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They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but we don't follow that rule here at Grace Ormonde Wedding Style. A couple of weeks ago, we traveled to Sin City for the couture jewelry show, JCK, photo shoots for the upcoming issues and one of our own VIP Parties.
After going to Las Vegas several times now, there is one thing that I think anyone can take away from their experience: entertainment in Vegas is bar none some of the best in the country. Everything is done to the nines, simple is not part of the vocabulary, and there is a tremendous concentration of talent.
I had so much fun seeing everyone and am so thankful to all of the incredible talent that came together to make this an unforgettable evening. From the live wedding to the female electric violinists, dueling DJs, aerialist champagne pourers, gymnasts, fashion installation, live entertainment, the posh furniture and décor, the deliciously artful hors d'oeuvre, confectioned cakes and pastries, sumptuous cocktails and of course, the incredible location of MEET Las Vegas.
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The Bell Museum Resident Artist Research Project offers artists an exclusive opportunity to engage with University researchers and scientific collections while exploring the application of art as a medium for interpreting science in the public realm.
Andy DuCett's work surveys the various ways we humans subjectively interpret and internalize events, objects and places in a world that is becoming ever more connected. DuCett's recent artistic pursuits have joined his established interests in objects, collecting, and shared cultural experiences with concepts of place, memory, taxonomy, and audience participation to investigate why we remember some life experiences more vividly than others.
With his RARP artist residency, DuCett expresses a desire to "play" with traditional ideas of the museum-going experience, challenging the audience to question their own expectations for what objects are collected and how they are displayed. Visit Andy DuCett online.
The MAW Collective, also known as Minneapolis Art on Wheels, is a group of artists activating public spaces with mobile, large-scale projections of sound and video. Members of the collective include artists, engineers, scientists, architects, students and professionals, working together to leverage the power of digital technology to create opportunities for community engagement with art, science, and urban public space.
MAW's signature approach uses bike-transported projection and sound systems along with real-time, interactive drawing software that allows experienced and novice artists alike to illuminate building façades with original artistic creations. Visit the MAW Collective online.
Laurie Allmann is an environmental writer and poet whose professional focus for the past 3+ decades has been to illuminate the complexities of science and nature through writing and other forms of creative expression. Allmann draws on her background in field biology and experience as a naturalist to explore the idea of "local knowledge" – ways of knowing that people develop through their interactions with the physical environment and their intimate experiences of place.
Through poetry readings, public radio commentary, and television documentaries, as well as published literature, monologues and plays, Allmann seeks to convey both the insights offered by research and her own enduring passion for the natural world. Visit Laurie Allmann online.
Sonja Peterson employs motifs of common agricultural plants and animals, underground roots, spider webs, and vine-like growths to examine the global matrix of agricultural, financial, and environmental systems. Using traditional paper cutting, collage, and stencils, Peterson creates elaborate large-scale hanging papercuts that illustrate how the structural integrity of global systems lies in their interconnectivity: if elements disconnect, the entire system comes under threat of collapse.
Inspired by the writings of Michael Pollan, Richard Holmes, and many others, Peterson is currently interested in how the collection and trade of natural commodities like precious metals, plant-based dyes, spices, fruits, and animal furs have linked nature to the global banking system and interwoven cultures, economies, and ecological systems around the world. Visit Sonja Peterson online.
Currently on display! This installation is the creation of Bell Museum Spring 2013 Resident Artist Research Program artist Sonja Peterson. The installation includes Peterson's signature large-scale paper cut works as well as glass etchings and captivating small sculptures.
As part of their residencies at the Bell Museum, artists Sonja Peterson and writer Laurie Allmann have chosen to collaborate on a project that combines images with text to deliver a message about biodiversity and environmental stewardship.
You Are Here, features a red arrow pointed towards Earth, hanging in the balance against the black backdrop of space. Allmann and Peterson hope to remind viewers of the human impact on nature and climate, and encourage people to take action in their communities. Companion piece Beauty Works features a digital rendering of Peterson's intricate cut-paper designs invoking the complex relationship between Earth's ecosystems, while Allmann's prose challenges viewers not to take Earth's beauty for granted.
The panels are currently on display at the Bell, but the artists and RARP coordinator Leah Peterson don't plan to stop there. "We are looking at this piece as the first in a series on the topic of biodiversity. Our next step is to work with Metro Transit, as well as business owners and others, to get this message into bus stops and other unexpected places where the public has an opportunity to interact with them," said Peterson. "This is just an exciting taste of what can come out of the Museum's ongoing partnership with artists in our community."
