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I know you gonna let me shine right
Me and my dawgs we be ballin all night
Why? the ice that we rock is all nice
Why? them girls that we know is all tight
I know you gonna let me shine right
Me and my dawgs we be ballin all night
Why? the ice that we rock is all nice
Why? them girls that we know is all tight
[Verse 1]
Let's go, its the one and only rom me oh
I got more dough than cookie shops so
I sign more chests than Nike stores sold
I'm kinda like Ness, I go wherever the money go
I mean this dude is all bout the cheerios
I ain't ATM, make 7-figure digitals
But I ain't here to brag, I'm here to dance
See what you can do in them Passion pants
You wear em good but that is that
Work them jeans, move up and back
Now let me see ya come around like that
I like to have fun and thangs, I'm never gonna change
I can't leave home without my platinum chain
Man, I like to play but its not a game
and I got more ice than Alaska mayne
Richboyz ride benz, we don't push no jeep
We in the park man, about 30 deep
I got the hood from my pops, we was born to ball
R.I.P. Lil' Fred, put cha name on the wall, yeah
She's so fly, She's so fine
and you know I'm gonna make her mine
He's so fly, Romeo fine
you know I'm gonna make him mine
[Verse 2]
Yep, thats how all say when they see me
Romeo, you look so different from Chingy
can you call me? or maybe text me
I know you can get tired of these young girls asking
[Girl:] (I could be a demi) You could be an ashton
It ain't a movie, I'm the main attraction
Jumping off bentleys, sitting on spinners
This ain't no hoops but who got winners?
I'm be around for awhile, check the roley
I'm quick like Mike Bibby, you haters can't hold me
Call me the champ, the title is mine
I'm like a young Ali, back in his prime
I'm changing the game, it ain't bout the fame
I'm only a teen with a whole lotta change
We only play with them platinum toys
The New No Limit, y'all make some noise, yeah
[Verse 3: Master P]
These boys can't touch me mayne
Diesel on the beat, don't let me pump ya mayne
Call me Jackhammer, cause I'm running thangs
I got enough money to feed the country mayne
Fly A G4 but they can't touch me mayne
First Father & Son to get money
Haters try to sue us but y'all get nothing
I'm the Shaq now, playing for the kidd
With Mike, Christian, Brad trying to get ranged
So bring the heat, love the streets
I'm like Doug man, I can't be beat
I'm a thug but I love the kids
Y'all do it small but we does it big


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October 23, 2012
Safer Steering: Autonomous Emergency Steering System
Oct. 23 – Yokohama – Nissan used its Advanced Technology Briefing earlier this month to unveil its "Autonomous Emergency Steering System," potentially helping drivers avoid accidents.
The system offers a high level of collision avoidance capability by applying automatic braking and automatic steering in situations where a collision is imminent and evading obstacles by braking may not be effective.
It takes effect in situations where unpredictable risks arise, such as sudden intrusions onto the road in low-speed zones, or when a collision at high speed is imminent due to the driver's delayed recognition of the tail end of a traffic jam.
Nissan has long worked on the development and commercialization of brake-based control technology. The company has recently promoted development of the technology to deal with situations that cannot be mitigated through braking alone.
The Autonomous Emergency Steering System, using information provided by the front-mounted radar and camera, the two left and right rear radars, and the five laser scanners attached around the vehicle, initially acts on risk of collision that cannot be avoided by braking.
Simultaneously, it checks if there is a forward zone free of obstacles and that there are no vehicles approaching from the rear, and then displays to the driver the direction that the vehicle should be steered towards. If the driver cannot immediately steer in that direction, the system takes over to automatically steer the vehicle to help avoid a collision.


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When Olivia Newton-John took the role of Sandy in 1978's movie version of Grease, it was clear she was looking to change her clean-cut, "good-girl image," SF considering her character's transformation "from virginal to vamp." BB100 Still, "the longtime girl-next-door singer" BB100 had doubts about releasing "Physical", SF a song "loaded with sexual innuendo." BB100 Her managers convinced her the song would be a huge hit. SF
Still, lyrics like "There's nothing left to talk about/ Unless it's horizontally" got the song banned by some radio stations. At adult contemporary radio the song stalled at #29, but it took off at pop radio. In fact, the controversy probably helped the song toward becoming the biggest hit of 1981 WHC and of Olivia's career. A Billboard magazine survey even named it the sexiest song of all-time. SF
A video heightened the controversy with what was then considered risqué, but would be tame by today's standards. JA The video played off the aerobics movement of the day, practically becoming the theme song for the exercise trend. SF Olivia worked out in the gym with out-of-shape men who transformed into body-builder physiques. The end of the video, which suggested the men were gay and consequently immune to Olivia's advances, was often cut when aired on MTV. WK It still picked up the Grammy for Video of the Year.
The song also was received by some critics with less than an enthusiastic response. AOL Radio's Matthew Wilkening said, "An entire generation's leg-warmered, pastel spandex shame is laid bare in just under four minutes." WK He ranked it one of the 100 worst songs ever. WK
Resources and Related Links:
- Olivia Newton-John's DMDB Encyclopedia entry
- the DMDB page for "Physical"
- BB100 Billboard (9/08). "All-Time Hot 100".
- JA David A. Jasen. (2002). A Century of American Popular Music: 2000 Best-Loved and Remembered Songs (1899-1999). Routledge: Taylor & Francis, Inc. Page 157.
- SF Songfacts.com
- WHC Joel Whitburn (1999). A Century of Pop Music. Menomonee Falls, WI; Record Research, Inc. Page 110.
- WK Wikipedia.org


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My husband and I have both had gold slimes not drop any plorts upon being hit.
He was playing Rush mode and popped a Gold gordo. He then proceeded to shoot Gilded Ginger at the mass of Gold slimes. Many were hit but no plorts dropped.
I have been playing adventure mode and hit a gold slime with an odd onion. Again no plorts dropped and the gold slime dissapeared.
This seems to be a recent development as of Friday. I got a Gold plort on Thursday without issue.
Has this issue been recorded? Is anyone else having this issue?


