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|Night in Battle of Bracelets: Unlimited Tales.
Night is one of the Dark Bracelets of Battle of Bracelets. She makes her first appearance in Battle of Bracelets 4: New Generation as one of the bosses of the game. She has an unknown future and she is considered one of the most strange bracelets of the game, since she haven't got a Dark Bracelet under Darkreon's power. Despite the fact that she has been always next to Aingeru, she doesn't show her bracelet to him until she goes through a terrible danger. Her main weapon is the Blackstaff, a weapon that has a giant amount of Shadow energy, can throw big dark balls and improve all the Shadow attacks. Her main ability is Dark Form, that can become a mass of darkness or make that any part of her body turns into shadows.
Games Appearances
Battle of Bracelets Series
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Night results one of the most controversial characters of the series. Anyone would doubt of her intentions, even her doubts of them. She is just a girl that wants to bring her powers back, but when she first meets Aingeru, she finds someone affective and warm. That is the reason why Night doubts if she should kill Aingeru or if she shold help him. She is scared of the Dark Bracelets and, over all, of Darkreon.
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Special Features of Night
Hidden Dark Bracelet
Night is one of the new Dark Bracelets of Battle of Bracelets 4: New Generation but for some reason, she doesn't let anyone know about it until a extreme situation. Other fact of the Dark Bracelet of Night is that the energy of the bracelet is strange and nobody could know the origin of that. It's the only Dark Bracelet that doesn't follow Darkreon and that he knew about it. Darkreon doesn't know about her bracelet, that means that Night may have enough power to be out of the God of Darkness' control. Some hypothesis say that Night may be a Goddess because of her energy but they can be considered true.
Night has two different appearances depending on the situation, the rogue side and the royal side. The rogue side is the cloth of Night which looks more habitual in a combat. She is more agressive and risky with that appearance. The royal side is the cloth of Night which appears when she wakes up her "legendary power" a darker dress and an armor that comes from the kingdom of night and darkness. With this appearance, she looks more serious and concentrated in the war.
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Attacks, Power and Abilities
- Retrocontrol
- Night Space
Main Abilities
- Dark Form
Main Weapons
- Blackstaff
- Her name is justified. She is considered the night of the Bracelets.
- She has a similar power and role that Pandora's. Besides, their clothes are extremely similar and the hair too. The main differences are the colours: whereas Pandora is based on dark purple clothes since she is a Hades' minion, Night wears red and brown clothes.
- Night may be related to the Goddess of Night, Nyx.
- Her role in the story is short, as if she were a filler character. In fact, she just appears on Battle of Bracelets 4 as the character of an optional chapter. Although it was revealed that she would appear on the remake of Galactian: Battle of Bracelets.


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This next one is a little different. It's a window at the old Washington College Academy near Limestone Tennessee. The school is closed but it's still a pretty place to photograph. You can see the reflections of snow in the window.
I did get out and take some traditional landscape shots this week. June and I drove up past Damascus Virginia to the little town of Taylor's Valley to get to the Virginia Creeper Trail. There was 4 - 6 inches of fluffy snow on the trail. No bikers this day, but there were plenty of cross country skier tracks. I took several photos of the trail and creek.
One of my favorite Christmas presents this year is the Nik Complete Collection of photo editing software. One of the packages is a new HDR tool that can produce HDR images that don't have the edgy HDR look. This is one of my first attempts with that software.
These photos, and others, are available on my website under the Winter gallery. Many other photos are also available on my website.

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Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders Mr. Christofias and Mr. Eroglu will meet anew on Sunday in order to overcome basic differences in terms of solving the Cyprus Problem.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon had called the two sides' leaders to reach an agreement by the end of October in order for the reunification negotiations to commence. However, his special adviser Alexander Downer said after the leaders met last week in Nicosia that differences remained.
According to information, the two sides have not agreed on key issues including what to do with private property lost during the war, territorial boundaries, details of a federal government and elections.
Despite the encouraging progress made, the Secretary General "wants to hear about what those difficulties are, and to hear from the leaders the sorts of ideas they have for overcoming those difficulties", Mr Downer said.
The talks will take place at the secluded Greentree estate in Manhasset, NY.


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At this point, the awesomeness of Larry King is pretty much a certified verifiable fact. Maybe it took us a few mirth-free years of Piers Morgan to realize how much we had taken King for granted over the decades, but his status as one of the most distinguished television interviewers of all-time is well-deserved.
This was readily evident during King's hilarious — and often fascinating — interview with Tyler, The Creator for his new Hulu series Larry King Now. The interview has plenty of funny moments, but it's also surprisingly insightful, as Tyler speaks candidly about his inspirations, as well as his hopes for the future. Most interestingly, he talks about his desire to get away from rap and move into composing music. He'd also like to sing more, but fears his voice is to gravelly for it.
Early in the interview, Tyler tells King he was initially nervous about the interview, expecting a predictable set of generic condescending questions that an octogenarian might be inclined to ask a 23-year-old who is primarily known as a rapper. Tyler seems genuinely surprised by the amount of respect King shows him here. While the vast age difference between the two is mentioned – and joked about – it happily does not serve as the impetus for turning the interview into a mere novelty. Instead, we get an honest, thoughtful conversation in which both parties are truly interested in what the other one has to say.
Of course, since this is Tyler, The Creator we're talking about we do get a few goofy moments. Most notably, when Tyler proclaims his love for Jennifer Lawrence, advising her to "leave the ni**a you with." But for the majority of the interview, the conversation is thoughtful and intelligent, and King refers to Tyler as "a true renaissance man." It is quite clear that King truly respects him as an artist, and that the interview was in no way intended as a mere publicity stunt.


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- "Good girl."
- ―Obi-Wan Kenobi to Boga
Varactyls, also known as Dragonmounts, were reptavian herbivores native to the planet Utapau, though some specimens found their way to worlds such as Kashyyyk[2] and Belsavis.[3]
Biology[edit | edit source]
They had beaked faces and long, powerful tails that could stretch to 10 meters. The varactyl's flexible neck supported its armor-plated skull, and both male and female dragonmounts had crests and a ridge of mid-body spines displayed during courting. While females sported blue-green plumage and skin, males were mostly dull shades of orange and brown. Most important were the varactyl's five-toed feet. Not only could a varactyl run very fast, but their feet were adapted with tiny hairlike structures that allowed them to climb the rocky walls of Utapau's sinkholes. This marked the varactyl as an excellent mount for the native Utapauns.
A varactyl's vocalizations were short, loud hooting calls.
Varactyls were very intelligent creatures who long remembered previous riders. The varactyl's reaction to a rider depended on how that rider had treated it previously: it would be loyal and affectionate to a good rider, but hostile and dangerous to an abusive one.
Varactyl subspecies included the dwarf varactyl, varactyl venomblade,[2] varactyl preystalker[2] and deathspine varactyl.[2] It could be related to the Nos monster on Utapau.
History[edit | edit source]
Long ago, the stunted Utai learned to tame wild varactyl and still served as wranglers for the dragonmounts, acting as keepers of both varactyl and their flying dactillion cousins. Varactyl were known to be loyal and obedient steeds. Riding a varactyl was reportedly similar to riding the speedy suubatars of Ansion. Both creatures were fitted with high-backed saddles for their riders.
In order to track down General Grievous, Obi-Wan Kenobi used a particularly swift and loyal varactyl named Boga. In record time, Boga reached the tenth level of Pau City, and engaged General Grievous in his wheel bike in a furious chase through the city.
Commander Cody carried out Palpatine's Order 66 by ordering an AT-TE's gunner to fire upon Boga and Obi-Wan; however, the AT-TE's cannon blast hit a wall near them, and the two plunged to the grotto below.
Many years before the Galactic Civil War, someone had brought a live varactyl egg to Kashyyyk. When the egg was subsequently lost, it hatched, and soon dozens of varactyl populated a section of jungle on the Wookiee homeworld. As varactyls are not known to be able to reproduce asexually, how this happened is unknown.
A large number of varactyls once attacked the Wookiees of the Kerritamba Village. After they had finally fended off the attacks at the Great Tree, the Wookiees drove the varactyls out of the Kkowir Forest.[2]
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Knights of the Old Republic 6: Commencement, Part 6
- Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Strongholds
- Maul: Lockdown
- Star Wars: Grievous Getaway
- Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith novelization
- Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith video game
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith junior novel
- Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith 2 (First appearance)
- Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith 3
- Obi-Wan's Foe (As "dragon-lizard")
- Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookiees
Non-canon appearances[edit | edit source]
Sources[edit | edit source]
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Incredible Cross-Sections
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary
- Star Wars Galaxies: The Total Experience: Prima Official Game Guide
- Star Wars Miniatures: Universe (Pack: Obi-Wan on Boga) (backup link)
- Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide
- Star Wars: Complete Locations
- Exploring Real Life Varactyls on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Star Wars Miniatures: Champions of the Force (Pack: Varactyl Wrangler) (backup link)
- Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary
- Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption Expansion: Prima Official Game Guide
- The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
- "Starship Battles Preview 6" on Wizards.com (original article link, backup link)
- Threats of the Galaxy
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
- The Essential Atlas
- Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – The Shadow Syndicate (Card: Varactyl Armor)
- Star Wars Art: Visions (Picture only)
- Star Wars: Head-to-Head Tag Teams
- Boga in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Utapau in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Utapaun in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
- "The Art Side of the Force"—Star Wars Insider 130
- Star Wars: The Old Republic Explorer's Guide
- Star Wars: What Makes a Monster?
- Boga in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link) (Indirect mention only)
- Stay on Target
- Steadfast Champion Pack Hits the Cartel Market on The Old Republic's official website (backup link)


