series about JJ, Linc and Rani. Highly recommended."
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Nominations must be submitted in writing with the following information:
- Nominee's name, address, telephone number and email address.
- Relevant experience and reasons for wanting to serve as a member of the advisory group.
- Nominee's effectiveness in communication.
- Name and contact information for any individual or organization submitting a nomination.
Nominations must be received by 5 p.m., December 15. Nominations must be submitted to Dave Ware, Game Division Manager by mail: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, 600 Capitol Way N, Olympia, WA 98501-1091; or email at [email protected] . For more information, contact Dave Ware at (360) 902-2509.
New advisory council members will serve three-year terms, and should be available for advisory committee meetings beginning as early as January 2010. The council holds at least three one-day meetings each year. Special meetings may be called when special issues/topics arise. Council members, upon request, will be reimbursed by WDFW for travel expenses to attend meetings.


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Naturalist Class: Life Underground (ages 7-9)
Join other homeschool students at Duke Gardens in a small group setting with classes designed to maximize exploration in nature. Learn methods scientists use to safely catch and study living things in different habitats. We'll use a range of techniques in each class, depending on the area we're investigating and the animals we're expecting to find, and we'll submit our findings to a citizen science database. In this Life Underground section, you'll dig into the dirt and uncover the complex communities living below your feet. Wiggle with worms, tunnel with moles and connect with roots and mycelia. Learn how these out-of-sight living things help to create soil. Additional Naturalist Class sections: March 19, April 16 and May 14. Please also see the Naturalist Class opportunities for ages 5-6. Location: Meet at the Doris Duke Center. Parking: Parking pass included with advance registration. Information/registration: 919-668-1707 or email@example.com.


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Should I Avoid Store Credit Cards During The Holidays?
As you begin your holiday shopping, you will undoubtedly be asked to apply for a number of store credit cards. You could accept these offers and the discounts that accompany them, but doing so may not be the best decision for your long-term finances. Should you avoid store credit cards during the holidays?
The Benefits of Using Store Credit Cards
Store credit cards are designed to provide special discounts at the places you shop. The more money you spend at the store, the more points you earn and the more money you save. You may be able to get a sizable discount on your Christmas items by shopping with a store card. The amount of money you save will depend on the type of card you use and how much money you spend.
Store credit cards also give you a chance to buy items when you don't have the money readily available. For instance, if you want to surprise your spouse with a flat screen TV, you could put that charge on a store credit card and pay it off in the coming months.
Reasons to Avoid Using Store Credit Cards
Even though store credit cards offer rewards and discounts, they are known for having high fees and interest rates. The 10% you save on your initial purchase may cost you a lot more in interest if you can't pay off your balance.
Store credit cards also act as a temptation you may not be prepared to handle. It's easy to spend more when you do not have to hand over cash for the item. That may not make sense for your long-term financial goals.
Every time you open a new credit card account, there will be a mark on your credit report. Too many marks can adversely affect your credit score. The stores are the ones benefiting from you opening up a store credit card account. They know they can earn back all of the money you save in interest and extra purchases. In addition, you are now part of their mailing list, so you can expect to be flooded with frequent emails from this company.
How to Use Store Credit Cards While Avoiding the Pitfalls
If you want to get the savings without the high interest in the future, here are a few safe ways to use store credit cards during the holidays:
- Only use a store card for an item for which you already have the cash. Then, pay off the balance immediately to avoid interest.
- Read the terms of the card carefully before signing up so you do not lock into any kind of annual fee. You may also want to look at how the rewards system works as some will only issue rewards for full-priced items.
- Do some price comparisons before signing up for a new card to see if any other store already has prices lower than the discounted rate with the card.
- Only sign up for cards for stores where you regularly shop. In this way, you are more inclined to pay off your balance and continue building rewards after the holidays.
If you are considering opening a store credit card account due to the initial discount, make sure that discount outweighs these pitfalls. Assess each credit card offer that comes your way, and only apply for the ones that will work best for you.


