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Are you interested in a job/internship in one of the most popular sectors chosen by HEC graduates ?
Then come along to :
Wednesday 17th October
From 10:00 am to 18:00 pm
Hall d'Honneur & Lecture Halls (building T)
The Consulting Fair is a unique opportunity for HEC Paris students, prestigious international consulting firms will be on campus to share with you, their job and internship opportunities, both within France and on a global scale.
You will also have the opportunity to gather information about the sector and make personal contact with the companies' representatives.
Come and meet International Consulting companies on Campus, including :
Oliver Wyman - BNP Paribas CIB Consulting - Simon Kucher & Partners - PwC - Eurogroup Consulting - Eleven - Advancy Groupe
- A.T. Kearney - Accenture - The Boston Consulting Group - Bain & Company - Accuracy - Kea & Partners - Capgemini Consulting - JLL - EY-Parthenon - EY - L.E.K. Consulting - KPMG - Wavestone - Bearing Point - Weave- McKinsey & Company - DXC Technology- Sia Partners - Deloitte- DHL Consulting GmbH - Mazars - PMP Conseil - Veeva Systems - Roland Berger, Exton Consulting, Artefact ...
If you want to particpate, please register here on the event :
Please note that not all companies have finalized their pages so visit the site regularly for updates
A few of these companies will be conducting 30 minutes presentations throughout the day, a schedule will be shared later.
The advent of technology and digitalization has a big impact on the retail industry. How will technology change the way brands target customers, and influence the shopping experience both online and offline? What are the potential of AI and Blockchain when it comes to retail space?
As part of the 3rd HEC Paris Alumni American (East Coast) Gathering, HEC Professor Gachoucha Kretz will deliver a masterclass on luxury.
Luxury Reloaded: Why Artisans are not enough to preserve luxury luster anymore
The luxury industry is facing unseen challenges: digital disruption (new forms of intelligence, big data, innovation, digital vertical brands), sustainability concerns, drive by fashion (accessories, sportswear, conceptual fashion, ugly designs), exponential technological growth, changing consumer trends (younger generations, Chinese wealth, influencers).
Together, let us review how those challenges are shaping the luxury of tomorrow and explain why craftsmanship and artisans by themselves cannot save luxury anymore.
Gachoucha Kretz is a marketing strategist with a strong expertise in brand management. She holds a PhD in Marketing (HEC Paris), a Master's degree in Finance (EDHEC), a Master's degree in Corporate Communication and Change Management (CELSA) and a Master's degree in Marketing and Strategy (Paris IX Dauphine). Before taking her PhD, she worked as a consultant at Arthur Andersen and as a marketing associate at TNS Kantar and L'Oréal Paris.
Gachoucha's research and case study interests revolve around offline and online strategic brand management applied to fashion, luxury and beauty and online influence management.
Gachoucha received the Vernimmen Best Teacher Award in 2018.
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We are delighted to announce the Germany Career Fair 2018.
This will be a great opportunity to get to know the german market and understand the different postions and professions it encompasses.
So far we have 8 companies signed up to participate, and expect more in the coming weeks:
SAP France, ODDO BHF, Henkel, PricewaterhouseCoopers France, DuPont Sustainable Solutions,
Deutsche Telekom AG - Center for Strategic Projects, BNP Paribas S.A. Niederlassung Deutschland, ADVYCE GmbH
4:30pm - 5:30pm Panel discussion :
Round table/panel discussion with keynote speaker on a theme related to business in Germany.
5:30pm - 6.30pm : Career Fair :
Come in the rooms dedicated to meet the companies, their challenges and recruiting needs.
6:30pm : Networking Cocktail
A closing cocktail will be served give to keep networking with companies.
* Executive participants (EMBA and ExecMasters) are welcome to attend this Career Fair. Although the job offerings are mainly adressed to HEC students with 2 to 8 years of experience, this is a unique chance for Executive participants to explore new sectors through company presentations, and discover new job opportunities and trends. During the cocktail session you will be able to exchange with the guest speakers and develop your networks.
Before the International Consulting Fair, come and meet HEC Alumni working in the consulting sector
Agenda :
5pm - 6:30pm : Thematic panel discussions
6:30pm - 8pm : Speed meeting sessions with alumni
More details to come about the speakers
This event is a unique opportunity for both French and international students, from all programs, to informally interact with experienced alumni, and gain valuable information about the consulting sector and its professions.
The event will be held in French and in English
Interested in a job/internship in one of the most popular sectors chosen by HEC graduates?
We are therefore delighted to welcome you to the INTERNATIONAL FINANCE FAIR 2018
The Finance Forum is a unique opportunity for HEC Paris students, allowing you to connect with prestigious, international institutions. You will also have the chance to gather information about job opportunities, internships and graduate programs and make personal contact with the companies' representatives.
Come and meet with more than 30 International Financial Institutions, on Campus, including:
ACCURACY, ADMIRAL GROUP, ARDIAN, AXA EN France, BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH, BARCLAYS, THE BLACKSTONE GROUP, BNP PARIBAS, CITI, CRÉDIT AGRICOLE CIB, DEUTSCHE BANK, DUFF & PHELPS, EIGHT ADVISORY, EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT, EXANE, EY,GOLDMAN SACHS, HSBC, JP MORGAN CHASE & CO, KEPLER CHEUVREUX, LAZARD, MOODY'S CORPORATION, NATIXIS PARTNERS, NOMURA, ODDO BHF, OLIVER WYMAN, PJT PARTNERS, PARK SQUARE CAPITAL, PWC, ROTHSCHILD & CO, SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE, UBS, UNICREDIT
If you want to come, please register here -please upload your CV to make it visible for recruiters
HEC Paris and the HEC Alumni Association are pleased to welcome you to the new edition of...
Monday, September 24th, 2018 16:00 - 19:00
This event is a unique opportunity for both French and international students, from all programs, to informally interact with, and gain valuable information from HEC Alumni working in the finance sector.
16:00 to 18:00 - workshops for M1 and M2, MSc, MS non-specialised in finance
•Sales & Trading
•Asset Management & Investment Funds
•Capital Markets Origination (ECM, DCM...)
•Private Equity
•Private Banking & Wealth Management
16:30 to 17:15 – HEC Alumni session dedicated to MBA students
18:00 to 19:00 - workshops for M2, MSc students specialised in finance
•Sales & Trading
•Asset Management & Investment Funds
•Capital Markets Origination (ECM, DCM...)
•Private Equity
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A blog by one of the volunteer reviewers for Geocaching.com. It's about geocaching and the review process -- what it takes to get your new caches listed on the world's most popular geocaching web site. ©Copyright 2012 by K.Braband. All rights reserved
Monday, October 15, 2007
Geocache series in the Upper Mississippi River Refuge
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- lizs said...
Hey Ken, this is already a geocache series:
Also, on another note - the one that brought me here - Can I use your group photo taken at the WI picnic for my column? Would love to show just how many "crazies" (LOL) geocache. And, how would I credit it? If you want your full name, zap me an e-mail at email@example.com. Otherwise, we would use "Submitted photo."
I downloaded it on the computer when I first saw it posted here, to have personally, but have done nothing else with it. I see it's good, high quality.
Is that OK? Let me know ASAP, thanks! Give me your address and I'd send you a paper, too!
- 8:51 AM, October 18, 2007
- IowaAdmin said...
I sent Liz an e-mail to reply in the affirmative.
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The moral hand is a metaphor of five basic ethical principles, one for each finger, summarizing coherent ethic. It is the result of a ten year study of ethics and it captures my complete ethical system. Each principle generates a principle of equality. To start a discussion on e.g. animal rights and veganism, I will apply the five principles to our consumption of animal products.
-The thumb: the principle of universalism. You must (may) do what everyone who is capable must (may) do in all morally similar situations towards all morally equal individuals. Prejudicial discrimination is immoral. We should give the good example, even if others don't. Just like we have to place the thumb against the other fingers in order to grasp an object, we have to apply the principle of universalism to the other four basic principles.
-The forefinger: justice and the value of lifetime well-being. Increase the well-being (over a complete life) of all sentient beings alive in the present and the future, whereby improvements of the worst-off positions (the worst sufferers, the beings who have the worst lives) have a strong priority. Lifetime well-being is the value you would ascribe when you would live the complete life of a sentient being, and is a function of all positive (and negative) feelings that are the result of (dis)satisfaction of preferences: of of everything (not) wanted by the being.
