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Ordinarily, science blogs wouldn't spend a whole lot of time on politics in general. After all, even if any science blogger has a thing for playing pundit, actual science should still make up most of the blog and there are few subjects that take up more bandwidth than political gossip already. But the upcoming election is getting quite a bit of traction across the science blogging world as more and more scientists and science writers see very disturbing patterns between politicians' attitudes and the quality of scientific education in the U.S., especially when it comes to the state and local level. In an election slated to be dominated by politicians whose scientific education is either severely lacking, or who adamantly promote ridiculous anti-scientific dogmatism, there's a very reasonable fear for the future of science in a nation which, at least publicly, used to hold is scientists and their work as the engine of its technological and military clout, and economic firepower not so long ago.
Now, anti-intellectualism reigns in the mass media and science that was once considered to be crucial for a global superpower is being dismissed by loud and proud Luddites and religious fundamentalists who lunge towards Tea Party activists, people who are generally angry about anything and everything, incorporating every possible grievance about the modern world into the tsunami of rage they're trying to fashion into a platform for electoral contests. While according to Matt Taibbi's much talked about op-ed on the Tea Party, those willing and ready to wrap themselves in a noxious mix of nationalism, pseudo-piety, and contempt, if not outright and broiling hatred, towards anyone in the amorphous entity they call Big Government are just narcissists, there's more to the Tea Party mindset than that. Certainly this is a crowd that really cares about itself and would really like for you to keep the government out of the Medicare program the same government runs because they like when taxes are being spent on them, but consider having their tax money spent on someone else analogous to being robbed. But they're also more prone to conspiracy theories, religious fundamentalism, and a general fear of change. Actually, Taibbi partially captures what terrifies them in one paragraph.
The world is changing all around the Tea Party. The country is becoming more black and Hispanic by the day. The economy is becoming more and more complex, and access to capital for ordinary individuals more and more remote, the ability to live simply and own a business without worrying about Chinese labor or the depreciating dollar vanished more or less for good. They want to pick up their ball and go home, but they can't; thus, the difficulties and the rancor with those of us who are resigned to life on this planet.
Why did the Tea Party set sit quietly during the Bush years? Yes, political partisanship definitely played a role, but it was also the fact that until the last three years, the economy mostly appeared to be doing ok. Even when the first tremors of the Great Recession began, it looked like a temporary correction, a simple rough patch, an idea played up by the government while it constructed its first wave of bailouts and stimuli. But when the crisis really hit and we discovered that the last three decades loaded the government with unsustainable debt while eroding our economy, and that the future would be very, very different than what we were used to, the once tiny membership of the Tea Party was flooded with new members who wanted to vent their unfocused terror and rage to let everyone around them know that something's wrong, that something's desperately broken. And as odd as it may sound, I agree that there are a lot of very broken things around us. When the Great Recession's shockwave engulfed Wall Street, I was writing about the cons of giving banks money in BusinessWeek as I struggled to think of any potential justification for bailouts to meet the desired debate format.
But here's the big difference between people like myself, who think the political system we have now is in dire need of major repairs and that we're not ready for the future, and the Tea Party. Instead of accepting that we're long past the point of arguing against globalization and multicultural societies united around commerce more than nations and trying to find ways to adjust to this new reality, they want to slam on the breaks and reverse a huge country which still steers global affairs into their idealized, simplified past when they were kings and the world was their oyster. And in their devotion to this dream of reversal, they reject anything and everything that's in the way of their mission as a conspiracy to stop them or a plot to subjugate them. Rather than saying that a cap and trade agreement isn't going to help with global warming, they say that the warming itself is a hoax by greedy trillionaire scientists and Al Gore. Instead of realizing that scientists can build our future, they dismiss all scientists as pretentious, elitist know-it-alls and cling to fundamentalism. Instead of considering how we'd have to change American healthcare to save money and deal with the future, they declare that the U.S. has the hands down best healthcare system in the world and any attempt to change it is a communist scam.
Are these the kind of people we want steering the country? Do we really need denialists who instead of trying to deal with real world problems simply deny the problems exist? And should we trust them with setting future policies for the military while we're at it, with their xenophobic streak and conviction that firepower solves any and all problems if applied enough times? In their zeal to return to the Golden Old Days and their denial of an evolving, changing world where alliances and global power structures have intertwined and grown to be a lot more complex than they once were, they can easily make us even more fragile and diminish our influence in global affairs if we let them call the shots. What's even worse is what would happen if we let them have a run, then elect their ideological brethren because we're now even more upset with the state of the nation, since the policies the Tea Party 2.0 will purpose will be just another misguided, fervent quest for yesteryear's glory.


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LANSING, MI – State Rep. Holly Hughes, who has spent much of this year working on veterans' issues, got another veterans-related piece of legislation through during the lame-duck session.
The legislation, which is headed to Gov. Rick Snyder for his consideration, would allow qualifying veterans to use their military training to obtain a Commercial Drivers' License.
The bill sponsored by Hughes, R-White River Township, allows the skills test that is required to obtain a CDL to be waived for veterans with experience in certified military commercial motor vehicles within a two-year period prior to applying for the license. As part of the requirements, veterans would need documentation showing the vehicle they operated in the military was similar to the vehicle designation they are applying for.
"Military training is top-notch and there is no reason that our veterans shouldn't be able to use this training when applying for a Commercial Drivers' License once returning home," Hughes said. "This is a common-sense reform that will help get Michigan veterans back to work faster and eliminate the hassle that these highly training individuals should not need to deal with."
To qualify for the waiver, an applicant must be a Michigan resident and hold a valid Michigan driver's license and submit an application to add a CDL endorsement.
Michigan's unemployment rate for veterans is currently 29.4 percent, which is two and a half times the national average.
"On behalf of the veterans and their families from Muskegon County and the entire state, I would like to express our sincere appreciation to all the legislators who voted for the passage of the veterans CDL bill," said Dave Eling, director of the Muskegon County Department of Veterans Affairs. "We have a large number of military trained drivers who will now be able to transfer those skills to the civilian world and get back to work much quicker."
Veterans would still be required to pay the application fee for the license. Based on that item, the House Fiscal Agency reports that the legislation is projected to have no fiscal impact on state or local government.
Hughes, who is nearing the end of her two-year term in the state House, helped organize the Veterans Job Fair on the LST 393 in Muskegon earlier this year. Hughes lost in her bid for re-election to Collene Lamonte last month.
Eric Gaertner covers government, politics and the outdoors. He can be reached via email at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @EricGaertner1.