The Resident Artist Research Project is funded by The McKnight Foundation.
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Installation by Minneapolis Art on Wheels
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I recently made an ID case, inspired by Hello Kitty. I kind of like that it isn't exactly Hello Kitty, but her bow is iconic enough to stand on its own. It was inspired by this card holder by Swarosvki:
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- Large plastic flatbacked bow*
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- Rhinestone flat gem (optional)
*I bought mine from Etsy. It's about 2 inches wide. You can also use an actual ribbon bow, or an applique.


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Carnagecast 50: Pathfinder
By Tyler on January 20, 2014
In episode 50 of Carnagecast, we kick off with breaking news about Carnage on the Mountain 2014! Then, in our regularly scheduled episode, John joins us to talk about Paizo's Pathfinder role-playing game. Branching out from the d20 era of Dungeons & Dragons, made possible by the open game license, Pathfinder carried on that style […]
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Carnagecast 39: Carrion Crown: Broken Moon
By Tyler on March 18, 2013
In episode 39 of Carnagecast, Dan, Hunter and Toby return to discuss the third chapter of the Carrion Crown adventure path, Broken Moon. Our heroes ventured into the Shudderwood of Ustalav, wherein Victor the unflappable coach driver made his debut, resolute against the strains of ethereal music. At an exclusive hunting lodge and in the […]
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Carnagecast 37: Carrion Crown: Trial of the Beast
By Tyler on February 11, 2013
In episode thirty-seven of Carnagecast, Dan, Hunter and Toby return to the show to discuss their further adventures in the Pathfinder adventure path, Carrion Crown, following on from their first excursion in The Haunting of Harrowstone. From the sleepy village of Ravengro, the heroes stride further to the relative metropolis of Lepidstadt, embroiling themselves in […]
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Carnagecast 36: Back from Hiatus
By Tyler on January 28, 2013
In episode 36 of Carnagecast, we emerge from hiatus just in time to still be able to wish everyone a happy new year. Pillar of the Carnage board Rod Sheldon is with us to talk about the highlights of this past Carnage Noir, the gaming we've gotten in over the holidays and plans for 2013: […]
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Carnagecast 31: Carrion Crown: The Haunting of Harrowstone
By Tyler on September 3, 2012
In episode 31 of Carnagecast, Dan, Hunter, Toby and Tyler talk about their experiences playing the Pathfinder role-playing module The Haunting of Harrowstone, first part of the overarching Carrion Crown adventure path. Filled with horror tropes, from the Gothic to the Hammeresque, Carrion Crown kicks off a tour of the Pathfinder campaign world's Transylvania analogue, […]
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Carnagecast 27: Companions of the Firmament and Geek Industrial Complex
By Tyler on June 25, 2012
In episode 27 of Carnagecast, we talk with Neil Carr of Geek Industrial Complex, based in Barre, Vermont. Neil's raising funds via Kickstarter for his first role-playing publication, Companions of the Firmament, which brings flying characters, mount options and expanded aerial rules to the Pathfinder role-playing system. Neil tells us about his goals for Companions […]
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Another 3 Pathfinder Society Games Added
By Christy on November 1, 2010
Another three Pathfinder Society games (R76-78) have been added to the Carnage schedule in addition to those we added last week. The full Pathfinder Society schedule is now listed below and a complete list of all games added since the convention book went to press is available on the Addendum page. Our thanks to Judges […]
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Pathfinder Society Games Now On Schedule
By Christy on October 29, 2010
Great news! Pathfinder Society Regional Director Art Lobdell will be joining us at Carnage to offer Pathfinder Society games as well as Witch Hunter: Dark Providence and Fellowship of the White Star. Additional PFS games may be added soon, so check back for updates. Art's games are listed below and a complete list of added […]
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Xander left the teleportation circle in the cellar of their European Headquarters in Paris feeling dizzy and a bit sick. Damn how he hated those new circles. Sure they made traveling a lot faster and really helped their runs and other operations, but he would never like them and he now firmly understood Bones' dislike of Teleporters, in one of his favorite shows he'd liked to watch decades ago.
He looked around and wondered that no one was here to greet him. Just as he was about to start up the stairs, he heard the wailing sounds of their 'Intruder Alert' wards that Willow had placed around every one of their buildings. He grabbed his Ares Predator and ran up the stairs.
