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Style begins with core essentials and bare minimals. The best outfits always center around a core piece such as a solid colored camisole or those perfect pair of jeans. In my opinion, one of the most underrated stores that carries essential fashion staples is Old Navy. Not only do they have items for a bargain (hello three pairs of flip-flops for under $10!), they also have a lot of similar styles to those of high-end boutiques. I caught up with sales associate Brittany Dakin to unveil aspects of this commonly underestimated store.
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Slightly disturbing (if not at all surprising) news from the Wall Street Journal: Apparently, in order to help increase efficiency, Scott Heydon, Vice President of Starbucks' Global Strategy Dept. is employing Japanese-style robotic reorganizing of the counter area. The more we read about all these Brave New World-esque policies being implemented – "lean efficiency techniques" that will allow each barista an entire 8 seconds of "chit-chat time", not to mention Heydon's quote that the company is "[...] on a never ending quest to get to perfection," – the more creeped out we get. We've already lamented the pitiful iced-coffee situation at Wawa, so in the spirit of finding a decent cold caffeinated beverage with some more local flavor, here is a very short list* a few of our personal favorite alternatives to Big Coffee.
· The Bean Cafe 615 South Street, (215) 629-2250
We're not sure why, but the Bean Cafe on South Street evokes very strong feelings in one of our interns here, namely because she spent much of her angst-filled youth chain-smoking and reading (what she hoped were impressive) piles of books at this establishment. It's open pretty late, has really cute baristas, and is always showcasing local art on the walls.
· Old City Coffee 221 Church Street, (215) 629-9292
This locally bred coffee shop has been going strong for 25 years now. Started by Ruth Isaac as a one-person operation in 1984, it quickly opened its Reading Terminal Market branch as well. With an information-filled website and a knowledgeable staff, Old City Coffee is a connoisseur's coffee shop.
· The Last Drop 1300 Pine Street, (215) 893-9262
The Last Drop is an ideal place to meet someone for a lengthy chat, or sit around for a rainy afternoon (which we've seen a lot of so far this year). My personal favorite online review simply states, and I quote "IIGHT PLACE … JUST KINDA WHATEVA. MAD NERDZ." – pretty much sums it up I guess (except for the "just kinda whateva" part).
· The White Dog Cafe 3420 Sansom Street, (215) 386-9224
The White Dog Cafe has the perfect blend of homey cozy feel, excellent food, and local, community-based activism. Add cool local history to that mix and you've officially won our hearts.
* It goes without saying, of course, that if there's a chance in any of this to point your cab in the direction of La Colombe, you should absolutely probably do that.

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I like the SMLLC as a C corp. For non-professional service businesses (doctor, lawyer, CPA) it offers some great tax reduction opportunities.
I do think you may be overthinking the two-position salary, though.
You should take a wage that meets the state unemployment minimum (in New York, it's $8,500 per year, for example, or the state may impute that wage at audit) or exceeds that (IRS will want a wage that reflects services rendered - they know the benefit of the tax savings you are establishing). You don't need two wages, though.
A wage for your services is what you will report on your personal tax returns. The SMLLC will report retained income and pay taxes on its income. Your wage base should be a blend of tax savings (how much profit can I have taxed at low C corp brackets) and payment for services (if your business nets $100,000 per year, a salary of $8,500 per year will be too low).
I normally suggest startups do not even pay a wage until the fourth quarter of their first year. Take payments as advances or draws, then clean up the first year payroll reporting in the fourth quarter. If you aren't making a lot, easy to do and low cost. If your business is doing well, you have time to pay in the withholdings with a sense of your income and tax needs for the year.
Best to engage a good tax pro to assist in this review, likely in November. There will be enough time to look at the numbers, decide on compensation and forecast tax costs.
I hope this gives you a good idea of managing the salary/c corp income split. Ask any follow up questions you may have, and thanks from Just Answer. I'm PDtax.
I have been very concerned about this that my SMLLC is paying a wage that is considered standard or above for the services being rendered. For example, the call centers I am aware of usually start a [email protected]
My question remains as the owner/office who operates the SMLLC. Do I have to pay myself a salary? And if I do, it appears that this could be paid after the first year? or maybe a little longer. I do expect my profits to be thin for the first year. However I was concerned that if no salary is paid to the owner/officer who operates the business--I wouldn't want the IRS to take it as avoidance of paying Federal, FICA and other tax witholdings. Or are you saying that I can possibly wait until a year passes to decide to how pay the wages? I also hope I can find a CPA in my area which will be able to answer my questions. Some people I talked to recently are only familiar with agriculture and regular type businesses. Perhaps I may need to find a CPA in a larger city? or through online services?
The $9 or $10 an hour wage is a good base. If you work full time, $18-$20,000 per year is a supportable wage. Any revenues above that could be retained by the SMLLC. Keep in mind the SMLLC can pay you rent for the space, use of your phone, etc. to increase your income from the enterprise.
You pay yourself a salary, but only for the hourly wage of an operator if you can afford it. If you can't, then take just rent until your business grows, and don't pay a wage. I have successfully argued to IRS in these situations that the business just doesn't make enough to pay wages in low-revenue years, especially starting up.
Finding a good local tax pro can be hard, but what I am proposing is pretty standard. If you have to reach to a larger area, I am sure you can find someone at an affordable cost to provide just the service I recommend. I don't like online offerings, only because I like to meet the people who will be so important to my success. Seeing them in person might be very important one day.
Thanks again from Just Answer. I am a NY CPA, and work specifically with startups like yours. Good luck.
A couple more questions I have is: The client my SMLLC is currently servicing gives out contracts which are typically three or four months in length. There can be gaps of a month or so in between contracts. I have an FEIN for the SMLCC. I also obtained a withholding tax registration certificate from my State. I stated that I expected to do quarterly withholdings (for my employee incoming phone call position). I do not expect to pay myself anything until after the current contract is completed. Since the current quarter is soon to come to a close, I assume I would need to make a withholdings report (possibly for both Federal and State) even if nothing needed to be withheld at this time? I have found an inexpensive payroll service, but I don't plan to have monthly paychecks at this time; or possibly not for quite some time. May State also does have online enrollment to submit withholding and reports electronically. I am aware of the Federal system in which reports and payments are submitted. I would suppose most companies use a payroll service? Less likely to run into difficulties that way?


