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Love this stuff!! its working like a charm on my forehead lines, and gives my skin a beautiful glow after I use it. I decided to try it after I used the St. Ives Apricot Scrub and was impressed with that. I like the easy to use jar it comes in (though I think it could use a sheet of plastic or something you rip off before using, because what's to stop someone from sticking their finger in it in the store?), and the smell is subtle but pleasant. Its not super thick or heavy, but it definitely has body and volume to it. A little dab will do ya - I'm still using product from the inside of the lid - so for the price, you're getting a fantastic amount of a great product.
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I didn't start using this product until 8 weeks ago and I absolutely LOVE it! Initially I was concerned because I have oily skin that is far more oily during the summer. Now, I use this twice daily and I cannot go a day without it. It leaves my skin feeling soft and rejuvenated. My skin looks supple and healthy. If you have not tried this moisturizer, you are certainly missing out on a great product!
This mositurizer is excellent for oily or normal skin. It is light and absorbs quickly. The price is so good if you do not object to using a big tub (I do not). I use it on my neck, above my upper lip and undereye area but not on my face because I am acne prone and use mositurizers only on selective areas that do not break out. Althoug the second ingredient is mineral oil, the cream is not a bit oily. The fragrance is mild, milky herbal that I did not find objectional. Many people would find this a highly useful and inexpensive product.
I just picked this up tonight to try. My teacher recommended it because it was found to be the best moisturizer, even better than the high-end stuff. (She also works at a department store in the beauty department for a high-end retailer). She told us about a study they did, which provided this cream as the most effective one. I'll write another review once I've tested it. Side note* look for body lotions with lanolin in it!!! The only one I could find in the drugstore was Queen Helene's Cocoa Butter, which you can get a HUGE bottle for under $5.00!!!
First off, the price is amazing... very very affordable at less than $4 a tube. I have the tube version but I know it comes in a tub version as well. I bought this based on a recommendation from a friend. It really worked for her and made her skin feel SO soft. I was also drawn to the "collagen" claim as well lol. Unfortunately this did not work out so well for me. It's probably due to the mineral oil in it. Everytime i wore this, it broke me out! I have started using this as a body moisturizer and it seems to be good for that. I wouldn't repurchase this again. I do love the fresh scent though.
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For some reason this lotion keeps breaking me out. I first used it as an everyday moisturizer.. and it gave me some acne spots. Then i used it as a night time moisturizer and i put it on before i went to sleep.. in the morning i woke up and had white heads or small white pmples (not sure what they're called) everywhere i used it. Now i use it on my neck and it doesnt react there but it kind of sucks that i cant use it on my face. It smells nice, its not that thick and not overly heavy the skin but only negative is that it keeps giving me a reaction. Im sure it would work well for most people though.. maybe it just has an ingredient that my skin doesn't like.
OMG!! I'm never gonna use this again. Worst product ever for acne prone skin. I also have dry skin and oily skin at the same time and I read so many good reviews about it and wanted to try it but broke me out horribly. I just used I twice.
I really was excited about this and had high hopes. When I first picked up this product, I smelled it and it does have a smell and I don't like to use things that have smell, but I thought, "Well, it has collagen-elastin, so I'll get over it." The smell does bother me that much, and no I can't get over it like I thought I could! It also felt greasy and heavy to me. Oh well.
This is by far my most essential beauty product! I have dry skin and this moisturizer seems to magically moisturize my skin and give it the prettiest texture and sheen. It is never slimy or sticky and the best part about it is how it looks under makeup - flawless. I have always struggled with finding a moisturizer that doesn't make my foundation look splotchy, and this is the best best best for everyday wear.
I put it on at least twice a day - at night and in the morning. It was recommended by Dr. Oz and it said to have all the benefits of every expensive high end collagen cream out there. I have a wrinkle on my forhead and it seems to have become less prominent since I've been wearing this stuff regularly. I can't say enough good things about it. We buy it in bulk and my husband has even started using it!
It does come in a tub, so if you are a germaphobe, that might be a problem for you. But this stuff has never made me break out and if anything, it helps heal my breakouts faster. It is the best face lotion in all the land and I will die if they ever discontinue it!
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I have to say for having oily skin this does a great job of lightly moisturizing and doesn't make my skin more oily than usual. Very light with a nice fresh scent. I don't like the huge awkward tub it comes in so I transferred a smaller amount into a smaller container. Love it for nighttime.


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Aloha Mana Villa Rarotonga
Official Contact Details - Aloha ManaPhone: 682-21530 Fax: 682-21530
Cook Islands' Aloha Mana is a lovely two-bedroom home. Over 125 years old, this restored colonial cottage is now a private holiday home, hugs Raro's stunning lagoon, and comes complete with everything
- Price from 215 NZD / Day
- Capacity up to 4 people
- 2 bedrooms & 1 bathroom
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Last updated: 12/08/2006
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Located in the Cook Islands on the quiet side of Rarotonga, this historic residence is close to Wigmore's Superstore and within easy access to wonderful restaurants. Directly across the road is a very quiet stretch of beach, excellent for kayaking, snorkeling and swimming. There is a shady lawn and picnic table across on the beachside, and the sand is just metres from the front verandah.
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Located in the Cook Islands on the quiet side of Rarotonga, this historic residence is close to Wigmore's Superstore and within easy access to wonderful restaurants. Directly across the road is a very quiet stretch of beach, excellent for kayaking, snorkeling and swimming. There is a shady lawn and picnic table across on the beachside, and the sand is just metres from the front verandah.
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This Cook Islands vacation home features quality fixtures, furnishings and amenities:
Two bedrooms, dining/living areas, kitchen, spacious bathroom, office desk with telephone and complimentary local calls
Large rear sundeck and front verandah for reading, sunning, entertaining
Hardwood and tile floors, area rugs
Ceiling and standing fans - Air conditioner available on request
Large Spa Bath and three showers (one outside on beach path), hair dryer, bubble bath, candles, plenty of fresh towels.
