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Event and Speaker Schedule
The Immediate and Visible Guardians of Life and PropertyThursday, March 27, 2014, 12:00PM, 209 BLB
The Honorable Jennifer Elrod
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
Free food!
First Annual Judicial Lecture SeriesTuesday, February 18, 2014, 5:00PM, 109 BLB
The Honorable Leslie H. Southwick
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
Feb. 18th @5pm
Room 109BLB
Free dinner!
City of Houston Federalist Society Recruiting ReceptionWednesday, January 29, 2014, 5:30-7:30, Blackfinn 1910 Bagby St.
UH Law Center welcomes all Federalist Society Members and interested students to:
City of Houston Federalist Society Recruiting Reception
When: 1/29/14 Where: BLACKFINN, 1910 BAGBY ST.
Time: 5:30 - 7:30PM
Special Guest Justice Busby, 14th Ct. App.
Inside the U.S. Supreme Court: Lessons for Judicial Decision MakingWednesday, January 29, 2014, Noon, Room 240 BLB
UH Federalist Society Presents the First Annual Lecture Series
Professor Erin Glenn Busby, UT Law School
"Inside the U.S. Supreme Court: Lessons for Judicial Decision Making"
Wednesday, January 29, 2013 | 12:00 p.m. | BLB 240
Lunch Will Be Served
ObamacareWednesday, November 11, 2013, 12:00pm, Room 240 BLB
The Health Law Organization joins us in co-hosting an exciting event on Obamacare with Josh Blackman! Wednesday 11/20 Noon 240 BLB. UHLC's Professor Linzer will provide an opposing viewpoint. Free Zoes Kitchen for lunch!
Josh is an Assistant Professor of Law at the South Texas College of Law who specializes in constitutional law, the United States Supreme Court, and the intersection of law and technology. Josh is the author of Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare. Josh is the founder and President of the Harlan Institute, the founder of FantasySCOTUS.net, the Internet's Premier Supreme Court Fantasy League, and blogs at JoshBlackman.com. Josh clerked for the Honorable Danny J. Boggs on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit and for the Honorable Kim R. Gibson on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Josh is a graduate of the George Mason University School of Law.
Professor Linzer has been teaching a variety of courses in contracts and constitutional law at the Law Center since 1984. He is a member of the ALI, author of A Contracts Anthology, and served as the Editorial Reviser of the "Restatement (Second) of Contracts." Professor Linzer is a graduate of Columbia Law School.
Both Professor Linzer and Blackman have appeared in local and national media outlets discussing constitutional issues surrounding Obamacare.
Immigration ReformThursday, November 7, 2013, Noon, Room 240 BLB
BLB Free Chipotle
Featured Speakers: Stuart Anderson and Raed Gonzalez
Preview: Stuart Anderson and Raed Gonzalez debate the potential platforms for comprehensive immigration reform in the United States.
BIOGRAPHY: http://www.cato.org/people/stuart-anderson; http://www.gonzalezolivierillc.com/raed-gonzalez-jd-llm-houston.html
Organized by: The Federalist Society
Second Amendment DebateWednesday, September 26, 2013, 5:00pm, Room 209 BLB
Featured Speaker: Alan Gura
Contributing Speaker: Professor Melissa Hamilton
Preview: Mr. Gura argued D.C. v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago before the Supreme Court, two landmark Second Amendment Cases. Dinner will be provided.
BIOGRAPHY: http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/author/alan-gura
Organized by: The Federalist Society
Federalist MeetingMonday, September 16, at Noon in 209 BLB
Come to our first meeting of the year on Monday, September 16, at Noon in 209 BLB. We will have free Mandolas lasagna and pasta! We will also be joined by two distinguished UHLC Alumni, Stephen Cox and Marcella Burke, each of whom presided over this chapter when they were in law school. They will speak on the benefits of membership in the Federalist Society. We will also explain how you could be a 1L representative, officer, or participate in a new Judicial lecture series starting this year.
Over-Federalization of CrimeWednesday, September 4, 2013, 12:00 – 12:50, Room 240 BLB
Featured Speaker: Dr. John S. Baker, Professor Emeritus Louisiana State University Law School, Visiting Fellow at the Oriel College of the University of Oxford.
Contributing Speaker: Prof. Ryan McConnell, University of Houston Law Center
Preview: Why should we care about the growth of federal criminal law? After all, does it really make a difference whether a defendant gets hauled into federal court or state court? Come find out -- the answers may surprise you
BIOGRAPHY: http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/author/john-s-baker-jr
Organized by: The Federalist Society
"The Accidental Jurist"Thursday, April 11, 2013, 12:00 – 12:50, Room 109 BLB
Featured Speaker: Judge Gray H. Miller, United States District Judge, Southern District of Texas
Preview: The University of Houston Law Center's very own Judge Gray H. Miller shares his personal experiences and reflections on his unique path to becoming a federal judge. From attending the University as both an undergradute and law student (1970 - 1978) to serving on the Houston Police force for nine years (1969 - 1978), to climbing the ladder at Fulbright & Jaworski from associate to senior partner (1978 - 2004), to assuming the federal bench under President George W. Bush's nomination, Judge Miller's story offers an inspirational tale of both hardship and success and illustrates the importance of taking advantage of opportunities that one encounters in life.
BIOGRAPHY: http://www.txs.uscourts.gov/district/judges/ghm/biography.htm
Organized by: The Federalist Society
Free Market Environmentalism: So People and Nature Can ProsperTuesday, March 26, 2013, 12:00 12:50, Room 240 BLB
Featured Speaker: Ms. Becky Dunlop, Vice President of External Relations, The Heritage Foundation
Contributing Speaker: Prof. Tracy Hester, University of Houston Law Center
Preview: Environmental policy has been the exclusive domain of the party of government, statists and advocates of centralized government command and control for forty years. Now, a new environmental paradigm is gaining traction in the debate as those who favor constitutional government, federalism, liberty and free enterprise make the case that their principles can benefit the resources and people too. Becky Norton Dunlop, a former federal natural resources official and former state natural resources Cabinet secretary presents these principles with compelling examples and policy recommendations. She argues that a growing economy and an improving environment go hand in hand. Energy policy is in the cross-hairs of this important debate.
BIOGRAPHY: http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/d/becky-dunlop
Organized by: The Federalist Society
"Is the Roberts Court Pro-Business, Pro-Market, Pro-Conservative, or Something Else?"Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 12:00 – 12:50, Room 240 BLB
Featured Speaker: Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review, Cato Institute
Contributing Speaker: Prof. Aaron Bruhl, University of Houston Law Center
Preview: Mr. Shapiro argues the following: the oft-repeated claim that the Roberts Court is "pro-business" is both false and beside the point. It's false because the Court's rulings go every which way: pro- and anti-business, unanimous to 5-4 (and everything in between), majority opinions written by everyone from Justice Ginsburg to Justice Thomas. Yes, certain rulings favoring business interests acquire a high profile (Ledbetter v. Goodyear, Citizens United, Walmart v. Dukes), but others go the other way (Wyeth v. Levine), and still others feature businesses on both sides. Even the "evil triumvirate" of Ledbetter, Citizens United, and Walmart is less than it seems: the first was a narrow ruling on a poorly drafted statute of limitations—which Congress subsequently changed, as the process is supposed to work—and indeed employment discrimination claims have fared exceedingly well of late; the second helps political advocacy groups, small business associations, and unions much more than Fortune 500 companies; and the third actually went 7-2 on the key point regarding class action procedure. If this is a pro-business Court, or if the conservative majority is hell-bent on serving corporate masters, it has an odd way of showing it. But the falsity of the claim is beside the point, for three basic reasons: (1) the small and selective nature of the Court's docket makes statistical analysis impossible; (2) whatever it's doing, it's possible that the Court is getting the law right; and, most fundamentally, (3) it's completely unclear what being "pro-business" even means (pro-investor? pro-management? pro-market? pro-defense bar?). In short, we need to set aside this tired debate and refocus on whether the Court "got it right" in any particular case.
