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Marketing Innovation:
Sales Success
The Endgame to
Overcoming Customer Skepticism and
Gaining Commitment
Brian Tracy
See the Big Picture first
Is Problem Solving
Negotiation DOs and DON'Ts
In golf, there is a saying that, "You drive for show,
but you put for dough." In selling, you prospect and present for
show, but you overcome
customer skepticism and gain commitment for
dough. Your ability to answer objections and get the sale is the
true test of how good you really are as a
The true test of
It's where the rubber meets the road.
It's your ability to
connect with people and answer the questions that the prospect
puts to you and overcome his natural reluctance to make a commitment
that wraps up the sales process.
Plan it in advance so that you
are thoroughly prepared to bring the sales conversation to its
natural conclusion at the earliest and most appropriate moment.
Handle objections
and remove the obstacles.
Just as there are reasons why people
buy a product, there are reasons why they don't.
Make it a reason to
Objections can be turned into
reasons for buying. Just as there is a primary reason for buying a
product, a hot button, there is a primary objection that stops the
person from buying it. If you can emphasis the one and remove the
other, the sale falls together naturally.
Use different
closing tactics for smaller and larger products.
selling smaller products or services, where you can prospect and
make a complete presentation in the first meeting, your approach to
closing will be different from that required if you are selling
a larger product in a multi-call sale that stretches over several
weeks or months.
Ask for the order.
In the shorter, smaller sale,
the prospect knows everything necessary to make a buying decision at
the end of
your presentation. Your aim should be to answer any
lingering questions and then ask for the order. In the larger sale,
you may have to meet with the prospect several times before the
prospect is in a position to make a buying decision. You will have
to be more patient and
Action Exercises
Here are two things you can
do immediately to put these ideas into
First, prepare yourself in
advance for the endgame of selling by anticipating anything the customer might
offer as a reason for not buying. Be ready.
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button, the reason the customer will buy, and press it. Meanwhile, find out his
major reason for not buying and remove it.
Differentiation Strategies
Buzz Marketing
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Winning Customers
Creative Marketing
The Art of Selling
Customer Value Proposition
Selling Is Problem Solving
The Power of Personal Charisma
How To Make Effective Presentations
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Closing the Sale
Effective Listening
Active Listening
Listening To
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Active Listening
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There are sites that sense the iPad is a mobile device. For example, Spotify. It will refuse to play in an iPad browser, while it works just fine on a laptop. It appears to be sensing what browser is in use, as do many sites that push a mobile version instead of the standard site.
Is there any workaround for this?
Additional note - Thanks for the answers so far. The desktop version requires Flash. This may kill the Spotify success, but great for sites that don't use flash, so I hope this Q&A helps others.

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Andreas Dilger <adilger@...> wrote: > For the cost of those extra bytes it would definitely save a lot of extra > complexity in every application packing and unpacking the struct. At a > minimum put a 32-bit padding that is zero-filled for now. Blech. I'd prefer to just expand the fields to 64-bits. Note that you can't just arbitrarily pass a raw 64-bit UID, say, back to vfs_getattr() and expect it to be coped with. Those stat syscalls that return 32-bit (or even 16-bit) would have to do something with it, and glibc would have to do something with it. I think we'd need extra request bits to ask for the longer UID/GID - at which point the extra result data can be appended and extra capacity in the basic part of the struct is not required. > > so perhaps something like: > > > > struct xstat_u128 { unsigned long long lsw, msw; }; > > > > however, I suspect the kernel will require a bit of reengineering to handle > > a pgoff_t and loff_t of 128-bits. > > Well, not any different from having 32-bit platforms work with two 32-bit > values for 64-bit offsets today, except that we would be doing this with two > 64-bit values. gcc for 32-bit platforms can handle 64-bit numbers. gcc doesn't handle 128-bit numbers.(Continue reading)


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College Hockey:Live Defense: Americans Advance To WJC Semis With Win Over Sweden
U.S. NTDP Skater Kessel Leads U.S. With Hat Trick
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Led by a hat trick from U.S. National Developmental player Phil Kessel, the U.S. defeated Sweden, 8-2, to advance to the semifinals of the 2005 IIHF World Junior Championship Saturday night.
The win was a big rebound from a potentially-devastating loss to Czech Republic a night earlier. It forced the U.S. to face a tough Sweden team in order to reach the semifinals instead of jumping right into it as the top seed in its pool.
Sweden took its only lead of the game, scoring at 4:20 of the first session before Michigan's Kevin Porter lifted a Kessel rebound into the high corner to knot the score. The teams went to the locker room tied after one.
"We knew it was going to be tough game. We got behind but managed to battle back and get the lead." said U.S. head coach Scott Sandelin. "I thought we got better as the game went on."
Just over three minutes into the middle stanza, North Dakota's Drew Stafford broke the tie with a glove-side shot through traffic. Kessel — who still has not made his college decision and has reportedly narrowed it to Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan — then notched his first of the night, going coast-to-coast before firing five-hole on Sweden goalie David Rautio Berguv.
The Swedes narrowed the U.S. lead to one at the midpoint, when Loui Eriksson maneuvered around Michigan's Al Montoya and scored low to the glove side.
But Kessel struck again early in the third, skating around Sweden's Johan Fransson and pushing the puck off the far post, to score the eventual game-winner. He completed the hat trick 3:06 later, when Patrick O'Sullivan's shot hit the post and squirted out into the slot where a waiting Kessel jammed it in.
"Thank God we have Phil Kessel," Sandelin said. "I thought he was the difference tonight. He just continues to get better."
With the U.S. on the man advantage, and Sweden opting for a goaltending change, Robbie Schremp bounced the puck over Christopher Heino-Lindberg's pads for a 6-2 U.S. lead.
Ryan Suter tallied the second U.S. power play goal of the night, knocking in a hard slapshot from the high slot at 12:46, and T.J. Hensick of Michigan punctuated the U.S. win with a backhanded shot high to the stick side with 15 seconds remaining.
The win sends the U.S. to a semifinal matchup with Russia on Sunday, Jan. 2, at 7:38 p.m. CST, on ESPN2. The winner of that game will advance to the gold medal game while the losing team will play for the bronze.
Both the gold and bronze-medal games are set for Jan. 4. If the U.S. reaches the gold-medal game, ESPN will broadcast it live, beginning at 7:08 p.m. CST.
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With ceilings 18 feet high, creating a larger than life environment for astonishing performances, Asylum Gallery and Performing Arts Studio is one of the most welcoming platforms for audience and performers to come together as family. Founded in November of 2013 by Mike "Rooster" Liburdi and extreme performance extraordinaire Ella Vulgara, this exhibit brings artists of all types who are most unlikely to perform on stage together and place them center stage to their adoring fans. Each weekend has a multitude of different revues such as Spoken Word, Open Mic and Life Drawing. Saturdays bring a little extra flare and a little more extreme to the stronger stomachs with such exhibitions as Flesh Pull, Suspension, and Fire Performances.
After first officially opening on January 11th, 2014, Asylum Gallery and Performing Arts Studio has been able to build on their dream and open 3 days a week by adding to the schedule of events with exciting accompaniments, such as acquiring Yoga with Jay Graves on Thursday night's. Another added bonus to the Studio's Friday and Saturday nights is in-house DJ Moondancer with his addictive light shows and projection screen for more thrilling experiences. Events have been added to the future schedule for Asylum Gallery and Performing Arts Studio especially on Saturdays including Chemical Warfare, Slavery Abolishment and Witchcraft.
Admission varies between the days with Yoga on Thursdays for $15, events on Friday are $5 and Saturday night exhibits are for $10. So if you are looking for something different and exciting to bring to your life then you must check this studio out. For a complete schedule of events and more information for Asylum Gallery and Performing Arts Studio please visit: www.facebook.com/asylumgallery


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Miss Robbie prepares to travel to Houston along with Tim and Mr. Bussey. The first locale they visit, she quickly refers to it as a dump even though they've taken on sites which needed renovating before. Nevertheless, this is a dump that is too far away for her to keep an eye on the renovation progress.
