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|Photo Retouching Here is a list of a few good books on photo manipulation and repair. They also have good general information on using many of the features of PS.. If you know of a good book to add to the list please start a thread to share it. Julie
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As donwilmom is being so kind (and courageous I must say to start a thread about GIMP, I feel encourage by her example and I will post the link to a book I'm reading.
Even though I have learnt a lot from Photoshop tutorials and Photoshop forums, not to speak of GIMP Talk (a GIMP forum), I have felt that in the first two places things were harder to make them work in GIMP and in the third place the information is quite scattered even though it's wonderful. So I decided to go to Amazon and I bought this book about GIMP that is not very expensive and I'm now reading and think is a perfect source of information.
It's "GIMP 2 for Photographers" by Klaus Goelker. It's fantastic, it goes through the basics to more complicated stuff and it comes with a slightly older version of GIMP in CD with all the extras you need and you can get in the net, as well as all instructions you will need to install it in all the systems (Windows, Mac and Linux systems if it's not already pre installed).
The version you can download in Internet right now is 2.2.14 and the one in the book is 2.2.12. And the GTK version is also a bit older. In the net you can find a new version GTK 2.10.6 and the one in the book Cd is 2.8.18. The only differences between those versions are mainly improvements in the software, and the ones in the book Cd are perfect for anyone starting. The Cd also comes with all the plugins you will need to deal with RAW images in GIMP as well as PDFs, and of course all the information you will need to proceed in those cases.
It's very easy to read, the explanations are very good and it's full of examples and images for you to practice all the information that the book has. It's a hands on book. And it's not very expensive. It will surely be in Amazon.com but if it's not there I just bought it in Amazon.co.uk. So you can easily find it there and I'm pretty sure they ship books to the USA.
I hope this is of help to anyone.
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My turn to say thanks I didn't know about this book. I did find it on Amazon and I will be ordering it the first of the month. It will solve one problem I am having, I find it difficult to follow a tutorial because I need to "do as I read". There is just not enough room on my little monitor. With a book I won't need the monitor for the tut.
I have a couple of E books, Groking the Gimp is just too hard to follow. I got a lot of tips from Sam's teach yourself GIMP in 24 hours. It is free and you can find it here http://library.n0i.net/linux-unix/ap...html#Heading11
It says for Linux-unix but it works on the windows version too. It starts out pretty basic then gets more tech. I need to go through it again I am sure there is much more there to learn.
Have a Happy Scrappin Day!
Yes it will definitely work with the Windows version as there is no difference between the two. I have been looking quickly that book and it looks very interesting and very good. It's a tad old but everything is valid in the most recent versions of GIMP as you can do that and many more things. Thanks a million for the link I have already bookmarked it.
I think the same as you, I need a book in front of me when I'm practising in the computer, going back and forth between windows to read instructions makes things more difficult. That's why I bought the book and I have been checking more books in Amazon about GIMP.
There is another one called "Beginning GIMP, from beginners to professional" by A Peck, also in Amazon and a very recent one in filters I have seen there too. They are the most recently books published I could find so they take into account the latest GIMP versions, but they are more expensive than the first one I talked about. Anyway "Beginning GIMP from beginner to professional" has even better reviews than the one I have, and I think it's a great book. So they both are in my Wish list for my next shopping spree in there.
Phew! I have been so busy with other stuff the last few days I havn't had time for posting!
Thanks for the Giimp titles Olga. I am going to go looking on Amazon right now. I will probably check Barns and Noble too. It is so neat to have a GIMP user to chat with! I hope we can attract some more. The more the Marrier!
Have a Happy Scrappin Day!
I know what you mean. Everyone else works with either PSP or Photoshop so you kinda feel a bit strange as you also need to adapting anything you read to the program.
GIMP is actually a great program and you can do lots with it, unfortunately any help is a bit scattered and there aren't so many books. The ones I have mentioned are the most recent and only ones I have knowledge about. I know the books in Amazon.com are different from the ones in Amazon.co.uk, but I'm not sure whether they will be more in the first one. I need to check those places as we don't have big library chains like Barnes and Nobles in Ireland. Amazon is the place to buy rare books for me
I havn't forgotten about this thread! I checked out the titles you mentioned and I can get them at Amazon and B&N. There are even a few copies in used books that are a little less expensive. In the last week I have been trying to translate a PS tut on realistic paper fold and I am tearing my hair out! Just when I think I have it I loose it. I am not going to give up though. If you are interested here is a link. http://snapandscrap.net/blog/?p=337. My next venture will be to try text on a path. I don't know if GIMP can do that yet, but I am going to try.
Have a Happy Scrappin Day!
It´s a way of using the different filters to see what you can get more or less
Hi there. I am new to this site, just joined!
I am a user of GIMP. I have been using it for about two years. I design in it (I sell at snap and scrap) and I also scrap with it. I don't have any other program, only GIMP. I am self-taught. GIMP is amazing and perfect if you are wanting to try out digital scrap booking without spending a fortune. Some 30day trials are just not long enough. I did the 30-day trial for PSP, but it wasn't long enough for me to get the hang of, and frankly, I find GIMP a lot more user-friendly.
If anyone has any questions I would be happy to answer them.
Hi Bonnie! Welcome to Stone Accents. I am sure glad to see another GIMP user here. I have been using GIMP for almost 2 years and am self taught. I don't do much designing beyond making something I need for scrapping. I love scrapping! I was just checking out your designs on your blog, I love your layouts. I can get some great inspiration there. I am always looking for new tutorials for GIMP, so if you know of any please share. Have you seen the thread in the tutorial section? I look forward to hearing more from you!!
Have a Happy Scrappin Day!
Hi Donna
When I first started using GIMP, no one knew what I was talking about! LOL! Now it is becoming known and I think more people are realizing what a great and FREE program it is! I am going to be making my own GIMP tutorials as my best friend wants to learn digital scrap booking and the only way i can teach her is with the program I know best of all-GIMP. So as I do them i will let you know!
Thank you for the warm welcome! I know Lisa West-we go back quite far..I know her from Rakscraps and Olga is also someone who frequents my blog quite often *wave to Olga!* This seems like a nice community!
GIMP Tut
I have written my first GIMP tutorial in a PDF format. It is 20 pages. I designed it with learning digital scrap booking in mind. It covers the basics. As I write more I will add them to the sidebar on my blog.
HERE is the first one for anybody interested.
hugs. Bonnie
Thanks for the tutorial Bonnie. I have been using GIMP for quite a while now but I am sure that there is much more I can learn.
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Hardy heart: Cumberland teen remains active despite defect at birth
CUMBERLAND — It may be hard to imagine a die-hard athlete who was born with a heart defect, but Ted Russell is a teen who defies convention.
The 18-year-old Greely High School senior, who plays soccer and lacrosse and runs indoor track, had a relatively uneventful birth.
"He was a normal weight, he was full-term, everything seemed fine," Ted's mother, Pam Russell, said last week, adding that the child was with her and her husband, Don Russell, for about an hour before he was was taken to the nursery. "... It was when he left us that all of a sudden everything kind of crashed ... a nurse came running into our room and said 'don't go to the nursery, there's something wrong with the baby.'"
Ted had turned blue, and attempts to give him oxygen kept failing. He was diagnosed with transposition of the great arteries – his aorta and pulmonary artery, the two major vessels carrying blood away from the heart, were switched, with the aorta arising from the right ventricle instead of the left.
The connection between between the right and left sides of Ted's heart closed, as it should. But when it did, he was no longer getting oxygen.
"He was breathing – things looked normal, his heart was beating and everything – but as he would breathe, the oxygen that would go from his lungs to his heart would just get pumped back to his lungs," Pam Russell said.
"It was pumping un-oxygenated blood through the body," Ted Russell explained.
With his brain and other important areas of the body no longer getting oxygen, the situation had become critical.