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Nike does it again and comes with a great piece of art advertising. Simple piece, great message and above all, amazing insight identification work: We do less sport because we waste our time on social media looking at stupid stuff. Under the purpose of going viral, Nike created few other versions as per below. I'm […]Read More »


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On August 24, 2007 TiVo made a filing with the FCC in which they argue that OCAP, or the OpenCable Platform, is unsuitable for 3rd party bidirectional digital cable consumer electronics devices, such as a possible future TiVo. TiVo feels that the current OCAP specifications need significant changes to be suitable for a CE device, and that given the choice between the current OCAP specs and the CEA's counter-proposal of DCR+, TiVo would have to back DCR+. However, the most interesting part of their filing, at least to me, is TiVo's proposal for an interim standard that would be based off of Home Media Engine (starting on page 24). I've reformatted it slightly for the web – removed the page breaks and moved all the footnotes to the end of the quote:
Given the choice between the current OCAP regime proposed by NCTA and CEA's November 7th proposal, TiVo has to support the CEA proposal since, as explained above, the current OCAP regime simply does not allow TiVo to build a competitive bidirectional product. As explained above, the current OCAP regime is no choice at all since the technical provisions of OCAP and the additional terms that are in effect via CableLabs licensing agreements prevent TiVo from dictating the design and functionality of its product. Although the purity of its offering may suffer to some extent, however, TiVo believes that some concessions may be necessary for consumers to realize the benefits of competition as promised by Section 629 in the near term, which in turn will promote the sale of digital cable ready devices and the DTV transition. TiVo thus proposes an interim solution below that reflects a compromise that would assure that all parties' interests are adequately met in today's market.
TiVo has created an efficient network-based client-server protocol using open standards for hosted applications. This protocol, which TiVo calls the Home Media Engine ("HMEâ€) protocol, supports efficient rendering of modern multimedia user interfaces on remote devices, reporting remote control and other events back to a server running an application.40 The HME protocol is efficient, agile, thin and scalable. While HME was designed for graphics-rich multimedia applications served over unmanaged IP networks, the protocol will operate over any suitable network transport interface, such as bi-directional CableCARD. Applications can be quickly modified, upgraded and tested on the server without changing the code on the client (i.e., set-top box). Client requirements are minimal, simply displaying text, pictures, audio, video and graphical elements as dictated by the server application. Perhaps most importantly, TiVo already uses HME servers today to support millions of HME clients.41
TiVo believes that competitive CE manufacturers should be permitted to build non-OCAP bidirectional boxes that receive all programming channels offered by MSOs provided on a per channel basis and include a presentation engine such as HME that allows individual MSOs to run their proprietary bidirectional applications — such as VOD and PPV — remotely on their servers. Such two-way applications could be invoked on the competitive box through its native user interface.42 In this way, each MSO could control the presentation of their bidirectional applications without having to redesign the cable architecture and without needing the competitive set-top box manufacturer to do any development work. Under this proposal, cable operators can use OCAP for their leased boxes if they so desire; however, CE manufacturers' devices can but need not run OCAP. This solution is both quick and fair — it can be deployed by February 2009 transition date; it addresses the cable industry's concern about controlling the presentation of their proprietary bidirectional applications such as VOD and PPV; and it lets MSOs run their own applications without interfering with CE manufacturers ability to design competitive navigation devices. Such a solution would ensure that consumers finally are able to benefit from competition and innovation in the market for navigation devices as intended by Section 629. Were the Commission to favor this proposal, TiVo would promptly work with appropriate standards bodies to evolve HME into a suitable industry standard for creating such applications.
This proposed solution is "interim†because it would not result in retail boxes that support all interactive operator services. A fully-functional bidirectional retail set-top box would either require substantial modifications to OCAP and its licensing regime, or implementation of the CEA proposal. While TiVo wishes to create such a fully-functional bidirectional box in the future, we recognize that neither of these approaches would yield a retail device that could be deployed by Christmas 2009, much less the February 2009 transition date.
40 An early reference implementation of the TiVo HME protocol was released as open source in 2005, and can be found at http://tivohme.sourceforge.net. TiVo has been evolving and enhancing the protocol and its supporting toolsets internally since that time, using it to deploy an increasing number of production applications.
41 TiVo uses HME technology today for, among other things, its Swivel search feature, Fandango, Live 365, Podcaster, Yahoo! Photos, and Yahoo! Weather applications, as well as to present the TiVo user interface on Comcast's leased DVR set-top boxes in the soon-to-be released Comcast-TiVo DVR service.
42 In order to keep their product(s) competitive, the competitive set-top supplier should have every incentive to ensure that entry to server-based services is easy and works well. Similarly, MSOs should have every incentive to ensure that the applications work well, as they derive revenue from these services and they are clearly elements of the cable service.
I think that is a very interesting proposal. (Aside: Did you notice 'video' in the list of things clients would support in HME? I'd love to see the public HME framework updated with that.) Cable MSOs could even run their OCAP applications on a central server in a kind of HME wrapper for display on the consumer device. I wonder if TiVo has considered taking HME to a standards body independent of this, to establish an industry standard way of accessing interactive services. It could help stimulate development if there were more device support.
Anyway, the gist of TiVo's filing is asking the FCC to step in and settle the issue of two-way access once and for all. The fight between the cable industry and the CE industry has been going on for over four years and shows no sign of being settled. It looks intractable at this point, and the best hope for some solution is for the FCC to step in and force the issue.
On September 10, 2007 the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) responded to TiVo, and the CEA in general with with own filing. It is more of the same from them – the only possible solution is OCAP, everything else simply cannot work. I don't know, but every time I read one of the NCTA's filings it seems like they're not interested in finding a compromise. OCAP is just fine as is, despite what anyone may say. While they're happy to point of flaws or missing pieces in the CEA's DCR+ proposal, it seems to me that it would be more constructive to perhaps suggest changes or additions to the proposal to correct those issues. The CE side has made suggestions for changes to OCAP in the past.
And sometimes it seems like the NCTA just isn't paying attention, or that they see and hear what they want to and not what is really said. For example, take this from page 25:
Likewise, TiVo's suggested "compromise†is that each cable operator re-write its applications into a special format custom-designed to run on TiVo devices. Although apparently intended as some type of concession that cable consumers have a right to receive a cable operator's services as they are provided by the cable operator, as a practical matter the proposal would create for TiVo a needless and redundant quasi-OpenCable Platform at cable's expense. Instead of TiVo simply adding the OpenCable Platform to its device, every cable operator would have to duplicate all applications in yet another format, and build infrastructure to support this new application format. Other CE manufacturers might then demand similar accommodation, leading to even more duplication. Consumers would not be well-served by such an inefficient use of resources.
Read TiVo's proposal above. Especially this bit:Were the Commission to favor this proposal, TiVo would promptly work with appropriate standards bodies to evolve HME into a suitable industry standard for creating such applications. I guess the NCTA just managed to overlook that. TiVo is not proposing that the cable industry write something just for HME, but that HME could be used as a starting point for an industry standard available to all vendors.
The NCTA filing also includes their point-by-point rebuttal of TiVo's claims, starting on page 14. It looks like some of their responses are OK, but some of them seem to me to be either mis-interpreting, or spinning, TiVo's statements so that the response makes OCAP look better.
I also have issues with some of their fundamental claims throughout the document. The biggest problem I have is their shrill objection to the possibility of any 'secret' information being leaked about how the systems work. In other words, security through obscurity. Which, as someone who has done professional network security work, drives me up a wall. It is as wrongheaded as you can get, security through obscurity is almost worse than no security, because all it takes is one leak and any supposed security is gone. And no matter what you do, leaks will happen – period. I'll give you a prime example of security through obscurity – CSS encryption on DVDs. One leak is all it took to destroy copy protection on DVDs, now ripping them is trivial.
It is as stupid as you can get, and the NCTA seems paranoid about any of their 'secrets' getting out. You know what? If you have to worry about the secrets to your security implementation getting out, then it is a bad implementation. Period. If you have a good implementation then the only thing you should need to protect are the keys/passwords/tokens/whatever key unlocks the lock. You should be able to publish every detail of your lock/algorithm/system openly (as is done with public security standards such as AES) and not worry, because it is designed so well that knowing how it works doesn't help attackers. The only reason to worry is if you have weak points in the design – and that means you should fix the design, not hide the weaknesses and hope no one ever finds out.
They also use arguments that do not hold up logically:
TiVo's comments catalogue supposed deficiencies in the OpenCable Platform to support its claim that OpenCable is not practical for retail devices. Of course, the support of OpenCable by Samsung, Panasonic, and LG disproves that thesis.
Actually, no, it doesn't. Something being possible does not necessarily mean it follows that it is practical. And even if something is practical for a relatively simple device like a TV, which only needs limited bi-directional support and doesn't have a rich, complex native UI – and so OCAP applications don't break a design theme, etc – doesn't make them practical for a more complex device such as TiVo.
You know, honestly, I actually think that, at the fundamental level, the concept of OCAP is fine. I even think that a lot of the details of OCAP are fine. But I do agree with TiVo and the CEA that some of the restrictions and requirements of OCAP are excessive and restrictive. And that the inflexibility and lack of UI control is a serious, show-stopping issue for CE vendors like TiVo. I also know, without a doubt, that it would be possible to define standardized interfaces to access these services. They could even use OCAP middleware on the box to present the interfaces, to act as a translation layer between the various cable back ends and the CE devices. The need to handle these various back ends is one of the major arguments the NCTA makes in favor of OCAP – but they take it further into saying the MSO needs to control the interface. That's just not true.
There are already precedents for flexible, dynamic, data-driven UIs and services. XML and SOAP are good examples of formats and frameworks that could be used, or just the concepts. How many modern applications are 'skin-able' – such as WinAmp, Firefox, etc. They use standard interfaces to the underlying data structures to connect with different UIs. There is no reason a standard data format could not be defined for CE devices to order VOD & PPV, or to tune SDV channels. Funnel it through OCAP middleware – which could run in the CE device, or even on a central server at the MSO – to handle interfacing with the legacy back end.
Does this mean that consumers could see different UIs and even have different availability of services on different devices in one home? Yes, of course – but so what? We already have different UIs and services on different devices – this issue is a complete red herring from the NCTA. They make it sound like it is a terrible thing for the consumer. Hell, right now I have a TiVo Series2 fed directly with cable, so it only gets analog cable services. I have an other Series2 with a cable box, so it gets analog and digital cable, and has some abilities, via the box, for VOD/PPV. And I have a Series3 with CableCARD which has analog and digital cable, with high-def, but no VOD/PPV access. We consumers already deal with different services on different devices, it isn't a big deal. And if one CE vendors offers access to a richer palette of cable services than another, than that's a competitive advantage. As it should be.
I think the FCC needs to step in. I don't know that the CEA's DCR+ proposal is really the right solution, in fact I think it has a number of serious issues in its current state that make it a poor solution. But the FCC could mandate changes to OCAP to address the major concerns from CE vendors such as TiVo. Or a compromise solution could be worked out – a little from one, a little from the other. But whatever approach is taken, the fight has gone on for too long already and if the kids can't play nicely then they need to go to opposite corners for a time out while the adults make the decisions.