As he reached ground floor he heard the telltale sounds of multiple gunfire. Carefully, so that his own people wouldn't shoot at him, he snuck to the direction of the firefight. As he turned slowly around a corner, he found a dead body. Fearing that it might be one of his people, he quickly knelt down and turned the body around. To his relief, he didn't knew the face and he guessed it must be one of the enemy intruders who'd caught a bullet right into his forehead.
Letting the body lie where it was, he continued sneaking down the floor until he reached the stair to the next one. He could hear shooting from further ahead and from upstairs. Guessing that whatever the intruders were looking for would be upstairs, he quickly took the stairs and as soon as he reached the top, he had to quickly jump aside, as a bullet hit the wall just an inch from his head.
He quickly looked into the direction where the bullet came from and saw two of his people fighting against three others, who were dressed completely in black. After he had assessed the situation, he carefully took aim and then fired his Ares. Just a moment later the head of one of the three intruders formally exploded as Xander's round hit it.
The other two intruders stood still for a second out of shock, which was enough for his people to quickly subdue them.
Xander quickly went to them. "Kara, Indra, what happened?"
The young woman with long blond hair answered him, after she had listened to the radio for a second. "Seems like a team of Shadowrunners infiltrated this house to kill or capture your wife, Mr. Harris."
"Amanda? Where is she? Is she ok?" Xander quickly asked, his voice filled with fear for his wife.
"She is fine, Sir. She took out the two who managed to come near her and she is currently in her office." She pointed at the two intruders they had subdued and said, "Seems like these two here are the only survivors of the Shadowteam. What shall we do with them, Sir?"
"Cuff them and then bring them upstairs. We will have a few questions to ask them," he said and then he quickly ran upstairs to his wife's office.
He reached it a few moments later and rushed in, just to hit a full stop because the tip of a sword entered his heart.
"Xander!!!" a female voice yelled and the sword was pulled away quickly.
He grunted a painful, "Urgh" and then looked up to see the most beautiful eyes he had ever seen tear up just as he crashed down to the floor. He managed to utter a very quiet, "Amanda," before the world went black around him.
Amanda looked shocked at the dead body of her husband for the last 35 years. She couldn't believe what had happened. She was just cleaning her blade after killing the two intruders and then she heard her door crash open. She only registered someone storm in with gun in hand and so she quickly struck with the sword in her hand and hit the intruder right in the heart only to recognize in that moment that it was her husband she had just stabbed.
She let her sword drop to the floor, knelt beside the body of her husband and pulled his head into her lap. After a few moments the tears started to flow.
Headquarters Slayer Inc., Seattle
Willow sat at her desk and was just relaxing a bit while traveling through the Matrix. She was still amazed every time she booted up her Slayer Inc. Mark X cyberdeck and then jumped into the virtual world of the Matrix.
As one of the few people still on Earth who could remember things like Windows or Linux, this world was simply awesome to her and she enjoyed traveling through it just for fun. Her main focus lay on her magic and all Decker stuff was mostly handled by Dawn and a few others, but she still enjoyed surfing through it.
As she wandered through one of the shopping districts in the Matrix she caught the reflection of her Matrix Persona and just had to giggle for a bit. Dawn had really found it funny to design her that Persona. She looked exactly like the actress who played Nymphadora Tonks in the old Harry Potter movies and she had to admit to herself that she liked that witch and was just saddened that she had such a small role and died in book seven. It was a shame, really. She walked through the district a bit more and bought a few things at the Victoria Secrets store with which she wanted to surprise her lover. She really hoped Faith would like it.
She dreamed a bit about what Faith and she would do after Faith came back from her run. She was still amazed that they were both an item now, considering how she had disliked Faith in the old Sunnydale times. Before she could continue her way through the shopping mall, she was suddenly yanked out of the Matrix. She looked around a bit disoriented at first and after a moment she could see one of the younger slayers standing beside her with panic in her eyes and the fiber-optic cable with which had Willow connected with her board in her hands.
Willow tried to keep calm and asked in a quiet tone. "What is it Lara? Why did you have to unplug me like that?"
"Sor..sorry Willow, but I had to, your wards signaled intruders and security is currently fighting off some Shadowrunners downstairs."
Willow looked surprised for a moment and then nodded in thanks to the young troll, who was the only one of her species to be called as a slayer so far. "Thank you Laura," she quickly said and then mumbled a short phrase in Latin. Suddenly a holographic image of their headquarters appeared in the middle of the room. She looked at it for a moment and quickly located the wards in question and then zoomed in on those rooms. "Curious, a small team of only four people and they have already been subdued by security."
