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She loved the sound of Cobain's voice. I adored the sounds of hers. And we both loved the taste of a long drawn cigarette in a short lived moment. Our lives weren't long at the time, and they seemed to be getting shorter. We enjoyed the precious little pleasures while debating the world's preposterous pressures. All the while she kept sneaking glances at my button down shirt; the one with brown and gray dampened stripes that seemed to fade into the musky gray background, reminding me of Rocky Road Ice Cream.
"It's an interesting shirt."
"I found it in a box on the side of the road in New Orleans."
She laughed. I laughed. We stole another precious moment, seizing the opportunity to sacrifice another five minutes of our lives for the stress relief that the cigarette companies guaranteed. They weren't liars. They were right. I was going to die. Happily. She smoked slims, I smoked 100's; a Virginia girl and a Marlboro man, face to face in an L.A. delicatessen. Well, an L.A. Starbucks with a view. The fresh brewed coffee played off the smoke, and gave life to the room; the sort of life that you would assume permanently encapsulated the life of James Dean, until, well, he drove his Porsche off the road after doing a driving safety video. Either way, we lived like nu veau Deans, and we dreamed of crashing our Porsches in order to go out in just such a blaze of glory. Unfortunately, we would have to settle for something much less expensive. Tangent. Back to my shirt.
She had seen one like it before. I had worn it before. I asked her where she'd been, and told her where I'd been. We'd both never been. I had lied about New Orleans to make the conversation more interesting. The silence wasn't awkward. It was long, dreamy, hopeful and sad. It was a silence that screamed "get me the fuck out of LA!" and it was a pause the sparked a spurrious conclusion.
She put out her cigarette in the tastefull Starbucks tray next to the three cigarettes that already had occupied it, and, grabbing my hand, we stood up.
"Let's get the fuck out of LA." she said. And we began our planning. First, she wanted to make on honest man out of me, so we picked up a map in a gas station, and hit the road for New Orleans.
She drove, and I rode bitch. Twenty and licenseless. In order to pass the time, I continued the conversation about my shirt: where I got it, why I liked it, how much it cost, and my consideration for buying another just like it.
"If you say one more thing about that god damn shirt you're riding in the engine compartment."
I did not say one more thing about my god damned shirt, and the ride proved to be much more pleasant. As we drove, we smoked. As we smoked, we died. As we thought about death, we really needed another cigarette. The topic of conversation soon rolled around to expenses. I had twelve bucks and a deck of playing cards. She was brutally attractive and on good terms with her father. We weren't going to have to worry.
In love, lust, or luck we left our homes and lives with nothing but a fake story of a scholarship opportunity and a cooler full of capri-suns, in hopes of going someplace just for the sake of saying we'd been some place. A few hundred miles ahead and a long trail of ash behind, life was good. It may have been short, but for the next week, it would feel oh so long.
Her name was either Jennifer or Jane. His was something along the lines Daniel. Jane was a beautiful ray with porcelain complexion and long locks eschewing any possibility of negativity in her world. Brushing up against her lips would feel like moist rose pedals, and her eyes, when she was sad, would sink down inside and darken to the more aggressive shades of green. When she was happy, they would light up without having changed that hypnotic color, and they would beam through everything around her. She was long, luxurious, and lovely, even with a cigarette hanging daintily from her lower lip. The smoke from the stick was as sensual as sin, and the bitter fragrance only made her more exotic; more uncontrollably desirable. The light tremble of her fingers taking the cigarette as she relaxed between drags was like the ecstatic shiver that runs down every man's spine when the woman they want gently brushes against their shoulder. She was preposterously pretty and cordially canonical; like candy and coffee to the brain and soul.
Daniel was pudgy and shaved once a week. The two of them had wonderful conversations about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (sex). They also spoke about morality (it's not fair unless you go down on her too.) And popularity (size does matter).
The day waned into night and the line on the highway in Jane or Jennifer's pretty blue eyes got longer and longer; blurrier and blurrier. They had money but none to spare, so they pulled off to the side of the road. Aquafina, Cheetos, and cigarettes maintained their voracious appetites. They side on the hood of her navy blue Volvo, and took a look around. They hadn't given much thought to where they were going. It was about ten P.M., and they'd been driving for a good four hours. A look around revealed an enormous fucking parking lot.
"Where are we?" Inquired Daniel, who had never seen such an enormous fucking parking lot. Jennifer – possibly Jane – took out her palm pilot and checked the on board GPS.
"Quartzsite, Arizona."
Daniel puffed thoughtfully. "What's there to see in Quartzsite, Arizona?"
"The world's largest parking lot."
"I'd kind of like to see that."
"There it is."
"That's an enormous fucking parking lot."
In light of recent observation, they decided to spend their peaceful November night parked in the lot, which had a ten dollar fee. When they woke in the morning, they found the enormous fucking parking lot transformed into an enormous fucking flee market. And as Daniel wiped the sand from his eyes, he wept a little bit, for this was the stuff of dreams. The bargains, the buyers, the sellers, the traders. Music and Churro wafted through the air, and his stomach rumbled. Jane-ifer concluded that, since they were going to be their for a while, they may as well stock up on some needed supplies.
Walking through the rows upon rows upon rows upon rows upon rows…
Upon rows upon rows, they managed great bargains on a glowing plastic rosary and a box of old records that someone's ex-husband probably wanted back desperately. With the necessities out of the way, they proceeded to pick up the eccentricities of water and food, and a bottle of tylenol, which they were assured was not tylenol, thus guaranteeing that it was tylenol and not anything good. November is cold in Arizona, but that doesn't matter to the Arizona sun. It burns in cold or heat, and the ground is quick to reflect. They got back to a sweltering leather interior car, and found that the engine was too cold to start. The perplexing paradoxy did nothing but delay their exit.
They smoked and they drank, and they heckled passers-by. Another hour found them drunk, haggard, and forced to spend another night in the enormous fucking parking lot. Fortunately, Arizona sunsets were beautiful. Like LA, the smog settled into the basins and made for spectacular color gradients and dazzling shimmers and shines. Their was no sea salt to accent the night with a cool and fresh scent, but the sky was larger and the people were quieter. The parking lot cleared late in the day and they hit the road with a sense of a fresh start and a real sense of detachment. Pointless as say "I slept in America's largest parking lot" may be, it was still something that could not be said for many. The rules of sights and roads were skewed from that moment on. Completely free to see all that was around them, the two wanderers saw all that was around them.
Daniel was sullenly quiet as the road passed by. A night on an Arizona highway was different. Hughes of red painted the rhe rock walls that jettisoned from the ground. Cactus abounded; the real kind that you buy at Lowe's or Green Thumb Nursery. They were hideous in their natural habitat, but when you thought about them, all that came to mind was how each time the cactus branched represented another hundred year. Damn near every cactus they saw was older than Daniel and Jane combined. He would die before they would, but they would stay in their place, storing water only to be raped of it by cruel birds and desert moochers. Daniel gathered as he grazed, and he left not a crumb at his way-side.
He mentioned to Jane as his thoughts drifted, " People don't do this."
"Don't do what?" she asked.
Half speaking to himself, Daniel continued, "They don't drop their lives off at Starbucks and hit the road."
"Well maybe they're all wrong."
That seemed to be the most plausible explanation. The world was wrong, and they were right to roam and not contribute; to treasure the things crafted by those without the privilege to enjoy their own creations.
"Don't you think it's selfish to take advantage of a world that we haven't contributed a single thought to?"
Jane or Jennifer had never thought of it that way. Her Dad worked hard so that she wouldn't have to. She would go to school and see the world the way Kerouak and Whitman saw it. She loved and adored the world she saw, and wish that everyone could, but her tragedy was her lack of solution, or the where-with-all to contrive one.
"Fuck 'em." She said. And they fucked 'em and kept driving.