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The Congressional Budget Office is warning of a "fiscal cliff" looming at year end, when Bush-era tax cuts expire just as automatic spending cuts take effect in the new year, but lawmakers are signalling that prompt action on the crisis is unlikely.
The dual deficit-cutting measures would arrest America's long-term debt accumulation but also withdraw crucial support for a still weak economy, pushing the U.S. back into recession in the first half of fiscal 2013, the CBO warns.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney commented on the fiscal cliff scenario in an interview with Time Magazine on Wednesday, saying if elected he hoped he would be given a "grace period" within which to deal with America's fiscal problems "on a structural basis" rather than see a lame-duck Congress and President handle the issue.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), for his part, said a grand compromise by Congress prior to the year-end lame-duck session was unlikely as a result of what he called Republicans' "blind adherence to Tea Party extremism." His colleague Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, shared Reid's scheduling outlook, saying "It looks like there will not be a vote until after the election."
While Romney would like to decide fiscal policy in the new year (if elected) and leading Democrats and Republicans say it should be decided now if the other side would only be more reasonable, the window for decision-making may likely be the short congressional session following November elections and before lawmakers recess for Christmas.
And the CBO's recent report, released Tuesday, makes the point that if Congress cannot find some way to arrest policies that are already set in motion before the new year — and the need to do so speedily was emphasized — the short-term result will be reduced incomes, higher unemployment, weak tax revenues and increased unemployment insurance costs.
The CBO also acknowledges that extending current policies — that is, maintaining the Bush tax cuts and withholding $1 trillion in spending cuts scheduled for the new year — would lead to fiscal ruin in the long term but would facilitate GDP growth of 4.4% in fiscal 2013 (and a higher still 5.3% for the first half of 2013).
To avoid the drag on a weak economy on the one hand and fiscal ruin on the other, the CBO proposes a Goldilocks, middle-bear approach: "Eliminating or reducing the fiscal restraint scheduled to occur next year without imposing comparable restraint in future years would reduce output and income in the longer run relative to what would occur if the scheduled fiscal restraint remained in place," CBO analyst Benjamin Page writes.
"The longer the U.S. delays righting its fiscal course "the more drastic the ultimate changes in policy would need to be," the report continues.
The report's middle option would involve "changes in taxes and spending that would widen the deficit in 2013 relative to what would occur under current law but that would reduce deficits later in the decade relative to what would occur if current policies were extended for a prolonged period."
Doing so "soon," even "quickly," the report concludes, "would tend to boost output and employment in the next few years by holding down interest rates and by reducing uncertainty and enhancing business and consumer confidence."
But, in what is perhaps the hardest part of the CBO report to grasp in today's heated political atmosphere, the report says its middle approach "would work best if the future policy changes were sufficiently specific and widely supported." By apparently kicking this fiscal can to the end of the year, just as the American people are staring down the fiscal cliff, the opportunity to build "wide support" will have to occur, if it does, in an expedited manner come November.
Check out more CBO-related stories on AdvisorOne.
Read CBO Projects $1.1 Trillion Budget Deficit for 2012 if Laws Don't Change on AdvisorOne.


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Though director Robert Flaherty is known as "the father of the documentary" for making 1922's Nanook Of The North, an ethnographic year-in-the-life portrait of an Eskimo and his family, the title comes with a giant asterisk, because much of Nanook's action was staged (or restaged) for the camera. In many ways, it was a fitting beginning for an inherently slippery form, one that consistently prompts questions about the truth and how it's evoked, contextualized, and manipulated both by the camera and by the filmmaker's agenda. And yet Flaherty should be exempt from such questions, because he was never a documentarian so much as he was a great mythmaker and imagist, conjuring harsh beauty from far-reaching landscapes and indigenous people who seem immune to the march of time. For taking the camera to exotic places where it had never gone before, Flaherty was also accused of being a showman who fudged authenticity for the sort of eye-catching cinematic spectacle and drama that could rope in crowds like a carnival barker. But the gorgeous new DVD reissues of 1934's Man Of Aran and 1948's Louisiana Story are a fresh reminder that Flaherty's legacy defies easy categorization, because his idea of truth was neither as literal as a documentarian's nor as sensationalistic as a showman's. Produced over two and a half years on the Aran Islands, "three wastes of rock" off Ireland's western coast, Man Of Aran studies a battered community that epitomizes the struggle between man and nature. As he did with Nanook, Flaherty had his subjects "perform" their lives in a way that seems authentic because their duties and traditions have been captured with meticulous attention to the smallest detail. Limiting the dialogue to a few unintelligible overdubs, Flaherty favors long, lyrical, and often suspenseful sequences with the visual purity of the best silent cinema, goosed up only by a sophisticated sound mix and dynamic montage editing. Against the barren rocks and crashing waves, Man Of Aran celebrates survival and resilience under punishing conditions, as the islanders dig through crevices for precious soil, fish from towering cliff faces, and battle a massive basking shark for two days, just to render enough oil for their lamps. In stark and pictorially ravishing terms, the film depicts man's heroic relationship with the environment–an unpredictable and merciless source of sustenance, peril, and unvarnished beauty. Flaherty's commitment to finding remote natural settings didn't change with his final masterpiece, Louisiana Story, but, for the first time, he wrestles with the tension of a once-timeless place being invaded by the modern world. Graced by the woodwinds and harps of Virgil Thomson's Pulitzer Prize-winning score, the famous opening sequence of a young Cajun boy gently guiding his canoe through the bayou has a poetic lyricism worthy of Rousseau. When a towering oil derrick is erected near the boy's home, his natural curiosity draws him to its orbit as he tries to incorporate a machine into his previously secluded world. Financed by the Standard Oil Company, Louisiana Story doesn't take any obvious position on the rig's presence in the bayou, which could be seen as disruptive or awe-inspiring, depending on the viewer's perspective. In either case, the gentle, lightly humorous tone is so effectively aligned with the child's point of view that environmental politics never quite enter into the equation. The mixed and overlapping bag of supplements on both discs confirm Flaherty's interest in image-making above all other concerns, which explains why the stolid 60-minute documentary (1978's How The Myth Was Made) included on Man Of Aran seems beside the point. In order to show "the consequences when life becomes myth," director George C. Stoney rounds up islanders who participated in the film, but in doing so, holds Flaherty to standards of documentary realism that never interested him. As Flaherty's wife and collaborator Frances eloquently phrases it during an interview included on the Louisiana Story disc, he was devoted first and foremost to the camera, "a machine for seeing more than the eye can see."
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The case for a higher consumption tax
Right now the government is fretting over whether or not to raise the consumption tax to its planned level of 10 percent in October of next year. For a while it seemed like a sure thing, but the drop in demand that accompanied the most recent hike to 8 percent in April, coupled with less inflation than the administration and the Bank of Japan had hoped for, has put the plan into doubt. The fear is that another boost in the tax will send the economy into a recessionary tailspin.
Akira Sugawara, a high school teacher who has published an economics primer for businessmen, recently wrote a simple, easy-to-understand polemic in favor of raising the tax for the online version of the business magazine Toyo Keizai. In line with his mission to explain economic principles to people who don't have a strong grasp of basics, Sugawara starts out by explaining what the consumption tax is supposed to do, rather than what it is actually doing.
Originally, the purpose of the tax was to bolster social security in the face of a rapidly aging society, and though so far revenues from the tax have been used to pay off Japan's massive debt, Sugawara still thinks social security should be prioritized when discussing the consumption tax.