-The middle finger: the mere means principle and the basic right to bodily autonomy. Never use the body of a sentient being as merely a means to someone else's ends, because that violates the right to bodily autonomy. The two words "mere means" refer to two conditions, respectively: 1) if in order to reach and end (e.g. saving someone) you push a sentient being to do or undergo something that the being does not want, and 2) if the body of that sentient being is necessary as a means for that end, then you are not allowed to treat that being in that way. A sentient being is a being who has developed the capacity to want something by having positive and negative feelings, and who has not yet permanently lost this capacity. The middle finger is a bit longer than the forefinger, and so the basic right is a bit stronger than the lifetime well-being (e.g. the right to live). The basic right can only be violated when the forefinger principle of well-being is seriously threatened.
-The ring finger: naturalness and the value of biodiversity. If a behavior violates the forefinger or middle finger principles, the behavior is still allowed (but not obligatory) only if that behavior is both natural (a direct consequence of spontaneous evolution), normal (frequent) and necessary (important for the survival of sentient beings). As a consequence predators are allowed to hunt. Just as lifetime well-being is the value of a sentient being, biodiversity is the value of an ecosystem and is a function of the variation of life forms and processes that are a direct consequence of natural evolution. The valuable biodiversity would drastically decrease if a behavior that is natural, normal and necessary would be universally prohibited (universally, because you have to put the thumb against the ring finger).
-The little finger: tolerated partiality and the value of personal relationships. Just as the little finger can deviate a little bit from the other fingers, a small level of partiality is allowed. When helping others, you are allowed to be a bit partial in favor of your loved ones, as long as you are prepared to tolerate similar levels of partiality of everyone else (everyone, because you have to put the thumb against the little finger).
-The palm: universal love and solidarity. Do not hate or despise anyone. Love all living beings with respect and compassion. The palm holds the moral fingers together.
The forefinger, middle finger, ring finger and little finger correspond with resp. a welfare ethic, a rights ethic, an environmental ethic and an ethic of care.
These five fingers produce five principles of equality.
-The thumb: the formal principle of impartiality and antidiscrimination. We should treat all equals equally in all equal situations. We should not look at arbitrary characteristics linked to individuals. This is a formal principle, because it does not say how we should treat someone. The other four principles are material principles of equality. They have specific content and are generated when the thumb is applied to the four fingers.
-The forefinger: the principle of priority for the worst-off. As a result of this priority, we have an egalitarian principle of well-being: if total lifetime well-being is constant between different situations, then the situation which has the most equal distribution of well-being is the best.
-The middle finger: basic right equality. All sentient beings with equal levels of morally relevant mental capacities get an equal claim to the basic right not to be used as merely a means to someone else's ends.
-The ring finger: behavioral fairness. All natural beings have an equal right to a behavior that is both natural, normal and necessary (i.e. a behavior that contributes to biodiversity). E.g. if a prey is allowed to eat in order to survive, a predator is allowed to do so as well (even if it means eating the prey).
-The little finger: tolerated choice equality. Everyone is allowed to be partial to an equal degree that we can tolerate. If you choose to help individual X instead of individual Y, and if you tolerate that someone else would choose to help Y instead of X, then X and Y have a tolerated choice equality (even if X is emotionally more important for you than Y).
The five moral fingers can be applied to the production and consumption of animal products (meat, fish, eggs, dairy, leather, fur,…):
-The forefinger: compared to humans, livestock animals are in the worst-off position due to suffering and early death. The loss of lifetime well-being of the livestock animals is worse than the loss of well-being that humans would experience when they are no longer allowed to consume animal products. Livestock and fisheries violate the forefinger principle of well-being.
-The middle finger: the consumption of animal products almost always involves the use of animals as merely means, hence violating the mere means principle of the middle finger.
-The ring finger: animal products are not necessary for humans, because a well-planned vegan diet is not unhealthy (according to the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics). Biodiversity will not decrease when we would stop consuming animal products (on the contrary, according to UN FAO the livestock sector is likely the most important cause of biodiversity loss). Hence, the value of biodiversity cannot be invoked to justify the consumption of animal products.
-The little finger: we would never tolerate the degree of partiality that is required to justify livestock farming and fishing. Hence, tolerated partiality cannot be invoked to justify the consumption of animal products.
It follows that veganism is ethically consistent, and the production and consumption of animal products are ethically inconsistent.
-The thumb: give the good example, even when other people continue consuming animal products. From this principle, it follows that veganism is a moral duty.
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you still have to explain what anthropomorphisations I made... I did never refer to a capacity that all (or most) humans but no cows have, that I incorrectly attributed to cows.
Asking someone to imagine being a cow, and then asking them what their preference would be. You can't both be a cow and have the sorts of opinions that a human would have. Such speculations are fun for children's stories, but not a rational basis for forming adult opinions.
ah, I see. That is not necessarily antropomorfisation. It is compassion. Just imagine being a cow with - of course - having the cow's preferences. I can't really know what it is like, being a woman with woman's preferences (there is no such thing as "women preferences", by the way), but with my compassion I do know that rape is bad. No matter how much the rape victim tels about her experience, what it means for her, I well never have her feelings and preferences myself, but I do have compassion. And it is not andropomorfisation (male projection).
Of course, we have to interpret the cow's behavior and fysiological reactions after her calf is taken away. And the simplest interpretation (ockham's razor) is that she feels sad, upset,... Look at this movie:
use your compassion and ask yourself what the cow feels. I show this movie a lot, and everyone, even farmers, children,... agree that the cow is scared. No-one has problems interpreting this behavior. Being scared is most likely not an emotion that humans do but cows do not have. This is not antropomofisation. Question is: when is it allowed to make someone scared like that? (I am not even talking about the killing here.)
So now you are comparing women to cattle? What the fuck is wrong with you? This 'discussion' is over. You are disgusting.
yes, it happens that both women and cattle have feelings and preferences and that I am not a woman and not a cow and cannot really feel how it is like being a woman or a cow. That's true. That is exactly what women and cattle have in common. You know this, I know you do, so be consistent: this is a comparison between women and cattle. And even you (I suppose you are a woman), cannot really know what it is like being another woman being raped. Even if you are raped, you cannot know this. But you do have empathy.
Anyway, I can interpret your reaction in only one way: once A and B happen to have something in common, all judgments and treatments and stuff should be the same for A and B... I say "all", because if it is not "all", I really don't know what the fuck would be wrong with it. If it is not "all" judgments, then there might very well be a difference in important judgments, i.e. differences between A and B that are important to you. No need for being disgusted.
So, women should eat gras in the fields, and cows should, well... go to the doctor for a mammography and use the women's toilets, and their calves should go to school. (sorry, this was exagerated)
Were I a cow with intelligence equivalent to a Dutch philosopher, I would not like being psychologized across species lines.
waauw, what do you mean with that? Psychologized across species lines? In a context where I was talking about fear and distress?
Perhaps I should use the strategy that someone else in this discussion did: target the antecedent. You are not an intelligent cow. :-)
Not even if it could save your life?
I would not like the being psychologized part, though. LOL
"I think your reasoning is emotional and confused. It's philosophically valid to say that in your opinion, because eating meat involves the bodily violation of the animal, it's bad. It's not philosophically valid to say that for the same reason, eating meat is like rape, and because it's like rape, it's bad."
well, the latter part I am not saying. What I can claim is that the reason why rape is bad is coherent with the reason why eating meat is bad. But if rape never existed and no-one thought of rape, than meat would still be a violation of bodily integrity.
"To claim that killing an animal for food is the same as raping a fellow human being - is nasty, is an unfounded assumption, and is an inappropriate, hidden attempt to appeal to emotion in order to support your argument."
in a sense, you are right, I make an appeal to emotion. Sorry that you interpreted it as a hidden attempt. Anyway, I have a need for consistency, and most people have, and they feel bad when they donj't have consistency. I appeal to that emotion of frustration.
"Argument from analogy is a weak form of argument, primitive and folklorish. Instead of trying to describe the qualities of eating meat in terms of the qualities of rape, you need to justify your argument on direct grounds or not at all."
