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Sterling Simms - How It Was
How It Was Sterling Simms
Give How It Was a spin - it's the latest release from Sterling Simms, having dropped on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011.
Give How It Was a listen - it's a new offering from Sterling Simms. It was dropped on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011. Sterling Simms's musical situation is improving with every new release, and How It Was will most definitely help the cause. It's a fine addition to the growing body of work Sterling Simms has been developing since stepping foot in the game. We're looking forward to what Sterling Simms has in store.
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Oracle Marketing Cloud: Leading the Way in Modern Marketing Execution [New Gartner Report]
Gartner, Inc. has named Oracle as a Leader in its "Magic Quadrant for Digital Marketing Hubs."
See how our customers succeed at Modern Marketing.
Industry: Technology
Location: Walnut Creek, CA
Revenue: $406 million
Focus: Lead Nurturing
ARC Document Solutions is the leading document solution provider for the architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. During the recession, ARC transformed itself into the largest AEC document management company in the world. The driver behind this remarkable transition during economic turmoil was ramping up marketing focused on helping customers efficiently modernize with ARC's digital document management tools and cloud technology.
ARC Document Solutions Increases Lead Generation with Nurturing
Industry: Technology
Location: Newbury, England
Revenue: $414 million
Focus: Engagement
Engaging conversations with increasingly educated customers using relevant, informative, and entertaining content - this is the Micro Focus vision for "Smarter digital marketing." To make this happen, the company needed to regroup the sales and marketing efforts under a central technology stack that could facilitate campaign rollout and monitoring across all channels and segments.
Micro Focus Goes Viral and Doubles Marketing's Contribution to Pipeline
Industry: Education
Location: New Brunswick, Canada
Revenue: N/A
Focus: Marketing Automation
The University of New Brunswick knows their alumni are the people most likely to make donations in support of the school's mission. But the university had no reliable way to communicate with approximately 80,000 graduates.
University of New Brunswick Engages Alumni Base with Targeted Campaigns
Industry: Technology
Location: Delft, Netherlands
Revenue: € 213 million
Focus: Engagement
Modern Marketing enhances the customer experience with engagement in a mutually enriching, one-on-one dialogue. To support opening up their SaaS portfolio to new markets at a 50% yearly rate, Exact turned to Oracle Marketing Cloud for international campaign rollout, data nurturing, and performance monitoring on one system.
Exact Increases Sales Qualified Leads by 35% with Modern Marketing
Industry: Technology
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Revenue: €155.1 million
Focus: Engagement
The wide acceptance of cloud computing by both businesses and individuals has raised security concerns. Security providers are developing new ways of preserving safety and privacy on virtual platforms. This is why F-Secure in Finland launched Younited for Business, a cloud platform designed to put people back in control of their digital world.
F-Secure Creates Buzz Around Cloud Security and Revives Channel Marketing
Industry: Technology Enabled Service
Location: Glen Allen, VA
Revenue: N/A
Focus: Marketing Automation
Leading employers post jobs on Snagajob to connect with thousands of potential employees. Although the company saw digital marketing as an essential activity, their CRM solution offered limited marketing automation functionality and provided no reporting insight.
Snagajob Increases Revenue and Quantifies Campaign ROI
Industry: Financial Services
Location: New York, NY
Revenue: N/A
Focus: Lead Nurturing
Axial provides an online networking platform that helps the right businesses find the right investors—to the benefit of everyone involved. How has Axial managed to break into a tight-knit market that's all about who you know? They took advantage of digital marketing.
Axial Grows the Business and Gains Key Marketing Insights
Industry: Healthcare
Location: Louisville, KY
Revenue: $75 million
Focus: Targeting
Few things are more frustrating to a digital marketer than bounced emails. Hoping to increase email deliverability, ZirMed's marketing organization began looking for a marketing automation solution that would not only make it easier to eliminate bad email addresses from the database, but also offer detailed reporting to help the company better target marketing messages.
ZirMed Enhances Targeting to Double Inquiries and Boost Sales
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Industry: Manufacturing
Revenue: $57 billion
Location: Midland, MI
Focus: Marketing Automation
As a diversified, global corporation with more than 6,000 products, manufactured at more than 200 sites in 36 countries throughout the world, Dow receives thousands of requests for product samples per month. Sample management has historically not only been an interesting challenge for this complex company, but was also an important one which has a direct—and potentially significant—impact on sales and revenue growth.
Industry: Media / Entertainment Technology
Revenue: N/A
Location: Burlington, MA
Focus: Integration
The Avid marketing team wanted to reach prospects and customers in a new way. The company had used email marketing with much success in the past, but wanted to expand their nurture programs in an innovative way. Avid wanted to find a solution that would also help solve the challenge of turning their unknown website visitors into leads.
Industry: Telecommunications
Revenue: N/A
Location: Austin, TX
Focus: Content Marketing
When LifeSize was preparing to rebuild their global corporate website, Megan Lueders, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, realized it was the perfect opportunity to develop a modern content strategy.
Persona-Based Content Strategy Fills the Pipeline at LifeSize
Industry: Technology
Revenue: N/A
Location: Bainbridge Island, WA
Focus: Marketing Automation
Since 2004, Avalara, Inc., has helped thousands of small and midsized companies reduce their risk of potentially costly tax audits by providing them with a fast and easy way to manage indirect taxes. But even as a leader in sales tax automation services, Avalara must work hard to market prospect offerings.
Industry: Technology
Revenue: $37.2 billion
Location: Redwood Shores, CA
Focus: Marketing Automation
To any business that uses enterprise technology, Oracle needs no introduction. With 400,000 customers in more than 145 countries—and an online developer community that's 15 million members strong—Oracle's brand was rated #18 on Interbrand's Best Global Brands in 2013. Oracle's 1,000+ marketers run campaigns that generate more than one million leads per year and host over 8,500 events annually to engage with customers and partners and demonstrate Oracle's products, services, and technology innovations.
Industry: Technology
Revenue: N/A
Location: Amherst, MA
Focus: Marketing Automation
Hoping to upsell more trial users to become paying customers, Semantria wanted to track and respond to sudden increases in usage. But monitoring individual accounts would have been far too time-consuming for Semantria's lean staff. Semantria solved this challenge by integrating Eloqua with its own solution to automate the sales funnel.
Industry: Telecommunications
Revenue: £7.4 Million
Location: Warrington, England
Focus: Lead Nurturing
As Paul Higgins, Marketing Director for TalkTalk Business will tell you, the UK telecom and IT market is complex and evolving fast. Because of that complexity, the company needed to generate leads qualified to a higher standard.