Essay Aneurism
It is time I put my two cents in on writing. Not that I am professional, or that my style is polished to such a degree that people have finally stopped saying "It's coming along, but it's still shitty". But because my friend Taylor and I have a seemingly legitimate analogy for essay writing. I have dubbed it the reverse Alzheimers process, because the moment you stare at a prompt, you forget everything you have ever known in relation to the topic. Even if it's something as elementary as "what color are your eyes?", you find yourself desperately seeking the nearest mirror to confirm a caution to the wind gut inclination that your eyes might be brown. Even as I write this, the most prominent thought that eeps into my mind is how good the hamburgers that we had eaten were at the time when this discussion came up. Now, because this is for essays, it is only speaking of a timed first draft; arguably the worst piece of writing you will ever produce: Read a prompt about a topic you had never intended to address in your immediate future, develop a strong opinion on the topic, and back it up with evidence, preferably Latin phrases that only scholars remember because they are hidden away in the dark recesses of The Vatican Library. So dive deep into yourself, grab a spoon, and eat up some sophomoric wisdom about the evolution and development of a shitty first draft.
The prompt is set before you. READ CAREFULLY. These are the words that prod at your skull and leave you constantly asking "did I read carefully enough?" You've annotated every word for six different meanings, and searched for hidden encryptions in hieroglyphics that circulate around the interior of certain O's. you're sweating blood, and you now have solved the mystery of what causes brain aneurism: stupid prompts. NEWS FLASH: All prompts are ridiculously stupid because you are never in the mood. Even if you think you are in the mood, you aren't. Twenty minutes into any essay and you will realize that. Staring at your paper, wondering whether you've wasted too much time already, you will soon forget the prompt, and have to start over. And then the inevitable, "Who am I?", "Why am I hear?", "I really need to mellow out and start taking drugs."
That's right! Essays are not the anti-drug. But fear not, for I am sober, and always have been relatively so. So at this point, you are lost, stranded, and cannot leave the classroom because it is against the sacred rules of AP. So you start to construct a sentence, putting your head in the guillotine, waiting for the inevitable drop. This piece of paper is a direct representation of your head in that basket. And in the end, it will be graded on a scale of one to nine, and you will most likely never see it again. But still, you write. You are in kindergarten now, as far as mentality goes, and the question is big. Your words are small, and you've got large ruled paper so you can make sure that you don't put an extra swoop in your double-u. the question is about Native Americans, so you draw a little turkey in the corner of the paper, and then some corn stocks in another. At the top of the paper, you write, "What I know about Native Americans". And just below, you write, "kill me NOW". You mean it. But soon you catch a point. You've graduated to first grade and you've got a sentence that summarizes all there is to know about native Americans: "The Native Americans were a big group of alots of people who grew plants and ate stuffing with the mayflower people on thinks giving."
You are aware that you've spelled "thanks" wrong, but you are proud that you've made a nearly coherent point. You look at your corn, and draw some feathers and buckle-boots next to it, along with that cute little racoon from Pocahontas. There!!! Pocahantas, John Smith, and the discovery of America. You've skipped all the way up to fifth grade, and the friendly Thank-giving that you were probably taught a song about while cutting out hand shaped Turkeys and eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches because you have not yet learned about healthier substitutes such as cashew butter. Either way, you start to write a paragraph.
The pilgrims came to America on a Boat called the Mayflower. There were lots of them, and John Smith was one of them. He was a white man with blonde hair and blue eyes. They came to America. They built a Town and met some Native Americans, and a really pretty one named Pocahantas was among them. She saved him from the chief, and they lived happily ever after. I like the movie Pocahantas.And so it goes.
You are excited to have successfully used the word among, but you still feel like vomiting all over your paper. Hadn't you spent two weeks back in August discussing Tribal relations with Native Americans, Smallpox, Chief Powhatan? Now things are starting to formulate as you remember the words "Introductory Sentence". You're pretty sure it sums up what you plan on saying, and then it's just three paragraphs after that, and repeat what you said before. So next to your racoon, you draw a fat little king, and a Mayan Pyramid.
The Native Americans lived happily in America and Mexico until a group of sick white people came over on ships from England, fed them a Turkey dinner, and killed them all.You then add:
And John smith was one of them.
So it goes.
You are dancing around the sixth and seventh grade, hitting editorial puberty, and becoming distracted by the sexy semi-colon and the allure of the hyphen. You start writing sentences with obscure punctuation, and melodramatic words that are completely unnecessary:
Native Americans: people who danced-around fire!; engulfing life with massogonistic indignancies and libatiously bantering ubiquitous folly…John Smith.
Hey, at least you're trying.
Finally, ninth grade rears it's head. Nothing useful historically, but you now know about the three part thesis and CD CM's. So you construct the following.
The Native Americans were a prosperous people who had religious beliefs, danced a lot, and were killed by white people.They had many religious beliefs. This shows that they were religious people. This also shows that they believed in things. In addition, they did not have church. This shows that they were not Christian. This also shows that they did not believe in Jesus. The Native Americans did not believe in Jesus.You remember the warnings against this kind of writing, and decide that you want to shoot yourself in the head. But you don't because tenth grade comes around, and you skip it because fuck tenth grade, that's why. Junior Year! Writing is writing. You have learned some material and your handwriting most likely does not look like chicken scratch. So you construct an elegant sentence with beautiful diction and syntax the likes of which have never been seen. Then you construct your essay and thesis, and finish it with a flourish. But alas, a cursory reading reveals that it is still just a shitty first draft, and you turn it in anyway. Your brain has stabilized, and you go to lunch.
A Short Story (of a long night on the town)
A Short Story (Of a long night on the town)
He lived inside a big, amber bottle. It had been his home since he'd left his home, and he couldn't think of a place he'd rather be. Perhaps an upgrade: Napoleon Brandy; an exotic home. And though his tenancy was humble, he still found the small streak of vanity within him to indulge in a tropical cruise through the smooth seas of a fat jug Rum, once in a moonlight eve. But he always remained a faithful tenant to the P's and Q's that kindly lorded over him.
Past the bubbles and through the glass he could always spot one man. The man with a cloth in hand. And with that cloth he'd clean the glass that held our friends drink of choice; the hair of the dog that bit him. The man who cleaned the glass was a sprout man of great rotundity who -if not profound- was certainly profane. His favorite phrase to issue forth on the men who chanced to pass: "If what I got don't make you happy, then you ain't sad enough to drink." And those who dared retort, would kindly be told to "fuck off." And off they would fuck, straight out the swinging doors of a vintage bar in a nineteen-twenties town. Home of dime drinks and penny poker. But let us not forget our friend. On especially saucy occasions, he would order up a glass of whiskey. And it is not so much the drink that is worth noting, but the way in which he orders it. From within the breast pocket of his chaplin attire, he would issue forth a sleek, silver lighter. Flicking the lighter open, he would strike flint against the sole his shoe, stumble about a bit, and swim through the bubbly into his baggy, tattered pocket. Sometimes he would be gone for days on end; according to him. And inside his pocket, he would pass the strangest things, causing the most incredulous reminiscences (did he really have a family somewhere?). It was at times like these when he felt most like Humphrey Bogart; on the case and completely in control of his mental faculties.
Time flies like a man in a mid-life crisis when your searching for your last nickle. He continued to search the crevices until Jefferson reared his four-fatherly figure; almighty… and slightly corroded. This humongous engraving, standing as tall as three drunks and one wine-o, had become the responsibility of our friend, who escorted the author of independence out the way he had come. Time then returned to normal as the light broke through the end of the tunnel, bronzed by the booze the rays were destined to swim through; harassed by the man who feared natural light.
Climbing out of his pocket, he unlaced his shoes, and strapped the nickle to his back, making a valiant attempt to break over the even horizon of a week old pint. And then came the difficult part. The masterpiece chapter omitted from Moby Dick in which our friend sailed the silver-back nickle across the bubbly brine, and heaved his vessel across the threshold of the unknown, onto the counter-top of ignominy, though he preferred to think of it as a bar-top. Then, in his biggest, brashest voice, he would holler to the rotund master of malts, "I've returned from a great adventure with a story to tell! Perhaps you will indulge me in a shameless vice so that I may speak freely and in good company!" However, beyond a certain level of inebriation, these words are quite difficult to tie together with quite so much elegance. In which case he would yell, "Whiskey! You'd never understand!" and on the occasions when he did tell the story, the latter statement remained correct.
And so he would dive into the shot glass, and back stroke to his hearts content: the warm liquid pulsing through his stomach. This was a trip to town. A nice change of pace from the country-side kegs and coolers. And being a passive man, he had no need to worry about what the men about town called "angry liquor syndrom." all he had on his mind was what was in his stomach, and how to accumulate more. But within the town of whiskey, one is never alone. And sometimes, passive is liable to meet aggressive.
