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Due to indiscriminate breeding out of either ignorance of the breed standard (not caring enough to lean the correct weight, height, type, character, health issues to be aware of, etc. associated with the breed) or indifference (knowing that the dog you are breeding is incorrect, in poor health or with poor character, and breeding anyway out of greed) combined with poorly chosen and educated owners (breeders who are more interested in money than taking the time to make sure that the families they are choosing for their puppies are both the correct families and have received all necessary health, training, socializing, etc. information), the reputation of the Rottweiler has been unfairly jaded. The Rottweiler is a powerful, intelligent, majestic, proud, courageous, affectionate and profoundly loyal breed of dog. I firmly believe that a well bred, well raised Rottweiler is without a doubt the absolute best companion.
Quality does not happen by accident. By breeding only pure German and European lines and concentrating not only on the conformation of our Rottweilers, but the temperament as well, the United States will be able to have what Europe has held sacred for generations. We strive to produce calm, confident, courageous dogs with an inherent desire to protect home and family. At Guardian Rottweilers, our dogs are our family. They are raised with our children and in our home. We have traveled to Europe and hand selected each and every dog we use in our breeding program. We personally met and handled the parents, the siblings, and when possible, the progeny of these magnificent animals. Each breeding is chosen with specific consideration to what each parent brings to the table and which bloodlines will produce the best possible offspring from the breeding pair. Every single dog used in our breeding program can be traced back to the first Rottweilers in Germany around 1907-1914!
Just because we have amazing studs already at Guardian Rottweilers does not mean that their genetic contribution will bring out the best in every single female. We will travel worldwide for the correct stud/breeding and typically plan our breedings generation in advance. Once born, our puppies are socialized with babies, children, other adult dogs, our kitties, and a variety of our children's and neighbors' pets including: chickens, bunnies, potbellied pigs and goats. Early neurological stimulation in newborn puppies is also critical for development. When the pups are of correct age, we individually evaluate every puppy for conformation and character.
The Rottweiler is not the correct breed for everyone. He is a strong minded, confident dog with a very balanced character. He is incredibly intelligent and can be stubborn. However, he is the most well rounded breed of dog capable of any job asked of him. You can find him in every venue of competition from conformation shows, to field/working, agility, carting, weight pulling and herding. He makes a wonderful therapy or service dog and works tirelessly in Search and Rescue, explosive detection, Police, Military and Personal Protection. Please enjoy the site and learn more about these magnificent and noble dogs.
The love of my life, my beautiful baby boy, my most beloved best friend, took his journey home on December 24th, Christmas Eve, 2016. I am so blessed and honored to have had the privilege of having such a Courageous Guardian and Loyal Companion sharing the last 15 years of my life. Diesel has raised all 4 of my kids and been the best friend of many other kids, kitties, bunnies, ferrets, and a myriad of other critters over the years to include Candy, the baby deer, chinchilla, sugar gliders, pot bellied pigs, chicken, turkey, peacock, orphaned baby bunnies, and many, many more. He is the heart, soul and foundation of Guardian Rottweilers, and the standard I judge all others against. I did my best to be worthy of your love and devotion, my dear friend, and anyone who met you is richer for it. You are still my heart, my Diesel-dog, my Superman, and the most handsome young man I ever met. Every morning when I wake and do not have your massive head pressed up against me, I must remind myself that you have an even greater job now, at the feet of our Maker. I miss you more than you can imagine my treasured friend, and I will do my best to continue to be worthy of your devotion. I love you with every fiber of my being Diesel. Thank you.
We were recently interviewed by Lazhar, the owner and founder of Breeding Business, The Responsible Way, a website geared towards helping make sure breeders have access to the tools necessary to truly do best by their breed. I get requests daily to allow different website to link to me or publish something of mine, but I very rarely concede. Most of the websites are simply not websites that I want GR to be associated with. But after spending sometime on Lather's website, I found that it was definitely a noble cause and could see the amount of time and dedication he had. The link is to my interview with Lazhar. I loved the questions he asked and I am honored to have been considered for an interview.
We are so proud of our Junior Handler, Korbin, for his recognition in The Total Rottweiler Magazine! It was a rough year for him last year with a total of 6 surgeries :/ But my tough little cookie always perseveres with that beautiful smile of his that lights up every room he walks into. His patience and love shows through so clearly in his work with our Rotties too. Great Job Korbi-Bear <3
Ocho spent 9 months in Germany and Holland training with Hans and then another 3 months on tour in Europe with Uros and now I am SUPER excited to announce that OUR CHAMPION WILL SOON BE COMING HOME!!!!!!!
"Ocho" Guardian Warrick Von Gottschalk
(Irk vh Milsped X Zarah X Zarah von Wölpinghausen)
Candidate for International Champion
Adult Champion of Bulgaria
Balkan Champion
Grand Champion
Multi V1 ( work class )
Multi C.A.C.
2x C.A.C.I.B.
THE BEST ADULT MALE x2
Guardian Rottweilers takes FIRST PLACE KENNEL/BREEDER at
ADRK KLUBSIEGER in Rottweil, Germany!!
It was such an amazing experience and I am so very honored to have competed with so many talented and dedicated breeders and handlers and some of the world's best Rottweilers! HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to all the winners and participants!
"Bane" Guardian Gambit Von Gottschalk- VSP4
"Athena" Guardian Gigi Von Gottschalk- VSP
Guardian Rottweilers Zuchtgruppe (Kennel) FIRST PLACE!!!
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Ordinances should help sea turtles this season
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Last year was the most successful ever recorded for sea turtle nests in Bay County.
While success of the upcoming nesting season is largely unpredictable, representatives from Panama City Beach's Turtle Watch group are hopeful a series of new initiatives will aid in survival of hatchling sea turtles.
The beach's new "Leave No Trace" ordinance has already proven helpful for hatchlings, and a new lighting ordinance will go into effect May 1, with an aim to reduce the number of disoriented turtles.
"I would say in a typical year we can have over 50 percent of the hatchlings that emerge on the beach affected by light," said Turtle Watch Director Kennard Watson. "I expect we'll see improvements on the beach this summer as the ordinance goes into effect."
The ordinance is part of a federal mandate that requires all beachfront property owners to use turtle-friendly lighting to ensure hatchlings travel toward the gulf, rather than away from it.
While the ordinance was adopted a few years ago, property owners have since enjoyed a grace period to familiarize themselves with the details of the new lighting requirements.
"This is the year that the lighting ordinance will go into full effect," Watson said. "On May 1, all beachfront property owners must be in full compliance."
Code enforcement officers from Bay County and Panama City Beach will host a community meeting at the Panama City Beach Senior Center's Lyndell Building Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. to answer any questions residents may have about the ordinance.
Turtle nesting season spans May through October, and Watson said the ordinance should reduce the need for Turtle Watch to rescue the animals as they make their way to the water.
"Their chances are not good if they don't get to the water quickly," said Watson, who noted Turtle Watch documents each case of hatchling light disorientation on the beach.
Watson said lighting issues have already shown signs of improvement since the implementation of the ordinance, especially on the west end of the beach where development is less dense. The biggest problems typically arise from balcony lights on condominiums, followed by street lights, he said.
Bay County's Turtle Watch group is composed largely of volunteers who monitor 17.6 miles of beach from St. Andrews State Park west to Camp Helen State Park.
Watson said another major threat for hatchling turtles stems from furniture and other items left on the beach at night.
The beach's new Leave no Trace ordinance, which requires all personal items be removed from the beach at night, has helped immensely, he said, but issues still arise with wooden lawn chairs left on the beach, which are not included in the ordinance.
Panama City Beach Turtle Watch will enter its 21st season of monitoring this year, with the Bay County Tourist Development Council providing funding for 20 of those years.
"It means a lot to us," Watson said of the TDC's support. "The TDC has funded our program for a longer period of time, I think, than any other program in the Panhandle."
The 2012 season was a record-breaking year for Turtle Watch, with 39 loggerhead nests successfully hatched.
The group also observed the first recorded leatherback nest on Panama City Beach. The leatherback is the largest of all sea turtles and is highly endangered.
"It's been so hard to figure out the nesting trends; we've had significant swings up and down," Watson said. "For the last 10 years the trend has been downward, so last year was a pleasant surprise. … Nothing prepared us for what happened last year."