TalkTalk Business Succeeds with Engaging Conversations
Industry: Information
Location: New York, NY
Revenue: $902 million
Focus: Sales Enablement
After implementing Eloqua for marketing automation, the Marketing Operations team in the Intellectual Property (IP) & Science business of Thomson Reuters soon found themselves on the next stage of their journey to Modern Marketing. What prompted this move?
Thomson Reuters Aligns Sales and Marketing Teams
Industry: Technology
Revenue: £121.4 Million
Location: Espoo, Finland
Focus: Lead Management
Basware Oyj faced the all too common problem of misalignment between sales and marketing. Some opportunities and leads got stuck in the funnel. So Basware developed a program called No Lead Left Behind to help solve their funnel challenges.
Industry: Educational Services
Revenue: N/A
Location: Sydney, Australia
Focus: Marketing Automation
One of the biggest challenges facing any small marketing team is maintaining contact with your customer base and generating leads with limited marketing resources. Before investing in Eloqua's marketing automation platform, the two-person marketing team at Upskilled faced this very challenge.
Industry: Nonprofit Society
Location: Washington, DC
Budget: $170 million
Focus: Loyalty
Alison Chandler had a lot on her mind as she worked the booth at yet another scientific conference. As a marketing manager for The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), some heavy responsibility fell onto her lap.
AAAS Takes Membership Renewal to a New Level
Industry: Other
Location: Bern, Switzerland
Revenue: $501M - $2B USD
Focus: Revenue Performance Management
After significant organic growth and acquisitions, Swiss Post made a decision to amalgamate 30+ global brands into one single brand – Swiss Post Solutions (SPS). Historically, SPS was known for superior operational delivery. As an operations-led organization, marketing played more of a sales support than a strategic function with departments located worldwide.
Swiss Post Solutions Drives Global Marketing Efficiency
Industry: Software and Technology
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Revenue: Less than $100M USD
Focus: Lead Nurturing
Prior to implementing Eloqua, the lead generation process at Axios Systems was in a difficult state. Although the company had a good volume of incoming leads, they were not being properly scored, prioritized, and nurtured in an organised manner. Conversion rates through the sales and marketing funnel were low and sales opportunities were being missed.
Axios Systems Uses Digital Body Language Insights
Industry: Manufacturing
Location: Cleveland, OH
Revenue: More than $2B USD
Focus: Brand
Although Eaton is a one hundred year-old, multi-billion dollar global organization, the company was struggling to build brand awareness and increase market share in the crowded IT marketplace. Eaton was considered the underdog in this market, where they had not traditionally been known as a supplier of products and services that power small and medium data centers. The marketing team met to discuss this problem and agreed that the time had come for things to change and employ modern marketing nurturing methods.
Eaton Repowers Brand in the IT Marketplace
Industry: Software and Technology
Revenue: Less than $100M USD
Location: Seattle, WA
Focus: Email Marketing
When the marketing team at DocuSign was implementing Eloqua10, they made an interesting discovery. They did not require more content to run their campaigns like many other organizations. They already had a large number of content creators creating a huge library of assets. What was lacking was an effective structure that would keep their multitude of assets organized.
DocuSign Redefines Process That Yields Revenue Results
Industry: Software and Technology
Revenue: More than $2B USD
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Focus: Compliance
Kim Mai and Teri O'Neal at NetApp marketing knew the other shoe would drop. Eventually. For years, regulators in the UK talked about limiting what buyer behavior companies could track on the web, batting around so called "cookies laws." Charged with leading NetApp's marketing automation efforts for the EMEA region, Kim and Teri were nervous.
UK Privacy Laws: NetApp Complies and Thrives
Industry: Software and Technology
Location: Redmond, WA
Revenue: $101M - $500M USD
Focus: Sales Enablement
A combined effort between Concur's sales and marketing teams to build total alignment in strategy, process and systems – including Eloqua and Salesforce.com integration – increased Concur's ability to generate business.
Eloqua and Salesforce Integration Helps Concur Increase Efficiency, Grow Business
Industry: Software and Technology
Location: Irving, TX
Revenue: N/A
Focus: Sales Enablement
Arrow S3 leveraged Eloqua's sales enablement tools such as sales email templates, weekly reports and real-time notifications of website activity to improve conversion throughout the funnel and improve usage of Salesforce.com.
Arrow S3 Embraces Sales Enablement Tools
Industry: Software and Technology
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Revenue: $501M - $2B USD
Focus: Lead Management
With more than 100 competitors, McAfee realised that its sales and marketing teams had to work closely together to drive revenue growth. Agreement and alignment between the two departments was crucial to creating marketing effectiveness and improving the sales pipeline.
McAfee Reaps the Benefits of Eloqua's Lead Scoring and Lead Nurturing Marketing Automation Programs
Industry: Media and Information Networks
Revenue: Less than $100M USD
Location: Folsom, CA
Focus: Marketing Automation
The team at e.Republic needed to move from database disaster and email blaster, to a metric oriented, well automated sales & marketing team with their sights set on achieving true RPM (revenue performance management.)
eRepublic is Making all the Right Email Moves
Industry: Manufacturing
Location: Lisle, IL
Revenue: $3.5B USD
Focus: Lead Scoring
Much like shopping for sports caps, Don Gushurst, the Director of Marketing Operation Services at Molex had a problem with a one-size-fits-all lead management approach because too many sizing factors can influence the fit.
Industry: Technology
Revenue: $28.9 million
Location: Denver, CO
Focus: Content Marketing
Competing in a crowded audio and video conferencing marketplace against huge companies with significantly more marketing budget, ReadyTalk needed to fight back. Marketing Manager Bo Bandy knew that the only way to improve organic search performance against these behemoths was to have fresh content, and lots of it.
ReadyTalk Gets the Word Out with More Content and Better Search Engine Results
Industry: Retail
Revenue: $3.83 billion
Location: Springfield, MO
Focus: Content Marketing
With 58 retail stores across the United States and Canada, Bass Pro Shops is undeniably one of North America's premier outdoor retailers, serving more than 100 million customers—men, women, and children—a year. But the company wanted to create deeper and more meaningful interactions within each store's markets.
Bass Pro Shops Helps Local Stores Connect to their Local Markets
Industry: Technology
Revenue: $83 million
Location: McLean, VA
Focus: Content Marketing
Six distinct product offerings. Six distinct audiences. Eight moderator/editors working with more than 50 content writers. Cvent—the world's largest provider of online event management, meeting site selection, and web survey software solutions—needed a seamless, efficient interface with enterprise reliability to manage all of its disparate marketing content.
Cvent Coordinates and Repurposes Content for Varying Audiences
Industry: Transportation
Revenue: $840,000
Location: Austin, TX
Focus: Content Marketing
PetRelocation was founded in 2004 to give white-glove service to pet owners in need of transporting their pets safely and securely. Since customers are very careful in deciding whom to entrust with transporting their pets, PetRelocation uses Oracle Content Marketing as the hub of its marketing strategy to provide customers with the exact content they need in their decision-making process.
