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Do you do commission work? Do you have trouble to get customers in order to buy commissions from you? Or Are you in a dilemma to set your own "competitive" commission price?
If your answer is "yes" to any of the above questions then you are at the right place! Today, I'll tell you (or at least give you a better idea) how to start up with your commission work and setting up the right price.
A little introduction about myself: I am a hobby-driven artist who mainly deals with CSS coding and graphics designing (now) in deviantART. As a profession I am currently employed as an online marketing professional who looks after two leading online gaming brands. I like to help people customize their pages and support them to be a better artist in deviantART.
Having given my short introduction let us first understand that why most of us face a lot of trouble to get commission work or worst, to set up the "right" price for their service.
To my surprise, in a survey poll, I got over 85% of respondents who said they faced trouble to get customers for their commission or setting up their prices.
Since, I the target was roughly 270 of them. We can assume it to be more or less accurate.
Most of the times the main reasons for which we fail to get commission are:
1. We over price our commission
2. We are not exposed enough for people to know us (in other terms we don't have traffic for our page)
3. The quality you are offering does not go hand-in-hand with the price
4. Low reputation (people do not know us enough to trust us)
5. The type of commission you offer (paypal, points, etc.)
Before I start with the guide now, let me give you some more insights based on the real world scenarios:
Scenario 1:
- Employers (especially companies) to artist: Hey I have seen your work in so and so website and found it really intriguing and extraordinary. You have done a really great job on your so and so project(s). You are really a very good artist!
We: Well, thank you! I am really honoured to get such great compliments from a person like you. It's my hobby and passion to create such art you know.
Employers to artist: No doubt about that! You see I have a proposal to make. I was wondering if you could make me a similar kind of piece for my company, website etc. It will be displayed in the home page or lobby etc. etc. where people everyday will see your masterpiece.
We (overjoyed): OMG! That would be so great and I will be greatly honoured to do that! Let me know when we can start.
Scenario 2:
- Employers (especially companies) to artist: Hey I have found your work in so and so website and found it really intriguing and extraordinary. You have done a really great job on your so and so project(s). You are really a very good artist! I was hoping if can discuss some business with you.
We (overjoyed by hearing the word business): Yes, please tell me I am all ears.
Employers to artist: I was wondering if you could create a flash website (website is taken as an example) for me.
We (overjoyed again!): Yes, sure thing! I can of course do it! Just let me know when and how you want it to be.
Employers to artist: How much would it cost?
We (now confused!): Think at the back of your mind that you do it for $20(say) in deviantART and the employer is quite a good one who can pay a handsome amount. So, finally you say it would cost around $35
Employers to artist: Oh okay! That sounds reasonable.
Let us now see what is happening in both the scenarios.
In scenario 1, the employer did say that you'll get exposure in his website or whatsoever but still he is winning the game. How???? Because HE IS GETTING THE WORK DONE FOR FREE! And say he asked for a piece of web graphics in this case. So, when he puts it up on his website no doubt it is your piece of work but DOES PEOPLE REALLY KNOW THAT IT WAS YOURS? Think about it!
In scenario 2, it looks like an awesome deal at the first glance since you are making an Extra $15 bucks as compared to your regular $20. Yes, that is cool! But still we are the fools! How? Because we do not know the worth of the artwork (here the flash website) that we have just sold. The employer knows very well or perhaps done a research before approaching you for the commission. He knows that a flash website can cost around say $100 if ordered from a renowned web-designer or a web-designing company but he is getting it for only $35! Get the point? Of course there is always professionalism when you order from a popular designer or company but if you compare the work you can see that it is almost the same.
In the both the scenarios above, the Employer is a smart-ass and we are the fools! Yes, that is the fact and it is true!
Some golden lines:
If you are good at something, do not do it for free!
Art is not for free, it's your hard work!
When you are investing your time and energy on an artwork how can you give it for free? Isn't your time and energy precious to you?
An important message for both buyer and seller!
Have you ever wondered why does A (say a professional) and B (an amateur) charges the same fee (say $100) for a project who does the job in 1hr and 10hrs respectively?
No? I'll explain it to you "why" with the help of a small story.
- There was a painter sitting by a river and painting the sunset. A lady was just passing by the painter while he was painting. Seeing the painter she stopped and asked him if he can paint a picture of her with the beautiful sunset background. The painter nodded at her. He finished the painting in 8 minutes. She saw the painting and was amazed at the painter's talent. His painting was simply outstanding. So, she asked him how much is for the painting. He looked at her and said $500. Her eyes got wide open when he said $500.
The lady got furious and yelled, "What non-sense is this? You are asking for $500 just because you painted my picture so nicely? You didn't even take hours to complete the painting! You took only 8min.?" The painter replied, "Yes" And then he continued Ma'am what you currently see is only 8mins of my time that I am invested to create an artwork for you. However, do you realize that to create your painting in 8mins I have actually invested 10years of my life towards it? The lady did not have any answer to that but to simply pay.
So, let's come back to the real world and take any example of any painter, photographer, graphics designer, programmer, etc. They charge you more with more professional work because they are simply the "best" in that field, they have more experience than others and they can do their work faster than others. Got the point?
Having understood the above mentioned things, let's move ahead and check out how you to set up yourself for starting with commissions.
*Please note that this is not a well established model to start off with your commission work but it surely will help you out to follow a structured way to starting with commissions.
As you can see in the diagram above, there are certain steps that you need to follow to setup your commission. I'll explain them briefly below:
Know yourself: Before setting up your commission at least first try to know yourself. You need to know which artwork are you comfortable with (such as digital painting, traditional media, etc.). Many people have varied interest and skills which are good but they need to know out of 10 skills (say) which are the strongest! You may have 2-3 skill sets which you would be very good at. So, identify your skills and talent!!!
Analyze the market: This is very important if you are new to the community or in the site. You are NOT the only person with a definite skill. There could be hundreds or thousands of people who have the same skill sets as yours. Example, apart from you there could be 10,000 graphics designers in the site who are already selling their works.
It is very important to analyze the market before you set your price and define your skill sets further. The most important things that you need to analyze are:
- 1) The prices that others are offering 2) The skill sets of other people in the same market.
You will get a fair idea on the average selling price which has been set by other people and the level of pricing according to the quality/feature/quantity of a package.
Define your USP: Always remember that there is someone out there who is better than you! USP means Unique Selling Point. After you have analyzed the market it is time for you to identify or define your USP! So, what exactly is USP again? Well, the answer cannot be put straightforward. USP can be your price, your artwork quality, the services that you provide, the category of customers you opt for, etc. etc. In simple words, WHAT MAKES YOUR COMMISSION DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS! This can only be answered by you!
Set your goals: For any business a goal is very important. You need to know what you want to achieve before you set out for a journey! Keeping the topic particular to commissions, you need to set your own goals for your commission.
