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The Independent Investor: How Cell Phones Hurt Your Productivity
Forty-two years ago, when the cell phone was first invented, the new device was hailed as a major tool in boosting everyone's productivity. Today, we are discovering that the opposite is true. The cell phone has become a major distraction.
Ever notice how many people on the job are making cell phone calls? Cops, clerks, nurses, brokers — it doesn't matter who they are — their dependence on their cell phone is almost an addiction. New research reveals that you don't even have to answer your phone to reduce your productivity.
A study by the Journal of Experimental Psychology discovered that subjects who needed intense focus in their daily routines performed poorly when they simply received notification of a text or call on their phone. Their productivity dropped dramatically even if they chose to ignore the notification. Researchers call it the "degree of distraction."
Recently, I tested this concept on myself. My friends and relations will attest to my lack of interest in all things cellular. I regularly forget my phone. Many times my wife will call me on my cell, only to hear it ring on the kitchen counter next to her.
But I have grudgingly been attempting to join the 21st century in my electronic life. As such, I have a brand-new smart phone, a watch that tells me I have a call (as well as my heart rate) and an tablet at home. Over the last week, I've made sure my cell phone was on my desk, fully charged and "on" in my own experiment. I wanted to test my own level of distraction.
Money management requires a fair bit of focus; writing columns even more. Usually, I am under a deadline when I write. Producing readable copy regularly requires an enormous amount of concentration on my part. I try not to be disturbed during this process because it does throw off my focus.
This morning my cell phone was on and I received three calls and several text messages that I did not answer. Nonetheless, it took me an extra hour to complete this column. The same thing happened earlier in the week while writing another column. For me, simply the knowledge of receiving a message triggered a distracting stream of questions — who was calling me and why, was the message important, was it an emergency? Suffice it to say that I did check and see who had called just to put my mind at ease.
Granted, it was a most unscientific experiment, but it does support a growing volume of research on the subject. Although in this day and age multi-tasking is a daily chore, the facts are that human beings are really not that good at it. Workers think that they can text or access social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter or Snapchat and still maintain productivity. The facts are that the average office worker wastes over one-third of the day on these pursuits and that brings down their productivity level drastically.
Not only do cellphones create constant distractions, but they often interrupt important meetings. They can also represent a security risk, mixing personal and business applications on one phone. They can prove physically dangerous to those employees who believe they can multitask while performing physical work. Sometimes they can spread confidential information in the public, which is a big concern in my business.
All in all, while your cell phone can be a useful tool in your life, best practices in the work place would be to turn it off and put it a drawer until after the work day is done.
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@theMarket: Back to the Future
The Federal Reserve Bank postponed hiking interest rates. Global stock markets swooned on what should have been good news. We are back to anticipating what the central bank will do in the future.
Investors are well equipped to handle both positive and negative scenarios, but they can't stand the unknown. And that is exactly what we face for the remainder of the year.
Last week, I predicted the Fed would not raise rates. I argued that based on their achieving only one of their objectives, job growth, the bank would hold off. The rate of inflation, their second objective, has yet to reach their target of 2 percent. There is little evidence that indicates that target rate will be reached any time soon.
Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen, in her press conference after the FOMC meeting, also indicated that the state of global economies was a concern. Her words echoed the IMF's warnings (also mentioned last week) that now was not the time to raise U.S. interest rates.
In the past, whenever the Fed applied more stimuli to the economy, (or in this case failed to tighten), the markets took it positively. That is understandable given past financial history.
More stimuli equaled lower interest rates, equaled higher stock markets. However, that causal relationship might be wearing thin. Although central bankers have poured over $8 trillion into the global economies over the last few years, economic growth rates have remained stubbornly
The Fed would be the first one to tell you (and has continuously through the years) that monetary policy can only do so much. Without help from the government's fiscal side, (read increased spending) the impact of simply keeping interest rates low is dubious. Over the past seven years in this country, legislatures, led by the Republican Party, have rejected that concept.
Instead, they have done the opposite, with the help of politicians on the other side of the aisle. Even today, the same rhetoric of reduced spending is one of the main planks in every GOP candidate's platform. I vehemently disagree and have advocated the opposite since the onset of the financial crisis. But now is not the time to debate this subject. After all, this is a column about markets.
I maintain that markets will remain volatile for a few more weeks and that a re-test of the August lows is required before this period of correction is over. This past week the majority of traders, expecting that the Fed would not hike rates, bid the markets up to a technical level of resistance, in this case 2,020 on the S&P 500 Index, and then took profits. It was a classic exercise of "sell on the news," which happens quite often in markets like this.
