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You can't get away from ads and commercials these days. They are on bus benches, all over sports stadiums, and now they're in that place that used to be a sanctuary from advertising — your local movie theater. Some magazines have more ads than articles, and TV and radio commercials seem to dominate the airwaves. There are even ads in urinals, although I can't imagine why anyone would want their product name to be watered in this manner. And in case you think it can't possibly get any worse, think again. The latest trend in advertising is for slogans and logos to be tattooed on people's bodies.
More and more people are renting out their bodies these days. Many of them auction themselves off on E-bay. One man got over $30,000 to put a temporary tattoo on his forehead advertising something called "SnoreStop." He's not on a TV with this tattoo. He just walks around, using his head as a billboard. An online casino has advertised on the backs of more than 40 boxers. A female runner will wear a tattoo ad for an appetite suppressant when she runs in the next Boston Marathon. (This is particularly ironic since I think seeing any tattoos on certain bodies would automatically be an appetite suppressant.) Most of the time, these slogans are temporary tattoos, but a California restaurant has offered free food for life to anybody who will get a permanent tattoo representing the restaurant. Is there anyone out there who doubts that they'll find a volunteer?
The forehead is the most popular place for the ads. Other choice locations are arms and hands and a pregnant woman's stomach. Maybe soon, Gerber's will start advertising mashed-up chicken on pregnant women's bellies. I don't even want to think about where the makers of Viagra are going to want to advertise.
How effective can this method of advertising be? How many people are going to come into contact with one of these human commercials? Besides, to put it mildly, isn't this whole thing just a tad undignified and tasteless? Selling one's body or body parts may be a long-standing tradition, but it's never been one that's been respected by society. And what about the companies who choose to advertise like this? If you see the words, "Smith's Funeral Parlor" on some guy's forehead, are you more or less likely to use Smith's the next time a loved one passes away?
Crazed sports fans have been painting their favorite team logos and names on their bodies for years. But these sports enthusiasts do these things because of love, commitment to team, and cheap beer. But now companies are actually paying money to put their product names on people's bodies. Those who are selling space on themselves somehow make the guy in the bleachers with the letters C-U-B-S on his hairy gut seem like a role model.
I've been looking for the silver lining in all this, and I think I found it. This advertising trend will benefit two groups that are often maligned: bald people and overweight folks. Because they have more room for words on their bodies, they'll become the most sought-after models for this type of advertising. After they become successful, look for some discrimination suits filed by thin and full-haired people.
Maybe I'm taking it all too seriously. Maybe it's just a fun way to get some recognition for a product. Maybe it's just an easy way for someone with skin and a sense of humor to make a buck. Am I overreacting to what is just the latest example of good ol' American ingenuity? I don't think so. I can't imagine paying someone to have the words "Read Lloyd's Column" on his forehead. I have much too much dignity for that. On the other hand, if any of you readers want to advertise my column for the same reasons that sports fans paint their bodies, there's nothing I can do to stop you. This is still a "Free Country" — as we'll probably be reading on some candidates' heads in the next election.
Lloyd Garver has written for many television shows, ranging from "Sesame Street" to "Family Ties" to "Frasier." He has also read many books, some of them in hardcover.
By Lloyd Garver
By Lloyd Garver
A Real Head For Advertising
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Some blue days can turn into blue months and blue years.
That can be all right.
As long as you can see that colors can change.
People change. People grow and bend and sometimes they break.
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You can love someone deeply and truly and madly and they will never change.
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Apple AirPlay client library for AppleTV
node-airplay is a client library for Apple's AirPlay remote playback protocol.
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From npm:
npm install airplay2
From bower:
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git clone https://github.com/zfkun/node-airplay.git
npm link
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node_mdns is woefully out of date and has required many tweaks to get working
brew install ffmpeg
// remote video var browser = require'airplay2'createBrowser;browseron'deviceOn' deviceplay'http://remotehost/video.mp4' 0 console.info'video playing...'; ;;browserstart;
// local video (by HLS) var hls = require'airplay2'createHLS;hlsstart7001;hlsopen'/Users/zfkun/videos/1.mkv' console.info'video opened: ' info;; var browser = require'airplay2'createBrowser;browseron'deviceOn' deviceplayhlsgetURI 0 console.info'video playing...'; ;;browserstart;


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The husband of missing Utah mom Susan Cox Powell is accusing his wife's parents of turning the couple's children against him.
Two years ago this week, Susan, then 28, disappeared. Now her husband claims his in-laws, Chuck and Judy Cox, have an "irrational vendetta" against him.
"The Coxes are coaching my sons in ways that are clearly intended to destroy our loving relationships as a natural family unit," Josh Powell wrote in a court declaration that he filed Monday in Pierce County, Wash.
"By living in the Cox house, the boys are exposed to the Coxes' overwhelming attitude of hatred toward me and it is seriously traumatizing my children," he wrote. "There is considerable evidence that the Coxes make explicit comments to and around my sons reflecting their attitude."
Powell is asking the court to place the two boys, ages 4 and 6, with a neutral guardian. He said that by being with his in-laws, his sons "are caught in the middle of a very hostile war of words and emotions."