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For fruit flies prevention is difficult. But reduction is easy!
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A couple days in my house and one trap pretty much cleared out my problems. I also took out the trash cleaned up any food out.

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Based on a recent splash-back empirical data collected while cleaning the toilets, I think it would be an excellent idea to take some basic steps of prevention lest Noisebridge become a vector of transmission for whatever underlying bacteria, parasite, virus, or karma might be causing this.

If you are able/willing to help implement the following-- or have additional ideas-- let's communicate and do!

I'm starting with the fact-- that's not likely to change any time soon-- that the kitchen area is located right outside the toilet areas.Ā

1)That in mind, the most BASIC step would seem to be creating the tools that would encourage people toĀ WASH THEIR HANDS after using the toilet and BEFORE using the kitchen.Ā What would help, that I personally cannot afford or drive to pick up in bulk?

-Ā A means of drying hands after washing in the bathrooms and kitchen.Ā (Nick excellently bought 3 rolls of paper towels as a temp measure.Ā I'll buy a wall mounted paper town dispenser for the kitchen after work today at The Container Store.)ĀĀ Paper towels have been DESPERATELY absent for the past couple of weeks, though I can confirm to Al that his irrelevant, archaic sign about "Why not...wipe down the sink?" remains up and undefacated... I mean defaced.Ā Personally, I feel wiping down the toilet rim and underside of the toilet seat BEFORE washing one's hand's would be more excellent, but, again, definitions of "clean" apparently vary.

ĀĀĀ It would be REALLY cool to find and fix or make a hand-dryer, though it may not make sense if the electricity cost differential is significant.

ĀĀĀ A cloth towel, as is in 1.0, may actually just exacerbate the problem, not prevent it.

- Dishwasher Soap -Ā We've got a little left, but will be out quiet shortly.Ā The past few days we've removed the disintegrated drying racks and have encouraged people to RINSE dishes THOROUGHLY and then put them in the dishwasher and running it to sterilize them, as we've observed that the definition of "cleaning your dishes and eating utensils" varies greatly in practice.

- Hand soap for the two bathrooms, large pump bottle preferred so it doesn't fall easily on the floor or into the sink.Ā Gallon of refill would be MOST excellent.

- A GIANT pump bottle of hand disinfectant in the kitchen to augment the sign I'm going to put up suggesting that people wash their hands.Ā Gallon of refill would be most excellent.

- A GIANT bottle of DAWN dish washing soap.Ā This is one of the few products where other brands and generics just don't cut the grease nearly as effectively.Ā If animal rescuers use it exclusively to clean wildlife after an oil spill, that says something to me.Ā Gallon of refill would be MOST excellent.

- SPONGES, preferably with one side being gently abrasive.Ā The ones we have are falling apart.Ā BTW, microwaving a wet sponger for 60 seconds does a pretty good job in disinfecting it.

Additionally, is anyone besides me interested in figuring out how toĀ replace the uber-cool edging around the kitchen counter?Ā Yes, I know it was applied with cold plasma and the look from afar is wicked butch, but in terms of kitchen counter practicality and cleaning/hygiene it simply sucks (and not in the good way).Ā More specifically, wiping down the counter and brushing debris over the edge into one's waiting hand is impossible.Ā Likewise, the cold fusion is failing in places and food particles are caught, attracting...

FRUIT FLIES!

-Ā These are and have grown steadily as a problem in the kitchen area of Noisebridge over the past couple of months.Ā In great frustration, I'm going to point out the giant grey box labelled in yellow "Random Cable &" on top of the cabinets above the conventional ovens.Ā Inside is a several month project to make banana vinegar, a process that crucially involves the larvae(?) or some other secretion/by-product of reproducing fruit flies... akin to "honey comb"? for bees.Ā Although the large open mason jars are covered with stretched cloth/rubber band and Francisco assured everyone that it wouldn't attract fruit flies, my 3-month experience at NB-- which began prior to the project's start-- leaves me wholly unconvinced.Ā And, NO, the plastic tub is NOT covered.

ĀĀ This is one of those things that either no one wants to help me relocate (to the roof?) or deal with.Ā I've been told "yeah, we're doing something about that tomorrow" too many times to believe it.Ā I'm restraining my impulses to "do-ocracy" until Wednesday morning. :-)

-Ā All the blooms and roses brought daily by Wish into the kitchen area that unhappily wilt, die, and decay here... something fruit flies seem to love.Ā First, having had a mother whose hobbyist passion was growing roses to enjoy on the bush, I'm wondering the excellency of how these roses/flowers are being picked.Ā Secondly, I think NB's kitchen can sacrifice color for the sake of hygiene.Ā Finally, with all their thorns, disposing of them is rather painful.ĀĀĀ Is there any great object to a sign putting flowers and floating blossoms on hiatus?