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Yeah….I went there.
I just had to do it.
It wouldn't be a Girl Scouts Cookies season if I didn't bake something with them. I typically make some type of cupcake with the various cookies like my Thin Mints Cupcakes, Samoa Cupcakes, and Tagalong Cupcakes.
But this year, I wanted to change it up a bit. And since my siblings and I decided to pay tribute to the Emerald Isle for our Sunday Family Dinner yesterday, I knew I had to take the opportunity to use one of my favorites in our dessert– Thin Mints.
This time, in cheesecake form.
It all started with the crust that was made purely from melted butter and ground Thin Mints. Then, I took my standard cheesecake filling recipe and mixed it with melted dark chocolate. I poured a layer of the chocolate cheesecake filling over the crust and then sprinkled in mint & dark chocolate chips (more mint chip flavor, the better!). Another layer of the chocolate cheesecake filling gets poured on top and then a heavy sprinkle of chopped Thin Mints gets topped on that. The remaining chocolate cheesecake filling gets poured in and then it gets baked for about 50 minutes.
Once baked, the cheesecake sets and ages overnight. And finally it all gets topped with mint scented whipped cream, even MORE Thin Mints and shamrock sprinkles. It is St. Patrick's Day, after all!
This beauty was the perfect, decadent end to our Irish inspired Family Dinner. And although it was in honor of St. Patrick's Day, it would be spectacular for any occasion—birthdays, holidays,…..or just because you're a Thin Mints monster.
May the luck o' the Irish be with you today—HAPPY ST.PATRICK'S DAY!!!!!!
Thin Mints Chocolate Cheesecake
Makes one 9-inch Cheesecake
11 ounces Thin Mints Cookies
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
cooking spray
8 ounces quality dark chocolate, roughly chopped
24 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
¼ cup sour cream, at room temperature
1 cup sugar
3 large eggs
½ tablespoon vanilla extract
1 cup dark chocolate and mint chips (or other chocolate mint candies of your choice)
1 cup chopped Thin Mints Cookies
Mint Scented Whipped Cream:
1 cup heavy cream, chilled
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon mint extract.
Thin Mints Cookies
Preheat oven to 325 ˚F.
Prepare the crust. In a food processor, pulse the Thin Mints Cookies until they are well ground. Pour them into a bowl and mix them with the melted butter until moistened and resembles the texture of wet sand. Cover a 9-inch springform pan with cooking spray and press the crust mixture into the bottom of the pan and about one inch up the sides. Bake for 8-10 minutes until golden and cool to room temperature.
In a heatproof bowl, melt the chocolate in the microwave until smooth. Do this in 20 second intervals, stirring in between to ensure that you do not scorch the chocolate. Cool the chocolate mixture until room temperature.
Using a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, whip the cream cheese and sour cream until its light and fluffy. Gradually mix in the sugar. Mix in the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the vanilla extract and melted chocolate. Mix until well combined.
Pour 1/3 of the filling over the cooled crust. Sprinkle the dark chocolate and mint chips over the filling before pouring another 1/3 on top. Sprinkle the chopped Thin Mints Cookies over the top and then cover with the remaining filling. Gentle rap the pan on the counter to release any air bubbles
Place the pan on the middle rack of the oven with a pan half full of hot water on the bottom rack of the oven. Bake for 50-60 minutes or until the center is set. Turn off the oven and allow the cake to sit in the oven with the door propped open for about 30 minutes. (To prop the oven door, I use a wooden handled spoon to keep it ajar a few inches). Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack. Allow the cake to cool for an additional 30 minutes. Wrap well with plastic film and foil. Refrigerate for at least 8 hours. Carefully remove the sides of the pan by running a hot knife around the outside of the cake.
When you are ready to serve, prepare the whipped cream. Using a standing mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whip the chilled heavy cream on high until it just holds stiff peaks. Slowly sprinkle in the sugar until you reach a thick consistency. Add in the mint extract and whip until combined.
Pipe the whipped cream on top of the cheesecake and garnish with additional cookies and sprinkles. Enjoy!


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This is a very timely and important video clip. We all need to hear this message and make fundamental, and in some cases radical, changes in the way we grow, process and consume our food. It also points out the absolute necessity for whole-food supplementation of vitamins and especially minerals. The soil that our food is grown in has been depleted of minerals since the 1940's. Without minerals, vitamins can't be utilized, leading to malnutrition; glandular (iodine for the thyroid) function fails leading to all sorts of health issues, obesity included. The bottom line is SUPPLEMENT your diet with whole food nutritional supplements. I use Standard Process Labs and Medi-Herb in my practice, the very best in supplementation and botanicals. View the video and be informed. (Click on the YouTube icon at the bottom to enlarge the screen)
My best to your health
Dr. Anthony Palombo


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First of all, apologies for missing my post on Wednesday, and apologies in advance for missing one on Wednesday; I've had a lot of stuff to do over the past week and will be away during the next one. Ah well, on with the post…
We in the west set a lot of store by democracy; in America especially you will hardly be hard-pressed to find someone willing to defend their 'rights' and freedom to the hilt, regardless of how dumb you think that particular right is. Every time a government attempts to ban or restrict some substance or activity, vast waves of protesters will take to the streets/TV/internet that their right or ability to do X or Y is being restricted in direct contradiction to every document from the Magna Carta to the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
However, if we were permitted to be totally free (the 'Altair' end of the Order of Assassins/Knights Templar spectrum), with no laws restricting our activity, then we would quickly descend into an anarchic society. Murder, rape and theft would go unpunished as the minority of the evil-minded quickly became the majority by simple need. Various models of a system of anarchy, including mine predict an eventual return to an ordered society of laws and structure, and we can all agree that serious crimes are Bad Things that probably are worth restricting, even if it requires us to restrict our 'freedom' to a certain degree. Clearly, freedom is not worth such crimes, and thus we have laws.
In fact, most of our legal system can be counted as a direct result of the law-setter in question asking 'what is freedom worth?'. If the law is in place to restrict an activity, then freedom is counted as not being worth this activity for either moral, financial or practical reasons (or a combination of the three), whilst other, more unrestricted, activities, freedom is considered worth allowing. And, perhaps more interestingly, a vast majority of political debate can be essentially boiled down to two people's different opinions concerning what price we are prepared to pay for freedom.
Take, as a simple example, the British government's recent 'pastie tax', levied on hot baked goods. This was partly an attempt to bring in some much-needed cash for the government in their efforts to cut the deficit, but also has some degree of a health motivation. Such food is frequently sold cheaply from fast food retailers and the like, meaning it is an easy source of hot, tasty food for the poorer or lazier sections of society; but their fat content is not kind to the waistline and an overconsumption of such foods has been linked to 'the national obesity epidemic' that everyone gets so worked up about. This obesity problem is a major source of concern to the NHS, and thus the government who pay for it, since in the long term it causes a dramatic upsurge in the number of diabetes cases. This is an expensive problem to combat and presents a major health hazard for the country as a whole, and the government (or at least George Osborne, whose annual statement the tax first appeared in) decided that this dual cost is not worth the freedom to enjoy such a snack so cheaply. This, as with all vaguely new and interesting decisions in a rather dull report concerning how poor the country is, was debated aggressively in the media, with the healthy eating people and economists broadly speaking backing the idea (or complaining that there was not enough done/government is stifling growth/insert predictable complaint about economy here) whilst others criticised the plan as just another example of the Tories targeting the lower rungs of society who most frequently enjoy a cheap meal from these sources. To these people, today's world is an expensive and difficult one to live in, and the ability to have a hot, greasy, tasty meal for a price that they could easily budget for in the long run is a freedom well worth whatever obesity problems it is causing. Such fundamental differences of opinion, particularly concerning taxation policy, are the irreconcilable forces that mean two political opponents will frequently find it impossible to back down.
In some other cases, the two participants of an argument will agree that freedom isn't worth cost X, but will disagree on the mechanism for restricting said cost. The debate concerning the legalisation of drugs is one such example, for whilst part of the debate centres around a difference of opinion as to whether the freedom to get stoned is worth the cost of a country full of stoners and the consequences thereof (don't believe anyone who tells you marijuana is a harmless drug; it isn't, although the degree of harm it causes is generally the cause behind such debate), another cause of disagreement concerns the problems of the drugs war. Opium is the biggest source of income for the Taliban (and a very large one for Afghanistan as a whole), whilst the gangs and cartels who operate the Latin American drugs trade have been directly linked to human trafficking, prostitution and other atrocities during the ongoing drugs wars with their local government. This is a particular problem in Mexico, where since the government's announcement of the 'war on drugs' there have been over 47,000 drugs-related murders. Everyone agrees that this is a Bad Thing, but a difference of opinion arises when considering which course of action would prove the most successful at combating the problem; the 'legalise' faction say that to legalise drugs would be to force the small-time criminals out of business as the well-policed official channels of trade took over, where sourcing and supply is performed by businessmen held accountable for their actions. At the very least, they suggest, it could do us good to lessen the sentencing of drug offenders and try to encourage quitters rather than just clamp people in jail, as this allows us to discourage people more easily and get to know more about the problem. This approach is implemented to an extent in Europe (especially the Netherlands), whilst the more stringent laws of the United States (states such as Colorado excepted) take the opposite line; they say that to relax drug restrictions simply encourages use, gives more trade to the cartels and only increases their power. Whether they are right or not is very much up for debate since the alternative hasn't really been tried on a large scale, particularly in America; but the growing movement to look for an alternative solution to the problem, combined with the statement from former presidents of Guatemala, Mexico and Colombia that 'the war on drugs has failed' means that we may soon see how the other approach ends up. For the record, I remain undecided on the issue- the stats from the Netherlands tell me that drug use will increase with decriminalisation, which I don't especially like the prospect of (that stuff's not for me, and I'm not entirely sure why it should be for anyone else either), but it strikes me that this approach may reap dividends when it comes to combating the secondary problems caused by the drug wars. A friend who is kind of into this business (and, incidentally, comes firmly down on the 'legalise' side) recommends the YouTube film 'Breaking The Taboo', which you may want to watch if this kind of thing interests you.
…OK, that one slightly got away from me, but the discussion got kind of interesting. The key message here, really, is one of self-examination. Take a look at your political views, your outlook on life in general, and then ask yourself: to me, what is freedom worth?


