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When I designed the key and lock die set I knew I wanted some nice shimmery heavy weight cardstock to make the dies look like real keys. I found some wonderful 107lb cardstock. This cardstock shimmers like you wouldn't believe. Lesa made a card with a key on it and you can see by the picture that the cardstock is full of shimmer.
She used Bronze on this card. We will be releasing 4 colors with this release: Copper, Pewter, Gold, and Bronze.
The cardstock will be sold in single color packs of 5 sheets or a multi-pack of 1 of each color.

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A benign squatter of temporarily absent homes comes upon an abused housewife on one of his break-ins and they start a silent love affair.
This allegorical love story from rising Korean directorial star Kim Ki Duk involves friendly Korean footpad (Jae Hee) breaking into holidaying folks houses and staying there a while repairing things, leaving no trace of his presence when he leaves.
On one such benign break-in, hes discovered by abused housewife Lee Seung-Yeon, and an unusual, tender and pleasantly played (though entirely wordless) love affair develops. She joins his nomadic existence, before the pair are apprehended and the film takes an ethereal turn.
Beguiling to the point of bafflement the golfing metaphor is simply pie-in-the-sky 3-Irons brand of evocative magic-realism hints at a tightly wound ball of meaning, but is a bitch to untangle. The dreamy atmosphere of romance and longing is beautifully created, however, and makes for an engrossing, if demandingly obscure, watch.
A compelling, if obscure, experience with evocative scene-setting and dreamy atmosphere


text: Posted April 21, 2007 Hi everyone. I'm a reporter (please don't hold it against me) for the Daily Globe in Worthington and want to write a story for our fishing tab about fishingminnesota.com.I'm looking for comments and stories about why you use the site, what makes it work so well, how being able to exchange info has changed or added to how and where you fish - that kind of thing. I've exchanged an email or two with Rick and will get input from him also, but I want input from the people that use it every day, that depend on it for information, that use it to meet new fishing buddies...whatever. Please keep in mind, this is about the positive impact of the fm site. Also, I may quote anything you have to say, so whether you want me to use your screen name or real name is up to you, but I would like a general location of where you are. Anyone that would like to email me directly can find my email address in my profile. I will add my toll-free number also.Deadline for this is Thursday morning, April 26, so please respond before then or your comments will not be used.Thanks!Justine Wettschreck (yep, aka Boilerguy and/or Eric's wife...sorry honey)P.S. If anybody wants a copy of the tab after it publishes in early May, let me know and I'll send them out Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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giveaway:: win a free night at the Radisson!
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, larry lunt wrote: > New guy here, Larry from Freeport. How many are on this list? > What's the post frequency been? I don't know how many subscribers there are. The posting frequency varies from less than one per month up to several dozen per day. Got any questions about running a mailing list? - murr - Just those two for now murr.


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That is Canossa—the alba Canossa, the candida petra of its rhyming chronicler.
He is wearing a penitent's sack over his regal habit, as at Canossa.
He was forced to yield; and, crossing the Alps in the middle of winter, he presented himself at the castle of Canossa.
How could an instrument written at Canossa have been written at Rome?
No sooner had Henry reached Turin, than he set forward again in the direction of Canossa.
The matter ended at Canossa, as you know, when the Emperor had to kiss the Pope's foot.
Azzo, his second son, fortified Canossa, and made it his principal place of residence.
At this period Bismarck made his famous declaration, "To Canossa we do not go!"
As yet, however, after nearly two hours' driving, Canossa has not come in sight.
It was in the year 1080, three years after the events of Canossa, that the next step was taken by Gregory.


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Skin cancer is an increasingly common disease, particularly among young adult women. Sunburn early in life is a risk factor for skin cancer. Few studies have reported on psychosocial correlates of sunburn. The current study consisted of an online survey of undergraduate women from a university in the northeastern part of the USA. A logistic regression demonstrated that young women who reported a history of four or more sunburns were significantly more likely to report fair skin, higher perceived susceptibility to skin cancer, greater perceived benefits of tanning (e.g., appearance enhancement), lower perceived control over skin protection, and more frequent sunscreen use. Sunbathing was not associated with a greater number of sunburns. These results suggest that young women who sunburn more often possess other skin cancer risk factors, are aware of their susceptibility to skin cancer, and try to use sunscreen, but feel limited control over their skin protection behavior and are not less likely to sunbathe than others. Therefore, interventions are needed to assist high risk young women in asserting more control over their sun protection behavior and perhaps improve the effectiveness of the sunscreen or other skin protection methods they do employ.
