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Thimerosal is a trademarked name given to a mercury based compound used as a preservative in the manufacturing of vaccines since the early 1930's. Mercury is a well-known neurotoxin that has been shown in laboratory studies to permanently damage brain cells upon contact causing the dendrites to recoil from the contaminated areas leading to a gap in the neuro network. The majority of symptoms that are associated with the flu vaccinations are swelling at the injection site and headaches. Could these headaches be the initial effect of the toxic shot on the brain with more pronounced side effects occurring later in life?
The influenza seasonal flu vaccine is recommended every year in an inoculation campaign designed to create more customers for the new world orders growing pharmaceutical division. How many years of injections does it take to damage the immune system enough to create yet another patient of the national death care industries pill pushing medication mafia?
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How Your Food Choices Influence Your Kid's TasteBrian Gresko
Over on the excellent food blog Stay at Stove Dad, John Donohue wonders about the ramifications of exposing his daughter to things like Gruyere cheese, or teaching her the difference between cuts of meats. He mentions a friend who's a music snob who's worried about his influence on his kid's listening habits.
Being that I'm a bit of both a food and a music snob, I can relate. It used to crack people up when Felix would say that the Spanish goat cheese Manchego was his favorite, and that he'd prefer hip-hop to kid music. Say "lodi dodi" to him, and he'll bust back with "who likes to party?" He's a regular lil' Slick Rick.
Living in an affluent section of Brooklyn, having strong opinions on food and music does not put him off the norm. It's not until we visit my parents, who live in the 'burbs, that I notice how different my son is from other kids. He doesn't watch commercial television. He doesn't often eat pre-packaged snacks, or candy. For a long time he thought M & M's were expensive because they were such a rare treat. I'm not sure he knows what soda is until recently, when my wife and I had a little fling with the Cuba Libre during cocktail hour, we've never had it in the house.
I can only imagine at some point he'll ask to have junk food around and we'll have to discuss it. Or he'll go off to school and encounter the stuff on his own.
I experienced intense culture shock when I first left home. Attending Oberlin College, (in)famous for its counter-cultural ways, and living in student cooperative housing, I ate hummus and black beans for the first time, along with granola that didn't come in bar-form, and bread that was baked fresh rather than wrapped in plastic bags. I mostly went without meat and not only did I not miss it, I found that vegetarian dishes aren't inherently worse than carnivorous ones in fact, I'd take rice and beans over pot roast any day. I participated in discussions about our coop's food purchases that ranged from the eye-opening to the ridiculous Was it ok to buy bananas? What about coffee that wasn't fair trade? What about honey, weren't we oppressing the bees?
Because of my background, I never fully went down the radical foodie path. Questioning how much meat I had in my diet, ok, but going full vegan didn't appeal. And that's the weird calculus of kids and parents. We don't want to be like our parents exactly the process of maturing is about pulling away and being defiant, rebellious and yet there's a bedrock of attitudes and tastes, things that we'll never quite be able to quite rid ourselves of.
A recent piece by James Wood in the January 21 issue of The New Yorker, "Becoming Them," explored the many ways in which the author, growing into middle age, finds himself mirroring his father. Growing up, my parents listened to pop like Michael Jackson, Hall and Oates, and Earth, Wind, and Fire, artists who instilled a love of beats, rhythm, and funk that's with me to this day. (Hence my passion for hip-hop.) And I'll always have a sentimental spot for stale cigarette smoke for years my dad smoked, and when I fell asleep in the back seat of the car, the upholstery reeked of his second hand smoke. Whether good or bad, these preferences will probably be with me till the day I die.
It seems to me only a good thing to expose our kids to quality things from the start of their lives, however we define quality. In fact, knowing that I'm modeling for Felix makes me a more discerning consumer, of music, food, everything really. Sometimes that brings me to lower my standards, actually.
I'll always have a soft spot for Pillsbury cinnamon rolls, which my mom made on wintertime Saturday mornings when I was growing up, and this predilection can co-exist with my passion for homemade buttermilk biscuits with organic butter from Vermont. It's okay to honor all your tastes. As Quentin Tarantino once said, forget having guilty pleasures just have pleasures. Who needs the guilt?