I definitely don't agree that argument from analogy is weak. It is the basis of consistencdy, applying the principle of universality: if A is X and B is like A in the relevent respect, then B is X. Besides, in discussions, a lot of meat eaters give me arguments with analogies. What about pets, are you wearing leather, can a baby drink milk, aren't plants sentient as well, what about predation,...? All these questions/arguments are based on analogies. And I like it, because I like coherence. In my e-book "the ethical consistency of animal equality", I discuss more about universalism and kinds of analogies.
"... the reason why rape is bad is coherent with the reason why eating meat is bad..."
I don't think this means anything, and it certainly doesn't support any argument about eating meat.
"I have a need for consistency, and most people have, and they feel bad when they don't have consistency. I appeal to that emotion of frustration."
If you set out to describe the world, and don't like what you find, and then bend your perceptions until they become attractive to you - you won't get very far.
"... the principle of universality ..." - what is that? It sounds like the Principle of Vague Wishful Thinking. Am I right that you're a physicist? I can't imagine you invoking a Principle of Universality, and analogies, whether poor or not, in order to support research in the field of physics. This stuff is not a parlour game - to some people it can be life or death.
"Besides, in discussions, a lot of meat eaters give me arguments with analogies." Two wrongs don't make a right, this is a basic moral principle.
"All these questions/arguments are based on analogies." - they're based on direct facts.
"And I like it, because I like coherence." - but the world is the way it is, not the way you want it to be.
"If you set out to describe the world, and don't like what you find, and then bend your perceptions until they become attractive to you - you won't get very far."
I don't know why you say this here, but it is true.
The principle of universalism corresponds with the thumb principle: for example equal judgments for morally equal situations. Universality is a necessary requirement for physical laws. I don't feel like writing everything here. More on universalism (in ethics and science) is in my book "the etical consistency of animal equality. (Yes, I have a PhD in physics; now I am doing a PhD in moral philosophy)
questions/arguments "based on direct facts"? I disagree with that. yes, there is the fact that I was not wearing leather shoes and that I answered that babies are allowed to drink breast milk and that a predator eats meat. But these are all analogies. The losses of well-being in rape and in slaughterhouses are also facts.
Your other responses seem trivially true to me, although I don't know why you wrote them here. Of course the world is not the way I want it to be. I'm glad you're here to tell me these things. ;-)


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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology unites scientists with various backgrounds (natural sciences and humanities) whose aim is to investigate the history of humankind from an interdisciplinary perspective with the help of comparative analyses of genes, cultures, cognitive abilities and social systems of past and present human populations as well as those of primates closely related to human beings.
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Web documentary "Science without frontiers"
Using the example of three research groups from Dresden, Halle and Leipzig in Central Germany, the web documentary "Science without frontiers" (MDR Wissen) illustrates that science thrives on internationality and diversity. One of the institutions that producer Lisa Kettwig visited is the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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AOL Sells Its Patents To Microsoft For $1 Billion: Microsoft Now Owns Netscape IP
from the not-quite-a-troll dept
Of course, there's an interesting twist in all of this. Peter Kafka notes that Microsoft basically bought all Netscape assets outside of the name/trademarks, etc. From a historical standpoint, that's pretty interesting, seeing as how big the early internet battle was between Microsoft and Netscape for who would win the war to control the window into the internet. It would then be especially ironic (and ridiculous) if Microsoft used those patents to sue others, after spending so much time trying to kill off Netscape... Such is the bizarre world of patents these days, I guess.


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In my initial follow up post to the Midwest Family History Expo, Reflections on the Midwest Family History Expo I stated "We can not truly know our ancestor unless we know how they lived, where they lived and what the world was like that they lived in." This was the premise of Gena Philibert Ortega's session on Combining Historical Research with Genealogy.
Gena stressed the importance of researching the history of the area your ancestors lived in and to not limit this research to only the geography. Use of historical time lines will most certainly help to put our ancestors into their proper context of what was happening in the world around them. What about the social, religious and economic context? We have to gain a complete understanding of the challenges faced in order to more fully understand why our ancestors made the choices they made. This can lead to assumptions as to when, why and how they may have moved about the county, state or even the country.
By following up on these assumptions, we may find our ancestors in places we didn't expect and had not researched before. Farming families may have migrated during droughts, wide-spread sickness may explain why family members disappeared from the census, a new railway line may explain how your family was able to visit other family members and show up in records, unexpectedly, in another area. All of these "life events" impacted our ancestors movements and without knowing what they faced we can not create a complete picture.
Gena provided a lengthy list of sources for performing historical research and I look forward to giving them a try.


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Lady Antebellum Refresh Themselves in New Lipton Iced Tea Commercial
Lady Antebellum are a part of Lipton's 'Drink Positive' campaign, which includes TV commercials featuring the band. Lots of free iced tea — the quintessential drink of summer — is also a perk of the partnership! In a new Lipton TV commercial, Lady A can be seen refreshing themselves during a show.
As usual, fans are screaming for them, clamoring for more, with Charles Kelley acknowledging that it's hot. To beat the heat, the trio downs some cool and crisp tea to refresh and replenish so they can return to the stage for the encore. But not before some nifty animation, which demonstrates what 'happens' when you fill your body with the product they're selling.
After the band fuels their insides, they turn clear with green leaves floating in them… sort of like a sci-fi way to promote their new campaign. If it's good enough to propel a Lady A performance, it's good enough to quench your thirst, right?
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Gemma Ward: Heath Ledger Was One of a Kind
Gemma Ward graces the cover of the Daily Telegraph's Sunday magazine.
Here's what the 23-year-old Aussie model and actress had to share:
On meeting Heath Ledger in New York in 2007: "We were both struggling with things that I won't get into and we bonded over that. At first I said, 'Listen, my mum's living with me right now and I'm going through a hard time. I'm not interested in having a serious relationship,' and he said, 'Let's just be there for each other through these hard times.' And we developed a relationship and started seeing each other."
On her memories about Heath: "He was an incredible person, unlike anybody I've ever met – and will meet ever again. He was one of a kind and extremely sensitive, extremely open, extremely honest, extremely generous, extremely energetic. He had time for everybody, no matter who you were. He was such an amazing talent."
On her character in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: "Tamara is the typical siren. And what I found interesting about the mermaids in this movie is that the producers stayed true to mermaid mythology. The original story of The Little Mermaid was very gruesome – a lot of these old fairytales are."
On her career: "I wasn't a child [when I started out]; I was a teenager. I wasn't all that innocent, either. I wasn't taken advantage of – I knew what I was doing. I feel very powerful in myself now. I'm happy with where I am and I'm excited for my life and excited to embrace all aspects of it. I'm definitely not [regretful]. I look back on everything I've done with pride."


text: DigitalHow changes to Facebook's app auth process affect developersBy Brittany Darwell|December 12, 2012ShareBy Brittany Darwell|December 12, 2012ShareAlong with other new privacy controls, Facebook today announced changes to the apps permissions process, which separates read and write permissions into different dialogs. The new flow gives users more control, but adds an extra step that could have an effect on acceptance rate and change the type of access users grant apps.Today's changes do not affect how users install games on Facebook.com, but will apply to mobile apps and other sites using Facebook login. Now that apps will request read and write permissions separately, users have the option to log into an application and receive a personalized experience using their name, friend list and other aspects of their profile, but they can reject the app's request to publish activity on their behalf.Previously, users accepted these permissions in one step, which led some users to unknowingly authorize an app to post to their wall. When users better understand what an app can do, they are less likely to be taken by surprise and end up marking an app as spam. They will also be more likely to add more apps in the future. Without feeling like they have control over what they share, users might be hesitant to add any third-party apps. That said, the two-step process could also lead to lower install rates or lead fewer people to allow apps to share their activity.In some cases, the app auth process may involve three steps. That's because Facebook also distinguishes "manage" permissions from read and write. If an app wants to manage a user's ads, events, notifications or other products, it will have to request this in a third dialog.Some aspects developers will appreciate are how the new dialogs are smaller and more lightweight, which is less likely to turn off users, and how some permissions have been combined. For example, apps used to have to request separate permissions for "publish_stream," "publish_actions" and "publish_checkins." Now an app can simply ask if it can publish to Facebook or not. "Basic info" has also been renamed to "public profile and friend list" to be more descriptive and transparent to users.Facebook says all mobile and non-game web apps will be converted to the new auth flow automatically. No changes are required to a developer's code.Here's a look at how the read and write permissions dialogs appear on different platforms:Images from Facebook. Sharehttp://adweek.it/2jH0D2C copy Adweek Adweek


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Do you have a favorite design book? I know, I know, there are so many design books available that it is hard to pick a favorite. But, it didn't used to be that way. In the past there were much, much fewer design books published. Today, the market for these beautiful books has exploded and it seems every well known interior designer has his own book. My collection of design books was once manageable. Now I have literally run out of space to store all my books - there are stacks of them in my garage waiting for some miracle like a gorgeous two-story library to suddenly appear in my house. What are my favorites? The list would be long.