LASTLY... is anyone actually USING the compost we collect that serves as an additional breeding area for fruit flies?Ā If not, can someone convince me why not using the technology to quickly exit fruit fly fodder from the Noisebridge space instead (i.e. the waste disposal we have)?Ā San Francisco is going to remove the results from the sewage whether we contribute to it or not and it's all organic anyway, just hastening the circle of life.Ā Please note I am NOT putting mice down the disposal.

Off to work, but THANK YOU!

Duncan

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Increasingly, New Face of Asian American Electorate is a Democrat
SAN FRANCISCO After the election, media noted that Latino voters helped buoy President Barack Obama to a second term. Largely ignored, however, was the Asian American vote, which exit polls show trumped even Latino support for the president.
National exit polls show that more than 70 percent of Asian American voters broke for Obama, and that this voting bloc may have also played a pivotal role in swing states such as Nevada. The Asian American vote in Tuesdays election underscores a key trend born out in a number of recent pre-election polls: The Asian American vote is changing, shifting more Democratic, even across subgroups.
Despite the trend, Asian American voters are not being courted as much as those
from other ethnic groups, say community advocates. More than half of Asian American voters said they were not contacted by either campaign or third-party group during the election season, according to a pre-election survey by the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD) and Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF).
HopeHoops: The fortune cookie read, "He who use racism to campaign get eggroll up asshole."
This DUer was more accurate than most GOP pundits.
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Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:25 PM
Dawson Leery (15,997 posts)
1. Bill O'Reilly conceded what we all new about the tea party.
They are old white conservative Christian males who are trying to hold on to their monopoly. They have failed.
Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:09 PM
sbmvv (30 posts)
2. Not really a new development
It is welcome to see this being recognized.
The Asian American community is not ethnically monolithic - people from East and South Asia and even the Pacific Islanders are included.
However, if one looks at sections of that community (like for example Indian-Americans), they are well-educated and have high household incomes yet they overwhelmingly vote Democrat.
The Asian community is very diverse and while some are socially and even fiscally conservative, they have no time for the exclusivist bigotry espoused by the Republican party today.
Imagine a Hindu Indian-American, a Muslim Bangladeshi-American or a Buddhist Japanese-American feeling welcome in the Republican party ? No way!
I should note that Evangelical Christian (or indeed Christian) Asians are a minority of the community and they tend to be more likely to vote Republican (like Hayley and Jindal).
The party of progressive diversity is the Democratic party and we should also say it is the party for all socio-economic groups.
The Democratic party is not against economic success - just economic exploitation.
What would be positive is to see greater interaction and understanding between all racial minority groups to avoid the misunderstandings and tensions that occasionally flare up.


