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- Understanding basic web principles
- Adding content to a web page
- Linking to web sites and email addresses
- Styling content with CSS
- Creating a layout that fits multiple browsers and devices
- Building an HTML5 layout
- Inserting images and video
- Adding a menu bar
- Creating a contact form
- Integrating a Twitter feed
- Uploading and testing a web site
Skill Level Beginner
Now the web is great because it allows me to communicate to the world, to get my message out there, but what if people need to contact me? Well, it is a two-way medium. Yhat's why I have the contact page open, because what I need to do here is go beyond just a link. So this actually will link out to this email address, but it launches the default email client, whatever they have on their machine. But what I want to implement is a form field--in fact, basically the ability to fill out a form and send me a message. Name, email, and the message, as well the Submit button.
So I'm going to close Safari, I'm going to go into my contact page, and then I'm going to delete those lines, just like that. And I'm going to go to the Insert panel, and I'm going to change that to Forms, okay. So that's what I have up. And I need to implement a Name field. That's going to be a text field. Well, there is actually a couple in here. And notice right up here near the top there's this Text Field, but as I scroll down I want to use this Spry Validation Text Field because this has additional functionality I could take advantage of.
So with my cursor right there, I can select Spry Validation Text Field, and I can go ahead and give it an ID. And in this case, it's going to be, you guessed it, Name. I'm going to leave everything else as is. Okay, you don't need to worry about any of that. You don't even need to worry about the label because I'm going to show you what you can do with the label. So, selecting OK, this is a message you'll get. It says, hey, do you want to add a form tag? And a form tag is just a tag that will encompass all of the different form fields and allow you to submit all of that information to wherever you want to send it.
So you do want to say yes here. And that form field is actually this red line. But this is my Spry Text Field that I've added. So I can select it. Now, the first thing I'm going to do is change the name of it. It says Spry Text Field over here. I'm going to get rid of that one, and I'm just going to call this--in fact I'm going to name this the nameTextField, okay, just like that. With that selected, I can take a look at all these different options I have because it's a Spry Validation Text Field.
So again, right down here I can add a hint, and this will be your name. As I enter that in, that's actually what will appear right in here. And I can always check that by clicking Live view. So there you can see that's exactly what I want, nice and efficient. I can have a minimum number of characters, a maximum number of characters, if I want to as well, but this is what I like. This Preview states is going to be required information. In fact, on Blur, so when you deselect it, I want it to say, hey you know what, a value is required, because you have to enter in your name if you want to be contacted back.
That's the whole idea, allow them to enter in their name and make it required, and that's what we need to do. I'm going to place my cursor over here and just hit Enter, because for my next field I'm going to add a Spry Validation Text Field. And in this case it's going to be email. That's the ID. I'm going to leave everything else alone. Nice and easy. Selecting that, changing this to emailTextField, like that. And as I select it I can give it a hint, Your Email--not your friend's email but your email.
And required on Blur, this is a required item as well. In this case, in the case of an email, I want to make sure they submit a valid email, so I'm going to change the Type to Email Address, okay. So that's going to recognize whether they have @ symbol and a period. Next up, hitting Return after I put my cursor on the end here, and now I need to implement a text area, okay. So selecting that, the ID is going to be message, selecting OK. Scrolling down, you can see it right here, and I want this to be a messageTextArea.
All right, so selecting that, I can take a look, and I can say hey you know what, minimum number of characters is one, maximum number of characters maybe like 500. Okay, not too many, but about 500. I don't need to get a long book delivered through this emailTextField. Nonetheless what I can do is I can include a counter, which I really like. I can say since I'm requiring a minimum of one but really a maximum of 500, I can say you know, what counts the characters remaining.
So I'll show you what that looks like. As far as validation, I want to validate it on Blur, just like I've been doing. I'd say that looks good. Even the hint might be Your Message. With all of that in place, in fact, I'm going to save this page now, and look what gets added, all these dependent files for text fields, text areas. That's good. Clicking Live view, you can see as I scroll down how this is set up. So I can type in your name, so right there. Well, let's click off to Your Email, so I'm actually going to come mess this up.
I'm going to do the @ sign but I'm not going to put a period, and as I defocus it, or blur it, it says hey you know what, this is an invalid format. So I'll type in the correct one and blur it, which means you know defocus that, and you can see that they're green, green means go. Right in here, I love your site, a couple of exclamation points. As I do that, you can see that character count right down here, change. Hey, why not add a couple extra exclamation points. I can click off of that as well.
This looks good. The last thing I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and add a Submit button. So I'm going to turn off Live view and just after that last element of that text area, I'm going to add a button. So right here I'm going to insert a button. ID again is going to be Submit. Select that, type that in. There is my Submit button. I can see, overall, everything looks pretty good. I like how this looks. It's actually going to work pretty well. And really, the next step with this form is to go ahead and actually implement the functionality, when you hit Submit, have it submit the data and even go to a Thank You page.


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OK, so I ran (and completed) my first Ultra on Saturday and had massive problems with my stomach. I could not keep anything down after about 15 miles. Threw up after eating about 1/2 mile out of each aid station. Felt much afterward but my pace slowed considerably after about miles 25. Ran almost the entire race with just water. What can I take to quiet my stomach and allow me to consume calories while on the course? The race was very hot and very hilly but I have always had problems with runs above about 22 miles. My stomach goes into revolt and refuses to cooperate. Heard that I might not be taking in enough salt and tried to take salt tablets but those would come up also. Looking for brands to try for salt or any other supplement that will allow me to continue on and race well in ultras in the future.
I hope that you have been having better luck with your stomach and trail running. Here is an article that talks about how to eat during ultra trail races.
I hope this helpls,
I'd guess that a lot of your issues on the day were stemming from it being really hot. I finished a half ironman last year in 100 degree heat with no shade but ended up in the med tent after the race due to dehydration. During the run I was having problems getting enough fluid into me much less food. Everything at the aid stations was out in the sun and therefore hot and hard to swallow. I froze my hydration pack bladder the night before which was a huge help. I also found during the run that ice provided at the aid stations was great in my jersey pockets to cool any food or gels. The cooler run off was nice on my legs too. I now swear by the margarita flavor shot blocks which have double the sodium of normal energy gels and won't do a race without some.
One other thing that I think I should mention is keeping the sun at bay on a hot race. I wore a white jersey and used arm coolers. If you're not familiar with them they're white sleeves that allow the heat out but give some good sun protection. Mine are from Nathan and I know Pearl Izumi makes some good ones too. I also modified my headsweats hat sahara style with some material from a football jersey to cover my ears and neck. It was great to dunk the hat in the ice bins at the aid stations and pour the cold water on the sleeves, I'm certain it allowed me to finish the race. The only other modification I'm thinking of is to make the neck piece into a pouch so I can put ice into it as well. That way the wind won't blow it around as much and I'll have icy water cooling my neck and back too.
Ok, the fashion police said I looked more like Lawrence of Arabia but under the circumstances I don't care. When you're highly stressed from the heat your body starts to shut down some systems like digestion so it's harder to get anything in. Do what you can to minimize the heat and it will be easier to eat and drink while you're on the course.
I hope that helps given it's been a while since the OP on this thread.
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"I am not saying here that there is no information in big data. There is plenty of information. The problem — the central issue — is that the needle comes in an increasingly larger haystack."
Nassim Taleb offers another way to look at big data
We're more fooled by noise than ever before, and it's because of a nasty phenomenon called "big data." With big data, researchers have brought cherry-picking to an industrial level.