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My e-mail inbox is a source of unpredictable delights. This morning it contained an invitation for next Thursday to go to hear Diane Abbott MP speak on the subject of "The Big Society: A Big Con?" The venue for this Labour leadership contender's performance is, apparently, somewhere called the Ideas Space. I imagine it may be found between the Intellect Vacuum and the Thought Desert.
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COLUMBIA - For South Carolina's defense, motivation this week is all in the numbers.
WHO: East Carolina (1-0) at South Carolina (0-1)
WHEN: Saturday, 7 p.m.
WHERE: Williams-Brice Stadium, Columbia
LINE: South Carolina by 16
As in 680 yards allowed, a school record. As in 52 points given up, the most at home in over a decade. As in 511 passing yards conceded to a sophomore quarterback making his first collegiate start. They're not up in lights on the Williams-Brice Stadium scoreboard any longer, but the grisly totals from last week's Texas A&M game remain fresh in the mind.
"It was very embarrassing," said sophomore linebacker T.J. Holloman. "All the guys felt embarrassed, as we should. We should feel embarrassed after giving up that many points, setting a school record. But now we just turn that embarrassment into motivation, and keep driving and driving so it doesn't happen again."
"It hurt real bad, because I don't think anybody in the world would want to give up 700 yards to a quarterback in his first start," added senior cornerback Brison Williams -- who missed practice Wednesday with a right arm bruise -- rounding up the Aggies' total offense. "So it was kind of frustrating to be out there witnessing that. But that was last week."
That was the Gamecocks' worst home loss since the infamous 63-17 defeat to Clemson in 2003, well before the run of recent success capped by a best-ever No. 4 final ranking last season.
And much of the burden for the 52-28 setback fell squarely on a defense replacing three starters on the line and two more in the secondary - a unit which against the Aggies struggled to finish tackles or get any real pressure on quarterback Kenny Hill, who screen-passed his way straight to the top of the Texas A&M record book.
No wonder, then, sophomore linebacker Jonathan Walton described practice this week as "intense." With East Carolina (1-0) bringing another up-tempo spread offense into Columbia this Saturday, the Gamecocks' defense clearly feels a responsibility to not let what happened last weekend happen again.
"This week is really going to be a test to show what kind of people we have on the team, to show how strong-minded we are," said senior defensive tackle J.T. Surratt. "We have to get back out there and get back on the bike. We fell off, but we've got to get up and keep going. This week is really going to test that."
"We took the loss as motivation," added sophomore defensive end Gerald Dixon. "We're going to get right this week. Hopefully the game plan we have this week works better than it did last week."
Toward that end, head coach Steve Spurrier has sped up the tempo of practice to try and prepare his players for the pace another no-huddle offense will bring into Williams-Brice Stadium. There's been an emphasis on tackling drills, Holloman said, with players focusing not just on wrapping up, but flying to the ball as a unit rather than individuals. There's an attempt to not bite as hard on the run, something which allowed Hill to have so many open receivers on short underneath routes.
And above all, there's a concerted effort to get more pressure on the quarterback, something 21st-ranked South Carolina - which registered just one sack and three tackles for loss - flatly was unable to do in the opener. Instead of one-on-one drills, the Gamecocks (0-1) are doing full-line drills to try and better simulate game conditions, often with four defenders going up against a five-man offensive line.
"The people we've got here, we can get things done," Surratt said. "The guys we've got on the defensive line . we can be as good if not better than last year. Yeah, this is a little bump in the road. We came out a little shaky. But I still feel like this week, we can prove ourselves and get the job done."
Gamecock players say they see similarities in the passing games of Texas A&M and East Carolina, whose quarterback Shane Carden passed for a school-record 4,139 yards last season in guiding the Pirates to a 10-3 mark. ECU also relies heavily on screen passes, which Hill used to carve up the South Carolina defense last week.
This time, though, the Gamecocks believe they'll be ready - and that the final numbers will be different.
"Everybody has a chip on their shoulder this week. Everybody has a feeling of, 'We want to show we can be better,'" Surratt said. "We've got to believe the passing game is going to be a little bit different, regardless of how fast they get the ball out, or whatever East Carolina chooses to do. We're going to do some better things this week."
Davis update
In the span of a few days, running back Mike Davis has progressed from doubtful to almost certain for the East Carolina game. Speaking Wednesday on a teleconference, Spurrier sounded much more optimistic that his star tailback would be ready to go.
"He should be pretty close to full speed Saturday night," Spurrier said.
