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In anticipation of South by Southwest, we caught up with Megan Summerville of Austin's Sew Sister Lingerie. Summerville received a $30,000 "Love a Local Business" grant from Intuit last summer, enabling her to team up with several local designers and open Austin's first fashion co-op. "Designer vignettes" are displayed in each room of the nearly 2,000-square foot Victorian building.
Read on to see how Summerville collaborates with local designers, what she's planning for SXSW, and more.
ISBB: How is the business climate in Austin?
Summerville: It's starting to pick up. Thankfully, Austin is really in tune with trying to get the word out about buying local and supporting their local artists and local vendors. A lot of it is social media and networking events.
What's your approach to business?
I believe it's all of our philosophies to continue to show everyone this awesome this amazing, creative hub. Yes, you can make it on your own but it's so much easier to pool those creative energies together to life everybody up. Being at the top by yourself is pretty lonely. Truly, none of this dream would have been actualized without the folks at Intuit. I am constantly floored at what those dollars were able to do for my business and to do for the other designers.
How did you use the grant money?
I was able to utilize the money for outfitting the shop. A portion of the grant went to displays and hangers and furniture, also to advertising, PR, and month-to-month expenses. We're using the money to subsidize rent costs while we get things going. I wouldn't have been able to do it without the grant!
How did you choose collaborators for the fashion co-op? Was it hard to meld everyone's vision into one?
That was a far easier transition than I had anticipated. We would make horrible reality television because we get along so well! I met a lot of them through a local networking group here called Fashionably Connected. They have a resource on their website that lists local designers in Austin. Some of the designers were approached that way or during one of their free networking meetings. Two years ago, I won Texas' Next Top Designer competition, I met a ton of designers at that awards event, and I approached a couple of designers because I thought they were incredibly talented.
Are you doing anything special in conjunction with SXSW?
My boutique is actually half a block away from the convention center where the interactive and music portion are emanating from. We have a really beautiful, tropical-looking courtyard that we're renting out. Chevy has booked a good chunk of our courtyard. The boutique will be open so people can come in, see what local designers are doing. We as a house are offering a 10 percent discount to all badge and wristband holders.
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Sen. Brown Announces New Resources to Expand Access to Care at Allen County Community Health Center
Health Partners of Western Ohio is One of 219 Centers Selected for Federal Grant; Nationwide, Grants Will Create More than 5,600 Jobs and Expand Access to Care for 1.25 Million Additional Patients
WASHINGTON D.C. – An Allen County community health center received federal resources to expand access to health care. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today announced that Health Partners of Western Ohio of Lima was awarded $325,000 to expand access to quality health care and create jobs in Allen County. The funds, awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administrations (HRSA) Health Center New Access Point grants, will create health center jobs and help more Ohioans access more affordable preventive care rather than rely on costly emergency room visits – that are often billed to taxpayers.
"Community health centers play a vital role in Ohio's health care system, reducing emergency room use and providing critical services to patients who otherwise would have no access to care," Brown said. "These funds will allow Community and Rural Health Services to expand their reach to more Ohioans across Allen County and expand the range of services they provide."
This grant is one of 219 grants awarded to community health centers that are expected to create 5,640 jobs and expand care to more than 1.25 million new patients. In 2011, health centers employed more than 138,000 staff including: 9,900 physicians, 6,900 nurse practitioners, physicians' assistants, and certified nurse midwives, 11,800 nurses, 10,300 dental staff, 4,400 behavioral health staff; and more than 12,500 case managers, health education, outreach and transportation staff.

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Sculptural stud earrings in brass. Subtle contrast finishing; a stacked rectangle shape features a high polish raised rectangle contrasted by a brushed finish recessed triangle. Studs measure 1/4" x 7/16". Carved and cast entirely by hand in New York City.
Known for stocking local designers and hard to find labels, Brooklyn's O.N.A. boutique has the well-heeled heading to Prospect Heights. Owner Magda Jaworska left the retail scene of Williamsburg to pave the way with her own shop in the up-and-coming neighborhood. Accessible and girly with an edge is their MO. Shop brands such as Dusen Dusen, Ilana Kohn, First Rite and more.
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Cars are coming out of Patterson Drive, and the drivers don't care, especially the cab drivers and the big tractor-trailer trucks speeding. The city police sit there, but I realize they can only stay for so long.
I have talked to the county commissioners, but they said this was in the city. I'm hoping they will come out and look at the traffic and help before it is too late.
When I was a young man, we tried to get a red light on Atlanta Street. But when a little girl got killed, then the city took action. They made Atlanta Street into one way.
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The Chapter 11 debtor can avoid any payment to a creditor not made in the ordinary course of business within the 90 days prior to filing of the bankruptcy petition -- unless the payment is for less than $5,850.
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If your business extends credit to a debtor and that debtor files bankruptcy during the following 90 days, then the debtor can get its money back, unless the amount of the payment is less than $5,850, or the debt is paid in the "ordinary course of busiess according to ordinary business terms."