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Although I share links to interesting articles at Google +, I try to write a round-up post here once a month, to provide a little more detail of what I've enjoyed or found annoying over the past month online.
The Good Library blog: in an excess of Jubilee and Olympics celebrations, a succinct view of why we should instead be spending the money on books and libraries. No hope of that of course, but it's a sentiment with which I have sympathy.
Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet, sounds as if it is a fascinating book from this brief Observer review. There is a more in-depth account in a Q&A with the author at Metropolis (for which the author is an editor), in which the book is described as "an evocative trip to the heart of the Internet, a look at both the physical connections behind the web and the complex almost ad hoc infrastructure supporting it".
I've stopped reading the Language Log a good while ago as it has lost its way in a wealth of judgemental detail. Nevertheless, this post about e-book "editing" is hilarious. "The Nook edition of Tolstoy's War and Peace (in its English translation) has been de-Kindled, quite literally. Every instance of the text string kindle has been replaced by Nook." This is one of the problems with our current "spell check" generation, where nobody can spell any more as they all rely on auto-correct (see this BBC article). However good an auto-spell-checker (and my colleague Jeremy tells me that Swipe for Android is "almost making the 'art' of spelling redundant") I would challenge any of them on matters such as "out" or "are" for "our", "their" for "they're" and so on, but now I've read the Language Log post, I'd also challenge it on nonsensical commercial censorship grounds!
From the plethora of (mostly silly) articles about the James Daunt/Waterstone's decision to sell Kindles and provide free wi-fi for customers to download directly in-store, perhaps the best was one by Martyn Daniels of the UK Booksellers' Association, who writes "the reality is that the deal is not just about digital, and online it about really knowing what your customers want and not what you think they want." (His point being that Waterstone's have now kissed their customers goodbye, though of course many people already browse in bookshops and order the books they want from Amazon on their smartphones while in-store.) Indeed, the commenter who writes that the next step will be that Amazon will buy Waterstone's may have a point! For another perspective, see "James Daunt "doesn't get" reaction to Amazon partnership, denies ever calling Amazon the "devil," and lashes out at publishers", an article at Melville House.
The Guardian carried an interesting comparison between the original (1963) and updated selections for the new Penguin English library.
Mad Bankers part 94. Via the BBC, "Andrew Bailey, a director of the Bank of England who will soon become the City's top regulator, has said that free banking is dangerous and needs to be reformed by the government." How ridiculous. Personal customers are a cheap resource for banks, as branches disappear and everyone performs their transactions with machines – yet are subject to constant targeted marketing. How about Mr Bailey doing something much more important, concerning the billions of pounds the banks have lost owing to their own greed and incompetence? Too hard for him, I suppose, whereas it is easy to flick a switch and charge personal customers unfair fees. Incidentally, there is an informative post at Sifting the Evidence blog at Nature Network, by two economics students, on real vs nominal interest rates and how the economics editor of the Sunday Times gets it wrong. And if you are really into all this stuff, or are like me and reading about it in frozen but fascinated horror, the Huffington Post has a blog on A Survivor's Guide to the End of the Euro, by Simon Johnson.
"When the Guardian was print-only, subs had three or four deadlines a day. Now every minute of the day is a deadline." Excellent, and true, article by the Corrections editor on the changing role of the sub.
Finally, the latest visualizations. Tornado tracking at O'Reilly Radar – beautiful. And the Guardian is creating an interactive map of Britain's best bookshops (while they exist!) and literary locations (a better long-term bet). Take a look.


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There are a number of exciting things taking place today! The authors of Story Empire are doing a one-day Halloween blast in which you can enter a Rafflecopter giveaway to win a $50.00 Amazon gift card. Follow the tour here.
There's also a post up over at StoryEmpire.com from C. S. Boyack that makes interesting reading for writers interested in self-promotion.
Finally, a number of the Story Empire authors, along with many other authors are participating in a huge Halloween ebook blast. Get your Halloween shivers on with the discounted books below.
Click on any of the below book covers to be taken to the page that has more information on the novel as well as the Buy Links! Please make sure to scroll down the landing pages, as each page will consist of many titles in that same genre!
Novels on Sale $1.99 and Up!


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Hello everyone!
Online Shopping
I'm no stranger to online shopping which made me way more lazy to go out and shop for clothes/groceries/household items/make-up etc. but I love it! As it made finding deals and comparing prices much easier.
I was recently made aware of another online shopping portal ShopBack which is trending now. This site is offering us consumers even better deals by giving us cold hard cash returns when we shop through that website (cashback)! Offering us even more savings on top of what the original websites are offering.
ShopBack works with most of our beloved shopping websites like Zalora, Taobao, Reebonz, Sephora, Groupon, ASOS and even Food Panda! So the cashback savings are so easily attainable as these are my everyday website that I frequently shop from.
On top of obtaining a percentage cashback while shopping on various online sites through this portal, ShopBack can help consumers find a Zalora discount code for further discounts or learn about a Sephora sale through constant updates on their webpage.
As most of us know that the annual major sale on Asian websites occurs on Single's Day or 11.11 (双十一) made popular by Taobao, ShopBack also partakes in major sales like these. If you missed out on that, not to fret, there's a make up sale equally as crazy happening on 12.12. So keep a lookout for the best deals at the upcoming ShopBack 12.12 sales. I know I will be noting that date down in my calender!
How Does ShopBack Work?
Initially, it took me some time to understand how this cashback system works. Most of us know about cashback received from credit card spending and it's always done automatically to your credit card account so you don't really bother how it works but this is the first time a website is offering such a deal.
Basically, ShopBack is sharing their income from merchant referrals with the consumers. So it's a win-win for everyone.
Say for example, the merchant pays ShopBack 10% of the amount spent for items purchased for every consumer referred from their website, ShopBack will keep 4% as income, and return the remaining 6% to you as cash.
Check out this video to further elaborate how this works.
And there's a referral promotion from now till 9 December that if you successfully refer 3 friends to sign up and shop from their website you can earn an additional $100! Do use my referral link https://www.shopback.sg/?raf=a50uRM to help me earn some extra cash! 😉
It's simple, easy and gives us more savings. Who doesn't like a good deal?


