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Missy Ostrowski and Marissa Engisch shared future career ideas before they ever knew each other.
Even as children.
"All we wanted to do was push buttons," Ostrowski said of her and Engisch's shared childhood dream job.
Ostrowski said she also wanted to be a spy or a lawyer, and Engisch a Latin gang intelligence officer. "I would have been killed first day on the job," Engisch laughed.
Both in their mid-20s, Ostrowski and Engisch still have a shared passion, not for button-pushing or espionage, but for something a lot sweeter. Cupcakes.
Ostrowski and Engisch have plans to open their own cupcake business, with hopes of landing a storefront in downtown Brainerd. They still need a kitchen, and a storefront, and a means to finance the venture, but they have plans.
Big plans.
"We're in the dream process right now," Ostrowski said.
Ostrowski and Engisch met seven years ago when Engisch married Ostrowski's brother's best friend, Rudy. "We've been like sisters ever since," Engisch said.
Ostrowski, a native of Brainerd, moved to Rockford, Ill., a little over two years ago and returned to the area with her husband, Mark, last June.
Ostrowski said she got the idea to start a cupcake business while she was living in Rockford. "I really feel like God just put it in my head," she said. "God made me to create."
Ostrowski, who has always loved to bake, said she made cupcakes for a friend's bridal shower and realized she might have a winning idea. "They couldn't stop eating them," she said. "People kept telling me I need to sell these."
Ostrowski said she started developing different ideas for unique cupcake flavors, moving away from the standard white or chocolate. There were pineapple upside down cupcake, chai latte, cookies and cream, triple chocolate decadence. The possibilities are endless.
Upon moving back to Brainerd, Ostrowski and had a meeting with destiny at the grocery store. "By chance, I heard a voice that sounded so familiar," she said. "It was Marissa."
As the two caught up they learned about their other shared passion — making cakes. "She said, 'You have to see these cakes I make,'" Ostrowski remembered.
The conversation led to the inception of a dream. Honeybee Cupcakes.
"Melissa means Honeybee," Ostrowski explained. "It seems like a good fit."
"Marissa means 'Queen of the Sea,'" laughed Engisch about why her name wouldn't work. "I don't even like the water."
The pair is working on how to make their dream a reality. They still have unique passions and, of course, their jobs and families. Engisch, who is a mother of two, spends three days a week doing hair at Salon Couture in Pequot Lakes. Ostrowski is cleaning cabins and baking cupcakes for weddings, business functions, and family gatherings.
"We've got to figure out what we need," Ostrowski said. "The hard thing is it's hard to find a commercial kitchen to bake in."
More than just baking cupcakes for cash, Ostrowski and Engisch share the desire to make their work, no matter what it is, count. "I hate how customer service is," Ostrowski said. "You're nice to people to make money, and not just being kind because you're genuinely helping people."
Ostrowski and Engisch want Honeybee Cupcakes to be a social venture. They plan to make the business one that gives back to a cause that matters. Particularly, human trafficking. "If people are aware of it, they have to do something," Ostrowski said.
"They aren't just getting a cupcake," Engisch added.
Ostrowski and Engisch have a shared passion for women and children affected by exploitation in the U.S. and overseas. "We want that to be the main thing," Ostrowski said. "We want people to know when they buy a cupcake, where the money goes."
The two have visions or cupcakes representing various regions around the world and providing customers with information about trafficking in those regions. "We've both traveled and seen first hand," Ostrowski said. "Sexual abuse is something very close to both of our hearts."
In addition to cupcakes with a conscience, Ostrowski and Engisch hope the business will be unique in the flavors of cupcakes and ambiance their store will offer. "It would be an experience for people to come into the shop," Ostrowski said. "We want people to come in and feel light."
Ostrowski envisions Honeybee to have a vintage feel. A business that is always creating. An environment that is family friendly. For now they are content making cupcakes for people they love, and others who just love what they do. For now the dream continues, but as things slowly align into place Engisch said, "You never know what could happen."
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Been gone for a day or so, my 79 yr old dad had a heart attack on New years day, @ around 3:50 Pm. Me My wife and four kids and my oldest sons girlfriend were just arriving at the movies in Chesterfield. My sister calls me and says she just talked to my mom in West Branch Mi.
and found out that they had just come in from the cold, after being out for 10 min. and he collapsed in the foyer to the breezeway and the stairway to the house and garage. He remarked to her "geeze that cold air really does a number on my lungs" and slumped back almost falling toward the basement.,but she grabbed his coat. She set him on the step, and tried to rouse him but to no avail. She dials 9-11 and tells them what happened,and a sheriff patrol got there 2-3 min. later, with EMS 2-3 min. after that, got him to the hospital there after stabilizing as best as they could. My brother got his wife and two teen sons together and on the road, my sisters family got together, and I got mine together as well, and headed up that way as the doctor in ER @ West Branch said its not looking good you all need to come ASAP, And that they were life flighting him to Bay medical in Bay City, 1 hour closer to where we were coming from.
As of right now the puminoligist ,and his heart doctor, say time (48) hrs. from noon on Sat will be the starting point. tests so far indicate that he has no hemorrhaging of the brain so far, didn't have a stroke, and they want to just let his body rest and remain calm so that when they start the neurological tests they will give good indication as to whether he sustained any brain damage from (if) any loss of oxygen.