Swimming about the tides of bourbon love drifted the body of one mean inebriate, who had traded much of his buoyancy for booze. He was a brawny man with a broken nose; probably worked out in the oil-fields. Who knows? He did, that's who. And he didn't like it. And as a result, he drank to what some would call "excess" and would proceed to boil with rage. Why is it that the common disease of alcoholism should afflict the ones most dangerous to be infected by it? The virus seems to create a Parkinson's effect in the joints of the arms, which is most effective in the large arms of the working man, whose brain has given up on trying to control it's muscles long ago. Either way, this man came round swinging. But not without reason. For everything has reason, but most reasons would be hard pressed to describe themselves as "good". Any-who, the reason behind this man's action, was the song our friend was singing, which happened to be "I've grown accustomed to my bourbon".
As it happens, this bully found that song to be particularly disagreeable. For what reasons? Well, had I sought further inquiry on that subject, I may not be here to tell the story today. Either way, the story ends like this: one man dead, one in prison, and one caught inside a bottle. And now, let the story unravel.
As he was about to delve into his other pocket in the vain hope of finding one last nickle, our friend found himself being dragged under water and in the grasp of a very large antagonist who, by now, we have become familiar with, though we do not know what child-hood experience had led to such bad spirits. Meanwhile, the great round purveyor was clearing out the newcomers and crying out "last call". Our innocent friend had no idea what offence he had committed, but was determined to get down to the bottom of it so that he could continue uninterrupted his search for yet another elusive dead founding father. None of this concerned the heart of the enraged, and he screamed at the little tramp in his great hand. But all our friend heard was "Wah, wah, wah." Which was quite a shame because had he heard what the large man said, he could have promised to stop singing, and pointed him in the direction of someone much more offensive and worthy of a good pounding. Instead, he smiled, and offered his hand to make the man's acquaintance; an ill-fated attempt which took a turn for the worst.
His face was soon contorted into what many would call "mangled" and his glass had fallen onto the floor. From his drunken stupor, the bar had come sharply into focus for the first time in years, and the first thing he came into hard contact with was the floor. Needless to say, he missed his bottle. So he excused himself, and tried to hobble toward the door, but found himself unnecessarily blocked by the mad man's figure.
The mad man reeled back his fist, and swung forward, sending him back to the floor, and searching earnestly for what he had done wrong. In fact, he had thought about it so hard that he scarcely noticed the thrashing the mean man was giving him until it was interrupted by the bartender and his baseball bat.
It was unbelievable, and made the tramp rub at his head. It had been a while since he had seen two people beat on each other so unmercifully. He needed a drink, and did not hesitate to help himself to the stocked and vacant bar. A pint or two would do. And while sipping down on what he considered to be God's miracle elixir, he noticed an empty beer bottle on the bar top, and he was hit with an epiphany.
He hobbled over to the scene of the dispute, and introduced the bottle to the horrendous Huguenots head, which sent him lumbering to the ground; his body ceasing all movement. The heroic bartender checked the man's pulse, looked that the tramp, and shook his head hopelessly. At which point the tramp handed the bartender the remains of the bottle, bid him adieu, and walked out the doors, diving into the bottle he had left on the street corner. One dead, one back in a bottle, and a bartender who was soon convicted of manslaughter. A tragedy, really. Our poor inebriate would have to find a new bar until further notice. But for now, let this be a lesson that man must not be aware of simply his own actions, but the actions of those who swing the bigger club, for they will show no mercy. This is a terrible ending that I will change later.
She's beautiful, and she laughs at my jokes!
The Tramp and the Gamin
A woman of no Earthly likeness
SHE'S BEAUTIFUL AND SHE LAUGHS AT MY JOKES! What more could a man want in a woman? Hell, she doesn't even have to be beautiful, but it's always a nice touch, like hot chocolate syrup on strawberries; a delightful warm, with a chilled core, insatiably tickling the pallet of the most refined culinary critic. And what's more but when all the world pressed at her and wore her delicate frame out, stretching her outwards to the farthest degree of the infinitesimally dismal, she found away to snap back, and make time for me; giving me a smile, and those seven heavenly numbers, which – being mine – would make me the bane of many a teenage romantic's existence.
Now it may be the desire of the reader, for it is certainly wished by me, that a picture in words be painted of this magnificent specimen meld from the cast which God set aside until it's most recent creation had completed it's time on earth, at which point, opening a position for yet another one of a kind, who will, nonetheless, never be the same. But my desert rose shall remain a mystery until the revelation and proclamation of my inflamed emotions can be exclaimed above and beyond the wall of cowardice that hinders every man's soul from saying what many individuals long to hear. In short, do I have the balls to tell this woman how I feel? Not yet, but those seven magnificent numbers have given me hope, possibly clouded by false pretenses. But nonetheless, hope.
Woman whom I speak, your name shall forth-with from my lips be beauty. The dire consequence of my love being fear, I will pray for the strength to conquer the savage beast which tames my soul; the Delilah to my Samson; the hand over the iniquitous minister's heart. SHE'S BEAUTIFUL AND SHE LAUGHS AT MY JOKES! What more could a man want in a woman?
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Hillcrest Precious Jewels are proud to offer this beautiful Teal Green Sapphire on BoB this weekend. It is the third Sapphire on auction this weekend, and like the two Lemon Sapphires, the cut is Ultra Brilliant. The fire and sparkle in this Sapphire has to be seen to really appreciate it.
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Manowar''s First Volume in a Cycle of Concept Albums; Each a Tribute to a Different War God. The Epic Opener, "Overture to the Hymn of the Immortal Warriors", Sets the Tone for an Album Beyond Anything the Band Has Done Before. This Volume Honors Odin, Almighty Father of the Norse Gods, Detailing the History and Exploits of this Storied Character. His Power and Wisdom were Unmatched Among the Gods and He is Paid Tribute with Human Sacrifice on the Battlefield, as Heard in "The Sons of Odin", the Stomping Title Track "Gods of War" and the Storytelling "The Blood of Odin". Cover Art is Provided by the World''s Leading Fantasy Artist Ken Kelly as Well as a Scorching Mix Done by the Unparalleled Ronald Prent.
Manowar is a band that has set standards, broken records and won great accolades during its storied career. Known to their worldwide supporters as the "Kings Of Metal", the band has constantly redefined heavy metal by combining peerless musicianship and song writing with their undeniable commitment to true metal and their devoted fans. The band has always made the solemn pledge to create original music that is louder than hell and stronger than steel. The long standing lineup of vocalist Eric Adams, guitarist Karl Logan, drummer Scott Columbus and bassist Joey DeMaio is truly a force to be reckoned with in the studio and on stage. In addition they are the originators of the musical styles known as power metal and true metal.
As Manowar now prepares to unveil their tenth studio album, expectations from fans are higher than ever and Manowar are sure to exceed those expectations. The new album Gods Of War is Manowar''s first entry in a cycle of concept albums; each a tribute to a different war god. Gods Of War brings out the greatest of Manowar''s musical attributes by utilizing both epic song structures and dramatic narratives. Much like Ragnarok - the final battle at the end of the world - when listening to Manowar''s epic saga, the earth will shake, the walls will crumble and only true fans of metal will remain standing, heads held high, with the triumphant glimmer of a battle well-fought in their eyes.
Gods Of War features brand new cover artwork by the world''s leading fantasy artist Ken Kelly, as well as a scorching mix done by the unparalleled Ronald Prent.
Besides the normal Jewel Case version, Gods Of War will also be released as a limited edition in an embossed metal slipcase containing a high grade mediabook bound in leather.Furthermore, this limited edition will feature a bonus DVD with unreleased material about the making of this album and some special behind-the-scenes footage. A double-vinyl LP in a gatefold sleeve will also be available.
In their career Manowar has released 9 studio albums, two live albums and 5 DVDs with sales of over nine million records worldwide, as well as silver and gold records and numerous other industry awards. The last studio album Warriors Of The World was a critically-acclaimed worldwide chart topper, reaching gold status in Germany.


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The $100 laptop
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How much computing power can $500 buy? With our self-imposed budget in mind, Elissa Baxter sets off to find out.
If you've considered buying another computer solely for web browsing, you've probably wondered just how much you could get for your money. Parents are also wondering how soon their kids should be getting online and when they will need a laptop to take to school or uni.