Laundry, iron and ironing board
Designer furnishings, fine art, books, and personal treasures
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Stereo with CDs and tapes, card and board games
Kitchen appliances, cooking, eating and entertaining utensils, 6-burner gas stove, extra large refrigerator, microwave
Gas BBQ on rear Sun Deck for those special occasions
Beach toys: picnic table, chairs, kayak, snorkel gear, and beach towels aare all on site for your exclusive use.
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Important Notice : Avoiding Fraud
It's rare, but some helpful hints to watch out for with regards to fraud:
- It is important to NEVER wire funds or use/employ other fund transfer mechanisms such as western union: Always use a credit card to protect yourself against fraud. If owners pressure you into providing a deposit or refuse to accept credit cards, there is a high probability that this is a scam.
- If at all suspicious of fraud, ask to see their website, or any other literature they can provide or send to you. Ask them for contact details for guests who have previously stayed on their property insisting on telephone numbers. Be suspicious of emails that originate from free email services (yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc)
- Research the property thoroughly on the internet to see if there is any history or mention of scams associated with the property.


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My Goodness, I've been busy!
Pathetic excuse, I know. But I've been doing a little "housecleaning" around here. I've noticed that my site is a wee bit broken in areas, and I just haven't had the chance to come along and fix it. My stuff always seems to take the back seat to everyone else! Such is life
In any case, some changes are forthcoming. Please be patient with me
Extra Info on Creating WordPress Themes
Anthony, over at Maddison Designs, happily reminded me this morning that I needed to update my tutorials on creating WordPress themes. He is such a sweetheart – he said he actually learned how to do it himself from a tutorial I wrote eons ago. I caught him in a discussion on Twitter with someone else, talking it over, and I realized exactly how old the tutorials were (the first is now over 6 years old, while the second run is over 3).
Yes, I should be updating these things more often, but honestly, I didn't know so many people actually still read these things! So here I am, giving it another update.
The funny thing is, even as old as these tutorials are, they still apply. I wrote the original tutorial for WordPress 2.x – I can't honestly even remember exactly which version it was, it was so long ago. (The top of the tutorial says it was for 2.0, but even so, I'm not even 100% sure it was exactly that version.) The second run was for 2.8. We're now just starting to enjoy the loveliness that is 3.4.
Honestly, the second tutorial is quite a bit more comprehensive, and is closer to what I use today. There's a few additions now – like the inc folder (which usually contains the widgets.php file), child themes, MultiSite, and custom post types/taxonomies. I really don't want to go into all the old stuff, since it'll just be re-hashing everything I've already written. But I'm more than happy to go over the new stuff.
Unfortunately, I haven't had much of a chance to work with MultiSite. No opportunities have come my way on that end, so I'm going to have to regretfully pass on discussing that, since I simply don't know enough about it yet. I only tried MultiSite once in my career, and the site I used it for ended up shutting it down within a few months (not because of the site, but because the business it was going to be used for shut down.) There wasn't a whole lot I got to do with it, and it was long before you could simply activate MultiSite from a single installation with a line in wp-config.php. Someday, however, I will dive into it. (Maybe it'll end up being the trend for 2013!)
inc/ folder and Widgets.php
I can go over the inc/widgets.php very quickly. Personally, I don't use it. Most of the widgets I write are "general purpose", meaning that if the client ends up changing the theme, I want them to continue using the widgets at hand, so I write a plugin instead. That way, the widgets remain, even if the theme changes. When you use the inc folder within the theme files, then as soon as you change the theme, the widgets go away (unless you write them/'port them over into the new theme).
Now, this is actually a good thing, if you've written custom widgets that are theme-specific. If you do, it's pretty simple: simply open up your functions.php file and add this line to the top:
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/inc/widgets.php' );
Pretty simple, eh? This is a nice little trick you can do, too, because if you have other code, etc. that you'd like to have better organized within your theme files, you can pretty much do this for anything. Just pop your file into the "inc" folder" and call it in – then you can WordPress it up (This has come in really handy for when I did directory sites – I can put in all those directory-related files into the inc folder and not get them confused with the theme files.)
You certainly don't want to try and "organize" your template files though, because doing so will mess with how things are displayed, since WordPress looks for the files in your theme first, and if it doesn't find them, uses twenty eleven's stuff instead. But for anything you want to add, it's wonderful.
Child Themes
Child themes are pretty new to me, to be honest. Like MultiSite, they haven't come across my path quite yet. I will share what I know, but I can't promise to have a full understanding of them, and I won't be providing full-on tutorials on them yet.
The very simplest explanation of a child theme is from the Codex:
A WordPress child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality of another theme, called the parent theme, and allows you to modify, or add to, the functionality of that parent theme.
Clear as mud, right? To me, it pretty much sounds like regular themes – where you can create a new file that corresponds to some page, category, archive, custom post type, what have you; and then write additional functions that you can plug into the inc folder, right? How are they any different from regular theme files?
The thing is, let's say you bought a theme from theme forest or something. The theme is so very close to what you need, but there's some functionality you have to have that the purchased theme does not provide. And what happens if you use that theme, make massive edits to it to customize it to your needs, and then it's upgraded? Everything's overwritten, and all of it's gone (or you have to go back to your backup and re-import all your edits).
That's where child themes shine: you can customize an existing theme and not worry about it getting overwritten. You can use the stuff thats' there, and simply add to it to make it suit you, and not touch the regular theme files.