Modernity provides too many variables, but too little data per variable. So the spurious relationships grow much, much faster than real information.
In other words: Big data may mean more information, but it also means more false information.
Still curious? Read Taleb's Noise And Signal excerpt from Antifragile.


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Labour Party activists in Manchester have come together to launch a social network, which is built around Twitter and that allows supporters to connect online, register their skills, and where others can ask for help.
Called Labour Exchange it uses social media to bring supporters and party members together and it nicely slots another piece of the modern campaigning jigsaw into place.
What it also does is recognise that the greatest asset of any organisation or party is its people and has worked out a way of doing something about that.
It echoes some of the efforts we've seen in the US such as the Obama Dashboard. The Dashboard if you have not seen it is the Obama campaign's all singing all dancing way to connect volunteers together, to telephone canvas and track campaign progress as well as quite a lot else.
The dashboard was recently described by the Guardian as Barack Obama's "secret weapon" that the Democratic Party hopes "will vastly increase its ability to mobilise volunteers and potential voters across the US".
The new tool, called Dashboard, is being seen as the possible Holy Grail of digital political organising, one that has eluded campaign chiefs for years. It is already being road-tested in several of the crucial swing states that Obama must hold onto if he is to remain in office.
The technology has been incorporated into the campaign's website, myBarackObama.com, and is expected to be made available to thousands of staff and volunteers across the country within the next 10 days. Its URL can be found through search, though it remains inaccessible to most Obama supporters until the launch, the Guardian reported.
Labour Exchange is a long way from that, but it fills part of that much needed gap in how political parties like Labour can get the most out of the resources they have available at a grassroots level and it adds to the tools that the Labour Party itself has developed, which still need much development.
It also starts to give a hint of the kind resource that parties from all sides will need come the 2015 general election in terms of digital campaigning. What's exciting is that we might also
Labour Exchange has been created by Labour members Matt Doughty and Grace Fletcher-Hackwood.
According to Fletcher-Hackwood they created Labour Exchange because "we believe Labour people have more to offer". She says one way to think of it is "a sort of Labour Gumtree".
"The Labour Party's members and supporters are our greatest asset. In fact, I'd go further than that – our members and supporters are awesome. We come from all walks of life and between us, I have absolutely no doubt that we have the skills and experience necessary for a successful General Election campaign in 2015.
"But when all these multi-talented people come along to a branch meeting or a street stall, are the talents they bring with them put to good use? In my experience, usually not. They're more likely to be handed a few hundred leaflets and told to watch out for the dog at number 11."
Labour Exchange is Fletcher-Hackwood's response to that gap between the political reality of local party meetings and the campaigning requirement. She says the party are hoping to use the site in Manchester in an up coming election battle and hopes other will too.
I still think that crowdsourcing of ideas has a bigger role to play in opening up debate in someway within political parties at a local level that can unite members across large constituencies.
Maybe that will be part of the digital campaigning re-organisation being talked of within the Labour Party, which desperately needs to happen.
In the past its "Campaign Engine Room" has been called a "mess" and its members area on the Labour Party website, MembersNet, suffers from under use.
There is talk that the party might use US software from NationBuilder. That was used by Ken Livingstone as part of his Mayoral campaign and by the SNP in Scotland to power a new snp.org to help it beat Labour in 2011.
NationBuilder like a lot of emerging campaigning platforms are social media based, about conversations and people, and easy to use. Their key is that they act as a digital reflection to how parties organise themselves which is key to any success digital platform.


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A coat fit for priests
By Simon Rocker, August 19, 2010
Trendy British fashion house All Saints are retailing this double-breasted coat for men for the autumn season.
It's 75 per cent wool, fully lined, and costs £250.
So what's it doing here rather than on the fashion pages?
Well, this stylish new item happens to be known as a "Cohen Coat".
Why would anyone call a coat Cohen? I wish I could say, but I'm still awaiting the answer from All Saints.
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Adrienne Bailon on Hanging Out With Rob Kardashian's Ex-Boo Rita Ora
- By Bossip Staff Categories: Lossip
Adrienne Bailon Talks About Ex's Ex on The Real
Seems like Adrienne Bailon is getting the last laugh. The Latina co-host decided to get real about her friendship with her ex Rob Kardashian's former boo, Rita Ora. The girls were previously snapped hanging out and sharing a laugh…possibly about Robcito?
In case you missed it, watch the clip and let us know if you agree with being friends with your ex's ex. We are team Tamar on this one!


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2014-15 Concert Season
Sunday, October 12, 4 PM, FORD HALL
David Hertzberg: Spectre of the Spheres (2013)
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op.43
Miri Yampolsky, piano
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, op.35
Sunday, November 16, 4 PM, FORD HALL
Schuller: Tuba Concerto No.2 (2011)
Aaron Tindall, Tuba
Brahms: Symphony No.3, op.90, F major
Monday, December 8, 8:15 PM, FORD HALL
Graduate Recital – Tiffany Lu, conductor
Debussy: Prélude à "L'après-midi d'un faune" (Afternoon of a Faun)
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, op.14 (Fantastic Symphony)
4. Marche au supplice (March to the Scaffold)
5. Songe d'une nuit du sabbat (Dream of a Witches' Sabbath)
Sunday, February 1, 4 PM, FORD HALL
Graduate Recital – Paul Grobey, conductor
Rossini: La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie): Overture
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1, I (High School Piano Competition Winner)
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet overture-fantasy
Saturday, February 21, 2015, 9:30 AM, FORD HALL
Audition Day Performance, (Pines)
Sunday, March 1, 2015, 4 PM, FORD HALL, Annual Concerto Competition Concert
Gandolfi: Night Train to Perugia (2012)
Concertos, TBA 45' max.
Respighi: Pini di Roma, P.141 (Pines of Rome)
Sunday, April 26, 2015, 4 PM, FORD HALL
Brahms: Concerto for Piano, No.1, op.15, D minor
Charis Dimaras, piano
Sibelius: Symphony No.5, op.82, E-flat major
Saturday, May 2, 2015, 4 PM, FORD HALL
Sixth Ithaca International Conducting Masterclass Concert (Sibelius/Brahms, tba)


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Ichabod's Web Page
Okay, I'm vaguely trying to make this Ichabod central on the web. I went for quite a while without a serious internet connection. But I got a cable modem about a year ago and now I'm out there in various places.
If you wish to contact me, my email is obrien at xenomind dot com.
Craig O'Brien
Who am I? I'm a Buddhist Quaker, born in 1970 and raised in Virginia. The best way to descibe my education is that I effectively have a bachelor's in linguistics, with minors in artificial intelligence, philosophy, and comparative religion, and a master's degree in statistics. I am currently working in Maryland as a mathematical statistician for the Consumer Product Safety Commission. However, it would be more correct to describe my job as an overpaid clerk who sometimes does a little database programming. My main hobby these days is Chess, but I still love programming Python.
Where I Am
I am on Facebook as Craig William O'Brien
I have a blog on Blogger under the title Craig Dreams. It's just a handy place for me to store my dreams. I've been writing them down on and off for years in the hopes of having another lucid dream. I got back into it, and I just doing it to help me remember the weird places my dreams take me.
I play Chess on Chess.com under the user name ichabod801. I play a lot of Fischer Random here, and I like games with 3 days or more per move.
I also play Chess on SchemingMind.com, again under the user name ichabod801. Here I play more variants. I like the variants available here, but I like the interface better at Chess.com.
