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Unleashed But Still HinderedThis is a beautiful option for someone seeking out a wireless remote controlled vibrating egg - smooth feeling, powerful rumbling, and adequate range. However, it uses strange batteries.
Wireless and remote controlled, strong, quiet egg with great patterns.
Needs two types of non-standard batteries, consumes the remote battery very quickly.
The Bnaughty unleashed is a wireless remote control egg vibrator, suitable for all types of vibrator play. It excels at ranged 'teasing' at the hands of a partner. Due to an overall larger shape the toy is really best when placed internally and triggered from afar, which is the classic use of a wireless egg. The Bnaughty is accordingly strong yet quiet, so it can be used out in public without anyone else being the wiser.
Material / Texture
The Bnaughty Unleashed in made of PU coated ABS plastic, which is like a 'rubber cote' with polyurethane coating instead of rubber. The feel is velvety, the texture is smooth and the surface is hard and non-porous. There's grip, but add lube and it gets slick and slippery. The PU coating seems to 'consume' lube more so than other, uncoated, hard plastics.
Design / Shape / Size
The egg is elliptical and slender - 3" long and 1.4" wide. It has a pointier end, and a stubbier end that also features a retrieval cord. It is large, frankly, the way remote controlled eggs often are, but it is slimmer than most and thus may work for some who find wider eggs a little too large to wear for long. The remote is almost pocket friendly at 3.7" by 2" wide, but the buttons are rather easily triggered in pocket. It's a little large for holding in your palm for long periods of time, because it is pink and too large to conceal easily in hand so its just not discreet.
Functions / Performance / Controls
The Unleashed features seven vibration settings - three constant levels and then four different patterns. The patterns are great - lots of variation from low to high with fervent intensity. I personally find that wireless eggs do best when vibration levels are changing - constant buzzing gets dull and ignore-able very very fast - so I am very pleased with the variety of patterns available in the Unleashed. The remote works to cycle the egg through the seven functions through a single button. There is also an on/off button. There is a light up screen that visually shows what pattern is happening through illuminating different parts of a flower image. I find this a little strange, awkward, and unwieldy, but hey - it works. If the remote's battery dies while the egg is on, the egg keeps vibrating and must be opened up itself in order to have it shut off.
The remote takes 1 12v 23A battery, and it kills the battery when left on standby so be sure to remove it when not in use. It's a goofy battery and ran out pretty quickly, allowing only two casual play sessions before I found it dead. The Egg takes 2 12V batteries, and does not seem to consume those voraciously.
The remote takes 1 12v 23A battery, and it kills the battery when left on standby so be sure to remove it when not in use. It's a goofy battery and ran out pretty quickly, allowing only two casual play sessions before I found it dead. The Egg takes 2 12V batteries, and does not seem to consume those voraciously.
Care and Maintenance
Wash the egg with soap and water after use, and allow it to dry off completely before storage in the included storage bag. Take the batteries out of the egg and also the remote. Toy cleaner could also be used, and if you wish to sanitize the egg you may soak it in 10% bleach for 10 minutes.
This product was provided free of charge to the reviewer. This review is in compliance with the FTC guidelines.
Great review! Thanks for the heads up about the batteries.
Great review! Thanks for the heads up about the batteries.
Thank you
Thank you for the review.
Thanks so much for the review!
So disappointed about the battery issue.
thanks for the review thought it might be something I would want to try but didn't like the part with batteries!
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- One G-Pass to the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship
- When: East Regional semifinal and final round, March 27 or 29
- Where: Carrier Dome
- Seating: section 301 or 319
- Door time: 90 minutes before first game of session
- Ticket values include all fees.
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Dates and Sessions
- $75 for Session 1 on Friday, March 27 (Regional Semifinals – two games) ($89.40 value)
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2015 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship
All winter long, college basketball teams around the country grind it out just for the chance to compete for the national title in April. This year, the East Region's winner will be crowned in Syracuse, as the regional round of the 2015 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship unfolds at the Carrier Dome. During the semifinal on Friday, the field of four remaining teams will be whittled down to two; when the final horn sounds Sunday, only the region's top team will receive a trip to the championship's final rounds in Indianapolis. Though seeds and matchups won't be finalized until March 15, it's safe to assume the weekend will be packed with heart-pumping moments and improbable upsets. In fact, last year's national champion, seventh-seed UConn, was the lowest-seeded team to with the championship since 1985.
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Real Estate Law
Have Real Estate Law Questions? Ask a Real Estate Lawyer.
Hello, and thanks for submitting this question. I will try to assist you today. I am not sure that I grasp the entire scope of your question. One part involves challenging the validity of a deed. Disputes over title to real estate are governed by state law exclusively. Therefore, a suit to void a deed must be filed in the Tyler County District Court. I am not sure what your federal issue is. I am not clear on what that issue is, or why you think the IRS itself would be a party. You mention a 501 c status filing. If you are challenging the authority of a person to act for a corporate entity in filing the application, that would also be a state court issue. If the same parties are involved in both the deed and corporate authority issues, only one state court action would be required.
I hope that this information is helpful. If you need further information, please just send me a reply asking for clarification. After that, I hope you will enter a positive rating so that I will be credited for assisting you. Also, be sure to verify this information with a local attorney who is familiar with your local laws and procedures. Thanks again for using this service. Your business is appreciated.
I'm certainly satisfied with your answer and will note that ...but to answer your question...
The 501-C and the tax free non profit that was physically set up online, with the IRS, by the excon, making himself "Registered Agent", allowed for 3 years of County taxes to be exempted...and that exemption as a non profit affects federal income tax laws
The federal stipulations of operating with the 501-C, requires that the property can only be transferred to another 501-C with the same agenda, if that "group" dissolves or disbands. So I assumed I would need to file a petition in federal court to remove any tax liability from our family during the time this "group" was responsible for federal taxes.
But the same person WAS involved with both issues and the issue can be addressed with the district court and the final orders, out of court with the IRS... Then I understand and am satisfied... Thank you
You're welcome. But I don't believe that you can sue IRS or anyone to "remove any tax liability from our family during the time this "group" was responsible for federal taxes." Before you spend a lot of time trying to do that, you might check it out with a good tax lawyer. A positive rating would be appreciated.


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Bay Area rapper and producer Iamsu! is at the forefront of California's recent so-called ratchet music wave — fun, minimal, horny, utterly unserious dance-rap that's reliably some of the catchiest non-Taylor Swift stuff on the radio these days. Next month, he'll release his new solo mixtape $uzy 6 $peed; download the deliriously infectious first single "Mobbin'" below.
Iamsu! – "Mobbin'"
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The word is, only 610,000 people filed for unemployment last week (a holiday week). That's a drop from previous weeks.
Let's all go out and buy a car.
Of course, let's face it, the number would almost have to go down at this point, simply because there are fewer people left out there who are actually employed so that they can be layed off.
Then there's that pesky news about home forclosures that are on a serious rise, since that temporary Presidential AKA "Bandaid" moratorium on foreclosures expired on March 31. Nothing like putting off the inevitable, eh? The bandaid fell off, look for the scabs brought to you by the same Wall Street industry that took hundreds of billions from your children and grandchildren, and then doubled your credit card rates in mid-stream– and got away with it. Boy those political contibutions to Congress sure must be rolling in, because Congress is making sure they drag their feet on stopping those credit card interest rate increases. But don't worry, just as soon as everybody's credit scores are trashed and just as soon as all the interest rates are at the Loan Shark level, Congress will be outraged. Why….they will have had NO idea this was happening! If they had only known!
Like I said, Don't Worry!
Really, be patient. It's all just simple math. Using Government statistical methods, just as soon as unemployment reaches 100% and everyone has collected his or her last unemployment check, everything will level off , and the official unemployment rate will be zero.
Everything is under control folks. Fed Bagmen Tim and Ben are on the job. They are going to arrange to give another hundred billion to launder to your bank as a reward for raising your interest rates– and everything well be just fine. And the Global Warming people are On The Job. They will save the earth. Too bad nobody living in it will live to see it, but hey, small price to pay, right?