Over the next few weeks, I expect we will fall back to the 1,860 level on the S&P 500 index and maybe a little below that. Selling will be fueled by the same set of circumstances that has bedeviled the markets since the beginning of the correction in August. In summary, we have returned to the pre-Fed meeting guessing game.
What will the Fed do in the future? Are rates off the table for this year? The Fed says no, but states that it is still dependent on the data. It is hard for me to see what is going to increase the rate of inflation to the Fed's target rate this year, ditto to expectations that we will see a lift-off in overseas economies that quickly.
In the meantime, traders are in charge and their time horizon is down to microseconds.
Your only recourse is to ignore the noise, because that is what most of this worry is about, and, look to November and December when the bulls take over again.
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The Independent Investor: Mind the Gap, Please
As the unemployment rate drops toward full employment, the growing skills gap between business and labor is becoming a huge problem in this country. Fully 80 percent of manufacturers and small business owners can't find qualified staff.
Over the years, I've written several columns about this growing problem, but now the economy is picking up and unemployment, at 5.1 percent, is coming close to full employment. Both corporate and government leaders are realizing that in in some industries, such as utilities and aerospace, the skilled labor shortage may hamstring America's ability to do business in the years ahead.
The Harvard Business Review estimates that 47 percent of all new job openings over this decade will fall into the middle-skills range. Middle-skill jobs usually require postsecondary technical education and training and, in many cases, require college math and science courses if not a degree in those subjects.
Although the manufacturing sector today only represents 18 percent of total GDP, every dollar spent in manufacturing adds $1.37 to the U.S. economy. And every 100 jobs in that sector create an additional 250 jobs in other sectors that support manufacturing. The vast majority of manufacturing executives believe this growing skills gap will impact their ability to meet customer demand in the future. They say they are ready and willing to pay well above market rates for qualified employees, yet six out of 10 positions go unfilled.
Back in the day, skilled workers had two avenues to obtain marketable work skills. They could learn on the job through a cooperative apprenticeship system developed by management and company unions. But as unions declined (less than 12 percent of the total U.S. work force is represented by unions), so did the system of this on-the-job training. At the same time, the landscape has changed from gradual and incremental upgrades easily learned on the job to new skills requiring a quantum leap in technical and behavioral understanding. Things like problem solving, communication, teamwork and leadership.
That's where the second avenue of learning new workplace skills would be useful. Colleges were supposed to be the place where young people can absorb these massive breakthroughs and develop the rules necessary to excel in a modern-age professional work life. We were told to major in a field that suited our interests and talents.
Unfortunately, thanks to a high school system that has failed to adequately prepare our students in science and math, plus an American prejudice against just about anything that was not in the liberal arts field, fewer and fewer college students choose a career that is needed in the job market. Over the last two decades only 15 percent of U.S. college graduates majored in science, technology, engineering or math and that, my reader, is where the jobs are.
As the gap widens, a number of initiatives between government, education and the private sector has sought to remedy the situation through training and hiring of graduates, so far with varying degrees of success. The old system of apprenticeships, although trial-tested, is difficult to maintain, given the small number of unions remaining throughout the country.
In-house job training has also been met with some success in major corporations that have the time and money to bring a new employee up to the level of skilled competence necessary for their job requirements. However, small businesses, the main engine of employment and prosperity in this nation, do not have the time, money or number of skilled employees necessary to teach and/or train the unskilled employee.
A crisis always seems to light a fire under those who know what to do, but have just not got around to doing it yet. I think we are getting quite close to the point where everyone in the private and public sectors is going to have to roll up their sleeves and focus on this issue.
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@theMarket: All or Nothing
As traders steel themselves for next week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting, the stock market remains volatile with a bias toward the downside. That should change for better or worse by next Wednesday.
Whether the Fed raises rates or decides to pass for another month or three, I expect traders will use the decision as an excuse to buy or sell the stock market. I normally key off what the bond players think about the Fed's actions and they put the probability of a rate hike at 30 percent.
The odds are low largely because inflation continues to be practically non-existent. The rate of inflation is one of the Fed's twin mandates, the other being employment. Clearly, the jobs picture has been improving all year. So the signals are mixed. Given that the central bank is determined to err on the side of moderation when raising rates, why not wait a little longer before hiking rates?