Please remind everyone that you know, not just those who are elderly, or persons with asthma, ETC,, to COVER your face when you will be out for more than a minute, it is not good to breath this frigid air for long durations.
The Pulminoligist said the cold weather PROBABLY brought about an inevitable heart attack, which in this case turned out to be a Godsend, because my mom was to leave early Saturday , and not return until Sunday. If he was alone he would have been a goner for sure!!
Keep Poppa Joe in your thoughts


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Will They Gentrify The Jewish Quarter?Ruth Ellen Gruber
It's Saturday, and the plastic-covered tables at the Kadar restaurant in downtown Budapest are filled with diners digging into matzoh ball soup and solet, a dish of slowly baked beans traditionally served on the Sabbath. Kadar is on Klauzal Square in the Seventh District, a rundown quarter that was a center of prewar Jewish life. The no-frills lunchroom is a fixture here, and pensioners and workmen rub shoulders with local celebrities, some of whom are immortalized in photos on the walls. The gurgle of seltzer siphons punctuates the clamor as a waitress shouts orders, slaps down plates, and hands out glasses of a bright red drink made from raspberry syrup.
The scene seems timeless, and in some ways it is. Budapest is still home to 80,000 Jews, and while the younger and more affluent live elsewhere, a rich aura of the past endures here. There is something of New York's Lower East Side about the Seventh. But much of Budapest's down-home charm is fast disappearing amid a post-communist onslaught that has brought shopping malls, fast-food outlets, and multiplexes. In effect, the Seventh stands at the edge of changes that may mean the end of life as Kadar's clientele knows it.
It's all about location, location, location. Budapest's building boom so far has largely bypassed the Seventh. Neglected since the Holocaust, the district remains one of the city's poorest boroughs. But from Klauzal Square it's just a 15-minute walk to the fashionable hotel and commercial zone along the Danube. It is even closer to Andrassy Avenue, the city's most elegant thoroughfare, and to such cultural attractions as the opera.
In short, the quarter is ripe for urban renewal. And that is prompting a mix of hope, fear, doubt, and consternation among residents, preservationists, entrepreneurs, and city officials. Change is necessary--and inevitable. The question now is how to husband it--how to balance planning with individual efforts so development can preserve and protect as well as renew.
Already, one sees signs of gentrification. There's more variety--and more life--in the district now, and real estate values have shot up, too. Last year I bought a dilapidated little apartment on the fringe of the district; its value has since increased by more than a third. But so far, at least, new arrivals have made little dent in the overall decay. World War II bullet holes pockmark many grimy facades, and vacant lots yawn. Around the corner from me, Kiraly Street, once the Jewish quarter's main commercial artery, boasts elegant, 19th century structures listed as historic monuments. But many are shabby. And despite the trill of cell phones and a few new boutiques and restaurants, many stores are boarded up; others sell cheesy textiles or secondhand appliances.
"The whole area is terrible," sighs Zsuzsanna Simonyi, who opened a modern Judaica gallery last year a few doors down from a synagogue that has stood empty for years. "But I'm sure that the neighborhood can come up. It'll be a slow process, but if I didn't have some hope, I wouldn't be here."
DRAMA. Simonyi pins her hopes partly on a development project aimed at turning the Seventh into a business and retail center. Known as the Madach Promenade, it would be anchored by a pedestrian mall zigzagging through the neighborhood. Offices and commercial blocks would line it, with several streets widened for traffic. A number of buildings are to be demolished and low-income families shifted out.
One focus of the project is the transformation of six linked courtyards called Gozsdu Udvar, or Court, into a shopping arcade akin to London's Covent Garden. Built nearly a century ago, the complex forms an extraordinary urban space that stretches like a tunnel through a long city block. Most tenants were moved out six or seven years ago, and the seven big tenements that separate the courtyards stand in haunting decay. Footsteps echo here; the intense drama of the transition from court to court, from darkness to light, makes walking through the passage an eerie and evocative experience. A joint-venture real estate company signed a contract to buy and develop Gozsdu Udvar this spring. The plan is to spend more than $8 million on a complex of shops, hotels, and apartments.
Officials here insist that the plan is the only way to revive the neighborhood and save some of its architectural heritage. "Besides attracting business capital, our goal is also to attract high-income people who will pay more taxes and have more money to renovate and maintain their apartments," Seventh District Mayor Zoltan Szabo told me when I met him earlier this year.
But preservationists and activists fear the project will destroy the human and urban fabric that gives the zone its identity. They envision a yuppie wasteland in which diversity and character are sacrificed to profit. And they accuse authorities of "demolition by neglect," by letting buildings deteriorate to the point that they must be razed. "We have to see a neighborhood as a whole--not just as a physical structure, but a sociological structure," says Janos Ladanyi, a sociologist and resident.
The Madach plan is no sure thing. Financial shortfalls are one potential snag. And there also is what might be called a psychological block. The Madach Promenade, in fact, is the latest incar-nation of a grandiose dream that city planners have tried to implement at intervals over the past century. The failures left the district in limbo, compounding damage done by war and communist-era neglect. Three years ago, architect Andras Roman singled out the Madach plan as an example of how a bold but misplaced vision contributes to urban blight. In "The Tragedy of an Avenue," which appeared in a Budapest cultural journal, Roman traced the failures to the city's behavior as a living organism. City planners, he wrote, "didn't realize that a city wants to progress by its own rules. It is an inner process that resists the artificial."
