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10 Uses for Pillowcases
Pillowcases are a great starting point for home projects, whether your DIY skills are basic or you have none at all. The boxy shape and strong seams make them ideal for a wide range of jobs, from cleaning and organizing to simple sewing...
- In a pinch, a pillowcase makes a great laundry bag.
- In the washing machine, use a pillowcase tied with a knot to protect delicate clothing.
- Store folded sheet sets inside a pillowcase to keep them neat and organized.
- When traveling, pack a pillowcase to separate clean clothes from dirty ones.
- Use a pillowcase to store rags (or rip up an old one to make new rags).
- Sew handles on an old pillowcase to make a reusable shopping bag.
- To make a garment bag, cut a hole in the pillowcase and slip it over a hanger.
- Use a vintage patterned pillowcase to make a skirt for a woman or a dress for a child.
- Make a pet bed from a cotton, linen, or wool pillowcase.
- Use pillowcases to make lined cafe curtains.
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pillow cases are the handiest, aren't they? try this one out for size. we have an elderly cat J.D. (juvenile delinquent) and we slipped a down vest (we found at the thrift store) into a pillow case and she sleeps on it and just LOVES it!
And of course, you can use them to cover a pillow...
Another tip: Use scissors and make two small holes on the inside near the sewn edge. Run a clean shoelace into a hole, and push/scrunch to make it to the other hole around. Athletic white ones work well.) You may have a spare lying around, sometimes new shoes come with extras. Now you have a bag that can be cinched up and tied shut!
You can make skirts and little girl dresses with a pillowcase or two. Just open the tops and fold over and sew, but leave an opening to make a place to pull elastic through for the skirts. If one pillowcase isn't enough, open the side seam and use two for one skirt. On the little girls dresses, do the same for the elastic and add ribbons for shoulder ties!
love and use tip#4 =)
I store yarn in my zippered pillowcases. The cotton allows the yarn to breathe, and keeps wool and silk moths, other insects, cats, and dust and dirt away from the yarn. I also store my winter coat (felted wool) in a zippered pillowcase when it isn't needed.
The best use for pillow cases I have seen is a mattress topper made by sewing 4 zippered pillow cases together into a chain and filling them with millet hulls. At http://openyoureyesbedding.com/ we sell them in canvas, but they really are a great DIY project too. Fill each pillow case with 4 - 5 pounds of hulls (if you can feel the separation between pillows you have overfilled it). Use fine millet hulls in the winter (keeps you warm) and scooped millet hulls for summer (keeps you cool).


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If I cant bring the spoon to my face ILL BRING MY FACE TO THE SPOON
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"Careful, guys! You almost died!"
custom content household came with lie 8000000 babies and I don't know how to handle this. #hailp
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I told my Sim to do the laundry and she opted to wash herself instead.
"Jack, I'm flying!"
"omg mary just sit down pls"
Ride, my noble steed!
This evil little thief came into my sims home, stole their spiral staircase and then began walking down the (no longer there) stairs she had just nabbed!
Come, sit down.
his eyes say 'bedroom', but his hands say 'hospital'
i think this is my favorite glitch. (its sad that with this game there are enough glitches that you can have a favorite)

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- Fall 2011 Award winning work by studentsCreativity International 41st Annual Print & Packaging Awards
- The following four senior-level students were part of the Graphic Design study abroad in Rome, Italy during the Fall 2010 semester when these packaging projects were created.The courses in this program were team taught by my colleague, Cheri Ure, and myself.
- Student Designer, Brianna Dawson: Honorable Mention, Food & Beverage PackagingA set of five distinct but cohesive labels (front and back): Sacred Eye Winery.
- Sophomore-level course where students designed sixteen identical cubes, then created twenty different patterns using the sixteen cubes.
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Vaughn Students Take First and Third Place at LACCEI 2014
July 30, 2014
Vaughn student paper "Aid Device for Deaf Drivers (A.D.s)" by Junghee Lee '14 won the first place award and gold medal during the poster session at the 12th Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI) Conference competition. The third place award and bronze medal was awarded to Mustafa Bhatti '13 for his poster, "Effect of Lamped Mass on the Fundamental Frequency of a Riveted Plate." The conference ran from July 21-24 in Guayaquel, Ecuador.
Vaughn College students and faculty attended LACCEI 2014 where they presented research on a variety of topics. Forty international universities and colleges participated in the poster session competition on Wednesday, July 23. Judges for the competition selected a total of eight finalists out of 45 posters, with three of those chosen belonging to Vaughn students. In addition to the winning papers noted previously, "A Hybrid Plant Care System" by Jefferson Maldonado '16 and Alex Uquillas '17 was also a finalist.