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Oracle's legal fight with Google over its use of Java in Android goes to a jury trial for the second time next week, and the stakes are even higher than when the two sides met in court four years ago.
Oracle wants a whopping $8.8 billion in damages from Google, much more than the first time around, making it one of the biggest copyright cases ever, and it's anyone's guess which way the jury will go.
The timing is awkward for Google – its I/O conference comes smack in the middle of the trial — and developers at that event should pay attention to the outcome. If Oracle wins, Google could be forced to make changes to the way people build apps for Android, or else swallow a royalty fee for continued use of Oracle's technology.
Barring a last-minute settlement, the four-week trial begins Monday, and we're likely to see a parade of Silicon Valley bigwigs called to the stand to testify, including Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison and Google CEO Larry Page. It's a complex case that's likely to stretch the jury's understanding – Judge William Alsup has worried aloud that they won't be able to keep up.
The trial will be split into two parts. In the first, the jury will decide whether Google's use of Oracle's technology is protected by the doctrine of "fair use," which allows copying for some purposes. If it decides it was, Oracle walks away empty handed (though it's likely to appeal). If its use wasn't fair, the second half of the trial will be to calculate damages. Here's what you need to know to follow the trial, held at the federal district courthouse in San Francisco.
What's this dispute about?
When Google created Android 10 years ago, it decided to make Java the basis for its OS. The Java language is open source and free for anyone to use, but Google also used 37 carefully structured Java programming interfaces (APIs), including 7,000 lines of "declaring code," for which Sun held the copyright. Early on, Google tried to negotiate a license but couldn't reach a deal and went ahead with Java anyway. Sun never showed much interest in filing lawsuits, but soon after Oracle took control of the company, it pounced.
Haven't we been through this movie before?
Yes, but after a trial in 2012, the jury was split on the question of fair use. The new jury will be asked to decide whether Google's use of the APIs was fair and, if not, how much damages it should pay.
How does Oracle get to such a huge sum?
Oracle's "damages expert" calculates that Google made $40.6 billion in revenue from Android through the end of last year, mostly from mobile search ads but also from apps, digital media, and hardware. After deducting costs and estimating what proportion of Google's profit should be attributed to Android itself — as opposed to other Google technologies like its search engine — he comes up with the figure of $8.8 billion.
Hang on, aren't those 37 APIs only a tiny portion of Android?
That's a big part of what Google's lawyers will try to convince the jury. Oracle advances a legal theory of "commingling" – which basically says the gains from the APIs are so wrapped up in the whole that they can't be separated out. Google will counter that the APIs are a tiny fraction of Android so Oracle's reward should be far less.
Just this week, Alsup dealt Oracle a setback. He said its expert can cite the $8.8 billion figure in court, but he can't tell the jury Oracle is entitled to the whole amount.
This case sounds complicated.
You haven't heard the half of it. As well as learning about APIs, virtual machines and declaring code, the jury will hear testimony about different software licenses and what they allow developers to do. They'll also need to understand fair use.
What is that anyway?
Under U.S. copyright law, exceptions are made for certain types of copying, commonly for things like satire, news reporting, research, and commentary, but there are other exceptions, too.
The jury will be asked to weigh four fair use factors, which the judge has described here. One of the most important is the "purpose and character of the work," including whether Google's use of the APIs was commercial, and whether it was "transformative" — whether it turned them into something new and different. It's pretty clear that its use of Java was commercial, so Google will need to convince the jury that Android transformed the original copyright work into something different.
The original work is Java 2 Standard Edition – the desktop version of Java – but the copyright protection extends to derivative works, including Java 2 Micro Edition, the version for mobile.
One of Google's arguments will be that Java 2 ME was used mainly in feature phones, and that it never approached the capabilities of Android — making Google's use transformative.
Also crucial is the fourth fair use factor — the effect on "the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work." Oracle will tell the jury that Android destroyed any chance Java ME had of succeeding in smartphones. Google will respond that Sun failed because it never built a decent mobile OS.
Google will also argue that the APIs were functional – that it needed them to make use of the Java language, which after all is open source. To the extent the jury agrees, that could sway them toward fair use.
Who are these so-called expert witnesses?
Good question. Each side hires experts to testify on their behalf, often academics and consultants. Alsup has been a bit disdainful of experts; he's aware they might just say whatever they're told to in order to earn their fees.
Alsup says the jury has a right to know how much each expert is being paid, and he might reveal that in court. Oracle's fair use expert, for instance, is getting $1,200 an hour. The jury decides how much weight they give to each expert, depending on things like how trustworthy they find them to be.
This doesn't sound very scientific.
It's not. The facts of the case are only part of what will determine the outcome. A lot rests on how convincing the testimony is. Other potential witnesses include Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, and Android creator Andy Rubin. They'll testify about topics such as why Google chose Java, and whether it believed it needed a license in the first place.
What else do I need to know?
Whatever the jury decides, it almost certainly won't be the end of the matter. The losing side is sure to file an appeal, and the case will drag on.
Who's likely to win?
That's hard to say. A jury has heard the facts in the case once already, and on fair use, they were split, nine jurors to three in Google's favor. Under California law, the verdict needs to be unanimous.
But this is a new trial, with a new jury, and Oracle has a different legal team running its show.
Tyler Ochoa, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, notes that in copyright trials, the conventional wisdom is that the plaintiff — Oracle — usually starts in the stronger position. It's easy for a jury to see when material has been copied, he says, and the onus is on the defendant to prove its use was fair.
But he also notes that in the San Francisco Bay Area, the jury is more likely to have at least one member who's got some understanding of tech, who could better follow the nuanced arguments and influence the rest of the jury.
Predicting a winner, he says, is a "fool's errand."


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We all have our personal favorite posts from this year—and we'll be sharing those tomorrow—but it's also worth taking a look at the 100 posts you clicked on most in 2013. Some are funny, some are heartfelt, and some I honestly don't understand. Just remember, above all else: You did this.
Rob Savage on Collaborating with YellowJackets' Sophie Thatcher
Justin Timberlake Shows Us How Dumb We Sound When We Use Hashtags
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In the early 1940s, Charles and Ray Eames spent several years developing and refining a technique for moulding plywood into three-dimensional shapes, creating a series of furniture items and sculptures in the process. Among these initial designs, the two-part elephant proved to be the most technically challenging due to its tight compound curves, and the piece never went into serial production. One prototype, which was given to Charles's 14-year-old daughter Lucia Eames, was loaned to the Museum of Modern Art in New York for a 1946 exhibition. Several years ago, the Eames Elephant was also launched in plastic, making it available to the target group for which it was originally intended: children. And a smaller version – with an identical design but reduced in scale – likewise comes in plastic in a choice of colours.


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Angry Birds Top App of 2011: Poll
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Wildly addictive smartphone game Angry Birds is the most popular app of 2011, according to a recent poll. Nearly 30% of voters named the game, in which users use a virtual slingshot to launch birds at evil pigs, as their favorite.
Angry Birds has also been named the most popular paid app in Apple's App Store this year.
Zynga's Words With Friends came in a close second with 28% of the vote. The Scrabble-style game is so addictive that actor Alec Baldwin was reportedly booted off a flight for refusing to put away his phone while playing it.
Trailing behind was Pandora's(:P) online radio app with 24% of the vote.
This holiday season was a major boon to smartphone developers. On Christmas Day, users downloaded a quarter of a billion apps, nearly double any other day in the history of iOS and Android devices.
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By James Kwak
The politics of Medicare were aptly summed up by Brad DeLong last May:
"The political lesson of the past two years is now that you win elections by denouncing the other party's plans to control Medicare spending in the long run–whether those plans are smart like the Affordable Care Act or profoundly stupid like the replacement of Medicare by RyanCare for the aged–sitting back, and waiting for the voters to reward you."
This is one manifestation of an important political dynamic, which is an important theme of White House Burning: the smart political bet is to accuse the other side of fiscal irresponsibility while being as irresponsible as possible yourself.
That's the context in which to interpret the latest Republican claims that Barack Obama is trying to end Medicare, reported by Sam Stein. Mitt Romney apparently is accusing Obama of both bankrupting Medicare and of reducing Medicare spending, which are patently contradictory accusations. Yet despite its popularity, the program is so poorly understood that he and his advisers apparently think that they can get mileage out of this line of attack.
To be clear, Medicare costs are rising and projected to continue to grow faster than GDP. But Medicare is largely funded out of general revenues, so the only policy that could actually bankrupt the program is one that reduces general revenues—that is, tax cuts. The Affordable Care Act implemented several measures that are intended to reduce Medicare spending without changing its basic fee-for-service benefit structure; the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which Republicans love to demonize (and which I've written about before), is prohibited by law from making changes that would reduce benefits. In other words, these provisions should reduce spending while maintaining the current benefit structure.
There is a reasonable debate about how successful those measures will be. But you can't simultaneously criticize the ACA for bankrupting Medicare and for cutting Medicare spending too much. And you shouldn't criticize the ACA for bankrupting Medicare when you are pushing huge tax cuts that will undermine the funding for the program.