Since commissioning is only focused on making money. Hence, there could be two types of goals here:
- 1) The amount of money you want to generate or 2) The number of items you want to sell
You can set a goal of say generating a profit of $100/ month, $10,000/year, 20 items/day, 100 items/month, etc. etc. You need to set a goal! Goal is specifically important if you really want to make money in DA! Goals make you run for the things you want to achieve!
Set your Approach: Now that you know yourself, your market and your goals it is time to set an approach to achieve them.
An approach may take little time for you to get customers but you need to keep trying. "I got my first commission after around 2 months when I started. "
Some important approach that I would recommend would be:
- 1) Post your price list (in your profile widget or journal etc.) 2) Submit your work to showcase it to other people. Let them know what you are capable of! 3) Get exposed as much as possible.
- a. If you have money buy adcast in the site if you need to or
- b. Ask popular deviants to feature you in their profile page or
- c. Get active in groups, forums, chatrooms, etc. 4) Talk to people in the site (yes talk to them and make more friends) 5) Give positive feedback to deviants (in comments, replies or critiques)
After you have done all the previous steps please remember NOT to stop your activities ever. You have to keep continuing what you do! Be it deviation submission, comments, blogs, whatever. You cannot get customers overnight! You have to be patient and give your best in every step.
Now, there could be only 2 outcomes of your approach. Either you get customers or do not get customers.
If you do not get customers then there are high possibilities that you
- 1) did not Know yourself or 2) did not Analyze the market properly or 3) did not Define your USP properly or 4) your Approach has got some problems and you need to refine it
*You can see in the above diagram I have mentioned it using the dotted lines.
If you are successfully getting customers for whichever commissions you are offering then it's awesome! However, you may want to take care of some more things as well.
1) Sale quality assurance: The quality should be matching up to your customer's expectation when you make your sale otherwise you may lose your reputation. If you have charged extra for something then give them the reasons on why did you charge more.
2) Service: Some customers may need some assistance after you have sold them sometimes. Example, for coding some of your customers may need some help on the implementation. Please do not overlook when they seek help! Guide them, help them and do whatever you can to satisfy them. They will spread positive words of your service trust me!
Measure: This is the last phase of your process and it is highly important as well. You may ask, why do we need to measure? The answer is very simple, because you need to check whether you are able to achieve your goals or not.
Measuring your commissions will give you a better understanding on how you can improve yourself, analyze how to get more customers and accordingly you change your goals and approach.
An example of setting goal is as follows:
Goal: Say I want to earn $200 every month.
My USP: Let's say I am a traditional artist who makes face sketches.
Furthermore, let's say I am a student who can give 4hrs of time daily to work on commissions. I take 5 hours to complete 1 sketch. And I have a paypal account to draw money.
So, let's do some math first. Don't worry these are simple math!
So 4hrs per day means 4x30 = 120 hours per month (I am considering 30 days in a month)
And I take 5hours to complete one sketch so I can make 120/5= 24 sketches a month.
Let us also take into consideration that due to some unthinkable circumstances in our day to day life we can make only 20 out of 24 sketches.
So, that means you have to make $200 by selling 20 sketches in a month.
Now, here are your choices that you can make. The choice has to be made by you to achieve what you want.
1. Sell 20 sketches at $10 i.e. 20x10=$200
2. Sell 10 sketches at $20 i.e. 10x20=$200
3. Sell 20 sketches at $5 but sell each sketch 2 times i.e. 20x5x2=$200
4. And so on..
As you can see, you have innumerable ways of selling your commissions. You just need to figure out which one suits you the best.
It is not always a good idea to sell your commissions at a lower price!
- It is because you are yourself making your customers look only for cheap commissions from you. Hence, if you plan to increase your prices later on it may have a negative impact on you.
- Selling your commission at a lower price will attract more customers however you may believe it or not, you are lowering the value of your work and also others. Ultimately, this results into spending more energy for a low price commission.
Charging high at the starting of your commission is not really recommended. You need to find a balance of your service and price yourself.?
Do not go for cheap commissions only.
- It is a good practice to do some research among deviants and check their prices and quality of services before commissioning them.
Remember not to rush your commissioners because it may impact the quality of your commission
Hope this piece of information help you on your commission.
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Feeding a family of seven with distinctly varying palates can be challenging. I've always said that I refuse to be a short order cook, preparing multiple meals for various family members to please their tastes. So instead I look for meals that can easily be customized, and pasta is always a great choice.
For the pickier members of the family, whatever pasta is on the menu tossed with a little butter and grated Parmesan-Reggiano is sure to please. And for the rest of the family, a delicious meat sauce, like this pasta alla bolognese, is always a winner. Pair it with this copy cat Olive Garden Salad for a real feast!
Traditionally, a bolognese sauce is simmered for hours to achieve its complex flavor. Hours to prepare a meal it typically not a luxury I have though, so I've cut my take on this classic down to just over 30 minutes of cooking time.
I also opted to use ground pork instead of ground beef for added flavor. Did you know that you can substitute ground pork in any recipe that calls for ground beef? Such an easy way to break out of a meal rut!
I like to serve my quick bolognese sauce over orecchiette pasta, but spaghetti, penne and fettuccine are all great choices, as well. However you serve it, there are sure to be smiles all around!
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 large carrot, chopped
- 1 celery stalk, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1-lb. ground pork
- 1 (28 oz.) can crushed tomatoes
- 1 (6 oz.) can tomato paste
- 1/4 cup dry red wine
- 1/4 cup flat leaf parsley, chopped
- 8 fresh basil leaves, chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan-Reggiano
- 1-lb. package orecchiette pasta, cooked according to package
- Sautee onions, carrots, and celery in extra virgin olive oil until softened and translucent. Stir in garlic.
- Add ground pork and cook until done, breaking up any large chunks.
- Stir in crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, parsley, basil, salt, pepper and red wine. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer covered for 20 minutes. Remove cover and simmer for an additional 10 minutes or until it reaches the desired thickness.
- Stir in heavy cream and heat through.
- Toss orecchiette pasta with the bolognese sauce and Parmesan-Reggiano, and serve immediately.
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Mingers April 27, 2008Posted by ravana in Religion, Uncategorized.
Tags: religion society mingers ugly
It's 4:30am and I can't sleep. I did the usual things: got wiped out at an online poker game, tried installing Hellgate London, and checked my mail. There was one particular mail from a friend that came with just one line that read "This is cruel, but funny", and a link. It was a link to a website called www.mingers.com.