Semi-Current Projects
I have been programming game files for Zillions of Games, which provides a platform for making your own abstract board games, which can then be played online or against the computer. I have one for Seirawan Chess, and one for my own variant Upgrade Chess. I may come out with some more in the future. These are zip files, with the zrf (Zillions Rules File) for the game, a subset of the Alfaerie Variant Chess Graphics for the pieces, and an explanatory readme file.
I used to practice Zen, but I split from Zen because I think Zen (and especially my Zen teacher) over emphasize meditation. I have been trying to develop a broader understanding of the Buddha's teaching, and may post what I come up with at a later date.
I'm working on a game tracking program for chess variants named Adjutant. It's kind of like Zillions of Games, but it is focused on chess variants, it is only for tracking games you are playing online, and it is based on an XML description of the games. I got stalled out after doing the planning, but I hope to get back into the programming soon.
Dead Projects
Codupyga: This is my game, a programming game based on the ancient Indian game of Chaturanga and it's many variants. You may know some of them: Chess, Shogi, Xiangqi, and many others. This project died due to lack of interest.
Poker Variants: A collection of 1,201 different ways to play poker, with four different indexes, stats for each game, and organized by variants and sub-variants. This is the largest collection of poker variants. This project died because the Texas Hold'em craze killed dealer's choice games.


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Mean Geri Halliwell booed at X Factor auditions
But, despite receiving huge applause on taking seat next to Cheryl Cole, 26, Louis Walsh, 57, and Simon Cowell, 50, Ginger Spice saw the atmosphere in the hall changing pretty soon. And, the Fiery Geri, 37, started being so cruel during her one-off stint on the panel that the audience said she was "worse than Simon".
At one stage, show fans even urged to bring Minogue back to the judge;s panel. "Bring back Dannii! Bring back Dannii!" the Daily Stra quoted the crowd as chanting. An insider said: "It all started off well for Geri and then she blew it. She was quite mean. Even the other judges were a bit taken aback by some of her comments. She even outdid Simon Cowell. Some people were saying: Thank God she"s only a stand-in."


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Montrose (album)
|Studio album by Montrose
|October 17, 1973
|Hard rock, heavy metal, blues rock
|Warner Bros.
|Ted Templeman
|Montrose chronology
|Ronnie Montrose chronology
|Sammy Hagar chronology
|Professional ratings
|Review scores
Montrose is the debut album by the California-based hard rock band Montrose released in 1973 on the Warner Bros. label. It was produced by Ted Templeman. The album marks the recording debut of vocalist Sammy Hagar, who would later achieve international success as a solo artist and member of Van Halen.
After having done session work for various musicians including Van Morrison, Herbie Hancock and Edgar Winter, Montrose was Ronnie Montrose's first record leading his own band which featured Denny Carmassi on drums, Bill Church on bass, and a then-unknown Sammy Hagar (at that time 'Sam Hagar') on vocals.
While considered a classic by many hard rock fans, tracks from the album received scant radio airplay, with "Rock Candy" and "Bad Motor Scooter" being notable exceptions. It has been reported that the band's label, Warner Bros., did not know how to market Montrose, and, already having the Doobie Brothers and Deep Purple to cover the rock and hard rock genres, saw the band as something of a redundancy on their roster of artists. Though the album was not a big seller upon its initial release, peaking at #133 on the U.S. Billboard chart, it eventually proved to be an international sleeper hit which over a period of several decades has sold in excess of one million copies, attaining platinum status. Often cited as 'America's answer to Led Zeppelin', it is held to be highly influential amongst hard rock/heavy metal musicians including Iron Maiden, who have recorded and/or performed cover versions of songs from the album. Some critics have arguably labeled it the "first American heavy metal album".
Ronnie Montrose chiefly used a Gibson Les Paul, a Fender Bandmaster amp, and a Big Muff fuzzbox by Electro-Harmonix to record the Montrose album.[2]
"Make It Last" was covered by Van Halen in their early club days (available on Van Halen bootlegs).
The album was voted as the 4th best Metal Album of All Time by Kerrang! Magazine in 1989.
Iron Maiden has recorded & performed several cover versions of songs from the album, including "Space Station #5", which was released as the B-side of their single "Be Quick or Be Dead" (1992).
Punk band Stiff Little Fingers used the riff from the "Space Station #5" for the introduction on their single "Suspect Device" (1978).
European release[edit]
In 1974, the album was released in Europe via Germany under the title Rock the Nation. This version featured a track listing which duplicated the U.S. release but featured a different front sleeve image that replaced the band's photo with that of a large-busted blonde girl sporting a pink see-through blouse.[3]
Track listing[edit]
- "Rock the Nation" (Ronnie Montrose) – 3:03
- "Bad Motor Scooter" (Sammy Hagar) – 3:41
- "Space Station #5" (Hagar, Montrose) – 5:18
- "I Don't Want It" (Hagar, Montrose) – 2:58
- "Good Rockin' Tonight" (Roy Brown) – 2:59
- "Rock Candy" (Denny Carmassi, Bill Church, Hagar, Montrose) – 5:05
- "One Thing on My Mind" (Hagar, Montrose, J. Sanchez) – 3:41
- "Make It Last" (Hagar) – 5:31
- Sammy Hagar – lead vocals
- Ronnie Montrose – guitar
- Bill Church – bass
- Denny Carmassi – drums
- Produced by Ted Templeman
- Engineered by Don Landee and Stephen Jarvis
- Mastered by Steve Hoffman
- Montrose; "Montrose" liner notes; Warner Brothers Records 1973
- All Music Guide [1]
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ "Ronnie Montrose | Vintage Guitar® magazine". Vintageguitar.com. 2002-10-28. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
- ^ "Welcome To The Number One Sammy Hagar Discography". Redrockerdiscography.com. Retrieved 2012-03-02.


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The World; Why America Outpaces Europe (Clue: The God Factor)
By NIALL FERGUSON
Published: June 8, 2003
OXFORD, England— IT was almost a century ago that the German sociologist Max Weber published his influential essay ''The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.'' In it, Weber argued that modern capitalism was ''born from the spirit of Christian asceticism'' in its specifically Protestant form -- in other words, there was a link between the self-denying ethos of the Protestant sects and the behavior patterns associated with capitalism, above all hard work.
Many scholars have built careers out of criticizing Weber's thesis. Yet the experience of Western Europe in the past quarter-century offers an unexpected confirmation of it. To put it bluntly, we are witnessing the decline and fall of the Protestant work ethic in Europe. This represents the stunning triumph of secularization in Western Europe -- the simultaneous decline of both Protestantism and its unique work ethic.
Just as Weber's 1904 visit to the United States convinced him that his thesis was right, anyone visiting New York today would have a similar experience. For in the pious, industrious United States, the Protestant work ethic is alive and well. Its death is a peculiarly European phenomenon -- and has grim implications for the future of the European Union on the eve of its eastward expansion, perhaps most economically disastrous for the ''new'' Europe.
Many economists have missed this vindication of Weber because they are focused on measures of productivity, like output per hour worked. On that basis, the Western European economies have spent most of the past half-century spectacularly catching up with the United States.
But what the productivity numbers don't reveal is the dramatic divergence over two decades between the amount of time Americans work and the amount of time Western Europeans work. By American standards, Western Europeans are astonishingly idle.
According to a recent study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the average working American spends 1,976 hours a year on the job. The average German works just 1,535 -- 22 percent less. The Dutch and Norwegians put in even fewer hours. Even the British do 10 percent less work than their trans-Atlantic cousins. Between 1979 and 1999, the average American working year lengthened by 50 hours, or nearly 3 percent. But the average German working year shrank by 12 percent.