Susan Powell's parents have had custody of the children since September. Judge Kathryn Nelson placed the children with the Cox family after Josh Powell's father, Steve Powell, was charged with voyeurism and possession of child pornography. The children had previously been living with their father in Steve Powell's home.
Steve Powell has pleaded not guilty to 14 charges of voyeurism and one of possession of child pornography. He remains jailed on $200,000 bail.
Susan Powell was reported missing by her family on Dec. 7, 2009, when she failed to show up for her job as a stockbroker at Wells Fargo Financial. Josh Powell told police he had been camping with the children, and that he had last seen his wife around midnight.
Suspicious of Josh Powell's story, investigators named him a "person of interest" in his wife's disappearance. Several search warrants were served, including one to draw biological samples from him. Police also impounded the family van.
No one has been charged in Susan Powell's disappearance, and police say the case remains an active investigation.
Since his wife's disappearance, Powell, who still wears his wedding ring, has claimed his wife suffered from mental illness and plotted her own disappearance.
More recently, in July, Steve Powell announced that he planned to publish his daughter-in-law's private journal online. He told NBC's "Today" show he had 2,000 pages of journals that Susan Powell allegedly kept before she went missing.
"People don't know that there are two distinct sides of Susan. She was very ... kind of an open person in a sexual way ... with the opposite sex," Powell said on the show.
Steve Powell was arrested on the child pornography charges roughly two months later.
Susan's parents have always defended their daughter in the press and have made it clear they suspect foul play in her disappearance. In regard to Josh Powell's most recent allegations -- that they are interfering with the relationship he has with his children -- they are unable to comment, according to their attorney, Anne Bremner.
"My clients are under a court order in the family law case not to discuss the matter," Bremner told The Huffington Post.
She added: "I can say that the boys are in a loving and safe home."


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(Corrects Moody's rating to Baa1 from Baa2 in 15th paragraph)
* Pricing too good to turn down, 45bp spread tightening
* 3000 orders worth over $100 billion from 1,200 investors
* $240-249m estimated fee payday for underwriters
By Danielle Robinson
NEW YORK/LONDON, Sept 11 (IFR) - Verizon Communicationspriced a $49 billion eight-tranche deal on Wednesday, a recordsize for a corporate bond, sold at giveaway prices to lock inpermanent financing for its $130 billion buyout of VerizonWireless.
Anxious to complete the entire bond portion of its acquisition financing before a crucial Federal Open MarketCommittee meeting next week, Verizon decided to scrap $5bilion-$10 billion of issuance in euros and sterling initiallyplanned for next week do the entire amount in dollars.
At $49 billion, the deal is bigger than the three previousrecord-sized deals combined: Apple's $17 billion deal in April,AbbVie's US14.7 billion last November and Roche Holdings' $13.5billion transaction in 2009. It is also larger than the GDP ofsome 90 countries.
In addition, Verizon also now holds the record for thelargest three-year, five-year, seven-year, 10-year, 20-year and30-year fixed rate tranches, according to Thomson Reuters/SDCdata.
Sources with knowledge of the deal said Verizon and its keyunderwriters, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, JP Morganand Morgan Stanley, were shocked at the size of the order bookthat emerged by Tuesday afternoon.
The total bond underwriting fees Verizon paid were alsosubstantial, estimated at between $240-249 million by ThomsonReuters/Freeman Consulting.
Some of the fee bonanza was also shared with severalso-called passsive bookrunners, Citi, Credit Suisse, Mizuho,Royal Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Scotland and Wells Fargo.
The $49 billion, along with about $12 billion of term loans,will completely refinance the $61 billion one-year bridge loanput in place last week to cover the debt portion of Verizonacquisition of Vodafone's 45% holding in Verizon Wireless.
Acquisition financing is often structured where banks willprovide the acquirer with short-term loans to provide a bridgebetween making a bid on an asset and then putting permanentfinancing in place in the form of bonds and term loans.
"Verizon had a preference to take out as much as they could,as quickly as they could, in maturities that were as long aspossible," said one source involved in the deal.
"And once they signaled to the maket that they were out forsize and were not going to play the usual game of pulling in thespread as orders came in the book, investors were willing tocome into the deal in size."
More than 3000 orders worth more than $100 billion poured infrom more than 1,200 investors as a result of new issueconcessions greater than 50bp on the fixed rate tranches. Thiswas in addition to the 50bp spread widening seen in the lastfortnight on outstanding Verizon bonds, in anticipation of thenew deal.
Another source close to the deal said there was at least oneorder that exceeded $5 billion. Another source, not involved inthe deal, said there was one order of $7 billion from oneinvestor.
"The investor base viewed this as an opportunity to getexposure to a name with the cash flow and debt reductiontrajectory to return to a single A rating in a few years," thesource added.
Verizon is rated Baa1/BBB+/A- by Moody's, S&P and Fitch.
The bargain basement pricing was made obvious when thelonger-dated tranches snapped in as much as 45bp as soon as theywere free to trade. The three-year fixed rate tranche wastrading 65bp tighter than its launch spread.