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PHOTOS: Foot/golf fusion sport growing around the globe
The innovative fusion sport of football-golf is helping Argentine courses stay afloat in testing economic times when golfing revenue alone is often not enough to cover costly maintenance fees.
The game was played in Argentina for the first time two years ago and it is beginning to make waves right across Latin America.
Jose Luis Chilavert, who played in goal for Paraguay at the 1998 World Cup and was renowned for scoring penalties and free kicks, and former Boca Juniors forward Walter Pico are two high-profile footballers to have tried their hand at the fusion sport.
Image: A man kicks a ball into the hole as he competes in a FootGolf tournament
Photographs: Marcos Brindicci/Reuters
'We want to add something positive, not to compete'
Argentine Football Golf Association president Javier Ancizar told Reuters in an interview the new pastime was not a rival to traditional golf.
"We want to add something positive, not to compete (with golf)," said Ancizar who schedules tournaments in midweek when fewer golfers play.
"We're aware that we are on golf grounds but at the same time there are many courses in Argentina that may not be able to do all the necessary maintenance with just golf revenue alone.
"I see this as a good way for golf courses to supplement their earnings and help with course upkeep," added Ancizar.
Image: A man kicks a ball into the hole as he competes in a FootGolf tournament
Photographs: Marcos Brindicci/Reuters
The inaugural World Cup was held early 2012
While the origins of the fusion sport are unclear, the International Football Golf Association was founded in 2009 by Dutch footballer Michael Jansen.
Jansen's home country hosted a soccer-golf championship in September of that year and it sparked interest around the globe.
The inaugural World Cup was held this year and featured 80 players from eight different countries.
The game's objective, like golf, is to get the regulation size-five football in the targeted hole in as few kicks as possible.
Image: A man carries his soccer ball as he waits for his turn to compete in a FootGolf tournament
Photographs: Marcos Brindicci/Reuters
'You don't have to be a good soccer or golf player'
Although competitors use traditional golf courses they do not walk on the putting surfaces, instead the wider holes are dug out around three metres from the greens and are filled in with sand and covered with a tuft of grass after tournaments.
Tees and fairways are set up to one side in order that the grass on the golf courses is not damaged.
"You don't have to be a good soccer or golf player, you just need to know how to kick the ball and know how to think - to analyse the course so as to not take unnecessary risks," said Ancizar.
Image: A man reacts to missing the hole and kicks the ball away as he competes in a FootGolf tournament
Photographs: Marcos Brindicci/Reuters
'It's a sport for everybody, kids, older people, girls'
He believes the day when golfers and soccer-golfers can share the course is a long way off.
"We haven't had a time when we were playing simultaneously. When we do these kinds of events they close off the grounds for our use only," said Ancizar.
"In reality it's strange that they co-exist. If a golfer gets hit by a football it wouldn't bother him too much but if a soccer-golfer gets hit by a golf ball problems could arise."
Since the only necessary piece of equipment is a football, it is a widely accessible pastime. "Anyone can kick a football. It's a sport for everybody, kids, older people, girls," said Ancizar.
Soccer-golf appeals to former footballers as it puts a new twist on traditional skills while at the same time cutting down on the risk of injury.
"There are a lot of ex-footballers who see this as a good way to broaden their range of athletic activities," said Ancizar.
Image: A player lines up a putt as he competes in a FootGolf tournament
Photographs: Marcos Brindicci/Reuters


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The 2010-11 program schedule is complete for both the Glasgow Reed Organ Series and the Fayette Guest Artist Series.
GLASGOW—The Glasgow Series kicks off fall entertainment Oct. 10 with a concert by master organist Greg Ceurvorst.
Other shows scheduled are organ and Celtic music by Curt Tramel and Fonn Mor on Nov. 14; and master organist Martin Ellis on May 1.
GUEST ARTIST—The series opens Oct. 16 with Tu-ba Fours Tuba Quartet.
Other shows include Hellenic Dancers on Nov. 6; the Mossburg Family strings on Dec. 11; Joseph presenting folk music and story-telling March 19; and Fiddlers Re-Strung on April 16.
The Fayette Arts Council continues to make the Opera House available for rental for occasions such as reunions, receptions, meetings and holiday gatherings.
Rental rates are available for various rooms in the Opera House including the kitchen.
The Arts Council also offers to cater events in the Opera House and off-site.
For more information, call 419/237-3111.


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I'm new here...
I'm trying to score some music for a friend. One problem I can't seem to find a solution to is how to force a note to stay on a particular clef. For instance, if I have a simple (treble clef) tune that dips to G, for the odd note, this usually appears in bass clef (I'm using abc explorer). Is there a simple way to fix this?
Many thanks,


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What we read while trying to find some NFL Draft coverage…
- The White House Correspondents' Dinner was this weekend, but what the hell is the point of that thing anyway? Elsewhere in the world of political journalism, Conor Friedersdorf examines Glenn Beck's Web TV network. On the other end of the political spectrum (probably), Aaron Sorkin's new show is about the world of cable news.
- The New York Times examines how good the F.B.I. is at stopping the terrorist plots that it hatches and funds. It almost makes you think that Muslim anger at the United States might not be all about hating freedom.
- Chuck Klosterman catches the world's least desirable double feature: In one night he saw Creed and Nickelback in an effort to understand why those bands are so hated.
- Alex Baze talks about working with Del Close in Chicago. Matt Walsh talks about studying under Del Close, among other things, in this AV Club interview.
- Memory is a durable, and this has important implications for Josh's views on travel.
- Mike Nifong's successor as Durham County D.A. has followed in his footsteps: she has also been removed from office.
- Derek Jeter is off to a great start this season, but what are the odds of him catching Pete Rose's hit total?
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freak. I don't know how many of y'all (if any) fall into stuff like this...But I've been railing against this kind of SPAM for years...Read on!
Here is a nice little tidbit of information that came my way this morning. So if any of you are wondering why I didn't /don't return something to you that said something like 'if I don't get this back I'll..." or 'See how many flowers you can get back'... or 'Forward this to 10 people in the next 5 mins. or something bad will happen to you', etc. Same thing goes for promises that great things will happen if you forward.
The following is why I won' t be participating. ..
Advice from Snopes.com
1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to '10' of your friends, or sign this petition, or you'll get bad luck, good luck, or whatever, it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward to.
The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' E-Mails to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to other spammers.
2) Almost all E-Mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards.
All it was, and all any of this type of E-Mail is, is a way to get names and 'cookie ' tracking information for telemarketers and spammers - - to validate active E-Mail accounts for their own profitable purposes.
You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favor (PLEASE) by sending this information to them; you will be providing a service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam E-Mails in the future!
If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now you know why you get so much SPAM!
Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of listings regardless of how inviting they might sound! You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT in the long run. Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later! Plus, we are helping the spammers get rich! Let's not make it easy for them!
Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other organization. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address of the person signing the petition.
Read the full story here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp


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Silly of us to think that gray hair color was based on age..Just incase you didnt know gray is the new blond or black..Yes silverish-gray hair is taking over the internet. Dont believe us just Google #GrannyHair and you will find the treasures of gray hair. Women are going cray cray over the gray gray. Take a look at the five gray hairstyles that blew us away!
This hair color on PINK has a light purple tint still gray and we love it.
Check out Toya rocking her gray locks..Gray locks paired with awesome make-up equals awesome.
She looks like she just wanted out of a fairytale. Ageless!
As you can see gray is definitely not just for aging beauties.Grey is for every woman.
BuzzFeed noted while naturally going gray requires no work besides waiting, going artificially gray calls for quite a bit of work.Jan-Marie Arteca, a colorist at Jeff Chastain Parlor hair salon in New York City, BuzzFeed Life learned exactly how much maintenance, time, and money the #GrannyHair trend requires.
Take a look at the steps below:
Before you settle on gray hair, you have a few decisions to make. Namely, are you willing to put your hair through the potential damage from bleach and dye?
Unless you have a naturally light-blond hair color, going gray means bleaching your hair to strip out the color before dyeing your hair. Even when it's done by a professional, bleaching your hair means you're going to have some breakage and damage. Basically, your hair may become thinner, and you may need to cut off some length to keep it in a healthy state. To minimize the damage, Arteca suggests following the tips above.
Then, you need to mentally prepare for a drastically new look.
Next, purple toner is applied to take away any yellow undertones left by the bleach.
Why is the toner purple? Because it directly counteracts the yellow undertones in hair to give you the white-silver color.
In order for gray dye to look true to its color, it should be applied to hair that has a white-silver undertone, which is exactly what you'll get when you put purple toner on bleached hair with a yellow undertone.
Then the stylist will apply the dye, which actually looks purple.
Once the hair is bleached and toned, the final step is the gray dye itself. After about 30 minutes of sitting on the hair, it's washed out.
Now it's time for some maintenance.
To keep gray hair looking fresh and lasting as long as possible, Arteca suggests the following tips.
If you like the look of gray hair with dark roots, you can stretch the time between salon appointments to opt for an ombre gray hair color instead.
And here's what to do when you want to touch up your hair dye at home.
Vaseline around your hairline will stop the dye from sticking to (and dyeing) your skin.
Separating your hair into sections helps with even, allover coverage of your hair. You can separate into as many sections as you need to cover your whole head.
Put on latex gloves before you start mixing the hair dye and take them off right before washing your hair to avoid dyeing your skin.
When applying the hair dye, you can use your hands, or for a more precise application, use a dye brush.
After you shampoo the dye out of your hair, avoid washing your hair every day to help the dye last as long as possible in your hair.
Before you begin this process, line the floor of the room with newspaper or tarp to protect it from any stray dye marks.
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Mesoregion Boundaries: Ceará, Brasil, 2010
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- This polygon shapefile contains the mesoregion boundaries for the state of Ceará, Brazil, in 2010. Mesoregions are subdivisions of Brazilian states, grouping together various municipalities in proximity and with common characteristics. They were created by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics for statistical purposes and do not, therefore, constitute an administrative area. This layer is part of the Evolução da divisão territorial do Brasil 1872 - 2010 dataset, a collection of data representing the evolution of Brazilian states, municipalities and cities.This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data.
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Why Does Enterprise Software Look So Ugly?
Evernote CEO Phil Libin has launched a business version of their popular information management tool. He decries the poor experiences that so many enterprise workers have to endure when using badly-designed corporate software. Photo: Getty Images
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Several of the online bookstores are listing my book, Blood Sugar 101, as being "out of stock." This is very temporary. Our distributor is adding UK distribution to their system, which required changing the listing in their database. This caused the book to be listed as "temporarily out of stock" while the update was applied
I'm assured that it will be back in stock within a few days, and when it is, UK buyers should be able to buy Blood Sugar 101 from online bookstores in the UK.
Thanks to everyone who has purchased the book until now. Sales are going really well. The Amazon ranking has been consistently high on the list of Type 2 books, which means people who aren't aware of this blog can find it on a search.
I'm so happy this is happening, as it means more people are getting the benefit of the information Blood Sugar 101 contains.
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Menino, the 'Urban Mechanic,' leaves unparalleled legacy in Boston
Boston Mayor Menino not seeking re-election to 6th term.
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino was elected mayor of one of the nation's most distinctive and historic cities five consecutive times, and was elected city councilor five times before that.
A life-long Hyde Park resident born in the midst of World War II, Menino was the city's first Italian-American mayor, taking over the reins of city government as acting mayor in 1993 when former Mayor Ray Flynn was appointed ambassador to the Vatican.
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Having already served nine years as a city councilor, Menino handily won the 1994 election the following year, beating State Rep. Jim Brett with 64 percent of the vote.
He went on to fend off challenges from Peggy Davis-Mullen and Maura Hennigan in succeeding elections, eventually serving as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in 2003.
In his last race in 2009, he defeated City Councilor Michael Flaherty by a margin of 15 points.
Over decades of public service, the affable Menino earned the nickname "The Urban Mechanic" for his commitment to revitalizing Boston and working with city civic groups to create more welcoming communities.
Under his administrations, Boston saw the completion of the Central Artery "Big Dig" project, construction of the Rose Kennedy Greenway and the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, and revitalization of the Seaport District along Boston's harbor.
A traditional Democrat in one of the nation's bluest states, Menino adhered to the New Deal philosophy that government's purpose is to serve the people and his approval ratings showed that his constituents embraced both the mayor and his approach, giving him a 73 percent approval rating in a survey taken just this week.
In 2004, Menino brought the Democratic National Convention to the city for the first time, generating $150 million in revenue for the Hub. He was also an early advocate of same-sex marriage, receiving the first Icon Award in 2012 from MassEquality, which called him a national leader on gay rights.
Menino also often pointed with pride to the city's innovations in sustainability and environmental awareness, making it one of the "greenest" cities in the nation by enacting a first-of-its-kind green building code, and creating hundreds of acres of new parks and miles of new bike paths.
Menino's political longevity was attributed by some to his abiding awareness of what he thought was most important in a public servant.
"It's because he never lost sight of what matters . . . people and neighborhoods," said City Councilor Maureen Feeney after Menino was re-elected a fifth time. "Everything springs from that."
As a result, he hinged his administration's goals on achieving clean, safe livable neighborhoods, improving inner city education and providing more affordable housing.
Born in Readville, a section of the city's Hyde Park neighborhood, Menino graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas High School before attending Chamberlayne Community College, where he obtained an associate's degree in marketing. He later graduated with a BA in community planning from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst while sitting on the Boston city council.
The mayor suffered from a number of health issues in his later years, including kidney stones in 1995 and 1997 and Crohn's disease, which he was diagnosed with in 2004. He underwent surgery in 2003 to remove a rare sarcoma on his back, and had knee problems in recent years. He discovered in early 2012 that he was suffering from a broken toe and did not know it.
But his most serious illness is the one that factored in his decision not to run for an unprecedented sixth term.
Menino and his wife Angela had to cut short an anniversary trip to Italy in October 2012 when the mayor was diagnosed with an acute viral infection and blood clots in his lungs.
In the hospital, his health went from bad to worse when he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and a fractured vertebrae. It would be almost six months – after hospitalization, rehabilitation and a stay in the city-owned Parkman House – before Menino could return to his Hyde Park home.


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The Hartford Financial Services Group (HIG) has agreed to sell its Retirement Plans business to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. for $400 million, the Hartford, Conn.-based company announced Tuesday.
The $400 million cash deal is structured as a reinsurance transaction and is expected to close by the end of 2012, according to The Hartford's 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Hartford expects the transaction to have no material impact on its GAAP financial results and to benefit net statutory capital by approximately $600 million, including a ceding commission and a reduction in required risk-based capital, on closing.
Early this year, after a weak first-quarter earnings report and a 39% drop in HIG stock in 2011, the hedge fund manager John Paulson pressured The Hartford to sell off its units. Paulson & Co. retains an 8.4% stake in The Hartford, making it the largest shareholder. Paulson filed a Schedule 13D in February with the SEC in an effort to force The Hartford's hand in taking quick action to break up its property and casualty and life insurance units. The life unit includes The Hartford's wealth management, mutual funds and annuities operations.
"The agreement marks the second of three planned business sales as we continue to make good progress executing on our strategy," said Liam McGee (left), chairman, president and CEO of The Hartford, in a statement released Tuesday. "With The Hartford's sharper focus on its historical strength in insurance underwriting, along with efforts to improve expense efficiencies, increase capital generation and reduce market risks, we are on the right path to deliver greater shareholder value."
The Hartford and American International Group announced in July that the insurance giants had signed a definitive agreement to make HIG's independent broker-dealer, Woodbury Financial Services, part of AIG's Advisor Group. The Hartford said on March 21 that it would exit the variable annuity and life insurance businesses to focus on its property and casualty insurance business.
The Hartford's Retirement Plans business, which serves more than 33,000 plans and about 1.5 million participants, is primarily a defined-contribution business, with $54.9 billion in assets under management as of June 30. After the deal closes, The Hartford's Retirement Plans employees will become part of MassMutual's Retirement Services Division.
"Our Retirement Services Division has experienced record growth in recent years and is an important contributor to MassMutual's overall profitability and success," said MassMutual Chairman, President and CEO Roger Crandall in a statement. "This transaction enables us to accelerate growth into new sectors, add complementary distribution capabilities, and nearly double the number of retirement plan participants we serve."
As part of the agreement, The Hartford will continue to sell new retirement plans during a transition period, and MassMutual will assume all expenses and risk for these sales through a reinsurance agreement. Between now and the close of the transaction, there are no planned changes with respect to the day-to-day interactions between The Hartford and its Retirement Plans' distribution partners, plan sponsors and customers.
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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
The anti-slavery movement emerged in the late 18th century as part of the more general movement of reform known as the Enlightenment. As major colonial powers with extensive slave colonies France and Britain both had a significant anti-slavery movement. The effort to abolish slavery began with a campaign to end the traffic in slaves from Africa across the Atlantic, and then to abolish slavery within the colonies. The arguments used against slavery and the slave trade were a mixture of religious, moral, political, and economic arguments.
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
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Jina is Sanskrit for "one who overcomes obstacles". Jina Ventures is a New York and India-based private equity firm founded by Ron Shah in 2003 and operated by a team of experienced professionals and industry experts in New York and Mumbai. The following is a sample of the firm's global media coverage.