To create a child theme (of an existing parent), you simply have to make the addition of a single line in the style.css file of your child theme folder: "Template". In the top of your style.css file, where you have to put in the theme name and decscription (so WordPress understands what it is and uses it), you just add in the "Template" links, and set the name of the directory of the parent theme.
So, for example, say I bought the "Slab Theme" from Theme Forest.(no, I have no affiliation with either of these – I just thought the thumbnail was pretty.) You put the theme in your WordPress "themes" folder. Create a new theme (with your standard files: stye.css, header.php. functions.php, footer.php, sidebar.php, and index.php) and in the top of the style.css file, you pop in:
Template: slab
in that commented-section. Bam, now you can use all the functionality and style of the slab theme, but customize the crap out of it.
In other words, instead of using Twenty Eleven as the default fallback, it'll use Slab. With the added bonus of also allowing you to use all the functionality and styles of Slab without making specific callbacks to it – you just use them.
Hopefully that makes sense
Custom Post Types and Taxonomies
Now THIS is where I've been getting a lot of experience in. First off, I want to tell you that WP Alchemy (for meta boxes) and Advanced Custom Fields are two AMAZING plugins that will pretty much do anything you need.
However, the reason I've become so good at writing my own custom post types and taxonomies are because of the plugin writing I do. I don't want any of my plugins to be dependent on someone else's work, so I manually write them up myself.
Creating custom post types really isn't that difficult. The Codex has an excellent explanation on how to pull it off, and I don't think I could add to it to make it any better.
The trickiness in custom post types actually comes with just a couple of things- where I've had to sort it out with trial and error. Mostly it has to do with taxonomies (and displaying /querying them), but there's a bit of an issue with the "query_var" and "rewrite" sections of creating a custom post type. The codex has gotten a lot better in explaining these two – because originally they were just boolean values. But if you just use boolean values, you kind of get some weird output.
'query_var' is to simply set the term you want to use when querying the custom post types. Like when you use query_posts to grab the "cats" category, you'll want some term to query the custom post type. Now, by default (if you just set query_var to "true") it'll use the name you gave the custom post type when you registered it.
register_post_type('campaign_posts', array(
by default, the query variable is 'campaign_posts', so when using query_posts, you'd put in:
query_posts(array('post_type' => 'campaign_posts'));
But, if you set the 'query_var' to something else (say, "campaigns") then you can
query_posts(array('post_type' => 'campaigns'));
And that will work, too.
I suppose it's a bit pointless, because you can just register the post type as whatever you want to name it, but sometimes it comes in handy.
"Rewrite" confused me for the longest time (what can I say, I work a lot without coffee), because you can use either a string or a boolean value. "Rewrite" has to do with your permalinks. It looks like so:
'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'campaigns', 'with_front' => true ),
there's a couple of other attributes you can pop in there, but these are the two you will use the most. Basically, "slug" is the slug you'll see in the URL when you're on a custom post type. "with_front" is whether or not you want the additional settings in your permalinks to show up, or make it look like it's a Page. For example, if you have your custom structure as "/%category%/%postname%" (which means, when you're in a category, you'll have "/category/cats" in your permalink, when you're in the "Cats" section), "with_front => true" will have your custom post type set up to show "/category/campaigns" in the URL. But if you have "with_front => false", then it'll just be "/campaigns".
For the record, NEVER use a slash in the slug (i.e you want to give your custom post type a "custom front"). It'll become a headbanging experience of epic proportions. BIG fat no-no. Take it from me – you don't even want to try.
Campaign Taxonomies
Creating these are very similar to creating a post type. here, I'll pop in a bit of code I used for a recent client:
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add_action( 'init', 'create_campaign_cats' );
function create_campaign_cats() {
register_taxonomy('campaign_category', array('campaign_posts'), array(
'labels' => array(
'name' => 'Campaign Categories',
'singular_name' => 'Campaign Category',
'search_items' => 'Search Campaign Categories',
'all_items' => 'All Campaign Categories',
'parent_item' => 'Parent Campaign Category',
'parent_item_colon' => 'Parent Campaign Category',
'edit_item' => 'Edit Campaign Category',
'update_item' => 'Update Campaign Category',
'add_new_item' => 'Add New Campaign Category',
'new_item_name' => 'New Campaign Category Name'
'hierarchical' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'query_var' => 'campaign-category',
'has_archive' => true,
'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'campaign-category'))
The one you need to pay the most attention to are the "hierarchical" (and for the love of all things holy, be sure you spell that word correctly. You have no idea how many times this didn't work for me because I swapped the "e" and the "i".) and the first "array" in the "register_taxonomy" line.
"hierarchical" will determine if this taxonomy is like categories ("true") or tags ("false").
That first array tells this function what post types to add these custom taxonomies to. For more than one post type, just use a comma-separated value. I.e.:
register_taxonomy('campaign_category', array('campaign_posts', 'post', 'some_other_post_type'),
A TIP: you can actually forego the "add_action" call to register meta boxes and/or taxonomies for a particular custom post type. How so, you ask? In the "register_post-type" call, add in:
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'register_meta_box_cb' => 'callback_function_name',
'taxonomies' = > 'callback_function_name'
I know this isn't as comprehensive a tutorial as I've given in the past (as far as creating the themes go), but that's because the basics still remain the same. There's new stuff that can be used to make things even more super-powered, which I've touched on here. But really, with the new additions, I'll be posting more specific tutorials on theming (for example, the membership stuff that I've been slowly adding in). I don't know if you all have noticed, either, but I've added a new section here called "code snippets" where I'm popping in little juicy tidbits I find myself using quite often – and I think that will also help with some of the more extensive things you can do with WordPress
Something totally fun with GeekTool
Okay, I've always been fascinated with GeekTool. It's one of the (many) reasons I'm still happy I converted from PC to Mac several years ago. (By the way, the Mac that I bought back on 2008? Still going strong. If I were on a PC, I would have already reformatted and defragged and cleaned it up – and I'd be doing it to my second replacement by now – and probably getting ready to buy a third one already. I never understood why PC people think Macs are so expensive!)
