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Investors have certainly warmed to the latest set of numbers from
The stock is now up around 10 per cent so far this month, is at its highest level in almost a year and is enjoying its longest winning streak since July, 2009.
With a weighting of 9.5 per cent in the major S&P/ASX 200 index that's a big plus for the sharemarket.
What's good for BHP is good for all investors, as the old saying goes.
And that's despite news on the dividend front that might have disappointed some investors.
The miner declared an interim dividend of US59¢ a share, in line with the final dividend for 2013, but the payout fell marginally short of consensus forecasts for US60¢ a share. The dividend was still up 3.5 per cent from US57¢ at the same time a year ago.
On the back of Rio Tinto's increase in dividend of 15 per cent last week, along with OZ Minerals better than expected dividend, hopes were high that BHP might look to surprise with a more substantial gift, but long-term investors will probably note that any increase in the past usually occurred at the end of the financial year.
Capital management under discussion
Maybe investors were also heartened by BHP's statement that it is well placed to extend its strong track record of capital management.
Net debt was a little high at $27.1 billion, but it is forecast to be down to $US25 billion ($27.6 billion) by the end of the financial year.
That's important as UBS's head of resources research Glyn Lawcock notes that BHP's internal target, stated by
He believes capital management would be in the form of an on-market share buyback and after the latest result has maintained his $41.13 price target. The so-called super cycle in commodities is over and so mining companies are concentrating on cutting costs and reviewing their capital expenditure budgets.
But consensus estimates expect mining firms to pay out 37 per cent of earnings in 2014, well below the 60 per cent level of the 10 years prior to 2003 when the commodity cycle began.
Although the overall result from BHP was better than expected, the performance of each division was mixed, with copper a stand-out with better than consensus forecasts by 25 per cent, while the petroleum division was about 9 per cent below consensus and iron ore was in line and coal beat consensus by as much as 22 per cent.
Cost cutting would also have pleased investors who are now looking at resources companies not just for dividends, but also for the management of their expenses.
How times have changed.
BHP said cumulative cost savings now add up to $US4.9 billion, up from $US2.7 billion.
There's never any certainty when it comes to investing and 2014 has already seen some wild swings that should be a warning to investors.
But if the BHP result is any indication, there are also some signs that are positive and investors need to remain focused on the quality of their investments.
When Rio Tinto announced its good result the reaction from investors was muted while the numbers from Oz Minerals weren't as bad as what investors were expecting.
Prior to BHP's result, of the 51 companies that are covered by UBS there were just 13 results saw the share price rise while 11 weren't well received, noted the broker.
Small cap stocks that have surprised investors have done better than large cap stocks but BHP Billiton did its best to change that ratio when it closed the day up 2 per cent.
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During a foreign policy speech at NYU on Thursday afternoon, Vice President Joe Biden did it again.
The Veep, who has a storied history of public speaking gaffes almost finished the speech without incident. Almost.
While speaking about the administration's policy toward Iran policy, he noted it was time "to heed the timeless advice of Theodore Roosevelt… to speak softly and carry a big stick."
He then added, "I promise you, the President has a big stick."
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JIM LEHRER: Several large banks will repay billions of dollars in federal rescue money. The U.S. Treasury announced that today, as it approved the repayments to the TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Jeffrey Brown has our lead story report.
JEFFREY BROWN: The statement from Treasury said 10 banks will be allowed to pay back a total of $68 billion. They received the funds after Congress approved the TARP program last October.
Today's approved repayment list included: JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, U.S. Bancorp, Capital One, American Express, BB&T, Bank of New York Mellon, Northern Trust, and State Street.
Bank officials have complained about federally imposed limits on executive pay and marketing and other curbs.
At a White House event, President Obama welcomed word of the repayments.
U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Now, this is not a sign that our troubles are over. Far from it. The financial crisis this administration inherited is still creating painful challenges for businesses and families alike. And I think everybody sees it in their own individual districts.
But it is a positive sign. We're seeing an initial return on a few of these investments. We're restoring funds to the Treasury, where they will be available to safeguard against continuing risks to financial stability.
JEFFREY BROWN: So far, banks have paid the government about $4.5 billion in dividends on preferred stock they received under the TARP program. That's in addition to the announced repayments of loans.
In all, more than 600 banks have received almost $200 billion in rescue money; 22 smaller banks have already repaid the loans, and many others are pushing to join them.
But at a Senate hearing today, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was asked whether banks will make more loans once they are no longer tied to the TARP.
SEN. DICK DURBIN, D-Ill.: What kind of assurance do you have that these banks that return this money are going to be issuing credit, which was one of the original goals?
TIMOTHY GEITHNER, Treasury secretary: These banks are in a position now where they can make normal business judgments about lending.
It makes it very hard to judge, because you don't know what would have happened in the absence of investments, what lending would have been produced. But I think you're — you have a financial system today that is substantially stronger than it was two, three, six, nine months ago and is in a much better position to provide the credit necessary to help us get through this recession and get back on a growth path again.
Some skeptical of stress tests
JEFFREY BROWN: Still, there are continuing questions. For example, a month after the government completed stress testing of the nation's largest financial firms, Elizabeth Warren, the head of a congressional oversight panel, told lawmakers today that the tests may have been based on an overly optimistic scenario.
ELIZABETH WARREN, chair, Congressional Oversight Panel: What is it you need to worry about here? Well, the stress tests said for 2009 one of the key economic assumptions under the worst-case scenario would be an 8.9 percent unemployment rate. We're now at 9.4 percent.
We recommend that the stress tests should be repeated under more difficult economic circumstances and over a longer time period for obvious reasons. It's way to test it to see how it works. We recommend that the tests should continue as long as the banks continue to hold large amounts of toxic assets.
JEFFREY BROWN: Even banks that repay the rescue loans still have debt guarantees from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and credit lines from the Federal Reserve. And several major banks -- Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America -- are not yet on the list of those eligible to repay TARP funds.
And joining us once again for more on all this is Binyamin Appelbaum of the Washington Post.
Binyamin, first, what were the criteria for deciding whether these banks were strong enough to get out of the TARP program?
BINYAMIN APPELBAUM, Washington Post: There were basically three criteria. The first is, based on the government's stress test, was a determination that the bank had enough money to absorb its likely losses during the rest of this recession.
The second was that, if it repaid the government's money, it would still have enough money to increase lending.
And the third was that it was able to raise money from private investors so that if it...
JEFFREY BROWN: On its own?
BINYAMIN APPELBAUM: On its own, so that if turned out that it didn't have enough money in its reserves, it could go out and replenish those reserves without government assistance.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right, now, I mentioned that the banks' discontent with some of the curbs -- notably, the executive pay was a big part of this. Let's flesh that out a bit more for us. How upset were they?
BINYAMIN APPELBAUM: There was a real concern in the industry that the congressional curb on executive pay, which basically said your top 25 earners are going to be restricted in terms of how much money they could make, that that would affect not just the executives, but the top traders, the top salespeople, the people who really bring the money into the firms, and that those people would be pushed out to other firms that weren't subject to the restrictions, and you'd really see a decline in the profitability of these institutions.
