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Simon Hoggart's sketch + European Union
The foreign secretary boasted to MPs of influencing his family's voting aged 14. One can only feel sorry for his parents
Simon Hoggart: The Ukip leader, chatting with journalists at Westminster, came across like Les Dawson giving a lecture on psephology
Simon Hoggart: Not only did the PM decline to turn up, but he sent someone who wasn't at the meeting he was supposed to be briefing about
David Cameron gave us the first sight of the way he has started to back-comb his hair from halfway across the top of his scalp.
Simon Hoggart: The Tory Hell's Angels cheered the PM's unequivocal message 'We are going to leave Europe, unless we decide to stay!'
Simon Hoggart: Festive warmth in the house as George Osborne and Andrew Tyrie engage in what could almost be described as banter
Simon Hoggart: Tapsell, Fabricant and Rees-Mogg: what politicians are not supposed to say out loud
Simon Hoggart: In the showdown over the EU budget, David Cameron went redder than ever, and a wave of Eurocynicism swept the house
Simon Hoggart: EU referendum to the Barclays Libor scandal, the PM, awash with Eurosceptics and bailouts, drifts to new shambolic waters
'The year 2015 will probably see the emergence of white-fish land-all obligations'
Simon Hoggart: David Cameron has handbagged the EU, but was less successful in explaining the whereabouts of his missing deputy
Simon Hoggart: David Cameron was rattled at PMQs, but it was Eurosceptics in his own party rather than Ed Miliband who got his goat
Simon Hoggart: Commons was full of people trying to pretend they understood the terms of the euro deal reached in Brussels
Simon Hoggart: Eurosceptic MP believed everything connected with the EU was an anathema, and now we hear him cackle 'I was right all along'
Simon Hoggart: Like anything connected with the EU, the debate about quotas was conducted in jargon
A drifting mind turns to the classics as MPs discuss the wretched Common Fisheries Policy
Simon Hoggart: The government won the big vote last night
Simon Hoggart: The Lib Dems have given a mass demonstration of how to hurl teddy bears out of a pram
Simon Hoggart: Gordon Brown returned from Lisbon to face the first big test over a referendum on the new EU treaty.
Simon Hoggart's diary: It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at the thought of Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourgeois "president" of the EU, crying when he heard the result of the Dutch referendum this week.
Simon Hoggart: Just as football seems to be on television all year round, so the battle over the EU constitution will be fought day in and day out for years until, in sheer tedium, you give in and finally turn over to Big Brother.
Simon Hoggart: Tony Blair was brilliant. Having contrived the most spectacular u-turn of his seven years as prime minister, he simply pretended that it had not happened.
Simon Hoggart: Brown's statement on the euro yesterday was painful. He doesn't like the euro. The very idea makes his skin crawl.
Simon Hoggart: The European summit began with a secret deal between Germany and France, and ended with Blair and Chirac insulting each other.
Feelings run deep in phoney euro warBy Simon Hoggart
The battle over the euro is heating up by the day. We're already seeing hand-to-hand fighting at Westminster.


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line link 144e
From: PAGAN To: ALL
I think somebody posted a request for help with a LineLink 144e. Here's what
I found out:
Don't bother calling the the Mac Warehouse help line; they're pretty
useless. I was able to find out that the modem is manufactured by
Prometheus so I called their tech support line and got the pin outs for the
db 25 connector:
2 – TX (transmit data)
3 – RX (recieve data)
4 – RTS (request to send)
5 – CTS (clear to send)
6 – DSR (whatever that is)
7 – Ground
8 – DCD (carrier detect)
20 – DTR (data terminal ready)
22 – Ring
If your port doesn't have CTS at pin 5, you have to use "at&r1" to tell the
modem to use the DTR on pin 20 as CTS. If you have both CTS and DTR then
use "at&r0". I also tried connecting pin 20 from the port to pin 5 on the
modem and that seemed to work too.
Stephen (PAGAN)
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the work or profession of an accountant
to say how you have used, or how you will use, an amount of money that you are responsible for spending, especially in your job
the work of accountants or the methods they use
a detailed record that a business keeps of the money it receives and spends in a particular period of time
a record of how much money a company owes other people or companies for goods and services
a document that gives details of the financial activities of a company or other organization over the past year
someone whose job is to calculate the cost or value of something, for example so that tax can be paid on it
someone whose job is to officially examine the financial records of a company, organization, or person to see that they are accurate
a written statement showing the value of a company at a particular time
to do calculations to check or show that you have not spent more money than you have received
informalshowing disapproval a business manager or accountant who cares only about financial numbers and profits
the job of recording an organization's financial accounts
the official or expected value of a company or product, as calculated in accounts or stated in information about prices
relating to a budget
the rate at which a business takes in money through sales and pays it out for the things it needs to continue operating
American a chartered accountant
Chief Financial Officer: the person in charge of the financial policy and decisions in a company
British an accountant who has passed a professional examination
formal someone whose job is to look after the financial aspects of an organization
someone whose job is to manage an organization's money
to change accounts and figures dishonestly, usually in order to get money
American certified public accountant: an accountant with all the necessary qualifications
the practice of showing financial information in a way that gives a false idea but is not illegal
a way of calculating the cost of a business decision that includes all its good and bad effects on, for example, the environment and people's health, as well as the direct costs
British the crime of deliberately giving false information in a company's accounts
British a period of twelve months that a company or organization uses to calculate how much profit it has made and how much it owes. The American word is fiscal year.