Additional student research presented during the poster session included: "PCM-3500 Automated Powder Coating Machine," by Robert Andersen '14, Michael Nigro '14, Kevin Alarcon '14. The faculty abstract presentation on Thursday, July 24 included Vaughn faculty paper "Effects of Impact Energy on Hybrid Woven Composites." The paper was authored by Dr. Hossein Rahemi, engineering department chair, Dr. Yougashwar Budhoo, professor, Dr. Amir Elzawawy, assistant professor and Khalid Mouaouya, associate professor.
Left, Junghee Lee '14 accepts her award for first place in the student poster session. Vaughn faculty and students gather at awards dinner.
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When IBM's Watson technology isn't winning Jeopardy challenges, it's been talked up as a potential medical assistant,helping doctors diagnose health problems. But IBM also sees Watson as a potential smart personal shopping assistant, helping retailers answer a wide array of consumer questions about products and recommendations.
IBM is at the National Retail Federation Annual Conference and Expo in New York showing off how Watson can help retailers get a lot more intelligent and responsive in dealing with consumers. IBM believes that Watson could serve as a phone customer service line, in-store kiosk or as a resource available through tablet-wielding store clerks. The idea is that consumers will be able to ask all manner of questions about products, trends and recommendations and Watson can come up with an instant answer that pulls from millions of data points, both structured and unstructured data.


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No doubt you've already heard that one of the classic science fiction movies of all time has been remade starring Keanu Reaves. The new movie will release on December 12th, and an extended trailer was released in front of the pilot episode of Fringe. As you can see, there are some changes afoot (not a surprise) although none of them look to be about taking the story back to its roots (the 1951 film is an adaptation of a Harry Bates short story titled "Farewell to the Master".) Enjoy!
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Black Friday shoppers out early this yearBy ANNE DINNOCENZIO
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A crowd gathers as security guards break up a fight between shoppers waiting in line just as the doors open for Black Friday shopping at Target on Thursday night in Bowling Green, Ky.This season appears to mark the end of Black Friday as we know it.
For decades, stores have opened their doors in wee hours of the morning on the day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday. But this year, that changed when major chains from Target to Toys R Us opened on Thanksgiving itself, turning the traditional busiest shopping day of the year into a two-day affair.
That means that shoppers who wanted to fall into a turkey-induced slumber could still head out to stores early on Black Friday. Others could head straight from the dinner table to stores on Turkey Day. And stores were able to attract both groups by offering door buster sales from $179 40-inch flat-screen TVs to $10 jeans at different times of the day.
Sam Chandler, 55, and his wife, Lori Chandler, 54, were a part of the early group. By the time they reached the Walmart in Greenville, S.C. early Friday, they had already hit several stores, including Target and Best Buy. In fact, they had been shopping since midnight.
Weve learned over the years, you have to stand in line early and pray, Sam said.
Stu and April Schatz, residents of Rockland County, N.Y., preferred to get a later start. They went to the Shops at the Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus, N.J., which didnt open until 7 a.m. on Black Friday, because they didnt want to deal with the crowds that show up for openings late night on Thanksgiving or midnight on Black Friday.
Its so much more civilized going in the morning, said April Schatz, a teacher. We wanted to enjoy our evening.
About 11,000 shoppers were in lines wrapped around Macys flagship store in New York Citys Herald Square when it opened at midnight on Thursday. Thats up from an estimated 9,000 to 10,000 shoppers who showed up the stores midnight opening last year.
Joan Riedewald, a private aide for the elderly, and her four children ages six to 18, were among them. By that time, she already had spent about $100 at Toys R Us, which opened at 8 p.m., and planned to spend another $500 at Macys before heading to Old Navy.
I only shop for sales, she said.
Joe Russell was hunting for a great deal on a large flat-screen TV and went to the Best Buy store in Watertown, Mass., shortly after midnight on Friday. But the long line of shoppers gunning for door-buster promotions deterred him from braving the freezing temperatures. So Russell, 47, returned to the store after sunrise and got a different TV for a decent price.
This is the earliest Ive ever shopped, he said.
Elizabeth Garcia, a sales representative from the Bronx borough of New York City, also decided on a later shopping start at about 3:30 a.m. at Toys R Us in New Yorks Times Square.
As a result Garcia, who has three children ages three, five and seven, believes she dodged some of the lines on Thanksgiving when the store opened at 8 p.m.
Thats good news since the crowds got to her last year, and she almost got into a fight over a Tinker Bell couch.
This year I wasnt about to kill people, she said.
Meanwhile, Nicole Page of Bristol, Conn., shopped with her sister at a Walmart in Manchester, Conn., at about 4:45 a.m. on Black Friday out of tradition. Page, who recently finished school and started working as a nurse, bought an electric fireplace for $200 that she said was originally $600. Her shopping cart also had candy canes, a nail clipper for her dog and other stocking stuffers.
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Summary: The search giant has announced unfettered support for one of the world's most popular, and most derided, scripting languages.