In addition, although a small rate hike here in the U.S. would have little to no impact on the economy; it does have implications for global currencies, trade and emerging markets. I have referred in the past to the "carry trade." That's an arbitrage investment that many large institutions use on a global basis. They borrow in cheap or declining currencies and invest it in strengthening currencies and bond markets. A rise in rates (even a little one) does and will impact this carry trade. It will also impact exports, imports and, by extension, the economies of various nations.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is well aware of this risk. It is the main reason why its Managing Director, Christine LeGarde, has urged our central bank to delay a rate decision until next year. She feels that the global economic conditions are just too fragile at this juncture to sustain a rate rise from the world's largest trading partner. She has a point. Neither the world, nor the Fed, really wants to see the dollar strengthen any further in the short-term. A rise in our rates would do that.
Wall Street would have us believe that the present volatility and uncertainty among stock markets would also be a big deterrent to hiking rates right now. I doubt that. The Fed would not be overly concerned if the U.S. market moved up or down 3-4 percent in the short-term. I'm guessing that you might feel differently about that.
By now, most of us are starting to cope with the newly-found volatility of the markets. For the first seven months of the year, the indexes traded in an extremely tight range. Since then we have been making up for lost time. The CBOE Volatility Index, which measures perceived risk, has jumped 120 percent over the past month.
Consider that over the last 15 trading days alone we have had 11 "all or nothing" days when greater than 80 percent of the stocks in the S&P 500 Index moved in the same direction, higher or lower. That compares to only 13 such days over the first 159 trading days of the year. It indicates that investors are far more concerned about the risk of the overall market than they are about the fortunes of any individual stock. That concern continues today.
It appears to me that the markets will trade aimlessly until the middle of next week. The bears will position themselves around a probable rate cut and a fall in the markets, while the bulls will do the opposite. Whatever happens, the fireworks will be at best a short-term phenomenon. Since no one really knows what decision the Fed will make, the best thing to do is nothing.
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The Independent Investor: The Economics of European Migration
A stream of destitute refugees arrives on European shores every day. Greece, Hungary and Italy have borne the brunt of this migration, but the ocean of displaced persons this year has already swamped their resources. It is a life and death crisis that demands an answer now.
Unfortunately, the European Union is neither accustomed to, nor organized in a fashion that allows for rapid decision making, especially when it comes to political problems like this. Something as knotty as what to do with the influx of over 500,000 illegal immigrants over the past year has taken European leaders out of their comfort zone.
Normally, a long process of consensus-building among EU members is necessary before political or economic decisions can be implemented. As an example, think of the time and effort that was necessary to bail out Greece. But this emergency won't wait. The drowning of hundreds of migrants in April, the discovery of a truckload of dead refugees in Austria last month and the recent front-page photo of a dead 3-year old immigrant in Turkey underscore the fact that political dithering means additional lives lost.
Faced with public outrage, the European Commission's President, Jean-Claude Juncker, proposed a plan to redistribute 160,000 refugees across the European bloc. The plan must be approved by a qualified majority of EU governments. Even before countries vote on the plan, it is obvious to everyone that it falls far short of a solution considering the numbers of migrants expected to descend upon the continent.
Many of the immigrants are political refugees from the Middle East (mainly Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq). For several years, we have all watched on the nightly news the plight of these refugees living in squalid camps in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. At this point, however, these countries cannot take any more refugees, nor do they have the resources to care for those in the camps.
Lebanon, for example, has taken in one million refugees. Given that their entire population amounts to 4.5 million, the overload of immigrants is destroying that country. GDP is expected to decline 3 percent this year as the government and economy collapse under the weight of refugees. Faced with starvation or worse, many of these camp migrants are escaping to Europe with the help of smugglers.
Part of the problem within Europe is the routes used in smuggling these immigrants into the EU. The Mediterranean gives smugglers and others easy access to Italy and the Greek Islands. From there, refugees travel over land in pursuit of economic opportunity wherever they can find it. Countries such as Germany, Finland, France, Spain and Great Britain are attractive end points for these immigrants.
Faced with already high unemployment rates, slow to no-growth economies, and overburdened social spending programs in many cases, European countries are not in the kind of economic shape to support an influx of destitute migrants. Many governments (and voters) believe these new arrivals will simply add to the strain they are already feeling. In Eastern Europe, religious and cultural differences have created a backlash against accepting any migrants at all.
In addition, many European countries have little or no experience in accepting and processing refugees, which makes an EU Pan-European approach that much more difficult to implement.
Europe has faced and managed emergencies like this before. The Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and influx of Vietnamese "boat people" are just two that come to mind. Yet, the number of migrants seeking asylum in Europe today is higher than at any time since World War II. Meeting this challenge will test Europe like never before. Let's all hope that Europe's politicians are up to the task. Otherwise this crisis will only get much, much worse.
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Oral Roberts Falls 72-69 Against Stephen F. Austin - Game Recap
Stephen F. Austin grabbed a 72-69 win over Oral Roberts on Thursday, behind a 19-point effort from Jacob Parker at Mabee Center.
