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I love jars! It is always hard for me to toss them because I know there's always some way I can use them. Realistically I can't keep them all, so many do end up in the recycling bin, but then there are those lucky ones that get tucked into a closet waiting to be used.
My friend Noelle just gave me the lovely blue ones you see on the photo above. I love them! And they look perfect on my kitchen windowsill. I can totally picture them full of wild flower clippings come Spring.
The other day I opened mentioned closet, that holds my stash of jars and well, I was overwhelmed by what I found. At the same time, my mind got into creative mode and started to think of different ways I could make use of them. Most of the jars once use to hold candles. Those are the ones I'm the laziest to use because it requires a bit more work to clean them out. This time though, in the organization/decluttering mode I am in, I challenged myself and got working.
I began by placing the jars in warm water to allow for all the left over wax to melt. I then tossed the wax and peeled the labels off. Before the remaining film of wax cooled off, I washed each jar with warm water.
Once cleaned and dry they were ready to be used. Hum. Where to use this lovely jars? One of the shelves in the toiletries/linen closet needed some reorganizing, the perfect place to make use of my newly clean jars!
Can you guess what kind of candle the large jar below held?
Yankee! Yup, I need to start collecting more of these. I love the size and the nice tight lid. It would also be perfect for organizing bits in the craft room or spices in the kitchen.
Other inspiration around the web to get me going:
In the craft room: These are all great ways to use jars around the craft room. I especially like the small mason jars and sugar dispenser holding yarn and twine. Perfect to keep the kid's yarn in place, instead of seeing the ball of yarn rolling all around the craft room, and getting tangled, and knotted, and...well, you get the picture.
Clockwise from top: Yarn in mason jars homemade simple; jars on shelf inspire co; sugar dispenser real simple; under a shelf country living; sewing kit in a jar martha stewart; attached to the wall homemade simple; on the table inspire co.
In the office/kids work area: How cute are those farm animal lids!!!
Clockwise from top left: animal lids apartment therapy; stack then sideways homemade simple; collection of collections collection a day 2010; pencil organizer kootut murut.
In the kitchen or in the bathroom: I'm in love with those shelves made out of old drawers. I know not exactly jars, but you can display your lovely jars on them.
Clockwise from left: Displayed in old drawers nest full of eggs; tooth brush/ flower holder etsy; on three tier stand zsa zsa bellagio.
In the garage or tool shed:
baby jar tool organizer homemade simple
Why stop there! You can spruce up those jars by painting them with bold colors or use some chalk board paint to label them.
Clockwise from top: blue jars a pumpkin & a princess; white jars and rope too much time on my hands (I WISH!) ; chalk lids wit & whistle; chalk labels apartment therapy .
The possibilities are endless.
Now let's get organized!


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Local track squads had one last chance to tune up for the postseason on May 2, and it was on the same stage – the All-City Meet at Lincoln High School. While each team impressed in different ways, the Wilson Rams displayed a wide variety of athleticism, as they had 14 individual winners and swept all the relays in convincingly winning both the boys and girls' meets.
"We had a lot of good performances, so things are looking good," said Wilson coach Sam Ring, noting the efforts of 1,600-meter winner Kaleb Javier and pole-vaulters Deandre Hankins and Brandon Waters-Morales, who each cleared 12 feet.
Javier also claimed the 3,200-meter title, while Justin Scott won the 800-meter run, Larry Hall took the 110-meter hurdles and placed second by an eyelash behind teammate James Sivonen in the 300-meter hurdles and Daviyonta Booth won the long jump. The Rams' boys won the 4X100-meter relay by a full second over Foss, while the girls were impressive in winning the 4X200- and 4X400-meter relays convincingly.
"We've always prided ourselves in relays at Wilson. We usually place at the state meet," Ring said. "Although we're mixing the squads up right now, trying to compete for them in those relays, seeing who can do it and who can't when we go to the league meet."
Wilson's Marche Thierry won the girls 100-meter dash while teammate Violet Morrow took the 200-meter dash, Stephanie Stuckey won the 1,600-meter run and Sydney Stuckey claimed the 100-meter hurdles title. In the field events, the Rams' Terina Nelson won the javelin throw, Kaja Sanders took the high jump, Yana Karlova won the pole vault and Alyssa Marzano was the triple jump champ.
Lincoln's boys claimed second at the meet, highlighted by sophomore Rayshaun Miller, who won the 100-meter dash in 11.20 seconds and took second in the 200-meter dash.
"He can really run. He still has some things to learn as far as technique and out of the block, but he's got natural athletic ability, it's pretty impressive," said Lincoln coach Duane Lee.