Davis left the Texas A&M game in the third quarter with a recurrence of a rib bruise that he first suffered when he took a helmet in the ribs during the Gamecocks' final scrimmage. Spurrier was initially doubtful about Davis' availability for Saturday, but added Wednesday that the junior "feels pretty good, I guess, and he should be ready to go."
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But few of those 184 games were as tough as what they will face in nine days.
After winning five consecutive home games in the December by an average of 24.2 points over Tennessee Tech, Texas-Arlington, Central Arkansas, Missouri State and South Florida, the Cowboys will host Gonzaga on Dec. 31. The Zags will definitely challenge Ford's team more than any of the previous visitors to Gallagher-Iba this season.
OSU's 10-1 record is its best since opening the 2009-10 season with 11 victories in the first 12 games. The Cowboys will now take a nine-day break before hosting Gonzaga at 5 p.m. on Dec. 31 in a nationally televised game (ESPN2).
Gonzaga head coach Mark Few's team has won 20 or more games in each of his 12 seasons in leading the program, and the Zags 13 consecutive trips to the NCAA tournament is tied for fourth among current active streaks behind Kansas, Duke and Michigan State. The Zags have advanced to the Sweet 16 in four of Few's 12 seasons as head coach.
"They're extremely talented. Everybody knows Gonzaga's tradition, and they are saying this might be their best team," Ford said during his post-game radio interview following Saturday's victory.
"They're big, they're physical. They've got guards. They've got depth. They've got a little bit of everything. We're going to need this place packed and we're going to need all the support we can get," added Ford.
The Cowboys have been outstanding defensively through their first 11 games, five times holding their opponents below 50 points – which is the first time an OSU team has done that since 1962-63.
Gonzaga, however, has the nation's 14th-best scoring team, averaging 81.4 points per game, including scoring 104 against Lewis-Clark State College and 96 against South Dakota.
"It's going to be a battle between two of the top-25 teams in the country," said Ford.


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CherryPal releases $249 "cloud" desktop computer
July 22, 2008 The popularity of so-called subnotebooks such as the Asus Eee PC has led to PC maker CherryPal releasing a low-spec, low-cost desktop computer called the CherryPal C100. CherryPal have dubbed the C100 a "cloud computer" as instead of accessing programs and data from the desktop computer, the majority of information is processed and stored on the web in a secure environment called the CherryPalCloud.
The company claims the CherryPalCloud, which is automatically accessed at boot-up, removes many of the headaches typically associated with traditional personal computers, including application downloads, software upgrades and crashing operating systems. The system also protects users from viruses and hackers because the user's hardware is no longer exposed to local bugs and viruses and because the majority of cumbersome software applications are stored in the CherryPalCloud they claim the computer operates just as fast – if not faster – than a traditional PC. The cloud set up allows CherryPal to generate revenue through advertising, which will be rolled out later this year, however CherryPal stress their technology does not allow anyone to view any information about its customers.
CherryPal's operating system is based on a version of open source Debian/GNU Linux that has been highly customized; the browser is based on a version of open source Firefox and supports all major browser plug-ins including Adobe Flash 9. The user applications currently available are the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite, iTunes, a CherryPal-brand media player that supports all common file formats and a CherryPal-branded instant messenger that supports all common IM programs with more programs to be added on an on-going basis. The current storage limit is initially set at 50 gigabytes, although CherryPal says the limit will likely be increased in the future.
CherryPal are also touting the unit as the most energy efficient desktop computer available due to the fact it has no moving parts, contains 80 percent fewer components and uses only two watts of power. It is powered by a Power Architecture-based processor – the Freescale MPC5121e mobileGT processor – which allows for built-in graphics and audio processing. It also includes 256MB of DDR2 DRAM, a 4GB NAND Flash-based solid state drive, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, two USB 2.0 ports, a 10/100 Ethernet with RJ-45 jack, VGA DB-15 display out jack and headphone stereo audio out 3.5mm jack in a 1.3" high, 5.8" x 4.2" wide case that weighs in at 10 ounces.
The CherryPal C100 is currently available for pre-orders in the US with a retail price of US$249 with shipping of orders to begin at the end of July. It requires no monthly subscription fee and no other hidden costs. CherryPal also offers a free 24/7 helpline.