PetRelocation Uses Content Marketing to Boost Organic Search and Conversion
Industry: Education
Revenue: $2.1 billion
Location: Indiana
Focus: Content Marketing
Recruiting and retaining quality students is every university's goal. To that end, Indiana University (IU) had an idea: enable existing IU students to create content about campus life and share credible, real information that high school students can trust.
Indiana University Boosts Recruitment by Meeting Students on Social Media Channels
Industry: Technology
Revenue: N/A
Location: Madison, WI
Focus: Content Marketing
With more than 65 years of experience, Widen offers industry-leading digital asset management solutions for marketing, IT, and creative professionals. But as of 2007, Widen's marketing department consisted of four people mainly focused on outbound marketing and sales collateral, trying to push the company's way of thinking about digital asset management through cold calls and emails.
Widen Shows Off Its Digital Asset Chops with Oracle Content Marketing

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Organizing existing cabinetry...not able to remodel
Just so happy my husband is home! No money to remodel right now, but I've decided to re-organize my current kitchen. It's a galley style, sink and fridge on one side and cooktop and oven/microwave on the other.
Wish there was room for plate racks, open shelves, etc. but for now, I'm going to concentrate on taking everything out, sorting through it, and putting it back in (hopefully) a better arrangement. Not only want to have things in a convenient area, but also easy for my husband to reach.
I'm thinking about repainting the walls and maybe a new vinyl (peel and stick) floor. For now, just excited to get things spruced up and have a reason to bake and cook again! Did I mention, I'm so happy to have him home?!!! :)
Congrats on your DH being home! Enjoy the time!
It sounds like you have your priorities straight...family first!
Rearranging your kitchen will probably make a big difference - if nothing else, it will give you a chance to "clean house" to see what you need/don't need. It's something that should be done prior to remodeling anyway - so you're taking a step in the right direction.
Paint and new floor should also give it a "new" look & feel.
Good luck!
You could also look at some organization solutions from Rev-a-Shelf to update your current kitchen. We got one of their pullouts and installed it ourselves without a problem.
For organizing drawers, check out Wood Hollow Cabinets. They offer several different organizers that they will custom size for you at a reasonable cost. We got one of their cutlery inserts and are very happy with it.
Yay! I'm glad he's back home, too. This has been a long haul, hasn't it?
You know, I did organize my current kitchen as best I could using my GW learnin' and it made a difference.
Only thing is now I'm painfully aware of how I SHOULD have remodeled my current kitchen but I didn't know anything back then... oh well..
Some good cleaning and a few spruce-ups should be wonderful...
I'm so glad for you and your husband!!!
I find rearranging things doesn't last as long as an entire overhaul of the contents.
Critique EVERYTHING you have in your kitchen now. Determine how often you use items, and if only a few times a year, could it be stored somewhere else so you don't have to dig through things so much to get at the items you use daily or weekly.
I think kitchen stuff is a lot like goldfish...it grows to the size you have (and then some). Imagine you live in New York City and you need to downsize down. We'd all likely get rid of a lot that we think we must have.
Once you determine what absolutely must stay, you can look for better alternatives to storing them.
Painting a fun color that you've always wanted is in order. I can't wait to see what you end up with.
We used peel and stick tiles on a house we were selling. Cheap but effectively changes a room tremendously.
Have fun.
and Did I mention, I'm really happy for you and your husband!
Alton Brown (tv chef/host) wrote a book about kitchen tool essentials. His method was to take EVERYTHING out of the kitchen (remove to a room you don't use often) and only bring it back in as you use it. Then, store in a place convenient to where you used the item. After 6 months, anything not used was either gotten rid of, or specialty items that you wanted to keep on hand (for holidays, entertaining, once a year canning) should be stored elsewhere.
I didn't do this, LOL, but I remember reading about it and very strong considering it.
Congrats on having your DH home Lavender. Things will really start to get better now.
Control- That's what I was thinking of doing, but I don't think I can have the kitchen that out of sorts, at least now right now :)
Aloha- Thank you! I do want to paint a different color...the color I have now (kind of a peachy gold) looks good with the cabinets, but I'd like to make them a little darker and bring in more of the gold, green, cranberry and a bit of purple...the last two colors more for accents.
Deedles- I would love to make a few changes...mainly replacing the cooktop with a range, to get a second oven. But then I'd lose even more storage. It's always a compromise! LOL
Mary lu- Thank you, it's so wonderful to have him back home. He's doing so much better!
Gpraceman- That's such a good idea. I'll have to look for some drawer organizers, especially.
Buehl- That's what I was thinking. If I can get more organized, it will be better for now and help with any future remodeling plans!
I didn't want to start a new thread, but I was thinking about trying coffee to stain a few of the cabinets that have gotten sun bleached. This isn't great wood, in fact, I think it's some kind of particle board with a wood wrap, but I figured coffee couldn't hurt. Has anyone tried this? If I still drank coffee, I probably already would have, but I'll have to get some from my mom :)
Congrats on your husband being home, lavender, that's fantastic. :) Organizing your kitchen and sprucing it up sounds Iike a great plan.
Just wanted to say I used a very similar method to controlfreakecs several years back before the move to our new house. I thought i read it in a martha stewart tip thing but that might be wrong. Anyway it recommended putting every utensil you weren't sure about in a separate container in a lower kitchen cabinet. Then if you did need the utensil it was accessible to use and when done you put it back in the drawer. After one year anything still in the container could be tossed. In our move, I threw out a boatload of old doodads that I just didn't use anymore and now 4 years later I haven't missed a single one of them. The clutter-free life is pretty freeing. :)
Congrats again on your hubby's progress.
Coffee makes a poor stain unless you have raw, porous solid wood. It's for mommy blogger/crafters
It might lift the veneer off because you have to really soak the wood to get much pigment.
If you have sun-bleached veneer, try General Finishes gel stain in a color close to the original color.
So glad to hear that your DH is home! That's the most important thing, by far.
Kitchen remodels can wait, for sure. I think it's a great idea to go through and reorganize to make the most of the space you have.
Can't comment one way or the other on staining the cabinets - it's nothing that I've done. The only thing that I stained with a drink (on purpose) was a tea stain for a hand towel that had some stains on it and I really liked the towel, so I did the tea stain thing on it...it really needed to be drenched and in there for a while, so I don't know if coffee staining cabinets would work.
So glad to hear that your DH is home! That's the most important thing, by far.
Kitchen remodels can wait, for sure. I think it's a great idea to go through and reorganize to make the most of the space you have.