Lee also noted that Julius Colwash set a personal record of 41 feet and 9.5 inches to take second place in the triple jump, an event he started just a week prior. The Abes' Matthew Kuljis won the high jump, while Julia Jones won the 300-meter hurdles, Tamika Green won the long jump and Jada Harvey won the shot put and discus throw for the girls, who placed third overall.
Stadium's boys placed third overall, headlined by Jon Lee's triple jump victory with a mark of 44 feet, while Kramer Lewis won the javelin throw with a toss of 151 feet and nine inches. The Tigers' Emily Coic convincingly won the 3,200-meter run, Natalie Sidhom claimed won 800-meter run and Megan Montgomery won the 400-meter dash after earlier placing second in the long and triple jumps.
"She was a little gassed," said Stadium coach Margaret Walter of Montgomery. "But I think she just put forth that extra effort at the end to do well."
Mount Tahoma's Phuong Truong highlighted the Thunderbirds' fourth-place finish by winning the shot put and discus throw, setting a personal best of 179 feet and four inches in the latter. The Thunderbirds' Shariah Williams placed sixth in the 100-meter dash, fifth in the 200-meter dash and third in the long jump.
Foss' Marcus Chambers highlighted the Falcons' day with two more impressive wins in the 200- and 400-meter dashes, winning the latter by more than two seconds. Despite being low in numbers, coach Ed Williams described his squad as "a bunch of young guys that are willing to learn and compete. If I get about four or five more of those we'll be alright."
The Falcons' Mil-Lindsey Williams placed third in the 100-meter dash and fourth in the 200-meter dash, while teammate Abrei McClarron took second in the 200-meter dash and fifth in the 100-meter dash.

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I'll start. . . don't laugh. . . this is only a first draft. I'll add more when people start helping me out. :-)
1. What the heck is Messiah?!?
2. So which Messiah do I want?
3. Is there a modeler?
4. When I am using Messiah, how do I delete an object, null, effect, etc... ?
5. Is messiah:animate used extensively in the film industry as a post production tool?
6. What makes messiah:animate different than other animation software packages?
7. What are messiah:animate's weaknesses?
8. On a scale of 1-10 where 1 is crashing all the time and 10 is never crashes, how stable is messiah:animate?
9. Is there a place I can read testimonials?
1. What the heck is Messiah?!?
1. When people refer to messiah they are usually speaking of one of three packages sold by pMG. a. The Lightwave Plugin, b. Animate and c.Studio.
a. The Plugin has been around for quite a while. It is what started it all. It is a plugin to Lightwave 5.5 -> 7.5 that allows for a considerably superior animation interface while still allowing you to use Lightwave's proven rendering and shading. It is a little bit out dated but still holds many of the same "power" features of its bigger newer brothers, Animate and Studio.
b. Messiah Animate is the next generation up from the old plugin. It is a stand alone application that empowers animators with a very advanced rigging and animation toolset geared towards the animation of complex organic characters and shapes. Its strengths lie in its ability to integrate into a variety of packages including Cinema4D, Lightwave, 3D Studio Max and Maya.
c. Messiah Stuidio is basicly the same as Animate, in its feature set and ability to integrate into other packages only it includes its own powerful rendering and shading system that frees you from the need to render in a host application.
2. So which Messiah do I want?
That all depends on what you are already familiar with. If you already know and are happy with the way your current software renders and just want to add on a very powerful animation system, then you probably want to go with Animate.
If you are new to 3D or are more interested in a complete solution then Studio is your baby.
3. Is there a modeler?
No not currently. You will still need a modeling package to create your own characters. Fortunetly there are a lot to chose from and a lot more in the works. Wings3D, Modo, Silo etc. Messiah also reads in most major formats so your current 3D modeling package you are already familiar with should be all you need.
4. When I am using Messiah, how do I delete an object, null, effect, etc... ?
Use the minus key "-" on the numeric kepad.
5. Is messiah:animate used extensively in the film industry as a post production tool?
Yes. It was used as the main character animation tool for Jimmey Neutron. And a few effects shots for the first X-Men movie. And I'm sure as it matures it will be used more and more.
6. What makes messiah:animate different than other animation software packages?
A lot of packages pack in features one on top of another without really thinking through how an animator would actually use those features. Messiah is unique in that it was built for animators. Animation isn't just bolted on as a plugin. . . its the whole package. That combined with some crazy fast OpenGL, uber powerful expression editor and a development team eager to listen to it's customers make it pretty unique. Oh. . . and it provides a unified animation interface to almost EVERY FRIGGEN RENDERER ON THE MARKET!