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British the relationship between what a company owns and what it owes
the money that a company has, and anything else that can easily be sold in order to get money
the activity of preparing and using financial information to support management decisions
an examination of how well a company or organization is doing, done in order to help it to plan for the future
a document that shows how much money was received and spent by a company during a particular period of time, and whether or not it made a profit
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business a financial document showing a company's performance during a particular period of time
business tangible properties or tangible assets are real things that a company has, such as buildings or equipment
the amount by which the value of a product increases as it goes through the different stages of being made and sold
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Commentary: Dittoheads Take Note
New York, NY —Rush Limbaugh has recently disappeared from both the radio and television programs he was on, after sparking a racial controversy, and acknowledging a drug habit. WNYC's Brian Lehrer says Limbaugh's problems in the two media may be different, but they are related.
Brian: On the radio, Rush Limbaugh is, in effect, a politician. His reputation and his success derive from his personal credibility with his audience, and his ability to convince millions of listeners daily that he is right, and those who disagree with him are wrong on the issues of the day. People who routinely look to Limbaugh for political guidance call themselves dittoheads.
Now let's be honest. The circumstances suggest that Limbaugh did not go into rehab for its own sake, or simply because he got outed by the press as an addict.
It was also revealed that there is a criminal investigation into how he may have obtained thousands of pills from a South Florida drug ring, and going into rehab before any indictment or plea bargain helps him to spin himself to his public as responsible and credible.
After all, one of Limbaugh's main public policy arguments over the years has been that almost anything about the state of a person's life is a matter of personal responsibility, not social context. Entering rehab AFTER getting busted could have destroyed his career.
And as with elected officials who get into trouble, it's also worth comparing Limbaugh's situation with his public positions on such cases: Presumably, Limbaugh is not going to volunteer to go to prison. But the press has been unearthing relevant quotes from past Limbaugh programs, such as this one published in Newsday on the disparity between whites and blacks prosecuted for personal drug use. Quote:
"Too many whites are getting away with drug use." "The answer to this disparity," "is not to start letting people out of jail ... The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river too."
Am I arguing for prison time for Rush Limbaugh for drug possession? Actually, no. But hopefully, his case will inspire a fresh look at the issue of incarcerating any non-violent drug offenders, and the disparity between how the system treats rich white guys like him and 20 year olds in the ghetto caught with crack.
Then there is Limbaugh's brief television career as an ESPN football analyst.
As you've probably heard, Limbaugh got canned after four weeks for saying that the media overrate Donovan McNabb of the Philadelphia Eagles because they want to see a Black quarterback succeed. But almost no one agrees with him that sportswriters are hyping the intelligence on McNabb. Even that great football expert Bill O'Reilly opined as much on his show, and you might expect him to take Limbaugh's side.
But such is the disparity between talk radio and pro sports. The sports world is among the most successfully integrated industries in America. Talk radio is overwhelmingly dominated by conservative white male hosts, and conservative white male listeners. In that context, diminishing the accomplishments of Black people makes good business sense. But for ESPN, it's like injecting poison into a well-mixed drink.
Sadly, ESPN must have thought that by hiring Limbaugh, their largely white male conservative football audience would get a few grins, and overlook Limbaugh's lack of football experience, and their Black viewers - who would generally know and be revolted by Rush Limbaugh - either wouldn't notice, wouldn't care, or just didn't matter enough to the company's bottom line.
Is it a coincidence that Limbaugh had to disappear from both his shows at once? Maybe. But the two issues are not unrelated, and probably contain lessons for all talk show hosts, this one included. Twice in two weeks, Limbaugh's cavalier studio rhetoric has been exposed as having a tenuous relationship to actual experience in the real world. Dittoheads take note.
WNYC's Brian Lehrer. You can hear his call in show weekdays at 10am.


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Blood Orange Sherbet {Vegan}
Blood Orange Sherbet {Vegan}
When I saw these gorgeous blood oranges, I just had to try a few recipes using them. The dark red orange becomes a softer peach color in this sherbet. This same recipe can be used as a granita. You just have to scape the ice with a fork every so often as it continues to freeze to form the ice crystals.
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- 1-1/2 C Blood Orange Juice (reserve 1/2 cup for the sugar syrup)
- 1/2 C granulated sugar, vegan
- 1/8 tsp Salt
- 1/2 Tbl Fresh Lemon Juice
- 1/2 C plus 1/8 C Coconut Milk
- 1/4 C Blood Orange Segments, diced and chilled
- Juice the blood oranges.
- [url href="http://theveglife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/juice.jpg"][/url]
- Using 1/2 C of that juice, add to the 1/2 C sugar in a medium saucepan over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and add the salt.
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- Transfer this syrup to a heat proof bowl and chill. Chill the juice as well.
- Once chilled, mix the juice and lemon juice into the syrup mixture. Stir in the coconut milk.
- Pour into your ice cream maker (or you can use a Vitamix, or other high speed blender to process to a soft serve stage). Follow your manufacturer's suggestions.
- Add the chilled, diced orange segments while soft and place in a freezer safe bowl to continue to freeze.
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- NOTE: If you prefer to use this mixture as a granita, simply scrape with a fork every half hour or so to create the ice crystals.
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why is potassium's letter on the periodic table of elements "K"?
kgb answers » Science & Technology » Math, Chemistry, Physics » why is potassium's letter on the periodic table of elements "K"?
Thursday, February 02 2012Source: http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele019.html
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FS: NV: Dinan S3-R Supercharged/intercooled e46 M3
2002 BMW M3 Dinan S3-R supercharged/intercooled
Clean Title in hand - Clean car fax! No accidents!
