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Easter Basket Cupcakes are Sure to be a Hit!0
Hippity Hoppity Easter's on its way and we couldn't be happier to share some cute Easter ideas with you!
We saw these Easter Basket Cupcakes on Pinterest and it was love at first sight!
The recipe calls for all types of sweet ingredients like jelly beans, chocolate Twizzlers and coconut flakes but what's great about the recipe is that each of these ingredients can be easily replaced with other types of candy that you and your family may prefer.
You could always switch out the jelly beans for Skittles or M&Ms and if your kids don't like coconut you could use green frosting for the grass instead! Moms with picky eaters know, there's nothing better than a flexible recipe!
While these basket cupcakes are cute, they can only hold so much … what your kids really need in order to celebrate Easter properly is their own Personalized Jumbo Easter Baskets, which are large enough to hold everything the Easter Bunny leaves for them plus all the eggs they find during the Easter Egg Hunt!
Our Jumbo baskets come with your choice of four different basket-liner colors, which can be embroidered with any name in your choice of 14 thread colors!
The Easter Bunny AND your kids will be happy to see that their baskets are personalized – they won't mix up their Easter gifts with their siblings' and moms are always happy to have a nice sturdy basket that they're kids can use for years to come!
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PMall is now on Instagram!0
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We'll be using our Instagram account to share exclusive, behind-the-scenes photos of life here at PersonalizationMall.com plus all the latest news on sales and upcoming contests, as well!
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Enter our Valentine's Day Contest & Automatically Win a prize!0
Valentine's Day is fast approaching and here at PersonalizationMall.com, we're in love with love!
That's why we brought back the "Me and My Romantic PMall Gift" Photo Contest – we want to see photos of all the Romantic PMall.com Gifts you've given or received from a loved one!
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Visit the Contest Page to submit your photo into the contest and to see all the photos that our other fans have been submitting. Seeing how other people personalized their gifts is sure to help give you ideas for when you're doing your own Valentine's Day shopping!
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Add a Little Magic to your Christmas Morning!0
Christmas morning is one of the most magical days of the year and we want to help you enjoy all of the excitement and joy that Christmas morning brings, that's why we've put together some great tips that will help add a little extra magic to your Christmas morning for both you and the kids!
Christmas morning comes pretty early for parents who have been up all night wrapping "Santa" presents, especially because the kids usually wake up earlier due to excitement.
This year, buy yourself a little extra time to sleep in the morning and surprise your little ones by placing a special activity gift outside their bedroom doors, such as the Merry Christmas Personalized Coloring Book & Crayon Set.
This unique coloring book can be customized with your child's name on the front cover and inside pages and you get to choose from 1 of our 4 cartoon characters that you want to be featured throughout the book. The book is full of holiday pictures to color, as well as Christmas-themed games, mazes and puzzles.
Speaking of puzzles, we have a wide selection of Personalized Christmas Puzzles (including photo puzzles!), that also make great outside-their-door gifts! When they wake up, instead of running straight to your bedroom to pounce on you, they'll be able to spend some quiet time coloring in their new activity book or putting together their new Christmas puzzle!
The door gifts won't be able to hold them off forever so once everyone is awake, make sure to have your camera ready and head over to the Christmas tree.
Surprise them by leaving magical Santa footprints near the cookies and milk they set out the night before (as you can see in the image at top left). To create Santa footprints, put a pair of boots down on the ground and sprinkle flour around them so that when you remove them, all that's left in their place is a snow-like outline of a boot. Sure you'll have to clean up a little mess later on but it will be totally worth it after you see the look of wonder on your children's faces!
Have the footprints make a trail to the Christmas gifts and let the gift opening begin!
Thanks to Pinterest, we found a great tip for parents to use when the wrapping paper starts to go flying.
Take a large cardboard box and wrap it in Christmas wrapping paper, making sure to leave the top part of the box open.
Place it near the tree and as the kids start unwrapping their gifts, have them throw the paper away in the box. The pretty box (see example photo at right) will function as a trash can but will be disguised like a present so it will still look nice in all of your Christmas morning photos!
The fun doesn't stop after the presents, make Christmas morning breakfast memorable by serving Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Christmas pancakes!
As you can see from the photo at left, you can use whip cream and blueberries for the eyes, a strawberry for the nose and strips of bacon for the antlers and they won't believe it when they look down and see Rudolph on their plates!
It's the little details that matter and with this easy tips, your Christmas morning is sure to be one you'll treasure for years to come!
Surprise Them with a Magical Christmas Eve Adventure!0
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Christmas Eve is one of the most special days of the year and with it comes an abundance of excitement and anticipation, so much so that the evening seems to fly by and come to an end before you have a chance to revel in the magic.
Well, we've come up with some great ideas and new traditions that will not only help make your Christmas Eve more memorable, it will also give you and your family the chance to really "be in the moment" and savor every minute of this special night.
For starters, kick off the night with a new tradition by letting the kids open one present on Christmas Eve – new personalized pajamas! Our Holiday Cheer Embroidered Pajama Sets are the perfect PJs because they can be embroidered with any name in both adult and youth sizes so the entire family can match! The kids will love getting a chance to open a gift early and Mom will be happy because it ensures that the kids will be dressed in cute PJs for Christmas Morning pictures!