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the USA, accounting for half of all human malignancies, with over two million new cases diagnosed yearly [
Sixty to ninety percent of all melanomas can be attributed to ultraviolet (UV) radiation [
Studies of the correlates of sunburn have focused on demographic variables such as gender, race, and age, with most of these studies finding that young white women are most likely to report a history of sunburns [
No study, to our knowledge, has applied a theoretical model to predicting sunburns. The Health Belief Model addresses motivational factors for behaviors associated with disease risk, such as perceived susceptibility to and severity of diseases such as skin cancer, perceived benefits of and barriers to associated behaviors (e.g., tanning and skin protection), self-efficacy and control over behaviors, and behavioral intentions [
The purpose of the current study was to explore potential correlates of sunburn in a high risk population of young adult women. The variables included in the analyses were biological (fair skin, family history of skin cancer), attitudinal from the HBM (perceived benefits of tanning and barriers to sunscreen use, perceived severity of and susceptibility to skin cancer and damage, self-efficacy for skin protection, perceived control over tanning and skin protection, and intentions to avoid tanning and protect the skin), and behavioral (sunbathing and sunscreen use).
Female undergraduates at a university (
Participants were asked to indicate the color of their untanned skin, with possible choices being very fair, fair, medium light, medium (olive), medium dark, and very dark. This is one item used to help determine Fitzpatrick skin type [
Perceived health and emotional impact severity of skin cancer and photo-aging was assessed using a four-item measure by Aiken and colleagues [
Participants completed three items designed to assess perceived benefits (e.g., for appearance) of tanning (α = 0.88). These items were from Gibbons and colleagues [
Self-efficacy for using various types of sun protection (e.g., sunscreen, protective clothing) was assessed using a seven-item measure with items scored on a five-point Likert-type scale of agreement [
Behavioral intentions to avoid tanning and protect the skin from UV radiation were assessed using nine items from Mahler and colleagues [
Participants were asked to indicate how many times in their entire lives they have had a red or painful sunburn that lasted a day or more [
Other behaviors assessed were sunbathing and sunscreen use. Participants indicated how many days on average they spend tanning in the sun each week [
All female psychology students were recruited during the academic school year via e-mail and web through a psychology department research subject pool at a northeastern university in the USA. Psychology 101 is a required introductory course for several majors at the university. After consenting via an online consent form, students completed the online questionnaire at their convenience. Written information about tanning and health resources was given to all participants after participation. Participants were given research participation extra credit for a psychology course and a $20 PayPal voucher as compensation for their participation.
Data was assessed for normality, and descriptive statistics were calculated. Chi square analyses and independent samples
Characteristics of college women by sunburn status.
|Sunburned 3 or fewer times (n = 254)
|Sunburned 4 or more times (n = 255)
|Fair skinned
|67 (26.4)
|146 (57.3)
|Not fair skinned
|187 (73.6)
|109 (42.7)
|Family history of skin cancer
|51 (20.1)
|107 (42.0)
|No family history of skin cancer
|203 (79.9)
|148 (58.0)
|Sunbathe at least once a day/week
|96 (38.6)
|143 (57.2)
|Sunbathe less than once a day/week
|153 (61.4)
|107 (42.8)
|Perceived susceptibility
|2.3 (1.0)
|2.9 (1.1)
|Perceived severity
|4.5 (0.5)
|4.6 (0.5)
|Perceived benefits of tanning
|3.0 (1.2)
|3.7 (1.0)
|Perceived barriers of sun protection
|2.2 (0.7)
|2.1 (0.7)
|Sun protection self-efficacy
|2.8 (0.9)
|2.7 (0.7)
|Perceived control over tanning
|4.5 (2.3)
|3.4 (2.3)
|Perceived control over protection
|5.0 (1.8)
|4.8 (1.8)
|Intend to avoid tanning
|5.1 (1.9)
|4.5 (1.8)
|Intend to protect the skin
|4.3 (1.3)
|4.3 (1.3)
|Frequency of sunscreen use
|2.9 (1.2)
|3.2 (1.1)
Multivariable logistic regression analyses showed that fairer skin (OR = 3.30, 95%CI = 2.17, 5.03), more frequent sunscreen use (OR = 1.34, 95%CI = 1.05, 1.71), greater perceived susceptibility of skin cancer (OR = 1.32, 95%CI = 1.07, 1.62), greater perceived benefits of tanning (OR = 1.39, 95%CI = 1.10, 1.76), and lower perceived control over using sun protection (OR = 0.86, 95%CI = 0.75, 0.98) were associated with being sunburned four or more times, when also taking into account family history of skin cancer, sunbathing, perceived skin cancer and damage severity, perceived barriers to using sun protection, sun protection self-efficacy, perceived control over tanning, and behavioral intentions. Results of regression analyses are reported in
Multivariable model showing associations between sunburn status and biological, attitudinal, and behavioral factors (n = 494).