Steal Gray Metallic.
Dove Grey Leather
Cold Weather package
Bi-Xenon Headlights
CD Player/IPod
Harmon Kardon Sound.
I've owned this car since March and have put maybe at most 4000 miles on it, im moving to Seattle at the end of September and just dont have the means to bring it with. I've never had a problem with it at all; I've changed the engine oil, transmission oil, and put gas in it. This car has had the BMW dealer rod bearing, and subframe recall. The previous owner preformed a big service very shortly before selling the car to me. The spark plugs, belts, idlers, and tensioners, oil, and coolant was changed. Im extremely picky about body and paint work, reason i bought this m3 over others was the body is very clean and from what I can tell only the front bumper has been painted(probably because of rock chips). There are only 2 dents in the whole car, 1 in the roof(previous owner had a paint can fall off shelf in garage), and 1 dent in the drivers side quarter panel(stock rear sway bar fell over in my garage, still upset about that). The interior is very clean! Only reasonable flaw is the drivers seat has stretch marks and some wear in the leather from 117K of someone being in the car, besides that the rest of the car is very nice inside, i dont think anything or anyone has ever really touched the backseats or much of anything in the back of the car. Car currently has 118K miles on it, mileage will go up as I drive it pretty much every day to work; car has never been tracked. I just enjoy a fun, unique car to drive to work. This car is alot of fun!! It handles very well on the Dinan suspension but not too rough by any means. The sway bars really help keep the body roll down but dont affect the ride quality. I just put the new wheels/tires on the car about 2000 miles ago and are like new besides curb rash on drivers front wheel. Very quick on 5.5psi; its advertised to make 463bhp which turns in to about 350-375 rear wheel horsepower. Im going to miss this car but im missing my Supra and my Evo. My loss is your gain, if you added up the retail of all the after market parts you would be in the ~$20000 range; the supercharger kit alone is $18000.
The Bad:
Some small rocks in the front fenders/hood
2 dents as described above
drivers seat is showing wear
Needs new rear brake pads(light just came on, just bought new pads).
Drivers front wheel has a curb rash(about 6" long) woooops
Eissmann race exhaust
Supercharger/intercooled 5.5psi
Dinan throttle bodies
Dinan tune
Delrin short shifter
Dice duo Ipod integration
S3-r suspension
AC Schnitzer strut tower brace
Status Gruppe carbon fiber CSL trunk. I also have the stock trunk which i will include with the car.
e92 led license plate lamps
UUC front/rear sway bar
UUC single mass flywheel/clutch
Alignment(I request of seller on all vehicles i purchase just to make sure everything is straight)
VMR v710 18x9.5 on all 4 corners, I also have the stock wheels which i will include
Nitto NT-05 Wheel/Tire package have right at about 2000 miles on them.
Stainless steel brake lines
Angel eyes
Clear bra on front bumper, headlights, and mirrors!
Brand new front windshield
I have stoptech rear pads waiting to go on.
Im sure there is some after market part i've forgotten.
Im asking $21,500.
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How firm on price? Any trades?
Beautiful car; But the stance looks kinda goofy in my opinion. Probably because it needs a drop to fill in the fender gap.
Clean car. Alot of mods and very reasonably priced. I'm not interested in the car but I know someone else will ask, how many miles has it been supercharged for? GLWS
And the car does sit alittle high in the rear. All my other cars were slammed.
The previous owner put the blower on at ~110k.
Move date is coming up; Wednesday! Car will be sitting in a friends garage til i can either sell it or find someone to drive it up to Seattle before i can get a chance to come back and get it.
Price lowered $20K
Car is now in Seattle. Mileage has gone up 120,0xx.
Accepting trades.
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Bump For a clean M!
Price Reduced $18,500.
Man that's clean !
Price reduced to $17k. Mileage has gone up to 120,300.
17k for a Dinan S3-R M3! niceeee, Bump for the PNW.
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Another exciting episode of Firefall Live this week! We reached our goal 500 concurrent viewers and released two more hints towards our June 6th sneak peek! On top of that, the Copa Call in returned with some great questions, Branflakes and JBWill showed off their dance moves, and we gave away another batch of awesome Roccat prizes. You can rewatch the full episode on Twitch here.
- Next weekend is our Invitational Testing weekend. We've got over 100 players coming into the office over 3 days to get hands on testing on some of our new content (including some of our New Player Experience improvements).
- Our new weekly poll is up! This week's subject is "what's your favorite aspect of Firefall?" Check out that poll here and let us know what you think!
- This week's Creature Feature came out yesterday, detailing an unnamed creature that we hope to have in game sometime soon. Check that out here if you haven't seen it.
- Yesterday we had our in-game community meet up. We hung out in Copa throwing around jetballs and answering questions. We even ended the event with a special fireworks display put together by GhostJaguar. Thanks a bunch to everyone who showed up to hang out! Keep an eye out for more events like this in the future.
- We have a new Fanfic Challenge posted. The backstory for this one was written by Juno, a long time community member. If you have ideas for backstories, go ahead and PM them to Branflakes and we may use them in future challenges!
- The Screenshot Challenge is still running! Make sure to post your best screenshots in the forum thread here, and you may see them turn up on our social media pages!
Special Hint
After falling short last week, we buckled down and managed to reach our goal of 500 concurrent viewers! As promised, we released both hints #2 and #3, both in the form of screenshots.
Hint #2
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Don't forget there's still one more hint to unlock! We'll announce our final viewership goal on Wednesday and see if we can get there next Friday. Make sure to tune in if you can!