BIOGRAPHY: http://www.cato.org/people/shapiro.html
Organized by: The Federalist Society
Examining the Science of Climate Change: Are Man-Made Greenhouse Gas Emissions the Cause?"Thursday, February 28, 2013, 12:00 12:50, Room 240 BLB
Featured Speaker: Dr. Willie Soon, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Contributing Speaker: Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon, Regents Professor and Texas State Climatologist, Dept. of Atmospheric Science, Texas A&M University
Preview: A dual presentation and debate on the latest scientific evidence that supports and/or challenges the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Dr. Soon addresses the current confusions about the role of CO2 in the Earth's weather-climate system, while Dr. Nielsen-Gammon sheds light on humanity's contribution to the problem.
BIOGRAPHY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Soon
Organized by: The Federalist Society and Environmental & Energy Law Society
"Fortifying a Foundation for Our Future: A Gun Law Debate"Monday, February 11, 2013, 12:00 – 12:50, 209 BLB
Featured Speaker: Mr. Trevor Burrus, Cato Institute
Contributing Speaker: Prof. Melissa Hamilton, University of Houston Law Center
Preview: With over 300 million guns in the United States, gun abuse is an ever increasing problem. What steps can Congress take to most efficiently mitigate this growing concern? Prof. Hamilton sheds light on the issue by suggesting that stricter gun control laws should be part of a broader public health model to reducing gun violence. Mr. Burrus contributes his viewpoint, arguing that stricter policing is bound to be ineffective and that the focus should rather be on contributing factors like moribund public schools and the drug war, both of which have decimated communities of the inner cities.
BIOGRAPHY: http://www.cato.org/people/trevor-burrus
Organized by: The Federalist Society and the Black Law Students Association
Wealth Creation and the Rule of LawThursday, October 12, 12:00 – 12:50, Room 109 BLB
Featured Speaker: Honorable Edith H. Jones, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
Preview: Long before this election season, it seemed that the idea of protecting people's right to acquire and hold property was under unprecedented attack. Honorable Edith H. Jones, the former Chief Judge and current Judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, argues that the freedom to earn and grow property is part of man's nature and an inalienable right that can't be separated from self-government and democracy.
BIOGRAPHY: http://judgepedia.org/index.php/Edith_Jones
Organized by: The Federalist Society
"Over-criminalization: Can Ethics Provide a Solution?"Thursday, October 18, 12:00 – 12: 50, Room 109 BLB
Featured Speaker: Prof. Gregory McNeal, Pepperdine School of Law
Contributing Speaker: Prof. Sandra Thompson, University of Houston Law Center
Preview: Over-criminalization is a systemic concern which often manifests itself in wrongful convictions, resulting in adverse fiscal as well as social consequences. Prof. McNeal, a former advisor to the Chief Prosecutor of the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions addresses this concern by inquiring into the true root and scope of the problem which he argues is often times oversimplified by complete attribution to prosecutorial misconduct. Prof. Thompson, the director of the Criminal Justice Institute sheds light on the impact of wrongful convictions, suggesting that the prominence of fiscal conservatism on criminal justice reform is a major contributing factor.
BIOGRAPHY: http://law.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/default.php?faculty=gregory_mcneal
Organized by: The Federalist Society
"'Texas' Mandatory Ultrasound Law: Informed Consent or Unconstitutional Coercion?"Wednesday, September 19, 12:00 12:50, Room 240 BLB
Featured Speaker: Prof. Teresa Collett, University of St. Thomas
Contributing Speaker: Prof. Seth Chandler, University of Houston Law Center
Preview: In February 2012, the US District court ruled in accordance with a 5th Circuit order overturning an injunction on Texas' Mandatory Ultrasound Law. This law requires doctors to perform a sonogram on a pregnant woman before she undergoes an abortion. The woman must hear a description of the sonogram 24hrs in advance of the procedure, but does not have to see any images or hear the fetus' heartbeat. Proponents of the law cite the thousands of lives it will save and say it helps the woman make a better informed decision before undergoing the abortion. Opponents say that the law oversteps constitutional limits by forcing women to have an invasive procedure without their consent, and forces doctors to promote a state-sponsored policy against abortion.
BIOGRAPHY: http://www.stthomas.edu/law/facultystaff/faculty/collettteresa/
Organized by: The Federalist Society & Advocates for Life
"(Mis)Interpreting Enron: A Conflict of Visions"Wednesday, September 12, 12:00 12:50, Room 109 BLB
Featured Speaker: Robert Bradley
Contributing Speaker: Prof. Darren Bush, University of Houston Law Center
Preview: In the wake of the Enron debacle, leading local academics weighted in on the rise and stunning fall of what had been Houston's favorite company--and according to Fortune magazine, America's most innovative company. Capitalism took the fall. Rice University business-ethicist Duane Windsor lambasted "the Enron value set" of "an extreme laissez-faire ideology of absolutely 'free' (i.e., absolutely unregulated) markets." Several University of Houston law professors damned Enron in a capitalist context as well. However, Enron was an anti-capitalistic enterprise. Virtually all of its profit centers were closely tied to special government favor, existing and desired. Ken Lay et al. were not capitalist cronies but political-capitalist engineers, validating the worldview of leading thinkers such as Adam Smith, Samuel Smiles, and Ayn Rand. Bradley will reinterpret Enron as a 16-year veteran at the company, a Ken Lay confidant, and author of a trilogy on political capitalism inspired by the rise and fall of Enron. The Great Misinterpretation about Enron's lessons for business, government, and society, made initially and again made at the ten-year anniversary of the bankruptcy, reflected more than bad facts, Bradley will explain. It resulted from a flawed worldview of "politically correct" notions such as "green" energy policy and corporate social responsibility (Enron championed both). The flawed view also ignored the peril of the mixed economy where micro-regulation creates unintended consequences to allow the worst to get on top.
BIOGRAPHY: http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/staff/
Organized by: The Federalist Society


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Welcome! I study the physiology and ecology of nutrition in insects, primarily using two insect species, the field cricket Gryllus firmus, and the desert leafcutter ant Acromyrmex versicolor. (To the right of my photo, you can see three leafcutter ant queens preparing leaves to feed their small fungus garden.) Specifically, I seek to understand (1) how nutritional regulation affects growth and physiological allocation (i.e. how do different nutrients get to different parts of the body?); and (2) how nutrition and behavior interact to drive the function and growth of complex social groups. For example, how do those ant queens balance their foraging efforts vs. tending their young, to grow a new leafcutter colony? You can read more about both lines of work in my research statement (pdf).
I also develop useful analytical scripts for others studying behavior and nutritional physiology, using the open-source software program R. Find a link to this work here and in the Learn R section below. I aspire to conduct research and teach, as I believe the two activities complement each other; here is a link to my Teaching Philosophy (pdf).
As a publicly-funded scientist, I feel it is my responsibility to make my research methods freely available to others. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are collections of research photos from my work with ants and crickets.

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When the Taint tears and all that is left is a hole that is the anus and vagina.
While pleasuring herself with a Loisville Slugger, she tore herself a new Angina
JChapman tarafından 5 Ağustos 2005, Cuma
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Can you define these popular missing words?
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1) Formally known as Angina Pectoris. A defect of coronary circulation, characterized by paroxysmal pain below the sternum.
2) An endless source of humor to 14 year old boys.
2) An endless source of humor to 14 year old boys.
"Hey Todd, your momma told me that she has acute angina!" <giggle, snort, snicker>
Beer Hunter tarafından 15 Şubat 2004, Pazar
A general pussy. A person who is weak and gay-like. A Faggot.
Andrew Lui, why are you such an Angina
Gare Bear tarafından 6 Aralık 2006, Çarşamba
Your aunt's vagina.
It would not be right to have a screw in her angina, as she is your father's sister!
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Total War in the Pacific
A Relentless Campaign Against a Foe That Preferred Death to Surrender
By Max Hastings
Knopf, 615 pages, $35
To grasp the details of a land, sea and air conflict engulfing half the globe more than a half-century ago requires the erudition of a historian. To make the entire tableau come alive -- including the lives of soldiers remembering the throes of combat -- requires the sharp eyes and ears of an exceptional journalist. Max Hastings, a former foreign correspondent and the author of several respected military histories, draws on both talents for "Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45."