Doctors administered drugs, but Ted was still not getting enough oxygen. So they used a catheter to enlarge another connection between the two sides of his heart. Ted's heart was essentially being made to function as it did when he was in the womb.
Ted was taken from Maine Medical Center in Portland in a specially equipped ambulance with a cardiologist and two nurses to Children's Hospital in Boston.
Don Russell said he and his wife were in a state of shock: trying to be optimistic, but knowing little about their son's condition. "Frankly, we were really lucky that Maine Med was on top of it, the pediatrician on call was on top of it. A pediatric cardiologist was brought in, and he diagnosed it immediately. A lot of things had to work just right for this to go as well as it did," Don Russell said. "... They don't give you as a parent many choices, which is a good thing ... because you're not capable of making the choice."
The Russells spent the next two weeks in Boston, waiting for their son's fate to be determined. Ted, who had a nurse watching him 24 hours a day to keep him alive, underwent surgery at the age of four days to switch his arteries.
"You're basically dealing with a tiny heart the size of a plum, maybe. And the major arteries aren't very big at all, and the capillaries all have to be switched, and they're the size of our human hair, basically," Don said.
Ted was kept alive on a heart-lung machine during the approximately six-hour surgery.
It took a few years for Ted to understand how close a call his birth had been. He continues to be in the care of a cardiologist, and he has annual checkups to ensure his heart continues to function normally. In his younger days, Ted dreaded visits to the doctor for fear he would be restricted from playing the sports he loves, but he continued to receive a green light.
Growing up, he never felt different from other children, aside from the scar on his chest. Within about two weeks of learning to walk he started running, and his parents noted that he had two speeds: fast and asleep.
"The doctors never said I had to do anything different, so I kind of just was like every other kid," he said.
"It was pretty clear as a little kid that he was going to be active," Don said. "He just was an active kid, and took naturally to athletics."
Ted's first cardiologist was cautious, recommending he play goalie if he were to participate in soccer, and take up less strenuous sports. His next cardiologist was a triathlete who could understand the athlete's perspective.
Among the methods used to determine the condition of Ted's heart is a stress test, which isn't the teen's particular favorite.
"I get all these wires hooked up to me, and then I have to run on a treadmill, and they push you until you almost collapse," Ted said. "They want to see you at the most exertion possible, so they make the thing go uphill, and you have to be sprinting, basically ... just to see if, when I work that hard on the lacrosse field or soccer field, that nothing's going to happen, and (my heart) is strong enough to handle that."
Ted also continues to take part in a Children's Hospital study that follows the neurological development of youths who had arterial switch operations.
Don pointed out that the concern is that the surgery performed when Ted was four days old keeps up with his growth.
"Since it was such a major surgery, (the testing) probably will be a lifelong thing," Ted said. "And I kind of would like it to be a lifelong thing, just because if there's something going on, I kind of want to know about it, so I can get it fixed right away."
Although his son and many other children go through the kind of obstacle Ted faced at birth, it doesn't have to be a stopping point, Don pointed out.
"You can hopefully get the right kind of treatment," he said.
Electronically, Ted's heart has a couple of extra blips which might not normally exist, Pam said, along with a heart murmur, and sounds and rhythms that are not always normal. The tests check to see if those abnormalities go back to normal after occurring or get worse.
Causes can vary, Pam said: they can be hereditary, environmental, or totally random.
If he were to give advice to parents of children with a congenital heart defect, Ted said he would recommend they offer the same kind of wide berth that he has had with his own parents. "With the second opportunity (at life) given," he said, "I would put forth all your effort into doing whatever your kid feels like they can do with their life, just because it's such a special gift that they've been given."
Pam and Don noted the importance of getting the doctor's OK for the youth's activities.
Don recommends those parents do their homework and understand what they are dealing with, and "let your child dictate within reason where they want to go, and don't superimpose your own fears and anxieties and inhibit your child from doing what they want to do. You've kind of got to let it go; you get a second chance like that, it would be too bad to not take advantage of it."
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I've been playing casually and defiance is a good game to play on and off, worth the 60 bucks in my opinion. Depends on what you expect from the game when you bought it. I expected a mediocre game and a third person shooter(for a change of pace). I didn't bother following the hype train but rather followed my own goals and simply wanted a different game for a change of pace. Again.....worth the 60 bucks in my opinion. :DFri May 03 2013 8:43PM Report
I guild of mine lost an epic 2000 rating (orange) weapon with class synergy (yes your starting class does mean something other than starting outfit and look), and Trions customer support restored it for him the same day.
Also hacking issues - report the hackers, Trion is logging all stats and has been proactively banning cheaters last week, I haven't seen any in the last 3 days, and I PvP extensively.
DMG done client side is crap, been a long discussion on this, the hack that supposedly let's you do this shows you doing like 50,000 DMG on your screen but on that's only on your client, on the server you are doing your regular weapon dmg, so you other players are not getting hit for what you see on your screen.
There was another DMG exploit but it got fixed, I have only seen one speed hacker in PvP and have never seen this guy on again, he's been perma banned it seems.
I agree with other parts of your review, there are issues for sure, I can't wait for more content patches but in the mean time I am still having just stupid FUN, which Defiance delivers in a big way :)
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St. Lucie County International hosting annual Airport/Community Day on Oct. 29
FORT PIERCE - The St. Lucie County International Airport is gearing up for its annual Airport/Community Day on Oct. 29 from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Activities for this year's event will be held at the Missionary Flights International Hangar, 3170 Airmans Dr., which is located north of Hammond Road on the southwest side of the airport property off of St. Lucie Boulevard.
Airport/Community Day is a free, family-friendly aviation community event that gives the public the opportunity to learn about the various careers, opportunities and many services that aviation and the St. Lucie County International Airport provide. Guests can also experience old, new and unusual aircraft that will be on display.
Students will have the chance to interact with pilots, flight school and college representatives, mechanics and other professionals in the aviation field.
Exhibitors scheduled to appear include the Experimental Aircraft Association, Flight Safety, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Civil Air Patrol, Aviator College of Aeronautics, St. Lucie County Fire District, St. Lucie County Sheriffs Aviation Department, Chamber of Commerce, AECOM, Florida Institute of Technology, Trade Winds Flight School, Missionary Flights International, U.S. Sport Aircraft, Fairwinds Golf Course, Federal Aviation Administration and more.
Additionally, the Young Eagles will be offering free flights to students ages 8 – 17 (weather permitting). To reserve a check-in time for a flight, contact Mike Ketchpaw at 772-971-1107.
The St. Lucie County International Airport is located at 3000 Curtis King Blvd., Fort Pierce, and is a division of the St. Lucie County Planning and Development Services Department.
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Every 4th of July, parades are held, barbeques are lit, bunting is strewn, and our nation takes a day to celebrate its birthday – the anniversary of the signing of a document that established our core principle that "all men are created equal." But in addition to the celebration and the pageantry, Independence Day should also serve as an opportunity to reflect on our heritage and what the promise of America means in today's world.
One of the most common songs we hear this time of year is Katharine Lee Bates' America the Beautiful. Almost all of us know the first verse by heart – amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties, from sea to shining sea. But we don't often sing the second verse, which is a pity, as its imagery of pilgrims yearning for a brighter future speaks quite clearly to contemporary topics:
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
A thoroughfare of freedom, beckoning the weary traveler towards a life of opportunity. On our southern border, this is just not a poetic image, but a reality, as thousands of minors, often in their teens or younger, are seeking to tread their own long and difficult path to a future of safety, opportunity, and prosperity. Leaving behind homelands often beset by disaster and violence, these children are hoping that America the Beautiful will one day become a beautiful home to them.
Across the country, Catholic Charities agencies are doing their best to respond to this developing humanitarian crisis. These children, many of them elementary-school aged or younger, are exhausted and alone, in desperate need of food, shelter, and most especially, a caring embrace. No matter what their legal status, leaving a seven-year-old in the desert to fend for herself would be inhumane. As beneficiaries of this great land of opportunity, we cannot turn our back on these children in their hour of greatest need.