An early design book that I absolutely loved was California Cottages, written in 1996.
This small book is filled with pictures of charming California houses.
I remember I particularly loved these chairs!!!
The year 1997 brought this book – I devoured it – cover to cover and then over again. This book was a favorite for years and years.
And of course, a more recent book – Elements of Style – is now in its 8th printing which is a huge feat in design books. All these books I have mentioned have one thing in common – they were written by San Francisco author Diane Dorrans Saeks.
Above are Diane's books. How many do you own? I was surprised how many I actually had myself! Besides writing books, Diane writes for many publications. She is currently working on two new book titles. And Diane still has time to write a wonderful blog, The Style Saloniste HERE.
The author, Diane Dorrans Saeks. Our honored guest this week on The Skirted Roundtable. She is an intelligent and fascinating woman. Be sure to listen HERE.
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All spiders in the U.S. are poisonous. The fangs of most spiders are too short or too fragile to break through human skin. Or their poison (venom) is too weak to cause damage. Most spider bites cause only minor, local reactions. But some spider bites can be deadly.
In the U.S., 2 spiders can cause serious problems. These are the black widow and the brown recluse (also called the violin spider).
The brown recluse spider is about 1 inch (2.54 cm) long. It has a violin shaped mark on its head. In the U.S., they are more common in the Midwest and South.
They tend to live in undisturbed areas. These include basements, closets, and attics, or outside under logs or leaf piles. They don't normally attack, but they will if they're trapped.
No deaths have been reported in the U.S. from brown recluse bites.
A black widow spider is a small, shiny, black button-shaped spider. Female black widows have red hourglass marks on their underside or abdomen. Males have marks on their backs. In the U.S., they are most common in the South and West.
Black widow spiders release a toxin. This can harm your child's central nervous system. If your child gets bit by a black widow, he or she needs medical help right away.
The following are the most common symptoms of brown recluse spider bite:
The symptoms of a brown recluse spider bite may look like other health problems. Make sure your child sees his or her healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
The following are the most common symptoms of a black widow spider bite:
The symptoms of a black widow spider bite may look like other health problems. Make sure your child sees his or her healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
Your child's healthcare provider will look at the bite area. He or she will also check your child for other symptoms of a bite. He or she will also ask if your child was recently in an area where spiders are often found.
If you can trap the spider without harming your child further or hurting yourself, try to do so. Put the spider in a glass jar or plastic container. This way, an expert can identify the spider. This will help your child get the right treatment.
If your child is bit by a spider, get medical help right away. You can also do the following right away to treat it:
Treatment will depend on your child's symptoms, age, and general health. It will also depend on how severe the condition is.
Depending on the severity of the bite, your child may need surgery. No medicines have been found to help brown recluse bites. Your child may need to stay in the hospital for further treatment.
Your child may need muscle relaxants, pain relievers, and other medicines. Some children need a special medicine that works against the poison (antivenin). Your child may need to stay in the hospital for further treatment.
Children can wear protective clothing when they're playing where spiders live. These include long-sleeved shirts and pants. If you can, remove tall grass, leaves, and logs from outdoor play areas.
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WASHINGTON, May 10 (UPI) -- The House speaker said he wants an email released he said showed the U.S. State Department believed quickly the consulate attack in Libya involved terrorists.
"The State Department would not allow our committees to keep copies of this email when it was reviewed," Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said. "I would call on the president to order the State Department to release this email so that the American people can see it."
The speaker's call came Thursday after a House oversight committee conducted a hearing into the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi in which Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other diplomatic employees were killed.
White House spokesman Jay Carney Friday told reporters the hearing was politically motivated.
Republicans' demands on Benghazi represent "ongoing attempts to politicize a tragedy that took four American lives." Carney said. "We're now seeing it resurface together with sort of political assertions by Republicans that ignore the basic facts here: There was an attack on our facility in Benghazi. The intelligence community provided the information that it felt comfortable providing for public dissemination to members of government, Congress and the administration."
Republicans on the committee criticized the Obama administration and Democrats for not cooperating with the committee's investigation and for the actions taken by the administration in the attack's aftermath, with one Republican member calling it a "political coverup that resulted from that mismanagement."
Democrats had said the hearing before the House Government Operations Committee is a not-so-subtle effort to blot the credentials of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, one of the country's most popular political figures and the overwhelming favorite for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, should she decide to run.
During Wednesday's hearing, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., read an excerpt from the email, quoting what he said was a reference to the local militant group that carried out the attack, Ansar al-Sharia, as having links to "Islamic terrorists." The New York Times said a copy of the email it received included the phrase "Islamic extremists," not "terrorists."
Gowdy and other Republicans said the email's significance was its timing -- the day after the attack -- and in its description. They said the distinction between the words "extremists" and "terrorists" was without difference.
"Four Americans lost their lives in this terrorist attack," Boehner said Wednesday, "and Congress is going to continue to investigate this issue using all the resources at our disposal."
Democrats dismissed the email as another GOP attempt to rehash an issue Clinton addressed when she appeared before Congress last fall.
"'Old news' is an understatement; maybe Speaker Boehner just didn't realize that this exact same issue was already addressed last October," said Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, D-Md., the ranking Democrat on the House committee. He raised questions about the motive behind the hearing during his opening remarks.


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This weekend a wolf in Vestfold, Norway
was killed after the Vestfold Bondelag and Amund Kind send in an
application to the local government, in which they got yes. This
accident is linked to recent incidents of other murders, and also a
discussion about how to deal with the stray-wolf from Sweden, north and border-wolf. To brand the wolf as a
nationality is problematic by itself, and by making a way around the
international law and protection of endangered species on a non-valid
and what we consider week points. The points was to protect the
"house animals" and farm animals, that are week points because of
the multiple of different alternatives for solutions like a better
protection of farm animals like in North America close to natural
reservations and countries like Spain, Poland and Italy. (one example
is the way of using wolf sounds from the farm to communicate with the
wolf as protection). Mainly we see the rise of these killings as
a failure of knowledge and information about the subject today, but
also a new look at wildlife as something to take care or get rid of;
instead of living with it. The wild animals will not go away, no
matter how many one kills; or else one may want extermination as
environmental solution.
This issue is also about how we deal with our environment as an ecological and open way today, instead of reinforcement of extermination of wild-life, for the sake of protecting industrial farming and local hunting traditions.
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On Nov. 10, Somersworth Boy Scouts conducted a food drive to help restock the Community Food Pantry. The Scouts collected approximately 2,450 pounds of food. This special effort has made a great difference. At this time of year many families come to the food pantry in need of help. During the month of October alone, the pantry served 339 families consisting of 943 individuals. Drives like this where so many people donate generously are of great importance in helping to keep food stocked and available for those in need. The efforts of the Scouts and the many community members who so willingly donated items are greatly appreciated by the food pantry and a special thanks is sent to all who participated.
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Sharks outlast Avalanche 3-2 in shootout, snapping two-game losing streakNHL.com @NHLdotcom
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Patrick Marleau scored in the fourth round of the shootout, Antti Niemi stopped three shots in the final session and the San Jose Sharks showed signs of coming out of a monthlong slump with a 3-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday night.
Michal Handzus made the first shot and two Sharks missed before Marleau shook Semyon Varlamov, sneaking the puck between the goaltender's legs for the winning score. Niemi turned aside 25 of 27 shots before the shootout and tossed aside John Mitchell's attempt to send it to a fifth round.
Logan Couture and TJ Galiardi also scored goals for the Sharks, who snapped a two-game losing streak. San Jose has won eight straight at home, including three in overtime.
Chuck Kobasew scored in the first period for the Avalanche and Mark Olver tied it with 3:16 remaining in regulation.