Stephen F. Austin got 15 points from Desmond Haymon and another 13 points from Deshaunt Walker. Desmond Haymon contributed 3 assists, while Thomas Walkup cleaned the glass with 6 rebounds.
Oral Roberts got 27 points from Shawn Glover in a losing cause and another 17 points from Korey Billbury. Korey Billbury contributed 4 assists for them, while Shawn Glover had 10 rebounds.
Stephen F. Austin hit the break trailing 41-34 before taking care of business in the second half.
The rebound battle favored Oral Roberts as they grabbed 29 boards, while Stephen F. Austin only had 28.

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One of my clients created a twitter post with some wacky characters. Frankly, I don't know which characters they were - they simply displayed as rectangles.
As soon as someone viewed the website, causing your plugin to run the update the options stored in the database (and hence the text from each recent tweet), all hell broke loose.
Due to the non-UTF-8 nature of those characters, the MySQL server didn't accept the remainder of the option string. This, obviously, caused a fatal error on the first chance it could when your plugin would try to retrieve information from it.
I did my own makeshift solution as I was using this plugin for a MAJOR component of a MAJOR client's site (thanks for that by the way), and it was breaking the layout badly. All I did was utf8_encode($tweets[$i]['text']) for all $i in count($tweets) before you added them to the $options array for updating.
Look into it, it's a pretty big issue. Looking forward to your next update having it - I hate having to hack solutions. Thanks!


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ROCHESTER, New York (AP) -- In a laboratory study that could help in deciphering Alzheimer's disease, scientists found that genetically engineered mice learned and remembered better if subjected to tricky maze exercises.
The research, in which mice were boosted with a neuron-nourishing protein called nerve growth factor, marks the first time a specific molecule has been pinpointed to assist the brain in rewiring itself to tackle new challenges, the University of Rochester said.
"The genetically engineered mice not only learned better than the non-engineered ones but their memory improved," said lead researcher Dr. Howard Federoff, director of the university's Center for Aging and Developmental Biology.
"The interaction between the learning experience and this gene caused a rather striking reorganization" in a brain pathway considered vital to spatial learning and memory, he said.
Alzheimer's is a progressive neurological disease with no known cause or cure that affects more than 4 million Americans. Victims, most of them elderly, suffer gradual memory loss, disorientation and personality changes.
Federoff developed a gene-transfer method used in the study in which extra copies of a gene that generates nerve growth factor are delivered to cells in the hippocampus, a part of the brain thought to be a crucial way station in funneling and retrieving information.
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The researchers' aim was to manipulate a critical pathway in learning that runs from the basal forebrain area to the hippocampus.
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I can turn it on fine with or without the power cable plugged in, but after showing the Acer splash screen it just stops. I can press esc to see what's behind the Acer logo and it reads more or less (I'm writing on my phone):
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CPU = 1 Processors Detected...
3768M System RAM Passed
256 kb L2 cache...
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Press <F2> to enter SETUP
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I have static pages (php) that are not part of WordPress (but I could load any WP file from these).
Someone should be able to comment on these pages like on Blog entries. It should be able to accomplish this in some way...
any ideas?
I have static pages (php) that are not part of WordPress (but I could load any WP file from these).
Someone should be able to comment on these pages like on Blog entries. It should be able to accomplish this in some way...
any ideas?
I have NO idea what you are talking about.. Maybe a URI to show ?
What don't you understand? e.g. you have a static site S:
S := http://www.domain.net/something/strange.php
And you want to allow users to add comments on S. Instead of using a new script, it would be nice, to use the functions WP provides for storing and printing comments.
A static page with comments is not static. It is a blog page with a single post.
Its all built in.
However, if you are including _seperate_ PHP files on your webpage that aren't controlled by WordPress, then you'd have to implement your own commenting on it.
You could use the Pages feature in WP 1.5 to create static pages and thus allow commenting on it.
just include the commenting template tags from your loop in your page template
Well there has been no mention of a page template. The pages are being described as not part of WP.
oops...I didn't read carefully enough...
You could add the RunPHP plugin and re-write the pages to WP-Pages with the <phpcode></phpcode> tags from RunPHP :)
Or if the pages are used at 2 different location you could use the require_once() function of PHP (with RunPHP etc.)... (just an idea)
BY the way the I have no idea-tag should not be here was posted on another thread (I thought actually :P)
There is no solution at this point.
I postet this with care under "Plugins and Hacks" because I really need a hack.