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ABBEVILLE —A state appeals court has ruled that a property tax to fund hurricane protection projects in Vermilion Parish cannot be levied within the city limits of Abbeville, the parish's largest city.
The Vermilion Parish Police Jury in 2010 called for a parishwide election on a new property tax to fund the newly created the Vermilion Parish Hurricane Flood Protection and Drainage District. The idea for the district emerged after the extensive flooding in the parish during Hurricane Rita in 2005 and hurricanes Ike and Gustav in 2008.
Abbeville officials objected to the tax, citing a provision in the city's governing charter that bars the police jury from imposing a tax within the city for anything other than the courthouse, jail, libraries and roads.
The police jury put off the tax vote and filed a lawsuit asking a judge to decide the issue.The judge sided with Abbeville after a trial earlier this year, and the state 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal agreed in a ruling issued this week.
The police jury has not decided its next step but could either ask the appeals court to rehear the case, seek a review by the state Supreme Court or let the ruling stand, said attorney Paul Moresi III, who is representing the policy jury in the case. Moresi had argued Abbeville's charter prevented the policy jury from taxing within Abbeville but not the new hurricane protection district.
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This "debate" is stage-managed production. Only the pain this tried rite inflicted prevented sleeping through the hypocrisy and deceit.
The whole event was orchestrated and vetted. It is designed to conceal truth and chloroform the public. No 'give and take' with real people occurred. No discussion or substance was permitted. Hand-picked voters gave written questions to the moderator, who then decided which would speak, and even that was rehearsed. The microphones were silenced as soon as the question was asked.
Both candidates claimed the largely vanished "middle class" while concealing plans being framed now to cut social programs drastically. Governor Romney cited the growth of poverty and unemployment as talking points. President Obama ignored them. The point of this fraud was to craft an illusion of real differences where none exist. Indeed the election merely serves to decide which tactics will be used to implement the same, agreed-upon policy.
The tone was set by the first question: a 20-year-old college student wanted to know if he would be able to support himself. Governor Romney said that he knows what it takes to create jobs. President Obama said, 'your future is bright.' Neither gave specifics, unless that was covered by the fact that the million jobs President Obama saved were bought with the brutal cuts in wages and benefits he imposed on the workers. Neither candidate could offer any policy addressing the disastrous situation facing youths and students.
Crowley asked about the plight of the 40% of unemployed people without a job for more than 6 months. Neither mentioned February's bipartisan bill slashing the duration of jobless benefits. Neither mentioned their plans to end extended unemployment benefits altogether on January 1.
What courage from both!
Both agreed on the attack on immigrants, on opening public lands to energy corporations, on corporate tax cuts, on war abroad, and on reform [privatization] of public education.
The key moment came when President Obama summed his 'vision' for America, nay-saying government job programs, and delivered his standard benediction to capitalism: 'I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.'
This, the media predictably presented as a conflict between drastically differing visions of society.
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- Michelle C. Wang, Guolong Lai, Roel Sterckx, Eugene Yuejin Wang. A Bronze Menagerie: Mat Weights of Early China. Boston, MA: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2006.
Articles in journals
- Michelle C. Wang. "The Thousand-armed Manjusri at Dunhuang and Paired Images in Buddhist Visual Culture." Archives of Asian Art 66.1 (2016).
- Michelle C. Wang. "Early Chinese Buddhist Sculptures as Animate Bodies and Living Presences." Ars Orientalis 46 (2016).
- Michelle C. Wang. "Changing Conceptions of "Mandala" in Tang China: Ritual and the Role of Images." Material Religion 9.2 (2013).
Articles in books
- Michelle C. Wang. "Buddhist Art and Architecture in East Asia." Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism. Ed. Mario Poceski. : Blackwell, 2014.
Edited books
- Michelle C. Wang and Wei-cheng Lin, ed. Performative Agency of Buddhist Art and Architecture in Asia. : Ars Orientalis Volume 46, 2016.
Book reviews
- Michelle C. Wang. "Review of 'Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan' (Special exhibition, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, February 26–July 31, 2011)." caa.reviews (2012).
- Michelle C. Wang. "Review of Sonya S. Lee, Surviving Nirvana: Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010)." caa.reviews (2012).