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Bad Credit? This Bill Could Help You Get a Job Anyway
A bill to ban credit checks in the hiring process was introduced today by Elizabeth Warren and six Senate colleagues. Over 40 other groups also back the bill, which has plenty of support and even mirrors a similar bill introduced in the House two years ago.
Credit checks, which are useful in actually bestowing credit and lending money, are also currently used by 47 percent of employers when they decide whom to hire. Credit checks in theory give an idea as to the potential employee's responsibility and overall competence in life and work. But as you probably suspected, that's not the case in practice. According to the senator's press release on the proposed bill:
A bad credit rating is far more often the result of unexpected medical costs, unemployment, economic downturns, or other bad breaks than it is a reflection on an individual's character or abilities...Families have not fully recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, and too many Americans are still searching for jobs. This is about basic fairness—let people compete on the merits, not on whether they already have enough money to pay all their bills.
It can happen quickly: a woman wrecks her car and her insurance company is dragging its feet. In the meantime, she either needs to pay to fix the car either out of pocket or on credit, or she risks not being able to go to work, where she makes the money to pay back these creditors. So the cycle begins—a cycle that has little to do with responsibility and everything to do with sheer bad luck (and possibly low pay). In fact, nine states have recognized that fact and banned employment credit checks already.
Yes, credit checks make sense when you're making sure someone can actually afford to make good on a loan. But in these cases, it actually keeps them from making the money that they can use to, well, get better credit. The poor get poorer, indeed.
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Zooey Deschanel Sues Shoemaker for $2 Mil
Zooey Deschanel Sues Shoemaker for $2 Mil
Zooey Deschanel is suing popular shoemaker Steve Madden for a whopping $2,000,000 -- claiming the company stiffed her completely over an endorsement deal she made with them in August 2010.
According to a lawsuit filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court, Deschanel and SM made the $2 million deal ... but Madden came back to Deschanel saying they couldn't get retailers to back the deal, so they re-negotiated for $1.5 mil.
Zooey says she held up her end of the deal -- including turning down other deals -- but Madden never forked over the $1.5 mil. Deschanel also claims SM promised her a percentage of the profits as well -- if sales reached a certain level.
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Yoshi and Gatsby were recently honored by each being named runners up for the "Stephen Memorial Book Award". The award is from the UK book club website "Bookangel.co.uk" and honors Stephen, their recently deceased cat.
The winner of the award was Tigger from the book, "Tigger: Memoirs of a Cosmopolitan Cat" by Suzanne Heywood. Two of the ten runner-up slots were taken by Yoshi and Gatsby. The judges gave each of my cats their own position on the list because "this prevents the writer having to split an award between two cats and dealing with feline jealousy." I appreciate the thought but that shouldn't be a problem since the real life Yoshi passed away almost exactly one year ago. (Although if Yoshi hadn't received his own award I could definitely see him coming back from the grave to mess with Gatsby).
Here are the write ups the site gave for each cat:
Gatsby is the active part of the feline detective duo: Sam Spade to Yoshi's Mycroft Holmes. Yoshi's partner in claws, Gatsby is cool and sophisticated (at least, he thinks so). He spends more of his time doing the legwork and getting into scrapes but still knows how to handle himself in a fight or mystery, just not when the vet is involved…
A smart, eloquent, black cat who insists on his regularly scheduled nap times and is fastidiously fussy when dealing with other creatures. Yoshi is way smarter than any cat has a right to be, and he has no problems being smug about it. His partner Gatsby might find the mysteries, but Yoshi is the one who solves them, as long as it doesn't mean exerting himself or disturbing his naps!
Anyone who would like to see the other runners up or learn more about the award can go to this website: http://thedistinctivecat.com/
Thanks to all of the people at Bookangel.co.uk for the recognition!


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UFO Sighting over New York October 2010
UFO Sighting over New York made crowds of people stare into the blue sky. This sighting was confirmed by Multiple News Networks, The Intel Hub, Fox News, New York Post, ABC News7, CBS and Daily News New York. The picture to your left was made public "while it happend" by @jasondiamond via Twitter. I made the other three pictures in Photoshop, zoomed them 300%, ran "Auto levels" on the second one and inverted the last one. You clearly see it´s not balloons or weatherballons. The small dots on the following videos (see further below) are not new. These orbs or spheres have been seen for a very long time and were usually known as "Foo Fighters" under WW2…
The UFO cluster over New York appeared at approximately 1:30 p.m. (daylight / blue sky), which prompted calls to the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), but FAA stated that "we re-ran radar to see if there was anything there that we can't account for, but there is nothing in the area." Some said it was just a set of balloons.
Also see NYC UFO image collages of above picture here… Another mysterious object I tend to analyse in another video soon (subscribe to my RSS feed to stay updated on this post), appeared on ABC News channel, see below…
Source ABC News: UFO Sightings Stop New York City Also see NYC UFO image collages of above pictures here…
Real UFO´s or just kids balloons..?
I am sure the three small dots from the very beginning in This Video, really IS a set of balloons, cause they are tumbling around each other like balloons would do in mid-air. You may wonder why these three objects, continuously move on together in a tight formation, close to each other, and not break apart? It´s quite difficult not to ignore the balloon-theory here. It could be balloons tied together which fits very well into the story about the escaped balloons from a teacher's engagement party at Westchester elementary school in Chelsea, NY. There were reports about other events that day where balloons were released in the air, so we cannot ignore this. With help from a critical voice on youtube, I found this spanish article "Nueva York confunde con ovnis los globos de la Gran Vía" showing the yellow balloons that was seen over NYC before they were released – see this video or go here for a nice little image collage (scroll down to the bottom). But don´t hesiate, there is more to the story than just kids balloons. There were something very odd going on in the skies over New York City that day, and we got it all on video. Some of the objects caught by CBS cameras, could be balloons, but not all objects in the sky was party- or weatherballoons that day. When you study the video Mass UFO Sighting New York (analysis) or UFO Sighting New York October 2010, you will see two groups of objects with three shiny orbs / spheres in each group. The first group (object 1) was the three objects I just mentioned above that I think is balloons. The second group (object 2), is very interesting and you should focus on that group. They appear not to be balloons at all and seem to be controlled by some force, extraterrestrial intelligence, aliens or not, some force is behind here, period. Where the first group (Object 1) seem to rotate / tumble without control, the second group (Object 2) seems far more controlled and strict in it´s behaviour. After my observation, object 2 appear to rotate a bit, not tumble really, in the start of the sequence and after a while, they simply increase the distance between each other, with one in the bottom and two in the top as seen from the camera position. So, they are going from a close formation with short distance to each other to a wide formation with long distance to each other. If you see the 2400% video speed repeats of the objects movements, you´ll notice, that the increase in distance happens suddenly, like they just decides to increase the distance and then decides to stop increasing the distance and stay in their new fixed formation. All that seems to happen without any further changes to their formation setup, but when you look at the footage in high speed, you´ll notice the triangle formation they create in the sky, leans very slowly to the right. I think we can dismiss the theory about weatherballoons, because FAA spokesman Jim Peters told us, that if the objects were weather balloons, "his agency had no prior notification they'd be launched", so we may suppose, that no weatherballons were in the sky over New York that day. But ordinary balloons, both party- and corporate balloons were released different places in New York city, that is a fact. I made a new but shorter video about the UFO Sighting over New York October 13, 2010, with better music, better video editing and nice illustrations, enjoy… Could we actually be looking at a subtle airshow created by warm upwinds from the city below, carrying three balloons in same direction with the exact same speed? Yes, it is possible but highly unusual. Actually, we´re talking about not three but five unidentified flying objects (or balloons) in parallel formation and they move together in the same direction with the same speed, as seen from the CBS camera position. I found this short sequence in the CBS raw footage from october 13, 2010 with the camera steady, pointing at the five UFO´s for a total length of 7 seconds and 20 milliseconds repeated several times, showing how they move together, see below: For those who want to study the weather conditions for New York October 13, 2010, can go to www.wunderground.com and see, if these white orbs did fly the same direction as the wind blew (NE / NNE). These white glowing orbs/spheres have not only been seen from the ground but in space too, filmed by crews on different shuttle missions. A video from usanewsnetwork on Youtube uploaded september 25, 2006, shows three white glowing UFO´s rotating slowly beneath the Atlantis shuttle on the STS-115 mission (launched from Kennedy Space Center September 9, 2006). NASA explain it is space debris, but here we´re looking at three objects flying in a perfect triangle formation, moving in orbit together with the shuttle while they slowly rotate, see below: Another awesome video uploaded late 2008, this time in infrared (IR), shows a UFO fleet with several objects traveling parallel to the ground in a formation manner. Note there is two coupled objects which appear to fly together as a pair, see below: If you wanna see a massive UFO display over a principal city, this one is for you – hundreds, if not thousands of white discs/orbs in an overwhelming big formation over Bronx New York in late 2007. Please notice the plane passing by at 1:24 in the video and then imagine how big these "birds" would be, if they came down to the same altitude as the plane, see below: See more UFO Fleets here and go check Martyn Stubbs NASA UFO Video Archieve too…
New York UFO Fleet predicted by retired NORAD officer?
The mass UFO sighting over Manhattan, New York, came as no surprise to retired NORAD officer Stanley A. Fulham, whose book Challenges of Change re-published back in January 2008, predicted October 13th, 2010 as the tentative date for a fleet of extraterrestrial vehicles, to hover over the world's principal cities… Read more about Stanley A. Fulham…
News Coverage
The Intel Hub, October 13, 2010 …"Today reports of UFO activity over New York City went ultra viral. Twitter erupted with reports of numerous unknown objects in the sky. This story has gone so viral that ABC and The New York Daily News are now reporting on it. We should remain skeptical as to the origins of this sighting until proof is put forward"…. Link: UFO Sightings in New York As Crowds of People Stare Into The Sky. Confirmed by Multiple News Networks CBS New York, October 13, 2010 …"Police, Media, Onlookers Try To Figure Out Weird Objects"… Link: New Yorkers Mistake Balloons For UFOs? New York Post, October 13, 2010 …"Callers began phoning the NYPD and Federal Aviation Administration at 1:30 p.m. with reports of the strange, silver objects high in the sky. Some people saw something described as yellow with blue lights surrounding it," said FAA spokesman Jim Peters. He added that if the objects were weather balloons — as some suggested — his agency had no prior notification they'd be launched"… Link: Objects over Chelsea cause UFO stir ABC News 7, October 13, 2010 Mystery in the sky – Jeff Peguis reports from Chelsea Manhattan (eyewitness news) Link: Mystery In The Sky Daily News NY, October 13, 2010 …"It's been hovering there for a while. I'm just kind of baffled," said Joseph Torres, 49, of Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, who spotted the object after leaving a movie. "How can it be ordinary? There is something going on"… Link: Mystery shiny objects floating over Manhattan spark UFO frenzy Huffington Post, October 13, 2010 …"New Yorkers are certainly a savvy bunch, which is why it's surprising that there is a lot of chatter on Twitter right now about an alleged UFO sighting in the city. While there's been no documentation, it hasn't stopped thousands of twitterers from postulating"… Link: New York City UFO Sighting? Mystery Object Provokes Rash Of Internet Speculation My FOX New York, October 14, 2010 …"Some people saw something described as yellow with blue lights surrounding it," FAA spokesman Jim Peters told the Post. "Every once in a while you get phone calls from people who see something they can't explain"… Link: UFO Sightings Over Manhattan Chicago Tribune, October 14, 2010 Although officials could not confirm what the celestial objects were, skeptics believed the balloons were part of a tourism promotion event held on Broadway in Times Square for the centennial of the Madrid's Gran Via on Wednesday, which included the release of several bunches of yellow balloons into the sky. Link: UFOs Spotted Over NYC Prompt Panic, 911 Calls Execte News, October 14, 2010 …"With all of the excitement, there is little doubt that New Yorkers are hanging out outside tonight more than usual, peering in the space, hoping to see SOMETHING….anything."… Link: UFOs spotted over Manhattan this afternoon? news.com.au/world, October 15, 2010 …"The mysterious balls of light stopped traffic and sparked an alien scare as hundreds of New Yorkers gawped at the hovering globes on Wednesday"… Link: UFO panic that stopped the Big Apple dailymail.co.uk, October 20, 2010 …"First New York was gripped by sightings of UFOs in the sky last week. The fears were quickly debunked by the claim that the 'UFOs' were actually balloons released from a nearby school. But this weekend lights forming a mirror image of the pattern seen in the sky over New York have been seen in El Paso, Texas"… Link: They said the 'UFO' over New York was just balloons… so how do they explain the mirror image over El Paso?
- UFO Sighting NYC October 13, 2010 – the crowd (October 13, 2010)
- UFO over New York City – Project Bluebeam in action (October 13, 2010)
- UFOs Over NYC 10/13/10 (October 13, 2010)
- 'UFO' Sightings Over Manhattan reported already 9:30 (October 13, 2010)
- UFO Ships Hovering Over NYC October 13 2010 (this is balloons) (October 13, 2010)
- Cameras Capture UFO Hovering Over NYC (October 13, 2010)
- UFO in NYC: Aliens or balloons in New York sky? (October 14, 2010)
- NYC UFO: Just a Bunch of Balloons? (October 15, 2010)
- UFOs New York City RAW video footage from October 13, 2010 (HD) (October 15, 2010)
Other sources about the New York UFO Sighting
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|Out Of The Blue
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|The Case for NASA UFOs
|Secret NASA Transmissions: Martyn Stubbs Live At Leeds University (VHS)
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in this amazing interview, this guy Stanley Fulham . called it to the day 4 months before. 'they will show over principle citys, i predict on the 13th of October'
its six minutes in on part 2, but i strongly recommend that you watch them all the way through. He got some serious information.
part one . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg9mTFbCBBM
part 2 . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cahTcLLn9Uk