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Update: On November 17, 2017, the teenager's lawyer sent a letter of apology to WPLG Local 10, noting that he had dropped the television station from the case after verifying that it had "simply provided access to publicly available information it received from the School Board." The letter is viewable in its entirety at the bottom of this post.
One day in spring 2013, a 15-year-old girl didn't show up for classes at Miami Jackson Senior High. Her parents sought help from someone who seemed trustworthy: a police officer named Juan Cecchinelli who worked at the school. The teen returned home the next day and later confided in Cecchinelli that she'd been sexually assaulted after running away.
Instead of helping, though, Cecchinelli allegedly began sexually harassing her himself. "I wanna b doing u, but u to dam young!!" he allegedly wrote in a text message to the girl, who had saved his contact info in her phone as "Police Friend."
The officer resigned in the midst of an internal affairs investigation — though he was never criminally charged — and the teen received counseling. But her ordeal wasn't over. She says she was victimized a third time a year
"I was being bullied," she tells New Times. "I was even trying to take my life away because I felt embarrassed. Everybody was pointing fingers at me."
Four years later, she has filed a lawsuit against both the Miami-Dade County School Board and WPLG. In a circuit court complaint, she claims the school board failed to adequately train its police force in the preparation and release of internal affairs investigations. As a result, the suit argues, WPLG's link to the report violated a state law that forbids publishing the name, address, or other identifying fact or information of a sexual offense victim.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools spokeswoman Daisy Gonzalez says officials have not yet been served with the suit; she adds that the district has policies and procedures in place to protect the identity of all students. WPLG news director Bill Pohovey says in an emailed statement: "We do not, and did not, identify any victim of sexual assault."
But Luke Lirot, the lawyer representing the now-19-year-old former student, says even if the station didn't directly ID her, the internal affairs report contained enough information to make her identity crystal clear. The report used her initials and her teacher's
"The law gives you a civil cause of action," Lirot says. "If people start talking about those private sexual tragedies in a way that causes you additional pain, then they can be held liable for that."
According to the lawsuit, the girl had shown the graphic text messages to her teacher after Cecchinelli called her into his office and continued to make disturbing comments about the assault. "I mean I offered you some dick and you didn't want it so you doing good!" one of his texts read.
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The teacher reported the incident, and the internal affairs report was opened. The City of Miami chose not to pursue charges. Cecchinelli told investigators he couldn't recall whether he sent the messages, the report says. None of her classmates really knew what had happened until May 2014, the teen says. Then one day she got to school and "everybody in my class was talking about it."
She says she filed the lawsuit in hopes something similar doesn't happen in the future.
"I wouldn't like other girls to go through what I went through," she says.


