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The Republic of South Africa and Botswana have pledged to soon start a, international golf tournament involving Nigeria.
Disclosing this at a Special Send-forth Kitty for the outgoing South African Ambassador to Nigeria His Excellency Kingsley Mamabolo and his Botswana counterpart Clifford Maribe, the two envoys said the two countries will soon formalize the existing golf partnership between the three countries to an international fiesta.
Maribe, who was the first to speak, told Trustsports that his country hopes to build on the recent Independence Day golf fiesta, in which Nigerian golfers travelled to Botswana to participate in to a more organized golf tournament between the two countries.
"In September this year, some golfers from the IBB Golf Club visited Botswana and participated in a golf tournament organized to commemorate the Independence of Botswana, and even though we have no formal arrangement where Nigeria plays Botswana during their Independence anniversaries, we hope to build on that and improve on the partnership between the two countries", Maribe said.
For his part, Mamabolo, who is an ex-officio of the IBB Golf Club, said efforts are being made by South Africa to begin an international golf tournament between Nigeria and South Africa.
"We (South Africa) have a big effort in the direction of starting an international golf tournament for the two countries. South Africans always come to Nigeria to participate in international golf tournaments, same for Nigerians going to South Africa for events.


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Put down the hateraid. It's been three years since Alabama lost a game in the regular season, so I guess I understand you being excited Bama finally dropped one. Just fuel for the rest of the season! Roll Tide!
Put down the hateraid. It's been three years since Alabama lost a game in the regular season, so I guess I understand you being excited Bama finally dropped one. Just fuel for the rest of the season! Roll Tide!
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Auburn needs the win badly. The season will look much better with two quality wins against SEC opponents. Their defense needs to improve for that to happen.
Alabama needs to win as well. Whoevers wins the SEC Championship game will win the National Title. My opinion.
Really? I mean, REALLY?? You are probably the only person who knows or even cares about it.
The only thing that matters, that should be talked about, and celebrate is the Iron Bowl wins, the SEC Championships or the National Championships. Otherwise, we're just grabbing for straws.
I never said I wasn't over there. I love it over there. Like I said before: "When you're alone and no one is around, you know deep inside your team is in trouble. Pssst... we know it too."
As far as Chizik's record being 1-0? That makes you the moron. Let's see... Ron English, Army coach, beat E. Michigan in his debut. He's 1-0. Is he something to brag about? Uh, no.
Dan Mullen is 1-0. In fact, SEC coaches usually win their debuts. It's a fact bro.
You don't know very much about it:
You can go for free. Cane pole, line, worm. On the shore. When they ask for a license tell them that you lost your watch in the ocean and are trying to hook it. Just pray the worn has been nibbled off when you pull it in. See? No watch.
laidbacklion made a good point! Level headed, good points from an Auburn fan? Geez. What is the world coming to? Apparently Obama can CHANGE things!
Spira makes me laugh.
Boys, ease up. Nothing will come of this. The article basically says so.
But because it's polarizing and gets people talking... reporters will still post it in this waiting period before the season.
Alabama will beat V. Tech.
Auburn will beat L. Tech (fingers crossed)
An SEC team doesn't need to lose to them - even if it is Auburn.
LOL! peterrielly must be related to Bill O'Reilly! Stop spinning!
Listen to one of your own.. laidbacklion.
Gain some perspective.
AubTiger34 is the Bill O'Reilly of Auburn football. He thinks he's fair and balanced, but the truth is... he can spin it like a top.
It's just one unofficial poll. This from the same guy that said the coaches preseason poll did not matter... probably had more to do with the fact that Auburn was not on it.
Absolutely. It's easy to sit back and say, we're going to do this or that. This players is the greatest or he isn't. This coach is 5-19 or this coach is not. Play the game and all will be discovered.
Anyone can say anything and I'm done with it. The real games speak the loudest.
I agree. I don't think Chris Todd is the answer. Just might be the best option right now.
What is UAT?
You guys are posting that, but I'm not getting the connection. Help me out.
I don't know how Auburn is going to do. We won't know until we know. Any effort to guess is comical. I mean at least let them play one game.
Love the balloon by the way. I think they put those kinds of pictures up just to give the other side ammo. Like that picture of Saban during media days seemingly jumping back from a fan while appearing to stare at her breast. You guys...
It's going to be great year! RTR
You said it.
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Cold facts: ebook sales are accelerating while print sales are plunging, by John Miedema
October 17, 2011 | 10:26 am
By a TeleRead Contributor
September 16, 2009. Sales for Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol sold more copies for Amazon's Kindle than in hardcover. This fact was interesting but not so surprising. The book was the much anticipated sequel to the popular The Da Vinci Code. It was just faster to download Kindle copies than print ones. Print sales caught up later in the week.
July 18, 2010. Amazon announced that its overall e-book sales topped hardcovers. For the previous three months it sold 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books. Amazon only offered relative numbers not actual sales figures. Totals included the very inexpensive Kindle books, bought more easily than read, limiting any implications for understanding literacy. The announcement was interpreted as marketing in anticipation of the Apple iPad.
January 2011. Amazon sells more e-books than paperbacks in the US during the final three months of 2010.
May 19, 2011. Amazon announces that it has sold more e-books than hardcover and paperback print books combined. Sceptics like me are slack-jawed.
Independent Sources
May 27, 2010. "E-book sales grew exponentially in the first quarter of 2010, jumping from just 1.5% of total US book sales in 2009 to 5% of the market in the first quarter of 2010." "Among e-book buyers, 25 percent said they bought fewer print books than before." Kelly Gallagher, vice president of publishing services at R.R. Bowker, speaking from BISG's Survey of Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading.