Once everyone is nice and cozy in their new personalized PJs, sit down as a family and read the popular Christmas book The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg to get everyone in the mood for the adventure you're about to surprise them with! When you've finished the book, announce that it's time for bed and escort the kids to their rooms.
On each of their beds, hide an Embroidered Snowman Mini Treat Bag under the covers. Choose a boy or girl treat bag design for each of your little ones and have it embroidered with their name.
Have a camera ready because you'll want to capture all of their giggles and screams as they discover their Christmas Eve surprises!
Inside each of the treat bags, include their favorite candy or snacks and most importantly – their special ticket for the "(Your Name Here) Express" (Click HERE for a free printable of our exclusive Express tickets (at left) that you can personalize with your own family name)!
Explain that they've just received a special ticket to go on a magical adventure and have them put on their coats and slippers and head the family car or van with their new treat bag and ticket.
When everyone is lined up, act as Conductor and punch a hole in each of their tickets before they climb into their seats.
Once everyone is buckled in, hand them their Christmas Lights Scavenger Hunt List (Click HERE for a free printable of our exclusive Christmas Lights Scavenger Hunt List) and a crayon and set out on your Christmas Eve adventure!
Take them on a car ride past all of the best decorated houses in your area so they can find items from their scavenger hunt list.
They can snack on the goodies in their treat bags as they stare out the window in wonder of all the beautiful twinkling lights of the neighborhood.
You can all work together as a family to find everything on the list or make it a friendly competition and suggest that whoever finds all of the items first wins a prize or gets to open the first present on Christmas morning.
Once you've finished your magical adventure on the Family Express, it's time to make your way home. Before sending the kids off to bed, remind them to set out the special Cookies & Milk for Santa Plate and Mug that you can have personalized with their first names or any 3-line message. They'll love knowing that Santa knows exactly who the cookies are from and they'll head off to bed excited to wake up and see how many he ate!


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Star Trek online, looking pretty good imo
If the gameplay trailer is any indication this could be very cool. So far I like the graphics, imo the locations could look pretty cool in game. (The character models could probably be a little better though.)
There are so many strange, funky directions they could take a Trek themed mmorg to. Even planets and scenarios from the show's past would be cool.
I like The Next Generation, I think it had a great cast. Pretty much everyone fit their part well. But I really like the old Trek's with Shatner, Nemoy, and the rest. Taken in the context of the times the original was just bad ass imo. People had never seen anything like that on TV before, and a liberal dose of hot chicks helped. :D
Mmorgs aren't my kind of thing, but I might check this one out to see if they take advantage of the show's potential.
Re: Star Trek online, looking pretty good imo
Ima play as a Jedi.
Re: Star Trek online, looking pretty good imo
Ya looks good to me too, and I don't like Mmorgs anymore, but I'll wait for the reviews and the community feedback...
Wonder how they will handle the grinding aspect... what if you could make a Mmorg with zero grinding:wonder:
Re: Star Trek online, looking pretty good imo
Ehh MMO i can see how that will work , lvl 100 Vulcan melting people's brains blowing up borg Cube in one hit and takes 500 phaser hits to take him down.... :headexplode:
Yeah no thanks.
Re: Star Trek online, looking pretty good imo
Re: Star Trek online, looking pretty good imo
Re: Star Trek online, looking pretty good imo
Looks interesting, but here's hoping there's some good "events". I mean c'mon let the players defend the Federation at Wolf 359 again! w00t.
But in all seriousness I'm sure the game will take the good ole quest-grinding style game play. I mean the greatest part of ST was the telling of the story, now if they make quests highly interactive that could be cool. And how many episodes were about solving a problem enroute to solve another problem, I mean seriously if the Holodeck goes haywire and photonic armies storm the ship is it game over? Or should I just assign a maintenance crew to Holodeck 2 and bing the problem is fixed.
With the loss of Atlantis and no new ST series my Sci-Fi mojo is severely weakened. :(
Re: Star Trek online, looking pretty good imo
And one more thing if my engineer gains Legendary status they better give me a "More Power <Insert Chief Engineer Name Here>". And by God if he's not a slightly pudgy American speaking with a fake Scottish accent and doesn't reply, "I'm givin' her all she's got captain." I will /quit!
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Flank Steak Southern Style
5 Dec 2011
|Flank steak
|2 Pound (1 Piece)
|Vegetable oil
|2 Tablespoon
|Sliced onion
|3 Cup (48 tbs)
|1 Clove (5 gm), peeled and minced
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|1 Teaspoon
|Black pepper
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
|Ground thyme
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
1) Slash the surface of the steak lightly with a sharp knife.
2) Place a large skillet over high heat and heat the oil.
3) Brown the steak in the oil quickly on both the sides.
4) Take the skillet off the heat and lift the meat into a slow cooker.
5) Into the still hot oil, turn all the remaining ingredients right away and scrape the pan to gather all the juices.