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UNION — Beginning Nov. 23, visitors to Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University can enjoy seasonal decorations from the museum's large collection of artifacts in the historic mansion of New Jersey's first elected governor, William Livingston.
The first floor of the museum will be fully decorated in ornate Victorian style, with costumed "servants" telling stories of Christmas traditions of the period.
Tours of Liberty Hall are every half hour between 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
The museum's decorations will remain on view through Dec. 31.
Museum admission is $10 for adults, $8 for Kean alumni, $6 for students and senior citizens and free for children age 2 and younger.
The museum is located at 1003 Morris Ave. in Union. For more information, call (908) 527-0400 or go to kean.edu/libertyhall.
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Be a Penn State Student for a Day
High school seniors and juniors still have two dates, Nov. 7 and Dec. 5, to visit Penn State York for a day to learn first-hand what it is like to be a Penn State York student. The program begins at 8 a.m. in the Community Room of Joe and Rosie Ruhl Student Community Center and concludes at 1 p.m.
Students will be paired with a current Penn State York student and sit-in on classes, tour the campus, and spend the day just like a college student. Lunch is provided free in the Lion's Den Café at the campus. The program allows students to experience college life and get to know the campus. Please call Penn State York Admissions at least one week prior to the date you'd like to attend at (717) 771-4040 or (800) 778-6227 to register. You can also register online at http://www.yk.psu.edu/ and visit admissions.


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Harley Davidson 2010 Sportster Iron 883 To 1200 Cc Conversion Big Bore Kit,cams N8,v&h Sideshorts
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Steven Andrews: Hi I was thinking of converting my 883 to a 1200 does it make a difference? And did u do it youre self and was there anything else you needed apart from the kit? To do it
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nicolasvinsonneau: hello, does switching to 1200 really makes a difference? im looking to do the same... and do you know if there is a big difference between the Screamin' Eagle 1200 kit, and the big bore 1200 kit... besides the price... what do you think? Thank you!
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matthew hawley: a normal kit from harley is pretty cheap.. alls you need to do for a bigbore kit is buy pistons and gaskets and have jugs bored out to 1200. or for about 700 go to a 1250cc. looks like a solid build here to bad the vh pipes are holding back the bike.
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Baojian Xuan: hi, i changed the big bore kit to 1200cc, i got it from ebay brand new for $525 dollars,and gasket $125.
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2013/9/6 11:40
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9-8-13. What a fantastic day on falling springs. After fishing up at big spring ( which il post later) I thought I'd finish the day at FSB and I'm glad I did. Alot of the banks were covered in high grass and alot of bees so I tryed to avoid getting stung. However the grass did help increase my odds as I stealthily moved along the banks. I opted for my Orvis Hydro 9ft for the reach. I tied on my new 4x streamer leader with my olive/black sculpin and started in town. I worked my way downstream and was able to get 3 browns which were all about the same of about 12-13 inches, while also missing about 4 of them. As I got down near the hospital I came up to a bridge where the water is swift and deep and even with polarized glasses is hard to see into. I tossed my sculpin threw a few times and had a quick strike but not a firm take. As I got to the end of the pool and was waking back up I saw it... A monster 20-21 inch Rainbow or Brown ( I think rainbow) sitting on the bottom of the long pool. I didn't see it on my way down cause I was fishing the water, not the fish. A made a movement with my fly rod and it swam hurriedly into log walls. Next time il be prepared, and maybe get him. After that episode I was off to the heritage section at Greenway. My favorite fly for this area is the olive wholly bugger and today it didn't let me down...again... I worked downstream with my 9' rod and kept my distance. I hooked into 2 little rainbows in a nice weed channel that I knew held a few trout. Both around 6-7 inches. I then went up to the water wheel bridge and tossed my bugger gently under the bridge, I was quickly rewarded with a plump 12 inch rainbow that was beautiful. My next stop was Edwads Ave and I planned to throw nothing but a Letort Hopper size 14. I slowly waded upstream and astonishingly was able to hook into 2 more rainbows of about 8-10 inches. My last stop was quarry lane, and as I took a glance at the stream, a big beautifully colored brown went swimming by spooked by my presence. I went upstream looking for a good fish but only saw just a few little ones. A few yards past the barbed fence I'd when I saw it... The second falling springs monster within 2 hours. This one was deff a brown... A really really big brown. He was at the tail of the pool where he just stayed there.. Menacingly.. His size was so big that I called my wife to tell her to get the camera ready for she was just a stone throw away taking pictures. Of course he was in a extremely difficult position but I had a 3-4 ft window that had to be dead nuts on or tree limb. Luckily I didn't get no tree, nor did I get the brown... I threw cress bugs, scuds, white/olive buggers, PT nymphs, Hoppers, Beeltes, and midge nymphs, And a crawdad, but he just didn't move. Before I started casting my first pattern which was the hopper, I studied him for a good 10 minutes, but he wasn't feeding. If I had to make a honest guess, is say he was about 24 inches and probably 4-6lbs. A real trophy. But,, if you would catch every fish it wouldn't be that fun so maybe next time.
