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Being a compulsive homebody, I missed decades of movies. Now, thanks to Netflix, I'm catching up.
The best directors so far have been the Coen brothers. I've now seen several movies by these guys. I haven't seen "No Country for Old Men" yet, but I've enjoyed almost every other Coen Brothers movie I've seen, particularly "Miller's Crossing", but emphatically excluding "The Hudsucker Proxy", which I thought was about a world that the brothers either don't know much about or couldn't find a way to make as dramatic as they usually prefer.
They seem somehow to know all about the world of dumb rednecks and their ilk, though. The proof of that is "Blood Simple". And of course the sublime second example of that is "The Big Lebowski". (You know — the movie whose main character always refers to himself as "The Dude".) Turns out that that last film is a cult film. I'm not sure why. It's not THAT great.
The Coen brothers seem to be at their best when they make movies about people who make very, very serious errors! "Fargo" is the primo example of that. "Miller's Crossing", on the other hand, when I saw it years ago, seemed to have a protagonist who actually was smart and on top of things. Anyway, that's the way I remember it. Quite unusual for them.
Whatever else may be true of the Coen brothers' movies, their plotting is always complex yet believable. What a pleasure to sit back and be told a story by these smart, smart guys!


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Little Mountain Recordings chief Sander K mixes up progressive, tech house and electro on his latest 'This is...' mix CD.
Kleinenberg made his name in the late nineties as a progressive house DJ and producer, but recently he's been dabbling in party electro and house via his 'This is...' city EPs and mix series. Next up for the Dutchman is a new 2CD mix that brings together emerging talents Dubfire and David K, recent breakout producers such as Gui Boratto and Robert Babicz, as well as German party monsters Tom Novy and Lutzenkirchen.
CD1 - Left
1. Disk Jokke - Folk I Farta
2. Kraak & Smaak - Loosen Up Children
3. Bad Mouth - Anymore (Phonique Remix)
4. Luckystars - Moscow Traffic (Beep Yeah Mix)
5. Roland Klinkenberg – Dusty Horizon (Interlude)
6. Hypno – Got Bread
7. OHMNA – Police Squid (16 Bit Lolitas Strictly Dancefloor Mix)
8. DJ Smash Presents Fast Food - Moscow Never Sleeps (Tom Novy's Sanderground Remix)
9. Rossell Feat. Emma - Dancing With Strangers
10. Chymera - Arabesque
11. Pitch & Hold – Battle Of Flowers
12. Robert Babicz – Sin (Gui Boratto Remix)
13. Deep Flexion – Emotions Of The Night (Trent Cantrelle Remix)
14 Gui Boratto – Beautiful Life
CD 2 - Right
1. Siciana Soul – Mutual Dependency (Acapella)
2. Rhythm & Sound With Paul St. Hilaire – Jah Rule
3. Bushwacka! – Remember (Dub)
4. Minz - Chinese Drip
5. Martin Eyerer & Stephan Hinz – Tucan (Nic Fanciulli Remix)
6. David K - Incoming (Motorcitysoul Mix)
7. Blake & Monroe -Summer's Gone (Bushwacka! Dub)
8. Gutterstylz vs. Rolasoul – Lost
9. Quivver – Dancing In Dark Rooms
10. Lützenkirchen – Last Night In Vegas (Schossow & Sagstad Remix)
11. Roland Klinkenberg & Gerry Menu - Shockadelic
12. BSOD - Game Over
13. Umek – Carbon Occasions
14. Christian Smith & John Selway - Transit Time (Dubfire Remix)
Sander Kleinenberg will play launch dates for the compilation at Panama in Amsterdam and Pacha in Ibiza in August. You can also catch him on the festival trail throughout Europe this summer at the dates below.
'This is...' mixed by Sander Kleinenberg is released on Renaissance on August 6, 2007.
Jul 20 Glade, Secret Location - South + East, South + East Jul 20 Weekend Dance, Greengrass, Other regions Jul 27 Godskitchen presents Gl.., Long Marston Airfield, Midlands Jul 28 Rabac Summer Festival - The D.., Girandella Beach, Croatia Jul 29 Tomorrowland - Sunday, De Schorre, Belgium Aug 03 Pure Pacha, Pacha Ibiza, Ibiza Aug 04 Loveland Festival, Sloterpark, Amsterdam Aug 11 Zürich Street Parade, TBA - Zürich, Zurich Aug 17 This is Panama, Panama, Amsterdam Aug 23 Renaissance, Pacha Ibiza, Ibiza Aug 25 South West Four London 2007, Clapham Common, London Aug 25 Creamfields UK 2007, Creamfields, North

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Why do liberals call themselves "independent thinkers" when they all believe the same progressive propaganda?
Is that funny? A bunch of "free thinkers" who all believe the same things. Is that the ultimate definition of irony?
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- Anonymous10 years agoFavourite answer
Why do ultra-conservative call themselves thinkers at all, when all they do is cling to ways of the past and rhetorical one-liners from the intellectually banal likes of Palin and Beck.
no one is a totally independent thinker, but I'll take progressive philosophies and policies. G-d forbid we should progress
We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.
Anais Nin
- JamesLv 710 years ago
I don't call myself an independent thinker with regard to political ideas.
- C YLv 510 years ago
No such thing as independent thinker. Everyone is influenced by what they believe or learn.
- MichaelLv 410 years ago
I agree. Freethinkers are no such thing--they all seem to toe the same lines and regurgitate the same CNN-based tripe they've been brainwashed with along with all the other evolutionists. Other than that, they're all people who need a Savior like the rest of us, but can a Freethinker get outside the box enough to consider that?
Only God in His infinite grace and mercy can help the sinner see his deeds for what they are.
- What do you think of the answers? You can sign in to give your opinion on the answer.
- 10 years ago
You may want to go in the politics forum. Both liberals and conservatives suffer from groupthink.
- ♣ÇhÄøŠ♣Lv 710 years ago
Aren't conservatives the ones who keep parroting universal healthcare will turn us into communists?
- Anonymous10 years ago
Actually liberals and progressives are similar, but not the same.
Do you have a source, or are you just repeating what you heard?
- TeawitchLv 710 years ago
not really since they have chosen to believe these things and are free to think that way. TROLL.
- Anonymous10 years ago
if by "same things" you mean conclusions based on sound evidence then yes, we believe in the "same thing"
- DakenLv 710 years ago
I love how fundies just lump everyone they dislike into one group and dismiss them instently. It is so much easier then thinking.


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Seattle's Light Rail Sets Record for Environmental Harm
The system cost $2.3 billion to build.
$2.3 billion, financed at 6% interest over 20 years would cost $16 million per month, capital costs alone.
15,000 rider per day, 30 days per month= 450,000 rides per month. Capital cost per ride is $35.50. Operating costs per ride…unknown.
Some rides are for 2 or 5 miles. That's a rather high cost per mile.
Seattle will get a reputation for computational deficiency, financial retardation.
Passed in the name of protecting the environment, the results are confounding. $16 million per month could buy and protect 320,000 hectares of Mexico's rain forest, EVERY MONTH. Environmentalists are lousy at finance.
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(Album) Ensemble Stars! Album Series: Knights [First Run Limited Edition]
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Release Date: 05/30/2018
Specifications: 2 CD Set / Cover feat. Exclusive Art
Catalog Number: FFCG-79
Packaged Bonus: First Run Limited Edition Bonus - Acrylic Stand & Album Book
Number three is Knights!! In addition to their six existing songs, this album includes a brand new unit song as well as character solos for each member.
First run limited editions come with a second CD featuring character commentaries!
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Ritsu Sakuma (CV: Daiki Yamashita)
Arashi Narukami (CV: Ryo Kitamura)
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Deep geological repository (DGR) projects for radioactive waste containing long-lived radionuclides raise specific nuclear liability issues in light of the related potential risks and the long-term behaviour of the installation. In assessing how the nuclear liability regimes should apply to DGR projects the working party will also identify and address issues of relevance to near surface disposal installations in the course of its work.
The Working Party has a mandate to:
1. enhance common understanding of radioactive waste long-term behaviour and nuclear liability regimes among legal and technical experts;
2. assess the technical and radiological aspects of DGRs that must be taken into account when addressing nuclear liability issues;
3. examine and assess how nuclear liability regime(s) should be applied to DGRs throughout the pre-and post-closure phases, as well as related financial security and insurance, taking into account the current management practices for radioactive waste;
4. assess subsequently whether the outcomes agreed for DGRs can also be applied to near surface disposal facilities.