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Can it finally be "Spring" yet? While recent SoCal weather has yet to decide, we look at March as when things start to happen. Well, we can only speak for ourselves when we say that. Really, for the Southern California area, this is a year round thing. 😉
Looking on recent weeks, I can say that events are picking up again. From photoshoot meets in Ventura and Santa Barbara, pockets of small monthly meets, to casual park meets in Pasadena and Orange County … the mix of event types has been nice. Admittedly, we did post some meets that …well… we arent sure how they went. We try and keep in contact with organizers, especially for the new events, but sometimes we get no answer. No matter how you communicate best, our contact form is always open.
Special thanks to Anpu42 who helps keep Meetup.com cooking and assists in finding more great events to add all around. Special thanks to Axel and Leo Tsubasa for helping with upkeep on our Facebook Page.


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October Giveaway - Enter Now!
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Yay! I'm the first to comment! The warm tan is super cute! I'm linking it to my blog, adding it to facebook, and grabbing your button. Great giveaway!ReplyDelete
Hello my 100th follower! I've been waiting for you! ;-)ReplyDelete
OK, I love both scarves...my wardrobe is seriously slanted toward monochrome, so I probably like the gray baetter, but need the tan more!
I'm adding your button to my side bar!
Who doesn't love a new scarf for fall -- I am not picky :) I am a follower now too!ReplyDelete
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Oh, I love scarfs!!! Those are both very, very cute! And I grabbed your adorable button :-)ReplyDelete
Ooh very nice! I've been wanting a new scarf and I really like the pretty blue one.ReplyDelete
i'm new to your blog, and couldn't be happier. the tan one is gorgeous.ReplyDelete
p.s. i'm reading "eat, pray, love" for a second time at the moment. happy reading to us!
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I like glam gray--thanks for the chance to win.ReplyDelete
I really like the warm tan scarf! You find such great things... we really need to go shopping together sometime.ReplyDelete
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Sarah we definitely need to go shopping ASAP! You know, a girl's gotta have new clothes for fall : )ReplyDelete
By the way, how funny was it that the preacher showed up late at church yesterday? LOL
The warm tan is nice and i followed you :)ReplyDelete
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I like the brown one! Enter me up!!ReplyDelete
I know... i was sitting there thinking maybe Gary was going to preach. that could have been interesting.ReplyDelete
Oh I LOVE both..how do I ever pick ha ha! I think I'll choose the glam gray, not only for the color but love the name :)ReplyDelete
I love glam gray!! I'm very into earth tones right now - and I'm loving your new headers!! Yay fall!!ReplyDelete
Okay, so I'm going to link everyone to your giveaway in the post I'm working on now (and put the button on so people can link back whenever they want), and I'll tweet it as well - what's your twitter ID? I'd like to mention you in it.
why am i just now entering this!?ReplyDelete
i LOVE the warm tan!! i'm in the process of linking a post to here, putting your button on my blog, and tweeting about this!!
I would love to win the glam grey one. So pretty! You have such a great fashion sense!ReplyDelete
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The Bee's Knees gave me a heads up about your sweet giveaway and now I'm going to follow your blog too!! Love it... I'm adding you to my blogroll right away! And which color... so tough! I think I like the tan :)ReplyDelete
I love the glam grey one. So pretty!ReplyDelete
I love both colors, but I think I would look better in the tan. This my first time reading your blog...it's super cute!ReplyDelete
I love the glam grey one, very pretty!ReplyDelete
I added your button to my blog:)ReplyDelete
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Leslie- I love the tan! It's already in teh 60s where I live, and I definitely need a new scarf! I love scarfs; they are my favorite winter accessory, and I'm so glad that they're "in" for other seasons now!ReplyDelete
I just added your button to my blog!ReplyDelete
I love the blue one, that is one color I do not have! I'm now a follower, I'm adding your link to my blog and you are now in my facebook as an update! Thank you!ReplyDelete
I love them both, but I think I like the tan more.ReplyDelete
both are nice, but the glam gray is my favorite~ReplyDelete
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Tan one is my favorite! What a great color for all year!ReplyDelete
glam gray!ReplyDelete
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While both of the scarf colors are beautiful I think that the Warm Tan is one that would go with most any outfit.ReplyDelete
I would LOVE to win the warm tan scarf, it is so pretty! Thank you for the chance!ReplyDelete
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I would like the Blake scarf in glam grey. Thank youReplyDelete
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I like the warm tan one.ReplyDelete
I think the warm tan is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing with us!ReplyDelete
I love the gray scarf.ReplyDelete
I love glam gray!! :) So pretty!!ReplyDelete
Love your blog and fabulous giveaway! :)ReplyDelete
I love scarves too! LOVE and that glam grey one is calling my name! :)ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousOctober 11, 2009 at 11:08 PM
1 Blue; 2, 3 and 4? Check, check, check.ReplyDelete
Super cute blog! Excited to be following! Xo
I love the tan one. So fun for Fall! What a great give away :)ReplyDelete
Ooh warm tan for sure!! Love it love it!!! :) Great giveaway idea, girly!ReplyDelete
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Im so happy I found your blog. Love it! Im a new follower! I love both scarf's...Im not picky...Sign me up!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the comment, I love your blog too! Just as much as I love scarves and the warm tan Blake Scarf! What a fun blog, thanks so much!ReplyDelete
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Does this patient have hypercalcemia?
Key elements in the history
Diagnosed through routine labs
If severe may be associated with symptoms (see below)
Typically accompanied with other mineral metabolism abnormalities
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May be a consequence or may be exacerbated by therapy used to treat disordered mineral metabolism
An indicator of severity of secondary hyperparathyroidism
Key symptoms
Classic symptoms related to hypercalcemia include:
bone pain
anxiety, depression, confusion, drowsiness, decreased level of consciousness
loss of appetite, nausea, constipation
muscle weakness
Key signs and physical findings
Classic signs related to hypercalcemia include:
Shortened QT interval
Arrhythmias and bradycardia
Vascular, valvular and soft tissue calcification
Other diseases or syndromes with similar appearances
Recognize that other medical conditions could cause hypercalcemia in a dialysis patient, including
Primary hyperparathyroidism
Controversies in the differential diagnosis
Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative: corrected total Ca levels should be maintained within the lower end of normal (8.4 – 9.5 mg/dl); hypercalcemia defined as corrected total calcium of > 10.2 mg/dl
Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes: maintain Ca levels within the normal range
What tests to perform?
Lab Testing
Which tests should I order?
Total calcium, serum albumin, intact PTH,serum phosphate
Ionized calcium may be helpful to confirm diagnosis
How do I interpret test results?
Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative: emphasis on corrected total calcium levels, and some consideration to calcium-phosphorus product
Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes: trend more important than single values
How often should I order test?
Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative: every 3 months; more frequent (every month) with adjustments of therapy
Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes: every 1-3 months; more frequent with adjustments of therapy
What are the next steps?
Response to therapeutic changes will determine next steps
If hypercalcemia is resistant to therapeutic changes and accompanied by severe hyperparathyroidism, parathyroidectomy may be indicated
If parathyroidectomy is being considered, imaging (sestamibi scan most sensitive) may be used to delineate parathyroid gland anatomy.