There naturally is little suspense to Mr. Hastings's narrative, since by 1944 Japan already was on the defensive, its empire shrinking from its 1942 zenith and its military-industrial power dwarfed by America's. But there is plenty of drama. Mr. Hastings transports readers from the jungles of Burma to the sands of Iwo Jima, from hand-to-hand fighting in the streets of Manila to amphibious landings on the rocks of Okinawa, from battleship broadsides in the Leyte Gulf to B-29 firebombing raids on Tokyo, and then, in the final chapters, from the Soviet blitzkrieg in Manchuria to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
All of this makes "Retribution" a compelling read, even for readers who know the outlines of the war in the Pacific. To the broad sweep of military events Mr. Hastings adds myriad human stories culled from interviews, letters, diaries and memoirs, and he does not hesitate to offer his own keen analysis along the way.
Mr. Hastings is no romantic. Although he movingly portrays the fortitude of men in combat -- on both sides of the fighting -- he is critical of military leaders and of military decisions that unnecessarily cost so many lives. As it happens, the Burma campaign -- months of grim jungle combat aimed at opening an overland route, the Burma Road, to resupply Chiang Kai-shek's armies in China -- was led by an exceptionally competent British general, Bill Slim. But the campaign itself, in Mr. Hastings's unsentimental view, was essentially a superfluous sideshow. The British pressed it simply "to restore imperial prestige and to indulge American fantasies about China." Of course, the whole bloody Pacific war, at least until 1945, was something of a sideshow to the even larger events in Europe.
Mr. Hastings is also skeptical of the motives behind Gen. Douglas MacArthur's campaign to retake the Philippines -- the "I shall return" campaign of October 1944. (With MacArthur it was never "we" and always "I.") As Mr. Hastings tells us, MacArthur destroyed much of the city of Manila in his reconquest, causing massive civilian casualties largely to satisfy his own ego and wounded vanity. Mr. Hastings recounts horrific acts of Japanese barbarism toward Filipinos, including torturing priests, machine-gunning prisoners and burning innocent civilians alive. But he also notes that it was MacArthur's obsession with returning to a Manila from which he had earlier had to flee -- as opposed to bypassing the Philippines en route to islands nearer Japan -- that created the circumstances for "Manila's martyrdom."
Read an excerpt from Max Hastings new military history, "Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45."
Mr. Hastings is similarly derisive of almost everything in the chaotic Chinese theater. Millions of Chinese, he notes, suffered not only from the depredations of the conquering Japanese but also from the armies of Chiang and Mao Zedong, both of whom were more interested in jockeying for postwar power than in engaging the Japanese or preserving the lives of their countrymen. China, Mr. Hastings writes, "resembled a vast wounded animal, bleeding in a thousand places, prostrate in the dust, twitching and lashing out in its agony, inflicting more pain on itself than upon its foes." This is Mr. Hastings at his lyrical best.
Of the Americans who undertook the amphibious assaults on Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Mr. Hastings is of course fully admiring, though he admits that, with the benefit of hindsight, we now know that these islands and others might have been bypassed, saving thousands of lives. America, he observes, possessed overwhelming naval and air superiority and did not need to conquer Japan island by island.
Given his descriptive powers, Mr. Hastings's account of this island combat is especially moving. We read, for instance, of the Marine who tears off his own damaged arm to continue an attack. Or of a band of blinded Marines holding hands as they together sing "Three Blind Mice." Or of the Marine who finds himself, on Okinawa, staring at a dead Japanese machine gunner who is still sitting at his post, "lacking the top of his head; overnight rain had collected in the open skull." But it was the naval and air campaigns, far more than the ground combat on atolls and islands, that actually won the war. Aircraft-carrier flyboys, along with submariners, were among the bravest and hardest hit: Fully one-third of carrier airmen died in the Pacific theater and nearly a quarter of submariners.
Mr. Hastings's chapter on Leyte Gulf, perhaps the last great naval battle in history, is among his best. The engagement pitted 216 American warships against 64 Japanese, each side firing broadsides at the other in a manner that Lord Nelson might have recognized. The Japanese effort was largely suicidal and the battle's outcome never in doubt. Nevertheless, there were many twists and turns. Adm. William "Bull" Halsey, chasing glory, famously left the Seventh Fleet unprotected, though it was saved by Japan's inept naval tactics. Leyte Gulf was also notable for a new element of Japanese warfare -- the kamikazes, or suicide pilots.
From fall 1944 to summer 1945 some 4,000 Japanese kamikaze pilots died on their missions; one in seven managed to hit an American ship. Kamikaze pilots, in fact, caused substantially greater losses to America than did the warships of the Japanese navy. Mr. Hastings neatly explains the Japanese warrior spirit, with its emphasis on the ultimate sacrifice. He outlines as well the essential difference between a Western concept of heroism, which venerates bold individual action even in the face of probable death, and the Japanese "institutionalization of a tactic that makes [death] inevitable." The suicide bombers of al Qaeda or Hamas clearly follow role models half a century and half a world away.
It was Japan's tenacious, often suicidal, tactics -- whether defending to the death doomed island outposts or frontally attacking vastly superior American fleets or, at the extreme, launching kamikaze missions -- that kept the Pacific war going as long as it did. By the late stages of the war, Mr. Hastings calculates, America had a 10-to-1 superiority in military-industrial might. Japan's unwillingness to accept the logic of surrender, he says, was perhaps its "most potent weapon."
In early 1945, the U.S. Navy tightened its noose around Japan, shutting off the shipping so essential to both the home islands and the empire's outposts. And then in March the massive B-29 firebombing raids began, devastating Tokyo and other Japanese cities. The attack on Tokyo on March 9 alone killed some 100,000 civilians, left a million homeless and destroyed at least a quarter of the city. Gen. Curtis LeMay is quoted saying: "We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people on that night of March 9-10 than went up in vapor at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined."
Mr. Hastings does not spare us the survivor accounts of such devastation, and they make for painful reading. He rightly notes that, at this point in the war, the Allies had few moral qualms about attacking Japan with full ferocity: "American moral sensibility was numbed by kamikaze attacks, revelations of savagery toward POW's and subject peoples and general war weariness." Japan's systematic cruelty toward its military prisoners, toward the Chinese and toward other victims of its conquest -- described by Mr. Hastings in equally painful detail -- offers powerful support to his analysis. In the end, as in the beginning, the war in the Pacific was total war.
The end came, of course, with the atomic bombs. Again Mr. Hastings writes with genuine compassion for Japan's civilians, but he brings no revisionist moral equivalency to his account. The Japanese had started the war, he reminds us; they had prosecuted it cruelly and had refused to concede defeat when all rational hope was lost. Even after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the war party in Japan opposed surrender. Emperor Hirohito dithered until finally, in a radio address, he acknowledged that the war had evolved "not necessarily to Japan's advantage."
The revisionists who argue that Japan was ready to surrender before Hiroshima, Mr. Hastings writes, "are peddlers of fantasies." Their essential thesis, he says, is that America should have spared its enemies from the consequences of their rulers' folly, that Washington should have displayed a concern for the Japanese people "more enlightened than that of the Japanese government."
That the atomic bombs were dropped not only to compel Japan's surrender but also, secondarily, to pre-empt Joseph Stalin's last-minute invasion of Manchuria and his plans for the conquest of larger swaths of Asia, says Mr. Hastings, changes no part of the moral calculus. President Truman and those around him "understood, as some people in the West did not yet understand, the depth of evil which Stalin's Soviet Union represented." Some in the West, of course, failed to understand Soviet evil well into the l980s.
There were many legacies of the Pacific war. Among them: the end to Asia's European colonial empires; the fall of China to communism in l949; the outbreak of the Korean War a year later; and, not least, the re-emergence of Japan as a peaceful, prosperous and U.S.-allied power. The military legacy is more barren. "Only total war," Mr. Hastings writes, "enabled a liberal democracy to exploit weapons of mass destruction." As we have repeatedly discovered in the decades since World War II -- in Korea, Vietnam and now Iraq -- limited war is much more likely to favor belligerents of limited means. The comprehensive triumph over Japan in a total war was, in Mr. Hastings's view, "a freak of history."
Mr. Kann, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, was until recently chairman of Dow Jones & Co., which publishes The Wall Street Journal.