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I'm just putting the final touches on my first store. I want to use PayPal Pro (US) module for payment and have set up a sandbox account, got my API credentials, etc. No problem there. In fact, the Direct Payment part of PayPal Pro seems to work fine (i.e., credit cards.) However, the Express Checkout does not seem to be implemented correctly in Avactis--at least not when I compare the sequence of events to what is supposed to happen as shown in the PayPal manual. It seems to me that the Express Checkout button should show in the 1st checkout step labelled Billing and Shipping Addresses. In fact, it does show up there. However, once you click it, things start to go wrong. The PayPal manual shows the customer being taken directly to PayPal's shopping cart at this point where the customer logs in to their account. Then the billing and shipping addresses that are stored on PayPal are transmitted from PayPal back to Avactis where the customer completes the order. The whole point of Express Checkout is that the customer does not have to input any billing or shipping info on Avactis -- only on PayPal. Now, the sequence of events spelled out above does not happen with Avactis. Instead, when you click the Express Checkout button you are presented with a new Billing and Shipping Addresses page, only this one has only 3 fields in the billing side: first name, last name, and email address. So there's' the first point of confusion for the customer. If the customer, presented with this abbreviated Billing and Shipping page, elects to fill out the form, they are not given any instructions about what to do next. The PayPal Express Checkout button is on this page (I don't think it should be) and the normal Continue Checkout button also is on the page. If the customer clicks the PayPal Express button, what happens is that the form clears and they are presented with the same page to fill out once again. (Read that as: the customer abandons the cart and goes looking for one of your competitors stores.) If, on the other hand, they click the Continue Checkout button, they are brought to Step 2 of the checkout process - Billing and Shipping Methods. Here, because you're working on with the PayPal Pro module, they are presented with a form to fill in credit card info. Since the customer does not necessarily want to pay by credit card (after all, they had pressed the Express Checkout button initially,) they instead press the Continue Checkout button in the hope that they will find someplace to enter their PayPal credentials (hopefully the PayPal site.) But that doesn't happen. All that happens is that they are given error messages telling them they need to fill in credit card info. At this point, you've lost your customer...probably for good. My solution to this entire mess is to hide the PayPal Pro Express Checkout button altogether by using CSS (probably not something PayPal would like.) Then, in addition to PayPal Pro, I enable the PayPal Standard checkout module. Now, when the customer gets to step 2 - Shipping and Billing Methods, I give them a choice of selecting to pay via PayPal (the standard module) or by Credit Card (the pro module.) If they elected credit card, they fill in their cc info here. Regardless of which payment method they choose, the next thing they do is press the Continue Checkout button. This generates their order and moves them to step 3 - Review and Place Order. After looking over their order and making sure everything is correct, the customer presses the Place Order button. Now, if the customer had selected PayPal as a payment method, they are taken to the PayPal site where they login and complete their order. If they elected to pay by credit card, the payment info is transmitted to PayPal and, without the customer ever leaving the Avactis store, a completed payment transaction screen is presented to the customer along with all the pertinent order information. I apologize for the length of this message, but I wanted to get some feedback from the community, as well as layout a payment procedure that makes sense and that perhaps someone at Avactis would consider implementing so that folks like myself don't have to rework their cart in order to get it to work properly. Thoughts? Thanks. Jim
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ViTables is a graphical browser for HDF5 and PyTables databases. It can open arbitrarily large files and browse their data and metadata in a variety of ways. Its capabilities include easy navigation through the data hierarchy, displaying of real data and its associated metadata, and simple yet powerful browsing of multidimensional data.
FFmpeg is a tool for converting audio, video, and subtitles. It includes libavcodec, the leading open source codec library. It also includes libavformat (implementing muxers and demuxers), libswscale (for very fast video scaling), and libavfilter (an advanced video filter system supporting arbitrary filter graphs), and libavutil (a utility library intended to supplement libc). A simple multimedia player is included too. An experimental streaming server for live broadcasts is also included.
Mayan EDMS is a document manager Web application with custom metadata indexing, file serving integration, and OCR capabilities. It features user defined metadata fields, dynamic default values for metadata, lookup support for metadata, filesystem integration by means of metadata indexing directories, user defined document UUID generation, local file or server side staging file uploads, batch uploading of many documents with the same metadata, user defined document checksum algorithms, previews for a great deal of image formats including PDF, document OCR and searching, automatic grouping of documents by metadata, permissions and roles support, multi-page document support, page transformations, distributed OCR processing, and support for multiple languages.
Django Inventory is an inventory and asset control Web application. It features an object oriented approach to asset and inventory management, a CSV import utility, per asset or per item type photos and information, the ability to match suppliers to item types, a site wide search capability, user defined states for assets, the ability to define an item as a supply to another item, the ability to assign assets to one or more individuals, user photos, group assets, inventories or user per locations, purchase requests, and purchase orders.
iNetMon Portable is a professional application designed for network monitoring. It is designed to fit into any notebook running any operating system, so it can be carried around to plug into any segment and begin monitoring on the fly. It supports passive network auto-discovery with passive operating system fingerprinting. Its architecture is compatible with 64-bit applications. It features passive visual network tracing that can support up to 24 nodes in each traced session. It can display multiple views simultaneously, and it supports multi-threaded circular buffers.
Onzen is a graphical front end for the CVS, SVN, HG and Git revision control systems. It represents the files managed by the RCS in a tree view with detailed information and offers functions to update, commit, add, remove, rename, revert, diff, view files, and many more functions.
RainFramework is an MVC Framework for PHP. It's easy to use and it enables teams to work better. It is installable with a simple copy/paste operation. It has a very small footprint, with just the necessary library and files. It is well documented and tested, and it allows you to create Web applications more quickly. It also supports multiple languages, has a WYSIWYG editor, and is extensible.
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