Don't worry! Be happy!
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Plenty of my friends are looking
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I am in need of an experienced adopter.
Crackers loves to chew on wooden toys and seems to really like bells too. His favorite activity for now, though, is the shower. His foster mom says he loves it and just looks at her when she turns off the water, as if to say, "Hey! I wasn't done yet!"
Crackers will stick out his foot when he wants to be picked up. He likes to have his head scratched and to be petted. He would be a great bird for anyone with large bird experience.
Crackers' approximate hatch date is 1995, and his adoption donation is $600.
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WBEZ News
Chicago writes: I Came to This Country On the Head of A Crocodile
WBEZ's Front and Center project will be launching a series about literacy in late May. We are highlighting writing from organizations around the city as we lead up to the series.
As an alien, I came to this country on the head of a crocodile,
to be recognized
in this land of the free.
I came prepared without any load.
As an alien in this land
of milk and something,
I have nothing yet in plenty.
I came here by boat, because
I cannot swim.
I don't know why the plane left me
by the roadside.
No ticket,
no ticket.
From the very first day,
my alien name had changed
place to place.
Tragedies don't care for me no more.
A hopeful loss,
remains my luck.
An alien,
an alien is a wind vane.
With two smiling ways
that have a low tolerance
to trust direction.
I left my home in Amso.
Vultures and white seagulls
are flying low
into the banks that cannot spell my name.
Eyes here, mouth there.
Camera is everywhere.
Snapping and snatching
the wrong faces.
Is an alien to be deported soon?
An alien,
don't speak English well.
They cannot ask.
Cheap as Made in China.
In God we trust.
In this land of freedom, I hide.
Washing dishes, plucking rotten tomatoes,
jumping fences and hurdles,
an alien getting married soon.
Would the fence of heaven
keep the paradise dreamers
away from the kingdom come?
Crocodiles are waiting.
More from Front and Center and Chicago Writes:
Front and Center: Literacy series
Barrel of Monkeys: The Women Rampage
826CHI: Fish Day and other stories


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Texans' DeAndre Hopkins a big fan of Falcons receivers
Houston Texans wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution he looks up to Atlanta Falcons receivers Roddy White and Julio Jones.
"Roddy is from South Carolina, so he's one of the guys that I've been watching since he was in college," Hopkins told D. Orlando Ledbetter after the team's held a joint practice. "Julio is one of the best to play at this position, so of course I watched him."
And though Hopkins did have the opportunity to tell the players he admires their talents, he decided not to approach either.
"I had the chance to, but I didn't want to go over there and be like a fan," Hopkins said.
In his rookie season last year, Hopkins caught 52 passes for 802 yards and two touchdowns.
More: Nickel defenses on the rise amid NFL's battle for the slot
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Death by denial: The campaigners who continue to deny HIV causes Aids | Brian Deer | Science | guardian.co.uk.
Brian Deer, Wakefield exposer, pens another article on a deluded medical idea – AIDS denialism and Peter Duesberg.
Here are intelligent, well-educated, idealistic people who wrestle their freedom from the grip of morbid sickness, big pharma products and despair. There's a heroic quality about storming towards your destiny, arms outstretched, eyes wide.
According to Peter Duesberg, the scientist who fathered this philosophy, about 6% of deaths in the over 50s are from pneumonia…
"It is concluded," he declared in the journal Cancer Research, "that Aids virus is not sufficient to cause Aids and that there is no evidence, besides its presence in a latent form, that it is necessary for Aids."
Thus was born the "Duesberg hypothesis", which his critics say has led to sickness and death far beyond white, middle-class eccentrics. By some reckonings, in South Africa alone the denialist convictions of former president Thabo Mbeki led to more than 300,000 premature fatalities and 35,000 preventable infant infections.
Tip: @ZenMonkey
This will make you angry. Pseudoscience kills. Thousands.


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Best of 3from
MLG Anaheim 2012
Winners Semifinal- Caster:
DjWheat & Apollo- Posted on: Jun 17, 2012
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Comment # 1 by kumapz
game 3, so much action ! MKP and Stephano delivered a very good TvZ match.
Comment # 2 by hopper
Good game. Another showing of terran bs.
Comment # 3 by mahou
Nah, Marineking did well to come back in game 3, stephano made the mistake of going hive and getting those upgrades instead of more units. Terran is the race you can't ever take lightly like that with mules and cost effectives units.
Comment # 4 by petroz
Amazing series!
I really wanted MKP to win because stephano's ZvZ is weak.
Comment # 5 by nixaboo
Blehhh, Stephano gave the 3rd game away :( Shouldn't have gone tech route and instead concentrate on keeping high-unit count. Maybe he thought he was way more ahead than he actually was so he can spare some resources for tech..
Either way epic game. :) Both players are beasts..
Comment # 6 by Trollebo
First I have to say:
Great games in this series! They are two amazing players!
The MLG Videos are crap! They get stuck at certain times and I have to restart each video atleast twice a game, wich means I have to watch the stupid ads on an on again. I spend at least an hour a day watching casts on this website but last couple of days it feels like I will not go her again. I surf from a Mac if that has anything to do with it?
Comment # 7 by chiknadobo
zergs need to deal with the medivacs. I feel they are often over looked and they give so much survivability and cost effectiveness to terran bio. The options I see are mutas, corruptors, or sprinking in a few hydras. I'm leaning more toward corruptors because you need them for broods, but I think that hydras are a relatively unexplored option that could be viable.
Comment # 8 by emcc
Yeah, when there is supposed to be a commercial, the video just gets stuck, and I have to reload the page and skip the thing. Hope they fix it
Comment # 9 by tuvwum
At #6.
Get firefox, and use adblock plus.
Comment # 10 by Madrox
Holy shit that series was good.
I play zerg but even I could appreciate the awesomeness of MKP. Godly splitting. He only had 3 marines in that midgame engagement and he STILL split them.
Comment # 11 by Geschirr
@#7: you are so right... medivacs are not only the intended dropships, but basically a "make my units last twice and get back the last 25% of them"... why is zerg so careless? even if you don't have enough fungals to kill medivacs, terran probably would be more careful in their use if those get targeted once in a while.
Comment # 12 by Juicy1000
Damn... MKP loses almost half of eco and still wins? This should ring a bell to blizzard. They should give mules to every race lol cant wait for the oracle in HOTS so no one can mine =)
Comment # 13 by Osiris88
I feel as though medivacs are strong. But so are queens, so I guess it balances out. I am a zerg player, and I think the new patch highlights how good getting 4+ queens is. You can spread your creep so much more rapidly. I wanted MKP to win only because I like to see him and DRG go at it.
Comment # 14 by henryinspace
Terran is only imbalanced when MKP is playing! Sick games, action packed, all of them. I'd like to echo hatred of this player and also of DjWheat who has zero insight and is even dull as a purely colour caster.
Comment # 15 by fr0zn
the problem is not going away with firefox btw.
Comment # 16 by ooDi
@12 what are you talking about. The mules werent the only reason mkp won that battle. His micro is superb.. Nothing even a high master terran can pull it off on every battle. Stephano made mistakes of going to hive. Mule is the only additional eco unit terran can have, while zerg can build up to 8 drones from a single hatch, protoss can consistently chrono nexus. Learn sc before you whine
Comment # 17 by Stoeff
wow what an amazing series!
Comment # 18 by JadedJester
^^ well said.
great games.
Comment # 19 by mr0ldie
MKP should never have won that third game. Medivacs make bio (an already cost-effective composition of units) ridiculously cost-effective. The problem with it is you can't get units to deal with medivacs without severely hurting the rest of your army (corrupters or mutas--hydras are laughable as they are restricted solely to being on creep). I don't have suggestions to fix it, but something should be done. (Researchable speed upgrade to hydra could possibly fix it.)