7. What are messiah:animate's weaknesses?
Well it doesn't have a renderer. Or a modeler. But it isn't supposed too so they aren't really weaknesses. Man I really don't think it has any. It used to gimble a lot but. . . they fixed that. It used to take a long time for scenes to load with the plugin attatched but they have fixed that. Armatures don't easily provide access to the curves of the bones they controll. . . but I'm sure by the time I hit send on this post they will have fixed that. . . <They fixed it>
8. On a scale of 1-10 where 1 is crashing all the time and 10 is never crashes, how stable is messiah:animate?
All software crashes eventually when you push it too hard. But I have found it to be the most stable 3D animation package I have ever used. I'd give it a 9.
9. Is there a place I can read testimonials?
I don't think so.


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Myth 3. Dairy Will Make You More Congested
Some people avoid dairy products when they're sick because they are thought to further increase mucus secretions, but scientific evidence has yet to support this. In a blind test using a soy-based drink with similar sensory characteristics as milk, subjects reported the same changes in mucus production as they did with cow's milk.
So go ahead and have that glass of milk or a latte—the vitamin D in it may help boost your immune system. In a study of more than 300 Japanese children, those who took daily vitamin D supplements (1,200 IU) were 40 percent less likely to get a common flu virus than kids who took a placebo. Studies indicate that the nutrient may help immune cells identify and destroy bacteria and viruses that make us sick, says Adit Ginde, M.D., M.P.H., a public health researcher at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver. Because a cup of milk delivers about 115 IU of vitamin D, and other food sources (oily fish, such as salmon or sardines) also only deliver small amounts, you may need to consider a supplement.
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im looking to ge a compressor to do work on my car at home. i was told a 5hp setup would do just fine for all my body tools but while at home depot. the compressor said not recomended for air d.a sanders and such.
what can i use without buying the big industruial units. dont need that much air. i will be using my grinder, d.a. sander, air files, blue point long nose air chisel tools like these.
That is because that compressor at Home Depot is probably rated at 5hp PEAK. The peak rating is very deceptive and not very useful. Look at the SCFM (standard cubic feet per minute) rating for a more meaningful capacity of a compressor. FWIW, a true 5hp compressor will not have a 120vac cord.
A DA sander is an air hog and needs a true 5hp compressor to come even close to operating properly.
Exactly what 302 said, HP numbers don't mean zilch! The bottom line is the CFM rating is everything and if it is low then all the big HP numbers and oversized tanks that most of the econo compressors have will not help in the least. The biggest mistake most people make is running straight to the biggest tank in the store but a big tank does NOT make a big compressor in spite of common belief. The most common low end compressor that you can (practically) get by with will have about 3 to 3 1/2 true HP no matter what that phony "peak" or "maximum developed" rating says and will be 220 volt single stage, usually mounted on a 60 gal tank. Don't waste your money on a larger tank with a pump/motor in that performance range because it will not perform any better than the more common and cheaper 60 gal. As a simple guide look at the data plate on the motor it should be rated at least 15 amps and the CFM rating should be about 10-12 CFM at 90 PSI any less than that and you may not have enough air, even that is going to cut it close and that DA is going to work it very hard.
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The new indurstry standard is rating the hp as running hp not peak hp. I'm not sure how they define running hp but it sounds like there may be room for misinterpretation like so many of the things we buy. The other criteria is scfm as 302 mentioned and max. psi. The running hp from what I've researched may be rated as low as 2.3 when the max. hp is rated at 5hp. My campbell-hausfeld 5hp is rated @ 14.3 cfm and 175 psi with an 80 gal. tank. This is the old rating of 5hp. max. This comp. will keep up with a DA and all tools that I've used but it runs 75% of the time if I'm stripping panel with the DA. I would suggest using these specs. as a minimum. By the way I purchased this comp. 10 years ago on sale for 840.00 a great deal back then , hope you can find a similiar deal.
I have noticed lately that the newer compressors in the stores are being a bit more truthful about the power ratings, I guess losing those law suits over the inflated numbers got their attention . It got really ridiculous there for a while and it was easy to find 5 HP and even 6 HP 110 volt compressors, yeah right . Something that started to get popular a while back, but fortunately seems to have not caught on, was "tank assisted" CFM ratings which is TOTAL NONSENSE so don't fall for it if you see one.
My last compressor was a Sears 5hp 30 gallon.
The motor was a 110 volt 1 hp motor.
That's right- A 1HP MOTOR!
When I asked Sears about it they said
"it puts out like a 5hp motor" What BS!!!
I have a 5 HP Eaton now and it puts out MORE than
TWICE the cfm of the Sears one.
(They're both labeled as 5hp compressors)
I don't understand how Sears can get away with it.
It's an outright lie. False advertising.
BTW: Most DA sanders take 15 cfm at 90psi., that's a lot,
and my Eaton can barely keep up.