6) Turn the sauce into the slow cooker.
7) Cover the cooker and cook on LOW for 8 to 10 hours.
8) Serve the Flank Steak Southern Style while it is still hot. Transfer to a decorative serving plate to serve. Mashed potatoes and green salad make good accompaniments.
Recipe Summary
Difficulty Level:Very Easy
Course:Main Dish
Method:Slow Cooked
Preparation Time:5 Minutes
Cook Time:480 Minutes
Ready In:485 Minutes
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Where Is Exchange Product Id?
Posted 22 April 2014 - 11:02 AM
However, after looking all over, I don't see a Product ID field listed anywhere when adding/editing a product.
Am I just missing it somewhere?
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Posted 22 April 2014 - 12:18 PM
Was kind of hoping this was an ID that I could manually assign. But it's no big deal.
Posted 22 April 2014 - 12:51 PM
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The cost of housing is preventing nearly a quarter of 24-39 year olds from starting a family, new research shows.
Research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows 8.1 million parents and children living on incomes below the needs of a minimum household budget.
The UK Chancellor's announcement about freezing working-age benefits from 2016, hailed at the recent Conservative Party conference, is a 'blow to millions'.
A new report from the TUC says the majority of social security cuts announced by the government will fall on working families, who will suffer twice the level of benefit losses as out of work families.
For people at the sharp end, the poorest and those most dependent on public services, it sometimes feels as if the Coalition has spent the last four years steadily unpicking the very fabric of our society. For a long time this process has been under-reported by the media, but gradually the results are becoming impossible to ignore.
A major research project will reveal the scope of families work in the majority of UK Churches. Exploring the Family Ministry Landscape is thought to be the first project of its kind in the UK
Years of real-terms cuts to child benefit, statutory maternity, paternity and adoption pay will leave expectant and new parents up to £450 a year worse off, says the TUC.
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Last week at the Big Ten Tournament, Michigan's bat boy was wearing a jersey with "692" on the back of it. The reference was lost on me till later when I read that is the exact mileage from Ann Arbor to Omaha.
When you set your goals, set them high.
Michigan (45-12) will put that all to the test as they host a NCAA Regional Tournament at Fisher Stadium beginning this Friday. They received a #2 seed and in fact, are the only #2 seed hosting a regional tournament this year. They will begin the tourney by facing #3 seed Kentucky (42-17). #1 seed Arizona will take on #4 seed Eastern Michigan (25-32). Continue reading CBB Regional Preview: Ann Arbor


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Four charged after altercation at Chuck E. Cheese vending machine
At least four people have been charged after a massive fight Saturday night that broke out in the vending machine line at the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant at 3649 Hickory Hill.
It all started when a woman asked Juaneka Key, 18, how long she planned to be at the vending machine. Key said she "was going to take her time" and they began arguing, according to Memphis police reports.
Terence Dickerson, 42, punched the woman in the left eye and Key and a sidekick joined the fight, police reports say. Then, the victim's family got involved.
According to the reports, Key and another woman hit the victim and kicked her under a table. Several people got involved in the fight and many others watched.
According to police reports: "The customers and children began panicking and fleeing the scene to avoid getting involved."
Investigators charged Dickerson and Key with disorderly conduct and inciting a riot. Dickerson's out on $100 bond and Key is out on $250 bond.
Officers also arrested Steven Henderson, 21, and Juanita Hopkins, 37, who were yelling, cursing and making threats while police tried to break up the fight, according to police reports. They're charged with disorderly conduct and possession of marijuana.
Another woman was arrested, but it was unclear if she was charged Sunday.
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More than two years after Haleigh Poutre was so brutally beaten she was left in a coma from which she was never expected to revive, the 14-year-old girl may be well enough to testify against the man accused of abusing her.
Haleigh, who was once thought to be so irreversibly brain damaged that doctors planned to remove her from life support, has spent the last two years recovering at the Franciscan Hospital for Children near Boston.
She began breathing on her own and showing other signs of brain activity in January 2006, just days before doctors planned to remove her ventilator.
Now, she is reportedly able to communicate and recall her alleged attack.
Her recovery may set up a dramatic confrontation if she takes the witness stand and testifies against her stepfather, Jason Strickland, who is accused of beating her into a coma in September 2005.
It was Strickland who fought to keep Haleigh alive in late 2005 when the Massachusetts Department of Social Services sought to remove her from life support.
"It's nothing short of phenomenal to have someone who is essentially given up for dead survive this and come out of a coma and be able to articulate what happened to her," said Tim Burke, a former prosecutor and longtime criminal defense lawyer in Boston.
According to court documents filed by Strickland's defense attorney, Haleigh has made abuse allegations against her stepfather. Court papers asking to postpone Strickland's trial say his attorney, Alan Black, has received new child abuse reports from the district attorney's office.
"It appears from [the report] that the victim is now making statements alleging abuse by the defendant," the papers say.
"This creates issues concerning competency and her ability to testify and recall events in light of her severe head trauma," say the court papers, which were first reported last week by the Boston Globe and the Springfield Republican.
