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Book Review: Not a fad—it could mean your job, author insists
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You keep hearing that to compete in the future you must utilize social media in your bank. I have read many articles about how banks are using social media. But how do you go about implementing it in your bank?
Mark Fidelman's Socialized gives you a playbook to guide you in the implementation of social media. Although the book is written for all types of businesses, his strategies can easily be adapted to banking. Fidelman, formerly chief social strategist at Harmon.ie, is now managing director at Evolve! Inc., a consulting firm.
Before going any further, I must confess I'm one of those bankers who know they need to implement social media into the bank. But I'm not sure where to begin. This book can help all of us slow adapters.
Changing landscape for banks
Technology has caused a dramatic change in how bankers interact with customers or more importantly, how customers want to interact with bankers. Social media has given the customer a powerful voice in how they want to transact not only banking, but all forms of business. Fidelman believes that the only businesses that will survive the shift from corporations and traditional media to customers and influencers is the adaptive business.
Fidelman's primary purpose in writing this book was "to uncover the strategies and secrets of the businesses that are harnessing the power of social technologies." He and his research team interviewed over one hundred executives from the world's most successful companies implementing social media and Socialized! gathers what they discovered.
The fifth age, ready or not
Fidelman's premise: There have been four different ages of business technology thus far in the "Second Industrial Revolution."
The first was the Age of Emerging Communication Technology (1850-1910).
This age was spawned by the first telegraph sent on May 24, 1844. Before the telegraph it would take days for messages to be delivered via train, horseback, or courier. Finally, information could be transmitted rapidly across America, as could people and freight with the expansion of the railroad system from coast to coast.
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This age saw the birth of large corporations. Up until this time large businesses were run by the government. Adoption of the government/army leadership style of management brought about the "command and control" leadership model, which still exists in many companies today.
The second age was the Age of Mass Production and Broadcast Communication (1910-1950).
Henry Ford introduced mass production methods to the assembly line, which made products more affordable to the average consumer. Just as important was Ford's contribution to mass advertising. Ford had to find ways to sell more cars as a result of his invention of the assembly line. He began installing radios in his Ford cars and used advertising across the airways to influence customer behavior.
The third phase was the Age of Strategic Management and Telecommunications (1950-1990).
During this time, businesses borrowed much of their strategic management philosophy from World War II. By applying these strategic planning methods to business, large companies like General Motors and IBM gained a competitive edge.
The fourth period was The Information Age (1990-2010).
During this time new companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, and LinkedIn have shown that large investments in financial capital and human capital are not necessarily indicators of the performance of the business.
The significance of this period is smaller companies with limited resources began competing with large companies with vast financial resources.
The author suggests we are now at the threshold of a new age: The Social Age (2010- Unknown).
The businesses that thrive in this age will realize that social network concepts can be applied to their business to increase employee productivity, trigger innovation, improve customer service, and yield many more benefits.
To truly understand the impact of social media consider this statistic: YouTube boasts 4 billion views daily, which is up from 2 billion just 2 years ago.
More content is uploaded to YouTube in 30 days than all of the major TV networks created in the past 60 years. That is powerful!
Notice too how the length of time defining the different ages began decreasing with the increase of technology.
The message here is adapt to social media or die.
Glacial pace amid massive acceleration
Why aren't more businesses using social media? About 77% of the time it is a lack of skills, culture, and technology.
Executives still worry that their employees will waste time on social media activities. Yet, based upon the author's experience, employees with access to social tools become more productive.
A few of the other benefits mentioned when a business adapts social tools:
- The company's business innovation increases.
- The company develops a vibrant community of customers.
- The company gains a competitive edge by engaging customers over mobile devices.
- The company becomes extremely responsive both globally and locally by integrating digital information.
- They company gains a social platform for a common view of customers and products.
Getting social moving at your bank
Research shows customers are more loyal to socially engaged businesses. So how do you develop a team to get your business started on the road to social media?
Fidelman defines the talents of the seven members you need on your transition team. He then outlines the six steps organizations will need to take to implement a social media platform. These steps are based upon his consulting experience helping numerous companies to implement this strategy. The remainder of the book is an in-depth discussion of the playbook's concepts. Here are key points:
1. Culture matters. Most businesses are still run by the top-down leadership model implemented during the Age of Strategic Management of the 1950s after World War II. It is the reliance on command and control leadership that causes skepticism about social business.
In a social business, the employee is empowered to socialize and collaborate with the customer and take action without the input of management. This goes against the management principles most of us learned in business school.
However, before the employees are allowed to interact with the customer, they must be highly trained. This is a key to social engagement.
Do you know if the culture in your organization is ready to evolve into a social business? Fidelman presents a series of questions to help you determine if you have the correct culture. If you find your culture isn't ready to become socialized, there are suggestions to guide your organization through the change necessary to develop the appropriate mindset. The right culture is considered the greatest factor for social media success in a company.
2. Building your digital village. Have you tried to venture into social media in the past but failed?
There are eight proven requirements you should implement when taking your business social. The requirements include such things as getting the right team and budget in place; creating a code of conduct; and making an investment in social media training and certification for your employees.
The benefits of building a social business include increased job satisfaction for employees; less requirement of managerial oversight; and a more adaptive workforce. There are numerous suggestions on how to give your social transformation the best chance for success.
The author acknowledges change is difficult and provides solutions to meet the challenges he has encountered in various businesses.
3. Engaging the digital network. Once you have built a social network, what do you do with it? This is the social community where you meet the customer. Everything from customer relationship management; contests; crowdsourcing products; listening to and responding to customer feedback; and publishing through social media can take place in the digital network.
Executives will need to become social to remain at the top of their companies.
Fidelman passes along another expert's recommendation that you--not your company, you--start by opening accounts on Twitter and Google+ because that is where most business people are found. (If you are struggling to understand how to use these accounts, I'm sure one of your employees can assist you.)
Business activity is shifting to the mobile arena and this is important for bankers to understand. There are 6 billion mobile subscribers globally and as of June 2012 more than 40 billion apps have been downloaded.
Still think mobile banking is a fad?
4. Introducing the new social business playbook. Failing to plan is the single-largest reason organizations trying to become social businesses fail in their efforts.
The new social playbook has four features to insure success:
- Culture is king,
- Analytics to measure and adapt.
- Execution of social media.
- Technology infrastructure for support.
This chapter has a very detailed implementation strategy for each of these four playbook items. Once again, the importance of employee training is emphasized as one of the key factors in a successful social media adoption.
5. Rise of the social employee. If you need one more reason to consider social media think about this:
Fidelman believes that if you as an executive aren't social, you will lose your job within five years.
That is how important he thinks social media is to the future of any business.
6. Darwin's funnel: measuring ROI. How do you measure the return on investment of social media?
Bankers must be able to calculate the ROI to make a business case for social media. The formula is in the book, plus a break down of the expenses necessary to create a social platform based upon the size of business. These numbers are derived from the experience of the author in his past implementation of social media for numerous businesses of all sizes.
7. The future: Why no company is invincible anymore. Six key trends are outlined for the future of business. Successful companies will operate by gaining a competitive edge by using analytics and less trial and error. Crowdsourcing strategies with close partners and allies will become essential. Employees will have to take responsibility for their own career growth. Mobile, social, local, and commerce-integrated technologies will offer unprecedented business opportunities.
Our workplaces will go digital, Fidelman insists, because they have no choice. Business will become SOCIALIZED!
Socializing your bank
I recommend this book if you are looking for a step-by-step guide to taking your bank social. Additionally, this book can assist your bank in developing the proposed compliance guidance for social media recently published by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council.
Even if your bank isn't actively participating in social media, note that the guidance requires a policy for your employees' use of social media and a method of addressing negative comments made about the bank on social media.
Where do you begin to learn how to use social media?
Socialized! includes a guide to creating your personal community that makes suggestions, such as using a blog; building a presence on LinkedIn; mastering a social network; creating original content; and becoming a thought leader in your field of expertise.
An absolute beginning: Are you at a minimum listening to what is being said about your bank on social media?
There are several free monitoring sites you can sign up for that will automatically send you or whomever you designate a notice when your bank is mentioned in social media. [A good grasp of the basics can be had from banker Katie Segner's bankingexchange.com social media guest blog here.]
Some of the biggest companies have failed to pay attention to the discussions of their brand over social media. This can have a negative impact on not only your brand but on your bottom line.
In the author's own words
"The first thing I say, when
asked how a company should
start engaging with its
digital network, is that it
should create content worth
spreading, content that
makes people think, take
action, or share it with
their friends."
—Mark Fidelman, Socialized!
In the author's own words
10 social business culture rules
1. Let employees know it's okay to fail.
2. Reinforce social media guidelines.
3. Encourage transparency.
4. Hire great people—look for a good cultural fit.
5. Create a cultural ambassador program to help employees embrace social business.
6. Let ideas float from the bottom to the top.
7. Eliminate the "not invented here" mentality.
8. Think globally, act locally.
9. Have a clear vision of your social business.
10. Build in incentives for information sharing.
All of these are fleshed out in the book.
—Mark Fidelman, Socialized!
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The Current Wisdom: The Short‐Term Climate Trend Is Not Your Friend
The Current Wisdom is a series of monthly posts in which Senior Fellow Patrick J. Michaels reviews interesting items on global warming in the scientific literature that may not have received the media attention that they deserved, or have been misinterpreted in the popular press.
The Current Wisdom only comments on science appearing in the refereed, peer‐reviewed literature, or that has been peer‐screened prior to presentation at a scientific congress.
It seems like everyone, from exalted climate scientists to late‐night amateur tweeters, can get a bit over‐excited about short‐term fluctuations, reading into them deep cosmic and political meaning, when they are likely the statistical hiccups of our mathematically surly atmosphere.
There's been some major errors in forecasts of recent trends. Perhaps the most famous were made by NASA's James Hansen in 1988, who overestimated warming between then and now by a whopping 40% or so.
But it is easy to get snookered by short‐term fluctuations. As shown in Figure 1, it is quite obvious that there has been virtually no net change in temperature since 1997, allowing for the fact that measurement errors in global average surface temperature are easily a tenth of a degree or more. (The magnitude of those errors will be considered in a future Current Wisdom).
Figure 1. Annual global average surface temperature anomaly (°C), 1997–2010 (data source: Hadley Center).
Some who are concerned about environmental regulation without good science have seized upon this 13‐year stretch as "proof" that there is no such thing as global warming driven by carbon dioxide. More on that at the end of this Wisdom.
Similarly, periods of seemingly rapid warming can prompt scientists to see changes where there aren't any.
Consider a landmark paper published in 2000 in Geophysical Research Letters by Tom Karl, a prominent researcher who is the head of our National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and who just finished a stint as President of the American Meteorological Society. He couldn't resist the climatic blip that was occurred prior to the current stagnation of warming, namely the very warm episode of the late 1990s.
Cooler heads at the time noted that it was an artifact of the great El Nino of 1997–98, a periodic warming of the tropical Pacific that has been coming and going for millions of years.
Nonetheless, the paper was published and accompanied by a flashy press release titled "Global warming may be accelerating."
What Karl did was to examine the 16 consecutive months of record‐high temperatures (beginning in May, 1997) and to calculate the chance that this could happen, given the fairly pokey warming rate — approximately 0.17°C (0.31°F) per decade, that was occurring. He concluded there was less than a five percent probability, unless the warming rate had suddenly increased.
From the press release:
Karl and colleagues conclude that there is only a small chance that the string of record high temperatures in 1997–98 was simply an unusual event, rather than a change point, the start of a new and faster ongoing trend.
He also gave a number: "… the probability of observing the record temperatures is more likely with high average rates of warming, around 3°C [5.4°F]/century," which works out to 0.3°C per decade.
Our Figure 2 shows what was probabilistically forecast beginning in May, 1997, and what actually happened. Between then and now, according to this paper, global temperatures should have warmed around 0.4°C (0.7°F). The observed warming rate for the last 13.5 years — which includes the dramatically warming temperatures beginning in 1997 — was a paltry 0.06°C (0.11°F) per decade.
Figure 2. Prior to mid‐1997, the observed warming trend (dashed line) was 0.17°/decade. Karl said there was a greater than 95% probability that 1997–8 would mark a "change point", where warming would accelerate to around 0.30°/decade. Since then, the rate has been 0.06°/decade, or 20% of what was forecast.
Karl did provide some statistical wiggle room. While noting the less than 5% chance that the warming rate hadn't increased, he wrote that "unusual events can occur" and that there still was a chance (given as less than 5%) that 97–98 was just a statistical hiccup, which it ultimately proved to be.
The press release couldn't resist the "it's worse than we thought" mindset that pervades climate science:
Since completing the research, the data for 1999 has been compiled. The researchers found that 1999 was the fifth warmest year on record, although as a La Nina year it would normally be cooler" [than what? ed].
"La Nina" is cool phase of El Nino, which drops temperatures about as much as El Nino raises them. What the press release and the GRL paper completely neglected to mention is that the great warm year of 1998 was a result of the "natural" El Nino superimposed upon the overall slight warming trend.
In other words, there was every reason to believe at that time that the anomalous temperatures were indeed a statistical blip resulting from a very high‐amplitude version of a natural oscillation in the earth's climate that occurred every few years.
Now, back to the last 13 years. The puny recent changes may also just be our atmosphere's make‐up call for the sudden warming of the late 1990s, or another hiccup.
It is characteristic for climate models whose carbon dioxide increase resembles that which is being observed to produce constant rates of warming. There's a good reason for this. Temperature responds logarithmically — i.e.less and less — to changes in this gas as its concentration increases. But the concentration tends to increase exponentially — i.e. more and more. The combination of an increasingly damped response to an ever increasing rate of input tends to resemble a straight line, or a constant rate of warming.
Indeed, Karl noted in his paper (and I have noted in virtually every public lecture I give), that "projections of temperature change in the next [i.e. the 21st] century, using [the United Nations'] business as usual scenarios… have relatively constant rates of global temperature increase". It's just that their constant rates tend to be higher than the one that is being observed. The average rate of warming predicted for this century by the UN is about 2.5°C, while the observed value has been, as predicted, constant — but with a lower value of 1.7°. As Figure 3 shows, this rate has been remarkably constant for over three decades.
Figure 3. Annual global average surface temperature anomaly (°C), 1976–2010 (data source: Hadley Center). It's hard to imagine a more constant trend, despite the 1998 peak and the subsequent torpid warming.
The bottom line is that short‐term trends are not your friends when talking about long‐term climate change.
Hansen, J.E., et al., 1988. Global climate changes as forecast by Goddard Institute for Space Studies three‐dimensional model. Journal of Geophysical Research, 93, 9341–9364.
Karl, T. R., R. W. Knight, and B. Baker, 2000. The record breaking global temperatures of 1997 and 1998" Evidence for an increase in the rate of global warming? Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 719–722.
Michaels, P. J., and P. C. Knappenberger, 2009. Scientific Shortcomings in the EPA's Endangerment Finding from Greenhouse Gases [3], Cato Journal, 29, 497–521, https://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj29n3/cj29n3-8.pdf [3].