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That's the distance between where I am today, and where I was a short time ago. Those are the degrees of separation between Minnesota and the villages of Ilambilole, Bomalang'ombe, and the city of Iringa, all in South Central Tanzania. It's the distance between a malaria free zone, and an endemic malaria zone. It's the distance between excessive caloric intake and malnourishment. It's the distance between so much and so little….

Crossing these distances was one of the most rewarding trips I ever experienced. What I experienced were some of the most joyous, welcoming, and Christian people I've ever met….some of the most ingenious and hardworking…some of the most deserving.

Each day the economic disparity between these worlds is increasing. Disparity in investment, in small business, and in mentored entrepreneurs. Disparity in the value chain from production to consumption. Disparity in transportation, markets, and the businesses of agriculture, manufacturing, and trade.

Cheetah Development is working to bridge these economic development disparities.

Bridging this gap is Ray Menard, the visionary, the founder, the mover, the shaker (you should see him dance with the villagers)…

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Bridging the gap is Dr. Chris Marrs…who has worked in the third world for much of the past decade…who is bringing his skill, compassion, energy, and incredible dedication to join with us at Cheetah…in these villages for two months in early 2010 to help build up anti-malarial and anti-HIV-AIDS efforts.

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In a very short time Cheetah has done an incredible job, crossing cultures, building trust, and delivering on every front. As such, I encourage you to lend extraordinary support to this extraordinary mission. Please schedule a trip, grab your checkbook, and get your family and friends to do the same. It's all about leverage…a little here delivers a big impact there.

Mark ErethMark Erethhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-502494314725837551.post-34250569809571924842009-12-04T00:05:32.648-06:002009-12-04T00:05:32.648-06:00Praying for you guys Randy. I am praying we can fi...Praying for you guys Randy. I am praying we can find folks willing and able to partner and risk to invest for development both spritual and economic. Wishing i was there!!! YOu don't know how bad! Bless you

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I wish you very well with it.