The prospect of seeing Haleigh on the witness stand disturbs her biological mother, who gave up custody of her daughter when the girl was 4 and who has been barred from visiting her by the Department of Social Services.
"I'm worried about her emotional state," Allison Avrett, who now says she regrets relinquishing custody, told ABC News. "I don't think she should have to relive this."
Among all the relatives and doctors who have moved in and out of Haleigh's short life, it appears that Strickland may in fact deserve the most credit for keeping her alive.
Haleigh was brought to the hospital Sept. 11, 2005, by Strickland and Haleigh's aunt, who was also her adopted mother. Haleigh, then 11, was comatose and covered in bruises, court records say; her body temperature had dropped to 85 degrees.
The Massachusetts DSS was given custody of the girl and in October 2005 sought to remove her from life support.
Strickland fought to keep her alive, though DSS and judges noted at the time that Strickland had an incentive to do so: He could have faced murder charges if she died.
At a court hearing, doctors from Baystate Medical Center testified that Haleigh had suffered irreversible brain damage.
"Short of developing a technique for a complete brain transplant, there is no hope that medical treatment will be discovered in the foreseeable future which could reverse" her condition, a doctor said, according to court records.


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Thread: Letters. (WIP? idek man)
March 3rd, 2010 #1
Letters. (WIP? idek man)
First post to this forum! I-I'm pretty nervous posting, lol ;;
I'm trying to break away from the anime/manga stereotype and develop my own style... Not sure if it's going well, though ( DA admittedly doesn't help much, despite knowing some really nice people on there;;; ) I've been reading books on perspective and figure drawing (haven't been to any life drawing classes yet though... I hope to!) and just trying to get the hang of it, perspective especially since I am usually terrible at it.
This is one very recent work I did... Dunno if I should classify it as finished though, since I feel I can do much better than just half-assing things with textures and the like. Any thoughts/crits/general tearing my stuff apart would be so, so appreciated!
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Lookin good. The hands looks off though, if you fix the hands it will be perfect. Also the music in the background does not fit the mood of the scene... LOL!! Like I can read music.
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March 3rd, 2010 #3
The eyes and hands need work. My advice for the hands? Make them larger. As they are, her hands are small and extremely rigid. As for the eyes, check it against reference.
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firstly the collarbones are in wrong places. They start from the sternum and connect to the scapulas;
second of all the eyes seem too to be too much on the other side of the head. On our right the cheek goes up and too far away from the eye.
The best way for you to improve in my opinion would be to give the lines a rest for a while, as I see you have no significant shadows in this. Try studying real people (as you've been meaning to, that's good, photos are okay too if there are good light sources in them and no lens distortion) and draw the forms you see using shadows and highlights.
This looks nice, a bit mediocre though, so the realism thing will only benefit your style. What comes to perspective, the simplifying of the human form is the key to it, aka breaking the body down to cylinders, balls etc. Once you've got the perspective down with these basic shapes (you can just draw and learn studying different shapes from different angles) you can use them with body parts. And then there's of course the "what to draw in them", as in anatomy studies starting from bones and muscles.
You've got a good start so far, keep going.
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1866-S $20 Motto MS61 NGC....
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Impressive 1866-S With Motto Twenty, MS611866-S $20 Motto MS61 NGC. Garrett and Guth, in analyzing the 1866-S With Motto double eagle, conclude that while the issue is not difficult to find in mid-range or even higher circulated grades, Mint State examples are elusive. Of those survivors, virtually all show extensive abrasions, and finding an example with strong eye appeal is highly challenging.
This pleasing MS61 piece offers a wonderful change from the norm. Its well struck devices are unworn, and while numerous light to moderate marks visit the fields, the portrait is surprisingly clean for the grade assigned. Green-gold surfaces offer wonderful luster. NGC has graded a mere three finer pieces (4/08).(Registry values: N7079) (NGC ID# 269Y, PCGS# 8950)
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Remember when President Obama slammed the Supreme Court in front of the world during his 2010 State of the Union address for their 2009 Citizens United ruling? Well it looks like Sen. John McCain would have done the same. Yesterday on Meet the Press, McCain called the Supreme Court "uninformed, arrogant and naive" while warning of political "scandals" as a result of the ruling.
MSNBC also used the Citizens United ruling as a punching bag after they lost the Wisconsin recall election to weeks ago.
I'm wondering if John McCain believes citizens acting through corporations and unions to send a political message are also "arrogant" for wanting to exercise their First Amendment Right.
One year ago today, the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. It upheld the First Amendment rights of individuals acting through corporations and labor unions to participate in our political process, and it struck down an oppressive thicket of statutes restricting - and even criminalizing - their political speech.
The case arose in 2007, when Citizens United, a grass-roots membership organization, sought to broadcast a film critical of Hillary Clinton, then a candidate for president. The Federal Election Commission deemed the film too critical to be shown in the weeks before an election; if Citizens United had broadcast it, its officers would have been subject to prosecution and potential imprisonment for up to five years. The Supreme Court struck down this prohibition of corporate and labor union election-time speech about candidates as a violation of the First Amendment. To the court's majority, it was "stranger than fiction for our Government to make . . . political speech a crime."