Today, despite all the plans, this process persists. In fact, many locals doubt that the Madach scheme will ever come to pass. But the state of limbo may turn into a fait accompli. Demolition by neglect is a byproduct of inertia, and vacant lots can be more valuable than those with old buildings on them. The Seventh will change, but perhaps not as anyone now envisages.


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We don't know about you, but we never stop fighting the good fight against dry skin, especially come the winter months. Meet the most effective weapon in our arsenal. This dry oil—a blend of grape, hibiscus, sesame, and argan oils—hydrates parched skin and disappears in seconds without any residual stickiness or oiliness. Its antioxidant grape-seed polyphenols soften and moisturize while restoring the skin's hydrolipidic (read: moisture) film. Bonus: The multitasking formula works as a strengthening cuticle treatment and a nourishing hair oil. And the scent is truly divine, with fresh notes of Moroccan and Bulgarian rose, grapefruit, vanilla, and the subtlest floral undertones.
This worked well on my skin however when i put a little on the ends of my hair like was suggested, my hair was extremely oily the next day. It looked like I hadn't showered in a few days. While it worked nice on my skin it wasn't anything special or any better than other stuff I have tried2


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 52 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
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25-55 m/f The demo will be those who use to go to church but have lost touch with their spirituality/God. However the site will not feel "churchy"
We need a small mark and font treatment for keepthepromise.com. The mark needs to be identifiable across multiple mediums (TV, billboard, social networks).
The font treatment should be simplistic in design but recognizable & well designed. Think "Livestrong"
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This is how you draw it up on the weather maps for early June in Minnesota.
A classic June day today features plenty of sunshine, low humidity and mild temperatures. Highs will reach the upper 70s in most of Minnesota today, with 60s along the North Shore. Note to self…get the weather lab grass cut and get out and enjoy today.
Next system moves in tonight:
The jet stream is roaring overhead at about 20,000 feet above Minnesota these days. That means fast moving weather systems and rapid weather changes heading our way.
The next weather system will speed toward Minnesota and arrive tonight. Look for showers and thunderstorms to increase in western Minnesota this evening, and move east into eastern Minnesota after midnight. Rain should hang around into early Friday morning, but the system should move out quickly and allow a return to sunshine by Friday afternoon in most areas.
There is the potential (the hope?) for locally heavy downpours, thunder, some hail and gusty winds as the storms slide through southern Minnesota overnight. The best chance for severe weather will be along the I-90 corridor into Iowa, but there could be a few borderline severe storms elsewhere.
Heavy rain?
Forecast models are clustering rainfall totals between .50″ and 1″ with this next system. One model, the usually over aggressive NAM is cranking out 1.5″ to 2″ for the metro by Friday morning! That's likely on the high side, but it gives you the idea that there may be some locally heavy downpours if storms track over the same area.
NWS and forecast modles cranking out significant rainfall for the metro overnight.
Duluth: Warmest spring on record
Congratulations Duluth! You've just experienced the warmest spring on record. The months of March through May (meteorological spring) featured an average temperature of 45.6 degrees. This breaks the old record of 44.4 degrees set in the spring of 1977. International Falls tied with 1987 for the second warmest meteorological spring on record with an average temperature of 44.4 degrees. It fell just 0.1 degrees from the warmest spring in 1977.
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Matt Yglesias notes the lack of empirical evidence for a long run tax-growth relationship.
One issue in this neighborhood that I think is interesting is simply the fact that even though it seems like tax policy ought to be an important determinant of economic growth, it's pretty hard to find evidence for this proposition
I'd only point out that the theoretical evidence is limited as well. First, as surprisingly few people note, theory is ambivalent on the relationship between taxes and work or savings. It is possible that taxes discourage both, but it is equally possible that taxes encourage both.
It depends on whether people stop working or saving because they can't get much out of it or work and save more because the taxes made them effectively poorer.
Now, it does turn out to be true that its hard to get a model where net private savings goes up when taxes on savings go up. Leaving aside for a moment the fact that all else equal, an increase in taxes produces an increase in public savings, a decrease in private savings still doesn't portend a long term decrease in the growth rate.
In most models the growth rate declines immediately because there is less investment. However, in time a combination of deprecation of old capital and increases in technology combine to bring the savings and investment rate back to where they were before. What we are left with is an economy that is on a lower growth path, but not a slower growth rate.
One, way to think about it is that is this: suppose we have two countries, one where taxes on savings are high and another where they are low. The two countries will grow together but the low tax country will hit any given level of per capita income a few years earlier than the high tax country. If we assumed that every dollar in tax results in one less dollar of savings and that the low tax country has a tax rate of 20% and the high tax country has a tax rate of 35% then the high tax county will be roughly 12 years behind the low tax country.
The gap between the economies grows in nominal terms but is constant in year terms. That is the second economy is always 12 years behind. This is more clearly displayed on a log chart
Whether this is a big deal or not is a matter of debate. The difference can get quite large. For example for a 50% tax on capital the high tax country is a full 27 years behind. However, in the long run it always reaches the same income per capita as the low tax country, just at a later date.


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The apartment complex Jagdhof consists of 8 apartments and has asauna and a cosy meeting room with wood stove. The apartments are only approx. 1.5 km from the posh centre of Seefeld away. Your apartment is 80 m2, is located on the second floor and has a balcony or terrace with stunning views on the mountain world. As the holiday home is directly located at the foot of the "Gschwandkopfes" mountain, it is an ideal starting base for walks in summer or langlauf in winter. The ski area Seefeld is easily accessible by car at approx. 2 km, or you can take the free ski bus which stops at only 150m from the holiday home.