But even more than that, the banks were concerned about what Congress might do next. They said it was really the uncertainty that was plaguing them, the possibility that Congress would come along and impose new restrictions.
Executive pay restrictions
JEFFREY BROWN: You mean on executive pay or all kinds of things?
BINYAMIN APPELBAUM: Executive pay, hiring of foreign workers, perhaps which loans they could make. There have been instances of pressure over particular loans, the foreclosure of a factory that made clothing in the Chicago area. Wells Fargo was placed under pressure by some members of Congress to, you know, go easy on that borrower. There's been a real concern that the government would flex its muscles.
JEFFREY BROWN: To what extent did this become a competitive thing for some of these banks, that is, they want to show that they're in better shape than people think?
BINYAMIN APPELBAUM: There's no questions that for these banks -- and you could hear it today in their statements about this -- they want the world to know that they are strong, that they don't need the government's crutches, that they are able to stand on their own. They really see this as a differentiator, that they can say, "We gave back the money. Our rivals have not been able to do that yet."
JEFFREY BROWN: Of course, that goes to one of the arguments that a lot of people had against letting them do this, right, that it would split the banks into strong and weak?
BINYAMIN APPELBAUM: And that prevailed for a long time. Regulators were extremely concerned about that. The administration was concerned about that.
There was a feeling that, during the worst hours of the crisis, you really wanted to treat the industry as a single unitary block and discourage distinctions among banks.
But we've progressed past that. And there's a feeling now that there's really a benefit to the system to start saying, "These banks are OK. You can have confidence in these institutions, in putting them back up on their feet again."
Some large banks remain weak
JEFFREY BROWN: And that's even though there's -- as I said, there's three big ones, well-known names -- Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo -- that are not strong enough yet, right?
BINYAMIN APPELBAUM: That's right, yes. And they may suffer as a result of this. So it's not just going to be a sense of making the strong ones stronger, but as a consequence we may be making the weaker ones weaker.
JEFFREY BROWN: Now, another argument that's been out there over the last few months as we've been having this conversation and as it's been debated in the White House and Congress is that this allows some of these banks to go back to business as usual while they still have protection on the downside, right? If things go bad, there are still various programs in place that they know they'll be protected.
BINYAMIN APPELBAUM: That's right. It invokes in some minds a comparison with the way that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac used to operate. The government has basically said, "Your profits belong to you, but your risks, should things go horribly wrong, belong to us. We'll be there. We're beneath you."
The government has literally said, "We will not allow our largest banks to fail." That's quite a guarantee. And there's a lot of concern that it enables risk-taking in a way that may not be ultimately productive either for these institutions or for the broader economy.
JEFFREY BROWN: And, as we heard from Elizabeth Warren, still concerns that they have not dealt with the so-called toxic assets, right?
BINYAMIN APPELBAUM: Yes, that's one of the most fascinating things about this is, after months of hearing from administration officials that the key to resolving this crisis was stripping away the toxic assets, the unpaid loans that sit on banks' books, so that they could start new lending again, we're not hearing as much about that anymore.
The government has shelved one plan to help private investors purchase those toxic assets. Another plan has been delayed. There's really much less emphasis on it.
Part of the reason is that the banks hate the idea. They see it as a way to transfer profits from them to those private investors. They've pushed back against it. And as they get stronger, they've really prevailed in that argument against the experts and even the government officials who think this still needs to happen before the banking system will really return to health.
Concerns over toxic assets
JEFFREY BROWN: But this is what the administration officials say to you when you ask about this? Because you're right. For a long time, this is what they told everybody, that we must deal with the toxic assets.
BINYAMIN APPELBAUM: They say in part that the need for it has diminished somewhat, that the ability of the banks to raise capital from private investors means that they can build the resources to sort of ride this out and to absorb a higher amount of losses.
But, in part, they acknowledge -- at least some of them -- that if they had their druthers, they would force the banks to sell these assets, but they simply don't have the mechanism to do that.
JEFFREY BROWN: Now, how soon would these banks start repaying the money? And what happens to the money? I think we heard President Obama say that it would be available, I guess, what, for other banks that are in trouble?
BINYAMIN APPELBAUM: For other banks or potentially for other programs. One thing we've seen -- so the payments first will come potentially this week, certainly by next week, and will continue to flow in. Some banks have said they'll get the money back to the government really as soon as possible. Others have said they'll take a couple weeks to set things up, figure out which money exactly they want to use to repay the government.
But once that money is back in the government's hands, it will really replenish a rescue program that had been, if not running on fumes, then running low on money. And all of a sudden, that $700 billion that Congress initially allocated to the Treasury Department, that amount of money is going to be -- about a third of it will still be there.
And we've already seen, you know, new programs stretching out into cars, stretching out into, you know, other areas, insurance companies now. It really opens up a lot of horizons for the government. It lets them think about, "Well, do we help state governments, like California? Do we help the municipal bond market? Do we perhaps, you know, work on reviving the economy in troubled areas?"
All of a sudden you've got a lot of money. And when the government has money, it usually finds a way to spend it.
JEFFREY BROWN: And as they were saying today, they're still warning that, while this is good news, still a long way to go?
BINYAMIN APPELBAUM: Yes, they're really underscoring that this is not a sign of economic recovery, that this is something else.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right, Binyamin Appelbaum, Washington Post, thanks again.
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Florida Sheriffs Launch Medical Marijuana Opposition Campaign
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The many opponents of legalized marijuana in Florida have come and gone, defeated with facts and science and the power of the people.
But, like a ferocious hungry hydra looking to devour the movement at every turn, opposition continues to rear its long, scaly talons at preventing medical weed from being legalized.
The most recent -- and perhaps biggest -- opposition to date comes in the form of the Florida Sheriffs Association, which has launched a staunch anti-Amendment 2 campaign called "Don't Let Florida Go to Pot."
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On its website, the FSA put up a "public safety" page, detailing reasons why it opposes the passing of Amendment 2 and linking to different articles that support its concerns.
The FSA is also joining other anti-medical marijuana groups, such as Save Our Society From Drugs, to push the "Don't Let Florida Go to Pot" movement, although it says it's not planning on making it a political thing.
While it does plan on taking donations for the campaign, the FSA's tax status keeps it from outright telling people to vote no on Amendment 2.
So, this is all about "educating" the public while also having something for politicians opposed to medical marijuana as a reputable group to point to in their push to have people vote no in November.
The FSA's Public Safety Page states some shaky talking points, such as saying medical marijuana has no medical benefits, when the opposite has been proven time and again.
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Currently, Marijuana is classified as a Schedule I Drug by Florida Statutes, the U.S. Congress and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Schedule I drugs are classified as having a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment and a lack of accepted safety for use. After decades of research, the Food and Drug Administration continues to reaffirm that there is no medical benefit provided by smoking marijuana and that, in fact, considerable harm can be caused by such use.
Weirdly, the FSA was outspoken about getting the Charlotte's Web bill pushed through, which by definition, has it admitting that marijuana can be medicinal.
"Charlotte's Web," which is a strain of marijuana that has had the THC levels -- the stuff in weed that gets you high -- removed, is used to help children who suffer from a rare form of epilepsy.
The bill passed a Florida House Judiciary Committee earlier this week, which would make it legal to prescribe Charlotte's Web to the kids who need it.
