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Published on May 17th, 2012 | by Bonnie Getchell2
5 Fabulous Refashion Ideas for Summer!
Have you been looking at your wardrobe and thinking, "I have nothing to wear for summer!" After reading Julie's post about how to upcycle a t-shirt into a tank-top, I was inspired to find more refashioning ideas. Instead of buying new clothes and shoes, upcycle some of your old ones! Here are 5 amazing tutorials to get you started:
1. Ruffled T-Strap Flip-Flop Refashion by Make It and Love It
Do you have some old flip-flops that need a boost? I love this tutorial from Ashley at Make It and Love It! She transformed cheap flip-flops into really adorable and ruffled t-strap flip-flops. What I love most: they look so easy to make! Check out her tutorial to see how to make your flip-flops go from blah to beautiful!
Next>> Men's Shirt into Romper by Trash to Couture
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620 Second Street, Crested Butte, CO 81224
Crested Butte is linked with one of the most extensive xc ski trail networks in southern Colorado. The Crested Butte Nordic Center (970-349-1707, www.cbnordic.org) is located at the edge of town in the Big Mine Park, on 2nd Street and Whiterock Avenue. Crested Butte is a quaint Victorian mining town that has a National Historic District and the Nordic center is walking distance from anywhere in town. There is also a free shuttle bus that stops at the center.
There are about 50 km of ski trails groomed for classic and skate skiing, which begin a few yards from the Center. Terrain includes spectacular scenery and varies from flats and rolling hills to steeps. There are 3 trailheads and there is also easy access right from town to outstanding backcountry skiing. The Center offers backcountry hut trips to the historic mining town of Gothic, CO, home of the world famous Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
Trail passes are $15 for adults and $10 for kids under age 12 or people aged 60-69. Trail passes are free for 70+ aged skiers.
The Learn to Ski package includes lesson, rentals, and trail pass for $60 per person and $50 for kids or seniors. Skate lessons are available for FREE on the first Thursdays of the month at 1 PM and there's a special $15 for skate ski rental equipment.
Rental equipment is also available at CB Nordic with classic or skate ski gear for $20 for adults and $15 for kids/seniors. Snowshoes are $15 and ice skates are $9 and $7 for kids under 12 years old. The center also has an outdoor rink and sledding hill for après-xc ski activity.
Backcountry half-day tours are 3 hours including a guide, rental equipment, and transportation at $65 for adults and $35 for kids. All day tours are 6 hours and also include a box lunch for $95. These tours can be done on snowshoes or xc skis.
A backcountry tour includes a guide, who teaches about geology and wildlife. The Forest Queen Hut in the Gothic town site is 4 miles with potential avalanche hazards depending on snow conditions. It sleeps 7 and has electricity, stove, refrigerator, outdoor toilet, and wood for heat. Forest Queen Hut rental is $18 per person per night with reservations and renters must bring own sleeping bag and food. The Maroon Hut is $217 a night and sleeps 8 plus 4 cots for a total of 12 people.
New this year: The Moonlight "Dinners at the Yurt" Tour, is $45 per person or $65 includes trail pass & rental $30 children. Full moon dinners on Dec 26, Jan 19, Feb 18, Mar 18. Sunday Brunch at the Yurt on Dec 26, Jan 30, Feb 13, and Mar 13 11 AM - 12:30 PM for $25 adults or $10 for kids under 12.
Crested Butte is one of the most scenic and happening towns in the ski world but can get cold so bring some extra long underwear if plans include a mid-winter visit. The elevation can also be an issue as the trails range from 8,850 feet to 9,400. The Crested Butte Nordic Ski Council was formed as a non-profit organization in 1987 and it is a USFS Permittee.
CB Nordic is 30 minutes from the Gunnison airport and 4 hours from the DIA airport in Denver. CCSAA member

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Jacada was one of the first contact center technology vendors to produce a unified agent desktop. Its product addressed the perennial problem for agents to access and navigate around the many applications they have open on their desktops during customer calls. Its early product allowed agents to sign on once to access all the applications they required, to point and click to access an application, to access and capture data with an intuitive user interface and to capture data once and have it entered into multiple applications based on pre-programmed rules. To support these capabilities, Jacada developed a number of tools to facilitate interfacing with different applications.
While these capabilities addressed serious issues and could lead to shorter call times and more calls resolved during the first attempt, many companies were reluctant to embark on such a change of systems. Recently another factor has complicated the situation: As agent turnover remains high, more companies are asking employees outside their formal contact centers to answer customer calls. This means they have more people to train and challenges in ensuring that best practices are kept up by everyone who handles calls. To meet existing and new challenges, Jacada recently released a new product, Jacada Advisor.
It uses the same foundation as its predecessor but solves many problems in a different way. Instead of essentially redeveloping the desktop, Jacada Advisor uses "pop-up bubbles" superimposed on existing applications. These bubbles appear to be just that – small windows that open up on top of an application to give agents information, advise them on what to do next or facilitate data capture. For example, an agent might be using an old-style customer relationship management (CRM) system that has numerous screens that are not easy to work with or navigate. In this case Advisor might pop up a bubble that tells the agent what to enter into a application field, guides him or her to the next field or captures data and automatically enters it into the application. Pop-ups are driven by rules developed to mirror common paths through applications, making it easier for agents to understand and enforcing best practices. Advisor comes with visual development tools that non-IT people can use to develop rules for when bubbles appear and what function a bubble supports.
Jacada also announced another new product, Jacada Insight. It addresses an even longer-standing problem: how to produce reports and analysis of contact center performance. Companies often have trouble accessing underlying data sources in order to extract the data they need to produce these kinds of reports and analysis. Jacada Insight solves this problem by using the same extraction tools that support the unified desktop and Advisor. These already exist for many common applications and provide a foundation for building new extractors for specific applications. The extractors load data into a predefined data mart and customers can use the embedded business objects tools to produce reports and analysis quickly. The data mart, the reports and the analysis can be extended to meet specific customer requirements.
My research into the technology used in contact centers shows that the typical agent desktop is too messy and complicated, forcing agents not only to use complex applications but also navigate among up to 22 different applications just to resolve simple customer requests. My research over the years shows companies crying out for better reports and analysis of how their centers are performing. The two new products from Jacada go a long way to addressing these issues. They are also timely because other vendors have started to produce both this kind of smart desktop that guides and advises agents and applications that focus on contact center reporting and analysis. These products will keep Jacada competitive and provide companies with viable solutions to longstanding issues.
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The San Francisco 49ers found their safety of the future.
When all-pro safety Dashon Goldson left San Francisco, he left a glaring need in the back end of the 49ers' secondary. In turn, Trent Baalke elected to use two of his 13 picks to trade up to No. 18 overall to select the hard-hitting Eric Reid from LSU.
San Francisco sent their first and third-round picks, No. 31 and No. 74-overall, to Dallas to jump up 13 spots to get their target player.
Reid addresses the team's most prominent need and will have the opportunity to start from the day he arrives in Santa Clara.
A three-year player for the Tigers, Reid made 109 solo tackles and six interceptions. At 6-foot-1 and 213 pounds, he possesses good size and the ability to play either safety position, making him a good fit for the team's versatile defense.
In his junior season, Reid earned All-American and first-team All-SEC honors. He was third on the team 81 tackles and added a pair of interceptions and six pass breakups.