I had a Geek Tool desktop setup a few years ago, but I made it go away for some reason I can't recall. But I had to move out of my office over the weekend – it's so funny how moving just to another room makes you want to clean and organize like crazy! – and when I got my new space situated, I wanted to upgrade to OSX Lion, and then Geek Tool it out.
Let's talk about the WordPress Registration Process.
So, the little tidbit (or intro post – whatever you want to call it) in making Membership sites that I posted a little bit ago was apparently a "tantalizer." People are wanting to know more… more "meat" I guess you could say. It's funny, so far, this year "membership" sites, or "restricted access" sites are pretty much all I've done this year (and the end of last) so I'm getting more and more into it.
Finally! An Update!
So you may see that things are finally updated around here. Just passing some information: I still have a few bugs to work out. I.e. there's some old stuff in here that isn't using the cool new FV Code Highlighter plugin (which I am ADORING so far – makes things so much easier!), and I still haven't browser-checked this puppy. I cannot imagine what it looks like in Internet Explorer.
So I'll be knocking out those issues as fast as I can, but I just couldn't wait to actually put this puppy up. My old site needed a redesign in the worst possible way.
Anyway, just be aware that there still may be a few kinks you'll run into here and there while I work things out. They'll be fixed though, I swear it. (and in as little time as possible.) I've also got some great content lined up – it's about time I've updated the blog posts here – so there'll be some posts coming soon with some yummy tutorials for you to dive in to.
WordPress and Memberships
Oh, this was something I was going to save for my redesign. I'm about 98% finished with my website redesign (which is SO BADLY needed – but you know the whole thing about cobbler's children and all), and this tutorial was going to be one of the first new items I put on the blog. However, I've found myself, over the last couple of weeks, hearing the same question asked over and over again (with different words of course – they think they are asking a different question, but they aren't) and me answering it the same way over and over again.
As to this one point, I do not blame anyone for asking the same question over and over again,because I can understand how they think their situation is different. So hopefully no one thinks I'm a big, fat meanie that's "venting about complainers" or something – because I'm totally not. I'm just tired of typing the same answer a lot, so I figured I'd put it one spot so I can just link to it and save my fingers from cramping!
Okay, so the question is this: "What's the best plugin for turning WordPress into a membership directory?" (or another variation: "How to do keep [insert some page or file name here] from being accessed by people who shouldn't have it?" There's many more variations, but I think you get the idea.)
wp_logout_url()…. AGH!!!
So I'm working on a site right now that incorporates the new bbPress plugin with WordPress. I'm testing the login/logout process, and since it's now a plugin (instead of a standalone) you can use your WordPress logging for both things (the site and the forum).
So I'm putting in a link for the logout url, via wp_logout_url(), and I'm following the Codex instructions for the redirect. but as I continue testing, I realize that the redirect isn't working. Hmm. So off to the forums I trot.
And discover that this isn't a new issue.
Back End Instructions – official release
So, you might remember, back in August, I wrote a plugin called "Back End Instructions" and popped it on my site for you all to freely download and use, if you wanted. If you recall, the plugin is for those of you who have a lot of clients that utilize WordPress, and you've written a custom theme for them, but no matter how many times you send instructions or answer their questions on how to use it, they still keep asking you.
I've discovered that the reason clients do this is because (and no offense to clients – we live in an "instant gratification" age right now) it's easier to just call you and ask when they forget how to do something than search for the last time they asked you and you provided that answer. You can send them written instructions or answer their questions with meaningful subject lines in email (so it's easy to find), but they'll still just call you when they forget instead of looking to see if the question's already been answered. They want something that's right there, in their face, and they don't have to go looking for it.
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I'm halfway through it, and disappointed
Here it is, June 6th, and I'm roughly halfway through my sabbatical – and quite disappointed in my progress thus far. I have managed to fall back into the old habits that I've been trying to change, and I have not yet successfully managed to complete any of the goals I set for myself.
Wow, I didn't realize how hard it would be to admit that.
I have allowed things to get in my way. One of the things that's bad about me is my level of focus. It's not that I have a bad focus when it comes to my work and clients – not that at all. (I have a sincerely disgusting work ethic.) It's that I always let my needs (and those of my business) to fall by the wayside. I focus too intently on what I'm doing for others, and I don't focus on myself.
It's sort of like that thing that they say, about taking care of yourself first? Because if you don't, you won't be around to take care of anyone else? Like that. This is the major point about me, and the big one I really wanted to change this year. I love helping other people. I love to solve problems. I will lose sleep for someone else's issue – and the big downside is that I do take failure personally. I tend to make other people's problem mine to solve.
Six months into this sabbatical, I haven't changed this behavior. I'm supposed to be taking time off and focusing on me, and my business – not for selfish reasons, but instead to make me stronger so I can continue helping others – and instead I'm still putting out fires. Like I did last year, and the year before, and the year before. My focus has shifted – yet again- to the needs of others, and placing them before mine.
And I feel so disappointed in myself for it.
I cannot figure out why I see other colleagues of mine, others who are less talented and passionate than I (yes, I do know I'm not a complete loser, and I am self-aware of my own abilities and that I do have some good points to my work aside form my ethic) soar higher than I do. No, I should not focus on how well they are doing – save to congratulate them and wish them well, which I do – and compare myself to them. But their successes are bittersweet, because I know if I'd put half as much focus on myself as they did, then I would shoot right by them and they'd be eating my dust. I'm so happy for them, but I really wish I could do half as well for myself.