If it were possible to bottle hatred of PHP and use it as fuel, many of the world's problems would disappear overnight. But that is fantasy, and the cold, harsh reality is that PHP is extending its tendrils even further across the internet, as Google has opened PHP availability to all comers on its App Engine platform.
Cue the wailing and gnashing of teeth from brogrammers and internet hipsters masquerading as developers.
Prior to today's announcement, developers were able to create and test applications for App Engine in PHP locally, but it needed to be whitelisted by Google in order to be deployed to the search giant's platform-as-a-service offering.
But the mere availability of PHP does not mean that developers and users can simply install a copy of WordPress and use it like any other hosting service. Due to the unique infrastructure behind App Engine, Google has had to develop an extension for WordPress to work with the service.
The complete addition of PHP brings the number of languages supported by App Engine to four, the other three being Python, Java, and Go.
Google recently added Mobile Backend Starter library to App Engine that allows for mobile developers to create a back end for their applications without having to write any back-end code.
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Dan Connolly of the Baltimore Sun joined Mark Zinno tonight to talk some Orioles baseball.
First off, Mark asked Dan his opinion on the Fransisco Rodriguez trade.
"Will he fit in? He's had some problems in the past when he wasn't closing and he's had some run ins with some coaches in the past. Will he fit in?"
Then Dan talked about the Orioles giving up Nick Delmonico to get K-Rod and if they gave up too much.
"This guy is a legitimate prospect. But who knows what he's going to become? And you got a guy that really stabilizes the bullpen.
Dan then talked about Henry Urutia being called up and if he is here to stay.
"He was never going to be called up as a fifth outfielder, he's being as a designated hitter. Things have opened up for him to be the everyday designated hitter."
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There was a time when evil twins were the exclusive preserve of cheesy US soap operas. But these days, they're all over the place. And thanks to Orphan Black and Misfits, there are even more of them than ever.
Okay, not exactly evil twins. But actors playing more than one character at a time. It's pretty common practice, especially in SF shows, to give an actor the chance to stretch their muscles and play a different version of their character (thanks to possession/magic spells/alternate realities etc). But it's less common to have multiple characters played by the same actor at the same time – mainly because of the special effects required to show them interacting.
Here are some of the best multiple roles on film and TV.
5. Tatiana Maslany – Orphan Black
Recently while watching an episode of the surprisingly good Orphan Black, I found myself thinking: 'Oh, that's nice, it's becoming an ensemble piece'.
Except half the friggin' ensemble is played by Tatiana Maslany.
There's one key rule when you're making a show about clones – you better be damn sure that your central actor is bloody good. Luckily, Maslany is excellent (bar a wobbly London accept – but if we can forgive James Marsters, then we can forgive her). How many other actors need to audition as four characters before they get the part? It was impressive enough when all the clones were leading their separate lives, but once Maslany started playing Sarah-as-Alison and vice-versa, that's when things got really good.
Each one of her characters are instantly recognisable, and not just because of their hairstyles. Their body language, accent and tone of voice are all completely distinct. It's a remarkable performance on a scale I don't think we've seen before. Sure, Dollhouse probably had their actors playing more characters than Maslany plays, but they didn't have to act opposite themselves.
4. Joseph Gilgun – Misfits
Gilgun is essentially just playing aspects of the same character, but those aspects are so different that Rudy 1 and Rudy 2 are entirely their own people. And as for the psychotic Rudy 3 – he's something else altogether.
While Rudy 1 is bursting with shambolic charisma, Rudy 2 is timid, uncertain and easily bullied. Rudy 1 seems to be an exaggeration of Gilgun's own funny, rambling nature, but Rudy 2 is a surprising, sweet, loveable portrayal. Even his shuffling gait is completely at odds with Rudy 1's swagger.
Rudy 3, however, was the character that really showcased Gilgun's talents. It seemed impossible for Gilgun to be anything other than likeable until the dead-eyed, terrifying (but still charismatic) Rudy 3 showed up. Filming opposite no-one might be a pain in the arse, but as a demonstration of an actor's skill, it's really second to none.


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Drifting away from people you never expected to drift from. Losing a friend whom you promised you'd never drift from. But the worse part is, that once you drift from them, they'll be out of your life for good. Even though you start talking again like old times, it won't be the same way it was before.
You make it impossible to get to your heart
As soon as I'm close is when you close the door
You're pushing me far away and making it hard
I know what you're going through, been hurt before
So let down your guard, I'll show you love
But you're still running like a rebel without a cause
You make it impossible to get to your heart
I won't cheat on you.
I won't do you wrong.
I won't want to stop talking to you.
I wont want to leave you for anyone else.
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Clinical Decision Support
Computerizing healthcare is expected to be one of the powerful levers necessary for significant transformation in the quality and cost of delivering healthcare. The spur to transformation, the federal government has incentivized healthcare providers to implement electronic health records (EHRs) and improve outcomes by using this technology in a meaningful way. One of the many benefits of EHRs includes the ability to improve care at the point of delivery with a wide variety of tools collectively known as Clinical Decision Support (CDS).