Yet even these figures understate the extent of European idleness, because a larger proportion of Americans work. Between 1973 and 1998 the percentage of the American population in employment rose from 41 percent to 49 percent. But in Germany and France the percentage fell, ending up at 44 and 39 percent. Unemployment rates in most Northern European countries are also markedly higher than in the United States.
Then there are the strikes. Between 1992 and 2001, the Spanish economy lost, on average, 271 days per 1,000 employees as a result of strikes. For Denmark, Italy, Finland, Ireland and France, the figures range between 80 and 120 days, compared with fewer than 50 for the United States.
All this is the real reason that the American economy has surged ahead of its European competitors in the past two decades. It is not about efficiency. It is simply that Americans work more. Europeans take longer holidays and retire earlier; and many more European workers are either unemployed or on strike.
How to explain this sharp divergence? Why have West Europeans opted for shorter working days, weeks, months, years and lives? This is where Weber's thesis comes up trumps: the countries where the least work is done in Europe turn out to be those that were once predominantly Protestant. While the overwhelmingly Catholic French and Italians work about 15 to 20 percent fewer hours a year than Americans, the more Protestant Germans and Dutch and the wholly Protestant Norwegians work 25 to 30 percent less.
What clinches the Weber thesis is that Northern Europe's declines in working hours coincide almost exactly with steep declines in religious observance. In the Netherlands, Britain, Germany, Sweden and Denmark, less than 10 percent of the population now attend church at least once a month, a dramatic decline since the 1960's. (Only in Catholic Italy and Ireland do more than a third of the population go to church on a monthly basis.) In the recent Gallup Millennium Survey of religious attitudes, 49 percent of Danes, 52 percent of Norwegians and 55 percent of Swedes said God did not matter to them. In North America, by comparison, 82 percent of respondents said God was ''very important.''
So the decline of work in Northern Europe has occurred more or less simultaneously with the decline of Protestantism. Quod erat demonstrandum indeed!
Weber's vindication has profound implications for the next year's enlargement of the European Union, when the Baltic States, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and the Czech and Slovak Republics will become full European Union members.
A crucial feature of this enlargement, compared with those of the 1970's and 1980's, is that the material gap between old and new members is far wider this time. In 1974, the richest old member (Luxembourg) was twice as rich as the poorest new member (Ireland) in terms of per capita gross domestic product. Today, the average Luxembourgeois is more than five times richer than the poorest new member (Lithuania).


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Definition of sea squirt in English:
sea squirt
A marine tunicate that has a baglike body with orifices through which water flows into and out of a central pharynx.
- Class Ascidiacea, subphylum Urochordata.
Example sentences
- The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make it its home for life.
- Because, in all honesty, the sea squirt doesn't really eat its own brain - it consumes and reuses its nervous system for new purposes.
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Dried peas have a history going back thousands of years. Originating in the Middle East, their use spread quickly to the Mediterranean region and then to China and India. Actually, it was the cultivation of peas in Europe that helped to stave off the famine in England in the 16th century.
Peas are most often used in their split form. The split pea has an earthy flavor and they are similar to lentils in their use and nourishment. Split peas usually break down while cooking and are, therefore, great for making thick soups and purées. I am offering two recipes this week: Split Pea Soup and Purée of Split Peas.
Soupe aux pois cassés
Preparation and cooking time: 1 hr. 10 min.
- 2 tbsp. vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup onion, peeled and diced
- 1/2 cup carrot, peeled and diced
- 1/2 cup celery, diced
- 1 cup smoked ham, diced
- 4 cups water
- 2 cups chicken broth (canned or homemade)
- 1 1/2 cups green split peas, rinsed
- 1/2 tsp. rosemary
- 1/2 tsp. thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- pepper, to taste
Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add the onion, carrot and celery. Cook for about 10 minutes. (Do not let brown) Add the ham and cook for about 3 minutes. Add the water, broth, split peas, rosemary, thyme, bay leaf and pepper. Simmer for about 50 minutes.
NOTE: If desired, a soup spoon of heavy cream can be added to the soup bowls when serving.
Puree de pois cassés
Split pea purée
For 4 person
Cooking and Preparation time: 1 1/2 hrs. – 2 hrs.
- l lb. split peas
- 2 ozs. slab bacon, diced
- 2 tbsp. butter
- 1 carrot, peeled and sliced in rounds
- 1 onion, peeled and sliced in rounds
- 1/2 tsp. sugar
- 1 tsp. thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- salt and pepper, to taste
Put the peas in a pot of unsalted cold water. Bring to a boil. Lower heat. Let simmer for 15 minutes. Drain.
Brown the bacon in 1 tbsp. of butter for three minutes. Add the carrot, onion, split peas, sugar, thyme and bay leaf. Add water to cover.
Cover the pot and let simmer for 1-1 1/2 hours. Add salt after 40 minutes of cooking time. If necessary, add more water. Drain the peas. Puree in a food processor. Add pepper and the remaining butter. Serve with grilled sausages or grilled meat—pork, lamb or beef.
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Definition of food coma in English:
food coma
A state of sleep or extreme lethargy induced by the consumption of a large amount of food: I fell into a post-dinner food coma
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- I couldn't resist a double espresso for dessert, which was necessary to ward off a food coma at work.
- Others lounge around in their living rooms in a food coma, amid piles of crumpled wrapping paper.
- Afterwards, I sat in a food coma for some time waiting for the Superbowl festivities to begin.
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- an inordinate amount of moneyuna cantidad exorbitante de dinerohis inordinate love of moneysu desmedido or desmesurado amor por el dinerothey are making inordinate demandslo que piden es excesivoExample sentences
- She testified that the project was creating an inordinate amount of paper work, far in excess of the norm.
- And so they love ease and repose for their pleasure, but they keep themselves from inordinate excess.
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ICOP Wins Bid to Supply Digital In-Car Video to Law Enforcement Agency in Illinois County
Today, ICOP Digital, Inc., an industry-leading company engaged in advancing digital surveillance solutions, announced that pursuant to its response to a Request for Proposal issued by one of the largest counties in Illinois, the Company has been notified that it has won the bid to equip the County's sheriff office's fleets with ICOP Model 20/20®-W digital in-car video systems.
Pursuant to its winning bid, ICOP has received an initial order valued at approximately $52,000. Following the determination of logistical protocols for installation and user training, phased fleet deployment of the ICOP Model 20/20-W in this agency is expected to occur as funding is approved. The total number of squad cars comprising this agency's fleet is approximately 90.
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The ICOP Model 20/20®-W, ICOP's flagship, award-winning product, is the leading digital in-car video recorder system for law enforcement. ICOP LIVE™ delivers live streaming video to and from first responder vehicles and headquarters, empowering first responders with enhanced real-time situational awareness and actionable intelligence, optimizing the outcome of a crisis. ICOP LIVE delivers live video wirelessly to first responders over any wireless network and to multiple internet enabled Windows® devices simultaneously. The ICOP Model 4000™, ICOP's newest advanced surveillance solution, is the next generation transit/rail DVR system. The ICOP Model 4000 uses less power than traditional DVR's, which means less heat and translates into a more reliable unit with less downtime. In addition, the ICOP Model 4000 boasts many advanced and innovative features and capabilities, such as wireless file uploading and wireless video streaming, among many others.