She is highly impressed, however, with the turnkey especially the restaurant's dream kitchen. Happy with the possible Houston site for another 'Sweetie Pie's' but in no rush to sign on the dotted line, she decides to have a little fun with Tim as his expense. Literally. Miss Robbie insists he takes her shopping on his dime.
Inspired by her son TJ, Janae gets the ball rolling as far as researching the "how to and costs" of starting a business. She wants to open a children's clothing line catering to premature babies especially. Start-up costs have a discourage ring to it but she is still determined.
Charles receives the bill from his recent photo shoot for a whopping five hundred plus dollars. That's money he does not have. So he goes back to the place (the Upper Crust) where he was fired from and starts working. This is something his mother allowed him to do as a try-out, but what will Miss Robbie say when she gets back home? Let's hope Charles didn't put in all that hard work (and he did work hard) for nothing.
Miss Robbie is having a ball in the lone star state. She's shopped 'til she nearly dropped, lowering the balance on Tim's credit cards and getting 'er done with a little Texas line dancing. Now Tim wants to know if all of his appeasing paid off. After all, there are other parties interested in the restaurant location sites as well. Miss Robbie confesses she does like and is leaning towards Houston and the turnkey, but still wants to sleep on it.
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By Karl Henkel and William K. Alcorn
The deadline for the U.S. to raise its debt ceiling is nearing, and that worries U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown.
Brown, a Democrat from Avon, said a potential "unnecessary" default would be devastating to Ohioans, who receive billions of dollars in federal aid for programs like Social Security.
The Senate has less than a week before the U.S. would default on its loan obligations.
"I don't think we know for sure what Aug. 3 would be like," said Brown, referring to the day after the U.S. reaches its borrowing limit of $14.3 trillion. "It'd be unprecedented and unnecessary."
On that day, Brown said the U.S. would take in $10 billion and spend $40 billion, which is why the Democrats have pressed to come to an agreement as soon as possible.
At that point, federal funding for programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid would be at risk, Brown said, with no guarantee those payments would be made.
President Barack Obama has said funding for Social Security checks, many of which are scheduled for delivery on Aug. 3, may not be available if an agreement is not reached.
That could affect millions statewide, according to a report Brown released Wednesday detailing the effects on each county in Ohio should the U.S. default.
The Mahoning Valley receives more than $5 billion annually in federal dollars, including more than $2 billion for retirement and disability.
"The default is too important for us to play games with," Brown said. "This isn't my alarmist thinking. Default should be unimaginable."
The thought of default and its effects have some feeling uneasy.
The Warren Social Security office is receiving a steady stream of calls from seniors concerned about their checks.
On the ground locally, social workers at SCOPE of Trumbull County, a senior center in Warren, are telling worried seniors to not panic, said Janet Schweitzer, executive director.
Clients want to know what to do if they don't get their check, said Robert Wissinger, licensed social worker.
"I try to ease their concern by telling them that most likely the government will step up and the checks will go out as usual," he said.
But, Wissinger said, if the checks are held up he tells them to call SCOPE and other social service agencies and seek help.
Many people took a hit when private pensions started disappearing and now they are worried about Social Security. It's kind of a snowball effect, said Debbie Zador, a registered nurse and prescription assistance coordinator at SCOPE.
"The bigger impact could be on the extended family in situations where seniors are caring for children and grandchildren because of the economy," Zador said. "Sometimes that Social Security check is the only family income."
A lot of people on Social Security are able to take care of themselves and their homes and are more angry at the government than anything else, Wissinger said.
But he said there are a lot of nervous older people with health and transportation problems.
"They are struggling and worry that this would be the straw that breaks the camel's back," Wissinger said.
A default would affect more than just Social Security.
Brown said the default would be a "permanent tax hike on all Americans" — comparing it to the Republicans' steadfast approach of no tax increases — because the country's AAA credit rating would be downgraded and therefore result in inclining interest rates.
Robert Gardner, CPA and financial adviser with Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. Inc., Butler Wick Division in Canfield, said interest rates would rise, but would be based on the magnitude of the credit rating reduction.
"A downgrade to AA may be unavoidable even with an agreement," Gardner said. "The lower AA rating is still considered 'very strong' and available alternatives have experienced similar pain over the last few years. I feel rates would rise more gradually over time rather than significantly in the short term."
John Gulas, president and CEO of Farmers National Banc Corp., said the panic hasn't started among customers of Farmers National Bank.
"We're not seeing a lot of panic," Gulas said. "People just aren't sure what the results are going to be."
Gulas reminded customers that deposits are protected by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Brown said there are a couple of scenarios to avoid a potential financial crisis, including raising of the debt ceiling, something that has been done 39 times since 1980.
Many debt ceiling increases last less than a year, but Brown said he would not vote for the GOP-led effort to raise the debt ceiling for six months.
"I cant believe [Speaker of the House] John Boehner [R-West Chester] is going to be that irresponsible that he wants to put America through this again in six months," Brown said. "This is a radical step to try and stop this president from protecting this economy."
The latest plan, courtesy of Sen. Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, would cut the deficit by $2.2 trillion over the next decade, falling short of the Republican target of $2.7 trillion.
Ohio's other senator, Rob Portman, a Republican from Terrace Park, said Wednesday that the Reid plan could be one both sides of the aisle could work with.
"I think Republicans are pleased that it doesn't have tax increases," Portman told Bloomberg News TV on Wednesday. "Our economy right now, as weak as it is, couldn't handle the burden of additional taxation."
Portman did say the plan includes spending cuts that "don't seem to be credible and meaningful."
Spend no more than you bring in. All Americans have to live by this simple rule - why not the men and women who are our servants in government?
It's 14TH amendment time unless Senate does something long term. All because of a group of Tea Baggers who want their way at America expense. Everyone's comparing their (Personal) home experience to readie this situation . That is admirable ,but the Country is not a house with kids dogs cats fish and other things that go with a house and family. It's more complex in my opinion. I feel their is prejudice being spread around by these Baggers , and they should be ashamed. But that is a hopeless statement. They are too arrogant !
from Michael Hoffman
"Rep. Ron Paul has dismissed the debt ceiling crisis as a nonissue: the government is already bankrupt, in his view, and disguises it by printing money. "There's no way the checks aren't going out to Social Security. The real question is what is the money going to buy when you get it." "
Brown is worried! Oh yeah, tell me another lie! He voted to table the Cut, Cap and Balance act, so he's not that worried. This is all for show. He says he is concerned but will still put partisan politics above seniors and the needy. The CC&B is just the medicine that this country needs but of course Brown just wants the gravy train to keep rolling along!
Congress needs to quit screwing around and pass the $2.7T debt increase already before the financial markets collapse and we the economy tanks again. Then come back and pass a debt reduction cutting plan that addresses big oil tax breaks, farm subsidies, earmarks, welfare, medicaid, military spending, and food stamps while leaving our seniors who have paid for their social security and medicare alone.
This is one mess to blame on the Republicans & TEA Party!
Listen to this exchange between Ben Bernanke of the Federal Reserve and Alan Grayson:
The Quote of the Decade...
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, "the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
- Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006!
Jessiedavid has it exactly right. The first thing is to stop ALL federal government paychecks, stop paying their health insurance and stop all perks for these people. Stop all foriegn aid payments, stop all assistance to illegal aliens and shut down immigration until unemployment is below 5%.
Unionforever is totally wrong, this problem started before the Tea Party existed and the Republicans are the only ones that ever fight for spending cuts. You people voted for change and you got it, a tax and spend liberal who is arrogant enough to ruin the country if he doesn't get his own way. Had enough change yet?
It's time to pass the debt ceiling increase and then work on a budget under better circumstances. Right now the Tea Party Republicans are putting all of us at risk over money we've already borrowed and spent.
If they screw around much longer we'll all be eating beet and cabbage soup.
Wanna take in a few trillion dollars without cutting any benefits?