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I picked up my half (pastured) hog last weekend and insisted that they save the fat for me! Instead of having to render it myself, I was presented with a 5 gallon bucket of lard. Holy smokes...that is nearly 40 POUNDS of fat. i've been trying to partition it into glass quart-sized mason jars and freezing. What do you do with a lionshare of lard? I think I need to learn the art of soapmaking on the side? With bacon fat and coconut oil, I have no idea how long it will take to eat through that much fat. I only have a few friends that are lard-happy, like myself, and can donate extra to!
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Try to eat it it by spoonful six times a day, and make some primal "lard-coffee" as well, and inform us how long time it lasted!"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Schopenhauer
I've made some GF lard-cakes in the past that are FAR superior to any lard-less cake. Cakes are my downfall though and I cannot make them and keep them in the house.
Will birds eat it?"Right is right, even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it." - St. Augustine
Who says back fat is a bad thing? Maybe on a hairy guy at the beach, but not on a crab.
The suet cakes you see in home improvement stores etc are basically just seeds mixed with fat and formed in to whatever shape you want, so yes birds will eat lard. The lard will keep for a long time if it is sealed and kept in a cool dark environment. It can go rancid if left exposed to air and warm temps.
great idea on the suet!
My Mom used to always tell me that when she was a little girl during the Depression she would take a lard sandwich to school for lunch in the winter. She went to a one room country school. She said it was made of home made bread, lard and a big slice of onion. Til the day she died she always told the story with a BIG SMILE on her face. She said they were the best sandwiches she ever ate! (I was always perfectly willing to just take her at her word!)
Mix some with a health dose of bird seed, form it into cakes, insert a piece of wire and freeze it. Hang the cakes a tree and you'll be the quite popular with all of the local birdies.All Men Die.......But Not All Men Live
Freeze it. At this point, the Family Crabbcakes goes through a 4-lb tub between three and four weeks. And that is in addition to all the olive oil, butter, and tallow we use (a family of 6). So my suggestion is to freeze it and eat it yourself - I would kill to get my hands on pastured pork lard! It will be safe in the freezer.I have a mantra that I have spouted for years... "If I eat right, I feel right. If I feel right, I exercise right. If I exercise right, I think right. If I think right, I eat right..." Phil-SC
Ohmygosh, solstice - I just looked at your location. If you can get to Pittsburgh easily, I will buy some of that off of you! Pitt takes just under two hours for me, and we sometimes go just for date night or museum visits with the kiddos. If this sounds like anything interesting, PM me.I have a mantra that I have spouted for years... "If I eat right, I feel right. If I feel right, I exercise right. If I exercise right, I think right. If I think right, I eat right..." Phil-SC
oooh lard sandwiches...I bet the bread was tasty! I just dropped off two quarts with a friend---she was pretty excited! I have MOST of it frozen in canning jars right now. I agree that we likely go through a lot of fat----but bacon grease usually makes up a lot of it. I roasted some veggies this past week in the pastured lard and they were heavenly!
Crabbcakes---we're at least 3 hours from Pittsburgh. I know hubby wants to take the boys to a ballgame this summer...but that is a ways away. We don't have any other reason to go that direction currently but I'll keep you in mind!
Sounds like you might be closer to my neck of the woods... Who did you get the lard from? Curious as to how much you paid...
I think the solution to this is to buy 400 lbs of chicken wings, 40 sticks of butter and 40 gallon sized jugs of hot sauce. I'll be over at 6pm with a truckload of carrots and celery.Don't put your trust in anyone on this forum, including me. You are the key to your own success.
I got half a hog from Forks Farm in Forks, PA. The hanging weight was 100 lbs and set me back 490 smacks...dont know the cost of the lard...most people dont even want it though. Website here:
Forks Farm Market - local farmers market and pastured foods in northeastern Pennsylvania
Also there is a place in Sunbury, PA, which is probably an hour from you Finn---but they are sold out of spring hogs...could get on a wait list for the fall possibly. Website here:
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Searchers in a helicopter looking for missing hiker James "Randy" Udall located the body of the Carbondale man on Wednesday.
A multi-agency search had been underway for six days in the Wind River Range of Wyoming after Udall, 61, did not return as expected from a solo backpacking trip there last week. Udall was expected to return to civilization on Wednesday, June 26, after departing on June 20. His family reported him missing on June 28.
Udall, brother of Colorado U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, had been a fixture in the region's environmental community for decades and was a leading voice on matters of climate change, renewable energy and conservation. He was the initial director and founder of the Community Office for Resource Efficiency, a program that promotes renewable energy and conservation by working with property owners. He also was a former Outward Bound instructor and avid backpacker who had made regular trips to the Wind Rivers over the course of 30 years.
According to a press release issued Wednesday by the Sublette County Sheriff's Office, based in Pinedale, Wyo., an aerial search team spotted a male subject matching the description of Udall at about 2 p.m. Wednesday. The searchers found Udall lying on his side in a rolling, grassy area. His body was recovered via helicopter, and an autopsy is expected to be performed on an unspecified date in Loveland, Colo., according to the sheriff's office.
More than 30 people on foot, horseback and in helicopters were involved in the search, including teams from surrounding counties, the Wyoming Air National Guard and the U.S. Forest Service. The search area encompassed 225 square miles.
Sen. Udall's office released a statement on behalf of the family, calling the search efforts "heroic." The statement said that while the autopsy is forthcoming, it appears that Udall died of natural causes.
"Randy left this earth doing what he loved most: hiking in his most favorite mountain range in the world," the release says. "He appeared to be on the obscure, off-trail route that he had proposed to his family. The entire Udall family is touched beyond words by the tremendous outpouring of support from people around the country. Randy's passing is a reminder to all of us to live every day to its fullest, just as he did."
Udall left behind countless friends and colleagues in the valley, as well as a wife and three children, who are morning his loss.
Sloan Shoemaker, director of Carbondale conservation nonprofit Wilderness Workshop, said Udall was a "mentor and an inspiration" who provided "constant reinforcement" of Wilderness Workshop's goals of protecting the area's natural resources.