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nice report. Those are the kind of trips that keep you coming back. i've never fished fsb or bs, but have fished upper letort. i cant think of much that would make it more difficult. ill be back though.
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what length rod did you use?
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2013/9/6 11:40
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9' Orvis hydro 5 weight, usually use my 7' 4weight, but I left it at home being that my hydro just got out of the workshop and I love casting it.
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Once mighty PC maker Dell (UNKNOWN: DELL.DL ) had asked Carl Icahn to play nice when his firm first announced its quest to take hold of the company, as opposed to the outstanding offer from founder Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners. Unsurprisingly, few could describe the process as "playing nice." In its most recent iteration, Icahn's offer stands at $14 per share, a $0.35 premium to the opposing offer. Meanwhile, Dell's special committee believes Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management have some recalculating to do. Let's see how the ground lies for the ongoing Dell buyout saga.
A brief history
here's a quick recap of the Dell deal.
Shortly after Michael Dell announced his plan to take his namesake company private, Icahn, backed by Icahn Enterprises (NASDAQ: IEP ) and hedge fund Southeastern Asset Management, made public his desire to throw a hat in the ring. Dell's board, in an attempt to pacify the typically aggressive Icahn, offered a $25 million due diligence reimbursement to suitors as long as they did not act overly aggressive in their conduct. For Icahn, this meant keeping ownership under 10% of the shares outstanding, and under 15% including possible partners (i.e., Southeastern). Icahn didn't accept the $25 million offer, but did agree to refrain from a hostile takeover.
Fast forward two months later, and things look relatively stagnant. Icahn's offer stands at $14 per share, while Michael Dell's offer of $13.65 remains the offer of choice by the special committee.
In early June, Dell's board contended that Icahn failed to account for nearly $4 billion in necessary funding. Icahn, of course, challenged this notion.
At one point, Icahn had said that he believes Dell is worth north of $22 per share.
Fuzzy math
The Dell board has updated its presentation on the buyout proceedings, arguing that Icahn still fails to account for $2.9 billion. This includes $1.4 billion in debt due next April, and another $1.5 billion needed to operate the business.
While Icahn can, at times, manipulate numbers to further his point, Dell's actions here appear to be the more questionable ones. Since the presentation in early June, Dell has seemingly backed off on $500 million in disputed earnings (Icahn believed they had it, Dell believed otherwise), $200 million Icahn did not account for in operating costs, and $300 million in breakup fees.
In three weeks, Dell's math has changed by $1 billion, while contending that Icahn is the one with a calculator problem.
Stay smart
Investors should remain cautious. As usual, don't try and trade the acquisition. Icahn's offer looks better on the surface, but if Dell's committee is correct, the ending price could be closer to $8.15 per share -- a near 40% discount to today's trading price.
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At Ground Zero: The 9/11 anniversary
A look at the Ground Zero memorial ceremony and events throughout the day, commemorating the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
A look at the Ground Zero memorial ceremony and events throughout the day, commemorating the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Andrew: Mike Baker Seattle Times 3/21/2016 As a senator and later secretary of state, Hillary Clinton closely followed the bidding for the U.S. Air Force's massive $35 billion tanker-refueling contract — a contentious process that pitted Boeing against Airbus, as well as the state of Washington against Alabama. In February 2011, a staffer at the State Department emailed Secretary Clinton's private address with unexpected good news: "Boeing won the contract." "I'm pleased," she replied. Among recent secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton was perhaps the most aggressive booster for big American companies overseas, particularly for Boeing, Washington's largest private employer. So appreciative of her sales efforts, Boeing's then-president and CEO Jim McNerney once turned to her on stage at a government-business conference and lauded her department for advocating like no other in the past two decades: "It's like back to the late '80s and early '90s all over again." Boeing gave more money to the Clinton Foundation as the story continues later: The aide, Kris Balderston, responded by saying that Mark Penn, the chief strategist to Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, had been "very helpful." He said "Terry" was also helpful — presumably a reference to Terry McAuliffe, chairman of Clinton's campaign in 2008 and currently Virginia's governor. Boeing ultimately gave $2 million to the expo, helping revive U.S. participation and giving Clinton a major foreign-policy achievement. State Department officials celebrated the large donation, and at an event in Shanghai five days later, Clinton singled out the company, praising Boeing as a "special sponsor." Clinton will produce wars, Boeing will make $$$$$ from it. Americans in uniform will die for this.