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Sitting room, infra-red sauna, sauna(shared with other guests ), balcony or terrace, heating(central), garden furniture, parking, Cot, high chair
These costs are charged on site. They are not included in the rental price.:
Deposit; No
Final Cleaning; Mandatory: € 55
Pets; Max. 1; € 8/night (Pets will only be accepted if communicated before arrival)
Bed linen; Included
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Electricity; Included
Gas/Oil; Included
Wifi; Free
Tourist tax; Mandatory, € 2,80 /person/night
Miscellaneous; Breadservice
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Back on 3 May we posted to this blog that we were hiring and wow, were we overwhelmed with the response! We had more than 20 applications, most of which were incredibly impressive people who we could have hired immediately. We couldn't believe it.
So with applications of this calibre we put a lot of our other work on hold and got interviewing.
Our mindset of being able to hire nearly all of the applicants didn't change at all, in fact interviewing people only made the decision even harder. We had so many people who exceeded the criteria we'd set out for who we wanted to hire and it was an incredibly hard decision.
In the end though, we couldn't go past Carmen Roche. Carmen has a bachelor of Arts and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University. As a graduate she spent 7 years working in the marketing team at Accenture, followed by 2 years at the US Treasury Department as an International Economist. She was 2/3 of the way through a PhD in law focusing on Trade and Development when she had her first child. She's been out of the workforce for a couple of years taking care of her two young boys and was looking for a role out of the traditional corporate space that could offer her the flexibility to work from a mix of an office and at home. She's fluent in Spanish and also speaks French reasonably well.
Carmen obviously has a lot more experience than the role we advertised requires (as did a lot of the candidates). So we've rethought the role and once she ramps up, the plan will be for Carmen to essentially replace Michael in managing all of our operations. Michael will then focus more of his time on business development.
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RICHMOND, Va. - After earning a share of the 2012 CAA Football championship with its Capital Cup win over William & Mary this past Saturday, 11 University of Richmond Spider Football players garnered All-CAA honors on Monday.
Earning All-CAA First-Team honors were FB Kendall Gaskins, WR Ben Edwards and S Cooper Taylor, while TE Kevin Finney, LB Darius McMillan, DL Evan Kelly and KR Justin Grant were named to the all-conference second team. WR Stephen Barnette, OL Nick Ritcher, CB Darryl Hamilton and LB Eric Wright all earned All-CAA Third-Team accolades.
The all-conference honor for Gaskins was the third in his illustrious career and the second first-team distinction. The Burlington, N.J. native led the CAA with 16 touchdowns this season, rushing for 604 yards on 148 carries. Gaskins also showed his versatility, catching 21 balls for 193 yards and three scores.
Although he played just two seasons for the Spiders, Taylor leaves Richmond having made quite the impression with his outstanding play. Taylor earned first-team honors after totaling 78 tackles, 5.0 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks and four interceptions in 2012.
After playing solidly for his first two years, Edwards emerged as one of the finest receivers in the CAA this season, garnering an All-CAA First-Team selection. Edwards led the CAA with 80 receptions this season, while ranking fifth in yards with 852. Edwards also reeled in three touchdown catches - third-best on the team.
The Richmond defense could not have forced 32 turnovers this season without the terrific play of both McMillan and Kelly. McMillan earned his second-straight All-CAA Second-Team honor after totaling a team-best 86 tackles, while Kelly earned his first all-conference honor after recording 51 tackles and 3.5 sacks in 2012.
A three-year starter for the Spiders, Finney was named second-team All-CAA after reeling in 27 catches for 247 yards. Finney's five touchdown receptions tied him for the CAA lead amongst tight ends. A dynamic force in special teams, Grant was named to the second-team after ranking third in the nation this year with a 32.3 kickoff return average. Grant's best return of the season came against VMI, when he took the opening kickoff back for a score.
Saving his best season for last, Hamilton had five interceptions to earn All-CAA Third-Team honors. Joining him on the team was Wright, who ranked second on the team with 78 tackles.
Rounding out the Spiders' All-CAA honors were Barnette and Ritcher. Barnette had a breakout year for Richmond, totaling 56 catches for 848 yards and four scores. Ritcher was a standout on one of the country's best offensive lines in 2012, earning all-conference third-team honors. Richmond allowed just five sacks all season - best in the CAA and third best in the nation.
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Mortgage fraud trial in Columbus, Ga results in $21 million verdict
On Monday, March 21st, a federal jury in Columbus, Georgia returned a $21 million verdict against PHH Mortgage Company (operating as Coldwell Banker) in favor of 29-year old U.S. Army Sergeant David Brash.
In his suit, Brash claimed that the mortgage company had falsely reported his account to credit bureaus as seriously delinquent, and then refused to correct the mistake or even answer his questions, putting him on hold in foreign call centers for thirty minutes to nearly an hour at a time.
Brash purchased a home in Columbus, Georgia in 2007 using PHH as his mortgage company. The soldier set up automatic payments while he was on active duty and for eighteen months no problems occurred. In the spring of 2009, however, PHH began to send him notices of delinquent payments. Though reassured repeatedly that the errors would be corrected, no action was taken by PHH; the notices continued and Brash's credit rating was severely damaged. In late 2009, Brash filed suit against the mortgage company.