Overall Interpretation of test results
Diagnosis should be based on trend rather than single values, and consideration should be given to other mineral metabolites (Phosphate, PTH).
Prognosis dependent on initial or past response to therapy.
Controversies in diagnostic testing
Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative recommends stricter adherence to normal levels; allows use of active D only if levels of calcium are within the low normal range; also with some emphasis on calcium-phosphorus product
Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes recommends a bit more lenient adherence to normal range and greater emphasis on overall trend rather than single abnormal values; importance of calcium-phosphorus product is deemphasized, though both calcium and phosphate levels should be monitored and both considered comprehensively when making therapeutic decisions
How should patients with hypercalcemia be managed?
Key treatment concepts
What to do first
Recognize that other reasons for hypercalcemia (outside of bone mineral metabolism disorders) could exist; ensure that these are ruled out
Medication adjustments:
Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative: reduce dose Ca-based phosphate binders, or switch to non-calcium binder; discontinue vitamin D analogs until total corrected serum calcium returns to the target range (8.4 – 9.5 mg/dl)
Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes: restrict dose of ca-based phosphate binders; and/or dose of vitamin D analog
Dialysate calcium adjustments:
Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative: if hypercalcemia persists, low dialysis calcium (1.5 to 2.0 mEq/L) should be used for 3-4 weeks
Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes: general recommendation to maintain dialysate calcium between 2.5 to 3.0 mEq/L but not higher; provision for individualization of prescription for different patient. Dialysate calcium of 2.5 mEq/L thought to maintain neutral balance.
Next steps
Surgical treatment, especially if accompanied by severe secondary hyperparathyroidism and resistant to treatment
Medical parathyroidectomy: cinacalcet may be tried prior to surgery
Specific circumstances
Severe hyperparathyroidism: as above
Calciphylaxis: if resistant to medical therapy, including cinacalcet, parathyroidectomy has been tried in some cases, especially if caciphylaxis is accompanied by severe hyperparathyroidism
Controversies in patient management
Due to insufficient knowledge on the state of calcium balance in a dialysis patient receiving therapy for mineral metabolism abnormalities, there are controversies as to the appropriate combination of available agents to use to manage the disorder. Some argue that it is best to prevent abnormalities in serum levels by using products that are less likely to cause hypercalcemia; while others argue that given the observational data that suggest survival benefit for vitamin D and any phosphate binders that less attention should be paid to serum levels. Possible combinations, without high-level evidence, are listed below.
low dialysis calcium bath and Ca-based phosphate binders
low dose vitamin D and Ca-based binders with cinacalcet (cinacalcet lowers calcium levels)
non-ca based binders with full dose vitamin D
Proponents of use of active vitamin D analogs suggest that it may not be appropriate to withhold vitamin D completely when serum calcium levels are elevated. They advocate use of lower dose of vitamin D analogs. In support of this approach is a recent meta-analysis that shows that serum calcium levels do not predict outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease.
What happens to patients with hypercalcemia?
Natural history, anatomic and/or pathologic consequences, physiologic and/or pathophysiologic implications
Normal physiology
PTH levels are tightly regulated by serum calcium
additional regulators include serum phosphate, calcitriol levels, FGF23
Genesis and maintenance of secondary hyperparathyroidism
Progressive CKD leads to increased FGF23 secretion, which in turn leads to suppressed calcitriol levels and secondary hyperparathyroidism
On dialysis, once secondary hyperparathyroidism is established disturbances in calcitriol, calcium and phosphate levels potently induce PTH secretion and parathyroid hyperplasia
On the cellular level, in CKD there is decreased expression of calcium sensing receptor, vitamin D receptor and fibroblast growth factor receptor and Klotho
Parathyroid hyperplasia
once secondary hyperparathyroidism has been established, it is often accompanied by parathyroid hyperplasia
as a result, higher levels of serum calcium will be needed to suppress PTH release
this may lead to hypercalcemia
Autonomous parathyroid secretion
parathyroid hyperplasia may lead to autonomous secretion from individual nodules
Therapy with Vitamin D and Ca-based binders
These therapies are often associated with hypercalcemia, especially when the extra calcium load is not taken up by bone (such as in adynamic bone disease)
common in individuals with severe hyperparathyroidism
may be exacerbated by therapy with Vitamin D and Ca-based binders
Pharmacologic considerations
Binders: Hypercalcemia more common with Ca-based binders compared to non-ca based binders
Active Vitamin D analogs: Newer non-calcemic analogs of Vitamin D developed to limit hypercalcemia, though hypercalcemia is still present
Cinacalcet: associated with hypocalcemia and typically requires co-treatment with calcemic agents
How to utilize team care?
Specialty consultations
Surgeons when considering parathyroidectomy
Assist in monitoring levels, response to therapy
May assist in ascertaining dietary calcium intake and instituting changes as needed
Are there clinical practice guidelines to inform decision making?
Listed above under individual sections
Main limitations for both sets of guidelines are:
Lack of detailed studies evaluating calcium balance in dialysis patients who are being treated with Ca-based binders and active vitamin D analog
Uncertainty regarding appropriate level of dietary calcium intake for dialysis patient
insufficient amount of patient-level outcomes data in the studies reviewed by both guidelines
What is the evidence?
Kumar, R, Thompson, JR. "The regulation of parathyroid hormone secretion and synthesis". JASN. vol. 22. 2011. pp. 216-224. (This article reviews the physiology of PTH hormone regulation in health and also describes the mechanisms for secondary hyperparathyroidism develoment in chronic kidney disease.)
Bazari, H, Jaff, MR, Mannstadt, M, Yan, S. "Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 7-2007. A 59-year-old woman with diabetic renal disease and nonhealing skin ulcers". N Engl J Med. vol. 20; 356. 2007. pp. 1049-1057. (This clinical case presentation of calciphylaxis provides the differential diagnosis and reviews current clinical management strategies for this condition.)
Teng, M, Wolf, M, Lowrie, E, Ofsthun, MN, Lazarus, JM, Thadhani, R. "Survival in patients undergoing hemodialysis with paricalcitol or calcitriol therapy". N Engl J Med. vol. 349. 2003. pp. 446-456. (This observational study is one of many that demonstrate survival benefit with use of active vitamin D analogs in dialysis.)
Isakova, T, Gutierrez, OM, Chang, Y, Shah, A, Tamez, H, Smith, K, Thadhani, R, Wolf, M. "Phosphorus binders and survival on hemodialysis". JASN. vol. 20. 2009. pp. 388-396. (This observational study demonstrates survival benefit with use of phosphate binders in dialysis.)
Palmer, SC, Hayen, A, Macaskill, P, Pellegrini, F, Craig, JC, Elder, GJ, Strippoli, GF. JAMA. vol. 16;305. 2011 Mar. pp. 1119-27. (Serum levels of phosphorus, parathyroid hormone, and calcium and risks of death and cardiovascular disease in individuals with chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
This meta-analysis reports no association between serum calcium and the risk of death and cardiovascular events in chronic kidney disease.
Prescription patterns and mineral metabolism abnormalities in the cinacalcet era: results from the MBD-5D study.)
Fukagawa, M, Fukuma, S, Onishi, Y, Yamaguchi, T, Hasegawa, T, Akizawa, T, Kurokawa, K, Fukuhara, S. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. vol. 7. 2012 Sep. pp. 1473-80. (This observational study reports on use of cinacalcet in the dialysis population and its effects on serum calcium levels.)
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- Does this patient have hypercalcemia?
- What tests to perform?
- How should patients with hypercalcemia be managed?
- What happens to patients with hypercalcemia?
- How to utilize team care?
- Are there clinical practice guidelines to inform decision making?