She tapped the comsystem and spoke, "Red to Mac, please report."
Only a moment later she heard the voice of their head of security answer her call, "O'Neil here. Four intruders were subdued, but it looks like they were only the diversion. While we were busy with them, a second team was able to enter the lab complex and it seems like the target was Dr. Jackson. Luckily he had Sam and Vi with him at the moment and together they hold out long enough for a few of my men to get there. Sadly, all of the second team was killed in the following fire fight and Vi is currently on her way to medical because she was hit while protecting the Doc."
Willow was quiet for a moment, surprised some one was after Dr. Jackson. It seemed like they had a leak in their security, because Dawn had made sure no information about his location was available anywhere and if someone looked for it, they would be pointed to Europe.
"Mac? Bring those four into my office and we will question them together, even if I think it will be fruitless."
"Yes Mam, we will be there in a few minutes," O'Neil replied.
Meanwhile onboard of an Skorsky - Bell Tigerhawk Gunship
"Moonbeam to 'Team Alpha' ETA to Colorado Springs 15 minutes. Remember, the town has been abandoned for a lot of years and our drones spotted a lot of critters, demons and other things we don't like in the vicinity, so check your gear a final time and be ready for touchdown." Faith heard the voice of Dawn say over the comlink. She quickly looked over her team and grinned. What she wouldn't have given for such a heavily armed team back in SunnyD. She quickly noted that Rhona, Temp, Adam, Leon and Claire were going over their equipment and then she started to check her own.
She quickly made sure that the two Heckler & Koch U S P 12s were ok and loaded, then tested the charge of her Ares Vibrosword and smiled. Willow always had the best gifts ever. With a smile she remembered her last birthday, when Willow had given her this nice blade as a present and then her mind wandered to the memories of how she had thanked her for that present. That memory was, even after several months, still able to make her wet.
Suddenly, before she could fall deeper into her daydream, she was yanked around in her straps and felt the Gunship make a hard maneuver. Then she heard the heavy machine guns opened fire.
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11:20. I close the Amnesia Haze deal with a trio of American dudes who I can tell just arrived in Amsterdam, because they don't yet have the dark, butthole-ish look about the eyes that reefer tourists develop by their second day in town. They go to the coffee counter and roll a joint. I'm weighing out a gooey three-gram order of Indian Malana Cream hash when my co-worker, a friendly, thick-built guy named Felix, suddenly sprints from behind the bar. After two hits of the Amnesia Haze, one of the American youngsters is in the process of toppling, semiconscious, off his stool. Fainting customers are a familiar problem, and Felix moves with professional swiftness, managing to get his arms around the kid an instant before his skull smacks the floor. He comes to, his legs jerking with the spooky involuntariness of a lynched man's. As it turns out, they'd come straight off the red-eye from the States and hit de Dampkring on an empty stomach. The kid's pals take him to the hotel and put him to bed. In twenty minutes, they're back in the shop, enjoying themselves.
11:40. A Californian barnacle has attached himself to the bar. A dead ringer for John Denver, he's making it very tough to handle the pre-lunch rush because he keeps poring over the menu, going, "I really feel like smoking some hash, but then again, it's sort of like 'Why bother,' because the hash is so much better in California." At last he buys five prerolled spliffs ("I'd roll them myself," he informs me, "but I'm feeling a little lazy") and fucks off to the coffee counter, where I can hear him informing the Dutch girl behind the bar that Amsterdam is known as "the Magic City." But very shortly, he comes back to the dope counter, wanting to know if there's any Steely Dan on the house iTunes library: "As a self-appointed Steely Dan expert, I highly advise playing The Royal Scam as soon as possible." Felix, to my amazement, obliges the guy, who's then impossible to dislodge from our personal space because now he has also appointed himself our expert guide through the album's forty-minute saxophone purgatory, all the while telling me how "amazing" the women are in Amsterdam, by which he means the underpant ladies in the red-lit aquariums who tap sorrowfully on the glass when you pass by.
By midafternoon my sense of professional satisfaction at holding my own behind the bar deflates under the oppressive tedium of the work and the customer-relations grind. The trepidation with which the customers filled me at first has taken a turn toward mild contempt. Perhaps it's an innocuous side effect of the self-regarding involution of the stoned psyche, or perhaps it's that they're just too high to cope with human interaction, but after a few shifts, it becomes clear that in the eyes of most customers, the guys behind the bar do not really exist. They rarely look us in the eye and less often say "please" or "thank you." "Sometimes I'll try acting like a real asshole, just to see if they notice," says Felix. "But they don't even fucking see you, man. It's like you're not even there."