Comment # 20 by glmaster
Always whiny bitch zergs. As if Stephano play a mistake free game. You idiots, its MKP. He's a fantastic terran player.
Comment # 21 by JadedJester
Comment # 22 by mr0ldie
@20 Neither player played a mistake free game. Stephano caught MKP off guard and nearly crushed him--killed 2/3 of his SCVs. However, the fact that MKP was able to come back over the course of several minutes after losing the majority of his economy (minus MULEs but I won't get into those) is a bit over the top. And it wasn't his micro that won him the game--his medivacs won him the game. He would have lost the game without good micro but that goes for every race and every game.
Comment # 23 by glmaster
Stephano should have went in for the kill after that with another wave units. Instead he went to hive and heavy upgrades and didn't have enough units to defend. That was his mistake and it was a costly one. He allowed MKP to come back because he thought he had it in the bag. Underestimation is a bitch.
Comment # 24 by UNCrulez
that was one of the most amazing series i have ever watched!
Comment # 25 by enshroud
Damn, insane. Any other terran player a little less skilled at splitting would have lost that last game.. thanks for showing us again why you're MKP. And game 2, holy shit that was the most perfect ZvT sweep I've ever seen. Also, Apollo = spot on analysis and great caster. Awesome stuff.
Comment # 26 by GenVector
HOLY SMOKES! What an amazing series!
And the ads in the middle of the game!? not even at planned breaks or at the start but throughout!? Talk about frustrating!
Comment # 27 by Bournekilla
Unlimited Creep Spread? Check (Queen Buff).
No 2 Barracks timing? Check. (5 Second Barracks Nerf).
Stim Timing Nerf? Check.
All potential Early game threats reduced to a smoldering pile of shit? Check.
Ghost Nerfed to complete shit so you have no opposition in the late game? Check.
Still SOMEHOW delusional enough to think that this match up is anything but 100% in your favor? Check.
Comment # 28 by killer88
great games, terrible player had to restart last vid 5times...
Comment # 29 by chiahal
I followed an earlier user's advice and installed firefox + adblock plus. Now the ads are completely gone and every video loads on the first try. It also does not pause or stop in the middle of the video.
It would have been a shame to watch these games and keep getting interrupted so I recommend everyone go with the FF+adblock combo
Comment # 30 by Yossarian2
The video player is crappy, but remember MLG makes money off the ads which helps funds these events, I don't know if they lose money by disabling ads, but just something to think about ...
Comment # 31 by ex0
Who cares if MLG loses the ads, no one likes ads, and the video player they use sucks too.. youtube is my favourite player and video site, even if it uses more resources and is more 'flashy' than before, it's still faster and better than the MLG one. I won't be any crying over them using YT player instead of MLG, will you?
They should of gone for something which people actually want rather than forcing them to watch ads(which might lower the actual viewers, something ELSE for you to think about).
I would think that most SC2 enthusiasts are net savvy enough to have adblockers to begin with, so yeah. Not a good business model to rely on ads..
Comment # 32 by FLiP
heres ad block plus for chrome users, blocks all ads on all videos:
Comment # 33 by soprof
not coming back to sc2 until they fix an ultimate marine unit.
so balls
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I'm about to receive a Taurus Thunderbolt in 45lc. I have been dreaming for a long time of a short light 45acp rifle, so you can probably see where this is going. I'd like to rechamber the Thunderbolt to 45acp. Yes I know that with that long jump to the rifling accuracy won't be fantastic, but what I want to know is if it is economically feasable. Material will almost certainly need to be added to the bolt face to cradle the casing correctly. The big question is can the extractor be modified to reliably haul out the casing.
And yes I know that it will require flat point or hollow point bullets from then on. The Lasercase 200 grn 45 colt bullets look like the perfect thing. I can hard crimp the casing into the bullet groove to handle the recoil.
The second part of the project is to shorten the barrel and feed tube to 18 inches. Could be a sweet working rifle.
I've heard of someone doing extractor modifications to marlin 45LC cowboy rifles, but so far it seems to only be a rumor. Any help?
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After the markets closed Friday, Dallas-based AT&T Inc. said it had agreed to buy Leap Wireless International Inc. for $15 a share, or about $1.2 billion in cash.
San Diego-based Leap also had $2.8 billion of net debt as of April 15, the companies said.
Leap, with 3,400 employees, specializes in the low-cost prepaid wireless market. It has about 5 million subscribers, and its network covers about 96 million people in 35 states. It operates under the Cricket brand and provides customers with unlimited wireless services for a flat rate without requiring lengthy fixed-term contracts.
"Cricket's employees, operations and distribution will jump-start AT&T's expansion into the highly competitive prepaid segment," AT&T said in prepared statement.
In after-hours trading, shares of Leap jumped more than 116 percent to more than $17. Shares of AT&T traded down a penny from their close at $35.80.
Since abandoning its $39 billion takeover bid for T-Mobile USA in late 2011, AT&T has been steadily acquiring wireless spectrum in smaller chunks.
In late January, AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson told investors that his company had increased its national spectrum holdings by a third over the previous year through nearly 50 transactions.
The next day, AT&T said it had agreed to acquire spectrum covering 42 million people in 18 states from Verizon Wireless for about $1.9 billion. AT&T is the nation's second-largest wireless provider behind Verizon.
AT&T said it expects the Leap deal to close in six to nine months. The deal is subject to review by the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice.
The acquisition includes spectrum largely complementary to AT&T's holdings, covering 137 million people, AT&T said. After approval of the deal, AT&T said it planned to immediately devote Leap's unused spectrum covering 41 million people for its 4G LTE deployment.
Harold Feld, senior vice president of Washington, D.C.-based Public Knowledge, a group that opposes wireless industry concentration, said the market doesn't need more mergers.
"AT&T already has more wireless capacity than it needs to serve its customers, and it should focus on using what it has rather than continuing to try to buy out competitors," Feld said in a prepared statement.
Owners of about 30 percent of Leap's shares have agreed to support the transaction, AT&T said. Leap shareholders also are entitled to net proceeds on the sale of a block of Leap spectrum in Chicago acquired for $204 million in August.
The two largest wireless carriers, Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc., have been trying to bolster their spectrum holdings, while the next largest, Sprint and T-Mobile, have been seeking to make alliances to compete better. Here's a look at the merger and acquisition activity in the telecommunications industry since last summer:
June 26, 2012: Verizon Wireless agrees to sell some airwave rights to T-Mobile and swap others.
Aug. 2: AT&T announces three deals aimed at boosting its spectrum holdings. They are with Comcast Corp., NextWave Wireless Inc. and Horizon Wi-Com.
Aug. 24: A consortium of cable companies sell their spectrum holdings to Verizon Wireless for $3.6 billion.
Oct. 3: T-Mobile USA's parent company, Deutsche Telekom AG of Germany, agrees to buy Dallas-based MetroPCS Communications Inc. and merge T-Mobile into it.
Oct. 11: Japan's Softbank Corp. agrees to pay $20.1 billion for 70 percent of Sprint Nextel Corp., providing a much-needed cash boost for the struggling carrier.
Nov. 11: Sprint Nextel agrees to buy some U.S. Cellular Corp. service areas in the Midwest for $480 million.
Dec. 13: Sprint agrees to buy out the minority shareholders of wireless network operator Clearwire Corp., of which it already owns a majority.
Jan. 22, 2013: AT&T agrees to buy remnants of the Alltel network for $780 million.
Jan. 25: Verizon Wireless agrees to sell some spectrum rights to AT&T for $1.9 billion and swap some others.
April 30: T-Mobile completes acquisition of MetroPCS and becomes T-Mobile US Inc. T-Mobile adds 9 million MetroPCS customers to its own 34 million.
Tuesday: Sprint completes acquisition of Clearwire.
Wednesday: Softbank completes Sprint deal, now worth $21.6 billion for a 78 percent stake.