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Political Connections and Corporate Bailouts
Mara Faccio
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
Ronald W. Masulis
University of New South Wales - Australian School of Business; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); Financial Research Network (FIRN)
John J. McConnell
Purdue University
March 1, 2005
AFA 2006 Boston Meetings Paper
Journal of Finance, Vol. 61, No. 6, pp. 2597-2635, 2006
We analyze the likelihood of government bailouts of a sample of 450 politically-connected (but publicly-traded) firms from 35 countries over the period 1997 through 2002. We find that politically-connected firms are significantly more likely to be bailed out than similar non-connected firms. Additionally, politically-connected firms are disproportionately more likely to be bailed out when the IMF or World Bank provide financial assistance to the firm's home country. Further, among firms that are bailed out, those that are politically-connected exhibit significantly worse financial performance than their non-connected peers at the time of the bailout and over the following two years. This evidence suggests that, at least in some countries, political connections influence the allocation of capital through the mechanism of financial assistance when connected companies confront economic distress. It may also explain prior findings that politically-connected firms borrow more than their non-connected peers.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 44
Keywords: Political connections, cronism, bailouts
JEL Classification: G3, G28, G30, G33
Date posted: March 25, 2005 ; Last revised: November 2, 2010
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Paul Martin
About 1890s
Carbon print
(top row from left to right) Museum no. PH.346-1980, PH.342-1980, PH.341-1980
(bottom row from left to right) Museum no. PH.332-1980, PH.338-1980, PH.345-1980
Carbon printing was most popular between 1870 and 1910 but is still sometimes used today. These images are an example of the technique.
Although patented in 1855 by Alphonse Louis Poitevin (1819-82) and improved in 1858 by John Pouncy (1818-94), carbon prints only became fully practicable in 1864, with the patented process and printing papers of Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914).
The prints show dense, rich, glossy tones that are either black or a deep brown in colour. Various pigments could be used to give access to a greater range of colours and the prints show slight relief contours (thickest in the darkest areas) as a result of the process used. The most important feature of a carbon print is its permanence; it contains no silver impurities that can deteriorate.
The main principle of the process is the fact that gelatin (to which potassium bichromate has been added) becomes insoluble when exposed to light, in proportion to the amount of light received. A sheet of lightweight paper was coated with gelatin containing potassium bichromate and a pigment.
In daylight this tissue was placed under and in contact with a negative. This exposure was timed, as the dark-coloured paper did not show an emerging image. Those parts of the gelatin that were exposed to light through the negative hardened.
In order to wash away the unhardened gelatin and reveal the image, the face of the exposed carbon tissue was squeezed in contact with a second sheet of paper coated with an insoluble gelatin layer, thus forming a sort of gelatin sandwich which was then soaked in warm water. The paper floated free and the unhardened gelatin was washed away, leaving the image attached to the second sheet. The sheet was then immersed in water containing alum (which) hardened the remaining gelatin and removed any yellowish bichromate stains. Gordon Baldwin, 'Looking at Photographs', J. Paul Getty Museum, 1991
John Thomson (woodburytypes - a photomechanical version of carbon printing)
W.J. Day
Herbert Ponting
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MAY - Bernard W. May, Canton, formerly of Shunk, noon today, Pepper's, Canton. Visitation 10 a.m. to noon.
BOWER - Mary Leeper Bower, city, graveside service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Wildwood Cemetery.
VANHORN - George L. VanHorn, formerly of city, graveside service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Alvira Cemetery, Allenwood.
BRIDINGER - Edith H. Boston Bridinger, 2 p.m. Tuesday, McCarty-Thomas', 557 E. Water St., Hughesville. Visitation 1 to 2 p.m.
CUMMINGS - Michael J. Cummings, formerly of Tioga, 6 p.m. Friday, Buckheit's, 637 S Main St., Mansfield. Visitation 5 to 6 p.m.
EDKIN - Anna Jean Ludwig Edkin, Salladasburg, 11 a.m. Saturday, Larry's Creek Volunteer Fire Company Building, Main Street. Salladasburg.
MONTGOMERY - Thomas Frank Montgomery, Richmond, Va., 1 p.m. Saturday, Valley Inn, 204 Valley St., DuBoistown.
LOCKARD - Joseph L. Lockard, Harrisburg, formerly of city, 4 p.m. Saturday, Zimmerman-Auer Funeral Home, 4100 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg. Visitation 3 to 4 p.m.
KISBERG - Freda Kisberg, city, remembrance gathering 4 p.m. Sunday, Rotunda Reading Room, James V. Brown Library, 19 E. Fourth St.
RUSSELL - Barbara E. Russell, Loyalsock Township, 2 p.m. Nov. 24, family residence, 9025 Route 87 Highway.


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Chennai: Pacers Praveen Kumar and Irfan Pathan are expected to return to the Indian squad for next month's tri-series in Australia when the national selectors meet on Sunday to pick the team.
It will also be interesting to see whether the selectors name senior batsman Sachin Tendulkar and pace spearhead Zaheer Khan in the 16-member squad for the tri-series, which will have Sri Lanka as the third team, and the two T20s against Australia.
Both Tendulkar and Zaheer have not played any ODIs since the World Cup final in April last year but with back-to-back whitewash on cards, the selectors may want their most experienced batsman and bowler to play the shorter format.
Yuvraj Singh who is recovering from his non-malignant lung tumour and Harbhajan Singh who sustained a shinbone injury are yet to get fully fit and would not be considered for selection.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina and Manoj Tiwary appear to be automatic choices among the batsmen. If Tendulkar decides to play ODIs, then Ajinkya Rahane will be dropped as it would not make sense to have four specialist openers.
Although Parthiv Patel is favourite to get the second wicketkeeper's slot, the selectors may just discuss Madhya Pradesh's Naman Ojha's name. Though his wicketkeeping has not been great, Ojha however has scored 668 runs in Ranji Trophy this season with three centuries and two 50's to his credit.


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MILLVILLE — New Jersey State Police say the second suspect sought in the slaying of a former Millville High School football star has surrendered to authorities.
Sgt. Julian Castellanos says 27-year-old Andre Gross of Millville turned himself in at 1 p.m. Sunday at the state police station in Bridgeton. That came one day after 19-year-old Boris Curwin of Millville surrendered to state police in Woodbine.
Both Gross and Curwin are being held on $1 million cash bail. It was not known today if either man had retained an attorney.
Curwin and Gross both face several charges — including murder and kidnapping — in the death of 19-year-old Khalil Wallace. His body was found Thursday in a lake in Downe Township, Cumberland County.
Wallace was last seen Sept. 20, when he climbed into a van in Woodbine after buying a bag of chips at a nearby store. He had played wide receiver at Rowan University last season, earning an Offensive Rookie of the Week honor in the New Jersey Athletic Conference, but wasn't playing football this semester.
Wallace was awaiting trial on drug distribution charges at the time of his death. State police had arrested him in Woodbine earlier this year, and he was released Sept. 2 from the Cape May County jail after posting $50,000 bail.
Police and family members had mounted an extensive search for Wallace following his disappearance.
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That's the hope of nearly 1060 people across the planet, including seven Quebeckers, on a short list for a mission to Mars starting in ten years.
Over 200,000 people answered the call from Mars One, a non-profit group in the Netherlands aiming to put earthlings on the fourth rock from the sun.
Audrey Roy, 19, of Saint-Ephrem-de-Beauce is one of the lucky few hundred who made the second round.
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Roy, an engineering technology student, is hoping to go on to mechanical engineering and possibly aeronautics.
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Five Reasons to Choose Budget Wedding Invitations
Congratulations! You are getting marriedm and soon! However, there is one main problem, you are getting married within the next few months and that means that you are both on a very tight budget and need to start looking into the most economical options as soon as possible. First item on the wedding checklist is to spread the good word and what better to way to do so (economically as well!) if not with DIY budget wedding invitations! If you are convinced already, keep reading and we'll give you five reasons to opt for budget wedding invitations for your both rushed and tight-budget wedding.
Why DIY Invitations you may ask? We urge you to ask instead, why NOT DIY invitations! Of the many reasons you can opt to have DIY budget wedding invites one of the best reasons is it being inexpensive. Moreover, DIY invitations are not merely for the more economical and budget-wedding. It could even be for those who want to opt for something more creative, different and out of the ordinary.
Another great feature about DIY invitations is that it isn't complicated. If you belong to the sort who either wants to get things done real fast or just want to have something simple and modest, DIY wedding invitations are definitely your cup of tea. No complicated design work, a dainty little DIY wedding invitation is what you will be sending out to your guests announcing your union of love.