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Question:My system has no php.ini configuration file and thus works with the default settings. How can I create a php.ini file (and where do I need to place it)?
Answer:The location for your config file was set when php was compiled (using directive --with-config-file-path=/directory. The default location on Unix machines is /usr/local/lib/php.ini and on Windows computers it is in the Windows directory e.g. c:\windows\php.ini.
To create a file in that location, take the file php.ini-dist and copy it to the above mentioned location, then rename it to php.ini. Under Windows you could also keep configuration settings in the registry but I recommend using the text file since it makes migrations easier.
Afterwards you can confirm that the php.ini file works by calling phpinfo():


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LONDON, March 23 (UPI) -- Roads and airports have been closed, and sports events canceled, after wintry weather disrupted travel and power across the United Kingdom, officials said.
Britain's national weather service has urged people to stay aware of conditions as snow falling across northern and central parts of the country was expected to move to the south and southeast, the BBC reported Saturday.
Hundreds of schools were closed across Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England Friday. More than 200,000 homes and businesses were left without electrical power in Belfast. By late Friday, 14,000 customers in Scotland were without power.
About 70 motorists were rescued from snowdrifts in Cambria, while police and mountain rescue teams helped people stuck on the A595, a major highway in the region.
Gary Parsons, a member of Bay Search and Rescue, said that while only about a foot of snow had fallen on flat fields, winds had whipped up drifts 14 and 15 feet high along hedges and walls.
Trains are not running between Leeds and Carlisle. All flights have been cancelled at Leeds Bradford airport, Humberside Airport and East Midlands Airport.
The National Grid attempted to allay fears the prolonged cold snap could cause the country to run out of natural gas, asserting "plenty of gas" was available.


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I am facing a problem regarding qPCR quantitation, and I hope, that someone in this forum might help me.
Currently I am working in a research project in which we perform a gene expression study of human monocytes. There is one group of critically ill patients, and another group which serves as a control group. However I want to perform both quantitation via deltadelta CT method in case PCR efficiencies are comparablem, but also quantitation via relative standard curves.
Now my question is: Which material is suitable for relative standard curve quantitation. I am not interested in absolute quantitation because I am comparing two groups together, but I am interested in how much mRNA content is in the cells independently regarding pcr efficiency.
Would it be appropriate to use THP-1 cells for reference rna?
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Cloud Connect Microsoft developer and platform general manager Matt Thompson has claimed that among startups across the United States, interest in Google's App Engine is "almost nonexistent" and that only a "tiny number" have an eye on Salesforce's Force.com. Citing a recent Microsoft survey, Thompson said that if startups are interested in building and deploying apps on a so-called public cloud, they're interested in Amazon Web Services and, yes, Microsoft Azure.
"Salesforce has built a huge business. [It's] very successful," he said. "But if you go to the leading startups who are building apps today, Salesforce is an edge case. We see [interest in] Amazon [EC2], host-your-own setups, and Azure. Those are the top three."
Asked about Microsoft's claims, Salesforce told us that there are currently 340,000 members of the Force.com developer community, including startups such as Appirio, Financial Force, DocuSign, ServiceMax, GreatVines, and Model Metrics. Google went even further. "Every week, more than 150,000 applications, including many developed by start-ups such as Simperium (developer of Simplenote), Gri.pe, Farmigo, and others, are active on Google App Engine," a Google spokeswoman said.
"These applications have been developed by the more than 100,000 developers at companies large and small who are working on apps powered by Google App Engine. Everyday, the Google App Engine platform powers more than one billion pageviews across all App Engine applications."
The company also cited a survey of 150 businesses, published today, that ranked Google App Engine as the second leading cloud offering behind Amazon Web Services.
Microsoft's Thompson took the stage for a panel discussion this morning at the annual Cloud Connect conference in Santa Clara, California, and in typical Microsoft fashion, he wasn't shy about taking aim at the competition. At one point, he even made a crack about people who wear jackets – with fellow panelist Mathew Lodge, senior director of cloud services at VMware, sitting beside him in a jacket. "I'm a geek. That's what I do," Thompson said, when the talk turned to the developer tools that run atop Azure. "That's why I'm not wearing a jacket."
Azure is Microsoft's so-called platform cloud, a service that lets developers build and host applications via the web. Google's App Engine and Force.com are similar services. Unlike Amazon's EC2 "infrastructure cloud", these platform clouds let you build and host applications without juggling virtual-machine instances and other raw infrastructure resources. EC2 gives you access to those raw resources, providing a bit more flexibility than the platform clouds – but potentially more hassle as well.
Currently, Azure is a single public service hosted by Microsoft. But the company is working with partners to build appliances that will allow third parties to build their own Azure services. Asked if it was difficult to balance a public cloud with Microsoft's traditional business, where it's selling software for private hosting situations, Thompson said "no". Naturally.
"We haven't see that conflict yet," said Thompson, who runs Microsoft developer relations in the US. "We're finding solutions for each [individual customer]. Could it happen? Possibly. But so far, not yet."
Just as naturally, Thompson said that private clouds will be "very important going forward". This is in stark contrast to aN outfit like Amazon or Salesforce, which believes that the world should move to a model in which all applications are hosted on remote servers. For Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and Salesforce boss Marc arc Benioff, private cloud is an oxymoron.
"You run into services companies and you ask about the public cloud, and they say 'Why would I take the most important asset I have and put it in a place where I no longer manage it directly?'," Thompson explained. That asset, he said, is the customer list held by these companies.
Thompson did not acknowledge that Microsoft's Azure appliances are well behind schedule. They were supposed to arrive before the end of last year, but no one – neither Microsoft nor its partners HP, Dell, and Fujitsu – will say when they'll arrive. ®
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Commonwealth Financial Network announced the launch of a new blog by its chief investment officer, Brad McMillan, that is aimed at general investors and will address developments in the economy and the markets. Called The Independent Market Observer, the blog is designed, the company said, to educate both financial advisors and their clients, using McMillan's insights and those of Commonwealth's investment research department.
McMillan (left) holds degrees from Dartmouth, MIT and Boston College, and has the CFA, CAIA, MAI and IAF designations. He has contributed to Investment Advisor magazine in the past, such as this prescient article from 2010 on the proper place of gold in client portfolios, and is a popular speaker at Commonwealth advisor gatherings, known for his deadpan but humorous and informed delivery on the direction of the markets and the economy.
His Commonwealth Financial colleague, Gavin Morrissey, is a regular contributor to AdvisorOne, writing on tax planning, philanthropy and other wealth management issues for advisors and their clients. In June, he blogged about "zeroed-out" grantor-retained annuity trusts (GRATs).