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GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Police say a 24-year-old man and 13-year-old boy are in custody -- with others being sought -- for an early morning assault of a woman inside an abandoned house on Sheldon Avenue SE.
The two suspects were captured as officers swarmed on the scene at Sheldon Avenue and Buckley Street. Both were fleeing, but police set up a perimeter and managed to catch them.
Grand Rapids Police Capt. Jeff Hertel said police learned that several people who apparently were homeless were staying in an abandoned house at 539 Sheldon. At about 4:30 a.m., a group of people outside started throwing bricks through windows and threatening to burn the place down.
One of the bricks hit a 35-year-old woman inside the house and she called police.
The people outside briefly left, but returned with "backup" and barged into the house. They dragged the woman into a kitchen, beat her in the legs with an object as they threatened to sexually assault her.
They wanted her to perform a sex act on them, police said.
Police soon arrived, however, and the assailants scattered. One reportedly jumped from a second-floor window to get out of the house.
One of the suspects was caught along nearby Thompson Court while another was located along Sheldon. Police are still looking for a handful of others who escaped capture.
The woman did not require hospital treatment and complained of soreness where she was struck.
Police said the 24-year-old and 13-year-old could face a charge of assault with intent to commit criminal sexual conduct.
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"Man I missed 'Black In The Saddle' the other night."
"Are you kidding me- that shit's imporntant!"
"Are you kidding me- that shit's imporntant!"
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A sex position in which two individuals kneel on all fours with their rear-ends facing one another share a two-headed dildo; the beauty of an eighty-eight (or 88) is that it can be shared by any two people regardless of their respective genders.
I love the coke-party scene from "Requiem for a Dream" when Jennifer Connely does an eighty-eight with that blonde chick!!
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The eighty eight was a weapon in the German army in World War Two. Actually an anti-aircraft weapon firing an 88 mm shell, the 88 had a major advantage in range over many Allied artillery pieces. German gun crews fighting in the Spanish Civil war turned the gun on approaching tanks that had broken through their lines - unsure how effective they would be. Germans quickly converted the gun to anti-tank use, putting the gun into their vaunted Tiger Tanks. Allied tanks were knocked out before they were able to get close enough to use their weapons. The eighty eight had a self ejecting shell and were deployed in numerous configurations including tanks, self propelled guns, and a four legged gun that was towed behind a vehicle. They were less effective at close range.
The German eighty eight picked off the Allied tanks before they could get into range.
di Atmospherium 26 dicembre 2005
Heil Hitler, or twice H (the eight letter of the alphabet). Used by young neo-nazis in Germany
88!Remember April 20th
di maddog05 23 giugno 2005
filipino slang for a piano
"huy roul! play dee eighty-eight por us"
di darrenzo 14 febbraio 2003
Code for neo-nazi indiviuals to say "Hail Hitler". 8 refers to the letter H, the 8th letter in the alphabet. HH = Hail Hitler.
di Mandy 15 febbraio 2003
Street slang meaning police.
Possibly derived from CB Slang meaning police car with lights on.
Possibly derived from CB Slang meaning police car with lights on.
"Eighty-eight comin' down the block!"
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When you slap your balls together with your roommates hairless, ghostly-white sack.
Oh hey Hawk! you wanna Eighty-Eight on Danny's pillow later?
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In previous communications1 we have reported on the vitamin A requirements of infants and of children. The criteria which we used for estimating the vitamin A status of the subjects were (1) growth, (2) susceptibility to infections and (3) visual threshold in the dark (dark adaptation). The results of the studies indicated that, as judged by the aforementioned criteria, the requirement for vitamin A is low and that the average diet of infants and children contains several times the minimum requirement. It is for this reason that patients with frank vitamin A deficiency are so uncommonly observed in the clinic.
The possibility exists, however, that states of subclinical vitamin A deficiency are much more prevalent. In view of the fact that the level of vitamin C in the blood is now regarded as an indicator of the size of the stores of vitamin C in the body and is
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Quest 2015 to showcase student, faculty scholarship and creativity
SUNY Oswego's Quest 2015 will celebrate student and faculty scholarship and creativity on Wednesday, April 15 with scores of research presentations and exhibitions from across campus.
Thu Apr 10, 2014
Oswego researcher wins NSF grant to probe mass-extinction puzzle
SUNY Oswego earth sciences faculty member and paleontologist Diana Boyer has received a three-year, $52,000 National Science Foundation grant to advance understanding of a mass extinction whose evidence lies in ancient layers of black shale in Western New York and Eastern Ohio.
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SUNY Oswego team uses Xbox Kinect to research emotion
SUNY Oswego graduate students Randy Belcher and Dan Cutler will demonstrate their emotion-measuring research using Kinect—part of Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming system—at the college's Quest symposium Wednesday, April 18.
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Students to use new grant for astrophysics research in Taiwan
The National Science Foundation has awarded SUNY Oswego Faculty Fellow Shashi Kanbur a $138,545 grant to provide students interested in astrophysics opportunities to do research at a Global Laboratory partner in Taiwan.
Wed Sep 01, 2010
Students, faculty to chase lake-effect snowstorms for data
An $86,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will provide SUNY Oswego meteorology faculty member Scott Steiger and his students the tools to chase the most intense snowstorms to collect first-of-its-kind data.
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Students, faculty funded to collaborate on six projects
Six SUNY Oswego student-faculty teams, most of them interdisciplinary, have won campus Collaborative Challenge Grants for their scholarly and creative projects to be completed in the coming weeks and months.
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Five faculty-student research teams earn Challenge Grants
Studies of language, lightning, South American social movements, air pollution and wind power will take place thanks to five SUNY Oswego Student-Faculty Collaborative Challenge Grants.
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1. The top 7 account for 41% of the wealth. Last year, the top 7 accounted for 48%. In general, this shows that there is a softening of the Power Law, which states that 80% of the wealth is with 20% of the people.
2. Gautam Adani's wealth has grown by 67% from last year — the highest growth among the seven. At 48, he is also the youngest billionaire in the list.
3. There are three graduates, two MBAs and one post graduate among the top 7.
4. Two are steel barons. Lakshmi Mittal and Savitri Jindal account for 13% of the total wealth.
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Rahul Apr 11, 2013
In India, wealth hoarding is a big issue. Too many people are earning too much, while much too many are earning too less. Increasing gap b/w wealthy and poor section is clearly visible
Sudha Mattoo Sep 22, 2011
Rich people have also seen the hardships. I do not know whether they remember that or not but they should help the poor people by giving them shelter and food.
Mahantesh Nov 24, 2010
Great job.
Balajis Oct 12, 2010
Dude, you are the ignoramus. soap, oil etc account for less than 10% of Wipro's revenues. Wipro is truly a software company and not a manufacturing co.
Amit Pandeya Oct 12, 2010
"There is only one billionaire, Azim Premji, who is from the non-manufacturing sector, i.e., software."..Dude, Wipro makes Soaps, lightbulbs, diapers etc..Whoeever made this Slideshow is a huge ignoramus


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A Phoenix apartment owner faces hefty fines for not providing adequate air conditioning to tenants, who sweltered through five triple-digit days last July, according to court records.
6635 N. 19th Avenue, Inc., was found guilty of 49 civil citations at the Woodbridge Apartments near 19th and Glendale avenues by Rosemarie K. Gavin, hearing officer for Phoenix Municipal Court.
6635 N. 19th Avenue, Inc. is a subsidiary of HK Realty in Los Angeles, which purchased the two-story Woodbridge Apartments in 2011 in a foreclosure sale
The owner faces a fine of up to $2,500 for each of the 49 violations at sentencing scheduled for Aug. 19, city officials said.
"We do over 65,000 cases a year and well over 93 percent come into compliance with education and a notice of violation," said Patrick Ravenstein, city code compliance manager. "This definitely was kind of an unusual circumstance. Typically property owners don't take it this far before they correction violations."
Attorney Gregory McGill, who represents the property owner, said the court ignored "every major defect" in the city's prosecution of the case and that the ruling will be appealed.
Built in 1975, Woodbridge has 305 units, of which about 60 percent was occupied when the violations occurred, according to court documents.
The civil hearing involved witnesses for both the city and the owner and lasted from April 29 to May 24. Gavin issued her six-page ruling July 11.
"It is evident to the court that the individual apartments had air temperatures that were well in excess of what anyone paying money for an apartment in a Phoenix summer would consider comfortable," Gavin wrote in her ruling. "The court does not need medical or expert testimony to conclude that the health and welfare of the people living at Woodbridge was affected by the lack of proper air conditioning during the heat of an Arizona summer."
Gavin said the owner neglected to do proper maintenance of Woodbridge's cooling system that resulted in repeated failures to adequately cool the units for an extended period of time.
After hearing from various witnesses and reviewing exhibits, Gavin said Woodbridge was a complex that "had managers that didn't do much managing."
"Here we have a cooling system that was supposed to cool the 300-plus units for the paying tenants and no thought was given to maintaining the system and preparing it for the summer cooling season," she wrote. "The 'management' of the cooling system was on a 'crisis-to-crisis' basis."
She did not find credible the owner and managers' testimonies that they were unaware that a cooling system of that size and complexity needed preventative maintenance.
"The overall thrust of defendant's argument is to try to shift blame for the cooling system problems to the people who worked on the system," she wrote.
McGill said the prosecution put no tenants on the stand to testify against Woodbridge and had no witnesses that were injured or needed medical treatment.
He said the court allowed a city witness to quote "unamed tenants" who complained about the" oppressive" heat.
"This was rank hearsay from tenants not called to the stand, some of which the city stated were "refugees" from Asia who did not speak English very well," McGill said in a statement.
There was no evidence that the owner caused the air conditioning problems, he added.
McGill said there is a civil case pending in Justice Court against a vendor the owner hired before July 2012 to repair the cooling system, which "they did not repair."
He also said the court didn't address that another vendor had to order parts from out of state to fix the cooling system, which cause a delay to the repairs.
Ravenstein said there is a criminal case involving more than 300 charges against Woodbridge such as for safety of landings and blight-type issues making its way through the court system.
Since the city issued 359 violations at Woodbridge in August 2012 after a six-hour inspection, the owner has shown a willingness to work with the city.
When the air conditioning went out at Woodbridge in as temperatures hovered near triple digits, the owner installed portable cooling units as the system was being fixed. The air conditioning at the complex is currently working, Ravenstein said.
Ravenstein said the city handled 69,086 reported property violations of single-family homes and multi-residential units in the last fiscal year that ended June 30.