I don't think they make 5 HP 110 volt anymore (as if they EVER did! ) because of the law suits a while back but I may be wrong. I was in a Tractor Supply in Knoxville Tn a few weeks ago and I noticed that the compressors on the floor, the ones I looked at anyway, all had a more believable "running" HP rating so maybe this nonsense is going away. While this is much better it still really don't mean a lot because, as 302 pointed out, CFM is what counts no matter what the HP rating. To me it seems that the "tank assisted" CFM rating is far more misleading than those ridiculous inflated HP numbers but on the last outfit I saw it listed on (this was an Ingersoll Rand at Northern Tool!) was so far out of line I think most people will see it for what it is. I don't remember the exact numbers but it was about 46 CFM@90 PSI "tank assisted" for a 7 1/2 HP two stage mounted on an 80 gallon tank. This compressor is quite a performer when looking at the real numbers so using such ridiculous performance numbers does not make sense, I think it may cost them in the long run or at least I hope it does!
While on this subject I noticed that Ingersoll has one model at Tractor Supply and probably other stores that is 5 HP (running) with a single stage pump and a 60 gallon tank that is rated at 18.1 CFM@90 PSI. This is not a "tank assisted" rating and would seem to be a really good performer but then that is the problem here, it is too good for a set-up like this. While it does have 5 HP it is still just the very common inefficient single stage pump and appears to be nothing special. I looked at the specs and I can not see what the gimmick here is but they are stretching the truth to the breaking point on this one and those figures are just plain ridiculous. This would be good performance for a two stage outfit and I don't see any way a pump/motor combo like this one could get that much CFM. When buying a compressor one has to remember that the amount of air coming out the end of that hose is ALL that matters when determining how much air you will have available and all those ridiculously inflated numbers painted on the tank will not help your tools run any better.
Lots of good information here-
I purchased mine through Grainger, and it has handled everything that I have thrown at it (you can see it in my Journal)-I feel like everyone else here (pretty much), a 2 stage would be nice, but I get along very well with mine-It's a Model 3JR76 SpeedAire-5 h.p., 16.7 cfm @ 90 p.s.i., 230V single Phase-
35, As you pointed out a two stage is nice to have but it is not a necessity. It will run some cooler, last longer (usually) and produce a bit more flow than a single stage running the same HP but none of this is so big a difference that it means a single stage is no good, that simply is not the case. A good single stage for the average user is just fine and it is a fact that many thousands are being used very satisfactorily every day and if it does the job it may be just the ticket for a lot of people. I think the single stage design gets a bad rap mostly because of the "hobby" type 110 volt units and the JUNK oil-less compressors out there but these are in NO WAY a gauge by which to measure the performance of a good single stage compressor.
Well said, Old Red
We used to sell Eagle Compressors at the NAPA store that I worked at, and now we are selling them at the place I work for now.
They have a new line called "Max Air", but I haven't studied them enough to spot the differences ... other than yellow paint and 2-yr warranty.
Here are a couple of 18.5 CFM @ 100 PSI, 230V, single phase, single-stage, cast-iron compressors.
"Montea" (a member here) bought one of these MaxAir compressors in Calgary, Alberta for less than $1000.00 CDN if I recall correctly.
"Maximum Performance"
Thier site also includes an Air Power not Horsepower article, which says many of the same things mentioned in this thread.
I just read thier "Standard Warranty" on the Max Perf line ...
12 mos from start-up
15 mos from manufacture date ...
whichever comes FIRST
Translation: if it sits in a showroom for 12 months before you buy it and take it home ... you get THREE months?
I gotta phone the rep and ask about that, and I suggest you do the same ... and get the answer in writing.
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That looks like a much better set-up than the usual inline twin cylinder design that is so popular and which (twin cylinder) is on the Ingersoll I mentioned earlier. However, just like on the Ingersoll, I can not help but find those performance numbers to be HIGHLY suspect. Compare a similar design from Eaton (a company that has the very strange habit of telling the truth about it's products) that I looked at recently, this has a similar three cylinder semi-radial design and has 4 1/2 HP (19 AMPs/230 volts) compared to the MAXair's rating of 5 HP (21 AMPs/230 volts) the Eaton has 14 CFM@90 PSI as opposed to the 18.5 CFM@100 PSI for the MAXair. That extra 4 1/2 CFM (at a 10% higher pressure to boot!) is a VERY significant difference for only an extra 1/2 HP and I very seriously doubt it is capable of that kind performance. This is not to say it is a bad outfit as it most likely will out perform most of the more common designs of the same power but if someone selects that unit counting on that much air they will most likely be disappointed. I have obviously not tested this outfit but I have tested many compressors of different types and sizes over the years and I have never seen any kind of single stage piston compressor make near that much air on only 5 HP. I am not pushing the Eaton, actually my favorite is Quincy, it is just that they are known for being honest about their ratings and make a really good comparison-14 CFM@90 PSI for the Eaton vs 18.5 CFM@100 PSI for the MAXair, around 30% more air flow at 10% higher pressure with only an extra 1/2 HP-I don't think so
Boy are you guys right, three years ago I bought a Craftsman vertical 30 gal. 6 hp (BS) 115v, and it works just fine for normal stuff. But now I,m building a '32 Ford and using bigger air tools and this compressor just can't hang. After looking at the specs I saw that it puts out a whopping 6.4 cfm @ 90 psi !! and the motor does'nt even have a hp rating on it. Well its for sale now and I,m looking for a 60 gal 230v single phase unit, don't need huge. Lowes is advertising a "Kobalt" 60 gal. 7 hp "peak", 13.3 cfm @ 90 psi for $499. Sounds pretty good to me, think I,ll go take a look.....