The jury deliberated for six hours before returning its verdict and awarding Brash $575 for expenses, $1 million in compensatory damages, and $20 million in punitive damages. The jury's award of punitive damages was intended to punish PHH's behavior and prevent future customer abuse by the lender. Given PHH's large size—it closed $38 billion in mortgage financing in 2009 alone—the jury likely felt that a large punitive award was necessary to ensure the company changes its practices.


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>One of the ladies said something about so and so being a species and
>a friend said "well you know there are no true species in the genus
Statements like this are usually intented to be a pun, with just a bit
of truth thrown in.
In the animal world, species are fairly well defined and the different
species don't hybridize readily. In the plant world botantist have
been trying to define what a species is since the time of Linnaeus and
have yet to come to a definitive answer. There are two camps of plant
taxonomist - the splitters and the lumpers. The splitters will
seperate plants into new species on the simplest of differences while
the lumpers will throw in a large amount of variability into one
The difference between the animal species and plant species is that
animals are better adapted at recognizing members of their own species
because they have sight and various hormones to attract their own
kind. Animals also move about, so you don't get the local build of
variation that can occure in plants. In plants pollen only traves so
far and the resulting seeds usually only travel a limited distance.
Thus, any variation that develops in a plant can only spread slowly.
Take, for example, a sugar maple tree in Vermont that develops deep
purple leaves. That maple tree will only spread its pollen so far and
the resulting seeds will only fall a few hundred feet away. A
resulting seedling may grow a few hundred feet away that is also
purple, but it will take some time before it matures and is able to
shead pollen and produce seeds that will further spread the purple
leaf color. Now, over a period of centuries all the maples in that
area may become purple leafed. A botantist may then come in and see
all these purple leafed maples and call them Acer saccharum var
purpurium, but a spliter type may call them a new species, Acer
Also, plant species tend to cross among themselves where the species
overlap resulting in hybrid populations. These hybrid populations can
then backcross to the species and the backcross plants can further
backcross to the species. By repeately backcrossing a hybrid between
two species it is possible to bring in traits from one species into
the other species. This is call introgression. It is also confusing
to the taxonomist because these individuals will have all the main
traits of one of the species, but also a few traits of the second
species. Is this a new species?
Thus, some people take the extream position and say that there are no
species, that every plant is an individual. This is usually said with
a big grain of salt, but in a way it has some validity behind it.
I have more experience with the daylily species then I do hosta
species. Relatively few daylily species were brought over to the US
and Europe, and I suspect this is somewhat the same with hostas. It
is also true with the true lilies. The daylily species in the US can
be more or less defined into about a dozen species. We know what
these species look like. However, we are now starting to get some
daylilies from China and Korea and we have no idea of where they fit
in. Part of this problem is that we don't know much about the natural
distribution of daylilies in Asia, in particular, China. This is also
probably true with hostas. Also, with hostas a lot of the species
that are in the US and Europe came from gardens in Japan and who knows
where the original plant came from. They may have been seedlings that
were grown in the garden, but their history was lost. They may not
even exist in the wild.
There are all sorts of research tools available today that can help
the plant taxonomist sort all of this out, but these techniques are
EXPENSIVE to use.
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I imagine this is how this years Mayan Calendar will look like, when it ends and all the planets 'align' (for a photo) ;)
Awe, poor little Pluto!
I've been wanting a Pluto-themed t-shirt for a while now. Not that I've ever had a chance – this has been going on since 2006. First opening day woot that I've bought in a while.
kmf600 wrote:I don't think the planets are going to line up until September 8, 2040, and that a Geocentric alignment, which includes Pluto.
In the end it doesn't matter, because all hell is going to brake loose when it happens, right?
No one will know as we are are gone after Dec 22 this year.
Yay!! I am so happy this won. ^^
Why isn't Neptune on its side?
this shirt makes me feel sad for pluto
I like my planets with rings. Plus, I think Pluto has had it rough enough the past few years without me buying a shirt to bash it.
seahokedrama wrote:At that distance from the sun why does the earth still have water?
Pah! This is so unrealistic... I can't buy this. As if they could all get so close without gravity causing them to collide at high speeds!
They would be much better waiting until the planets were all in line and ask a friendly comet to take the photo.
Yeah, Comet will use a 1 ton camera. That'll be realistic.
neyfam2000 wrote:Woot!--going from "Deal-a-day" to "Site-a-day"
So cute! Makes me sad for Pluto though.
FishyFred wrote:I cannot in good conscience buy this shirt. The relative sizes are all out of whack.
Yeah, I even think Venus is bigger than Earth (and the wrong color).
It's my birthday today, I like this shirt, I should buy this shirt.
My wife put the kibosh on new shirts (as my shirt drawer is over-flowing).
I can get rid of a shirt to make room for this one.
But my wife gets sad when I wear my "You're not one of us anymore" shirt and would probably get even sadder if I wore this one.
Verdict: For the greater good of my marriage, no shirt today. But please know that I dig this one the most.
Oh yeah, obligatory "Whisky Tango Foxtrot $12!?!?!?!"
This tee-shirt is perfect for Jonathan Coulton's song "I'm your Moon" and Valentine's day!!
If my daughter thinks she wears a XS, but I think she wears a S. Does that mean I should buy a M?