Can't comment one way or the other on staining the cabinets - it's nothing that I've done. The only thing that I stained with a drink (on purpose) was a tea stain for a hand towel that had some stains on it and I really liked the towel, so I did the tea stain thing on it...it really needed to be drenched and in there for a while, so I don't know if coffee staining cabinets would work.
LL, I can see your kitchen with the doors off the cabinets, and the backs painted or tiled that blue of Laura Calder's kitchen, with the edges covered in some cute trim or moulding. Nobody will ever know they are not open shelves. It might look cool-ly provencal with thw yellow gold color!!!
All my best to you and DH!!
Taggie- I'm definitely going to do that...although I think I'll have a bag going to Goodwill, as soon as I start sorting :)
Lazygardens- Thank you...I think the gel might be easier and I hadn't thought about the wood getting too soaked. I guess I thought it was a wipe on, wipe off.
Andrea- If tea takes that long, coffee would probably not work either. I think the gel would be a better idea.
Nancy- I don't want to paint the cabinets (at least not in this kitchen) because everything in the house is a faux 80s oak. Sounds terrible, I know...but it's not that bad, probably because I have a LOT of green. The blue kitchen was the plan, if we remodel the farmhouse.
Instead of painting the wood, I'm going to try the same colors I put in the bedroom. Greens, a bit of gold, cranberry and purple. It's not a bright purple, but more of a blackberry color...very nice with the green and wood. To keep it from looking too much like a cabin, I used some brocades as accents, leaf prints (rather than solid green) and lots of soft fabrics. Very 'fairy tale'...I got the idea from watching Once Upon A Time :)
Here's a picture of the reading corner, in our bedroom. I need to take pictures of the bed, but plan to paint first. We're not changing the color (soft beige) but this used to be my husband's office/man cave...and when I took down the posters, it peeled off half the paint!
If your cabinets actually are bare wood (easy to do with nontoxic, non-stinky, non-evil Citristrip) you can stain with coffee colored stain. Coffee cleans up leaving things looking a bit dirty. Stain just ... stains.
I am stripping 15 antique doors. This Citristrip takes off old finishes right down to bare wood. I'm letting mind dry out, then using a wood conditioner first (to avoid blotchiness) I'm staining gray, then beating the crap out of them for antiquing, then a Provincial stain over that. They're coming out GORGEOUS. I'm wiping on polyacrylic finish. Polyacrylic doesn't yellow (back to old oak!) and cleans up with water.
So it can be a lot of work to do on cabinets, but the result is great.
If you don't want to do any of that, go with a gelstain. That's essentially paint.
Anyway, I'm glad your DH is back with you. I'm positive he's glad to be home, too!! :)
Lavender_lass, your reading corner looks truly magical, colors are fabulous! Hooray for DH being home, but that's no excuse for not posting a layout and dimensions and possible a picture or two.... :)
(I'm sure you have before and I'm too lazy to go search for them).
You may count on me for any photo-shopping you might like; feel free to PM me pictures and ideas. Best, oldbat2be


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Challenge Cup: Second-half fightback lifts Sheffield over Dewsbury
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Sheffield Eagles produced a superb second-half display to clinch a 30-16 victory over Dewsbury in the fourth round of the Tetley's Challenge Cup at the Don Valley Stadium.
The Rams were on course to pull off a surprise victory when Matthew Tebb scored a fifth-minute try while former Wakefield winger Dale Morton went over for two in a five-minute spell to put the visitors in command.
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Michael Walker and Dr. Katherine FordhamJanuary 1997 |
Welcome to the second edition of our column for Oasis. Let us say (once again) that we are so excited to be here; Oasis is providing an excellent forum for the open communication of issues affecting queer youth and the two of us are proud to be part such a noble effort.
Now on to the health issues, which, of course, is what we are here for in the first place. Since the first edition of our column was just published, and Oasis contributors are required to turn in their column material way ahead of publication time (a common and needed requirement of most periodicals); we won't be addressing any questions which you guys may have sent our way after the tenth of December in this issue. We did get a question from a reader early into the month, and that's going to be topic of the entire column this month. In the meantime, keep the questions coming!
Dear Mike and Dr. Kate:
I was reading your column and wondered about something: is anal sex safe? I don't mean about getting AIDS -that kind of safe- but I heard somewhere that you can get hurt somehow if you do it and that's why it's illegal in some places. Is that true?
Brad D.
Dear Brad:
Thanks for bringing up an important and seldom-addressed subject. Anal sex has long been a very controversial issue in the medical, religious, and social communities. Obviously, it is something which many people feel uncomfortable talking about but nonetheless, it is something which sexually-active gay men should be informed about so they can make intelligent decisions on this subject.
The anus is intended to function primarily as a means of eliminating waste from the body. It is attached to the rectum, which is the final section of the gastrointestinal tract. In the male body, the rectum and anal canal are located behind the bladder and prostate gland; the anal canal itself is only about an inch in length. The reason that anal sex is enjoyable is because the tissue of the anus is very sensitive, in much the same way that the skin of the sex organs is, and is thus stimulated in a similar manner. Also, anal sex can stimulate the prostate gland itself; thus the prostate has been often described as "the male G-spot". The opening which allows waste to pass out of the body through the anus is known as the external anal sphincter. This is also the point where something can enter the anus, in a sexual context, and much of the danger surrounding anal sex is that since the sphincter is designed to pass things outside the body, and not to act as an orifice into the body; anything that forces the sphincter to open from the outside may put strain on it. Therefore, nothing too large should be inserted into the anus. (Many of you reading this may be rolling on the floor with laughter right now; but this is an important point.) Certainly nothing that is artificial, like any sort of man-made object should ever be inserted into the anus, except in some medical procedures. Anything that is too large, or extremely hard, or sharp, can tear the soft interior tissue of the anal canal. Lubrication is essential in anal intercourse; but it is important not to use a lubrication which is oil-based as many such substances can react against latex condoms and leave small holes in them which might allow fluids to be exchanged between the two people engaging in sex: exactly what you are trying to avoid by wearing a condom in the first place!
Tearing of the tissue within the anal canal can cause bleeding and thus encourage the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. In extreme cases, objects inserted in the anus which are very large or are inserted with severe force can lead to serious medical problems, such as damage to the external anal sphincter and other, similar, sphincters further up the rectal route. Also, the organs near the anal canal can be damaged through anal intercourse if the sexual act is unusually forceful and aggressive. Most cases of anal canal and rectal damage seen by physicians are the result of either rape, where sex is forceful and violent, or in cases of child sexual abuse where the anal canal is smaller and not fully developed, therefore more susceptible to trauma. Since this column is targeted primarily towards adolescents, we wish to stress that the younger you are, the greater the potential for injury during anal intercourse due to the smaller size of the anus and associated organs.