January 28, 2011. "In 2010, e-book sales rose by around 400% and pulled in almost $1 billion in sales." Madeline McIntosh, Random House's president of sales, operations and digital.
June 27, 2011. "The share of adults in the United States who own an e-book reader doubled to 12% in May, 2011 from 6% in November 2010." Pew Internet.
July 25, 2011. "Sales of print books in Canada dropped dramatically in the first quarter of 2011″ …. "BookNet CEO Noah Genner attributed the drop to a combination of factors, including the sale of digital books …."
August 9, 2011. "E-book net revenue increased by 1274.1 percent between 2008 and 2010, to $878 million. E-book net sales increased by 1039.6 percent between 2008 and 2010, to 114 million." BookStats.
September 12, 2011. "E-book sales rose 167% in June, to $80.2 million, at the 15 houses that reported figures to AAP's monthly sales report and closed the first half of the year with sales up 161%, to $473.8 million." "Trade paperback sales had the largest decline, down 64%, while children's hardcover sales were off 31%. Adult hardcover sales fell 25%, mass market sales were down 22% and children's paperback was off 13%." Publishers Weekly.
Conclusion. The overall book sales pie may be getting larger but it is due to increased e-book sales while print sales drop. In general people are switching from print books to e-books. There are important exceptions to this pattern that I will discuss in my next article.
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It feels like some information is missing here. If only 12% of adults, in the US,( approx. 20,000,000 people give or take a few million ) owned ereaders in May, and the year before that ebook sales were only 5% of the US book market the year before that what are the real numbers here?
It appears to me that ebook sales are still being dwarfed by print book sales and the rate of ebook adoption has increased. But it feels like too much spin right now. From the above it appears to me that the non ebook market is still a magnitude larger than the ebook market.
@ Andy
According to book stats 2010 numbers
trade hardcover- 5.26 B
trade softcover- 5.27 B
mass market paperback- 1.28 B
ebook – 878m (net revenue) 114m (net sales)
US numbers only- not all publishers represented (or all numbers would be larger).
2011 numbers aren't out yet, but it sounds as though all the numbers are a 10% drop or so except ebooks, which doubled again. So they are ahead of mass market paperback now.
But remember this is teleread- ebooks took over here years ago. And the article is discussing the trend, not where that puts us overall.
Thanks. Those numbers help a lot. I don't have any problems with the focus on the trendiness of ebook adoption ( I'm personally buying less than 10% of books in paper than I was even 5 years ago).
I just like/need to see the solid/physical numbers attached to those trends. Which you've provided. Thanks.


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Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Weight Loss Follow Up
Several people emailed with questions similar to those in a comment Bia Redko left on last week's story about my weight loss:
I loved your diet and trying to follow it.
You do not have any milk?
And eggs?
And coffee and tea?
And about water?
Thanks for the inspiration.
I didn't intend that post to be a step-by-step diet for anyone else, especially since I believe everyone needs to be guided by their individual strengths and weaknesses, tastes and health issues.
For example, I cannot have ice cream in the house. Period. It sits in the freezer (not for long) and calls my name until I eat it. All of it. When I am substituting ice cream for one of my 21 meals per week, I buy only as much as I am going to eat so none is left over.
Similarly for cheese. I purchase a good-sized portion for that one meal and finish it all in one sitting.
Eggs: Occasionally, I use only the whites of boiled eggs cut up in salads. A boiled egg holds about 80 calories. The white is about 15 or 20 calories. When weight loss depends on shaving only 200-300 calories per day from a maintenance diet, every calorie counts and egg yokes don't give me anything I need that I can't get elsewhere.
Coffee and tea: I drink two to three cups of coffee every morning while I read the news, answer email and make notes for future blog posts. I drink it (and tea) black; I don't need the additional 100-200 calories from sugar and milk nor do I like coffee that tastes like candy.
Particularly when I'm working in the afternoon, I take a green tea break but only decaffeinated. No caffeine after 10-11AM for me. I don't want anything in my body that would contribute to my sleep difficulties.
I hardly ever use milk. When, now and then, I need it for something I'm cooking, I always use no-fat. But if it's calcium anyone's concerned about, it seems that I get plenty from the wide variety of vegetables I eat, from no-fat sour cream and no-fat yogurt and my occasional cheese meal.
My physician is not concerned. But as I've noted, you should not follow my lead on getting enough nutrients. Each of us is different.
There is usually a glass of water on my desk or nearby wherever I am working. Old peple don't always feel thirst when our bodies need hydrating so it's important to drink a glass of water several times a day even if we think we don't need it.
I never drink soda of any kind. That's just a personal quirk that has nothing to do with weight loss – I've never liked the bubbles.
On rare occasions – and I do mean rarely – I eat something with an astronomical calorie count but is yummy. French toast (with whole eggs including the yolks) with sausage and – the point of the meal for me – real maple syrup.
Although in general, I don't eat meat anymore, two or three times a year I cook up a couple of lamb shanks – I really like lamb – and about once per winter, I make a beef stew although recently, I've been experimenting with substituting mushrooms for beef.
A point about occasional pig outs: We often lament, in old age, how fast time seems to speed by but during this weight loss program, I have discovered an upside to the phenomenon.
If I've satisfied my craving for ice cream today and start day-dreaming about, for example, French toast - it will feel like almost no time at all until I can indulge myself a week from today.
All right, that's all the time I can stand to be upright this morning (Monday).
Remember last Thursday when I said I was afflicted with some bodily disturbance and ennui? Apparently, it was only a prelude.
Since Saturday morning I've been in bed with most of the classic flu symptoms and a temperature of 100-plus. I can't see how it's really a flu since I had the shot and it was formulated for the strain of flu that is making the rounds this year.