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Just when it appeared that the feud between crooners Frank Ocean and Chris Brown had begun to simmer, the beef between the pair has been reawakened thanks to the release of the lyric sheet to Ocean's upcoming record, "Versace."
The Channel Orange singer doesn't call out Brown by name on "Versace," but he does refer to this year's Grammy incident in which Brown did not stand up (although he did applaud) when Ocean was awarded the Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary Album, a category Brown also received a nomination for.
Ocean also makes mention to the Fortune songster's music being "sloppy" in the soon-to-be controversial lyric.
"You could stay seated I'm taking that Grammy/Your music is sloppy/Niggas is heated they keep on repeating the evening in slow mo," read the "Versace" lyric, which was made public via a Tumblr post.
Following a parking lot brawl between Ocean and Brown at the top of the year, the feud between the two singers has had its fair share of ups and downs. In March, Brown stated that he had "respect" for Ocean's music, but just a few months later news spread that the Virginia crooner could possibly be charged in the January brawl.
Ocean joins a handful of artists Brown has feuded with over the past few years. Among those artists is Young Money singer/rapper Drake who was involved in last year's notorious fight between Brown's camp and his own at W.i.P. nightclub in New York City.
The lyric sheet to "Versace" can be found below.
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Santa-themed Character Bento
"These people hate Japan, bentos, especially charaben, and kids. They are English teachers in Japan. Surprising—not." http://bit.ly/7ZrCfk —@makiwi, referring to the forum this image was posted on
There's some ugly sentiment in the discussion that Makiko Itoh (of Just Bento) links to in that tweet, but the Christmas-themed bento photo posted there is undeniably great. An Old Saint Nick made from rice, a hot dog reindeer, some other stuff I can't identify (is that an egg snowman?). What's not to love about this Japanese character bento (aka charaben)?
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Internship Abroad
An internship is an opportunity to integrate professional, career-related experience into an undergraduate education by participating in planned, supervised work. Internships expose students to responsibilities and experiences in career fields of interest and complement what is learned in the classroom.
Why consider an international internship?
Exposure to international culture is becoming a necessary and valuable experience for college graduates entering the job market. An international internship in an academic program brings a significant edge to individuals when seeking career employment. Interns not only gain practical work experience in a field that they intend to pursue but also build cross-cultural competence.
Where can I intern for NMU credit?
Almost anywhere around the world! NMU has partner programs offering placements in New Zealand or Australia, China, Japan, Argentina, Ireland, Europe – including France and Spain… and more.
How do I arrange credit?
Before you sign up for a partner program, talk to your NMU academic advisor and your academic department head. It's important to know the rules and procedures for arranging internship credit, because departments vary in their requirements. Most internships are offered as Internship Credit under a 498 course number or 495 as Directed Study.
What kind of internships are available?
NMU students have found exciting internships in:
- Legal firms and Political offices Theater, Journalism, Documentary Film
- Finance and Accounting Business and Hospitality Management
- Environmental Science and Alternative Energies Computer Information and Science
- Conservation and Outdoor Recreation Other ideas? Explore your dreams!
NMU Partner Programs
TaLK Program: Teach and Learn in Korea - Selected students teach English under the direction of certified teachers in rural South Korean public schools. Qualified applicants receive transportation costs, housing and a monthly stipend
Classport- offers internships and experiential learning opportunities in a variety of majors
CIEE helps students to gain real-world experience, build a strong resume, and acquire global competencies overseas as an intern
ISA –International Studies Abroad – offers internships in many locations and to assist students in a variety of majors
Global Links – with placements to supplement academic semesters OR stand-alone internships
EducationUSA - American students are invited to assist EducationUSA through internship opportunities at participating advising centers around the world. An excellent opportunity for a student planning to study abroad or for recent college graduates
The placement process for each program differs, but always includes a review of your resumé and academic transcripts, a strong statement of purpose, and usually an interview prior to final placement
Fees and Financial Aid
Most international internships are NOT paid – in fact, you will pay a fee to the organization to cover expenses such as on-site management and supervision, housing, cultural experiences or field excursions, and reporting costs for your NMU academic department. You will also need to budget for personal spending and international airfare.
If you are on an NMU-partner internship program and are earning academic credit, you may apply financial aid towards the total cost of your internship abroad. The International Programs office will prepare a budget that includes your cost-of-attendance for the internship portion of your semester. You will then schedule an appointment with an NMU Financial Aid officer to discuss options for funding.
How to Apply
- After talking with your NMU academic department head and/or advisor, schedule an appointment with us
- Complete the appropriate application forms associated with your program.
- Arrange appropriate NMU course registration for the semester of your internship.
- Complete all interview processes, book airfare, pay your NMU e-bill, and attend the mandatory orientation session hosted by the IES each semester.