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Skip the rake and leave the leaves for a healthier greener yard and trees!
Part of you is wondering why we would say such a thing and the other part is jumping for joy at the thought of being able to skip the annual ritual of raking, blowing, piling, bagging, trucking leaves off your property or over to the corner of your property creating an eyesore. All very time consuming!
Skip all of the above! We recommend to mulch (cut into small pieces) the leaves with your lawn mower and leave them on your lawn for the winter!
Let's look at the biology of this – In nature the leaves fall, decompose and then are a great resource: rich, natural compost for the grass and tree. In our society, today we want to have perfectly manicured green lawns and trees BUT in reality, we are starving the grass and trees! How can we expect peak performance from an athlete that has not eaten in a week?
What is leaf mulching?
Leaf mulching is the practice of chopping leaves into small pieces and leaving it on the grass for the winter. Composted leaves reduce in volume more the 10-fold. Cut shredded leaves breakdown fast throughout the winter adding valuable organic matter to feed and retain valuable nutrients for your lawn, bushes and trees.
What this saves you…
• Time
• Money
• Exposure to harsh chemicals
This sustainable method of managing leaves is safer, more efficient, saves time and money, minimizes pollution and is better for your soil and plants. It is a win for the trees and lawns, a win for your time, a win for your wallet and a win for the environment!
People attempt to use fertilizers that can be expensive and only provide a short-term solution to the soil nutrition problem. Most fertilizers are not applied correctly and the excess chemicals leach into our waterways.
Additional ideas for fallen leaves
1. Enrich your compost pile – mulched leaves serve as great brown matter that you can mix with your green matter
2. Improve flower bed soil quality – shred the leaves and mix into your flower bed. Shredding them ensures they do not smother next year's seedlings.
3. Protect plants from cold weather – if you have tender year-round plants that may struggle as the temperature decrease use fallen leaves as a protective layer over dormant plants.
4. Wildlife Habitats – Crisscrossed branches and layer leaves over the top of them. It creates a warm area for wildlife and essential habitats for butterflies and other insects.
5. Start controlled fires – use dry leaves as a starter material – only utilize in designated areas
To ensure fallen leaves do not create a safety or fire hazard, clear them away from the foundation of your home. Additionally, keep fallen leaves from piling up on your roof or in your gutter where they and contribute to water damage, mold and corrosion.
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Just a couple of little things today. I am convalescing from my triple root canal (and currently on "the good stuff" for pain), so I don't have a lot of coherence in me.
Though we like the story of rags to riches upstart who shows up out of nowhere, there are actually almost no writers who come "out of nowhere." Any writer you're reading (who isn't a friend who handed you a piece of their soul and asked you to be careful with it) probably has been struggling quietly for a very long time, and anyone who hasn't struggled will probably be the one who gives up the dream in middle age.
I had an instructor at SFSU who was really into failure and how amazing and rejuvenating it could be for creativity. She used to say. "Fail. Fail again. Fail better." As a culture, Americans really don't accept failure unless it is a"setback" in a broader success story. This is even though, statistically, people fail at most of their endeavors that don't involve treading water (which is probably why most people stick to treading water). There are a lot of benefits to failure and most people don't really "succeed" in the strictest sense of the word. It's more like they fail upward until they catch a break.


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3 benefits of completing Seller's Disclosures ASAP after listing
Many sellers agree their most tedious task is gathering forms and completing their seller's disclosure packet. Disclosure questions are drafted by federal and state agencies and they can be repetitive and sometimes confusing. Luckily, Home Bay can prepare your disclosure packet for you and can answer any questions you have along the way. Learn more about seller's disclosure packets and why it's worth it to fill yours out immediately after you list.
You eliminate the buyer's easiest termination right:
State law states that if any disclosures or an amended disclosure are delivered after the offer is submitted, the buyer has the right to review the disclosures and terminate the offer without penalty. In California, this termination right lasts 3 or 5 days depending on whether you personally gave the disclosures to the buyer or mailed them to the buyer.If you get an offer without first giving the buyer your disclosure packet, you make it easy for the buyer to cancel escrow without penalty - and as a seller, you never want to make it easy for the buyer to cancel escrow. By completing your disclosures in advance and emailing them to potential buyers who view your home, you can eliminate this risk. You can even ask us to add a note to your listing that says, "Please review the disclosure packet prior to submitting an offer. As part of your offer, acknowledge that you have reviewed disclosures." to further protect yourself.
You make it difficult for the buyer to re-negotiate price:
By giving disclosures to your buyer before they submit an offer, you make it difficult for them to attempt to re-negotiate during escrow. You make it especially difficult when you also have real estate inspections done prior to accepting offers, as explained here. But why?This is typically how a real estate transaction plays out:The buyer submits an offer.The buyer receives the disclosure packet and inspection reports.The buyer reviews them.The buyer adds up all the needed repairs (or at least the repairs the buyer thinks he needs).The buyer asks the seller to make the repairs or credit escrow a dollar amount for the repairs. Effectively, the buyer is asking you to take less money in exchange for your home, and you don't want to be in that position as the seller. By providing disclosures and inspection reports before the buyer submits an offer, you make it difficult for them to ask for repairs and credits from a moral perspective. The buyer knew the problems with your home prior to submitting their offer, and presumably factored them into their offer price.
You can shorten escrow and speed up the sale of your home:
In most areas in California, the contingency period is 17 days. In Florida, the default is 15 days. However, if your seller's disclosure and real estate inspections are done in advance, you can often shorten the contingency period to 10 days or less, meaning you get to sell your home faster.
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GIVEAWAY: Come to Taiwan with Me & KKday! #iAndAileen
BY Aileen Adalid / 58 Comments
Yep… you read that right! As KKday's newest brand ambassador, I am holding this amazing #iAndAileen giveaway wherein one of you will get to fly with me to Taiwan on the 1st week of July.
After all, I couldn't have reached this point of my blogging career without YOUR undying support; so consider this as my way of saying 'THANK YOU!'
P.S. We will both plan our itinerary together with KKday and you bet that we will have an epic time! In fact, I will also be more than happy to share any tips that I have regarding blogging, vlogging, and traveling!
(Total disclosure: since we will be traveling together, we will surely end up as each other's 'human tripod' lol — so, please do expect that I'll be needing your assistance in taking photos and videos of me from time to time. Rest assured, I'll gladly do the same for you too!)
But before I get into the nitty gritty details of this awesome giveaway, let me introduce to you the newest travel platform that I trust and gladly support: KKday!
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1 winner will have an all-expenses-paid trip with me to Taiwan! To clarify, the prize includes…
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Sana makasama ako sa hongkong at madami ako matutunan sayo :)Reply
heading to taiwan this october. hope i'll be able to read your entries before i go there.Reply
I aim to put my Taiwan post up this September. Stay tuned and thank you! <3Reply
I am heading to Taiwan soon and your blog has been an inspiration. Thank you!Reply
Ill be going to Taiwan this December and i'm looking forward for your new posts about Taiwan!Reply
Thank you Claire! :*Reply
Hoping to have a chance to go in taiwan with youReply
Good luck to all of us! May the best travel partner win! ❤Reply
Good luck to me! Hope to be travelling with you Ms. Aileen.Reply
Thank you Aileen for this opportunity to enter the competition.Taiwan is a fascinatingly diverse country we have been there twice and still not enough.Destinations? mountains and beaches especially deep south.Sun Moon Lake.Alishan.Toroko Gorge.EXPERIENCE THE ABORIGINAL CULTURE.So much to do.Reply
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Calyx Group dishes out management roles, announces job cuts
Calyx Group has clarified its organisational structure as it rebuilds the operations following last month's acquisition by private equity house Better Capital.
Calyx Group has clarified its organisational structure as it rebuilds the operations following last month's acquisition by private equity house Better Capital.
The details of the management team and other changes to the operation were revealed in an internal announcement sent to staff this week that has been leaked to MicroScope.
The VC has brought in former COA Solutions CEO Fiona Timothy to "manage the transition of the new companies as the CEO of the Calyx Group companies," said Tara Brady, boss of trading entity Calyx Managed Services, incorporating Calyx Network Services.
"I am pleased Fiona Timothy will be working with me and my management team to determine the strategy for the business which includes us strengthening our services through acquisition," said Brady in the memo.
"We are in the process of restructuring the whole new company [to become] Calyx Managed Services to better address the challenges of our marketplace and ensure that the company trades strongly," he added.
The management team includes sales director Dave Everest; Matt Bartell, director of managed services and client management; Joe Mayhew, director of technology and pre-sales; Paul Taylor, director of operations; and FD Neil Waterman.
The UK businesses will operate from two main locations; London and Didsbury which means the Rainford and Stevenage offices will close by 24 December.
The office in the capital will be the primary sales and marketing engine but Calyx hopes to move to an improved facility in London before Christmas and will continue to operate small units in Hyde and Farnborough.
"At the same time, we are looking at the structure of parts of the organisation bringing headcount in line with revenue forecasts," said Brady.
Employees that are at risk of redundancy have been informed of the situation and consultation is under way with the appointment of Employee Representatives.
The business confirmed that services director Gaurav Bhasker and group operations director John Hawker will be leaving the company following the Better Capital deal, they are credited with driving the intitial integration of acquired companies to profitability in 2009.
The Irish operation has been re-branded as MentecPlus Integrated Solutions, and placed under the control of Timothy until a managing director is found. It will move into a new Dublin-based office on 28 October.
Calyx Software UK will continue to be based in Shepshed, with Andy Hayward remaining at the helm.
Brady said the group was debt free which was a "fantastic advantage" in the current economic climate that "differentiates us from most of our competitors" and had an owner that understood the industry and backed the management team.
"There are still a number of challenges ahead and it will be a busy time between now and Christmas as we create this new company but I would like to thank all of you for your continued hard work through what has been a very testing time," he said.