What is Clinical Decision Support?
Clinical Decision Support1 is a process for enhancing health-related decisions and actions with pertinent, organized clinical knowledge and patient information to improve health and healthcare delivery. Information recipients can include patients, clinicians and others involved in patient care delivery; information delivered can include general clinical knowledge and guidance, intelligently processed patient data, or a mixture of both; and information delivery formats can be drawn from a rich palette of options that includes data and order entry facilitators, filtered data displays, reference information, alerts, and others.
1 Improving outcomes with clinical decision support: an implementer's guide. Second Edition. HIMSS. 2011 (in press).
What you'll find in CDS 101
- CDS 101 - promise and the peril of CDS, activities to help you deliver CDS , information on how to successfully solve some of the problems in your practice, information on how CDS fits into an overall plan for improved outcomes, the importance of strong leadership, plus a downloadable C-Suite level presentation that you can customize to use at your organization.
- CDS 101: Scenarios - three scenarios that depict examples of CDS.
- CDS 101: CDS Toolbox - types of tools that are available, including what tools may be most useful for a particular problem, information on potential pitfalls when the wrong tool is selected or does not fit into the clinician's workflow, and key implementation advice, such as understanding workflow and integrating it with the "CDS Five Rights" to insure the intervention has the best chance of improving the selected outcome.
- CDS 101: Current Trends and Case Studies - hot topics in health information technology (HIT) involving CDS. As the national HIT landscape evolves, HIMSS will maintain and update the content to keep our members informed.
- CDS 101: CDS and MU - CDS & Meaningful Use FAQ and resources.
- CDS 101: Resources - more CDS resources
This page is designed to orient clinicians and implementers to some basics of CDS in the form of CDS 101 and also contains information on more advanced CDS topics relevant to the rapidly changing landscape of healthcare technology. Propelled by both the need to improve healthcare and the EHR incentives provided by the federal government, the knowledge of how to apply CDS, the keys to success and how to overcome the barriers is advancing quickly. In addition to the CDS 101 content, the "Gray Tabs" on the side bar represent key topic areas which HIMSS will continue to populate and expand in sync with the evolving changes in CDS.
CDS 101 Contributors: HIMSS CDS Task Force members: Jonathan Teich, MD, PhD, FACMI, FHIMSS, Chair; Jerry Osheroff, MD; Don Levick, MD, MBA; C. Eric Hartz, MD; Anne Bobb, RPh; Bruce Friedman, D.Eng.
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In today's edition of Clevelinks, we continue to examine the state of the Indians roster and what the Indians are planning to do to make it better in 2014. The options are nearly endless between the list of available free agents, the options already in the organization, and any number of possible trades that could be made. Of course, before you can make a move you have to know what you already have. With that in mind, we kick off today's Clevelinks with some good old-fashioned roster rankings.
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- Paul Hoynes of Cleveland.com listed his rankings of the entire 40-man roster. To the surprise of no one, Jason Kipnis and Justin Masterson took home the top two spots respectively. Other players of note were Yan Gomes at #10, Danny Salazar at #15, and Trevor Bauer at #23. Do you agree or disagree with Hoynsie's rankings? Let us know what you think.
The Indians recently activated four players from the disabled list and put them on the 40-man roster. Frank Hermann, Scott Barnes, Lou Marson, and Cord Phelps are finally back and better than ever. Maybe.
- Yan Gomes was given the distinct honor of being named the top defensive player for the Cleveland Indians by Wilson Sporting Goods. It was quite the season for Gomes, who went from trade throw in and minor league depth to full-time starting catcher and defensive player of the year. Not too shabby.
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- Nick Houghtaling profiles Bartolo Colon as a possible option for next year's rotation.
- Is Rafael Furcal a possibility at shortstop if the Indians decide to trade away Asdrubal Cabrera. He missed the entire 2013 season, but might still have enough left in the tank to make an impact.
- Evan Vogel explains why Roy Halladay on a one year deal could be a great signing for the Tribe.
- Brian Heise wonders if the Indians 2013 success could lead to offseason failure.
Indians Analysis:
- Let's Go Tribe presents their list of the top five free agent starting pitchers.
- Indians Baseball Insider asks if Bryan Shaw could be the next Indians closer.
- Can the Indians extend Michael Brantley through arbitration? Did the Tribe Win Last Night asks the question.
- It's Pronounced Lajaway asks if the Indians improved defensive outfield helped improve the Indians pitching staff in 2013.
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AC/DC are among five acts that will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame early next year. Other artists set to be honored are THE CLASH, ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS, THE POLICE, and THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS.The Eighteenth Annual Induction Ceremony will be held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City on March 10th, 2003. VH1 will air an edited version of the ceremony in March on a date to be announced shortly.