Friday: AT&T says it will acquire Leap Wireless, the service provider of prepaid, contract-free plans under the Cricket brand, for about $1.2 billion in cash.
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The name Babu Miyya brings back fond memories of my aunt, passed away some years ago. Babu Miyya rented a small storefront shop from my aunt and uncle. He was an old man always dressed in traditional Muslim garb-baggy white trousers and long loose shirt with white skullcap. His gray beard trimmed in shape of a narrow projectile away from his chin kept his right hand busy in constant motion of grooming. The dark rings around his deep eyes could be a sign of poor health or just tiredness from standing in his shop from early morning to late evenings.
Babu Miyy was a permanent fixture in his shop, always in standing position behind the greasy glass counters. He sold milk, yogurt, ghee or clarified butter, and lassi or sweet and sour buttermilk. It is the lassithat made Babu Miyya very popular in the area. People from various walks of life dropped by his shop at any time of day to get a glass of refreshing lassi. He was a man of few words; spoke very little with his customers, nothing more than what was needed to complete a transaction.
Every time I visited my aunt, Babu Miyya was there in his shop behind the glass counter glaring at the street traffic. He seldom made any gestures of recognition when we made eye contact. Once in a while, I stepped inside his shop to order a glass of lassi, while sipping I would secretly stare at him hoping that he would strike a conversation, but never he did. The rancid smells emanating from storage of milk products perpetually occupied the air space in the shop. There was a small doorway at the back of his shop that allowed Babu Miyya to enter my aunt's front yard to collect tap water and supply milk and butter milk to her.
My aunt, my mother's older sister, lived several hundred miles away from our town. I visited her only during summer vacation. I was very fond of her as she always had kind words for me. She was a short woman with very fair skin and fat abdomen, slept on her stomach while reading or listening to radio, perhaps her soft underbelly provided cushion like comfort to her. As a young boy, I was fascinated by a small hand held betel nut cracker my aunt used to chop betel nuts into fine flakes to chew all day long. Her teeth were turned brown from constant chewing of betel nuts. Once in a while I begged for few pieces of nuts to chew, she gave a few reluctantly, and made me to promise not to make a habit of it.
In her bathroom, I saw for the very first time a large galvanized steel tub with water in which she relaxed after regular shower.
"Can I use your tub," I asked her one day as I felt like jumping into the tub filled with water.
"You don't' have asthma and backaches like I have, only asthmatics like me need tub baths," she said in a quiet voice.
In several visits I made to her house, never had I heard harsh words coming out of her mouth. She always spoke with a smile and yet she never gave any gift not even a candy. Later on in my adult life I realized that my aunt was a penny pincher. She was very fortunate to have a husband like my uncle. He treated her like a doll with utmost care, provided her with a maid and a cook so that she didn't have to exert herself particularly with her asthma. Perhaps, she was too comfortable and with no household chores, became fat and helpless.
My uncle was a high-level civil servant in-charge of inspecting and issuing operating permits to various businesses. This led him to travel and collect gifts from the business owners. He accepted gifts in any shape or form, such as shoes, clothing, cooking utensils, construction materials, home decorative items and even cold cash sometimes.
In total contrast to my aunt, my uncle was tall, dark skinned and generous. Every time I visited their home, he gave me treats to eat but the only catch was that I ended up massaging his feet while he relaxed in an easy chair. His three children, my cousins always escaped the dreadful chore of massaging their father's feet whereas I was the only one caught up doing the dreadful chore. The massaging part was bothersome but the treats more than compensated the dreadful chore.
My cousins, two boys and a girl were much older than I. Subhashini, the girl inherited her father's traits particulary his genial personality and kindness. But the drawback with her was that she made me listen to her long meaningless stories for a glass of lassi, she purchased from Babu Miyya. The other two cousins were more like their mother, never spent a penny on anybody. All three of my cousins had trouble graduating from high school, somehow with their father's pull and push, they went on to obtain post-graduate degrees- albeit paper diplomas to get meaningful employment.
The position of my uncle entitled him to a free car and a driver named Ishmael; a Muslim who lived in a shanty house at the outskirts of the city. The flip side of my uncle's genial personality was the use of foul language.
Ishmael spent long hours chauffeuring my uncle on his trips. A traffic jam or a bad road or poor weather, all these beyond anybody's control, irritated my uncle and the poor Ishmael received the brunt of my uncle's frustration.
Ismael was a habitual user of jaradha paan, a mixture of areca nuts with a pinch of tobacco folded in betel leaves used as a mild stimulant. He constantly chewed the jaradha paan and would spit the reddish saliva onto the road while driving. This habit kept his mind off the constant barrage of cussing by my uncle sitting in the back seat. On reaching the destination, my uncle would pat Ismael's shoulder for safe driving and reward him with some cash. The cussing and subsequent rewards by my uncle became a norm in Ishmael's daily routine. At the end of the day, Ishmael would collect enough cash to buy gifts for his two wives, both lived with him in the same house.
In our family circle, my uncle was known for his extraordinary skills in manipulating situations to his own advantage no matter how it affected others. His priorities were his childrens' future and amassing wealth. His prosperous career spanning over two decades came to a sudden halt when he was implicated on corruption charges.
It was a weekday during late evening hours, my uncle apparently had just returned home from work to encounter agents from Central Bureau of Intelligence (CBI), the agency in charge of probing corruption at high levels waiting in front of his house. My aunt, generally a slow moving person quickly sensed the danger of her husband being caught red-handed with large sums of cash and expensive jewelry at home, quietly slipped into Babu Miyya's shop with a briefcase stuffed with valuables for safekeeping.
The intelligence officers searched the entire house for valuable items that could be accounted as wealth accumulated beyond his legal income. Among the various items found in my uncle's home were; several sewing machines which the government intended to donate to poor widows for making a living, yards and yards of pure silk fabric, several idols made from either sterling silver or rare rose wood, scores of shoes, and spare doors and windows of all sizes made from rare forest teak wood stacked up in the garage. His home was like a warehouse with assorted items, big and small.
The incident became a headliner in the local newspapers. "High Level Official Home was raided by CBI," "From Shoes to Sewing Machines," "Gifts Galore in Official Manor," were headliners appeared in the newspapers on the following day. The episode embarrassed my uncle who was suspended from his job pending a thorough investigation.
I visited my aunt in that difficult period not knowing the seriousness of the situation. My cousin gave me a lengthy explanation for her father's debacle not knowing I had very little knowledge of what happened. I endured her grief hoping that at the end she would buy me a glass of lassi from Babu Miyya, but to my disappointment she continued her deliberations, and concluded that her father was totally innocent of all charges of corruption and it was a set up by his subordinate officers. With no lassi offering coming, I fully agreed with her conclusions and ended up sharing her grief. That was the last time I met my cousin, since then she married and migrated to a foreign land where nobody would know her family corruption scandal.
Babu Miyya, the poor Muslim who rented the storefront from my aunt, on the night of CBI raids became a savior of my uncle's undisclosed treasures. Ishmael who had the first-hand knowledge of my uncle's activities in collecting bribes during the tour of duty over the 20-year period refused to testify against my uncle, and thus saved my uncle going to prison.
It was ironic that Babu Miyya and Ishmael both humble and insignificant in my uncle and aunt's personal life, stood firmly on their side at the time of need. At the end of a decade long trial, my uncle was found not guilty on all the charges of corruption due to lack of evidence largely because of Ishmael's refusal to testify against my uncle.
My aunt and uncle sold their house declaring that the place was as bad omen and moved to a quiet suburb. With some financial help from my uncle, Ishmael improved his shanty house by replacing the roof with galvanized tin sheets. Babu Miyya vacated his milk shop since the new owners closed his shop for renovations. My uncle spent his free time on writing essays on human nature and assisting his wife in household chores.