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Meaning go for it.
Jim: I'm tired, I might go lie down.
Dani: do it up.
Dani: do it up.
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Do something. Usually with purpose.
You wanna fight? Let's do it up bitch!
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A somewhat half-hearted verbal command used when a person agrees with another person's inclination to perform a task. The phrase is usually said hastily, and can also be stylized by stretching the first or the last vowel, depending on preference.
"Yayuhh, im tryin to get with herrr."
"doitup man."
"I should heat up those nachos."
"Good1 doituuup."
"doitup man."
"I should heat up those nachos."
"Good1 doituuup."
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The act of being boss and getting something done, usually in a very cool or gangsta way.
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Workshop at the University of Chicago, Saturday, April 28, 2012
Room 157, Department of Art History, 5540 S. Greenwood Ave.
Conceptions of medium have long shaped the presumptive fields of modern and
contemporary art, but particularly with regard to modern and contemporary
art in East Asia. In many respects, the very history of this field might
be configured the lines drawn between oil from ink, figuration and
abstraction, and "fine" art from craft. Many of these divisions enacted as
a means to work through evolving definitions of culture, nationality,
ethnicity, and race throughout the 19th and 20th centuries; illustrations
in point include the rise of nihonga in Meiji Japan or the use of woodblock
prints in Republican China. In many instances, particular media were
celebrated on the basis of their supposed capacity to authentically, or
"purely" embody the sensibilities of a particular nation,
culture, or race. This was in direct odds with the artworks themselves,
all of which were the result of sustained negotiations with diverse, and
frequently, divergent, ways of thinking about form. Operative in these
works is a palpable indeterminacy and in-betweenness that fatally
undermines the notion of a "pure" medium. Contrary to certain
Anglo-American discourses of modernity which privilege the issue of medium
specificity, the core questions of modern art in East Asia turn on the
implications of medium as a fundamentally compromised notion. In recent
decades, the question of medium has been further complicated by presumed
divisions between materials, that is, between artists working with
materials associated with modern and contemporary art as defined by
consensus opinion rooted in artistic circles based in Europe and the U.S.
versus those who work with materials designated as "indigenous" or
"traditional." This workshop aims to open up discussion regarding the
position and impact of medium in modern and contemporary art in East Asia.
Presenters will cover a wide range of case studies, including export
painting in 19th century southern China, the mixing, or "miscegenation"
that arises vis-a-vis the commingling of oil and ink painting in Meiji
Japan, and the engagement with materiality by ink painters working in
postwar Korea.
Workshop Participants:
Jerome Silbergeld (Princeton University), ""Is a White Horse a Horse? Is A
Painted Pot a Pot or a Painting? The Long History of Mixed-Media,
Mixed-Genre Arts in China"
Winnie Wong (Harvard University), "Lam Qua's Ingres's :
Non-Authorship and Pure Modes of Copying"
John Szostak (University of Hawaii), "Nihonga and the "Pigment Problem":
Evolving Notions of Mineral Pigments in Modern Japanese Painting"
Bert Winther-Tamaki (University of California at Irvine), "Fluxed by Other
Media: The Modern Flow of Asian Ink"
Joan Kee (University of Michigan), "Kwon Young-woo Stands His Ground:
Abstract Ink Painting"
Workshop Discussant: Wu Hung (University of Chicago)
Workshop Discussant: Wu Hung (University of Chicago)