1. Stop the trillion dollar wars in Afghanistan,Iraq,Libya.
2. Tax net wealth instead of earned income.
3. Shut down the trillion dollar tax shelters offshore.
Problem is that the folks running the country (into the ground) benefit from wars, offshore tax shelters and tax-free obnoxious wealth; so they will continue to build this house of cards until it collapses. The rich are getting richer; the poor are getting poorer; the middle class is getting thinner; and the fuse is getting shorter.
these are the stupid scare tactics the stupid tea baggers and republicans want to put in effect to get there way on cutting taxes for there slimy rich friends all to scare the elderly into voting there way and to screw over the middle class and poor ... Shame on them. I hope people wake up on the next election. DwightK pass those beets and cabbage over because I think thats were we are heading if we are lucky enough to get beets or cabbage.
You notice that Republican Plans leave the defense budget immune.
I'm afraid we'll become even more of a society dominated by our military. We spend more on our forces than all other countries in the world combined.
And that doesn't count all of the federal money spend on Homeland Security, the CIA, and secret operations we can't even estimate.
The Bush Administraton suggested that the Iraq War might cost as much as the shocking sum of 64 billion. Unfortunately that has ballooned to more than 3 trillion.
That's more than 3,000 billion.
That spending was combined with a tax cut, and then remember? the "stimulus" rebate to everyone as 2008 began?
Tax Breaks AND a war? What were we thinking?
Having a deal held back by the House of Representatives is one thing, but having that body held hostage by its own tea party members is another.
One of the worst? Our own Representative from the 6th District, starting in Boardman/Poland and going south to Marietta ---
Bill Johnson, carpetbagger Ohioan
(Or I guess I should say revenge of the South, bringing carpetbagging north)
UnionForever....Call the police, some rational person broke into your house and is posting from your computer.
Just seems too simple to me....put Congress on SS and Medicare with the rest of us, raise the threshold on SS to the first $200,000 of earned income, reduce foreign aide, reduced fraud and waste in SS & Medicare, change Federal Income Tax to a flat 10% of income, no loop holes, everyone pays. Save America.
Social Security checks will go out no matter what happens. That money is out of a seperte fund. For Obama and Brown to be saying otherwise is the equivilant to any of us screaming "FIRE" in a crowded theater.
Vote out Barry in 2012!!
Washington is full of idiots and unfortunatly, I voted for a few of them--No More. All they do is favor the rich and burden the middle and lower class. They take care of themselves and the h--- with the rest of the country. I wonder how many pet projects are still being funded. I'll bet the numbers are staggering. If a deal is not reached, ( I still believe it will ) it will be political suicide.
I think it's pretty obvious that a household is not a country and must be run differently. But the fact remains that you can't spend more than you take it ... in ANY situation. So until these idiots in government figure that fact out...
You are right. It was too simple:
"foreign aid, reduced fraud and waste in SS & Medicare,"
will do almost nothing to reduce liability. Governments costs are almost all military, Social Security, Medicare.
As for "change Federal Income Tax to a flat 10% of income, no loop holes, everyone pays," I can't say its fair to tax someone with with children and a $18,000 income, a tax that would drop them to $16,200. Meanwhile for me, the difference would be the cost of one of three vacations, leaving me with $52,200 and no children to feed.
I work hard for my money, but so does that $18,000. nursing home aid with too many patients, or that restaurant cook working long, hot, hours.
As it turns out, Republican majorities voted to raise the U.S. debt ceiling seven times while George W. Bush sat in the Oval Office. As during the Bush presidency, the current GOP leadership team voted 19 times to increase debt limit. During his tenure, the U.S. national debt doubled, fueled by the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, the Medicare prescription drug plan and the unfunded wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Mitch McConnell and John Boehner voted for all of it and the debt which.
""Even as Vice President Biden leads bipartisan negotiations to trim at least $1 trillion from the national debt, Republican leaders faithfully regurgitate the refrain that tax increases are "off the table." In one form or another, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor and just about every other conservative mouthpiece parroted Speaker John Boehner's line that:
"Medicare, Medicaid - everything should be on the table, except raising taxes.""
On January 9, 2009, the Republican-friendly Wall Street Journal summed it up with an article titled simply, "Bush on Jobs: the Worst Track Record on Record." (The Journal's interactive table quantifies his staggering failure relative to every post-World War II president.) The dismal 3 million jobs created under President Bush didn't merely pale in comparison to the 23 million produced during Bill Clinton's tenure. In September 2009, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee charted Bush's job creation disaster, the worst since Hoover:
Republicans spent two trillion dollars on two wars, increased Medicare spending and then cut taxes. Now they're trying to reclaim the title of "fiscal conservatives". I guess our long term memory deficiency plays into their favor this time.
reagan and both bush's raised the debt ceiling 29 times in 20 years.
Clinton and Obama raised the debt ceiling 6 times in 10 1/2 years.
It's funny how the teabagger/republicans long for the days of reagan who all by himself raised the debt limit 17 times and taxes too many times to count.
The truth is they would sellout the whole country or what's left of it to get Obama and the Democrats out of Washington.
I hope they keep it up because even their own are starting to see through them. I give major props to UnionForever and his post that is as close as he will admit that he might have been wrong about these people and their agenda.
rupert murdoch proved that "you can fool some of the people...." but sometimes they figure it out. That's the part he wasn't counting on.
Ladiesrule: "Just seems too simple to me....put Congress on SS and Medicare with the rest of us, raise the threshold on SS to the first $200,000 of earned income, reduce foreign aide, reduced fraud and waste in SS & Medicare, change Federal Income Tax to a flat 10% of income, no loop holes, everyone pays. Save America."
Not so simple:
1. Congress is on Social Security and Medicare. Why doesn't anyone seem to know that?
2. If you raise the threshold to $200k for taxing, wouldn't it only be fair to raise the cap on benefits to reflect that?
3. 10% would be too low, since federal spending is something like 24% of GDP right now. More like 20% flat tax? That would never pass.
Wake Up Ohio!
First, is Mr. Brown one of the Dem Senators who signed off on a letter to John Boehner saying they would not vote for his proposed legislation--aren't these the same Dem Senators who have been playing "cynical political games" and who have refused to put forth a budget plan since 2009?
Also, Mr. Brown is supporting the "farce" that is Harry Reid's plan and both men are purporting mis-information (that's the nicest way to put it).
Mr. Reid's plan is nothing more than an accounting trick coming from phantom war savings! Brown and Mr. Reid are insulting the American people by claiming over a trillion dollars in "spending reduction" from wars that were ending anyway!
Mr. Reid and Mr. Brown are also resorting to "scare tactics" stating that there could be disruptions to Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid, Veterans benefits unless their plan gets passed--sorry gentlemen--you are wrong!
"Here are the numbers from an excellent and highly detailed study by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) quoted in this piece [emphasis added]:
…The BPC study found that the United States is likely to hit the debt limit sometime between August 2 and August 9. "It's a 44 percent overnight cut in federal spending" if Congress hits the debt limit, [BPC's Jay] Powell said. The BPC study projects there will be $172 billion in federal revenues in August and $307 billion in authorized expenditures. That means there's enough money to pay for, say, interest on the debt ($29 billion), Social Security ($49.2 billion), Medicare and Medicaid ($50 billion), active duty troop pay ($2.9 billion), veterans affairs programs ($2.9 billion).
That leaves you with about $39 billion to fund (or not fund) the following:
Defense vendors ($31.7 billion)
IRS refunds ($3.9 billion)
Food stamps and welfare ($9.3 billion)
Unemployment insurance benefits ($12.8 billion)
Department of Education ($20.2 billion)
Housing and Urban Development ($6.7 billion)
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
John Adams
Hey Unionforever, if you would sell whatever it is you are smoking you wouldn't have to worry what happens to the debt ceiling.
Leadership comes with many responsibilites. One of those responsibilities is to arrive at solutions that everyone can accept. Our fearless leader in the big white house is not providing leadership we deserve, he is stonewalling other efforts in an attemt to satisfy his party and not the people who elected him. We are on the verge of a calamity here, unless someone steps up and does the right thing.