Because, it's medicinal.
In response to the "Don't Let Florida Go to Pot" campaign, United for Care sent out an email blast asking supporters for donations.
"The [FSA] just backed a very narrow strain of medical marijuana usable for epilepsy -- so there is no dispute that marijuana is actually medicine," United for Care Campaign Manager Ben Pollara wrote. "Apparently, they're willing to turn their backs on all of the other patients who are in need."
There was never doubt that Amendment 2 would start to meet serious resistance that went past just the kooks who say dumb things about marijuana.
But the FSA's organized campaign poses a serious threat, which means the fight to get Amendment 2 passed is very much on.
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I spun some more yarn. I've been doing a lot of spinning these days, that is for sure. This was a batt from bohoknitterchic on etsy. It is really fluffy. Like the towels that have been softened in a bounce commerical. Just a simple bulky two ply in all the colours.
Other than that I have been consumed with a need to finish a Color Affection shawl. I am halfway through the third section and I really can't wait to finish it so I can wear it. I have been knitting on it like crazy. It's a great pattern, simple colour changes and shortrows that anyone could tackle. I am possibly considering another, but I need to finish other things first. I am using Malabrigo Arroyo in Borraja, Chircas and Escoria. I am digging it. My goal is to finish it and my Kidsilk Haze Stripe scarf this week. I just finished picking up a dropped stitch about 30 rows down. Ugh. We'll see. I love the colour palette in Arroyo. We got a bunch in at the store the other day and there was not a single colour I did not like. Even the reddy/pinky/orange ones..


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BOSTON (TheStreet) -- In this week's Biotech Stock Mailbag, I write about two stocks I actually like!
@adamfeuerstein What do you think about $ETRM ... I think it has a huge potential ahead.Deepak Dhakal (@therisingdeepak) June 19, 2014
I disagree. If you're interested in an obesity-related stock with big potential, take a serious look at Zafgen (ZFGN), not EnteroMedics (ETRM).
EnteroMedics managed to eek out a lukewarm but positive recommendation from an advisory panel this week. As I cautioned previously, FDA medical device advisory panels tend to be circus-like affairs, so no big surprise VBLOC passed muster despite two failed clinical trials and mediocre efficacy (8.5% weight loss, adjusted for the sham device.) All too often, these panels give the thumbs-up to ineffective devices that are deemed "safe." Fortunately, doctors and insurance companies tend to have higher standards, which is why EnteroMedics' big challenge will be finding any doctor willing to implant VBLOC into their obese patients. Don't count on it.
Let's pivot to Zafgen, which priced 6 million shares at $16 in its public debut Wednesday night. As I wrote in 2012 when Zafgen was still a private company, its lead drug beloranib works in the liver to reset or normalize a patient's metabolism. Obese people, especially those who are morbidly obese, have livers that work overtime converting food into stored fat instead of energy to be burned off by muscle. When these obese patients are treated with beloranib, their livers stop making fat and instead start converting food into energy, like the metabolism of a lean person. This is different from the way drugs like Vivus' (VVUS) Qnexa or Arena Pharma's (ARNA) Belviq work, which is by altering brain chemistry so that obese people feel satiated or have less desire to eat. Beloranib is given as an injection, which makes it less convenient than weight-loss pills, but certainly better than Enteromedics' implantable pacemaker.
The comparison between Zafgen and EnteroMedics is apt because both companies are targeting morbidly obese patients who would be candidates for lap band (gastric bypass) surgery. In a small phase IIa study, belonarib-treated patients lost 10.3% of their body weight, adjusted for placebo, after 12 weeks. EnteroMedics' VBLOC-associated weight loss (adjusted for sham control) was 8.5% after one year. Remember, we're talking about twice-weekly injections (beloranib) versus VBLOC, an implanted device which wraps electrical cords around your vagus nerve and delivers 10-12 hours of zaps per day.
Zafgen isn't really close to advancing beloranib towards an FDA filing for severe obesity. Another phase II study and large phase III studies still need to be conducted. However (and this is important) Zafgen is also developing the drug as a treatment for Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS), a rare genetic disorder which causes patients to become obsessed with food and eating. PWS patients have enormous appetites, and to prevent them from literally eating themselves to death, they have to be monitored constantly. Caregivers must lock cabinets and refrigerators to keep PWS patients away from food.
Beloranib might be an effective treatment for PWS, so Zafgen is planning a phase III study to start later this year. If the study is positive, Zafgen will have a shortcut to FDA approval for beloranib, and in a potentially lucrative and protected orphan disease indication. That's smart clinical development. Zafgen management knows what they're doing. As I said above, Zafgen just went public on Wednesday night and the next round of beloranib clinical trials in multiple indications won't start until later this year. That means the Zafgen story won't play out immediately, but to me, it's the most promising obesity-related therapy out there.


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For 13-year-old Kalpana, the walk to school has always been a difficult one.
Kalpana lives in an economically and socially marginalized community where her father works as a laborer, not generating much income for the family. Because of their economic hardships, Kalpana has never owned a pair of shoes suitable for her walk to school.
Every day, she walks without shoes for more than one kilometer from her home to attend school on a rough road, making it hard to attend school regularly. This is not just difficult physically, but also affects her dignity and self-esteem.
Giving Partner M V Foundation in India gives new TOMS School Shoes — which are locally produced in India — to children to help increase access to education and also safeguard children from foot injuries and infections. The organization believes that access to quality education is a basic right of all children in India. M V Foundation's mission is to keep children out of compromising situations like child labor, and provide them with opportunities to learn and further their education.
TOMS has learned that by providing school uniforms to children — which often include shoes — can increase school attendance by 62% (Evans, 2009). This is why many of our Giving Partners in India distribute TOMS Shoes that meet uniform requirements, enabling children to attend school regularly.
After receiving her new shoes from M V Foundation, her father shares that
"Despite our economic situation, Kalpana is eager to attend school" and that "she is determined to continue her education, and these shoes have motivated her even more."
Now, Kalpana wears her shoes with pride, and is able to attend school regularly.
One Day Without Shoes is on April 29. This year, take off your shoes to raise global awareness for children like Kalpana and access education. To learn more visit, One Day Without Shoes.


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A PhD or Doctor of Philosophy is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities. Once one attains a PhD he or she may often be referred to as a doctor.
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Joss Whedon has shaken off the shackles of Wonder Woman and finally gotten over the failure of Firefly and is returning to TV with a new show, although where he's decided to place it is open to debate. The show is Dollhouse, and the place is FOX. It's one of those shows with a high-concept premise that wows, and it'll premiere sometime in 2008 with Eliza Dushku fronting it. FOX has already given Whedon a seven-episode commitment, and expects to shell out between $1.5 million to $2 million per episode. Again, I'd have prefer it if Whedon didn't go into business with FOX again, after how the network killed his Firefly show a few years ago. But hey, if Whedon doesn't mind what they previously did to him, who am I to get my boxers into a bunch over it?