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Free Event - How to Manage Worry, Stress and Well-Being in Your Organisation
In a recent survey we did at the CIPD conference, well-being was the number one priority of the delegates. This seminar has been designed to help organisations create a positive environment that promotes well-being amongst their employees, resulting in a positive impact on productivity, engagement and resilience.
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You'll learn to identify and understand behaviours that are warning triggers that your employees are not coping, as well as strategies to enable you and your team not only manage these situations, but reduce the risk of them happening.
သင်ဘာကြောင့် ဤသည်ကိုသင်ယူချင်ရသည်
You'll have seen the research everywhere in the news, on the internet - the pressures and pace of modern life is severely impacting on our well-being. In 2016 there were 137.3 million sick days taken - that's nearly 5 days per person. The news isn't all bad though, research also shows that organisations who have a well-being strategy reduce sickness and improve morale, productivity, recruitment and retention. As well as creating a place where good people want to do good work
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You'll learn techniques to manage worry and stress, and will be able to show understanding and flexibility when creating solutions to well-being issues.


text: Share Smaller TextLarger TextPrint Bad Docs, Wrong Docs & No Docs By Trevis Gleason Feb 05, 2013 0 Comments The Unspeakable Bits; From A Life With MS How can it be so? A year has passed since we resolved to speak the unspeakable. In that time we've had some pretty frank discussions about multiple sclerosis and sex, bladderand boweldysfunction, marijuana, divorceand more. Unfortunately, MS gives us plenty more "unspeakables" to bring up, so we'll begin 2013's Unspeakable Bits with a topic that is a new experience – though one for which I had planned. It's one that I now share with many others living with MS: not having access to a doctor with expertise in MS. At the end of last year, my wife and I moved to a small town that is about an hour's drive to the closest neurology clinic … but that clinic only operates on the 1st, 2nd and 4thMonday of each month, and then only from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., and they handle primarily epilepsy cases. We're several hours away from the nearest MS center (or "centre" as they spell it here in Ireland). I have gone from living in a city with a high concentration of qualified, caring MS specialists to (by choice and design, mind you) an area of the world that has more sheep than people living with MS (and more shepherds than MS docs). Fewer doctors means fewer choices, which means it's more difficult to find the "right" doctor for me. Although I titled this blog "Bad Docs, Wrong Docs & No Docs," I must confess that there are very few really "bad" doctors out there. By bad, I mean inept, mean and unqualified to practice medicine. I may have had bad experiences, a bad rapport or just a bad feeling with or about one particular doctor. However, it's so rare that someone is actually a bad doctor that I think we can (though I expect to see a few comments on exceptions that will prove the rule) move on to the next: Wrong Docs. "Wrong" can be very subjective. If a doctor seeks to collaborate with a patient, one person might see that as not taking control of a situation. Conversely, another person may see a doctor who takes an authoritative "old-school" stance of dictating to a patient as overbearing and condescending. Switch up the patients and these two doctors might be the "right" doctor. It is important to understand that our doctors, while experts in their field, work for us and we should have the final say in our health care. I often think of my healthcare team as a baseball team… a team of which I am ultimately the manager. Finally, the situation in which I find myself: No Docs. There are several areas of the country (and the world, I'm finding) that are sorely lacking in good quality MS services for people living with this disease. In the U.S., the National MS Society's MS Navigator® program offers a pretty comprehensive list of service providers for most areas in the country. The problem is, of course, that people live all overthe country and MS doctors well … don't. For those living outside of the United States, the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation has a pretty good list of service organizations from around the world as well. So, we'll open the new year of Unspeakable Bits with a conversation about your MS doctors. Discuss… Wishing you and your family the best of health. Cheers Trevis Trevis Gleason, Blogger You can follow Trevis via TrevisLGleason.com, his Life With MS Facebook Page on Twitter and on the EverydayHealth.com "Life With MS" Blog. And also, check out his bi-monthly blog for the UK.