picked this one up at a menards some years ago -10cfm@90psi-----12cfm@40psi --125 psi max 60 gal 6 hp at 220v. Got it for a little over $350 and runs my air grinder but at full draw it slows down some. Recovery is fast that is a plus. It will run the DA just fine since i dont run it at full power anyway just to keep heat down on steel.
Last edited by bluestang67; 02-17-2007 at 12:26 AM.
I have that Eaton pump that was mentioned. It does a good job, but will not keep up with a DA when I am stripping a car. For most other stuff it does great though. For the average person at home, it would be just fine. If I were going to buy another compressor, I would probably go with a 2 stage just for that reason though.
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"Tickets will be sold at all lunches and at the door."
The International Students Club is meeting on Monday after schoo in room 172. come plan activities for 2017!
P.O.C.U. is sponsoring a Food Drive to benefit the Amherst Survival Center - for the entire month of January.
Students, staff and Faculty please contribute dry or canned food items. Collection boxes are outside of Guidance Office and in room 168.
Dance Theatre Concert 'Sensory Awareness' Jan. 13 and 14 at 7:30 in the ARHS auditorium. Tickets at the door.
Bomba Formal Concert Wednesday Jan. 11 at 7:30 in the Dance Studio. Admission is free.
Students interested in winning the Robert Creeley poetry award can apply at robertcreeleyfoundation.org. Submit three poems for the chance to win recognition and $100!
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About the Book: Revolution 2020
From the best-selling Author of Five Point Someone and One night @ the Call Center, a story of corruption, love and the meaning of success, from the heartland of India
Childhood friends Gopal, Raghav and Aarti struggle to find success and love in Varanasi. Gopal comes from a poor family and cannot manage admission into the best engineering colleges in the country. Heartbroken, he moves to Kota for a year to study for exams. Raghav is from a well-to-do family, gets a good rank in JEE and joins IIT-BHU, one of India's top institutions. He sets out to fulfil his goal: to become a journalist. Aarti's is a powerful, well-connected family, and she wants to be an air hostess.
Both men have great potential. One wants to use his intelligence to realize the modern Indian dream; making money. The other wants to create a revolution. What's more, they both love the same girl. And she seems to love them both, in turn.
As Gopal and Raghav compete to succeed, they both realize the power of corruption. Gopal is appointed director of a new engineering college in Varanasi with the help of MLA Shukla, an unscrupulous politician; fittingly, Gopal builds it on the disputed land of his uncle. Raghav, in the meanwhile, completes his engineering degree and joins newspaper Dainik as an intern. Discovering Shukla's wrongdoings, he reveals his misdeeds in public.
Who will win, in love and the war against corruption?
About the Author: Chetan Bhagat
Chetan Bhagat is a graduate from IIT in New Delhi and a post graduate from IIM Ahmedabad. He is the best-selling Author of five blockbuster novels, some of which have been adapted into major Bollywood films. The New York Times called him 'the biggest selling English language novelist in India's history'.
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The nickname of the handset, Presto, is a music term that implies "quite fast" and hereby means "get it by one touch."
The one-touch music feature of Presto has enhanced access of the users for listening to the music, without the operation with menu entries or widget for running music play.
The handset features terrestrial DMB, SKY Studio, Bluetooth, external memory of 4GB (accompanied), mobile banking, traffic card, video telephony, music player, electronic dictionary and metro map.
It is available in red/black, lime/white and pink/white colors for 750,000-800,000 won (US$554-591).
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Does the Bible Advocate Taxes?
Give to Caesar; Give to God by Jason Hommel LewRockwell.com "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's." Many of my readers have asked me to explain what Jesus said in this verse. They want to know if Jesus meant to say to pay taxes or not. In order to... »
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The European Court of Human Rights has sent many Italians into a frenzy of anger over its decision that the crucifixes that hang in most Italian classrooms are a violation of religious and educational freedoms. The Court ordered that state run schools had to "observe confessional neutrality." Italy's education minister, Maria Stella Gelmini, reacted with anger saying, "no one, not even some ideologically motivated European court will succeed in rubbing out our identity." The Vatican denounced the ruling as "partisan and ideological." The ruling was the end result of a seven year campaign by a Finnish-born mother to have crucifixes removed from schools where her two children attend in a town located in north-east Italy.