In the catalogues, fully configured machines are less than $1000 - but how much basic computing power could you buy with half that? Icon investigated some options.
If you want a new laptop for less than $500, consider the ASUS Eee PC. Classified as a "subnotebook", the three "e's" in the name stand for "easy to learn, easy to play, easy to work". The Eee PC is based on a Linux operating system and Intel processors and chipsets with integrated graphics. It also has 512MB of DDR2-400 memory and in the place of a regular hard disk is a flash drive with 4, 8 or 16GB options. For communications, the Eee PC has Ethernet LAN, 802.11b/g wireless and a 56K modem.
Specifically designed to rely on the internet for applications and storage, the Eee PC will suit anyone looking for a small machine to go online. The reliance on flash memory also makes the Eee PC more shock-resistant than other laptops, so if you're thinking of buying a laptop for your school child, this one could be it. The Eee PC can fit easily in the school bag, being smaller than an A4 notepad and weighing less than a kilogram. Nor will the Eee PC break the bank; it will go on sale in December for $499 through special tender aimed at the education market with the possibility of extending to retail.
The drawbacks of the Eee PC are related to its advantages. It's small, as is its screen, so you wouldn't want to be working on it all day. The memory is not large enough to store enormous quantities of photos or video but an external hard drive would expand the machine's capabilities.
For users looking for a cheap, portable laptop to get online easily, the Eee PC is worth a look.
Auction sites
If you're not too fussed about getting the latest machine or even something new then you can bag a bargain through online auction sites such as Grays Online. You will need to be ready to do some research on the products to decide how much you want to bid but each time we visited this site there were laptops and desktops available for less than $500.
Auctions sell four types of computer: ex-lease machines that have usually been used for a year or two; reconditioned machines, which have been used then tested by the manufacturer; resealed computers that have either been removed from their packaging for testing but not used; and new computers that usually come in original packaging and some have warranties.
A Dell Latitude D610 laptop, for example, with a 60GB hard drive, a DVD-RW and onboard wireless network card (but no operating system) sold at the time of writing for $440. Admittedly, it was a used, ex-lease machine but that's a whole lot of computer with change out of $500.
Check auction conditions carefully if you want a warranty; some items have been reformatted (so there is no operating system on the machine). It pays to consider the state of laptops' batteries as older batteries do not have long lives and may need replacing. Also watch out for buyer's premiums on the auction. Grays Online's auctions have a premium of 12.5 per cent, which is added to the price of the item before the delivery fee.
If you want to feel good about your decision to spend only $500 on a computer, consider the charities that recondition computers for resale.
Rachel Levett, E-recycling's operations manager, says the Wesley Mission program has three benefits aside from supercheap computers.
"We primarily sell computers to people who are on Centrelink allowances or non-profit organisations ... people who probably can't afford to buy a new computer," Levett says. "But the recycling is done by people with disabilities so it gives them employment as well. And finally there's the environmental benefit. Most organisations are turning over their hardware every 2-3 years, so the more we can reuse the better for the environment."
Wesley Mission can sell a reconditioned PC with a Pentium IV processor, 20GB hard drive, 384MB of RAM and a CD burner along with a new keyboard, new optical mouse, speakers, 17-inch CRT monitor plus internal modem or network card for $480.
This machine would not be able to run the more sophisticated games but it would be perfectly adequate for web browsing, word processing and email. It will also need an operating system. If you have a Centrelink Health Care card or you are a non-profit organisation, you qualify for the free Microsoft Windows package through Wesley Mission. Otherwise you could install a free operating system available online (see box).
If all you want is an extra machine to go online or you're sick of watching YouTube on a tiny screen a Nintendo Wii console could be the answer. Apart from its ability to play games, the console also lets you browse the internet through your wireless LAN.
The Wii uses the Opera browser and supports USB keyboards, a cheap enhancement that greatly improves the experience of web surfing compared to using the Wii Remote alone.
Other game consoles can also go online but only the Wii fit into our budget as it retails for about $399. With a USB keyboard (Wii recommends the Logitech Classic 200) you can pick up for as little as $30, this combo can get you online with change from $500.
One laptop per child
One of the first people to come up with the idea of very cheap laptops was Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory. In 2002, Negroponte launched his idea of a $US100 laptop designed specifically for the world's poorest children. The ambitious project aimed to manufacture child-oriented laptop computers that are resistant to dust and moisture, can be operated in sunlight and be powered by hand.
Most of those aims have now been met although the price tag has come in at about $US200 ($215) a unit. The laptop is called the XO. It runs on flash memory, which drastically reduces power consumption, and a version of the open-source Linux operating system.
In a radical departure from the international standard, the desktop is replaced by a GUI (graphical user interface) called Sugar that aims to make the laptop fun, easy to use and a social experience that promotes sharing and learning. Internet connectivity is through "mesh networking" that allows each XO machine to act as a full-time wireless router, connecting other XO machines within range to an internet connection.
To make the XO truly universal it was designed with the ability to draw power from just about any source. It can charge up with an AC adapter, car battery or by human generation using a hand crank or rip cord.
North Americans can participate in the "give one get one" program, whereby they pay $US399 ($429) for two XO laptops, one of which is donated overseas. Australians will have to wait until next year to see whether the XO becomes commercially available.
If you have a budget of $500 for your computer, you don't want to be paying more than a quarter of that for the computer's operating system alone. Yet about $125 is what you'll pay for a new copy of Windows XP or Vista.
If shelling out for that software will break your bank, don't worry: there is plenty of great open source software available free online.
Open source software operates on the basis that the programs are used and developed by enthusiasts from around the world. For the non-enthusiast, the benefits are free software with ongoing upgrades by people who do this sort of thing for fun and profit.
Open source software often does not have dedicated support services (although there are exceptions such as Ubuntu, which has commercially available support) but there is a huge community of users around the world ready to answer questions and provide support.
Assuming we've just bought our PC for $500, here's the free software we'd install on it:
Ubuntu (www.ubuntu.com) is the most user-friendly of the various Linux operating systems, thanks to support from Canonical (for a fee) and regular security upgrades. Ubuntu 7.10 has just been released and is available for download free. Ubuntu will also ship a free CD of its software to users, with Australians being serviced by http://www.openoffice.org which ships from New Zealand. However the CDs can take as long as 10 weeks to arrive and cost a few dollars.
All web browsers can be downloaded free but we prefer Mozilla Firefox (www.mozilla.com/firefox) for reliability and security. As the second most used browser in the world, Firefox is well supported and has excellent functionality.
Open Office (www.openoffice.org) is a suite of open-source programs including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager and drawing program. This sophisticated range of software works just as well in the Windows environment and is a real alternative to the proprietary products available.
Picasa (www.picasa.google.com), Google's free photo management and editing program, lets users organise their photos into albums and slideshows. You can also edit, crop, rotate and perform some simple colour correcting operations as well as fix red-eyes in one-steps. Picasa also lets you add a sophisticated range of effects to photos, making it all the photo software most amateur photographers need. For more advanced imaging, consider The Gimp (www.gimp.org), a rough-but-powerful Photoshop competitor.
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Wellness System Shampoo with Chinese Botanicals for all hair types 8.5 fl. oz from Giovanni® Cosmetics with the combination of herbs from China may provide complete hair and scalp care.
Hei Zhi Ma in the hair shampoo from Giovanni® Cosmetics may help calm itchy scalp conditions. It may leave your scalp feeling fresh and clean.
An Mole may help in adding elasticity to your hair strands. It may also infuse the benefits of antioxidants into the follicles and prevent scalp infections.
Jia Ma Chi Xian' the other important ingredient may help strengthen hair roots and reduce hair fall as well.
Mo Han Lian is known for its firming effect and so may help in making your hair roots strong and unbreakable. It may also help retain the natural pigmentation of your hair color.
Wu Huan Zi may help restore shine and gloss to dull hair. Panax Ginseng and mulberry fruit extracts may stimulate hair follicles for hair growth. They may increase the blood circulation around your hair roots.
The herbs in Wellness System Shampoo with Chinese Botanicals for all hair types 8.5 fl. oz from Giovanni® Cosmetics may impart herbal health to your hair.
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this shampoo is strong and gentle at the same time....the smell packs a bit of a punch but it is really gentle on my scalp
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I have a scalp that gets itchy & irritated from most shampoos. Wellness System Shampoo with Chinese Botanicals seemed to have a soothing effect on my scalp. This is my first time trying anything by Giovanni and Im very pleased. I did have to use more shampoo than I normally do. I did not appreciate the menthol in this shampoo because it is a drying ingredient.