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The famous Waikiki beach and nearby downtown in Hawaii's capital city manage to stay impressively clean despite their heavy traffic. While some cities' organizations sponsor once-yearly cleanup days, the Waikiki Improvement Association holds quarterly cleanups of its famous beach. Recent cleanups have been coordinated with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Honolulu also benefits from its location. With few major manufacturing operations on the islands and no pollution whatsoever blowing into Hawaii, the air is quite clean. Thanks to the Pacific winds, the small amount of emissions from the traffic and hotels blow away quickly. The regular rainfall also helps keep the air impressively free of pollutants.


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Your have decided what treatment you will have and it has been scheduled. In addition to following your pre-operative instructions provided by your doctor, how else should you prepare?
Everyone is different in how they may prepare. Some people approach an upcoming major medical event on their own and with minimal preparation. Others thrive with preparations involving various aspects and involving others. Here is a list of potential action items to prepare yourself for TAVR and SAVR.
- Physical Preparation: While your activities may be limited by your aortic valve disease, under your care provider's guidance you should try to stay as physically active as possible, but avoid activities that may produce symptoms. Good eating and sleeping habits should be encouraged. Avoiding excessive alcohol is part of this. If you smoke, try to immediately stop so your lungs may have a few weeks to repair themselves.
- Mental and Spiritual Preparation: Feeling anxious or nervous is a normal human reaction to an upcoming major medical procedure or operation. Find healthy means to deal with this stress. The support and guidance from a person's religious community are important for some people.
- Clarification of Your Wishes: This is a good time to be sure your have any legal documents such as a will and advance directives needed to express your preferences and wishes should you be in a situation that you cannot directly guide these decisions. Be sure the person designated as your spokesperson understands your wishes and preferences.
- Organizing Your Personal Life: Now is the time to enlist the help of others to help with household chores such as laundry, grocery shopping, meal preparation, child and/or pet care while you are in the hospital and upon returning home.
- Assembling Your Support System: During and after SAVR and TAVR you will want to have support in the hospital and help at home during recovery. What friends or family can help and in what capacity is something you should consider assessing before the need arises.
Planning for Post Procedure Recovery
As soon as you have decided to move forward to replace your heart valve, you can start planning for your post-procedure recovery. Making a checklist may help you prepare. This video provides general tips and suggestions for patients preparing for heart surgery.
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- Medical leave options at work
- Insurance coverage
- Estimated expenses
- Cardiac rehabilitation & follow-up appointments
- Meals/food at home
- Loose and comfortable clothing and shoes for in-hospital stay
- Friend or family member with you at discharge
- Transportation home from the hospital and a driver for appointments, errands, and other commitments the first few weeks
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I had a busy day demonstrating the pole lathe at the Herefordshire Country Fair, this year held at Hampton Court. I was up so early to go and set up, only to find some chicken coups piled in my allotted spot.
Anyway, further down the field, and still around the horse jumping ring I set up the pole lathes and shave horses. After a slow start, the crowds flocked in until I was thoroughly worn out by 5pm.


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CMC Plugs Digital, HD
Comcast Media Center is stocking up on high-definition programming for smaller cable operators and gearing up an option that would let them take their systems all-digital more easily.
Last week at the Independent Show here, Comcast Media Center announced it has signed transport agreements for 14 additional HD channels, bringing to 20 the roster of HDTV channels that will be available through Headend In the Sky.
The additional high-definition services, which represent eight programming groups, will be delivered via the Comcast Media Center's Quantum MPEG-2 programming service.
The center's most recent transport agreements will add:
- A&E Television Networks' History HD;
- Discovery Communications' Animal Planet HD, Discovery Channel HD, Discovery HD Theater, Science Channel HD and TLC HD;
- Disney-ABC Television Group's ABC Family HD and Disney Channel HD;
- Fox News Channel HD;
- Lifetime Movie Network HD;
- NBC Universal's USA Network HD and Sci Fi Channel HD;
- Outdoor Channel HD; and
- Travel Channel HD.
These HDTV networks join A&E HD, HGTV HD, Food Network HD, National Geographic Channel HD, Starz HD and Universal HD, which all launched on HITS Quantum last year. HITS Quantum's HD channel lineup is delivered via SES Americom's AMC-18 HD-PRIME satellite.
In addition, CMC and Motorola announced they have upgraded their jointly operated National Authorization Service to support digital-to-analog devices for CMC's HITS Quantum affiliates.
Testing is currently underway and Comcast Media Center by this fall will begin supporting the use of digital-to-analog devices on cable systems using the NAS.
"DTA devices are an essential step in the industry's move toward an all-digital platform," Comcast Media Center chief operating officer Gary Traver said in a statement. "The CMC is dedicated to making the transition to digital as smooth as possible for cable systems serving smaller markets."
The one-way digital-to-analog device lets cable operators move to all-digital infrastructures by delivering digital-quality video and audio service to existing analog cable customers.
In addition, following the Feb. 17, 2009, digital broadcast transition, DTAs will allow cable operators to deliver analog and standard-definition broadcast signals to analog television sets.
Motorola's Digital Headend Systems have been upgraded to manage DTA devices alongside the existing population of set-top boxes.
The systems will also fully support the evolving set-top product line moving forward.
NAS provides cable systems serving smaller markets with a centralized alternative for addressing their set-top management requirements. Its national services include conditional access and set-top addressability via satellite and Internet-based virtual private network connections to local digital headends.