This Independence Day, we'll come together as friends and neighbors to celebrate our nation's 238th birthday with hot dogs, fireworks, and apple pie, as well we should. But let us also take a moment to reflect on our nation's founding promise and that beautiful image of a thoroughfare of freedom across the wilderness, beckoning the tired, the poor, and those yearning to breathe free to a future where they can achieve their full God-given potential.


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The Utah HealthExchange, astate insur-ance exchangewhose develop-ment startedseveral yearsbefore the healthcare reformlaw mandatedexchanges, wasrecently hacked,the Salt LakeTribune reports.The hack was agraffiti attack ofthe exchange'sportal for shop-ping for insur-ance, with wordsgarbled, head-lines blurredand some pagesnot accessible,and the sitewas down forabout 10 days,a spokespersonfor the Gover-nor's Office ofEconomic De-velopment toldthe newspaper.Protected healthinformation ison a separatesecure site andwas not affected.The Departmentof Technol-ogy servicesmaintains thebreached site.Utah'sExchange IsHacked
In a move that could herald a sea
change in health benefits, Sears Holdings Corp. and Darden Restaurants,
Inc. this year will begin allowing employees to purchase health insurance
through a private insurance exchange.
Around 90,000 Sears employees
and some 45,000 Darden employees
will be eligible to purchase insurance
through the exchange, which will be
operated by Aon Hewitt. Starting Jan.
1, employees at the two companies
will be given lump sums of money to
use in choosing their medical plan
and provider from the exchange. Neither Sears nor Darden disclosed the
amount employees would receive, although Darden said it would increase
the amount as health care costs rise.
Aon Hewitt describes its corporate
exchange as a full-service model that
includes a suite of consumer-based
decision support tools "that turns selecting health benefits into a retail
shopping experience." The firm has
been using its exchange to administer
health insurance benefits for its employees and families.
Aon Hewitt explains that employees in its exchange will have access to
a wide range of benefits experts and
advisors, including its "advocacy support" team, to answer questions and
provide guidance during enrollment
and throughout the year.
"There are examples in every
industry, including i Tunes, Ama-zon.com and Orbitz, where the
introduction of competition on a
retail, consumer level has driven
down prices and made the industry more efficient," said Ken
Sperling, Aon Hewitt's national
health exchange strategy leader.
"The Aon Hewitt Corpo-rate Exchange is a viable alterna-tive for companies searching forsolutions that can reduce cost,transfer risk to insurers, empow-er employees to make smarterhealth care choices and createa more sustainable health carebenefit program."Research reports show thereis growing interest among both em-ployers and employees in corporateexchanges. Aon Hewitt's 2012 Corpo-rate Health Exchange survey of morethan 562 employers shows more than40 percent of employers expect to par-ticipate in a health care exchange inthe next three-to-five years. Anotherstudy conducted by J.D. Power andAssociates in March 2012 revealedthat approximately 41 percent of em-ployer-insured health plan memberswould use a private health insuranceexchange approach if it were available.
Industry consultants say most employers are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward private exchanges.
Two Major Employers Embrace
Private Health Insurance Exchanges
Darden Restaurants, Inc.
Sears Holdings Corp.
Ambulatory software vendor eClinical Works has launched a free national peer-to-peer electronic network for physicians and other providers.
The network enables physicians to securely communicate with peers regardless of electronic health records systems being used, and even if they don't have
an EHR, according to the vendor. The network supports secure messaging protocols of the federally developed Direct Project.
Westborough, Mass.-based eClinical Works has been developing the network
with client physicians and other providers invited by those clients. It officially
launches the network with 10,000 physician members, including about 1,000 who
are not users of its practice management and EHR software.
The vendor expects to invest $10 million more in the network during the next
year. Initial services include finding and connecting with providers; transmitting
electronic referrals and related information; transmitting patients records with attachments including progress notes, lab results, medical summary and scanned
documents; and building a personal address book. The network is available at
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US government asserts unilateral right to access private data, even if it's stored outside the US
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When Edward Snowden leaked data about then-secret NSA programs and monitoring practices last year, he kicked off a serious headache for a number of American companies that do business overseas. Many of the biggest names in digital business, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Yahoo claim to have lost business with international customers as a result and have frantically reassured their existing customers that no, the US is not (or can no longer) spy on their data. Those arguments took a huge whack last week when the Justice Department asserted in a brief that data stored on an American company's servers must be accessible via warrant — regardless of where the server actually is. (In this case, the unidentified account holder is an Irish citizen and his data is stored on a server in the EU).
Pre-Snowden, this kind of dispute might have barely qualified as news, but corporations have found themselves in the hot seat over how data is shared with the government. The DOJ's argument is simple: Microsoft is an American company governed by American law, and the DOJ investigators have secured a legal and appropriate warrant that targets the email address and inbox of a specific individual.
Microsoft, in contrast, is arguing that the United States should use its Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) to raise the issue with Ireland and coordinate with Irish law enforcement.
An administrative decision that could reshape US-EU business relations
If the appeals court continues to hold in favor of the US government, US corporations doing business in Europe could be in a world of hurt. The domestic discussion of the NSA's behaviors has been liberally flavored with a dose of "But, see, we only spy on foreigners — not citizens of the good ol' USA!" Outside our borders, these claims don't play particularly well, and they don't engender confidence.
There's a practical problem at play here as well. Companies doing business in the EU are required to uphold EU privacy laws and restrictions on how information can be used or shared. Apple has gotten in trouble on several occasions for failure to inform EU customers of their warranty rights. Google was recently required to implement an EU-mandated "right to be forgotten" in its search results.
In short, the EU and its citizens take a dim view of the idea that American laws and ideals should apply to Europe just because we're Americans. It puts Microsoft in between the ultimate rock and a hard place — if the company gives into US demands, it'll be perceived as kowtowing to the same governmental departments responsible for the NSA's excesses.
What's disquieting about this case is that it revolves around a drug trafficking investigation, not a national security case or a time-sensitive terrorism plot. In its briefs, the Department of Justice argues that it's under no legal obligation to raise issues with other countries under treaty law or to coordinate its investigations with the appropriate Irish officials. Microsoft's argument (and some Irish officials have weighed in confirming it) is that in order to hand over data in accordance with Irish law, the request needs to flow through Irish channels.
It might seem like the kind of pedantic dispute that only lawyers relish, but how this gets resolved could have real significance for companies that do business in the European Union. The US position essentially argues that it can obviate local statutes that govern the rights of EU citizens just because those citizens are doing business with an American company. If a federal judge confirms that reading of the statute, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon could lose big business as a result.
The Washington Post has a substantial discussion on this topic, which seems to concur with the idea that this is about saving time (from the government's perspective) versus saving face and business (from the corporate perspective). It notes that going through the MLAT system would take a great deal longer than simply getting the data from Microsoft — possibly several months.
Will the Snowden case change how justices read these statutes and how Europeans react to them? There's reason to think it could.
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If Microsoft has to deliver private data about any non-american citizen, I will go away from all Microsoft products.
And Google, and Apple, and don't forget credit cards, your ISP, the bank where you have your money, etc.
You might as well go live in a cabin and sever all ties with technology.
Rubbish, i can perfectly well stay away from US companies if it comes to my digital communications.
I just us my local ISP, ware i also have a e-mail address.
I seldom use a credit card anymore, sins the block of wikileaks, and a simple bank card works just as fine locally.
Daniel Revas
Your local ISP probably uses one Microsoft Product or another, ditto your Bank. There is no real escape if you use any Tech.
And how is that a problem?
I to still use Windows, but that dose not give the US government access to my personal data.
The OS and programs are not the problem here, i just dont want the fracking US government reading my personal communications, if they suspect me of being a criminal, they can just ask my government to check me out, and then they can take the needed steps as they see fit.
my buddy's sister makes $87 every hour on the internet
. She has been unemployed for 6 months but last month her payment was $19402
just working on the internet for a few hours. go right here Cashfig.COM
And you promise not to empty my bank account if i sign up. ^_^
Daniel Revas
What I was pointing out was that was that your claim that you can "stay away from US products if you want to" was rubbish. Unless you unplug and go all Mountain Man.