"This deal has done very well but it was no secret the dealwas priced very cheaply in order to accommodate the massiveamount of size the company wanted to print," said Frank Reda,head of trading at Taplin, Canida and Habacht.
Tightening of 20bp is rarely seen in the investment grademarket, let alone more than 40bp.
Yet investors considered the deal to have been appropriatelypriced, given its size, and the bigger risk Verizon faced if itdidn't get all of its bond issued at once.
"This amount of tightening is very uncommon but this amountof debt issuance is also very uncommon," said Reda.
"It was better for the company to pay a little extra andmake sure that they complete all the funding they needed ratherthan risk the deal going poorly and them having to come back tomarket at a later date."
Verizon was left in no doubt by the bond underwriters thatits spreads could widen out 40-50bp on the news of a $20billion-plus transaction, as well as the fact that, given thevolatile markets of late, that it might have to offer a further50bp as new issue concession.
It was not just the pricing that made the deal too good torefuse. Investors who benchmark themselves to bond indices wereforced to take part simply because of the impact the size of thedeal will have on the make up of indexes they measure theirperformance against.
"With an offering of this magnitude, some portfolio managerswho measure their performance against a benchmark might considerthemselves as taking on a certain degree of basis risk by notparticipating in this deal," said portfolio manager Bonnie Baha,who heads global developed credit at DoubleLine.
Its average coupon on the tranches was 3.59%, and with the10, 20 and 30-year coupons ranging from 5.15% to 6.55%, the dealeven attracted junk bond investors.
"Many people looked at the 5.2% expected coupon on the10-year bond and realized that this is a blue-chip borrowerthat's offering more than some double-B names," said MikeCollins senior portfolio investment manager at Prudential. (Reporting by Danielle Robinson, John Balassi Michael Gambale,and Josie Cox in London,; Editing by Natalie Harrison and AlexChambers)
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Even though Obamacare became law and was validated by the U.S. Supreme Court, Republicans have been conducting a vigorous campaign to destroy it. Since they have initiated no alternative plan, they must want to return to the profit-driven costly and ineffective system that Obamacare replaces.
The health care system we have is twice as expensive per capita as those operating in other advanced nations. It is also notably ineffective. Supporters of this current system say that we have the best health care system in the world. A more honest and objective assessment comes from United Nations officials. The World Health Organization ranks the U.S. 37th in effectiveness of overall health care systems among nations of the world.
Our system, which Obamacare will replace, is characterized by substantial increases annually in premiums and denial of service to people who were seriously ill. These factors helped pay for regular huge increases in salaries and bonuses for company executives.
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According to MJD over at Yahoo! sports, Leaf Trading Cards is filing a lawsuit against soon-to-be Indianapolis quarterback Andrew Luck. The conflict seems to have started when the people at Leaf started using an image of Luck from the 2008 U.S. Army All-American Bowl on their cards. Luck filed a cease-and-desist order and in reply, Leaf Trading Cards filed a lawsuit against him.
MJD believes that the folks at Leaf may be using this as a way to gain free publicity for themselves. "Perhaps it's the case that the Leaf people saw an opportunity to get their name in the newspaper and pounced on it," he writes.
In any event, this is probably not the type of distraction the Luck camp wants right now as one of the most anticipated NFL drafts in a long time is just around the corner. A draft in which Andrew Luck will become the 19th quarterback to be taken as the number one overall pick since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger.


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©2012-2016 Nina-D-Lux
Did this while sketching and watching tv, just drawing for the hell of it and practise etc, but i ended up really liking this.
very beautiful woman. She kind of reminds me of Galadriel.
Lovely portrait! Can't guess who it is or if it's fictional - but cool
Is it Spencer from PPL?
i dont know who or what that is so no sorry
Very nice!
theyre both beautiful! personally i like glow just a teensy fraction more, just because it seems so warm and radiant : ) in a way its almost like one gives of a summer vibe, and the other a more wintery one. both lovely! awesome colouring skills, your very good with pencils! i started larning about tones and shading with pencils and its what helped me a lot when i started with copic markers. your on a good path for building up some serious skill
thanks so much!! I love using the pencils, I've tried markers, but not so good with them...didn't want to spend the money on a good set before I have decent skills...altho i don't know if i even really want to use them...I like my pencils so much!!
I like it a lot! Looks like Kaley Cuoco from The Big Bang Theory.
This reminds me of someone, but I can't put my finger on it. An actress from something I've watched recently.
spectacular !
It's great !
she's beautiful
She looks like Candice Accola from The Vampire Diaries
ive never seen it man
She looks kinda like an Amy Pond/Annie Cresta mashup.
These eyes...
its the slight smirk that makes her so attractive
You don't draw in this style regularly, but its gorg.
You don't draw in this style regularly, but its gorg.
Ooh, this isn't in your normal style. You should color this in a way you never colored before
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You should be able to Cancel a job that is "Ready" but hasn't started yet
The Duplicate phase of one of my regularly scheduled D2D2T jobs in Backup Eec 2012 failed becaude a tape wasn't available, so I simply right-clicked on it in the server's Jobs list and selected "Run Now" to try it again. It went to a status of "Ready; no idle devices are available" because another job is writing to the tape drive.