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Welcome to The Petersfield School. Our Academy has a long-established reputation for traditional values, high academic achievement and excellent student behaviour. Most importantly of all, however, we are well-known as "a school with a heart", which is epitomised by the excellent relationships between staff and students.
This is also reflected in our ambitious Academy aim to be:
"A world class Academy where excellence pervades every aspect of our work, where all are happy, valued and challenged to perform to the highest standards; where no one is left behind."
In recent years the school has gained highly favourable judgements including from Ofsted, which graded us as Outstanding in 2010, the Department for Education, which entrusted us to convert to Academy status in 2011 and the Schools Network, which awarded us Leading Edge status in 2012 as one of the country's top-performing specialist schools.


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Microsofts MSN business group in India has entered into a strategic partnership with Bangalore-based Fabmall India to offer online shopping facilities to its MSN services users on a revenue-sharing basis. The tie-up is set to offer serious competition to existing Internet portals offering online shopping.
Though it is difficult to predict the right time for e-tailing business, one could get an idea with the few indicators. The physical retailing business seems to be looking up with increased interest and spending from the consumer in the last few months. Moreover, the Indian consumer has now become more comfortable with new modes of transactions such as withdrawing money from ATMs (automated teller machines) and maintaining bank accounts on the Internet, MSN business group director for South Asia Shriram Adukoorie told eFE, adding that the company had been keeping a tab on Internet trends on a regular basis with the help of third-party research firms.
Talking about the tie-up, Mr Adukoorie said MSNs strength was in generating Internet traffic and the company could find the right partner in Fabmall to offer a reliable and and quality e-tailing option to customers. MSN India claims to have around 10 million unique users per month. (This would mean that around 10 million users log on to use MSN services every month. When a user logs in repeatedly, he is counted as one unique user).
According to Fabmall India vice-president (marketing) K Vaitheeswaran, Fabmall will be expanding its online business operations to handle the increased traffic as a result of its tie-up with MSN India. The traffic at MSN is huge as compared to the traffic at Fabmall currently. We see a lot of investments in the areas of merchandise (adding more products and categories), fresh tie-up with vendors and enhanced customer service in coming months, he said.
MSN services include Hotmail, MSN Messenger, MSN Chat and MSN Portal. Fabmall is in the business of online as well as brick and mortar sales and distribution of all kind of items including household goods, gifts and groceries. Fabmall will be making a substantial investment in re-aligning its business model to suit MSN users profile and demand patterns.


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A man punched his girlfriend and caused her to hit head on a front porch railing, officials said.
Gary P. Fehr attacked his girlfriend around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday at his home in the 1300 block of Ferry Street in Easton, officials said.
The woman suffered a cut on the right side of her head that took five stitches to close, officials said, adding that hospital personnel called police when the woman received treatment.
Fehr, 44, was arraigned on assault and harassment charges and committed to the Northampton County Prison on $5,000 bail, according to court documents.
A preliminary hearing is set for 9 a.m. May 15.


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|The Eye of Al N'Set
|This powerful magical amulet was stolen from the Persian National Museum of Antiquities by agents for New World Incorporated. It was found by the Investigators in the rooms of Elias Kingsley, the man who had been sent to steal Hosiah's Spectacles.
In the real world, it is a sterling silver amulet with a glass eye which was purchased in New York City at a shop called Magickal Childe several years before the game was played.


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- Use the same hot glue gun method to stick flowers to the headband.
