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LeAnn Rimes, Darrell Brown & the Failure of Spitfire
LeAnn Rimes is suing Kim Smiley and her daughter for taping a phone conversation, which is against the law in California. The truth is that a lot of people don't know about the lawsuit because LeAnn won't talk about it, and did not do any interviews where it was allowed to be discussed. Radar Online has mentioned it a few times, under the banner of an "exclusive", but they are driven by gossip, and while they have contacted me to see what I know, they have not written on the subject with any level of fairness.
Twenty days ago the case was submitted to the court, the judge threw the case out as it was presented, and gave LeAnn and her attorney 20 days to re-file the corrected paperwork. That twenty day mark has now come and gone. I understand that an extension of some kind has been filed, and that Ms. Rimes is continuing with the lawsuit. Bless her. One really must wonder how it is that this woman has so much time on her hands that she can devote her time, money and energy to hurting a complete stranger.
LeAnn has no job, and no kids. She does not appear to spend time shopping for stylish clothes, or seem particularly focused on taking care of her hair, so I guess it makes sense that she has a lot of time on her hands. Darrell Brown is her producer, who once wrote that my blogs about LeAnn treated her in the same way Jews were treated during the Holocaust. I laugh every time I think about the comparison. Darrell Brown is a strange man on a regular day, but this week he has taken on a whole new crazy.
On Monday I tweeted that the epic failure of LeAnn's album Spitfire was interesting because while the girl can sing, it failed because of who she is as a person, not a singer. Within hours of that tweet, I started to get messages from my followers that they were being contacted and threatened by Darrell Brown. Apparently you are not allowed to say anything bad about the failure of the record, or he will sue you. LeAnn and Darrell really like to sue people I guess, because I heard from a lot of people.
The fact is that Spitfire has sold less than 12K copies. LeAnn did a huge media push, appearing anywhere and everywhere, and they still could not sell it. People are not buying the record because they don't like LeAnn Rimes as a human being. Her behavior is offensive to women. She is a woman who cheated on her husband, slept with a married man, and blurs all lines of decency when it comes to being a stepparent. LeAnn Rimes is simply unappealing, and her lawsuit against Kim makes it even worse.
Nobody knows or cares who Darrell Brown is, yet he thinks we do. He is now threatening people with lawsuits for simply having an opinion. It is fascinating to me that people pay him any attention, but I understand that they are scared. When you are simply hanging out on social media, sharing your opinions and having fun, then get a letter that is legal and intimidating, and you are just a regular person, it is going to freak you out. I was certainly freaked out the first time LeAnn and Darrell wrote me.
My fear quickly turned to disbelief, and has now settled into a place where I laugh at it. LeAnn Rimes and Darrell Brown are bullies who are trying to intimidate people. It is sad, stupid, and pisses me off that nobody wants to talk about it. Every media outlet talks about how Spitfire is so critically acclaimed, but nobody talks about the fact that nobody bought it, and a month after it came out, it is in the bargain bin at Wal-Mart. Why is everyone afraid to speak the truth?
Why is it okay for Darrell Brown and LeAnn Rimes to scare people? Why is she spending hundreds of thousands of dollars suing a special education teacher and her daughter, when she could do repair to her soul and reputation by spending the money on rebuilding a school in Oklahoma? Or fighting for the rights of women in Texas? What is wrong with these people that they can be so clueless as to what is really important? LeAnn and Darrell are twisted and they need to stop.
I feel sad for the people getting contacted by Darrell. I feel sad for the people being attacked by LeAnn. I feel bad for Kim Smiley and her daughter that they are continuing to deal with the nightmare of a lawsuit. I feel blessed to work for a website that allows my voice to be heard and is not intimidated by people trying to scare with the law. It is time for Darrell and LeAnn to get a grip on reality and understand that what they are doing hurts many, especially the two of them.