Copa Call In
Are we going to get any new Battleframes anytime soon?
- New battleframes are not something we're working on right now. We want to make sure that what we have is polished and balanced before we go about adding more things. There were some concepts that were datamined out of the client and passed around awhile ago, but those were never more than prototypes, and are not anywhere near a releasable state (nor do we currently have a plan for working on them further).
What about new signature weapons?
- Kind of the same answer as the last one, we're working on polishing and solidifying what we have now before we work on new battleframes, weapons, or abilities.
How about some new consumables, like being able to call down artillery strikes or reinforcements?
- That's something that has been discussed internally before, but not something that's currently being worked on.
Are there any plans to make the Baneclaw Brain Bucket tradeable?
- As of now, no. That cosmetic is intended to signify a big accomplishment, namely building and filling a MAN and defeating the Baneclaw. Making the helmet tradeable would make it less special.
Is it possible that in the future we'll have more glider control, such as the ability to do flips and such? And then maybe we could have some sort of race with checkpoints and such.
- That's definitely great feedback. It may not be something we're working on right now, but we'll pass that along and keep it in mind.
That Sunken Harbor Event was tons of fun last week, can we look forward to different sorts of PvP events like that?
- That's part of what the Live Team is doing right now. We're looking at events that we've done and how they've gone. We're using our ideas and observations along with the feedback we've gotten from you guys to not only improve that event, but also create more future events, both PvP and PvE, for you to enjoy. The goal is to have lots of different events going on on different weekdays, holidays, etc, to keep the experience fresh and exciting.
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Now serving request #2 for new world boss: bro man, aka over 9000!
A real man doesn't hide from his probl... oh wait.
Any darts that pass this line will be gone until the end of the week.
Hmm how do I shield myself from Nerf darts in a more effective manner? Ah, I know, absorption bomb!
Wild Phobos shield up! Ok.
Brogrammer strikes again!
Friends, romans, countrymen... have you not nerfed enough?
We had another 4 lucky winners today, with Stanhellsing (mousepad), Kainarv (mouse + mousepad), Sigmafour (keyboard), and Daunn (combo pack) all taking home some great Roccat gaming gear!
That's all for today. Thanks so much for everyone getting together and getting us to our goal of 500 viewers! Make sure to tune again next week for even more giveaways and a chance to unlock the final hint!
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Providing education and advice to older homeowners is the mission of the program I manage, AARP Foundation's Housing Solutions Center. Unfortunately, many homeowners don't realize they can benefit from the services we provide; as a result, they often miss opportunities to explore available programs and assistance that might make their mortgage payments more affordable or help them maximize their financial power.
Too many homeowners wait until they are in dire circumstances or faced with foreclosure before asking a professional for advice. However, if a problem is discovered early, when it is small, more options are often available and the steps to resolve the problem are generally easier to manage. In fact, there are five specific times when it makes very good sense to seek the advice of a professional -- before your housing costs become a serious problem.
1. When You Make or Revise Your Budget
Some people revisit their budget annually; others manage their budget less formally. Regardless, if you are trying to make changes in your household budget in order to meet short- or long-term financial goals, it may make sense to consult a housing counselor to see what options are available related to your mortgage to ensure that housing costs don't inhibit your ability to meet financial objectives in other areas.
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2. When Faced With a Major Expense
Medical bills, a major home repair, the need to purchase a vehicle: New expenses can come out of the blue. If there is an unavoidable expense that you are facing that threatens to throw your budget out of balance, it may be worthwhile to talk to a housing counselor. The cost of housing makes up a huge portion of the average person's spending, and there may be ways to reduce those costs to make room for unexpected, unavoidable expenses.
3. When There Is a Decrease in Your Income
If you lose your job, have a cut-back in hours or a decrease in wages, one of the first steps to take is to get advice regarding your mortgage. Assistance is often available for people when their paychecks are in transition. Input from a certified adviser could help you to better understand how your new income may affect your ability to make your mortgage payments and ease the transition as you navigate the job market and realign your finances.
4. When Your Mortgage Payments Change
Perhaps your mortgage payments have ballooned or your interest rate has gone up. If a substantial change has occurred in your housing expenses, advice from the Housing Solutions Center may be able to help you better understand what you can expect moving forward and give you options to make changes in your mortgage, if needed.
5. When a Major Life Change Occurs
Divorce, the death of a spouse, a disability … all of these things have a major impact on your housing and financial stability. Additionally, these are all very emotional situations in which people often have difficulty seeing their options objectively. Advice from a professional can help you focus your attention on the most important aspects of your housing and financial circumstances. This individually tailored advice can serve as a guide as you move into a new phase in your life.
The housing education and advice provided through the Housing Solutions Center can be helpful to homeowners in a variety of circumstances, not just those faced with imminent foreclosure. All of the services we offer are free of charge and can be accessed through our toll-free number: 855-850-2525. Please give us a call.
Maicie Jones is a program manager for AARP Foundation's Housing Impact team. Subscribe to Maicie's blog.
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This exclusive three bedroom penthouse (completely reformed in 2016) is situated in the popular community Las Palmeras. This place offers a lot of opportunities for families with children as well as for sport enthusiasts. Two exterior community pools and a big community garden area guarantee bathing amusement in safety and training facilities for swimmers during the whole year. Golfers can choose between no less than five golf courses in the nearby and people who prefer the Mediterranean lifestyle will love the choice between the smaller charming harbor of Santa Ponsa and the designer harbor of Port Adriano with its elegant boutiques, restaurants and bars. More features of the property are: two parking spaces, storage rooms, double glazed windows, aluminum shutters, underfloor heating (electric), air conditioning h/c and a fireplace.