A DIY invitation is obviously a do-it-yourself and this means you could add that extra trim over there and a few delicate bows over here and create a truly unique DIY wedding invitation of your own. If you are among the artsy crafty sort this is definitely something you must opt for as it gives you the freedom to create a DIY invitation that is truly one of a kind.
If you are looking for something different, daring and truly unique then your wedding stationer is sure to coax you to opt for DIY wedding invitations as you will have the creative space needed to create a different and unique DIY wedding invitation design of your very own that is personalised to best suit the personalities of you and your partner.
As DIY wedding invitations are different you have the creative freedom needed to create something different. This means it can be the most versatile DIY wedding invitation that you have seen! It can have brooches, starfish, dried flowers, lace, string and any other DIY embellishment you think would suit best so as long as you do not not to overboard with it!
Find the Best Paper for Your Budget Wedding Invitations
Congratulations as you begin paving the steps towards one of the milestone events of your life, your wedding! While nothing is still written in black and white just as yet, you know one thing is for sure, DIY wedding invitations is a must-have. Not only because you want to minimise costs wherever possible, but mostly because of the variety of paper options available for DIY budget wedding invites. If you are still a little hazy on which paper you should choose to improve your DIY wedding invitations, keep reading and we'll be sure to help you out. The best feature about all paper options we feature is that they are environmentally friendly and produced within an environmental management system with improved waste management, reduced emissions and consumed low energy and material.
White Shimmer and Ivory Shimmer
If a bit of sparkle and glitter is what you are looking for in your DIY wedding invitations, then white and ivory shimmer paper is designed for you. If an all-white, elegant wedding with ivory lace running on the edges of your bridal gown is what you have in mind, then it is pivotal that your DIY wedding invitations are made using white shimmer or ivory shimmer paper stock.
Textured White Linen
Planning a country, rustic or vintage themed wedding? The DIY wedding invitations would not be complete without textured white linen paper stock that is made for a matt finish with subtle texture ensuring a vintage feel to those receiving your DIY invitations. Another unique feature about textured white linen paper stock is its 30% recyclable post consumer waste content made using elementary chlorine free pulp.
Saving the best for last, Kraft paper stock is 100% biodegradable and is a favourite of both environment activists and elegant wedding stationers alike. Kraft paper offers a matt finish complete with a smooth texture, the paper stock further guarantees no adverse impacts to nature and is a product of renewable and actively renewed resources.
When selecting the best paper for budget wedding invitations, it is important to not only look into how good the finished product looks but also to take on a more responsible approach by selecting paper stock that is environmentally sound and made using environmentally friendly resources.
Creating Cheap Wedding Invitations For A Formal Wedding
Getting married soon but do not have an adequate budget for wedding stationery? The wise step is to opt for budget wedding invitations that suit all weddings, themed, formal etc. If you are looking for inexpensive but creative DIY invitations keep reading and we will give you a few tips that might help you decide on which budget wedding invitation you would want.
One of the best things about having budget wedding invitations is the ability to have single coloured budget wedding invitations that give you not only more space for text placement but also lets you add embellishments and accessories that will result in, voila a DIY budget wedding invitation! Also, if you are looking for colours that no one else would have, this is probably meant for you as solid coloured budget wedding invitations are ideal as they come in any colour and shade.
Text on DIY budget wedding invitations is a living dream for those who love typography. As there are many options available for typography and text related design, solid coloured budget wedding invitations will allow you the freedom and creativity to have the DIY invitation of your choice.
Placement of Text
As in the case of the colour and the choice of font and typography, the placement of the same will turn out just as expected when you opt for DIY budget wedding invites. This is possible mostly because of the blank space on the DIY invitation that acts as a blank canvas your wedding stationer can paint on once you provide the brushes and paint of your choice.
Besides all these neat features you can even add an embellishment or two or a DIY handmade accessory to dress up the otherwise plain budget wedding invitation. If you have spare labour at hand, gather round and put something together using available material, you'd be surprised what you come up with!
The best thing about DIY budget wedding invitations is the space for creativity they offer. If you want something simple, modest, elegant and not too expensive budget wedding invitations are ideal as they provide all this and designs for the DIY invitations of your dreams.
Budget Wedding Invitations for a Beach Wedding
Planning a wedding for the sunny season ahead? Well, if you are looking for budget wedding invitation inspiration ideas keep reading as we give you a couple of themes you can play around with for your beach wedding.
The budget wedding invitation inspiration ideas for your beach wedding can range from frangipani flowers, seashells, images of the ocean and many others. Having a beach element on your DIY invitation also becomes an indicator for your guests on the dress code, even if it is not mentioned on the wedding invitation. Further, you have the option of playing around with the wedding favours for your guests and step away from the ordinary. Think, parasols, beach slippers, flower hair-accessories, beach wraps, beach blankets or even sunglasses to keep away the glare!
Nothing speaks tropical more than frangipani flowers do! While sunflowers are a sunny option as well, it is a more generic summer budget wedding invitation idea whereas frangipani is more beach-theme specific. Having frangipani on DIY wedding invitations is also a great excuse to have frangipani bouquets for the bride and the bridesmaids and also to have flower petals scattered down the aisle.
Fresh from the sea, images of seashells or crushed seashells are great additions to your budget wedding invitations. If your wedding guests are mostly residents who grew up by the sea, the sentiment would be greatly felt, if not, there are many options for wedding décor that can also be used when having seashells on your DIY budget wedding invitations.
Your beach-themed summer budget wedding invitations would be incomplete without a view of the ocean, at your wedding and on your DIY invitations. You could either opt to have an image of the ocean on your budget wedding invitation or even have your favourite picture of the two of you at your pre-wedding shoot by the beach.
One of the best things about budget wedding invitations used for a beach wedding invitation is the range of wedding décor and stationery options that come into being as a result! Having DIY invitations that are beach-themed, opens a range of options for centrepieces, wedding banners and even an exclusive seafood buffet table at the reception.
Save Money with Budget Wedding Invitations
Getting married on a very tight budget? Don't worry we've got your back and also a few tips on planning for a budget wedding complete with a budget checklist, budget bridal gown rentals, budget wedding invitations and so on.
With wedding checklists, one of the first things that can be struck off as "budgetary" is undoubtedly wedding stationery and therefore it is not unexpected that so many couples opt for DIY wedding invitations. Here are a few tips on how you could save money on stationery when opting for budget wedding invitations.
Budget Wedding Invitations Tip #1: Order Extra
While this may seem a confusing tip right at the start, when placing an order online with your wedding stationer then it is best that you order a couple of more extra DIY invitations and envelopes because we all know how Aunt Tiffani would be flabbergasted if her budget wedding invitation had "Tiffany" spelt instead.
Budget Wedding Invitations Tip #2: Minimise wherever Possible
Is it really crucial that you have one DIY invitation for the church ceremony and another for the wedding reception that follows? Unless you have a different guest list attending the functions, have both pieces of information printed on one budget wedding invitation.
If your wedding location requires a map, then it is best a short link to the location is typed out on the DIY invitation so your guests can load it on their devices while making their way to the wedding. This would be most useful if they either forget the DIY wedding invitation en route to the ceremony or are simply more technologically savvy.
The final option would be too look for online stationers that give discount packages. Depending on when you are getting married and what wedding stationery you are looking for, you will undoubtedly be able to find something that fits your budget.
Budget Wedding Invitations Tip #3: Paper and Printing Options
One of the main things that you need to decide on upon selecting a stationer is to look at the paper quality and final print options for your DIY wedding invitations. While it may look nice and glossy to have letterpress and embossed designer cardstock, it is most cost-effective to have less thick paper and cheaper printing options stating ceremony and reception information along with other wedding stationery.
Wedding Invitations on a Budget
You are preparing your wedding checklist with your SO and the two of you are mulling over where you could afford to tighten your wallet allowing for glamorous spending elsewhere, such as your honeymoon! By the end of the day or checklist preparation time, you've identified wedding stationery as one of the "budget" items and have decided on opting for DIY budget wedding invitations. After all, between you and your partner you have many female relatives who hand make Christmas decorations, so why not DIY wedding invitations?
Depending on how much of a budget wedding invitation you want to opt for, we have presented it in three stages that is sure to fit most "DIY budget wedding invitation" requirements. Also, it is important that for all DIY wedding invitations you order in bulk and a few extras, just to account for the misspelt name or coffee stain.