Naturally, nationalist comments are flowing about the nerve of a "European" court to interfere in the lives and customs of the people of Italy. On Facebook, within hours of the decision, about 23,000 people indicated their protest at the ruling.
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I noticed that my hair looks and feels its best when it's about 90% dry. It's so nice and soft and pliable with a good weightiness to it. Once it's completely dry, it's fluffy and flyaway and feels parched. I assume this means my hair is dry, but nothing I have tried seems to help or get it to feel as hydrated as it does when it is in that state. Any thoughts/ideas?


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Ubiquitous Display Environments
Part of the series Cognitive Technologies pp 89-104
Considering the Aesthetics of Ubiquitous Displays
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We call attention to the important role that aesthetics, or visual beauty, can and should play in the deployment of ubiquitous displays. Following a short survey of the emergence of visual aesthetics in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI), we suggest that the importance of aesthetics stem from three main perspectives. The design perspective suggests that beauty is a cornerstone of any design discipline and that it is often positively related to other practices of good HCI design, such as usability. From a psychological perspective we argue that aesthetics induces pleasure and satisfies human needs; and that it is influential in how people form first impressions and subsequent attitudes. Finally, we argue that aesthetics has an important practical role as a differentiating factor between interactive products. Even more importantly, it is already woven into the socio-technical web of our time. We discuss the implications of this position for the design of ubiquitous displays.
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We are torn on this cover of "Look At Me Now." A side of of us says "Stop Now," and then we are like, "Ok, Not Bad."Give it a listen and tell us what you think. I do have to admit, the chick in this video has some talent. Well, she's better than most of us here at that station.
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Kai Ryssdal: Ever since the banking system really went off the rails back last September -- when Henry Paulson went to Congress with a two and a half page proposal that asked for $700 billion -- there has been a certain lack of forthrightness about what the money is being spent on. And there still is. Commentator and economist Dean Baker says it's time for the Obama administration to make good on its promise for more transparency.
DEAN BAKER: There's been a lot of talk in Washington about a new era of openness and accountability, but when it comes to the bank bailouts, we'll still
in the bad old days.
We know the basic story. The banks got into trouble with complex financial derivatives that they apparently didn't understand. Their losses left many bankrupt. And the taxpayers must either cough up the money or watch the financial system collapse.
Well, the taxpayers still have some options. Specifically, we have the right to demand that that money going out the door is actually used to prop up the banking system and not some well-connected hedge fund's gambling habit. At this point, we just don't know.
The secrecy problem is clearest with AIG, the giant insurer that has been largely taken over by the government. The government has already lent AIG $160 billion, and will almost certainly lend more in the future. Most of this money will not be repaid.
AIG needs taxpayer dollars because it made hundreds of billions of dollars of commitments in the form of "credit default swaps," which are a type of bond insurance. AIG has to pay out on these credit default swaps because many of the bonds they insured, which include mortgage
backed securities, are going bad at record rates.
The government has no legal obligation to honor AIG's credit default swaps, but ostensibly it is choosing to do so because these swaps are held by financial institutions that could fail if the credit default swaps were not honored.
The problem is that the public has no idea if this claim is true because we don't know who holds the swaps and how much they are owed. We don't know if the Fed is only honoring AIG's credit default swaps to ensure the solvency of banks and pension funds, or whether it may be paying off credit default swaps even in cases where hedge funds or other speculators were just making a bet that a bond would go bad.
The Fed and the Treasury are asking us to trust them with our money. But these are the people who completely missed the buildup of this financial bubble and minimized the problem at every turn. Their track record does not warrant much trust at this point.
Kai Ryssdal:Dean Baker is the co-director at the Center for Economic Policy Research.