Santa Ponsa offers a combination of beautiful landscape and coastline, sophisticated infrastructure, sports facilities and excellent road connections. Its close proximity to Palma and the International Airport makes Santa Ponsa one of the most sought after locations in Mallorca's south west region. Furthermore, it provides services and infrastructure in a relaxing and exclusive environment for those people who want to enjoy the island year round. Golfers will love the choice of no less than three golf courses at Nova Santa Ponsa, which provides an international meeting point and social hub for all residents and visitors. Santa Ponsa's beautiful bay and beaches are an ideal place to practice water sports. Nearby, Port Adriano's super yacht harbour with its designer boutiques and great choice of bars and restaurants complete the exclusive Mediterranean lifestyle of this area.
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This week at PLC we're going to write fiction instead of just talking about it.
But rather than each of us writing a micro-piece, we decided to do a continuing piece of fiction round-robin style, with a 500 count word limit per part. For some strange reason the suckers that host this blog with me my associates elected me to kick things off, so without further ado, I present,
As soon as I put the trans in my mouth, I knew it was a mistake.
It felt like a hot poker on my tongue. It tasted like a hunk of iron that had been marinated in a garbage can. I gave Tensen a tear-glazed look of panic. She grinned, her teeth smeared with silver. That metallic smile was the future. It was us, or would be, if I would stop being a chickenshit and just eat the damn thing.
I swallowed. It dropped down my throat with a sizzle, sending electric shocks through my body. First my left arm twitched. Then my right leg kicked a warning. Fingers on my face, Tensen pressing a pen between my teeth. I gripped it, bent forward just as my torso tried to buck off my appendages. My ass rattled on the concrete.
Nothing came out though, thank God.
Tensen gripped my arm and hauled me upright. I spat out the pen. It bounced, teethmarks in the plastic.
"Not so bad, eh?" Tensen picked up her soda cup, popped the lid, and rummaged through the ice inside, digging out a lemon wedge. "Here."
"No chaser," I croaked. This much dignity I could scrape together, at least. Like a lemon was going to cut through that taste of pennies and rotten hamburger meat anyway.
"Suit yourself." She bit down on the wedge, made a face. "Ugh, that's almost worse."
I looked out of the alley we were hanging out in, at all the suits squealing down Chevron Lane. No time to look at the two gutters spazzing out on the concrete, and really who'd want to look anyway? I glanced at my hands, half expecting them to be different, knowing they wouldn't be."So, when do you think it'll happen?"
"Oh, soon. 24-48 hours. Least, that's what the guy said."
"Long enough for him to vanish off the face of the earth if it's bunk." I picked up the chomped pen and flexed it in my hands.
"It's not. I told you, when Lady Cadbury-Heinz was getting ready for her Coming Out, she left hers on the vanity when she went to get her hair done. I smelled it, Shishi. I almost licked it. This stuff smelled exactly the same."
"If you even touched it, she'd have known, she'd have murdered you on the spot." I hated when she called me Shishi.
"You can smell something without touching it." She leaned her head back against the brick wall. "Don't be a crap."
"I bet you'll get wings," I said. I knew that's what she wanted. To fly up out of the Artificial Levels. To see the sun. Not that you needed wings to get out of the AL. You just needed trans.
"Who knows what we'll get." She flashed her quicksilver smile. "That's half the fun of trans, right? Angels, weres, spooks. We could turn out to be anything."


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We are seeking a detail\-oriented individual to perform all receiving and shipping functions of materials and freight of the hospital\. This position involves regular interaction and correspondence with internal and external customers, including co\-workers, other Swedish employees, patients, visitors, representatives from other hospitals and various vendors\.
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About the Cherry Hill Campus\.
What is now known as the James Tower at Swedish/Cherry Hill Campus was home to the first hospital in Seattle, established in 1877 by the Sisters of Providence, a Catholic charity\. On July 1, 2000, the 385\-bed tertiary\-care center previously known as Providence Seattle Medical Center became part of the Swedish health\-care system\.
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Our wide-range of top brand laptops feature high-performing Windows 8 Ultrabooks, stylish Macbooks and Chromebooks, as well as models with larger storage and processing power for demanding work environments. Search results can be filtered by manufacturer and price, or other important factors such as operating system, hard drive capacity, wireless connectivity, video memory and processor speed. You'll also find a useful laptop Buyers Guide below, providing hints and tips on choosing a machine that's most suited to your mobile computing needs.
Is mobility important for you?
Aside from business trips, you might want to watch movies on the move or read articles in bed. In this case, a tablet with longer battery life and smaller weight may be a good choice. Take a look at our separate Tablet and Convertible PC category featuring products from Apple, Lenovo and Dell .Tablet deals Longer battery life and smaller weight deals
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In this case, you should opt for a laptop: it has a larger screen, improved connectivity to your TV, home cinema and printer and also has greater storage capacity for storing home movies and photos. The addition of a DVD/BluRay drive also allows you to enjoy movies from your home collection. Check out our guide to find the best laptop.Office laptop deals Home laptop deals
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Chromebooks are notebooks running Google's Chrome OS. They are built to be used primarily online: all apps save your work int the cloud, the machine itself has a limited storage space and has usually no optical drives. You cannot run Microsoft Office on a Chromebook, but in turn, the device is turned on in seconds, you have built in virus protection and OS, both updated automatically and you can download applications from the Chrome Store. Chromebooks are easy to use and can be hasslefree alternatives for notebooks, but if you wish to work with specific (Windows based) software that need more computing power, you'll be better off with a laptop.