I said: i can perfectly well stay away from US companies if it comes to my digital communications.
I use a local Email account, tho communications with Gmail, Hotmail and other US based services are compromised on the other party's side.
(reason: i don't like how US based companies use my privet communications to sell more adds)
I don't use Face Book.
(I just don't like and trust the company)
And as WhatsApp and Skype alternative i all ready use Viber.
(WhatsApp is now FB, don't need to say more, Skype changed it policy's when it came in MS hands, and Viber works just as fine as Skype)
I don't have to unplug to make my digital footprint a lot smaller, just have to pick better smarter alternatives.
Or uses Linux, like mine.
Mr Opinionated
You guys are a little late. Its been going on for over a decade now.
Daniel Revas
Exactly, an American company, First Data, processes over 90% of the WORLDS credit card transactions. The lines are so blurred that you don't know who owns half of the companies that you do Business with or through.
Fortunately, most of the developing world doesnt use credit cards. In most developing nations, cash and debit cards remain the most popular method of payment.
LOL. Only a dumbass American would assume that all banks, credit card companies and ISPs are American.
Ray C
Oh yeah because this article is only about Microsoft
Ivor O'Connor
I left Apple and M$ many years, decades, ago and have not missed them at all.
Actually i think the US is its own worse enemy, the arrogance of the NSA programs and the Patriot Act is pissing off the hole world, and now this again.
If they even spy on the leaders of friendly governments, you know that they then don't have any problem violating the rights any other person in the world.
After 9/11 the US had so much goodwill in the world, even in the Arabic world, and instead of using that goodwill for a dialog for peace, they used it to invade Iraq, based on lies.
And started to spy on foe and friends, and instead of the slight dislike of the American way of doing things in the world before 9/11, and all the sympathy they had almost across the hole world just after 9/11, the US is now from universal disliked to deeply hated true the hole world.
I had real hope when Obama became president, but that was sort lived, as instead of being a leader whit a vision for the future, as his campaign promised, he was a leader that had fear as his guiding light.
Good job Bush and Obama, you both made the world a much worse place to live in!
US government*
So it's not the government that's representing the US citizens anymore?
nope it hasn't for a long time, because we the citizens have become too damn lazy and have let the government have more and more power. It's time to take the power back.
Ivor O'Connor
It is the company execs wanting short term profits so they can retire. They tell the lobbyists who in turn tell the politicians what to do. It is all about following the money. The only difference between a Democrat and a Republican is the way they implement the lobbyist's commands.
It is, in fact. And I provided the correction to replace the words "US" with "US government". You may be familiar with the phrase regarding assumptions: something about making an ass of you and me.
I'd like to take the time to explain why these views are flawed (in my opinion), though unfortunately I'm not prepared to write something requiring such meticulous caution since my break is over and I have to get back to work. In the meantime, ponder this: are we not a species with sentience and free will? Observe that in tandem with the potential that we're far too caught up in our own ways and things like assumptions and labels on an entire country become irrelevant.
= are we not a species with sentience and free will? Observe that in tandem with the potential that we're far too caught up in our own ways and things like assumptions and labels on an entire country become irrelevant. =
Having a government that has bin misbehaving the most true out the hole world in countries that ware less developed or had less then stable governments for the last 60 years.
I would say reed this good, i know my country has done tings in thgge past i cant be really proud of, but i would be ashamed for US foreign behavior and actions if i was a American.
This part of history should be mandatory at high schools, so they would know why most of the world hates the US, and what needs to bbe done to stop them from hating them.
I, and most people around the world, can not really excuse it citizens fully any more, or do you think that the 9/11 attack came just out of no ware, its all directly related to all covert US foreign regime change actions, and the active support of dictators that ware friendly to the US government and companies.
Really, there isn't much I can say besides: take a moment to read what you just said. I'm not discounting the things the US government has done, nor am I denying the existence of such things.
What really gets to me is the ignorant propensity of some humans in general. Americans are often deemed the ignorant and arrogant denizens of the world when it's comments like that which only proves that those same people are just as ignorant.
I'm not looking for an argument, rather, I'd like others to see this example and understand that the idea of 'sides' isn't intrinsic to the laws of our universe (as far as I'm aware). Though, we as a species tend to separate every aspect of our lives for the sake of management. We often think best in clusters and it was natural for a separation of 'races' to occur.
I'm no naturalist or extreme peace-seeker, but in an effort to keep this short (albeit chocked-full of hypocrisies), my basic stance is that we're all human and to label an entire society with such a generalized notion is absurd. I'll admit that I'm not an activist and there is much more I could do to involve myself, but really, it's the idea that blame has to be placed that propagates this behavior.
The bottom line here is (in a perfect world) there should be no alliances. I don't take responsibility for the actions of the US government because I don't tell them what to do (nor do they listen to me). We could get into it being my duty to strive for these very things (which, I might add, I do on my own time), but it really isn't. I know this is counter-intuitive and doesn't really help the state of the world's alliances as it stands today, but if people were to think with a more neutral stance, there wouldn't be a need for alliances.
And while this seems like I'm simply dismissing my 'duties' or that I'm being lazy, I can assure you that these ideologies didn't form over night. I believe we're all born into the world with a neutral stance and it's only because of those around us that nurture us (by circumstance) that we end up choosing a 'side'. It starts with our parents, then our family, our sports team, our state/region, and country. And I'd be willing to bet that in the case of 'alien invaders', humankind would put aside all of these differences and small alliances to join together as (yet again) another union.
It's absurd and on a very personal level, sickening. Thank you though for inspiring me enough to write this out even though a novel may not fully explain my intentions.
Actually i am about 1~2 months a year in Huston for my work.
And i find most Americans really nice hard working honest people, but the people i work with there, i also work with all over the world.
And they agree, most Americans don't know shit what there government is doing and done in there name, as Aker (one of the main companies in the world building subsea well equipment) is a Norwegian companies, we also have a lot of work in places that ware American companies are less welcome.
Last year i worked in Guatemala together 7 people, among also with one American, and specially the first days, you could feel the dislike towards him from many of the local Guatemalans.
After he had some first hand local history lessons he said to me, "after hearing those stories i am ashamed of being a American", and he said it was not the first time, that American home front perception did not stroke with reality.
You should learn maybe a bid more about your countryman Edward Bernays, he father of misconception of American opinions and inventor of FUD.
The US Government represents it's wealthy citizens. The rest receive the simplest of lip service. The USA is an oligarchy.
Is it not the apathy of the American people that is sustaining this oligarchy?
Apathy combined with gullibility and the fear of change.
Ray C
He's not a dictator. He can't just come in and change everything. Many of these agencies do have some expectation of self-control. Plus, even if he wanted to coming in and changing things mid-stream would not necessarily be easy or advisable.
haha so pathetic listening to BO supporters. Guy has been in office almost 7 years and to he's still claiming Bush is controlling him. Bush must have been a lot smarter and more powerful than I ever imagined.
bush left a total shitstorm behind for everyone to clean up. whomever took office after him was going to be stuck with that mess and labeled as a bad president for not magically cleaning it up overnight like they unrealistically expected. when clinton left office, we had a surplus, when bush left office, we had a multi-trillion dollar debt. just that alone should paint a picture of how fucked up things are after little Bush Jr. wanted to play president
Ivor O'Connor
Except BO has taken the foundation that Bush and Cheney made and built an evil palace on it they could only dream of.
but none of that would have happened if bush Jr didn't mess things up in the first place
Even what you say is true, that is still no excuse for what Obama is doing now, is it?