So in 30 years are like alot of people not even going to get Pluto is not a planet jokes because Pluto stopped being a planet before they were even born?
I'm really careful with my shirts but even I think my shirt will be worn out in 30 years, give or take 10.
iamnotaduck wrote:If my daughter thinks she wears a XS, but I think she wears a S. Does that mean I should buy a M?
All I can say is that the ladies shirts run small. Every woman I know who's bought a women's woot.shirt has gone up a size from their "normal" shirt size.
I think the best way to figure out the sizing is to have her measure one of her own shirts and then compare measurements. I normally wear S but I get an M in Woot shirts, but I think it also depends on how you're built (and I am not... built).
Father, are you space?
Very cute shirt.
I'm not getting the fish out of water reference, though. That phrase means a situation where something is outside it's normal environment. And references the uncomfortable and/or comical things that ensue. Like a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, for example.
EDIT: Oh forget it. I just read Woot's rules on the derby. It's Woot that got it wrong. WOOT: Not fitting in isn't "fish out of water". It's "black sheep".
Congratulations!!! Your first fog and you won first place. Awesome!
The creator forgot to include Pluto's friends...
Where are Ceres, Eris, Haumea, Makemake?
I have to agree with those that has said this is an overused and pointless topic. Pluto is no longer classified as a planet. It's still a dwarf planet. It still exists. Nothing about it physically changed. No one hates it. We have just corrected a mistake we've been making for decades.
As for those who say "Pluto, you will always be a planet to me!" I would like to point out that there is no one around saying how "Earth, you will always be flat to me!"
cscrudder wrote:Why isn't Neptune on its side?
Neptune is mostly upright, while Uranus spins both 'backwards' (clockwise when viewed from the North pole, like Venus) and nearly on its side.
SnorgTees' versions.
Can we just reinstate Pluto already?
Congrats Wirdou :D
You DO know this image has nothing to do with the phrase "fish out of water," right?
delucain wrote:As for those who say "Pluto, you will always be a planet to me!" I would like to point out that there is no one around saying how "Earth, you will always be flat to me!"
Except for these folks: http://theflatearthsociety.org
Ahh, Pluto, the ginger of our solar system.
Revolve in peace, Pluto!
elgringo79 wrote:You DO know this image has nothing to do with the phrase "fish out of water," right?
Pluto is a fish out of water because it's not a planet anymore.
wow, people need to stop being so flippin' literal, already! it's a t-shirt! the planets are all together, and they're smiling for a picture! who cares that the planets aren't comparitively sized, or whether or not pluto is or is not still sort of a planet. it's a cute flippin' shirt, and it makes most of us smile. see, smiling.
Felicidades wirdou! well deserved!
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As for those who say "Pluto, you will always be a planet to me!" I would like to point out that there is no one around saying how "Earth, you will always be flat to me!"
The earth's status as "flat" was not a classification, arbitrarily changed by a minority vote of scientists. It was a primitive idea based on observation that changed when new facts came to light. Pluto Planeteers have logic and reason on their side considering most planets don't even fit all of the IAU's qualifications for planet classification because they have not cleared the neighbourhood around their orbits.
meepee wrote:Pluto is a fish out of water because it's not a planet anymore.
'Fish out of water' means the fish SHOULD be back in the water.
However, scientists have spoke and said Pluto SHOULD NOT be in the water (aka considered a planet).
Hence, technically, it is not a fish out of water since it shouldn't be in the water in the first place.
That being said I think people are putting too much thought into the title....
iamjakex wrote:I imagine this is how this years Mayan Calendar will look like, when it ends and all the planets 'align' (for a photo) ;)
I'm sorry I just had to.. the planets aren't aligning, the Sun the Earth and the Galactic center are aligning.
Oh sweet! Congratulations Pablo!
I totally had this picked for the top 3 but I wasn't sure when it would show.
Thank goodness someone else out there understands idioms! Unfortunately, Woot mislead people about the meaning of the phrase. Their instructions for the derby suggested that people show things that don't fit in.
Luckily, the derby title won't print on the shirt. So all these folks buying one won't constantly have to face folks like you and me telling them, "your shirt isn't quite right."
This shirt made me go "D'awww". I just had to get it! :3
Just got my Koi shirt today and already I am buying another xD
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Four new Web sites claim to either save users bundles of money on hotels or match them to the right property based on a variety of personal parameters. IndependentTraveler.com fiddled around with the sites to see which ones are worth your time and which you shouldn't bother with.
Show Me the Money
Less than a year old, BackBid.com gets hotels to bid on your business.
You start by already having a hotel reservation in a city. You enter your hotel reservation with dates of travel and competing hotels send you bids in an attempt to lure you away. Bids can be in the form of money-saving discounts or value-added services, like upgraded rooms, free breakfasts or parking fee waivers. If you like a bid, you can claim it; if you don't, just keep your original reservation. Keep in mind, if you take a bidder up on their offer you'll need to cancel your original reservation – beware of cancellation penalties!
Travelers without hotel reservations simply enter their travel plans to get bids from hotels in their city of choice.
BackBid claims to provide competitor rates that cover all U.S. cities, and plans to expand into other countries eventually.
IndependentTraveler.com's Take: BackBid looks promising but we haven't yet received a bid from a hotel. If bids are few and far between, the site won't be around for too long. However, it costs only a few minutes of your time to give it a try. Who knows? Maybe you'll get an offer you can't refuse!