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I have heard from a lot of people that they would love to do a capsule wardrobe, but that they just don't see how it will fit into their lives.
And honestly?
With a traditional capsule concept, I do think there is only a certain group of people who will really thrive within its confines.
That's where Truncation is different.
I'm not here to tell you that you have to limit your clothing to a predetermined number or that you need to follow a certain set of rules (although if that's your thing then more power to you!).
What I am here to do is to try and help you figure out a way to cut out the clutter from your lives so that you can focus on things that are truly important to you.
In other words, "less" looks different for everyone and trying to fit your "less" into somebody else's "less" really doesn't make sense.
What I want to do here at Truncation is to encourage you to find your "less" (let's see how many times I can use that word shall we?) and do what works best for you and your own unique lifestyle.
But before I get ahead of myself:
a capsule wardrobe is a small, functional wardrobe filled with a set amount of clothing that you wear for whatever length of time you choose without adding anything new to it. This is what mine looks like:
- I have an all season capsule wardrobe (i.e. a small closet with pieces that will work for all seasons).
- In that small wardrobe I include clothing and shoes, but I don't include:
- weather related jackets and coats, workout and loungewear, purses and accessories/jewelry.
Alright. Without further ado, here are my four steps for creating a capsule wardrobe:
Step One: write down why you want to start a capsule wardrobe.
and then create some sort of list or vision board of goals that you hope to accomplish by paring down your wardrobe.
I can tell you from personal experience that this step really helps when you are three months down the road and you start to feel the itch to add more to your closet.
Being able to look at your list/board and remember why you started the whole thing in the first place will give you a renewed purpose.
Also, use this step to start defining what you want your personal style to actually look like.
When doing the capsule process you really need to nail this down because a capsule should be filled with pieces that will work seamlessly together (for the most part, although it is always fun to have a few "fun" pieces just because).
Step Two: Take everything out of your closet and pile it on the floor.
I know, I know, in the capsule world everyone says to do it and I resisted this step for a while because I didn't think it was necessary.
But for real… you need to do this step.
I would suggest grabbing a glass of wine, putting on some tunes that soothe you, lighting a candle and going to town.
Put everything into categories by clothing type and then try on each item.
If something doesn't fit, doesn't work with your body type, or is the wrong color on you, etc. put it aside into a "deal with later" pile.
Take a picture of any item you're not sure about. This helps you to see yourself in that item a little bit more objectively.
Mirrors can lie, but pictures often don't.
Try to be as objective as possible with this step and if you find that you can do that better with someone else there, then by all means invite someone over to help you out!
Just make sure it is someone who will be honest with you.
When you are done, keep only the items that you really feel good in and that feel like "you."
Step Three: separate your clothing into different piles.
This is the step where most people get hung up.
I get it, it's hard to get rid of clothing that you spent money on and that you really loved at one time.
But it's these clothes that created your over saturated wardrobe and it's getting rid of these clothes that will give you the huge sigh of relief that you're probably craving.
Separate these clothes into four piles: to give away, to keep for sentimental reasons only, to store for later, and to sell.
The sentimental reasons pile will be entirely different for each person, but in my pile was a few t-shirts that I wore a ton in college and an odd assortment of clothing items that I wore for important moments in my life.
The store for later pile can either be clothes that don't work with the current season, or clothes that you're just not willing to part with quite yet (which is okay by the way, you don't have to get rid of everything on the first go).
Again, deciding what to get rid of and what to sell will be entirely up to you, but I would suggest using the money that you get from selling clothes to invest in a few new items that will "round out" your new paired down wardrobe… after completing the final step.
Step Four: add a little "you" into your capsule.
Now for the fun part.
Your capsule should reflect who you are!
So, yes it's important to have a closet of basic clothing items that will be versatile, but don't forget to add some items that make you feel a little va va voom.
take some risks: add that sparkly jacket, the fur mustard yellow vest… whatever it might be that puts a little pep in your step.
Doing a capsule wardrobe doesn't have to mean boring!
Just keep the less versatile clothing to about 25% of your wardrobe.
Step 5: make slower choice and breathe a little.
Because I have an all season capsule, I DO shop throughout the year…
but I make a point to never shop when I'm using it as therapy and it must always be within budget.
So go ahead and shop if you want to, just be smart about it.
Here's the thing:
We're conditioned to believe that we need EVERYTHING.
Being intentional is so important! Live with what you now have. Figure out what you really do need/want to make your new, smaller wardrobe something that will actually work.
If you don't have a capsule wardrobe that works, then you won't stick with it.
When it's all said and done, you should be left with something you LOVE.
If you aren't, then you might want to start back up at Step One and work your way down the list again.
And don't feel like you have to create the perfect capsule.
Happy capsuling!
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Boherlahan was the venue for Troy Marketing Mid Tipperary Under 16 A Championship Football Final on Tuesday evening last with Moycarkey Borris and local rivals, Durlas Óg competing for the title.
The game began with an intensity which showed on the scoreboard and both sides had points on the score board within minutes. By the fifth minute Moycarkey registered the lead and although the first half was close with a tit for tat point scoring, Moycarkey maintained the lead building on it in with three points in the closing minutes of the first half to go in at half time - Moycarkey Borris 0-6 Durlas Óg 0-3.
Moycarkey Borris re-entered the field for the second half with a new intensity and had four points on the scoreboard before Durlas Óg registered their first in the thirty eighth minute. Moycarkey's purple patch did not end there but continued throughout the half and they added a further eight points to the scoreline while Durlas Óg only added a late consolation goal which did little only enhance their score line. The final score Moycarkey Borris 0-18 Durlas Óg 1-4.
Durlas Óg Team – Darragh Stakelum; Dean Fanning, Patrick Stakelum, Conor Stapleton; Henry Fogarty, Kieran Costello, Jordan Fahey; Paddy Creedon, Cian Stakelum; Joe Dwan, Cathal Hayes, Conor Fogarty; Eoin Purcell, Jack Lanigan, James Armstrong.
Durlas Óg Panel – Oisin O'Brien, Sean Collins, Jack Kelly, Luke Fogarty, Eoghan Ryan, David Mawe, Peter Wall, Liam McCormack, Emmet Fogarty.
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Walls are usually seen as confinements, obstacles, but the reality is we all live within some kind of walls. Even those who prefer the outside are compelled to spend certain amount of time inside.
Since people have been striving to live in a shelter for thousands of years, they saw their walls for what they are – grim barriers to the outside world. Decoration therefore, came naturally, and people have been using wall art since ever. Remember ancient Roman frescoes of Pompeii, or Renaissance and Baroque ceilings – it's clear the need for beautiful inner space has always been there.
It's a common notion that walls are a place for art. Pictures are placed on them making the space alive and more beautiful, but modern times have made big distinctions between the very few people who can afford fine art and the great majority who cannot. Luckily, we live in an era of design and decoration, so the most people are enabled to decal their walls artistic and beautiful.
Recently, craft and Do-It-Yourself techniques have been experiencing a revival, and besides numerous posters and ready-made wall art, there are thousands of wall art ideas anyone can employ in their home.
Wall art ideas can be divided in two very large groups :
– wall art placed directly on wall that cannot be removed easily and
– wall art that is hung on a wall, which can be removed anytime.
The first group includes some of the most common wall art solutions, such as paint, wallpaper and combination of the two. There are many new kinds and designs of wallpaper on the market every day, along with endless hues of wall paint. To start with wall art, it's good to paint the wall the desired color, and perhaps add wallpaper later. Leave fragments of a wall uncovered with wallpaper, to make a special effect.
Another way to decorate the wall with only paint are stencils. Street artists have been using them for decades, and the results can be pretty amazing. You can make stencils of anything, cute silhouettes, portraits of your idols or loved ones, pop-art objects or turn the whole surface into an interior mural.
The second group of wall art that is hung on a wall is much larger. The truth is – anything can be made into wall art. Today, designers have started to frame everything, from photographs, to design images, to sheer patterns, or even boxes with favorite objects and memories! The idea behind this action is – if it's framed, it's art. And if a frame is especially beautiful, it can even go on the wall by itself. Making a special arrangement of several picture frames alone can look quite fetching.
Contemporary interior design is continuously re-inventing existing objects turning them into wall art. For example, bookshelves are now not only for books, but they represent decoration in itself. Mirrors are often made into imaginative mosaics, while blackboards can be as decorative as they are useful. Many use old signs from stores or similar interpretations, or even old, expired licence plates as wall pieces. One of the removable decorations excellent for brief periods is a wall sticker. It can be changed frequently and it's a great solution for kids' walls.
Finally, what you decide to put on your wall is entirely up to you. Think – your hobby, your home, your favorite things – and the perfect wall art idea will come in no time!
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Wood grain from a fallen giant, hidden in the Never Summer Mountains (Ni-chebe-chii, or Never-No-Summer in Arapaho). Sadly the bokeh isn't perfect so oh darn, I'll have to go hike in one of the most beautiful spruce/fir forests of northern Colorado to take this one again… Taken back in summer of 2015. It had just rained, which made the beautiful reds and oranges of this fallen tree saturated. A bit of the color is from several lichen species slowly decomposing the wood. This log was several feet in diameter, and was surrounded by monkshood and larkspur. There are some beautiful forests out there, but you'll only see them if you take the time to explore.
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See How Digital Risk Made The Journey Fun in 2016!
Digital Risk had quite the year in 2016! From awards, to featured articles, to making a difference in our communities, there sure is a lot to cover! This video highlights all of the company's successes and activities throughout the year.
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Starting off with awards, publications, leadership meetings, and industry events, including Digital Risk's Second Annual "Break the Glass" Executive Women's Summit, the video then moves on to showcase employee engagement activities and community initiatives. Highlighting how Digital Risk 'makes the journey fun,' D-Riskers from all offices are shown at companywide potlucks, holiday contests, charity events and more. Check out the video to see the fun!
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November Fairy cookie
November Fairy cookie by Evelindecora
Hand painted royal icing 🍁❤🍁
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Amazing work and best looking fairy!
It is amazing!
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Beautiful ❤
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she is amazing
Pero qué preciosidad!!! Alucinante!!!😍😍😍
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Fifty Shades of Grey Movie: Where Does it Stand Amid Casting Shakeup(s)?by Free Britney at .
After more than a year of rumors, speculation and online fantasy casting, Charlie Hunnam was unveiled as the star of Fifty Shades of Grey in September.
Then he got cold feet. Despite the stock "scheduling conflicts" line, the consensus is that Hunnam bailed on Fifty Shades of Grey because of the attention.
Some fans were disappointed, but many were downright thrilled at the chance to re-cast the role they didn't feel Hunnam was a great fit for anyway.
The aftermath of the casting shakeup has led to other behind-the-scenes changes that are less public but still significant, as well as more questions.
So here's the latest on what's going on with the project since Charlie Hunnam's exit and what changes we can expect (and not expect) with him gone:
The next Christian. Obviously, this is the one on everyone's mind.
The short list, according to inside sources (not fans), includes Jamie Dornan of the U.K. series The Fall, and Alexander Skarsgard of True Blood.
The studio also is revisiting its initial list of possible contenders, such as Theo James and Christian Cooke. Jamie Dornan may have the edge.
Skarsgard, Irish actor Cillian Murphy, Matt Bomer and Ian Somerhalder are among the actors with the best odds to get the part according to bookmakers.
Expect a relative unknown. Hunnam bailed because he was worried about being typecast a la Robert Pattinson. An unknown will take that chance.
Anything could happen, but that's our take.
Dakota Johnson isn't going anywhere. Sources say she's "100 percent committed" to the part, despite the fact that "it's been tough" on her lately.
While she's had a hard time dealing with the press and the negative attention, rumors of Dakota Johnson leaving the project have been exaggerated.
She's calling the shots. So committed are the producers to Johnson that they're casting a man who has chemistry with her, not the other way around.
A new writer has been hired. Kelly Marcel's script is now in the hands of Patrick Marber to "do a polish and character work on the script," THR reports.
Universal claims it still on track for August. With the rewrites, turmoil and the search for Christian Grey back on, the whole thing reeks of delays.
Not yet, though. We're on for August 1, 2014 as of right now, assuming a new Christian can be signed in the next couple of weeks to start filming.
What do you think? Who should play Christian? And is Dakota a good enough fit as Anastasia Steele to anchor the casting for the new leading man?