|Fair skin
|3.30 (2.17–5.03)
|Family history of skin cancer
|1.52 (0.96–2.40)
|Perceived susceptibility
|1.32 (1.07–1.62)
|Perceived severity
|0.98 (0.67–1.44)
|Perceived benefits of tanning
|1.39 (1.10–1.76)
|Perceived barriers of sun protection
|0.70 (0.48–1.03)
|Sun protection self-efficacy
|0.90 (0.62–1.29)
|Perceived control over tanning
|0.90 (0.79–1.02)
|Perceived control over protection
|0.86 (0.75–0.98)
|Intend to avoid tanning
|1.09 (0.93–1.29)
|Intend to protect skin
|1.04 (0.84–1.29)
|Sunbathe at least 1 day/week
|1.04 (0.63–1.74)
|Frequency of sunscreen use
|1.34 (1.05–1.71)
Skin cancer rates are increasing, particularly among young adult women [
One wonders whether young adult women acquire sunburns due to biological or psychosocial factors. Based on the current data, it appears that both such factors contribute. Young women who acquire more sunburns do have fairer skin and are slightly more likely to have a family history of skin cancer but perceive greater benefits of tanning and do not engage in less sunbathing than lower risk women. Although young women who get more sunburns report lower perceived control over using skin protection, they report a higher susceptibility to skin cancer and skin damage, slightly lower perceived barriers to sun protection, and use sunscreen more often than women who get fewer sunburns. Thus, women's sunbathing and sunscreen use behaviors may be counteracting one another in terms of sun safety. Even individuals trying to get a tan typically do not intend to burn and may be somewhat deterred from future burning [
Lower perceived control over sun protection suggests that young women who get more sunburns would like to use sunscreen more overall but do not follow through successfully when actually in a sunny environment such as a beach or pool. There seems to be a gap between education and awareness on the one hand and actual behavior on the other [
Strengths of the current study include the relatively large sample size and the use of the HBM. Limitations include the cross-sectional nature of the study and the inclusion of only psychology students from one US college, which may limit generalizability. However, many students are required to take psychology courses, and US college women are an appropriate study population due to their high levels of skin cancer risk behaviors and the increasing skin cancer rates among young women. An additional potential source of bias is that individuals may have been differentially motivated by the incentives provided.
This work was funded by R03CA1504202 (CH) and P30CA006927 (Cancer Center Grant). The authors would like to thank Jeanne Pomenti, BS for her technical assistance in the preparation of this manuscript and Sara Filseth, BA for her assistance with data collection.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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So I always keep all of my pictures and documents in the My Pictures and My Documents folder, until I got a random update through Microsoft for Vista, then when the update finished I got a cool new GUI with different icons and a different wallpaper.
I check my documents and pictures and they're gone, to which I then did a start search, I found all of my data and then cut-pasta'D it into the new and empty My Documents and My Pictures folders.
Everything was good, then I shut down my computer. When I got back on my computer the interface before the update came back on and my pictures/documents weren't in the old My Documents and My Pictures folders anymore, I moved them when the interface was new, now I cannot find them even with a start search but it only leads to the location they once were w/o bringing them, back.
My one and only account is administrator, so that can't be it, and I disabled Norton and did system restore but that didn't bring my files back, I used Recuva but none of my pictures/documents were in there.
What I am thinking is before the update my files were in location A, then after the update they were still in A and then I moved them to location B in the new GUI, after I shut down the whole windows interface reverted back to the old one with all of my data still in location B, but now using start search just tells me that my files are still in location A even though they are not, so my data's still on the hard drive somewhere.
I have a C drive and a D partition HP Recovery drive and the amount of drive space hasn't changed on either after the upgrade (then downgrade). Also it says 11 gigs of the HP Recovery drive are taken even though it's empty when I click on it.