3:35. A crew of large black gentlemen come to the bar. They have the look of residents from the Bijlmer, a ghetto on the city's southeast side, whose population inspired de Dampkring's "no hats" policy and the prohibition against hip-hop in the iTunes library. Their style, however, is several orders of magnitude more baroque and fabulous than their American counterparts': an Ali Baba's cave worth of gold and diamonds studding their teeth and ears. Rococo braid jobs that less resemble cornrows than Louis XIV brocadework. They place an order. "I'm sorry, I don't speak Dutch."
"Three grams White Choco."
I fill it. "Dank u wel," I say. (Thank you very much, the only words I know in Dutch.)
This strikes these fellows as hilarious. "Ah, you do speak Dutch! Can you say, 'Sucky fucky'?"
"No, I'm afraid I can't."
Chortling, the crew departs. "Thank you, thank you!" the fellows call as they head for the door, reeling with mirth.
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After a long, hard day of buying and selling marijuana, a salon of industry pros convenes at Harry Resin's apartment. When I've showered and scrubbed the tar off my hands, I make my way over.
Tonight's gathering includes Dampkring manager Jason den Enting; a substantial, loquacious woman called, appropriately, Verb; and also this guy Ron, whose last name I don't know and am not intended to know. Ron, who stands about six feet five and has the deep, slow voice associated with giantism, plays an undisclosed role in de Dampkring's management, though when people ask him what he does for a living, he sometimes says he is Paul Wilhelm's bodyguard, or more frequently he says, "I smoke marijuana."
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U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speaks during the White House daily briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House February 25, 2013 in Washington, DC. Napolitano spoke on the sequestration impact it would have for homeland security.
The Department of Homeland Security announced this morning that it is releasing illegal immigrants held in jails across the country. This after DHS secretary Janet Napolitano announced yesterday that sequestration related cuts to the department would affect core operations, from border patrols to airport security.
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Leaders from some of India's best known business organizations joined with Habitat for Humanity India for indiaBUILDS, an ambitious campaign to tackle the scourge of poverty housing and to highlight the importance of providing millions of fellow countrymen and women with an important catalyst for breaking the cycle of poverty – a decent, safe, affordable home of their own.
The indiaBUILDS campaign will highlight the dire need for affordable housing in this country of 1.1 billion people, nearly a quarter of whom live on less than US$1 a day. The Jimmy Carter Work Project 2006, to be held Oct. 29 through Nov. 3 in Lonavala, India, will be the first of a series of large-scale annual indiaBUILDS events to raise awareness of the issues.
At a media conference in Mumbai recently, members of HFH India's 2006 indiaBUILDS Advisory Committee were introduced for the first time. The committee is co-chaired by Sanjay Nayar, chief executive of Citigroup India and area head of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, and Smt. Rajashree Birla, chair of the Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural Development, part of the Aditya Birla Group, one of India's largest business groups.
Other prominent business leaders forming the Advisory Committee include the chairman of Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd., Mr. Deepak Parekh; the chairman and editor-in-chief of India Today Group, Mr. Aroon Purie; the founder chairman of Essel Group of Industries, Mr. Subhash Chandra; the chairman of Lupin Ltd. Dr. Desh Bandhu Gupta; the managing director of Hiranandani group, Mr. Niranjan Hiranandani; as well as Mr. Gul Kripalani, chairman and managing director of the Pijikay group.
"We are delighted that so many prominent figures from so many different parts of India's business community are responding to our vision of an India and a world where everyone has a decent place to live," said Felix Fernandes, chief financial officer and acting chief operating officer of Habitat for Humanity India.
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It's great that you've decided to make some changes in the way you eat. Implementing a juicing plan in your life and not only knock off unwanted weight, but juicing will energize your life and bring you back to optimal health.
Culinary professionals know that valuable micronutrients are destroyed when heating food. It's a fact that nutritionists from all over the globe are aware of but you won't hear any of that in the fast food commercials. The actual cooking process alters the shape of the chemical makeup of these nutrients which is why eating organic fresh fruits and vegetables is the best way to ensure you receive proper nutrients.