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A few of R&B's new generation of hit makers rolled into Birmingham's BJCC Arena Friday night in the form of Trey Songz's Chapter V tour in support of his album of the same name. Each act had their own little corner of the genre on display. Elle Varner with her street-smart, self-aware mix of R&B paired with the boom bap sound of early 80s rap, Miguel with his invigorating stage presence and rock-infused performance and headliner Trey Songz serenading the crowd with his mostly bedroom-ready songs. Here are a few really great moments from Chapter V's Birmingham stop:
Elle Varner has a personal beat boxer:
Recent Grammy nominee Varner opened the show with the least-fleshed out band on the ticket. However, she had something that no one else had: a guy who's job was beat boxing at any moment. Anointed S joined Varner on her self-empowering song "So Fly" and for pretty much every other song the curly-haired singer performed. His presence made sense given the Biz Markie sample the song "Only Wanna Give It To You" is based on. Varner looked and sounded great during her set while giving powerful, jazzy vocals and strutting her stuff in a black and white polka dot mini-dress. She got the biggest crowd response as she closed with her breakout hit "Refill," which she seamlessly blended with a cover of fellow newbie Frank Ocean's "Thinking Bout You."
Miguel. Period:
Miguel is another relatively new kid in urban music, but 2012 was a banner year for him with big features, Grammy nominations and releasing his newest effort "Kaleidoscope Dream." Although, most of his music ranges from smoothed out to trippy, his stage show is another story. He opened up his set with a high-energy version of "Strawberry Amazing" from his 2008 mixtape "Mischief." Said enthusiasm never waned. He even managed to incorporate dancing into a performance of supposed slow jam "Sure Thing" before launching into electric guitar driven "Use Me" from his latest album. He continued going back and forth between his debut and sophomore album much to the crowd's delight all while providing a note-worthy light show and entertaining the audience with dance moves that clearly come from the James Brown school of performing. Miguel took a break from singing to share a little of his backstory with the crowd before clowning around with two of his guitar players to the tune of 2Pac's "I Get Around." He closed the show with a sing-a-long of his monster song "Adorn" where the crowd sang most of the entire first verse.
Trey Songz really, really loves his fans:
Throughout his performance, Songz involved his screaming fans in more ways than one. He stuck to his usual lover man shtick throughout most of his performance to the point where a lot of songs melted into one long slow jam. There wasn't much middle ground, either. His performance was extremely sexually charged to the point of working the mostly female crowd into a frenzy or he was the king of the nightlife banging out club hit after club hit. The only exception came with the sweeter love song "Can't Help But Wait" and the introspective "Fumble." His stage was tripled-tiered and doubled as one big screen used to display a dazzling shock of colored lights. There was even fog for dramatic effect, and he managed to plug his upcoming role in the new "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" flick. It hits theaters Jan. 4, if you were wondering. The audience knew every word to every song from the opener "Dive In" to the more fast-paced "Say Aah," "2 Reasons" and "Bottoms Up." He also took time to shout out fans that he could see from the stage and read many of the homemade signs — some of which weren't really meant for public consumption. Songz, who didn't do a lot of dancing, managed to work the stage with just his vocal ability and crowd interaction. Although, what appeared to be a set of mimes did join him at a couple of points in his performance, including the song "Pretty Girls Lie." One other unique aspect to his set was a horn section, which gave his very modern songs an old-school soul feel. Crowd participation wasn't limited to singing lyrics, however. He invited one lucky fan onstage during his "Bottom's Up" performance gifting her with a necklace bearing the name of his album, a kiss and the shirt off of his back, finally giving the rest of the fans the shirtless show they wanted all along.
Here's a clip of Trey Songz singing "Can't Help But Wait":
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on December 22, 2013 - 12:01 AM
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After more than 40 years in education as a teacher, principal, superintendent and most recently President of Holy Angels Academy, Joan Thomas decided to give retirement a shot. She quickly realized that life was not quite suited for her just yet, and now she will serve as interim superintendent for the North Collins Central School District until June 30, 2014.
Part of the reason Thomas was not ready to retire was because she was unable to walk away from her last job on her own terms.
"Holy Angels closed and it was a terrible shock for all of us," Thomas said.
Deep down she knew she was not prepared to go into full retirement. From August through November, she gave it a try, but without a place to work each day, Thomas said she felt as if she had "no purpose in life."