This is all well and good, but in this case I later realized the extra run wasn't necessary.
I wanted to cancel the extra run but the Cancel option was disabled. I could wait until the job becomes active and cancel it but the job is supposed to write to tape.
In order to keep unnecessary stuff from being written to the tape, I have to monitor the job and catch the magical window between when the job becomes active and when it actual starts writing stuff to tape.
It really would be better to Cancel the job as soon as you know you don't want it to run, before it becomes active.
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New Ebooks In Stock: September 2014 Releases from Angry Robot
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It's new release time again and today we have two brand new, September ebook releases from Angry Robot, in stock and ready to buy and download at the Robot Trading Company.
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The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley
From the award-winning author of God's War comes a stunning new series…
On the eve of a recurring catastrophic event known to extinguish nations and reshape continents, a troubled orphan evades death and slavery to uncover her own bloody past… while a world goes to war with itself.
In the frozen kingdom of Saiduan, invaders from another realm are decimating whole cities, leaving behind nothing but ash and ruin. As the dark star of the cataclysm rises, an illegitimate ruler is tasked with holding together a country fractured by civil war, a precocious young fighter is asked to betray his family and a half-Dhai general must choose between the eradication of her father's people or loyalty to her alien Empress.
Through tense alliances and devastating betrayal, the Dhai and their allies attempt to hold against a seemingly unstoppable force as enemy nations prepare for a coming together of worlds as old as the universe itself.
In the end, one world will rise – and many will perish.
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The empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on telecom on Monday approved a uniform spectrum usage charge (SUC) of 5% of an operators adjusted gross revenues on all new airwaves bought at an auction. Incumbent operators like Bharti Airtel and Vodafone will now have to pay a charge that is the weighted average of 6% on existing spectrum of 10 MHz and 5% on new spectrum.
The decision, which now needs to be ratified by the Union Cabinet, has resolved the uncertainty around the auctions, which begin on February 3. However, the efficacy of the new formula will be proved only once the department of telecommunications (DoT) puts in place a system that can segregate revenues from broadband wireless access (BWA) services spectrum and 2G airwaves.
The decision is broadly revenue-neutral for operators as well as the government. A Bharti Airtel or a Vodafone will pay a charge that is the weighted average of the current charge on existing spectrum and 5% on any new spectrum. Their levy would come down to 5.6% in a circle like Delhi where they hold 10 MHz spectrum from 6% currently.
While a new operator must pay an SUC of 5% against the current 3%, the charge will not go up as it buys more spectrum in future.
The government currently earns a pan-India average SUC of 4.8%. With the charge now at 5%, there will be no adverse impact on revenues.
The EGoM decided to continue with an SUC of 1% for BWA spectrum since it did not want to violate the governments contractual obligation as per the bid conditions of 2010. However, BWA operators like Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel will have to pay an SUC of 5% for the new airwaves they acquire and will need to report separately the revenues earned from BWA airwaves and new spectrum.
According to sector analysts, segregation of revenues could be difficult, leaving those operators that own both spectrum bands with room for arbitrage. The problem arises because today there are smartphones that can work across both the bands. A similar issue had cropped up before the DoT in 2008 while deciding the SUC for 3G spectrum; an internal panel then had ruled that segregation of revenues between 2G and 3G services is not possible because of similar inter-working of phones and SIM cards across the two technologies. The only possible solution to check such inter-working is to lay


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The U.S. military will quickly provide information on deserters to Japanese authorities and ask Japanese police to arrest them, according to a formal agreement between Tokyo and Washington last week.
The military will also shorten the time needed to determine whether personnel have deserted or are simply missing.
The agreement, reached by the Japan-U.S. Joint Committee, came in the wake of the arrest and indictment of a sailor who deserted and then allegedly robbed and killed a Tokyo-area taxi driver in March.
Once the military determines someone has deserted, a request will immediately be sent to prefectural police forces to arrest the suspect. The U.S. side will provide as much information as possible, including the person's name, birth date, nationality, rank and photo, the Foreign Ministry said.
Until now, military personnel were automatically considered as deserters 30 days after going missing, although U.S. authorities could make a determination faster depending on the circumstances.
To prevent crimes like the March robbery-murder, the military will now shorten the time required and designate missing personnel as deserters if their whereabouts are not confirmed within one to two days, Vice Foreign Minister Itsunori Onodera said.


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Moncoutie abandons 'final' Tour after crash
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Bauke Mollema won the points jersey ahead of a sick Joaquim "Purito" Rodríguez in a final-day showdown in Madrid.
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Moncoutié aims for record fourth KoM jersey at Vuelta
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David Moncoutié — the veteran French rider on Cofidis — is taking aim at a record fourth King of the Mountains jersey at the Vuelta a
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1. David MONCOUTIE, (FRA) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne, in 16:48:36 2. Jean-Christophe PERAUD, (FRA) Ag2r La Mondiale, at 11 3. Wouter
David Moncoutie wins the 2010 Vuelta a Espana's first trip into the mountains; Anton takes over lead
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David Moncoutie (Cofidis) wins the Vuelta a España's first mountain stage on Saturday, as Euskaltel's Igor Anton takes over the lead
David Moncoutie aims for third-straight climber's jersey at Vuelta a España
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David Moncoutié will be looking to match history as he makes a run for a third consecutive climber's jersey at the Vuelta a España.