As my husband says, wish in one hand…
This is a lot harder than I thought it would be. I know my obstacles, yet I feel like all I can do is stand there and look at them, and help push other people over them, because I feel guilty if I don't. And what is really upsetting is that more than half the people I help don't even bother to help me back, or even thank me for the assistance I give. I feel like that lonely girl in the high school halls who will do anything to make the popular kids like her, and even when they abuse her, all she wants is their respect and admiration – so she keeps getting pissed on in hopes one day they will realize her value. It's kind of pathetic. And sad. (And amazingly, a lot like my high school daughter – wow, what a perspective!)
So that's where I'm at – six months in. Just as lost as ever. So what do I do about it? Let's try and turn this into a positive thing. I know what my problem is – and knowing the enemy is halfway to winning the battle against it. What I need is a strategy. I overthink. I look at all the possible actions I can take, and get frozen by which is the right one to choose. So I need to choose. I need to stop wavering, make a choice, and follow that choice unwaveringly. I need to stop deviating from my path, stop worrying about things that are not on this path.
Sounds good, doesn't it? Yeah, it does. Now I
need to see if I can must do it!
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Will Smith is one of my favorite actors.
When I was in high school, he was the "funny guy" in Fresh Prince and had some rap songs out. (I've never much been a fan of rap music, but at least his were amusing.) Back then, he was just another young guy who was funny, dabbled in music, etc. And then he just disappeared like so many of them do.
But when he "came back", he did so with a vengeance. When I'd heard he'd lost everything, and didn't give up – instead he saw it as an opportunity to start with a clean slate and apply those hard lessons – a little seed of respect began to grow for him. One of my favorite movies of his is "The Pursuit of Happyness" – and even though the movie isn't about him, I am aware that a lot of who he portrayed is how he thinks and acts.
I'm not the kind of girl who generally fawns over actors and celebrities. Personally, I don't really much care about what they do, and I never quite understood what the big deal is with needing to know what they do every day. To me, they're just people doing their job. Like anyone who has a job, some do it better than others, some are lazy, some are lucky (probably due to some brown-nosing or something), and some make mistakes.
But Will Smith continues to fill that seemingly unattainable… thing that many people would like to have, and his celebrity status isn't what makes him the way he is – I think he'd be this way even if he weren't famous. Which I really like.
No, this isn't just some diatribe on my fan-love of the guy. There is a point.
This morning, I was directed to this video. It's long, but worth every minute. I have to say that
nearly everything he says in the video is just a very powerful and real message that I agree with, and in some cases (okay, ALL cases), would like to live by.
When I grow up, I want to be Will Smith.
This video brings about some terrific points about success – not only in your business, but in your life. I saw a lot of my own beliefs, ethics and attitudes in his words (which you might see some of in a post I wrote back in March, as well as in a lot of the comments left on that post), and it gives me a little bit of hope that maybe I am moving in the right direction… that maybe these "walls" I keep running into are just an illusion.
This video was the boost I needed, since recently I've found myself slipping back into the old groove I've been trying to get out of. Maybe I'm not the only one – and some of you might get something out of this as well. But for me, I think I'll be playing this for myself every time I start to feel like "I can't" so I will change it to "I can."


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The European Parliament has backed sanctions on Uganda and Nigeria to protest against their recent passing of anti-gay laws.
Members of the European parliament (MEPs) approved a non-binding resolution on Thursday by a large majority which said the two countries violated the Cotonou accord on human rights, democratic principles and the rule of law.
There should be targeted sanctions, such as travel and visa bans, against "the key individuals responsible for drafting and adopting" the laws, the resolution said.
Additionally, there should be a review of the EU's "development aid strategy with Uganda and Nigeria, with a view to redirecting aid to civil society and other organisations rather than suspending it", a parliamentary statement said.
EU Budget Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski, representing the Commission, told MEPs Brussels already "had very frank discussions with the two countries", with more talks planned.
"The outcome of these contacts will be very important in determining how our relations with Nigeria and Uganda develop under the Cotonou accord," Lewandowski said.
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MEPs charged that the laws passed in the two countries amounted to a "grave menace" to human rights.
Last month, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed a bill that calls for "repeat homosexuals" to be jailed for life, outlaws any promotion of homosexuality and requires people to report homosexuals.
Earlier, Nigeria banned same-sex marriage and civil unions while homosexual acts already carry the death sentence under the region's interpretation of Islamic law, which applies along with federal law in the north of the country.
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Man pleads innocent to killing father, son electriciansFebruary 13,2014Staff Report
A 70-year-old Hubbardton man charged with killing father and son electricians Wednesday had been in an ongoing dispute with his landlord about allowing workers onto the property to do maintenance work, according to court records released this afternoon.
Sylvester Labartino, 70, pleaded innocent today in criminal court in Rutland to two counts of second-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Shane Plummer, 57, and his son, Christopher Plummer, 26, both of West Haven. Sylvester was ordered held on $750,000 bail and was taken to Rutland jail following the brief hearing.
The two men were killed Wednesday afternoon when they were at 578 Route 30 north in Hubbardton doing work at a home Labartino had been renting from William Gilbert, according to an affidavit by Vermont State Police Detective Sgt. Daniel Elliott.
A day earlier, the affidavit stated, Trooper Stephanie Shaw had gone to the residence after receiving a complaint from Gilbert that he had been "having difficulty" with Labartino, who was preventing electricians from doing needed maintenance at the residence.
"Gilbert advised the tenant was hostile and was a gun owner," the affidavit stated.
Shaw then talked to Labartino, who reportedly told her that the dispute with Gilbert had been going on for some time and he was tired of being bothered by his landlord.
Shaw again was called to the home Wednesday morning for a trespassing complaint made by Labartino, who told her that he again was having "issues" with Gilbert and electricians who had been at the property that morning, the affidavit stated.