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Saturday, March 31, 2012
Peep Chocolate Bar
Posted by Christy Robbins at 12:24 AM 3 comments
Friday, March 30, 2012
Peeps: On-A-Stick
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Labels: Easter, On-A-Stick, Peeps
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Peeps: Bunny in a Hole Push Pop
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Peeps: Sugar Cookies
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
A Week of....Peeps
Peeps. Need I say more? Below are two post I threw up last year in honor of the little Easter treats, and I'll be adding a few more I've put together for this year over the next few days, also seen below-I'll attach the links as the week progresses. In addition, I have a little file of ideas I want to try out over the next few weeks. The only thing better than a week of peep post is TWO weeks. Clearly, these sugar coated marshmallows are life changing. And classy. Clearly.
Chocolate Dipped PeepsBunny Stew
Sugar Cookies
Peep Pop
Chocolate Bar
Posted by Christy Robbins at 12:06 AM 3 comments
Labels: A Week Of..., Easter, Peeps
Sunday, March 25, 2012
A Gift From the Garden
I made a basket of garden 'stuff' for one of my favorite people on planet earth, Nicole. She has a green thumb.....I. Do. Not. I'm bringing a new version of this gift to share today on Good Morning, Texas today. It's spring, time for some spring-ee house warming/hostess/adult Easter basket gift ideas. I'll add links later to the tutorials. I'm doing two segments today, and I've added some additional things to the original basket idea that I'll be sharing.
I'll be sharing this idea for baking bread in bpa free tin cans (it should say this on the side of the vegetable tins before you use them). This is the original post, complete with one of my favorite bread recipes.
I'm also making these super simple chalkboard spoon markers. Here is the original post, it basically serves as a tragic warning-what NOT to do, and then the simple solution that would have saved me a lot of time, but wouldn't have made for quite as interesting of a story....
I also made these seed starters for the basket. I shared the tutorial last week.
Last up, I am making some super simple cupcakes, so simple....this IS the tutorial.
Posted by Christy Robbins at 9:56 PM 2 comments
Labels: Bread, Cupcakes, Easter, Gardens, Gifts for Girls, Homemade Gift, Mother's Day
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Paris Shower Invitations
always use for making soap, and it popped right out.
Posted by Christy Robbins at 12:00 AM 4 comments
Labels: Bridal Shower, Chocolate, Invitations, Paris, Showers, Soap
Friday, March 23, 2012
Seed Starters
The only thing you need is a mix of shredded paper and tissue paper cut into thin strips. You want about the same amount of each.
Posted by Christy Robbins at 12:00 AM 1 comments
Labels: Gardens, Homemade Gift, Mother's Day
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Adult Easter Basket Treats
I put Nest Cookies, Carrot Shaped Cookies, and Lindsor Chocolate Bunnies in each basket.
Posted by Christy Robbins at 12:00 AM 5 comments
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Bird's Nest Cookies
These are super easy to make, and really tasty.
Bird's Nest Cookie Recipe
Ingredients: 1 cup peanuts, 2 c. butterscotch morsels, and 2 c. chow mein noodles, chocolate eggs.
Instructions: Melt morsels (it took about 1 min and 20 seconds for mine to melt). Stir in the peanuts and noodles. Drop onto wax paper, add eggs, and let it dry before bagging. I was able to make 12 large cookies out of these ingredients. You could certainly make them smaller, but it always sounds better when you can say, "I only ate one cookie."....you gotta think ahead about these things.
I bagged some of these cookies up individually.
Posted by Christy Robbins at 12:00 AM 2 comments
Labels: Cookies, Desserts, Easter, Mother's Day, Recipes


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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Miyazaki Manga
While he has seemingly retired from directing animation, Hayao Miyazaki has returned to creating manga. Above are two photos of many from a recent Japanese documentary on Miyazaki, as reported by Crunchyroll.
The manga is a period piece dealing with samurai during the Warring States period of Japanese history.
Miyazaki already created one major manga work, Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind. Having read and admired that, I look forward to reading more Miyazaki when this is completed.
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This makes me happy! I had heard that he was suffering some heart trouble - I hope his retirement from features is long and fruitful and healthy.
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Gates announces new products
Gates Underwater Products has announced a series of new products. These include new housings for the Sony PMW-F55 digital cinema camera and the Canon VIXIA HF G20 camera, a new 5" widescreen HDMI monitor called the EM50 and a kit that can be installed into Gates housings that allows the surface control of focus, iris and zoom.
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Editor: The Boston terrorist attack was an act of inhuman cruelty, and our prayers are with all the victims and their families. During the unfolding tragedy and aftermath, the behavior of the left-wing media, specifically CNN and MSNBC, was embarrassing and inexcusably slanted.
Editor: The Boston terrorist attack was an act of inhuman cruelty, and our prayers are with all the victims and their families. During the unfolding tragedy and aftermath, the behavior of the left-wing media, specifically CNN and MSNBC, was embarrassing and inexcusably slanted.
During the entire manhunt, MSNBC and CNN speculated loudly and often that the attack had been the work of a home-grown conservative terrorist. Chris Matthews was pathetically salivating trying to make the terrorist an angry conservative. Even after the suspects had been identified, these news agencies refused to admit that this attack was the work of a jihadist, despite Fox News and radio 94.5 reporting the jihadist Facebook post by the brothers. As late as (the night of April 21), no MSNBC reporter had mentioned jihad or called the attack Islamic terrorism. Remember the Batman theater shooter James Holmes? The "mainstream media" first labeled him as an angry conservative (it was later learned that he is a liberal Democrat). The same is true of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, and most other mass murders: angry liberals, not angry conservatives.
It is disgustingly obvious that the mainstream media has become an undisguised arm of the liberal Democratic Party. The reporters at MSNBC and CNN wanted this attack to be the work of a Tea Party member; the fact that no member of the Tea Party has ever committed an attack against anyone in this nation does not stop these liberal reporters from trying to make their political ideals reshape the facts. Restrictions on gun ownership is more important than restrictions on immigration to the Democrats; I wonder how many people would want a gun if they were locked inside their homes while a terrorist manhunt ensued in their neighborhood as it did in Boston. (Thanks to Obama's amnesty program, we now have 268,000 formally illegal aliens who have now been granted citizenship. The Boston terrorist and Nidal Hasan were granted citizenship as well. Feel safer?)
The fact is that 90 percent of all worldwide terrorism is caused by Islamic terrorists, yet the mainstream media seems tediously determined to portray every conservative as a terrorist. The truth is that most (if not all) conservatives are hard-working, tax-paying, law-abiding Christian patriots who love their country and honor the Untied States Constitution. Timothy McVeigh was a self-proclaimed atheist.
With millions being added to the welfare rolls and the culture of dependency being perpetrated by the Democratic Party and the ideals of multiculturalism and political correctness trumping national security, we may be living through the condemned age.
America cannot tax our way to prosperity or make radical murderers love us by sycophancy and denial. It is time to demand truth from our government and news agencies. The narcotic dullness of resignation and the idiotic trust in government to protect us is more dangerous than any terrorist will ever be, and the blind trust liberals have in the Democratic Party may prove fatal for us all.
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¡Buenos días! I'm here with the BlackBerry® Developer Relations team in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress 2012. We've got a lot of programs scheduled for the next few days and we're looking forward to "jamming" with you. Here's the run down of what's happening here in Barcelona:
All Week
Come by the BlackBerry DevZone (@ 7B42, Hall 7) where, in just a few minutes, developers can port your existing Android™ app to the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet or transform an existing web application into a full-fledged app for both the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and BlackBerry® smartphones. The BlackBerry App World™ storefront team will be here too, available to speed up the vendor approval process and help you get your app posted up on BlackBerry App World right away.
Monday, February 27th
- Mobile Premier Awards– Alec Saunders, RIM's VP of Developer Relations and Ecosystems Development, is on the judging panel
- PocketGamer Party – Meet us there!
Tuesday, February 28th
- BlackBerry Developer Day at MWC
- Session 1: 10:00 – 12:30
- Session 2: 13:00 – 15:30
- Session 3: 16:00 – 18:30
- http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/blackberry
Thursday, March 1st
- WIPJam – BlackBerry Dev Expert table
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Arsenal defender Bacary Sagna has, once again, reiterated his desire to stay on at Arsenal, despite being strongly linked with a move away from the club this summer.