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I have really good credit which has been affected by my identity being stolen in 2007. There were 2 data breaches in the state we moved from. One breach involved over 100,000 tax payers identities, from the CT Dept of Revenue Svs, the other from the State University I attended in that state. Thousands of students identities were involved in that breach as well.
A creditor has sent notification by mail of a pending judgement against me. I have 30 days to respond, according to what the correspondence states. My credit union accts were hacked into, along with email accts, my mail tampered with, etc. All under investigation for over a year now. Your response would be appreciated.
If you have not already disputed properly, you should consider disputing with the credit bureaus who claim you owe a debt. You should be as detailed as possible. Hopefully, that will take care of the problem or at least help. Because you have advised that your case involves identity theft, you should obtain a police report and also complete the attached fraud affidavit. I strongly recommend that these documents be sent to the credit bureaus with your dispute. If the creditor or debt collector has already asked you for more information, you should provide that to them. If you do not, they will take the position in any litigation that you failed to mitigate your damages. Most judges and juries are going to expect you to use your best efforts to solve the problem. If after you dispute to the creditors, they continue to try to collect the debt by sending you dunning letters or by placing or leaving items on your credit report, then you probably have a claim under Florida's Consumer Collection Practices Act and/or the Fair Credit Reporting Act. If you contact my office via email, I can furnish you with an instructional dispute letter. You should file a police report and file an Identity theft affidavit with the FTC. If there is a prosecution, the Court has authority to issue orders to correct public records. See Section 817.568(9)(b), Fla. Stat. I wish you the best in the future.
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Maxim's girl of the month, Kara talks about her participation on 'American Idol' and how she gets along with Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres.
As "American Idol" begins the Hollywood weeks of season 9, Kara DioGuardi shows up on the latest issue of Maxim magazine. No longer sitting behind the desk, Kara shows off her bikini-clad figure in some playful poses. The March issue which features Kaley Cuoco in the front cover will be on sale soon.
In the last season of "Idol", Kara debuted her bikini body on national television when she appeared after Bikini Girl contestant. This year, she joked that she wanted to top it off by getting naked. "But that could actually have the opposite effect, so I think I'll keep my clothes on," she told Maxim. "... I would say that was definitely the first time... and probably the last."
She also talked about "Idol" including why the executives selected her at the first place. "They were looking for a fourth judge, and they wanted to add someone who was in the industry," she revealed. "Plus, I'm known to be ballsy and outspoken. They knew I wouldn't clam up and go under the desk. Although I did want to, believe me!"
Regarding her chemistry with Simon Cowell, Kara admitted, "It's hard for me to say something negative to a contestant without giving something constructive back, and that annoys Simon. But they're kids, and you feel for them - especially when they have a story, like they've overcome cancer or something."
Missing Paula Abdul who quit the show last year, Kara said she was happy enough with Ellen DeGeneres coming as replacement. She said, "I was like, 'Rock on!' Are you kidding? The thing with Ellen I don't think everybody understands is that she's a huge music lover. That's what you need to be on Idol."
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Thursday, 13 July, 2000, 11:39 GMT 12:39 UK
Australian teachers ease crisis
Head teachers from a London education authority have travelled to Australia to recruit teachers to fill their classrooms.
Education officials in Croydon launched "Operation Kangaroo" when faced with more than 40 vacant full-time teaching posts.
The high cost of living in the area, coupled with a national teacher shortage, has made it extremely difficult for Croydon schools to attract the staff they need.
But after four head teachers interviewed between about 90 and 100 teachers in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, 30 vacant posts have been filled.
A total of 25 Australian teachers will start work in Croydon schools in September, and another five in January.
Officials say about another 25 teachers are set to come over in January to fill any remaining vacancies in Croydon, as well as vacancies in other parts of London.
The operation was organised by the LEA together with the specialist teacher recruitment agency Timeplan.
'Strenuous process'
The four head teachers, two from primary schools and two from secondary schools, travelled to Australia in pairs. Each pair spent a week interviewing candidates together with Timeplan representatives.
Councillor Louisa Woodley, chairman of Croydon's education committee, said a working group monitoring teacher recruitment had identified the need for a significant number of staff early enough to take action.
The costs of the operation were covered by Timeplan, she added.
"The process was strenuous - the head teachers spent hours and hours interviewing. The heads of the other schools needing staff trusted their judgement to make appointments," she said.
"The cost of living in and around London means the teacher shortage is more acute here."