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HB 1475, sponsored by state Rep. Gary Cross (R-Lee's Summit) was passed by the Missouri House and advanced out of the Senate General Laws Committee yesterday. A parent would have to sign a consent form annually, and a tanning bed parlor that violated the proposed statute could face a fine of $1,000 for each unauthorized session.
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Jordan Hall, a spirited and happy kid, will join other children and adults with Down syndrome along with their families for a CSRA Buddy Walk at USC Aiken's quadrangle by the Student Activities Center on Saturday.
The public is invited to participate in the event, which features many other fun activities. Registration will start at 9 a.m., followed by the walk at 10 a.m.
Jordan's parents, Jenny and Tim Hall, worked with other parents to start an Aiken site for Upside of Downs – a national nonprofit support organization for families with a child or adult with Down syndrome. The Aiken chapter collaborates with the Augusta-area program for the Buddy Walk, which alternates between Aiken and Evans each year.
Jordan, 11, an Aiken Elementary School student, was on the Flag Football League championship team at Citizen's Park this fall, his mom said. He's a big fan of basketball and football and enjoys doing chores around the house, especially laundry. His favorite book series is Scooby Doo.
"Our goal is inclusion, education and acceptance of people with Down syndrome," Jenny Hall said. "It's very important to raise awareness through a day with the Buddy Walk, where everybody is involved. For those of us with an individual with Down syndrome, we have a connection so we can help each other out."
In recent years, the event has attracted hundreds of people – families and community residents – throughout the CSRA and beyond, Hall said. The Halls and other parents are delighted by the sponsorships from area businesses that help support the organization.
The Buddy Walk celebration will include carnival games and lots of food, and "anybody can come in for the walk and enjoy the day with us."
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Whether you're on a covert mission, or lack available frequencies or are simply fearful that a traditional signal may set off an IED or other explosive, you need only be in the field of vision to emit or receive a signal.
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Hooked this product into an ethernet line from my SMC Wireless Router. I am now able to switch between three computers from this single ethernet line. My wireless router has only four ethernet ports. Three ports are in constant use. There are no compadability issues between my SMC Wireless Router and the Linksys 5 port 10/100 switcher.
Works perfect10/10/2006
Switch works perfectly. Smaller size than most but full featured, full duplex with indicator LEDs, etc . Appears to have low power consumption since unit runs fairly cool. The included DC power transformer is smaller than some others such as D-Link brand I've been using. Those also work fine, this one takes up less room.
Nothing negative to say....10/26/2005
I love this little hub/switch. It is compact and does what it is intended to do. I have never had a problem with my first one. The only reason I am purchasing a second is that in a recent move I lost the power adapter! Linksys has alway created reliable equipment even before they were purchased by Cisco Systems. Too bad it is only a scale of 1 to 5. I would give it a ten!
Great switch10/19/2005
I have two of these, and use them to connect four computers (two in one room, and two in another) to a broadband connection (my setup would allow up to seven computers to be connected simultaneously). They definitely work flawlessly, and if you have your network designed correctly, you should have no problems using them. The great thing about this switch is the autosensing feature, which allows it to work with both regular and cross-over network cables. This way you can use whatever cables you have in hand. I was previously using a long cross-over cables between two computers located in two different rooms, which I can now use to connect the two switches that I have. You could use cross-over cables between the switch and terminal computers as well, without a problem, as if they were regular cables. I would highly recommend this switch to anyone.
Simple to install7/16/2005
I had my computer plugged into a EtherFast Cable/DSL Router on the other side of the house. I took that connection and plugged it into this EtherFast 10/100 5-Port Workgroup Switch. Then I plugged two computers into it. It worked right out of the box. It connected up the two computers and the remote DSL Router connection. My two computers were talking to each other and accessing the DSL connection without a hitch. It couldn't be simpler!
Inexpensive, Fast & Simple to Use7/15/2005
These switches, which I have installed at several locations, have never slowed down my network. Just plug the uplink into a CAT-5 jack and you'll have five CAT-5 jacks. It's that simple. The price is right too.
1 switch out of 4 has intermittent problems6/30/2004
I use 4 of these switches on two separate networks. Suddenly, after a year of use, one switch has developed intermittent failures on all of its ports. The switch with the intermittent failures is the newest of the four. The other three switches work great and all are much farther into their 5-year warranty period than this one with the intermittent failures. I haven't started the process of making a warranty claim with Linksys, so I do not know how difficult that will be.
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Since buying one of these switches and trying it out, I have started replacing all hubs on my clients networks with these switches and the performance is incredible. Daisy chaining these switches is easy as well as plugging in additional hubs. Can't beat it for the price.12 Helpful | 1 Not Helpful
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SALT LAKE CITY Utah (Reuters) - The Mormon church has sued a Canadian polygamist for using its trademarked name, saying its reputation was damaged and that donations intended for the denomination were misdirected, a lawsuit filed in a Canadian court said.
Attorneys for the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints argued in the suit that Winston Blackmore copied its name by registering his religious polygamist community under the moniker Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Inc.