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The Brown County Jail and Law Enforcement Center project began with a preliminary architectural program and feasibility study by Klein McCarthy Architects to improve the facilities at the existing Courthouse Square.
The project included a 50 bed full-service Jail, County Sheriff's Department and City Police Department Law Enforcement facilities. Among the improvements was the relocation of all courts related facilities to the third level of the existing building and the re-allocation of former courts into other department spaces on the first and second levels. Klein McCarthy Architects also conducted a Courthouse planning study and recommended improvements to secure inmate transfer for courts operations.


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Fixing up NB Power
There has been much debate about NB Power and its role as either the core of New Brunswick's future wealth as a key component of the "energy hub" or as an inefficient debt laden albatross around New Brunswicker's necks. As ex-premier Shawn Graham quickly discovered, New Brunswickers have strong feelings when it comes to NB Power. Everybody is quick to complain about rising power rates and to complain about any perceived unfairness when it comes to power rates for different class of users, especially large industrial users. It is clear that change is needed however as the status quo of ever increasing power rates combined with ever increasing debt loads is not sustainable.
There are a few basic (sometimes competing) goals or tenets that must be adhered to in all NB Power decisions and reforms:
- Cost recovery: The utility must be financially viable and the price for power must reflect the cost of generation, transmission and distribution. Operational deficits are not desirable nor sustainable.
- Debt repayment: A long term goal should be to reduce the amount of debt held by NB Power. This would free up additional dollars that are currently going to debt servicing costs.
- Low power rates: As much as possible power rates should be low to provide competitive advantages to NB industry and to reduce the burden on consumers.
- Low environmental impact: As much as possible power generation, transmission and distribution should have as little environmental impact as possible.
Following these goals, I'd recommend some or all of the following initiatives:
- Convert one or more existing generation plants to natural gas to give more flexibility and take advantage of low natural gas rates. This would also leverage the natural gas development that has taken place in the province as well as the LNG terminal built by Irving Oil.
- Establish a feed-in tariff rate for consumer micro-generation in a similar fashion to Ontario's microFit program. Rates don't need to be as high as Ontario's which I think are unsustainable but it has to be better than NB's current net metering rules which do little to encourage consumer renewable generation.
- Establish a rising block tariff to better reflect the true marginal cost of generation. NB Power could also take this a step further and establish time of day pricing to help pricing reflect the true cost of generation at peak and non-peak hours. Currently there is no economic incentive for a consumer to move consumption to off-peak hours.
- Introduce a smart meter program that will install power consumption meters which provide more feedback to consumers on their hourly and daily power consumption instead of some large monthly number that consumers cannot correlate back their consumption habits.
- Acknowledging that large industrial power users support the large fixed costs of power generation as well as an economic development thrust, establish competitive industrial power rates for large industrial users. In a simple model, this could simply be based on consumption or in a more complex scenario industrial power rates could be based on the type of industrial use with targeted uses such as IT or aerospace manufacturing getting lower rates.


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We (the Norwegian Road Administration) have received some intriguing questions about the API to the Norwegian Road Data Base. Unfortunately for Non-Norwegian programmers, all documentation is in Norwegian only. Hopefully, this very brief introduction may motivate you to learn a very beautiful language. (It aint that hard – even the children here speak it fluently). Or perhaps we some day should adapt to the other 99.93% of the population and provide documentation in English…
Update 2020: Use version 3 of NVDB api https://nvdbapilesv3.docs.apiary.io/#
Update 2016: Use version 2 of NVDB api http://api.vegdata.no/
Virtually all data in the Norwegian Road Data (NVDB) base are available under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD), without carge.
There is also some minimum functionality for serving the topological road network (which you can navigate from A to B) through NVDB api, but with some caveats. (You can get the network links, but need to reverse-engineer the nodes and puzzle together the network yourself). If you want road data for navigational purposes you should have a look at the data we use in our own route planner (esri and spatialLite formats).
Update: Some topological functionality also available through the Visveginfo service, which also has documentation in English.
Besides the road network itself, the NVDB has of lots of data attached to the road network (think of those as anything road related found along the topological network). We have more than 300 different types of objects tied to the road network: Speed limits, toll station, traffic flow, traffic accidents, curvature, … the list goes on. Those objects are all defined in our data catalogue. (The official version is a java program, you'll find a link to it here, most of you will probably prefer our unofficial web version). And (virtually) all of those data are available through our road database (NDRB) api.
The data structure in the NVDB API may seem a little complex at first, in particular if you expect everything to have a straightforward name – value data structure. Each object has a list of egenskaper (properties, plural), containing any number of the element egenskap (property, singular). Each egenskap (property) has an ID, a name (navn), a value (verdi) and a link to it's own definition in the data catalogue.
To find what it actually costs to pass the station you'd search through the list of egenskaper for the egenskap with ID = 1820 and inspect that value (verdi). You'd probably expect the value to be in Norwegian Kroner, and you'd be right — which is confirmed by the tag enhet (unit).
And don't forget the API's twin companion Vegkart, which is a web application that shows data directly from our API. Seeing the objects location and probing their properties might be helpful to those unfamiliar with our API. Your successful Vegkart-query contains a download-link that takes you directly to NVDB api.
Any results from a successful Vegkart query can be downloaded (as csv or excel), but with some caveats: The excel/csv-dump doesn't preserve all coordinate information, and no information at all about any relationships between objects.


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KOK gala: Moldovan fighter Nicolae Caraus will confront with the strongest adversary of his career
The sportsman aged 22 will be fighting with the Dutchman of Maroccan origin, Samir Boukhidous. The latter held on the professional ring 39 matches and suffered 5 defeats.
On the other side, Caraus won all the 4 duels disputed till now.
"He is one of the strongest. It seems to me that he has disputed fights within the Glory galas. "I must overpass this obstacle", said Caraus.
"Nicolae when goes into the fight has the thought to destroy, but we understand that we have an extremely strong adversary and don't underestimate him at all, we are trying to win", specified Andrei Grosu, trainer.
"The fans are suspicious that we bring him weak fighters. Because of this we decided to bring Nicolae Caraus a good enough and experimented fighter, who also fought in the Glory circuit", mentioned the president of the FEA Association FEA, Dorin Damir.
Boukhidous fought before in the Republic of Moldova one year ago, but was defeated by the Polish Stanislaw Zaniewski. The KOK Gala will be organized by the FEA Association and will unfold at the Polyvalent Saloon from the capital. Within the tour there are scheduled 16 fights.


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Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the pilot of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, mocked the current head of the search for the missing plane and explored atheism on social media, according to an investigation by the New York Times.
The New York Times' look into Zaharie's profile reveals much that has already been published on the pilot: his support for and ties to jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, for example, or the fact that he did not go to any lengths to hide that he had a flight simulator in his home. It also reveals, however, what author Robert Mackey describes as a portrait of "a man interested in electronics and technology, but also Malaysia's democratic opposition and discussions of atheism."
Zaharie's affiliations with Anwar were almost immediately clear upon investigators focusing on his background. Zaharie is the uncle of Anwar's daughter-in-law and had met the opposition leader on several occasions. The photo of Zaharie with a friend wearing a "Democracy is Dead" shirt has become one of the iconic images of the investigation.
What the New York Times finds in Zaharie's social media profiles is consistent with this image. Zaharie's Facebook posts depict someone obviously political, who had expressed opposition to terrorism in the past. He sent condolences to the United States after the Boston marathon bombing, and responded to a commenter that insisted the attack was as "false flag" operation with a tone of admiration for the United States. "tHREAT IS IMMINENT ANY TIME THERE IS A PARADE," he responded to the commenter, who suggested that American authorities' warning that people remain calm was a sign they knew the attack was going to happen. If Americans were to stop having "parades" whenever the threat of terrorism surfaced, Zaharie argued, "sO NO PARADE FOR EVER [sic] , (NOT THEIR CULTURE LA) TATS [sic] NOT HOW THEY DO THINGS."
Zaharie also mocked Hishammudin Hussein, the current acting Transportation Minister of Malaysia and head of the investigation to find Zaharie's plane. "real joker !" he wrote as a caption to a video of Hishammudin.
His YouTube profile shows other interests, however, including repairing electronics and discussions on atheism. Mackey notes that four of the videos he favorited on he site were discussions among prominent atheists, including a discussion of a book by Richard Dawkins and a subscription to the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science's official YouTube account.
Atheism is a sensitive subject in Malaysia. A study by the International Humanist and Ethical Union listed Malaysia as one of 13 countries in the world that lists the death penalty as a potential punishment for blasphemy or atheist thought, according to Reuters. According to Georgetown University's Berkley Center, Malaysia imposes strict laws against offending any religion or "disturbing public morality."
While nothing in Zaharie's profile shows a tendency towards militant atheism, his interest in Dawkins work suggests an interest that illuminates his political advocacy for expanded freedoms of expression.
Malaysian authorities are currently attempting to retrieve deleted files from Zaharie's flight simulator, which Malaysian media have reported contained five runway simulations in the Indian Ocean, including on an American air force base and as far west as the Maldives. Meanwhile, Australian authorities have reported that they have seen two objects on satellite footage they believe could be debris from the plane in the southeastern Indian Ocean, and have dispatched search teams to the area.