Oh, well. There are all sorts of unidentified bugs willing to make their homes in our bodies and I'm going back to bed now.
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Hi...Thanks for your sensible weight loss plan. Just curious...what is your height?
I appreciate your dragging yourself out of your sick bed to write your blog. Sorry you're feeling awful. Regarding milk, I substitute almond milk whenever milk is called for (30 cal/cup) and it works fine--also has calcium.
Yup, even with the flu shot, I had that same problem over Christmas........which I cancelled. Felt like a truck hit me & could barely get to the BR. Lasted only 3 days, but what a PIA. No fever, but stay on top of that if it goes up on you. Be well, soon. Dee
You are absolutely correct in that there is no one diet, exercise schedule, or food focus that can be the miracle weight loss solution. Each person has to decide what they can live without. What they can't, they then have to ration that food as if it was $500 an ounce. Then they have to move as much as possible.
Get back in bed!! This time, too, will pass quickly....
So sorry about the flu. Yup, get back in bed.
Yes, your weight loss plan sounds a lot like Weight Watchers. It's sensible yet allows for ice cream attacks. Bravo.
Get well soon!
I hope you are well soon. So sorry, that was what happened when I caught the flu too. Several days of low energy and being disengage. Be careful.
Get well soon...I need your blog daily! An inspiration for just life.
Wait a second. Ice cream isn't good for you? Who said that?!?
But otherwise I agree with you. More water, more vegetables; less meat, no soda pop. And plenty of time in bed when you're sick. Get well soon!
Rice milk works for us as a sub for the "real" stuff.
I'm sorry you are sick. It's no fun and I hope you recover rapidly.
You are a brave soul to write a post daily when feeling punk. I would just stay in bed and whine. Thanks for your sacrifice.
Please get well soon -- can't imagine a day without your column...
Get well soon, dear!
I look for you every day.
I gained almost 10 pounds when my examens showed a kind of anemia, five months ago.
I started to have meat, that I was not eating for 15 years, and havein vitamins and vitamins my doctor prescribed. But the extra weight is putting pressure on my spine, and I am cuttind my food intake according your prescriptions and my doctor. The milk is being a long habit because osteoporosis, but I am starting to cut it also. But you have a anemy to win, you feel desperate for give enough nutrientes to your body. Regards and thank you!
Best wishes for a speedy recovery! Unfortunately, even an annual flu shot isn't a 100% guarantee, as quite a few TGB readers apparently have experienced. Speaking selfishly, I sure hope it works for me.
As far as dietary issues, I've enjoyed milk all my life and am probably not going to give it up at this point. I don't have a weight problem, but I drink 1% milk and have for the past 25+ years. Otherwise, I eat primarily salads and other low-cal foods. (I lost 70+ lbs. in my early 20s and, although I've managed to keep it off, one thing experience has taught me is that there's no magic bullet!)
" I drink two to three cups of coffee every morning while I read the news, answer email and make notes for future blog posts."
Coffee is a vital part of any nutritional breakfast. It's loaded with vitamins, minerals and anything else that makes you strong, intelligent and beautiful.
Well ... maybe I exaggerate some but I got's to have my coffee in the morning.
We had the flu shot as well, and my 73-y-o beloved, who is medically fragile caught it anyway. Our 48-y-o son who is healthy (and did not get the vaccine) gave it to him. Son was sick sick sick for over two weeks. Creaky Papa was back up in three days, still coughing but okay.
The vaccine may not keep you from catching it, but it seems to lessen the intensity.
Get well quick Ronni!
Forget about the diet Ronni. I just got back from a rare outing to the "Cheesecake Factory" where I pigged out on a delicious lunch and dessert. As soon as they have room I'm leaving this place and moving in there, seriously, I am.
Losing weight is simply a matter of common sense. Eat less calories on a regular basis and you will lose weight. As you said. I guess some people just like to have everything written down in black and white. One tool that helped me was to actually write down each thing I ate as I ate it. On a daily basis. That way I knew how many calories were taken in each day.
I got the flu about this time last year and I think it was one that was not covered by the flu shot. Since then I make it a habit to keep at least six large bottles of Gatorade on hand for just in case. I live alone and at the time I got dehydrated because there was nothing but water in my house.
Feel better!
The doctors here said that a person can still get the flu when they had the flu shot but that it is not as bad as if they had not got the shot. This year's flu, they say, is like "a flu on steroids" for those who did not get the shot. Get well.
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Court of appeal permits Copyright Trolls to have their friends join the party
On Friday a Judgement was made by the Appeals Court with regard to Golden Eye International(GEIL)
GEIL the Copyright Trolls, who are resurrecting the ACS:LAW "Speculative Invoicing" had originally been denied their chance of using 12 other Porn Companies in their Legal Action. They appealed and now the Court has awarded them what they had wanted.
This was not unexpected however it is VERY disappointing, O2 Subscribers were represented by Open Rights Group (ORG), and they put up a good show according to the Court record.
Although ORG could not stop the appeal, there are some positive points to be had however, GEIL had depended on a high volume of letters being sent out, that is after all the only way this "Alternative revenue scheme" can work.
After being rejected by the initial Court hearing and only having just under 3000 Ip addresses captured by their Software Monitor, they duly sent them off to O2 to have them matched to actual subscribers who would then receive a letter from them asking them to explain why they had infringed their Copyright. GEIL must have been disturbed to see just under a 1000 actual matches. This is a woeful amount, considering the "Software Monitor" is a "Forensic Expert".
With the disparity in captured IP addresses and the actual matching of them to subscribers one can apply some logic to see that now GEIL have won their appeal, and have the other Producers on board, they can now send the remaining 6000 IP addresses to O2, but based on the low quality of the Monitoring, one can see that it could lead to less than 2000 retuning as being matched. This of course will leave GEIL with around 3000 actual details they can send their letters to.