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Saturday, November 24, 2012
First Look: VIDEO WATCHDOG 171
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Friday, November 23, 2012
SKYFALL Reaction
SKYFALL is very entertaining indeed, with some instant classic scenes (such as the one pictured above), but I need to absorb it and see it again; I feel it's too soon to place it above this or that. Also, after 50 years of mystery and present tense heroism, I don't take a ready shine to suddenly being told more about Bond's past, especially by a franchise newcomer like Sam Mendes, and particularly when it makes him seem less like Bond and more like a Bruce Wayne raised in the WOMAN IN BLACK house. But the film is at least right about this: the man who drove that Aston Martin was a Scot.
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Friday, November 16, 2012
Thomson's THE BIG SCREEN
Started reading David Thomson's THE BIG SCREEN today and I swear I must have experienced six or seven shocks of perception in just the first equal number of pages. The perception does not have to do with what he sees, but how he understands what he sees, how different yet complementary that understanding is to mine, and how he shades it in the sharing of it. It's a rare pleasure to read about film and not feel you are being counseled or advised or worked-up but that you are following, with amusement and deepening appreciation, of your own free will, someone who is at least one step ahead of you and has a spring in that step.
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Sharon, MA, October 21th, 2013 – A new X Rebirth trailer provides a montage of gameplay action that can't help but touch the Sci-Fi fan in each of us.
The November 15th release is fast approaching!!
For 14 years studio Egosoft has been synonymous with space simulation games. Starting with the 1999 release of X: Beyond the Frontier to the 2011 release of X3: Albion Prelude (not to mention the numerous notable expansions, the most recent being the 2013 expansion Shady Business), Egosoft has pushed the boundaries of what a space simulation game can be.
But X Rebirth is Different.
All prior X Games before X Rebirth represent the layering upon layering of additional features, many of which were never part of the game's original design. Responding to the large community of space simulation fans that flocked to X: Beyond the Frontier, the developers at Egosoft obliged the plea for more – more freedom, more ships, more realism, and more things to do. However, even before the 2005 release of X3: Reunion, it had become clear that this development methodology had made the series inherently complicated and unnecessarily impenetrable for any outsider who had not begun playing the X Series games from the very start.
The solution? To start anew.
X Rebirth is the culmination of 7 years of development redefining what a space simulation can be.
X Rebirth Limited Edition Box Version
The bonus content for the Limited Edition Box Version of X Rebirth has been finalized!
· Updated Color X Encyclopedia (ebook)
· Art Book of Concept Art (printed)
· Player's Manual (printed)
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Overclocking, Consumption, Thermals
Of course, many will want to know about GPU temperatures, as this hasn't quite been the selling point of GTX 480 cards. Our today's card however, comes with water cooling, which promises to change that. The water cooling system included a PPS Plus 12V Pump (Innovatek / Eheim) and a radiator with three silent Ebm-Papst 4412 F/2GL fans.
Power consumption and performance-per-watt ratio on GTX 480 cards have received more than enough criticism and the following table shows exactly why. It's perfectly normal and expected for an overclocked GTX 480 Beast to draw more power than the reference GTX 480, although we must admit we're still hoping that Nvidia's next generation high end cards will draw less power.
We used default voltages during our testing, which on the GTX 480 Beast's GPU were at 1100mV.
The following photo shows GPU temperatures during FurMark testing. Note that this is the worst case scenario solely for testing purposes, and you're not likely to replicate this in everyday work.
The GTX 480 Beast ran stable at 880MHz GPU and 4300MHz memory, and all that without meddling with voltages.
Pushing the voltage to 1125mV did just enough to make the GPU run stable at 895MHz, with GPU temperatures staying at 68°C. 1138mV didn't change the scenario and not even 1150mV helped the GPU run stable beyond 895MHz.


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The wine news is making hay this week with specialty glassware maker Riedel's newest custom glass shape designed for Coca-Cola. While the process for selecting the glass sounds pretty empirical — a panel tried Coke out of a bunch of prototype glasses and chose the one they liked best — I can't help but wonder about the sensory chemical logic behind the design. There's no sense in being pretentious about this: even if Coke is a mass-produced beverage and a cultural and health nightmare, it's still very sensorily complex (and unquestionably popular).
The glass recapitulates the wide-shouldered hourglass shape of the old-fashioned glass Coke bottle. That's simple brand congruity: only the shape of the glass opening and the upper bowl affect the glass's sensory properties in terms of directing aromatics to the nose and affecting how the liquid hits the palate. The dynamics of how Coke behaves in a glass will be wildly different than wine, with the possible exception of a sweet sparkling. Coke has bubbles, which actively convey volatile aromatics into the head space above the glass. It's extremely high in both sugar and acid (phosphoric, as opposed to tartaric, malic, and lactic in wine) and contains caffeine, none of which should have a significant affect on aroma save insofar as the sugar increases viscosity. How that compares with the viscosity of wine, where alcohol and glycerol (and sometimes sugar) are responsible for viscosity, I'm not sure.
A spokesperson from Riedel says that the top of the glass is the same shape as the Riedel O-series Sauvignon Blanc glass, which immediately sent me on a search for methoxypyrazines and thiols (two prominent characterizers of Sauv Blanc) in Coke.
No joy, and no surprise: methoxypyrazines are responsible for green bell peppery notes, thiols for various tropical fruit and grapefruit-y aromas. It's been a while since I had Coke, but I'm pretty confident that neither bell pepper nor passionfruit feature prominently in its flavor profile, even if its citrusy notes are easily agreed-upon. The Open Cola Project recipe, which we might reasonably expect to be in the right ballpark, calls for orange, lemon, and lime oils along with cassia (Chinese cinnamon), nutmeg, coriander, and lavender, and a lot of sugar and acid and caramel color.
From a theoretical perspective, then, I'm going to guess that the glass emphasizes Coke's spritely and refreshing citrus aromatics first and foremost, leaving the sweet caramel/vanilla and spicy notes to bring up the rear. That testers would prefer that effect is congruent with the famous 1980's and '90's Coke vs. Pepsi trials, which showed that Pepsi tended to win out in sip tests — both because it was sweeter and because it has a heavier initial citrus impression — but that Coke had more lasting fans — because it was less sweet, because Pepsi's citrus tends to fade after the first few sips, and because Coke has a more robust caramel backbone.
On that basis, the glass should either be really good for a rum-and-coke — if you're using cheap, sweet rum and want to maintain the refreshing balance of the drink against the extra sugar and body — or really bad for a rum-and-coke — if you're using decent rum and want to play up the sweet/vanilla/barrel aromas.
If I get hold of a glass, I'll test the theory — this is worth one small exception to my long-standing boycott of Coca-Cola (as well as Pepsi and a number of other food mega-companies) as a response to the company's massive funding of campaigns against mandatory labeling of GMO-containing foods (and I can't stand the stuff in any case). But I'd love to know what characteristics the glass brings out, and to play with fresh vs. flat, ice vs. no ice.
What's next? A gin and tonic glass? A raw milk glass? An orange juice glass? A Pepsi glass? Tea glasses are apparently in the works, but I can only hope that they'll differentiate oolong from lapsang souchong from pu ehr.


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Some of my early Valentine's Day cards. The first pic is my favorite. On the back it is signed "To Mother 1906". The 2nd pic is a large pop up guessing from around the same time as the 1st. Same with the 3rd pic but I think this one may have been part of a larger card. The last pic has some post cards which are all post marked from 1907-1927. A fun collection that is often affordable when you can find them. Thanks for looking.


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CLEVELAND, OH — Green is the word for Cleveland State.
Work has begun on its new $29-million recreation center that promises to be energy efficient and made from environmentally friendly materials and wood from certified forests.
Construction crews made way for the new 130,000-square-foot center with the demolition of the Intramural Sports Dome in mid-January.
Slated for completion in August 2006, the new center will contain basketball courts, racquetball and squash courts, weight training and fitness areas, an indoor jogging track, locker rooms, multi-purpose rooms, a 50-space underground parking garage, and an adjacent 400-car parking garage. Recreation center users will also have direct access to two pools in the university's natatorium. Students will be able to use the facility for free.
The new rec center is part of a campus master plan to conserve materials and energy. The center will make ample use of natural daylight as well as solar energy in some areas, along with sun shields to protect other areas from overheating.
Some 80 percent of the materials from the demolished dome, including the concrete foundation and aluminum structure, will be recycled, and much of the dome's lighting and equipment was salvaged for future use. When the recreation center is completed, the university will seek to have it certified by the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System, a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings.
Outside the building, the school plans to plant a grove of birch trees with various perennials, ground cover and lawn.
The overall campus master plan calls for more housing, retail outlets, green space and parking garages on the university campus, as well as more interaction with the surrounding community.


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Again, I'm blown away by your story telling & how well it ties into MOTU so far . I must also mention what a great job at including early cartoon & mini comic MOTU. So, impress by your talent at story telling & art. you guy know how to keep the people wanting more.
-I really like how you are leading the world of Eternia into a bigger world & with more greater dangers.
-Like what you did with Lizard Man all together.
-Clam Champ is awesome! he was a boring character that had lots of potential. what you guys did with him is what he always deserved. I was worried that he wasn't going to have his 200x armor but you put it in. I was very happy how you made his personality & abilities.
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-I'm thrilled that you incorporated the flying hawk vehicle. this will make getting around Eternia much faster. they need all the aid they can get!
-Great ending with the snake men & disappearing city. And i think Marlana is catching on to Adams identity. it would be good & in safe hands if she did. and it is a matter of time that Teela would find out. Don't you think?