A minger, in British slang, is someone who mings: an ugly person. When I clicked on the link and went to the website it was full of real life pictures of ugly people. There was a minging couples section, a readers' contributions section, and even a minger of the week. This, incidently, is this week's minger of the week:
My initial reaction was one of disdain at the cruel mind that had not only concocted this idea, but had gone to the trouble of executing it. This feeling quickly eroded when – trolling through the photographs – I started laughing at how fugly some of them were. I guess that's one of the basest forms of humour. It possibly had something to do with a feeling of gratitude to god or nature or karma or my ancestors that I wasn't this fucking ugly. My chances of passing on my genes (if you wish to look at it this way) were so much better than these poor non-threatening mingers with their fugly genes. The extent to which it was so, was ridiculous, even laughable. I felt better about myself, and I had the urge to mail the link to a friend of mine who worries about her weight, to make her feel better.
Through all this, I experienced a feeling of sympathy in the background.
And then a little later, the feeling changed again. When I was checking out the couples section, I felt something else. The thing is, all the couples looked happy. And not just camera happy. Like really happy. I'm not talking about posed smiley shots – everybody looks happy in those – but these minging couples looked unusually happy to me. Like they were meant to be together or something. Maybe, it was my sympathy kicking in, latching on to the dying remnants of a belief that the world is fair and that everything balances out in the end. Or, maybe, it's easy to let your imagination take control when it's 5:17am in the morning, there's an April cuckoo threatening to start cooing outside, and you've had absolutely no sleep.
So, check it out and let me know whether I'm imagining this.
Also, before you go, let me leave you with another thought. Below is a picture I came across years ago. I want to know: why on earth would anyone want to do this to themselves?
I thought about this for awhile. And I think, someone would do this to themselves either because they became compulsively addicted to being pierced, or (and here's the exciting bit) they felt they were ugly in the first place, and they wanted to be sure, and excel at it. You know when you think you have a talent in something and you hone your skill at it? Something like that. Maybe, being ugly was the only thing that set this guy apart from the herd. He felt he was ugly. And, he just wanted to be really sure. He wanted to be better at being ugly than anyone else.
Or, maybe, he wanted to find true love.
P.S. I'm going to go and try to sleep now. I feel kinda ugly for writing this. Goodnight.
- 1. Pink Mist - April 27, 2008
The people in the link aren't that bad!! Well, some of them at any rate are normal-looking, just overweight which means they end up having no features really. As for that man in the pic, omg its going to give me nightmares! I'm suprised you got any sleep😀
- 2. gutterflower - April 28, 2008
True love, definitely. Its all over his face. I can just tell.
- 3. confab - April 28, 2008
trisha yearwood's show on channel 5 in the UK is full of mingers..every morning of every week…what a sight…yuck…
re: pierce brossnan (ok bad joke), how do u reckon he goes through a metal detector? how does he have a shower? wht happens when he rusts? how does he shave? does he shave? does his dick have that many piercings too?
- 4. Tanya J. - April 28, 2008
I think it's just a desperate bid for attention. Maybe he couldn't get the girls to look at him and had to resort to this?!!!!
- 5. Darwin - April 29, 2008
Lol! I usually laugh at sites like that and don't think too deeply about it because it makes me feel a bit guilty…Thanks for the link!
- 6. Java Junkie - April 29, 2008
I may be wrong – but I believe "pierce brosnan" is a woman… now there's a scary thought…
- 7. hsaf - May 10, 2009
- 8. Mr. Barefield - February 1, 2010
This isnt funny. Its my mums buisness what she does to herself.


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Opera is a web browser and Internet suite. It handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, IRC online chatting, downloading files via BitTorrent, and reading web feeds. It is not free software. Features of Opera include high performance, tabbed browsing, page zooming, mouse gestures, and an integrated download manager. Its security features include built-in phishing protection, strong encryption when browsing secure web sites, and the ability to easily delete private data such as cookies and browsing history by simply clicking a button.
To install Opera, run: emerge -av opera
To make opera using better looking fonts you can optionally disable xft and core fonts: sudo nano /opt/opera/share/opera/ini/font.ini and uncomment lines: engine:xft=blacklist and engine:x11=blacklist. Consider, however, that CJK languages will no longer display in Opera (my experience, at least).
Auto-detect proxy settings
Certain computer networks (workplace, university, etc.) require that "Automatically Detect Setting" as in Internet Explorer or "Auto-Detect Proxy Setting for this network" as in Mozilla Firefox be used in order to connect to the Internet. Opera doesn't provide such an option (not 9.23, at least). Although Opera allows one to use an auto-configuration script, it is not able to automatically determine the address of the proxy script. One work around this problem is to determine the proxy settings that Mozilla Firefox uses and set these settings in Opera. To do this, you have to:
- make sure you have a working Internet connection with Firefox (browse for a web page),
- determine the proxy by accessing this web page (listed next to the HTTP_VIA variable),
- fill the URL in Opera's Preferences > Advanced > Network > Proxy servers, for the protocols you need (probably HTTP, HTTPS and FTP).
Now Opera should be back on-line. See also Http proxy and the original forum thread.
Adobe Flash
- See Adobe Flash.
Flash and Opera don't really get along. To make things more complicated, results depend on versions of both.
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Note however that depending on how you configure your `Plug-in Options' you may have little to no problems displaying Flash content in Opera >=9.5. One of the main goals of the 9.5 release was to fix all plug-in related problems, Flash included. See related thread.
Consider using gecko-mediaplayer instead of Mplayer Plug-In, by the same author and also based on MPlayer. "Gecko Media Player is a browser plugin that uses GNOME MPlayer to play media in a browser. It should work with all browsers on Unix-ish systems(Linux, BSD, Solaris) and use the NS4 API (Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc.)."
emerge -tva gnome-mplayer gecko-mediaplayer
Here seems to work quite fine with Opera.
MPlayer Plug-In
As of opera-9.50_beta and mplayerplug-in-3.45 no special steps are needed to compile mplayerplug-in for use with Opera. However, Opera may still leave zombie instances of mplayer in memory after the video ends.