More about Dollhouse from EW:
[The show] will chronicle the exploits of a group of individuals who are "imprinted with personality packages" — meaning that they can assume a variety of indentities (language skills, physical talents, memories, etc.) to be used for all types of tasks. When these missions are over, the individuals have their memories erased and reside in a guarded laboratory known as the Dollhouse; Dushku's Echo, however, is slowly coming of consciousness.
"We call it a suspense-drama-mythology-comedy-action-horror musical," Whedon half-jokes of the show, which will bend and blend genres in typical Joss fashion. "The main thrust is the thruline of Echo as a sort of newly born character who goes, 'Wait a minute — I exist. Wow. So who would I be? And how dangerous is it for me to let anybody know that I know that I exist?' Not unlike the Frankenstein myth, it's, 'Who made me, who am I, and why am I?'"
I'd watch it. Then again, I'd watch pretty much anything with Eliza Dushku, who, for my money, was the hottest vampire slayer that ever slay vampires.


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Course details
Module One: Opening and Closing PowerPoint
- Opening PowerPoint
- Understanding the Interface
- Using Backstage View
- Creating a Blank Presentation
- Closing PowerPoint
Module Two: Working with Presentations
- Saving Files
- Opening Files
- Closing Files
- Creating a Presentation from a Template
- Using the Recent List
Module Three: Your First Presentation
- Adding Text to a Slide
- Adding Slides
- Using a Content Placeholder
- Using the Slides Tab
- Adding chart slide
- Adding Smart Art & Table slide
- Charts
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Module Four: Working with Text
- Using Cut, Copy, and Paste
- Using the office clip board
- Using Undo and Redo
- Finding and Replacing Text
Module Five: Formatting Text
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- Changing the Font Color
- Changing Character Spacing
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Module Six: Formatting Paragraphs
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Module Seven: Advanced Formatting Tasks
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Module Eight: Customizing Slide Elements
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- Changing Your Pointer
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Dr. Max Weinreich of Vilna, one of the leaders of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, arrived in this country on the Stuttgart to particpate in the international seminar on the effect of modern culture upon personality, which is to be held at Yale University.
Dr. Weinreich will spend a year in the United States. This is his second visit to this country, his first having taken place in 1929.
He will attend the convention of the American section of the Yiddish Scientific Institute which will take place this week-end at the Central Plaza auditorium.
Dr. Weinreich was wounded in the anti-Semitic riots which took place in Vilna last November.
The Yiddish Scientific Institute convention will be addressed in addition to Dr. Weinreich, by Ab. Cahan, editor of the "Jewish Daily Forward;" Dr Chaim Zhitlowsky, Jewish publicist, and S. Niger and B. Z. Goldberg, Jewish writers.


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What Great Bosses Know about True Motivation
Now, more than ever, I'm asked for tips on motivation. Managers want to know about motivating staff in the face of layoffs or salary reductions, motivating their youngest or oldest employees or motivating a new team.
Here's the first thing to understand: bosses don't provide motivation. They help people motivate themselves. And it takes more than a simple reward and punishment approach. That's the message many good management scholars have written about for years, and which author Daniel Pink reinforces in his new book, "Driven: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us." He cites research into what's called self-determination theory, which:
Come on, you might be thinking -- you're not a shrink, you're a manager. And you've seen the good old carrot and stick approach work at times. Yes, at times it might, but its effectiveness is limited. That's why great bosses have a more sophisticated tool kit. And while they aren't psychologists, they pay attention to what makes people tick.
So, for those who want to master their understanding, here are 10 insights about true motivation (with lots of links to additional reading and resources):
- Fighting for fair pay for your staff is important. But do so because the absence of it is de-motivating and unjust, not because money turns people into smart self-starters. It just doesn't work that way. Don't confuse loyalty and morale with motivation. They may influence each other, but each has its own drivers.
- The most powerful motivation comes from within each person (intrinsic motivation), not from outside forces like rewards and punishments (extrinsic motivation).
- Competence is an intrinsic motivator. It feels good to do things we know we do well, so people gravitate toward their strengths. Bosses can fuel this with feedback that reinforces what they're doing well and why, and by assignments that play to their strengths.
- Progress is an intrinsic motivator. That's why "stretch" assignments can be great motivational tools when presented properly by managers. "This is an important project and though you've never tackled something this big before, I believe you can do it and I'll have your back" can ignite a person's internal engine.
- Mastery is an even greater motivator. When a person proudly becomes the go-to person on a topic or skill, their intrinsic motivation is amped up. Managers can craft training and feedback strategies for staff members to help them achieve mastery in some aspect of their work. In today's business parlance, managers are helping employees "build their brand."
- Autonomy -- a sense of control and independence -- fuels intrinsic motivation. That's why great bosses don't micromanage. They know how to convey their expectations and give people maximum latitude on how to reach those goals.
- Meaningful work is intrinsically motivating. Ask any volunteer for a good cause. Ask any journalist who's covered a big story. But great bosses help people see and feel the meaning in all sorts of work, from the most mundane to the most heroic. I think this is a huge area of opportunity for bosses, who may shy away from what they think is corny conversation. But understanding and reminding people of the positive impact of their work is a powerful and motivational tool and can also improve collaboration across groups.
- Fear can be a motivator when it represents fear of letting others down, not fear of being screamed at. The former comes from an inner value of teamwork and collaboration, the latter from the basic human impulse to avoid pain. Managers who believe humiliation is a motivator generally motivate people to look for better managers. Great bosses deliver criticism constructively.
- Intrinsic motivators are augmented by other factors. Personality preferences, culture and life experiences can all contribute to what drives each person. Some prefer working in teams, others solo; some like public praise, others private; some people love industry awards, others care little about them. Here's a Work Satisfaction Survey I developed that might help you.
- While there are a variety of common intrinsic motivators, every individual is different. Managers need to understand each person's prescription for motivation. Great bosses nail this one.
Great bosses also understand the difference between motivation and manipulation. Do you? I'll explain in today's podcast: "What Great Bosses Know about True Motivation."
Poynter's "What Great Bosses Know" podcast is sponsored by The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. You can download a complete series of these podcasts free on iTunesU. Poynter's leadership and management expert Jill Geisler shares practical information on leadership and management that's valuable for bosses in newsrooms and all walks of life.


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De Niro, Keaton, Heigl and Seyfried to star in GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM
Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Katherine Heigl and Amanda Seyfried have joined the indie comedy Gently Down the Stream. The film will be written and directed by Justin Zackham (The Bucket List). De Niro and Keaton play "a long-divorced couple who, for the sake of their adopted son's wedding and his biological mother, pretend they are still married. They quickly learn that acting the part isn't easy, especially when their past, present and future unravel for all to see."
Zackham's Two Ton Films along wiht Clay Pecorin will produce with Richard Salvatore and Harry Ufland. Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort and Trevor Short are serving as executive producers. Lerner's Nu Image/Millennium Films will be selling foreign rights to the film, which will be retitled "The Big Wedding" overseas.
Here is what Zackham had to say about the project:
"I'm excited to be able to continue what we started with on The Bucket List - iconic actors in a funny, adult, character-driven story, albeit with a little more sex and bad behavior on everyone's part. Nu Image/Millennium has been a great partner and I'm honored to have such an amazing cast."