After Bush i was thinking it cant get any worse, but Obama proved me so wrong, a specially as he was riding the promise for change votes.
and what politician doesn't make empty promises to get more votes? and besides, he pulled the majority of our troops out of the middle east, and right before it turned into a total sh*tstorm again. I'm just glad he managed to follow through on THAT
Sure, our politicians make sometimes empty promises, but most of the time they have to explain it later.
But the amount of shit they get away with in the US is really mind boggling for us here in Europe.
And for us often a example what we really don't want.
Daniel Revas
While Italy's former Leader is facing corruption charges you wonder how Pols in the U.S. get away with it?
Italy is not Europe, and Italy bin always corrupt.
Daniel Revas
You mean "the WHOLE" of Europe? Italy isn't the only one that has had corruption issues or who have politicians being paid off by Lobbyists or other Special Interests.. .Grow up.
You are right, Brussels is just as corrupt as Washington, right?
Sure there is also corruption in the EC, butt not as open as in the US, ware you can even see that there votes are for sale.
I could make a whole list, but that one is typical for the open corruption in the US, if a EC parliament member would do this, he would properly loos his job.
Stop rationalizing Obama's continuation and acceleration of the oligarchic police state being put in place.
Ivor O'Connor
You think they messed up. I think they carefully planned it.
i don't particularly care. i have 1 life to live in this world and only so much knowledge that my brain can hold, I'm not going to waste that by worrying about the flag and bible that were shoved down my throat before i was even born. i dont even like calling myself an 'American', because i didnt choose my country. unless you're going to actively do something about the problem, just shut up. an opinion is useless without something to back it and actions speak louder than words
Ivor O'Connor
How about you vote for Gary Johnson in the next election? I know you say you don't care but it seems like you do…
i don't vote. and the one time i did was only to vote for Washington's I-502
You're half right. Bush & Cheney had the dream house that Obama dreams of. Under B/C very few dared to speak against them out loud because they were immediately shot down by being called Un-American and Terrorist-Supporters. The people doing that shouting are specifically why we're having this specific NSA-based mess now. But Obama hasn't done anything to weaken that foundation, and has reinforced way too often.
Ivor O'Connor
I'd like to avoid the republican/democrat hatred 98% of our country falls into. To me there is no real difference.
A quick google is all you need to do to find that this BO administration has gone after their critics more than the B/C administration. See "CNN's Tapper: Obama has used Espionage Act more than all previous administrations"
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/10/jake-tapper/cnns-tapper-obama-has-used-espionage-act-more-all-/ and the tens of thousands of other similar articles.
You tell yourself that, whatever. Like I used in my other example, Harding cleaned up Wilson's "Red Scare" mess in 2 years. It guts and a desire to actually do something and vision, all of which BO is totally lacking in. Guy is the worst president ever
i don't need to tell myself that, im telling YOU that. i loathe politics with a passion and couldn't give a single, flying, f*cknugget about it unless it interferes with education
So your solution is apathy, yeah that will really fix things.
And i believe that is the general consensus in the US, no wonder the banks got away with all that shit, and political corruption seems more the norm then the exception.
But if apathy is your solution, you can also not complain about about the state of the country.
Here in Norway we had in the 2013 election a 78,3% of voters casting there vote, and 74,57% of voters came to vote in Holland, my birth country.
High voter turnout is only a good thing if the voters are actually informed about the topics for which they are voting.
Otherwise, they are just another busload of clueless Dem. voters hitting the polls every other year. You know, the ones who have filed a lawsuit against stripping party affiliation from candidates names on the ballot because they don't even know who is running and have only been instructed to vote for those candidates with a (D) after their names.
Actually Holland and Norway have both multi party systems, and most voters just vote on the party that represents there values and vision.
And the party pushes forward the leader, and if people don't like what the party and/or leader is doing people vote for a other person on the party list, most of the time a sort of party rebel.
After the election, a coalition has to be formed out of 2 or more party's, as non of the party's have a +50% amount of the votes.
We have from small very religions party's, "extreme" right, left, center, right party's to socialist party's.
Most of the time there is a coalition of two or three parties, and because no party know with who they gone make a coalition the next time, politics never gets so polarized as in the US and UK.
Next to that, lots of people use the "stemwijzer" website, that ask a lot of questions on all subjects, after going true all the questions, it give you a advise what party('s) fit best with you, and whit a explanation why, at the end you see your choices, and the choices of the top 5 party's that fit best your opinion, and with a explanation of there choices.
And it gets made by the NOS (the Dutch BBC (PBS)) in cooperation with all the parties, it works pretty well, specially for people that are less interested to keep up with politics but still want there vote to be of use to them.
yes, but our hands are tied when both parties have come together many years ago and planned a strategy to get what they want, nwo, accomplished. our voting system is a charade, the rep and dem battles that go on between citizens is just to keep people busy and think they are engaged while the scum of the earth make the real deals behind closed doors. I don't care I'd every person in our country votes for the same guy, I guarantee it will be the opposite result!!!
Well this is the thing, you left the people with two choices. Who the people vote for? The ones that got us into this mess or the people who can't get us out of this mess?
how about neither?
Let anarchy rule then.
Daniel Revas
Yet the one they voted for hasn't got the job done…not even close.
Riiight, so Obamatons can blame Bush 7 years in for the terrible state of the economy and how nobody can turn the ship around in that short of a timeframe, and yet Bush's actions are directly responsible for the economy he left Obama? Double standard much?
so, you're saying bush didnt do it? who did, the underpants gnomes? i put blame where it's due. no president is going to be perfect, they're all going to mess up one way or another. its by how much that matters. and like i said earlier: when Clinton left, things were alright. when Bush Jr. left, the economy was in the crapper. what does that tell you? and nobody can pay off a multi-trillion dollar debt in 2 terms even if they tried. thats a massive bill to pay off, its going to take quite a while. especially since its been getting bigger
Well since we can only blame the last guy in office if he has an R after his name, I suppose I can only point out that not everything was "alright" when Clinton left…the dot com bubble anyone? The deficit was eliminated because we include SS and medicare money in the general fund and so it was spent on non-related crap instead of banking it like we should have.
So yea, steller job at cooking the books and whitewashing the past.
Daniel Revas
Not to mention the Billions poured back into the Coffers by emasculating the military, leaving it ill equipped when we went into Iraq.
Daniel Revas
Funny, Carter left Reagan a shit storm and he managed to get us out of it.
But this is the most worsest that there has ever been plus…partisanship…extreme ideologues…do-nothing congress…other talking point trigger words.
Daniel Revas
"worsest"? Is that a word? When Reagan took office there was double digit Interest Rates, double digit Inflation, and high Unemployment. The Military had been emasculated, and after his first 100 Days Reagan had to put up with the partisan antics of Tip O'Neill who stabbed Reagan in the back every chance he got..
Oh yeah, but it's "worser" now…
It is "worser" now…at least we had Reagan back then…
Good points, because the US is the only country to ever spy on anyone before.
Daniel Revas
Right you are. One of the most notorious Spies sitting in an American Prison was spying for Israel, a close ally.
Everybody does it, the NSA just happened to be a little better at it.
Thing about other countries that spy is that they usually dont go around invading other people's countries based on false evidence and bombing women and children on a daily basis. But then again, being a hypocrite dumbfuck is one of the great American values.
Riiiiiight, daily basis, got it. Way to keep to the topic, you definitely don't sound like some 3rd world D-bag with an axe to grind that was looking for the slightest provocation to jump into your anti-US screed.
By the way, way to upvote your own shitty comment, I think that makes your point twice as powerful.
Barack Obama in the end IS a conservative president after all.
Ray C
Snowden has made made it a little more difficult for some of these countries
Amerika, home of the paranoid and broke. Our government is trying to destroy the country, I'm not sure why, but it is time to take to the streets and take this country back. Shut it down and reboot.
Good luck, the root of the problem in Amerika its their people, not the politicians.