I thought about this way:
1. Create a pseudo page with no content, just to have a new id for a new comment slot.
2. Include WP headers in my own page (outter WP) and use the appropriate comment code with the id of the pseudo page...
i dont understand why you do not use the pages feature instead. Is there something on those pages that cannot be included on a wordpress page template?
A link would help so we can see what you are trying to include on this page, but AFAIK, you can include any php you need on a page template, have a loop looking for the page and comments and be done with it...
I am using a static page with comments on my "about" page on my site with no problems.
I am using the Pages feature to create additional content pages for my site at http://www.tpimagazine.net. Although I have the option checked to "Allow Comments" on the newly created pages, the option to post comments on the page do not show up. I went to philpeeps blog and his site has multiple pages with the ability to post comments on the additional pages. What do I need to do or is something broke?
When logged in as admin the option that shows at the bottom of the page is "edit this...", but when I'm logged out, no option is displayed....
why don't you create a template for your pages, and add:
<?php }?>

$comments_img_link = '';
comments_popup_link('No Comments', $comments_img_link . ' 1 Comment', $comments_img_link . ' % Comments');
if ($pcount_lp == 1){
} ?>
<?php }?>
or something liket aht to the template. Enable comments in the page with the checkbox and I think it will work. Just copy the comment part of your index file into the page template file. Or will this not work?
srpittman: What I did to get comments on a static page was basically yoink the wp loop--including the comments loop--from index.php and throw it in a new page template. Write your content in the "write page" area, make sure you use your tweaked template, and you should be fine.
(I made a guestbook page-- http://www.virtualcourtney.com/guestbook/ )
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I was super excited about getting a new vacuum cleaner...and had been waiting on my old heavy one to go out..Finally it did and I did my research or so I thought. I wanted another brand but could not see paying the price for it at the moment so I bought this one hoping that it would suffice. I got home and was like a kid on Christmas until I actually got to the part that vacuums the floor...it does not have a spinning brush and its kinda small for the large canister. However, I decided to give it a try...I began in the master bedroom to test it...not so excited anymore...it vacuums the top but dont expect it to get anything out of the carpet...but most of my house is tile and on the tile I could not recommend a better vacuum. Moral of the story...if you have a house with more than one room of carpet go with a different vacuum, but if you have a house with tile in almost every room this is a pretty great vacuum.
I have no carpet in my home so I cant say if it works great on carpet but using the right attachment it works great on hardwood floors picked up stuff my other vacuum would have left behind using the bare floor tool the actual vacuum head didn't work as well which is the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars. Love that the attachments all just slide on so you can easily take them on and off while still vacuuming and the tool cady sits right at the top making it easier to change attachments while your vacuuming. Vacuum is a little heavier than it looked like but still easy enough to carry up and down the stairs very easy to empty and it doesn't clog for those with dogs. Best part about it is the cord winds back up on its on and the vacuum its self is a big space saver haven't owned it super long but can already tell its going to make cleaning much easier. For those not wanting to spend hundreds on a vacuum I would recommend buying this one!
I absolutely love this product. Although a couple of days after I got it the back of the floor attachments that hooks to the the back of the vacuum broke and therefore the whose part would lay on the ground. I called bissell and walllaaa they are sending me a new floor attachment free (thank God). I have 3 dogs and believe me there is no more sweeping in my house since my neww BFF arrived!! This is not a vacuum for carpet but since most of my house is wood and I have a seperate vacuum for the carpet; I LOVE THIS!!!! Totally has made life a whole lot easier. No more hair bunnies flying under the couches! YAYAYYY
This vacuum is perfect for tile floors, cars and small areas of carpet such as stairs or under beds. (Uprights are still better for total carpet cleaning) It is the perfect weight and has great suction so far. However, I almost returned it because of the horrible strong plastic/rubber odor that it had in the beginning. It was so strong that we had to air out the house afterwards. But after days of letting it run a few minutes outdoors, the odor did start to go away to a point that it is tolerable. It's still a good vacuum, but if you are sensitive to strong chemical or plastic odors just know this one has it. It's the first vacuum I've ever owned that had that smell, but I still think it works well for my needs.