The fact that this is going down to the last minute has already impacted our credibility and thus we need to look at purging even more of our elected leaders in our attempt to return sensible management of our country. Simply put, This bickering hogwash is ruining our county just as much as the staggering debt. And who has done this? The very same people we elected to represent us...IDIOTS!
"Hopefully, there is an appointed position for Paul in the near future dealing with financial matters in the White House." -- -He is going to run for president and if he doesn't win he said he will retire.
The only thing that would have helped the economy is an overhaul of the monetary system but instead we get more WWF and our assets are being bought up by private foreign corporations and banks.Those are the facts.
Dodge said:
"Let's vote all incubent desdbeats out. If they aren't performing for all of us lets remove them."
Dodge, that kind of thinking is what got us into this deadlock since the election of 2010.
The TeaParty members have signed pledges to other organizations than their constituents. Write to them all you want. They are more afraid of the bankers and organizations they have allied with.
What will Grover Norquist do to Congressmen who violate his pledge?
What is this group, the Cosa Nostra?
I guess that would be the Cosa Norquist.
@timOthy - -- - Concerning post #4 I disagree the government should be run like a house with a budget.It isn't a right left thing but
If the central banks have the world in debt than they can call the shots ?
It's too bad Senator Brown is ignoring questions about marijuana legalization like this one:
This is an easy way to stop kids from getting marijuana from drug dealers that don't ID, and create a HUGE revenue stream from taxing and regulating it. Not to mention the fact that it would be a huge blow to the Drug Cartel's profits. He didn't even give his position on the matter, simply said no. We should ask that he answer with some substance next time someone brings it up!
What I find offensive is that they've gotten away with over-spending for the last 60 year or more, paying off the Master KKkard with the Visa. They say the annual deficit is $1.755T, and as of Wednesday, the Treasury says the federal government debt is about $14.3T ($14,342,819,149,604.76), so they need to cut at least $1.8T from annual spending, eliminate the unconstitutional socialist programs, cut the non-vital constitutional prgrams, and pay down the debt over the next 20-30 years.
The House should not let itself be held hostage by the radical leftists in the Senate.
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Because one scoop of ice cream blog post is never enough, here's a bit more on dessert equipage from the eighteenth century…
As part of our installation devoted to the dessert service, we have on view an ice pail, made by the Worcester Porcelain Manufactory in 1770. This intricately decorated vessel is very much what it sounds like – it is a pail made to hold ice and chill food. Designed in three parts, ice would be packed into the bottom of the bowl, and atop the recessed lid. Fruit or ice cream was held in an interior liner, where it was kept cool on both sides.
Elaborate dessert services usually included a pair of ice pails (ours at one point had a mate that was its exact replica). This form, like many objects related to fine dining in the mid-18th C, was the contribution of the French. In this period, the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory was the elite supplier of grand dinner services to aristocratic circles in Europe, and initiated the trend of using porcelain rather than silver on dinner tables. In particular, Sèvres created specialized shapes for the dessert service – great ingenuity went into the presentation of dessert, the climax of the meal.
Although the form was borrowed from the Sèvres manufactory, the painted decoration of the ice pail was an original invention by Worcester. As result of trading in the mid-18th C, Asian designs became fashionable in Europe. While some were copied directly from Asian ceramic imports, many firms began to produce their own Asian-inspired patterns. Many of these were copies, of other firm's copies, of the original imported ware.
The result, for our ice pail, is a pattern invented by Worcester in the mid-1760s, known as "Jabberwocky." It features bright colors, turquoise and coral, fine gilding, as well as a scrolled border panels. A fantastic dragon is the central motif, with wheat sheaf, flowering branches, and a "flaming pinecone" design at center.
The name "Jabberwocky" might be familiar to you; it is from the imagination of the writer Lewis Carroll, and his famous poem from 1872. The popular title is a Victorian invention, coined 100 years after our ice pail was made in reference to the pail's dragon motif and Carroll's creature. In the 18th C, the pattern was referred to differently. A Worcester sale catalog from 1769 included: "A complete tea and coffee equipage, forty three pieces, of the fine old rich dragon pattern." It sold for 6 pounds, 17 shillings. Use of the word "old" is noteworthy, as the manufactory incited "traditional" Asian patterns on a modern form.
Ice pails were not offered by the Worcester manufactory until about 1770 (the year of our piece) and what they produced faithfully followed the French design, raised on three flat, circular feet. A drawing from the Leeds Porcelain Manufactory shows the cross-section of an ice pail, with its hidden liner (see slideshow). The pail shape itself, seems to have been inspired by a braising pan, a cooking pot with a deep lid that could be filled with hot coals. The pan is similar to what is today called a Dutch oven, and is what inspired the lidded ice pail.
Ivan Day, co-curator of English Taste (and food historian to the stars!) put an 18th-century ice pail to the test, by experimenting with his own ice cream. Ivan discovered that if ice alone is used to fill the lid and the bucket, the ice cream will quickly melt. Ivan writes, "Although there is nothing recorded in the literature, it is almost certain that a little salt was sprinkled on the ice, which improves the refrigeration effect." His experimentation showed that ice cream will remain frozen for up to 4 hours if salt is added to ice in both compartments (not at all bad for a 300 year old mini-refrigerator). He also noted that a small amount of condensation-ice will eventually form on the outside of the pail. This would probably have caused it to adhere to the table cloth, and is likely the reason for the three elevated feet.
Ivan's experiment, and his method of recreating period foods, is a wonderful example of experimentation as research. It demonstrates why (for me, personally) the decorative arts are so compelling -- for everyday objects in particular, it is not often recorded how or why a thing was made the way it was, and there may be no documentation as to how it was exactly used. Objects themselves can often reveal social traditions or etiquette when one considers the logistics of their use. By the late 1820's, the ice pail form was out of fashion and was rarely made. The dessert, however, perseveres.
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This afternoon, a US federal judge, Vaughn Walker, overturned the will of 52% of the California electorate who wanted to deny LGBTQ's the right of matrimony. Now that marriage rights are more inevitable than yesterday, I supposed I should start designing the invitations, fully disclosing [sort of!] who I am, and setting some musts and cannots, like I told that sexy Virgin Airways flight attendant: we must have collies. He can pick the curtains.
I still argue that a good chunk of that 52% misfired, thinking a YES vote on the bigoted California Proposition 8 was a YES vote for equality.
Opponents of LGBT marriage are rebutting the ruling calling for the democratic process to decide this, not the court.
When will the 72% who wanted single-payer, universal health care get a vote, or the 75%-80% who oppose the US slaughters in Afghanistan and Iraq [to leave it there for the moment] cast their ballots? Funny how and when the democratic process is trotted out and when it is mysteriously shut away in an attic.
Nevertheless, it's time for me to come in from the cold of my non-support of LGBT marriage, first revealed in print in the editorial pages of the San Francisco Chronicle - to the utter bafflement of my straight and LGBT coworkers in the San Francisco Unified School District.
In the wake of this federal ruling, I am submitting an "I do."
But who will join me at the altar? To marry I need a potential husband, the match made in online Heaven.
I don't have much money in the bank. I am employed for now, and I am one of those wage-slaves who waits eagerly for that next paycheck.
I have no stock portfolio. I own no property per se. I do own many, many volumes of journals kept since April 1983, but I plan to give that to my alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis [if they will take them]. But maybe my husband can retain part of the rights, so should I die famous, he might be able to pay the light bill.
My spiritual artifacts are, by longstanding custom, to be allocated elsewhere.
My husband can have my books, but I think they'd be much more useful in an urban or rural library where some kid can go an immerse himself in the fantasy world of books, as I did.
I can't put you on my current health care policy because my employer, the US federal government, won't recognize you.
My temperament is my own. I am a cross between the sassy gay friend and a Noam Chomsky, an oily-watery mix, which might explain why I am still single.