Labartino told Shaw, according to the affidavit, that he didn't want to see Gilbert or the workers when he returned from a doctor's appointment.
On Wednesday, at 1:37 p.m., the affidavit stated, police received a 911 call later determined to be from a number belonging to Shane Plummer's cellphone. "I need help, my son has just been shot and he chased me out of my truck with a rifle," the caller said.
The first two troopers who arrived at Labartino's address at 1:56 p.m. reported finding two men on the ground and injured. Fair Haven Rescue personnel arrived at the scene at 2:06 p.m. and both men were pronounced dead, Elliott wrote in the affidavit.
At 2 p.m. police pulled over Labartino, who was driving a white Ford Bronco about a mile south of the scene, Elliott wrote. Labartino was taken to the Fair Haven Police Department and told authorities he wanted to speak with an attorney and then did not provide any statement, according to the affidavit.
Labartino appeared this afternoon in Rutland criminal court dressed in a green smock and sandals. He sat at the defense table and stared straight ahead, not looking at the rows of mourning family members who wept behind him.
Each second-degree murder charge against Labartino carries a possible maximum penalty of up to life in prison, if convicted.
Outside the courtroom prior to the arraignment, Michelle Charron, Shane Plummer's sister and Christopher Plummer's aunt, said she came to the hearing seeking answers.
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He backs up the assertion with a few examples of how Apple Inc. has strong-armed its way to a lead in the mobile market. For example, it took only a few lines of code for Apple to make its own mapping app the default on its iconic mobile smart phone, which has turned the mobile mapping software market on its head; 71 per cent of U.K. mobile users opted for Google Maps last fall, whereas in 2013, 60 per cent were Apple map users. (This despite well-publicized glitches in the software that turned the Manhattan Bridge into a roller coaster and placed a Burger King in a cathedral.)
He also cites several examples of situations where lawyers won the day (Apple versus Samsung) and wins and losses in the boardroom rather than by the engineers.
There's an argument to be made that intellectual property rights litigation has become a major tech growth industry. We have our own examples in Canada, including i4i's courtroom whupping of Microsoft over XML technologies and the "Rockstar Consortium" wrangling over $4.5 billion in Nortel Networks intellectual property. And on the marketing side, Apple's buzz management within its built-in fanboi base made a huge contribution to the success of the iPhone and the iPad.
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"When is it for?" asked Mrs Vajkay.
"Tomorrow evening," the leading man was quick to reply. "What is it we're playing?"
By the next afternoon, the barber has spruced Father up to go out on the town, and Mother, who has acquired a swanky new crocodile handbag for the occasion, puts on her good dress, which though many years old has been worn only "for Easter, Corpus Christi, or some similar occasion." At the smoky, bustling theater, Father buys Mother a box of fancy chocolates, tied with gold ribbon, and the couple settles down in their seats.*
By writerly magic, Kosztolányi sees to it that even as we roll our eyes, we are entranced by the grimy theater and the appalling show with its lazy, fourth-rate performers. We read not only with our own senses but as though we have been invested with the Vajkays' as well, which are aroused and sharpened by sudden release from years of subjection to Skylark's punitive cooking and coddling, by the pressure of their subliminal awareness that they have colluded in her isolation and paid with their own, by the irrepressible combustion of the incompatible feelings each has for their poor, afflicted, jailor daughter. The sheen of life flares from the pages: the local restaurant, the town blowhards and casualties, the mundane window displays, the idiotic play—all, remarkably, seem glistening, vibrant, irresistible.
Ákos usually manages to experience his daughter in a benign, generalizing blur:
Without really thinking any more, he loved her as she was, loved her boundlessly….
Yet…Even if she simply changed her hairstyle, or put on a winter coat at the end of autumn or a new dress for the spring, he could be miserable for weeks before he grew accustomed to her altered appearance.
But now that he is not in danger of really seeing her and having to get used to her all over again, not only is Ákos able to use his eyes, but the brutal nightmares that plague him, in which Skylark, calling out for his help, is kidnapped and murdered, lapse. They are on vacation from their resentment and despair, and from the inevitable accompanying shame; they are also on vacation from the immense amount of energy required to excise all this from consciousness. Now they can begin to incorporate themselves into the world around them, and their fragility, anxiety, and sense of ambient danger simply waft away along with their violent and violently repressed feelings.
Ákos, whose "only passion remaining…from the past was to sit in his cramped and perpetually damp study, leafing through a volume of Iván Nagy's great tome on Hungarian noble families, or Géza Csegheo 's precious and thoroughly entertaining little book on the history of coats of arms," even extravagantly screws a light bulb into the unused living room fixture, and he and Mother pore over a newspaper as if it were the first one ever to have been printed:
They didn't understand much of what they read, but felt none the less that they were not entirely alone. Millions struggled just like them. And it was here that all those struggles found a common meeting place.
On Thursday night, the night before Skylark's return, Ákos—wearing "dove-grey gloves and carrying a silver-pommelled cane"—joins the Panthers in their weekly get-together at the clubhouse, where he stays far into the night, drinking a dizzying quantity and gambling with remarkable brio and huge success.
But what is the dispatched cat doing while the mice play? We have accompanied her on her devastating journey to Tarko , during which the neutral presence of strangers releases her unrestrainable sobbing. And then, once Mother and Father receive the telegram—"Arrived Safely "—with which they had equipped her and for which they have been waiting with nearly intolerable anxiety, we forget all about her—until, that is, on Wednesday, two days before she is due home, when a letter from her arrives.
Ákos is the one to receive the letter, which he reads sitting on a park bench. And after he has finished it, it somehow disappears, in the way that critical and fraught items, like the keys or a claim check that one has just had in hand, can disappear. And so Ákos is left to report on it to Mother:
"What did she say?" asked his wife.