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Some things just get better with age, with time, and with anything. Change is constant, constant is constant. What is will always be, moving in form, through form, and out of form. And all that other metaphysical, cosmic, and uplifting stuff that sounds good on the surface, but doesn't always register or resonate.
But often times it does.
Celestial Seasonings is worthy of all the praise, all the lauding, and all the love I can bestow upon it. It's only been a few months (all my stories can be found here) since the last time, but it honestly feels like so long ago. So much has happened that it feels like it;s been ages. And in a way that's ok.
As time is moving rapidly, it also feels slow. I know we're in late July and that may feel sad for some (I'm one of them), yet there's still plenty of the summer, the season, and of course life to celebrate.
They just continue to dazzle and impress with all their amazing flavors and newest creations. Some seem to have passed me by via limited release, but nevertheless, there's plenty of good to share with you.
And I'm grateful to be sharing two summery and wonderful blends with you now.
The Watermelon Lime Zinger and the Tangerine Orange are the kinds of teas I should have started having back in the Spring, but here we are, and it's never too late and it's no time like well….
I'll start with the latter. The blend of tangerines, oranges, passionfruit, and hibiscus creates a masterful looking tea, and that pinkish-reddish color makes it all the more a picturesque sight.
For my own edification and maybe yours too, I made both teas hot and iced, and the results are exciting. Yes I found the discoveries to be a bit of a surprise, but it all leans towards the positive.
Yet I enjoyed the tangerine orange heated over chilled. I feel the iced version lost a little bit of its flavor. Maybe I put too much ice, maybe my taste buds and mood were altered a bit, but I'm going to lean and say that this just feels right under higher temperatures.
The Watermelon Lime is even that much more spectacular. It's good iced or hot, and the flavors remain. This tastes even more like summer and I can't get enough of it. If I had to pick one, I would go with this, but you can't go wrong (and it's all right and amazing) with either.
It tastes like candy, it tastes naturally sweet, and it taste like it's from somewhere or something bigger than us. I know that's a bit much, but I felt transformed and felt rejuvenated. Like I said, these are the teas I should be having more often and what I grew up on.
These are the teas that have helped this blog and helped me learn more about tea, learn more about myself, and to just feel good in general. Tea is good, tea is fun, and tea is so beautiful.
I took my time sipping as I took my time writing this. There's moments where I feel like, is this all worth it? And the answer is yes. The answer is still yes. It will always be yes.
Celestial Seasonings teas are easy to find, at a store near you, and are quite affordable, for under $3, and even less than that in many places. In a world where teas are going up in price, for what may or may not be higher quality, Celestial Seasonings has been that constant and consistent brand that you can trust, depend on, and will always be there for you.
It's always been there for me.
Where do we go from here? There's so many flavors and so many styles I could tap into. And I just might.
I just might.
Peace as always be with you.


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Since I wanted my new pillow to be the centerpiece of my bed, I decided to make some neutral colored shams from some scraps of white printed toile linen and seersucker (back) that I had in my stash. The white printed toile linen is more traditional than my usual taste in textile prints, so I decided to embellish it with appliqued monograms for Tyler and me in khaki linen. Here is how I made the monograms.........
First, I chose a font for the letters from Word's font list. I used "agency" font and printed it at 650 point in 5% grayscale (to save ink). Then I used my scanner/copier to enlarge the letter by 200% and had to tape the oversized printout together to make my letter pattern.
I used double-sided tape to hold my letters in place and I zig-zag stitched slowly around each letter. Normally, I use this Steam-a-Seam product to adhere my applique piece to its background, and hold it in place during stitching. It is a really awesome product, I highly recommend it....I just did not have any on hand during this project. Here are some up close shots of my zig-zag applique.
After completing the front panels for my shams, I added the zipper and back. I made standard shams that measure 19" x 26"


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I had the pleasure of escorting an American friend on a sightseeing trip today. He was traveling to Newcastle for a conference on the literary implications of nose-blowing, so I took the train up to meet him. Instead of hitting the usual tourist spots, we simply wandered around the City Centre before he nipped off to deliver his paper, Congestion in Nabokov's Novels. (I unfortunately was unable to stay to hear his fascinating research, but I'm sure it went down a storm).
One of the things he commented on was the exciting array of pedestrians in the City Centre. He took great pleasure in hearing apologies from the number of elderly ladies who ran over his feet with their shopping trolleys, and he was particularly impressed with the teenagers pushing their babies' prams, dodging the dedicated charity workers desperately harassing the early morning shoppers in the name of a good cause. While he was slightly less thrilled by the young lad taking the piss in front of McDonalds (I mean this, unfortunately, literally), he had to laugh at the good-natured way said lad dealt with the restaurant's manager who attempted to shoo him from the premises. He even maintained his smile as he gave his witness statement to the police.
I do love showing my American friends around English city centres. They are such hot beds of activity, so much of it so very English. I myself still adore wandering through the markets; their mystery I initially approached as a novelty, but even after this long, I do my best to support as many stalls as I can. This may explain why I have a cupboard full of striped knee socks and bags of outdated, non-brand-name crisps which will never see the light of day. But I feel I've done my part to support my community by purchasing them, and that's all a citizen can do.
The other thing I love about city centres is the great pride people take in them. The pedestrian areas are clean; litter seems to immediately be snatched up by the thoughtful and conscientious beggars who then feed it to their dogs. What community spirit! While we have to face the fact that city centres often do have problems, I am so chuffed when I see locals taking an active stand about the unfortunate but sadly inevitable crimes that often take place in urban areas. I take my feathered hat off to the commitment these men and women make to maintaining their municipal duties.
City centres often get negative press but I, for one, find them absolutely delightful. I would happily spend a day wandering any English city centre, as long as I can get out of there before dark. I'd kill myself before I went into a city centre at night. I have civic pride, but I'm not a fucking idiot.


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Research In Motion's BlackBerry Curve has moved past Apple's iPhone to become the top-selling consumer smart phone in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2009, according to market researcher The NPD Group.
The iPhone 3G fell to second place, as Apple's consumer smart phone market share dropped 10 percent. Two more BlackBerry phones, the Storm and Pearl, held the third and fourth spots, respectively. And the Android-based T-Mobile G1 made an impressive fifth-place showing. Palm, which is expected to roll out its ballyhooed Pre phone later this month, also suffered a 10-percent drop in market share.
Things certainly look rosy for RIM and its popular BlackBerry series. But it's doubtful the Curve, including all the 83xx models, will continue to outsell the iPhone.
Here's Why
The BlackBerry's impressive Q1 sales surge got a huge boost from Verizon Wireless's consumer-friendly "buy-one-get-one" BlackBerry promotion, as well as its heavy marketing of the iPhone-like BlackBerry Storm, which is selling like hotcakes despite tepid and occasionally hostile reviews from the tech press.
Verizon certainly won't continue its costly two-for-one giveaway forever, which should result in a slide in Curve sales. As for the relatively new Storm, its popularity will ultimately be determined by consumer word of mouth. If everyday users agree with the pros that the Storm doesn't cut it, sales will fall.
But why did iPhone sales fall 10 percent? Rumors of a new and improved iPhone have been circulating for months, and it's likely that potential buyers are sitting on the fence to see what Apple rolls out this summer. When the new iPhone launches and the Apple marketing machine kicks into high gear, iPhone sales will certainly pick up.
Another competitive advantage for the BlackBerry is its availability on all four U.S. wireless carriers, according to Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis at The NPD Group. Of course, we all know the iPhone is currently limited to AT&T Wireless. But reports say Apple may be cooking up a deal to bring the iPhone to Verizon Wireless too. If that comes to pass, iPhone sales should get another big boost.
Finally, the Palm Pre will certainly steal sales from RIM and Apple. But I suspect its physical keyboard will appeal more to customers who were leaning toward the BlackBerry Curve. We'll soon know for sure.