DIY Invitations: Very DIY
The "very DIY invitations" include a solid coloured (usually the wedding colour) budget wedding invitation on basic cardstock with minimal calligraphy, text effects and images. The idea is to keep print cost at minimum, so be sure to place an order for the number of budget wedding invitations needed well in advance, you might even be entitled for inexpensive offseason rates if applicable. If you are "very DIY", be sure to opt for inexpensive envelopes.
DIY Invitations: Some DIY
This sort of DIY wedding invitations would include the help of a designer. While a designer maybe applicable in the latter category as well, their interventions would be minimum, as the only design would include the placement of the wording. However, with "some DIY invitations" you could afford to throw in either a print with some colour, this could be contrasting colours to the cardstock or variations of the colour palette or opt to have a very modest design with slightly higher quality cardstock.
DIY Invitations: DIY + some glamour
The DIY invitations with some glamour are for the couple that either opt to have a budget wedding and are willing to go just a bit further to make it a wedding memorabilia for your shoebox or for the couple who want a glamorous DIY wedding all together. Either way a DIY wedding invitation with some glamour would ideally be a DIY invitation printed on good quality cardstock, with a bit of design incorporated to the final DIY wedding invite and of course a beautiful embellishment to top it all.
Budgeting Your Wedding Invitations
Your big day is approaching and your partner and you are busy making guest lists, working on your to-do lists, researching options for photographers, caterers and of course stationery options. If a small-scaled wedding is what you are opting for, then it's only natural that you list out budget wedding invitations as your first choice.
Listed below are a few options you could look into when considering budget wedding invitations for your wedding.
Budget Wedding Invitation Tip: Solid Coloured
The first step to creating budget wedding invitations is to pick a wedding colour. While it is tempting to have elaborate designs on the invitations, a solid colour is a great choice for budget wedding invitations. Depending on the number of freely available (human) resources you have at hand, be sure to incorporate a bit of DIY elements to create an exquisite DIY budget invite!
Budget Wedding Invitation Tip: Do not Emboss
Again, while it looks glamorous to have a bit of embossing or engraving on your wedding invitation, it is an unnecessary evil you can do away with if curtailing wedding expenses is what you are looking after. The money saved on an elaborate wedding invitation can be used for food or even a more expensive wedding dress.
Budget Wedding Invitation Tip: Cheap Envelopes
If you can strike off the wedding invitation allowance leading to a budget wedding invitation, why not get an even more inexpensive envelope? If you have already decided on your wedding colour, then buy envelopes in bulk of a lighter or darker shade and voila: instant budgeting.
Budget Wedding Invitation Tip: A bit of DIY
Yes, you are going "cheap", but that doesn't mean that this cannot include a bit of homemade DIY? Rally all available hands, arts and crafts around you and create your very own DIY wedding invitations using embellishments bought in bulk. Accessorising your DIY invitations could include inserting brooches, feathers, buttons or even a bit of lace.
While weddings are usually considered a costly affair, it needn't be overly expensive so as long as everything is planned ahead of time, accessories and wedding stock paper is bought ahead of the wedding "season" and freely available resources to both the bride and the groom are made the most of.
Stick to Your Budget with Online Printable Wedding Invitations
If luxurious wedding stationery is not on your list of wedding priorities, fear not. There are many brides out there who not only want something artsy-crafty but also seek budget wedding invitations as means of cutting down on unnecessary wedding expenses.
Why DIY Invitations: Simplicity
One of the best things about a DIY budget wedding invite is the simplicity each card comes with. The budget wedding invitation is usually one solid colour, which adds a refined element of simplicity and elegance to it. This also means that you can plan your wedding theme and colours as you desire and replicate the same colour on your budget wedding invitation. If you are feeling creative and have a few hands to spare, feel free to affix that extra ribbon or a few rhinestones to add a bit more colour.
Why DIY Invitations: Modesty
If simplicity wasn't enough, modesty is perhaps the next best feature about your DIY wedding invitation. If over-the-top, elaborate wedding décor, themes or stationery is not what best describes the both of you, DIY budget wedding invitations that are elegant and set against a solid coloured background and simple font is perhaps what suits you best.
Why DIY Invitations: Convenience
Your wedding could be planned in six weeks or even six months and the golden rule that governs checking the boxes off your wedding checklist is convenience. If meeting designers, planning intricate typography placement to bring out the best of both your personalities is just not your cup of tea, DIY budget invitations maybe exactly what you are looking for. To get your very own budget wedding invitations delivered, all you have to do is spend a little while browsing online until you find what best suits you, customise and send! Getting your budget wedding invitations has never been as easy as it is today.
Why DIY Invitations: Affordability
Perhaps one of the most obvious choices as to why brides would opt for budget wedding invitations is the fact of affordability. With a countless number of expenses to look into and tasks to be checked off, budget wedding invitations are an obvious choice if an elaborate wedding is not what is to take place. So, if you are looking for a simple yet elegant wedding at minimal cost, cutting down on wedding stationery and opting for DIY invitations are a guaranteed way to ensure this.
Easy Budget Wedding Invitations Kits
A wedding does not always have to be lavish and all things luxurious. True, you would want nothing but the best for your wedding but wherever an opportunity arises to curtail expenses, it becomes another way in which you could spend lavishly on something a little more important. Opting for DIY invitations requesting friends and family to be apart of your special day is one definite money-saver.
Moreover, budget wedding invitations are not only economical, they are also very personal to both the bride and the groom as well as the guest who receives it. As a result of not opting for a stock that is not standard, you can also add embellishments such as ribbons, feathers and pictures to your DIY invitation and add that extra personal touch.
DIY Invitations Step One: Order Online
One of the first steps towards designing your perfect DIY wedding invitation is to pick out card or paper stock online. Before going online however, it is important that you already pick out your wedding colour or theme. Once that step has been marked off your wedding checklist, you can begin customising and personalising your DIY wedding invitations with embellishments of your choice.
DIY Invitations Step One: Personalise
Your DIY invitation could then be personalised with various changes made to text, colour and other tweaks to the design. Even though it is ideally a "budget wedding invitation", that doesn't stop you from adding a bit of colour and glamour towards attaining the perfect DIY wedding invitation.
DIY Invitations Step One: Customise
The next step towards your perfect DIY wedding invitation is to customise it with embellishments. These could include delicate pearls that would also accompany the bridal attire, or even a few sequins added if you enjoy a bit of bling or a classic DIY wedding invitation with pressed flowers. Remember that the DIY elements on the DIY invitation could also be used on other wedding stationery and wedding decorations. Another way in which you could customise your DIY invitation is to add a picture of the bride and groom taken from a pre-wedding shoot or even your favourite moment off Facebook or Instagram.
While weddings are often deemed costly affairs, with the correct DIY budget wedding invitations in place, it doesn't always have to be so. You are entitled to a fairy tale wedding of your own by opting for DIY wedding invitations that would save you enough to buy the perfect glass sandals.
Budget Wedding Invitations with Recycled Paper
If you are getting married and spending an exorbitant amount on wedding invitations and stationery is just not for you, budget wedding invitations made using recycled paper is something that you should definitely look into.
Inspiration is Key
One of the first things you need to focus on if budget wedding invites is what you are searching for is inspiration. However it is also important to know that this inspiration must be narrowed down to something meaningful, perhaps your budget wedding invitation could draw inspiration from all the things that is important to the both of you and holds a special sentiment.
Do You Need the Luxury?
While it is always tempting to answer yes, do keep in mind that wedding invitations and stationery are not the only things on your wedding to-do list. Therefore, it is important to prioritise on what is most important, forgo a luxury there and make amends for it by having something luxurious over here. Having budget wedding invitations therefore would be ideal if the two of you are either planning on splurging on an elaborate limo or even a cosy honeymoon.
One of the best things about budget wedding invitations is its ability to customise according to the wishes of the bride and the groom. After having drawn inspiration from what is most important to the two of you then be ready to throw in a bit of sequins, recycled paper, leftover pieces of plaid to put together your very own budget wedding invitation. One man's trash is another man's treasure they say, so be sure to lure in artsy family members and friends to create a budget wedding invite that truly stands out and brings out the personality of the both of you.