The Frenchman has suffered from severe injuries in recent years including two leg-breaks and his recent form hasn't been up to scratch according to the player himself, but he still wants to remain at the club.
The 30-year-old has been the club's first choice right-back since joining from Auxerre back in 2007, but his first-team spot has been in jeopardy since contract talks stalled back in Christmas.
Sagna is in his final year of his current contract and he is yet to sign a new deal with the club as the player and the club's officials cannot agree terms on a new deal, but despite being in his final year, he still wants to stay at the Emirates Stadium.
"I enjoy playing for Arsenal," Sagna told reporters. "I love my team and I always give my best.
"I'm still here. Many people were talking about me going back to France but I'm still here and I'm looking forward to a big season with Arsenal.
"Last season was difficult. I only had one year left and people were looking at that and maybe thinking I would leave.
"But I tried to stay as calm as I could. Now I will work hard in pre-season and have a good season for Arsenal."
The 30-year-old has been strongly linked with a move back to France in order to join mega-rich Paris Saint-Germain or AS Monaco.
However, the French international is only focusing on the season ahead and is confident the new campaign can be a good one for Arsenal.
"I believe that we can challenge for the title with a couple of good signings," Sagna said.
"We beat great teams last year, we managed to be one of the best teams in the second half of the season and if we can be consistent for the whole season, I believe we can be successful.
"If I had the solution as to what went wrong last season, I would have given it.
"I think it's a question of desire and, in some games, being over-confident because we know we have the players and the quality.
"We just have to find consistency and the belief to get success.
"Every team is strengthening and we can strengthen, too, but it's more about us caring on the pitch and showing the commitment. That will take us a long way."
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Kiwi Three Strikes Tribunal Fines Soldier Who Was Serving In Afghanistan When Infringement Happened
from the manifestly-unjust dept
I have just returned from deployment overseas [in] Afghanistan and was not aware of music being downloaded. It is very difficult to determine who in the household is responsible for downloading music as flatmates are currently deployed around NZ.And yet... the Tribunal still made him pay $255.97, despite not doing anything. The breakdown was $200 to reimburse the RIANZ for the application against him, $50 in fees, and another $5.97 for the "price" of the 3 songs on iTunes. Of course, since he wasn't the one who downloaded the songs in the first place, it seems ridiculous that he should have to pay for those songs, let alone the various other fees.
However I understand entirely that I am the person who is held liable for these actions. I have spoken to the pers [sic] who have access to my internet IP address, and between 8 pers, we cannot determine who is fully responsible.
I ask that this notice be a lesson to those in my household as they now understand how severe the consequences may be for committing such an act. I do not wish this situation to grow any more than it needs to be. I am currently going through transitioning from military life in Afghanistan to life back home in NZ, and I'm not fit to tackle this allegation made against me.
However, I take full responsibility for the acts committed under my IP address and wish for this to be resolved asap. I am willing to co-operate by any means required of me.
As Rick Shera points out in the link above, the Tribunal even acknowledged that it could override the automatic fine by claiming such a ruling would be "manifestly unjust," but bizarrely chose not to. Shera questions under what circumstances the Tribunal would ever use that ability if it didn't use it in this case:
So, it was open to the Tribunal to decide in these circumstances - soldier overseas, no way of knowing who infringed and therefore no ability to recover any award, admitted responsibility - that to make an award was manifestly unjust. Remember that it is unjustness to the account holder (the soldier in this instance) that is relevant not any unjustness to or cost incurred by the copyright owner. Difficult for the Tribunal though without any argument on the point being presented by the Respondent.
I have said before that trying to show manifest unjustness will be extremely hard, especially given the presumption of guilt in section 122N and the fact that an account holder is liable for all actions taken using its account. I think this case underlines that. I find it hard now to imagine any circumstance that will invoke this protection for an account holder.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – As a result of their strong performances against Wheaton College last Saturday, Luke Cummings and Chao He were named Swimmer and Diver of the Week, respectively, by the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC). The honors are the first for both athletes.
Cummings paced a dominating victory for MIT in its first dual meet of the season by factoring into four of the Engineers' wins. He anchored both winning relays (200 medley and 200 free) while securing individual victories in the 50 (22.05) and 100 (48.14) free.
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NJ Online Gaming Starts Today [AUDIO]
It's a major day for New Jersey's gambling industry, but Atlantic City casinos haven't been making a big deal about it.
With the trial period beginning today for invited players, New Jersey has become the third state in the nation to offer online gaming. If all goes well, the service would go statewide on November 26 and anyone physically in the state can partner up with a casino online and play their favorite games from home.
A recent survey showed a majority of residents aren't aware of the state's plans to launch legal, regulated online gambling. It hasn't been a major focus of marketing in the struggling resort town, but that could be a good thing.
Israel Posner, Executive Director of the Lloyd D. Levinson Institute of Gaming, Hospitality & Tourism at Stockton College, said internet gambling's "low-key introduction" is a smart play for casinos. They, along with their online partners, can work out any errors that may pop up, without dealing with thousands of complaints from frustrated users.
"Look what happened with Obamacare when they launched a major site and opened it up on day one with great fanfare," Posner said. "Very quickly, you can get crushed."
Posner predicted that once the sites are deemed fully-functional and tweak-free, heavy marketing can begin. It's expected the billboards and mailers will target gamblers who live nowhere near Atlantic City – those who are tempted to go over the state's border for gaming.
The profits from online gaming are not huge for the casinos themselves, but Posner said it gives Atlantic City a chance to grab new customers and ones that haven't visited in a while.


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Two Arrested In Breaux Bridge After Receiving 800 Grams Of MDMA
Two Acadiana residents are under arrest after receiving 800 grams of MDMA in the mail from China.
Jermia Batiste, 23, and Tony Benoit, 21, retrieved the package from the Breaux Bridge post office on Oct. 7, well after U.S. customs officers intercepted the package and notified the St. Martin Parish Sheriff's Office of its impending arrival.
The St. Martin Parish Narcotics Unit and U.S. Homeland Security Agents were on site to arrest Batiste, of Lafayette, and Benoit, of Breaux Bridge, without incident.
The two are charged with possession with intent to distribute MDMA, a pure form of ecstasy often known as "molly." Bond is set at $500,000 for each.
Maj. Ginny Higgins of the St. Martin Parish Sheriff's Office said its narcotics department "hasn't gotten its hands on" information that will determine whether the arrest was in connection with last week's Silk Road bust.
The FBI shut down the online black market last week, seizing more than $3.6 million in Bitcoins. The Silk Road fostered international drug trade since its 2011 launch by allowing users to anonymously buy and sell anything using the digital currency.


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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Good Intentions!
There's Well-Being (a coconut pineapple cookie), Prosperity (choco-choco chip), Love (chocolate chip orange), and Harmony (lemon snickerdoodle).
Besides the fantastic flavors, these cookies also come with a promise of good mojo. Each cookie is named for the positive characteristic it can bring into your life if you believe. On the inside of the cookie package, there's a corresponding phrase that you're supposed to repeat while eating the cookie. It works with the Law of Attraction — think positive thoughts and positive things will come your way.
Hokey as it might sound, I believe in all that new age airy-fairy stuff. So these cookies were especially fun for me. Since I can't eat four giant cookies in one day without gaining five million pounds (and suffering from major food guilt), I decided to sample the Love Cookie today:
I don't really need more love in my life, but it can't hurt to have more, right? Plus, this humungous cookie is Chocolate Chip Orange, a combo that sounds like a match made in heaven.
The verdict: If this cookie is Love, consider me head over heels! I cut the cookie in half and heated it in the microwave for 10 seconds so the chocolate chips got all melty. A hint of orange flavor (from natural orange oil, not artificial flavors) accented the creamy chocolate bits. And the cookie had that perfect chewy bakery-fresh texture. I enjoyed it with a cold glass of So Delicious Coconut Milk.
Do I feel more love now? Actually, yes since I've found a new love in Intention Cookies! They're made with all-natural, all-vegan ingredients and they cater to my penchant for the Law of Attraction.
Look for more Intention Cookie reviews in the very near future. I'll let ya'll know what I think as I eat each cookie. In the meantime, order your own at the Bountiful Vegan website.