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Hi Expert,
.We have integrated SRM 7.0 & ERP 6.0 EHP4.
Now what SRM specific role we need to give to user in ERP. ( ECC 6.0 )
When we create user in ECC 6.0 which standard SRM specific roles are available in ECC 6.0 .
We also done SRM & BI integration & SRM specific roles are th
SRM is a role base application.
there are departments like REQUESTER , BUYER and Accounting clerk.
upon the business role , the user will be decided what role exactly required to perform in the SRM .
The following sections describe the PFCG roles available for SAP Supplier Relationship Management 7.0 (SAP SRM 7.0). Roles for SAP SRM Name Technical Name SAP SRM: Invoice Verification Clerk /SAPSRM/ACCOUNTANT SAP SRM: Administrator /SAPSRM/ADMINISTRATOR SAP SRM: User Administrator /SAPSRM/ADMINISTRATOR_USR SAP SRM: Bidder /SAPSRM/BIDDER SAP SRM: Employee /SAPSRM/EMPLOYEE SAP SRM: Manager /SAPSRM/MANAGER SAP SRM: Operational Purchaser /SAPSRM/OP_PURCHASER SAP SRM: Component Planner /SAPSRM/PLANNER SAP SRM: Internal Dispatcher /SAPSRM/RECIPIENT SAP SRM: Purchasing Assistant /SAPSRM/SECRETARY SAP SRM: Strategic Purchaser /SAPSRM/ST_PURCHASER SAP SRM: Supplier /SAPSRM/SUPPLIER SAP SRM: Survey Owner /SAPSRM/SURVEY_OWNER SAP SRM: Survey Reviewer /SAPSRM/SURVEY_REVIEWER Authorization for accessing SRM Enterprise Services /SAPSRM/ENTERPRISE_SERVICES ---------------- Portal Content for SAP SRM Core In this area, you can find information about the SAP NetWeaver Portal content (roles and their corresponding worksets and iViews) that is available for SAP Supplier Relationship (SAP SRM) Core. The roles are listed below: Role Technical Name RFx Respondent (also referred to as Bidder) com.sap.pct.srm.core.ro_bidder Component Planner com.sap.pct.srm.core.ro_componentplanner Employee Self-Service com.sap.pct.srm.core.ro_employeeselfservice Goods Recipient com.sap.pct.srm.core.ro_goodsrecipient Invoicer com.sap.pct.srm.core.ro_invoicer Manager com.sap.pct.srm.core.ro_manager Operational Purchaser com.sap.pct.srm.core.ro_operationalpurchaser Purchasing Assistant com.sap.pct.srm.core.ro_purchasingassistant SRM Administrator com.sap.pct.srm.core.ro_srmadministrator Strategic Purchaser com.sap.pct.srm.core.ro_strategicpurchaser Supplier com.sap.pct.srm.core.ro_supplier Supplier Survey Cockpit com.sap.pct.srm.core.ro_survey_owner Supplier Survey Cockpit com.sap.pct.srm.core.ro_survey_reviewer
Hi Muthuraman ,
Thanks for the reply. But Roles you have mentioned here are available in SRM 7.0 & Portal after importing business packages. Those roles are not available in ECC 6.0 EHP4.
But if I create one user having business role BIDDER in ECC 6.0 EHP4 then which std. role I need to assign to the user. At this stage ,we are in realization phase so I have to give std roles to functional team.
SRM,BI are ok but not sure about roles in ECC 6.0
User (bidder) in ECC have the same user-ID in SRM, but the roles & user maintenance are different in these two instances.
So you can give your core team in ECC, access to T-Code likewise ME41, ME47, ME49 etc & provide the authorisation to bbp_bid_inv etc in SRM.
As you are into realisation phase would suggest that use standard roles only for your functional team.
HI Sandeep,
Std. Role is the problem here. I am not able to find out what std. roles SAP provide in ECC 6.0 from SRM perspective.
I am not able to find out what std. roles SAP provide in ECC 6.0 from SRM perspective.
If you are integrating SRM with ECC, I am sure your ECC users, based on their functional areas, already have roles that they are assigned to perform their daily tasks, e.g. transactions ME41, ME42, ME43, ME45 are assigned to something like "strategic procurement role". They don't have to be changed. When you are using Portal for SRM 7, you can choose those portal roles for "Suite", such as "Operational Purchaser (ERP)", "Operational Purchaser (ERP/SRM)".