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This layout was made for:
1. Tchupile's October Challenge - use fabric
2. ScrapSketch extra sketch from May 23, 2009
3. Frosted Designs, use fabric
I used: Miss Elizabeth's Antique White & Bright White cardstock, sonburn cardstock, DCWV patterned paper, old book, old jeans, ribbon, Ink It Up! black ink, Dome Nailheads 4 Prong, Doodlebug rub-on white stitches, buttons, Cuttlebug Embossing folder, Nestabilitles Scalloped Circle Large, Colorbox chalk ink.
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Best Friends
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Great layout Shir! Love the blues and whites. I'm following now! yay
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This is really pretty! Thanks for joining us at Frosted Designs!
I love the LO! And the use of the BJ is wonderful. I have cut several pieces of old jeans up to use, but wasn't quiet sure how... now I do!
Beautiful layout Shir! I am so glad you joined Frosted Designs fun challenge!
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• A daily summary of global reports on security issues.
President Barack Obama is set to announce Friday the creation of a "cyber czar" post to oversee the safety of US computer networks as the Pentagon plans to create a new military command dedicated to computer warfare. Both developments are part of the Obama administration's effort to better protect the nation's digital security in the age of cyberwarfare.
The New York Times reports that Mr. Obama is expected to sign a classified order creating the new "cyber" military command in the coming weeks. The Times notes that the Pentagon's plan has not yet been officially presented to Obama, but that "the United States already has a growing number of computer weapons in its arsenal and must prepare strategies for their use — as a deterrent or alongside conventional weapons — in a wide variety of possible future conflicts."
Officials declined to describe potential offensive operations, but said they now viewed cyberspace as comparable to more traditional battlefields.
"We are not comfortable discussing the question of offensive cyberoperations, but we consider cyberspace a war-fighting domain," said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman. "We need to be able to operate within that domain just like on any battlefield, which includes protecting our freedom of movement and preserving our capability to perform in that environment."
Although Pentagon civilian officials and military officers said the new command was expected to initially be a subordinate headquarters under the military's Strategic Command, which controls nuclear operations as well as cyberdefenses, it could eventually become an independent command.
The Times adds that the major point of contention over US plans for cyberwarfare is which government agency will take the lead: the Pentagon or the National Security Agency (NSA), which has more experience in computer operations.
News of the Pentagon's plans comes as Obama is set to announce the creation of a "cyber czar" position, which will oversee the security of US computer networks, both federal and private. The Associated Press reports that the new czar, who will be named in the coming days, will "oversee an enhanced security system for the nation's computer networks."
On Friday, Obama is expected to lay out broad goals for dealing with cyber threats while depicting the U.S. as a digital nation that needs to provide the education required to keep pace with technology and attract and retain a cyber-savvy work force. He also is expected to call for a new education campaign to raise public awareness of the challenges and threats related to cyber security.
The review, however, will not dictate how the government or private industry should tighten digital defenses. Critics say the cyber czar will not have sufficient budgetary and policy-making authority over securing computer systems and spending.
Officials familiar with the discussions say the cyber czar would be a special assistant to the president and would be supported by a new cyber directorate within the National Security Council. The cyber czar would also work with the National Economic Council, said the officials, who described the plan on condition of anonymity because it has not been publicly released.
The Wall Street Journal reports that candidates for cyber czar include acting White House cybersecurity chief Melissa Hathaway, who oversaw the administration review that prompted the creation of the position; Microsoft Corp. Vice President Scott Charney, who formerly ran the Justice Department's computer-crime unit; and Maureen Baginski, who has held posts at the NSA and the FBI. The Journal also reports that Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the current head of the NSA, is expected to lead the Pentagon's cybercommand once it has been created by Obama.
CNN writes that the impetus for the administration's new focus on national computer security comes from the rise in cyberattacks in recent years.
The Department of Homeland Security reports the number of cyber attacks on government and private networks increased from 4,095 in 2005 to 72,065 in 2008.
This month, a Transportation Department audit – carried out after hackers got into a support system containing personnel records – indicated the nation's air-traffic control system could be at risk.
Hathaway expressed concern that critical infrastructures such as the nation's power grid and financial networks could be vulnerable. "God forbid if somebody were to take down and or manipulate our financial system, and what would we do, and would it make the current financial crisis look like a walk in the park?" she asked.
Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair recently told reporters the biggest cyber threat facing the United States is from nation states, particularly Russia and China. "I think China is winning the sweepstakes for the origin of most attacks on U.S. persons and organizations," he said.