The church uncovered the similarities in January, when it tried to register with the Canadian government and was blocked. Court papers filed on Wednesday in the British Columbia Supreme Court said Blackmore had refused to voluntarily make a change, in an attempt to trade on the church's reputation.Â
No hearings are set in the case and an effort to reach Blackmore on Saturday was unsuccessful.
"(Adopting the name) is yet another attempt of the Blackmore Sect to convey a false impression of affiliation with the Church," court documents said.
Blackmore is head of a religious community in Bountiful, British Columbia, which has traditionally practiced polygamy. Once known as the "Bishop of Bountiful," Blackmore was formerly the head of the Canadian arm of the Warren Jeffs-led Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
He was ousted a decade ago, and hundreds of Jeffsâ Canadian followers left with him.
With some 15 million members worldwide, the mainstream Mormon church rejects any association with fundamentalists and polygamy, a practice it abandoned in the 1890s.
In court papers, church attorneys said Blackmoreâs use of a similar name caused public confusion and damaged its reputation of supporting religious worship, assisting families and providing humanitarian aid.
Blackmoreâs registration also resulted in the diversion of charitable donations meant for the Mormon church, court papers said.
Church attorneys said Blackmore's group was formed to further polygamy and had arranged for the underage marriages of young girls - acts renounced by the Mormon church.
Documents obtained by Reuters from the Canadian Registry of Services showed Blackmore twice registered corporation names in 2010 that included the word "fundamentalist." The current name, which was registered in late 2013, dropped the word.
Mormon church sues Canadian polygamist over trademarked name
People sit by a reflecting pool outside the Salt Lake Mormon temple as they wait in line to attend the fifth session of the 181st Semiannual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah. (George Frey / Reuters / August 13, 2012)


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Days are hot on Skylance Ranch, and the nights even hotter!
New York Times and USA TODAY best-selling author Diana Palmer brings her readers back to Branntville, Texas, with Cort Brannt's story. The heir to the Skylance Ranch empire has women gallop into his life, but the handsome lone wolf sends them just as quickly on their way...until a pretty, vivacious neighbor appears on the range. Has the most eligible bachelor in Branntville met his match?
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"Romance for the very uptight"
This book is filled with the author's very awkward and obvious life style opinions. If you are a prude and like very superficial character stereotypes this is the book for you.
Lacks relatable characters and it's very superficial. She had the opportunity to explore a very difficult topic and squandered it. Extreme lack of character building.
Nothing, the story didn't give her much to work with from the beginning.
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pumpkin because he reminds me of roosters I have known
as in most of Diana Palmer books I have enjoyed listening to her books
"Juvenile, but Sweet"
In my opinion it is better suited to a teenage audience, than a mature one.
It's sweet, with a little humor about her rooster.
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went to the one in 2004...still one of the best things ive seen live came from that day...from right to left: eric clapton, bb king, jimmy vaughan, buddy guy, and john mayer (he's actually a good performer when he's not singing) all doing great blues jams together...and they were not the only things of the day...so many good guitar players in one spot throughout the day...fun times
After no ROTHBURY, and the announcement of Bonnapalooza yesterday, this fest is GREAT NEWS. count me in!
If that is not Panic's Redrocks weekend I'm in, I totally agree Chi...
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100$ for a one day show?? I dont think so Mr. Clapton! Dispite all the amazing talent i think i will pass.
you are gonna bitch about $100 for that lineup?
is this at one venue, thats alot of acts for one day
uh $100 for that lineup is deal. Go listen to your hipster nonsense music. Leave the real music to the adults. I laughed at the idea of complaining about paying $100 to see all that in one place. The festival will be better without you there.
That line-up is insane... I saw Winwood with Clapton last year, about $100... great seats and an amazing show...
wow, that's an insane line-up. there's no way you can complain about 100 bucks with all those legends on the roster.
No offense to you Deadheads but I have to ask PhishermanTIM, did you spend $100 to see that "Dead" show a year ago? That vs. this is like day vs. night... up to you to decide which one is bettter I guess... but the list of performers at this show is incredible...
dude, most normal shows (at least in the Chicagoland area) run between $25-$65 a ticket depending on who your seeing. With this lineup, $100 is DIRT CHEAP for this thing. And yes, I actually paid $100 each for 2 tix to the Dead this past spring, and although I had a great time, I'm sure Crossroads will surpass it.
Sounds great... I wanna go.
If this is the same as last year, this event is held at the Chicago Fire soccer stadium on the field. One stage. I was really tired that day, so during John McLaughlin's set, I just laid back and totally fell into a crazy light sleep as John went wild.
I promise you this is worth $100. These are legendary musicians who are masters at the craft we nostalgically wish we were still so passionate about - the guitar.
And...the Allmans. I'd pay $100 to see just the Allmans for 30 minutes.
Eric leaves the romance at the door and comes out with the hugest guitar-playing you could ever want to see.
In my opinion, this is more worthwhile than most of the fests this year or any year. Crossroads is real.