Moncoutie wins Route du Sud
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David Moncoutie (Cofidis) wins the Route du Sud as Mitchell Docker (Skil-Shimano) takes the final stage.
Moncoutie takes lead in Route du Sud
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Circa Annotator (set of two)
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pretty obvious why this is an awesome little tool. I love that you can have flags, sticky notes and other helpful things right in your calendar. So helpful to not have to go...Read complete review
pretty obvious why this is an awesome little tool. I love that you can have flags, sticky notes and other helpful things right in your calendar. So helpful to not have to go searching for my flags or sticky notes. and I can move it to what ever section I am working on. I do with they had made it out of hard plastic like the covers and not card board. I worry about moving it a lot will the card board fall apart.
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I was disappointed to receive this product and find that the backing is cardboard. I was expecting a more durable plastic that could be repositioned as a bookmark. Unfortunately, Upon simply placing it...Read complete review
I was disappointed to receive this product and find that the backing is cardboard. I was expecting a more durable plastic that could be repositioned as a bookmark. Unfortunately, Upon simply placing it in my Circa notebook once, the tabs are already bending. I cannot foresee this lasting through multiple repositions as I had intended for keeping my place in my daily planner. The notes will serve their purpose nicely, but the backing will likely be thrown away when they run out instead of kept as a bookmark as planned.
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I use these paper flags all the time!
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These flags are just he right size and very accessible. I use them all the time because they are so convenient.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Flags galore...
By Lana
from Slidell, LA
I love having these signal flags handy whenever I need them. It is much easier to carry them in your notebook where the card remains intact.
Keeps flags handy
By jctanus
from Oregon
Purchased to go with my smooth silver junior notebook. Love the size and the flags stay on strong. Also was able to apply post it notes to the back of the item and they are staying on strong. One thing I did not like is the base material is chipboard. It will give overtime so I will not be using these as a page flag as well as clicking in only once I could already see that the holes were weakened.
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from Florida
These page flags are a perfect addition to my Circa binder.I am always searching for some and now they are right where I need them. Don't wait, buy them now!
Love this product
By Joni
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Keeps everything right where I need it---no more searching through desk drawers for flags and notes. Love it!!
Love these "tator-tots"
By Stavros123
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This annotator set has become a part of my every day use. I am able to highlight my priorities in one color and my appointments with another color. The black cards that the annotator sets are on is plenty firm.
By Gray
from Arizona
I like having my flags ready and available.
By KimberlyS
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Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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I LOVE this product! I have had my set for years because they are so sturdy I use them over and over again until they no longer stick. I use a ballpoint pen or Sharpie writing pen in my planner, and easily write on the tabs and flags when I need to. Absolutely worth every penny if you like to add color to your organizational tools, like I do.
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Studying at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, working on my voice to make this opera thing happen!
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hello friend, i was wondering if you can let me make a custom figure of this
that looks so cool <3 D
This is quite lovely, the pose is sweet, but i HAVE to love the use of the complimentary purple in the armour and beads to compliment the greens in the background. Good job
Come at me bro!!!
Extremelly Good !!! Afterall somebody draw a Super Predator
Just awesome work on the Predators. Just awesome.
hel lyeah! i love the way u customize `em all
i think alien would run now i suppose....
Now he I would hire to scare the living hell out of my littlest sister.
he's like "WHERE"S.....MY......M&M'S!!!???!!!"
Bet the Predators are killers at burping contests.
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The French health care delivery system is insurance-based, with central and local government controls. The social security system created in 1945 is a single nationwide service with a National Fund (Caisse d'Assurance Maladie) that oversees the regional and local funds. Fund representatives are elected by the contributors. The social security system provides three main services: health care coverage, old-age pensions, and family allowances. The money for the funds is drawn directly from the contributors' salaries. Health care insurance is based on gross salary, and the coverage provided ranges from 55 to 90 percent depending on the services rendered.
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How to set up an inviting birdbath for your feathered friends. Plus, tips on keeping the bath clean and free of mosquitoes.
Ever notice how, when you turn on the sprinkler on a hot summer's day, the robins come hoppin'?
Sure looks like a pool party out there, one minus the beach towels.
The thing about birds — all birds, not just the seed eaters or fruit eaters or bug eaters only — is that they are big drinkers. And their cocktail is water.
But that's not all the quaffers will do with a fine shallow puddle of cool, clear H2O, be it one from a hose, or the rain, or one you set out just for the flock.
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Those winged fellows who make merry in your backyard, they might take a gulp, but don't be surprised if they leap in for a dunk.
Water, for birds and the rest of us, is no iffy proposition. It's essential — year-round, but most especially in summer.
"Birds don't perspire," says birdscaper Tim Joyce, "they respire. That means they breathe more (or faster) when they're hot, and the more they breathe, the more fluid they lose."
And, says Joyce, they're not just splashing around for the sheer delight of it — although it sure is delightful to watch. Joyce calls it "a beautiful, intricate process," one that is worth sitting down to enjoy.