Play with Pictures
One of the best things about a budget wedding invitation is its unspoken tagline "anything goes". Therefore, the two of you have all the liberty to pick out your favourite moments from Instagram or your favourite status updates from Facebook to add to your budget wedding invitation. Your budget wedding invite would speak to your guests and they would feel as though they were apart of your love story from the moment you met.
The most rewarding feature about budget wedding invitations is that it is meant for everyone. Even if you are not on a very tight budget but would like something artsy and crafty, a budget wedding invitation with recycled paper and sparks of DIY that bring out the most in the two of you would definitely stand out.


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DK aka Wayne Watts is a York, Pennsylvania hip-hop artist on the independent label Evergreen Music. His music features intricate, urban-based beats interlaced with solid rock guitar riff.
At the age of 15, DK aka Wayne Watts astonished and entertained music executives and fellow artists while interning for the 2002 Billboard R&B/Hip Hop Awards and Conference in Miami, Florida.
Prior to interning for the 2003 Billboard R&B/Hip Hop Awards and Conference, DK aka Wayne Watts released his debut full-length CD "That's My Boy."
The music from "That's My Boy" blasted the airways throughout the Hip/Hop Conference and the title song was tracked as the #3 most added hip-hop single on the CMJ chart for the week of March 10, 2004. "That's My Boy" eventually landed on over 150 college and commercial radio stations in 2004.
Over the past four years, while completing a BA Degree in Communications, DK aka Wayne Watts has appeared with Slum Village, The Clipse, Cee-Lo, Raheem DeVaughn, Fertile Ground and Ty Tribbett. DK aka Wayne Watts most recently opened for The All American Rejects at Byrd Stadium in College Park, Maryland.
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This 1937 film was the first full-length color animation produced by the Disney studios. Adapted from the Grimm Brothers fairy tale, it was a huge success and has lost little of its charm over the years. Certainly the joyous first scenes between Snow White and the seven dwarfs who offer her sanctuary are among the most memorable in movies, animated or otherwise. There are some pleasing songs by Frank Churchill—including Whistle While You Work and Someday My Prince Will Come. And the characterizations of good and evil have never been drawn more clearly than between Ms. White and her wicked stepmother, who wants the mirror to tell her she is the fairest in the land and turns into a murderous hag when it tells her she's second to the princess. Some children may have to be gently guided through the stepmother's witchier moments—and reassured that not everyone who gives them an apple is trying to poison them—but this is still a wonderful movie for kids, and adults can always amuse themselves by memorizing the names of the dwarfs: Happy, Doc, Sleepy, uh, Grumpy and, well, the others. (G)
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The undeserved, but ever-present, condition of self-esteem felt by fat girls who believe that men actually care about "personality." Brought about by Chubby Chasers trying to score by laughing at unfunny jokes or listening to terrible poetry. See also, Freakhog (3)
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CLEARWATER — The Clearwater Beach post office appears headed for closure despite pleas from the public and a last-minute bid for survival.
The decades-old post office, which serves about 9,000 local addresses, was one of 3,700 listed this summer on the U.S. Postal Service's chopping block.
The Postal Service will announce the beach office's fate by the end of the year, spokeswoman Enola Rice said. Postal officials conducted a meeting Tuesday at City Hall to get public input that Rice said could help with the decision.
But a Postal Service contractor says the beach branch's demise is already a done deal. And city officials point to the sudden end of negotiations for the branch's rent as evidence of an imminent shutdown.
The post office rents a third of the ground floor of the city-owned Clearwater Beach Marina. This summer, Dallas-based real estate specialist John Logan asked to renew the Postal Service's lease there with a four-month extension for cheaper rent.
City officials agreed, even though the drop in rent — from $42,000 a year to $38,000 a year — meant the city would earn about half what the waterfront property would earn at a market rate.
Then the Postal Service asked for another rent cut: This time, all of it. "They're moving off the beach," harbormaster Bill Morris recalled Logan saying, "unless the city gives them free rent."
Asking the city to subsidize the Postal Service would have carved a big chunk from the city's tight budget. It also would have turned away a dozen prospective tenants, including offices and restaurants, that had asked Morris about renting the 3,200 square feet if the post office left.
Ultimately, the cost didn't kill the idea — Logan did. In an email earlier this month to Morris, Logan abruptly dropped his idea and wrote, "We don't need to pursue this any further."
Reached via phone this week, Logan said, "We were getting to the point where we might get to free or reduced rent, when (Postal Service) operations decided they weren't going to leave it open."
Postal Service officials insisted to the dozen residents who appeared at Tuesday's meeting that their decision was not yet finalized. Several people said the move would disrupt tourists and would subject beach residents to longer drives and mainland traffic. The downtown post office is across Clearwater Harbor from the beach.
"We are an island," said Suzanne Boschen, a beach motel owner who uses the beach branch to mail jewelry for her eBay business. "If you're on Clearwater Beach and the bridge is packed with spring breakers, honey, you're not going anywhere."
Council member Paul Gibson, discussing the post office last week, also said he worried about the loss of the beach's home branch. Saying the branch was "already telling customers they have two feet out the door," Gibson told the council, "If we do nothing, they're gone."
No other council members seemed interested, however, in going so far as to grant free rent. Vice Mayor George Cretekos said the city's "responsibility is not to bail out the U.S. Postal Service." Mayor Frank Hibbard, considering the other offers for market-rate leases, said, "Let's make some money."
The Postal Service, which receives no tax dollars, has been gutted in recent years by the rise of email and online communication. Last week, it announced it had logged a record loss of more than $5 billion in 2011.
If the beach branch closes, officials said, mail and the beach's 400 rented post office boxes would be redirected to the downtown post office on Cleveland Street. Mail service would not be affected.
Though some on the beach have bemoaned the loss, one man with a post office box on the beach since 1983 said he was unfazed: City Council member John Doran.
"Am I attached to it?" Doran said. "No. It's just a post office box."
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Can you believe Halloween is already next week?! EEEEK! ;) And on that note, I'm very excited to share that I've partnered with Karo Syrup & Fleischmann's Yeast to bring you lots of fun tips and tricks for throwing a Halloween bash… like these super cute CREEPY MINI PIZZAS for starters. (These would pair quite nicely with sugar-rimmed Witch's Brew, don't you think?!)
Scroll down to check out the full homemade pizza recipe – which is especially great for kids Halloween parties or a festive family meal – and be sure to check back often now through October 31st for lots of creative Halloween recipe ideas, party themes and entertaining ideas coming your way!
For the crust:
– 3-1/4 to 3-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
– 1 envelope Fleischmann's® Pizza Crust Yeast OR RapidRise Yeast
– 1-1/2 tablespoons sugar
– 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
– 1-1/3 cups very warm water (120° to 130°F)*
– 1/3 cup Mazola® Vegetable Plus! Oil
– 1 to 2 cups pizza sauce
– Suggested toppings: green, red and yellow bell peppers, mushrooms, black olives, pepperoni slices, hard salami slices, curly leaf parsley, etc.
– 1 pound (total) shredded white and yellow cheeses such as mozzarella and cheddar
Preheat oven to 425°F. Combine 2 cups flour, undissolved yeast, sugar and salt in a large bowl. Add very warm water and oil; mix until well blended, about 1 minute.
Gradually add enough remaining flour to make a soft dough. Dough should form a ball and will be slightly sticky. Knead** on a floured surface, adding additional flour if necessary, until smooth and elastic, about 4 minutes. Divide dough into 8 portions; cover. (If using RapidRise Yeast, let dough rise at this point for 10 minutes.)
Pat each portion of dough with floured hands into an 8-inch circle on a greased baking sheet. Form a rim by pinching the edge of the dough. Add a second crust to the same baking sheet.
Bake for 6 to 7 minutes, dough will be just set and only lightly browned on the bottom. Remove crusts to a wire rack to cool. Continue with remaining pizza dough. (Works best to use several baking sheets.) May use crusts immediately or place in freezer bags and freeze for up to 1 month.
When ready to bake, preheat oven to 475°F. Spread each crust with pizza sauce. Top with desired toppings to make Halloween designs! Repeat with remaining pizzas. Place on a baking sheet and bake for 6 to 8 minutes, until cheese is melted and lightly browned and bottom of crust is browned.
Helpful Tips:
*If you don't have a thermometer, water should feel very warm to the touch.