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- For perks with similar effects in other games, see UAV Jammer, Camouflage (perk), Ghost, Assassin, Blind Eye, Incog or Off the Grid.
Cold-Blooded is a Tier 2 Perk featured in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified and Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Cold-Blooded's primary ability is used for the avoidance of killstreak rewards - it allows the user to be invisible to all forms of air support. The vision for Chopper Gunners, AC-130s and Predator Missiles show players with the Perk active, but does not highlight them with a red outline square. Cold-Blooded users can also be killed by collateral damage from other killstreaks, for instance standing between a user of a different tier 2 Perk while a Sentry Gun is firing upon them.
Instead of appearing as bright white silhouettes through a Thermal Scope, Cold-Blooded players will appear as shades of gray similar to the environment, either friends or foes. This may actually cause the player to be at a disadvantage on snow maps, as the gray has more contrast with the environment, whereas the white-hot silhouette of non-Cold-Blooded players is much harder to spot against the white snow (of course, for this reason, most players choose not to use Thermal Scopes on winter maps, so the issue is often resolved). As they are not truly invisible, moving Cold-Blooded players are much easier to spot through Thermal Scopes than stationary ones. As most Thermal Scope users are more accustomed to bright white silhouettes on the map, it is easy for them to pass right over a Cold-Blooded user.
The Pro version prevents the red name and cross-hairs from appearing on an enemy's screen when they are targeting the user. It is unlocked by destroying 40 enemy killstreak rewards while using this perk. The perk is essential for the "ghosting" tactic, and the Pro version can assist in doing so.
Experienced players use the Pro version in order to play dead, often for "Ninja Defusing", or just to fool enemies who may have hurt them. By going prone, and repeatedly pressing the weapon swap or "cooking" a Stun, Flash, Smoke or Semtex grenade, it will appear as if the player is dead to others.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
- "Resistant to targeting systems including: Dual Band, Target Finder, Sensor Grenade, MMS, and player controlled aircraft. No name or red crosshair when targeted."
- — Create-a-Class Description
Cold Blooded appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. It prevents the player from appearing on the Dual Band Scope, Target Finder, Sensor Grenade, Millimeter Scanner, and player-controlled aircraft. It also prevents the red name and crosshairs from appearing on an enemy's screen when they are targeting the user.
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified
- "No name when targetted."
- — In-game description.
Cold Blooded returns in Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- "Immune to thermal, target enhancer, threat grenades and enemy call outs. No name displayed or reticle color change when enemies aim at you."
- — In-game description.
Cold Blooded Returns in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare as a tier 2 perk. It renders the player immune to thermal, target enhancer, threat grenades, and enemy callouts. No red name or reticle color changes when targeted.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- The perk picture shows a lizard surrounded by snowflakes, referencing that lizards are often called cold-blooded creatures.
- When killed by a controllable killstreak (Predator Missile, AC-130, Chopper Gunner) the killcam will depict players being killed incorrectly, as it shows a red square around the player's body, even though they would not appear with the square on their monitor normally.
- Team members using the Cold-Blooded Perk will not appear white on a friendly thermal scope.
- If the player shoots down two Harriers with one Stinger missile and is still going for Cold-Blooded Pro, the two Harrier kills will only count as one.
- Conversely, if the player shoots at a helicopter of any kind while it is in the process of crashing with Cold-Blooded equipped, each bullet that hits it will count as another vehicle kill towards the perk's progression (though not towards the player's regular points or experience, except via bonuses from Cold-Blooded's challenges).


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Brookhaven scientists and other researchers associated with the Laboratory's world-class facilities have won numerous awards of national and international significance. The following listing includes only a few of the most prestigious awards won by Brookhaven scientists.
One of the greatest honors for an American scientist is to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The following active and retired BNL staff are members of the academy:
The following Brookhaven staff are members of the National Academy of Engineering:
* Affiliated with Brookhaven National Laboratory at time of award
** Affiliated with Rockefeller University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute; used Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source for prize-winning research.
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Kingston just posted a youtube video of their new HyperX H20 water-cooled memory kit together in a system using a GIGABYTE X58A-UD5 motherboard. Very cool indeed!
This system and the Kingston HyperX team will be at PAX-West in Seattle this week Friday-Monday, so if you're in the vicinity be sure to ask about this water-cooled dream machine.


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Hieratic graffito from KV 9, Ramesses VI
- Černý MSS 6.2
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Fait partie de Jaroslav Černý Collection
1 inked tracing, 7 lines of a hieratic graffito from KV 9, tomb of Ramesses VI, Thebes, visited by scribes in year 9 of Ramesses IX. Scribe Amenhotep and his entourage, visiting the tomb (see TopBib i2.517).
Reference to a previous record made by Champollion, J. F., Notices descriptives ii (1889), 635 (OEB 136960).


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If you were running out of hope in trying to find a restaurant that is actually created for the customer, out of Brea comes the Birch Street Bar & Grill. A restaurant that combines great food, drinks, atmosphere and most of all amazing service is soon to be recognized as the place to hangout in Orange County.
Corporate restaurants are taking over and that is not a good thing for the consumer. That is why the Birch Street Bar & Grill brings a breath of fresh air into the restaurant industry with owners who have one restaurant and one focus. Owner's Sameer Kumar and Debby Vudhivadhana created not only a beautiful restaurant, but the atmosphere is what really sets them apart. Birch Street Bar & Grill is there sole focus and what you can usually find them in the restaurant not only making sure everything is perfect, but they are personally checking on guests to make sure they are enjoying everything and taking in suggestions.
The thing that really sets Birch Street Bar & Grill apart from the large chain restaurants is that when Sam and Debby want to make a change they can do it that day, they don't have to run their ideas by a corporate office, they just do it. That can be seen perfectly in the fact that the menu they have for the opening weekend is not finalized, they are getting opinions for customers and looking to see what they like, what might need to be adjusted and what they can add. Sam went to USC and is originally from Pasadena and Debby attended Cal-State Fullerton, which gave them a great feel for what the Southern California diner is looking for.
The name is almost a bit misleading with "Bar & Grill" in the title. While they definitely have an amazing bar and food that goes along with it, the high end portion of the menu is what really sets this restaurant apart. Chef Joseph Brown and Sous Chef Vince Guerrero have brought together a number of years of experience to create some flavorful dishes. The fettuccine alfredo with salmon is a great dish and honestly the portions are big enough if you have two people, this would be a great dish to share. The noodles are very wide and thick, they really had an authentic Italian feel to the noodles. The salmon was a very nice size piece of fish and grilled to a slight blackened crisp on the outside while still moist and tender with each bite. If you enjoy salmon you will be get hooked on this version. Sticking with pasta, the menu also offers a portabella and cheese ravioli. This dish is ravioli stuffed with cheese and portabella mushrooms in an alfredo sauce. I did not get a chance to sample this one, but it sounds very flavorful and finding out that it was sold-out on the preview weekend tells me it must have been a hit. Finally one of my favorite things to learn about the Birch Street Bar & Grill is that they have a relationship with a vendor that will supply them with fresh in-season fish, so you will get something new and fresh every week on the menu.
What would a bar & grill be without a burger and the "Birch Street" burger is done right. Angus sirloin beef served up with white cheddar cheese and their own secret sauce, this burger is so juicy you better make sure you eat over your plate or you are going to find some burger juice on your shirt. The other sandwich that caught my eye but I did not try was the roasted turkey sandwich. There is no way this sandwich could not help but catch your eye as it was piled so high with turkey that it almost looked cartoonish. You better bring your appetite for this sandwich. Served on wheat berry bread along with apple wood bacon, this sounds like a unique flavor combination; I look forward to giving this one a try in the future.
If you are just making your way in for one of the twenty beers on tap or any of the signature cocktails that are in the works, Chef Brown has come up with some tantalizing appetizers that you can make a meal out of to pair with your drink. The BBQ Pork Sliders really were the hit of the menu, as far as sliders go this is as good as it gets. The slow roasted pork was tender and full of flavor with a slight sweet and tangy edge provided by the barbeque sauce and complimented by cole slaw to provide a perfect blend of flavors. Three of these served up on one plate will be more than enough to fill you up. If you are looking for something original, the way they serve up deviled eggs is one I have never seen before. The deviled eggs are served with a topping of lobster, crab, grilled shrimp, smoked salmon and red caviar. You will find this one to be a true delicacy.
To keep with their emphasis on being a local establishment, Birch Street Bar & Grill has put together an assortment of great different offers for various nights of the week and they also plan of having different local bands perform. In addition to a happy hour that runs from 4 to 8 p.m. every night, Birch Street Bar & Grill has the following weekly events:
Birch Street Bar & Grill is the type of restaurant that creates such a warm and friendly setting that once you visit, you will keep coming back. Great food, a great assortment of drinks, ownership that really cares and a staff that treats every customer like they are their only customer, Birch Street Bar & Grill has created a blueprint for success that hopefully more restaurants will learn to follow.