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802.11n wireless
networking A group of technologies giving wifi connections more speed and range.
touchscreen Screens using the electrical properties of the body to detect input. They can be controlled with light touches but usually cannot be controlled by a stylus.
Chromebook A laptop running Google Chrome OS – these PCs are designed to be used with an internet connection, applications save data in the cloud.
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Glass Thin, light and scratch resistant, Gorilla Glass is the trademark of a specially coated glass used in portable device displays (notebooks, smart phones, etc.)
DDR3 SDRAM Double data rate type three synchronous dynamic random-access memory - a modern type of dynamic RAM with a high bandwidth interface
graphics A standalone graphics card usually giving more powerful graphic performance than the integrated cards that share memory with the CPU
DVD Super Multi A drive that reads and writes CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW and DVD-RAM.
Downgrade A Microsoft offer to switch to an older operating system version, for instance from Windows 8 to Windows 7.
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qualification A certificate proving the product uses less energy and helps protect the environment. The list of energy star qualified product can be found here.
Ethernet A system to create a local area network from computers, like connecting the laptops and desktops in the office with a cable.
FHD (Full HD),
HD A display with a resolution of 1080 pixels characterized by 1080 horizontal lines of vertical resolution and progressive scan.
HDMI A standard to connect high-definition video devices enabling the transfer of HD video, audio and data to a source, such as a monitor, video projector or TV
HDMI to VGA
cable A cable enabling the connection of a modern, HDMI machine to an older VGA device, a monitor for instance.
Intel Iris Graphics A modern HD graphics solution built into the new generation Intel processors. This technology allows extreme gaming and high performance displaying without a separate graphics card.
LED backlight The technology used in most of the LCD screens
Product Key card A way to purchase Microsoft Office 2010 with a new PC. It includes a Product Key designed to activate Office software on one preloaded PC
Retina display Retina is a word coined by Apple to describe a display resolution in which pixels are so closely packed that, when held at what Apple considers to be the 'normal' distance, the user is not able to make out individual pixels. Retina displays have a resolution of 2,048 x 1536 pixels. Retina 5k displays have a 5120 x 2880 pixel resolution.
Smart card reader A device allowing the reading of chip cards, used as a security option in laptops.
SRS Sound Sound Retrieval System with a patented psychoacoustic 3D audio processing technology
SSD Solide State Drive – A storage device that stored data on a flash memory that contains no moving objects, unlike the older PC hard drives.
Thunderbolt Used on Apple Macs, this technology supports high-resolution displays and high-performance data devices through a single port and cable.
TPM Trusted Platform Module, a hardware based security solution encrypting computer generated keys to avoid hacker attacks.
Ultrabook A trademarked Intel brand for lightweight high-end notebooks featuring SSDs, low-power Intel processors and unibody chassis.
UMA Unlicensed Mobile Access, recently called Wifi calling, it allows the transition between wireless networks (e.g. GSM, 3G, EDGE, GPRS, etc.) and wireless LAN (e.g. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth). This means a user can initiate a call over GSM, for example, and the call switches from the GSM network to the office's Wi-Fi and vice-versa.
USB 3.0 The new generation of Universal Serial Bus with the same plug and play possibilities plus a tenfold performance increase and lower power consumption. Most notebook provide USB 3.0 and 2.0 connectivities as well.More Technical Jargon Explained
We stock the latest Macbook Air and Macbook Pro notebooks featuring dual and quad core processors and retina screens from 11 to 15 inches. The MacBook Air is the ultimate everyday notebook from Apple – available in both 11 inch & 13 inch variants. The sleek & lightweight design means you can take it wherever you go for a true mobile computing experience. The MacBook Air features Intel Core i5 / i7 processors and a faster DDR3 RAM memory of up to 4GB. Macbook Air is built with a solid state drive (SSD) for fast boot and reliability and with Thunderbolt, HD data transfer is lightning-fast.
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Why Pawlenty would NOT be the best pick for VP
posted at 8:21 pm on August 2, 2012 by Mike Rathbone
I have to express my disagreement with Karl on the strengths of Pawlenty as a VP candidate. I'm sure Governor Pawlenty is a good and decent man and I have no real problem with boring candidates as long as they had a certain gravitas behind them (that is why on that front I think Portman would be a superior VP pick). Pawlenty, in my humble opinion, lacks that. Even before the primaries began he always came off to me as kind of a lightweight. His confrontation with Mitt during the primaries regarding "Obamneycare" just confirmed that. I'm sure Governor Pawlenty will continue to make an effective surrogate, but as a Vice Presidential candidate, I'm just not sold.
Neither am I sold on Governor Pawlenty's ability to bring in some new group of voters (in this case blue collar types that might be wary of a stiff millionaire like Romney). He didn't really strike a cord in the primaries and I'm doubtful he'll bring in many new people that already weren't going to vote for Romney anyway. I think there are two target demographics for us in the election with whom we need to do better. 1.) Middle class and upper-middle class suburban women. 2.) Latinos. We don't necessarily have to win these groups, but we need to improve. Now, I don't know if there is a candidate we have currently that can help the ticket do better with these groups and meet Governor Romney's criteria as being ready on day one (sorry Rubio, Ayotte, and Martinez fans), but I am pretty certain that Pawlenty won't help with these groups.