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New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, literary editor at Scribner's Sons is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer named Thomas Wolfe falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius. Together the two men set out to work on a version for publication and a seemingly endless struggle over every single phrase ensues. During this process, Perkins the gentle family man and Wolfe the eccentric author become close – a relationship eyed with suspicion by their wives. When 'Look Homeward, Angel' becomes a resounding success, the writer grows increasingly paranoid. Wikipedia
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I was 13 when I found it. It was 448 pages of truth. For anyone who has found solace in the pages of a book or comfort in a character, they remember that moment, those words. Nine-year-old Hailey from Ann Arbor, Michigan, knows what I'm talking about.
Hailey's favorite book is Wonder by R.J. Palacio. She was introduced to the novel several years ago and found in it a new favorite. Hailey, who was born with a lymphatic malformation and has had several surgeries to remove the tumor from her face, saw herself in Palacio's character Auggie. She wished to meet the woman who created Auggie and to share the book's message of kindness with her classmates. On June 3, Palacio spent the day at Burns Park Elementary School, receiving a tour from Hailey, eating lunch with her, joining students at recess in a game of foursquare and participating in an assembly about something she knows and writes a lot about: kindness.
I found the same comfort and wisdom in Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of a Funny Story that Hailey found in Wonder. The novel covered everything from Egyptian dance music to adolescent depression, and though my experiences didn't match the protagonist's, Vizzini captured the pressure, angst and joy of being a teenager. Think One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest young adult-style.
I also understand the excitement Hailey must have felt opening her third grade classroom door to find Palacio on the other side. In high school, I was able to interview Vizzini for a column in the school newspaper. We had a few more degrees of separation than Hailey and Palacio, as we were communicating via email – and a surprise! letter that arrived in my mailbox. Yet, his kindness and willingness to participate in an interview with me, a simple high school student, motivated me to pursue a writing career. Perhaps Hailey will find the same strength and confidence after meeting Palacio.
Seeing the smile on Hailey's face (which was only recently made possible because of a reconstructive surgery) transported me back to the moment I opened that letter from Vizzini. Reader to reader, thank you, Hailey, for sharing your love of Wonder with your classmates and with all of us. You've reminded me of the importance of finding yourself in a book and then passing that joy on.
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A survey of mobile application developers shows falling confidence in the future of BlackBerry(s rimm) devices. Baird Equity Research supplied the survey, which focused on all mobile platforms, with AllThingsD sharing some of the data. The results don't bode well for Research In Motion as its future platform is delayed at a time the company is already far behind its peers.
In the second quarter of 2012, Baird asked developers to rate the following on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest: How do you view the long-term outlook for the following platforms? This same question was asked in the first quarter of last year and the first quarter of this year, with the most recent scores also included. Here's what the scores look like:
Even with my bad eyesight, it's clear that developer interest in both BlackBerry and BlackBerry 10 — in addition to Windows Phone(s msft) — is waning significantly. And without developers to make apps for a platform these days, it's practically a given that the platform won't see major success with consumers; no matter how good the platform may be. These days, people are investing in platforms, not products, so without a full-featured app ecosystem, demand will suffer.
Which platform are these BlackBerry developers turning to? Android(S GOOG) appears to be the big "winner" here, likely due to RIM's support for Android apps in BlackBerry 10.
The survey data shows that 31 percent of BlackBerry developers have shifted some or all of their efforts toward Android; a smart move because the apps they develop will potentially work on both platforms. But what does that say when nearly a third of BlackBerry developers have abandoned native apps for RIM's platform?
It tells me that these programmers are turning an Android backup plan into their future primary strategy: If the Android apps run on BlackBerry devices and RIM somehow manages a turnaround, great, but if not, there are a few hundred million Android devices to make money on.


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Advertising Ideas for Salons
Beauty salons have broad appeal to both men and women and to people of virtually all ages. This broad appeal means that many salons can benefit by taking a more specific approach to targeting their products and services to specific market segments and reaching out to those segments with the right communication tools and messages to generate business. Market segmentation requires that salon owners think carefully about the different segments within the overall population in order to craft advertising campaigns that target each segment effectively.
Tell a Friend
Word of mouth and referrals are extremely important in the personal services market. Clients who have a good experience will tell others and recommend the salon they go to. Salons can take advantage of this opportunity by encouraging referrals through their advertising efforts, particularly when connecting with existing clientele. "Tell a friend" promotions can offer discounts or service add-ons for those willing to recommend services to others. For instance, salons might offer patrons a percentage off their next appointment if they refer a friend who schedules an appointment.
Staying Local
Salon services are local services and exemplify businesses that can benefit from many of the traditional forms of advertising: newspaper, radio and billboards, for instance. Each of these media offers opportunities to target specific segments based on programming or location. For instance, salons appealing to a business audience may run radio spots during morning drive time specifically targeted to a business audience. Salons reaching out to a male market may choose to advertise in the sports pages, tying special promotions to upcoming sporting events, for instance.
Social Media
Salons are successfully using social media and online advertising options to reach out to, build relationships with and generate business from online connections. Salons can seek to build relationships based on geography so they're connecting with those most likely to use their services. In addition, online advertising options allow salons to specifically target their messages to certain market segments by age, geography and areas of interest. For example, a salon in a local community could advertise through a popular social networking site to people in their specific zip code area who have visited other sites related to personal grooming or beauty products. The salon's own social networking page might include information about services and provide a forum for customers to share information and feedback with the salon.
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- beauty salon series image by starush from Fotolia.com


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As explained in the "Unwelcome Guests" page, you will receive a radio call from Gideon Reyes after completing at least three quests in Colorado Springs. Then, go downtown and head southwest towards Broadmoor Heights (picture1). Speak with Deputy Marshal Pitts, and he will let you pass through this area usually reserved to the Hundred Families (pictures2and3).
Before entering into the church, go south to the Wesson Estate (picture4). In this area, you will be able to use Lockpicking 6 (picture5) to open a chest containing the Percival Wesson Recording Cassette Tape (picture6), the Reflex Scope Weapon Mod, the Pocket Doc Armor Mod, and the RPG-7.
On the south side of the house, you will be able to deactivate a trap behind a door that will contain a broken toaster and several boxes (picture7). If you have Toaster Repair 4 (picture8), you will be able to repair the toaster and get a Golden Toaster Insulated Power Cord (picture9).
Exit the Wesson Estate, and head northwest to the Buchanan Monument (picture10). You will find a pile of garbage on the snow that you will have to dig through to retrieve the Robots and Rangers for Real Cassette Tape (picture11).
If you wish, you have the possibility to go to the north of the city and reach the Patriach's Palace. Once you have explored the area sufficiently, go to the Broadmoor Heights Church, located near the entrance of the area (picture12).
Use the switch located next to the church to open the storage room on the south side of the area (pictures13and14). Once inside, you will find a Cyborg Chicken that you can recruit if you have Animal Whisperer 4. Talk with the animal and tell him that he's a Ranger now (picture15).
You will find the Negotiated Settlement Skill Book in one of the crates (picture16). This book will give Kiss Ass +1 to the character who will read it.
Finally, head east of the area and speak with Gideon Reyes who will be near the library (picture17). He will give you the location of the town called "The Bizarre", and will ask you to find a way to stop traffickers from smuggling refugees into town (picture18).