My visits to my aunt and uncle became sparse, as I grew older. During my rare visits, my uncle still managed to make me rub his toes giving specific orders which direction to twist or turn his toes to suite his comfort while my aunt was sitting comfortably next to him operating the betel nut cracker. On one such occasion, while rubbing his feet, I wondered loudly what could have happened to Babu Miyya and Ishmael; my uncle unconsciously pulled back his feet from my gentle handgrip and my aunt suddenly stopped chopping the betel nuts looking at me as if I was too close to their comfort and that was the last time my uncle made me rub his feet.
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Guilty of Living in Detroit
When a client of a suburban Detroit temp agency demanded no Detroit residents
in its recruitment profile, the agencys personnel manager cried foul.
She filed a complaint at the regional office of the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission, citing that her employer allowed clients to screen potential
temp workers not only for race, gender, religion, and disabilities, but
also for place of residence.
Why would employers want to filter out Detroiters? Well, if youre from
Detroit, there is a 75.5 percent chance that youre African American. According
to the last census, you are probably less educated and have fewer skills
than a suburban candidate. Based on these statistics, many firms categorically
reject job applications from the city, preferring to hire employees from
suburban areas such as neighboring Oakland County, where education and
skill levels are much higher and where 89.6 percent of the population is
This kind of discrimination contributes to the desolate economic situation
of Detroit residents. Being a Detroiter also means that your income is
only $8,809 if youre African American, and $11,947 if youre white. In
Oakland County, on the other hand, the average per-capita income is $21,617
for whites and $16,133 for African Americans. As a Detroiter, there is
a 20.5 percent chance that you are a machine operator or laborer, and a
18.7 percent chance that you are a manager or professional. In Oakland
County, only 10.7 percent of all workers are machinists and laborers, but
35 percent are managers and professionals. As a Detroiter, there is a 41.3
percent likelihood that you are unemployed or not working. In Oakland County
only 26.4 percent of residents are not working, according to U.S. Census
Employers want skilled and educated workers, and to improve their chances
of getting such workers, they attempt to minimize the number of undesirable
applicants. If, for example, African Americans have statistically lower
education and skill levels, then excluding all African Americans from the
hiring processes increases an employers chances of obtaining a pool of
educated and skilled job applicants. This kind of blatant racism is the
target of federal laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of personal
characteristics such as race. But what about place?
Employers prefer to avoid cities like Detroit where education and skill
levels are low and where most residents are African American. Instead they
concentrate their hiring efforts in suburban areas, where potential applicants
have benefited from well-funded school systems and vocational programs.
However, excluding job applicants on the basis of their residential location
is just as discriminatory as excluding applicants on the basis of race,
gender or religion. Geographers refer to this practice as place discrimination.
Place discrimination also works in more subtle ways. We impose cultural
images onto places and then apply those images to the people who live in
those places. In her book Cultures of Cities, Sharon Zukin demonstrates
how stereotypical cultural traits of people are matched to particular occupations.
In Manhattans restaurant industry, for instance, artists who project the
trendy image of urbanity are placed in the front of the restaurant as waiters
and hosts, while Mexican immigrants, representing the less refined image
of the third world resident, are confined to the back, as cooks and kitchen
Such cultural stereotypes also apply to Detroit residents and suggest unfavorable
work attributes. The average suburbanite thinks of Detroit as the habitat
of bums, criminals, lethal gangs and welfare mothers. Many employers envision
drug and alcohol addicted employees, unreliable workers, and women who
cant find daycare for their fatherless children. These employers then
approach temp agencies with the request of no Detroit residents.
In the 1960s, culture of poverty rhetoric (recently revived as the so-called
underclass debate) suggested that inner cities breed dysfunctional families
and a work force that is unfit for the competitive struggle of the labor
market. These images of inferiority were further cultivated by sensationalized
media coverage of crime, gang warfare, welfare abuse, homelessness and
unemployment, depicting inner-city residents as pathological social misfits
who are unwilling and unable to conform to the norms and discipline of
the workplace.
In American cities today, labels of ghetto, underclass neighborhood,
or deprived poverty area imply a contagious social environment of cultural
pathology, skill deficiency, unreliability and poor work ethic. Of course
no employer wants to hire such workers. Recent research by sociologists
and city planners on Detroit and Chicago shows that suburban employers
commonly circumvent recruitment from inner-city areas by placing job advertisements
in newspapers circulating in suburban areas, but not in African American
inner-city neighborhoods.
These distorted labels wreak havoc on the employment prospects of inner
city residents, yet federal legislators have historically turned a blind
eye to the issue. Politicians, backed by conventional sociological and
economic research, point to industrial restructuring, changes in demand
for job skills, and employment suburbanization for the devastating labor
market situation of inner-city residents. By depicting labor market inequalities
as industrial processes and market forces that are beyond the control
of legislation, politicians can deny responsibility for them. Thus, no
federal law prohibits place discrimination, and the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission remains unable to prevent employment exclusion on the basis
of place of residence.
For how long can we continue to submit to the inevitable forces of economic
restructuring as the sources of inner-city unemployment and underemployment?
At some point we must recognize that processes of place stigmatization
are just as exclusionary as stereotypes of race, gender or religion. We
must demand federal legislation mandating the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission to monitor discrimination not only by race, gender, religion,
color, national origin, age and disability, but also by place of residence.
Until federal legislation protecting workers from place discrimination
existsand I am not optimistic that this will happen anytime soonwe need
to rely on alternative strategies to combat place exclusion in employers
recruitment practices. Most importantly, we must debunk the rhetorical
constructs of the ghetto, the pathological culture of poverty, and
dysfunctional underclass neighborhood. Z
Harald Bauder was until recently a lecturer in the Department of Geography
and Urban Planning at Wayne State University in Detroit. He is now a postdoctoral
fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.


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Detroit in danger of losing Thanksgiving game
Published: November 30th, 2008 | Tags: Detroit Lions, Thanksgiving
Detroit has lost enough games this season, and now comes a potentially more crushing blow.
Detroit is in jeopardy of losing its tradition of hosting a Thanksgiving Day game.
One high-ranking NFL executive guessed this weekend that the issue "will be reviewed at the March league meetings … could go either way."
His statement would be consistent with the numerous people that have called for the NFL to take away the Thanksgiving game from the Lions, who have been blown out in five straight games on Thanksgiving.
It doesn't mean it will happen. But it seems almost certain the league is going to review the issue and decide what it is in the best interests of the NFL.