All that splashing is really about "feather maintenance." Birds emit plenty of oils from glands in their tiny bodies, and the splashing in water helps to spread the water out to the wing feathers. It promotes smooth flight, helps ditch the pests (feather mites) that might want to hitch a ride on those wings, and when temperatures dip, those oiled-up feathers create better insulation.
So it's up to us, the ones who know how to turn on the hose, to keep up the water patrol.
Your birdbath shouldn't be too deep, no more than 1 to 1 ½ inches of water for songbirds. Bigger birds might like to splash in the deep end, so if you do go deep, make sure you've got a pile of stones, or a fat rock, plopped in your bath so the little ones don't feel unwelcome. You'll want a surface that's not too slippery, and if birds get a vote they'd veto the shiny metal tub because the slip factor is too high.
Don't let it stand there. The water, we mean. "One of the big issues of providing water to birds is to make sure it's not standing water," says Laura Erickson, former science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and author of "The Bird Watching Answer Book: Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy Birds in Your Backyard and Beyond," (Storey Publishing).
Standing water invites in the mosquitoes, and boosts the risk of bringing West Nile disease carriers to your yard. (It's a mere matter of days between mosquito eggs being laid in the water and buzzing, darting skeeters aiming straight for your flesh.) When water ripples, it lowers the surface tension, and a mosquito who lands there is likely to sink, explains Joyce.
To stir things up, Erickson, who is a wizard at devising low-cost contraptions that get the job done, says you can simply hang a plastic bottle over your birdbath (a shepherd's hook, a tree branch, even a clothesline make for fine hangers), and poke a small hole in the bottle (a small nail would do the trick). Then, when you fill the bottle, it will slowly drip-drip-drip, making a mosquito-defying ripple as well as a nifty way to beckon the birds. No doubt, the always-thirsty fellows will spy your liquid offering once they notice the light-catching movement of water, or pick up the sound of the barest wisp of the drip. Some specialty stores sell gizmos that produce the effect. Wild Birds Unlimited (wbu.com), for instance, sells a Water Wiggler for $37 that creates ripples in birdbaths.
Be sure to keep that water — and the birdbath — clean as a bird whistle. Squirt it with a hose once a day, if you're a generous soul, but at least every few days. At the first sign of goo (that would be algae, building up on the birdbath surface), grab a scrub brush. Just dump the old water, scrub and rinse with a hose, avoiding the need for even vinegar or bleach.
If you must, an equal water-to-vinegar ratio is another option, especially kept in a squirt bottle. Again, dump the old water, squirt your vinegar wash, then rinse with a hose. Try to avoid bleach, if possible. And never use anything stronger than a mix of three to four drops of bleach per 1 cup of water (or ¾ cup of bleach per gallon of water).
Don't tuck your birdbath in among the tall grass, or a bountiful bush. Birds are most vulnerable when bathing — they can't fly so well when soaked — and a cat or raccoon hiding in the underbrush might get tempted to leap for an avian lunch. So make sure the bath is anywhere from 5 to 15 feet away from plantings. And try to locate the bath somewhere with perches nearby, so the bathing bird can make a short hop up for quick escape.
You needn't fret too much over your water source. After all, birds do just fine in Mama Nature's birdbaths, the ones that come after the rain.


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I wanted to "pay back" when I retired and a local hospital was opening a new cancer center - David C. Pratt Cancer Center at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur, MO. I first volunteered in the lobby assisting families/friends getting the patient into the center, direct patients to doctors' offices, etc. After talking with several patients I started making chemo caps. I was asked if I would like to lead a group of patients/survivors and teach them how to knit and crochet. Our group has evolved into so much more: I am told it is one of the best support groups the hospital has. The patients share their experiences, treatments, doctors, etc. but at the same time we have a lot of fun.
Our group is called "St. John's Knit Wits"; we meet once a week for what started out to be a couple of hours (sometimes turns into a few hours) and we all work on our projects at home during the week. We make prayer shawls, lapghams, chemo caps, etc. and donate them to the hospital. We donate an average of 400 items a year. A nurse will take a prayer shawl or lapghan to a patient in the hospital and we are told they are so appreciative that they sometimes get emotional. Patients will come by and see us working away and ask if we are the ones that made a chemo cap, etc. that they received. We get back a lot more that we give.
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When I traveled to Tuscany a few months ago, I found myself in a curious situation: every single thing I saw was photo-worthy...so I stopped taking photos! Everywhere you look is so beautiful, so Tuscan, I'm convinced you could shoot with your eyes closed and come home with a calendar's worth of stunning images. So besides images of my friends, what photos would I want to print and frame? How about 400+-year-old trompe l'oeil ceilings?
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Last week, I had a luck-of-a-lifetime stay in a 16th-Century villa in Tuscany. I'd love to show you all my photos, but this plate wall seemed particularly Apartment Therapy-esque. We've discussed countless ways to make hanging plates look modern: our favorite plate cluster walls, the best plate hangers, spray-painted plates, and my very own winter plate wall. This old-world display makes no attempts to be modern, and is all the better for it...