"The ripple effect he had was huge," Shoemaker said. "He was a very progressive and thoughtful thought leader on energy issues. He really challenged the dominant paradigm in engaging and informed and humorous ways that made his contribution to the debate very accessible and poignant."
No memorial plans were known as of Wednesday.
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By Matt Goodman
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On Jan. 24, 2007, President George W. Bush signed an executive order requiring all federal agencies to reduce energy intensity by 3 percent annually or by 30 percent by 2015. While the U.S. Army has begun testing out monitoring systems at posts across the nation, Fort Hood has employed sustainability options for years, even winning a number of national awards for its efforts.
"Air is not going to just affect Fort Hood, it's going to affect the region as well," said Steve Burrow, chief of environmental programs at Fort Hood. "We're going to look at water issues and things like that; how do we become a more sustainable community?"
On July 20, the Army announced that environmental monitoring software created by third-party Enviance Inc. was expanding to 12 Army installations nationwide. Fort Hood has used the software since October 2008.
"Enviance is uniquely qualified to manage the complexity of carbon accounting and (green house gas) management because it is built by domain experts and rooted in the chemistry of greenhouse gas," said Brian Pope, an Enviance spokesman via e-mail.
The goal of Enviance, and its Environmental Monitoring Information System, is just that: to monitor each post's effect on the environment. The company developed a model for the Army to plug in its population, natural gas usage, data from the annual air inventory and other environmental factors into a complex logarithm that calculates the post's approximate carbon "bootprint."
By 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency will set a national standard – Burrow expects it to be around 25,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions – and all posts will submit its number, which will be created by the Environmental Monitoring Information System.
"Keep in mind, when they establish the limit that it's just a recording process," Burrow said. "We're not in trouble if we exceed that number."
But while the recording process is fairly recent, Fort Hood's efforts in creating sustainable energy options are not. At the last Earth Day in April, the post joined with Killeen, Harker Heights, Copperas Cove and Gatesville in a sustainability contract, wherein each party will combine to look at a regional approach to sustainability.
"There's a lot of different things going on in terms of air and regional air quality," Burrow said. "These are things that, as a community, we're all going to be looking at."
In recent years, Fort Hood has received a number of national awards celebrating its sustainability and environmental efforts. In 2008, the post received the Secretary of the Army's Sustainability award. Christine Luciano, Fort Hood outreach coordinator, attributed the award to the post's training land management activities, its recycling efforts and its energy savings programs.
This year, it was the only Army installation to receive the White House Closing The Circle Award for pollution prevention and its outreach efforts. It held an annual earth day festival, which is when it announced the regional sustainability contract with area cities; its efforts for outreach with school children; its tanker purge facility, which developed a purging system for the 5,000 gallon on-post fuel tankers that saved mass amounts of soldier time; and its oil and antifreeze recycling center.
"Fort Hood has been at the forefront of all of this for many years," Burrow said. "There's an outstanding staff here that's well recognized through the Army and (the Department of Defense) and we do set the pace."
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Christmas is just around the corner, (92 days to be exact), and with that comes a lot of holiday stress. Thanks to Kmart you can now scratch gift buying off of your list of things that you aren't looking forward to this year. They have taken the hassle out of putting down a massive amount of money at one time on presents with their new online layaway program.
My family lives on a budget. We're not able to spend $100 here and there on Christmas gifts at one time. I like working things into a budget and breaking things down into biweekly payments. (Hence my love of stores with Christmas layaways.) Not only has Kmart launched their online layaway program, but they have also brought back their Christmas Club Card. These two programs are going to make it easier for me to plan and budget out my holiday purchases ahead of time.
Kmart is the only national discount department store offering online layaway. Getting started with their online layaway plan is very easy. Just log onto Kmart.com and start browsing for items. Look for the layaway icon (shown on the right) next to items that can be placed on layaway and then add them to your shopping cart. When you're done, hit layaway on the checkout page and that's it!
A few rules apply but they're very simple:
- You're layaway contract is only 8 weeks long.
- There is a one time initiation fee of $5.
- $15 or 10% (whichever is greater) must be paid at the time you put your items on layaway.
- If you cancel your layaway you loose $10.
- Your payments must be made bi-weekly. (So that is a total of 4 payments at 25% of whatever your total is.)
More information can be found on Kmart.com about their online layaway program. Also check out additional information on their payment plans.
This is a unique feature at Kmart that will allow you to earn a 3% award. Kmart is allowing their customers a chance to save ahead of time for their Christmas shopping by putting aside money. From now to November 14th you can add money to Kmart's Christmas Club Card and receive 3% back on your card up to $100. (This amount is based upon the value that you have on your Christmas Club Card.) When you activate your card before November 14th your award will appear.
It's like getting free money! If you're a regular visitor you already know how I feel about free. I think it's absolutely fantabulous whenever I get items for free that my family can use.
Kmart's two new programs are really resonating well with me.
Next week I will be testing out Kmart's new online layaway program, and I will definitely keep you updated on how it goes.
How will you be conducting your Christmas shopping this year?
DISCLAIMER: I was NOT paid by Kmart/Sears corporation to post this article. I wrote this from the heart because these two programs will benefit my family this Christmas holiday and I know it will benefit a lot of my reader's families as well.
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Love this Layaway Program online with KMART. Shopping without having to leave home is sooo perfect for me. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Shynea,
Cant wait to see how it works out for you so maybe i can try it!
oh this is such a nice option!! I will have to try this. Thank you!
How much is shipping?
I will have to see how this works out!!!