Drop Down Search Menu
I found a good explanation You can replace search lines in the Opera browser
$ nano ~/.opera/search.ini
|File: ~/.opera/search.ini
[Search Engine 14] Name=Translation URL=http://r.lycos.com/r/opipreftrans/http://translation.lycos.com/lycos?urltext=%s&systran_lp=en_fr&partner=demo-Lycos2-en Query= Key= Is post=0 Has endseparator=0 Encoding=iso-8859-1 Search Type=100 Verbtext=17063 Position=-1 Nameid=0
this one will search on gentoo-portage.com
|File: ~/.opera/search.ini
[Search Engine 14] Name=gentoo-portage URL=http://www.gentoo-portage.com/search-result.php?search=%s Query= Key= Is post=0 Has endseparator=0 Encoding=iso-8859-1 Search Type=100 Verbtext=17063 Position=-1 Nameid=0
as it was suggested on the forum you can use
- Gentoo Forum Search
- Portage Search
- Gentoo Bug Search
- Gentoo-Wiki
Custom Drop Down Search
Search Preferences Tab in Opera
- My ~/.opera/search.ini file:
|File: ~/.opera/search.ini
[Search Engine 1] Name=Find &in page URL= Query= Key=i Is post=0 Has endseparator=-1 Encoding= Search Type=0 Verbtext=17063 Position=-1 Nameid=0 [Search Engine 2] Name=&Google URL=http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 Query= Key=g Is post=0 Has endseparator=0 Encoding=utf-8 Search Type=0 Verbtext=17063 Position=-1 Nameid=0 [Search Engine 3] Name=Google &Linux URL=http://www.google.com/linux?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 Query= Key=l Is post=0 Has endseparator=0 Encoding=utf-8 Search Type=0 Verbtext=17063 Position=-1 Nameid=0 [Search Engine 4] Name=Google G&roups URL=http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 Query= Key=r Is post=0 Has endseparator=0 Encoding=utf-8 Search Type=0 Verbtext=17063 Position=-1 Nameid=0 [Search Engine 5] Name=Google &News URL=http://news.google.com/news?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 Query= Key=n Is post=0 Encoding=utf-8 Search Type=0 Verbtext=17063 Position=-1 Nameid=0 Has endseparator=-1 [Search Engine 6] Name=&Forums.Gentoo URL=http://forums.gentoo.org/search.php?search_keywords=%s Query= Key=f Is post=0 Encoding=urf-8 Search Type=0 Verbtext=17063 Position=-1 Nameid=0 Has endseparator=0 [Search Engine 7] Name=B&ugs.Gentoo URL=http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=%s URL=http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__all__&product=&content=%s Query= Key=u Is post=0 Has endseparator=0 Encoding=utf-8 Search Type=0 Verbtext=17063 Position=-1 Nameid=0 [Search Engine 8] Name=Gentoo-&Portage URL=http://www.gentoo-portage.com/search-result.php?search=%s Query= Key=p Is post=0 Has endseparator=0 Encoding=utf-8 Search Type=0 Verbtext=17063 Position=-1 Nameid=0 [Search Engine 9] Name=Gentoo-&Wiki URL=http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/index.php?search=%s&go=Go Query= Key=w Is post=0 Has endseparator=0 Encoding=utf-8 Search Type=10 Verbtext=17063 Position=-1 Nameid=0 [Search Engine 10] Name=Fr&eshmeat URL=http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=%s§ion=projects Query= Key=e Is post=0 Has endseparator=-1 Encoding=iso-8859-1 Search Type=4 Verbtext=17063 Position=-1 Nameid=0 [Search Engine 11] Name=&Dict.org URL=http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Query=%s&Strategy=*&Database=* Query= Key=d Is post=0 Has endseparator=0 Encoding=utf-8 Search Type=6 Verbtext=17063 Position=-1 Nameid=0
Note: If you missing an entrance in the Drop Down Menu, you porbably missing Key= value (in linux it's case sensitve)
Side Search Panel
Side Search Panel and Drop Down Search Menu side by side
To add buttons on your Side Panel in the Opera you've got to edit ~/.opera/toolbar/standard_toolbar (1).ini
|File: ~/.opera/toolbar/standard_toolbar (1).ini
[Search Panel Toolbar.content] Search0 ;Button1, "Find in page search"=Search, 1 ;Spacer2 Button3, "Google search"=Search, 1 Button4, "Linux Google search"=Search, 2 Button5, "Groups Google search"=Search, 3 Button6, "News Google search"=Search, 4 Spacer7 Button8, "Forums.Gentoo search"=Search, 5 Button9, "Bugs.Gentoo search"=Search, 6 Button10, "Gentoo-Portage search"=Search, 7 Button11, "Gentoo-Wiki search"=Search, 8 Button12, "Freshmeat search"=Search, 9
Note:I commented out Button 1 so by default i have "Find in Page", see the screenshot
Epiphany users can add Smart Bookmarks from the URLs in the Opera section.
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The United States is back to being Number-1 in basketball.
Team USA redeemed itself for a dismal third-place showing four years ago by capturing the Olympics gold medal by beating stubborn Spain 118-107 in a much tougher-than-anticipated championship game. The Americans finished 8-and-0 in Beijing.
Dwyane (dwayn) Wade was spectacular off the bench in the first half. He led the Americans with 27 points, including 21 in the first half when Kobe Bryant and LeBron James were limited by foul trouble.
But down the stretch, Bryant's poise took over. The NBA Most Valuable Player capped off a terrific year by taking command after Spain threatened to pull a major upset. Bryant finished with 20 points.
After building an eight-point halftime lead, the U.S. led by just two points with eight minutes left. But Bryant hit a shot, added two assists and hit a three-pointer to build the U.S. lead back to nine. Then, after Spain cut the deficit to five, Bryant converted a four-point play that gave the U.S. a 108-99 lead with 3:10 left.
The championship game was not a cakewalk. Team USA had beaten Spain by 37 points in the preliminary round. But the Spaniards hung tough, giving the Americans by far their toughest test of the Olympics.
Argentina won the bronze medal with an 87-75 win against Lithuania.
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Decreased cord-blood phospholipids in young age at onset type 1 diabetes
- Daria La Torre1⇑,
- Tulikki Seppänen-Laakso2,
- Helena E. Larsson1,
- Tuulia Hyötyläinen2,
- Sten A. Ivarsson1,
- Åke Lernmark1,
- Matej Orešič2,
- the DiPiS study group§
- 1Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University/ CRC/, Skåne University Hospital SUS, Malmö, Sweden.
- 2VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland.
- §Annelie Carlsson, Department of Pediatrics, Lund University Hospital; Elisabeth Cederwall, Department of Pediatrics, Ängelholm Hospital; Björn Jönsson, Department of Pediatrics, Ystad Hospital; Karin Larsson, Department of Pediatrics, Kristianstad Hospital; Jan Neiderud, Department of Pediatrics, Helsingborg Hospital.
- Corresponding author: Daria La Torre, E-mail: daria.la_torre{at}med.lu.se; latorredaria{at}yahoo.it
Children developing type 1 diabetes may have risk markers already in their umbilical cord blood. It is hypothesized that the risk for type 1 diabetes at an early age may be increased by a pathogenic pregnancy and be reflected in altered cord-blood composition. In this study metabolomics was used to test if the cord-blood lipidome was affected in children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes before eight years of age. The present case-control study of 76 index children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes before eight years of age and 76 healthy controls matched for HLA risk, gender and date of birth as well as mother's age and gestational age revealed that cord-blood phosphatidylcholines and phosphatidylethanolamines were significantly decreased in children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes before four years of age. Reduced levels of triglycerides correlated to gestational age in both index and control children and to age at diagnosis only in the index children. Finally, gestational infection during the first trimester was associated with lower cord blood total lysophosphatidylcholines in both index and control children. In conclusion, metabolomics of umbilical cord blood may identify children at increased risk for type 1 diabetes. Low phospholipid levels at birth may represent key mediators of the immune system and contribute in early induction of islet autoimmunity.