Another important risk factor of anal sex is that small items which are forced into the anus can get trapped in the anal canal. There have been documented cases where doctors have seen such items become lodged in the canal, including condoms which were not properly used. It is essential that a condom is worn during anal intercourse because the risk of transmission of AIDS and other STDs during anal sex is very high. But is also imperative that the condom is properly worn and that care is taken so that the condom will not come off inside the anal canal (which it should not providing that condom is being used correctly). Always pay attention to the instructions which come with condoms!
Both of us are what you can consider realists: that is, we face issues -especially sex-related issues- in a logical and realistic way. We know that some of our readers probably engage in anal intercourse and others may be considering it, and therefore feel it is our obligation to provide information on the subject. We are not going to take a moralist view on this nor condemn it outright. But please understand that while anal sex may be enjoyable, as we stated before, intercourse is not the primary function of the anus and there are dangers involved; the risk of contracting a communicable disease like AIDS and also the risk of physical damage due to the sex act itself. If you are young, the risks are greater. Also, there are psychological, emotional, and legal aspects to consider. Some people enjoy anal sex, but some others don't. Like any form of sex, you should only participate in it if you are one hundred percent sure that you feel comfortable engaging in such activity. Anal sex, or sodomy, is illegal in a fair number of states, as well. The reason it is illegal has much more to do with religious concepts than medical concerns. No matter what your personal opinion of such laws may be; keep in mind that laws are laws all the same, and there could be legal consequences for your behavior, although the sodomy laws are rarely enforced unless rape or abuse is a factor.
In closing, remember that it is your body which we are talking about and while what you do with your body is entirely your business; it is something which you should take very seriously and always consider the possible ramifications when engaging in any sexual practices. Until next month, stay safe!
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Yesterday, I said Goldman had a minor but valid point in spokesman Lucas van Praag's unusual public response to last Sunday's Times piece on the Goldman/AIG collateral fracas that preceded the insurer's great collapse.
For those new to the conversation, the Times piece chronicled the argument over the value of the complicated securities that AIG had agreed to insure for Goldman (and many others). As the value dropped, the insureds were entitled to cash collateral; the argument was over how much. The more AIG had to pay out, the more precarious its own position became. The Times reported that the "testy" conflict with Goldman helped to push AIG to the "edge."
But, as I said, while Goldman's post (we really are all bloggers now) provided a useful alternative view, most of the "errors" the bank cites really don't qualify. Overall, the story holds up very well.
On the other hand, these corporate/newspaper collisions are not always a zero-sum game. That doesn't mean we should just all get along, but it is something to think about when reading about these
Or you can leave it as a he-said/she-said, as Clusterstock did with its headline on van Praag's piece:
The New York Times Piece On Goldman Killing AIG Is Total Nonsense And Riddled With Errors
Not so. Here's a quick run-through of Goldman's nine objections:
NYT assertion: "Goldman countered that it was owed even more, while also resisting consulting with third parties to help estimate a value for the securities."The facts: We would have been happy to consult with third parties. In fact, on numerous occasions we attempted—unsuccessfully—to agree on a process with AIG to obtain third-party values.
It is true that Goldman here is asked to prove a negative—that it wasn't "resisting" consulting with third parties. Clearly, the two sides disagreed over how to do it, so Goldman can be said to have been "resisting," just as the same thing could be said of AIG. The Times, however, does offer contemporaneous evidence that Goldman resisted. That's below. Meanwhile, Goldman got to make the same point in the story it is making here.
NYT assertion: "Goldman's demands for billions of dollars from the insurer helped put it in a precarious financial position by bleeding much-needed cash."The facts: Relative to the size of AIG's overall business, Goldman Sachs was a small counterparty. We don't believe our marks were "aggressive," they reflected market prices at the time. We requested the collateral we were entitled to under the terms of our agreements. The idea that AIG collapsed because of our marks is not credible. In any event, the story later asserts that, by the spring of 2008, AIG's dispute with Goldman Sachs was just one of its many woes.
Not only can both side be right, in this case they are. Goldman clearly helped push AIG to the edge, and AIG certainly had other problems.
NYT assertion: "In addition, according to two people with knowledge of the positions a portion of the $11 billion in taxpayer money that went to Societe Generale, a French bank that traded with A.I.G, was subsequently transferred to Goldman under a deal the two banks had struck."The facts: The assertion is false and misleading. Goldman Sachs provided financing to many counterparties, but in that role we would not have known whether a counterparty had obtained credit default protection, let alone from whom or in what amount.
This is the one I dealt with yesterday.
NYT assertion: "Goldman Sachs stood to gain from the housing market's implosion because in late 2006, the firm had begun to make huge trades that would pay off if the mortgage market soured."The facts: This statement is misleading and mischaracterizes how we positioned ourselves at the start of 2007. Goldman Sachs, like most other financial firms, was long the mortgage market at the end of 2006. In order to bring our exposure closer to flat, we began hedging our mortgage holdings in the first quarter of 2007. Those hedges certainly limited our exposure to the declining housing market, but we also recorded substantial writedowns on our residential mortgage holdings. Moreover, in most of the trades with AIG described in the article, Goldman Sachs was hedged by an offsetting position and did not have a short directional bet on the mortgage market.


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Jason Terry has averaged 12 points per game on 35% shooting in this series. His PER is down a full 10 points (from 19.3 to 9.3), his true shooting percentage is down 12 points, and his effective field goal percentage down is down 12 points. Under any normal circumstances I'd send in a police report for JET's sudden disappearance. Big games are Terry's thing, and his heroics have been a complete non-factor in this series.
Bruce Bowen did a number on JET, but in doing so left Josh Howard and J.J. Barea free to spread their wings. But then, something strange happened: when Bowen's talents were needed elsewhere, Terry's jumper didn't come back. It could have run off to elope with Matt Bonner's, or maybe it's still hiding under the bed from big, bad Bruce. Regardless, the one Mav that oozes confidence no matter the occasion seems to have lost it in his stroke. The numbers say that Jason Terry is long overdue for a big game, but I just don't see it happening against the Spurs. I don't know if anyone can fully understand why his shot has abandoned him, but Terry isn't hitting on wide open looks from midrange and long range, virtually automatic shots for him this season.
Jason Terry has garnered an awful lot of defensive attention over the course of this season, but he's never encountered anything quite like this. For once, Terry is being doubled off of the two man game (name drop!). For once, Terry had drawn the Spurs' top perimeter defender. I wouldn't say Terry's in a shooting slump, because these events are largely explainable: San Antonio is playing some great defense on Terry. So good, in fact, that they don't even have to guard him to guard him.
If the Mavs are able to make it to the next round, we won't have to worry about Terry's shooting. The percentages will pick up, he'll show up in a big way, and he'll make sure that the folks in Denver (or, as a formality, New Orleans) remember his name. But for the rest of this series, I wouldn't count on the JET taking off.