18 comments:
- VeganCowGirl said...
Thanks for sharing!
- June 19, 2009 at 2:31 AM
- jessy said...
those cookies look so tasty! i love the flavors they have go'n on, and all the positive awesomeness as well! i bet the choco choco chip is going to be so gloriously good as well! i too believe in the law of attraction - it just makes so much sense! thanks for the review, Bianca - and i look forward to the others as well! scrumptious, fo 'sho!
- June 19, 2009 at 5:29 AM
- Sal said...
they look great, chocolate orange is one of my favourite combos!!
- June 19, 2009 at 5:33 AM
Yum Yum Yum!
- June 19, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Gena (Choosing Raw) said...
- June 19, 2009 at 10:21 AM
- Cali Cakes said...
Chocolate Chip Orange....sound wonderful. I think I'm totally going to have to try that next time I make cookies.
- June 19, 2009 at 10:44 AM
- pixiepine said...
Mmmm. Chocolate and orange is my favorite!
- June 19, 2009 at 1:37 PM
- A said...
Those look SO GOOD! See, it's products like this that make me feel OK about one day going all out vegan. I can still have wonderful yummies like "Love" cookies!!!
- June 19, 2009 at 1:39 PM
- HayMarket8 said...
YUM! Cookies!
- June 19, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Hi there!!
I just found your fabulous site through Candid RD and I have to say, I LOVE how you write and the foods you eat on a vegan diet. WOW they all look scrumptious and I'm not even vegan myself. It's very inspiring! Keep up this wonderful blog!!! :)
P.s. I'm doin' a little giveaway on mine if you'd like to check that out, please do!!
- June 19, 2009 at 4:23 PM
- Mihl said...
Wow, those cookies are so huge (from a German point of view). I would turn into a cookie monster if I could lay my hands on them.
- June 20, 2009 at 3:08 AM
- celine said...
dude, the love one is pure love. the husband and I fought over it. (not really, but we would have had we both been super selfish and stuff.)
- June 20, 2009 at 5:50 AM
- Sheridanna said...
Love your new pic! You ARE a new age airy fairy! And I love you!
- June 20, 2009 at 10:25 AM
- dreaminitvegan said...
Thanks for sharing this great info. It's always nice to have a really good store bought cookie around.
- June 20, 2009 at 12:41 PM
- The Voracious Vegan said...
Great review! I am SO glad to hear you liked the cookies, they definitely look delicious enough. And like you, I too believe in all that "new age airy-fairy stuff" so I would like those hocus pocus filled cookies just fine!
- June 21, 2009 at 8:06 AM
Those cookies have very trancy labels. I bet they did that so that cookies addicts like myself will eat too many!!! Chocolate Chip Orange would be my favorite, no doubt!
- June 22, 2009 at 10:55 AM
- Cyn said...
Those cookies look so good! I love that there seem to be more and more vegan cookies around lately, it's so fun to splurge on them. And microwaving the cookie is genius.
- June 24, 2009 at 3:07 PM
- Melisser; the Urban Housewife said...
Yay! Glad they arrived.
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Clarke, Watson, Johnson streak hosts ahead
Australia 8 for 440 (Clarke 106, Watson 83, Johnson 73*, Warner 62, Prasad 3-102) lead Sri Lanka 156 by 284 runs
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
It is said of golf that the measure of a player can be gleaned less by the quality of their best shots than by the quality of their worst. On day two of the Boxing Day Test, Australia's batsmen played a handful of poor strokes, but they were far less frequent and consequently less terminal than those offered up by Sri Lanka's batsmen on day one.
None of Michael Clarke, Shane Watson, Matthew Wade or Michael Hussey will be pleased with the manner of their dismissals to bowling that was more presentable than threatening. But of those only Wade erred before he had made any sort of useful contribution to what is now a handsome first innings lead. The tally was further bolstered by an impressively measured innings from Mitchell Johnson, who is making the most of this Test as though it may be his last.
By the close Australia were 284 runs ahead of Sri Lanka with three wickets left to fall, having taken suitable advantage of opponents who missed chances that had to be taken if the gulf opened up on the first day was to be narrowed. Losing the left-arm paceman Chanaka Welegedara to a hamstring strain, the visitors did their cause further harm by spurning chances to stump Clarke and catch Watson at slip before lunch.
Clarke capitalised by passing Ricky Ponting's record for most runs by an Australian in a calendar year on the way to a fifth century for 2012, and Watson did likewise by making his highest Test score in Australia for more than two years.
Watson succumbed to the maddening pattern of his career by falling short of a century, and Clarke did not advance far beyond one amid the loss of three wickets for four runs in mid-afternoon, but a cameo from Hussey and a more substantial stay by Johnson left the match more or less in Australia's keeping, much to the delight of a crowd of 39,486.
Resuming at 3 for 150, Clarke and Watson began cautiously, respecting the early spells of a Sri Lankan attack desperate to capitalise on the modest gains they made late on the second evening. A mere 11 runs were nudged and nodded from the day's first six overs, before the match took another turn away from the visitors.
Having already lost the wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene to a thumb fracture, Sri Lanka now winced at the sight of Chanaka Welegedara clutching his right hamstring and limping from the field. He was sent to hospital for scans while Mehela Jayawardene summoned Shaminda Eranga to complete the over.
Eranga briefly threatened to add further insult to the injury tally when he used his ankle to stop Watson's stinging straight drive, but he recovered sufficiently to keep bowling. Eranga drew nervy moments from both batsmen - Watson jamming down on a yorker that squeezed close to the stumps and Clarke showing his discomfort when trying to duck under a bouncer. But he also gifted four overthrows to Clarke when he threw wildly in the general direction of the stumps following a push down the wicket from Australia's captain.
Helped by the injury and the charity, Clarke and Watson accelerated, and a trio of milestones duly followed. First came Clarke's 50, which has been a common sight in 2012. Next came Watson's half-century, which has not. It was in fact Watson's first score of better than 50 on home soil since the 2010 Boxing Day Ashes Test, a match best forgotten by Australians. Watson then was a makeshift opening batsman; now he is a No. 4 of considerable destructive potential.
Finally, as the clock ticked towards lunch, Clarke passed Ponting's runs record. It was not a mark reached without some palpitations offering Sri Lanka their best chances of the morning. Still needing two runs, he advanced somewhat hazily down the wicket to Rangana Herath, misread the line and the lack of turn, and was fortunate that Kumar Sangakkara was unsighted as the ball passed between Clarke's legs, precluding a clean take and a stumping.
Later in the same over Watson offered a simpler opportunity to Jayawardene at slip, his cut eluding the hands of the Sri Lankan captain. Clarke calmed down sufficiently to push the single that took him past Ponting, acknowledging the warm applause of the day two crowd with a wave of his bat. Clarke sought further glories beyond the interval, and skipped to his century with six boundaries in the hour after resumption, the last a swivel pull to fine leg to register his first Test hundred at the MCG.
Eranga generated some useful pace and bounce with the Great Southern Stand as his backdrop, and it was one of these deliveries that did for Clarke, who drove aggressively but minus sufficient precision to avoid a snick to his opposite number Jayawardene. Sri Lankan relief turned to glee when two more wickets swiftly followed.
Watson undid 197 balls of concentration with a hook at his 198th despite two men being posted deep for the shot, Dhammika Prasad the beneficiary when Thilan Samaraweera held the catch.That exit gave Watson the unseemly ratio of 19 50s and only two centuries in his 38 Tests. Wade perished in a similar fashion, swatting Prasad to Eranga in the deep having made only a single, and Hussey was fortunate a thin edge from Herath fell short of Jayawardene after rebounding off Sangakkara's pads.
That half-chance would be the only real glimpse of a wicket until Hussey and Johnson added an important 61, staving off the subsidence of the tail before the lead had been added to. They were parted by an extraordinary, one-handed catch from Herath when Hussey lofted wide of long on, but Johnson went on to the sort of score his batting talents have threatened rather more than they delivered. Unlike the batsmen on both sides, it may be said that so far in this innings he has seldom missed a fairway.
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Saturday, March 14, 2009
Welcome to the Department of Redundancy Department
Me: "So I asked the lab to include a malaria smear – I know it's not our medical directive but she's coming from an endemic area, she's having biphasic fevers, she's jaundiced and she's having some RUQ discomfort. All this is in the triage notes, but just let the doc know that I did it".