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That's the way some people have described their new homes to me. "Oh no, it's been a very nice home" and other times I hear "This thing is like a bad dream that I can't wake up from". Chances are that you are somewhere in between. You have been pretty happy with your home, but it does have some areas that could be improved. Your one year warranty is about to expire on your new home and you don't know if you should contact your builder over some "nit picking" things or not. What many folks don't realize is that these items that are "nit picking" now can become major repairs down the road. Often they are only advanced warnings of things to come..
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The fact remains, every home I've done a 1 year home warranty inspection on has had problems that the builder needed to be called back out on to fix. The majority of these are items are moderate to costly to fix. Many of the costly repairs you hear about home owners facing today do not just pop up over night. They seem like it, but it's actually a gradual process that may take years to be noticed, usually when it's too late.
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If your builder or real estate agent assured you that you didn't need an inspection, and you went ahead and bought the home without the benefit of an indepedent inspection, then I'm telling you that it is of the utmost importance to have one before your warranty runs out.
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Saturday, January 2, 2010, 8:44 AM
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a resident of Country Fair
on Jan 4, 2010 at 1:44 pm
I was forwarded this utube video which shows an pre holiday Australian ad campaign, hard hitting but spot on.
This needs to passed around to every human being who has the keys to a vehicle and the capability of driving while under the influence with impaired judgement and the possibility of causing a life changing incident to happen to everyone he or she comes in contact with while in this condition.
This is perhaps one of the most intense commercials that I've ever seen and damn well made. I hope that by passing this along to others, that it will make a difference and if just one life is saved, it will all be worth the effort to simply hit "send" and maybe save a life today or tomorrow or in the future.. I think that Australia should be complemented on having the guts to "tell it like it is" and get this campaign out to all of it's licensed drivers and to air it on TV...it is very moving and very life like so it has a very strong impact this holiday season. Please pass it along to all of your friends and maybe you can be responsible for saving some lives. Wouldn't that be a great Christmas Present.
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I am so thankful that citizens who are intoxicated are held accountable!
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The liver infection was bacteria in nature. He can walk. He dies gave a head tilt. Little to no no appetite. Vomited once think he overate befire this occured. No diarrhea.
I think he likely has vestibular disease, most likely due to idiopathic vestibular syndrome also called old dog vestibular syndrome. This is a condition that many dogs will recover from over a period of a few weeks. Treatment is mainly going to be symptomatic with medications to control nausea and vomiting. Signs however may not improve and if that is the case, a brain tumor will need to be considered and would require an MRI to fully diagnose. If you begin to see any seizures, a brain tumor is much more likely.
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Costa Rica's Legislative Assembly on Monday passed a measure – by accident – that could legalize same-sex civil unions as part of a larger bill, lawmakers noted on Tuesday.
Conservative lawmakers voted for the bill's passage without recognizing the included language that could be interpreted to change the definition of marriage, according to the daily La Nación. Lawmakers immediately called for President Laura Chinchilla to veto the bill.
José María Villalta, a lawmaker from San José, inserted the language into the bill. Villalta is a member of the leftist Broad Front Party. The language confers social rights and benefits of a civil union, free from discrimination, according to La Nación.
Villalta attached the measure to a reform of the Law of Young People, which covers various social services for young people and laws governing marriage.
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Bruce E. Sitzman, municipal leader in Alden
Sept. 1, 1939 – Aug. 21, 2013
Bruce E. Sitzman, a lifetime Alden resident who served the village in a variety of roles, including superintendent of public works, died Wednesday in Hospice Buffalo, Cheektowaga, after a long illness. He was 73.
Born in Buffalo, Mr. Sitzman attended training school at General Motors after high school. His true passion and singular focus throughout his career, however, was the Village of Alden, where he held a variety of municipal leadership positions, most notably superintendent of public works. He served as superintendent for nearly 30 years before retiring in 2002.
He also was a village trustee and a chairman for both the village centennial in 1969 and town sesquicentennial four years later.
Mr. Sitzman's commitment to his work as public servant was exemplified by his near-constant presence at events held by the New York State Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials, of which he was a member. He attended organization events for 35 years.
He also led the Bennington/Cowlesville Water District from September 2011 until his resignation in July.
Beyond the workplace, Mr. Sitzman was engaged in his community in a variety of ways, including as a leader of a Boy Scout troop and church youth group.
He also was active in the Alden Fire Department, where he helped with many carnivals and barbecues.
Survivors include his wife, the former Betty Lombard; two daughters, Bonny Berry and Jenny Pawelski; a son, Brett; and a brother, Alan.
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Abekah Nkrumah <firstname.lastname@example.com>
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over their determinants. I have calculated the concentration indicies
together with their standard errors via the code below. My difficulty
however is how to calculated bootstrapped standard errors for the for
the components of the decomposition (especially the contributions and
concentration index of the X's). Please can anyone help?
egen raw_rank=rank(wealth_index_dec), unique
sort raw_rank
quietly sum sample_weight
gen wi= sample_weight/r(sum)
gen cusum= sum(wi)
gen wj=cusum[_n-1]
replace wj=0 if wj==.
gen rank=wj+0.5*wi
gen weight12=sample_weight
replace weight12=weight12*10^6
replace weight12= int(sample_weight)
qui sum neghaz [fw=weight12]
scalar mean= r(mean)
cor neghaz rank [fw=weight12], c
sca c= (2/mean)*r(cov_12)
sca list c
gen y= neghaz
global X ............................................
qui regr y $X [pw=weight12],vce(cluster hh_number)
sum y [aw=weight12]
sca m_y=r(mean)
foreach x of global X {
qui {
sca b_`x' = _b[`x']
corr rank `x' [aw=weight12], c
sca cov_`x' = r(cov_12)
sum `x' [aw=weight12]
sca elas_`x' = (b_`x'*r(mean))/m_y
sca CI_`x' = 2*cov_`x'/r(mean)
sca con_`x' = elas_`x'*CI_`x'
sca prcnt_`x' = con_`x'/CI*100
di "`x' elasticity:", elas_`x'
di "`x' concentration index:", CI_`x'
di "`x' contribution:", con_`x'
di "`x' percentage contribution:", prcnt_`x'
Please can you help in terms of how to calculate the bootstrapped
Standard errors for the contributions from the decomposition?
Thank you very much
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ESPN's Rob Parker, the man who makes Skip Bayless look like a professional sports analyst, has gained infamy across the internet for his comments attacking intelligence and individuals who prefer advanced statistical metrics to understand baseball. Why a man who went to Columbia hates learning new things is beyond me, but nevertheless, this jockular wagon that makes him look like a fifth grade bully is the one Parker has hitched himself to. Parker went on a Twitter tirade thumping his chest over Miguel Cabrera winning the MVP over Mike Trout, basically proving everything that's wrong with this old school vs new school debate. In managing to offend those of us who like to use our brains for something more than a weight on the top of our necks, he also mocked followers with the hilariously clever hashtag #wattimeisurshow. Just remember as you read these tweets that ESPN sees something in this guy to continually put him on the air to talk about sports and inform viewers. This is a guy who used to be an actual honest to goodness sportswriter. Like, in a real newspaper... [View the story "You stay classy, Rob Parker" on Storify] So this is what we've become as sports journalists? Openly rooting for certain award votes to break the right way so a certain section of sportswriters can be proved right in some way? Just don't tell Rob Parker about his own network's MVP poll, where Mike Trout won 21-7 in a vote of ESPN baseball analysts. I guess they aren't real baseball fans either. By Parker's logic, advanced metrics failed because a small sample of MVP voters who think just like him couldn't be swayed to vote for Mike Trout. It's just too perfect. But forget the AL MVP vote. This is about something more than a silly award. This is about Rob Parker outflanking Skip Bayless in the trolling department. This is about a guy using inflamed, offensive, bullying language for a stupid baseball argument that really doesn't matter all that much in the end. The fact that any national television personality could get away with this angers me. Have we made such little progress where a sportswriter can turn a sports argument into an attack on people that may look at the world in a new way? If just one human being is encouraged to be a bully or make fun of "nerds" because they want to be cool like Rob Parker, he's already done more damage than one dumb MVP vote ever could.
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Amateur botanists and picnickers alike will love this idyllic botanical garden on a hilly peninsula by Brunnsviken. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which still conducts research here, moved the garden from Vasastaden to this waterfront area in 1885. Orchids and vines fill Victoriahuset, a small conservatory (1900); its pond contains giant water lilies, measuring up to 2.5m (8ft) across. The more recent Edvard Andersons Växthus, an all-glass conservatory, contains Mediterranean plants and trees in its central room, and flora from Australia, South Africa, California.
Area Stockholm
Transport T-bana Universitetet/bus 40, 540.
Telephone 54 59 17 00
Open Gardens 9am-8pm daily. Edvard Andersons Växthus 11am-5pm daily. Victoriahuset May-Sept 11am-4pm Mon-Fri; 11am-5pm Sat, Sun. Closed Oct-Apr.
Admission Gardens free. Edvard Andersons Växthus 50kr. Victoriahuset 20kr. Free under-15s. Free with SC.