GEIL had originally planned to charge £700 per letter, that will not happen as the original Court hearing said no, GEIL also wanted to state that the Subscriber was responsible for the Infringement, regardless of whether they knew or not. The Court has also said no to that reasoning.
Also unlike when ACS:LAW were practising a similar Legal action, no one really knew much about it, now they do, and this will be the greatest threat to GEILs plan.
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Seems like the "win" over the ORG has gone straight to Becker's head. Come January, he's bracing himself for a few trips Stateside. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20852157
Now, who does this remind us of :-) Deja Vu – "Exciting Times Ahead" !
December 28, 2012 at 11:32 am
Are the films that they are attempting to prosecute people for copying exactly the same as those allowed to be distributed in the UK?
A quick search of the Melon Farmers site reveals that Ben Dover's R18 rated videos are frequently cut for scenes involving urolagnia (watersports). If these scenes (as unpleasant as they are), are included in the videos that people are accused of acquiring illegally, then how could they possibly be prosecuted for downloading them, they could never have legally bought these titles in an unexpurgated form in the UK in the first place.


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We were all under the impression that the big wedding was taking place in September (after a naughty guest posted their invite online), but Katy Perry implied that her and Russell might ALEADY be married when she appeared on The Graham Norton Show last night, telling the host:
"Life's never dull with [Russell] - that's why I married him."
WHAT?! We missed it?
Realising her mistake, she quickly backtracked:
"That's why I'm marrying him!"
The 25-year-old then refused to clarify whether she and Russell - reportedly due to tie the knot in the autumn - had secretly wed.
She later referred to Russell's mum as her mother-in-law. Hmmmm.
Regardless of the riddle, Katy was looking lovely as usual, so Russ must be kicking himself that she's on home turf while he's off promoting Get Him To The Greek in Europe - typical!


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Congratulations to all, as we have survived yet another year of the "Times of Trouble" (see Russia 1598 – 1613). 2011 was a year that started out on a positive note only to suffer through the trials and tribulations of economic, political and even environmental challenges.As the year began, the market thought it was only a matter of time before the Fed would tighten interest rates to cool the economic growth and potential inflation here in the U.S. In early February, the market was pricing in a 100 percent probability of the Fed raising interest rates by the end of 2011 (guess that did not happen).We witnessed the "Arab Spring;" the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear catastrophes; and a bailout of Portugal. We once thought interest rates in Greece were high with the two-year note at 18.51 percent and the 10-year bond at 13.83 percent - how quaint. We began to question the creditworthiness of Italy and Belgium. In the U.S., we battled through debt-ceiling and credit-rating "crises." We saw gold soar to $1917.90/oz and oil plummet to $75.71/barrel. We observed the Fed announcing that interest rates would remain "near zero" until mid-2013, and we began to wonder if France had the financial wherewithal to withstand the financial crisis. We had to pull out our history books and look-up the "Twist." We watched the ECB tighten interest rates by 50bps, only to see it ease by those same 50bps. We saw Italy and Spain flirt with the "crossing the Rubicon" level of seven percent on their 10-year bonds. Quite a year indeed!This week was relatively free of any earth-shattering news. There were ongoing concerns about Europe as the size of the ECB's balance sheet ballooned to a record 2.73 trillion euro and the Italian 10-year bond auction as not as strong as some expected.The U.S. Dollar and U.S. Treasuries continue to benefit from all the uncertainty in Europe. The dollar reached a 15-month high of $1.2858 versus the euro, before trading off a bit to $1.2961. For the week, the two-year Treasury note was down 1bp to 27bps; the five-year note was down 8bps to 90bps; the 10-year note was down 10bps to 1.92 percent; and the 30-year bond was down 14bps to 2.92 percent. Also benefitting to this flight-to-safety was Germany, whose two-year bund touched a new all-time low yield of 14.2bps.We continue to witness year-end funding pressure. The three-month LIBOR rate reached 58.10bps, the highest it has been since July 2009 and the LIBOR-OIS spread widened to 49bps, the highest it's been since May 2009.European interest rates still indicate continued market wariness as Italy was the main focus of the week. The Italian 10-year bond is currently trading at 7.03 percent after touching 7.13 percent earlier this week. On a more positive note, the yield on their two-year note continued to fall after soaring to a record-high of 8.12 percent last month. The note is currently trading at 4.95 percent.Greek government yields continue to remain elevated. The Greek one-year note pressed up against the 400 percent level as its yield touched an all-time high of 383.58 percent before dropping marginally to 354.92 percent, while the 10-year bond is still at a very high 34.85 percent.This coming Friday we will we receive the December Employment report. Will the recent improvements in the level of Initial Unemployment Claims augur a stronger U.S. employment picture?Wishing all a very happy and prosperous New Year!
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Friday Findings: Deathbeds, Adoption, and No One at Church
This week's Friday Findings is a hodge-podge of the weird, kooky, silly, touching, and heartbreaking. Just the way I like it. Enjoy. These awkward Jesus pictures have been floating around Facebook. If you've missed 'em, here ya' go. You're welcome. This might be my favorite finding of the week. It is worthy of its own post and … Read this post


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A handful of you inquired… the shirt was a hand-me-down from my dearest friend Cameron. Thanks Cam!
It's Forever 21. Vintage by now, they turn things over fairly quickly you know.
A handful of you inquired… the shirt was a hand-me-down from my dearest friend Cameron. Thanks Cam!
It's Forever 21. Vintage by now, they turn things over fairly quickly you know.
Garnet Hill has some cute embroidered tops right now!!