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Sally Hansen Diamond Strength No Chip Nail Color Reviews
One of My Favorite Polishes!I first fell in love with Sally Hansen's "Diamond Strength No-Chip Nail Polish" when I saw the irresistible colors and the charming faux diamond chip at the front of the bottle. It glides on well for me, sets quickly, and wears a long time, especially with a great topcoat. — 4 years, 4 months agoGigiSD | 1102 reviews
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Not a fanI really like the colors, but the texture isn't great. It's very runny, and doesn't dry quickly. It smudges even after letting it set for awhile. It's also pricey. — 6 years, 3 months agoLittleBunny | 545 reviews
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Eh...I have an issue with this product - for me, it chips like crazy! I have tried three different shades and the result is always the same. Its a shame really, as I very much like the colors. Like other Sally Hansen products I found the product to be a bit watery. If you put on a very thin coat, it dries in record time, but a normal coat takes forever to dry. You are better off trying something else. — 6 years, 2 months agoTheLacqueredLady | 751 reviews
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Review: Sally Hansen Diamond Strength No Chip Nail Colori love the purple shade! it is called Flair and lasts a really long time, does not smell very strong, and the color is really pretty. my only complaint is that i have not had this very long and it has all ready kinda dried up, or at least got a lot thicker. — 6 years, 8 months agoaly7 | 396 reviews
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A great findThis Sally Hansen nail color line had a good selection of neutral, nude, pale pink-based colors and a few dark ones at a drugstore. My first bottle was Rose Petals. It took a little longer to dry completely than some of my other express nail colors. One coat was pretty already, but it was still a bit sheer for my taste. So I did double coat, and it made my nails shiny like polished pink pearls. I ...read morestill used a top coat each time and it did not chip for 4 full days. well, so I don't know what would have happened if I did not use a top coat. I don't often finish one whole bottle, but I used this one up. This may be one of my top 5 pastel color drugstore nail polishes. I purchased a few more different shades. — 6 years, 10 months agoluckybetty | 895 reviews
Review subjectThis is a very good and affordable nail polish- you get a pretty big bottle, and don't have to reapply all the time, and it doesn't dry up to the point when it's not usable any more for a while. It dries rather fast, lasts long, and my nails definitely feel good after I use it. The only downside for me is that the non-matte shades have too many shiny particles for my taste, so color looks less in...read moretense, but it's not a big deal. Still looks good, and my nails are still happy :). Sally Hansen forever! — 6 years, 3 months agovenenumletalis | 176 reviews
My favorite!I love.this.nail.polish.!!!!!!!!!!! The packaging, the texture, the color, and the variety. It seems that the formula glides on my nails, and it only takes about 10 minutes for me to paint and let dry my full set of nails. (and it doesn't claim to be a quick drying type). I like that its not too liquidy like most nail polishes I've tried. It's nice and thick, but not goopy. Give it a try! It was about $6 for me. — 6 years, 8 months agoeatinglipstick | 145 reviews
Beautiful colors but...I tried this nail polish because the colors are beautiful and so is the packaging. The diamond on the bottle caught my eye, its very glam and classy looking. But I have learned that sometimes packaging isn't everything. I got the color antique bronze because I needed something natural looking not bright or anything. I was pretty excited to try it, and once I applied the color it looked great o...read moren me and gave me the natural look that I wanted. It was a little watery but it went on nicely, and It shined and shimmered. BUT...after two days it started to chip. Now this is not the first time I've had a problem with a Sally Hansen no chip Polish that did not live up to its name. I'm not sure why but they just don't last on me. Its a shame because I really do like the colors, and I wanted to buy more, but I wont be doing that because its not worth having to re-apply every 2 days. — 4 years, 2 months agonelly_recinos | 139 reviews
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Fuschia Bling-Bling Is My Summer Must!I've already gone through a bottle of this color ~ it's a happy, lush, bright pink/fushcia ~ a near-match to Essie's "Big Spender" shade. I've used it on both tips and toes and it seems to last me about four/five days without chipping. I ALWAYS do two coats and use a top-coat, so that may have something to do with it. The two polishes I have now haven't thickened or turned gloopy...very little, if...read more any, that I've noticed anyway. Love the little faux diamond on the bottle ~ very clever! I have this in both Fuschia Bling-Bling and Diamond (a really pretty, silvery sparkle/clear shade that offers a lovely, unusual gleam in direct light but is actually very subtle and unnoticeable otherwise ~ a nice touch to a French Manicure as a top coat). I've used Sally Hansen on and off for years and I've always really liked it. I do buy higher end polishes, but this is a great product too. No complaints here. — 5 years, 2 months agonycmuse | 136 reviews
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Really goodI can give myself a manicure and this lasts a week! Could use some different colors though. — 6 years, 9 months agojenicide1 | 292 reviews
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It's been an extraordinary feeling to walk outside my door lately in the morning and be greeted by a brightly shining sun.
With winter finally letting go of its tormenting grasp, it's time to welcome back our long-lost friend, the shining sun.
Warmer temps and a bright sun are bound to make anyone feel better and want to the leave the confines of their home or office. It's a mood enhancer.
It's not only that, but an element that should be taken advantage of by businesses.
While being hunkered down in an office during winter with its dreary elements being non-visible isn't the worst of things, come summertime we crave for what's on the outside.
Windows have become a crucial element of any office design and is no longer reserved for upper management with corner offices.
According to the Progressive AE white paper, Catalyzing Business Transformation with Performance-Based Design, workers in windowed offices were on task 15 percent more of the time compared to their windowless counterparts.
Some will even declare lighting the most powerful design element to alter productivity. Researchers already unanimously agree that proper lighting is essential to a productive office.
With poor lighting, everyday tasks become more difficult. Poor lighting can even lead to headaches and general discomfort, since an employee will have to expend extra energy to perform simpler tasks.
Here at the MLive hub in Grand Rapids, we're lucky enough to have large windows with views of the downtown area and where natural light can just pour on in. It adds to our office's open atmosphere.
Natural lighting ultimately adds to an ideal office environment which helps employee wellbeing. With productivity being able to increase by 16 percent in a comfortable workplace, embracing windows and natural light can pay off.
Welcoming natural light comes into play with the architectural design of your office. Overlooking how your office is designed is a poor choice as it can help not only boost employee morale, but office productivity.
Enjoying the sun shouldn't be reserved only for when you are outside—celebrate it inside as well in your office.
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Mark Adams, Vice President, Design, General Motors Europe talks to Greg Strange about the Saab 9-X BioHybrid concept revealed today at the Geneva Motor Show An expressive vision of what a future compact car from Saab could look like, the 9-X BioHybrid majors on progressive design, efficient performance and 'high-tech' features that appeal to typically youthful buyers. It is equipped with the next-generation GM Hybrid system, which features a lithium-ion battery and a significantly higher power capability to capture more energy and more electric boost than the current GM Hybrid system.
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Researchers from the University of California, San Diego have shown that instead of trying to deliver therapeutic agents for neurodegenerative diseases across the highly impermeable blood-brain barrier via the blood, therapeutic molecules known as antisense oligonucleotides can be delivered to the brain and spinal cord through the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) at doses shown to slow the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, in rats.
The aggregation of toxic proteins in the central nervous system (CNS) underlies many neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and ALS. Several strategies for removing excess proteins from the brain have been tried, but few have been successful due to the impermeability of the protective blood-brain barrier, which prevents substances in the blood from entering brain tissue. In a study in rats appearing online on July 27 in advance of print publication in the August issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Timothy Miller, Richard Smith, and colleagues delivered effective doses of antisense oligonucleotides throughout all brain regions affected in the major neurodegenerative diseases and to all levels of the spinal cord through the CSF. Once produced, CSF circulates from the brain to all regions of the CNS, yielding complete replacement 3 times a day. Exploiting this process and using second-generation oligonucleotides with enhanced tolerability and potency, the authors were able to modulate and deliver effective doses of antisense oligonucleotides. Antisense oligonucleotides to the enzyme superoxide dismutase reduced protein and mRNA levels in the CNS. Delivery of antisense therapy initiated after the onset of symptoms slowed disease progression in a rat model of ALS. This establishes that direct delivery of antisense oligonucleotides through the CSF can be an effective means of treating neurodegenerative diseases when the appropriate toxic protein is known.
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The Dampfbahn Fränkische Schweiz e. V. (Franconian Switzerland Steam Railway Co. Ltd.) or DFS is a German museum railway based in Ebermannstadt in Franconian Switzerland, part of northern Bavaria, Germany.
Wikipedia: Franconia (German: Franken) is a region of Germany comprising the northern parts of the modern state of Bavaria, a small part of southern Thuringia, and a region in northeastern Baden-Württemberg called Heilbronn-Franken. The Bavarian part is made up of the administrative regions of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken), Middle Franconia (Mittelfranken), and Upper Franconia (Oberfranken).Franconia (like France) is named after the Germanic tribe of the Franks. This tribe played a major role after the breakdown of the Roman Empire and colonised large parts of medieval Europe.Modern day Franconia comprises only a very tiny and rather remote part of the settlement area of the ancient Franks. In German, Franken is used for both modern day Franconians and the historic Franks, which leads to some confusion. The historic Frankish Empire, Francia, is actually the common precursor of the Low Countries, France and Germany. In 843 the Treaty of Verdun led to the partition of Francia into West Francia (modern day France), Middle Francia (from the Low Countries along the Rhine valley to northern Italy) and East Francia (modern day Germany). Frankreich, the German word for "France", and Frankrijk, the Dutch word for "France"; literally mean "the Frankish Empire".