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Guestmob.com is another relatively new travel booking site, which claims to use algorithms to find deals up to 50 percent off Internet prices – what it calls the "magic price." The catch: You don't know which hotel you're staying at until one to six days prior to check-in.
It's not as dangerous as you might think since when you do a hotel search, the site returns one or more hotel collections composed of four to eight hotels, all of the same star ranking (as determined by Guestmob). If you decide to book a magic rate, you are guaranteed a stay in one of the hotels within the collection you chose. Additionally, if you find out what hotel you're staying at and you don't like it, you can cancel any reservation up to three days before your stay and get a full refund. Of course, if you don't get your hotel notification before that three-day time period, you're out of luck on the refund.
A quick search for Seattle for Aug. 9 to 18 returned two collections – one 3.5-star and one 4-star. The magic price for the 3.5-star collection was $160, while the magic price for the 4-star collection was $174. A comparison search on Hotwire for the four hotels in the 3.5-star collection came up with prices $17 to $85 higher.
The site currently only offers hotels in 20 U.S. cities.
IndependentTraveler.com's Take: Because you're not selecting a hotel completely blind, we see no reason not to give Guestmob a chance. The site does claim it offers deeper discounts to people who sign in via Facebook – thus sharing their travel plans with their Facebook friends. However, we didn't test this, choosing to register via e-mail instead.
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Still in its infancy, CasaHop.com is a social networking platform designed to aid people in finding homeswaps. Unlike other home exchange networks, CasaHop works through Facebook. So for the most part you're networking with friends, family and friends of friends/family. The more public you're willing to make your CasaHop profile, the broader the network you can exchange with.
Right now all you can do on the site is sign up via Facebook and enter information about your house, your neighborhood and your own vacation interests. The database and interactive community functions are scheduled to go live over the next few weeks.
In theory, by networking through Facebook, you're avoiding swaps with "total" strangers. However, for those who are hesitant about sharing personal information on Facebook, CasaHop may not be right for you. In order for the site to work effectively you do need to enter a significant amount of personal information about your home and community, including photos.
IndependentTraveler.com's Take: We're leery of entering too much personal information, but for those who don't mind, we say go for it.
A second match-making site, seriously in a beta testing phase, is simplehoney.com. This site claims to match users to accommodations based on their travel personality, assessed through a couple of short quizzes. But the site has so few hotels in its database that the matches seem a bit of a stretch right now.
IndependentTraveler.com's Take: The jury's out. According to the hotel matching page, they currently offer only hotel matches in California and Hawaii. But at the bottom of every search we've done, hotels in Vancouver and Nicaragua appear, which makes us think they're throwing advertisers into the results. Another bad sign — while free at the moment, it says there will eventually be a one-time membership fee of $100. But for what? The two personality tests do offer a moment's diversion, but for now we don't think the site is worth your time.
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Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood's performance of "Something Bad" on the Billboard Music Awards was so hot, they're going to do it again. This time at the CMT Music Awards in Nashville.
Both Carrie and Miranda are up for some CMT Awards on June 4, including Video of the Year. Miranda is leading the nominations however, with 6 nods. She's walked away with 5 awards in the past, and Carrie with 9; the most career wins of any female artist.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's advice for Putrajaya to tighten its belt has come too late, say Pakatan Rakyat (PR) MPs who predict a dire financial outlook for Malaysia unless the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) government quickens its pace in carrying out comprehensive austerity measures.
It was because the former prime minister of 22 years was profligate with public money that the country is faced with government spending that's potentially spiralling out of control, lawmakers from the three-party opposition pact said.
But they added there was no point in sniping at the 88-year-old now when the real issue at hand was for the present Najib administration to check financial wastage and monetary leaks to lower Malaysia's sovereign debt, which now stands at an alarming 53 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP), just slightly below the government's self-imposed debt ceiling of 55 per cent.
"As much as I think much of the spending is inherited from his time, the real issue is the government's spending going out of control," PKR's Rafizi Ramli told The Malay Mail Online.
He said the lack of seriousness shown by Datuk Seri Najib Razak as the sixth prime minister and finance minister in controlling public spending is the real problem.
"They continue to harp over and over again on one or two billion ringgit of subsidies (for fuel), but these are marginal subsidies compared to many other items such as power production.
"I think it's dishonest. Fixing the financial problems in Malaysia need to be taken as a whole package, and it has to start with the personal commitment of the leadership to show they are serious in tackling wastages and leakages," the Pandan MP said.
Dr Mahathir on Friday posted in his blog, chedet.cc, that the government must be more prudent with its spending and whatever financial assistance is doled out, such as the 1Malaysia People's Assistance (BR1M), must be "properly budgeted for".
He said cash aid programmes like BR1M should be done more selectively, and should not become a crutch like the public's dependence on fuel subsidies.
Dr Mahathir, who also held the finance portfolio, added that the impact of the recent 20 sen reduction in RON95 and diesel subsidies would only contribute to between 1 and 5 per cent inflation to the price of goods and services.
Oil-producing Malaysia had last week hiked up the pump prices for the widely-used grade of fuel as part of the government's subsidy rationalisation programme introduced soon after Najib came into office in 2009.
DAP's political education director, Liew Chin Tong said the government should not shrug off its responsibility in shouldering the austerity burden, especially with many big-ticket items, such as corporate subsidies, still on the table.