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Review: The Winter Beauty Boost treatment at Akina, Temple Bar
It's the time of year that days are getting brighter (and longer!) and the weather is kind of starting to pick up a little, but your body hasn't quite got the memo and, in my case anyway, dry, chapped skin is …
It's the time of year that days are getting brighter (and longer!) and the weather is kind of starting to pick up a little, but your body hasn't quite got the memo and, in my case anyway, dry, chapped skin is still flavour of the month! So when I got a mailer about Akina's latest treatment, a 90-minute skin-softening body brush, oil and facial combo, I was only dying to try it out.
Orla, my therapist, wasted no time in greeting me – and storing my suitcase! – when I dragged myself in out of the lashings of rain on Tuesday and into the calm and warm surroundings of Akina. As I crossed the threshold I realised this wasn't my first time there; a few years back a friend gave me a gift of a treatment, and I had a back facial, which was far more enjoyable than it sounds.
This time I was here for the Winter Beaut Boost, which comprises an all-over body brush, application of an anti-cellulite body oil, a hydrating vitamin facial with lip treatment and a mini manicure.
You should know off the bat, I am a huge fan of being scrubbed, scratched and basically roughed up a little bit – in a beauty therapy capacity, you understand – so I was really looking forward to the body brush segment of the treatment. For those who are jumpy, squeamish or just prefer things to be soft and soothing, this may not be your cup of tea, but I loved it. Orla scrubbed me from head to toe (except for the delicate tummy and boob areas!) before applying the body oil, which she warmed in her hands beforehand. Nothing worse than freezing cold oil being applied directly!
I'll confess at this stage that I totally zonked during the body oil application, waking up only to roll over before falling fast asleep again. I always think that's a great testament to how relaxing the treatment is. After the body oil had been applied, I was covered in a towel and a blanket and Orla started into the facial, a vitamin A treatment designed to deeply condition and moisturise the skin. A face mask was applied for about five minutes, covering both the eyes and the mouth, which could be an issue for some. The only issue for me was that I woke up at one stage when I tried (and failed) to breathe through my mouth!
While the mask was settling in, Orla massaged my hands with oil, pushed back my cuticles and tidied up my (very battered but improving) nails. The treatment took an hour and a half but I could easily have spent the day there, and I really did not want to get back to reality afterwards!
Obviously, the results, a few days later, are as important as the experience itself – and I'm glad to report that my skin feels softer than ever before. The skin on my face, not to sound too Oil of Olay about it, seems to have been plumped slightly, too – as if all of that winter dehydrating has been reversed! In short: highly recommended.
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Wife pleads guilty in election-related forgery in western Erie County
A prison term is a possibility for a 47-year-old Elk Creek Township woman at the center of a forgery case that upended the race for district judge in western Erie County in March.
Marni Alward faces a sentence of probation to five years in state prison after pleading guilty to forging signatures on the nominating petitions for her husband, who had been a candidate for district judge.
Alward on Wednesday pleaded guilty to one count of the first-degree misdemeanor of forgery, and her sentencing is March 20 before Erie County President Judge Ernest J. DiSantis Jr.
Alward entered her plea before Judge William R. Cunningham. In exchange for the plea, the District Attorney's Office dropped three other forgery counts, also first-degree misdemeanors, but incorporated the facts of those counts into the charge to which Alward pleaded, according to court records. DiSantis can consider that information at sentencing, as well as whether Alward has a prior record.
Alward, who is free on unsecured bond of $10,000, had applied for Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition, a program that grants probation to first-time, nonviolent offenders. District Attorney Jack Daneri said his office rejected the ARD application partly because of the nature of the offense.
"She attempted to commit a fraud on the election process," Daneri said.
Alward's lawyer, Lawrence D'Ambrosio, did not respond to messages seeking comment.
The District Attorney's Office in April charged Alward with forging four signatures on the nominating petitions for her husband, John Alward, a registered Democrat who was seeking a nomination for the district judge post held by the incumbent, Chris MacKendrick, a Republican, whose office is in West Springfield.
John Alward dropped out of the race before the May primary. MacKendrick defeated another challenger, Jeff Gadley, to win re-election.
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You know that cat 'Andre W. K'? ..yeah that guy who had that show on MTV about his rock group and shit that never hit it big. Lol yeah fo' sho! Well me and my cousins and my bro got our own lingo about this shit. 'Double U-K' straight up means 'Peace da fuck out nigs!' 'Nuff said :]
Yo im finna bounce now, double U-K!
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The mayor of Minneapolis hopes to make his city a destination spot for gay couples in the Midwest. He's even unveiled a new ad campaign with the message, "Come to Minnesota to get married."
Minnesota began recognizing gay marriage on Aug, 1. Mayor R.T. Rybak said his state's new status presents an opportunity, especially since gay marriage isn't recognized in nearby states like Wisconsin.
"This is an amazing state, but Wisconsin right now does not have one thing that we have in Minnesota and that is equal rights," Rybak said.
Rybak said he hopes the new ad campaign will promote his city to same-sex couples. So far, he's traveled to Madison, Wis., and Chicago. He also plans to visit Colorado.
The campaign is facing some push-back since same-sex marriage is illegal in Wisconsin. Couples who leave to get married and then come back could face penalties.
If a gay couple tries to file their state taxes jointly in Wisconsin they could face a $10,000 fine and nine months in jail.
Gay marriage supporters don't think that is fair.
"I think it really highlights how our government's hands are tied by the constitutional ban that we have," Katie Belanger, executive director for Fair Wisconsin, said.
"They're really limited in terms of the scope of the decisions that they can do to recognize same-sex couples," she added.
The conservative group Wisconsin Family Action campaigned in 2006 to amend to the state's constitution to recognize marriage as only between one man and one woman.
"The mayor of Minneapolis can come here and do whatever he chooses just as we have ambassadors going to other states to try and woo business," WFA President Julaine Appling said in response to Rybak's campaign.
"Our law would not recognize any validity to those (same sex) marriages performed in any other state," she said.
Meanwhile in Hawaii, a special legislative session has been set to pass a bill legalizing gay marriage.
The measure seeks to grant same-sex couples the same rights and benefits as traditionally married couples. It includes religious exemptions and other provisions to protect first amendment rights.
The special session begins Oct. 28. Hawaii already allows same-sex civil unions. If the bill passes, it would become the 14th state to legalize gay marriage.
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It's strange, but it sounds like it was a technopolitical decision for management go with PHP even though all our other systems are ColdFusion.
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Larnach was one of the Woodmen who dwelt in the Forest of Brethil, south of the River Teiglin. These people were harried by the Gaurwaith outlaws from Doriath's western borders, and in a raid by these outlaws, Larnach's daughter was rescued by Túrin Turambar, under the alias of Neithan.
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Posted on 09/03/2010
The long and winding road
ESPN's Nick Mullins brings us his first Premiership Postcard ahead of the season openers
The obvious - and occasionally not so obvious - signs that a new season's almost with us have been steadily increasing as the summer's drawn on. The first tremors began to appear in my laptop inbox as June turned to July. At the moment there are 408 saved messages, 407 of which have the word "rugby" somewhere in their title.
They include a vast swathe from Premiership Rugby and individual clubs, making sure we don't miss announcements of new signings, sad farewells, press days and how much a season ticket in the Booth Street car park next to Edgeley Park will set you back. You can always rely on Dave Swanton - Sale's press guru - to lighten the gloom. It's £100 by the way. Good value.
And then there have been the ones from ESPN. Whilst everyone involved is as chuffed as an American with a lifetime's supply of hot-dogs to be covering the Aviva Premiership, the enormity of the challenge - broadcasting 43 live matches from around the grounds when last season you didn't do any - has been slowly sinking in.
I've had my own, personal, finely-tuned pre-season routine. It didn't start too well. I fear suggesting the Blue Anchor beside Hammersmith Bridge for the first meeting with new producer David didn't send a particularly business-like signal. I made sure when I shook hands with our new director Steve for the first time it was at least beside a rugby pitch. Much more professional.
We were watching Harlequins train at their impressive new base at the Surrey Sports Park. It's nowhere near as convenient to get to as the ramshackle old place off the A3 in Roehampton, but at least there's no danger of contracting woodworm anymore.
The highlight of a full-on session was Nick Easter being clobbered by Joe Marler. Poor old Nick was on licorice stick legs as he struggled to remember whether he was in Guildford or Godalming.
It helps to see the teams I'll be commentating on in the week leading up to the match. It used to be a logistical problem when it was say Ireland and Italy in the Six Nations, but I'm already finding there aren't enough days in the week when you've got four clubs to get around.
You often rely on the coach's good nature to let you into sessions that are normally closed. Reveal any state secrets though and it's the last session you'll go to.
It's worth the effort. This week I've learnt how quiet a Wasps photo-shoot is without Cipriani and Sackey, how the latter raced Tom Voyce in his new Ferrari down to Toulon and why Toby Booth dips old Irish training balls into buckets of water.
The big concern - what with all the extra miles criss-crossing the country over the next few weeks - is whether the lease car company will let me go over their 36,000 limit before I hand it back in November. I think the contract's somewhere in my saved box. It'll be the one without "rugby" at the top.
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Thats true..! we've noticed how quiet a Wasps photo-shoot is without Cipriani and Sackey