"She's fine. Having a wonderful time."
"And her health?"
"She's perfectly well. Only a slight toothache…. But she rubbed rum on it…. Good, strong rum, and it went away."
Yet we have just seen that Ákos has understood his daughter's misery perfectly and it has wounded him to the quick:
How squalid it all was, here and at the theatre, too, among the shabby props and decorations. There was no justice in the world, no justice anywhere. Everything was meaningless. Nothing mattered at all.
As the reader might note, Mother hasn't pressed her husband very hard at all for more information from her beloved daughter's letter. The tactics that the Vajkays employ to protect each other from themselves are clearly not meant to be foolproof; although they must not speak openly or directly to one another about unhappiness, they cannot help but send smothered and inarticulate signals of panic and rebuke. Skylark's long, excruciating letter home is a tour de force of transparent dissimulation; the perky account of all the fun she's having with her relatives hides her acute loneliness and mortification the way a lace tablecloth would hide a bleeding corpse on the kitchen floor.
It's not a negligible detail that while we know Father by his name, Mother's name, Antonia, is hardly ever used. She remains "Mother," and it falls to her to make order out of Ákos's drunken eruption of grief when he returns from the Panthers' Thursday night melee near dawn, winnings from the card game spilling out of his pockets, and violates the strangulating silence they have held for so long. Abruptly, they and their lives are on trial.
Ákos charges himself with the prosecution: Skylark is hideous, she's a burden, they hate her, they would not even be sorry if the daughter he's contrived to get murdered so often in his dreams were…
Although at this juncture even Mother cannot entirely suppress the awareness that she, too, might feel something of the sort, this is a mortal struggle and she must step up to the defense. She rouses herself from bed as Ákos is taking off his dapper club attire: what Father is saying is nonsense, he's drunk, they adore their daughter, they are all happy, everything will be fine.
"Thus Skylark's aging parents stood face to face, barefoot, almost naked…." Which version of the past, present, and future set forth during this harrowing confrontation in the dead of night will prevail? In fact, each version is not only plausible, but—though partial—accurate.
Skylark is the most penetrating and convincing rendition of true ambivalence that I have ever read, and at this climactic moment, the fission of alloyed but contradictory passions that have been heating and expanding within both Mother and Father all week is nearly unsustainable, even for the reader. In the end, Mother manages to domesticate the conflict. Once again, just in time for Skylark's return, despair and clarity will be put under lock and key. Now life will return to its former fearful paralysis—the condition that can be borne. In order for pain and desolation to die, pleasure and vitality must die along with them.
Theater ticket stubs and other criminal evidence of Mother and Father's wild week are hurriedly destroyed. The piano is closed and Mother's telltale sheet music is put away, cigar ashes are swept up, the furniture is moved back to where it was a week earlier, and Skylark's precious needlework, cast aside and rumpled, is located and pressed. Neither Mother nor Father alludes to the "childish and tasteless" scene of the early morning. Skylark gets off the train proudly displaying gifts from her aunt and uncle and cosseting her dear new pet—an ugly caged pigeon. Everything is fine.
That parents and child must never disclose their anguish to one another does not mean that they are entirely mute. When Skylark goes to her room the night of her cheerful return, again her tears are released: above her bed,
like the plaster Jesus which hung above her parents' bed, stood an image of the Virgin Mary, rocking her large, dead child on her knees and pointing to her heart, pierced by the seven daggers of maternal pain. In days long since gone by she had listened to Skylark's childish prayers, just as the prostrate Jesus heard those of her parents. For a second she flung out her arms towards the image in a gesture of passion which, however, she immediately suppressed. Patience. Patience. There are those who suffer so much more.
Kosztolányi was born in 1885, grew up in the city of Szabadka, which provided a model for Sárszeg, and died of throat cancer in 1936. Although he is known in English only by Skylark and his perhaps equally wonderful Anna Édes (another of his five novels, The Darker Muses, was published in English in 1990 but appears to be unavailable), Kosztolányi was prolific and very famous. He came to early prominence as a poet, was also a journalist, wrote many short stories, and contributed to an eminent literary journal called Nyugat (West). He was a marvelous and influential stylist; it is clear on the evidence that he was brilliant and witty, and he is said to have been charming, handsome, and elegant.
Skylark was begun in 1923, a political and psychological millennium distant from 1899, in which it is set. By the time the book was written, World War I had dissolved the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Szabadka had been subsumed by Yugoslavia. Hungary had endured several revolutions and counterrevolutions, and Budapest itself had been occupied by Romanian soldiers. Probably nowhere in Europe, and certainly not in Hungary, would it have been possible to find the sense of stasis—only distantly imperiled—that is so critical to Skylark.
The story depends to a great extent on the insularity of the imaginary Sárszeg and the assumed continuity of its culture. Ákos's confidence in the past—his assurance that it sets the pattern of the future—and his smugness about being its steward would have seemed, after the war, to be evidence of mental illness rather than a sociologically appropriate, conservative foible. Nor would the constant alteration of circumstances during and after the war have allowed him to maintain the fragile gauze over the lens through which he must see his daughter.
The otherworldy impartiality of the narration, the intensity and the apparently effortless lyricism, and the meld of satire and elegy all suggest retrospect and even an irony-inflected nostalgia for something that, however unsatisfactory, is over and done with.
Though a dark penumbra of death—from industrial pollutants and from alcohol—surrounds Kosztolányi's lively Sárszeg—"Hearing the endless peal of deafening bells and seeing all these funeral concerns, the unsuspecting visitor might have imagined that people didn't live in Sárszeg at all, but only died there"—change and disruption themselves are not a threat discernible to its residents. As Father reads the newspaper to Mother, we hear the loud rumblings of the avalanche that is soon to engulf them, but they don't. The disasters looming right overhead are simply too complex and too large to be properly perceived:
The Dreyfus affair. Second hearing before the military tribunal at Rennes. That notorious French captain. Handed secret documents over to the Germans…. Talk of the death sentence.