I read the reviews and cannot imagine why anyne would say this is a quality product, it is heavy first off it is hard to empty, all the insides fall apart and make a big mess and finally after having this vacume for less than a month I happily threw it in the garbage today. No suction, it lost suction within two weeks of using it and you cant take it apart to clean it at the head connection where of course things will get clogged, Im so mad I wasted my money and dont want anyone to go throught the same thing
I don't often write reviews, however, I have decided to write this one because I almost did not choose this vacuum due to the limited reviews. I am so glad I did, because I love this vacuum! It was simple to unpack, put together and simple to operate and clean. This vacuum is used in a small cabin in the woods. Our grass has not completely grown in yet around the cabin and our dogs running around kick up a ton of dirt then track it all over when they come inside, so we constantly had a thick layer of dirt on EVERYTHING. Not your regular dust, serious heavy duty dirt. It was so bad it was damaging our air conditioner, electronics and our Ionic Comfort air purifier simply could not keep up. Sweeping several times a day with a broom and dust pan was just not cutting it. This Bissell PowerGroom is so light, easy to use and does such a fantastic job on the dirt, dog and cat hair, I actually don't mind using it every day to keep the cabin clean! We have finally solved our massive dirt issue. We do not have carpet, so I have no idea how well it would do in that situation, but if you have hardwood or tile, this is the perfect choice! I don't really like the location of the extra cleaning tools during use, as they fall off if you bump something or vacuum under a desk, bed, etc. so I take them off while I am using it and put them back when I am done. It seems to be extremely durable and made well, but if a problem in that area should arise, especially since it will have heavy, daily use, I will update this review.
I was using a full size sweeper with attachments and I kept knocking it over. I almost ruined my sweeper. This little thing is great. It is powerful and is easy to pull around. I love it. I am glad I went this route for the floors. The wide attachment is great and does the corners in the kitchen really well. I love how it is easy to empty, no bags and most of the parts are washable. Very easy to use.
I love this vacuum. Bissell makes the best vacuum cleaners. Suction is great, adjusts to how much suction is needed. Emptying canister is so easy. Would never buy any other brand but Bissell.
This is a nice looking vacuum cleaner and easy to use. It is somewhat irritating to have the attachments placed as they are on the handle - I kept bumping them and knocking one or two off. Good strong suction, follows along nicely when vacuuming. I wanted a canister vacuum primarily because my new house has mostly hard floors and the Hoover upright I have is a lot of hassel to use on hard floors, though it is great on carpet. HOWEVER... if you have any dust or pollen or any sort of dirt that is fine grained, this vacuum is a disaster! It is a time consuming MESS to clean out the dirt container if you have dust. I have been using an upright Hoover Wind Tunnel for years and am used to the pleated paper-like fine filter - take it out, a quick bump the most of the dust is off, empty the plastic container that holds the dirt and you're ready to go again. In this Bissell model, all that fine dust goes beyond the removable dirt catcher (after leaving it a total mess - best cleaned with an air compressor and powerful air stream (which, luckily, I have) and on into the pre-motor filter. The pre-motor filter is a sponge-like material and can't be blown out with an air compressor. I can see that in Spring when there is a lot of Pine pollen in the air this will mean replacing the pre-motor filter every time or two I would vacuum. Meanwhile, ordinary fine dust would compel replacement frequently, as well. These pre-motor filters are $3. each - so this would be a very expensive vacuum to operate. I am returning it.
Originally purchased this vacuum trying not to be too excited because a lot of other brands would only last for a few months and were way too heavy for me. This vacuum has really went beyond my expectations. Weight wise: It's super light- easy to navigate and works wonders! I have a one bedroom apartment with no carpet, and it really has been the best buy. No bags, accessories that are helpful, retractable cord and... a superb price. Highly recommend it!!
This is a pretty good vacuum for the price. The suction is okay, however a little extra pressure has to be apply for it to clean deep into the carpet. The attachments are great, but removing the primary head is a bit difficult once pressure is applied because it gets stuck/jammed. It's not too loud and it's pretty lightweight.
this is our second one. very powerful. thought i would save shipping and have it go to a local store. next time i wld. pay for shipping. it took a little too long to arrive.
This vacuum is excelent for stairs and hard to reac places as well as big open spaces. Was a great birtdat gift from my parents and easy for them to ship cross country!
awesome! Best vacuum I have ever had! Haven't had it long, so I don't know how long it will remain that way, I hope for a long time. I've spent over 2500.00 for a vacuum that was not this nice, or effective. It is not too heavy, it is easy to empty, and the attachments are easy to change. very happy!
I grew up with this style and I liked it, my wife liked the vertical designs. After years of replacing those models, I bought this one and my wife loves how light weight it is to push. It is also powerful. I am very satisfied with the newest addition.
It is kind of big to be pulling around. But works great and I really like all the attachments. Only thing I'm not crazy about is the angle between the vacuum attachment and the tube itself. It makes it easy to be lifting it up and not really vacuuming.
Suction power is not good enough for non hard surface area at all
No HEFA filter so I vacuuming and spitting out dust at the same time
Not even a bag but small holes on plastic parts.