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I knew that I was making a mistake but I did it all the same, I bought a kilo of those ruby red strawberries despite we're only in March and the strawberry season starts in April. And they sure didn't taste a thing. I just couldn't resist them and their promise… But I forced some taste on them instead and we happily devoured every single one. I first encountered this way of improving strawberries in the 80's when I had a different 'mother-in-law', well she wasn't a real one because fortunately I never married her son but she did teach me a thing or two about cooking even though I didn't speak much Italian in those days (And yes, I seem to be have been destined to marry an Italian because it certainly wasn't in my plans, I was more of an Anglophile in those days, I actually met that Italian in London and Marco I met in Sweden) When she served me strawberries 'marinated' in red wine and sugar my eyes popped out of their sockets and I just swooned after the first taste of it! This was unheard of in Sweden and I was in seventh heaven! Then she showed me other, more sober ways to do it, fresh lemon or orange juice or a mix of the two, always with sugar and it was the latter way that I used to save my strawberries. Nowadays this is common practice but then it was really quite new to us Swedes who usually eat our strawberries as they are with whipped cream. And that remains one of the best ways if they are sweet and tasty….
Fresh strawberries
The fresh juice of lemons or oranges or both
Red wine
(you can add spices as well if you want, cinnamon, mint, maybe ginger – whatever you think will taste good)
– Cut the strawberries into small pieces and put them into a bowl. Add 2-3 (or more) tblsp sugar and mix well.
– Squeeze the lemons or oranges, you need enough to cover the strawberries, the same goes for the wine.
– Leave the strawberries to absorb the taste for 3-4 hours and then you serve them with the juices.


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Sofia Vergara doesn't know much about her eventual wedding day, but she's sure of one thing in particular: it's going to be over-the-top.
"If I'm going to do something, it's going to have to be a big event," the Modern Family star, who is engaged to Nick Loeb, told PEOPLE last Friday. "I just had my 40th birthday in Mexico. I had more than 100 people."
Unfortunately for the starlet, along with an extravagant affair comes appropriate planning, which she's too busy for these days.
"Now I don't have the time – and it will have to be one weekend when I have the time to plan something fun," she says. "I don't even know what I'm going to do."
One item she can cross of her list of things to worry about on her big day is designating someone to give a toast at the reception.
"We don't do that type of tradition," she explains. "[Nick and I want] more like of a party [with] music, dancing, a lot of food; not really sitting there hours and giving speeches."
Ironically, Vergara is the one doing some cheers of her own when she gives an impromptu wedding speech in the latest Diet Pepsi commercial, as part of her "Love Every Sip" campaign.
Sofia Vergara Wants Her Wedding to 'Be a Big Event'
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'Hangover-free' alcohol gives you the buzz without the headache
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September 16, 2016, 12:46 p.m. by Robin Shreeves
The weed killer is being carried by foraging bees back to their hives — even organic hives.
Maybe you shouldn't cook food in aluminum foil
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Rural hospitals across the area are looking at critical access designation as a way to have the government cover more of their costs.
The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act, signed into law in December, eases some of the restrictions on such hospitals and increases the amount Medicare and Medicaid reimburse for their costs.
This means hospitals can spend that money on upgrading equipment and reduce pressure on local taxes, said Wally Boyd, administrator of Ochiltree General Hospital in Perryton.
"It will pay more dollars into the hospitals and take the burden off the taxpayers," he said. "We depend on our local taxpayer. If Medicare pays, there's less dependency on the taxpayers."
Critical access hospitals - usually in rural areas - get more Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement in relation to their costs than other hospitals. They need to meet federal requirements dealing with how many beds they have and how their physicians get paid.
Boyd said his hospital had looked at receiving the designation for almost two years because Medicare patients made up more than half of his cost but Medicare only reimbursed the hospital a third.
But now, the hospital district has kicked it up a notch, due in part to the new legislation, which will now reimburse critical access hospitals 101 percent of reasonable costs - "reasonable" determined by Medicaid.
The legislation also waived until January 2006 a requirement that a critical access hospital be no closer than 15 miles to the nearest hospital.
In addition, the legislation also allowed hospitals more flexibility in how they categorize the 25 beds they're allowed to have. Instead of designating 15 beds for acute care and 10 for other use; now facilities can each operate up to 25 beds for either use.
Boyd said his hospital district will meet Feb. 16 to decide if becoming critical access could be profitable for the hospital.
Parmer County Community Hospital in Friona decided in 1999 to pursue critical access status - and became the first to do so, said Bill Neely, the hospital's administrator.
While he had to reduce his beds from 34 to 25, the status has "worked out well," he said.
"It certainly allowed us to do some things that would take us longer otherwise," he said.
Collingsworth General Hospital already has determined that critical access status could work for it, said Mike Easely, the hospital administrator. The hospital has started the process of applying for the designation, he said.
The district determined the designation would give them more access to capital to expend on things such as state-of-the-art equipment.
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Carol is such an ass scarf she spent her day off running errands for the boss.
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Assembly speaker has been a friend to Buffalo
The News thinks it's "time for someone else as Assembly speaker." I understand that The News is no fan of Sheldon Silver, but I think readers might benefit from a different perspective.
My experience with Silver is that he has been a good friend to Buffalo. Over the last decade, the Silver-led Assembly has directed hundreds of millions of dollars in state investment to building our region's future. Major funding has gone to capital improvements at the University at Buffalo, for development of the Medical Campus, for upgrades at Roswell Park, for neighborhood renewal and for a plethora of job-creating, quality-of-life projects.
Last year, when the Buffalo business community sought an expansion of the historic homes tax credit, Silver made sure the Assembly passed the legislation, which, unfortunately, was vetoed by the governor.