To me the best American President of the 20th century, was a guy that most historians rank as one of the worst, that being Warren Harding. Very few Americans realize it, but we were in much the same place in 1920. We had a government that was spying on the citizens, attempting to control industry, spying on labor unions, looking for terrorists under every rock, sound familiar?? Then Warren Harding came in and did a full re-boot, with what he called "A Return to Normalcy." He not only reversed the laws, but also fired thousands of government employees who wouldn't go along with his sea change, and he even pardoned thousands of people who had been arrested by the Wilson Presidency. That took a lot of guts, but it worked and the country returned to normal. The key is though that it takes a lot of guts.
Our current President, by contrast, still claims to be controlled by the policies of a President that has been out of power of almost 7 years. Warren Harding would laugh at these pathetic excuses.
You have to take into account that his woe is that the Democrat politicians are bigger money whores than the Republican ones. Obama not only has to fight against the Republicans who are very eager to say no to everything he proposes, but he also as to fight against his own party because the amount of sellout to lobbyists within its ranks is so blatantly obvious they don't even bother to mask it anymore.
So what choice does he has to get things done? At least the Republicans backed Bush Jr. on virtually everything except the Harriet Myers fiasco.
Tard. Obama is the biggest corporate whore in Washington.
Rather than a simple reboot, I think we need to install a completely new OS.
Don't forget that instead of increasing spending like the last few idiots, he cut the budget by 50% and ushered in the roaring 20's.
As a French/Europan citizen, I feel revolted by what the US gov is doing in the name of 'Justice'. This leaves a bitter taste of what an authoritarian drift is. Reading the comments comforts me though in the fact that not all US citizens agree with this policy.
Naum Rusomarov
I feel honored to be treated as an American citizen even though I don't have an American passport. I'm so proud of my country! :D
You're welcome mate :)
The French have citizens living on a Jovian satellite? Cool!
Yeah, but I came back home recently. Too goddamn cold up there.
Ivor O'Connor
This is most disturbing.
This whole thing stinks, but realistically… what can we do? Even IF we went complete anarchy and dismantled everything… it would only be our view of everything. No one is sure what/if anything is behind the scenes, but I doubt that anything can really change the course we're on right now. The powers that be have been wanting a method of subversive and absolute control for millenia, and aside from religious institutional abuses, technology fulfills all those goals.
It sounds like a cop-out, but I plan to just try to stay on the right side of things and live life as I feel I'm led to do.
It's America's empire after all. We're all just living in it.
The US Government completely lost the plot
I'll bet the rest of the world is thrilled about this. Not.
If the appeals court continues to hold in favor of the US government, then Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple and other US companies have little choice left if they want to compete in the non-US cloud space market. They will have to restructure their organizations in such way that their non-US servers are owned by non-US corporations.
Menno van der Coelen
I think that if MS complied with the warrent it could face fines from EU privacy protection agencies. It would also most certainly damage US-EU relations (which aren't that hot at the moment anyway). And I can confirm that many companies are indeed looking to EU based solutions for their cloud storage. (A local provider here has stated it got more business because of this)
Mr Opinionated
So nice that once again our Attorney General thinks we do not need to follow the laws of this planet. It is absolutely amazing to me that the highest ranking government attorney in the country once again feels he can continue to ignore our laws and signed treaties
This AG is so clueless, I am completely amazed that we haven't already had a revolution during this administration. If for no other reason that to simply remove this AG..
My reaction to this news is mixed…especially since everyone is more concerned about the NSA…but not about the Corporations or the Data Hackers. For example, Experian had a Data Theft event with a Vietnamese hacker in 2012 that stole uncountable amounts of Personal Data to be sold on the black Market for ID Theft…and we heard not one peep from the major news networks. It was written about ONLY in the Network Security Blogs. Experian saw no reason and had no legal need to let the public know how many of them were now at risk for ID Theft.
And the Thieves? I'm willing to bet a LOT of them love the notion of impregnable Data Privacy in all these other countries. And they take comfort in the fact that they KNOW that Switzerland will safeguard THEIR data and money against any investigation or warrant, allowing them the freedom to continue to Do Business.
Sure…the NSA needs to reigned in…but it's not a "My Little Pony" playland out there.
carol argo
International court of law will supply said warrant?OK!AS LONG AS ONLY INTERNATIONAL COURT OF LAW CAN ISSUE A WARRANT FOR SAY DATA IN BENGLADESH WHILE THE COPS WOULD BE IN CHINA(just a random exemple)put any country instead of china .the only thing i dont want is a country deciding it self via a self gave warrant what data is being given to themselves.so if data is in england and you are a cop from chili asking a wrrant then only inyernational court of law as the capability to authorise or refuse the warrant authorisation
Great for Eurasia business. I wouldn't mind this happening its easyier to compete with them then…
What does a police state look like…
this whats going to kill u.s companys no one will fuck with anything tech made from the us


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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Two Utah men have been stripped of their positions as Boy Scout leaders after they posted a video of themselves purposely toppling an ancient rock formation in a state park.
A northern Utah Boy Scouts council announced Monday that the men involved in the Oct. 11 event at Goblin Valley State Park have been removed from their posts. The news release doesn't name the men, but Glenn Taylor and Dave Hall have taken responsibility for what happened.
They say the rock formation was loose and they feared it was dangerous. They were leading a group of teenage Boy Scouts on a trip when it happened.
The Boy Scouts of America condemned the men's actions last week, and said action could be taken after a review of the incident.
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Treece: Why QE3 is destined for failureWritten by Ben Treece | | firstname.lastname@example.com
In the minutes from the Federal Reserve Board meeting on Tuesday, we learned that, against the will of many FRB members, the Fed is considering more quantitative easing. We have written and commented before on why this policy just does not work, and we stand by that statement. This will be the third round of QE that has been imposed since the financial crisis of 2008 over the course of two separate administrations, yet we still have yet to see a significant economic recovery. In our opinion, QE policies have been one of a myriad reasons why the economy has yet to turn around significantly.
Quantitative easing is defined as increasing the money supply by flooding financial institutions with capital in an effort to promote increased lending and liquidity. This can be done in several ways, whether it is putting money straight into the pockets of citizens as President Bush did in 2008, or by printing money and funneling it to lending institutions through either loan programs or the purchase of securities from those institutions as President Obama did in 2010. Either way, the idea is to supply the market with capital that can be spent on projects or consumer goods. What some economists and many politicians fail to realize is that there are more downsides to quantitative easing than good.
If QE were the end-all answer, we would not be seeing the measly 1 percent to 3 percent gross domestic product growth that we have been seeing since 2010. We should be seeing Reagan-era 7 percent to 10 percent growth, but the current administration simply cannot get a grasp on this haltered economy. The fact is that QE will provide a brief jolt to the economy, but nothing that will sustain or be substantial to growth. Imagine that I gave you $100 today; does that mean that you're going to spend $100 every month for the next year? That is the basic logic behind QE: More money in your pocket today GUARANTEES sustained long-term spending. This is clearly not a logical statement.
Another downside of QE is that it can lead to inflation. More currency in the economy means a less valuable dollar, it is truly that simple. Many figureheads will have you think that monetary policy is much more complex than that simple description. In reality their explanations are all smoke and mirrors. A common argument is that QE does not lead to inflation since we have seen no substantial impact on the U.S. dollar's value since QE2. However, as Dock David pointed out in "Ingredients for Inflation," M3 (money supply) has actually been decreasing and inflation has not been realized due to the lack of velocity (money turning over in the economy). This cash is literally sitting at lending institutions waiting to be loaned out in a market where nobody is borrowing.
One question that nobody seems to ask regarding QE is where the money comes from? The easy answer is from the government, but let's think about this realistically. How can a federal government that currently has no budget in place and is running massive deficits afford to supply more capital to the markets? As we mentioned before, one way could be through the printing of new currency, but this could lead to an inflated dollar, which would be catastrophic for a recovering economy. Another way is through spending by increasing government revenue … also known as hiking taxes. The final way is through debt financing, or the selling of government bonds. These three options for obtaining capital would all ultimately result in economic hardship.