What they were thinking?
Recommended to my mother. Great for picking up dog hair.
great for tile floors-great suction
I clean houses for a living and it's great if you don't like the roller brush. Great suction. Love the NO bags! I have bought four vacs in 1.5 years and so far so good. I do like my light weight Oreck but some of my clients don't like a roller brush on their floors. It's about 5 to 7 lbs heavier than my Oreck but hey, working on my biceps and triceps! Might as well work out.


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Translation of edit in Spanish:
transitive verb
- 1 1.1 (correct)Example sentences1.2 (cut)
Example sentences
- Feel free to use and edit the stuff I write, please.
- At the moment I may not be too good at pumping out new material but I seem to find critiquing and editing old stuff okay.
- If you're some kind of a writer you might come back to them at intervals in search of material, or to edit them for publication.
- Nah, someone would have edited it out after seeing a rough cut, wouldn't they?
- Those Big Brother tactics were edited out of the official White House transcript.
- As a consequence that sequence was edited out in some parts of the country.
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editarExample sentences
- In some ways it almost feels like a much longer documentary designed for television that has been edited down for the cinema.
- Theoretically, it is possible to shoot and edit a whole programme, in a matter of 2 days, for less than £1,000.
- The maker said it had edited the programme according to its time slot and had not allowed school-age children to be featured.
- 3 (manage)(newspaper/magazine)
dirigirExample sentences
- He was a writer, philosopher and political activist, and edited several newspapers and magazines.
- Kennedy becomes the first woman to edit a national newspaper in Ireland and only the fourth editor of the Irish Times in 40 years.
- However, not much is known about the life, times and journalistic career of the legendary poet who had edited several newspapers during the freedom struggle.
- 1 (in publishing) 1.1 (correction)Example sentences1.2 (cutting)
- When he started in TV news, crews edited news reports on film stock, prompting fewer edits and a slower visual pace.
- The edits adjust the pacing to keep the movie feeling like one big Looney Tunes epic, rather than a cheap 'clip job' compilation.
- But the Hollywood Reporter concluded that 'even extensive edits had failed to produce an acceptably balanced portrayal.'
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(Updated: CHANGE: add 20 pitchers used, tying MLB record in 3RD GRAPH ADDS Halladay to start Sunday)
Diamondbacks 12, Phillies 7 (18): Adam Eaton ripped a two-out RBI double to ignite a five-run 18th inning as visiting Arizona won the longest game in franchise history and evened its three-game series with Philadelphia.
Utility player Casper Wells (0-1) retired the first two batters he faced in the 18th before Tony Campana extended the inning with a walk. Eaton drilled an offering into the left-center field gap to plate Campana. Martin Prado, who belted a two-run homer in the first inning, gave the Diamondbacks a 9-7 advantage with an RBI single before Gerardo Parra collected his fifth hit with a two-run single.
Trevor Cahill (5-10), who capped the scoring with an RBI single in the final frame, picked up the win after allowing two hits in four scoreless innings of relief. The contest lasted 7 hours, 6 minutes, and featured 20 pitchers used, tying a major-league record.
Eaton added a run-scoring single among his four hits for Arizona, which improved to 3-0 in games that lasted at least 16 innings this season. The Diamondbacks snapped a three-game losing skid to remain seven games behind Cincinnati in the race for the second wild card in the National League.
Philadelphia's Darin Ruf homered for the third straight contest to forge a 7-7 tie with a two-run shot to highlight a four-run eighth inning. Carlos Ruiz, who had an RBI single in the eighth, led off the fifth with a homer before Roger Bernadina did the same in the sixth.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Phillies RHP Roy Halladay, who has been sidelined since undergoing right shoulder surgery in May, will start in Sunday's series finale. ... Wells had a difficult night in addition to his pitching woes. He went 0-for-7 with four strikeouts. ... Phillies RHP Tyler Cloyd, who was scheduled to start Sunday, worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the 12th en route to a five-inning performance. ... Philadelphia LF Domonic Brown exited the game in the third inning with right heel soreness. Arizona 2B Aaron Hill suffered a groin injury and departed in the 11th inning. ... After retiring the first two batters, Philadelphia rookie RHP Ethan Martin failed to escape the first inning. The 24-year-old yielded three runs on as many walks and hits, while Arizona RHP Randall Delgado allowed three runs and three hits in six innings.


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A year away from golf's return to the Olympics after a 112-year absence, IOC President Thomas Bach said it would be good if the sport had a wide range of players from as many countries as possible competing for medals.
And that's what it delivered — 41 countries in the men's and women's competition — an example of golf's global appeal.