Spitfire tanked. It is a fact, and no matter how many legal letters you send out to say it did not, it did. LeAnn has a PR problem. It is a fact, and no matter how many legal letters you send out to say she does not, she does. I am a writer, and this is America, so I am going to continue to share my opinion, and I will be supported by not only my employer, but my government. No matter how many legal letters they send, that won't change. LeAnn and Darrell need to grow up, move on, and start keeping it real.


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Bob and Doris 52' Pulley Diner will provide the classic 1950s diner experience 24/7 within the Armstrong Student Center
By Vince Frieden, Associate Director of Development Communications
For the men and women at Miami University Dining Services, Miami's students are far more than just another plate.
"Many of us are parents ourselves," said executive chef Eric Yung. "We look at our students like our own kids, and we want them to eat well."
That pride and passion for creating a world-class dining experience is reflected in Miami's award-winning dining services program, which since 2004, has won eight grand prizes and 14 gold awards from the National Association of College and University Food Service (NACUFS)—more than any other North American university.
"We consider the dining experience a part of the larger Miami Experience," said Nancy Heidtman, senior director of dining & culinary support services. "We are teaching students to eat intelligently while bringing different cultures to them. Our students are well-traveled, and they know quality, so we are constantly challenged to provide quality, fresh foods at a fair price."
Miami is in the process of reinventing dining on campus and will be introducing 18 new dining concepts at three different locations within the next 18 months. Among those are the six concepts available within the Armstrong Student Center. According to Yung, the dining experience within the Center will be like a trip around the globe and maybe even back in time.
"The larger space and various concepts allow us to appeal to a lot of diverse tastes and demographics," Yung said. "It's going to take a while for students to rotate through all the menus."
Miami Ice
Miami Ice will satisfy your sweet tooth or need for a caffeine fix. It features in-house gelatos, an ice cream folding station and a selection of coffees, espressos and cappuccinos. Among the tastes to watch for are toasted roll-flavored ice cream and "cereal milk" flavored gelato.
Sundial Pizza Company
This popular campus mainstay has been functioning as a delivery-only service, but it will have a brick and mortar location within the Armstrong Student Center. Grab a ready-to-go pizza slice, a whole pie or a pre-designed pasta. Or, if you have time, you can customize your pizza or pasta or choose from a selection of baked sandwiches, including subs and strombolis.
Named for one of the hottest of all chili peppers, Serrano features your favorite Latin American flavors. You can build your own ready-to-go burritos, tacos, taco bowls and quesadillas with a variety of proteins, toppings and salsas in the front line. The back line features popular tapas, including chips fried right there, and a selection of popular South and Central American sandwiches, including pressed Cubans.
Mein Street Mongolian & Asian Grill
Take a tour of Asian cuisine with a single stop. Mein Street features an oversized Teppanyaki grill, where customers will select a protein, vegetables and sauce to be grilled right before their eyes. The Pho Station offers crunchy, vibrant and fresh Vietnamese soups, featuring flavorful broths with lots of vegetables. The noodle bar highlights one of China's most popular dishes—just pick your protein, veggies and sauce. There's also a grab-and-go option offering spring rolls, crab Rangoon, wantans and more.
Bob & Doris ' 52 Pulley Diner
Step back in time to this 1950s-style diner on the Armstrong Student Center's second level. The menu is 1950s authentic—right down to the crinkle-cut fries—and also includes a soda jerk station featuring shakes, root beer floats and more. Bob and Doris '52 Pulley Diner will be open 24/7 and will also feature plated breakfast options for when dawn breaks over those all-night cram sessions.
Haines' Boulangerie
Enjoy soups, salads and sandwiches—made on fresh baked bread—at what's sure to be a popular lunchtime stop. Order your salad or sandwich fresh to your specifications, using a variety of fresh ingredients, or grab a pre-made selection on the run. Haines' Boulangerie will also offer popular combo options that let you select from a half-sandwich, half-salad and half-soup.