I take issue with the editorial's position that the speaker is somehow lacking the energy for the fights that need to be undertaken. Well before we elected Andrew Cuomo, Silver was the leading voice calling for greater investment in our inner-city schools, for early education funding, for keeping a college degree affordable, for marriage equality and for reforming campaign finance and our public authorities. Lest you have forgotten, in the fall of 1999, Silver came to Buffalo and presented his blueprint for constructing a Western New York innovation-based economy. That was long before the governor created his regional economic development councils. The speaker carries on the good fight to this day.
The News' assertion that new blood matters in politics is naive and ageist at best. As a businessman, give me experience and passion for the work every time. Silver has both in spades.
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Come across French actor Gérard Depardieu in an unlit alley, and your first reaction might be to run the other way. His dirty-blond hair hangs haphazardly over his brow. His fist-adjusted nose bulges above his thick lantern jaw. His powerful bulk—often clothed in something dark and disheveled—suggests he could hold his own in a boxing ring. With a slight stretch of imagination, you can see him suddenly knocking you to the ground and making off with your goods.
But should you happen to come across Depardieu, 42, on a movie screen, you will see an impassioned sculptor (Camille Claudel), a doomed revolutionary (Danton) or a bewildered bourgeois lover (Too Beautiful for You). With more than 70 film roles tucked under his expansive belt, this former juvenile delinquent has long been the undisputed heavyweight—in both volume and versatility—of French cinema. But can he go the distance in America? While his swashbuckling Cyrano de Bergerac delights Francophiles who have the patience for subtitles, Depardieu finally breaks out in accented anglais in his first major English-language film, Peter Weir's Green Card. Playing a French composer who bargains for a visa but gets love American-style with Andie MacDowell instead, he proves that his Gallic charm can travel: Four weeks after Green Card's Christmas Day opening, he picked up a Golden Globe for best comic actor.
Though he ought to be jet-lagged from a recent spree of intercontinental commutes, Depardieu can hardly sit still, refusing to remove his green windbreaker for a chat in Paris before speeding off to his bucolic homestead in the suburb of Bougival. "I can't stand boredom," he says, which is his usual response to critics who chastise him for not being pickier about his roles. He admits that his body of work—which includes about 50 plays and TV productions—is uneven. "There's a lot of crap, a lot of failures," he concedes. "But there are some interesting films." For Depardieu, acting is an obsession to be paraded before as many witnesses as possible. "I don't believe in undiscovered genius," he says.
Had he taken a different road at one crossroads or another, his genius for acting might have been buried in a life on the streets. Born in the undistinguished provincial town of Châteauroux, Depardieu was the third child of six in a family he describes as "poorer than poor." ("It's good for an actor to be raised in poverty," he has said. "The poor dream more.") His father, a sheet-metal worker, could not read or write; Gérard remembers his unhappy mother as "constantly pregnant." By age 12, he was running around with American GIs from the local NATO base (he says he broke his nose in a boxing match with one of them) and later with prostitutes. By 13, he had dropped out of school—his parents did not object—and had begun hitchhiking around Europe, earning pocket change as a door-to-door soap salesman and a beachboy in the south of France.
In a more sordid phase of his adolescence, Depardieu says he stole cars, peddled black-market cigarettes and booze, and took part in wild sexual escapades. But Michel Pilorgé, a childhood friend, says the tales of criminality are exaggerated. Gérard "was never a hoodlum," says Pilorgé, "but he loved the mythology." It was Pilorgé who led 16-year-old Gérard, on a lark, to drama classes at Paris's Théâtre National Populaire, where he was suddenly tamed by poetry and drama and became an instant star pupil.
His film career was launched in 1974 with Bertrand Blier's Going Places, which followed two hoodlums on a casually violent rollick across France, Easy Rider-style. Depardieu attracted attention for giving a running commentary to his sidekick, Patrick Dewaere, as he made love to Miou-Miou. Though some critics bemoaned the film's tone of gleeful amorality, Going Places became a cult hit.
According to Depardieu, Blier had been advised by producers not to cast him in Going Places because "he'll scare women." Over the years, though, this loutish giant has become something of a sex symbol. Such sultry stars as Isabelle Adjani and Catherine Deneuve praise his skill and infectious energy. Says Carole Bouquet, Depardieu's Too Beautiful costar: "He leads me, he takes me away, and I go."
Though one might expect that Depardieu would be tempted by his leading ladies, his 20-year marriage to Elisabeth Guignot, 49, an actress, singer and songwriter whom he met at the Théatre National Populaire, appears as solid as his gut. (The Depardieus have two children, Guillaume, 19, a college music major, and Julie, 17.) While Gérard is game for a little seductive teasing, he says he values fidelity over flirtation. "Conquest is not heroic," he says. "What's heroic is to make love last." A few moments later, he begins humming Ravel's Boléro, gesturing sinuously with his hands.
When it comes to food and drink, Depardieu, who owns 62 acres of vineyards in the Loire Valley, indulges with abandon. His 5'11" frame has occasionally ballooned from 170 to 250 lbs., a spectacular inflation that he shrugs off. Getting in shape for movies has not proved a problem, he claims. "When I start to think, the body follows. It swells or goes down." As for drinking, "I think it's fun," he has said. "One becomes more generous, more expansive." Last summer, when his rented car collided with another vehicle on a country road in Vichy, he flunked a sobriety test, received a two-month suspended prison sentence and lost his license for six months. Depardieu attributes the accident, which caused only minor injuries, to his fiddling with the car phone while he drove. His Mercedes is now chauffeured.
In the future Depardieu may be spending a lot of his travel time in the air, taking advantage of his newfound success in the States. "I'm fascinated by America," he says. But he promises never to settle in Hollywood. For one thing, he has qualms about the California climate. "Flat sea with sun scares me," he says. "All I like is the trees, the vegetation. Everything that gets in the way, I like. Everything growing that's wild." That sounds a lot, all in all, like himself.
—Jeannie Park, Cathy Nolan in Paris
Gerard Depardieu, France's Burly Bon Vivant, Arrives with Green Card
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TIRED OF READING negative stories involving big-time collegiate athletics? A special moment occurred during a recent Division III men's basketball game that restores one's faith that there still are really good people at the collegiate level.
Gettysburg senior guard Cory Weissman scored his first collegiate point in last Saturday's Centennial Conference home game vs. Washington College (of Chestertown, Md.).
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Gettysburg was leading by 18 points when Weissman returned to the floor in the final minute. He had started the game on senior day, then was immediately replaced.