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INDIANAPOLIS -- Sure. You can say they don't have kids. And, technically, they don't.
But these "parents" may get into a war of words with you.
"We don't have skin children. We have fur children," said Becki Bradford, who along with her husband, Frank, have five dogs and two cats. "We are responsible for their health and their happiness. They rely on us for everything. We do consider them our children."
Becki, 52, and Frank, 50, waited to try to have human children, then realized they couldn't. Fertility options were pricey.
Fluffy kids made sense for the Indianapolis couple, and it's making sense for a growing segment of Americans who want a family, don't have kids and have money to pamper four-legged children.
While no hard statistics exist as to how many pets-only families there are, pet spending (typically a good sign of what's going on) is exploding nationwide.
Americans forked out more than $53 billion on pets in 2012, an all-time high and a 5% jump from 2011, according to the America Pet Products Association.
That spending is projected to rise more than 4% in 2013, with pet parents buying clothes, treats, facials, massages and even plastic surgery, such as ear tucks, for their furry children.
Retailers have gone to the extreme, pushing out lines of cologne like the Sexy Beast Dog Perfume for $65, Martha Stewart-brand dog beds for $50 and BK Atelier's luxury poop-bag holder for $39.99.
Of course, the offerings go way beyond that, with $3,500 cat houses, $5,000 diamond-studded dog collars or, if your pet just needs to eat in the lap of luxury, a Versace Barocco pet bowl for $754.
But really, when you get right down to it, being an extreme pet parent isn't all about spending big. It's about loving, caring and treating animals, well, a lot like kids.
Single mother
Lindsay Belk often has trouble deciding which outfit to select for the day. When that problem extends to her 2-year-old dog Peyton, it gets a bit extreme.
The Yorkiepoo — a mix of a Yorkshire terrier and poodle — has more than 40 outfits, all neatly hung in her own closet. They include sun dresses, a bikini, a bikini cover-up, Indiana Pacers and Indianapolis Colts outfits, sweaters, winter coats and raincoats.
But that's just the tip of Peyton's posh lifestyle. The pooch lives with Belk, 32, who is single and is an orthopedic physician's assistant.
Peyton gets blueberry facials for $45 at a dog spa. Belk grills fresh chicken to add to her dog food. Peyton drinks out of a filtered water fountain. She has play dates with other dogs.
"I feel like I treat her like my baby girl," said Belk, who on Monday became "mother" to a second baby girl, Portia, a miniature Maltese.
While she spoils her pets, the Carmel woman is like any mother as she also educates, teaches and disciplines.
Peyton knows how to sit, lie down, shake, roll over, dance, get in the car and cross the street. She's learning to turn right, left or go straight when the two run. She also has "time outs" in her crate when she's bad.
"Yes, it's official. I treat her like my child," said Belk, "and sometimes I feel like she understands better than some children."
At times, friends and family tease Belk about her dog antics, but it's not all her doing.
Take the 40-plus outfits. Belk claims most of those came from Peyton's "Auntie" Kennedy, who is Belk's friend.
And it's not like they will go to waste.
"Her new little sister will be wearing some of Peyton's hand-me-downs," Belk said.
Proud parents
Chris Denny tries to not brag to friends about his four dogs. He thinks twice before posting photos on Facebook.
"We try not to overdo it," he said, referring to his wife, Debbie, and himself, of Indianapolis. "We're self-aware that we love our dogs like other people love their children."
Chris, 45, a business analyst, and Debbie, 48, who works in a dental office, are the proud parents of Daisy, who is blind, and Stewie (both puggles), Peyton (a Pekinese-pug mix) and Hazel (a Boston terrier).
All six sleep in bed together. They buy cupcakes to celebrate each dog's birthday. And, recently, Chris tracked down birthday hats so he could take pictures of the dogs wearing them.
The couple, who have been married almost four years, have no children. This is the first marriage for both.
Both came into the relationship loving dogs, but "being together, we've made each other more dog lovers," Chris said. They've even started a side gig, Smiling Dog Photography, taking pictures of pets.
They try not to show favoritism. Debbie said that's not all that tough with four dogs.
"We don't spoil one over the other because it's so hard to focus on just one," she said.
Debbie did admit that Stewie is "kind of my favorite." He's "rotten" and always pushing other dogs out of the way if he's not getting enough of his parents' attention.
Maybe it's because he's the baby at age 3. But that status likely won't last for long.
The Dennys have run out of room at their current home, but once they upsize, that will mean at least one more dog.
Not-so-crazy cat lady
What's that? The garage door is opening? Max and Lillie jump up, scrambling for the door.
"They are right there to say, 'Hey, Mom. What did you do today?'" said Stephanie Schultz, a meeting planner for the NCAA.
Schultz, who is single and lives in Indianapolis, gladly tells them. These two 4-year-old cats are her family.
"These are my kids," she said. "Everybody knows them as my kids and asks about them. They are the light of my life."
Schultz, who says she's old enough to not want to reveal her age, doesn't have human children. Animals have filled the void.
Max and Lillie — a brother and sister pair — have been with her since they were about a year old. Schultz knows each cat's quirks and personality traits.
Max is the outgoing one. When a visitor comes, he is the "security guy." He smells their feet to figure out if they are a cat person or dog person.
He likes to drink water out of the kitchen faucet, which is a no-no. To accommodate, Schultz puts a water dish on the counter with three ice cubes. Max gets a kick out of knocking the ice around with his paws.
Lillie is clingy. She likes to sit on the bathroom shelf while Schultz brushes her teeth.
While Schultz eats dinner, she said Lillie "likes to have a good conversation with Mom." Schultz tells stories. Lillie meows. More talk from Schultz. More meows from Lillie.
As Schultz tells the stories of her cats, she repeats often, "I've not gone over the edge."
She doesn't have pictures of them at work. She may celebrate birthdays and Christmas with them, but that's just an extra treat or two.
Schultz did, however, send a get-well card from Max and Lillie to their cousin, dog Victoria, when she was spayed earlier this month.
"They really are good children," she said.
A love-hate pet love
The first two cats Frank and Becki Bradford had were named Nuisance and Bother. Frank selected the names.
"I called them Baby," said Becki, who owns The Pet Company, a pet-sitting service in Indianapolis.
Frank never was an animal person. He likes kittens, but doesn't like them when they grow up. He gets why people like dogs, but he's not overly fond of them.
Yet, somehow the couple, who have been married 23 years, have managed to take Frank's love-hate feelings toward animals and overcome it.
They have five dogs and two cats, all living inside their home.
"I bring in guitars and she brings in dogs," said Frank, a musician.
Among their family of canines is Leopold Maxwell, a chow/golden retriever mix, and JoJo, who they think is either an American Eskimo or border collie mix.
There is Tater, whose real name is Potato because he looks like a potato — a brown and white beagle mix with a lumpy head. And there is Penelope, either a miniature pinscher mixed with a larger dog or a Rottweiler mixed with a smaller dog.
Then there's Rusty, a beagle who right now has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. "So far, he's doing really well," Becki said.
The cats include Annie and Toby, both abandoned by a feral mom.
Because some of the dogs aren't too fond of cats, Annie and Toby have their own room. It's filled with cat trees to climb and all kinds of toys. The dogs have a lot of clothes.
All the animals are, admittedly, "very spoiled," according to Becki. But they have rules and manners and they follow them — most of the time.
"They know (that) what Mom and Dad says goes," she said.


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We'll help you identify which butterflies you can attract to your garden as well as many of the common butterflies and caterpillars of North America.
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A new report on social media from Nielsen shows U.S. users spent 53.5 billion minutes on Facebook in May, which is more time than was spent on the next four biggest sites.
(If you include YouTube with Google, then it's more time than the next three biggest sites.)
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- Written by Pauly
Despite its fringe status and the endless rotation of band members, 2 things remained constants the last 3 decades for the band Suicidal Tendencies: the involvement of founder/lead singer/song writer Mike Muir through all its incarnations and its impact being as one of first band to cross elements of metal rock and punk music.
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of of its debut/self titled album released in 1983, New Era in collaboration with MedicomToy created a limited run of its 59FIFTY caps. Each features the band's name as classic logo and SUICIDAL writing right under the hat's brim, like the classic OG Flip-Up hats that have been the band's trademark forever.
Presented at the 2008 Medicom Toy convention, the first test press were the black on black and black on white logo hats.
Classic black with white logo has then been released along with the first two later in 2008 and a variation with neon coloring was released in April 2009. All hats were produced in a very limited run.
A later collaboration with snowboard brand 686, took New Era back at work with ST to release a very unique limited edition of an unique mesh hat. Check the 686 collab link for all the info.