Clueless nurse: "But asking for malaria smears is not part of our medical directive. I'm not telling him that I did it without an order and anyways why would you do that?"
Me: "I'm not asking you to tell him that YOU did it. I'm asking you to tell him that *I* did it".
Clueless nurse: "But sending for smears isn't part of our directive. You need an order to that".
Me: "I've seen a lot of malaria, I've had malaria, so I have a pretty good sense of what malaria looks like. That's why I asked for the smears to be included. Worst case scenario, they'll be negative and we would have spent a miniscule amount of money on them".
Clueless nurse: "I'm not getting into trouble for you. You did something against the rules. I'm not telling him anything. Anyways I don't even know what smears are".
Me: "uhhhh…."
Clueless nurse: "yeah, it's your fault!"
Me: "What the…? What are we talking about?"
Clueless nurse: "You're not supposed to do anything without orders if it's not part of our medical directive. You're the one who broke the rules and you're the one who's getting into trouble for it".
Me: "Umm… okay. Uhh have a good shift?"
Clueless nurse: "I'm not getting into trouble for you. I just don't get why you'd do that anyways".
When I came back for my next shift, lo and behold, the lady was diagnosed with malaria and I got major cut eye from Ms. Clueless.
4 comments:
Hahahahahhahahaha!!! Serves her right!!!!!
- March 15, 2009 at 6:01 AM
- RehabNurse said...
Naw...why on earth would someone ask the doc for a malaria slide order?
One of my nursing instructors always said, "If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck and talks like a duck, it probably is one."
That's why they call it nursing judgment...if you've seen it before, chances are it could be the same thing.
Great post!
- March 18, 2009 at 11:46 AM
I have one question what is a "major cut eye?"
Don't you ever wonder how some people make it through nursing school? I used to work as medical secretary in a prison. One of the nurses came to work with $300. in her bra and then couldn't find it. She asked us if we found it. My thought was: You work in a medium to maximum security prison and you brought $300. to work in your bra, and lost it. Do you really think that you are going to find it.
I'm a new reader and I'm enjoying reading your blog. I have it bookmarked.
- July 26, 2009 at 11:56 PM
- Maha said...
Hi Melanie! Thanks for taking the time to visit my little corner of cyberspace :)
Major cut eye was a phrase that my uni friends developed (and as you can tell, it has stuck with me) to describe someone who's openly glaring at you and wishing you ill for whatever reason.
- August 13, 2009 at 10:45 PM


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As a liberal Catholic, there is a side of me that delights when conservatives are mauling each other in the press. I know it is a sin, but it is such a delicious sin and far from my most grievous. But, the recent intellectual scuffle between legal scholar Doug Kmiec and former Crisis magazine editor Deal Hudson is not only good news for liberals. Kmiec's position is good for conservatives who have been too cozy with the Bush administration. Kmiec's first article – "Reaganites for Obama?" – raised several conservative concerns about John McCain's record as well as an appreciation for Obama's candidacy. Kmiec especially lauded Obama's remarks that "we should not use faith as a wedge to divide, but instead use faith to resolve cultural tensions..." Kmiec acknowledged his difficulty with Obama's pro-choice position and the difficulty any Catholic must feel about voting for someone who, so alert on other issues, is determinedly opposed to laws that would protect innocent fetal life. There should be no doubt about Obama's pro-choice position. It is wrong. And, it is not going anywhere fast. It is doubtful he will ever support overturning Roe. That said, in his book The Audacity of Hope he begins his discussion of the role of religion in politics by recounting the story of his own interaction with a pro-life voter in which Obama admits the knee jerk liberalism that sees all pro-life advocates as reactionary was not good for America. And, one of the consequences of the ugly anti-Obama emails and phone calls that have been paid for by pro-choice women's groups like Emily's List is that, unlike so many Democratic candidates, Obama will not owe one iota of his campaign's success to the organized pro-abortion lobby. I don't want to raise false hopes, but one can imagine a President Obama trying to tackle the issue of reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies with vigor in a way no Republican could do effectively. It took Nixon to go to China. But, the real import of Kmiec's article is his insistence that "as a Christian, I am neither left nor right, nor Democrat nor Republican axiomatically." He points out that the Iraq War is a life issue as well as abortion, and notes the disturbing way that McCain abandoned his previous support for reasonable immigration reform. It can never be said too often: cafeteria Catholicism exists on the right as well as he left. Hudson may be content to repeat the talking points coming from the White House. His access to power has too long blinded him from the one political stance that Christianity always imposes upon its adherents, a stance of critical distance and reflection towards all political power. Kudos to Kmiec for reminding his conservative friends of the limits of the culture war model, the "anti-approach to effecting social, political and judicial change...[that] focuses on criticizing what is unjust and wrong and little on offering a compelling vision for a truly just social order." When even conservative Republicans who held appointments from President Reagan and George H. W. Bush are looking to Obama's campaign and responding to the hope he has put at its center, then we know that this is indeed an exceptional election year. And the fireworks are just beginning. Michael Sean Winters
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I understand your concerns with the issues of Roe v Wade but I need to remind you of the deaths that occured before such legislation was put in place. It has not always been used as an alternative to birth control but some very poorly adapted women have died because of internal bleeding. Because the procedure was done badly and then there are those desperate enough not to have to go through the public shaming process for being a young single mother. True the procedure is not that great an image but think instead of the women who would have suffered early death just to avoid shame if Roe v Wade had turned out diferently.
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"I don't want to raise false hopes, but one can imagine a President Obama trying to tackle the issue of reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies with vigor in a way no Republican could do effectively." Mr. Winters, thank you for the article. Unfortunately, I have to disagree with you on this point. Obama has been one of the staunchest pro-choice advocates in the senate, even to the point that he opposed the Induced Infant Liability Act, which later became the Born Alive Protection Act: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18647 Your assertion that Obama will "tackle the issue of reducing unwanted pregnancies" is curious. This may be true, but this is not the issue. The issue is ending abortion, not promoting birth control (which it is hard to believe will be done in communion with Catholic beliefs on abstinence). Think what you want about the war and its morality, but a Republican president, by appointing judges that oppose the poorly argued Roe v. Wade, will certainly do more to end the tragedy of abortion than a Democratic senator who is clearly not concerned with unborn (or just-born) life. To suggest otherwise is to extend Obama's message of hope to a domain where it rings false.


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Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling will not be ready for the start of spring training because of shoulder issues, and is engaged in a dispute with the club over whether he needs surgery, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter. ...Tony Massarotti, Herald:
Schilling recently went to see Dr. Craig Morgan, who performed his shoulder surgery in 1995. ... [I]t is believed Morgan is recommending Schilling have surgery, while the club is recommending another course.
[S]ources have indicated that the club has at least inquired about the possibility of voiding the one-year, $8 million contract Schilling signed last November. It is not known to what lengths the Sox have gone on the matter, but their threat has been serious enough to create a conflict between Schilling and the Red Sox.


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New Environmentalists "From Kenya to the Arctic Circle" The New Environmentalists: From Kenya to the Arctic Circle is the latest installment of the Emmy award winning series featuring portraits of six passionate and dedicated activists. They are true environmental heroes who have placed themselves squarely in harm's way to battle intimidating adversaries, while often creating partnerships with unlikely allies. The New Environmentalists share a common goal, safeguarding the Earth's natural resources from exploitation and pollution, while fighting for environmental justice in their communities. D
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Nature's Power Revealed "Power of Fire" This examination of the power of volcanoes looks at their effect on life at the time of eruption, how they have shaped Earth's landscape, and the constant churning cauldron of molten rock within Earth itself that finds its way to the surface through volcanic activity.G
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Nature "Wolverine: Chasing The Phantom" Cameras follow researchers who follow this elusive, independent and resourceful animal - the largest member of the weasel family - that they rarely see in person. They use remote cameras, radio collars and DNA to track the creatures, who have turned out to be remarkably family oriented as well as tough and powerful for their size.G
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Wild! "The Great Elephant Gathering" This film captures the stunning natural phenomenon of wild Sri Lankan elephants assembling in large numbers every year, a behavior found in very few places around the world. But with a dwindling elephant population and the encroachment of their natural habitat and food by an expanding human population, the gathering could be under threat.G