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For the Iggy Azaleas of the DC area…
Vintage chandelier:
Asking: $210
Condition: "Excellent"
Dimensions: 19″ x 13″
Location: Chesapeake, VA
Thoughts: Pretty unique, glamorous find.
Oak Maple* leaf wall clock:
Asking: $65
Condition: "Excellent"
Dimensions: 24″ x 24″
Location: Cloverly, MD
Thoughts: Pretty when the sun hits it. (*Thanks, Dad!)
Round etagere / room divider:
Asking: $550
Condition: "There are a few blemish spots, consistent with age. Overall it is in very good condition. There are no chips in the glass."
Dimensions: 68.5″H x 68.5″L x 17″D
Location: Arlington, VA
Thoughts: A bit over the top for me, but I think this would be fantastic in the right boutique.


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Anyone who knows me personally, comes to me as a client or follows me on social media knows that I have been recovering from a total knee replacement in May. I have been back to work since August 1st and have been very surprised at everyone's excitement to see me walking pain free and without limping. So I thought I would share with those of you I haven't seen yet what my progress is and how I am doing.
My recovery process included a three day stay in the hospital in order to find the right amount of medication for pain management. Rehabilitation starts immediately after surgery with a constant motion machine and getting up on your feet using a walker to take a few steps. Before I could go home, I had to practice walking up and down stairs and learn to dress myself and my incision.
I soon realized that I could not expect everything to be the same with this knee as it was with the previous knee surgery on the other knee three and half years ago. Even though my husband, Will, has assured me that I have done remarkably better than the last time, I have discovered that one's attitude can make all the difference in how your body can respond. Let me explain. After my first knee surgery, I was so excited to be pain free and back to my life and all my activities, I approached rehab with gusto, dedication and determination. This time….I'm just over it. I have felt frustration, reluctance and defeat. My recovery seemed to be moving at a much slower pace than the last time. Even though my hospital stay was one day less than before and I only used a cane for about 10 days rather than two weeks, all of which is credited to my wonderful doctor, Richard Schubert. Dr. Schubert had developed a new technique since the previous surgery that reduced his patients' recovery time and pain levels.
It was time for another replacement. An attitude adjustment is what I prescribed for myself. God then provided the perfect therapist. My seven year old grandson, Andrew, came for a three week summer visit. We created a lot of fond memories for both of us that will last a life time. He was just what I needed to remind me that there is still so much of the world to see and explore.
As his visit came to an end and spending three weeks entertaining a seven year old boy, I felt another desire returning. I was ready to get back to work and back to the passion of my life, taking care of others and helping their inner beauty shine through. I have always loved working in spas and creating a tiny escape where people emerge from my room looking and feeling better than when they arrived.
I have been blessed to have a wonderful husband who encouraged and supported me through my surgery, recovery and rehab. He has an amazing creative talent and works very hard to make Beauty Nouveau what we have envisioned for others. He works as hard behind the scenes as I do in the treatment room. We have worked together over the last few months relocating and recreating a spa that is all about you. You will see this with the new look and the new location for Beauty Nouveau when you come in for your next treatment. New services have been added to the menu like manicures and pedicures and a new Micro Peel. I think everyone will be pleasantly surprised at how well I am doing and I know you will enjoy the new location's atmosphere. We have intentionally recreated Beauty Nouveau to be a Spa That's All About You. Come in and relax, enjoy and renew yourself.