Here is what Lerner had to say:
"Working with Diane and De Niro again will be great. Katherine and Amanda are young talented actors. It is good casting. Justin's script is well written and he is the right choice to direct. It is going to be warm-hearted funny film."
This film marks the third time that De Niro and Keaton have been together on screen. They last starred in Marvin's Room and The Godfather Part II. The film sounds like a perfect fit for everyone involved. Keaton seems to gravitate toward these films. De Niro works well in comedy so I am excited to see what happens.
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Sarah Hyland loves creating glitzy gowns
Sarah Hyland often sketches dress designs and sends them to designers with the hope they will create it for her.
In a bid to combine her love of drawing and fashion the Modern Family actress often designs her own gowns for red carpet events. At the Emmys in Los Angeles last month she arrived in a stunning emerald CH Carolina Herrera dress which she had come up with herself. She admits to feeling nervous when waiting for a response from designers on whether they approve of her ideas.
"For the past two years I've co-designed my Emmy dress," she told the latest edition of British magazine InStyle. "The first year was with Christian Siriano, last year was with Georgina Chapman of Marchesa and I've co-designed again this year. I love sketching dresses that I think would be good for the Emmys, then I send them off to designers and hope and pray they like what I've drawn and want to collaborate."
The 22-year-old star models various eyeshadows for the accompanying photoshoot in the magazine, with make-up artist Andrew Gallimore creating looks such as a fade to grey and purple haze.
Sarah enjoys using new products and feels confident wearing a dramatic look. However, when it comes to life outside of work the brunette beauty likes to keep things simple.
"I love trying new make-up but on a daily basis I stick to moisturiser - sometimes tinted moisturiser - mascara and a bit of concealer, because you can't have dark circles showing up!" she laughed.
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Missy Ott of Bunny Hop Central Rescue will present "She's Not A Toy," an education program about the care and feeding of pet rabbits, at 2 p.m. at the Tarpon Springs Library, 138 E Lemon St. The program includes a Q&A and live rabbits. Call (727) 943-4922.
Celebrating rock 'n' roll: The musical group Sha Na Na will perform at 2 and 7 p.m. at the Largo Cultural Center, 105 Central Park Drive. $40 VIP, $35 advance, $40 day of show, $32 senior. Call (727) 587-6793.
All about quilting: Quilters Crossing Quilt Club will meet 10 a.m.-noon today, April 8 and April 15 at Palm Harbor Community Center, 1500 16th St. Call (727) 812-7205.
Summer camp info: The public will have a chance to ask questions, complete paperwork, purchase ID cards, meet staff and enjoy a picnic dinner at the City of Dunedin Parks and Recreation Department's summer camp open house 4-8 p.m. at Dunedin Community Center, 1920 Pinehurst Road. Call (727) 812-4530.
Play in the round: Clearwater Christian College's drama department will present The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis at 10 a.m. today and 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 3400 Gulf-to-Bay Blvd., Clearwater. $10 general admission, $8 seniors, students, alumni and military. Call (727) 726-1153 or e-mail email@example.com.
Fresh and healthy: The Oldsmar Downtown Fresh Market features foods and goods from a variety of vendors 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesdays through the end of April at 100 State St. W, next to City Hall. Call (813) 749-1260.
Afternoon bingo: Doors open at 11 a.m. and bingo begins at noon Wednesdays at St. Alfred's Episcopal Church, 1601 Curlew Road, Palm Harbor. All paper games in a smoke-free hall. Benefits St. Vincent de Paul soup kitchen. Call (727) 518-5238 or (727) 252) 4381.
Clearwater Farmers Market: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Wednesday along the 500 block of Cleveland Street, between Fort Harrison and Garden avenues, and features items including farm-fresh produce, bakery products, seafood, flowers, honey, cheese and more. Music from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free two-hour parking with validation at Garden Avenue garage. Call (727) 461-7674 or visit www.clearwaterfarmersmarket.com.
Plumb House Museum: The Clearwater Historical Society offers tours of the historic Plumb House Museum, featuring a variety of antiques and vintage items such as uniforms and photos of the Clearwater Bombers champion men's softball team, 8:30-11:30 a.m. the first and third Thursdays of every month and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays through May 2. The two-story, cracker-style wood house is at 1380 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., Clearwater. Free, but donations welcome. Call (727) 446-2676, (727) 399-1412 or (727) 445-9312.
The Opera Prelude Series: Faust will be presented by host Sherrill Milnes, providing an educational and entertaining overview of the grand operas in the 2008-09 Opera Tampa season featuring the voices of the Opera Tampa Apprentices. Tickets $15, center members $13, $10 students. Call (727) 942-5605 or visit tarpon arts.org.
Learn about law: The Clearwater Bar Association will host "People's Law School," a weekly series on legal topics of interest to the public, 7-9 p.m. Thursdays on the Clearwater campus of St. Petersburg College, 2465 Drew St. Sessions are free; no registration required. For a complete class schedule, call (727) 461-4869 or visit www.clearwaterbar.org/law.html.
Play cards: Four decks of cards and four players are all that's needed for double-deck pinochle 12:30-3:30 p.m. Thursdays at Highland Recreation Complex, 400 Highland Ave., Largo. Adult/seniors. Cost is 75 cents for members; $4 nonmembers. Call (727) 518-3018.
Genealogy help: Members of the Caladesi Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, are available to assist the public with genealogy research 1-3 p.m. Thursdays at Dunedin Public Library, 223 Douglas Ave. No appointment necessary. Call (727) 733-5383.
Harvest Marketplace: Browse items including produce, crafts, specialty foods and jewelry 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Thursday through April in Ulmer Park, 301 West Bay Drive, Largo, with live music, themed events and activities for all ages. Call (727) 587-6740 ext. 5014.
Buy fresh: Safety Harbor Farmers Market features farm-fresh produce, local fruits and vegetables, honey, flowers, fresh seafood and more, 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. every Thursday at the Gazebo on Main St. in Safety Harbor. Call Bob Fernandez at (727) 461-7674.
Exhibit opening: The Art of Pastel, a juried show with multiple exhibitors, opens with a reception 7-9 p.m. at the Tarpon Springs Cultural Center, 101 S Pinellas Ave. Free. Call (727) 942-5605.
Free movie: See the film Brigadoon, starring Gene Kelly, at dusk in Pioneer Park, corner of Main Street and Douglas Avenue, Dunedin. Call (727) 298-3201.
Fish fry: American Legion Post 7 hosts a fish fry 5-8 p.m. with live music at 7 p.m. every Friday at 1760 Turner St., Clearwater. Proceeds help support the troops. The post also accepts old cell phones and flags for proper disposal. Call (727) 442-5293.
Friday night fun: 5 to 8 p.m. every Friday at American Legion Post 119, 130 First Ave. SW, Largo. Seafood or chicken dinners will be available. Cost is $6.50. Bill Johnson and his karaoke machine will entertain from 7 to 11. Call (727) 584-2038.
Afternoon bingo: Early-bird bingo begins at 12:15 p.m. and regular bingo starts at 1 with wild numbers and fun games every Tuesday and Friday at American Legion Post 275, 360 Wilson St., Dunedin. Lunch will be served. Call (727) 733-8153.