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The government's efforts to tackle the problem, such as its new recruitment policies and advertising campaign, were starting to work, and would be effective, but they were long-term solutions, she said.
"We needed a short-term solution, otherwise there may have been classes without teachers in September. We did not want anything to affect the quality of education provided."
Cllr Woodley said there was already a "sizeable minority" of teachers from Australia and New Zealand working in Croydon.
"There seems to be a surplus of teachers in Australia. I believe many teachers there are employed on short-term contracts."
The education system in Australia was similar to that in the UK, and teachers coming from Australia to Croydon would undergo a short induction course before they started teaching in the LEA's schools.
Thomas O'Regan, head teacher of Atwood Primary School, was one of the four heads who volunteered to travel to Australia to carry out the interviews.
He said that by the time the trip took place last month, he had managed to fill the vacancies at his own school, but was able to advise fellow heads back in Croydon about the most suitable candidates.
"We interviewed a lot of people. All our days were pretty well booked up. Some days we were interviewing until nine o'clock at night.
"Because I didn't need to fill any vacancies in my own school, I was able to be completely unbiased - I wasn't going to be taking the best people for myself."
Mr O'Regan said the interviewers had turned down a "significant number" of teachers who they deemed to be unsuitable, but equally he had met "a number of people who I said I would love to have working in my school".
The standard of teaching in the UK and Australia was probably about the same, and the two countries had similar approaches.
Another of the interviewers, Richard Warne, head teacher of Ashburton Community School, said travelling to Australia to recruit teachers for Croydon schools was drastic, but that "drastic measures need to be taken".
"There is a national shortage, particularly in a number of subject areas in secondary schools, and we're worse off in London."
Mr Warne has recruited two Australian members of staff for his school.
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Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering knew from the start that they weren't just making a movie.
"The Invisible War," their searing, Academy Award-nominated documentary about sexual assault in the military, was intended to galvanize change - in military culture, policy and, ultimately, the legal system.
So from the beginning the pair - Dick as director, Ziering as producer - conceived a "grass tops" strategy for having the film seen by those who could implement that change: members of Congress, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, administration officials.
But they never imagined that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearing would feature questions about "The Invisible War." Or, for a time at least, that they would find themselves not so much filmmakers as lobbyists - although they wince, simultaneously, at the term when I use it in an interview.
Dick and Ziering have been shuttling from Los Angeles to Washington - most recently for Tuesday's daylong hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, during which "The Invisible War" played a starring role.
The next day, Ziering was at the White House for a meeting with senior adviser Valerie Jarrett. "I have seen the movie and was in tears throughout it," Jarrett told me by email.
"I knew it was going to be explosive," Dick said. "I didn't know it was going to be transformative."
Indeed, since the movie's release, the debate has shifted from whether the military has a sexual assault problem - the Joint Chiefs, arrayed before the Armed Services Committee, penitently agreed - to whether, as Dick and Ziering argue fervently, decisions about such cases should be left to prosecutors and removed from the full discretion of commanders.
That notion is anathema to the military, which insists that relieving commanders of such authority would erode good order and discipline. But how? And where is the good order and discipline in an estimated 26,000 instances of unwanted sexual contact last year?
Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, the panel's chairman, cited the film in his opening statement. Indiana Democrat Joe Donnelly asked about retired Coast Guard Seaman Kori Cioca's account of being raped and later warned she would be court-martialed for lying if she reported it.
"I watched that and it broke my heart," Adm. Robert Papp, the Coast Guard commandant, replied. "We've made that mandatory viewing for our senior leaders."
Indeed, "The Invisible War" has become an unofficial military training video - far more effective than the Pentagon-created material lampooned in the film. "One of the most effective training methods that we use," Army Col. Donna Martin testified.
Less comforting was Martin's description of how her criminal investigators responded after watching the movie. "It was amazing to me how many of my special agents still question the victim's response," she said. "What was very important ... was to talk about the lack of trust that the victims had for the chain of command (and) how they felt re-victimized."
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The obvious analogue to the impact of "The Invisible War" is Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel "The Jungle," which exposed exploitation of workers and unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry. The ensuing public outrage led to the new food and meat-safety laws.
As with "The Jungle," the film proves the emotional power of narrative. The data on sexual assaults in the military are upsetting; the video of victims telling their stories is gut-wrenching.
"I don't think anyone leaves the theater unchanged," Ziering said.
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lot of fun, but not necessarily definitional.