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STRASBURG -- The three candidates vying for a Town Council seat in Tuesday's special election all say Strasburg needs to attract more businesses to town.
Steve Nicholson and Edith Wallace have both served on the panel before, while John "Red" Hall Jr. is a political newcomer.
They are competing to serve out the remainder of former Town Councilman Michael Whittle's term, which expires in June 2014. Whittle stepped down from the council last fall to take a job in California, and Carlyle Swafford was appointed to the seat until the Nov. 8 special election.
Wallace, 62, served on the panel from 1996 to 2008. She said she decided to retire from public office after the death of her husband in 2007. She spent three years taking care of him.
"I just couldn't devote my time like I wanted to because I had to take care of him," Wallace said Tuesday. "Now I'm ready to get back into it again because I enjoyed it."
Among the issues the town is facing are the wastewater treatment plant and water plant projects, Wallace said, and attracting businesses.
"We need business here in town," she said. "I would like to see the town of Strasburg get vital again, get some business in there ... and don't turn down anybody who wants to bring business into Strasburg."
Wallace, who is retired from the Department of Social Services, was referring to a Strasburg Planning Commission meeting during which some people felt a man proposing to bring a Popeye's-Papa John's to town was treated poorly.
"You know, that man wanted to build a Popeye's here, but from what I can understand, a couple of the council people did not treat him right," Wallace said. "That's not right. That would've brought some jobs here in town, and we need that."
She also feels the recently passed historic district ordinance is too intrusive.
"We don't need a dictatorship," Wallace said. "If you want to paint purple on the inside, that's your business. That shouldn't be the town's business."
Nicholson, 53, was on the Town Council during the same years as Wallace. He, too, wants to lure more businesses to town.
"I think we need to attract business," he said. "I'm not sure if people on there are looking to do that. We need business. We need commercial and industrial [development]."
Another area of concern is water and sewer, something Nicholson, who works for the Frederick County Sanitation Authority, has "had plenty of experience with." He's also concerned about a proposed property maintenance code.
"I'm not sure about some of the ordinances they've got going now for property ordinances," Nicholson said. "I think some of them are a little bit stepping over the line."
He said his experience would be an asset.
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Hall, 67, said his experience as a working man and a businessman will stand him in good stead if elected.
"I've worked all my life, so I understand the working people," the retired General Electric employee said. "I've also been in business most all my life, and we've been in the rental business in Strasburg for the last 30-plus years. So, I know a little bit of how much people make and how much money is available to be spent by individuals."
Hall is running for election because he wants to keep town spending under control, "but I'm still for growth and things like that and business."
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Seen so much, so many poor to life
Darker life, wrong's only God can right
Think back when I was loose, rolling around
Extra [?], bout to gun something down
Aint care about a rap career cat
You violate I go twist ya bedcap
I'm kinda blessed that night in that club
Nobody died from that slug
I think about the way that I was
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Bout to catch a few bodies, woulda probably caught the chair
First album ya'll woulda never got to hear
I can't believe that I'm here, I should've been buried with my pad
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Suffering all my life
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Close your eyes and turn off the lights
And listen to the words that this author writes
I guess everything happens for a rhyme and reason
Still don't excuse the lying and treason
You could face 100 years in the precinct
Keep your mouth closed, ain't no speaking
When you in the streets, this is how it goes
Police ask you say 'you don't know'
Make sure the witness all follow same code
Death before dishonor 'til they take away your soul
I need to know, how my co-d called witness to sacrifice me
Just so he can get away free, this does not comply with the streets
But he ain't from there, this is not a smear
This is what they fear, the whole truth, I swear
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Man, only wrongs God can right
Look, one thing about me, I was never naive
I might've played dumb to get what I need
But I could see, who was he, nothing ain't surprise me about this creep
Ha, I from the land of the east, all up in the streets
Man mi nuh skin teeth, eyes wide shut shotta don't sleep
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Kept my mouth closed, looked and listened
Learned all the trades of the sharks and fishes
Turn off the lights
Suffering all my life
Wrongs only God can right
I got partners go to jail for bodying?
Get shot, know who shot him? I won't testify in court
This kid got millions, that's how he talks
Should've took that paper, made his soul walk
Talking about he ain't responsible for my actions
Man, if I was yapping the world, woulda knew what happened
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Need a job? Try being a personal assistant!
Ever seen the movie, The Devil Wears Prada? What about Ironman? These movies have nothing to do with one another. But they both give a Hollywood-style glimpse into the life of a personal assistant and the things that come with a personal assistant job description.
Becoming a personal assistant isn't something a lot of people think about. But it's a great job for students. Also for graduates, who are ready to put their degrees to use.
One thing I didn't know until recently:
A personal assistant's salary is nothing to turn up your nose at!