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The Bothersome Man (Norwegian: Den brysomme mannen) is a Norwegian film from 2006. It was directed by Jens Lien after a script by Per H. V. Schreiner. In the main roles were Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Petronella Barker and Per Schaaning. The story is about a man suddenly finding himself in an outwardly perfect, yet essentially soulless dystopia, and his attempt to escape. The film was well received by critics, and was awarded three Amanda Awards in 2006.
As the movie begins, Andreas Ramsfjell (Trond Fausa Aurvåg) is underground in a train station watching a couple kiss; however, the kiss lacks any sign of aesthetics - on the contrary, it looks hideous and abominable. Andreas seems to be increasingly unsettled until eventually he steps forward and jumps off the track in front of a subway train and the scene abruptly ends. In the following scene, he is on a bus which lets him off at a deserted gas station in the middle of nowhere. An older man greets Andreas with a welcome sign and escorts him into a car. From here he makes his way into an seemingly ideal city, where he soon finds himself with a corporate job, a furnished apartment and a beautiful girlfriend (Petronella Barker). The seemingly perfect life soon proves to be vacuous. Andreas seems to be the only person in the city capable of experiencing sensation and emotion. The only respite from the emptiness is a meaningless materialism. As the slightly uncomfortable turns into the absurd, Andreas tries to escape, but finds there is no way out of the city. The beginning scene is revealed again in the midst of his misery after he gets his heart broken and he steps out onto the train tracks, only to find that not even suicide is a way out of the perfect city. Eventually he meets Hugo (Per Schaaning), a cleaner who has found a crack in the walls of his basement from which lovely music streams out. The two dig frantically, in secret, through the wall and discover it leads into a house, presumably back in the real world. Andreas manages to get his arm into the house and grabs a handful of cake from the table, but both of them are caught and dragged out of the basement. Andreas gets thrown out of the city on the same bus that brought him there. The film ends with a violent ride into a frozen wasteland where the bus leaves Andreas, alone in a snowstorm.
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UNISONIC Kick Off Tour In Buenos Aires To Promote Debut; Setlist, Photos, Video
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Last night (May 12th), UNISONIC - the metal super group featuring Michael Kiske (vocals, ex-HELLOWEEN), Kai Hansen (guitars, GAMMA RAY, ex Helloween), Mandy Meyer (guitars, ex-GOTTHARD, ex-KROKUS), Dennis Ward (bass, PINK CREAM 69) and Kosta Zafiriou (drums, Pink Cream 69) - kicked off their tour to promote their debut album in Buenos Aires, Argentina at Teatro Flores.
Check out more photos from the Official Unisonic Fan Club here.
Unisonic performed:
'Intro: The Ride of the Valkyries'
'Never Too Late'
'King For A Day'
'I've Tried'
'My Sanctuary'
'March Of Time'
'Over The Rainbow'
'Star Rider' (guitar solos)
'Souls Alive'
'We Rise'
'Never Change Me'
'Future World'
'I Want Out'
Brigitte from the Official Unisonic Fan Club comments about the show: "It was the first show with all the new material, but everything seemed tight arranged and very professional. Michael's voice was better than every and he didn't need any paper on any song. Maybe a little more interaction with the audience could be done for future shows. You could also see, that most Argentinian people didn't know most of the Unisonic songs. This is quite understandable, since the album was not yet released there. So when the first Helloween track 'March of Time' started, the audience went crazy."


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DEP searching for chief of staff
The middle of the legislative session is not the ideal time for an agency head to be looking for a new chief of staff -- especially with major energy and Everglades issues at stake. But that's the challenge facing Mike Sole at the Department of Environmental Protection. Chief of staff Kelly Layman has left DEP to take the same post at the Department of Juvenile Justice. To round out this game of musical chairs, former DJJ chief of staff Donna O'Neal left to take a high-level post working for CFO Alex Sink.


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Discotek Media to Bring "Animal Treasure Island," Lupin Titles to US
According to Home Media Retailing magazine, Discotek Media is entering the North American anime distribution marketplace with Animal Treasure Island from Toei. The 1971 film features animation and consulting by Hayao Miyazaki. Other titles coming soon from Discotek include Puss n' Boots (1969), Taro the Dragon Boy (1979), and several Lupin III films.


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Rays sweep Sox, improve to MLB best 10-3
(View a photo gallery of the Rays' four-game sweep in Boston)
The Rays completed a staggering four-game sweep of the rival Red Sox in Boston with an 8-2 Patriots Day matinee win on Monday.
The victory extended their franchise-best start to an MLB best 10-3, including a perfect 7-0 on the road.
Jeff Niemann overcame the early game-time to deliver a strong start, allowing just five hits over seven innings. B.J. Upton again provided the power, with a three-run homer in the second inning, his fourth in the last five games. Jason Bartlett and Pat Burrell had three hits apiece.
The 10 wins were more than the Rays had in all of April last year, and it took them until May 6 to log their seventh road win.
It was the first time the Rays had swept the Sox in Boston in a series more than two games (which they did once, on June 30-July 1, 1999), It was the first time the Sox were swept in a four-game (or more) series at home since 2006, when the Yankees took five on Aug. 18-21.
The Rays are the first 10-game winners in the majors, and took over sole possession of first place with the Yankees off. With the loss, the Sox dropped to 4-9 and six games behind the Rays.


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LONG BEACH - Maylaun Edwards summed up what a week at Cal State Long Beach will be like for herself and several friends staying on the campus to learn from successful women in engineering and professors in the field.
"To me, it's like being in college and having a sleepover," said Maylaun, 11.
Maylaun is among about 30 elementary and middle-school girls who live in transitional housing for the homeless at the Century Villages at Cabrillo in Long Beach and are spending a week in the dorms at CSULB while learning about college life and engineering.
The outreach program is called Engineering Girls -- It Takes A Village.
For many of the girls, Monday marked their first time on a college campus. Mothers of eight of the girls will accompany them for the week.
In addition to building a rocket-launcher, the girls will learn about underwater robotics, bridge-building and computer programming and participate in a host of interactive learning experiences led by faculty from the College of Engineering and the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, among other educators.
The young students will also visit the Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey.
Lily Gossage, research associate for the Office of Engineering Educational Research & Assessment at CSULB, met several girls during a visit last winter to Cabrillo as part of an adopt-a-family initiative through the CSULB President's Commission on the Status of Women.
Gossage, who recruited the girls for the program, said it's important to reach them at a young age, especially when it comes to a field like engineering, where women are relatively underrepresented.
"Our research shows it's way too late to start talking to the girls in high school," Gossage said. "We try to reach way back to the middle and elementary grades."
Gossage worked with Long Beach City College's Advancement and Economic Development Office, which gave to the outreach more than $86,000 from the California Community College Chancellor's Office Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative.
Michelle Whitfield, program director of workforce development at Long Beach City College, which is hosting workshops on Thursday, said the outreach program is part of a larger effort between the campuses to create a college pathway for minority students interested in science, technology, engineering and math.
The goal is to "expose students to every type of activity we could, (and) every career" in those four fields, Whitfield said.
More than 220,000 homeless children attended California public schools in 2011, according to the Consolidated State Performance Report from the National Center for Homeless Education.
Impoverished students have fewer educational opportunities, and those who are homeless have almost no access to summer programs such as weeklong learning camps at a university.
During their stay at CSULB, the girls from Cabrillo, located on a 26-acre former U.S. Naval housing site that can host more than 1,000 people, will be mentored by engineering students from the university and more than a dozen teachers from the Long Beach Unified School District.
Katie Wallingford, a math teacher at Millikan High School, said she wants to take what she learns during the program and apply it to her teaching.
"What I'm hoping to get out of (this week) is to help students at Millikan go into math and science fields," Wallingford said.
Monday's activities, which included aviation and chemical engineering workshops, provided a good spark. The students were welcomed by Rhonda Hayes, an information technology expert with Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems and an architect with more than 20 years of experience.