It's often been said by health authorities that to stay healthy you should have at least 6-8 servings of fruits and vegetables per day. This is the whole concept behind juicing. With juicing, you can easily extract your required recommended servings and reach your optimum daily vegetable goal with little effort.
There are three main health benefits of juicing. First, juicing can help your body make the most use out of vegetables. The fact is, most of our bodies digestion system is impaired from years of eating junk food. This results in less than optimal intake of the precious nutrients that fruits and vegetables provide almost defeating the purpose of eating this high powered energizing fruits to begin with. Juicing completely counteracts this flaw in your eating habits by allowing your body to intake the fruits and vegetables maximum value almost instantly.
Not only does juicing allow you to intake optimum value, but it allows you to easily consume the perfect amount of vegetables. Think about it, we are all busy in our day to day life, and who has the time to pick out 6-8 fresh fruits and vegetables? Not to mention if you are a carb type of person who needs to eat a full pound of vegetables per 50 pounds of body weight per day. For some people the thought of properly managing your nutrition seems like a full time job and to be honest with you, if you're trying to do it manually, it can require full time responsibility. Juicing can cut this full time management of your vegetable intake into just a few minutes of your time per day.
It's always best to eat a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. One of the other health benefits of juicing is that juicing not only makes eating a wide variety of fruits easy but fun as well. Many people eat the same types of vegetables everyday. Although technically you are eating healthy, your taste buds may hate you leaving you feeling bored with healthy eating. After bordum sets in, it's not at all uncommon to quit the "health kick". A healthy eating plan is only effective if it's consistently followed. With juicing there's no reason why you can't finally stick to your health plan because juicing makes eating a wide variety of fruits and vegetables easy. Fruits and vegetables that you would not normally eat taste amazingly good when mixed with other fruits in the juicer.
Although the health benefits of juicing are numerous, it is only fair to warn you, vegetable juicing alone is not a complete meal. Juicing has a limited amount of protein and almost no fat, so even though you are getting your complete supply of fruits and vegetables, you will still need to eat a well balanced amount of protein and fat in order to stay healthy. The only exception is if you're on some sort of detoxification or fasting program. In this case using juicing as a meal may be an option for you.
It is important to listen to your body when juicing because your body has a way of letting you know when something is wrong. For those who have hypertension or are overweight, or diabetes, consulting a doctor before starting a juicing routine is a wise decision. Some people, when beginning the juicing routine start to feel nauseous because of the extra intake of nutrients. The best way to avoid this is to use organic vegetables and fruits whenever possible.


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Best known for his time on the field, former New York Giants football player Tiki Barber has been active in media and journalism for most of his professional life. In 1998, he began his broadcasting career working for CBS RADIO's WFAN, which led to stints at WCBS-TV, Sirius Satellite Radio, the YES Network and Fox News Channel. He also contributed to The Today Show and Football Night in America.
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Outside City Hall Thursday, mayoral candidate William Thompson pledged to remove hundreds of trailers that have been serving as classrooms for years, but the Department of Education said he's responsible for installing them in the first place. NY1's Lindsey Christ has been reporting on the use of trailers in city schools all week, and she filed the following report.
They've been sitting in schoolyards since the '90s: trailers with classrooms, supposed to be a temporary fix for overcrowded schools. Now, many have begun to fall apart, with broken bathrooms, mold, rotted ramps and leaking roofs. Yet thousands of students still study in them.
For years, the teachers' and principals' unions have raised concerns, and on Thursday, William Thompson, the candidate they endorsed for mayor, pledged to remove all the trailers immediately if elected.
"You need a mayor with leadership who is going to say, 'I will decommission these trailers and I will make sure that kids are not getting sick from school,'" said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
"When Bill Thompson was running for mayor, we said, 'This is important to us,'" said Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers. "He says, 'We will decommission these trailers day 1.'"
That's exactly what he said, again and again, on the steps of City Hall Thursday.
"Day 1, we need to decommission these trailers," Thompson said. "We need to get our children out of these 350 trailers, so many of which are unhealthy for them."
Q: When you say decommission on day 1, though, you don't mean on January 1, you're going to be able to move 12,000 kids out of these things?Thompson: No, you're not going to have every child out on day 1, but what we need to do is start to move children out as quickly as possible.
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So quantity automatically trumps quality?
Which of the studies have been reviewed and found valid? That is the important detail here.
People who pirate digital content wouldn't have bought it if it wasn't available for free. Publishers can't do anything about pirates anyway. And, besides, piracy doesn't hurt ebook and other digital content sales.