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A Modest Proposal
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It is a melancholy object to walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags and all importuning every passenger for an alms. (1)
One of Swift's favorite topics was how everyone in Ireland was as poor and miserable except the tippy-top classes. Check out "Causes of the Wretched Condition of Ireland" (1726) for a quick rundown of his serious thoughts.
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These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg for sustenance for their helpless infants, who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbados. (1)
The narrator is basically saying that the Irish would rather become traitors or slaves than suffer through poverty. Pretty extreme, right? It's half true: many of the poorest Irish citizens sold themselves to sugar plantations in the West Indies to get out of Dodge.
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I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children in arms, or on backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is, in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance. (2)
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Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says officials need to do a better job of cracking down on the illegal sale of medication on the internet.
Hood says many people are buying painkillers and other medications online, thinking they will help more than medications you would normally purchase at a drug store.
"People think they can get their drugs cheaper over the internet and they think they are actually buying the legitimate drug when they are not," Hood says. "They are made in china and they look like they are the legitimate product. But we're seeing a large increase in that area and it's endangering our citizens."
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I just reached KL Sentral and was feeling really hungry....I still have 1 hour plus before my train departure. And it took the train 3 hours to reach Ipoh...Anyway, I decided I need to feed my stomach first before going into the train....I chose KFC this time around.
After I ordered and while waiting for my orders, I saw this advertisement about DONATING to the poor who do not have enough to eat by buying a notepad....RM2.
I felt that I need to play my part and yup...I bought myself that small notepad which I'm sure doesn't cost RM2. Anyway I think it's all part of what we can do to make this world a better place. Giving a little space to make a better place!!
And here is the food that I ate: Jom Jimat SET B...
Probably I was hungry but the food really was fantastic!!
Alright...another story that really hit me today was how people get all excited about "FREE" stuff. As I was walking to KFC, I saw this lady who kept avoiding those people who are recommending or selling stuff in KL Sentral. In fact, she was rushing...until another girl that suddenly said "free". And she stopped. Then the girl explained about the free H1N1 Prevention Medical Kit.
I took one myself when another guy approached me.
I guess I'm gonna bring it home for someone else to use...loL!!
Well, that's all...signing off from KFC in Sentral KL...


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Delta Airlines in-flight magazine lauds our sustainability stance and Smoked Salmon
by Craig Weatherby
Folks who fly Delta this month may discover that were featured in Delta Skythe airline's in-flight magazine.
The editors chose to feature us in the current issue because our strong sustainability stance fits with its Green theme.
Writing in the publications Pie in the Sky column, writer David Bailey notes that we offer only superior, sustainably harvested seafood and enjoy a recommendation from bestselling natural health author Andrew Weil, M.D.
Heres the first line of Mr. Baileys laudatory blurb:
If you think theres no difference between farm-raised salmon and the wild variety caught in the icy waters of Alaskafilleted and flash-frozen within hours of harvestthen you havent tried Vital Choice salmon.
Mr. Bailey went on to offer particular praise for the variety of luscious choices in our Smoked Salmon Pack.
An office in full swoon over great Salmon
David Bailey wrote us after receiving the magazines requested samples to relay the reactions of the staff. We were gratified by the reactions of the Delta Sky staffers who tried our seafood.
To quote him, they were stunned by how fresh and delicious the salmon was and by the subtle difference between the varieties. Further testament... was in the testimony of one of our staff members, whod never tasted Salmon in her life. Seeing us descend upon the table like hungry wolves, she asked to try it and we prepared her some of the candied Salmon with just a bit of cream cheese on toast. As soon as it disappeared into her mouth, she became a convert!
His note ended with more welcome words: Its one thing to see food in a catalogue thats been styled and quite another to see it looking every bit as appetizing as it did in the catalogue after being processed, shipped thousands of miles and thawed. An added benefit was knowing that we were eating something that was not only delicious, but also good for us.
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Published 18/06/2014 | 02:30
Met Eireann is forecasting temperatures to rise above the mid-20s by the middle of the week – a full eight months after Kiwi weather guru, Ken Ring, issued a similar prediction last October.
Met Eireann's summary of the week said that today will be a very warm day, with top temperatures 19C to 23C, best in the mid-west and west.
"Wednesday will also be very warm, and values may well peak at 24C or 25C, in the midlands, mid-west and west," they said.
Mr Ring accurately predicted showery conditions for the first half of June, with temperatures rising into the mid-20s by June 24-25 during a dry and sunny second half to the month. And the New Zealander is optimistic for more good weather until September.
In January 2013, Mr Ring, who uses moon cycles to make his long range weather forecasts, correctly predicted the scorching summer ahead and indicated that July 9 would be the hottest day at 30C. The official temperature recorded for the day was 29.8C.
He has published a 450-page Weather Almanac for Ireland with detailed weather predictions for each day of the year and collects regular data from several weather monitoring stations which he has positioned around Ireland.
In relation to 2014, he said that no records would be broken, nor would there be any lasting heatwave similar to 2013. However, he was still optimistic about the months ahead.
"The summer is expected to be sunnier and warmer than average. The most settled periods are during the last 10 days of each month of the season. In particular, the last weeks of June and July may be significantly dry, warm, bright and sunny".
He also predicted that temperatures in July will stay "fairly constantly in the 20s" after July 19, with the final days in the month possibly among the hottest for the season.
He also predicts temperatures of 20-21C throughout August and "after some rain up to September 6-8 it goes dry all the way to the end of the month and into the first days of October".
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Stephen Harper, Justin Trudeau, and Andrew Coyne, among others, are wrong to suggest separatism was recently defeated by Quebec voters. Well they aren't just wrong, they're hypocritical.
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During the second semester of my 1L year Professor Engler, director of the clinic program, hosted an informational session about the school's existing placements and his regular practice of matching clinics with students' specific interests. He worked with me to secure a placement with Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services (MCLS) for the first semester of my 2L year, through the school's Public Interest Law Seminar and Clinic.
MCLS is a not-for-profit corporation, dedicated primarily to assisting prisoners pursue legal remedies for issues related to their confinement, such as guard brutality and health care. I researched a variety of subject areas, learned about the complexities of class action suits, helped to synthesize data reports regarding the results of surveys and studies conducted by the organization, and corresponded with prisoner clients by phone, mail, and through in-person visits. My most memorable trip was to Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center. My experience at this maximum security facility opened my eyes to its inner-workings and to the unique challenges associated with housing large prisoner populations with diverse needs.
I followed my clinic with a course in prisoners' rights and then with an internship with the Pro Se Staff Attorney at the Federal District Court, working largely with prisoners' complaints. Coupling relevant courses with my clinics and internships allowed me to specialize in an area of real interest to me.
I ended my law school experience with the Criminal Procedure II Clinic, which set me up with the District Attorney's Office in Roxbury, where I was a student attorney practicing under the student practice rule, SJC Rule 3:03. Two weeks into my clinic I was standing before the court in arraignments and at the end of my first month I was negotiating plea agreements with defense attorneys, collecting discovery, standing at pretrial hearings, and arguing motions.
In the course of one semester I was offered the opportunity to prepare for two jury trials. While both cases pled out the day of trial, the preparation offered a great learning opportunity. Our supervisor deemed us "student prosecutors" and treated us as assistant district attorneys (ADAs), expecting that we maximize our courtroom experience; he never allowed a student to be stuck behind a desk with the task of simply filing paperwork. We worked as a team and ADAs gladly acted as mentors and voluntarily hosted training sessions; one even took me on a "field trip" to Boston Police Department's Latent Fingerprint Lab to learn about the process of lifting prints off evidence.