Good find! The last thing I bought from Forever 21 was a denim romper, so…
love it! I can only go in forever21 maybe a few times a year…have to be in the mood to really hunt for something good.
Garnet Hill does have some cute ones. I have the same style as the current ones, but with a 3/4 sleeve (for the fall) and I have worn it out!!!
tell us about the beautiful quilt the blouse is on!
I love it! I was wondering where you got it. You're one lucky lady to get that hand-me-down! L.U.C.K.Y! So adorable!!!
Over here at my house we like to call it "Forever 31″…cute top!
NICE hand-me-down! My sister always gives me goodies like this!
Forever 31…funny!
Haha, Love that it's vintage now
Ok, now I love the top even more! Doesn't it seem like the things you always love on someone else they got in a foreign country or they are no longer available?!
It is an adorable top….Vintage! Ha!
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You're kidding?! It is adorable and definitely looked more Anthropologie than F21.
LOVE the top! I would go to Forever 21 a lot more if it weren't for the crowds and crowds of teenagers always in the store. I don't like having to fight my way through a mob.
Is your email on the fritz again?
Super cute top…but cracking up how someone asked about the quilt now, if you give a mouse a cookie! Where did you get the staple in the tag. lol :0 Have a good weekend, hope the week has improved. ~JR
I am on a quest to find it – adorable!
Hi Erika, I've followed your blog (and your sister's) for a while now. I have a quick question, I saw on your blog a few months ago that you use "fresh" makeup products and I'm wondering if you still use the wonderbar with these products. I'm using the wonderbar, but having a hard time finding makeup that doesn't have a reaction with the wonderbar and make my face breakout. The company mostly just recommends not using makeup, which i'm having a hard time doing! Any suggestions… or did you give up the wonderbar?
I have the same shirt! Everyone asks me about it as well!
PS: I just love your style and I definitely get inspiration from your projects!
You daughter would look too adorable in this similar one http://www.pinkchicken.com/product_p/pcn516a.htm
Okay, you could get a half dozen tops at F21 for this price, but so cute! Lots of cuteness going on at the pink chicken.


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Michigan has content standards and more detailed learning benchmarks and covers civil rights in high school only.
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U.S. History and Geography: The civil rights movement is the third of three major topics included in a unit that covers the post-World War II era until 1989. The specific standards are:
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• Civil rights movement: Analyze the key events, ideals, documents and organizations in the struggle for civil rights by African-Americans including: the impact of WWII and the Cold War (e.g., racial and gender integration of the military), Supreme Court decisions and governmental actions (e.g., Brown v. Board, Civil Rights Act of 1957, Little Rock school desegregation, Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965); protest movements, organizations, and civil actions (e.g., integration of baseball, Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington, Freedom Rides, NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, Nation of Islam and Black Panthers; resistance to civil rights.
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SHOULD CLASS SIZE LIMITS BE REPEALED?-Andrew Stelzer
A statewide poll of 600 Floridians finds that people want to keep Floridaââ¬â¢s class size reduction Amendment in effect. 43 percent of people who responded to the poll support the Amendment, which was passed in 2002. The legal limits for class sizes are 18 children per classroom for the early grades, 22 per class for middle school, and 25 for a high school class. Schools districts are under obligation to make sure all of their classes are of this size by 2010. David Lauer is assistant super independent of Polk County Schools. Polk county did not lower class size to the legal limits last year, Lauer says that the state has not provided enough funding to build increased facilities, especially because the number of kids in Polk county is growing. ------------------
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Last year, Polk county voters approved a half-cent sales tax, which is helping pay for new school buildings.
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ACT ââ¬ÅI think the people knew what they were doingââ¬Â¦instruction in that classroomââ¬?
------------------------------------------- Senator Burt Saunders from Naples, has begun a petition drive to repeal part of the amendment. His ballot question would preserve small class size for kindergarten through third grade, and get rid of the cap for older children. But the issue will likely not arise this legislative session; and Saunders is trying to get the question on the ballot by 2006.comments powered by Disqus


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Geofencing, web push and progressive apps are taking webapps to a new place
- There's a lot going on these days in the world of webapps. Most recently, the W3C published the Geofencing API first public working draft. This API allows webapps to register for notifications when the user's device enters defined geographical regions, assuming that the user grants permission. This enables a whole new class of webapps to be built and follows the recent rollout of the web push API to Chrome Mobile on Android.
- HTML5 - Posted by ruadhan - 15 Jun 2015
The HTML5 Pointer Events API: Combining touch, mouse, and pen
- The Pointer Events API is an HTML5 specification that combines touch, mouse, pen and other inputs into a single unified API. It is less well supported than the Touch Events API, although support is growing, with all the major browsers working on an implementation, except for Apple's Safari. There's a colorful background to how the current state of browser support for this API came to be which we covered previously on mobiForge, but in this article we'll just look at its usage.
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5 Ways Google Brillo Can Change The Device Landscape
- While it is generally agreed that the Internet of Things could improve the way we interact with devices, its integration into everyday life is somewhat slow. This process may soon accelerate with the introduction of Brillo, Google's new OS for the IoT ecosystem. Here are 5 ways this new solution could change the device landscape.
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The Latest Mobile Traffic Report (Q1 2015)
- Based on mobile web traffic sourced from thousands of DeviceAtlas partner websites, this report will provide you with hard data on mobile landscape today. Digital marketers and mobile web developers are welcome to use this DeviceAtlas-powered report offering an overview of the mobile landscape in Q1 2015 based on web browsing figures. The report includes browsing market share for all major global device manufacturers. Some of the findings include:
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Google I/O Event
- Google's I/O event, which kicks off today, has already impressed with its web app. The fully responsive site not only looks great with material design throughout, it also caches to your device so that you can browse it even if you're offline. Plan and manage your offsite visit directly from here. Just make sure you have good connection to cache the site and watch the streams.