"Any inflation or changes in prices, even at five per cent as Dr Mahathir claimed, would have a huge impact on the disposable income of ordinary folks.
"In the first place, the 20 sen increase shouldn't have taken place before the subsidy to IPPs are removed and before the government checked on the multi-billion ringgit diesel smuggling trade," the Kluang MP said, referring to the group of independent power producers by their initials.
"Those are areas worth far more than the revenue brought by the petrol hike," he told The Malay Mail Online.
PAS central committee member Khalid Samad said the government cannot fall back on an overnight solution to deal with such a long-standing problem, while it shirks responsibility in dealing with the core issues affecting the country's economy.
"The government should work on increasing the efficiency and transparency of the government, because all this affects inflation. If we carry on like this, the country will go down the drain. There's a real danger of that happening," the two-term Shah Alam MP said.
Last month, global ratings agency Fitch Ratings cut its outlook on Malaysia's sovereign debt to "Negative", citing gloomier prospects for reforms to tackle the country's rising debt burden following a divisive election result this year.
The revision from a stable outlook adds to concerns over Malaysia's high debt pile at a time when the currency has been pressured by bond fund outflows and there is talk of the US Federal Reserve ending its easy monetary policy.
In its downgrade, Fitch had singled out the lack of political fortitude to see through necessary reforms.
Even after Najib announced the fuel subsidy rationalisation, Fitch maintained its evaluation as it said the subsidy cuts were not sufficient to bring about substantial change to Malaysia's financial outlook.


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It concerns the engineer of the steam-launch belonging to the Maranon cattle estate of the
B. O. S. Co., Ltd. This estate is also an island--an island as big as a small province, lying
in the estuary of a great South American river. It is wild and not beautiful, but the grass
growing on its low plains seems to possess exceptionally nourishing and flavouring
qualities. It resounds with the lowing of innumerable herds--a deep and distressing sound
under the open sky, rising like a monstrous protest of prisoners condemned to death. On
the mainland, across twenty miles of discoloured muddy water, there stands a city whose
name, let us say, is Horta.
But the most interesting characteristic of this island (which seems like a sort of penal
settlement for condemned cattle) consists in its being the only known habitat of an
extremely rare and gorgeous butterfly. The species is even more rare than it is beautiful,
which is not saying little. I have already alluded to my travels. I travelled at that time, but
strictly for myself and with a moderation unknown in our days of round-the-world
tickets. I even travelled with a purpose. As a matter of fact, I am--"Ha, ha, ha!--a
desperate butterfly-slayer. Ha, ha, ha!"
This was the tone in which Mr. Harry Gee, the manager of the cattle station, alluded to
my pursuits. He seemed to consider me the greatest absurdity in the world. On the other
hand, the B. O. S. Co., Ltd., represented to him the acme of the nineteenth century's
achievement. I believe that he slept in his leggings and spurs. His days he spent in the
saddle flying over the plains, followed by a train of half-wild horsemen, who called him
Don Enrique, and who had no definite idea of the B. O. S. Co., Ltd., which paid their
wages. He was an excellent manager, but I don't see why, when we met at meals, he
should have thumped me on the back, with loud, derisive inquiries: "How's the deadly
sport to-day? Butterflies going strong? Ha, ha, ha!"--especially as he charged me two
dollars per diem for the hospitality of the B. O. S. Co., Ltd., (capital L1,500,000, fully
paid up), in whose balance-sheet for that year those monies are no doubt included. "I
don't think I can make it anything less in justice to my company," he had remarked, with
extreme gravity, when I was arranging with him the terms of my stay on the island.
His chaff would have been harmless enough if intimacy of intercourse in the absence of
all friendly feeling were not a thing detestable in itself. Moreover, his facetiousness was
not very amusing. It consisted in the wearisome repetition of descriptive phrases applied
to people with a burst of laughter. "Desperate butterfly-slayer. Ha, ha, ha!" was one
sample of his peculiar wit which he himself enjoyed so much. And in the same vein of
exquisite humour he called my attention to the engineer of the steam-launch, one day, as
we strolled on the path by the side of the creek.
The man's head and shoulders emerged above the deck, over which were scattered
various tools of his trade and a few pieces of machinery. He was doing some repairs to
the engines. At the sound of our footsteps he raised anxiously a grimy face with a pointed
chin and a tiny fair moustache. What could be seen of his delicate features under the
black smudges appeared to me wasted and livid in the greenish shade of the enormous
tree spreading its foliage over the launch moored close to the bank.


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safari font issues?
Is anyone else experiencing font issues with Safari? I'm running 5.1.7 on Snow Leopard, and suddenly some websites' text—every character—looks like nothing but the letter "A" in a box. Stranger still, this is also happening on Apple's own movie trailer site. That's a site I visit several times a week, and I've never seen this happen before. And I've visited it for years. Any idea what gives?
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[ Edited: 01 October 2012 03:52 PM by mrmwebmax ]
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I am not all that familiar with Safari, but…
What is your default encoding set to? It should be Western (ISO Latin 1).
There is also a possibility that you deleted one or more fonts from your library that Safari and/or web sites use.
"A body in motion at a constant velocity will remain in motion until pushed out of bounds by the Strong Safety." ~ Issac Newton's First Law of Physics
It turns out that when I added a subfolder to my Library/Fonts folder, that caused the issue. Moving the fonts to the Library/Fonts root fixed the problem.
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