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Why do people have to tell me it's rare? Example FS: FFVII $150 RARE!!!!!
Do people think adding the word "rare" to things actually make it rare?
It's like telling someone your famous. If you're really famous I'd know who you are.
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Investors were surprised by the US Commerce Department figures showing the world's biggest economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.1 per cent in the October-December quarter. Forecasts had been for a 1.0 per cent rise.
At 3.30am, the March share price index futures contract was up seven points at 4852.
In economic news, the Reserve Bank of Australia index of commodity prices for January is due out, as is the Australian Bureau of Statistics' producer prices indexes for the December quarter.
The Australian Industry Group's performance of manufacturing index and the RP Data-Rismark's home prices, both for January, are also expected.
Westpac chief economist Bill Evans is slated to address an Economic Indicators Luncheon - 2013 Qld Property Market, hosted by the Financial Services Institute.
In Australia, the market on Thursday closed slightly weaker, snapping a 10-day winning streak, after markets in the United States fell.
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On Thursday, John McCain and Barack Obama are both scheduled to be campaigning in the state.
Paul Ryan was 2 years old when Joe Biden was first elected to the U.S. Senate.
Last week I asked, "How many members did the first New Hampshire State Senate have?"
Caitlin Rollo, of Granite State Progress, was the first to correctly answer that it was 12, half the number that exist today.
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With his "no compromise" language, does Executive Council candidate Bob Burns understand he is in a general election, or is he just trying to win the next Republican Primary? (Or does he fundamentally understand that he can basically say anything he wants as long as Mitt Romney and Ovide Lamontagne do well in his Republican district)?
What will Annie Kuster grab next?
Republican State Senate candidate Josh Youseff does understand that Senate session days are usually on Wednesday, right? So how is that going to work?
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If what is left of the New Hampshire tea party organizations decided they wanted a constitutional convention, would it pass this year? If so, why hasn't this happened?
New Hampshire undecided voters: For the next three weeks, this group will be among the most courted in the entire country. Maybe it is the reason why there are more undecided voters than those supporting any candidate for governor.
Joe Biden and Paul Ryan's political futures: Both did a lot in the high-profile vice presidential debate that will further their own political futures if they wish to run for president someday.
John Lynch: The state's most popular governor ever continues to be political royalty. He played a political role this week in giving his blessing to both Maggie Hassan in the form of an endorsement and President Obama in the form of television ads blanketing the state. Meanwhile, he also began "the legacy tour" with a visit to Alstead. You know life is really good when the Libertarian-minded Cato Institute gave Lynch a B for the state's budget -- that's higher than any other Democratic governor got in the country. Lynch didn't even sign the budget, but he got the credit for it anyway.
Rich Leonard: The Democratic state Senate candidate for the Rochester area open seat is starting to convince many that his race against Republican Sam Cataldo, the perceived frontrunner, could be a sleeper. The fact that the Republican-leaning Foster's Daily Democrat newspaper endorsed Leonard this week was shorthand for what many are seeing.
New Hampshire Radio Stations: With all the buzz around data-driven micro-targeting of political ads online and the millions being spent on television, has anyone turned on the radio lately? It is political ad after political ad.
Norm Major: There are some certainties in New Hampshire: death, taxes (though not income or sales taxes), and Norm Major's revenue estimates. Coming within 3/100 of 1 percent over the first year is probably going to go down as Norm's crown jewel.
Chris Clement: The DOT Commissioner managed to make a brazen call to get legislators to raise the gas tax, and there was no public blowback. With $4 per gallon gas prices, one might think he would have avoided the issue until after the election, but he didn't, and he got away with it.
Maggie Hassan: This week the entire Democratic party, from the left to the center, fully and publicly is backing her, and she is raising a ton of money.
Ovide Lamontagne: Given that he is getting badly outspent on television and President Obama is winning New Hampshire by 6 points, being ahead at all in the WMUR Granite State Poll this week is nothing to sneeze at.
The budget director for the next governor: Given that state agencies now want increases of 19 percent on average, and there is no money for that, who would want that job?
New Hampshire Republican State Committee: There were a lot of Republicans shaking their heads at the NHGOP for two reasons this week. The first was the mailer in Senate District 18 that hit Republican Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas as a way of boosting the independent candidate who could take away votes from the Democratic candidate. If that is a strategy, then fine. But if you are going to do it, isn't this the classic example of why you use an outside group and not the NHGOP to do this? Second, was the NHGOP press release suggesting that Hassan wasn't like Lynch, a fellow Democrat, basically praising her with that statement. Yes, they were following Ovide Lamontagne's lead in the sentiment, but isn't the right answer from the party to hit both Lynch and Hassan and point out bad things they did together? What a difference two years makes. GOP Chairman John H. Sununu would never send a release like that.
Bob Burns: After his debate and the way he won his primary, a number of prominent Republicans say they are "done" with him. There are other campaigns where they can put their time. On the flip side, if he wins, he owes no one.
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Nokia Lumia 920 now has dominant global share of Windows Phone
0. phoneArena 09 Apr 2013, 02:42 posted on
A month ago, we shared a report released by AdDuplex that revealed a rather surprising statistic...
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1. McJobs (Posts: 107; Member since: 08 Jul 2012)
if WindowsPhone then LUMIA
20. tusshharish (Posts: 342; Member since: 23 Oct 2012)
no other choise................... :)
35. tusshharish (Posts: 342; Member since: 23 Oct 2012)
i meant that nokia is so great that we dont buy other's wp8 phones.............. nokia made every wp phone perfect............
2. andro. (Posts: 1998; Member since: 16 Sep 2011)
Its not surprising really as Nokia is 100% reliant on wp and has been left fairly devastated as a result. Other manufacturers prime concentration is else where on far far more popular,profitable and successful operating systems,although the likes of Htc do like to dabble in the windows pool for a small bit of variety to the os they produce in.
That saying Nokia has put in a valiant effort but other manufacturers have kept their a game for a market which is more successful
42. sbw44 (Posts: 433; Member since: 04 Dec 2012)
HTC has also kept their efforts for android right? look where they are now!
I bet HTC will go bankrupt before Nokia!
47. UrbanPhantom (Posts: 949; Member since: 30 Oct 2012)
Andro is king of stupid comments ;o)
55. microsoftnokiawin (Posts: 1178; Member since: 30 Mar 2012)
yeah because every single android OEM is succesfull and profitable look at htc they make practical and non gimmicky phones in android and yet they're going bankrupt meanwhile samsung...
5. Timmehor (Posts: 599; Member since: 09 Mar 2013)
Windows Phone 8 is so more fast moving compared to 7.
8. Andrea (banned) (Posts: 52; Member since: 07 Mar 2013)
Wp was a flop!!!!
23. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Everyone agrees! Even in Engadget GsmArena Wpcentral Verge are saying this, along with 60% of them being dislikers!
A major Flop even I sold my L920 using it after 2 weeks.
They have spent 100millions on advertising, in return there sales still fluctuates at 3.8%!
Even BB10 and ios is much better!
25. Timmehor (Posts: 599; Member since: 09 Mar 2013)
I seriously don't understand you, which phone do you actually like?! It's like you hate them all!
Also you forgot the Trademark/Copyright symbols ... Tsk, tsk, tsk.
26. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Timmehor +1 from TROLL you're observed!
N95 8Gb
N97 mini
Bring back those E and N and 8800 series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
27. Timmehor (Posts: 599; Member since: 09 Mar 2013)
Oh, so your definitely a Nokia fan (or so we believe, hmm?). You must hate the Windows Phone takeover then, well Symbian is dead. We must move on *sob*....
32. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Timmehor TROLL an ex big Nokia Fanboy™®©
Good oldskool devices™
34. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Meego Maeemo Meltimi S70 S60 they could've pushed its own OS now relying on MS™
11. TheBitterTruth (unregistered)
Yay! Good for Nokia :)
38. akki20892 (Posts: 3901; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
waiting for catwalk and eos.......!!! and 928 for verizon then we will see great marketshare %.....!!!
12. TheBitterTruth (unregistered)
See! Nokia crashed the Samsung in WP.
18. best_ (Posts: 50; Member since: 08 Apr 2013)
Nokia can crush samsung if they use android to .. But Nokia its to big and they soon will crush samsung in all competitions .. Samsung its a company who build plastic low qality ... nothing more
21. dexter_jdr (Posts: 1163; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
good guy nokia: chose WP over android so that others wont get crushed in competition.
24. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
Lmfao yea relying on Nokia, even if they merge with Android, Nokia is more know to connect people. They will be using last years specs on there phones, even Sony Lg Htc will use highend Cpu Gpu, Nokia even said in there entire portfolio they disagree on using hi specs on there devices.
Elop dosent have his own headquarters and his salary has been reduced to 1.5 million let alone beat Sony Htc and you've got the king Samsung. What a joke
29. best_ (Posts: 50; Member since: 08 Apr 2013)
Lumia dont need higher CPU noob troll , the s**t android sistem eat to much resources ... i dont really care about that ..
33. TROLL (banned) (Posts: 4851; Member since: 13 Apr 2012)
O really I wonder what the next lumia phone will have higher cpu and will be using Adreno320 1080p display™
O look at the L900 vs L929 surely you indenial Bs, if you didn't then why don't you buy get the cheap L520™
39. akki20892 (Posts: 3901; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
what about if nokia come in android....wooo
15. kaliil10 (Posts: 145; Member since: 16 May 2012)
I said many times Lumia 920 is a miraculous phone
40. akki20892 (Posts: 3901; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
wait for Catwalk dude....it will more miraculous then NL920....for sure
30. Antonyjoseph (Posts: 217; Member since: 06 Apr 2013)
Nokia please forget ego issues and bring out the 920/820/720/620/520 with Android Jellybean. You will wipe out the competition. I've used Nokias most of my life but now have to use a Samsung (S3) only becos of the OS.
Please Nokia ...why cant u have both Android and WP8 phones?
36. israinwet (Posts: 47; Member since: 29 Nov 2012)
I see this being problematic in the future just like Samsung's dominance on the Android platform. Someone needs to rival Nokia here.
37. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
Only Nokia makes decent Windows Phones, and I love the polycarbonate feel on the Lumia 920. :)
51. akki20892 (Posts: 3901; Member since: 04 Feb 2013)
Aluminum is coming soon bro......!!!
41. AeroPrime (Posts: 175; Member since: 21 Feb 2011)
People used other windows phone other than Lumia 920?!!!! what the heck that's insane.
43. Muzhhur (Posts: 260; Member since: 14 Sep 2012)
the 8th graphic sow to me that instead of all bad marketing powered by Nokia and Microsoft in Mexico I got my lumia 920
45. ItsMyChoice (Posts: 37; Member since: 19 Mar 2013)
Poor shamesuck Ativ S isn't in list. :)
46. ItsMyChoice (Posts: 37; Member since: 19 Mar 2013)
some trolls become blind. They can't see graph.
48. Ikechukwu (Posts: 201; Member since: 03 Oct 2011)
You see my friends, I had an s3 before my Lumia 920 and the it was truly uncomfortable. OS updates (jelly bean) almost ruined the whole phone, makes the s3 to lag in the most annoying way possible. The phone also felt cheap because of the build quality and unsurprisingly, the so called gorilla glass 2 almost shattered as the phone fell to the floor (the only time it had fallen). I couldn't take it anymore.
I simply got a Lumia 920 and 'almost' all my problems have been solved. Believe it or not.
49. g2a5b0e (Posts: 3724; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)
If it almost shattered, then that means it didn't shatter, so what is your point?
54. jroc74 (Posts: 6006; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
The thing with Android...Samsung isnt the only Android phone available. I have almost exclusively used Motorola and had the least issues with them.
How do you even know if the problems woulda been solved with another Android phone? Or even an iPhone?
50. KashAli (Posts: 105; Member since: 01 Apr 2013)
Waiting For Nokia Lumia 940 :)
53. KashAli (Posts: 105; Member since: 01 Apr 2013)
which walk? !!!!!!