√ I would recommend this item to a friend.
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It is sadly currently ON HIATUS. No copies are available at this time!!
SPECIAL NOTE!: Luscinia is currently ON HIATUS and no copies are available at this time. Vol. 2 should hopefully be coming out soon, at which time you'll be able to purchase Vol. 1 again as well! I'm sorry for any inconvenience!
Luscinia, Vol. 1:
Mostly a personal zine with various poetry, photographs, drawings, and stories woven in.
Price | $2.50 Shipped
You can find out a lot more information about it here - Luscinia :).
I also have a special nightingale necklace that goes with it! -
nightingale necklace
- $4 shipped
Basically Luscinia Vol. 2 is taking WAY too long to come out, so I decided to do a limited run of a sweet little mini version! It's very small and mostly collages and poetry-ish things, reflections on being a senior in collage and finding what I want to do with my life. It's a little piece of art with silver glitter and yarn :). THIS IS A LIMITED RUN, only 20 copies were made and will ever be made so get yours now!
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Deal #1 - Buy both Luscinia Vol. 1 and the nightingale necklace for only $5 shipped!
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It sounds like you took the easy way out instead of trying …
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Comment on Final Fantasy XIII-2 "Now Too Non-Linear" by Anonymous:
It sounds like you took the easy way out instead of trying for speed kills to get five stars every battle. The combat system in FFXIII can be very boring or very fast paced depending on how challenging you wanted to make the fights, especially some boss battles.
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- Final Fantasy XIII-2 "Now Too Non-Linear":
People complain that it is too big of a map now but in all reality it's not. These maps are usually the FULL dungeon for that specific area which means that it isn't all that huge. Plus, I have played the demo for the third map and as large as that may seem, when i went through the full dungeon map i realized thayt every part of the map was enjoyable. There were optional areas to do missions so the map wasn't just larger for no reason. so those who dislike the new maps should stop whining. They …
- Final Fantasy XIII-2 "Now Too Non-Linear":
You are one sad weaboo are you not? Saying that everyone is mindless and not looking at himself in the mirror for once. Hell with all the bugs and all of its fault, Skyrim still soars so high above the pc/console rpg market. The fact that one day, a Japanese modder can put Lightning/Miku/Guts in the province of Skyrim and reskin dragons to bahamuts shows the dedication of western/eastern fans on a game that most blind weaboo consider as "soulless(lol)". And oh, after a year of patching it will …
- Final Fantasy XIII-2 "Now Too Non-Linear":
skyrim > persona/smt > Chrono trigger > all Baldurs gate > FF7/8 > Dragon age:Origins > Temple of Elemental Evil > FFXII > Neverwinter nights(lol opinion) > everything else. Need to play darksouls and that other dark thing to see if I can add another to my lust.
- Final Fantasy XIII-2 "Now Too Non-Linear":
Lol they arent imitating western RPG's. What made you think that? Final Fantasy had always had these types of dungeons. This is a proper Final Fantasy map.
- Final Fantasy XIII-2 "Now Too Non-Linear":
Its nothing like Skyrim, Lol. Its a proper dungeon, loads of different branches leading to different things.
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Robotics Case Studies
Peripherals: Arc Sensor
Systems developed by Sandia's Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center (ISRC) often require precise control of the forces applied. Developers add load cells to robots to sense force and moment. These load cells are called six-axis force-torque sensors because they must accurately and separately measure all
Small FAB & Machine Shop Gets Big Results with Robots
''It would take four men to keep up with one of our new robotic welding cells,'' says Matt Tucker, Project Engineer in charge of all robotic applications at Tucker's Machine & Steel Service Inc. in Leesburg, Florida. ''People get tired and bored welding thousands of the
Robots Rack Up Productivity at Tru-Form
Founded in 1932, Tru-Form Steel and Wire, Inc. (Hartford City, IN) is a third-generation, family-owned and operated full-service fabrication company that now employs 100 people. Two Tru-Form plants in Hartford City and one plant in Muncie all use robotic automation to fabricate and weld a wide variety of returnable
Engineered Machined Products: A Company Standing the Test of Time in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Engineered Machined Products (EMP), based in Escanaba, Mich., is a Tier 1 supplier to major diesel engine manufacturers. It is hard to imagine that such a successful and high-tech manufacturing operation is located in the natural beauty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, but it's there, and if
Problem: Need for updated system with enhance reliability for welding of components. Solution: Design of a turnkey robotic welding system with greatly enhanced reliability for welding of ROPS (Roll Over Protection System) supports for crawler type tractors. The operator is allowed unlimited access to the inactive positioner for loading/unloading, jogging
Controlled Precision -- Robotic Welding with Touch and Arc Sensors
When the textile machine manufacturer Trützschler makes rotary drums for high-performance carding machines, extremely high precision is demanded. Although the drums are made of solid steel plates, once they have been turned and ground they must meet extremely tight tolerances at high rotational speeds. This level of precision is made


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Join KNUE for the St. Jude 'Mardis Gras Party' on Feb. 22 at Chuy's in Tyler
KNUE gives a huge shout-out to awesome East Texan Tina Christian for agreeing to put together a benefit for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Tina took off with the idea and ran with it. This event has been a full-time job for Tina, a mother of two, but she told me she loves it.
Don't miss the awesome party that Tina has put together at Chuy's Mexican Restaurant on South Broadway in Tyler. Come help the Kids of St. Jude, who suffer from cancers and have some Mardi Gras fun!
Bring your money, 'cause you won't be able to resist the auction items, including tons of gift cards, an autographed football from Johnny 'Football" Manziel, gift baskets, hair styling makeover, an autographed guitar from Joe Nichols and more!
Advance tickets are on sale at mardigrastyler.eventbrite.com and are $35. Tickets at the door will be $45. Keep in mind all of the price of your ticket donation will go to the kids of St. Jude.
Your ticket donation includes the Famous Chuy's Nacho Bar, $50 in casino chips and your choice of a Mardi Gras hat or mask.
KNUE also thanks all the sponsors who have donated to the event and made this possible: Crown Motor Company, Brosang's Landscaping, Fairway Auto Center, Christian Construction, Wagner Cadillac, All American Rentals, Twin Motor Co., and The Pour House.
Thank you Tina Christian for all your hard work and effort!
Just a reminder that the KNUE St. Jude "Country Cares" Radiothon is set for Thursday and Friday, March 7-8.


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MOMIJI!!!! yay for fruits basket :) i wanna do haru sometime!
ooh!! haru is win ^^
ashjdjcfhnhfedf Momijiiiii! (I still sing his song sometimes xD)
You're going to make an amazing Momiji! <3
MOMIJI!!! can i bully you as Shigure? :') <333
@kirara: 'Yuuhi no oyama ni, Teruteru Momiji. Kaeru yakota geeka Konnichiwa.' :D :D *totally didn't learn the song by heart^^* Thanks xD
@Mandi: YES!! do Shi-san, But I'll tell Tohru if you bully meeeee, and then she won't cook you any meals or clean up after you anymore! :3
Momijiiii ~ <33
You'll make a great Momiji!! I cosplay Kyo, lets make a group :P
See what you've done, I'm babbling again xD
Furuba group is a very excellent idea xD
yushhh it would be an awesome idea. i know sammie wants to be akito :P I've still got my yuki costume though I may switch to haru. and i think I know someone who wants to be ayame too...and im sure someone mentioned shigure


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This item from Turtle Creek Antiques, Inc. is now in the Shop Backroom.
More from Turtle Creek Antiques, Inc.
Brass Table-Top Picture Frame with Fancy Bow
This frame is around 100-110 years old and is solid brass. The design is French, but there are no marks. The quality of manufacture is good with lots of detail; the frame is quite heavy for its size. The back, also solid brass, is fitted with an easel so it will stand; it also has a ring for hanging on the wall. The back slides off by pulling down. Inside, the picture is held in place with brass tabs. The original glass is included. This frame measures 3 1/4" X 5 1/2" and will hold a 3" X 4 1/4" picture. The frame is in excellent original condition but does have some discoloration and verdigris. It can be polished if one wishes.
If you were the pending buyer of this item, go to My Account to view, track and check payment for this item.