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Why do dogs dig holes?
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Some dogs just can't help it. Let them loose in the backyard and the temptation is just too great. Their front paws become a crazy set of whirring garden tools as they furiously set to work digging a hole.
Although you may not be thrilled with the flying dirt, digging is a very natural behavior for dogs. There are plenty of reasons why they do it and ways you can (sometimes) get them to stop.
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I've never been to Hull before. It's a bit of a schlep from London so it does require an actual effort to get there but it's just one of those places that I've never had any particular reason to visit. However, I had been wanting to see the museum's collection of Roman mosaics so, as I'm a lady of leisure at the moment, now seemed as good a time as any to make the effort.
The museum is fairly compact but is home to a pretty impressive collection of not only mosaics but also other Roman material, prehistoric, iron-age, anglo-saxon and medieval artefacts and an amazing, and very large, iron-age log boat. The mosaics in this collection were discovered at villa sites around the Humber region and there are fifteen villas are known in the area, with villa-building reaching its height in the fourth-century. Before visiting I had a quick look on the go-to place for information on Romano-British mosaics, ASPROM (The Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics), where the Hull mosaics are described as "rather eccentrically interpreted" local versions of Mediterranean models. Here's a few of the mosaics.
The Horkstow Mosaic. At the villa site at Horkstow an enormous 15m x 6m mosaic was found, the second largest Roman mosaic found in Britain. It's fragmentary and has been displayed in pieces around a recreation of a Roman atrium house. Because it has been displayed in this way, it's not that easy to really get an idea of how it would have looked when complete but, still, there are some decent sections to see.
It was divided into three panels. In the top panel (on the floor in the image above) sat Orpheus, with his lyre, surrounded by the wild beasts charmed by his song. Only about a third of it survives but it's possible to see that it was laid out as a wheel with images of the animals surrounding the central Orpheus.
The central panel has been called 'the Painted Ceiling' or the 'Medallions Panel', and contains scenes from mythology. They aren't that easy to make out.
The panel at the bottom of the mosaic shows a chariot race in a circus, complete with a spina, the central island, and the metae, or turning posts.
The various sets of horses and charioteers represent the action at the races with these horses stumbling dangerously.
On the left the team is storming ahead but, on the right, the chariot loses its wheel and the rider is leaning dangerously, about to fall.
And here, the rider, with his lasso, is coming out to recapture horses that have run wild.
From Brantingham, along with some very nice Geometric Mosaics, is this Tyche mosaic.
The figure at the centre, unfortunately displayed upside down and halfway under a sofa (!), has been identified as Tyche, the deity of a city, on account of her crown, which represents the city walls.
Also known as Fortuna in Latin, she watches over the city, protects it, brings it prosperity and good fortune. The flipside of Fortuna is the bad luck and disasters that can befall a city if they do not carry out the necessary rites and rituals of worship.
The panel on the wall, from the same mosaic, has been identified as one of the muses, wearing a coronet and with her head surrounded by a halo.
The mosaic border also includes these lovely reclining water nymphs.
From Rudston is this fantastic Venus mosaic.
A typically nude Venus holds a golden apple, the symbol of her victory in the tale of the Judgement of Paris. By her side is her mirror, symbolizing her beauty and vanity.
Although the mosaic depicts a very typically classical subject matter, the image itself is not very typically classical, particularly Venus' body-shape. She is pretty low-slung and broad in the beam, and look at that jelly belly!
Nevertheless, it's a fun, lively mosaic, with Venus herself looking quite wild and free, especially her hair! I think that this is definitely one of those "rather eccentrically interpreted" mosaics.
Next to Venus is this, frankly, weird looking Triton, or merman, holding a flaming torch. He reminds me the Creature from the Black Lagoon (from the 1954 film).
Other panels in this mosaic contain wild beasts like a lion, a bull and a leopard; a figure identified as Mercury by the inclusion of the caduceus, and other lively figures. The leopard, in particular, looks like it was created by a workman who only had a vague idea of what a leopard looked like.
And finally, here is that eccentric charioteer; the Victorious Charioteer mosaic from Rudston.
The central image is of the winner of a chariot race, with the victorious charioteer riding a 'quadriga', or four-horse chariot.
In his left hand is the winner's wreath and in his right is the palm frond, these symbols indicating his win.
In the corners of the mosaic are the Four Seasons and the border panes have some rather odd looking birds.
Well, it was definitely worth the trip up to Hull to see this collection. It's true that some of these aren't the most finely worked mosaics and some of the images are pretty squiffy but they do have plenty of life and personality, and must have really enhanced the homes of the Roman villa owners in this area.