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GOD TV, has prepared an extensive line up of holiday programming for its nearly half a billion viewers. Tune in to see special Christmas broadcasts and several LIVE events.
Christmas Eve includes a carol service with UK evangelist, J John and a Celebration of Hope from San Francisco with Argentine evangelist, Carlos Annacondia. GOD TV co-founder, Wendy Alec also presents 'A Word from Heaven' bringing encouragement to those who face the festive season alone or who are struggling with depression.
On Christmas Day viewers can watch a Behind the Screens Christmas and New Year Special with GOD TV founders, Rory & Wendy Alec and see Bishop TD Jakes at the Hillsong Conference in Sydney, Australia.
A highlight of GOD TV's holiday programming is 'Delirious? Night' on December 27. The UK rock legends disbanded in November after a decade of impacting the globe with their music and GOD TV is the only broadcaster to air their final concert. GOD TV viewers have also been voting for their favorite Delirious song of all time and the results will be announced in a Top 10 Video countdown. Hosted by GOD TV's youth presenters Emma Owen and Chip-K, Derlirious? Night includes an exclusive final interview with the band and the not to be missed spectacular farewell concert.
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A highlight of New Year's Day on GOD TV is the Basement's New Year Bash LIVE from Birmingham, Alabama with Matt Pitt. Entitled 'A New Year, A New You' this event is dedicated to bringing in the New Year sold out to God, celebrating 2009, and looking ahead in faith to 2010. Viewers can also watch the Big Church Day Out Extra, presented by the BBC's Diane-Louise Jordan, which features exclusive interviews with gospel music artists Michael W Smith, Israel Houghton and Delirious? and excerpts from their gospel song performances.
"We have found that people often ask questions about the future at Christmas and New Year and that's why our End Time season is so popular. This is an opportune time for viewers to encourage their family and friends to tune in, because despite all the cataclysmic events at the end of the age, we have a blessed hope – the return of Jesus Christ! He is our soon coming King and with Him we can face the future with confidence."-Wendy Alec, head of programming at GOD TV
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In the last few weeks, major holiday retailers Best Buy and Target have announced online price-matching plans to combat the "showrooming" effect. This is a growing trend where shoppers go into a brick-and-mortar retail store to try out their products then go online to secure the best price thanks to e-commerce competition. This has been a huge wakeup call for big box retailers, that in the past have denied that e-commerce from online competitors like Amazon have hurt sales.
Smartphones and tablets have become our on-the-go (and in-home) tools to enhance our shopping experience for everything from finding store locations, directions, and hours of operation to product research and, increasingly, purchases. And this holiday season we predict the trend will amplify as harried, cost-conscious holiday shoppers utilize smartphones and tablets to find coupons and the latest deals to get a few extra bucks off at the register.
I recently authored a comprehensive white paper that reveals pervasive trends in consumer holiday shopping. The research included reviewing the spending habits of more than 8,500 consumers during the 2011 holiday season and was cross-referenced with data from over 500 digital holiday campaigns that ran during the fourth quarter of last year.
This is the fourth in a six-part series that focuses on the top consumer holiday spending trends and how marketers can capitalize on those trends to increase revenue this holiday season. The full white paper can be found here.
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Mobile devices could be a marketer's biggest helper when it comes to driving sales this year. Mobile influences 5.1 percent of all retail store sales in the U.S., which translates roughly to $159 billion in forecasted sales for 2012 (Deloitte Digital The Dawn of Mobile Influence study). And that estimate is likely low considering it looked at smartphones only – and not tablets.
And according to our white paper research, half of consumers surveyed about their use of mobile devices for holiday shopping say they will use their smartphones and two-thirds will use their tablets to make holiday purchase decisions.
As mobile use continues to grow as a convenient shopping tool for consumers, advertising on these devices is also growing, but not nearly as quickly as consumer usage. This is surprising considering no other channel allows marketers to reach consumers in an "in-the-moment" and "in-the-right-place" mindset when it comes to shopping behavior. It's also important to note that tablet and smartphone behaviors are very different. Although they are used almost interchangeably by many marketers as advertising channels, consumers use smartphones and tablets differently in the shopping process.
Tablets have extraordinary power in the home. Sources like Nielsen and PayPal have noted the existence of "couch commerce" whereby consumers use the tablet from the comfort of their living rooms to both browse e-commerce sites and take action based on advertisements they see on television. As a channel, tablets are more than twice as likely as smartphones to encourage customers to make an online purchase.