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Things We Love!
"The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether." Psalm 19:7-9
Only through the instructions found in the Bible can a person find the peace and harmony they seek in this life. Come study with us and find out what God's plan is for your salvation. John 8:31-32
"Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." Hebrews 2:8-10
There is no mercy without the blood of Christ. As Christians we cherish the fact that God loved us and sent His Son to die in our place. We remember and memorialize this sacrifice each Lord's day around Christ's table.
We love receiving visitors! It is so encouraging when we have new faces visit for worship and Bible study with us. We are a warm and friendly church family and you'll never be made uncomfortable or singled-out in any way. Here's more about what to expect to find when you visit us so you can feel right at home.


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Brave Bird
Poem by: Mickel Mais
Status: Finished
Genre: Poetry
Brave bird calls
She sings, she sounds
She fears not the things that may come around
Not the hawks
The cats
Nor lustful man
Instead she waits
For her returning mate
And so she sings
She sounds
Fearing not what may come around
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Beautiful, touching, little poem. Free spirited and loosey goosey. I enjoyed it. Check out some of mine, if you like? I'm sure there's something there you will enjoy.
It's simple, yet exquisite :) lovely poem that left a pleasant after taste :)
Nicely done, once again, human. My scanners indicate that the writing level of this document is very high.
Thanks for entering my April contest. Results will be posted later this evening! I hope to have you back in future contests.
I enjoyed the repetition and the alliteration. Nice little poem and I love the inspiration.
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Miami of Ohio coach disciplined for damage
Oxford, Ohio - A Miami of Ohio assistant football coach who damaged a visiting coaches' box following a loss at Marshall was barred Monday from offseason recruiting.
Linebackers coach Taver Johnson also must pay Marshall for the damage to the coaches' box, forego any pay raise next year and attend anger management counseling at his own expense, the university said. Miami officials also said Johnson must apologize in writing to Marshall officials and its football team and apologize in person to Miami's football team and coaching staff.
Still undecided is the status of defensive coordinator Jon Wauford, who was charged with battery after he was accused of striking a Marshall fan after the game.
SW Texas fires coaches
San Marcos, Texas - Southwest Texas fired football coach Bob DeBesse and his entire staff Monday after the I-AA team finished 4-7 this season.
DeBesse will be reassigned within the university to finish out his three-year contract. DeBesse went 27-39 in six seasons, including 12-28 in the Southland Conference.
Utah fires McBride
Salt Lake City - Utah fired football coach Ron McBride on Monday, two days after the Utes finished with their second losing record in three seasons.
McBride coached Utah for 13 seasons and was 88-63, with a 3-3 record in bowl games.
Manning to play Thursday
Oxford, Miss. - Mississippi quarterback Eli Manning is expect to play in Thursday's season finale against Mississippi State despite a sore right elbow. He was injured in the third quarter of Saturday's 14-13 loss to LSU, but he did not miss a play.
BSU lands Bowl game
Boise, Idaho - No. 19 Boise State has accepted an invitation to play in this year's Humanitarian Bowl. It will be Boise State's third trip to the Humanitarian Bowl, which will be played Dec. 31 in Boise against a yet-to-be determined team. The Western Athletic Conference champion Broncos are 11-1.
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Part 1 of our event coverage of the 2010 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition.
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The recent flap regarding South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's whereabouts raises plenty of questions about the whereabouts of MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty. The Minnesota governor's official schedule released to the media often says only "no public events listed." In fact for the past four days that's what his schedule has said.
I found Pawlenty yesterday at an event that was not listed on his schedule. I asked him whether Sanford's problem would prompt him to provide more information about his daily schedule. Here's what he said:
"I try to always be in touch so regardless of where I am, I have communications capabilities so my office always knows where I'm going."
But Pawlenty didn't answer my underlying question of whether he would provide more information about his whereabouts on his daily public schedule. It's been a problem for the press corps as you can see by this MPR story on his travel in 2008.


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Hey guys,
Been a long time since I have posted a SS on here. Just finished one for a friend that helped me out on my house. He doesn't shoot slings but i hope, with this, to get him started I let him grab my slingshot one day just to see how he holds, shoots etc He seems comfortable with a pistol grip but as he shoots, I wanted to incorporate an on the fork grip also. Gap between the forks is 2.5" (plenty of space to reduce fork hits) and i gave him a set of 107 bands (9.5" long that he can trim if he wishes)
Here it is. Hope you guys like it


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Hi guys I am working on an application and it needs to access a third party service through an iFrame. I basically need to know how I can have Javascript autofill the fields and then submit the form that is contained in an iframe. Is this possible?
Here's some information on using JavaScript to programmatically control forms: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/forms.html
In a nutshell:
document.formId.action = "http://third.party.service.com/script.php";
document.formId.inputName.value = "some value";
document.formId.submit(); // submit form
You can access the document of an iframe:
var iframedoc = document.getElementById('the_iframe').contentWindow.document;
var inputs = iframedoc.getElementsByTagName('input');
// do stuff with inputs...
iframedoc.getElementsByTagName('form')[0].submit(); // submit a form
I've never actually done this so I'm not sure if it'll work - I suspect not because of this:
Hey guys couldn't use that method, seems its cross site scripting so I had to use the GET method.


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J.C. Penney Should Be Prudent With Revamp, Says Ex-CEO QuestromLauren Coleman-Lochner and Sheila Dharmarajan
Former J.C. Penney Co. Chief Executive Officer Allen Questrom said the retailer should be prudent as CEO Ron Johnson implements a plan to turn most of the chain's locations into collections of boutiques.
"In high risk situations, one needs to be prudent," Questrom said yesterday in a telephone interview. "Decisions can't be Powerball chances. You're responsible for employees and managing shareholders' money."
Questrom, who was called in to turn around the retailer more than a decade ago, spoke after touring a prototype store in Dallas at the invitation of Johnson. Last year, Johnson announced a plan to revamp the retailer and move to everyday low pricing instead of frequent sales. In February, the company said its 2012 sales plunged 25 percent, and it has backed off its pricing strategy.
Questrom said he spent about 45 minutes with Johnson, whom he called "very nice, very energetic, very enthusiastic."
While he told Johnson he thought the shops were interesting, "the question wasn't whether I liked them but whether the customer liked them." Retailers need to constantly test and observe, he said, along with talking to their customers and salespeople.
"As a merchant, you're not a designer," he said. "The job is to find things your customer likes and test it with her or him."
J.C. Penney, based in Plano, Texas, rose 2.5 percent to $15.45 yesterday in New York. The shares have declined 22 percent this year, compared with an 8.9 percent gain in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
Turnaround Questioned
Questrom said in an interview with Bloomberg last month that he didn't think Johnson's turnaround plan would work, "and the longer the board waits, the worse it's going to get."
Questrom knows something about turnarounds. The longtime retail executive came in to revive an ailing J.C. Penney in 2000. Profit rose 31 percent in 2004, the year of his departure. During his time there, he centralized buying and revamped stores.
Hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman brought Johnson to J.C. Penney in 2011 from Apple Inc. after he disclosed a 16.5 percent stake in October 2010, becoming the retailer's largest shareholder. Johnson made changes much too quickly, and the turnaround's execution "has been something very close to a disaster," Ackman said yesterday at a conference, Reuters reported.
Daphne Avila, a J.C. Penney spokeswoman, declined to comment on Questrom's and Ackman's comments.
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|Posted: Sun Jan 28th, 2007 11:45 pm
|So here's the deal. Six months ago, I bought the above references washing machine as non-working from a moving sale for CHEAP. After replacing the inlet valves it worked like a pro.
Today, on the third load it stopped working. I opened the unlocked door to find a soaking wet pile of towels, and three inches of water in the bottom. After scooping out the water, and opening the filter door to drain the rest, I started a test run with an empty tub.
(Edit- while draining the water through the filter door, I checked the lint filter itself - spotless - I should be proud, but the victory is bittersweet).
The washer will go through the two little mini-spins, then the drain pump will kick on, and then the washer will fill. This is all normal. Then, however, the door will unlock and the start-button will start blinking, as though it is ready for the next load. The progress LCD remains on Wash.
(Edit- I'm unsure if the door is unlocked, and I'm unwilling to experience a tidal-wave of wash water by checking to see. I did hear a little click right at the end, so it's just a guess that the door unlocked.)