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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) Sean McGuire threw for 305 yards and three touchdowns and Western Illinois controlled the line of scrimmage in a 31-14 win against Missouri State on Saturday.
Western Illinois (3-4, 2-2 Missouri Valley) outgained Missouri State (4-3, 2-2) in total yards 565-283 and held the ball more than 38 minutes. The Leathernecks also converted 11 of 18 third-down opportunities.
Sam Crosa's 31-yard field goal broke a 7-all tie before halftime and the Leathernecks were never threatened. McGuire threw a 52-yard TD to Clint Ratkovich with 4:39 left in the third, and Steve McShane's 37-yard scoring run with 9:39 left to play made it 24-7. Jeremiah Wilson returned the ensuing kickoff 92 yards for a score to reduce the Bears' deficit to 10, but McGuire found McShane again, this time for a 71-yard score, to seal it.
Peyton Huslig threw for 203 yards and a score for Missouri State but was intercepted twice.
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Today starts the final days of our Christmas in July sale here at DesignerDigitals. We have a new batch of 780 items marked down 30% as well as a new $ 99 cent item. These items are priced that way until 6am EST on Friday, July 26th when the sale ends.
Today's $ 99 cent special is: Ticketed Journalers Brushes and Stamps No. 01


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Military Affairs
The Greater Muskogee Area Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Committee is responsible for building relationships between the community and Camp Gruber, as well as strengthening the relationship between the citizens of Muskogee and the military and veteran personnel and their families in the Muskogee area. Camp Gruber has millions of dollars in construction underway and more planned. The task force realizes that communication is the key to continued growth and support for Camp Gruber and that Gruber has a large economic impact on the surrounding communities, especially Muskogee and Davis Field.
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Anders Sorman-Nilsson is a futurist and innovation strategist who helps executives and business leaders decode trends, answer disruptive questions and strategise for foreseeable and unpredictable futures. As a Swedish-Australian strategist at Thinque he has helped executives of Fortune 500s and ASX leaders convert provocative questions into proactive, future strategies across 4 continents since 2005. His latest book Digilogue: how to win the digital minds and the analogue hearts of tomorrow's customer - is hot off the press, and is featuring in top end business media like BRW, The Financial Review, Sky News Business, Qantas Magazine and ABC National Radio. He has completed the Global Executive MBA program at the University of Sydney Business School, and when he is not hanging out with clients like Eli Lilly, Fuji Xerox, HP, Pernod Ricard, or People's Choice Credit Union - globally and locally - he likes to get his hands dirty together with his mum, Birgitta, in the turn-around strategy for her 96 year old bricks and mortar menswear store in Stockholm, Sweden in a world of Digital Disruption.


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Search for axions in streaming dark matter
Streaming dark matter (DM) axions may be the better source for their discovery than the widely assumed isotropic DM. Because, a large axion flux enhancement can take place, temporally, due to gravitational lensing when the Sun and/or a planet are aligned with the stream or an axion caustic pointing to the Earth. This concept requires a wide-band axion antenna with fast scanning mode, and can run parasitically at no extra cost. Some new DM axion detectors have this scheme built-in, though unnoticed. In order not to miss a discovery, a coordinated network of axion haloscopes can provide full time coverage and large axion mass acceptance. Of interest are also axion miniclusters (MC) in particular if the solar system has trapped one during its formation. If we were to cross the path of a minicluster during a few days per year, the dark matter density would increase by ρMC~105•ρ<DM> and the temporal sensitivity gain a factor 105 with a duty cycle of about 1% compared to a conventional search using a narrow band and slow scanning detector.
The identification of the constituents of the mysterious dark matter (DM) in the Universe is one of the few fundamental open questions in physics. The well-motivated axion has not been discovered as yet, in spite of the efforts undertaken world-wide. The axion naturally arises from a suggestion by Peccei and Quinn to solve the strong CP-problem, whose striking manifestation is the negligibly small electric dipole moment of the neutron. This remains a serious and challenging issue for the Standard Model. Discovering the axion may thus solve both a problem in particle physics and an enduring mystery in cosmology. The fact that axion DM is at large for such a long time, a re-orientation of the applied detection concepts outside the widely accepted DM picture seems inevitable. To some degree, the same reasoning applies also to other DM candidates.
The search for DM, and in particular for relic axions, has been focused on the assumed isotropic halo of our Galaxy, with an expected broad velocity distribution around 240 km/s and an average density of ρ<DM> ~ 0.3 GeV/cm3. However, this target choice might have been the reason behind the failure in detecting the axion so far. Instead, the proposed new strategy for the detection of the elusive axion is based on streaming DM axions. Even a tiny flux might get temporally strongly enhanced due to gravitational lensing effects, surpassing thus on the long term the isotropic local DM density. This can happen, if the Sun or some planet is found along the direction of a DM stream propagating towards the Earth.
The planetary motion opens additional windows of opportunity for focusing and bending of DM constituents. For example, the "Sagittarius Stream" (Figure 1) and/or the dense tidal streams of axion-miniclusters, along with the actually overlooked planetary gravitational lensing effects for slow speed particles (~10-3c) are fitting in. Interestingly, the expected mass of a trapped axion-minicluster (~10-12 Msun) is about 100 times below a conservative bound on possible DM in the Solar System following many high precision positional observations of planets and spacecraft, but it is still >105 times above the average DM density. Crossings may last a few days per year without assuming gravitational lensing. If this happens, it should imply temporally a 105 times better performance than a conventional search with the same set-up. I.e., after 1 year of data taking the sensitivity on the DM cross section is improved by five orders of magnitude compared to data taking with the same narrow-band and slow scanning detector, which is sensitive only to the isotropic DM axions.
Other DM streams include caustics, eventually also one associated with the annual alignment (within 5.5o) Galactic Center --> Sun --> Earth in December, and probably more unpredictable ones. Ideally, this new concept benefits largely from a joint effort to reach complete annual coverage and the maximum possible axion mass range (see below).
While streaming DM and (planetary) gravitational lensing are not new, however, both combined together may become instrumental in axion research, provided axion haloscopes have built-in:
- a wide-band receiver: the associated decreased detection sensitivity should be well compensated by the temporally increased influx of DM, and
- a continuous fast axion rest mass scanning: the faster the scanning the shorter dense axion bursts can be utilized
Both conditions seem feasible for the ~1.8K CAST magnet and eventually down to the mK range for other haloscopes, where heating-up effects should be the limiting factor. Remarkably, some novel DM detector schemes are wide-band by default, e.g. CASPEr and GNOME in Mainz, soon also ABRA-10 cm in MIT, etc. Interestingly, in such cases, these two requirements make no sense. Though unnoticed, this new relic axion detection proposal is already built-in and in operation! However, possible burst-like events from such detectors may be rejected, since they do not fit the general picture of the isotropic DM. In addition, the unavoidable machine stops require a network of co-ordinated axion antennae, preferentially around the Globe, in order not to miss an axion signal hidden in an unpredictable dense structure.
CAST has been converted to a DM-axion antenna, with the participation of the CAPP institute from Korea, and might well profit from including this new concept, when, as we expect, test measurements in Korea have been successfully completed.
In conclusion, this new concept can be implemented, to some degree, in every axion haloscope, if it has not been the case already (even though not on purpose). We stress that this scheme should actually run parasitically, providing thus an additional window of opportunity in the field.
Figure 1. The Sagittarius Stream is a complex structure made of tidally stripped stars and dark matter from the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy due to the ongoing merging with our Galaxy the last ~5 Gyears. The locations of the Sun (●) and the galactic center (GC) are given. The inserts show expanded the inner galactic region. The three most prominent distant branches of the Sgr stream are labeled NW (Northwest), NE (Northeast) and S (South). Courtesy Abraham Loeb / Harvard.
Further Reading: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.01436