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Hey everyone!
My other UStamp project went live today on the Hey BigShot session! I liked this project quite a lot as it was quick and easy. Don't we all love just quick and easy?? I know with my time restrictions on creating time limits my size of projects. This one took about 40 minutes to put together. With less decoration you can put it together much faster!
It is my Top Note Gift Wallet. Isn't it cute??
If you would like to know how to make this go to UStamp and join. When you do you will be able to access a heap of projects specially designed for the Big Shot just like this one. There are also a heap of challenges with prizes. Not to mention all the chatting you will most likely get up to in the chat room! LOL!
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Saturday, 7 November 2009
Updated Rouge Bunny Rouge lipstick swatches
Here is the swatch, lipsticks L-R: Watch out Eve,Irreverence,Nothing Unknown, Prey of Lust, Tongue Tickles,Word of Mouth, and Know what lies Are For. Just to note Zuneta have a new RBR eyeliner on their site in the shade amethyst essence, which is meant to be a rich mid-lavender base with silver and pale blue glitter, may well have to get this.....
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I must say, I like all of them, apart from, perhaps, Know What Lies Are For, but that's just because I don't think it would suit me :(( I was so tempted to get Word of Mouth...don't know why I didn't in the end! But perhaps, when I get the eyeliner (how can one resist a product with that description??) I'll add that on as well! Thanks for the swatches, xxReplyDelete
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Yes, I think know what lies are for could be a bit too brown on some, I have to say I have not worn word of mouth much as I do tend to shy away from anything in the red family but it is the most wearable red toned lipstick I have found so far. I think I will have to get the eyeliner as well, sounds so pretty, wish they weren't so expensive though!
Thanks for the swatches, I really like the look of Irreverence and Tongue Tickles. Oh RBR is *such* a temptation... perhaps Christmas!ReplyDelete
Hi Lipglossiping,ReplyDelete
Christmas would be the perfert time ! You'll have to add some RBR to your list :) They are such easy to wear shades, I think RBR is nearly my favourite brand. Thanks for your comment.
How would you describe Know What LIes Are For? I have a sample of Prey of Lust and like that but wonder if I would like Know What Lies Are For.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much..
Hi Ammie,ReplyDelete
Know what Lies are for is very different to Prey of Lust. Know what lies are for is more brown based, its more of a nude beige colour, it doesn't have the bit of pink that Prey of Lust has. Hope that helps :)


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Social advertising technology company Adaptly has added Interclick founder Michael Katz to its board. Katz recently left Yahoo under tense circumstances, as part of a larger company advertising reorganization. That aside, Katz is a well-regarded entrepreneur and innovator in the ad tech space; he took Interclick public and sold it to Yahoo for $270 million in late 2011. Adaptly works with a range of big brands, using a consolidated platform to complete a social media ad buys across multiple social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. The New York-based startup has raised about $13 million in funding so far.
Former Yahoo Ad Exec and Interclick Founder Katz Joins Adaptly Board
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We're getting ready to head out to my Uncle Clay's place for our annual Easter picnic. Thunderstorms are in the forecast, but they have a big barn, so we'll be safe and dry. We just need to put our heads together to decide how we're going to do the Easter Egg hunts (one for the kids, and one for the adults).
Meanwhile, here's an Easter photo from 45 years ago: it was our first annual family Easter picnic in in Livermore, California. Over the years, our picnics have been out on Mines Road and Alden Lane in Livermore, and then they moved to my immediate family's homes on Koster Road and Bird Road in Tracy. I recall a couple of Easters up the hill on Bird Road when the adult Easter Egg hunts included the addition of Easter Beers, often hidden in the field, under dried cow patties. Mom tells me, though, that this tradition actually started at one of our Easters up on Mines Road. We country folk know how to put on a good party!
Since my dad passed away in 2003, Uncle Clay and his girlfriend, Robin, have taken over the family Easter gatherings at their small ranch in Stevinson, California, and they've kept our long-standing tradition of good food, games and multiple Easter Egg hunts.
Here's the attendance list at our First Family Easter Picnic at the Roderick Ranch on Mines Road in Livermore, 1968:
Great Grandpa Louie Madsen; Aunt Rae (Madsen) and Uncle Rob Christensen and my cousin Stan; Uncle Lloyd and Aunt Trixie Madsen and my cousins, Judy, Alan and Maryann; Aunt Brenda (Bartram) and Uncle Art Davina and my cousins, Dee Dee, Glenn and Vikki; Aunt Bobbie (Anselmo) and Uncle Jim Bartram and my cousins Debbie and Leslie; Uncle Clay; Uncle Art's mother, Lucille (Tatum) Davina (who we all called Nana. She just passed away last week at the age of 100!) and her daughters, Mary Lou and Dorothy, and Dorothy's kids, Annie, John and Mark. Mom (Becky Bartram Brittain), my little sister, Cindy, and I are also in there, of course. I'm the one standing in front on the left.
Uncle Jim wasn't in the photo because he was taking it (where's the tripod when you need one?). And, where was Grandpa John? My dad, Bill Brittain, is also missing from the photo. He was a firefighter for Alameda County at that time, so my best guess is that he drew the short straw and had to work that day.
I was three years old, so I don't really have a strong memory of this particular Easter. However, there's a certain smell in the air when I'm out in the country that always makes me think of the Easters we celebrated when I was a kid.
It's so sad to think that so many of these people are no longer with us: Grandpa Louie, Uncle Rob and Aunt Rae, Uncle Lloyd and Aunt Trixie, Maryann, Nana, Grandpa John and especially my Uncle Jim and Dad. I'm sure we'll all think of them today, though, as we continue the tradition, now with added family members and friends, that they all helped to start 35 years ago!
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Writer's block is a bitch. It can throw you into a pit of despair, nearly drown you in a pool of self-hatred, suffocate you with feelings of failure. But what if one day, you sat down at your trusty typewriter, and tapped out a character so fully-formed, so nuanced, so complex, so entirely lovely and real, that she materialized on your couch?
This exact thing happening is the premise of Ruby Sparks, the new film by husband-wife directing team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (who brought us Little Miss Sunshine). Of course, after that little miracle occurs, a whole load of problems begin for our writer dude (Paul Dano), stemming from, well, the fact that his new girlfriend Ruby isn't real.
Ruby Sparks, starring screenwriter Zoe Kazan, is out tomorrow, July 25.


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set store by (something or someone)
To have faith, confidence, or belief in someone or something; to care about, appreciate, or respect someone or something. It is important that one sets store by one's friends, for it is to them one must turn when life becomes difficult. My brother is not one to set store by obeying social rules or etiquette.
set store by
Also, set great store by. Regard as valuable or worthwhile, as in I don't set much store by her judgment, or He sets great store by his good name. The word store here is used in the sense of "something precious," a usage that is obsolete except in these terms.
set (or lay or put) store by (or on)consider something to be of a particular degree of importance or value.
set store by
To regard as valuable or worthwhile.


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Q. How long will it take for my order to arrive?
A. We say the usual mail order "Please allow 28 days for delivery…" but, in practice, they usually take about a week to ten days to arrive, depending upon the country of destination.
Q. How often do I need to apply Bright Eyes drops?
A. We recommend applying one drop every hour throughout the day, in each eye being treated. One box should last approximately one week when treating both eyes.
Q. Do I have to continue the treatment forever?
A. Once the cataracts has been dissolved we recommend applying one or two drops daily into each eye being treated to maintain good eye health and vision and to help prevent other eye conditions or cataracts from returning again in the future. The exception to this is for diabetics who will need to continue with the treatment unless the diabetes is also addressed. This is explained more fully by Dr Elizabette Cohen in the second of her audio discussions on the subject which you can listen to on the bottom left of her page – NYC Pet Vet Video. For diabetics, we strongly recommend using our Ethos Elan Vital for Pets, in conjunction with the eye drops, to help combat the diabetes.
Q. Do Bright Eyes Drops only work for cataracts..?
A. No, the very special ingredient in the eye drops is N-Acetly-Carnosine, called NAC for short, and this is the only product in the world which has been proved scientifically to actually rejuvenate cells and promote natural healing. The drops also contain excellent lubricants and are good for the following eye conditions:
- Cataracts
- Intraocular Pressure Associated With Glaucoma
- Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
- Vitreous Opacities and Lesions
- Ocular Inflammation
- Dry Eye Syndrome
- Corneal Disorders
- Chronic Eye Strain
- Retinal Disease
- Blurred Vision
- Presbyopia
- Floaters
Q. Do Bright Eyes Drops drops sting at all?
A. They can sting a little bit, but this only last for a minute or two and we think that this is still far preferable to having invasive surgery. Everybody's pain thresholds are different and most customers report not really noticing anything, apart from one lady who said that they stung too much she couldn't use them but that is literally one in millions. With most pets, they have a very good sixth sense and know when something is good for them and we have had many dog owners say their dog's come to them when they get the bottle out as they know it's time for their treatment. You can see Elizabette Cohen applying the drops to Allies eyes on her video documentary she did about the drops and you can see there that Allie doesn't appear distressed in any way at all, you can even see her wagging her tail and she even gives Elizabette a kiss when she's finished putting them in for her.
Q. Why haven't I heard about Bright Eyes Drops before and why don't all vets recommend them over surgery which is very costly for pets and not always possible?
A. More and more people are finding out about the drops and it is part of our mission to spread the word and get the information out to as many people as possible. But cataracts surgery is a billion dollar a year industry and so the information is kept well under wraps as much as possible. This is summed up excellently by a USA doctor in the penultimate paragraph of his newsletter article where he states:
"The enormous benefits of NAC eye drops should be the topic of every nightly newscast and front-page headlines on every newspaper – but you and I both know that just won't happen. Cataract surgery and treatment has become too big of a business. With the oldest of the baby boomers just now beginning to reach the age where cataracts starts to form, the condition will become a surgical "cash cow"
You can read his full newsletter article here: cataractsnews.com
A 14 year old boy we treated with the drops gave us the brilliant analogy when he was asked why cataracts surgeons didn't recommend using our eye drops and he said "It would be like asking turkeys to vote for thanksgiving…"