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Indoor And Outdoor Vintage Christmas Tree Decorations
Vintage Christmas Tree Decorations
How do you decorate your Christmas tree? I have found over the years its a great time to explore different styles and just have fun. There are so many ways to incorporate those beautiful vintage ornaments & decorations into your Christmas decorating.
We used to have a home decor retail store and at Christmas we always decorated multiple trees.
That's when I discovered how much fun it was to create different looks for each indoor Christmas tree as well as setting up outdoor Christmas decorations.
I think one of my favorites was the Vintage Christmas tree decorations.
What is considered to be vintage decorations?
Basically any Christmas tree decorations that are a few decades old, probably much like the ones you had in your home when you were a child(or ones your mother had). Finding these pieces of history is like finding your own little Christmas treasures.
So whether you are a collector or just want to decorate with vintage Christmas tree decorations, there are many different and unique vintage decorations to choose from.
Now it is almost as much looking for the vintage decorations as it is putting them on the Christmas tree. You could also use them to create unique Christmas gifts for someone you love.
Although there are some really good replicas out there, you may not find the exact vintage Christmas tree decorations that will fully recapture the sentimental feelings you had for the decorations you enjoyed as a child. But it sure is fun trying!
Kurt Adler Early Years Mini Glass Ornament
Finding Indoor Vintage Christmas Tree Decorations
You can always start earlier but I have found that late October to December are really good months to search for your vintage Christmas decorations. This seems to be when most antique shop owners and flea market vendors bring out their Christmas holiday decorations.
Besides looking at the antique shops and flea markets, there are some great finds online at ebay and Amazon. I have even found some of my favorite vintage decorations in the spring and summer when yard sales are prevalent.
Finding the indoor Vintage Christmas tree decorations is like going treasure hunting and it's a great way to involve the whole family. Some of my favorite finds have been at our community yard sales. It's also lots of fun when there are stories to go with those vintage finds.
Vintage Outdoor Christmas Decorations
Now the real hunting begins.... "outdoor" Vintage Christmas decorations.
Gone are the days of simple outdoor Christmas decorations, and in rushed the "how many lights and inflatables can I fit in my yard". Okay, you can overdo the decorations but I find it warms my heart when I see a yard with outdoor decorations from Christmas's past.
So if you decide to go this route, you need to keep in mind it may take a all year to find just the right pieces. Again you can find some great buys online at Ebay and Amazon, there are a few companies that do make replicas, even for the outdoor Vintage Christmas Decorations.
Here are some ideas of what Vintage outdoor decorations you might use, Nativity sets, Santa, Reindeer, Snowmen, Candy canes, Noel candles,vintage outdoor lights and Vintage Door Covers.
These decorations can be found fairly inexpensively and can turn your yard into a Outdoor Vintage Christmas wonderland.
If you decide to go with outdoor vintage decorations, just remember to try and make a plan or go with a certain theme.
You can make it look something right out of a Norman Rockwell vintage Christmas card or you could end up with a yard that looks like an outdoor Christmas junkyard. Just make a plan and it will look beautiful!
Vintage Santa Christmas Decoration
Now this is probably the most popular and most difficult to find whether it is indoor or outdoor, vintage Santa Christmas Decorations. Everyone I know loves Santa, especially a vintage Santa. Whether you use vintage Santa tree decorations or a great big plastic outdoor Vintage Santa, it can really take you back to those wonderful childhood Christmas memories.
I have found a few vintage Santa decorations at yard sales and antique shops but some of the best buys are online, because it allows you to connect with people from all over the world. It is amazing what you can find when you do a little treasure hunting! You may enjoy your collection of Vintage Christmas Tree Decorations so much that you may simply decide to leave them up year round!