There are executive personal assistants out there making six figures. That's right - six figures!
Of course, they have years of experience. But most jobs pay more with experience. If you decide that becoming a personal assistant is something you're up for, you could end up in the same position.
I'll tell you more about a personal assistant's duties. That might help you figure out if it's something you want to pursue… at least until your dream job comes around.
Personal Assistant Duties
In the simplest definition I can give, a personal assistant is a personal manager.
Just like managers in a store or department managers within a company. Managers keep things running smoothly, so the business keeps making money.
A personal assistant's duty is to do the same for an individual. Most of the time, you're helping a business owner organize his life and/or office.
Specific examples of personal assistant duties include:
- scheduling meetings
- accepting & directing phone calls
- bookkeeping
- personal tasks (laundry, dishes, car maintenance, etc.)
- packing and shipping supplies/products
- monitoring email
- social media management
- and pretty much anything your boss won't have time to do!
Click here and here for examples of tasks personal assistants may be asked to do.
More Responsibility = More Freedom
As you can see, personal assistants work with a high level of responsibility. But don't let that scare you off. Jobs that call for more responsibility are also the jobs where managers won't breathe down your neck every five minutes.
I SWEAR that was one of my biggest pet peeves before I started freelancing. I absolutely hated having those micro-managing supervisors who nitpick about the way you do everything.
Most personal assistant duties are performed away from your boss. As long as you're getting the job done right, you'll most likely enjoy a nice amount of space to do your own thing.
Especially virtual assistants.
Virtual assistants are personal assistants – just online. VAs complete all work using the Internet. Some never come face-to-face with their bosses. That's the beauty of living in the Information Age.
Speaking of… you can find plenty personal assistant jobs online. We'll get into that later. For now, let's talk about a personal assistant's salary.
Personal Assistant Salary
When you start out, naturally you won't make as much as someone who's been a personal assistant for years. But there's still plenty money to be made as a PA.
Students may need to start on a part-time basis. So your job won't interfere with classes.
But whether it be part-time or full-time, I think you'll be pleased with the pay. And if you aren't, don't accept the job. It's that simple.
While you're searching you'll come across some personal assistant job descriptions that include a salary or compensation. Here are a few examples:
(Click each personal assistant job description to be taken to the website to apply.)
As you can see, a personal assistant salary ranges widely. It's mostly dependent on experience.
Students with Office Experience
Back in high school, some of my classmates worked in business offices. Some were receptionists. Some handled the tasks no one else wanted to do – like making coffee, post office runs and copy machine duty.
I even knew a girl who was an office manager in high school.
All of them were in a great position to become personal assistants after high school. A few of them had almost three years of experience in an office environment. I'm sure they could've gotten a decent-paying, PA job.
So if you have some office experience already, this is a great opportunity for you to get paid for it.
You just have to find a personal assistant job description that matches your skills!
How to Locate Personal Assistant Job Listings Online
It's not hard to find personal assistant jobs. Go to any job search engine and type in "personal assistant." Type it with the quotation marks. That brings back results with those exact words, in that exact order.
That means a better chance of finding the right personal assistant job.
Once you have a list of job ads in front of you, just go through and read each personal assistant job description. Like I said earlier, PAs do a lot of things. So each description will be different.
They're like snowflakes. None are the same.
Use the Personal Assistant Job Description to Get the Job
So here's the fun part. Once you've decided to become a personal assistant, you'll have to apply for jobs. I'm giving you my #1 tip for getting ANY job:
Read the job description. Then tell the employer what (s)he wants to hear.
That means you need to read the personal assistant job description thoroughly. Make sure you understand everything they're asking for. If you don't, you may not need to apply for that specific job.
But if you're confident that you can deliver, here's what you do.
Update your resume to reflect the same skills and strengths that the personal assistant job description asks for.
For example, let's say a potential employer was hiring for a personal assistant to schedule business meetings. If I were applying for the job, I'd include my experience in scheduling appointments for photography sessions when I used to work at Sears Portrait Studio.
If the employer wanted a personal assistant to make sure her children got to all recitals, lessons, meetings and games on time – I'd include in my cover letter how I keep all my writing assignment deadlines and business appointments organized using calendar apps. And that I could do the same to keep the kids' schedules organized.
Just tell them what they want to hear.
(Note: It helps if what you're telling them is true, by the way.)
So there you have it. Becoming a personal assistant, in the simplest way I can explain.
It's a great opportunity for young adults to build experience, make money and enjoy a job with a lot of personal freedom.
You don't have to spend the rest of your life a personal assistant.
If you make good money and enhance your resume with a great recommendation from the professional you're assisting, that's good enough. Isn't it?
Much better than a low-paying campus job. And definitely better than not having a job at all.
Especially when you consider the ability to make six figures with enough experience!
Some jobs require a degree and still don't top out at six figures. Becoming a personal assistant doesn't even require a degree.