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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
NanoViricides - Fireside Chat, Part I
A few weeks ago I emailed Dr. Seymour with several questions about the Company and the state of it's business model. In his reply, Dr. Seymour suggested that I publish his answers in a series of, "Fireside Chats," so as to make this information more readily available to not only my readership, but to all other shareholders of the Company.
NNVC is a company that I have been writing about since August, 2005. At that time, NanoViricides was truly a developmental stage company, it's common stock selling at about 10c a share. We have watched it grow, like a proud parent, past milestone after milestone with it's share price similarly growing-up with the Company. Today, with it's share price up over 1,000% in three years, it's time to take another look at NNVC to find out where it is in it's quest to become a global biotechnology force against some of the most deadly biological threats to mankind.
What follows is a series of Q&A sessions between Dr. Seymour and myself, fireside chats focusing on the Company and what the future may hold in terms of corporate growth, contributions to modern medicine and bottom line benefits flowing through to the Company's shareholders.
About NanoViricides:
NanoViricides, Inc. (www.nanoviricides.com) (the "Company") is a development stage company that is creating special purpose nanomaterials for viral therapy. The Company's novel nanoviricide™ class of drug candidates are designed to specifically attack enveloped virus particles and to dismantle them. The Company is developing drugs against a number of viral diseases including H5N1 bird flu, seasonal influenza, HIV, EKC (epidemic kerato-conjunctivitis or severe pink eye disease), hepatitis C, rabies, dengue fever, and Ebola virus, among others.
This interview contains forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's current expectations regarding future events. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Actual events could differ materially and substantially from those projected herein and depend on a number of factors. Certain statements in this release, and other written or oral statements made by NanoViricides, Inc. are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance, or achievements of the company to be different from those expressed or implied including the success of the Company's research and development efforts, the availability of adequate financing, the successful and timely completion of clinical studies and the uncertainties related to the regulatory process, described in the "Management's Discussion and Analysis" section of the Company's Form 10-KSB and other reports and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Allan: Can you give us a short history and overview of NanoViricides, Inc?
Dr. Seymour: The Company was founded in mid-2005 by Dr. Anil Diwan, Dr. Eugene Seymour and the former CFO of the Company as NanoViricide, Inc. ("NVI"). NVI then acquired and merged into a Pink Sheet shell, Edot-com.com, Inc., changed its name to NanoViricides, Inc. and its stock symbol to "NNVC". Following the effectiveness of the Company's registration, since June 29, 2007 the Company's Common Stock has been quoted on the Bulletin Board under the symbol NNVC.OB. When and if the Company meets one or more of the filing requirements for the NASDAQ National Market, the Company anticipates applying for a listing on that market. Those requirements can be found on NASDAQ's website.
Allan: Would you comment on the pathway from the lab to approval of a drug for use by the public?
Dr. Seymour: This is a very complex question. In general, a company requests a "pre-IND" meeting with the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") to receive guidance as to what specific pre-clinical studies will be necessary. Following this meeting, toxicology as well as the pharmacokinetic and dynamic studies of the drug are performed. When completed, a dossier is prepared and filed with the FDA. If there are no objections, human Phase I safety studies can then start. This is a study where a number of healthy volunteers are given the drug and various physiological parameters are measured. Next is a small Phase IIa efficacy study, followed by an expanded Phase IIb, and then a Phase III efficacy study. Hopefully, the drug can then be approved for sale. In case of drugs for the treatment of chronic diseases, such as various cancers, the studies can last for years. In cases of infectious diseases with a limited time course, the process can be much quicker. In diseases such as rabies or Ebola, where it would be unethical to withhold potentially effective treatments, studies in animals may be substituted for human efficacy studies. This is at the discretion of the FDA. There are also "orphan diseases" or "rare diseases" where there are generally less than 200,000 cases in the US per year. There are thought to exist between 5,000-8,000 distinct "rare or orphan diseases". There are certain advantages to developing treatments for viral "orphan diseases" which include extended patent protection and certain tax credits. In addition, approval time has historically been considerably shorter for drugs designated as "orphan drugs".
This will be an important component of the NanoViricides' growth strategy since we believe our core nanoviricide can quickly be modified to deal with new or existing viruses that are present, but not in large numbers in the U.S. such as bird flu, West Nile, hanta, dengue, and rabies. There are no current treatments for these diseases
Although the FDA pathway appears to be an all or nothing proposition in terms of money, for biotech companies that license their drugs to large pharmaceutical companies, there are a number of revenue-producing events that occur during the FDA process. Typically, a biotech company may receive an upfront licensing payment, then milestone payments as the drugs moves through the process, followed by royalty payments once sales of the drug commence. In certain cases, the large pharma may even fund the clinical trials.
We plan to license each nanoviricide optimized for a different disease to one or more pharma companies. This may allow for a constant income stream from each of the various licensed compounds during the approval process.
Within the next 12 months, the Company anticipates having 2 sets of animal studies performed for at least 10 different diseases. If we are successful in that endeavor, we will attempt to license each and every candidate to a large pharmaceutical company.
There is also a large potential market for the development of pharmaceuticals for animal treatment market for our products that we are now just beginning to explore. Further, the approval process and the route to revenue is much shorter in the animal disease market. The Company is currently in discussions with a veterinarian (who is also an NNVC investor) who owns an animal diseases drug distribution company regarding pursuing licensing agreements with some of the large pharmas that have animal health divisions
Allan: Is NanoViricides pursuing strategic partnerships and collaborations with other pharmaceutical companies?
Dr. Seymour: As announced previously , we have an expression of interest from a number of large pharmaceutical companies. We have exchanged, though not signed, documents with one such company. One company, a New York Stock Exchange listed Chinese pharmaceutical company, has inquired into licensing the Company's entire platform for the Chinese market. The Company has rejected such interests because of inadequate intellectual property protection rights in China. A company in Japan has requested world-wide rights to our anti-viral eye drug EkcCide. Five of these pharmas are interested in EkcCide and one in the HIV drug, HIVCide-I.
Allan: How does the balance sheet and burn rate look to you in terms of accomplishing your goals?
Dr. Seymour: We have spent approximately $2M/year for the past 3 years. Considering the number of candidates the Company has in the pipeline, we believe that this low level of expenditure is amazing. The Company just consummated a raise of $3M from previous, individual investors. We will continue to be careful with our spending to conserve as much of that investment and make it last as long as possible.
What's more interesting is the financing we have rejected as "toxic" to the Company. This would not have been fair to all the investors who have made it possible for us to get this far. In addition, we continue to seek funding to complete our prototype pilot manufacturing plant ($3M) and our toxicology/pharmacokinetic/dynamic studies ($3M) from one or more collaborations with one or more large pharmaceutical companies.
NanoViricides - Fireside Chat, Part II - coming shortly....A
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Allan, Thanks for the update. I'm in for 40K shares @.77-1.05. You're in for a new car if this one hits it big!
Keep up the great job!
- donpatent said...
Thanks Allan - you are a peach. Keep the chats coming.
(In at 20¢ and I will NEVER leave!)
Excellent content. Much appreciated.
Excellent content. Much appreciated.
in for 55,000 shares. that was great work. i am excited to see what is coming down the pike!!!
Allan, What are your thoughts on URRE, TGIC, IDIX for today.
Thank you, Shyam
Ahh Allan:
The man with true access to "The Top."
As you remember, I bought many shares of this and dumped 1/2 for a near 100% profit. Holding the rest, and I'm glad I did. It has bee fairly flat since then.
May the Gods continue to be with you.
Southern Greece
- David M Gordon / The Deipnosophist said...
Excellent questions AND post, Allan! All in all, great work.