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|Corrections to Final Rule on Occupational Exposure to Lead
On 11/14/1978, OSHA published a final rule in the Federal Register on occupational exposure to lead (29 CFR 1910.1025, 43 FR 52952). This document makes administrative corrections and amendments to 29 CFR 1910. 1025, based on the lifting of a judicial stay which had been in effect on the effective date of the final standard. See OCIS "OSHA Standards" file for full text of corrections and amendments. Effective: 5/31/91. CONTACT: James Foster (202) 523-8151.
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Barbara Sears Rockefeller, 91; Miss Lithuania, Millionaire Bride
Barbara Sears "Bobo" Rockefeller, 91, a coal miner's daughter and one-time actress whose "Cinderella wedding of the century" to millionaire Winthrop Rockefeller in 1949 soon gave way to bitter divorce proceedings, died May 19 at her home in Little Rock. No cause of death was reported.
Born Jievute Paulekiute, she first attracted notice as Miss Lithuania at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. She later was Eva Paul onstage and Barbara Sears onscreen.
But her international fame -- a Time cover picture, a portrait by Salvador Dali -- was owed to her marriage to Rockefeller, heir to the Standard Oil fortune, a nightclubbing bon vivant and one of America's wealthiest bachelors. Their Florida wedding featured such guests as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
The Rockefeller union was promoted as the country's most swoon-worthy tale of romance in years, and seven months later it produced a child, future Arkansas Lt. Gov. Winthrop Paul Rockefeller. The elder Rockefeller became a prominent Arkansas philanthropist and served two terms as that state's governor before his death in 1973. Their son died in 2006.
The fairy-tale marriage quickly grew stormy, and the Rockefellers separated in 1950. Mrs. Rockefeller complained publicly that her husband, who maintained a reputation as a ladies' man, "humiliated me before the world."
Mrs. Rockefeller took her son to live in the Indiana farm community where she spent her high school years. In 1953, the two sides began haggling about a divorce settlement, and her husband moved to Arkansas to qualify for its relaxed divorce law.
She declared her intent to fight any "cheap mail-order divorce," adding, "I intend to be a Mrs. Rockefeller until the day I die."
While her husband was still in Arkansas, she showed up unannounced at Rockefeller's 15-room apartment in New York and began living there with their son.
In 1954, Winthrop Rockefeller made what amounted to a record divorce settlement of $2 million in cash and $3.5 million in trust funds for her and their son. Mrs. Rockefeller soon left her ex-husband's apartment and moved into a lavish six-story brownstone on the Upper East Side. She divided her time between New York and Paris, where she also owned a flat. She entertained often but shunned media attention.