Start Your Own Personal Assistant Business
If you've read through this and find that you want to learn more, you may be a good candidate to start your own business.
Click here for a website created to help you master the skills needed to be a personal assistant!
You could start an agency where clients come when they need to outsource duties to a personal assistant.
Or you could set up your own website and start getting clients as a freelance personal assistant. You can also get freelance personal assistant jobs on websites like Elance, Indeed and oDesk.
Just some ideas to get you thinking about how far you can go in life after high school.
Let me know what you think in the comments below.
Does a personal assistant's job description sound appealing to you?
Is the salary potential enough to get you to consider it?
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5NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
6Stockholm University, Department of Meteorology, Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract. Atmospheric measurements from the Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study (ASCOS) are used to evaluate the performance of three reanalyses (ERA-Interim, NCEP/NCAR and NCEP/DOE) and two global climate models (CAM5 and NASA GISS ModelE2) in simulation of the high Arctic environment. Quantities analyzed include near surface meteorological variables such as temperature, pressure, humidity and winds, surface-based estimates of cloud and precipitation properties, the surface energy budget, and lower atmospheric temperature structure. In general, the models perform well in simulating large scale dynamical quantities such as pressure and winds. Near-surface temperature and lower atmospheric stability, along with surface energy budget terms are not as well represented due largely to errors in simulation of cloud occurrence, phase and altitude. Additionally, a development version of CAM5, which features improved handling of cloud macro physics, is demonstrated to improve simulation of cloud properties and liquid water amount. The ASCOS period additionally provides an excellent example of the need to evaluate individual budget terms, rather than simply evaluating the net end product, with large compensating errors between individual surface energy budget terms resulting in the best net energy budget.
Citation: de Boer, G., Shupe, M. D., Caldwell, P. M., Bauer, S. E., Persson, P. O. G., Boyle, J. S., Kelley, M., Klein, S. A., and Tjernström, M.: Near-surface meteorology during the Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study (ASCOS): evaluation of reanalyses and global climate models, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 13, 19421-19470, doi:10.5194/acpd-13-19421-2013, 2013.


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Tempus Fugit: History for Games
It's War. Scream "Vietnam!"by Mithras
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I've tried so hard to resist mentioning the 11th of September attack in this article, I really have. I got stuck into my planned article and was close to completion, but I just couldn't seem to wind it up without some mention of the attack. And then I didn't want to just throw in some asinine comment.
So I began again. This column is about history in roleplaying. You might think that because of this, Tempus Fugit isn't very topical. Well, you couldn't be more wrong. When you stood there watching the planes hit the towers and saw smoke pouring out of the Pentagon, you knew that history was being made as well as I did. Right?
But this article is not going to be some left wing/ right wing/ capitalist/ militaristic/ conspiracy-theorist rant about the attacks and their aftershocks. That's not my style. That doesn't interest me. What does interest me (in relation to this column) is the impact that the events of the 11th of September had on my gaming experience. Since I deal almost exclusively in historical gaming, there seemed to be a strange interaction of ideas and feelings.
Straight away I was forced to question the work I had begun on my latest historical roleplaying venture. Called GRUNT it is a game of horror in warfare, set more specifically against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Players take the roles of infantrymen new in-country, unexposed as yet to the physical and psychological terrors of the war they have joined. It is a 'closed system' RPG focusing on certain characters, certain situations and elements to the exclusion of others - it does this to maximize the impact of the war on the emotions of the player character soldiers. It is a hard, brutal and uncompromising game that tips a bonnie hat in the direction of Call of Cthulhu with its 'going down!' Sanity Loss system, as well as Unknown Armies (which is able to boast the innovative 'Madness Meter').
Already I'd corresponded with other designers on certain aspects of the game. I'd received plenty of encouragement, ideas and mechanics that would mirror the realities of combat stress, I'd also received some writing support and a load of alternative mechanics. Things were going well.
After the 11th of September terrorist attacks and with large scale warfare involving US and UK troops imminent, I lost a good deal of my motivation for working on GRUNT. Talk of a US invasion of Afghanistan filled me with apprehension, especially because I've had an interest in the region for years. I've researched ancient Persia and Parthia, the campaigns of Alexander the Great and the empire of the Seleucids that followed him. I'm not about to give out doom-laden warnings about any intended US invasion of Afghanistan, however. The army of George W. Bush is not the army of Alexander (and, it need not be noted, is George W. Bush any Alexander!). I'd read about the terrain, the weather, the people and I knew a little about the Russian involvement. There was a phrase echoing in the back of my brain, bouncing closer into my consciousness and it reached my lips: 'oh shit...'.