If the Treasury prints new money, we will eventually face drastic inflation if economic growth does not keep up. This will hurt consumers' pocketbooks and result in a decrease in discretionary spending. The current administration cannot in any way justify hiking taxes, even on corporations and high earners. These are the people who are able to hire and who are out spending money and driving the economy while the rest of America tightens up their finances. Having them pay their "fair share" would result in more jobs lost due to decreasing corporate after-tax revenues and thus fewer dollars to spend for both top earners and Main Street employees who will have lost their jobs due to downsizing. Lastly, the federal government cannot possibly consider financing this venture through debt for many reasons. First of all, nobody in their right mind wants to buy bonds with interest rates as low as they are right now. Secondly, the current administration is already taking flak for its willingness to run up a massive deficit. Borrowing more money (likely from sources abroad) would not sit well with most Americans, something the administration is keeping in mind going in to an election year.
The answer is a simple one that I wrote about in my article "Economics 101: Common Sense" — we must cut taxes. Cutting taxes across the board would result in more money available for households to pay down debt and for discretionary spending while simultaneously allowing for corporations to hire new employees without the fear of hurting their bottom line. It truly is a simple answer, but instead of putting full faith in a tried and tested method, the Fed has shown that they are willing to engage in a policy which has failed twice over now. This is the definition of insanity; repeating the same action over and over and expecting to yield different results.
Ben Treece is a 2009 graduate from the University of Miami (Fla.) with a bachelor of business administration degree in international finance and marketing. He is a partner with Treece Investment Advisory Corp (www.TreeceInvestments.com) and a stockbroker licensed with FINRA, working for Treece Financial Services Corp. The above information is the express opinion of Ben Treece and should not be construed as investment advice or used without outside verification.
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Has anyone come to you for makeup advice? What for? What did you tell them?
My "real life" friends have come to be for advice on long-wearing foundations, shade matching, and how to wear red lipstick. For long-wearing foundation, I say it's about layering and application as much as it is about the products. For shade matching, get samples, try them at home first. For red lipstick, wear it at home a few times to get comfortable!
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If you haven't yet played Capybara Games' Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, this weekend represents an excellent opportunity to do so.
The game is free to play on Steam through 4:00 pm EST Sunday. If you find yourself drawn in, as so many others were, you can buy the sucker outright at a 50% discount ($7.49).
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What IDE is needed for this book?
26 Jun 2010, 01:06
Greg Heath (5 posts)
I am looking an getting the book and wanted to know if Visual Studio Express will do for working through this book or do I need the professional version?
It seems to have a open source slant to the book so I am assuming all tools required for the book are either open source or free. Is this accurate?
Thanks Greg
26 Jun 2010, 15:56
Jonathan McCracken (35 posts)
Certainly Visual Studio Express will work. You'll need to either use the NUnit console or NUnit GUI to run your unit tests since you won't be able to use Resharper with Visual Studio Express.
There are quite a few sidebar Resharper tips, but they're not going to prevent you from working through the whole book. Alternatively, you can also get a 90 day trail of Visual Studio Professional and a 30 day trial of Resharper.
Hope that helps,
27 Jun 2010, 00:27
Dave Mateer (1 post)
I've just bought this eBook and am starting to go through it! Regarding Express and nUnit, I wrote a post a while ago on getting it working: http://www.programgood.net/2009/01/16/nUnitAndVisualStudio2008Express.aspx
27 Jun 2010, 09:28
Greg Heath (5 posts)
Hi Jonathan and Dave,
Thanks for the feedback, I am looking forward to the book. I will use Express to start with using Dave's instructions.
Cheers, Greg
17 Aug 2010, 22:12
Greg Heath (5 posts)
This is a useful link for integrating nUnit and VS Express. http://www.dijksterhuis.org/setting-up-nunit-for-c-unit-testing-with-visual-studio-c-express-2008/
Works great for launching nUnit from your tools menu.
03 Mar 2011, 15:02
Robert Stackhouse (12 posts)
In response to the title of the thread "What IDE is needed for this book?", the answer is: none.
If you are coding along with this book and you have 15 minutes before you turn out the light after finishing the day's chores to fix a bug, you could fire up Visual Studio or Visual Web Developer and wait ten minutes—if you're on an older machine (a vista laptop in my case)—then fix the bug.
Or, you could fix it with GVim or Notepad++, build it with NAnt or MSBuild, and fix another one.
This is why I humbly suggest that the section on automating builds be moved to the front of the book if not the section on configuring IIS as well.
Automated builds save time (though probably not lives).
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John Ceretto
|John D. Ceretto
|Member of the New York State Assembly
from the 145th district
|Assumed office
January 1, 2013
|Preceded by
|Michael P. Kearns
|Personal details
May 12, 1952
Niagara Falls, New York[2]
|Political party
|Lewiston, New York[2]
|Alma mater
|Niagara University[2]
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John D. Ceretto (born May 12, 1952)[1] is an American politician and a Republican member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 145th Assembly District as of January 2013. His district includes the cities of Niagara Falls and Tonawanda also, the towns of Lewiston, Cambria, Niagara, Wheatfield, and Grand Island.[2]
Education and early career[edit]
A Niagara Falls native, he attended La Salle Senior High School and is a graduate of Niagara University with a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Education and Administration. While still in college, he worked for the Carborundum Abrasive Company. Upon completing his education, he worked as a substitute teacher in many of the local schools and then worked for 20 years at the Tulip Corporation in Niagara Falls.[2]
Political career[edit]
In 1995, Ceretto was elected as a councilman on the Lewiston Town Board. In 2005, he was elected Niagara County Legislator in the 12th District. Ceretto also served as Vice-Chairman of the Niagara County Economic Development Committee and Chairman of the Niagara County Refuse Department. [2]
In the November 2010 election for State Assembly, Ceretto beat former Assemblywoman Francine DelMonte, who ran on the Working Families Party Line facing and Democratic challenger candidate and former Niagara Falls City Councilman John Accardo.
Personal life[edit]
Ceretto married his wife Beth in 1978. They reside in Lewiston, New York, with their four children.
- ^ a b "Legislative Preview: Meet The New Members". The Capitol. Manhattan Media. January 6, 2011. Retrieved March 17, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "John D. Ceretto: Biography". New York State Assembly. Retrieved March 17, 2011.
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January 1, 2006 – December 31, 2010
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Francine DelMonte
|New York State Assembly, 138th District
January 1, 2011 – December 31, 2012
|Succeeded by
Harry B. Bronson
|Preceded by
Michael P. Kearns
|New York State Assembly, 145th District
January 1, 2013 – present


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Before landing on the moon, Armstrong trained as a pilot in Corpus Christi
Armstrong honed flight skills in Corpus Christi
CORPUS CHRISTI - Before he could take one of the most famous steps of all time, Neil Armstrong had to take another step to become an astronaut: He had to get his pilot's license.
He racked up flight hours at Cabaniss Field in Corpus Christi in 1950, according to Corpus Christi Caller archives.
He returned to the city in 1964, five years before he landed on the moon, for controller training at the Space Flight Tracking Station at Rodd Field.
At the time of the Sept. 17, 1964, Caller article's publication, Armstrong was in the astronaut program but had not yet been selected for a space flight. He told the Caller reporter he was looking forward to the chance to orbit the Earth and said he liked his work.
"'You'd be surprised if we said we didn't like it, wouldn't you?' Armstrong asked with a big grin," the article stated.
Raymondville resident Ron Whitlock, who was then working as managing editor for KIII TV in Corpus Christi, got to interview Armstrong once, too. It was at the Astrodome in Houston, sometime in 1970, about a year after Armstrong made history.
His interview didn't go quite as smoothly, he said.
Whitlock was affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce and was told he was granted an interview with Armstrong because of the connection to Armstrong's flight school home. Whitlock's hope was that Armstrong would share stories about his time in the Coastal Bend.