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Hey everyone! This week our eagles have landed in Milan, Italy for the premier European home furnishings trade show, The Salone del Mobile, or I Saloni. I am writing this on Monday morning in Milan, having just woken up from a night flight, and the coffee is GOOD. I'm here with Gregory (home tech) and Faith (home cooking), and we're going to scour the town this week and post all day long to Twitter, Facebook and the blog. Just to whet your appetite, here are some of my first pics upon arriving. Enjoy!
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A commercial that began running Tuesday in the Triangle shows clips from his news conference last year when he declared three
former players innocent of all charges.
The players were falsely accused of raping a woman hired to
perform as a stripper at a 2006 lacrosse team party. Cooper said at the time that no DNA supported the woman's story.
The ad's narrator goes on to say Cooper helped modernize the
state crime lab and added dozens of DNA experts.
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I can't find any examples in google atm, but they looked pretty. |D
On a 25th anniversary related note, I wish I could have gone to the actual Symphony. As far as I know, Europe shows no signs of additional shows... but that doesn't take away I would have loved to go. :<
I completely geeked out when I was listening to this cd. It was like going through all those years when I first played all those Zelda games again. It was a huge blast from the past. I can't imagine what kind of an impact it would have had on me if I actually heard the Symphony live :0.
On an off note to all of this, I think I am going to attempt the Hero Mode on Skyward Sword and Master Quest soon. I've never tried these super-challenging modes before, so I will consider it a huge accomplishment in my sad video-gaming life if I manage to beat both of these before school starts up again. Haha wish me luck
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Actor Fardeen Khan and his wife Natasha have welcomed their first child, a baby girl, here.
The actor's cousin, jewellery designer Farah Khan Ali shared the news via Twitter, and congratulated the new parents.
"Woke up to wonderful news. My cousin Fardeen and his wife Natasha were blessed by a beautiful baby girl Diani Isabella Khan yesterday (Wednesday)," Farah posted on the microblogging site Thursday.
"God bless my little niece with loads of health, wealth and happiness. Congratulations to the parents," she added.
This good news comes after a tragic miscarriage of twin babies that Natasha went through last year.
Natasha, who is the daughter of veteran actress Mumtaz, married Fardeen in December 2005. Fardeen, who has featured in films like "Om Jai Jagadish", "No Entry" and "Heyy Babyy", is the son of late actor Feroz Khan.
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The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, or BIMSTEC, groups together Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The seven-country forum aims to achieve its own free trade area by 2017.
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22-Feb-2016 Live Mint India softens stance on Bay of Bengal free trade agreementSoftening its earlier stand, India has decided to conclude a low-ambition free trade agreement with the seven-nation grouping Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, or Bimstec.
20-Sep-2015 Wither BIMSTEC FTAMembers of the Trade Negotiating Committee of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), a regional bloc of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, are going to meet in Bangkok between 7-9, September 2015, for working on a functional Free Trade Agreement (FTA) among member countries.
13-Jan-2015 BD News 24 2015 can be a 'game-changer' for BIMSTECBangladesh hopes that the much-expected BIMSTEC FTA (between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand) will be finalised this year.
7-Mar-2014 DNA Failure to launchBay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation's lack of concrete achievement points to the need for greater political will and clarity of purpose
4-Mar-2014 Let us seal FTA early, Prime Minister tells regional clubUrging the seven-member BIMSTEC grouping to fast-track trade and economic cooperation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday called for "early conclusion" of the BIMSTEC Free Trade Agreement and said it should be extended to investment and services.
4-Mar-2014 PTI BIMSTEC leaders today resolved to expeditiouslyBIMSTEC leaders today resolved to expeditiously conclude an agreement on trade in goods to promote commerce among member nations India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Bhutan and Nepal.
7-May-2013 Call to boost NE-SE Asia linksThe long forgotten traditional links including the historic Stilwell Road connecting the North-east and the neighbouring countries have emerged as critical to connecting South Asia and Southeast Asia.
8-Mar-2011 BIMSTEC free trade area from July next yearThe BIMSTEC member countries have decided to establish a free trade area (FTA) for transaction in goods from July next year. If established, the FTA would be two years behind its original deadline, trade official said.
25-Feb-2011 PTI Thailand to push for FTA with Bimstec members by JulyThailand today said it will push for the conclusion of a free trade agreement with India and other members of Bimstec by July, enabling tariff reduction next year.
8-Jun-2009 ToI India seals free-trade pact with ThailandIndia took its trade diplomacy up several notches with negotiators wrapping up a free trade deal in goods with other BIMSTEC countries, ie. Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Nepal.
BIMSTECBangladesh-India-Myanmar-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation (also includes Nepal and Bhutan)


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- Creator
- Hechenbleikner, Herbert, 1909-2004
- Title
- Herbert Hechenbleikner collection
- Date [inclusive]
- 1909-1988
- Extent
- 61.0 Items
- Language
- English
- Mixed materials [Box]
- Container
- 155
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Herbert Hechenbleikner Collection. J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (except for material about Ingenius Hechenbleikner, for which citation should read: Ingenius Hechenbleikner Papers, Duke Power Company Archives).