Karl states that he wants to keep the focus on President Obama and the economy, but do we really think the media will play this game? They're trying everything under the sun to to change the subject, picking Pawlenty won't stop that. If that's a reason to pick Pawlenty, I think it is a pretty weak one.
No, it'll be Mediscare, class warfare, and who knows what else in the fall. What would a Governor Pawlenty do in regards to fighting back against the Dems, except recite prepackaged talking points? That"s what he has been good at doing, but we can (and need to) do better than that. A Paul Ryan can do better than that and I also believe Bobby Jindal (whom I prefer to be picked) can.
I don't dislike Tim Pawlenty. I just think Romney can do better. The Governor needs to stop being afraid of losing and just pick the best person for the job that won't sink the ticket (people worrying about exorcist stories hurting the ticket in the case of Jindal, I think, are overestimating the importance that people place on that as an issue). Paul Ryan is such a person, Bobby Jindal is such a person, Jon Kyl is such a person. Governor Romney doesn't have to make a "game-changing" pick, but he shouldn't be afraid to pick the person he truly wants as a governing partner either.


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Hi and welcome to the second SingStore update of the year!
This week, why not add some black eyeliner and hairspray to the mix and rock out to 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure or just paint a white stripe across your face instead and feel like 'Prince Charming' (just like Adam & The Ants)?
Also available for download, some more songs by Snow Patrol including the gorgeous 'Set The Fire To The Third Bar' with Martha Wainwright (duet anyone???), 'Romeo' by Basement Jaxx plus things from Avril Lavigne, No Doubt, The Script, Rainbow and Mr. Hudson feat. Kanye West.
There's quite a few songs for all you Portuguese singers including Humanos with 'Muda De Vida' plus German and Italian tracks from the likes of Echt and Tiziano Ferro.
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In English
- The Veronicas – 4ever
- The Subways – Rock & Roll Queen
- The Script – The Man Who Can't Be Moved
- Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend
- Basement Jaxx – Romeo
- Bob Sinclar – Sound Of Freedom
- DJ Bobo – Pirates Of Dance
- LL Cool J – I Need Love
- Mr Hudson feat. Kanye West – Supernova
- No Doubt – Spiderwebs
- Rainbow – Since You've Been Gone
- Suede – Metal Mickey
- The Cure – Boys Don't Cry
- Snow Patrol – Shut Your Eyes
- Snow Patrol – Chocolate
- Snow Patrol And Martha Wainwright – Set The Fire To The Third Bar
- Adam & The Ants – Prince Charming
- Salem Al Fakir – Good Song
In German:
- Echt – Weinst Du
In Portuguese
- Humanos – Muda De Vida
- Diana Lucas – Desculpa Lá
- D'ZRT – Querer Voltar
- Just Girls – Bye, Bye (Vou-me Divertir)
- Just Girls – Entre O Sonho E A Ilusão
- NBC – Segunda Pele
- Sérgio Godhino – Com Um Brilhozinho Nos Olhos
In Italian
- Tiziano Ferro – E fuori è buio


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Burgundy auctions casks of wine for good causes
By Marcel Michelson
BEAUNE, France (Reuters) - Celebrities, business people and the wealthy bid for casks of fine wine in the world's biggest annual charity auction at the Hospices de Beaune this weekend in an annual ritual for Burgundy winemakers that stretches back more than one-and-a-half centuries.
The total value of the sale, at 5.8 million euros ($7.8 mln), broke the 2009 record of 5.5 million on face value and was more than the 5.1 million euros of 2010.
There were, however, more lots for sale and average prices were down on last year by 6.2 percent for reds and 12.9 percent for the whites as the financial crisis and economic worries hurt even the steadiest asset values in the global wine trade.
The main item, the special President's lot of 460 liters of red Corton Clos du Roi, Cuvee Baronne du Bay, was auctioned by actor Christian Clavier and fashion model and designer Ines de la Fressange. It raised 110,000 euro for two charities and the buyer was Stephen Williams of the Antique Wine Company.
"This year's auction takes place in a difficult financial and economic context," said Alain Suguenot, chairman of the hospices and mayor of Beaune.
The second-highest buy was a 228-liter barrel of white Batard-Montrachet Grand Cru Cuvee Dames de Flandres at 56,710 euros by an anonymous 'Asian amateur' according to auctioneers Christie's.
Prospective buyers were given tastings and dinners by top wine merchants such as Albert Bichot while three-star Michelin chef Michel Troisgros of Roanne made some signature dishes.
The sale was of the most recent vintage, that of 2011, and the wines need to be 'tended' for up to 24 months in Beaune and then stored for several more years before they can be drunk. After a freak climate in 2011, the harvest started early on August 29 and lasted 10 days. Continued...


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International rugby icon Serge Blanco ended his career in 1992, the same year the eponymous brand was formed in Toulouse, France. Drawing its inspiration from the style of Biarritz Olympique number 15, one of the greatest rugby players of all times, Serge Blanco the brand represents the spirit of rugby as the quintessential gentlemen's sport.
Although it began exclusively in men's wear, today the chic luxury sportswear brand also outfits six-month-old babies and adults up to size 6XL through 400 retail outlets in France and approximately 20 stores in 15 other countries including Ireland, Dubai, Russia and Italy.
Designed in France and produced offshore, Serge Blanco moves more than one million items of apparel through the supply chain each year to its own retail stores and select department stores. As the business has grown, inevitable growing pains have followed suit.