Smartphones, while still used as portable media devices in the home, are also used on the way to the store and in-store to get more information, check prices, and occasionally even make the purchase from within the physical retail store. And increasingly we predict consumers will utilize smartphones for real-time price match research in order to get a discount in the store. While smartphones are not heavily used for direct online purchases, they are proving to be an excellent place for compelling ads to aid the user in researching their holiday purchases.
Source: BigInsight.com, Oct. 2011 n=8585 Adults 18+
While many marketers may have developed apps for their products, a surprising number of them have not fully optimized their retail websites for both smartphone and tablet access. This is a crucial step in creating a positive – and potentially lucrative – connection with information- and product-seeking holiday shoppers.
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Despite brick-and-mortar stores seeing a decline due to new customers' shopping behaviors, physical retailers and ecommerce providers can benefit from acting as allies rather than enemies. Here are three key examples as to how.
Why retail scalping is still big business – and what to do about it
Retailers and marketers are seeing great value in incorporating limited editions into their business plans, even in a world of digital goods and unlimited shelf space. But while selling high-value, limited-edition products is big business, so is scalping them. How can retailers fight back?
How retailers and brands responded to Amazon Prime Day
This week, Amazon held its third-annual Prime Day, a shopping holiday that the retail giant created and has turned into one of the biggest sales days of the year. But not all retailers were content to sit idly and watch it happen. Here's how some of them responded.
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A campaign landing page is at the forefront of your brand's reputation for new customers, but 96% of visitors who go to a website aren't ready to buy. We chatted with Megan James, a clinical psychotherapist and content strategist for MGID, to learn more about how an effective landing page can increase conversions.


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To the right are products that we currently sell as Lighting detail kits. The difficult work has been completed for the N modeler. The warning sign (above left) comes with the beacon simulator (Ngineering part # N8032) and the modeled sign with the hooded warning amber led ready to be installed in your scenery. Four solder connections on the simulator board and power connections complete the "Action Sign." This kit is priced at $24.95. The signal ahead sign can be changed out for the modelers preferences. Click on the photo for the video of the flashing sign. Al the videos were shot in full room lighting.
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the back porch and surrounding area. This model is made as a wall mount and
can be mounted above a back door or building wall. Photo shows product
mounted on a DPM building back entrance. Our sister product (not shown) is a goose
neck light that has a dim cast to the light created by using a yellow LED.
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FRED. As a service to our N modelers, we install
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car for track powered applications. The part number is DTD IN EOTK.
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To illustrate how material abundance increases for each generation under free market capitalism, W. Michael Cox, chief economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, has done several studies comparing the purchases that teenagers could make from a summer job at the minimum wage, in various years.
Mark J. Perry, a professor of economics and finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan, updated the Cox analysis:
- In 1949, the minimum wage was $0.40 per hour, and a full-time summer job (40 hours per week for 12 weeks) would have generated $192 in total summer earnings (ignoring taxes).
- Using a Sears catalog for retail prices, $192 would have only purchased the following four items in 1949: Typewriter: Smith-Corona, $84; Argus 21 35mm Camera, $52; Silvertone FM-AM Table Radio, $33; Silvertone 3-Speed Phonograph, $25; Total: $194.
Now contrast that with 2009:
- At the 2009 minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, a full-time summer job will generate about $3,500 this year.
- This would be enough to purchase the following 28 items: Dell Laptop Computer, $549; HP Color Ink Printer, Scanner, Copier, $99; Canon 8.0 Mega Pixel Camera, $99; Portable GPS System, $89; 32 inch LCD HDTV, $397; 8GB iPod Nano, $149; GE 1.1 cu ft. Microwave, $69; Haier 4.1 Cu. Ft. Refrigerator/Freezer, $239; Toshiba DVD/VCR Combo, $78; RCA 5-Disc DVD Home Theater System, $174; Uniden Cordless Phone, $27; RCA AM/FM Stereo CD Boombox, $29; HP 10bII Financial Calculator, $30; Camcorder, $149; Cusinart Blender, $99; KitchenAid Toaster, $50; Oster Rice Cooker, $40; Rival Slow Cooker, $40; Cuisinart Waffle Maker, $30; Breadmaker, $60; Oster Blender, $33; Sony Playstation 2 Console, $150; Nintendo - Nintendo DSi (Blue), $170; Weslo - Pursuit 360 R Exercise Bike, $200; Frigidaire - 6,000 BTU Window Air Conditioner, $180; Honeywell - Tower Air Purifier, $100; Hoover - Tempo Widepath Upright Vacuum, $75; Philips Sonicare Power Toothbrush, $100; Total: $3,504.