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Personality disorders are extremely varied – and in a way, deeply misunderstood. It's completely unfair to criticize or label someone based solely on their personality – but a personality disorder is separate from what someone might consider a personal characteristic. Minute differences in behavior from person to person are obviously a fact of life – we're all unique, after all, and we cope and deal and tackle situations in entirely different ways, with different perspectives, approaches, and personal ticks.
But there are times when our minds are riddled by a behavior or trait that is so pervasive, harmful and destructive that it can't be classified as anything other than a disorder. That doesn't mean every jerk is dealing with a mental illness – rather, personality disorders manifest themselves as long-lasting, rigid and deeply embedded patterns of behavior that aren't bound in any way by rationality, and cannot simply be changed with perspective or time.
As an example, a personality disorder may create distress and friction at home and in the workplace – and even after being confronted with the consequences of their actions and the severity of their behavior's ill effects and fully recognizing them, a person suffering from a genuine personality disorder would simply not be capable of changing anywhere near as simply or quickly as someone who just happens to be spoiled, or a little selfish.
When It's a Personality Disorder
As with any mental disorder, the crux to getting past the limitations and behavioral blockades of a personality disorder is by first seeing to it that the person with the disorder acknowledges and understands that they have a mental problem, and can specifically describe how their thought process fundamentally differs from other people. The differences and symptoms setting personality disorders apart include:
- Extreme mood swings
- Unpredictable behavior
- Heavy relationship issues
- Impulsiveness/risk-taking
- Self-harm and substance abuse
- Fear of abandonment/loneliness
This isn't a complete list, and for many, it's not a definitive guide to identifying a personality disorder. The truth is that what really defines a disorder is the way it cuts into your life. If you feel legitimately unable to keep yourself from resorting to harmful behavior, or if you feel that you have a problem, then you need help. It's as simple as that. You don't need to take online tests or look up symptom lists. Do you have a problem? Then call us. We'll help you figure it out.
From there, it's a long and fulfilling road towards a more harmonious life. Don't get us wrong – we don't think there's any one way to be human. And suffering from a personality disorder doesn't make you less of a person, or somehow less deserving of a good life, lived with love and wonder. It just means you have an issue you need to deal with, in order to ensure that the way you're wired doesn't end up hurting other people, or yourself.
Treating a Personality Disorder
For some, making the transition to coping and controlling a disorder may just be a matter of a short few months. In other cases, it's more pervasive and will require a life-long support system of family members and loved ones to totally control.
We can't say how long it'll take, or how we'll go about helping you fix your thoughts – but we can promise you that we'll stick with you, and help you for as long as you want our help. We'll never give up on you – and if you never give up on us, then you too can lead a life without hurting others, or yourself. Here are some of the ways in which we can help you:
- Talk Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Medication
- Yoga & Meditation
- Inpatient Treatment
- Brainspotting
Left unchecked, your disorder can wreak unimaginable amounts of havoc both on the state of your relationships and the emotional and physical wellbeing of others around you – and worse yet, the resulting trauma could unlock other underlying disorders and bring along a larger host of difficult-to-treat issues. This, in particular, is important to understand – a personality disorder can often be plagued by co-occurring disorders, including clinical depression, anxiety, and addiction.
This doesn't complicate treatment. In fact, it helps us choose a more distinct and concrete path of treatment – understanding how different disorders tie into each other may sound confusing, but it actually lets us further shed light on how to help you. This is why the treatment options above may seem a bit barren – your full list would be much more extensive, but we have to first understand what we're dealing with.
That is why we put a great emphasis on achieving the most accurate diagnosis possible – so we understand the full scope of your mental health, and more importantly, can relay that information back to you so you can best understand yourself.
Among the many different definitions in the field of mental health, the borderline personality disorder may carry one of the most unfortunate names. To clarify, there's nothing borderline about a BPD diagnosis – you're not slightly or just a little mentally ill, and the diagnosis itself has nothing to do with the severity of your symptoms.
The origin of the definition came from patients being perceived to be on the "borderline" between psychosis (delusions, hallucination, paranoia, etc.) and neurosis (trauma-related quirks and compulsions, coping mechanisms, etc.). Another known term is "borderline-type emotionally unstable personality disorder".
Because personality disorders are rather complex, an exact diagnosis is often hard to make. Borderline personality disorders set themselves apart roughly by two phrases: unstable emotions, and lack of emotional management.
Diagnosing Borderline Personality Disorder
To someone with BPD, their emotional state and perception may feel normal until they realize they have an actual problem, and the disorder is highlighted by an unstable sense of self, mood, and emotions, specifically with powerful and uncontrollable fluctuations of all kinds. Symptoms can include:
- Feelings of isolation
- Fear of abandonment
- Irrational risk-taking
- Unstable self-image
- Incapability to have a normal relationship
- Anxiety and depression
- Mood swings
If these sound familiar, that's because they're rather common in other disorders as well. That's one of the bigger difficulties with BPD – it has a lot of overlap. That doesn't mean, however, that we can't find and treat it effectively – even when it's paired with a host of other disorders, such as cyclothymia or clinical depression.
Treating a Case of BPD
While general treatment for personality disorders is the same, what truly differs is how individuals react to treatment options. This is why it's important for treatment facilities like us to be prepared for any combination of possibly effective treatment options. Human beings are wonderfully complex, and the human mind is especially so.
Tackling a case of BPD, then, requires a lot of patience and a flexible game-plan. We've got both. Here are some of our options for you:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Medication
- Brainspotting
- Group Therapy
Talk therapy options such as DBT and CBT offer different ways to analyze and tackle the long-term consequences of a personality disorder, while medication can help severe cases alleviate their symptoms of psychosis, depression, anxiety or emotional instability.
We often talk about how cookie-cutter procedures and treatment plans aren't part of our style, and it's especially true in this case. Because of the fluid nature of personality disorder symptoms, we focus more on you and your individual experience rather than any strict textbook definitions of what your diagnosis should look like.
A histrionic personality disorder diagnosis is, perhaps a little archaically, defined by "dramatic" or "theatrical" behavior. That means that it sets itself apart from other personality disorders by a wildly inaccurate or distorted self-image. Unlike borderline personality disorders which are highlighted by the "balance" between psychotic and neurotic behavior, a histrionic diagnosis specifically has to do with how a person sees themselves.
From there, the definition plunges into the depths of vagueness, with a really accurate depiction being non-existent. Instead, it depends on the individual themselves, and the diagnostic decisions and findings of a professional psychiatrist.
Identifying a Histrionic Personality Disorder
Histrionic personality disorders exist within a broad realm of symptoms, each one related to a mistaken or unstable self-image. Oftentimes, HBD sufferers are prone to and capable of wanton self-destruction in the name of attention, utilizing manipulative behavior to be the center of everyone's perception.
It sounds a lot like narcissism but is differentiated by the fact that someone with HBD may not necessarily think very highly of themselves. Symptoms include:
- Dangerous attention-seeking behavior
- Sexually-provocative behavior
- Mood swings and emotional instability
- Extreme vanity
- Overactive display of emotions, alongside a lack of actual sincerity
- Self-centered emotions, despite negative self-image
- Rash, risky decision-making
None of this is normal behavior, and never should it be considered normal – but there are cases when one or several of these symptoms are more of a cry for help from a different disorder, than a case of HPD. That's why it's very, very important to call a professional and first undergo the necessary process to determine a diagnosis before self-diagnosing, or identifying the disorder in others.
That being said, HPD does have a history of running in the family or could be the result of repeated behavior learned from a prominent figure in someone's childhood. As with most mental illnesses, an exact cause can never be determined without extensive therapy and research – and the risk factors are numerous.
Finding Treatment for HPD
Like many personality disorders, histrionic personality disorder sufferers can be helped through treatment options like:
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Medication
- Yoga & Meditation
- Talk Therapy/Psychotherapy
- Brainspotting
- Group Therapy
Building a strong foundation of trust and understanding through group therapy is an especially effective way to build upon the advances and improvements made through an intensive therapy option, like cognitive behavioral therapy, brainspotting or dialectic behavior therapy.
Narcissism is a nasty character trait, that's for sure. No one likes a selfish jerk – but purely being selfish isn't necessarily an indicator of a mental disorder.
Again, mental illness should never be an excuse to just be a pure jerk. And even with a valid diagnosis, personality disorders never have to be in the way between you and a healthy relationship with another individual – or an entire group of people.
But understanding the implications and specifics of an actually dangerous mental diagnosis, like narcissistic personality disorder, can help an individual get the help they need to turn their life around.
Tackling a Narcissistic Disorder
Narcissus, the figure of an old Greek tragedy, was a man so entranced by his own reflection in the water that it immobilized him, and left him staring at himself until death. To people with a narcissistic personality disorder diagnosis, that feeling might be familiar. A narcissistic personality disorder is highlighted by:
- Ultra-confidence and arrogance
- Delusions of superiority
- Power fantasies
- Constant exaggeration of achievements and capabilities
- Inability to feel shame or accept responsibility for shortcomings
- Neediness, and attention-seeking
- Manipulation
- Inability to recognize other people's needs or feelings
- Powerful envy
Narcissism is defined as an inflated sense of self, coupled with a self-centered mindset and an emotional immaturity befitting an egotist. But even so, narcissists mostly suffer from their condition, rather than benefitting from their irrational self-adoration. They're often alone, stuck in difficult relationships, and see themselves as the victim of every negative aspect of their life.
Treating a Case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder
As soon as they realize the implications of their disorder, NPD sufferers want to find a way to lead a normal life as much as the next person – which is where quality treatment becomes critical. Example treatment options include:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Dialectic Behavioral Therapy
- Group Therapy
No matter how much of a jerk a narcissist can be, it's important to help someone when they're truly suffering from a mental condition. Talk therapy is the best way to tackle narcissism, specifically long-term psychotherapy and group therapy. There's only so much you can do, however, before it's up to the sufferer to take responsibility and change for the better.
While you could say that there are certain common personality disorders – specifically BPD, histrionic and narcissistic personality disorder – these are by no means the only classifications and diagnosis in the field.
Personalities are complex. Quirks and habits exist in every person, and everyone is unique in their own way. But just as we may exhibit our own differences, clear disorders pronounce themselves in damaging, harmful ways – and they don't always exist in the pre-made molds provided by the top three definitions. Instead, personality disorders come in a multitude of different definitions, including:
- Paranoia and Delusional Disorders
- Schizoid Personality Disorders
- Schizotypal Personality Disorders
- Antisocial Personality Disorders
- Avoidant Personality Disorders
- Dependent Personality Disorders
You may or may not have heard of some of these – and they may or may not apply specifically to your case. Mental health is never a field of medicine where a clear-cut, perfect diagnosis is the norm – to the contrary, definitions can become muddy from case to case. As such, it's difficult to pinpoint exactly what kind of personality disorder someone has until extensive therapy and diagnostics reveals strict patterns and behaviors – and until then, treating a personality disorder requires a lot of patience and experience.
That's why we try and focus on providing a structured, yet entirely flexible treatment plan that takes every possible combination of mental disorders into consideration, utilizing advanced and cutting-edge diagnostics and treatment tools like brainspotting to ensure we miss nothing when helping you set your life back on the right track.
But before we can sit down and help you restructure and change your life, you have to be brave enough to take the first few steps towards a changed life. No matter how bad things have gotten, or how lonely you feel, there's always help – always a way to betterment. All you need to do is give us a call – we will make sure you won't be alone throughout the rest of the way.


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Drugs in the Bin, We All Win!
What's in your medicine cabinet?
If you're like many Californians, you likely have bottles of unused and expired prescription drugs.
PLEASE don't flush them, don't throw them away, and don't just leave them there.
Drugs left in medicine cabinets fuel a growing problem of prescription drug abuse. (A recent UC Santa Barbara forum in which I participated reminded us of the impact of prescription drug abuse in our communities.) Drugs that are flushed down toilets can contaminate our water. Drugs left in the trash can be retrieved by people or pets, or leach from landfills into our water.
In our community, we have the option of disposing of drugs in convenient, safe bins at Sheriff's offices and police departments. Find out more about where to dispose of unused prescription drugs in Santa Barbara County and Ventura County.
But opportunities to safely dispose of unused prescription drugs in a state with nearly 39 million people still remain too few and far between.
I also believe the drug industry needs to share in the responsibility for the safe disposal of their products.
Our current drug take-back programs are funded by local governments, which means they are ultimately funded by us, the taxpayers, without assistance from the highly profitable pharmaceutical industry.
Since I began serving as your Senator, I have authored legislation to create a statewide drug take-back program funded by the pharmaceutical manufacturers. Canada currently operates such a program successfully, and take-back bins are located conveniently in pharmacies. Why can't California do the same?
While my previous legislation stalled due to Big Pharma's opposition, the fight for a statewide drug take-back program continues. Six local governments have passed ordinances. Santa Barbara County is considering such an ordinance, as is Los Angeles County.
To assist in this effort, I have just introduced Senate Bill 1229, to make it easier for pharmacies to host secure drug take-back bins by addressing concerns surrounding liability issues.
We must continue making safe, convenient disposal of prescription drugs a priority. Our public health, water, and environment are at stake.
Remember - drugs in the bin, we all win!
Please stay in touch. You can contact me by email, or follow me on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson
State Senator, 19th Senate District