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The New York Mets have fallen out of the playoff race in 2012, and this week on Stache Radio, Matt and I discussed the future.
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For the first time since No Child Left Behind became law in 2002, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) stands a real chance to be reauthorized by Congress. It's been at least seven years since it was supposed to be re-upped, and it's overdue for some changes.
Most encouragingly, the Republican bills introduced to date seem to be designed to strike a balance between promoting parental, local, and state empowerment while also being pragmatic enough to stand a chance of becoming law. They're still far from the finish line and could be made even stronger in the process. That said, they are a worthy effort and have the potential to improve the federal role in education policy dramatically.
Two chambers, two proposals
House education committee Chairman John Kline's job is easier because his Student Success Act (SSA) passed out of the full House once before (in July 2013, on a party-line vote), and he can't be blocked by a Democratic filibuster. He's already marked up the SSA and plans to send it to the floor and pass it out of the House again in short order.
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Followers of Fordham's work know that we are obsessed with charter school quality, both nationally and in our home state of Ohio. We are also a charter school authorizer, responsible for overseeing a portfolio of eleven schools in the Buckeye State—a job we take very seriously.
So when we learned that our colleagues at Ed Trust Midwest were giving charter quality—and especially authorizer quality—a hard look in our neighboring state of Michigan, we took notice.
Its new report, Accountability for All: The Need for Real Charter School Authorizer Accountability in Michigan, is an important contribution. It rightfully focuses on authorizers as the lynchpin of charter quality; they are, after all, the entities that screen and approve new charter schools and then hold them accountable for results (or—as is sometimes the case—do not).
And the group's ranking of Michigan's charter school authorizers—based on the test scores of the schools they oversee—is a good conversation starter. (Among big authorizers [thirty-plus schools], four get Bs, one gets a C, and one gets a D.)
Still, I have some quibbles. First, I can't quite tell if Ed Trust Midwest calculated schools' growth scores appropriately. The methodology says that schools' growth was compared to...
Recent research has shown that it may be more difficult for teachers of students with certain background characteristics (i.e., low achieving, poor, minority) to score highly on teacher observations. However, Whitehurst, Chingos, and Lindquist's conclusion in Education Next that we adjust teachers' observation scores is a disservice to students and teachers alike.
Introducing a score adjustment explicitly lowers the expectations for low-income, minority children. The adjustment Whitehurst describes is based on demographic information which correlates with achievement but does not determine achievement. This is the opposite of what we aspire to as an education system, which is to achieve a system in which the questions of who your parents are, which zip code you were born in, and the color of your skin do not determine how well you perform and how you are treated. What is being communicated is that black and brown children can't have classrooms like white children. If we not only believe that but actually systematize that belief into how we observe classrooms, there is no reason to believe teachers and students will do anything other than meet those lower expectations.
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In just twenty-five short years—it's scarcely older than most of its current recruits—Teach For America has gone from a grassroots edu-insurgency to the largest teacher pipeline in the country and a dominant voice in reform debates. How'd they do it? In this new white paper, Bellwether analysts Sara Mead, Carolyn Chuong, and Caroline Goodson use internal TFA documents and interviews with key past and present staff members to tease out how the organization was able to maintain high quality while scaling up for the last fifteen years. Turns out it's not rocket science, just hard work. TFA relied on regular measurement of applicants, corps members, and students. They've been equally diligent in expansion planning, taking care to evaluate each new region's need for teachers, potential funding base, and local politics—as well as TFA's ability to attract talent to live and teach in a given area. Rigorous quality-control mechanisms during new-site development and deepening ties in the places they already serve have fueled an expansion from 1260 corps members in fifteen regions in 2000 to 10,500 in fifty regions in 2013. And much of this has been successful due to TFA's operational agnosticism (there's not a lot of, "We do it...
High schools hoping to increase student success in college have often turned to an innovative solution: allow students to take college-level coursework before they graduate. The hope is that by exposing teenagers to college courses earlier, they will be more likely to think they are "college material," earn a bit of college credit for free (or nearly free), and get acclimated to college-level rigor. (Most of these courses are taught on high school campuses by high school teachers.) A new report from the Education Commission of the States (ECS), however, questions just how strong some of these courses are and examines state strategies to ensure rigor.
The ECS analysts found that states generally follow one of four approaches to ensure quality in "dual enrollment" courses: 1) Some states, including Colorado, leave decisions about whether courses are worthy of credit up to post-secondary institutions; 2) others, such as Delaware, require post-secondary institutions and high schools to reach agreements, but do not prescribe the nature of those agreements; 3) eight states have adopted the guidelines of the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP), which are designed to ensure quality and cover topics including curricula, faculty, students, assessments, and evaluations; and 4)...
An abundance of choice in Milwaukee has led to families leaving the district for charter and private schools. A new study by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) examines the facility challenge the city now faces as a result. The analysis estimates the "utilization rates" of every public school in the city for the 2013–14 year. This is determined by dividing a school's enrollment by its maximum capacity, defined as twenty-seven students in each regular classroom.