If my husband cannot swim, he must be able to navigate a canoe so he can be my paddler during my ocean races, like the Seal Beach Rough water Race, which I will conquer next year.
Like I said, he must like collies. I don't have one, but I will give one to myself as a wedding present. She will join us on our honeymoon. If he is thinking of some resort, like Sandals or ClubMed, staffed by wage-slaves, think again: imagine instead a week of camping in a big tent, near a big body of water, warming ourselves under the sun, camp fires, and each other.
When this collie wants to sleep at the foot of my bed or next to me, the husband will have to sleep in his bed. Oh, yeah. It's best if he has his own bedroom. I'm told I talk in my sleep, long rambling stuff.
I am moody, definitely a glass-half-full kind of guy, full of pessimism about myself, optimism about children, suspicion for my fellow man. The dog will understand all of this. Consider the dog the Other Woman: learn something from her. Sometimes I am truly Garboesque and want to sit alone. Other times, not just when I sleep, I am relentless in my prattle and need to process everything. Dogs get that. They will just lay on the couch next to me, sprawl themselves at my feet, or find something more interesting to do than hang under my shadow.
Why bother with the nuptials? Well, obviously this is an important, critical issue or the LGBT Establishment would not have gone deaf and dumb on the AIDS and national health issue, LGBTQ's in low-wage jobs without worker rights, and the increase in housing and food insecurity - in short, the class war.
The ACLU's lesbian/gay activism would not have been reduced to the singular LGBT marriage rights were this not the most vital issue facing us.
I guess marriage equality will bring class equality, gender parity, an end to racism, an economic justice. Will US Judge Walker rule that the permenant underclass do not conform with the US Constitution? is that the next domino to fall?
We must be living in a post-classist, post-poverty as well as a post Obama-racial epoch indeed.
So given this importance, I throw in the bouquet to the next insurgent to wail alone in the darkness, and I will walk down a sunflower strewn path with my husband and under the approving eyes of the conformists.
The burning question is who will submit to whom if my husband is a Southern Baptist?
In lieu of gifts to the newlyweds, please make a generous donation to Earth First!, Diana Nyad's Extreme Dream Swim, The Humane Society, AIDS Project LA, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
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This is a web usability question that concerns you, the people who read my blog, and also those who author their own blogs.
Cat at Creative Latitude and I have been wondering (as was Darren at Problogger some time back) about how we present our external hyperlinks to you. When you leave our sites by clicking a link we've endorsed, should the new site open in a new window / tab, or would you prefer to stay inside the browser window you're currently using?
I wasn't aware that it could be such a bone of contention for some people, until I went back to read the comments left on Problogger. It seems that some people actually get angry when a website takes control of their browser by opening a new tab, and of course that's not what I want here. Cat fought on the side of the
'same window' 'new window' campaign a couple of years back, although in the end gave up.
When I add a link to a blog post, there are two or three extra tags I add:
- title="link title here" (this helps with search engine optimisation)
- target="new" (this opens the link in a new browser tab or window)
- rel="nofollow" (this prevents search engines from following links to possibly bad neighbourhoods)
I rarely add the third tag (nofollow), except when I'm not sure I should be endorsing the referenced site. Google, for instance, place certain sites in 'bad neighbourhoods', and it's possible that by linking to those sites, without adding the 'nofollow' tag, that Google won't trust your content.
From an accessibility standpoint, using the target="new" tag breaks the 'back' button. Webnauts.net tell us to avoid forcing links to open in a new window, as this can be disorientating for those who don't know what happened.
Of course people can also manually choose to open links in a new window or tab, but this is one extra step that I previously thought it would be better to remove. This is where you come in.
What do you think?
I'm interested to know how you prefer links to open.
New window? Same window? Why do you prefer one over the other?
Update: 30 January 2008
With over 70 comments left inside 24 hours, this is clearly a topic you feel strongly about, on both sides of the debate.
I've arrived at the conclusion that I'll no longer add the target="new" tag to my site links. Indeed I've back-tracked and completely removed them from my new blog, Logo Design Love (opens in the same window). Thank you very much to everyone who has taken the time to leave your thoughts. I've learned a thing or two in the process.


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QuoteSunTzu_vs_Camus no biggee. Amen. Thanks for the thoughtful and respectful discussion.by EternalHorns - The Original HERD
He helped them win this game with his arm, not his legs. But maybe even more important, his leadership and his fire was infectious that night. I think he's going to be that guy in the NFL, not the mad-scrambling college QB Vick-wannabe you're predicting.by EternalHorns - The Original HERD
Wherever he lands, guys are going to give it their all for him. He just oozes leadership. I especially love that first clip.by EternalHorns - The Original HERD
Week 17, at Seattle... Rams 16 Seattle 21 12 seconds left for the NFC West title Rams ball on their own 44 yard line... Manziel gets the snap in the shotgun. The Seattle defensive line gets immediate push, but Johnny slips away, dodging two defenders, refusing to let the play break down. He hits Evans down field, but Sherman's up over the top and about to cream him... At the laby EternalHorns - The Original HERD
Why put up a smokescreen with Manziel this year when they had no interest in using a smokescreen with RG3 two years ago? RG3's hype was arguably even larger than Manziel's. My opinion: This is no smokescreen. Doesn't mean Manziel is their lock-solid pick at #2, but I do think their interest is sincere. I will no longer be shocked if Manziel ends up in horns.by EternalHorns - The Original HERD
From the Redskins, yes, they could have gotten more. Maybe not a lot more, but more. The very fact that they knew we wanted to get rid of that draft pick and still gave us a king's ransom shows that they probably would have given more if they actually thought they had to talk us out of using the pick. You know, the "LOL's," the derisive smileys, and the pronouncements that a given poby EternalHorns - The Original HERD
True or False: Fisher and Snead make public statements during the offseason indicating exactly the sort of moves they are going to make. I'm interested in your answer. In accusing me of "grasping and guessing" at the results of their statements, it seems you've conceded that the above statement is true.by EternalHorns - The Original HERD
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The #2 pick trade was a positive. It was poorly executed. If executed better, it could have been an even greater positive. But it's part of an overall pattern where the Rams front office frequently tells all 31 other GMs/Coaches exactly what they're going to do.by EternalHorns - The Original HERD
The Chiefs' coach has perennially gotten his teams into the playoffs. And indeed, he turned the Chiefs around from worst in the division to darn near best, had it not been for Denver. The Rams' coach has perennially fielded mediocre teams with the occasional good one, and sometimes makes the playoffs. He hasn't managed to get the Rams out of the bottom half of their division yet. So thingsby EternalHorns - The Original HERD
Care to actually rebut one of my points? I just outlined specific cases where Snead/Fisher told the world exactly what they were going to do. Your reply is, "C'mon! No one does that." Indeed. No one but Snead and Fisher, as far as I can tell.by EternalHorns - The Original HERD
Let's say you wake up one fine morning, take a nice hot shower, eat a filling breakfast, put on your best work clothes and head out to the car. Ruurrr... ruuurrrr... rurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... fwump. Shucks. The car's broke. Well, you had back inside. You make another cup of coffee. You have a second bagel. As you stew over the unhappy hit to your budget, you call around to half a dozen differby EternalHorns - The Original HERD
That's a compliment when you're talking about interpersonal relationships. It's an insult when you're talking about playing the strategic game of football. From day one of this regime, they have telegraphed every single move they were going to make. And if they didn't telegraph it, they made sure to just tell you outright what they were going to do. Right after Fisher was hired he made it cby EternalHorns - The Original HERD
Quotebrgjoe While other teams were making so called big signings the first wave of free agency last year, Seattle calmly waited and signed some guys on the 2nd wave that became key contributers to their Super Bowl run. So I think it's a wee bit early to start picking winners/losers in free agency yet. But that's just me. Joe C. Not a bad point. But consider the Snead/Fisher track recordby EternalHorns - The Original HERD
'Cause that's what I consider "just around the corner." If "The Plan" is to wait it out until 2015, then "The Plan" is going to end with four straight 7-9 / 9-7 seasons and a fired Fisher.by EternalHorns - The Original HERD