- Received February 6, 2013.
- Accepted August 1, 2013.
- © 2013 by the American Diabetes Association.
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Yeah. It's so brainless. When given a choice, everyone goes for the 10 def b/c it's 2 stat points. It's not a great secret that cath early game is super deadly not b/c of its sp gen but also b/c of its buffing abilities. Falkow is not supposed to have 20 defense 60 hp tanks front line while it builds up field with diondora in the back.
My suggestion: cath should only buff 5 defense, or make the cap at 10 defense.
Seriously. It used to be that I have a hard time getting through guardian. Now with super falkow tanks like the fat cow emana, I have a much harder time hitting through falkow, especially since if you don't hit through early, you die to diondora back row returning everything.


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Dell KACE, Bomgar Partner on Remote Support
Dell KACE teams up with Bomgar to offer an integrated remote management solution integrated into the Dell KACE K1000 management appliance. With Bomgar inside, IT admins and MSPs can remotely support and manage nearly any device running any operating system, even outside the company network.
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MSPs, VARs and IT admins leveraging Dell KACE technology will get a boost from Bomgar Corp. In a new partnership with Dell KACE, new Bomgar customers will be able to outfit their Dell KACE K1000 Management Appliance with two free remote support licenses, either by purchasing Bomgar's on-premise appliance or subscribing to Bomgar's hosted solution.
Bomgar offers a range of remote diagnostic capabilities, allowing for centralized support capabilities for enhanced maintenance of SLAs, in addition to promoting overall operating efficiency. This solution is unique in its ability to remotely support many of today's most popular platforms, including Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS, Android and BlackBerry OS.
Dell KACE explains, "Customers will be able to choose from two of Bomgar's integrated offerings – two free hosted licenses or two free standard or enterprise licenses with the purchase of Bomgar's on-premise appliance (new Bomgar customers only)."
With this combined solution pack, remote support sessions can be initiated directly from the KACE service desk, thanks to that integration. Remote support can still be leveraged outside the company network thanks to the Bomgar Jump Client, a tiny piece of software that allows complete remote control between any two computers on any network. This connection is made secure and, like a local connection, the support session is recorded to ensure a proper audit trail. If a company installs the software in the data center, all networked machines are then fully capable of being connected without the client-side software.
As previously mentioned, Bomgar comes in two flavors, on-premise and hosted. For those leveraging the on-premise system, the software will sit behind the firewall and provide all the aforementioned control capabilities. It will also allow for some unique security features, like granular remote access control and collaborative support sessions. Customers choosing the hosted solution will have quick and easy access to remote control capabilities to nearly any device, even if it lives outside the network entirely. File transfers, live chat and even presentation tools can be leveraged remotely.
With support so often being a key differentiator for MSPs and solution providers, Dell KACE and Bomgar are offering a package that can help MSPs streamline support with less technology than it would normally require to access a host of systems remotely. Considering the pace at which mobile devices are proliferating through the enterprise, the ability to remotely manage and configure iOS and Android is a smart asset, especially when complemented with leading MDM solutions.


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TheStreet) -- Netflix (NFLX - Get Report) and its CEO Reed Hastings received a Wells notice for a Facebook (FB - Get Report) post. But the implications will go much further than Hastings and Netflix. This may well be the defining moment of social media when it comes to finance. Public companies often have social media policies that preclude some employees from posting facts about the company itself for this very reason. They are scared of receiving these types of letters from the Securities and Exchange Commission, for fear of repercussions, fines, and perhaps even worse.The issue brings to mind just how public is a social media account from a CEO, like Hastings or any of the other CEOs who use Facebook or Twitter to discuss their business. Just recently, Tesla Motors (TSLA - Get Report) CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the company became cash flow positive. "Am happy to report that Tesla was narrowly cash flow positive last week. Continued improvement expected through year end," the South African born Musk wrote in a tweet. Knowing that a company is cash flow positive is material information, but Musk, instead of putting it in an 8-K, chose to do so in a tweet. Musk has over 114,000 followers, a fairly significant amount, but I would bet that not all of his shareholders use Twitter. Sure, the information became widely reported once Musk tweeted it, but the disclosure of the information is what is at stake here, not the inevitable follow up and analysis of the information. Many investment banks are fearful of letting employees use social media, and it looks like those fears may ultimately be proven correct, depending upon the outcome of this case. Hastings, with his usual bravado, thinks the company will be vindicated. "We remain optimistic this can be cleared up quickly through the SEC's review process," Hastings wrote as part of his Facebook post about the SEC Wells notice. There are plenty of places where social media and finance come head-to-head every day, and the regulation is murky at best. Places like StockTwits have tight in-house regulations and offer transparency but are not monitored by the SEC as part of Reg FD.NEW YORK (
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A number of things
Writers struggle to get the quantities right.
Only a die-hard classicist would insist that decimate should be used in its strictest, original sense, reduction by one-tenth. But this sentence from the Associated Press — Environmentalists worry about the large populations of migratory seabirds and crab, the imperiled Stelle's sea lions and northern sea otters, or the North Pacific right whales, a population so decimated only about 100 are thought to still exist — shows an increasingly common misuse. Decimate should mean to suffer substantial loss, but not to be on the edge of annihilation.
Just how much does the lion share? Democrats oppose the lion's share of the package, with the possible exception of the reduction for the lowest wage earners and targeted cuts such as the credit for children, and would be all but certain to block its renewal. The lion takes all it wants and leaves scraps for the jackals and other scavengers. So the lion's share is either the whole thing or all that is worth having. Not just the majority or the bulk. And in the quoted sentence, the term seems to be completely out of place. The lion's share is what you get, not what you oppose.
Ever since the war in Iraq began to produce U.S. casualties, readers have been writing in to complain that The Sun's headlines and articles have used troops to mean individual soldiers, as in x number of troops died in the explosion of a bomb. A troop, they insist is a unit of soldiers, and troops should mean multiple units. Yes, and no. The older sense of troop as a military unit survives, but common usage has come to accept troops in the sense of individuals.
Similarly, the word cohort, much as I deplore the usage and shun it myself, has come to be understood as a synonym of companion or accomplice. You and I might prefer to retain the word in the sense of a military unit (though not necessarily the Roman tenth of a legion) as in Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib": "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,/ And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold. ..." But we appear to have lost that battle. (That is, apart from the survival of the word as a collective noun in demographic contexts, such as my own cohort of baby boomers, now mercifully marching toward the grave.)