All myths, according to Michael D. Smith, professor of information technology and marketing at Carnegie Mellon University, speaking at the Digital Book World Conference + Expo.
For the four oft-cited studies that have shown that piracy doesn't hurt digital content sales, there are 25 that say that it does, for instance, said Smith.
Further, publishers should adopt two major strategies in combating piracy: Make their content available online and use anti-piracy laws.
Publishers can and do compete with pirated versions of their content available for free, said Smith, citing studies of major television networks adding content to legitimate distributors lowering demand for piracy of that material. When ABC added its content to Hulu, incidences of piracy of ABC content decreased 37%.
In another example, Smith cited an anonymous publisher that selectively windowed its ebook and print book titles to see if releasing the digital version after the print version would result in increased sales for the print version. Sales of print copies increased by 0.4% — but ebook sales decreased by 52% and overall sales dropped by 22%, presumably because of piracy.
Anti-piracy efforts also reduce incidences of piracy. Smith studied the effects of anti-piracy laws in France and of the take-down of piracy site Megaupload. In the case of the anti-piracy laws in France, conversation about the laws and then their implementation helped boost digital content sales by anywhere between 5% and 30%, depending on the content. And the shutdown of Megaupload coincided with reduced instances of piracy across multiple countries.
Not all stakeholders, however, care so much about ebook piracy.
"I love pirates. I get money from them all the time," said the best-selling author of Wool, Hugh Howey, who will be speaking later at the Digital Book World Conference + Expo on his success story. "They send me money thanking me because they loved my book. I sometimes go onto torrent sites and if I don't see my book there I feel bad because it means I'm not in demand."
So quantity automatically trumps quality?
Which of the studies have been reviewed and found valid? That is the important detail here.
Michael Smith's rather late to the game. It's been accepted that piracy helps little-known authors gain traction in the marketplace. Self-published authors give away their content all the time, even through programs like Amazon.
Piracy hurts sales of best-selling authors, on the theory that everyone already knows who they are, and marketing efforts are in place to push their books.
The third strategy publishers also need to consider is pricing. A $25.99 ebook is practically an open invitation to piracy.
Giving away your book to particular opinion leaders and reviewers who can help your sales is a decades-old tactic that still works.
Giving away the first book in a series works.
Giving a stand-alone book away to all and sundry does not work nearly as well, and some people have found that it decreases sales.
But no matter which way you see the picture, the fact is that the choice to give away the book belongs to the rights-holder and NOT to those who happen to have a copy, or to those who happen to want a free copy (aka pirates).
And the discussion about whether or not it hurts sales is utterly not the point. You can't take anything else I own even if you think it would be in my best interest. The issue is control, not results.
Mr. Bill Peschel,
I apologize, as this is three months after the fact (even later to the game than you said Michael Smith was).
Tardiness aside, my casual observation, regarding self-published authors versus best-selling authors giving away work, is antipodal to yours. Best-selling authors DO "give away" the first chapter of a new work, whether fiction or not. Consider the many first chapters, or lengthy excerpts from, that are published in The New York Times, sometimes in the newspaper itself, not even the book review. Of course, author consent is required.
In contrast, self-published authors are not inclined to give away their work, in my experience. They have paid for publishing, by Amazon for example. Most seem eager to recoup that expense as rapidly as possible, given how often they self-promote their work online. I'm not being derisive of self-publishing. I am sympathetic to authors who wish to be paid for their original creative or didactic written work.
As for a $25 e-book, that is a separate issue, with subtleties! One buys the right to access the e-book content, which is much more restrictive than purchasing a printed book. Amazon now offers e-book "rentals", though I don't know duration of access.
The Google e-books product has not been well-received, particularly in the education marketplace. Many schoolteachers failed to realize than an e-book does not permit excerpting a table or a page, then copying it and distributing it to the class as part of a lesson plan. The Google e-books product forums are full of complaints about this.
A similar misapprehension was that purchasing e-books would be a savings over traditional print textbooks. Many believed that only one purchase would be necessary, as the book could be shared with the entire class once the teacher made copies. Of course, that isn't true. Yet it highlights the odd logic associated with digital content!
If multiple copies of the hardbound version of a textbook must be purchased, one for each student, wouldn't the same be true for e-books? The e-book should be less expensive due to the savings in printing and shipping costs, but the cost is primarily for the content of the book! Yet somehow, there was the misguided perception that the content had become free as well, i.e. of no value.
Kinda like it's more morally justifiable to steal an expensive car hey Bill?