Hayes talked about the importance of always learning, developing people skills and learning how to communicate effectively.
To a group of kids who have grown up in a generation accustomed to texting one another in acronyms and abbreviations, Hayes said it is vital to learn how to convey thoughts clearly, with good grammar.
Reading widely, from mystery novels to technical manuals, is one of the best ways to develop one's communication skills, Hayes said.
"I want to encourage you to read anything you can get your hands on," she said.
After checking into the dorms, the students got a quick tour of campus on a walk to the College of Engineering.
Nailah Lewis, 11, said "it's really cool to be in a college dorm."
Lewis is fascinated by the way things work.
"There's so much in the world that's based on engineering," Lewis said. "That's why I want to be an engineering girl. Not a lot of girls are engineers, but I want to be one of them."
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Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014 | 2 a.m.
When Henderson officials explain the city's tenuous finances, they point to their prudent spending cuts in the wake of the economic crash in the late 2000s.
How much do they make?
• $299,223: City Manager Jacob Snow's total compensation has been flat since he started in 2012.
• $267,395: City Attorney Josh Reid's compensation is up 7 percent since he was hired in 2011.
• $221,704: City Clerk Sabrina Mercadante's compensation is up 36 percent since she was promoted into the position in 2010. Assistant City Manager Fred Horvath said Mercadante was hired at a lower salary than her predecessor, then given raises to be in line with other department directors.
By the numbers
• $130,688: The yearly total compensation for the average Henderson city employee, up 5.8 percent from 2009 o 2014.
• 107: The number of Henderson city employees who haven't received a raise since 2009.
How compensation for city employees has grown
• In 2000, employee compensation from the general fund was $74,386,946 and made up 71.3 percent of the city's $104,391,459 general fund spending.
• In 2014, employee compensation from the general fund was $183,616,000 and made up 83.8 percent of the city's $219,085,971 general fund spending.
Why is total compensation growing?
• Salary: The biggest reason for employee salary growth is union contracts that require annual pay raises and cost-of-living boosts, although some city unions did agree to temporarily freeze certain pay raises after the recession.
• Pension: The state has required cities to boost payments that fund employees' pensions. It says those payments are needed to keep the retirement system healthy.
One message that's repeated in the city's presentations and brochures: Henderson reduced compensation by 6 to 11 percent for employees not protected by a union.
The statement is true. But it's also an incomplete picture of what has happened with employee pay. Non-union workers represent only a fourth of the city's employees.
The background
Henderson has long prided itself on being a "premier community." To deliver on that goal, city leaders have chosen to pay higher salaries to attract top employees.
But after the city's revenue fell 18 percent in two years during the recession, the City Council was forced to reconsider its spending practices.
This spring, the city cut hours at its recreation centers and reduced services for seniors. And City Manager Jacob Snow says the cuts won't be enough to maintain the city's premier status.
The city is considering asking voters to approve a property tax increase in 2015 to raise money to pay for the maintenance of basic infrastructure, such as parks, roads and water pipes.
But as the city cuts other services, the share of city spending that goes toward employee compensation is growing.
Why the city's statement is true
In 2009, the city eliminated a retirement benefit, reduced holiday pay and ended car allowances for non-union employees. The cuts affected 508 people, about 25 percent of the total workforce.
City officials limited the cuts to non-union employees because they have more authority to make cuts to staff not protected by contracts.
In the wake of those cuts and others, compensation paid to all city employees dropped 5.9 percent to $232 million in 2009.
Why it's also an incomplete picture
Total compensation across the city has grown 6.8 percent to $246 million over the past five years.
The number of employees in the general fund, the account that pays for the bulk of city operations, has been relatively flat at about 1,400 employees, roughly two-thirds of all staff. But the average employee's salary grew by 3.2 percent, benefits grew by 12.2 percent and total compensation grew by 5.8 percent.
In 2009, the average employee earned a salary of $87,477 and benefits worth $36,018, for a total compensation of $123,495. In 2014, the average employee earned a salary of $90,279 and benefits worth $40,409, for a total of $130,688.
That growth rate is about half the rate of inflation but also comes at a time when Henderson taxpayers are seeing their own incomes fall. Over the past four years, the median household income in Henderson fell by 18 percent to $61,345.
Nevada Policy Research Institute Vice President Victor Joecks, a libertarian critic of government spending, credited the city for making spending cuts. But he added: "It's dishonest to say, 'We cut salaries, we reduced compensation, but we're not going to talk about the increases since.'"
What's next
Assistant City Manager Fred Horvath is leading a study comparing Henderson's pay scale to similarly sized cities.
If Henderson's pay is found to be too high, some non-union workers could see their pay frozen for years.


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I've finally finished a demo version of Peltier Tech Charts for Excel 3.0. This trial version will allow potential users to try the software before they buy a license.
In 2008 I launched my first commercial Excel add-in, Peltier Tech Waterfall Chart Utility. All it did was make waterfall charts. Over the years I made improvements and enhancements to the waterfall chart utility, and I introduced (and improved and enhanced) other chart types. In 2013 I merged them together into Peltier Tech Chart Utility 2.00, and added a bunch of other chart-related features. In 2015 I released a major upgrade, Peltier Tech Charts for Excel 3.0, which extended compatibility to Excel 2016 (including Office 365), allowed the same add-in to be used on Mac and Windows computers, and added features and improvements.
In Excel 2016, by the way, Microsoft has finally introduced their own Waterfall Chart as a built-in chart type, but mine is way better, with more options and features.
All this sounds great, but people want to actually try something before they spend their hard-earned cash. So the demo will have all of the features of the Advanced Edition of the software, and it will work for 15 days after installation. There will be a minimum of notices about the demo status of the software, because those suck.
Of course, making a demo is a huge undertaking. I have to make sure it shows off all the features of the software, but only for a limited time, so I can stay in business. So my demo is actually a beta test of a demo. I need some feedback from serious potential users so I can assess the effectiveness of the demo.
Here's how it will work. The first 15 people who comment below with their email address will get a return email containing a link to the demo. The link will only work once for each user, so don't go sharing it. I'll remove your email address from your post as soon as I respond so you won't risk getting spammed. I would like these testers to install the demo, test it out, and give me feedback, both about the regular features and about the way the demo works. I'm interested in the answers to questions like these: Does being a demo limit the features in ways I hadn't noticed? Does the demo expire when expected? Are the notices helpful and not bothersome? In exchange for this vital feedback, I will offer a $20 discount to these testers, so they will be able to purchase an Advanced license for the price of the Standard.
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I've got the fifteen volunteers to test out the demo. After I get some feedback from these good folks, I'll make the demo generally available.
Edit 2
I've gotten some great feedback, suggestions, and bug reports; most of this relates to the program itself, not the demo version. I've been working furiously to fix bugs and implement other enhancements. Stay tuned.


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VGP – Deputy PM Hoàng Trung Hải on April 1 stressed the importance of early promulgation of a strategy and Master Planning Scheme for the development of renewal energies by 2030 and a vision towards 2050.
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The strategy and scheme will create legal foundation for investors to forge investment in renewal energy projects, particularly wind power ones, said the Deputy PM.
He also asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade to collect opinions from related ministries and agencies for the draft trategy and master planning scheme before submitting these documents to the PM for approval.
Mr. Hải also noted the necessity to focus on specific mechanisms on capital mobilization, business environment, project portfolio, human resources and scientific research in order to create most favorable conditions for increasing the renewable energy exploitation in the national sustainable development process.
The latest survey of renewable energy potentials showed that there are over 1,000 promising sites for mini hydroelectric plants with total capacity of around 7,000 MW.
The country also enjoys vast potentials for the development of solar, biomass, geothermal and tidal energy, according to the Electricity of Việt Nam's recent survey..
As of late 2010, Việt Nam was able to tap around 550 MW of renewable energy that are mainly from mini hydroelectric power plants and biomass./.
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