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This scrumptious Slow Cooker Texas Roadhouse Pot Roast Freezer Meal Recipe is so good! If you have ever gotten the pot roast at Texas Roadhouse, then you need to try this recipe. I have never ordered it at the restaurant, but after eating this I am going to have too! It was melt in your mouth good. I prepared this freezer meal in an afternoon when doing 15 crockpot freezer meals for my family's dinners. With back to school activities in full swing, I wanted to make a bunch of prep ahead meals that I could make for my family.
So I got busy finding and creating recipes so I could take an afternoon and have meals ready to go for my family. This crockpot beef recipe has been a family favorite out of the slow cooker meals and will be added to my regular menu meals. I served the delicious Slow Cooker Texas Roadhouse Pot Roast Freezer Meal Recipe with mashed potatoes and shells with cheese. I used my 6 QT Green Bay Packers crockpot because I am a cheesehead, loud and proud. Click here to get one --->Green Bay.
Slow Cooker Texas Roadhouse Pot Roast Freezer Meal Recipe is so good and it's an easy freeze slow cooker supper that everyone will love. My whole family loved this crockpot dinner meal and they want me to make it again soon! Be sure to make this crockpot freezer meal, you will not be disappointed.
Slow Cooker Texas Roadhouse Pot Roast Recipe
- 2 - 2.5 lb chuck roast
- 1/2 onion chopped
- 1/2 bell pepper any color, chopped
- 2 stalks celery chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic minced or pressed
- 1/2 cup tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup BBQ sauce
- 2 beef bouillon cubes
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- 1/2 cup water
- Label two freezer bags and a qaurt size freezer bags with cooking instructions and date.
- Place the chuck roast in one freezer bag, then place onion, bell pepper, celery and garlic in another freezer bag, then in quart size bag put the sauce ingredients of tomato sauce, BBQ sauce, spices and water.
- Freeze together in the freezer until ready to use.
- Thaw in fridge over night.
- In slow cooker place in chuck roast first, top with veggies, then pour sauce on top.
- Cook on low for 8-10 hours.
- Serve and enjoy!
More Freezer Meal Recipes You May Enjoy:
Slow Cooker Chicken Ranch Tacos
Crockpot Freezer Citrus Chicken
Crockpot Chinese Beef and Broccoli
Slow Cooker Mexican Chili with Cornbread Topping
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I'm going to try this soon. Sounds perfect!
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Do you cut the chuck roast up? Seems like a large piece of meat would still be pretty frozen even after being in the fridge all night
Do you make gravy?