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The New Hampshire woman prosecutors say lied about her role in the Rwanda genocide to obtain citizenship will get a second trial after a jury failed to reach a verdict in her case earlier this month.
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I'm kind of disappointed someone took Chris' coil off the doorway to the second classroom. ĀWhere did it wander off to? ĀI think it'd be a nice source for all sorts of fun experiments.

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> I certainly don't want to conflate these issues... but I think passport RFID
 > is an excellent example of misuse of this technology. And access control
 > with RFID not all that different.

I agree, RFID systems are fairly trivial to copy/clone tags. ĀA bit of
 circuitry and a coil of wire (like around a door frame) and you have a system
 that can harvest all the tags you could want. ĀThat's why the use of a second
 authentication factor is a good idea to couple with RFID if greater security
 is required. ĀOf course you also have people who don't like RFID since they
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who has one? I'm thinking of buying a 4/3 chest zip, but im worried that it might not keep me that warm. I heard its super flexible and light.
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Thread: Rip Curl E-Bomb Pro
Oct 14, 2010, 02:13 AM #1
Rip Curl E-Bomb Pro
I have an E-Bomb Pro 3/2 chest zip. Very flexible, BUT - it does not have taped seams, or any insulation layer on the inside (the F-bombs have Fireskin), or a smooth neoprene outer layer on chest or back. So it is not as warm as other 3/2's I've had. Wind will hit you hard. The window for wearing it - I'm a Delmava guy - is smaller than say for an Xcel Infinity, F-Bomb, or Mutant.
My advice would be to get a suit with insulation and taped seams.
Oct 14, 2010, 02:45 AM #3
Oct 14, 2010, 10:18 AM #4
check the wetsuit review thread, this is why it's there. all i wear is rip curl, so you can find my thoughts on the matter in that thread.
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The basic differences between the suit are the fireskin and the seams. In my opinion on the east coast the F-bomb would be the way to go for a 4/3 since you probably are more concerned with warmth and conditions can be pretty brutal. If you lived on the west coast I would probably go with the E-bomb because the weather is generally not as harsh. I live in DE and have the E-bomb in a 3/2 and the F-bomb in a 4/3.
I have a new ripcurl f bomb 4/3 for sale size LS and M. I know guys that wear a 4/3 year round...
Oct 14, 2010, 04:39 PM #7
My understanding of it is that the E-Bomb is more of a "Comp" suit. Lighter more flexible, and good for short sessions (what are heats, a half hour at most usually less?). The F-Bomb is designed to keep you out in the water longer.
Oct 14, 2010, 11:10 PM #8
thanks for all the review. I've went ahead and purchased a 5/4/3 f-bomb chest zip. I like to stay nice and warm. and with the comments i been getting it seems that the E-bomb was not going to keep me too warm during dead winter.


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The "MOVE" Act Requires Immediate State Action
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This is conservatism?
The Washington Post, as always concerned with fairness and balance, runs a blog called "Right Turn: Jennifer Rubin's Take From a Conservative Perspective." The blog tells us what The Post regards as conservatism.
This week, Rubin declared that America's "greatest national security threat is Iran." Do conservatives really believe this?
How is America, with thousands of strategic and tactical nuclear weapons, scores of warships in the Med, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean, bombers and nuclear subs and land-based missiles able to strike and incinerate Iran within half an hour, threatened by Iran?
Iran has no missile that can reach us, no air force or navy that would survive the first days of war, no nuclear weapons, no bomb-grade uranium from which to build one.
Citing The Associated Press and Times of Israel, Rubin warns us that "Iran has picked 16 new locations for nuclear plants."
How many nuclear plants does Iran have now? One, Bushehr.
Begun by the Germans under the Shah, Bushehr was not completed until 2011. In their dreams, the Iranians are going to throw up 16 nuclear plants.
Twice Rubin describes our situation today as "scary."
Remarkable. Our uncles and fathers turned the Empire of the Sun and Third Reich into cinders in four years, and this generation is all wee-weed up over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"For all intents and purposes, (Bibi) Netanyahu is now the West's protector," says Rubin. How so? Because Obama and Chuck Hagel seem to lack the testosterone "to execute a military strike on Iran."
Yet, according to the Christian Science Monitor, Bibi first warned in 1992 that Iran was on course to get the bomb — in three to five years! And still no bomb.
And Bibi has since been prime minister twice. Why has he not manned up and dealt with Iran himself? Answer: He wants us to do it.
"With regard to Afghanistan, the president is pulling up stakes prematurely," says Rubin.
We are in the 12th year of war in Afghanistan and about to leave thousands of troops behind when we depart in 2014. What is she talking about?
"In Iraq, the absence of U.S. forces on the ground has ushered in a new round of sectarian violence and opened the door for Iran's growing violence."
Where to begin. Shia Iran has influence in Iraq because we invaded Iraq, dethroned Sunni Saddam and presided over the rise to power of the Iraqi Shia majority that now tilts to Iran. That was not the doing of Barack Obama, but of people of the same semi-hysterical mindset as Ms. Rubin.
She writes that for the rest of Obama's term, we "are going to have to rely on France, Israel, our superb (albeit underfunded) military and plain old luck to prevent national security catastrophes." Is she serious?
Undeniably we face challenges. A debt-deficit crisis that could sink our economy. Al-Qaida in the Maghreb, Africa, Arabia, Iraq and Syria. North Korea's nukes. A clash between China and Japan that drags us in. An unstable Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.
But does Iran, a Shia island in a Sunni sea, a country whose major exports, once we get past fossil fuels, are pistachio nuts, carpets and caviar, really pose the greatest national security threat to the world's greatest nation?
Rubin's blog may be The Post's idea of conservatism. Ronald Reagan wouldn't recognize it.
Pat Buchanan is the author of "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?"


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Was there ever a critic who could conjure up a great performance like Kael?
Worse, the IT revolution has also created a much greater capacity for humans to conjure surprising events into being.
Covering this election, the optimism of the Obama 2008 campaign is hard to conjure up.
Nor can Saudi Arabia expect to conjure up a new league between Arab states as a strategic alternative to America.
Performing with Weird Al was as much as a dream come true as I think I could conjure.
With an intense egoisme, such as mine, I should conjure up an Edgerton in the deepest valleys of our country.
"I conjure and entreat you for the love of our country," is their usual wording.
But posthumous evocations are seldom of any avail; and O'Connell's was no longer a name to conjure with.
The name of Uncle Ebeneezer seemed to be one to conjure with.
And why should Aubrey conjure up an array of imaginary obstacles, arising out of a diseased delicacy?
late 13c., "command on oath," from Old French conjurer "invoke, conjure" (12c.), from Latin coniurare "to swear together; conspire," from com- "together" (see com-) + iurare "to swear" (see jury (n.)). Magical sense is c.1300, for "constraining by spell" a demon to do one's bidding. Related: Conjured; conjuring. Phrase conjure up "cause to appear in the mind" (as if by magic) attested from 1580s.