What a difference 60 years of free market capitalism makes, says Cox!
Add it all up. When it comes to their economic prospects, today's young Americans are the luckiest generation in history -- at least until their children grow up and forge an even luckier one. And even if real wages are flat, the explosion of new products over time at lower and lower prices translates into a rising standard of living for all income groups, even minimum wage workers, says Cox.
Source: Mark Perry, "Young Americans: Luckiest Generation in History," Carpe Diem, Mark J. Perry's Blog for Economics and Finance, March 13, 2009; and W. Michael Cox (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), "Capitalism's Many Benefits Create 'Luckiest Generation,'" Investor's Business Daily, October 2, 2000.
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Inspired by anomalies that arise in certain mathematical equations, researchers have demonstrated a laser system that paradoxically turns off when more power is added rather than becoming continuously brighter.
The finding by a team of researchers at Vienna University of Technology and Princeton University, could lead to new ways to manipulate the interaction of electronics and light, an important tool in modern communications networks and high-speed information processing.
The researchers published their results 13 in the journal Nature Communications.
Their system involves two tiny lasers, each one-tenth of a millimeter in diameter, or about the width of a human hair. The two are nearly touching, separated by a distance 50 times smaller than the lasers themselves. One is pumped with electric current until it starts to emit light, as is normal for lasers. Power is then added slowly to the other, but instead of it also turning on and emitting even more light, the whole system shuts off.
"This is not the normal interference that we know," said Hakan Tureci, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Princeton, referring to the common phenomenon of light waves or sound waves from two sources cancelling each other. Instead, he said, the cancellation arises from the careful distribution of energy loss within an overall system that is being amplified.
"Loss is something you normally are trying to avoid," Tureci said.
"In this case, we take advantage of it and it gives us a different dimension we can use - a new tool - in controlling optical systems."
The research grows out of Tureci's longstanding work on mathematical models that describe the behavior of lasers. In 2008, he established a mathematical framework for understanding the unique properties and complex interactions that are possible in extremely small lasers - devices with features measured in micrometers or nanometers. Different from conventional desk-top lasers, these devices fit on a computer chip.
That work opened the door to manipulating gain or loss (the amplification or loss of an energy input) within a laser system. In particular, it allowed researchers to judiciously control the spatial distribution of gain and loss within a single system, with one tiny sub-area amplifying light and an immediately adjacent area absorbing the generated light.
Tureci and his collaborators are now using similar ideas to pursue counterintuitive ideas for using distribution of gain and loss to make micro-lasers more efficient.
The researchers' ideas for taking advantage of loss derive from their study of mathematical constructs called "non-Hermitian" matrices in which a normally symmetric table of values becomes asymmetric. Tureci said the work is related to certain ideas of quantum physics in which the fundamental symmetries of time and space in nature can break down even though the equations used to describe the system continue to maintain perfect symmetry.
Over the past several years, Tureci and his collaborators at Vienna worked to show how the mathematical anomalies at the heart of this work, called "exceptional points," could be manifested in an actual system.
In 2012, the team published a paper in the journal Physical Review Letters demonstrating computer simulations of a laser system that shuts off as energy is being added. In the current Nature Communications paper, the researchers created an experimental realization of their theory using a light source known as a quantum cascade laser.
The researchers report in the article that results could be of particular value in creating "lab-on-a-chip" devices - instruments that pack tiny optical devices onto a single computer chip. Understanding how multiple optical devices interact could provide ways to manipulate their performance electronically in previously unforeseen ways. Taking advantage of the way loss and gain are distributed within tightly coupled laser systems could lead to new types of highly accurate sensors, the researchers said.
"Our approach provides a whole new set of levers to create unforeseen and useful behaviors," Tureci said.
The work at Vienna, including creation and demonstration of the actual device, was led by Stefan Rotter at Vienna along with Martin Brandstetter, Matthias Liertzer, C. Deutsch, P. Klang, J. Schoberl, G. Strasser and K. Unterrainer. Tureci participated in the development of the mathematical models underlying the phenomena.
The work on the 2012 computer simulation of the system also included Li Ge, who was a post-doctoral researcher at Princeton at the time and is now an assistant professor at City University of New York.
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