- Best Practices - Posted by ruadhan - 27 May 2015
Internet.org: it's got 99 problems but mobile-friendliness ain't one
- Back in August 2013 Facebook announced its Internet.org plan to bring Internet access to the next billion people in developing countries. Most of the media coverage has focused on whether or not it violates net-neutrality, if it's creating a two-tiered Internet, or if it's just another walled-garden with Facebook as gatekeeper. In this post, we set aside those issues for the time being, and focus instead on the technical guidelines for getting a site included in Internet.org.
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Nokia at 150
- Nokia hasn't always been a phone manufacturer. The company dabbled in paper products, footwear and tires before it became involved in the wireless industry. To celebrate their 150th birthday, the Finnish company, which began in 1865 as a rubber manufacturer, released a video detailing its long history.
- Best Practices - Posted by thecurmudgeon - 13 May 2015
Google Mobile Friendly #Fail
- Yes. I am a curmudgeonly old web dev. I remember when marquee tags were all the rage, but even back when I had hair, we paid attention to how heavy we made our web pages. Image optimization tools were invented to make sure we could shave as much off our web pages as we didn't off our chins. The beeps and and pings of the dial up world did not a happy bedfellow make with heavy weight web pages.
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Measuring page weight
- It used to be so easy. Measuring the weight of a web page in the early days of the web was merely a matter of waiting for the page to finish loading and then counting up the size of its constituent resources.
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Google's Mobile-Friendly Test: can a Spruce Goose really fly?
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Verizon and Sprint will get Lumia phones, Lumia PureView soon
Nokias vice president of worldwide developer relations Richard Kerris confirmed in an interview for Neowin that Verizon and Sprint will get Nokia Windows Phone smartphones soon.
Currently the Lumia smartphones are only available in the USA on the AT&T and T-Mobile network. We guess the other major carriers are also ready to jump on board once the first Windows Phone 8 devices come out.
We also got yet another confirmation of the PureView technology coming to the Lumia lineup. According to Richard Kerris it will be out "very soon", which probably means that an announcement at Nokia World in September is on the cards.
The Finns are running out of time and it is only logical that they put everything into the upcoming WP8 smartphones. And as we found out the PureView technology is one of their best weapons in this fight.
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Nokia Lumia PureView WP8 - my next phone
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Nokia is not the only player here. Huwai, samsung, etc also manufacturer wp8. Moreover, soon Microsoft will manufacturer their own hardware like the do with tablets surface. So all manufacturers will be dead soon.
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Nokia will dominate Windows Phone 8. Not a chance.
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Just over a week ago, the Ontario Liberal Party leadership seemed like a prize nobody wanted. Day after day, potential contenders -- Chris Bentley, Laurel Broten, George Smitherman, Dwight Duncan, Brad Duguid, and Deb Matthews -- were tripping over themselves to get out of the race, not into it.
And this past weekend, former cabinet minister John Wilkinson, best known for so skillfully bringing in the HST, added his name to that list. That's a real shame for Liberals who would like to see the party have a rural candidate as an option. The Liberal Party has become box-office poison in rural Ontario. Wilkinson said sacrificing time with family was the chief reason for not running. But part of the calculation had to be the difficulty he'd no doubt have recapturing his Perth-Wellington seat, which he lost by slightly more than 200 votes in 2011. In any event, it means unless something unanticipated happens, nearly every candidate will be from the Greater Toronto Area, the exception being a woman who announced this past week that "she's back."
But the cliché proved to be true: a week is a lifetime in politics.
Just when it looked as if no one wanted to replace Dalton McGuinty as premier, a flood of solid candidates has jumped in, and still will jump into the race this week.
Former cabinet minister Sandra Pupatello proclaimed "I'm back" last week at Ryerson University's Digital Media Zone, joining Glen Murray and Kathleen Wynne in the race. Charles Sousa jumped in on Sunday. Eric Hoskins told me on Sunday he'll announce his entry into the race on Tuesday morning. Gerard Kennedy jumped in on Monday, November 12, but with no siss boom bah at all. He made the announcement on CP24 in an interview this morning.
Former cabinet minister Eric Hoskins, at yesterday's Remembrance Day ceremonies at Queen's Park. He'll enter the race on Tuesday, November 13.
Pupatello is an intriguing candidate. Full of brass and brawn (a characteristic that seems to be in almost every big-name politician from Windsor), Pupatello is trying to recast herself, from former attack dog during the Mike Harris years, to today's job-creation specialist. She makes the claim having been economic development minister, and having spent a little over a year on Bay Street working for PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Pupatello impressively spoke without notes or a teleprompter, moving back and forth with decent facility in French and Italian as well, as she kicked off her campaign. Yes, she has the theatrics of the job down pat -- good speaker, good performer, and some sharp edges to keep opponents uncomfortable. But Pupatello's biggest asset may be that she's been away from Queen's Park for the past year and change, theoretically giving her some distance from one of the government's most botched files, the cancellation of the Mississauga gas-fired power plant.
Her opponents may remind her, however, that she was at the cabinet table when ORNGE, e-health, and the cancellation of the Oakville plant were discussed.
Clearly, Pupatello is trying to distance herself somewhat from the current situation. She said her candidacy is based on creating more jobs, "something we don't hear nearly enough about at Queen's Park these days."
In political parlance, that's called "throwing the premier under the bus." When I asked her after her news conference whether she really meant to sound that tough against the current government, she didn't walk the statement back one iota.
Pupatello's husband Jim Bennett (left) is currently a member of the House of Assembly in Newfoundland & Labrador.