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by Christine Haran
Everyone wants to have skin like a baby -- soft, clear, smooth and rosy. In reality, even infants can break out like teenagers. While the tiny blemishes and rashes can be upsetting to parents, they are usually harmless and require minimal treatment, if any.
It's often worthwhile to talk to your pediatrician about a given skin condition, however, as they can offer prevention and treatment guidance. Below, Daniel Krowchuk, MD, a professor of pediatrics and dermatology at Wake Forest University Health Sciences in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, reviews conditions that commonly affect infants, from cradle cap to diaper rash.
Are skin conditions common in newborns?
Yes, these may be divided into two categories. There are skin conditions that represent normal variations, meaning that lots of babies get them and they are of no consequence in the long term and usually resolve on their own. Then there may be other skin conditions that will persist and require evaluation and treatment.
What should routine skin care involve?
Parents should be aware that there is no one and only one way of caring for your baby's skin. Many of the skin care recommendations rely on common-sense regimen. There is some science behind recommendations, and then there's a lot of personal preference. For example, a baby -- a newborn, in particular -- may not need a bath every day, and therefore it's not necessary to give one. Obviously you're cleansing the diaper area, which gets dirty on a regular basis. There may be times, for example, during the winter in colder climates, when a baby's skin becomes dry and a moisturizer might be useful. It may be applied after bathing and at other times during the day, if needed.
Baby powders are often used, but they are not routinely needed. Some people apply them in areas where there's moisture, like in the diaper area or in the folds of the neck. The difficulty with powders is that they can be inhaled. Generally we recommend that parents stay away from them if they can. If you're going to use power, choose one that contains cornstarch rather than talcum power. Dispense a small amount on your hand, well away from the baby, and then just gently rub that on the area of skin you wish to treat.
In general, it's wise to choose products that are designed for infants, which often do not contain alcohol or fragrances that may be irritating to the infant's skin. I think most parents are pretty savvy; most know to use products that are designed for infants.
What is cradle cap?
Cradle cap is a form of seborrheic dermatitis and most commonly appears in babies as a scaling on the scalp. It can be mild or it can be fairly widespread. Seborrheic dermatitis is a self-limited condition, so by the time a baby gets to be eight or nine months of age, typically, it's quieting down.
If cradle cap is mild, a standard baby shampoo may be sufficient to help remove the scale. Some parents find that if they, when shampooing, use a soft brush designed for the scalps of babies, that will help lift off some of that scale. Some people prefer to apply a small amount of mineral oil to the scalp and then use the brush to loosen the scale. An antiseborrheic shampoo -- that's one of the dandruff shampoos -- could be used to help lift off the scale if other measures weren't effective. Generally, if you're at this point, it might be worth talking to your health care provider about selecting of one of these shampoos. Parents should use the shampoo on an as-needed basis. Once the scale is gone you can return to your infant's routine scalp care.
Do parents need to treat the flaky skin some infants are born with?
Flaking skin is a normal and temporary finding. No treatment is necessary. If the skin seems excessively dry or there's a little bit of cracking, which sometimes can happen in the skin folds -- for example, in the ankle -- then, a moisturizer may be helpful.
What is infant acne?
Neonatal acne is the acne that typically appears in the first few weeks of life. It is very common and it's caused in the same way that teenage acne is caused: by hormones. It's caused by male hormones called androgens, which are actually quite high in both male and female babies at around the time of delivery, and then tend to diminish over time. As those hormone levels decline, as they should, the acne tends to disappear. If the acne seems to be lasting longer or is particularly severe, meaning that somebody's seeing lots of red bumps or scars, then you'd want to talk to your provider.
What is erythema toxicum?
Erythema toxicum is a common skin rash and not a cause for any concern. It typically shows up in the first few days of life as little red blotches on the skin, and in the middle of the red blotch there can be a little bump. No one knows why this rash happens but it's absolutely harmless, it tends to go away in several days, and no treatment is needed.
What is prickly heat?
Heat rash often is called prickly heat but its technical name is miliaria. Nobody really understands exactly why babies have heat rashes, except that the sweat glands in the skin seem to become blocked up. You then get a little leak of the sweat outside of the duct, and that creates irritation or inflammation that results in a tiny red spot or bump about a millimeter or so in size.
Those spots tend to appear in areas where there are skin folds such as in the folds of the neck. They are more likely to happen if a baby becomes overheated. So heat rashes can occur in the summer months in warm climates, or if a baby is a bit too heavily dressed for the surrounding temperature. Sometimes heat rashes can be made worse if parents are applying thick moisturizers or other products.
Once a heat rash is established, if you have a fan or you have the option of air conditioning that may help both the condition disappear and prevent it from returning. It also helps to not overly dress infants. Remember that most infants are going to feel comfortable dressed in a way that you or I would feel comfortable.
What is diaper rash?
Diaper rash is very common, though much less so now that most people use disposable diapers. The things that cause diaper rash are moisture, typically from urine, coupled with rubbing of the diaper on the skin. When your skin is moist over long periods of time, its ability to withstand the forces of friction from the diaper is reduced. You add to that the effects of enzymes that are present in stool that act as irritating factors on the skin, and diaper rash may occur.
To prevent diaper rash, so make sure that you change the diaper when necessary, and if you need to, gently cleanse the area either with a hypoallergenic wipe or tap water on a soft wash cloth, and then pat the area dry and apply a new diaper.
If a diaper rash becomes established, usually it's going to be caused by irritation, so parents should apply some sort of a barrier preparation that's designed to keep moisture away from the skin. Everyone has their favorite preparation. Many people favor products that contain zinc oxide because they create a more or less impenetrable barrier for moisture. Other products such as A+D ointment and Desitin are also designed to create a barrier on the skin against moisture and help the skin heal.
Some pediatricians will prescribe a barrier preparation, but most are available over-the-counter.
Can babies get yeast infections on their skin?
If what parents thought was just an irritation diaper rash isn't going away after several days of treatment, it might be worth talking to your provider, because a yeast infection may have developed. The tip-off to a yeast infection is that usually it's fairly bright red in color, and it involves the areas of the skin creases as well as the thighs and the lower tummy, whereas a typical irritation rash usually doesn't involve the creases. In yeast infections, you might also see some bright red bumps that look like pimples a little bit beyond the main area of involvement.
Your provider can recommend anti-yeast over-the-counter products like clotrimazole or miconazole, or a prescription called nystatin. It depends a little bit on how severe the situation is when you first see the infant, but usually within several days to a week or so of beginning treatment things have improved.
When can a skin condition be a sign of allergy?
If a baby gets hives, it is usually an allergic response to something, such as to a medication. If an infant or a child gets hives it may be caused by an allergy to certain foods. Also, eczema is a very common skin condition is often associated with allergies, although in most children it's not caused by an allergy. Children who have very severe eczema that doesn't seem to respond well to treatment may have a food allergy that may trigger or worsen the condition.
When should parents consider seeing a doctor?
If parents notice the appearance of something on the skin in the setting of a perfectly well child, the next time they see their provider for a well visit, they ought to just bring it to the provider's attention. Most of the time what you see on the skin turns out to be absolutely harmless and does not need any additional evaluation or treatment. Occasionally things can merit treatment, particularly if there seem to be some symptoms associated with it. For example, children with eczema are often itchy and the skin is unsightly.
Christine Haran has been a health journalist for more than seven years, and her work has appeared in Woman's Day, MAMM Magazine, Bride's Magazine, Publishers Weekly and other publications. In 2003, she received an Excellence in Women's Health Research Journalism Award from the Society for Women's Health Research. Haran has a master's degree in journalism from New York University and a bachelor's degree in english from Skidmore College.
Copyright © Christine Haran. Permission to republish granted to Pregnancy.org, LLC.