Scope and Contents note
Primarily photocopies of material relating to the career of his father, Ingenuin Hechenbleikner, with the chemical industry and including Duke Power. Also includes material about Hechenbleikner, a UNC Charlotte biology professor, compiled for a story in the university magazine.
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Collection is open for research.
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Displaying fat healthy clams from a clam aquaculture facility.
Fat healthy clams heading for market in a clam aquaculture facility.
Washing clams readying them for market in a clam aquaculture facility.
Sorting clams for market in a clam aquaculture facility.
Baskets of clams ready for market in a clam aquaculture facility.
Large scale aquaculture facility.
Lobster boat somwhere in New England.
New England fisherman with lobster pots on the dock.
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Native fishermen display catch
Fish wheel o the Yukon river near Ruby
A molting chinstrap penguin
A storm approaching Cape Shirreff
A humpback whale, with visible dorsal hump that gives it its name.
An Antarctic fur seal pup sporting a flipper tag.
Iceberg with both beautiful blue-green submerged portion and a reflection of the surface ice and snow. Approximately 90 per cent of the iceberg is submerged.
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The AMLR science crew on the bow of the R/V YUZHMORGEOLOGIYA.
Snow-shrouded mountain peaks rising seen through storm clouds. A high icy barrier extends offshore from the mountain range.
An icy ridge extends towards the sea. A large iceberg is seen below the ridge.
Scientists on a trek across the ice and snow give scale to an Antarctic landscape.
Antarctic scientist starting work for the day at the Cape Shirreff bird blind.
An Antarctic fur seal giving birth, or 'pupping" at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island. A female fur seal is pregnant for about a year, then gives birth to a single pup. About a week after birth she becomes sexually receptive and mates, and the reproductive cycle begins anew.
A fur seal mother cleaning her newborn pup.
A female Antarctic fur seal and her newborn pup, only minutes old.
A seal researcher doing double duty shoveling snow at an AMLR field station.
A seal researcher opening camp for the season at Cape Shirreff.
A southern elephant seal bull, at home among the icebergs.
A seal biologist analyzing seal scats (feces), which provide clues about the animals' diet.
Scientists capture crabeater seals on an ice floe in Lalamon Fjord.
The Cape Shirreff field station, Livingston Islnad, showing the solar panel (right) that the scientists use to power their camps.
Close up of an Antarctic fur seal, basking in the sun.
A group of gentoo penguins gather along an icy shoreline.
An AMLR scientist treks along a glacier in the morning silence, with only a penguin for company.
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Ecuador's president wants people to think twice before criticizing him online.
So he's built a website that monitors anti-government tweets and directs supporters to counter-attack the social media accounts of people who post the most aggressive messages.
Somos Mas ("There are more of us") is a virtual community for boosters of President Rafael Correa. The platform operates somewhat like Facebook, allowing anyone to create a profile with a username and email.
A section of the site alerts community members to social media posts that insult Correa and other government officials. It publishes the offenders' full names, photographs and Twitter handles in memes that look like FBI "most wanted" posters.
"These people confuse freedom of speech with threats and insults," reads an alert message posted next to each offender's wanted poster, along with snippets of their "offensive" tweet or post. "Defend the Citizen's Revolution and tell them to stop," the alert instructs.
Since the early warning system went live on Sunday, Somos Mas has targeted three young Ecuadoreans who criticized Correa and his aides on Twitter. One of them is a 22-year-old woman with 300 followers who, in a moment of anger, tweeted that Correa "deserves a bullet to his head."
After her Twitter handle was published on Somos Mas, hordes of government supporters flooded @shamisantamaria's account with insults and threats, bullying her into locking the account.
One volunteer soldier in Correa's cyber army called for @shamisantamaria to be locked up for "insulting" the president.
Another troll published her picture, her national identification number, and what seems to be her address in Guayaquil.
"If you dare insult and defame [the president] face up to the consequences," another Correa supporter warned.
Despite unleashing an online witch hunt of sorts, government officials argue that Somos Mas is trying to "stop violence" on social media. They claim that by publicly shaming aggressive critics others will refrain from using offensive language against the government.
Correa's opponents, however, describe the Somos Mas campaign as the latest attack in the president's "war" on free speech.
"Stop this abuse of power," Miguel Angel tweeted in response to the threats against @ShamiSantamaria. "If the president doesn't respect people, why should he get respect?" he added in follow-up tweet.
President Correa has become notorious for clashing with Ecuador's privately owned media outlets and lashing out at critical journalists during his nationally broadcast weekly addresses.
The Ecuadoran leader has pursued multi-million dollar lawsuits against newspapers that he feels have slandered him, while his government has drafted laws that make it easier for public officials to sue journalists over vague offenses like "attempting to hurt someone's reputation," and "not providing relevant information."
Xavier Bonilla, a well-known cartoonist who was dragged to court last year over a drawing that mocked a pro-government congressman, thinks the Somos Mas campaign is the worst assault yet on freedom of speech.
"It's a disproportionate use of force," Bonilla told Fusion. "These are young kids who have no way to defend themselves, and their only means of expression is their personal Twitter account."
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