The woman wasn't interested.
"Kaiser Wilhelm in Alsace- Lorraine."
"The German Kaiser?"
"The very same. Says the territory always was and always would be German…."
"There won't be another war, will there?" The woman sighed.
"The French and the Germans," Ákos explained, "have never cared much for each other. But they seem to have settled their differences this time…."
"Strike," said Ákos. "An English word…. The workers don't want to work."
"Why not?"
"Because they don't want to."
"Why don't they make them?"
Ákos shrugged….
"Here, too. 'Shameless agitators among our people.' 'Peasants promised half an acre in the name of the prime minister.' They're calling it 'communism.' They want to redistribute the land."
"Who do?"
Enough of politics. They were more interested in tragedies and disasters.
"'In the state of Ohio,' Father read, 'a train plunged from a railway bridge. Two dead and thirty severely injured.'"
"Dreadful," said Mother…. "And how are all those poor injured people?"
And it is imperative that within the confines of the book nothing will ever be able to change for Skylark. Beauty is a social fact, as a friend of mine once put it, and the reader must accept the unanimous edict of Skylark's society: Skylark is ugly—not appealingly plain, not jolie-laide, not "unconventionally beautiful," just ugly.
Hers is not the sort of ugliness, familiar to us from so much wishful literature, that is eventually to disclose a disguised beauty to the sophisticated, original, or morally gifted—few of whom, in any case, are likely to be found in Kosztolányi's Sárszeg, where one of the chief entertainments of the local "intelligentsia" is to meet the night train that rolls through from Budapest and gaze at its glamorous passengers, luxuriously ensconced by the windows and visibly indifferent to the inhabitants of this sooty little provincial town.
Nor is the reader afforded the solace of finding herself to be more discerning or insightful than the residents of Sárszeg by virtue of discovering in Skylark a redemptive or beautiful soul. She doesn't have one. Her character—formed, or deformed, by her appearance and the response to it—is largely graceless: she is helpless and help- lessly tyrannical, self-deceiving, ferociously judgmental—irreversibly reduced. She is not truly dreadful and neither is her life. She is an ordinary enough woman, but the pity we feel for her is limitless and terrifying; it is pity neither for the special case whose life is inexplicably a hell, nor for the many, many unjustly disadvantaged—but simply for the suffering, who are everywhere.
I was astonished to discover that The Geisha, the musical comedy that the Vajkays attend, is in fact something that actually premiered in London in 1896 and that the breathtaking lyrics ("Happy Japan, Garden of glitter! Flower and fan, Flutter and flitter... Merry little geishas we !" etc.) came as a gift to both the author and Skylark 's excellent translator, Richard Aczel.↩
I was astonished to discover that The Geisha, the musical comedy that the Vajkays attend, is in fact something that actually premiered in London in 1896 and that the breathtaking lyrics ("Happy Japan, Garden of glitter! Flower and fan, Flutter and flitter… Merry little geishas we !" etc.) came as a gift to both the author and Skylark 's excellent translator, Richard Aczel.↩


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5 Consumer Stocks That Could Pop
BALTIMORE ( Stockpickr) -- All hail the mighty consumer!
In one way or another, consumer spending accounts for 70 cents of every dollar of GDP in this country, contributing a massive chunk of America's economic engine. So it should come as no surprise that consumer spending can have an even bigger impact on individual consumer-driven stocks.
It also shouldn't be a big surprise that those stocks have big targets on their backs. Consumer spending is one of the economic data points that has the biggest potential for volatility -- consumers can be a fickle group when it comes to parting with cash, after all.
But that's exactly why investors searching for short squeeze opportunities should be looking at consumer names in May.>>7 Stocks Soaring in a Weak Market In case you're not familiar with the term, a "short squeeze" is the buying frenzy that ensues when a heavily shorted stock starts to look attractive again to investors, causing share price to skyrocket. One of the best indicators of just how high a short-squeezed stock could go is the short interest ratio, which estimates the number of days it would take for short-sellers to cover their positions. The higher the short ratio, the higher the potential profits when the shorts get squeezed. Naturally, these plays aren't without their blemishes -- there's a reason that these stocks are being heavily shorted. But for investors looking for exposure to a speculative play with a beefier risk/reward tradeoff, these could be powerful upside plays for the coming year. And because equities haven't yet reacted to the 4% increase in consumer personal spending in 2012, the potential for a snap higher is even bigger than before. Without further ado, here's a look at our list of consumer-driven short squeeze opportunities.
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On 4/29/14, M & T Bank Corp's Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, Series A (MTB.PR) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $15.9375, payable on 5/15/14. As a percentage of MTB.PR's recent share price of $1001.25, this dividend works out to approximately 1.59%, so look for shares of MTB.PR to trade 1.59% lower — all else being equal — when MTB.PR shares open for trading on 4/29/14. On an annualized basis, the current yield is approximately 6.37%, which compares to an average yield of 5.78% in the "Financial" preferred stock category, according to Preferred Stock Channel.
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"The Farm is to be used as a playground and a place of cultural enhancment for the public in general and especially the residents of the community." - Frank H. Buhl 1914
Buhl Park is happy to announce that kayaking on Lake Julia is now permitted with the proper boat launch permit. Permits can be purchased at the Park Casino.
Butterfly Garden
Now complete with plants, flowers, crushed limestone pathway, two benches to enjoy the scenery, a sign displaying the life cycle of a Butterfly, and pillars for displaying memorial butterflies.
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