Slow coming in and slow going out
Over the years, as Serge Blanco's business continued to scale up — 2008 revenues totalled just over EU30 million ($39 million in today's dollars) — the company's distribution center began to feel the restrictions of processes and physical space that could not accommodate product flow in a timely and efficient manner. As they say, you're only as strong as your weakest link, and this was readily apparent in the challenges the company was confronting, much of which, it determined, was attributable to its use of EAN barcodes, which could neither be processed quickly nor without frequent errors. Serge Blanco experienced frequent bottlenecks and was stymied by a "lack of process speed and lack of reliability, stock rotations were too long and time per article too high," says Mathieu Pradier, the company's vice president of operations.
At the store level, Serge Blanco faced discrepancies between the inventory that was actually on the sales floor and what was recorded in its IT system, which led to problems with product availability.
Realizing that its growth trajectory would be impeded by its current system, the company performed a series of strategic analyses that brought to the fore a real need to optimize its DC to keep pace with its expanding business. Among the multiple scenarios that Serge Blanco considered during this process, says Pradier, were expanding its site, creating a new building with new staff, expanding distribution and reception into additional countries and optimizing its product flows using various types of systems, including RFID.
After evaluating such options, the team concluded that RFID would best fit the bill, meeting company needs while also adapting easily to its current business processes. For example, the company was already using labelling systems similar to RFID from reception of incoming goods to delivery. Converting to RFID would simply entail the addition of an electronic chip that could be read from a distance. In short, says Pradier, RFID presented both the easiest option relative to blending in with its already established processes, and the simplest overall solution.
Entering the pilot stage
Having closely researched what some other clothing retailers were doing, Serge Blanco ultimately decided to implement the solution it saw in place at retailers Boboli and Throttleman — the TAGSYS RFID system. "We found the TAGSYS solutions to be the most complete, most mature and easiest to integrate with our existing processes," says Pradier. The company deployed the solution in early 2009 with plans to expand it across its entire retail network by the end of last year.
The process was planned out to the last detail during the pre-analysis stage, allowing a global budget to be defined simultaneously: Serge Blanco established a development plan with TAGSYS project managers based on a functional analysis of its business processes, working environments and integration requirements with its existing computer system, and then developed a software interface to link the TAGSYS system with Serge Blanco's.
After the functional analysis was completed, the company defined a final budget for a pilot project to span three seasons, enabling the company to identify real gains and spread the investment over time, says Pradier. During the eight-month deployment, the team defined and implemented a functional perimeter for the RFID solution in the DC, and also developed the software that acted as an interface between Serge Blanco's system and TAGSYS'. It also installed the tunnel, reading units and other equipment.
The entire RFID infrastructure is integrated into the existing IT system through e-Connectware™, TAGSYS' RFID administration tool, to seamlessly manage and monitor RFID devices and data.
"Because different verticals have unique requirements, the TAGSYS e-Connectware solution has been especially adapted to the fashion industry to enable the management of the data gathered through RFID stations to provide us with actionable data in real time," says Pradier.
At the store level, the company uses UHF stations and e-Connectware software to automate store receiving, monitor merchandise in the back room, on store shelves and in fitting rooms — all in real time — while providing loss prevention protection, improved merchandise availability and increased customer satisfaction.
The results of the implementation, says Pradier, have been phenomenal. "We now have better insight into productivity," he says, noting that the team has been able to confirm that all of the theoretical reading times and label reading performance values predicted were achieved in every respect during reception. For example, notes Pradier, "Previously, in a busy day of receiving goods, with 10 men we were able to receive 25,000 items, and with the new system we needed only two people and received 35,000 items.
"Our objective was to really optimize the distribution channel, and this has been achieved. We have reduced entry and exit times for goods by almost tenfold, which means that we are now ready for business growth of 40 percent to 50 percent. … RFID is not a passing fashion. It's a real solution."
Extending RFID to the stores
With its initial goal of optimizing its distribution channel realized, Serge Blanco has worked with TAGSYS to continue to develop RFID solutions that can be leveraged across multiple applications and support a variety of business processes, both in the supply chain and in the store. "Our successful deployment in our distribution center has led us to take RFID to our entire retail network in order to achieve complete item-level visibility," says Pradier.
With TAGSYS UHF RFID tags applied to all of its products, inventory can be automatically accounted for within the store's management software as it moves through UHF portals positioned at various checkpoints in the back room and on the retail floor.
"In the stores, we expect it will give us real-time information about our inventory, sales and shrink," he says, noting that the company intends to use this information to improve its replenishment processes and inventory management, which he expects will lead to optimum merchandise availability levels, an enhanced customer shopping experience and, ultimately, increased sales.
"Fitting rooms have also been equipped with RFID stations, enabling our staff to accurately access the conversion rates of products that customers try on versus the ones they actually purchase," says Pradier. Inventory counts also are taken regularly at the shelf level "to make sure that the right items are available to customers and not hidden away in the back room.
"High-tech solutions are [often] put aside — people always think they are just for show," says Pradier. His experience with RFID has proven otherwise.
Jordan K. Speer is editor in chief of Apparel. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com
RFID Solution at a glance
• Printable TAGSYS UHF RFID tags are affixed to existing apparel labels
• RFID printers powered by TAGSYS program and print data
• TAGSYS UHF RFID tunnels quickly and precisely control inbound and outbound merchandise
• TAGSYS HHU-400 portable UHF RFID readers perform rapid inventories
• TAGSYS SRU-400 fixed RFID stations prepare and verify orders
• TAGSYS e-Connectware™ RFID administration tool integrates the entire RFID infrastructure into Serge Blanco's existing IT System
• TAGSYS UHF stations and e-Connectware software automate store receiving and monitor merchandise in the back room


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