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Q&A/Darwin, Michael Hawley, and God: BFF
""The contradiction goes away once the misconceptions go away. I wrote my book for Christians of all flavors, so I purposely take the most restrictive position to show that even a literal interpretation of Genesis is not in conflict with science."
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Into the raging battle between religious belief and scientific reasoning rides a peacemaker carrying a bible in one hand and an Archaeopteryx fossil in the other. His name is Michael Hawley, and as an evolution-defending evangelical Christian, he's something of a walking oxymoron.
Hawley holds several degrees in science and science education, focusing on geology, geophysics, fossil distribution, and microstratigraphy. The retired U.S. Navy commander and aviator is currently enjoying a second career as a science teacher at Tonawanda City High School. Armed with an extensive knowledge of biblical scripture, Hawley claims that religious belief and science are compatible, at least where it comes to the book of Genesis. His reasoned arguments on the evolution/creationism dispute are outlined in his first book, Searching for Truth with a Broken Flashlight (Aventine Press). In a clear, personal, non-confrontational style, Hawley defines the differences between the scientific process and religious dogma, clearing up many misconceptions about both along the way.
I found your book to be entertaining and informative.
Thanks. It's exciting because I've been getting similar responses from others. The most memorable reaction was from an early manuscript reader prior to publishing. He's evangelical, and after reading it he switched churches. He literally walked up to his pastor and began asking pointed questions on this issue, then he left.
You state in your bio that you assume biblical inerrancy, yet you support the scientific view of evolution. On the face of it that would seem to be a contradiction.
The contradiction goes away once the misconceptions go away. I wrote my book for Christians of all flavors, so I purposely take the most restrictive position to show that even a literal interpretation of Genesis is not in conflict with science. God explains the creation of the entire universe in just a few short pages. This requires very general wording, which means there are dozens of interpretations, including interpretations that are in agreement with science. Which one is correct? It's my contention that where scripture meets nature, we can verify God's written revelation with another of his divine revelations—nature. When God says, "The Heavens declare the glory of God," he is saying nature itself reveals.
The broken flashlight of the book's title refers to erroneous assumptions and wrongheaded approaches people—mostly the faithful—use to sort out truth from myth. Can you elaborate a little on that?
If we accept the Bible as divinely inspired revelation, then we believe it contains truth, which will be revealed through correct interpretation. The problem, again, is there are over 30,000 different Christian denominations. They can't all be right. It is my contention that early theologian Thomas Aquinas got it right. Aquinas points out [that] from a Christian perspective there are actually two perfect revelations from God: His word and his works, meaning nature. Instead of filtering the numerous biblical interpretations through observational evidence in nature, anti-evolution creationists filter the evidence through a favored interpretation of Genesis. If the two conflict, they reject the evidence.
So religious leaders have it wrong?
Yes and no. Many religious leaders see no conflict between science and their faith. Christian denominations influenced by John Calvin, such as the Presbyterians, Baptists, and Dutch-Reformed, felt threatened in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by an emerging worldview centered around rational human thought brought on by the Age of Enlightenment, and many of today's leaders have inherited this mistrust.
What has the reaction been to your book?
[From] those that have read it within the religious community, I've received a very positive response. For example, the mega website ReligiousTolerance.org selected [it] as their June 2011 book of the month. The founder contacted me and said there are three books he read this year that changed his thinking, and one of them is mine. On the non-religious side, I was contacted by Dr. Theodore Steegmann Jr., professor emeritus of anthropology at UB. He was very impressed, and told me the book had quite an impact upon him. He says he now has a better understanding of who evangelical Christians are and why they take the position they do.
You seem to be a big advocate of the scientific process. But science has come to be viewed skeptically by a segment of the public that believes it's just another belief system.
I think the best response to that comes from the world of cognitive neuroscience. The emotional center of our brain is the limbic system. When we make decisions based upon our values and beliefs [i.e., religion], cognitive neuroscientists using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) observe increased activity in the limbic system. The intellectual center of our brain is the cerebral cortex. When we make decisions based upon the analysis and evaluation of facts—as in science—there is increased activity in the cerebral cortex. If science is just another belief system, then we should see increased activity in the limbic system, and this is simply not the case.
So if I say, "I believe in evolution," how am I different from someone who believes in the biblical account which puts the world at only 6,000 years old?
You would not be different doctrinally if both of you belonged to the same Christian denomination, since belief in evolution does not involve one's faith. Belief in both evolution and a young earth, though, is quite incompatible since evolution requires a much longer period of time.
You must have had some rip-roaring discussions with your evangelical friends.
I have. Once I was challenged by an acquaintance in front of a large group of believers anxious to hear our discussion. He commented on how ridiculous it was not to believe in a global flood and a young earth. I asked, "Who in the Bible received God's commandment, "Go forth and multiply and replenish the Earth?" The acquaintance replied, "Noah." I then said, "Noah was the second. God first commanded Adam with the identical phrase. God did not say "plenish;" he said re-plenish, meaning to refill. This means the most literal interpretation requires you to believe there were people before Adam and Eve just as I've been saying all along. Are you telling me you do not take the Bible literally?" Having no answer, he got quite upset.
Michael Hawley's website is www.searchingfortruthwithabrokenflashlight.com.