But the story of celebrated return has become more about who's not playing.
Jordan Spieth will be watching from home, still wondering if he should have set aside his personal concerns and gone to Rio de Janeiro. Rory McIlroy said he won't be watching at all, citing the Zika virus and then taking a swipe at golf as an Olympic...


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Celebrating the ocean and the summer continues in Lisbon with a "fish" paper kite show at Belem Park for the "Festival dos Oceanos". All kinds of "sea kites" flew away in the blue sky, music and fun for all as well as many exhibitions, conferences, etc in this the International Year of the Planet Earth.
see: www.festivaldosoceanos.com/foen/
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an excellent shot....
This makes me wish that the city I live in, would resume it's kite festival. I really miss seeing how creative everyone could be with their homemade kite kits. Nonetheless, this shot and the entire series are superb. You really did a excellent job from start to finish.
Did you use a tripod to help stabilize these images?
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Hazco: CAD drawing
Hazco Demolition Services
The CAD drawing was printed on architectural bond paper and was mailed in an architectural tube. It takes something building developers see virtually every day and uses it to show how HAZCO plays into what they do in a simple, playful and singular way.
Advertising Agency: Taxi, Calgary, Canada
Chief Creative Officer: Steve Mykolyn
Creative Director: Trent Burton
Art Director: Kelsey Horne
Copywriter: Nick Asik, Trent Burton
Designer: Kelsey Horne, Darcy Twarog
Photographer: Jason Stang
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Brilliant! The fact that it's delivered, not just a print ad makes it even more brilliant.
Great concept. Great execution. Love it. Good job as usual, Taxi!
very creative......love it
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Prudence Hilburn shares recipe for raisin pie
Published: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 17, 2014 at 7:04 p.m.
'We learn from our mistakes." I have heard this statement all my life, and it is especially true in my kitchen.
Through the years, while experimenting with new recipe ideas, I have made what seemed to be simple changes that turned out to be mistakes. I didn't realize it until I did a taste test.
This was the case many years ago when I wanted to see if I could come up with a recipe for a delicious raisin pie I had eaten. I can't even remember where I had the pleasure of tasting this pie, but it certainly made an impression on my palate. The top was crispy, and the texture of the filling reminded me of a pecan pie, but the flavor was quite different.
Among my numerous files of old recipes, I found an old sheet of notebook paper with a recipe for Oriental Fruit Pie. The recipe was handwritten, and from the condition of the paper, I must already have worked on this recipe quite a lot, because it certainly bore the marks of one that had weathered the trial-and-error phase of recipe development. After reading the recipe, I realized this must have been my first attempt at a raisin pie.
The recipe called for folding the beaten egg whites into the fruit filling. This is an important step. Keep in mind that when you beat egg whites, there cannot be even a speck of grease of any kind in the bowl or on the beaters because this will prevent the whites from beating to a stiff peak.
Another thing to remember is that the lighter mixture (the beaten egg whites) is always folded into the heavier mixture (the fruit/nut filling). This was the mistake I made because I was in a hurry and before I knew it, I had dumped the filling on top of the beaten egg whites. When I realized what I had done, all I could do was hope it would work.
It didn't.
As soon as the heavy filling hit the egg whites, some of the whites deflated, leaving only a small amount to be folded into the filling.
After the pie had cooled and I took my first bite, I knew what had happened. The top was soft and the pie was not nearly as tasty as I had hoped. If I had folded the egg whites into the fruit filling, as I was supposed to, the top of the pie would have been very crispy.
The second pie turned out much better.
Now I am wondering about using dried cranberries the next time I make this pie. Of course, it could no longer be called a "raisin" pie, but I think it would be delicious because cranberries and oranges are such a tasty combo.
If you enjoy experimenting with new ideas, you might want to try using dried blueberries with grated lemon rind and a little lemon juice instead of the raisins and orange duo.
Raisin Pie
Yield: 8 servings
1 cup sugar
½ cup butter, softened at room temperature
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon grated orange rind
2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans
1 cup coconut
½ cup raisins
2 egg whites
1 (9-inch) unbaked pie crust
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, combine the sugar, butter, egg yolks, orange rind and orange juice. Beat until well mixed. Stir in the nuts coconut and raisins. In a medium-size bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff. Fold the whites into the fruit/nut mixture. Pour the filling into the unbaked pie crust. Bake for about 45 minutes or until the top is lightly browned and the filling is set.
Cool completely before slicing.
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Enter the Fall Foliage Half Marathon in Rhinebeck! Yesterday on a whim I registered. I'm not aiming to PR, just hopefully have another awesome race.
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