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Quotechunkmeister So, set the expectations for 2014 now......so we won't get too worked up. 2015 is the year that Snisher will rise up. Twenty smegging fifteen?!?!?! Are you kidding me?! How many times are Rams fans going to just lie down and say "next year?" I am so very sick and tired of waiting for next year. If Fisher doesn't make the playoffs THIS YEAR then he must be fired.by EternalHorns - The Original HERD
I'm curious if he's playing again this coming year. Any talk about him retiring? Just like to touch base on an old favorite :)by EternalHorns - The Original HERD
I don't know about the whole "fired" claim, but... I, too, am disappointed with the production we got out of him last year relative to the position he was picked at.by EternalHorns - The Original HERD
Watkins seems like the "no-brainer" pick. But then Snead has indicated that he really likes our current corp of WR's. A trade down is most likely, but that still doesn't tell us what they'll pick once they actually stand pat.by EternalHorns - The Original HERD
Quoteferragamo79 Brady, Manning, Brees and Rodgers.....won six of those last 10 Superbowls And they did it with plenty of roleplayers on the offensive side of the ball, not a bunch of high first round wunderkinds. Kind of puts into perspective the importance of finding a true franchise QB who actually produces wins.by EternalHorns - The Original HERD
"I want to win, and I'll do anything for those guys. I feel like this play right here is who I am every day--in football, in practice, whether it's a game, whatever. We needed that play and didn't know the outcome, if it was gonna be a fumble, if it was gonna be--but not on my watch, not while I'm on the field, was I gonna let somebody strip that ball on the one and take it back 99 yards toby EternalHorns - The Original HERD
In this thread, the "it's about time" comments will be tolerated. In this thread, the "who cares as long as he can play" comments will be tolerated. In this thread, I can guarantee you that my opinion will not be tolerated. So I won't vocalize it. And no, it's not what you think it is. So much for tolerance.by EternalHorns - The Original HERD
Always have been full of themselves. It's a Seattle culture thing.by EternalHorns - The Original HERD
Lots of holes to fill on the line. Can he move over? If he can, that helps a lot of with the number of holes we have to fill.by EternalHorns - The Original HERD
I'm pretty scrubby, too. I just don't want the Rams to be like me. :lolby EternalHorns - The Original HERD
I often find that I can predict what Schotty's going to do next. I suppose part of the blame may be on the receivers or on Bradford if it ends up being a check down. But when going toe to toe with laram, I dared not bring my own subjective experience. :biggrinby EternalHorns - The Original HERD
If you've never checked out this website before, it's a fascinating read. It's not something you can get through in 15 minutes, but it is worth reading at some point. Here's the point: you are destined to lose if you arbitrarily decide that a given option is "impossible" or "can't be done." Now, it's true that a given option may be unwise, or may be the wrong option forby EternalHorns - The Original HERD
Well, arguably, the jet lag scenario favors the teams on the west coast, Their body clock perceives the day as being earlier than the wall clock. On the flipside, the body clock of the Rams perceives the day as two hours ahead, potentially making them a little sleepier and more sluggish. That said, it's only two hours and I don't think it matters that much. You'd have to do a pretty big statisby EternalHorns - The Original HERD
I'm too lazy to go dig up the press conferences, but on more than one occasion, other teams said that they knew what we were going to do and they just shut it down. That's what I think a lot of people mean when they say Schotty isn't "creative." It's not about gimmicks, it's about catching the other team off guard. But like Sag responded to you in the other fork on this thread, we diby EternalHorns - The Original HERD


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May 8, 2013 | Volume 100 / Number 19
This weekend is a major one because of Sunday - Mother's Day. Plans have been in the making for a good while. I'm thinking of what to buy for that special lady or how to make the day a memorable one.
I remember my mother telling me and my brother, "I know you are going to give me a present for Mother's Day, but please don't give me any more dishes or pots or pans." What we did give her that year is lost in time, but I do know we listened to her.
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|Posted on May 25, 2011 at 10:45 PM
May the 20th saw the opening of the Lennox Head Community Centre a magnificent building in the heart of Lennox Head.
We were asked to provide audio and visual equipment for the speeches ,.choir and to display a visual slideshow of the history of the construction. Magnificent accoustics in the main sports hall.
A great facility for the Lennox Head community.
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Two NJ Crewmen Get 30 Months in Boat-Sinking Plot
Sometimes you sink the boat, and sometimes the boat sinks you.
Two crewmen were each sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison Tuesday after they pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in a failed plot to sink a fishing boat off the New Jersey coast nearly three years ago.
The men – -Erik James and Christopher Martin — admitted last year to engaging in a plot to sink the Alexander II, a fishing boat, in August 2009.
Federal prosecutors in New Jersey had alleged that the boat's owner was trying to collect on a $400,000 insurance policy. The boat's owner has since pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in the case and is awaiting sentencing.
James and Martin, who was also known as "Stickman," were allegedly recruited to serve as crew members and help sink the boat, prosecutors said.
The boat left Cape May, N.J., in August 2009 with little fuel, ice, food or other supplies for a purportedly lengthy fishing trip, prosecutors said. The boat's logs also were allegedly falsified to indicate that about 3,000 pounds of fish had been caught on the trip, prosecutors said.
When the boat reached a point about 86 miles southeast of Cape May, the crew allegedly attempted unsuccessfully to sink it by filling portions of the ship with seawater, prosecutors said. The ships bilge pumps were in working order at the time, prosecutors said.
They allegedly sent a distress signal and waited in a life raft to be rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard, prosecutors said.
"Mr. Martin is extremely remorseful for the role he played in that undertaking. He has fully accepted responsibility," said Stanley O. King, his lawyer. "He's sorry he took part in a senseless act such as this. He is ready to pay his debt to society."
King said that his client, a commercial fisherman by trade, was "under the influence" and "didn't exercise good judgment" the night of the incident.
"If given the opportunity, he would like to get himself clean and sober and resume his life as a fisherman," King said.
A lawyer for James declined comment.


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Today is the annual Boise State Broncos Blue and Orange scrimmage. We expect to see a range of plays that show top level offensive and defensive skills. The defense should win it again by design or not. Coach Pete has said that offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships, and judging from the earlier scrimmages this year, that is what he has: a defense that wins championships.
The only notable change to the team from last year is the absence of Kyle Wilson who is working his way into the NFL (Richie Brockel is gone, too but he did not play much last year due to injuries). So today should be a confidence builder for the next bowl projections.
BSU starts this season in the top five, which is the highest pre season ranking ever for BSU. So here it is: maybe BSU can run the table once again and go to the National Championship.
In all seriousness, what is it going to take to get BSU into the Mountain West so they can dominate that and finally get some respect?


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I have tried oatmeal, drinking lots more, taking cal/mag. I cannot pump so I haven't done that, but my supply keeps decreasing :(
I am looking for a Safe alternative. She LOVES almond milk but I'm not feeling great about lack of certain nutrients and low fat content. Not to mention the other ingredients that come with store-bought (though i have made my own so i can avoid that) She also likes whole milk cows milk (raw is illegal in my state but I make sure it's grassfed, no antib/hormones). Again lack of certain nutrients concerns, and hard on her belly at this age. I can't find goats milk in my area.
So, since giving her almond and cows-her wets and dirty's have increased and she seems to have plumped up, however she is now an aweful sleeper. Waking frequently with what seems to be gas pains. Her bum is also slightly red.
I've tried formula (baby's only) and she won't touch it!
I'm not feeling confident. I feel guilty for having to end my BFing relationship before we are both ready, and I just don't know what to do, and what is best for her health right now.
I should mention that she is a voracious solid food eater, consuming lots of avocados, eggs, yogurts and cheeses and healthy meats when possible. I also give her a fish oil daily and cook her eggs in coconut oil.
Does anyone have any recommendations on what I should do? Any success stories with a similar situation? Words of encouragement? TIA!!