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7-day Weather Forecast
Hong Kong has a sub-tropical climate with distinct seasons. The only predictable weather events that could have a significant impact on your travel plans are typhoons.
Typhoon season begins in May and ends in November. When a typhoon is approaching, warnings are broadcast on television and radio. There are various degrees of warning signals issued by the Hong Kong Observatory, but when the no. 8 signal is in place, most businesses and shops close down and flights may be cancelled. There is a separate warning system for heavy rain.
You can find detailed weather updates for tourist attractions on the Hong Kong Weather Information for Tourists website. While you're in Hong Kong, you can also dial 1878 200 and press '3' for English to check the latest situation.
What to expect from Hong Kong's seasons
Spring (March to May)Temperature and humidity are rising. Evenings can be cool.Average Temperature: 17oC – 26 oC
Summer (June to August)Hot, humid and sunny, with occasional showers and thunderstorms. The temperature can exceed 31°C but high humidity levels can make it feel even hotter.Average Temperature: 26oC – 31 oC
Autumn (September to November)There are pleasant breezes, plenty of sunshine and comfortable temperatures. Many people regard these as the best months of the year to visit Hong Kong.Average Temperature: 19oC – 28 oC
Winter (December to February)Cool, dry and cloudy, with occasional cold fronts. The temperature can drop below 10°C in urban areas.Average Temperature: 12oC – 20 oC


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Ahmedabad, in western India, is the largest city in the state of Gujarat. On the western bank is the Gandhi Ashram at Sabarmati, which displays the spiritual leader's living quarters and artifacts. There fascinating maze of an old quarter, excellent museums, fine restaurants, a bustling street-food scene and the tranquillity of the Sabarmati Ashram (Gandhi's former headquarters). Ahmedabad was the largest city in terms of area within the subcontinent before the arrival of the British and the setting of the Madras and Calcutta Presidency. A day here is like living through an enigmatic and passionate dance between the old and the contemporary, the peaceful and the chaotic, the artistic and the crude, the spiritual and the material.
Nice to know - The logo of State Bank of India is a blue circle with a small cut in the bottom which depicts perfection and the common man. The logo was designed by The National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. The logo is a depiction of Kankaria Lake if seen from a height.
Things to do
Best time to visit - Ahmedabad is basically a hot place enjoys three main seasons, namely summers (March to June), winters (November-February) and monsoon (July-September). During the summer season, the temperature on a hot sunny day ranges between 44 and 47 degree Celsius.
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Ahmedabad Airport
Hansol, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380003, Ahmedabad
Contact Number:-  079 2286 9211
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Continent:-  Asia
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Posted by Henrik | 10/16
New season 21 framegrabs
Murdering Kate Winslet payed for that chocolate fountain!
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Season 20
Season 21
I'm still a unitard!
Posted by Henrik | 7/19
I'm sure everyone will ignore the fact that it's been over a year since my last update. I never thought taking a master of science in finance would take up so much time, but I've been wrong before. Back in 2007 I was working on getting season 18 framegrabbed. I never really finished it and I still haven't. I have however framegrabbed the entire season 19. All 20 episodes with approximately 5000 framegrabs are now available. You can check out all the framegrabs here.
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Posted by Henrik | 6/23
The Simpsons Movie is right around the corner, so I've updated my page that is dedicated to it. I've added the latest trailer, caps from the trailer and promos and posters.
I'm also working on getting the rest of season 18 framegrabbed.