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Ed Balls is the shadow chancellor and MP for Morley and Outwood
Ed Balls: It is Osborne who faces a credibility problem. His increasingly extreme approach goes far beyond the necessary task of deficit reduction
Douglas Alexander and Ed Balls: This Brussels meeting is real test for Tory ministers: they must secure a coalition of countries and a fairer deal for Britain
Ed Balls: The Tories claim the economy's fixed, but the facts suggest otherwise. Only Labour's radical and credible economic plan can deliver a fairer Britain
Ed Balls: Talk of an economic recovery rings hollow to ordinary families in Britain, who are still seeing their living standards fall
Ed Balls: Britain's modest recovery is weak, and benefits the richest most. We need a One Nation economic plan
Ed Balls: An economically literate chancellor would rise to the challenge set down by the IMF
The shadow chancellor on his elation at improving on last year's time, raising £100,000 – and not being passed by hula-hooping runners
When asked to run for charity one more time, my first thought was: 'I can do better than five hours 31 minutes'
Ed Balls and Jack Dromey: David Cameron and George Osborne promised to grow us out of recession. Instead they've dug the country into a deeper hole
Ed Balls, Sheila Lawlor, Michael Burke, Matthew Oakley and Mariana Mazzucato: The latest GDP figures show that the UK economy shrank by 0.3% at the end of last year. Our panellists discuss what this means
Ed Balls: With the UK economy flatlining and confidence fragile, could there be a worse moment to talk about leaving Europe?
Ed Balls: The IMF's downgrade of its forecast for Britain shows how reckless it is for the chancellor to press on with austerity
Ed Balls and Peter Mandelson: The eurozone needs to survive and succeed, and Britain must be part of the debate about its future
The first 13 miles of the London Marathon sped by for Ed Balls – then his knee gave out and his endurance was tested as never before. He explains how he made it to the finish
Some of the speakers at the festival of ideas and open journalism share their highlights and reflections
Ed Balls: A credible economic policy is crucial for the Labour party to win back power. But first we need a history lesson
Ed Balls: The world must reject the complacent isolationism of the 1930s and follow Keynes's lead: that global problems require global solutions
Ed Balls: In global economic crises the British chancellor has always led the response, but the Conservatives are nowhere to be seen
Ed Balls, Ruth Lea, Jonathan Portes, Digby Jones and Stephanie Blankenburg: Poor growth has led to calls for George Osborne to change tack on the economy. We ask five experts what they'd do to fix it
Ed Balls: The chancellor's plan for growth isn't working: the British economy has flatlined, and there are still cuts to come
Ed Balls: The coalition's dangerous combination of policies on policing threatens our longterm safety and security
Ed Balls: This election showed our unity. With the boost of a new leader we must spell out a genuine alternative to the coalition's dogma
Ed Balls: Labour's home-education bill would have introduced vital protection for children. Michael Gove should bring it back
Ed Balls: Those rushing to cut the deficit have not learned from the past. Labour has to set out the alternative
Ed Balls: Michael Gove is halting the building programme so he can fund a doomed, deeply unfair experiment
Ed Balls: A VAT hike before the recovery is secured is a recipe for slower growth, higher unemployment and a rising deficit
Ed Balls: We need to win back the voters we lost and show we understand their concerns
Letter: While schools with a religious character will be free, as now, to express the views of their faith, what they cannot do is suggest that their views are the only ones
Ed Balls: We have always fought for the many, not the few. Tory claims to do the same are a con trick
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In Britain, Mr Brown and Mr Blair implied, the issue was settled. Thatcherism had established the new norm, from which they would not depart. Their commitment against higher direct tax rates, and their decision to freeze public spending for the first two years, were meant to close down the fundamental argument. In reality, all kinds of taxes were pushed up. There was a welcome shift on another left-right axis, the pattern of redistribution. But debate was precisely what was not allowed. These things happened by stealth. Any possibility that public opinion might favour higher taxes openly proposed was too alarming to put to the test. It might tear apart the image of a reformed Labour party. Political convenience dictated that debate should not occur.
Now political convenience says differently. The leaders invite a discussion because they see the need to raise taxes, including perhaps direct taxes, which they've previously promised not to touch. Moreover, a cynic might say, they've loaded the outcome in their favour. Some public services have reached such a depth of inadequacy, in the fourth largest economy in the world, that there can be no case against greater public spending, or therefore higher tax. We've been living for five years in the middle of a social experiment that might have been designed to prove that the low-tax, low-spend aspirations of Thatcherism had finally to be contested. It's unnerving to think that the impoverishment of the NHS may be the only way a progressive party could get its case across. But that has surely helped precipitate Mr Brown's uncharacteristic request for a debate.
Meanwhile something else has been happening. The argument may at last be urgent, but it will be harder to have. There's a new dimension since the early days of Mr Blair. Public confidence in politicians seems to be steadily declining. The latest survey of British Social Attitudes (18th report, National Centre for Social Research) asked some questions about political engagement and trust, mainly to explore why apathy has reached such depths as were registered by the deplorable turnout at the last election. The verdict does not look good for a genuine tax debate.
In some ways, the British prove to be less apathetic than is commonly assumed. The survey, which is more meticulous than any opinion poll, produces figures that could persuade one there's plenty of life in the democratic dog yet. Though turnout is low, and interest in parliament in decline, engagement with public issues by other means is on the rise. Petition-signing, media-contacting, street protesting and even writing to an MP have grown markedly in the last 15 years. Many millions of us evidently still care about things beyond our precious lifestyles.