"I asked him, 'What kind of fond memories do you have of Corpus Christi?'"
Armstrong's memories were of the wind — but they weren't so fond.
Whitlock realized years later that with an average wind speed of 15 mph, the air fields in Corpus Christi are some of the most difficult for pilots to navigate. Whitlock thinks the wind obstacle ultimately prepared Armstrong for future flights where high winds were an issue.
"He had to take that first step of becoming a pilot or he could never have taken that first step on the moon," Whitlock said.
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Just 40% More and Government will control 100% of Healthcare in the United States
A new report shows that 60% of healthcare spending is controled by local, state and the federal government. It is a total of $1.35 trillion out of $2.24 trillion. Senator Coburn responded to the CRS report which he requested with the following;
"Defenders of the Reid bill say we need 'reform' to keep insurance companies honest. A better question would be: 'Who's going to keep the government honest?' This new report shows that the so-called 'reform' effort is based on a false premise. Government is already the majority-shareholder in our health care system," Dr. Coburn said.
"Many of the problems we face today in health care, such as cost and lack of choice and access to quality care, are the consequence of government interference. These problems will only get worse if Congress spends $2.5 trillion on legislation to put the government in charge of more of our health care decisions,"
Obviously, anyone who opposes more Government control of medicine (and corporate welfare) must oppose Reid's bill in the U.S. Senate and support Coburn's efforts to defeat it but it would also be helpful to support positive measures (in the U.S. House) including;
Congressman Paul's H.R. 1495, the Comprehensive Health Care Reform Act of 2009, which according to the Library of Congress- Thomas:
(1) revise the tax credit for the health insurance costs of a taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, and dependents to increase the amount of, and expand eligibility criteria for, such credit;
(2) permit up to $500 of unused health benefits under a health flexible spending arrangement to be carried over to a succeeding plan year or paid directly to an employee as compensation;
(3) revise the tax deduction for payments to a health savings account to eliminate the requirement for coverage under a high deductible health plan; and
(4) repeal the 7.5% threshold limitation on the tax deduction of medical and dental expenses.
H.R.2629 Coercion is Not Health Care Act , also a Ron Paul bill which according to Thomas would prohibit requiring the purchase or maintenance of health insurance coverage as a condition for participation in, or access to, any federal program or for federal benefit eligibility.
Another bill to support would be Rep. Shadegg's H.R. 3217, which permits the purchase of health insurance across state lines which will ultimately lower costs due to the resulting interstate competition


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Loredona wines are true to this ideal. Crafted from our vineyards located in the best growing regions throughout California, they are a true reflection of the land on which they are grown. Our Riesling and Pinot Grigio embody the sun, wind, fog, and soils of Monterey's San Bernabe Vineyard, and our Viognier captures the warmth and cooling breezes of our Lodi Clay Station Vineyard.


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Monday, December 20, 2010
For the first time in recent years, I missed opening day at Mt. Ellen due to a meeting in Montpelier. I knew it was going to be a good opening but I hadn't anticipated how great it turned out to be.
Fresh, soft snow on top of grooming made for some exquisite turns on Rim Run and Cruiser and the icing on the cake was the opportunity to get fresh tracks on Exterminator, Cliffs, FIS, Tumbler, Hammerhead and Black Diamond. By the time I got there Sunday morning, the knee-deep powder was gone. Trails like Bravo and Tumbler looked sketchy (they had been skied a lot by then) but the quality of the snow was superb. My favorite run of the day was on an empty Tumbler. Click here for Mt. Ellen Opening Day shots and other recent photos.
I spent the day at Lincoln Peak on Saturday and my best runs were down Spillsville and Upper Birdland. Birdland proves the point that looks can be deceiving. There were patches of grass showing as I looked down from the chair on the ride up, but this is a trail with few rocks and nice moss so even a thin cover of fresh snow can make for some fun runs. One of my first runs of the day was there, as was my last. Lower Organgrinder had some nice, soft moguls. The cruiser of the day, in my opinion, was Waterfall and Hot Shot. Our groomers did a particularly good job of winching the headwall of Waterfall the evening before.
We are now making snow on Upper Snowball, Spring Fling, Upper Birdland and Murphy's at Lincoln Peak and in the terrain park and on Inverness at Mt. Ellen. If the temperatures stay down, we are planning to move back to the Gate House side to make snow on Sleeper, Slowpoke, Easy Rider, then Birch and Sunrise. If the temperatures warm down low, we will move up to Ripcord. At Mt. Ellen, once we have Inverness well-covered and enough snow to have a good terrain park this weekend, we will move over to North Star and Lower Elbow so that we have good beginner terrain at Mt. Ellen as well as Lincoln Peak for the holidays.
Our SugarDirect sales were very strong right up to Sunday night's deadline. While this product is no longer available, season passes are still being sold and we are also offering online tickets at a discount to the window rate if purchased two days prior to use. (Note that our online tickets are non-refundable.)
The balance of December looks great for snowmaking. We will likely get some more "lake effect" snow this week and we have our fingers crossed for a Christmas storm.


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Gareth Chilcott: Bath will find it difficult to replace Olly Barkley
Posted: September 22, 2012|
When Olly Barkley returned to Bath from Gloucester in 2009, I think the majority of Bath supporters assumed that he would be spending the rest of his career with the club.
So they will have been disappointed to discover this week that he is leaving the club in two games' time to join Racing Metro in the French Top 14, particularly as it had looked as if he would be a major player at the Rec this season.
He won the game for Bath at Worcester on the opening day with his kicking, and, while that is a dominant part of his game, he offers a fair bit more than that.
We may never know the truth behind the move, but when Gary Gold says "every now and then an offer lands on the table that a bloke just can't refuse" it suggests Barkley has been lured to Paris by the Euros on offer. For the loyal Bath supporters who see Barkley as one of their own, it will be disappointing that he is leaving to take on this new challenge.
Has he gone for the money? Has he been headhunted? Were Bath made an offer they couldn't refuse to release him from his contract? Was it a case of Gold not seeing him as someone to lead Bath on to a new level? We may never know – but what we do know is that Bath need to replace him with someone who is equally good, which will not be easy.
Barkley will be able to play in the next two games – starting at London Irish today – but his exit will mean yet another of the club's old guard has moved on. The squad is almost unrecognisable from a few years ago, but in many ways that needed to happen as it is a long time since Bath won a trophy.
Bath against London Irish will perhaps not serve up the most attractive of rugby matches – but the return of Francois Louw will help Bath immensely, and I think having him back in the side may just tip the scales Bath's way.
Gloucester-Wasps at Kingsholm this afternoon has the makings of a cracking game. Both sides are notoriously good attacking teams, while Wasps, in their recent game at Bath, were woeful in defence, which leads me to think today's game could be very open.
Wasps are a better team than perhaps they have shown, while Gloucester will be eager to claim a first home victory of the season, and I can see the home side doing enough to win an entertaining match.
Gloucester drew at Worcester last weekend, and I think they will have been happy enough to come out of an away derby not having lost the game, even if they did not manage to win. I think they should be too strong for Wasps today, although it could be entertaining.
Last weekend, Bristol did exactly what I had hoped they would: they went out against Cornish Pirates and effectively said, 'what happened last season has gone', and got some sweet revenge.
They outplayed Pirates in front of the television cameras and basically said, 'you are no worry to us', while reminding Newcastle that they remain a force to be reckoned with in this season's Championship.
Winning 29-17 was the perfect result and the perfect response, both to last season's debacle in Penzance and their opening-day defeat to Newcastle. They have shown everyone they are serious contenders.
The Championship chucks up some really tricky games, though, and tomorrow's trip to Leeds is another of those. Leeds have underachieved since their relegation, there is no doubt about that, but you always feel with them that it is just a matter of time before they start competing again.
Bristol lost up there last season and Leeds will make it tough for them again tomorrow – but I saw enough quality and character from Bristol last weekend to believe they can win this weekend.