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As the often churlish Antoine Walker stared through official Derek Richardson, peeved at being called for a technical foul, Allen Iverson made a free throw, then turned to his teammates.
"Let's go!" he screamed.
Iverson did not want the 76ers' winning streak to stop at three games, or his team's dominance over the Boston Celtics to end at eight consecutive games. This is the final playoff push. There is no time for off nights.
Iverson spurred a third-quarter push but could not deliver a fourth-quarter rally as the smaller Celtics finally found their shooting touch and broke their losing skid, 100-94, last night at the First Union Center.


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bacon cheeseburgers (without the bun, of course), avocado and maybe even a fried egg on top, and probably a salad on the side.
Tamales, made from 99% homegrown ingredients, from corn to pig
Seven Trees Farm - diversified subsistence farming on 1.25 acres.
Meat loaf, sweet potatoes, sauerkraut, broc/onion/red pepper stir fry... in about 5 mins
Strawberries in cream .. couple hrs from now
Prosciutto crudo and salad then Picante cherries, goat's milk yogurt and pistachios
Sticky ribs with a Plum-Fig Spicy B/Q sauce, garlic oil tossed 'zoodles', white rice buttermilk-garlic biscuits and dessert in a jar<3
Dozen jumbo prawns, BAS w/ avocado & a dressing made of cilantro, EVOO, a whole cuke , salt & hot sauce
Burger Bowl!
Ground lamb, chopped tomatoes, onion, jalapenos, Bubbie's pickle relish, shredded lettuce, and homemade mayo and ketchup mixed together and drizzled over the top.
Will be making spaghetti Bolognese without the spaghetti, using British veal mince (from Waitrose so nothing GM), organic plum tomatoes, organic pesto, EVOO, additive-free Harissa, organic garlic, onions and shallots, home grown organic fresh basil and bay leaf and serving with organic tenderstem broccoli.


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Percent of men and women that worked during 2002
December 23, 2003
In 2002, the proportion of the civilian noninstitutional population 16 years old and over that worked at some point during the year was 68.4 percent, 0.9 percentage point below its 2001 level of 69.3 percent.
In contrast, from 1986 through 2001, the proportion with work experience had remained at or above 69.0 percent, peaking at 70.6 percent in 1999.
The proportion of men 16 years old and over that worked at some point during 2002 was 75.1 percent, down from 76.1 percent the year before. The proportion of women who worked sometime during the year was 62.3 percent, down from 63.0 percent.
Among those with work experience during 2002, 76.0 percent were employed year round (either full or part time), essentially the same as in 2001. Continuing a long-term growth trend, full-year employment among women increased to 73.0 percent from 72.3 percent in 2001.
These data come from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey, a monthly survey of households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For additional information, see "Work Experience of the Population in 2002" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 03-911. Work experience data for 2002, which were collected in the 2003 Annual Social and Economic Supplement, are not strictly comparable with data for 2001 and earlier years because of the introduction in January 2003 of revised population controls.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Percent of men and women that worked during 2002 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2003/dec/wk4/art02.htm (visited September 27, 2016).
Recent editions of Spotlight on Statistics
A look at healthcare spending, employment, pay, benefits, and prices
As one of the largest U.S. industries, healthcare is steadily growing to meet the needs of an increasing population with an increasing life expectancy. This Spotlight looks at how much people spend on healthcare, current and projected employment in the industry, employer-provided healthcare benefits, healthcare prices, and pay for workers in healthcare occupations.
Employment and Wages in Healthcare Occupations
Healthcare occupations are a significant percentage of U.S. employment. Some of the largest and highest paying occupations are in healthcare. This Spotlight examines employment and wages for healthcare occupations.
Fifty years of looking at changes in peoples lives
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The statistics of nanoflare events observed by TRACE in the EUV and Yohkoh in soft X-rays exhibits a power law relation between the peak thermal energy and the number of events per energy interval. Using 1D coronal loop model with nonlinear coupling to the chromosphere (Ofman, Klimchuk, and Davila 1998) we calculate the distribution of heating events due to the dissipation of waves driven by a random Alfven wave source. Initial results show that the number of heating events per energy bin scale with energy with the power of 2±0.4. The scaling is consistent with the observed value of 1.86±.07 at 171Åand 1.81±.10 at 195Å found with TRACE (Aschwanden and Parnell 2002). Thus, we conclude that in the nanonflare energy range (E<1028 erg) the observed frequency distribution of peak energy is consistent with wave heating.
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THOMPSONTOWN - When the go-karts hit Greenwood Raceway on Saturday, it will be in honor of 8-year-old Deven Jackson, a local child who recently lost his feet from a bacterial disease called neisseria meningococcal.
Greenwood Raceway President, Ken Chubb, and Promoter, Greg Deimler, said they chose Deven as the beneficiary for the Third Annual Race for a Cause because of his positive attitude and inspiring motivation.
"Even with everything he has been through, Deven is nothing but smiles," Deimler said. "He's a little inspiration, showing grown-ups that there is always something to smile about. We are honored to help him and his family."
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Deven Jackson proudly displays a football signed by New York Giants' running back Corey Webster, Aug. 16. He received the gift and a letter from Webster while recuperating at Lehigh Valley Hospital.
Photo submitted by MICHELLE JACKSON
Deven was taken to the doctors in July because of a sore throat. After blood droplets were discovered under Deven's eyes, his parents immediately rushed him to Hershey Medical Center where purple spots of dead tissue began to cover his arms and legs. Deven was then transferred to Lehigh Valley Hospital where, after turning completely black, his feet were amputated.
"Before all this began Deven played football and baseball and loved to be outside," Michelle Jackson, Deven's mother said. "It was the hardest thing in the world to tell him he was losing his feet. He has been so strong."
Now, recuperating after multiple surgeries, Deven is healing and looking forward to playing football with his friends in the future, Jackson said. If everything goes well, Deven should be transferred back to Hershey Medical Center by the end of the week to begin rehab, she added.
"His biggest goal is to play football again," Jackson said. "Earlier he was talking about how his football team would have scored more touchdowns if he was there. He keeps saying that next year he will be ready to play and his team will do better."
The gates will open for the Third Annual Race for a Cause at 7 a.m. on Sept. 15, welcoming the public and registered racers. Open practice begins at 11 a.m. and hot laps are scheduled for 1 p.m. The radio station WQLV 98.9 will be covering the day's events which include a live band, Chinese auction, kart auction and DJ vs. DJ race. The Vegas Fuel RV will also be at the raceway along with Hall's Ice Cream.
"The entire day's proceeds will go toward the Deven Jackson Fund to help his family pay medical expenses," Chubb said. "Everybody is invited to participate. You don't need to be a racer. Show up and buy some fries. The more people the better."
The first Race for a Cause earned more than $2,000 and the second year raised $3,300, Chubb said. This year, with 150 racers and 300 anticipated spectators, Chubb and Deimler expect to raise at least $5,000 for Deven.
The Jackson family plans to use the donation to purchase prosthetics for Deven and to buy a new home. Currently, the family lives in a small trailer that is not wheelchair accessible.
"The reality is that I'm not going to be able to work and every little bit helps," Jackson said. "My job is now to make sure that Deven continues his life as normal as possible. If he wants to run, I'm going to make sure that he can run."
Jackson and husband, David, are planning to attend the Race for a Cause event. If rehab goes well, Deven will attend with his family.
"We have a map on the wall to locate all the different places that Deven gets support mail from," Jackson said. "Even people we don't know are reaching out. I'd like to thank everyone for the support."
Chubb and Deimler are looking for volunteers to help at Race for a Cause and are accepting donations for the Chinese auction. For more information or to get involved call 275-4963.