But to enlist us in a serious debate about higher taxation is to presume a reasonable level of trust in politicians to spend the proceeds well, and such trust seems to be in tatters. This is the only conclusion to draw from a wider measurement of confidence that was tested in a question asking whether people trusted British governments of any persuasion to place the needs of the nation above the interests of their own political party. Only 16% said they did so "just about always" or "most of the time". This is less than half the percentage (39) that said the same in 1974. The trust gauge steadily declined over three decades, with an upward blip to 29 in 1998, followed by the present abysmal figure, which implies a near halving of trust over the life thus far of the Blair government.
Whatever ministers say, in other words, the voters are becoming ever less inclined to believe in their selfless concern for the national interest. In particular, one may reasonably infer, if they say they want more of voters' money, they will face deep mistrust about how the proceeds will be used. Actually, another survey in a different context showed that, if asked the right way, people say they're willing to pay higher tax, including income tax. Last year's Fabian Society commission of inquiry into tax came up with old-fashioned, even socialistic, answers. But they were conditional on the belief that ministers can be trusted to give consumers of public services a better deal. An earmarked tax-rise for the NHS got 80% support.
Public desperation is already changing the context. Anxiety levels about health and transport in particular have now reached new peaks. Slowly but inexorably, the inviolable sanctity of the NHS as presently conceived is being challenged by intolerable waiting-lists and death-rates few other European countries suffer. The need for private money, essentially from the users of the service, subject to every kind of necessary means test, will become more glaring. Equally, the railway system cannot survive without public-private partnerships, organised on a basis that corrects the biggest scandal of the Major government, its rush to privatise at whatever price as long as the ideological pledge was met.
So the voters are ready for reform. They want to see investment and delivery on a level France and Germany regard as routine. Some of this will be with private money. But they're also ready for more public investment. What they await is a government that can break through the familiar contradiction, found in every survey on the subject, which reveals most respondents wanting better services and lower taxes at the same time, the Gordian knot that Gordon now seeks help in cutting. The apparent challenge is to his arithmetic. But the real one is to his credibility. How can he persuade the country that their taxes really are worth paying?
For in a sense, the debate is already over. Better services, in these elementary parts of civilised life, have now become such a paramount need that they've transcended the pressure for lower tax. We are a European not an American society, and demand the outcomes, if not always the methods, of social democracy. The demonstration effect of five years' Labour government has been, ironically, to prove the urgency of that priority by failing to deliver it.
What we know about political alienation is that much the greatest withdrawal of trust is due to the breaking of promises and the failure of delivery. Most other things, as the BSA survey suggests, are chaff in the media wind. So Gordon's discussion of forbidden subjects may be interesting. But not as a mask for what politicians should be doing, and are widely seen not to have done.


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August 23, 2012
Stockholm, Sweden (rushPRnews) 08/23/12 — Brands that are considering changing their straplines should first carry out market research to increase the likelihood of customers staying loyal to the company, according to market research tools provider, Cint.
A company's slogan reflects what the brand stands for and enables customers to identify its values. It is expected that retailers live up to whatever they promise – for example, UK retailer John Lewis's customers understand that the brand is 'never knowingly undersold'. Therefore, when looking to refresh a strapline, brands must be aware that existing consumers will have certain expectations and, consequently, seeking their opinion is vital.
Simply altering a slogan that customers have learnt to trust could have a detrimental effect. It may remove the ability for consumers to connect with the brand and even a small change could lead to a large change in the market position of the business. Shoppers need to have confidence in brands and without asking for their opinion on changes, a brand could be doing more harm than good.
The Co-operative Group, the UK's largest mutual retailer, is currently in the process of piloting a new strapline, 'Good for Everyone,' in selected food stores; it was decided that its 'Good with Food' slogan did not appropriately cover all aspects of the company, which include banking, travel, funeral services, as well as supermarkets.
Chief executive of Cint, Bo Mattsson, comments: "When considering a strapline change, it is necessary for decision makers to view initial research as an investment rather than an expense. Shoppers are becoming increasingly savvy, therefore brands should take every necessary step to instill a sense of confidence and reassure customers that their values and culture remain of the utmost importance. Any changes that might affect this confidence require a degree of market intelligence in order to maintain that sense of trust and rapport between brand and consumer.
"Furthermore, testing ideas and carrying out consumer research is an effective way of putting a brand name at the forefront of consumers' minds. When a customer knows that their opinion is valued and could influence the outcome of a brand's future, it has the potential to lead to steadfast loyalty and, therefore, an increase in purchases by those shoppers."
For further information on carrying out consumer research and market research panel management, visit www.cint.com.
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