We sometimes come across the word majority applied to quantity rather than units, as in he spends the majority of his time. … It should be bulk. And, please, the word vast is not required to indicate every majority that is substantial or decisive. In fact, now that I've started on this, there often isn't any call to use majority at all when most will suffice.
And as for couple, the source of lengthy but unprofitable debate on copy desks, the word, like other collective nouns, can be singular or plural, depending on context. If there is doubt about the context, use the plural. And accompanying pronouns may be made plural without apology. As John Bremner wrote a quarter-century ago in Words on Words, you do not want to be responsible for a monstrosity like "The couple was married two years ago and it spent its honeymoon in Florida. But it was divorced last year and then went its separate ways."
One last reminder comes from an admonitory message from a reader of The Sun about our coverage of homicides.
"The story today [Dec. 26] about the number of homicides in Baltimore this year resurrects an old chestnut, i.e. identifying a change in raw crime numbers erroneously as a change in RATE. In the case of crime statistics, the usual population benchmark changes over time, so a reporter or reader cannot deduce changes in rate based solely on changes in raw numbers. Yes, the number of homicides has fallen since the mid-90s but so has the population, so the change in the homicide RATE in the past decade might very possibly be small or non-existent. Inclusion of population data would have enhanced this story. I realize that many journalists chose journalism because they weren't good at math, but that does not justify illogic when reporting stories about statistics."


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There is no single, definitively superior frequent flyer program. If one did exist, every air traveler would belong to that program and the remaining programs would wither and die.
In fact, the size of airline mileage programs roughly corresponds to the size of the airlines that host them. American, the largest airline, boasts the mileage program with the most members. United, the second-largest airline, operates the second-largest program. And so on.
Does the enduring stability of the membership numbers mean that consumers have got it right and are participating effectively in the most appropriate programs? Not at all. As I often find myself suggesting, many consumers could be earning many more awards by focusing their mileage-earning more pointedly in a single program.
And when it comes to choosing that program, flyers can use a number of features as tie-breakers. Following are four variables that merit serious consideration by anyone seeking to optimize the results of frequent flyer program participation.
Mileage expiration
A key factor any would-be mileage collector should consider is the prospective program's mileage-expiration policy.
The current industry-standard rule is that miles do not expire as long as there is account activity, either earning or burning, every three years. As a practical matter, that means that miles need never be lost. With so many ways to earn miles in most programs, it's a simple matter to add to one's account balance by conducting everyday transactions. Racking up miles through dining-for-miles programs or by making purchases through an airline's online mileage mall are examples. And if earning isn't in the cards, a redemption works just as well in extending the life of miles. Most large programs have a miles-for-magazines award, allowing members to cash in as few as 400 miles for a magazine subscription.
But while widespread, the three-year rule is not the only approach to expiring miles. Among the major carriers, Continental's terms and conditions claim that "miles currently have no expiry date." But elsewhere, the rules stipulate that "if no mileage is deposited in your account for 18 consecutive months, commencing after June 1, 2001, your membership will be cancelled, and your miles may be forfeited."
It's in the realm of the low-cost carriers that travelers have to be especially aware of consumer-unfriendly expiration policies. Until August 2005, Southwest, which established the program model emulated by many discount carriers, expired Rapid Rewards points after just 12 months. That policy has since been liberalized to allow points to remain active for 24 months—still a very short time in which to reach an award level, especially for the occasional leisure traveler who makes up Southwest's core consumer base.
AirTran and ATA adopted Southwest's one-year expiration policy and have left it in place, even after Southwest modified its rule. JetBlue represents the worst-case scenario. Points in its TrueBlue program expire after just one year. And there are only two ways to earn credits: by flying on JetBlue or using the JetBlue credit card.
Caveat emptor.
Earning opportunities
As mentioned above, members of JetBlue's program can earn miles in just two ways. At the other extreme, members of American's AAdvantage program can earn miles with more than 1,500 companies, representing almost every imaginable retail, financial, and service sector.
All things being equal, a member of American's program should be able to earn more miles, faster, than a member of JetBlue's program. That's the straightforward logic underlying the general rule: Bigger programs (i.e. programs with more earning partners) are better than smaller programs.
While American's program is the clear leader in this area, all major airline programs have long partner lists, engineered to ensure that members can earn miles for most purchases, whether travel-related or not.
Populating the other end of the spectrum are the discount carriers, whose partner rosters are short at best. Southwest's Rapid Rewards, the longest lived of the discounter programs, has only added 14 partners over the program's 20-year history.


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The political debate around taxes has undergone a paradigm shift. Instead of the Tea Party-driven argument over taxes as "theft" from the successful, the discussion has increasingly focused on questions of responsibility and fairness. The agitation of the 99% Movement and the obstinacy of Wall Street banks handing out huge bonuses despite wrecking the economy are just two of the causes behind this transformation.
With the conversation revolving around fairness, elected officials and pundits defending policies that benefit the wealthy at the expense of everyday Americans look increasingly extreme. As evidence, a recent Pew Research Center for People & the Press poll found that 53% of evangelicals believe the current tax system is unfair. Perhaps most intriguing, when white evangelicals were asked "What bothers you most about taxes?" and given the choice of their own tax burden, the complexity of the tax system, or the wealthy not paying their fair share, nearly half of respondents were most upset with the wealthy not paying their faith share.
These findings follow other recent polls showing evangelicals support increased taxes on the wealthy, further belying the myth that evangelicals are ardent economic conservatives. Those busy supporting the status quo and defending the policies that caused the economic crisis must be feeling increasingly isolated.


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A young girl claims she was almost kidnapped Thursday afternoon.
It happened in the Woodmen Hills neighborhood, near the Woodmen Hills recreation center east, northeast of Colorado Springs.
The 13-year-old was reportedly walking home alone around 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon from the rec center when the incident occurred. She says she was originally supposed to walk home with friends, but she says they got in an argument and the group left without her.
Alone, she says she she was walking south on Meridian Ranch Road. Her home is apparently about a mile and a half away from the center. After walking a block, the girl claims a man stopped his car next to her and asked if she needed a ride. When she said no, the girl says the man tried to grab her arm. That's when her instincts kicked in and she ran home to safety and then called the police.
The suspect is described as a white male in his late twenties or early thirties. He reportedly has a clean-shaven face and was last seen wearing a baseball cap and dark hoodie. The vehicle he was driving is reportedly a faded, red, four-door sedan.