I have only great things to say about New England Law's clinical programs, and am especially grateful for the experience and networking opportunities. If I were to give only one piece of advice to incoming students it would absolutely be to take advantage of these programs.
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Our mission is to make a positive difference to the planet, our customers, and our teammates. Don't Pay For Solar Here's How It Works! Step 1: Getting Started Your Credit Score: 640+ to Finance or 700+ To Lease Your Federal Tax Appetite: You may qualify for a 30% credit of your out of pocket solar costs. Easy Math Version: $20K Solar Cost = $6K Credit. If you payed $6K in federal taxes the year you installed solar, the $6K credit would zero that out. You'd pay no federal taxes. If you payed only $3K in federal taxes, you could roll the rebate over into the next year and pay $0 federal taxes two years in a row to use the whole credit. If you don't pay federal taxes or don't pay enough to use the full credit in X number of years... you can get the same benefits by leasing or using a PPA. Your Area's PACE/HERO Eligibility: Property Assessed Clean Energy - Allows you to finance solar on your property taxes 10% equity in your home is required, but there are no FICO score requirements. Must be current on taxes, mortgage, and have no bankruptcies in the last several years. Hopefully, you're fortunate enough to have a good credit score, a tax appetite (meaning you can take advantage of the solar tax credit), and/or live in an area where P.A.C.E. – A.B. 811 financing is available. If you are so lucky, you will have LOTS of financing options at your fingertips when you are ready to go solar. Step 2: Have the Utility Pay OK, so now you're probably asking yourself, what does all this have to do with the Utility paying for my solar system? Essentially, it has everything to do with it. Let me explain. Let's say that today you're spending $250 per month on average with your electric company. You're pretty much stuck paying the utility for that electricity if you enjoy things such as lighting, refrigeration, air conditioning, washing and drying your clothes, etc. Additionally, since 1971 (according to the CPUC – California Public Utility Commission) your electricity rates have increased on average 6.7% annually with the bulk of the increases concentrated in the three upper electricity tiers. Using the magic of compound interest, if the current trend of the last 42 years persists you're $250 monthly electric bill becomes $448 per month by 2023 - $250(1+0.067)^10=$448. Even more startling, over the course of 10 years, you will have paid $40,866.64 to the electric company. With today's home solar prices, that amount of money would buy you a 10-12 kilowatt high efficiency solar system – significantly more power than what is needed to eliminate a $250 monthly bill! Step 3: Putting Money in the Bank Consider this... If your average electric bill is $250 today, and you payed the incredibly high price of $40,866.64 for a solar system (the amount you'd pay the utility at a minimum anyway)- it takes you a full 10 years to pay that off with your chosen financial vehicle and diverted utility payments (as you'll see... I did it in 6) and we consider a 25 year useful life for the solar panels and a 12 year useful life for inverters (though some today are 25 year products). Then, you would avoid paying the utility another $135,903.52!! The Math: [$250(1+0.067)^25]-$40,866.64 - $5000 (inverter replacement). If you can pay it off sooner, the savings become even more compelling. Step 4: A Real World Example So the question is: how do I get the Utility to pay for my solar system so that I can save tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars? The answer is incredibly simple. I'll use myself as an example. In 2007, my monthly electric bill was $220 per month. Applying the same calculus to my own situation, I figured that in 10 years I would have paid $35,962.64 for electricity supplied by local utility. A solar system to suit my needs (after rebates and tax credits) came in at $21,500. Solar, therefore, seemed like a no brainer. In fact, six years in I've saved $18,742.45 with one year left for the system to pay for itself. To be honest, I really didn't feel like writing a check for $21,500, so I did what many of my savvy finance mentors recommended – I used O.P.M – otherwise known as 'other people's money'. I simply used my HELOC (home equity line of credit) to buy the solar system and DIVERTED MY MONTHLY UTILITY PAYMENTS to the bank that loaned me the money. A few interesting things happened: My loan payment was $157/month (saving ~ $63/month over the utility payment). I could write off the interest since solar is a home improvement thereby increasing the monthly savings to ~ $118/month. My home appraised for $22,000 more after the solar was installed upon refinancing it a year later. The improvement did not increase my property taxes. Due to some additional fiscal conservatism on my part, I diligently paid down the principal and now own my solar system outright and have an extremely low annual electric bill ($58 in 2012). Step 5: What it Means for You A lot has changed since I redirected my utility payments into a home solar system back in 2007? The good news is that today there are many more financing options available than were available to me. Better news is that with home values coming back from the dead, home equity and other types of home improvement loans are once again readily available after half a decade of recession. You options today include: Solar Lease or PPA from SunRun or another source that allows you to save some money out of the gate and increase savings over time as utility rates continue their unceasing march upward. You're paying the utility anyway; why not take control of your power by redirecting utility payments into this money saving option. SunRun is perfect for those of you who can't realize the tax credit and/or like the idea of a 20 year hassle free warranty and a low buyout or free removal at the end. Divert your utility payments to a P.A.C.E loan like WRCOG HERO, Ygrene, etc and own the system in 6-8 years. Better yet, if you can't take the tax credit or prefer to borrow less upfront, go with a pre-paid SunRun PPA and finance that with a PACE loan. Obtain an Equity Line, Signature Loan, Home Improvement Loan or the like from your bank or credit union (as I did) and have the utility pay that loan off for you by redirecting electric bill payments and taking advantage of tax incentives. Don't Pay for Solar Anymore! In summary, if you enjoy the benefits electricity provides but would like to insulate yourself from inevitable future price increases and save yourself lots of money, redirecting your current and anticipated future electric bills into a solar system makes tremendous sense for most people. After you've done so, you'll have a much more pleasant problem to deal with: what to do with all those savings! Find out if you & your home qualify!


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Todd B. Nippoldt
Winneshiek Medical Center Specialty Clinic
901 Montgomery St
Decorah, IA 52101
(563) 382-2911
- 33 years experience
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Jane M. Korducki
Mayo Clinic Health System Franciscan Healthcare
800 West Ave S
La Crosse, WI 54601
(608) 782-9760
- 30 years experience
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Gundersen Health System Endocrinology
1900 South Ave
La Crosse, WI 54601
(608) 775-2021
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1900 South Ave
La Crosse, WI 54601
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La Crosse, Wisconsin 55921
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Wedding Gift Guide: Ideas For Throwing a Recipe or Kitchen Themed Bridal Shower2
Calling all family and friends of the bride-to-be! We know how stressful it can be to put together the logistics of a bridal shower, not to mention the immense pressure you feel to create a beautiful, special and memorable day that you know the bride will love. But never fear – PMall is here! We've put together some great tips so you have everything you need to help you host the perfect bridal shower!
These unbelievable, almost-too-pretty-to-eat Kitchen Cookies from The Adventures of Sugarbelle blog had us instantly inspired to come up with ideas for a kitchen themed bridal shower (we first saw the picture on Pinterest, but you can find the recipe and decorating tips for creating these beauties here). We think these pretty treats would not only add some fun to each table, they'll also make great favors that each of your guests can take home with them!
But let's not get ahead of ourselves – the first thing you need to do after setting a date and securing a location is work on the bridal shower invitations. But before we talk about creating beautiful bridal shower invitations like this, this or this, we need to go over the focal point of the kitchen themed shower.
The purpose of any bridal shower is to help the bride start off her married life with a kitchen and home full of everything she needs but with our personalized tips and ideas, you'll also be helping her build a kitchen and home that's hers.