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About Us
Welcome to Garber Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram!
Garber Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram offers many automotive products and services to our Saginaw area customers. From quality new Jeep and Dodge vehicles to used cars, we know anyone looking for a vehicle in Saginaw will likely find what they want at our dealership. We carry a comprehensive line of Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Truck inventory making us a good choice as your Saginaw new and used car dealer. Our services include trusted Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram car repair, and Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram parts, and financing to help our customers purchase the car of their dreams.
Call Garber Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram at (989) 607-0577, or come visit us in person. We're conveniently located at 5330 Bay Rd, Saginaw, MI 48604 and look forward to helping you with your automotive needs.
"To be the BEST automotive sales and repair operation in every market we serve."
"We are only doing our job properly when we create an experience for which the customer returns to do business with us again."
Respect: To show consideration and honor for each other.
Empathy: To be able to understand another's position.
Pride: Sense of self-worth. Making a difference in people's lives.
Work Ethic: Working as a team to meet or exceed expectations.
The year was 1907 and many thought that the horse and buggy would continue to be the way to travel. One notable exception was a young farm implement salesman of exceptional ability and bold vision. His name was Guy S. Garber, and he saw the automobile as the vehicle to the future.
Growing up in the Lansing area, his reputation as a salesman brought him to the attention of William C. Durant, founder of General Motors. At his urging, Guy Garber became a factory representative for Buick Motor Division. During his first six months he established one dealership, in Battle Creek Michigan. His responsibility was the management of the day-to-day operations.
His success there brought him to take on a greater challenge, coming to Saginaw in 1910 representing Buick. This was to become the key to his success with Buick and General Motors…. lasting a lifetime. Guy Garber shared the vision of the GM founder: America was headed for a golden automotive era.
Guy Garber's long and productive affiliation with GM lasted nearly 60 years, through the great depression and two world wars. During that time Garber married Hazel Denyes and began a family which would eventually number four sons and two daughters; Jack, Maxine, Richard, Guy Jr. (Ike), Jane and Robert.
As the oldest family-owned Buick dealership in the United States, the Garbers have always conducted a unique relationship with GM's Buick Motor Division. In its early years Garber Buick Company became a GM model for salesmanship, efficiency and service to the customer.
Years ago it was written that Guy S. Garber has but one hobby and that is service. "He lives service, breathes service and practices service. His predominant business policy is to render such uniformly satisfying service that there shall not be a single dissatisfied Buick owner in the 30 counties comprising his territory." Said Guy S. Garber, "Service does not mean something for nothing, but it does mean prompt, efficient and courteous attention at a fair price." This founding business philosophy thrives today in the mission statement for Garber Buick.
When automotive pioneer Guy S. Garber died on December 5, 1965 at the age of 81, Michigan's first Buick distributorship became the nation's last Buick distributorship. An important piece of automotive history had passed away.
Richard Garber, Sr., son of Guy Garber, who had been actively managing Garber Buick Company, became president and owner until his death in 1972. Like his father, Richard was a civic leader in every sense of the word.
Richard Garber was succeeded by Norman F. Geyer as president. Norm Geyer was married to Maxine Garber and was a son-in-law to Guy Garber. He was a dedicated, honest, and respected individual with high values. With over 25 years of experience with the organization, the majority as service director, Norm was knowledgeable in all aspects of the dealership operation. As president, he successfully guided the Buick store for eight years, during the trying times of the 1970's, until he passed the torch to Richard J. Garber Jr., in 1980.
Richard J. Garber, Jr., was the third generation to take the helm of the company in its 73rd year of operation. When he became president, he was the youngest Buick dealer for a dealership of its size in the nation. Since that time the organization has grown to 21 dealerships located in six states, Michigan, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New York and South Carolina.
The organization today is a long way from the 1907 version, but important traditions live on: dedication to service, a loyal staff and a forward-looking vision. One that echoes in the spirit of a young farm implement salesman who took thousands of mid-Michigan area residents out of the buggy and put them behind the wheel.
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Garber Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram is a part of the Garber Automotive Group
Garber Automotive Group is led by owner and President, Richard J. Garber and Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer, Patrick Hengesbach. The Management Group also employs a Controller and supporting staff.
The Organization today consists of 21 dealerships representing 17 franchises. Ten dealerships are located in the Midwest.
They are:
- Garber Buick – Saginaw, MI (Flagship dealership, established in 1907.)
- Garber Nissan Hyundai – Saginaw, MI (Acquired in 1986)
- Garber Chevrolet – Midland, MI (Acquired in 1991)
- Sunrise Chevrolet – Glendale Heights, IL (Acquired in 1997)
- Garber Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram – Saginaw, MI (Opened in March 2011)
- Garber Chevrolet Linwood – Linwood, MI (Acquired in 2015)
- Garber Fox Lake Toyota – Fox Lake, IL (Acquired in 2016)
- Garber Chevrolet Saginaw – Saginaw, MI (Acquired in 2017)
- Curtis Garber Chevrolet Cadillac – Caro, MI (Acquired in 2017)
- Garber Highland – Highland, IN (Acquired in 2019)
Six dealerships are located in Florida.
Garber Automall is located in Green Cove Springs, Florida, 10 miles south of Jacksonville and includes the following franchises:
- Garber Ford (Acquired in 1986)
- Garber Chevrolet Buick GMC (Acquired in 1994)
- Garber Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram (Acquired in 1997)
One dealership is located in Delray Beach, Florida.
- Delray Buick GMC (Acquired in 2013)
One dealership is located in Bradenton, Florida.
- Nissan of Bradenton (Acquired 2018)
One dealership is located in Ft. Pierce, Florida
- Garber Buick GMC of Ft. Pierce (Acquired in 2013)
Our four dealerships in Rochester, New York include the following 5 franchises:
- Garber Honda (Acquired in 2011)
- Acura of Rochester (Acquired in 2011)
- Porsche of Rochester (Acquired in 2011)
- Audi Rochester (Acquired in 2011)
- Volvo Cars Rochester (Acquired in 2020)
One of our dealerships is located in Bluffton, South Carolina.
- Hilton Head Buick GMC Cadillac (Acquired in 2018)
Together the dealerships generate over $1 billion in sales annually and employ over 2,000 people nationally. The organization has also expanded its business with the formation of RightWay Automotive Credit; a sub-prime used vehicle retail operation with over 35 locations in six states, and its own affiliated finance company, Gateway Financial Solutions.
Continued growth is planned for the organization, which makes recruiting, selecting and training high potential candidates our highest priority. Entry-level opportunities are available in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, New York, Florida and South Carolina. For the right candidate, a management training program is available.
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Tutorial: Baked Ham and Eggs
Bake in a 350-degree oven for 20 minutes:
The baked ham and eggs made in muffin tins are perfect to put inside biscuits or English muffins. The novelty shapes are cute for holiday breakfasts. And the mini-loaf pans?
One hearty breakfast, one fabulous series of books:
One excellent start to an excellent day.
3 comments:
- Tina said...
Those look really yummy! Have you tried freezing them yet? We are always on the look out for a good healthy, quick breakfast for the hubby before he has to dash out the door for school. We found that scrabbled eggs (cooked up with yummy meats and veggies) freeze and reheat well, but these look good too!
- January 13, 2012 at 10:05 PM
- julie said...
How do you reheat your frozen eggs, Tina? I always make more baked ham and eggs than we want and just put them in the refrigerator, but I feel a little gross about leaving meat/egg stuff in the fridge for days at a time. I'd much prefer to pop them in and out of the freezer, if they're simple to reheat.
- January 14, 2012 at 10:24 AM
- Tina said...
We just heat them in the microwave. They don't taste exactly the same as fresh off the pan (or out of the oven) but a little ketchup makes everything taste better.
I actually think that any meat reheated in the microwave tastes a bit different, so it could just be me.
- January 14, 2012 at 7:28 PM


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Zwiastuny - Game information
Objective of the game:Be the first to play all your cards or reach the needed amount of points and win. Each player receives 7 cards at the start of the game but be careful, your opponents will not make it easy for you. Be quick and use your trick cards wisely!
Basic rules of the game:
1. Each player is dealt 7 cards with the remaining ones
placed face down to form a draw pile. The top card of the draw pile is turned
over to begin a discard pile.
2. The player has to match the card on the discard pile
by number, color or symbol when it is his turn.
3. When the player is unable to match the card on the discard pile by number, color or symbol he will have to draw a card from the draw pile or pass.
4. The skip card causes the next player to lose his turn.
5. The reverse card reverses the direction of play.
6. The +2 card forces the next player to draw 2 extra cards and forfeit his turn. However another +2 card may be played as well so the next player will have to draw 4 extra cards.
7. The joker card can be played at any time and allows the player to choose the desired color of play.
8. The +4 joker card allows the player to choose their desired color of play and forces the next player to draw 4 extra cards. However another +4 joker card may be played as well so the next player will have to draw 8 extra cards. Keep in mind that the +4 joker card may only be played if there is no other playable card in hand.
9. Once a player has no cards left, the hand is over.
This game option last a single round. Be the first one to play all your cards and win.
Be the first player to reach to needed amount of points to win the game. The creator of the game can choose between 50, 100, 150 or 250 points. The amount of points you receive after a won round depends on the total amount of points of all the cards your opponents still have in hand.


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Who was/is Faron Young ? - CDs, Vinyl LPs, DVD and more
Faron Young
When Country Music Hall of Fame singer Faron Young was asked about the rockabilly and rock 'n' roll sides he cut in the 1950s, his answer was simple: "I was not cut out to sing that kind of music," he told David Booth, "but when you drop $400,000 a year, you'll try anything you can. I'd have tried to paint myself black! When I hear any of that stuff today, I turn fourteen flips in the air, I hate it!"
What makes such a statement ironic is that while the teenage-themed pop-a-billy sides he waxed in the late 1950s were forced upon him and bear the authenticity of such, the fact remains that Faron Young's hillbilly boogie songs of the early and mid 1950s were as influential to the new crop of rockabillies as anything else, with their braggadocio lyrical content and aggressive boogie-woogie guitar-based sound.
Songs like Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young, I'm Gonna Live Some Before I Die, and If You Ain't Lovin (You Ain't Livin') preached a lifestyle that was immediately adapted by the first wave of rock 'n' rollers as their own. Almost as importantly, Faron Young lived the kind of life he sang about, a life that would define 'rock star behavior'—women, pills, booze, and lewdness of the highest order—which would become a mainstay of the four-letter word called Rock.
This disc encapsulates but a brief time in Faron Young's long career, but is a perfect one to show how influential Faron was to the new music known as the Big Beat, and is the perfect compilation for those who prefer the uptempo hillbilly, rockabilly and rock 'n' roll side of Faron Young.
For a better examination of Faron's ten years on Capitol Records, check out the excellent Bear Family box set (BCD 15493) 'Faron Young—The Early Years 1952-1962,' which takes you all the way from his early Hank Williams sound-alike recordings, to his lush countrypolitan hits of the early 1960s, and everything in between. Faron also kept recording for Mercury well into the 1970s, recording such notable hits as Wine Me Up and It's Four In The Morning.
One thing that can be said of Faron's 30-plus-year recording career is that he always kept up with current trends in music—which goes a long way to explain the recordings on this compilation, which spans nearly every trend in country music from the early '50s until the early '60s.
Faron was born on February 25, 1932 in Shreveport, Louisiana, a town that would weigh heavily on the ascent of his musical career. While he seems to have been raised in a typical depression-era household, he also appears to have been a typical middle-class American child of the post-war boom in every other way. He not only completed high school, but also attended college until the show business bug bit him. Country music seemed unimportant to his early life, preferring the pop music of the day such as Patti Page to the rough and rowdy hillbilly music that would eventually become his bread and butter.
What got Faron Young into music was his lifelong need for attention. He began entering amateur contests at a young age, singing pop songs and picking coins off the stage for pay, but appears to have been steered into the country music world when a man offered him five dollars to sing Jambalaya, instead of the twenty-five cents he was used to receiving for a typical pop request.
Faron Young Hi-Tone Poppa - Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight
Read more at: https://www.bear-family.de/young-faron-hi-tone-poppa-gonna-shake-this-shack-tonight.html
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