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If you want to know who the current owner is, I can find that out for you. All I will need is the address of the property.
I understand and know first hand of your concerns.
I live down the street to a home in foreclosure and the yard was just a mess. I called the HOA, listing agent and Bank to try to get it cleaned up to no avail. Because everyone in the neighborhood was so tired of seeing this eyesore, my husband and some other neighbors spent the day cleaning up the landscape. It wasn't the best way to spend a Sunday, but it does look much better.


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Family heirlooms can be just about anything, as long as there is monetary or sentimental value attached. As heirlooms get passed down over time, their mystique grows. Many things are handed down from Grandmothers to Granddaughters, such as this recipe. Seems everyone has a family cobbler recipe similar to this blueberry cobbler.
This recipe is created in a cast iron skillet, that like the recipe has been handed down to many of the Grant family members. Cast Iron skillets are versatile in many ways and have become very popular with the younger generation. It is an American heritage across the country and has created not only great food, but wonderful family memories. Try this recipe to create your own family memories.
1/4 cup of farm fresh butter, melted
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 cup all self-rising flour
1 cup farm fresh whole milk
2 cups fresh picked blueberries , remove stems, rinsed and dried
Vanilla bean ice cream for serving with the cobbler
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Place the butter in a 10-inch cast iron skillet. Put the skillet in the oven while it preheats.
3. In a medium bowl, whisk a cup of sugar with the flour. Add milk and whisk until smooth.
4. Remove the skillet from the oven and swirl butter to evenly coat the skillet evenly, both bottom and sides.
5. Pour batter into the skillet and sprinkle with the blueberries. Sprinkle the remaining sugar evenly over the top.
6. Bake until golden brown and bubbly, about 40 minutes. Serve warm with a dollop of vanilla ice cream.
This recipes serves about 6.


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Ousted IRS chief: Errors not caused by politics
WASHINGTON (AP) - The ousted chief of the Internal Revenue Service is telling Congress that his agency made errors in targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, but he says the mistakes were not the result of partisan views. In a prepared statement, former acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller was ready to tell the House Ways and Means Committee today that the screening system agency workers set up was designed to deal with a growing caseload of groups seeking tax-exempt status. Miller said it was not due to "any political or partisan viewpoint."
It was just a COINCIDENCE that every one of the hundreds (if not thousands) of groups singled out for SPECIAL treatment were Republican leaning groups.
I would like to sell Steven Miller a bridge that I own, it is in a prime location, between Manhattan and Brooklyn. The selling price is very reasonable.
The AP and the Vindicator will spin this that it was only a coincidence that only conservative groups were harassed.
The Vindicator, true to form, does not seek out the truth, only that which fits their extreme liberal agenda.
The Vindicator believes a crooked liberal is better than an honest conservative.
Report the facts, not your viewpoint Vindy editors.
IRS: "WE were just stupid, not corrupt!"
What a joke! The "ousted" chief? He was already leaving! Unbelievable how corrupt this administration is, unbelievable.


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Tom P. Haney Technical Center's Automotive Service Technology program has been selected as one of the top twenty finalists for the Tomorrow's Technician/Chicago Pneumatic School of the year.
More than 170 entrants nominated more than 70 different high schools, technical schools and colleges. Reaching the Top 20 makes Haney's Automotive Program a member of an elite group of automotive educators.
Sandra Davis, Director of Haney, stated: "Haney automotive teachers are well trained and provide a wonderful opportunity for students who want to work in the auto industry. This is an excellent workforce training program for Bay County. I am proud of our teachers, students and business community partners who support this training and have made this recognition possible."
This is the second year that Haney has achieved this honor and recognition. Haney's Auto training program is nationally certified as an NATEF training center and also provides coursework and testing for ASE credentials.


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College Hockey:Back On Top: Wolverines Take Third Mason Cup In Four Years
DETROIT — With a 4-2 win over the Ohio State Buckeyes, the Michigan Wolverines captured their seventh CCHA postseason championship and the league's automatic NCAA tournament bid.
The Wolverines (30-7-3) welcome the Mason Cup back to Ann Arbor for the third time in the last four seasons, the only hiatus being last year's OSU championship at the expense of this same Michigan team.
"Beating the team that took a ring away from us last year is a great feeling," said Michigan forward Jeff Tambellini, the tournament MVP. "Any time you can beat Ohio State — with that rivalry they have with Michigan — it's a great feeling."
"It was a hard-fought game," said Wolverine head coach Red Berenson. "Ohio State's had a great year and they lived up to their billing tonight. It was a game that could have gone either way. There were a couple of strange goals for both sides. [Tambellini's] goal was from a bad angle, but it turned out to be the winning goal."
The teams exchanged more than just two fluky goals — Tambellini's game-winner at 5:27 in the third, which went in off of OSU's Jason DeSantis, and Buckeye JB Bittner's goal at 6:57 in the second, banked off of Wolverine Eric Werner's skate — but also swapped bench minors for too many men, and a host of penalties, including a near-bench-clearing confrontation when the whistle blew to end the second stanza, resulting in a total of 30 minutes of infractions.
And the game was close, in spite of Michigan's domination for the first 10 minutes of play. OSU's Dave Caruso made 34 saves, Michigan's Al Montoya 27, and with Caruso off in the final minute and the Wolverines ahead 3-2, the Buckeyes pressured enough to make it interesting for the 16,891 fans, most of whom were adorned in maize or blue.
"I thought our kids came in with a heck of an effort," said OSU head coach John Markell. "There's obviously disappointment in the dressing room, but I think they displayed the character that they've displayed throughout the season, but we move on."
Milan Gajic paced the Wolverines with two goals, Tambellini had one, and Jason Ryznar had the empty-netter at 19:59. Michigan was 2-for-10 on the power play while holding Ohio State scoreless in seven attempts.
Tom Fritsche and Bittner scored for the Buckeyes.
The Wolverines had their collective way with the Buckeyes for the first 10 minutes of the contest, limiting OSU to one shot on net while capitalizing on their first power play at 2:54, Gajic's first goal of the game. It was standard man-advantage fare, with Brandon Rogers passing from the right circle to Matt Hunwick at the top of the slot, and Hunwick one-touching it to Gajic at the left point. The Michigan senior let it rip and just dinged the top, near corner to give the Wolverines a 1-0 lead that they would carry into the second.
Michigan was so dominant in that first 10 minutes that the usually effective Ohio State power play could register no shots on its first attempt of the night, and the Buckeyes had difficulty clearing their own zone at all at even strength, icing the puck three times in the span.
"They came out flying and they came out hard, and you know the reason why probably for that? They've been thinking about it for a whole year exactly what happened in this game last year," said OSU assistant captain Rod Pelley.
"To tell you the truth, I don't remember any actual turning point except for us getting pucks deep and getting on their D."
After settling down, the Buckeyes picked up their pace with Tim Cook in the penalty box for hooking at 13:17 in the first, shooting again and again and forcing Montoya to make a major-league save on Dominic Maiani's pickup of Pelley's shot.
On that same power play, Buckeye Kenny Bernard put the puck in the net, but the goal was disallowed because referee Steve Piotrowski had blown the whistle. Montoya made an initial save on the shot from the point but did not hold onto the puck, which dropped and lay motionless in the crease for Bernard to tap home.
"The puck was held for a millisecond, and the whistle was gone," said Markell. "He [Piotrowski] lost sight of the puck. That was a legitimate goal. Any time you can score a goal in a game with this kind of magnitude — I think we had other mistakes, but that kind of goal being called back is positioning by the referee. We have to live with it."
That series on Cook's penalty seemed to awaken Ohio State, who took the second period with two goals to Michigan's one — all three scored within the span of 1:25 on the game clock.
The Buckeyes tied it, 1-1, at 5:32 on a two-on-one breakaway with Maiani making the play that led to Fritsche's goal. Maiani took the puck up the middle into the zone and dinged the puck off Michigan defender Jason Dest's skate on a get-around move. The puck bounced right back to the Maiani, who cleared Dest to make a shot, which Montoya saved. The crashing Fritsche found the rebound.