Dunedin's Green Market: Open 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fridays until the end of May in Pioneer Park, at Main Street and Douglas Avenue, and featuring produce, cheeses, seafood, plants and herbs, honey, organic products and more. Call (727) 733-4215.
Writers group: Writers of all skill levels interested in getting published are invited to join the Writers Critique Group that meets 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Friday at the Tarpon Springs Public Library, 138 E Lemon St. Call David at (727) 942-9540.


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Plasma Levels of GDF-9 and GDF-15 in Patients With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified July 2012 by Ankara Education and Research Hospital.
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
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The purpose of this study is to determine the plasma levels of GDF-9 and GDF-15, and their association with bone and cardiovascular parameters in patients with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
|Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- The association of GDF 9 AND GDF 15 with bone and cardiovascular parameters in women with polycystic ovary syndrome
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|Idiopathic hirsutism
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- Female patients at ages 25-35 diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome and idiopathic hirsutism
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- acute infectious disease, a thyroid, pituitary, nutritional, inflammatory, hepatic, renal, or neoplastic disorder; history of cardiovascular disease or pulmonary embolism; a family history of coronary artery disease; smoking history; hypertension; diabetes mellitus; use of oral contraceptives, anti-androgens and drugs known to interfere with cytokine release, such as corticosteroids, immunosuppressors, or nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs.
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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Pathologic Processes
Ovarian Cysts
Ovarian Diseases
Adnexal Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Gonadal Disorders
Endocrine System Diseases
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Ahead of tonight's secretive Sony event, gaming experts have been speculating about the future of the PlayStation - BBC
the BBC's report on today's event.
its known in the uk that there will be a sony press conference today. it is known.
BBC experts? LMAO! Useless lame article waste of time! get back to ur propaganda brainwashing on so called "war on terror" new!
Yeah, they're experts:
'By the end of 2012, 100.2 million Wiis had been sold compared to 79.2 million Xbox 360s and 75.2 million PlayStation 3s, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.'
WTF is a gaming expert? I play games 20 hrs a week. I'm an expert too.
Im betting they will mostly showcase Gaikai and tease the ps4, im pretty sure the full reveal might be on E3, i hope im wrong :) We will see an army of angry keyboard warriors if not lol


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Wedding customs in Nepal vary according to ethnic groups and castes. Especially country like Nepal, have different kinds of wedding ceremonies because we have varieties of cast and creeds. Weddings in the metropolitan have parades or car for the wedding processions; full fledged band instruments such as trumpets and trombones, ferry lights all over the house which is naturally more expenses. These weddings are completely different from the traditional remote village weddings. They are very simple for very rich in culture.
Wedding in Nepal is a multi day event, which may engross an entire village. In its essence, it reveals the very strong social and communal values of the Nepali people. Few things in Nepali culture take precedence over a wedding and most people treat the time as the opportunity of a lifetime and a time to hold back and celebrate with varieties of foods, fun and dancing. The traditional Nepali wedding is one of those experiences to gather. As mentioned earlier, wedding customs in Nepal vary according to ethnic groups and castes we have tried to cover all most all different tradition as follows.
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Thoughts on the U.K.
Posted: Dec 4, 2007 9:19am ET
I haven't been to the United Kingdom since the new smoking laws went into effect. I had read about those laws, and couldn't quite register that smoking in public had been virtually outlawed across the country—in the bastion of cigar-smoking, you can no longer smoke. I just couldn't believe it.
But I was at a dinner dance on Saturday night, and a friend of mine who had just been to see Edward Sahakian at Davidoff in London gave me a present from him. Gee, I'm getting paranoid. I don't even feel like telling you all what it was…I won't get specific. It was just a nice smokeable present from across the Florida Straits!
My friend began telling me about how hard it had been to find a place to smoke in London. None of the old haunts allow it, not even the private men's clubs. And while you can smoke in tobacco shops, it is basically limited to cigars that you purchase there. Technically, you can't walk in off the street with a lit cigarette or cigar and smoke that tobacco product in the shop.
My friend said that there are a few places, the Lanesborough being one, where they have a patio that they have outfitted with heaters and umbrellas (both rather necessary in London), and since it is outside, you can smoke there. And, he had heard of a few other places where the same kind of arrangements were being made. There won't be many. Again, not to make a big deal about the weather, but London is not a place known for hanging out on patios.
I could only respond with disbelief. I then said what I still believe to be true. The pendulum will swing back someday. It may not be tomorrow. It may not be next year. Slowly but surely, the realization that cigar-smoking, at least, is an adult pleasure and an adult choice that people choose to do with a full understanding of the risks. What our governments need to start recognizing is that they are denying us all the intangible benefits that come from a sharing a cigar with friends and colleagues.
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Jorge Armenteros Princeton, NJ December 4, 2007 7:57pm ET
Amen Gordon. "the pendulum will swing back someday"... the hysterical response to such a precious product, art, and traditions will have to end... through education and enlightenment.
Free Trial User December 5, 2007 11:05am ET
Unfortunately, I doubt it. Few public health measures are ever repealed. Seat belt laws haven't gone away. Blood-alcohol limits don't head back up. Motorcycle helmet laws are a rare exception. But with smoking on a long, slow decline, there's no one willing to fight much anymore.
Mike Meyer Chicago December 6, 2007 4:54pm ET
Gordon,the only thing more unfortunate with the state of the smoking world is my belief that the pendulum will not swing back. I don't believe this is a trend but rather a beginning.
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One of the biggest questions facing the Detroit Pistons this offseason was what they would do with Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. On Friday, they replaced him.
The Pistons traded forward Marcus Morris to Boston in exchange for guard Avery Bradley and a second-round draft pick in 2019. Bradley's arrival gives the Pistons a replacement for Caldwell-Pope, who had been a restricted free agent. Detroit has now renounced the rights to Caldwell-Pope.
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Commentary: Just How Independent Are These "Lead Directors"?
In February, Kohl's Corp. did something many boards are doing these days: It designated a presiding director to convene meetings of the board's outside members. After a wave of corporate scandals, companies are seeking ways to reassure shareholders. The presiding or lead director, who's supposed to be independent of management and able to ferret out information, is one response.
There's just one problem: Some lead directors seem to have as many ties to management as to shareholders. Consider Kohl's choice. For 34 years, William S. Kellogg worked at the Menomonee Falls (Wis.) department store chain, ultimately rising to the position of CEO before relinquishing the title in 1999. For a decade, he worked alongside the man who would replace him as CEO, R. Lawrence Montgomery. As presiding director, Kellogg's job is to advocate for Kohl's independent directors, yet under proposed New York Stock Exchange rules he doesn't qualify as one. Kohl's and Kellogg declined to comment.
In the post-Enron era, companies have rushed to appoint lead directors as part of a bigger effort to shore up governance. Most, including Alcoa, Dow Chemical, and Intel, have chosen directors free of ties to management and with longtime board experience. With the memory of so many spectacular board failures, from Enron to WorldCom, still fresh, there's no doubt that overall, directors have become more proactive. Dozens of boards, for example, trimmed or eliminated bonuses for poorly performing CEOs in 2002. Sidney Taurel at Eli Lilly & Co. volunteered to cut his pay to $1 after Prozac sales fell off following patent expiration, and the board gave him nothing else except for 350,000 (now underwater) options.