Luckily for Terry, he doesn't need to score 20. The Spurs are going to try to claw their way out of this 3-1 hole. Dirk, Josh, Kidd, the bench, and maybe even the Spurs' own shooters will do their best to bury them. All the JET needs to do is bide his time, chip in when he can, and be there to put one final shovel of dirt on the Spurs' grave.


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Girls Listen Up! If You Squeeze Your Left Thumb You Can Turn Off Your Gag Relfex
LifeHacker – If you have a particularly strong gag reflex, this popular dentist's trick can help distract your brain and save you the discomfort (and embarrassment) in seconds. This isn't a new discovery, but it's one many of us hadn't heard of before, so we thought it worth sharing. If you're in a situation where something is setting off your gag reflex (dentist's offices are one of the most common places), just form a fist with your left hand, squeezing your thumb. The folks over at Reddit's Ask Science forum deliberate as to why this is, and they point to a 2008 study that shows it to be effective—not to mention lots of anecdotal evidence on the internet—but whether it's an effect of the nerves in your hand or just a distraction, it looks like it's a pretty useful trick. Of course, it's a bit different for everybody, so your mileage may vary, but it's something to think about the next time you're sitting in the dentist's chair.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Penn State programing to talk about chicks deepthroating. Lifehacker can play the PC card all they want and keep dropping "dentist chair" references but we all know thats code talk for "giving blow jobs." If you ask anyone on this planet "whats the first thing that comes to you mind when I say gag reflex?" all 7 billion people will say "sucking dick." Nobody's thinking about the fucking dentist.
Now listen this could very well be an old wives tale. Maybe there's some sort of crazy acupressure going on and squeezing your thumb lets your throat open up. Probably no chance. Maybe like they said its just like a placebo effect and you're thinking about your thumb instead of gagging and you relax. Thats most likely. Or maybe its not true at all. All I know is that the next time I'm getting a blow job I'm whipping out a pair of mittens and I'm throwing them right on her. Maybe even wrap her hands up and give her one of the offensive lineman clubs. Squeeze those thumbs darlin! We've got a long way to go!
Just kidding I'm not even sure its physically possible for me to trigger that reflex. But for real girls, tell me the next time you wanna make your man happy you're not at least gonna secretly give this a whirl. Fellas do a little inspection next time you're getting a blow task. You see a chick squeezing her thumb shes a keeper. Gotta respect the effort.


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Posttraumatic administration of pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide in central fluid percussion injury in rats
- Erzsébet Kóvesdi,
- Andrea Tamás,
- Dóra Reglodi,
- Orsolya Farkas,
- József PáL,
- Gábor Tóth,
- Péter Bukovics,
- Tamás Dóczi,
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Severalin vitro andin vivo experiments have demonstrated the neuroprotective effects of pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide (PACAP) in focal cerebral ischemia, Parkinson's disease and traumatic brain injury (TBI). The aim of the present study was to analyze the effect of PACAP administration on diffuse axonal injury (DAI), an important contributor to morbidity and mortality associated with TBI, in a central fluid percussion (CFP) model of TBI. Rats were subjected to moderate (2 Atm) CFP injury. Thirty min after injury, 100 μg PACAP was administered intracerebroventricularly. DAI was assessed by immunohistochemical detection of β-amyloid precursor protein, indicating impaired axoplasmic transport, and RMO-14 antibody, representing foci of cytoskeletal alterations (neurofilament compaction), both considered classical markers of axonal damage. Analysis of damaged, immunoreactive axonal profiles revealed significant axonal protection in the PACAP-treated versus vehicletreated animals in the corticospinal tract, as far as traumatically induced disturbance of axoplasmic transport and cytoskeletal alteration were considered. Similarly to our former observations in an impact acceleration model of diffuse TBI, the present study demonstrated that PACAP also inhibits DAI in the CFP injury model. The finding indicates that PACAP and derivates can be considered potential candidates for further experimental studies, or purportedly for clinical trials in the therapy of TBI.
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- 1476-3524
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- Traumatic brain injury
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- Erzsébet Kóvesdi (1)
- Andrea Tamás (2)
- Dóra Reglodi (2)
- Orsolya Farkas (3)
- József PáL (1)
- Gábor Tóth (4)
- Péter Bukovics (1) (5)
- Tamás Dóczi (1)
- András Büki (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pécs, Medical Faculty, Hungary
- 2. Department of Anatomy, University of Pécs, Medical Faculty, Hungary
- 3. Department of Radiology, University of Pécs, Medical Faculty, Hungary
- 4. Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Szeged, Hungary
- 5. Clinical Neuroscience Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pécs, Hungary


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Al Nayzak Organization Concludes Made In Palestine 2012 Competition
For the Seventh Consecutive Year
Al Nayzak Organization Concludes the Palestinian Innovations and Inventions Exhibition and Competition "Made In Palestine 2012"
Ramallah-Gaza: Al Nayzak Organization for Supportive Education and Scientific Innovation concluded the Palestinian Innovations and Inventions Exhibition and Competition "Made In Palestine 2012" for the seventh consecutive year. The exhibition, which was held in Ramallah Cultural Palace-Ramallah and Grand Palace Hotel-Gaza, included several innovative projects in varied subjects like Applied Science, Engineering, Technology and others.
The awarding ceremony followed an official tour in the exhibition. The ceremony and the tour were attended by H.E Dr. Safa' Nassereddin, the Palestinian Minister for Telecommunications and Information Technology on behalf of H.E. Palestinian Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad, Major Jibril Rjoub, Secretary General of the Palestinian Higher Council for Youth and Sports, Mr. Mousa Abu Zeid, President of General Personnel Council, Dr. Laila Ghannam, Governor of Ramallah and Al Bireh, Ms. Safa' Abu Assab, Programs Manager in Diakonia Organization, and Eng. Adnan Samara, President of the Palestinian Higher Council for Innovation and Creativity, in addition to a number of officials and representatives of official local and international organizations.
H.E. Dr. Safa' Nasereddin explained in her word during the awards ceremony on behalf of the Palestinian Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian government's immense interest in supporting the Palestinian innovative youth and investing in their brilliance. She affirmed the government's interest in encouraging programs that empower youth and contributes to supporting their projects that fit to compete in the market, indicating that the Palestinian innovations prove that we, without doubt, are able to become a country.
On his part, Eng. Aref Husseini, Founder and General Director of Al Nayzak Organization, thanked those present for their support and added that holding the exhibition and competition this year, even after coming late because of the latest assault on Gaza, proves the ability of the palestinian people to amaze the world with its competency to innovate. He affirmed the organization's belief in fostering talent and scientific knowledge, affirming as well the organization's efforts in developing its programs and succeeding in launching the scientific entrepreneurship program for school students and linking it with advanced programs in space physics with NASA.