**To knead the dough, add just enough flour to the dough and your hands to keep the dough from sticking. Flatten dough and fold it toward you. Using the heels of your hands, push the dough away with a rolling motion. Rotate dough a quarter turn and
repeat the "fold, push and turn" steps. Keep kneading dough until it is smooth and elastic. Use a little more flour if dough
becomes too sticky, always working the flour into the ball of dough.
P.S. For a festive, spidery finish to your creepy pizzas, try these Spiderweb Frosted Cupcakes or a DIY Glittery Spider Cupcake Tower. And don't forget to wash everything down with some Witch's Brew! ;)
Karo Syrup and Fleischmann's are part of the ACH Food Companies family.
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1Seelen Sturm SAYS:
Love this! It's so hard to find non-sweet halloween treats. These Pizzas are perfect.
2Monogrammed EVERYTHING! SAYS:
Wish I would've seen this earlier in the week….oh well, theres always next year!
3dogum fotograflari SAYS:
those pizzas really look creepy :P i'll try one myself. and this all blog is so pretty


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Answer: You're right, that's a great rate for a hotel room. Unbelievably good. And if Travelocity hadn't left a voice mail promising to refund 90 euros a night, your case wouldn't stand much of a chance.
Think of it like this: If you see a kitchen appliance on sale for 99 cents at the department store, instead of $99, would you demand the store honor the first price? No. Someone obviously put the wrong tag on the merchandise.
Contacting Travelocity was a good call. Saving the voice mail was even smarter. An email might have worked in this case, too. But the point is, you have a Travelocity representative on tape promising to make good — and it didn't.
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I have mixed feelings about your problem. On the one hand, Travelocity shouldn't have offered to pay the difference between the real rate and something that was obviously a decimal point error. On the other hand, because it did, I think it should be held to its promise — not allowed to backtrack and offer you a voucher.
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Klitschkos Vs Next opponents?
Few names left are
1. povetkin (if u can find him)
2. Helenius
3. chisora
4. boytsov
dimitrenki lost to chambers so nuff said(if he beats dimitrenko, ppl will start saying hes crap he lost to chambers etc)
they'l have to fight few mandatories which will be same old foes like chambers, rahmans, peters etc
no matter how much weight and fit arreola and with his great heart, he's not got the tools ot beat klitscko
i personally think helenius, povetkin, then retire
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no one really cares tbh, we know they would beat all those guys,
all those contenders are overweight and unfit, one good right cross and it's tko
haye took wlads punch and didnt tumble because his fitness level was exceptional.
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Day Five in the January transfer window.
It's not exactly Breaking News, given that most of the red tops reported it this morning, but Birmingham have confirmed they're in the market for a striker but are prepared to accept Robbie Keane will do. Keane is apparently bound for St Andrew's with the midlands club confirming they have opening talks with Spurs with a view to signing the striker on a permanent deal.
Edin is on his way to Eastlands to complete his first task; passing a Manchester City medical. The richest club in the world is about to shell out 30 million European clams for the Bosnian because, lo and behold, they might be able to take the title this year, afterall.
If the striker can carry this sort of form into the Sheikh's house, not many would bet against them.
Hatem is staying in the Toon! The Magpies have agreeed a four-and-a-half year deal for the Frenchman, despite his failure in his first task; dodging a Nigel De Jong tackle.
Probably because he did this in one of his four appearances to date.
Now some of the 'maybes'
Absolutely everyone, it seems this morning, is considering an ill-advised move for the nations favourite exile, Stephen Ireland. If reports are to be believed the Aston Villa midfielder will be rollin' whatever tasteless mode of transport he's using these days into either Anfield, Goodison, Craven Cottage, Celtic Park or, wait for it, …. Monaco.
Dzeko's imminent arrival and yesterday's hilarious roll in the grass with Kolo Toure, means Emannuel Adebayor's future at City is all but over. But where will he go?
Our money's on Malaga, though he'll fancy himself as a Real Madrid man. There appears little chance of City loaning him to Liverpool, even in the unlikely event the Reds thought he was the signing to help them keep turning that very, very long corner they've been on for the past 20 years or so.
The lure of Blackburn's cash, a world renowned coach and a lifetime supply of poultry related products (thanks 'arry) has, amazingly, not swayed Ronaldinho into pitching up at Ewood Park. He looks set to return to Brazil, with either his former club Gremio or, maybe, Flamengo or, maybe Palmeiras. But probably Gremio.
Shane Long says he'd prefer to stay with 'going-places' Reading rather than move to 'going-down' West Ham. Presumably it was Avram Grant's inspirational sale of the Hammers dream that swayed it for him.
Apologies, the wellbeing of Messrs Trapattoni and Flannery had us distracted for while there, but we're back with some not-so-groundbreaking news.
Ronaldinho has indeed spurned the advances of Blackburn Rovers and opted for life back in Port Alegre, while Jose Mourinho appears to have accepted defeat to the moneymen at Real, by conceding he will not be signing a striker this January. Sorry Emmanuel.
"I spoke with the president a couple of days ago and nothing. My relationship with him is very good and I hope that it will be like that until the end, or even better. It's always been like that with my presidents.
"But at this moment, after the investments that the club have made in the last two years, the club aren't keen on signing another striker."
Plucky lil' Wigan have had their cheeks pinched and hair ruffled by Hamburg after trying to sneak Dutch winger Eljero Elia on loan.
Liverpool are thought to be on the verge of making an offer for the €15m-rated World Cup player, but Wigan got in there first, according to Talksport, only to be politely rebuffed.
A source said: "There was a loan offer but this was not possible. Other than that, there's been no official contact with anyone, including Liverpool."
With a long list of suitors vying for his attention, it appears Birmingham have caught the eye of Robbie Keane as they prepare a €9.5 million bid for the spurned Spurs striker. The move probably makes good sense for both parties.
Birmingham are desperate for a proven goal scorer and, like him or loathe him, Keane does know how to find the back of the net.
From Keane's point of view, having failed to deliver on the big stage in the latter part of his career, a move to St Andrew's affords him the opportunity to become a big(ish) fish in a fairly small pond. It's a role the Republic of Ireland skipper has warmed to in the past and might yet do again.


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Techel trial juror calls deliberations 'total utter hell'UPDATED 5:36 PM CDT Jun 05, 2013
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A Wappelo County man is getting ready to stand trial again for killing his wife. Seth Techel's first murder trial ended in a hung jury two months ago. Laura Nichols joins us with new information about what it was like inside the deliberation room. In mid March we were there as jurors left the courthouse looking exhausted and angry about the mistrial -- and now two and a half months later we know why! For an entire month Lisa Techel's family sat in the front row of this Wapello County courtroom -- often wiping away tears as her husband stood trial -- accused of murdering Lisa and their unborn child. And then after four days of jury deliberations came the decision that shocked everyone... THE MOTION FOR A MISTRIAL MADE BY THE DEFENSE THIS MORNING, UNRESISTED BY THE STATE, IS HEREBY GRANTED. On March 15 Judge Dan Wilson declared a mistrial after 12 jurors said there was no way they could reach a unanimous verdict. Now two and a half months later we're finally hearing what happened in the jury room behind closed doors. In this two page letter posted online Juror Micah Sheehen called the four days of deliberations "total utter hell" She says the vote was 10 guilty -- 2 not guilty -- and fights open erupted between the two disagreeing sides. ON FIRST DEGREE MURDER THE JURORS WILL TAKE IT MORE SERIOUSLY THAN THEY PROBABLY OTHERWISE WOULD. Trial Attorney Trevor Hook says it's common for jurors to disagree, but uncommon for trials to end in a hung jury. Sheehen says quote "I 100% feel that Seth is guilty of Killing his wife and unborn child." but she went on to say that one juror, who she refers to as "a plant" felt otherwise and wasn't willing to work with the group from the get go. She says "voices were raised and notes were sent to the judge for jury misconduct." Judge Dan Wilson encouraged the group to try to reach a decision. THEY REALLY PUSH IN THOSE HIGH PROFILE CASES OR HIGH EXPENSE CASES TO GET IT DONE. Eventually no decision was reached -- and we now have more insight into why. But Seth Techel isn't off the hook -- he'll face a new jury in a few months when the state tried him again for first degree murder. Seth Techel's new trial is set for August 12th. A judge also granted a change of venue because of all the publicity the last trial received -- it will be in Mount
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