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A couple weeks ago, I created a graphic to help explain the contours of the debate about federal accountability in the ESEA reauthorization process. My immediate purpose was to show that the blanket term "accountability" actually includes four dimensions, each of which includes a range of possible policies. I organized each of the four along a continuum, with "minimum" and "maximum" federal accountability representing the two ends.
The ultimate purpose of the graphic was to serve as a tool for assessing various proposals and, hopefully, revealing where a final compromise might be found.
Since then, I've read all the major proposals, speeches, press releases, and news accounts I could find. In this post, I focus only on what I've learned about testing.
I've plotted on the continuum the highest-profile proposals. Bear in mind that this is not an exact science. Apart from the congressional bills, the proposals are somewhat vague, and trying to turn words into images involves some artistic license. These caveats notwithstanding, three major lessons were revealed.
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In the middle-right, you'll see a group of proposals with...
Last week, writer Laura McKenna took to the Atlantic to try to understand why some suburban moms (yes, many of them white) have turned against the Common Core. She settles on misinformation as a driving force, which is certainly a factor. For example, if these parents understood that their own local schools still have complete control over curriculum and textbooks, perhaps they wouldn't be so frustrated with standards set so far away.
But this is still an unsatisfactory answer. My own sense from watching this debate play out is that many of the "white suburban moms" who oppose Common Core also share a romantic, progressive view of education that is at odds with traditional schooling in general. We will never convince them of Common Core's value, nor should we expect to. Instead, we should allow them to opt their kids out of traditional public schools and into schools (including charters) that are proudly progressive.
This conclusion is informed by a groundbreaking study we at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute published in 2013, What Parents Want: Education Preferences and Trade-Offs. Its major (and surprising) finding was that most parents actually want pretty much the same things from...
For advocates of evidence-based urban education policy, a recent New York Times profile of New York City Schools' Chancellor Carmen Fariña should offer serious cause for concern. That Fariña has worked to dismantle several of the promising Bloomberg-era education reforms is not the main offending issue. (The former is unfortunate, but hardly unexpected from the current administration.) As Robert Pondiscio has previously pointed out in this space, far more worrisome is Fariña's apparent view of the proper role of research in education policy—one seemingly rooted in the bad old days when high-quality empirical research was dismissed or ignored.
Chancellor Fariña plainly nurtures none of the previous administration's fondness for data, preferring a more "holistic" approach. Nor, for that matter, does she even require test scores to know which schools are performing well. The chancellor, perhaps with Spidey-sense, knows a good school when she sees it.
To be fair, I'm open to the claim that perhaps some of the Bloomberg reforms were too technocratic. And no one could have reasonably expected Chancellor Fariña to be an empirical data junkie. But her recent statements reveal a remarkable disdain for science's role in formulating education policy. The following New York Times passage...
BOOK 'EMPolitico's extensive investigation of publishing giant Pearson has unearthed the company's questionable money-making practices at the expense of American students and taxpayers. For years, lax accountability measures have allowed Pearson to rake in the profits even when its programs and products failed. Schools and state legislatures are realizing the need to more closely scrutinize textbook companies before handing over their multi-million dollar reform dreams.ALPHABET SOUPElsewhere in Pearson news, the Wall Street Journal chronicles the slow decline of the GED. Working in partnership with the nonprofit that administers the test, Pearson has dropped a huge sum developing a new, more complex assessment geared to today's students and standards. But, as Fordham's Chester Finn has argued, high school graduation exams shouldn't be set at the college-ready level. And neither should the GED. Not everyone who graduates from high school will—or should—go on to college.
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NVIDIA PhysX Fluid Demo Updated To 220.127.116.11
NVIDIA has updated the PhysX fluid Demo to 126.96.36.199. The demo is basically a demo to show off PhysX based water or the more technical term, Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). This is a great little program( less than 20MB) that can be used to quickly test out a new PhysX setup such as a dedicated PhysX card or a Hybrid ATI and NVIDIA PhysX setup. Using a simple toggle you can easily switch between Hardware(GPU) and Software(CPU) PhysX to not only to see if your dedicated PhysX card is working but to also see how a GPU helps improves PhysX performance. When I am installing a new PhysX setup I always install this program along with PhysX FluidMark to make sure everything is up and running properly.
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Market-Based Emissions Regulation and Industry Dynamics
Meredith Fowlie, Mar Reguant, Stephen P. Ryan
NBER Working Paper No. 18645
We assess the long-run dynamic implications of market-based regulation of carbon dioxide emissions in the US Portland cement industry. We consider several alternative policy designs, including mechanisms that use production subsidies to partially offset compliance costs and border tax adjustments to penalize emissions associated with foreign imports. Our results highlight two general countervailing market distortions. First, following Buchanan (1969), reductions in product market surplus and allocative inefficiencies due to market power in the domestic cement market counteract the social benefits of carbon abatement. Second, trade exposure to unregulated foreign competitors leads to emissions "leakage" which offsets domestic emissions reductions. Taken together, these forces result in social welfare losses under policy regimes that fully internalize the emissions externality. In contrast, market-based policies that incorporate design features to mitigate the exercise of market power and emissions leakage can deliver welfare gains.
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