If I press the Start button again, the macine locks the door, goes through its little mini-spins, agitates three to four times, then unlocks the door and the Start button start blinking. The progress LCD remains on Wash.
I checked the pressure switch by checking for continuity as I blew into the valve - ok for both sets of terminals. As of this moment with the machine stopped the switch is open (infinity). Should it be closed with water in the tub?
I wouldn't think anything is wrong with the drain pump, as it does kick on at the beginning of the cycle and water is drained out. Besides, at the point the cycle stops it shouldn't be draining anyway. I checked for kinks in the pressure hose, at least as far as I could check without taking anything apart.
The test program doesn't work, but it never did - at least not since I got it.
First and foremost, is there any way to drain the sucker without opening up the filter door and spilling everything out onto the floor? I don't want to attempt to move it or tip it with that much water in there.
Secondly, what in the world is making it quit when the cycle is just getting started?
Any help or pointers would be great - just preferable don't tell me I need to change out the control board - then I'll lose my wonderful $$ savings that I bragged to everyone about.
Thanks in advance!
(Edit- on a sidenote, that soaking pile of towels is still spinning in the dryer - close to two and a half hours later on the More Dry setting. My electric company will love me this month!)
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Zanzibar's public hospitals currently lack access to medical equipment ranging from basic nebulizers to sophisticated operations microscopes. Our system of collecting donations of used, but fully functional equipment from US hospitals and repurposing them in Zanzibar aims to solve this lack.
However, studies have shown that of all medical technology donated to the developing world, only about 30% is actually put to use by the recipient health facility. The remaining 70% is disposed of, stored away indefinitely, or sold for the value of scrap metal. This can be attributed to two things:
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Miami Dolphins guard Richie Incognito, no stranger to altercations, apparently was involved in another notable one before training camp.
After a late night at a nightclub in the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami, Incognito punched and knocked out a hotel security guard, according to league sources.
One person who knows Incognito says the Dolphins guard was punched first.
There is videotape of the incident, but the hotel is unwilling to turn it over and the NFL has not yet seen it -- and might not due to fact that it is the hotel's property and the Fontainebleau prefers that attention not be brought to the issue.
The Dolphins have been aware of the incident because, as one source said, "they've done everything to bury it."
The NFL declined comment. The league knows it cannot police all altercations involving NFL players, though this one happened in public, with witnesses. It is premature, but Incognito's altercation could be a violation of the NFL's personal conduct policy.
9 times out of 10 the bouncers at these clubs over do it and are quick to get violent usually with sneak attacks. I am not a fan of Incognito, but it's always a good thing when a bouncer gets what is coming to him. I'm willing to bet the farm that the bouncer overreacted and didn't expect the guy to be big enough to whip his ass.
9 times out of 10 the bouncers at these clubs over do it
so much for being incognito
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Essential oils for seasonal allergies
Spring is a lovely time of year in Sydney – not too hot, not too cold. Just right. Well almost. For over 3 million Australians this is a difficult time of year – having to deal with hayfever (also known as Allergic Rhinitis).[1] In the U.S., some 15 million Americans visit their doctors to find relief for hayfever.
For people suffering from seasonal allergies this can be a debilitating time – itchy watery eyes, clogged sinuses and runny noses – forcing many to avoid the outdoors. Hayfever is an allergic reaction triggered by airborne allergens (usually pollen but also animal hair, feathers and dust mites), which cause the release of histamines and subsequently the inflammation of the sinus and nasal passages.
What can be done?
There is no cure for this. Typically people are treated with nasal sprays (intranasal corticosteroids) and oral antihistamines. However many of the medications used can have problems and side-effects of their own. Essential oils can provide a safe relief from the symptoms of seasonal allergies. Essential oils act as natural antihistamines, reducing swelling and inflammation. They are also absorbed quickly into the body and provided you use pure, unadulterated and therapeutic grade quality essential oils, have no side effects.
Which essential oils?
Fennel, German chamomile, lavender, ocotea, eucalyptus blue, Roman chamomile and peppermint are some oils that are generally recommended for dealing with seasonal allergies such as hayfever. I have to say though, that most of the reports I've read from people using essential oils to help with hayfever, lean heavily towards lavender and peppermint.
(For more information on lavender and peppermint, check out my articles: 20 ways to use lavender and the wonders of peppermint oil ).
The following are some people's experiences:
Dripping Nose and HayFever
John writes: I want to let you know about something I discovered just two weeks ago. I am a massage therapist, and this occurred one morning just as I was about to commence a massage treatment on a client. My nose began to run and I couldn't stop it. As you can imaging, massaging clients with a dripping nose is not a good look. There were quite a few clients booked in that day so I had to think quick. I selected Peppermint oil. I dropped four drops of Peppermint onto one end of a cotton bud and then placed the oil, by using a painting action, at the back of the roof of my mouth near the tonsils. Within about five minutes my nose stopped dripping and running and the symptoms did not return all day so I had no trouble attending to my full schedule.
On three other occasions since I have used this method using Peppermint Oil and each time the results have been exactly the same. In addition to this, last week my wife had a hay fever attack so we tried this method of using Peppermint Oil and her symptoms cleared in less than half an hour. She was impressed and so was I.
Gelcaps filled with oils for allergy relief
Melissa writes: My daughter has allergies. I had been reading about Lavender oil being effective in treating them. Every year we take a trip to Texas and she always ends up with congestion and cough and ultimately a sinus infection. This summer we did Lavender orally in a gelcap. Not only did we avoid the sinus infection, she had minimal allergies.
Allergies and Lavender
Cindy writes: I say I don't have allergies, but the cotton has been flying from the cotton trees in my neighborhood. One day I was sneezing and my nose was running but I didn't put it together with allergies until I was trying to sleep and my nose wouldn't stop running. I remembered reading about Lavender being a natural antihistamine so thought it was worth a try. I put a drop on the back of my neck and within literally seconds I noticed a difference. I'm still not sure if it was an allergy that was bothering me, because I don't have those remember. But I do know it was the fastest an oil has ever worked for me.
Allergies and lavender oils
Linda writes: I have very bad allergies when they flare up. I refuse to take any statin drugs for the symptoms have been suffering. My friend was visiting and she gave me some Lavender oil in my hand to inhale and I had such a wonderful experience. My allergies cleared up in few minutes and I was able to breath and my eyes were clear.
No more steroid nasal inhaler for allergies
Cynthia writes: I used to use steroid nasal inhalers every late summer until the first killing frost for my allergies. I no longer need to because I've discovered Lavender oil. I put a few drops on the bottoms of my feet, chest and throat, every morning. I experimented and stopped doing it once, and by the 3rd day the allergies were back. Once I resumed, they were gone again within 24 hours.
Severe asthma and allergies are gone
Heather writes: My 3 year old son has always been sick with respiratory issues since birth. When he was 3 he was diagnosed with asthma. We have been constantly in and out of the Dr. and allergy specialist. When he gets sick we are doing breathing treatments and inhalers all day, for weeks. His quality of life was greatly inhibited. He could not play for long, or act like a kid.
About a month ago a friend of mine invited me to an Oil class. I left inspired from all the testimonial's. We started rubbing peppermint oil on his feet 3 times a day. I am happy to say he has not needed one nebulizer treatment, inhaler, nasal spray, or allergy meds. In a month. Not one! I have been totally amazed.
Lavender for allergies
Rita writes: At times I get allergy symptoms with itchy eyes, congestion etc. I massage a drop of Lavender into the back of my neck, on my ears, and sometimes above my brow and on my sinuses (being careful to avoid the eyes) and within minutes the symptoms subside. I LOVE Lavender!
Till next time
Disclaimer: Please remember that anything discussed here does not
constitute medical advice and cannot substitute for appropriate medical care. Where essential oils are mentioned, it's recommended you use only pure, unadulterated therapeutic grade essential oils and follow the safety directions of the manufacturer.
[1] Allergic Rhinitis, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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Hello after two years with the same isp and PS3 Network i just got these errors today no allowing me to sign in.
I am hooked up straight from the wall to the ps3. I know this is a DNS error ive tried typing in my ip and dns manually which doesnt work along with other isp's dns. I've Reset the default setting on the ps3.