The From The Kitchen Of… Personalized Recipe Cards, which come in both 3×5 and 4×6 sizes, or any of our other Personalized Recipe Card Designs will help you achieve both of those goals because while they do make a great gift (a gift that she'll actually use!) all on their own … they will be extra special when you announce that you've had the bride's family and friends fill them out with their favorite recipes!
In order to surprise her with this gift you'll have to personalize enough cards (they're sold in sets of 24) so you can include 1 or 2 of them with each of the bridal shower invitations (we also suggest personalizing an extra set of recipe cards that you can leave blank so when you present them to the bride she can add her own favorite recipes to her collection). When you're creating the invitations, make sure to include a line somewhere on the invite that says "Please fill out the recipe cards and bring them to the shower. Write down 1-2 of your most favorite recipes to help us start the bride's recipe collection!" Send the invites off and you're well on your way to creating a one-of-a-kind gift that will be a bridal shower show stopper!
The final part of the gift is to personalize the From The Kitchen Of… Bamboo or Clear Acrylic Recipe Box for the bride. We suggest trying to match the theme of the recipe box to the theme of the recipe cards, however we also offer different designs for you to choose from in our Personalized Recipe Box Department, including a Personalized Recipe Binder that would also work well for this gift. These recipe boxes are excellent additions to anyone's kitchen – the lids on the bamboo recipe boxes feature a slit that can hold a recipe card upright while you're cooking and the acrylic recipe box lids not only hold the recipe cards upright, they also protect them from food splatter!
We suggest quietly collecting all of the recipe cards from the guests as they arrive so when the bride opens the recipe box you've personalized for her, you can surprise her with all of the recipe cards that her loved ones have filled out. Just think of how special it will be for her to receive secret family recipes, the directions for making her future husband's favorite meal from his mom, or the recipe to her favorite dessert that her aunt makes and brings to every holiday party. You're not only setting her up with a good start to a recipe collection, you're giving her the opportunity to surprise her husband with his favorite dinner from growing up, or to recreate her favorite holiday meals that she's enjoyed since she was a little girl – there won't be a dry eye in the place!
Of course we also have a way for you to lighten the mood again – bridal shower games! Now stop groaning (yeah, we heard you!), these aren't the same ol' games that you've seen done a million times … they're kitchen-themed and interactive! We loved all of the ideas they offered on this Kitchen Bridal Shower Games post, but especially the Spice Quiz. To set up the game you remove the labels from 10 jars of spices and assign each of them a number. Pass the spices around to each of the tables and ask the guests to guess which spice it is that they're seeing, smelling, and (if they're brave) tasting. The person with the most correct guesses wins and the bride can keep all the spices to stock her kitchen!
If you're looking for bridal shower gifts in addition to the recipe cards and boxes, check out our Personalized Entertaining and Home Gifts Store - especially the Kitchen and Grill Department or head over to the Kitchen, Bar and Home Department in our Personalized Wedding and Anniversary Gifts Store where you'll find more great bridal shower gift ideas that every bride will love.
If you have any other tips for throwing a kitchen bridal shower please share with us and all of our fans by posting in the comments below!
Express Your Love With Cookies This Valentine's Day!0
The only thing better than giving your loved one a personalized gift this Valentine's Day is giving them a personalized gift with a personalized treat inside of it!
We instantly fell in love with the personalized cookie idea after we caught a glimpse of this photo (at left) on Pinterest - we just can't believe we never thought of it ourselves! As you can see, the idea is to decorate one large cookie that says "I love you more than …" and have it laying on top of a dozen or so cookies that are each personalized with an example.
There are endless possibilities that you can work with when you're decorating the cookies for your loved one, but one thing's for sure – we know the perfect way to send or present them this Valentine's Day … in our Sealed With A Smooch© Personalized Gift Tin! This adorable tin can be personalized with any 3-line message along with any 1 line of text at the bottom. For $26.95 you can personalize the gift tin so that it is filled with Hershey Kisses, or you can personalize the tin itself for just $19.95.
With the postcard-themed design, this tin is the perfect gift to send to your long-distance love any day of the year. We also love the idea of sending this tin to your boyfriend or husband at work on Valentine's Day. Women are always having flowers, teddy bears, and other gifts delivered to them at work or at home on Valentine's Day – and we think it's about time that there was a non-feminine, romantic gift that was acceptable to send to your man. Men have been publicly expressing their love on this romantic holiday forever and now we have the perfect gift to help you return the favor. While having flowers or teddy bears delivered to his office may embarrass him, receiving delicious cookies in a sweet custom gift tin is sure to be the highlight of his day! We're sure he'll not only love the homemade treats, he'll be proud to show off his wife or girlfriend's baking skills to all of his coworkers, too!
If you're worried about your cookie-decorating skills or if your Valentine prefers chocolate to sugar cookies we also have some other treat ideas to share with you! Thanks to the How To Nest For Less Blog, we found a great recipe for Stained Glass Heart Cookies! These cookies look beautiful and all you have to do is take a heart-shaped cookie cutter to a sugar cookie and fill in the space with pieces of crushed Jolly Rancher candy. After baking you'll have a delicious and colorful cookie to give to your Valentine! Pinterest Tip: As we were browsing through all of the great Valentine's Day dessert ideas on Pinterest we saw how some people had used two different colors of Jolly Ranchers to give their cookies a swirl or tie-dye look!
If your loved one is a chocaholic you should check out The Gunny Sack Blog's recipe for White Chocolate M&M's Valentine's Day Cookie Bars. The recipe is super easy because the crust is actually made from a cake mix. The recipe also calls for white chocolate chips and Valentine's Day M&M's – we love how the M&Ms turn the bars pink and red! If these bars don't have enough chocolate for your valentine, we suggest heading over to PMall.com's Valentine's Day Gifts Store where you'll find chocolate fondue sets, candy jars filled with Hershey Kisses and more!
Do you have a special Valentine's Day treat that would also look great in our personalized gift tin? We'd love to hear it! Post your recipe or thoughts in a comment below or send them to us at email@example.com.
Add Fun & Whimsy To Your Valentine's Day Gift!0
While PersonalizationMall.com's Valentine's Day Store has its own Whimsical Gifts Department, we thought we'd pick out a special personalized gift to focus on during the most romantic time of the year.
The We Go Together Like…© Personalized Coffee Mug Set has become more and more popular with our Pinterest followers and with all these adorable phrases and design options, it's easy to see why!
Have fun deciding how well you go together as a couple when you browse through the 8 exclusive design options that will be featured on each of the mugs.
Choose from Peanut Butter and Jelly, Milk and Cookies, Macaroni and Cheese, Rock and Roll, Pancakes and Syrup, Bacon and Eggs, the Moon and Stars, or a Burger and Fries! You even get to choose which name will be scripted on the larger and smaller mug!
The two mugs are created to fit together perfectly - just like the two of you! The sculpted heart handles help to complete the romantic design making it the best Valentine's Day gift idea for Him or Her. It's a gift that both of you will love and actually get to use – not to mention it's incredible affordable at only $24.95 for the set!
But you don't have to take our word for it – check out the Fan Photo Album that we keep on our Facebook Fan Page and you'll find a photo of the mug set that one of our fans shared with our fans. She personalized the set with the Bacon and Eggs design a while back and her and her fiancé loved the mug set so much that they used it at their wedding (the photo she shared was taken at her wedding and actually shows the mugs right next to the groom's tie). You can read about how much she loves it by checking out her official photo entry to the Me & My Romantic PMall Gift Photo Contest Page that we have going on right now on our Facebook Page. While you're there, be sure to enter the contest – everyone who submits an eligible photo will automatically win a valuable coupon code and three lucky winners will be awarded PMall Gift Cards!