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"Worst things have happened to us - we always persevere," Panico tweeted to fans of his band Socratic. And he's been true to his word.
When Panico picks up his bass to perform at Maxwell's next week, he'll have to do so sitting down, since he's still recovering from the major surgery it took to repair his leg. But perseverance is nothing new for Socratic; in fact, it's been the band's defining characteristic since the group formed as Union County high school students over a dozen years ago.
"Whatever it's taken, we've always believed in this band and we've always managed to keep it going," Panico said in a phone interview. "Now that we don't have a record label and we're completely independent, it's been harder than ever, but somehow we find a way."
Socratic came to prominence in 2005 as part of a wave of emo-friendly pop-punk bands signed to Drive-Thru Records, a roster that included names like NJ's The Early November, New Found Glory, Dashboard Confessional, and Senses Fail. The label established a presence and a market share that transformed the punk scene for a few years, but its success proved short-lived.
"It's actually been kind of an albatross for us," Panico said. "Just being associated with Drive-Thru has meant that people connect us with a lot of bands that we have never really sounded like."
Shortly after the release of 2008's Spread The Rumors, Drive-Thru shut down operations. "The label just kind of disappeared and we just assumed that even though we still were technically under contract, that we were just free agents. We hadn't heard from them or anything and we went ahead and planned a new album on our own," Panico said.
That project became 2012's self-titled Socratic, which the band self-financed and recorded on its own. But when it came time to release the album, the band had a rude awakening.
"We really didn't even have to do it, but just to be nice we got in touch with Drive-Thru and told them that we were releasing the new album on our own, and they said we couldn't do that," Panico said. "We didn't want to have to get a lawyer and find it out in court, so we wound up making a deal with them and they took back our tour van in exchange for letting us go from the label."
Unable to tour beyond local venues has proven a hardship for the band, but Panico said they've never considered giving up. "We're thinking about maybe doing a Kickstarter and asking our fans to help pay for a new van so we can hit the road and play all the places we used to go," he said. "Whatever, we'll find a way."
Socratic released its self-titled album last January as a digital download, and let fans set their own price for it online. A few months later, the band was able to use that money to finance a vinyl release. Critics hailed Socratic as the band's most rock 'n' roll release to date.
AbsolutePunk.com raved, "Socratic is a moving, thought out record that brings the band's sound full circle without sounding too forced or contrived in the process," while ModernVinyl.com wrote, "the album is bright, cruises at a medium tempo, and builds its verses around large choruses worthy of summer radio."
Panico credits singer and principal songwriter Duane Okun with the upbeat sound of the album, even if the lyrics bristle with cynicism and despair. Tracks like "Give And Take Two" reflect on the death of the American dream and the plight of the foundering middle class, while "The Critics" and "Money On The Radio" lament the broken promises and corruption inherent in the music industry.
"A lot of the album reflects what we've been through as a band," Panico said. "But musically Duane always finds something in his voice to give people hope. We love playing in front of our fans, it's what keeps us going. We're just hoping that soon we'll be able to go out and do it all the time again."
Socratic will be at Maxwell's (1039 Washington St. Hoboken) on Friday, November 2, with Vasudeva, Long Faces, and Accidental Seabirds. This will be a late show with doors at 9:30 pm and $10 admission.


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John, I had the same problem as you did.
But, I took it apart. It wasn't too hard.
Here the steps:
There was the filter coughed right at the fan opening.
I took the filter material out because it jam the fan & make noise.
You need to pull the pastic fan out and clean from
the tanglement. There a washer style lock at top of the fan. Took the
locking washier out the fan will come out easy. Then I applied some
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When Henrik Lundqvist carried a Swedish flag around the ice at the 2006 Turin Olympics with a gold medal dangling from his neck, he was a fresh-faced kid days shy of his 24th birthday. A seventh-round pick in 2000, Lundqvist was in his first season in the NHL with the New York Rangers and still relatively
The French Tennis Federation (FFT) has extended Benoit Paire's suspension until the end of February 2017 for "damaging" the organization's image by his behavior at the Rio Olympics. The FFT, however, lifted bans on Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic who were sanctioned for criticizing
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the American sprinters whose raised-fist salutes at the 1968 Olympics are an ageless sign of race-inspired protest, will join the U.S. Olympic team at the White House next week for its meeting with President Barack Obama.


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The Poincare Conjecture, 1900:
If M is a 3-manifold with trivial fundamental group, and Π_i(M)=0 for i=1,2 and =Z for i=0,3 (ie, M has the homotopy groups of a 3-sphere), then M is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere.
Simply: (1904) That if any loop on the surface of a three dimensional shape can be shrunk to a point (as any loop can on a 3-D sphere) then the shape is just a 3-D
Discipline: Topology
Originator: Jules Henri Poincaré, 1854-1912.
Incentive: $US1million, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems of the Clay Mathematics Institute.
Notable false proof: JHC Whitehead, 1934.
Has led to: Interesting new examples of 3-manifolds; several celebrated cases of Poincaritis.
Unusual aspect: Solving this problem in four and more dimensions has been much easier than solving it in three.
Likely proof: Grigori Perelman, Steklov Institute of Mathematics, St Petersberg, 2002 and 2003, although the Clay prize has yet to be awarded.
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Sunday, August 18, 2013
Swing For A Cure hosted by the Wild Dunes Tennis Association with the support of the
Wild Dunes Resort and the Friends of Vicki Hollingsworth will be held on Saturday,
Sept.r 21 at Wild Dunes on Isle of Palms.
This annual fundraiser will offer its participants a choice of playing in either a
competitive Team Tennis Tournament (open to men and women of all skill levels, held at
one of the top 10 ranked tennis facilities- Wild Dunes). Or compete in a Stroke Play
Golf Tournament (offering 18 hole and nine hole flights to men and women of all levels of
play, handicap not required; to be played on the award winning Tom Fazio Links Course
also at Wild Dunes). The fundraisers' events will conclude with a silent auction,
cocktails, appetizers and an awards ceremony.
This fundraiser is in support of the fight against breast cancer through the Lowcountry
Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. This affiliate joins more than 100,000
breast cancer survivors and activists around the globe as part of the world's largest and
most progressive grassroots network fighting this disease. Importantly, through a variety
of events like Swing For A Cure, the Komen Lowcountry Affiliate has invested more
than $5 million in local breast health and breast cancer awareness projects in seventeen
counties here in this area. A remarkable 75 percent of net proceeds generated by the
Komen Lowcountry Affiliate stays here in support of our local communities. Last year
Swing For A Cure raised more than $16,000, this year the goal is to double that donation.
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Intensive hands-on sessions to allow designers to dive deep into Pivot Point's inspirational education and stunning designs. This artististic training immerses attendees in how to see, think, create and adapt the latest trend designs for any client. Six different cuts and styling variations will invigorate the artistic eye and maximize technical skills.