The Buckeyes found themselves on the penalty kill 30 seconds later with Nate Guenin in the box for charging. Gajic made quick work of that Wolverine power play to reclaim the lead for Michigan, putting in an awkward rebound of Brandon Kaleniecki's initial offering from close in at 6:46 to make it 2-1.
But just 11 seconds later, Bittner, in an attempt to make anything happen, threw the puck out from behind the Wolverine net to the crease, where it hit Werner's left skate and bounced back into the Michigan net, over Montoya's outstretched right leg to make it a 2-2 game.
On Tambellini's game-winning goal, the junior took it down the left wing and whiffed on his initial shot, sending it wide of the cage. DeSantis, attempting to clear around the boards behind the net, sent it straight back to Tambellini, who fired through the slot to Brandon Kaleniecki — but the puck hit DeSantis, camped with Kaleniecki at the right post, squarely in the chest, and caromed back past Caruso for Michigan's 3-1 lead.
"It's a typical Tambellini-kind of goal," said Tambellini. "I've scored half my goals in my career like that. I just shoot the puck, throw it to the net, and usually good things happen. We got a good bounce tonight."
At 19:59, Ryznar wrapped the puck around the Buckeye net from behind on the left side, with Fritsche in the goal trying to prevent the empty-netter.
Neither team seemed especially happy with the overall lack of even-strength play in the contest. "There were a lot of power plays," said Gajic. "I probably only played five or six five-on-five shifts for the entire game. You've got to go with what you're given."
Bittner said that Buckeye penalties contributed to their undoing tonight, "especially in the first period where we were trying to establish our game and we wound up killing penalties more than we wanted to. For us to play our game, we've got to stay out of the box more instead of killing penalties."
The love between the rivals — Michigan's biggest rivalry, said Tambellini after Michigan's semifinal win Friday — was evident from the start of the game, but threatened to get out of hand at the end of the second.
Toward the close of the period, just moments after he exited the penalty box, Buckeye Andrew Schembri appeared to have taken a two-handed slash from a Wolverine, and Matt Waddell went into defend him. The officials separated that trio, but as the buzzer sounded, half the bench from both teams spilled out onto the ice — and there was no need to reenter the ice, since both teams exit from their respective benches — in what could easily have become a brawl, were it not for the quick actions of assistant referees Kevin Langseth and John Philo to come between the squads at the red line.
For that altercation, Tambellini and Desantis were each given double minors for hitting after the whistle, Wolverine Chad Kolarik and Waddell each received two minutes for hitting after the whistle and two minutes for slashing, and Montoya and Buckeye Bryce Anderson were each assessed two minutes for unsportsmanlike conduct, with Anderson picking up the additional 10-minute misconduct.
"I thought we won the game on penalty killing and along the boards," said Berenson.
The Wolverines were already locked into the NCAA tournament before they earned Saturday's autobid.
"It was a great tournament to win and a great stepping stone into the NCAA tournament," said Berenson, who added that the CCHA title itself is "important … for the Michigan hockey program" and that his players "feel good about it."
The Buckeyes (27-10-4), on the NCAA tourney bubble for much of the season, will likely be the second team from the CCHA to earn an invitation.
"We'll see where we're seeded there tomorrow," said Markell. "We're obviously excited about it. We thought we earned the opportunity to participate, and this [game] was on our mind, but we'll think about it tomorrow.
"It's an opportunity to win a national championship. It's an opportunity to get back into our own dressing room."
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If it's getting too hot for you, then head up to Amelia Island this Saturday to catch the ocean breeze and chill out to some nice reggae vibes. The Amelia Island Sunsplash, a free reggae concert series at the beach, kicked off in June and has been giving area residents something to look forward to each month.
This month, the series continues on August 7 with live music from Scholar's Word and Fourth Dimension. This Saturday's events begin with a 9 a.m. beach cleanup, followed by an official ESA surfing contest, and a sandcastle competition. Like the previous weekends, 4-on-4 beach volleyball games will be ongoing from 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
The highlight of the Sunsplash is the reggae music, of course. Scholar's Word takes the stage at 1 p.m. The foursome specializes in conscious roots and dub, and has been touring up and down the East Coast this summer promoting their latest release, Perseverance. At 4 p.m., South Florida based Fourth Dimension takes over, with their bilingual Spanish-English roots reggae sound. The group played in the 2010 Super Bowl XLIV official concert series, and has opened for Julian Marley and Steel Pulse, among others. Their latest album, Invazion, was nominated for Best Reggae Song and Best Reggae Album in the 2009 JPF Awards.
Beach access is closed to vehicles during the Sunsplash, but a comfortable shuttle ride is available. To access it, park at the K-mart parking lot at 1525 Sadler Rd. in Fernandina Beach, and the shuttle will pick you up and drop you off directly at the beach access. The ride is cheap-only $1 per way per passenger, and most importantly, air-conditioned.
For more information or to register for the sandcastle contest or open volleyball, visit the Amelia Island Sunsplash website. Stay tuned to this column for pictures and a recap of the event. See you there!


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It's hard to believe that I am still finding recipes from the Pink Party from November that I need to post. When I catered the party, I was trying to come up with as many fun "pink" foods as I could. Since it seems like everyone loves chocolate chip cookies, I thought it would be fun to try to make Pink Chocolate Chip Cookies.
I used my favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, and just added Americolor Electric Pink to the batter. It is such an awesome color!
Pink Chocolate Chip cookies sounded good in theory…However, I should have been more liberal with the food coloring because it was not quite as pink as I thought it would be (due to the brown sugar in the cookies). The batter looked pink…
but after it baked, it was not nearly as vibrant as I hoped.
However, I also used Raspberry Dark Chocolate M&Ms which made for a cute "pink" addition to the cookies.
Overall, I thought the Pink Chocolate Chip cookies were adorable, and would definitely make them again for the next Pink Party!
But lesson learned… don't skimp on the food coloring when you are making food for a color themed party!)
Chocolate Chip Cookies (adjusted for High Altittude)
1 cup unsalted butter, softened OR 1 cup butter-flavored Crisco
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
1 T vanilla
2 eggs
2 3/4 – 3 cups all-purpose flour (in Colo Springs I used 2 3/4 cups flour, but in Denver I have found that I need to increase the flour another 1/4 cup for a total of 3 cups)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup chocolate chips or M&Ms.
1 cup coarsely chopped pecans (optional)
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. In an electric mixer, combine 1 cup butter (or Crisco) and brown sugar. Beat at medium speed until well blended. (Note: most cookie recipes call for Golden Brown Sugar…but I always use the Dark Brown Sugar because I think it gives the cookies a richer flavor. The sugar does make a difference in the cookie flavor, but you can use whichever one that you, personally, like the best)
3. Add 2 eggs and 1 T vanilla, and beat until fluffy.
4. Combine 2 3/4 cup flour, 1 tsp salt, and 1 tsp baking soda. On Stir speed (low), mix into batter just until blended. (Confession- I don't think cookie dough is very temperamental on mixing order, so I don't usually combine these ingredients in a "separate bowl"… why give yourself another bowl to wash?! I usually just throw the 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp baking soda to the batter, and mix on low until blended, and then I stir in the 2 3/4 cup flour- 3 cups. You should to check the cookie dough after you add the flour- it should just start to be a little dry…if it feels too soft, then add add a little more flour. Or if your cookies are flat instead of fluffy after you bake the first pan, then add more flour to the remaining dough mixture).
5. Stir in 1 cup chocolate chips (and pecan pieces, if using).
6. Drop dough by tablespoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheet (3 inches apart). Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
7. After removing from oven, allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 2 minutes. (This part is actually pretty important. I bake the cookies for the least amount of time- 8 min, but then make sure to cool them on the baking sheet for a full 2 minutes)
8. Remove to wire rack to cool.
Store in an airtight container. Makes about 36 cookies.