Be sure to also enter our Gifts From The Heart Pinterest Sweepstakes for your chance to win big prizes, too! They're easy to enter and win so be sure to head on over now and take advantage of these fun Valentine's Day Contests!
If you're a fan of the cute designs featured on our mug set, you may also be interested in our We Go Together Like…© Personalized Greeting Card or the We Go Together Like…© Personalized Valentine Cards, which are great because instead of picking one design, you get to personalize an entire set that features them all!
We hope you have fun browsing through all the unique and creative gifts in our Whimsical Gifts Department when you're shopping for your Valentine – and don't forget to enter our contests after you shop, too!
PMall Fan Shares Her New Christmas Tradition1
Recently one of PMall.com's fans shared a story on our Facebook Fan Page. Her name is Aprille and her story was so touching we knew that we had to share it will all of the rest of our fans (please continue reading for the link to Aprille's full blog post below).
Aprille, who is a Military Wife and Mother, has started her own family tradition by creating at least one new PMall.com Personalized Photo Ornament each Christmas.
She remembers her first ornament fondly as it was the first Christmas she spent with her husband.
Then there are the ornaments she personalized with the words "Almost Together" to capture the heartbreaking Christmas that she and her son had to celebrate without their husband and father because he was deployed.
Last year she decided that her "Almost Together" ornament needed a sequel so she personalized a new ornament that featured a beautiful family photo and the words, "Together Forever" to celebrate the Christmas they shared as a family.
One evening this year she turned to her son who had been painting at the table and saw that he had put red paint on his nose.
She was thrilled to be able to serendipitously capture that moment and turn that into another ornament that she will always treasure.
We are so thankful to Aprille for sharing her story and the photos of all her ornaments and we are honored that we are able to play a small role in her beautiful new Christmas tradition!
Check out Aprille's full story, "Our Christmas Ornament Tradition" from her Beautiful In His Time Blog, by clicking the previous link. When you get to her blog you'll be able to see photos of all the ornaments she has personalized and you'll be able to hear the touching story straight from her!
We'd like to say Thank You again to Aprille for sharing her story and if any other PMall fans out there have stories about any of the gifts they've personalized from PMall.com we'd love to hear them! Email your stories to firstname.lastname@example.com.
From everyone at PMall.com and A Personal Touch - we hope you have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!
Quick & Easy Halloween Decorating Tips0
Whether you're having family and friends over for a party or just passing out candy, your front door is sure to be the center of attention this Halloween. That's why PersonalizationMall.com has put together some great outdoor decorating tips that are fun, festive and sure to impress your guests!
Since an A Personal Touch blog post wouldn't be complete without some inspiration from Pinterest we wanted to share this funny photo (at left) that we came across the other day.
We've seen "crashed witches" before but we were really impressed (and couldn't stop laughing) when we saw the "Don't Text and Fly" warning sign these people hung up on their front porch. We love the originality they added to the decoration and the good message it sends out to trick or treaters of all ages!
But our love of original decorations doesn't stop there!
PMall.com's Personalized Halloween Gifts Store has a wide selection of cute and creepy gifts that will help your front door stand out from the rest of the neighborhood this Halloween.
The Haunted House Personalized Yard Stake can be personalized with any 2-line message and is a great way to show everyone where the party's at!
The best thing about our yard stakes are that the signs are actually magnets so it's the gift that keeps on giving. You only have to buy the yard stake once then you can check out all of our other Personalized Yard Stake Magnets and personalize a different design to use for each holiday, season, birthday or more!
When your guests spot your yard stake they'll know they've come to the right place and as they head to your door they'll love being welcomed by Personalized Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkins that you can display right on your front porch! These realistic pumpkins come in a large and small size and can be personalized with any title, first or family name.
You can personalize a large pumpkin with your family name, create a small one for each of your family members or any combination you can come up with! In addition to the jack-o-lantern design, the pumpkins can also be personalized to display "Happy Halloween," any first or family names, initials and more as you can see in our Halloween Decorations and Accessories Department. Any of the designs that you pick will look great and (unlike real pumpkins) you'll be able to use them for many years to come!
The last tip we wanted to share is one of our customers' favorite Halloween gifts. Even if you're not having a big party, you're sure to have kids and parents running up to your door all night. Our Halloween Character Collection Personalized Doormat is the perfect way to greet them! This popular design lets you turn each of your family members (even grandparents and pets!) into costumed cartoons and is also available to be personalized on several different gifts such as a coffee mug, slate plaque, yard stake, candy bowl and more. Your kids will love seeing themselves as cartoons and your trick or treaters will have something fun to look at while they wait for you to answer the door. If you're headed to a family or friends' Halloween party, be sure to keep this or any of our Personalized Halloween Doormats in mind – they make a great hostess gift!
Before we go we wanted to let you know about 2 exciting Halloween Contests that PMall has going on right now!
On our Facebook Fan Page we're hosting a Pumpkin Decorating Photo Contest where we're asking our fans to upload a photo of their carved or decorated pumpkin. The 3 photos that earn the most votes from our fans before the contest ends on Tuesday, Oct. 30th will be named the winners and will be awarded a $50, $35 or a $25 PMall.com gift card!
Great news for Pinterest fans! The Ghostess With The Mostess Halloween Pinterest Contest is going on now and it's really easy to enter! As you can see from the rules on the contest site all you have to do is pin the contest graphic and 3 of your favorite PMall.com Halloween Gifts with the hashtags #PMall and #Halloween in the description before the contest ends on Thursday, Oct. 25th 2012. One winner will be picked at random and will win all 3 gifts he or she pinned!
Good luck to everyone who enters one or both of the contests! Be sure to shop for your Personalized Halloween Decorations & Gifts soon so you can have them in time to greet your trick or treaters and have a Happy Halloween!


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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- The Richmond County Sheriff's Office is working to identify the suspect in an armed robbery from Thursday night.
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Usher glided onto the American Airlines Center stage Wednesday night on a flying platform. He soared over the floor crowd as he sang "Monstar," the opening number of his sold-out Dallas OMG Tour stop. Dressed like an urban warrior in black leather jacket, sunglasses and boots, he later defied gravity with a bungee cord hooked onto his waist.
Usher's a visual guy. He's learned from his predecessors the power of eye-popping scenery. So his five-piece band was hardly noticed. The focus was all on him, his dancers (four females, five males), the stage props, the choreography and the array of movingvideo screens.
For nearly two hours Usher performed before an adoring audience that was stylishly dressed and heavy on the fairer sex. He had the women in a lather for most of the show, particularly when he doffed his shirt to reveal those trademark washboard abs. Opening act Trey Songz did the same thing, and he caused a female furor, too.
Nothing was more R-rated, ahem, than when Usher invited a woman from the floor throng up to the stage for bumping and grinding on a chaise lounge. She had all the moves. We're surprised he remembered any lyrics.
All the window dressing and heavy breathing underscoredthat Usher is 80 percent entertainer and 20 percent artist. He's merely a serviceable singer, and his repertoire is standard contemporary R&B. Yes, he can work a good groove as he did on "Caught Up," "DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love" and "OMG," the latter two coming from his most recent albums, 2009's Raymond V. Raymond and 2010's Versus.
But splash and flash are his key ingredients. So when he hopped back on the flying platform during "Burn," everybody was in awe.