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GS's Wigan are still without a win for @realtimeFM after collapsing to a 4-1 defeat hosting Manchester City leaking three goals in the final five minutes. Wigan, while flying high in the Premier League in 5th, haven't picked up maximum points in their last four matches (two draws followed by two defeats).
Saturday 15th December 2012, Premier League
Watson 67 — Agüero 19, Tevez 85 pen, Dzeko 87, Silva 90
The hosts packed the midfield in a 4-5-1 formation for the first time this season, Franco Di Santo on his own upfront with top-scorer John Guidetti ineligible for the match due to his loan from the visiting Manchester City. The score doesn't do justice to how well the Latics bossed the centre of the park, matching Man City on possession over the 90 and having far more of the ball in the final third, though Di Santo looked lightweight until being replaced early in the second-half.
GS is back! We're live at the DW Stadium for 4th v. 2nd as Wigan host Manchester City. SkyBet Odds: 3-1 Wigan, 4-5F Man City, 2-1 Draw.
Wigan XI: Al-Habsi — García, Ramis, Evatt, Boyce — Caldwell — Jones, McCarthy — Beausejour, Klein — Di Santo. (Guidetti ineligible).
"Man City are a good side and I think they have enough quality today. Maynor Figueroa and Arouna Koné will be big misses for Wigan."
1′ Manchester City get us underway at the DW Stadium in the evening drizzle.
4′ Early pressure from Wigan forces a pair of corners in quick succession and Hart is forced to make the first save of the match.
8′ Caldwell gets free down the left and sends a ball across the six-yard box which Hart fumbles onto the crossbar before conceding a corner.
19′ 1-0 City. FK wide on the right which is fired in low to Sergio AGUERO to slam home a neat half-volley for their first shot on goal.
30′ Wigan look dangerous down the right with Boyce and Klein overlapping well, but the crosses into Di Santo aren't working yet.
HT Wigan 0-1 Man City: Possession 53-47%, Chances 3-2, Corners 6-0, Fouls 3-5.
Malteasers consumed and we're back out for 2nd half. Di Santo not getting service yet but Wigan playing well. City counter dangerously though.
Beausejour took a knock just before the break but seems to be running it off. David Jones's passing has been inaccurate in patches.
52′ GS has seen enough after David 'Give Me First Team Action' Jones woefully over-hits a ball on a 3-on-1 counter. Ben Watson replaces.
59′ Mauro Boselli replaces Di Santo as Wigan's lone frontman as the hosts look for more strength on the ball up top.
67′ 1-1! Subs combine as Boselli feeds in WATSON to equalise for the hosts and it's nothing more than they deserve after intense pressure.
73′ Aguero hits the crossbar with a header from a tight angle at the far post. Truly end-to-end stuff here. Wigan's back five looking shaky.
80′ Boyce concedes a free-kick inches outside the area for bringing down Aguero and earns the first booking of the game.
80′ Tevez bends it around the wall and smashes Al-Habsi's left post.
85′ PENALTY! Aguero beats Ramis to the ball and goes down over the challenge ten year out. Jon Moss points to the spot.
86′ 2-1 MAN CITY. Tevez sends Al-Habsi the wrong way from the spot.
88′ 3-1 Man City. Wigan attack is stifled and Nasri breaks away to slide a ball into DZEKO who takes two touches and drills home to seal it.
90+2′ 4-1 MAN CITY. Nasri provides again, bursting down left and drilling shot against the post, with David SILVA passing the rebound home.
FT Wigan Athletic 1-4 Manchester City. (Watson 67 – Agüero 19, Tevez 85pen, Dzeko 87, Silva 90+2). Collapse.
Elsewhere, Man Utd beat Saints 4–1 with Hernandez hat trick; Martin Jol marks his first Sunderland match with a 6-1 win over Reading.