In her word during the ceremony, Ms. Safa' Abu Assab, expressed hers, and Diakonia's joy with the partnership with Al Nayzak Organization for the seventh year through Made In Palestine Program and Competition. She confirmed the Palestinian need for innovative projects that provide work opportunities for youth, explaining that "Made In Palestine" presents the best example on such entrepreneurial initiatives. She also congratulated all the participants and the winners on behalf of Diakonia Organization.
Out of over 300 applicants for this year's cycle of the program, the projects that reached the final exhibition were 11 innovations from the West Bank and 17 from Gaza Strip specializing in a number of scientific and technological sectors like chemistry, mechanical and electrical engineering, IT and other. The first place prize (repeated) went to Rahal Rashid, Mohammad Manasra, Afnan Hamad, and Marah Jamous for their project "The Production of Fuel from Plastic Waste", in first place (repeated) came Karem Abu Odeh, Anis Abu Hamad, and Baker Al Wawi with their project "Inspecting Water Quality Management System". In second place (repeated) came Hala Moheisen with her project "Study - Biological Control of Insect Infected Tomatoes Using Beauveria Bassiana Fungus" and second place (repeated) Jenan Njoum, Jamil Juneidi, and Tamara Halsah for their project Ultra Thermo Press". In third place (repeated) came Ibrahim Daabes for his project "Modern Onion Planting Machine" and third place (repeated) Mohammad Abu Matar with his project "The Green Crystal-Modern Greenhouse System" .
Made In Palestine program is one of Al Nayzak's annual programs which aims to link scientific university research and professional research on one hand and business and industry on the other, in an effort to provide solutions to the technological, scientific and industrial problems faced by local society. The program's essence is to provide Palestinian innovators inside and outside universities with the feasible opportunities and possibilities to achieve their hopes and aspirations which, in turn, could lead to results of practical value in developing new products or solving technical problems using creative methods and mechanisms. This year's exhibition and competition were held in partnership with Diakonia Organization, media partnership with Palestine TV, radio sponsorship by Raya Radio Network, and insurance sponsorship by Trust International Isurance.


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Kansas State's Rodney McGruder scored a career-best 28 points and the Wildcats (10-1) went on a big first-half run and beat Long Beach State 77-60 on Sunday to win the Diamond Head Classic.
Xavier guard Mark Lyons (10) threads the needle with a pass by the outstretched arms of Southern Illinois center Harry Whitt during the 15th-ranked Musketeers' win in Honolulu.
Clemson's Andre Young dribbles past Hawaii's Jeremiah Ostrowski during the second half of their Diamond Head Classic tournament game at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu. Young had 14 points, but the Tigers came up short against the Rainbow Warriors.
West Virginia's Deniz Kilicli (13) dunks on Baylor's Quincy Acy in the first half in Las Vegas.
Wagner guard Naofall Folahan celebrates his team's upset win over No. 13 Pittsburgh at the Petersen Events Center.
Western Kentucky's Derrick Gordon, left, struggles for control of the ball with Louisville's Gorgui Dieng during the second half in Louisville, Ky.
California's Jorge Gutierrez for a loose ball agaomst UNLV during the first half at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.
Syracuse's Fab Melo, left, grabs a loose ball from Tulane's Trevante Dyre during the first half at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y.
Ohio State guard Lenzelle Smith Jr. (32) hits Aaron Craft (4) with an inbounds pass during the first half against Miami (OH) at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
Kentucky forwards Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (14) and Anthony Davis celebrate the Wildcats win over the Loyola Greyhounds at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky.
Memphis guard Joe Jackson (1) and Georgetown forward Otto Porter dive for a loose ball during second half at the Verizon Center in Washington.
Missouri's Kim English, bottom, tips in a rebound over Illinois' Tyler Griffey during the first half in St. Louis.
Florida's Kenny Boynton, right, clatters with Florida State's Xavier Gibson during the first half in Gainesville, Fla.
Xavier center Kenny Frease, center, fights for a rebound while surrounded by Long Beach State player during the first half at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu.
Tar Heels freshman P.J. Hairston dunks on the Longhorns' Julien Lewis at the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. Texas had beaten North Carolina each of the last two seasons.
Louisville's Kyle Kuric, left, battles Charleston's Antwaine Wiggins for a loose ball during the second half in Louisville.
Pittsburgh forward J.J. More (44) defends the inbounds pass from St. Francis forward Kameron Ritter during the second half at Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh.
Ohio State forward Sam Thompson (12) shoots over Lamar forward Stan Brown at Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
Syracuse's C.J. Fair dunks against Bucknell during the second half at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y.
North Carolina center John Henson (31) blocks a shot by Nicholls State guard Trevon Lewis (23) at the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. Henson had seven points, seven blocks and 11 rebounds to help the sixth-ranked Tar Heels roll.
LSU guard Anthony Hickey, left, fights for a loose ball against Marquette guard Junior Cadougan during the second half in Baton Rouge. Hickey had eight points, six assists, five rebounds and four steals as the Tigers handed the 10th-ranked Golden Eagles their first loss of the season.
Baylor forward Quincy Acy (4) throws down a two-handed slam during the first half against Paul Quinn College in Waco, Texas. Acy poured in a game-high 24 points as the seventh-ranked Bears remained unbeaten with a rout.
Fresno State forward Jerry Brown, left, and Boise State guard Anthony Drmic scramble for a loose ball during the first half in Boise. Drmic scored 14 points to help the Broncos snap a two-game slide.
Kansas fans try to distract Davidson forward De'Mon Brooks (24) while he shoots free throws in Kansas City, Mo. The tactic didn't work as Brooks scored 13 points in the Wildcats' upset of the 11th-ranked Jayhawks.
Longwood guard Jeremiah Bowman (1) tries to dribble around Vanderbilt defender Kyle Fuller (11) during the second half in Nashville. Bowman scored 11 points, but Fuller and the Commodores rolled to the win.
Southern California center James Blasczyk (31) blocks a shot by TCU guard Kyle Anderson (5) during the first half in Los Angeles. The Trojans cruised to the win and snapped a three-game losing streak.
The Illinois bench anxiously watches the final few minutes against Cornell in Champaign, Ill. The 24th-ranked Fighting Illini held off the Big Red in a back-and-forth game.
Creighton forward Doug McDermott (3) and Tulsa guard Eric McClellan hit the floor as they chase a loose ball. McDermott scored a game-high 35 points to lead the 21st-ranked Bluejays to a big road win in Tulsa.
Indiana guard Victor Oladipo skies to the bucket for a one-handed jam against Howard in Bloomington, Ind. Oladipo had 10 points to help the 18th-ranked Hoosiers win in a blowout.