I have written my comments to this piece on my blog here http://inrebus.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/does-piracy-hurt-digital-content-sales.html
Will Prof. Smith's entire presentation be made available somehow? I would love to see it.
Worth mentioning that one of the four 'No's' has been discredited completely, with researchers drawing 'Yes' conclusion from same dataset.
It's very much a 'Yes', but the important discussion points raised include the impact of piracy on live music sales where various studies have concluded that where piracy is prevented, live music demand is reduced. This is where the profits come from.
Similarly, a wealth of research has concluded that pirates also spend more money on recorded music.
Tis a complex one. This article oversimplifies things. Indeed, movie piracy is as different to music piracy as that is to book piracy. Too complex to pigeonhole.
See my blog for more info on this sort of content (www.musicpiracyresearchblog.blogspot.co.uk)
Steven @musicpiracyblog
News from the frontline – I look at pirate uploads every day.
I have been working with publishers for over 12 months on researching and removing product from : torrent sites, file share sites, youtube, Ebay, Ioffer.com. ( to name just a few )
As well as removing pirate files of ebooks and audiobooks – more effort must be made to make people aware they are breaking the law by sharing copyrighted work.
The 'pirate' file can start on a torrent site and be downloaded by anyone ( global).
I have found pirate files being sold as product on ebay, often as a
'Author Collection' eg 1,500 ebooks for $15 – download now – or on DVD discs.
These products then get re-sold and distributed by multiple sellers over many auction sites.
Ebay , Ioffer.com and Paypal are profiting from pirate sales, so are some websites from advertising revenue .
I have also found complete audiobook uploads on Youtube , top selling titles loaded as a collection of 100 x 50 minute videos. These videos can also be turned into audio files and re-shared.( or sold )
When I have had direct contact with these 'pirates' – most are everday people who are just
making a few £'s – and they believe the content to be ' in the public domain'.
They are confusing ' finding a free download' with a 70 year publishing copyright.
Pirate files have been loaded up for the past 5 years – and more get added daily.
More action is needed – it is just getting worse.
When your new best seller range starts selling at £1.99 on Ebay
you know you have a problem.
Bill Peschel wrote:
\It's been accepted that piracy helps little-known authors gain traction in the marketplace. Self-published authors give away their content all the time, even through programs like Amazon. \
If publishers are giving away their work then it's not piracy. You as an owner/publisher have every right to give away your work, if you think that's the best way to distribute. And there are perfectly valid reasons for doing so. Piracy though would amount to giving your work away for free, even if you didn't want to do so.
How does that help authors, first time or otherwise?
There is no way you can defeat piracy. People will always find ways to pirate your ebook. The good thing about it, though, is that readers are interested in your stuff that's why they pirate it. It's quite interesting to think that there could be a valuable relation between ebook piracy and increased sales.
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MS Dhoni, India's captain, has suggested that a lack of availability rather than talent will continue to be a barrier for England players wishing to participate in the IPL. Although England's Test series win in India has raised the profiles of several members of the squad, Dhoni said the limited window permitted by the ECB for IPL participation was a "big concern" for franchises.
IPL commissioner Rajiv Shukla had suggested that the likes of Test captain Alastair Cook and Monty Panesar may be of interest when the next auction for international players takes place. However, with England commitments taking a higher priority, Dhoni said only "special" players like Kevin Pietersen would be of interest to franchises.
"Most of the time when the IPL happens, I don't think the English team has a clear period - so they're not available for the full 45 to 50 days of cricket," Dhoni said. "That's a big concern when it comes to some of the IPL franchises.
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The IPL in 2013 is scheduled to begin on April 3, a week after England finish their tour of New Zealand, and will run until May 26. England's home series against New Zealand begins with the first of two Tests on May 16, further curtailing any potential for involvement. Pietersen and Eoin Morgan are the only current, centrally contracted England players with IPL deals and, when asked, Dhoni was unsure if many others would be joining them in the world's most glamorous T20 tournament.
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Despite various obstacles - in Cook's case, not even being considered good enough for England's T20 side - Shukla had suggested that the Test series victory could capture the imagination of franchise owners and public alike.
"I think so, I think it might well do that," Shukla told The Times. "England have done very well and the franchises are most definitely aware of what has been happening in this series. The English domestic schedule can make it difficult for players to play for long here, and franchises will look at that, but these Test matches have definitely raised expectations of the players from television viewers. I am sure Indian people would love to see them again.
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