The only potential misstep Pupatello may have made at her launch was related to prorogation. The Liberals are taking a ton of hits on McGuinty's decision to pull the plug on the legislature. And Pupatello said she wouldn't call the house back until she had a seat. That means asking someone else to step down (probably Dwight Duncan in Windsor), getting a by-election called, and winning it. All the other candidates say they want the house back ASAP. But by Pupatello's scenario, ASAP looks like it could take longer.
And while she claims she'll run again in the next election regardless of whether she wins the leadership, she told me after her news conference the reality is, that'll only happen if the new leader (presuming it's not her) wants her to run. In other words, if I win, I'm in. If I don't, I'm not.
On Saturday, former citizenship and immigration minister Charles Sousa jumped in as well, and opened with a good joke.
Seeing his 89-year-old father Antonio standing on stage beside Mississauga's 91-year-old mayor Hazel McCallion, Sousa suggested, "the only reason my dad is here is to hit on Mayor McCallion."
Antonio Sousa and Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion.
Despite the Portuguese community's long-standing ties to Canada, its members have not been huge political players. The first ever cabinet minister from that community was Carl DeFaria, another MPP from Mississauga who only lasted a year in Ernie Eves' government 10 years ago. Peter Fonseca was the first Liberal from the Portuguese community to be in cabinet, but again, just for a few years midway through McGuinty's reign. Sousa became the third in 2010 and he's only been a minister for less than two years.
Sousa, formerly of Royal Bank, is positioning himself on the centre-right of the Liberal spectrum, talking up balanced budgets, economic development, and international investment, particularly the Ring of Fire. In other words, northern Ontario delegates, please have a look at me.
In a scrum after his kick-off announcement, he handled questions about the Mississauga power plant with skill. I asked him what he'd say to critics who said he was tarnished by the more than $200 million taxpayers will have to fork over for canceling the plant in order to save his (and other) Peel Region seats. He was unapologetic. He got into politics, he said, to oppose that gas plant, he opposed it in caucus, he opposed it in cabinet, he opposed it during the campaign, and he was happy when the government killed it. Oh, and the opposition parties would have killed it too. So there.
Mississauga politics can be deliciously complicated and Sousa's campaign offers some of that. Besides the mayor, former city councillor Carolyn Parrish was in attendance, lending her support. Parrish has led the efforts to have the mayor taken down over the conflict of interest scandal that mired McCallion's otherwise stellar reputation a year ago. McCallion and Parrish despise each other, and I'm told the mayor's support of Sousa is unlikely to stay enthusiastic if Parrish continues to be part of the campaign.
Mississauga City Councillor Bonnie Crombie (centre)
In addition, former MP and current city councillor Bonnie Crombie was on stage supporting Sousa. Crombie is a possible mayoralty candidate once McCallion retires in 2014. And if Sousa doesn't win the Liberal leadership, he may well be a candidate too. So in supporting Sousa's leadership bid, Crombie may ironically be helping a future rival improve his profile.
"How these three, the Mayor (and Parrish) and Crombie could all be in the same room and on the same leadership team is perplexing, and likely not sustainable," a source with solid knowledge of the situation told me. "In Mississauga politics, Charles will have to decide: is he with the Mayor or Carolyn."
Yes, Mississauga politics can get complicated.
"Many in the room, many who may like Sousa, were fearful that he will not do well in the leadership race," this source continued, "that he will be the focus of opposition criticism on the power plant fiasco, is perceived too right wing to go against the strong NDP, hasn't been in, or made enough of a mark in cabinet, doesn't have cabinet or caucus support and therefore may come in far back of the leaders. They wondered aloud, why he was doing this. Why spend hundreds of thousands of supporters' dollars for what, if you risk coming in last: profile? A better cabinet post? A mayoralty run? Politics is certainly a strange game."
And yes, this Ontario Liberal leadership race just got a whole lot more interesting.


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TBARTA ponders costs of transit system
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A regional transit network in the Tampa Bay area could cost between $11 and $23 billion. During their monthly board meeting this morning, TBARTA, the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority, contemplated how to pay for that system.
Bob Clifford was recently hired to be TBARTAâs first executive director. He said that costs for a regional transit system have to include the costs of existing bus service as well as new construction of mass transit such as rail lines for the seven-county region, built incrementally over many decades. âThat plan ranges from about 11 billion [dollars] to about 23 billion [dollars] depending upon the pieces that you would select.â
The cost to operate and maintain a fully built-out transit system would be about $150 million per year, Clifford told the board. He said that if all seven counties were to institute an additional 1 percent sales tax for transit, it would generate $488 million per year.
Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio has suggested that instead of having a regional body like TBARTA ask counties to come up with a sales tax for transit, the initiative should come from each county when its residents are ready for the idea. Hillsborough may hold a referendum to raise sales tax by 1 cent as early as 2010. Clifford said that Iorioâs county-by-county idea could succeed, even for a regional effort.
Iorio, who was absent on Friday, will address the TBARTA board on the subject at their January meeting.
During the 2008 session, TBARTA received $2 million from the Florida Legislature. But those funds must be spent by the end of June 2009, unless changes are made. TBARTA intends to ask the Legislature to allow the $2 million to be spent over several years. They are uncertain whether to make the request during next monthâs special session to deal with the budget deficit or during the regular session because extra scrutiny of TBARTA during these tough economic times could result in its funding being cut. Clifford said that the legislators he has spoken with have offered their âstrong supportâ for TBARTAâs request, but they have given some advice.
âWe need to get in and get out of legislative session. This is not the session to be seen, to be heard, to hang around. You draw attention to yourself, so to speak,â he said.
TBARTA is also considering raising funds from part of a surcharge on rental cars that now goes to the Florida Department of Transportation or from a new tax on rentals. The Tri-Rail transit system in South Florida is also seeking such funding.