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Washington--The Agriculture Department has rejected several proposals that school food-service administrators believe would reduce the paperwork burden of school-meals programs.
In a report sent to the Congress last month, the department, which administers the school-meals programs, said it was making progress in implementing the paperwork-reduction sections of the 1989 law that reauthorized the school breakfast and lunch programs.
But it also rejected several recommendations made by a task force on paperwork reduction. The panel, which included administrators of child-nutrition programs, school food-service personnel, and commodity distributors, said the recommendations, if enacted, would make federal nutrition programs easier to administer.
"I'm concerned that some of the more timely issues and recommendations of the paperwork-reduction task force were ignored," said Annette Bomar, a task-force member and the administrator of the school and community nutrition division in the Georgia Department of Education.
School food-service directors have long maintained that the federal school breakfast and lunch programs are difficult to administer because the department requires what they consider to be excessive docu4mentation. These concerns were a central focus of the reauthorization hearings in 1989.
At the same hearings, the usda said some schools were overreporting the number of free and reduced-price meals that they serve, potentially costing the government millions of dollars. Under the program, schools receive higher reimbursement for free and reduced-price meals than for full-price meals.
Responding to these concerns, the Congress two years ago required the department to reduce paperwork requirements in seven areas. It also told the department to develop a unified federal and state accountability system to supervise schools participating in the federal school-meals programs.
Proposed regulations for this unified review process were released late last year, and final regulations are due this summer. The American School Food Service Association, however, believes this review will duplicate existing efforts.
Rejected Ideas
In its report to the Congress, the usda rejected several of the task force's recommendations on the grounds that they would cost too much to implement or did not directly relate to paperwork reduction.
One such recommendation was to eliminate reduced-price breakfasts and lunches altogether by providing free meals to all children from fam8ilies with incomes less than 185 percent of the federal poverty level. Currently, only students from families with incomes up to 130 percent of the poverty level are eligible for free meals; those from families earning up to 185 percent of the poverty level can receive reduced-price meals.
School food-service officials complain of the paperwork involved in documenting the two levels of discounted meals.
"This recommendation does not address issues related to reduction of paperwork, but rather advocates substantial additional federal funding," the department responded in its report. Such a recommendation would cost the federal government $405 million in fiscal year 1992, it said.
The department also rejected a recommendation to allow schools in which more than 40 percent of the students receive free or reduced-price meals to automatically receive "severe need reimbursement." Under current law, only those schools that can document additional costs are eligible for this additional reimbursement.
The usda also rejected proposals to reduce the number of meal applications that have to be verified by school officials each year, and to eliminate a requirement that schools must compare daily claims against the number of free, reduced-, and full-price meals actually served.
The department accepted recommendations that would allow schools to process students' meal applications before the start of a new school year, and to simplify the application.
Other suggestions, the department said, could be implemented pending the review of several pilot projects now in progress. One such program allows children eligible for free and reduced-price meals in some schools to complete applications for more than one school year at a time. Another program is testing alternative meal-counting systems.
School administrators said requirements such as these are forcing some schools to drop out of the school-lunch program.
In Maine, said Kevin Cowperthwaite, director of the state's school-nutrition programs, schools that have relatively few children who are eligible for free or reduced-price meals find the rules especially burdensome.
"The big factor is the cost of someone doing the accountability measures," he said. "It's the same if you feed two kids or 200 kids."
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Due to the fact that, yes, I am still on Turkey Day vacation, we're going to keep this simple. This blog consists of questions we asked our TV screen during Monday night's "Heroes" episode, "Truth and Consequences."
We were chock full of 'em starting with…
Where the heck was Parkman? While the only way to handle the cast expansion this season was to feature some heroes in certain episodes and not others, it was strange not to see Matt.
Honestly, everyone else was in there, even Gleep and Gloop, and Micah and Niki's troublemaking idiot kin. We'd expect nothing less. This is the second to last episode of Volume Two. Depending on whether Monday's resumption of talks between reps from the WGA and the AMPTP means the strike may be nearing an end, next week's "Heroes" could be the last, so what gives?
Last week's final moments seemed to hint that Parkman was headed to find Victoria Pratt, and though we can't say that would have gone well, Parkman's brain poke would have been a preferable alternative to, well, what actually went down. More on that later.
Is Gloop really that dumb? Let's think about this now: You're on the lam with your brother, the only person who has proven trustworthy. You pick up a stranger on the side of the road after another stranger gives you a ride. The good samaritan giving you a ride disappears, but the other stranger tells you, "Hey, it's OK! I'm your pal!"
Your brother doesn't trust him.
You cross into a strange territory. Stranger is putting the moves on you and trying to tell you that your brother hates you. Suddenly, your brother disappears and stranger becomes alternately seductive and scary and busting out with, "Relax, guy! Take a load off! Look over there!" Most people would run, but not Gloop. Not with psycho Sylar, who really isn't going out of his way to put in his best Johnny Depp. Nope – creepy as he ever was, Sylar starts getting all touchy-feely with Maya. And guess what? She caves.
So after Gleep tries to take down Sylar to save his sister and gets stabbed to death for his efforts, Gloop locks lips with McScary and heads off to New York to meet up with the world's hottest and highly gullible geneticist. In the process, he also threatens cute lil Molly.
Which brings us to this next question:
Is Mohinder really that dumb? OK, so he wants to find a cure for the Shanti virus – that's strain 138 to you and me – but surely he must find something terribly wrong with kidnapping a teenage girl to do it.
Is it just me, or is his superpower extraordinary gullibility? Yikes.
Then again if Bob hadn't stolen Claire's blood, Mohinder wouldn't have been able to fortify his own antibodies to find a cure for Niki, or more to the point, make it up to H.R.G. for shooting and killing him by bringing him back to life with a super-infusion. Being the doof that he is, Mohinder then informs Noah that he's alive because of Claire's forced donation, which pretty much ensures that H.R.G. is going to find a way to make Suresh dine on his own buttcakes.
After that, Mohinder gets all huffy up with Bob and makes him swear, swear on his mother, to help him hunt down and destroy every strain of the Shanti virus. Bob, who will agree to cut off Little Bob if he thinks doing so will get a person to shut the heck up and do as he says, grimly nods.
Oh, Mohinder, I don't care which school gave you your Ph.D., but your School of Common Sense diploma obviously fell out of a box of Froot Loops.
Is Peter really that naive? I'm not going to say Peter's dumb because that would put him in the same category as Gloop and Mohinder, but gee. First he questions Victoria Pratt, the person who engineered strain 138 and is obviously in hiding, only to look on as Adam shoots her and, hmm, not have a problem with that. Then, once they get to Odessa, Texas — where, thanks to Hiro's handy dandy and informational jump backward in time, we see the virus has been hidden — Peter finds himself facing down ultimate good guy Hiro.
After hearing Victoria say Adam wanted to release the virus, and after hearing Hiro say that Adam killed his father, what does Peter do? Call the light show to his fingertips to protect Adam as Hiro charges. Has our favorite fake world gone insane?
Other Qs….
Why hasn't anybody locked Micah's little cousin in a basement? Hmm…he takes Micah's $600 mint condition comic and the only memento he has left of D.L., leading to his sister getting kidnapped by local criminals. Yep, he needs a little time out. It's not as if anyone would miss him. Throw the kid some bread and Kool Aid every few hours and call it good.
Why didn't Monica fight back when those thugs came back to home base and found her there, trying to retrieve Micah's backpack? OK, yeah, they had guns, and we're guessing she'll break out the Fist of Legend just in time to foil their arson gig (and for the finale), but c'mon. She watched Bruce do his thing and took in some wrestling footage. One flying kick would have been nice.
What good will it do for Claire to tell the world that she has regenerative ability? Um, wasn't this precisely what her dad didn't want?
And naturally, the big question:
Who's gonna die?
There were five faces shown in next week's teaser — Hiro, Nathan, Parkman, Claire and Electric Elle – but I wouldn't put much stock in that. Networks love to throw us off the scent with those things. Besides, out of all those characters, the only one we could really see dying would be Elle. Somehow I doubt that'll happen — it would be more fun to watch her turn against Bob.
Also, remember that the idea of a "fallen hero" doesn't necessarily mean death. One of those people might turn to the dark side. I'm just saying.
If you want to start a death pool, some candidates are more in danger than others:
The finger of death is upon Niki, who awaits Mohinder's cure for the virus in New Orleans but is obviously not as important to Mohinder as Molly, who is threatened by Sylar and Gloop. Mohinder may have some payback in mind for Sylar, but as we all know, he is a weakling. And gullible.
Niki's cause of death might be a fatal gunshot, since Micah is going to be forced to enlist her help to retrieve Auntie Monica. And if Micah's orphaned, that would make him the perfect sidekick to Auntie Monica/Saint Joan. The downside is that we like Niki a heckuva lot more than Monica.
Parkman might drop – Greg Grunberg would find another job lickety-split — but we have a feeling his story's not done. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Matt "falls" in that other sense of the term … but who knows?
I'm hoping Gloop goes down, which would make sense if Sylar is due to make a comeback. We're done with whiny, weepy, wishy-washy Gloop. She would serve the story line's greater good if she joined Gleep anyway, because Sylar with the ability to weep death would be a terrible foe indeed.
And, of course, Mama Petrelli could buy it, which would join Nathan and Peter in a bloody vendetta against Adam.
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Hello and welcome to my blog! I am very excited at the prospect of sharing my creations with you. I have been stamping for about 3 years and scrapbooking for 10. I love to make cards especially with High Hopes Stamps! Here is one I did today for High Hopes Challenge #24.
I used the HHS "Burt's Bath" and the "Happy Spring" stamp is from Stampendous.
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Written by Ken Gaebler
Published: 7/20/2011
SMB loan approvals and other factors drive an increase in the SB Authority Index in June.
Although the news for small businesses has been mostly dismal for the past month, things may be looking up, as the Small Business Authority released the SB Authority Index for June, which showed a 1.17 percent spike from the previous month.
The index reached 106.07 points after only a slight increase the previous month, when the Index was 104.89. The SBA said the increase this month was due to SBA loan volumes, the Russell microcap index and retail sales.
SBA President and CEO Barry Sloane said the small business economy is continuing to see mixed results, and reminded people that the index numbers are not final. However, the index includes current numbers from eight different economic factors that directly effect small business. He said that June saw the loan volume jump over the previous year and said small businesses are waiting for more money under President Barack Obama's recovery plan.
"We continue to be concerned with the business climate but we welcome Washington's effort to reduce the federal deficit and uncertainty for small businesses and their future," he said.
When May's Index was released last month, Sloane said small businesses need to invest and hire for future growth, but that will take more spending from consumers.
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Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Music Business/Law Tips - "Making Money From Videos"
Artists these days can make money off the videos that they upload to YouTube. The money is called "ad revenue" ("AdRev"), and its generated by inserting or allowing ads in or attached to videos. The main types of ads one can get paid for are set forth below to see the differences: 1. "Bumper Ads" (short ads of a few seconds that cannot be skipped); 2. "Sponsored Cards" (ads that offer products for sale that appear in the video); 3. "Display Ads" (ads that pop up to the right of video); 4. "Skippable Ads" (ads that play for a few seconds before they can be skipped); 5. "Overlay Ads" (banners that pop up under the video); and 6. "Non-Skippable Ads" (a 30 second ad that one must sit through to watch the video). In order to participate in YouTube AdRev, first an artist must join YouTube's "Partner Program", and then create an "AdSense" account to monetize the ads (but one has the option of opting out of some/all types of ads or just for certain videos). Normally, an artist will want to allow all types of ads to maximize profits (unless he/she has strong feelings about being associate with a product, for instance). The ads are generally placed randomly via an algorithm where YouTube is trying to target market based on an artist's and the artist's videos metrics/data. Since its hard for new artists to make money off record sales these days, AdRev is a good stream of income (and any video can be monetized - not just the ones that have millions of views - but as the views increase so does the AdRev). Ben McLane Esq benmclane.com
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I'll Have Another will try to become the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978 when he runs in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 9.
Since Spectacular Bid in 1979, eleven 3-year-olds have won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness only to fail in their Triple Crown quest at Belmont Park.
Spectacular Bid appeared to be a slam dunk in the '79 Belmont Stakes but received a questionable ride and finished 3rd. Pleasant Colony was also 3rd in his failed bid in 1981. Alysheba finished a disappointing 4th behind runaway winner Bet Twice in 1987. Easy Goer turned the tables on his arch rival Sunday Silence to deny history in 1989.
Touch Gold turned the tables on Silver Charm in 1997. Real Quiet moved too soon and Victory Gallop made him pay the price late in 1998. My value top Lemon Drop Kid spoiled Charismatic's party in 1999.
War Emblem faded to 8th while Sarava lit up the tote in 2002. My Derby top Empire Maker got sweet revenge on Funny Cide in 2003. I was never on the Smarty Jones bandwagon and was not surprised to see him go down to Birdstone in 2004. Finally, I was not a fan of Big Brown and expected him to go down in flames in 2008 but I was not smart enough to come up with Da Tara.
I did not start attending the races until 1980 so I just missed Spectacular Bid's 3-year-old season, but I did see the last ten failed attempts and know how hard it is to complete the sweep with a win in the Test of Champions.
I'll Have Another has a winning spirit, versatile running style, and a promising pedigree, but is that enough to complete a seemingly impossible task? History is not on his side.
Mario Gutierrez has been a huge asset up to this point, but so was Stewart Elliott aboard Smarty Jones until he was harassed by Rock Hard Ten (Alex Solis) and Eddington (Jerry Bailey) at Big Sandy. Kent Desormeaux jumped the gun in '98 aboard Real Quiet and Gary Stevens and Victory Gallop tagged him late. Gutierrez has been a cool customer so far but the inexperienced pilot could get lost in the vastness of Belmont Park.
Fresh, talented rivals also make the twelve furlong task a daunting one. Empire Maker, 2nd to Funny Cide in the 2003 Derby, skipped the Preakness and turned the tables on him in the Belmont. Birdstone did the same thing to Smarty Jones in 2005. The last six Belmont Stakes winners (Ruler On Ice, Drosselmeyer, Summer Bird, Da' Tara, Rags To Riches, Jazil) did not run in the Preakness Stakes.
The most dangerous threat to I'll Have Another is Union Rags. The Michael Matz trainee is a 3-time graded winner exiting back-to-back troubled trips under Julien Leparoux in the Florida Derby and Kentucky Derby. I have always thought that he was the most talented member of his generation and a clean trip is all he needs to prove me right. Look for Matz to reach out for an experienced NY rider for the Belmont Stakes.
Alpha is another interesting candidate and reminds me of last year's Belmont Stakes runner-up Stay Thirsty. He owns tactical speed, is bred to run all day, and should get better with age. Kiaran McLaughlin won the 2006 Belmont Stakes with Jazil. This year's Kentucky Derby show finisher Dullahan is also waiting in the wings.
Much will be written and said in the weeks leading up to the Belmont Stakes. I would like to see a Triple Crown winner as much as anyone and will be pleasantly surprised if history is made at Belmont Park on Saturday, June 9. Let the games begin!