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The DNC painted a very different picture. It was one of inclusion for all the Americans Republicans do not want, including same-sex couples, immigrants, poor people who need food stamps, health care, or a college education, women who want to control their own bodies without government intervention, and the members of the military in Afghanistan who went unacknowledged at the RNC.
Romney, Ryan and the Republican Party want less of everything: Less revenue through upper income tax cuts, less spending, less environmental protection, less immigration, less education, less voting, and fewer choices for women.
President Obama wants the opposite. At the DNC he said, "I don't believe that firing teachers or kicking students off financial aid will grow the economy, or help us compete with the scientists and engineers coming out of China. After all that we've been through, I don't believe that rolling back regulations on Wall Street will help the small businesswoman expand, or the laid-off construction worker keep his home. We've been there, we've tried that, and we're not going back. We're moving forward."
So voting in 2012 should be easy.
If you want the government to play a role in creating a level playing field, a safe environment, and opportunities for the middle class and poor to better themselves for the collective good of the nation, you will probably vote for Obama and Democrats.
If you think the government should play a role in using tax reform to distribute additional wealth to corporate interests, influence women's reproductive rights, privatize the national health care and retirement systems, and are willing to trade a clean environment for any job, then you will probably vote for Romney and Republicans.
Americans tend to vote for whichever political party they think will help them most – personally.
But there is a wild card in this years election because of Citizens United.
At this point, no one really knows how a billion dollars in advertising from people like the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson will influence the outcome of the election.
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Parents and some teachers don't necessarily agree on the answer to that question, according to a new survey.
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Students showed a lack of confidence in their preparation to do college-level work and parents said they don't understand the college and financial aid application processes enough to help their children get into college.
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5 Laws Guaranteed To Get You Sales (In Spite of the Economy!)
Speaker and author Bob Burg has pioneered the idea that the key to sales success is shifting ones focus from getting to giving. In his best-selling book The Go-Giver (co-authored with John David Mann), Burg emphasizes the importance of constantly and consistently providing value to others.
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It's 3am. What are you doing?
A few minutes ago I was deep in dreamland. I was awakened by Mazey's frantic panting and pawing. Her big golden paw nudged my arm until I acknowledged her impending crisis. Darn… lightning. So much for sleep. Cause if Mazey ain't sleepin', ain't nobody sleepin'.
Resembling a zombie in any cult film, I have wandered around the house trying to distract her. Just when she begins to settle, BOOM! Thunder. For 40 minutes we walk. We're upstairs, we're downstairs, we're on the loveseat, we're on the chair (made for one). We're in the kitchen looking for a safe place to take refuge. It's finally found behind the TV. Hopefully the thunderstorm pill will kick in soon and the Lavender air freshener I sprayed will sooth her stress (they say the smell of Lavender works as a calming agent for anxious dogs.)
Alrighty, it's almost 3:30am. The worst of the storm must have passed. Jesse is sound asleep beside me. Mazey is now securely tucked away in the corner behind the TV. H-E-L-L-O! I'm wide awake. Delirious, but wide awake. Guess I'll go start counting sheep…
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What makes Rosario Dawson happy? A simple night in with DJ boyfriend Mathieu Schreyer.
"I like the little things," she tells PEOPLE. "To come home, eat good food, watch your favorite show, all curled up just the two of you? That just feels awesome."
The Sin City actress – who lives with Schreyer in Los Angeles but recently denied engagement rumors – says that real love happens away from the red carpet.
"Sometimes relationships only work when all the fanfare is there," says Dawson, 29. "But it's great when it works when none of that is there."
Dawson herself has been away from premieres and parties: She's been busy canvassing at voter drives for her non-profit organization, Voto Latino.
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