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Innovation celebrated by Chamber of Commerce
Unique business strategies, products and services will be celebrated next week at the 2nd Annual Innovation Awards presented by Florida Power and Light Company and produced by the largest business organization in Broward County.
"We recognized the connection between creative business practices, jobs and growing our regional economy," said Dan Lindblade, president and CEO of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce. "Our mission with this program is to celebrate, educate and connect innovators across all industries."
Nominations are due no later than Dec. 8 and can be filled out online by going to www.ftlchamber.com/innovation. You can nominate your own company or another, there is no fee to apply and you do not need to be a Chamber member to qualify.
The product or service produced by the company must have been introduced within the last three (3) years and the business must be headquartered in the tri-county region.
There were 36 nominations for the inaugural Innovation Awards program in 2013 with 11 given out to companies like Resolve Marine, Broward College, United Way, the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort, Prodeco Electric Bicycles, and Broward Health to name a few.
The ceremony will take place on Dec. 11, beginning at 4:00 pm on the second floor of the Galleria at Fort Lauderdale adjacent to Dillard's and immediately preceding the Chamber's annual Holiday Social. While there is no fee to attend the Innovation Awards, there is a $25 fee for the Holiday Social.
For more information go to www.ftlchamber.com or contact the Chamber at 954/462-6000.
The Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce is the largest and oldest business organization in Broward County. Established in 1910, the Chamber has 1,311 companies that employ more than 500,000 employees.
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Ovulating women can spot gay men better than just about anyone, according to a study that theorizes females wired for reproduction have a strong sense of "gaydar."
The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, found that women shown pictures of gay and straight men were much more accurate at separating them when they were at their most fertile. Their accuracy also proved best after they read a story about a romantic encounter.
"What we do know is that a mix of women at any given point in their cycles did better when primed to think about mating than when not primed to think about mating," said Nicholas Rule, who conducted the study with colleagues from the University of Toronto.
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To test the findings, Rule's team showed straight women photos of lesbians and straight women and asked them to identify which were gay. On that task, there was no significant difference in the performance of ovulating or non-ovulating women.
Ovulating women are no more confident than their less fertile peers when making their choices; they're just much more successful, Rule said.
"We consistently find that people have no idea they are able to do this," said the assistant professor of psychology and the study's lead author. "They come out of the experiment completely frustrated and say, 'This is so hard, no one can do this,' and then we look at the data and they're doing amazingly well."


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Wikimedia Italia
Wikimedia Italia - Associazione per la diffusione della conoscenza libera is the Italian chapter of the Wikimedia movement.
Contact information at Contatti. General e-mails to Wikimedia Italia can be sent to infowikimedia.it.
The Wikimedia Italia official website is www.wikimedia.it, there is also a wiki for members and English/French speakers located at wiki.wikimedia.it.
Current boardEdit
Elected on April 23, 2020.
- Matteo Ruffoni, president
- Gian Francesco Esposito, vicepresident
- Paolo Mauri, secretary
- Luca Landucci, treasurer
- Maria Pia Dall'Armellina
- Francesco Carbonara
- Maurizio Codogno
- Marina Milella
- Roberto Corda (stand-in)
- Gianluigi Gamba (stand-in)
Current staffEdit
- Francesca Lissoni, fundraising officer
- Francesca Ussani, communication officer
- Giovanna Ranci Ortigosa, project manager education
- Marta Arosio, project manager GLAM
Office addressEdit
via Bergognone 34, c/o BASE Milano
20144 Milano (MI)
Phone: +390297677170
Fax: +390399462394
email: segreteria wikimedia.it
As of December 2012, the association counts 471 members. The 2012 budget comprised around 100 k€, raised from donations and sponsorships.
- What has been done so far (most links in Italian, sorry)
- we participate round-the-year in local and national events and fairs, seminars, lectures in classrooms, etc. for promoting WMF projects in Italy [1]
- we support and collaborate in nationwide petitions and campaigns [2]
- we organized some online and offline initiatives [3] (Wiki@home (English), WikiAfrica, BWM, Biblioteca, Musica)
- 3rd part publishers released a DVD-version of it:wp (more than 20,000 copies sold) and a handbook about Wikipedia and the Wikis
- we have obtained the status of "associazione di promozione sociale" (social promotion association, a "charity" status in Italy); this grants tax deductibility on donations for the donors and other facilitations: we have also joined the WMF 2009 fundraising and 2010 "cinque per mille" campaign (sort of en:Eight per thousand for charities)
- we have an office in Milan.
- Best successes
- a few national awards [4] (English)
- the digital freedoms festival (2009 (English), 2010 and 2011)
- the Wikimedia Conference 2013 in Milan
- organization of Wiki Loves Monuments Italia, despite the legal hurdles
- Worst headache
- the squatted domains www.wiki***.it
- some legal complaints about the content of some Wikipedia articles (mainly bios of politicians), passed through to OTRS, as WMI is not the proper recipient, except the last one (English)
See Wikimedia chapters/Reports/Wikimedia Italia.
Financial statementsEdit
The most recent financial statements are:
- 2017 financial statement
- 2016 financial statement
- 2015 financial statement
- 2014 financial statement
- 2013 financial statement
- 2012 financial statement
- 2011 financial statement
Wikimedia Italia also publishes a newsletter (Wikimedia News) about twice per month.
Wikimedia Italia was formed on Friday 17th June 2005, in Canino.
The bylaws were prepared and approved by the Wikimedia Foundation.
During an IRC meeting with Jimbo, Angela and Anthere the bylaws were amended and the Foundation was given permission to proceed.
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DALLAS (AP) — Cody Eakin tied it at 12:58 of the second period and rookie Alex Chiasson scored in the shootout to lift the Dallas Stars to a 4-3 win over San Jose on Thursday night that ended the Sharks' perfect start to the season.
Chiasson was the only one of the six skaters to score in the shootout, beating Antti Niemi by firing a shot just inside the right post.
Chiasson is Dallas' leader with four goals in six games this season. For his NHL career, he has 10 goals in 13 games.
The Sharks (6-0-1) fell one game shy of tying the best start in their history, last season's 7-0 beginning.
The Stars outshot San Jose 31-29 in regulation. The Sharks took all five shots in overtime but couldn't beat goalie Dan Ellis even though Dallas was short-handed for the final 1:02 of overtime.
San Jose, which scored eight power-play goals in its first six games, was 0 for 5 against Dallas.
San Jose took a 1-0 lead just 9 seconds into the game. Off the opening faceoff, Tyler Kennedy skated along the right wing and shot the puck past Ellis for his first goal this season.
Dallas tied the score on Tyler Seguin's rebound goal at 16:44. His third goal extended his personal points streak to five games.
The tie lasted barely a minute. The Sharks took a 2-1 lead when Matthew Nieto skated to the top of the slot and fired a shot off the right post and in at 17:52.
Dallas outshot San Jose 12-11 in the period. Each team failed to score on two power plays.
The Stars tied the game again twice in the second period. At 1:53, Trevor Daley scored his first goal on a rebound of Eakin's shot. Eakin scored his second goal of 2013-14 to tie the game 3-3 at 12:58.
Daley was involved in another goal at 12:31 of the period when San Jose's Patrick Marleau attempted a wraparound. The play was first ruled a save by Ellis. A review showed that the puck had gone off Daley's skate across the goal line.
The goal was the sixth this season for Marleau. He and Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby are the only NHL players with at least one point in all seven games this season.
Nineteen seconds before the second period ended, the Stars' Antoine Roussel and the Sharks' Matt Irwin received major penalties for fighting.
The Sharks had entered the game averaging better than 41 shots on goal per game and allowing less than 24.
Niemi has played every minute of the Sharks' schedule to date.
NOTES: Kennedy's goal was the fastest recorded against the Stars franchise during its 47 seasons in Minnesota and Dallas. The earliest goal in San Jose's 22 seasons was by Stephane Matteau 8 seconds into a game against St. Louis Jan. 11, 2000. . Sharks right wing Adam Burish, a 7-year veteran, had back surgery in Los Angeles to correct a disc problem. . Dallas' Ray Whitney's two second-period assists gave him nine during a six-game scoring streak (all assists) against the Sharks.
DALLAS (AP) — Cody Eakin tied it at 12:58 of the second period and rookie Alex Chiasson scored in the shootout to lift the Dallas Stars to a 4-3 win over San Jose on Thursday night that ended the Sharks' perfect start to the season.