Still, at some companies, reform seems to be more about appearance than substance. A strong lead director should help to head off crises and help the company weather those that are inevitable. But that's only possible when he is truly independent of the executives he's charged with governing. When he's not, his presence may actually stifle debate and result in what Eleanor Bloxham, president of the Corporate Governance Alliance, a consulting firm, calls "the unquestioned status quo."
Nobody demonstrates the pitfalls better than Frank E. Walsh, former lead director of Tyco International Ltd. Under disgraced CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski, Walsh chaired the compensation committee and controlled two companies that did substantial business with Tyco. He also received $10 million -- plus $10 million more for a charity -- for orchestrating Tyco's disastrous 2001 merger with CIT Group Inc. For six months, Walsh kept the payments secret. When they were disclosed, the company lost nearly $17 billion in value in a single day. Walsh resigned from the board, pleaded guilty to securities fraud, and agreed to repay the cash plus penalties.
Despite that grim example, other companies have opted for less-than-independent lead directors. At Walt Disney Co., the law firm of former Senator George J. Mitchell (D-Me.) has received $2.5 million in fees from the company since 2000, and Mitchell himself has had a $50,000-a-year consulting contract -- financial ties that were severed in 2002. Disney said the board found Mitchell "independent by any measure," and Mitchell maintains that he "always felt completely free to express [his] views."
At Home Depot, Invemed Associates LLC, an investment bank run by lead director Kenneth G. Langone, underwrote $500 million in company notes in 2001 and until 2002 received $100,000 a year in consulting fees. Home Depot says Langone no longer has "any material relationship" with the company and meets the NYSE's proposed independence rules, while Lagone says his long-standing financial ties to the company haven't compromised his independence.
The predicament for many companies is that the best lead director candidates -- those with lots of experience and a rapport with both management and the board -- are the same directors who, in a less governance-obsessed age, developed financial ties to their companies. They may be capable of acting independently. But for the title to mean anything, they must hold themselves to a higher standard of independence -- and hold management at arm's length.
|Corrections and Clarifications While William S. Kellogg does not meet the New York Stock Exchange's proposed standard for director independence, the NYSE proposal contains a provision allowing current directors who don't meet the standard to be grandfathered in during a transition period.
By Louis Lavelle
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Hey everyone! I'm Amanda from Every Creative Endeavor and I am so excited to be here today for Creativity Week! Kim and I started blogging around the same time so it is always fun to be here and post a little something on her blog! Today I thought I would spread a little Christmas Cheer with a super easy project!
I was browsing the Pottery Barn website looking for some inspiration when I saw this:
It is darling – only, it comes with a price tag of $149.00 – that is not so darling so I decided I would make my own!
I love these letters from Hobby Lobby so I decided I would use them for my wall art. They are $2.99 each but I got them on sale for 50% off! (of course!!) so I spent $6!
I set them up the way I wanted them and then hot glued the parts that touch together –
I flipped it over and added a bracket so I could hang it up if I wanted too –
Then using my staple gun I stapled the letters together. It worked perfect for the spots where just a little bit of the letters were touching.
I then used Krylon's Stainless Steel Spray Paint and sprayed the whole thing. The can of paint was $8 but I used a 40% off coupon and got it for about $5!
The PB's is bronze but I don't have a lot of bronze in my Holiday décor so I chose a shiny silvery color instead – I am so glad I went with Silver – I love it!!
Throw in some Christmas red and green and it looks perfect!
Not bad for $11!! and it's even a color that goes with my décor! You gotta love that! It's been fun sharing my project with you! I'd love if you would stop by and see what else I have been working on! I also have a giveaway going on right now for the Creative Carousel Collaboration with Three prize packages worth over $150 each! Some of my other projects include:
Thanks again Kim for letting me be apart of Creativity Week!
Thanks for stopping by today Amanda! I'm loving this and it looks really easy. Maybe I need to add this to my mantle decor!


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She wasn't quite ready for that jelly. Kelly Rowland opened up about her post-baby body and lamented about getting stretch marks and cellulite after welcoming son Titan Jewell — who she shares with husband Tim Witherspoon — in November 2014.
The "Bootylicious" singer, 35, appeared in Allure magazine's new video series "Pretty Powerful," during which she spoke candidly about the physical effects of becoming a mother.
"I wish that someone would invent something to take away stretch marks and cellulite," Rowland said with a laugh, as seen in the nearly 4-minute clip above. "If you don't have stretch marks and cellulite after you had a baby, I really don't like you. It's just not fair."
She added: "[Giving birth] challenged and changed the way I looked at my body."
Despite her apparent wish to reclaim her pre-pregnancy physique, the Destiny's Child alum told Allure that she started to feel her most confident after entering her 30s. The Grammy winner believes her newfound self-assurance has been instrumental in helping her come to terms with her physical transformation.
"When I made 30-something happen, I just felt this click of everything kind of falling into place, and really feeling comfortable in my skin ... feeling myself," she explained.
Though she always puts her family first, Rowland touted the benefits of self-love while filming the video segment: "If you can't take care of yourself, you don't have anything else to give to anybody else. So I'm my No. 1."
"You're making your schedule for your baby, your husband, and where do you fall into place?" she continued. "I was like, 'I have to give something back to myself first before I can give anything to anybody else.' I truly believe in that."
Still, the Chasing Destiny star finds joy in looking after and spending quality time with her little one. "I try hard to make time each day for just me and Titan to connect," she told Us Weekly in August 2015. "A lot of days that is naptime. I can close the bedroom door, turn on some music and just be with him. I also love reading to him and definitely putting him to sleep. It's one of the times I feel the most connected to him."
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Do the Math
I recently fielded a call from a publisher whose books have never (at least as far as either of us could tell) been reviewed in the Magazine, although they have received some good (and bad) reviews in the Guide. It was not a phone call that could end happily, as our premises (his that the HB deliberately snubbed his books, mine that we didn't) were unmovable and mutually exclusive.
The long answer as to why any particular book was not reviewed is that the Magazine is extremely selective, reviewing fewer than five hundred of the several thousand books we receive. (That's the long answer because it invariably provokes a response that the not-reviewed book in question should have been among the five hundred.) If the book is in hardcover, there's a very good chance the book was reviewed in the Horn Book Guide, thus often providing a print source for the short answer: sorry, we didn't like it all that much. But, on top of the five hundred books recommended by the Magazine are around 1600 more that get wholly positive reviews in the Guide each year. Frequently, those are your Jennifer Weiners: perfectly respectable books that no one needs to be ashamed of reading (or writing) but that don't command extended review attention, at least not from us. Have we ever simply missed something? Sure--I would rashly estimate that a dozen of those 1600 might have been reviewed in the Magazine had the weather or something been different. That, of course, cuts both ways, as in the case of a starred review of a book that no one can remember a year later.
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Obviously, the writer of that piece has never actually eaten at The Olive Garden.
- 4:19 PM, October 09, 2007
- gail said...