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I never used to think much of Valentine's Day. I never used to decorate much for it or celebrate it much more than a romantic dinner out with Jorden. But now that's all changed. And not just because of blogging, but also because, as my kids get older, it's more and more fun to get ready for holidays! They are interested in how I decorate and how they can help me, how we celebrate and who we invite. They care about eating fun foods and having fun parties and, maybe most importantly, they love having something to look forward to.
Since Valentine's Day is all about LOVE, the kids can really get into it. And so I decided to get my Valentine's decorations up early this year. (I find that the decorations help us get in the spirit of the season…)
I started with my living room vignette and worked my way out to the mantel in the family room. Have I mentioned how much I love having a mantel?? I've decorated it for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and now Valentine's Day… Jorden says he can't even remember what our "normal" decorations look like! That's okay – they're not nearly as fun as all this holiday decor 🙂
I was inspired by the neutral colors in our new fireplace and wanted to incorporate simple, natural materials into the design. It took some time, but eventually I got it just right… except…. something was missing!
They are the perfect finishing touch for the mantel!
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As a long-time member firm of AIGA, the professional association for design, Minneapolis-based brand identity design firm Franke+Fiorella is pleased to announce the selection of its Marketing Director Heather Olson as a recipient of the distinguished AIGA Fellow award.
The AIGA Fellow award program recognizes designers who have made a significant contribution to raising the standard of excellence in practice and conduct within their local or regional design community as well as their local AIGA chapter. Contributions in education, writing, and leadership, as well as reputation and the practice of design, are given equal consideration. The Fellow Award is the highest honor an AIGA chapter may bestow upon one of its members.
Minnesota's 2012 Fellows were chosen from member nominations by a subcommittee of the AIGA Minnesota chapter board, and approved by the board. They will be publicly honored at a celebration event in Minneapolis on June 15 and their names will be added to the national list of AIGA Fellows. Two other Twin Cities design industry representatives were chosen for the 2012 award: John DuFresne, professor and chair of the Graphic Design Department of the College of Visual Arts, and Monica Little, chairperson of Little & Company.
Heather Olson has been integral in shaping and growing AIGA Minnesota off and on for 30 years. Through her extraordinary leadership, volunteerism, mentorship, facilitation, and advocacy, Heather has helped to build and strengthen the Minnesota chapter's design community to its Top 5 status in the nation today. Following various committee roles, Heather was elected the first female president of the Minnesota Graphic Designers Association (predecessor to AIGA Minnesota) in 1983. She has continued to serve the chapter in numerous capacities—as board director, committee chair, event coordinator, portfolio reviewer and mentor. During her tenure as a professional in the design industry, Heather has shifted from practicing graphic designer in corporate and agency settings to marketing and recruitment director for The Office of Eric Madsen, Larsen Design, and now Franke+Fiorella. She received a B.A. with Honors from Iowa State University in Advertising Design and Journalism.This entry was posted in Awards. Bookmark the permalink. ← Franke+Fiorella scholarship winner announced Franke+Fiorella to receive 2012 Ambassador Award from Little Brothers–Friends of the Elderly →
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Today, reality star Kim Kardashian announced her divorce from NBA player Kris Humphries after only 72 days of marriage. And comedian Rob Delaney (pictured to the right) isn't letting her off the hook. In an essay for Vice, Delaney states his plan to sue Kardashian for promoting her sham marriage and spreads the blame as far as Ryan Seacrest, E! Entertainment Television and Comcast.
Delaney explains how he envisions the televised wedding "pitch" went down, complete with the proper marketing channels and rock-solid pre-nup that Humphries no doubt signed. He writes about his particular disdain for Seacrest, who executive produces several Kardashian reality shows.
It seems doubtful a lawsuit like this would be successful but the sentiment behind it should receive as much press as the honeymoon pictures did. He writes, in part:
KIM KARDASHIAN, I WANT THIS FOR YOU. I don't hate you. I hate your shows. I hate that I know who you are. But I could move to Patagonia or New Guinea and escape you if I wasn't as willingly bound up in our terrifying modern consumer culture as you are. I know that under your unnecessary inch of makeup and Kevlar sheath dress is a heart that yearns for true love and could find and appreciate the pleasures in marriage that I described above. That's why I'd like you to stay married. And if you won't, I will sue you. Because when you wrap your marriage vows around a cubic zirconia encrusted baseball bat and beat us about the head and face with them, you can stay the fuck married for more than 20 minutes, you sexy monster. I'll see you in court.
We really, really hope that he'll actually see her in court. You should read Delaney's entire piece here. And to keep up on with any potential legal proceedings, follow Delaney's hilarious and very popular Twitter feed @robdelaney.


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After beginning this company in our tiny home office, and spending a few years in a very comfortable, albeit rented, office space, I am pleased to announce that Price & Company Realty has a new home!
As of Monday, February 11, Price & Company has moved, and is now located at: 1310 Azalea Court, Suites H & J, Myrtle Beach SC 29577. The phone numbers, fax numbers, and website information remains the same.
Much to our client's relief, we are not far from our previous location. On the same street, and just a few hundred feet north, we are located in the Azalea Woods complex - the 2nd office on the right, against Highway 17 Bypass.
Look for the big Price & Company truck parked along the highway... and give us a honk as you go by! If we can help with your real estate needs, please come by and visit us - or give us a call at (843) 272-1266. We'd very much appreciate the opportunity to work with you, and find out "Where do you want to be?".


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We have been producing tension curtains for the transport industry for over 40 years. We are not only competitive in the marketplace but have a superb reputation for making well designed and top quality curtains.
Stuart Canvas Products can manufacture anything from standard curtains to pocketed curtains or bespoke items to suit client needs and requirements. We use only the best PVC and the weight of this depends on what is required.
Below are just some examples of the curtains that can be made:
Standard Tension Curtains
We can manufacture single skin curtains to measure. They are manufactured from 900 gsm heavy duty cloth (but this can vary according to specification and budget) and are reinforced to requirements. We also offer horizontal and vertical bands to suit the vehicle as well as a choice of locking or non-locking buckles.
Insulated Tension Curtains
These consist of a standard set of curtains which includes insulation material as well as another layer of PVC on the back side of curtain to keep the heat out and cold in the vehicle.
Double Thickness Tension Curtains
We manufacture these for extra strength and they are mostly used for the carrying of sawdust. All the roller bands are reinforced for extra strength.
Pocketed Tension Curtains
Stuart Canvas Products manufacture these curtains to specification, each including three pockets to weave the strap through. These curtains are made from 900 gsm PVC with triple eyelets every two feet. If you require them closer, they can be manufactured to order.


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The Sierra Providence Health Network announced a major investment in their El Paso hospitals yesterday. They're going to be spending 120-million dollars on facility upgrades. Joining us now to tell us what that will mean for patients, is Eric Evans, the ceo of sierra providence.
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