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text: Presswatch Circular Writing Squad Everyone loathes the media, even the media.By James Taranto – From the January-February 2014 issue Everyone loathes the media, including the media. In late November, as the Obamacare disaster continued to unfold, there was so much blame to go around that even journalists who aren't conservative started directing some of it at other journalists. Appearing on Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor, Mark Halperin of Time told guest hostess Laura Ingraham: "There is no doubt that the press failed to scrutinize this program at the time of passage and during the context of the president's re-election. I think any reporter who would argue otherwise would be putting their head in the sand."Although that's a familiar critique to readers of this column, it's a surprising one coming from Halperin, a journalist who is not known to be conservative and thus can be assumed to be at least somewhat leftish. But there was a critique of Obamacare press coverage from the left as well, offered the day before Thanksgiving by Paul Waldman, on the website of The American Prospect, of which he is a senior editor.Thank you for your interest in this article. This content is viewable through subscription only. Subscribe Already a subscriber? Login


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Ha Ha Clinton-Dix (left) recorded 37 tackles and caught five interceptions last season. Craig Loston recorded 55 tackles and three interceptions. (AP/USA Today Images)
According to Eagles head coach Chip Kelly, there is very little that they can do to improve their poor safety situation at this point in the season.
As he stated during his postgame press conference after his team's 33-30 loss to the Chargers, "There aren't any safeties on the street, I can tell you that. So we're going to play with the ones we've got."
Translation: Unless the two incumbent starters, Patrick Chung and Nate Allen, miraculously live up to the promise that once made them second-round draft picks in 2009 and 2010 respectively, the Eagles are, well … fill in the blank.
In the meantime, while "there aren't any safeties on the street," there are many in school that you can keep an eye on as potential draft targets. The projected 2014 safety class isn't as strong as the 2013 class was this past April, but there are a number of quality safeties eligible for the draft that could make an instant impact on the Eagles next year.
With that said, here are my top five draft-eligible safeties for the 2014 NFL draft:
*Denotes juniors
1. *Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, FS, Alabama
Clinton-Dix has a name that might make you laugh, but a game that will make your jaw drop. A tremendously athletic and fluid safety, the 6-foot-1, 208-pound playmaker possesses outstanding awareness, instincts and ball skills. That skill set was on display during his breakout sophomore campaign in 2012 when he generated 37 tackles and five interceptions.
As impressive as Clinton-Dix is athletically, he doesn't possess the strength or consistent physical play that some teams desire. But he anticipates the action extremely well and displays a willingness to be physical in coverage and at the line of scrimmage.
Clinton-Dix has yet to collect an interception this season, but he's played physical and is currently second on the team in tackles with 12. Expect Clinton-Dix's play and draft stock to continue to improve as the season progresses. He could be a late first-round selection.
Draft Projection: First round
2. Ed Reynolds, FS, Stanford
There are a lot of similarities between Clinton-Dix and the 6-foot-2, 206-pound Reynolds, who also had a breakout 2012 season when he posted 47 tackles and six interceptions, three of which were returned for a touchdown. Reynolds is a ballhawking safety who has a great instincts, range and ball skills, and has the ability and athleticism to turn defense into instant offense when the ball is in his hands.
However, Reynolds' aggressive style could intrigue scouts more during the draft process and eventually lead to him being graded higher than Clinton-Dix on some teams' boards. Reynolds has to control his aggression a bit in coverage and against the run, but he uses his athleticism and recognition skills to his advantage and has shown to be a solid tackler.
Reynolds currently leads the Cardinal in tackles with 17 and has the defense's lone interception through the first two games. He's still developing his overall game, but he's an exciting player to watch and will only get better.
Draft Projection: First-second round
3. *Dion Bailey, SS, Southern Cal
After lining up out of position as an undersized, yet productive strongside linebacker the past two years, the 6-foot, 210-pound Bailey, who led the Trojans with four interceptions in 2012, moved to strong safety this season. A consistent performer who gives maximum effort, Bailey is an athletic, hard-hitting defender who has a nose for the ball and better than average ball skills.
Once a highly recruited safety out of high school, Bailey has flourished since moving back to familiar territory and has recorded an interception in each of USC's first two games this season. He's also brought a linebacker's mentality to the secondary and currently leads the team in tackles with 21.
The versatility that Bailey possesses will only help his draft stock, and if he decides to declare for the draft, he's a player that will be attractive to many teams on day two.
Draft Projection: Second round
4. Craig Loston, SS, LSU
There's a lot to like about the 6-foot-2, 209-pound Loston, who is coming off of a relatively healthy and promising 2012 campaign in which he recorded 55 tackles and three interceptions. An intimidating force in the secondary, Loston loves to set the tone and deliver the knockout punch. Even though he's known for being an intimidator, Loston is an incredible athlete who possesses great instincts and range, as well as good ball skills.
The biggest concern surrounding Loston, and the reason why he's rated lower in my safety rankings, is his durability. The way that he plays the game could lead to more injuries down the road, and that's something teams will have to evaluate before they decide to use a high-round pick on him.
Speaking of Loston's durability, he missed last week's game against Kent State because of a leg injury and is listed as questionable for Saturday's game against Auburn. In two games this season, Loston has amassed just five tackles.
Draft Projection: Second round
5. Ahmad Dixon, SS, Baylor
One of the most underrated and unknown safeties in the nation is the 6-foot, 205-pound Dixon. A starter the past two years at Baylor's nickel "Bear" position where he was a hybrid linebacker/safety, Dixon moved to strong safety full-time this season, and in two games he's currently tied for third on the team with 13 tackles.
A consistent force and team leader on Baylor's defense, Dixon is a complete safety who has the athleticism to cover, and strength and instincts to make an impact at and behind the line of scrimmage. The one area that Dixon has to improve on is his cover awareness. He doesn't diagnose the action as quickly as evaluators would like, but he's a hard worker, and that aspect should improve in time.
Draft Projection: Second-third round


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I live in Indiana where our water is basically rock. My pH is 8.2. I'm currently cycling a 29 gal with 3 small live plants and 5 Red Eye Tetras. I got the tetras without considering the pH.
Looking ahead, I would like to add Corys after the tank has cycled but read that they can be persnickety about parameters.
What fish can tolerate high pH? I would prefer not to add chemicals to bring the pH down and rather find fish that can tolerate it.
Adding fish best suited to the water you have is the best way to go! You could look into the Livebearers - Mollies, Platy, Guppies, Endler's. . . it sounds like your water might work very well with some of the Rift Valley cichlids. My water is sooooooft, so I won't be of much help to you here, hopefully someone will be by soon with more experience in this! Good luck with your setup!
What is your water hardness, pH aside, you may have posted this elsewhere but is can't recall.
Pepper corys are good up to 15dGH, can't recall the pH offhand. Emerld catfish are good up to 20dGH and they are basically corys, but not quite.
They are a drop count. Add one drop and the water turns one colour then keep adding one drop at a time until it changes again. I'm on my phone so I won't look for it but you can find the instructions online. I can't imagine that an old test will be too far off in results.
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GH = inconclusive. I stopped adding drops at 45 and it still hadn't changed from orange to blue! So I figure either the test is defective b/c it's old, or my water is really hard. The instructions do not include any kind of "scale" so I don't know if 45+ is a possible reading. As I mentioned above, I know we have very hard water here.