If you keep following links, you'll find that Weiner was responding to an interview with the author of 10th Grade, a book I happen to have read. (It was published as adult fiction, though it sure read like YA to me.) The New York Times did review it, and I happen to have read that, too. However, I don't remember it being a very positive review.
So, it's all kind of interesting Weiner getting her knickers in a twist over being ignored by the NYT when the guy who initiated this response from her wasn't ignored but maybe wishes he had been.
If you go to her blog, you'll find that what she was really upset about was that the poor guy used the term "chick lit."
Clearly I don't have enough to do.
- 7:13 PM, October 09, 2007
- Laurel said...
I felt a *little* sorry for Weiner the first time I read one of her little pity parties.
No disrespect to her work, but I'm sick of her persona. She really does take issue with *anyone* who uses the phrase "chick-lit", and I think she needs to consider how damn lucky she is to ahve such a great career.
I lost respect for her when she had that little battle with Curtis Sittenfeld.
- 9:53 PM, October 09, 2007
- Roger Sutton said...
Which is here: http://jenniferweiner.blogspot.com/2005/06/in-between-unloading-my-galleys-and.html
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Legolas, the untold legend that never was.
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Moral of this comic: board games are dangerous for relationships.
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Esteban Guti?rrez got to grips early with a wet street circuit in Singapore on Friday, with Fabio Leimer, Stefano Coletti and Johnny Cecotto Jr. also looking strong in practice.
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A full-blown thunderstorm had barrelled over Singapore in the hour preceding the GP2 practice session on Friday. With the track still awash with standing water and a light rain still continuing as the green lights came on at the end of pit lane, it threatened to be a potentially expensive 30 minute session in store for the 26 drivers in their first outing on the street circuit in a GP2 car if they chose to be too adventurous or unwary.
Seeking to bounce back from a lacklustre Monza in order to clinch the GP2 team championship title, Lotus GP's James Calado and Esteban Guti?rrez were the first men out on the track. Meanwhile Barwa Addax's Jake Rosenzweig was the first driver to take to a run-off during the session at turn 8, and fortunately he was quickly able to get the car back out onto the circuit. The rest of the field were being notably cautious in the unknown, treacherous conditions and making sure they put safety first at this early stage.
It was Trident's Stephane Richelmi who set the best of the early times with a 2:24.520s which was soon pipped by Johnny Cecotto Jr. in the other Barwa Addax, Stefano Coletti in his second weekend with Rapax and then Nathana?l Berthon in the Racing Engineering car, as the wet tyres did their job by shifting water off the race line and providing more grip with every passing minute. On the next set of runs, Guti?rrez went top with a lap of 2:19.263s: that was beaten a minute later by Cecotto's latest response of 2:18.543s, and Guti?rrez responded in turn with a new effort of 2:17.784s.
Just ahead of the midway point of the session, the top of the timesheet was overtaken by a new wave of challengers led by Coloni's Luca Filippi, whose 2:17.243s was just 0.051s ahead of Fabio Leimer in the second Racing Engineering car. James Calado also nipped in front of Guti?rrez' time as yellow flags came out for a spin by Richelmi at the bridge that thwarted what had looked to be a fast lap for Coletti.
Just before the 20 minute mark, Cecotto returned to the top of the timesheets with a lap of 2:16.360s almost nine tenths faster than Filippi and Leimer who were both taking a pause in the pit lane for some set-up adjustments. That gave Carlin's Rio Haryanto - along with Felipe Nasr (DAMS) one of only two drivers to have raced before in Singapore in any series - the opportunity to briefly go second with a lap of 2:17.222.
A renewed push from Calado then put Lotus GP top with an impressive new benchmark time of 2:15.335s, and Guti?rrez briefly slipped into second place in the standings 0.186s behind his rookie team mate before then peeling off a second from the top time to post an effort of 2:14.339s despite encountering some traffic along the way and potentially improving his time through a section of the track showing waved yellows for a spin off by Caterham's Ricardo Teixeira.
The continued presence of yellows, together with a track that had by now got as good as it was going to at this stage of the day, meant that Guti?rrez' time would not be bested before the chequered flag came out, although Fabio Leimer closed up to within a third of a second of the Mexican's time to finish second in the timings, with Coletti also managing to just pip Calado for third place.
Notably, the two men at the centre of the GP2 championship battle - DAMS' Davide Valsecchi and Arden's Luiz Razia - barely featured during the session, perhaps preferring to play things ultra safe rather than to risk damaging their cars purely for practice session bragging rights. Valsecchi only briefly troubled the lower regions of the top ten before ending up in 14th place with a lap of 2:16.510s over two seconds off Guti?rrez' time at the top, while Razia was even further back in 20th place with a lap of 2:17.524s, over a second off Valsecchi.
The all-important GP2 qualifying will take place at 8pm local time (1pm BST) between Friday's free practice sessions for the F1 cars, with drivers doubtless hoping that conditions will have dried up by the time they have to brave the floodlights.
Both races will take place in the late afternoon daylight: the 34-lap feature event takes place on Saturday at 4pm local time (9am BST) while the 24-lap sprint race on Sunday is at 4.10pm local time (9.10am BST.) Thunderstorms are possible at any point throughout the weekend, which could make things very interesting indeed.
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A little while back we did a post on Corey Webster, bringing attention to the quiet but great job he is doing at cornerback. Pastime and Mitch noted he becomes a free agent soon… The message here is simple: re-sign him NOW before he enters free agency this coming March. The Giants cannot afford to lose this player. I did not like losing guys like Wilson last season because they were part of the answer, not questions. At a certain price, all players ultimately become questions, and the Giants were totally outbid. But the same thing will happen again if Webster goes to the free market. There are other teams out there that will see a #1 CB who has 4 years experience, is 26 (will be 27 the day after free agency starts) and is in the sweet spot of his career. He knows (just as Wilson did) that you only get one good crack at that monster signing bonus and new contract, and this it. Only if you are a Pro Bowler do you get 2+ shots at that nice new fat contract. And speaking of Pro Bowl, what happens if Webster gets voted in this Tuesday? He is playing for the 11-2 Giants, he is playing the second best on defense next to Tuck, so why shouldn't he get the attention and possible selection? If he does, his price is only going to go up. If I am Webster's agent, I am telling him to WAIT until March. If the Giants wait until March they will find themselves $2M+ per year below the market, and Webster will probably choose the market. You only get one crack at the free agency market like this; if the Giants make this mistake, the player should leave and take the money elsewhere. Buy low and sell high.. this is the top of the market for a healthy 27 year old who can cover stars in the NFL. That will be a sad day..If I am Jerry Reese, I want him signed NOW to avoid that scenario.
Summary: We have two pathways, the Tuck blueprint and the Wilson blueprint. Sign Webster now because if he enters free agency it will likely be too late. Reese is smart enough to sign him. Is Webster's agent as smart as Wilson's? For our sake, I hope not.


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New Year announcements
Happy New Year to all, hope everyone had a great New Year celebration.
The first SignOn for current players only will be on Friday the 18th Jan 5pm to 8pm (only players that were registered with Norths for the 2012 season can be signed on, on this evening). The second SignOn for new & current players will be held on Sunday the 3rd Feb 11am to 3pm. (New Players to Norths MUST bring a Birth Certificate to be signed on)
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