I first contacted Sony by phone i was told that i need to reset my modem and see if all ports are open. I explained to him i do not have a modem and he told me to contact my ISP to find out whats going on. I then contacted my ISP(Eatel) High speed DSL whom told me there isnt a modem with there service. They did a local reset and got me to test my connection on my PC, Xbox, and PS3. PC and Xbox worked fine and the ps3 still wouldnt connect. They monitored my connection when hooking it up to the PS3 and it showed alot of activity in and out. They said it was something on the PS3 side a setting thats wrong or what not. I contacted Sony agian through instant message and the guy tells me a DNS error is always on the ISP side theres nothing they can do.
So i now have my ISP saying its Sony and Sony saying its my ISP so i have no idea what im suppose to do here? Also everyone i know around here uses Eatel so i have no way of hooking it up through another ISP.
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Ubisoft was initially supportive of the Wii U and released ZombiU as a launch title for the system.
Initial sales are the big hitters. Then they drop off quickly. They are an important part of recouping the investment. Someone has run the numbers on this. They know where they need to be in order to be maximise profitOriginally Posted by schmidtbag
I don't get it - if the game is already done, how is releasing the game now a problem? The only problem I understand is they'd be obligated to lower the price after a few months, so if there aren't enough WiiU owners then that wouldn't be very cost effective. But, what if the console never reaches the amount they expect? Then they're not getting any money at all.
Originally Posted by Woodspoon
Kind of circular reasoning isn't it?
1) "we wont release it because there's not enough people using the WiiU"
2) "why aren't there more people using the WiiU?"
3) "because there aren't enough big/good games for it"
4) go to 1
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DENVER -- Miguel Olivo had two big, bright red scrapes blanketing the top and bottom of his right knee, one courtesy of his slide on a triple, the other a result of a collision at home plate.
He couldn't be prouder of the scars and what they represent.
"Hustling is what winning teams do," Olivo said. "My knee is a little messy, but I like it."
The convergence of Olivo's gritty play, Carlos Gonzalez's power and Aaron Cook's sharp outing helped the Colorado Rockies to a 7-3 victory over the reeling San Francisco Giants on Thursday night.
This is a team that's beginning to find their form, winning for the third time in four games. Even with smooth-fielding shortstop Troy Tulowitzki sidelined for a month due to a broken left wrist, their confidence is riding high.
"It all rolls together for us," Cook said. "Starting pitching, back end of the bullpen, a couple of timely hits and before you know it, we're at the end of the game and we've got a win. We're in a good position right now to get hot."
The Giants are traveling in an opposite direction, their skid reaching a season-high six games.
"We got shut down," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "We had a couple of opportunities and didn't quite get them in. They found a way to get theirs in."
Cook (3-5) allowed three runs and seven hits to win for the first time since May 29. He has thrived at Coors Field this season, posting a 2.64 ERA in friendly confines as opposed to 6.70 on the road.
The sinkerball specialist pitched into the seventh, striking out counterpart Madison Bumgarner before being pulled.
"Just went out there and tried to use my sinker the way I know I can," Cook said.
Rarely has it danced any better.
"Amazing. He got the sinker, the breaking ball, the slider working -- everything working," Olivo said. "I hope he can keep it up."
Bumgarner (0-2) lasted seven innings in his second start of the season, giving up four runs and nine hits.
"The kid did well," Bochy said.
The Rockies broke open a one-run game in the eighth by scoring three times. Pinch-hitter Jason Giambi had a run-scoring single while Olivo's hustle played a role in the other two runs.
The catcher who's having an All-Star caliber season brought in one with a triple, leading to the abrasion on the upper part of his knee.
Later, he scored a run when he knocked the ball out of catcher Buster Posey's glove on an infield chopper -- a wound on his knee to show for it.
"Worth it," Olivo said, smiling.
Dexter Fowler provided a spark on the basepaths, stealing two bases and scoring twice. The speedy outfielder just recently returned to the team after spending a month with Triple-A Colorado Springs to hone his mechanics at the plate.
"We brought him back to be a part of our outfield, like he was year ago -- a player that helped make us a special team," Rockies manager Jim Tracy said.
The Giants moved Aaron Rowand back into the leadoff spot Wednesday, a move that paid dividends against Colorado.
With the bases loaded and two outs in the second, Rowand crushed a curveball to left that just curled foul.
No matter, he followed that with a two-run single through the middle, tying the game at 2 apiece.
Posey later added a solo homer as he took the place of Bengie Molina in the lineup after the veteran catcher was dealt to the Texas Rangers earlier in the day for reliever Chris Ray and a minor-league pitcher.
That would be all the Giants could generate off Cook.
"We had Cook on the ropes. He got his pitch count early and we let him off the hook in the middle innings," Rowand said. "Cook got back on track and threw the ball well."
A change in the order has benefited Gonzalez, who hit a two-run homer in the first inning. He has 11 RBI in 15 games hitting out of the three spot.
Gonzalez has also been wearing out NL West pitchers this season, hitting nine of his 13 homers against divisional hurlers.
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"Pavlos C. Symeou" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
st: Zero-inflated Negative Binomial models for Panel data
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:42:54 +0200
this is a response to a thread started a couple of months ago about possible ways to estimate Zero-inflated Negative Binomial/Poisson models for Panel data. I am interested in modeling differently the zero-one distribution and the count (non-zero) distribution in my data since 2/3 of my dependent variable's values are zero throughout the time-span of the dataset. The count variable ranges from 0-5.
The commands are the following:
program hurdle_ll
version 8
args lnf beta1 beta2
tempvar pi lambda
quietly generate double 'pi' = exp('beta1')
quietly generate double 'lambda' = exp('beta2')
quietly replace 'lnf' = cond($ML_y1==0,-'pi', ///
log(1-exp(-'pi')) + $ML_y1*'beta2' - ///
log(exp('lambda')-1) - lngamma($ML_y1+1))
You can then invoke the ml estimator with the commands:
ml model lf hurdle_ll (y = x1 x2) (x1 x2)
ml max, nolog
My question is the following: can I suggest that I am estimating or
approach an estimation of a panel data respective model if I
cluster based on each observation's identity (id) and introduce
year dummies as regressors?
Namely, the ml estimator would look like this:
xi: ml model lf hurdle_ll (y = x1 x2 i.year) (x1 x2 i.year),
ml max, nolog
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(Host) Senator Barrack Obama scored a decisive victory over Hillary Clinton in Vermont's Democratic primary.
The Illinois senator was propelled to a double-digit lead over Senator Hillary Clinton by voters who said they were motivated by the war in Iraq and the need for change in the political landscape.
VPR's John Dillon reports.
(Crowd) "I've got some more Burlington results.. Burlington Ward 7.. Clinton 645, Obama 899... woooo!"
(Dillon) The Obama party was in high gear at the Higher Ground nightclub in South Burlington. The crowd celebrated a victory that party activists said was won by early organization and fierce opposition to the war in Iraq.
Ian Carleton is the chairman of the state Democratic Party and a superdelegate for Obama.
(Carleton) "You know it's all about grassroots organization in Vermont and I mean both campaigns were very active over the last few weeks. But Senator Obama has had a very active group working on his behalf here in Vermont for a very long time.''
(Dillon) University of Vermont Political Science Professor Garrison Nelson said Obama made a huge impression on voters with a speech in Burlington in 2006.
(Nelson) "He showed up on the UVM campus and the longest lines in my 40 years came to greet him.''
(Dillon) Nelson said that early appearance - and Obama's opposition to the Iraq war - translated into strong organizational support.
(Nelson) "The Obama people were far more organized than the Clinton people. The Clinton people only opened their first office two weeks ago. And they had a total top-down strategy.''
(Dillon) Earlier in the day, voters in Montpelier walked past a thicket of campaign signs stuck in the snow to cast their ballots in City Hall.
Keith Walsh is a 33-year-old state employee. He said the Obama campaign motivated him to get involved as a volunteer.
(Walsh) "I really think it's time for us to move in a different direction on how our politics are run. And the fact that corporate lobbyists are setting the agenda for our country and the people aren't is a real problem for me. And in the 15 years that I've been eligible to vote in elections, this is the first one I've registered and gone out knocking on doors, because I really believe this is the first time I've had an opportunity to vote for somebody who can make significant changes in how those things are done.''
(Dillon) Exit polls showed that the voters in Vermont were more concerned about the war in Iraq than they were about the worsening economy.
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