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Cows may be kings in Texas, but hogs are...fat, dirty, weird creatures that taste good with eggs. And to celebrate their importance to the economy of itty-bitty Elgin, since 1987 the town has been hosting the Hogeye Festival every October. Come ham it up chasing a greased pig, test your hog calling technique and register for a chance to win $1,500 playing cow patty bingo.
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In honor of the Cookie Monster staying true to his cookietude we present you our Top 5 unhealthy vegetable meals/dishes/preparations. Stuff that's bad for you usually tastes the best, so we're not saying we wouldn't eat these, but it's important to remember that food is not healthy purely by virtue of vegetable content. Here's the proof.
5. Iceberg Wedge Salad: Most people agree that iceberg lettuce has little to no nutritional value. Add a heaping unhealthy load of bacon, ham, and buttermilk dressing and you've got yourself a heart attack salad.
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Every bottle of Precious Vodka comes with a real, fully certifiable gem stone.
– The Stone of Successful Love and the Healer's Stone, the birthstone for those who are born in the month of May.
– Zodiac stone for Cancer (June 22 to July 22), as well as Friday's stone.
– Is also used to celebrate a couple's the 20th and 35th and 55th anniversaries.
…If born in Cancer's sign, they say, your life will joyful be always if you take with you on your way an emerald.
Emerald is the most precious stone in the beryl group. The name emerald comes from the Greek "smaragdos" via the Old French "esmeralde", and really just means 'green gemstone.' The wonderful green color of emerald is unparalleled in the gem world. It is not surprising then that emerald is classified as one of the traditional four precious stones.
For more than 4,000 years, the deep "green fire" of emeralds has been treasured as a symbol of eternal spring and immortality.
Shrouded in myth and lore, the birthstone for May isn't just a beautiful gem: emeralds are also ornaments of power and politics that have created legends and molded world history.
Prized by Egyptians, Romans, Aztecs, crowned heads of Europe, and today, gem connoisseurs the world over, emeralds, more than any other precious gemstone have sparked the eternal fires of our collective imagination.
Emerald is a green variety of the mineral beryl. Other gemstone color variety that normally belongs to beryl includes aquamarine, Morganite, and heliodor. Other colors of beryl are simply referred as to by their color, such as red beryl.
The wonderful green color of emerald is unparalleled in the gem history. Emerald's precious green color is caused by its small amounts of chromium and enhanced by traces of iron. Unlike other beryl's, emeralds are often contain inclusions and other flaws. These flaws are not looked on as negative aspects for emerald like that they would be for other gemstones. Indeed, these flaws are considered as part of its character of the stone and are used to assure the purchaser of a natural stone.
The green color of emeralds is unparalleled in the gem kingdom. Its beautiful green color, combined with its rarity, makes emerald one of the world's most valuable gemstones.
Emeralds are a member of the beryl family of minerals. Minute traces of chromium, vanadium and iron give emeralds their famous "green fire." The green crystals grow slowly within metamorphic rocks and are restricted in size by the host rock, making large emeralds rare and costly.
When buying emeralds the most important consideration is always color, with clarity and quality of cut playing second fiddle. Nevertheless, the brightness of the gemstone (which is somewhat determined by the cutting and clarity) is also an important factor.
Though not meant to replace traditional medical treatment, emerald is extensively used for physical and emotional healing.
Emerald has refreshing soft green color, which has amazing healing powers for eyes, and it is a good talisman for any eye trouble.
If worn about the neck or finger, emerald prevents convulsions in children. Emeralds are also an antidote for poisons and poisonous wounds. It aids with ailments of the spine. Emeralds help fighting all mental illness and neurological disorders.
Many virtues are ascribed to emerald. It is said to drive away evil spirits, and to preserve the chastity of the wearer. Emerald is said to bring wisdom. Believed by the ancients to empower the owner with foresight into the future, an emerald is regarded as an amulet for good fortune.
The emerald gives faith, success in love, and discovery of false friends. It changes color in the presence of false friends or false witnesses. It promotes constancy of mind, true friendship, and felicity in domestic life. As a love token, it registers the degree of love. If pale, love is waning. An emerald symbolizes rebirth and youth.
According to legends, emeralds strengthen the owner's memory, quicken the intelligence and assist in predicting the future.
When worn, the stone is supposed to prevent epilepsy attack, and when held in the mouth it is believed to be a cure for dysentery. It is supposed to assist women at childbirth.


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"Loons' Nest"
This charming Adirondack style chalet is nestled in a private wooded setting yet less than a five-minute stroll to beautiful Loon Lake.
Enjoy lake rights to a lovely sandy beach with off-shore float and separate boat launch area. Swim or fish in the pristine waters of this large private lake or use our 15-foot canoe or 3 kayaks to explore the winding shoreline and secluded bays. Take in breathtaking mountain views while being entertained by the lake's namesakes - the magnificent loons. Hiking trails abound and part of the lakeshore and surrounding woods is untouched forest.
The chalet is warmly decorated Adirondack style with knotty pine on the main floor and spacious loft. In addition to a fully equipped kitchen with new stove, new refrigerator and a dishwasher, the main floor has a full bath, master bedroom with king size bed (or two twins) and a second bedroom with queen size bed. The loft has three twin beds. The living room boasts a fireplace and large picture window, satellite TV and DVD/VCR. A full screened in porch is a wonderful place for quiet reading, morning coffee or nighttime star gazing. You might even catch sight of a deer feeding at the edge of our large grassy lawn. A small, open deck off the screened in porch has a gas grill for your convenience or build a campfire in our fire ring and toast marshmallows. There is a picnic table and firewood is provided.
The lower level of the house can sleep 3-4 with a queen sofabed and a full sofa bed. These additional beds, along with a second full bath with shower, make this a very comfortable vacation home for up to 8 people (maximum). The spacious lower level is also a great "family room" with a second TV, DVD/VCR as well as a foosball table and a variety of games and movies.
Located 25 minutes north of the village of Saranac Lake, Loon Lake is only 35 minutes from the Olympic Village of Lake Placid. Here you can visit the Olympic Center and ski jumps, take a virtual ride on the bobsled and luge runs or hike along High Falls Gorge on the nearby Ausable River. A gondola ride up the world famous Whiteface Mountain is only a few minutes away. Golf, rock-climb, horseback ride or just relax and enjoy the incredible surroundings. And, if you are so inclined, there is shopping and dining galore.
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Our caretaker lives nearby to provide added peace of mind.
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This song reminds me of summer and has an ethereal and beautiful quality to it that you can't quite put your finger on. The interweaving of guitars is incredible as well. M. Ward just may be my favorite songwriter that is going today. The production and textures on his records are perfect for a good pair of headphones.
Buy "Chinese Translation" on M. Ward's album Post-War from Amazon MP3 or Apple iTunes
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