So what do you think? To refresh your memory, my pH is 8.2 and I am looking for suitable fish to go with my Red Eye Tetras in my 29 gal. Thank you.
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I meant, do you think the Africans are ok with the Red Eyes?
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CLEVELAND -- The Cuyahoga County Coronor's Office hasnow confirmed that one male is dead, after a car drove into a crowd during a festival on Clifton Boulevard.
Four others were also injured in that incident. It happened just after 7 p.m. while the "Dancin' in the Streets" festival was taking place.
Cliftonwas barricaded at West 117th Street near the location of the festival. A vehicle traveling eastbound on Clifton Avenue struck the barricade, anddrove into a tented area where a crowd was gathered.
The vehicle struck five people.
The victims were taken to MetroHealth Medical Center for treatment of their injuries.
No word on the name of the victim who died. Channel 3 News initially reported that two of the victims were critically injured.
The driver of the vehicle was placed under arrest. There is no further information at this time.
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UNDATED (AP) -- Stable gas prices mean more consumers have been willing to buy more trucks and SUVs. In fact, Edmunds.com says they've sold better than compact cars and hybrids this year.
Edmunds says truck sales are expected to be up 14.9 percent, and SUV sales up 21.3 percent over last year. Midsize car sales are expected to be up 7.8 percent over 2009. Hybrid sales are down 8.1 percent, and compact car sales are up just 1.1 percent.
Edmunds Senior Analyst Michelle Krebs says many new trucks and SUVs were bought by contractors to be used as work vehicles. They had been waiting for the economy to improve.
Krebs says midsize cars also were a big winner in 2010 because of the impressive new products that captured "the relatively conservative mood of car-buyers." Krebs says hybrids and compact cars didn't really introduce any new players to the market to draw the attention of consumers.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks is rolling out a program that would allow its workers to earn an online college degree at Arizona State University at a steeply discounted rate.
The coffee chain is partnering with the school to offer the option to 135,000 U.S. employees who work at least 20 hours a week. The Seattle-based company says it will phase out its existing tuition reimbursement program, which gave workers up to $1,000 a year for education at certain schools.
The company says the program doesn't require workers to stay at Starbucks after they earn their degrees. They can also pick from a wide range of educational programs that aren't related to their Starbucks work.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is scheduled to announce the program Monday in New York City, with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and about 340 workers and their family members in attendance.
It's not clear how many workers will choose to participate in the new program or how much it will cost Starbucks Corp. The company isn't disclosing the financial terms of its agreement with Arizona State University. But the program could significantly boost the enrollment for Arizona State's online program, which charges tuition of about $10,000 a year. That's roughly the same as the school's traditional degree program.
Tuition reimbursement is a rare benefit for low-wage workers in the retail industry, but Starbucks isn't the first to offer it. In 2010, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a partnership with American Public University, a for-profit, online school, to give workers and family members partial tuition grants.
The retailer, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, says more than 400 of its workers have since completed degrees through the program. Wal-Mart's program also does not require workers to stay and allows them to pursue a variety of degrees.
Starbucks' existing tuition reimbursement program, which was rolled out in 2011, gives workers up to $1,000 a year for courses at City University of Seattle or Strayer University. So far, Starbucks has paid out $6.5 million under that program, said Laurel Harper, a company spokeswoman.
Zee Lemke, a 31-year-old Starbucks employee and union organizer in Madison, Wisconsin, said she thought the program might be useful to some workers. But she noted that prospective employers also look at where a degree was earned, and that actual in-class experience matters.


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Anthony Gregory: The Failures of President George W. Bush on The Tom Woods Show
Recorded: Thursday, August 7, 2014
Research Fellow Anthony Gregory, author of author of The Power of Habeas Corpus in America appeared on the Tom Woods radio show to discuss the record of President George W. Bush.
Experts: Anthony GregoryType: RadioIssues: Constitutional Law, Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Government Power, History (International), History (U.S), Political Ideology and Philosophy, Terrorism and National Crises
The Supreme Court and the Battle for Second Amendment Rights
Recorded: Thursday, July 22, 2010
In June 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling on the Second Amendment individual right to keep and bear arms with its Heller v. District of Columbia decision. Two years later, in June 2010, a second historic decision squeezed through the highest court in the land.
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In 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark ruling on the Second Amendments individual right to keep and bear arms in Heller v. District of Columbia. Now the question remains whether this right must be recognized by the States and their political subdivisions.
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It was necessary to correct a mistake that was recently brought up to the editor's attention. One of the 8way videos embedded in the story on 6 March 2014 did not really fit to the topic. The ten 8way rounds of the Golden Knights were supposed to be on the screen, while a US Army 4way lineup of many years ago was performing in the middle of the 8way story.
The Golden Knights followed up with the first outdoor scores of the year a week later at the Paraclete XP Outdoor Championship 2014, and the new 8way videos probably compensated enough for the missing one. However, the online audience can now also review the very impressive indoor performance of the Golden Knights.Paraclete XP Indoor 2014Rd. 1Rd. 2Rd. 3Rd. 4Rd. 5Rd. 6Rd. 7Rd. 8Rd. 9Rd. 10TotalAvgRank8way Open ClassF,8,N,P19,17,E10,11,622,L,16Q,9,H,GD,15,17,J,M,25,B,134,18,12C,3,A,OTotalAvg1Golden Knights 8 (US)28242439 32 3926242843307(30.3)2Paraclete XP8 (US)27242635 27 3724233340296(30.0)3Venturi (FR)22202329 27 2824212634254(26.3)7Voltevobusa (INT)------19192837103(25.8)4Paraclete XP (US)19181824 21 2319152225204(20.3)5Monster XP (US)14111417 10 1813141619146(15.5)6Spaceland Lite 8 (US)15101015 12 1712131516135(14.0)
The lineup was a collection of world class 4way competitors, and all team members had scored averages of 28.0 and higher at the 4way competition of the same event. However, 8way competition, especially in the wind tunnel, is still a completely different world, and the 25.8 average for the four rounds is a very impressive result for a pickup team.
The manipulated leaderboard shows how close the international pickup team was to the trained 8way teams.
Their new Volt'R 4way team mates Damien Gouriou and Pierre Emmanuel Balages either were not new to 8way competition at all. They trained and competed with the French 8way B-Team throughout the whole 2013 season and were carefully prepared by national coach Jeremie Rollett for a potential 8way career. They ended up in the new French national 4way team and went back to 8way competition for a day at Paraclete.
The three NMP-PCH Hayabusa members (Dave Grauwels, Andy Grauwels, Dennis Praet) and Katie Woods (Evolution) just had to execute the French 8way advice using their incredible skills, and the result of this pickup combination of experiences and talent can once again be watched on the video clip.