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The environmental community beamed with joy yesterday, Monday the 29th of September, 2014 as the Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan decorated renowned activist, Nnimmo Bassey with the title of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR). Nnimmo Bassey, the director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) is a household name who has tirelessly persisted in his international struggle for environmental justice and human rights. The trained architect is also a poet and former Chair of Friends of the Earth International.
The prestigious award is a feather in the cap of Nnimmo Bassey, who has already received international awards including the Right Livelihood Award popularly called the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' in 2010 and the Rafto Prize in 2012. He was also listed as a Time Magazine Hero of the Environment in 2009. These awards were in recognition of his long-term fight for people's rights to life, health, food, water, livelihood and a safe environment in a world that is constantly facing threats of climate change and environmental devastation. In addition to his long list of recognitions, Nnimmo Bassey was decorated by the monarch, Oba Erediauwa of Benin City in 2010 with the Oba of Benin Green Award – Policeman of the Environment for his contribution to environmental sustainability and the 2011 Global Appreciation Award by the World Heritage Cultural Council (WHCC) in New York, USA.
Every year, the Nigerian president confers national honours on Nigerians and friends of the country who have displayed exceptional service in their areas of expertise, for the benefit of the nation. This year, 305 Nigerians were selected to receive the awards in a befitting ceremony in the nation's capital, Abuja.
We are particularly pleased with the variety of awardees this year, which apart from Bassey, included the President's cook, a diligent traffic warden, the man who designed the Nigerian flag (Pa Taiwo Akinkunmi) and a taxi driver who returned 18 million Nigeria which was forgotten in his taxi.
We congratulate Nnimmo Bassey on this prestigious honour as we believe that it is a well deserved honour and will inspire other activists to keep up the good work.
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Writing for Disabled Assistant Browsers
Can everyone read your Web page?
I don't just mean that fact that you're using dark blue text on a black background either (lousy color choice). I mean all people, even those who are using disabled browsers.
I've known for a while that people who are using disabled browsers need everything on a Web page to have a text equal. Depending on the person's disability, the special browser will read the text to them, or create the text in Braille, or somehow relate the information to the user. I had a few tips to tell people, but now it's been laid down for all the world to seeand hopefully use.
On May 5th, 1999, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) came out with their "Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines v1.0" (Guidelines). You can travel to see the page yourself by going to: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/
The Guidelines are the consortium's help page to Web developers to offer tips on how to make your pages more accessible to a disabled assistant browser. I've read the page a couple of times and it all looks pretty straight forward and easy to follow. If you write your HTML is a traditional manner, you're a big part of the way there.
The W3C break the tips down into three priorities, 1, 2, and 3. Priority 1 items must be done in order for your page to be read by disabled assistant browsers (The W3C refers to the browsers as "User Agents"). Priority 2 items should be done, and Priority 3 items may be done.
Let me hit some of the high points for you. Then you can go and read the page for yourself. It's a little dry, but it's a great source of information.
From my reading of the document, I took away two major rules of thumb:
- Absolutely every image, movie, icon, or any other non-text element on the page must have a text equivalent. The easiest method is to always offer an ALT command. Like so:

See http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/web_graphics/article.php/3479921 for more on the ALT command.
Image maps not only require the ALT command, but also require that you offer text links in addition to the map itself. Movies should offer audio tracks or the text right on the page so that the text can be read. The simplest method is to offer a second page that has the movie's element. The user can go to the page to get the information.
- The second rule was to write your HTML code is a traditional fashion. That means tags in capital letters and attributes lower-case and in double quotes. Again, Like so:
Hello There
Yes, I know that the double quotes aren't needed and that HTML is not case sensitive. But remember that I'm talking about getting your pages to the point where the disabled assistant browser will have the best shot at reading them for someone else.
Here are a few other very good Priority 1 tips. Remember, Priority 1 tips are those that must be done to ensure your page can be read by a disabled assistant browser.
- Do not make color such a part of the page that without the color the page loses meaning.
- Avoid causing screen flickering or blinking.
- If style sheets are used, use the style sheet command right on the page rather than using an external CSS page.
(See http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/css/index.php)
- Use a client-side image map rather than server side.
(See http://www.htmlgoodies.com//tutorials/image_maps/article.php/3479741)
- Give all frame and source pages a title.
- Table rows and columns should be given titles.
(See http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/html_401/article.php/3479671)
- Many disabled assistant browsers will not work with applets or scripts so make sure that your page use useable if the scripts and applets do not come into play.
- Write with the simplest coding possible.
Those are all good tips. In fact they're good tips for whomever you're writing for, especially that "no blinking" thing.
Priority 2 Tips are those that you should try to include in your page. Here is a sampling. There are many more than this:
- Make sure your background and foreground colors differ so that people with poor eyesight can make out your text and are not inhibited by a clash in color.
- Use the HTML tags to get an effect before you use a Style Sheet or script equal.
- Use relative rather than absolute positions for your page's elements.
- Do not use auto-refreshing pages. Most disabled assistant browsers do not support the scripts that perform the refresh.
- Avoid pop up windows as many disabled assistant browsers disallow the user to shut the window.
- Clearly identify what each link points at.
- Make your navigation consistent. Use all active images or all textthat kind of thing. (That means across pages, not just page to page)
- Layout should be done with Style Sheets rather than tables. If you use tables, provide a version of your page for the users.
Priority 3 tips are those that you may want to do although they are not generally required. Again, there are many more than this. I just thought these were very good tips across the board.
- Identify the natural language of the document in a META or a commented out line.
- Use Style Sheets to get links to highlight so that visually impaired persons can quickly realize the link.
- Group related links.
The W3C has offered all of their Priority 1, 2 and 3 tips in a printable checklist at: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/full-checklist.html. You can use it to roll down though your pages and test your work against the checklist.
So there you have it, some basic tips to make your Web page accessible to everyone who stops by. If you've been writing in good HTML form, you've probably already created good, useable, pages.