That quickly changed and in a matter of days, she went from semi-retired to interim superintendent in North Collins. She interviewed for the opening the day before Thanksgiving. Over the next couple of days, she visited her daughter for the holiday, was offered the post by the board, who voted the Friday after her appointment to approve the hire, and on Monday was back to work.
Throughout the years, the majority of her career in education was spent in the Orchard Park Central School District. She left Orchard Park in 2010 after a five-year stint as superintendent. Prior to that, she also served the district as a science teacher and middle school principal. Thomas also had a stint as a teacher in the West Seneca School District.
After working in larger schools like Orchard Park and West Seneca, Thomas discovered that despite only having 700 students total from kindergarten through grade 12, North Collins still has one major thing in common with Orchard Park and West Seneca.
"The academics are phenomenal," Thomas said, noting that North Collins is a National Silver Medal winner, given for academic excellence.
"Obviously it's much, much smaller than West Seneca and Orchard Park," Thomas said, adding there are only three administrators on the staff. "You wear many hats."
Among the areas she helps oversee are the transportation and special education departments.
Despite only being in the position a few weeks, Thomas said she has already experienced something she never has in the past, after having to cancel school for three consecutive days last week due to snowstorms that blanketed the area.
Thomas does not know exactly what the future will hold for her, other than that she is in the interim position until June 30. She is undecided whether she will pursue the position full-time.
"I think it is too early to tell," Thomas said.
According to Thomas, her family will play a large role in helping her decide whether to retire.
"They really want me to spend more time being a Grandma," Thomas said.
And if her career comes to an end on June 30, then she will be able to leave on her own terms.
Also in Southern Erie County:
A Nativity reenactment by members of the Elma United Methodist Church will be presented at Bippert's Farm, 5240 Clinton St., Elma at 6 p.m. today, weather permitting. Hot chocolate and cookies will be enjoyed the reenactment in the big barn.
• A swearing-in ceremony will take place at noon on New Year's Day at the Elma Town Hall, 1600 Bowen Road will be held for incumbents Highway Superintendent Wayne Clark, Councilmen Tracy Petrocy, Thomas Fallon and Supervisor Dennis Powers.
• The Elma Town Board will meet at 7 p.m. Jan. 8 at the Town Hall, 1600 Bowen Road, Elma for the annual Organization Meeting, including appointments.
• The Marilla Town Board will hold its settlement meeting at 3:30 p.m. Dec. 30 in the Conference Room of Marilla Town Hall, 1740 Two Rod Road.
• A swearing in ceremony will be held at 1 p.m. on New Year's Day at the Marilla Grill, Bullis and Two Rod roads for new Marilla officials: Supervisor Earl Gingerich Jr., Council members Julie Lathrop and Debbie Beats. The public is welcome. Town Justice David Wyzykowski will officiate.
• Special meeting at 7 p.m. Jan. 2 in Marilla Town Hall.
The agenda will include: approval of Highway and Sanitation agreement, partial appointments of Town Attorney Joel Kurtzhalts of Bennett-DiFilippo & Kurtzhalts at a hourly rate of $160; authorizing Payroll Services-Paychex switch from Bene-Care.; appointment of Nussbaumer & Clarke as Planning Board Consultant on an as needed basis; retaining of Kotas and Kotas as Town Accountants for general accounting; and the annual update document and auditing Water Districts 2,4 and 5 per agreement. The balance of appointments for the year will be done at the January 16 meeting.
• At 7 p.m. Dec. 30, a swearing in ceremony by Erie County Sheriff Timothy Howard will be held in Wales for incumbents Supervisor Rickey Venditti, Council members Jude Hartrich, Gerald Klinck, Highway Superintendent Michael Zywar, Town Clerk Mindy Eaton and Assessor John Sly. It will take place prior to the Public Hearing on signs followed by the Town Board Settlement meeting in the Community Center, 12345 Big Tree Road.


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2005 Tikal Patriota Mendoza
Producer: Tikal
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Bordeaux Blend
Origin: Argentina
Region: Argentina
89 Points | Stephen Tanzer's IWC - January/February 2008
($25; a 60/40 blend of bonarda and malbec) Bright ruby-red. Expressive nose offers boysenberry, fruitcake, licorice and mocha. Supple, broad and sexy, with the sweet fruitcake character following through on the palate. Not hugely complex but lush and enticing. Finishes with fairly soft tannins and very good length.
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