TBARTA has produced three maps with possible transit routes from Citrus County in the north to Sarasota County in the south. Those three maps will be combined into a hybrid network, Clifford said.
The draft of TBARTAâs hybrid plan will be shared with the public in January, said Shelton Quarles, chair of the TBARTA board.
TBARTA will take public input following the release of the draft and will adopt the final version at either the February or March board meeting, according to Executive Director Bob Clifford.
In the future TBARTA will have to decide whether it will be the entity that owns, runs, and manages the transit system. Board members said they would schedule a special Saturday meeting sometime following their January meeting to discuss difficult and long-term questions like that.
The TBARTA Board elected new officers on Friday. Clearwater Mayor Frank Hibbard was selected as vice chair. Pasco County Commissioner Ann Hildebrand had been serving in the combined role of treasurer and secretary, but that was split into two positions and Hildebrand stayed on as secretary. Hugh McGuire, a gubernatorial appointee to the TBARTA Board, was elected treasurer. Chair Shelton Quarlesâ term does not expire until next year.
The next TBARTA board meeting will be Jan. 23 at USF.
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Ms Amina Hersi Moghe, the winner of the 2008 Woman Investor of the year Award is a remarkable woman. To begin with, she has just completed the construction of one of the two multi-million construction projects that will change not only the landscape of Kampala's Central Business District but also the lifestyle of its people.
The Oasis Mall along Yusuf Lule road that is the home of Nakumatt supermarket; with a host of banks and other retail outlets. It was opened two months ago. The second project, Laburnam Courts on Nakasero road is a high-end luxury and fully serviced accommodation facility consisting of over 120 three, two and one bedroom apartments.
Ms Moghe also runs Kingstone Enterprises Limited, one of the largest distributors of cement and other hardware materials in Kampala.
Born 46 years ago in Bungoma in Western Kenya, Ms Moghe went to school in the small town where her mother Ms Sarah Hersi Ali is still a prominent businesswoman. Her parents moved to Bungoma from Nakuru, the provincial headquarters of Kenya's extensive Rift Valley province in 1958.
"My mother is a very strong willed person and a superb businesswoman and I have taken much after her," Ms Moghe says.
Though born in Kenya, she does not see herself as a foreigner. Her birth place of Bungoma is actually closer to Kampala than it is to Nairobi and the family has been involved in cross-border trade with Uganda since the days of Idi Amin.
"I have been living permanently in Uganda for the last 10 years and I feel more at home here now," she quips.
Indeed it was her family (mother) that suggested that she moves to Uganda following a tragedy that saw her lose two daughters aged 7 and 8 years in a road accident in 1998. The family felt that the trauma of the loss would have been difficult to overcome because of constant reminders from sympathisers who meant no harm.
This marked the turning point in Ms Moghe's life.
"I found it easier to settle down in Uganda and my family had a link that could take care of their business interests on the ground,' she says
A typical day for her begins at 6am in the morning and ends at 6pm.
"I wake up to do the paperwork and make all the crucial decisions and after a light breakfast arrive at work between 7.30 and 8am," she explains.
Her office is mobile depending on the project she is undertaking.
But what really motivates this single mother of three? After the deathof her father, Ms Moghe and her sister were hurried into accounting school by their mother with the sole purpose of indicting them early into business.
"In my teenage life my sister and I were mostly helping our mother in her various businesses and we therefore did not see much of it," she says.
However, she does not regret this early introduction into the business world. Without a doubt her mother is her mentor and she also remembers the sound advice of her Uncle Mr Adam Hersi Ali, a Financial Secretary at treasury in Kenya's Ministry of Finance.
"I can describe myself as self-motivated with a passion for what I do" she says with a good dose of confidence.
Ms Moghe rubbishes talk that her businesses are a front for well connected local politicians emphasising that all her business partners are aware of her record.
"People are free to talk and you can't stop them," she says.
Asked about her management style, she emphasises that she believes in teamwork, role differentiation and accountability.
"I cannot achieve anything on my own so I have to depend on other people and this is equally true for those that I depend on.
However, each person has their responsibility and they report to me because it's my responsibility to ensure that things run smoothly. I also believe in empowering people to perform their duties. " Ms Moghe says.
So what does the 2008 Woman Investor of the year Award mean to her? "It was a pleasant surprise and I'm grateful for the recognition. The award has really inspired me to do more in the coming years," she says.
Ms Moghe hopes that the award will be an inspiration for women entrepreneurs to take up the challenge of contributing positively to the growth of the nation. Her advice to women entrepreneurs is to be at the top of their business at all times, spending time to understand and nurture the business.
She counsels on cutting costs and reinvesting profits in order to strengthen the business. "Enjoy it, love it and it will never be a burden". She adds that local women have the potential of contributing as much as men to business and investment.
"The trend is that most big investors come from abroad but I believe that the locals have a lot of potential and should in fact contribute more because they have a bigger stake in the growth and development of the country," she says.
She commends the Uganda Investment Authority and the Government for creating a favourable environment for investments. "Uganda has the fastest systems in the region for processing investor requirements and this makes it an attractive destination for investments," she concludes.
Apart from business her other passion is being with her children.


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Book SigningEvent Details: 6:30 p.m., November 02, Busch Student Center, Wool Ballroom, 20 N. Grand Blvd., Rooms 170-173, Lower Level, St. Louis, MO, 63103
The Great Issues Committee and First-Year Experience will host Julie Otsuka, author of the First-Year Summer Reading book, When the Emperor Was Divine, at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, in the Wool Ballroom at Busch Student Center.
Otsuka's debut book presents an intimate portrait of the Japanese internment camps during World War II. A book signing will follow her lecture.