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Welcome to my new craft room which I have decided to now call my studio. ;) The picture above is what greets you as you walk in the door.
Directly to the left as you walk in is my closet. I have plans to hang a flannel sheet on the wall on the left for a large hidden design wall. My closet mostly houses my scrapbook supplies and papers. Some batting and quilts are in the back corner. My threads and a few other quilting things are in the large Kallax/Expedit from my old craft room.
As you walk in a little further, you can see my future design wall and cutting table. I want my design wall to look like this one at Fresh Lemons Quilts. My cutting table is about 4 feet by 6 feet and made with two Kallax units and a melamine coated board. My table is on wheels and is surprisingly easy to move around without slipping when I am using the table. I will share more details about my cutting table soon.
Just past the cutting table with the quilt rack is a play area. I have Duplos in the storage cubes for my little visitors to play with. The quilt rack is there so they don't hit their heads on the cutting table. There is extra sewing space on the six foot table and my Tiara is right in front of the window.
Then to the right is my old Ikea corner desk and my sewing cabinet. There is more sewing space at the corner desk. I hope to be able to start a small quilting group in my new neighborhood.
Continuing to the right is my ironing station. In the future I want it to look like this one at Hyacinth Quilt Designs.
Coming full circle is my old cutting table which now serves as a computer desk. To the side of my computer desk is another six foot table I can set up for even more sewing space. I estimate that I can fit six more people in here comfortably.
That door leads to the landing at the top of the stairs where we entered.
Thank you so much for stopping by and taking a tour of my new studio.
Monkey and the rest of the Quilt Kisses family hope you stop by again.
Hopefully this stack of mini quilts will be on the wall by then.
My studio is about 14.5 by 20 feet plus the closet and corner with my computer desk. I love spending time in here.
P.S. I will be linking up with some of the fun parties on my sidebar. Check them out to see what other quilts are up to.


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Introduction: How to Cure Nighttime Anxiety
Anxiety likes to attack at the worst of times. One of those bad timings is when you are laying in bed after a long hard day and just want to sleep, but that little voice whispers, "What about [insert totally unrealistic worry]…" and suddenly the adrenaline is pumping and you don't fall asleep until 3:00 a.m. How do we battle this monster known as "nighttime anxiety"? Through my experience, I have learned a few helpful tricks to keep it away before it even comes.
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Step 1: Avoid Backlit Screens
Backlit screen wake up your mind instead of settling it down for sleep. When you are scrolling through Facebook late at night on your phone or pinning things on Pinterest through your phone, you are waking your brain up, leaving it as open prey for the nighttime anxiety monster.
Step 2: Do Not Go to Bed on a Full, Bloated Stomach
The discomfort that bloating brings from eating too much will keep you awake and if it was something sugary or filled with caffeine that will wake your brain up as well and speed up your heart rate. Certain foods have also been known to trigger anxiety more than others, so its just better to eat earlier on in the evening if possible.
Step 3: Avoid Stressful TV Shows or Movies
I know for myself that when watch a stressful show it pumps up my heart rate and causes an adrenaline rush, really waking up my brain and keeping me up thinking about the most random of things.
Step 4: Workout Any Time During the Day Other Than Right Before Bed
If you workout at some point in the day, it will help tire you out so that when bedtime comes you will fall asleep quicker, but if that time is right before bed, you will be left lying awake until the hormones and heart rate slow down and go to their normal rates.
Step 5: Listen to Soft, Relaxing Music
This one didn't work for me, but some people it really benefits. It gives them something else to concentrate on other than their anxiety and slows the mind down.
Step 6: Write or Read
Again, this one doesn't always work for everyone (some people would stay up later because they become so involved with the book they are reading or what they are writing), but for me this tired my eyes, helped me relax more, and kept my mind occupied so it wouldn't be wondering to unhelpful thoughts. I even know of some people who will read a children's picture book before bed because it keeps them from having panic attacks at night.
Step 7: Crank the Heat Up
For me, heat makes me tired and relaxes me, so if I had the heat high and lots of warm blankets, it helped me fall asleep quicker.
Step 8: Find a Relaxing or Comforting Smell to Have in Your Room at Night
I never tried this one myself, but I've heard others say that smells such as lavender help them relax and sleep better.


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Mark Woodward, a two-time selection as a member of Golf, Inc.'s power elite, has joined OB Sports Golf Management.
A 40-year veteran of the golf business, Woodward has been a golf course superintendent, a facility manager, a director of a municipal golf operation, a CEO of a national golf association, a business development manager for a golf construction company and the owner of a golf consulting business and remodeling firm. Golf, Inc. recognized him as one of the industry's most powerful people in 2008 and 2009 and as one of its most admired operators in 2006.
"Mark is one of the most well-rounded operators in our industry," said Phil Green, the chief operating officer of OB Sports. "He thoroughly understands all facets of the golf operation."
At OB Sports, Woodward will serve as a senior vice president of operations.


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Once Upon a Time: The TV Show I Love
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