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Every experience matters.
As SVP, Executive Creative Director of the Central Region, Lori leads creative teams in both Chicago and Dallas. She is an industry veteran who has been instrumental in growing iCrossing's creative reputation over the past 8 years. Her energy and passion for our clients and the experiences we create is contagious.
Lori has traveled the globe designing offline and online experiences for world-class hotels and resorts and, prior to joining iCrossing, was VP of Creative for Agency.com for 7+ years. Her highly-awarded client work spans nearly all industries. Some of her past and current clients include LG Electronics, BlueCross BlueShield, Hilton, Marriott, Grand Hyatt, Nokia, AllianceBernstein, Disney Development Corporation and Universal Studios.


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BCR-40U (400-470 MHz) UHF Repeater
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Rather than continuing to repair the old one, consider ordering a new BCR-40U. It's the perfect solution for a primary or backup repeater for amateur radio clubs, A.R.E.S., and R.A.C.E.S. applications where emergency management personnel and storm spotters need reliability. It is also a perfect fit for your commercial system's applications.
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Texas A&M University
Bloomberg Scholarship Recipient
I am currently pursuing Master in Computer Science at Texas A&M. Prior to Texas A&M, I obtained M.A. in Microbiology from Kansas University Medical Center. I received my undergraduate degree in Biology from Beijing Normal University.
Question: Why do you think it's important for you to attend GHC?
Answer: "As I begin my career, I have many questions about the best way to develop my career and skills, and I am not completely certain how to proceed. Therefore, I think it is important to talk to seasoned experts in the field in order to receive advice and direction."


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Bring Matt Home
This video was commissioned by the Rutland Group, Rex Halverson, and the Davies family to help bring their son home from prison. Matt Davies is a father and business man who opened up a legitimate medical marijuana dispensary and was prosecuted by the federal government after Eric Holder, the attorney general, stated they will not be prosecuting small dispensary owners as long as they are following all of the state regulations, which Matt followed to the "t".
Please spread the word, share the video, and help bring Matt back home to his family.
executive producer – BRUCE DAVIES
producer – REX HALVERSON and MARK SPINELLA
director – AARON LEONG
director of photography A – IAN WEBB
director of photography B – TIM McCONVILLE
gaffer – SHAWNA SMITH McNULTY
music composition – JACOB SCHROTH, JANINE DeSOUZA, and JUSTINA ALTIERE


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Each ship can have the following searchable attributes:
A name, a photograph, the date of the photograph, a type classification, an owner, a country, or a port.
Some will have all, but there are others that do not have one or more attributes. It may be that we are not aware of them, but if we are, they will appear on the page.
The above are shared attributes, which is why they can be searched, but they can also have individual attributes as follows:
An IMO number, a pennant, a build year and a weight. Some of these are not searchable as yet, but that option may be added as the site is developed. For the moment, they show on the page when a ship is displayed.
In addition to the ships, we have links to other pages with similar interests, and you can also view the latest GOOGLE map of the River Tyne.
A new feature in this edition is an automatic link on some pages to the Google search page for the ship. Just click on the magnifying glass when it appears.
Please use our feedback page to leave any comments or suggestions.


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Opened 11 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
Last modified 9 years ago
#10677 closed (fixed)
post_save_moderation breaks confirmation view
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Description (last modified by )
I tried out the new moderation tools and I found that when a comment is deleted in the post_save signal handler post_save_moderation(), it breaks the comment confirmation view because the comment instance is gone and _get_pk_val() returns None. This causes the following traceback for the redirected request.
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response 86. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/contrib/comments/views/utils.py" in confirmed 41. comment = comments.get_model().objects.get(pk=request.GET['c']) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/db/models/manager.py" in get 93. return self.get_query_set().get(*args, **kwargs) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/db/models/query.py" in get 303. clone = self.filter(*args, **kwargs) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/db/models/query.py" in filter 489. return self._filter_or_exclude(False, *args, **kwargs) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/db/models/query.py" in _filter_or_exclude 507. clone.query.add_q(Q(*args, **kwargs)) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/db/models/sql/query.py" in add_q 1258. can_reuse=used_aliases) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/db/models/sql/query.py" in add_filter 1201. self.where.add((alias, col, field, lookup_type, value), connector) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/db/models/sql/where.py" in add 48. params = field.get_db_prep_lookup(lookup_type, value) File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py" in get_db_prep_lookup 202. return [self.get_db_prep_value(value)] File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py" in get_db_prep_value 353. return int(value) Exception Type: ValueError at /comments/posted/ Exception Value: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'None'
Shouldn't moderation.py connect to the comment_will_be_posted signal so post_comment() can handle the signal response?
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comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by
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comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by
|Has patch:
|django comments moderation added
The patch will delete the comment at the
comment_was_posted signal handler and redirect to the
comment_done or
next page.
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git-patch against the latest checkout
comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by
The patch looks a lot like what I did to fix the issue for my site. My only problem with it is that I think the signal handler should return False so the bad comment never touches the database. But that causes post_comment() to return CommentPostBadRequest which does not have a template when DEBUG == False. So if a comment_will_be_posted signal handler returns False to refuse the comment, the user/client/spammer gets a 400 response and a blank page. I think the 400 is right, but I don't really like the blank page idea.
comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by
Actually, my confusion was also similar. Whether to allow the comment to be
posted and user given no indication of deletion or give the user
a warning of some kind.
But then, I decided to stick to the former (default) method that
comment-utils had been following for so long.
I believe the latter is very much possible because now the
comment_was_posted signal also passes the request as a kwarg.
Let's see what the devs think about this.
comment:5 follow-up: 6 Changed 11 years ago by
If you make this change the comment moderators tests start failing. Someone will need to explain why before this can go in.
comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by
Replying to jacob:
If you make this change the comment moderators tests start failing. Someone will need to explain why before this can go in.
The testcases create comments using the models. They do not go through the post_comment view which is where the comment_will_be_posted and comment_was_posted signals are dispatched from.
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fixes the broken tests issue
comment:7 Changed 11 years ago by
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comment:8 Changed 9 years ago by
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72" London Double Sink Vanity - Espresso
With its spacious counter space and great modern design, the London Double Vanity is a fantastic blend of functionality and style. The clean lines, espresso finish and satin nickel hardware make this vanity look great in any modern bathroom. With six drawers and a long bottom shelf, this vanity provides lots of options for storing, organizing and displaying your bathroom accessories. Each sink includes a polished chrome faucet and matching pop-up drain, enhancing its beautiful modern look.
Includes: vanity, top, sinks and pop-up drains
If you are purchasing this vanity with just the base cabinet (without the top)
- Vanity: 72"W x 22"D x 35.5"H
Optional Accessories
- Linen Cabinet: 18"W x 18"D x 58"H
- Solid oak construction
- Espresso finish
- Carrera White Marble top
- Undermount porcelain sinks
- Two functional drawers
- Two pull-down hinged compartments
- Satin Nickel hardware
- Sinks come with Polished Chrome pop-up drains
- Top is pre-drilled with 8" faucet spread
- **Faucets Not Included**
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