For a brief moment I thought of Vietnam, of a bloody ten-year war in a foreign country, a war for national pride and not for any true military objective. But that thought passed, because I remembered vividly the words of Bush senior when he said "no more Vietnams" prior to the 1991 Gulf War. It has been a rallying cry of US presidents from Gerald Ford to George Bush junior. I feared that the United States might forget the lessons of Vietnam, as politicians seem to make the same mistakes generation after generation - does anyone learn from history besides the history major?
Happily, this generation of Americans has not forgotten the lessons of Vietnam. The Gulf War proved that. It was a text-book police action in the mold of Grenada and Panama, 'get in quick and then get out,' a practical demonstration of Ronald Reagan's famous sentiment that he would never send American soldiers into battle overseas unless (in his words) "we are prepared to win."
The Gulf War assured me that there would "be no more Vietnams." The next military conflict of note would be the 1992 peacekeeping duties in Somalia. Like everyone else (including I suppose, US planners) the eventual outcome of the Somalian intervention proved to be a shock. It had turned from a UN peacekeeping mission into a counter-insurgency war in a built-up area. The mission ended in a snafu, punctuated with the TV image of a dead US serviceman being dragged behind a pick-up through the streets of Mogadishu. Clinton got out fast, I think the orders to pull out were given with 24 hours of those notorious TV images being transmitted (although I'm not certain of this).
When Clinton began to involve US forces in the Bosnia-Hercegovina conflict, the 'Vietnam-radars' of an awful lot of people went up fast (mine included). This wasn't just because of the Somalia debacle a couple of years previous, but mainly because Clinton's strategy seemed to mirror the same approach used by Lyndon B. Johnson thirty-years earlier. You couldn't help but compare the two conflicts, and the responses of the respective presidents.
When a Congressional Hearing sat on June 7 1995 to discuss Clinton's policy, Senator James Exxon said "Vietnam still haunts and confronts us still." Referring to a US air strike on a Serbian ammo dump a few days before, Senator John McCain voiced his worry that it "smacks so much of the failed strategy of Vietnam." They were talking specifically about the policy of air strikes alone, without the use of ground forces. But in 1965 Johnson was eventually forced to send in US Marines to secure the airbases in-country. And so the commitment began...
Perhaps I'm getting too involved in the subject here. The point I want to make is that history doesn't just exist in text-books, it exists out there in the Panshjir valley, in the minds of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on the beaches of Normandy, the engineers at Lockheed and in the Egyptian souks.
Like layers of encrusted paint, history is often covered over with something new and vibrant, and consequently it seems to be forgotten about. Thick geological layers of history covering landscapes, buildings, people, ideas - camouflaged with an innocuous patina that is easy on the eye. But conflict (and especially armed conflict) seems to break this outer-shell and cut through the layers. Sometimes the cut draws blood, at other times it draws pure history.
I think it was Unheilig who asked me if I was going to continue work on GRUNT. I said that I might leave it for a while. I am disconnected enough to be able to start work on the game again, but I knew that I couldn't really ask American designers to lend a hand. To be honest, trawling through the very darkest aspects of the USA's darkest conflict just didn't have the same appeal while we waited (and still wait) to see what form of military action the coalition leaders will take.
Like a lot of RPGnet posters, I've had to re-examine my gaming mission to translate unadulterated violence into the medium of an entertaining game. When faced with images of mass murder on an unbelievable scale, it sometimes seems difficult to imagine roleplaying guns, death and slaughter.
And GRUNT seems a bit like morbid wish-fulfillment.
So while the idea cools a little, I'll be turning more of my attention to a sourcebook that I'm in the midst of putting together for a recently released RPG. There's no getting away from the 11th of September incident, though. No. This supplement is set in ancient Iran and Afghanistan...damn!
Hope you can join me next month!
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YMMO parked outside BAMC, having all diverted to CWL on 02-02-2009 due to the snow storms.
This aircraft arrived under full 'emergency' at app 1600hrs on runway one-two. It was eventually towed with fire engine support to stand one, where it remained overnight as per the image. The reas... (more)
Speedbird 9173 rolling on Rwy 3 Zero. [1600 pixels].
Showing the cockpit of this fire training module used for smoke evacuation and major incident training exercises. [1600 pixels].
Turning over Llantwit Major, and seeing both Cardiff International airport in the background, and RAF St.Athan EGDX in the foreground including the large 'Red Dragon' Super hanger now sitting empt... (more)
Parked at BAMC.
Being tugged into position ready for its onward flight back into service at LHR as 'Speedbird 9174' . [1600 pixels].
A fully illuminated airbus A320 glass cockpit.
Seen at daybreak approaching RWY 30 on finals
Interior of Prince Albert of Monaco's private jet cockpit. Former 3A-MGR, now re-registered with an A suffix to denote Alberts initial.
Parked at BAMC, the engineers awaiting the crew.
Departing egff for Austin,Texas. 1600 pixels
A shot of the detail of the inner area of the engine cowling, and also the reflection of the aircraft fuselage and landing gear on the outer cowling.