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Price controls in an economic crisis
If you read any history, you'll see that governments often enact price controls in an emergency. This method is used in weather related crises to prevent price-gouging, but usually hurts the locals. For example, during Hurricane Sandy, there was a lot of demand for supplies, but few trucks providing them. Why? The prices are artificially limited so merchants couldn't raise their prices in order to make more from the people who are suffering.
Now this has a positive side and a negative side. If a merchant can adjust prices even though the situation has changed, then sometimes if those changes exceed reasonable operating costs, then why bother to sell in a changed market? Let's say you have fuel at a gas station, but no way to operate the station with your available employees. There are some employes who will offer to come in, but since things are highly chaotic, they demand more hourly wages to compensate them. With limitations on price controls and a slim margin for profiting (gas sales have a very small profit, the profit is made by selling inflated goods in a convenience store, but no one is coming inside), the merchant realizes the risk outweighs the adjustment of wages versus how much volume can be sold.
Or there's not water, food, or generators, but in a nearby area, people could transport these goods to an affected region, but they require longer transportation chains than normal. In addition, the merchants coming in from outside incur lodging and food expenses as a result of coming to the area. They would raise their prices to compensate them, but the governor has imposed price-controls. See why supply chain disruptions lead to inflation or simply a lack of supplies?
Price-controls lead to a lack of supplies because at some point, the profit margin is artificially low versus much high risk. In a collapse or disaster, there's always a chance of being overrun and whatever goods or services you're offering might be stolen. In history, this means more security through weapons and beefy soldiers to guard the merchant. Since security is less of an issue during calm times, the new security requirements are an additional expense, or a vastly higher expense.
What do I mean by services? During wartime, it was not uncommon for doctors to be kidnapped to treat one side or the other's soldiers. In effect, the kidnappers imposed the ultimate price-control....slavery, albeit usually temporary. Far worse things could happen which I won't go into.
Governments in the USA have historically used price-controls to limit prices or even artificially raise prices during economic crises. During the Great Depression, there was plenty of food, but often it was at a fixed price that no one could afford, and hence some food actually was destroyed rather than be eaten while there was starvation going on. The thought was make the food be at a fixed price to protect the farmers, but then they couldn't sell their goods. Everyone suffered: supplier, wholesaler, retailer, and consumer.
Since merchants are limited on profit, then often what happens is black markets. Those products sell at very high prices because their operation has been declared criminal, and so they must have extraordinary security in undisclosed locations, or varying locations that shutdown quickly and restart up in a new location. This exaggerates operating costs and imposes high risk to sellers and buyers, and so prices are HIGH.
Because a government needs supplies as well as the People, and governments in times of crisis are crucially short of funds and not really generating taxes, then governments impose price-controls to reduce their operating costs.
Since governments have critical infrastructure (military, utilities, health, engineering, transportation, etc), then these workers must be paid, and the operations must flow. This uses up supplies (especially ones that are close and have lower transportation costs) and so they're diverted to those areas (at fixed prices) and uses up supplies and services too that other consumers would ordinarily use.
The goal of price-controls is to reduce inflation. In history, when a government went to war, they spent money they didn't have. The people knew that higher taxes had to be imposed to pay for it. While a lot of wealth might be seized through plunder and land transferred to the ruler, usually taxes were needed to offset the lost wealth in the short run. It was largely an excuse, but a war could also be lost and hence the wealth used for warfare would be unrecoverable. Or taxes would allow a double profit.
Merchants would realize that their currency would lose value and also the demand was very high, so they raised their prices to cope. This ends up with the government imposing price-controls. It's popular with the people, but terrible for the merchant, and so in the long-term it will stop the flow of supplies until such time that price-controls are banished.
In an economic collapse, the main issue is panic. There might indeed be reserve supplies, but since there's some chaos created by panic, then that restricts the flow of materials and people. For example, we have a strategic reserve of oil in the USA. It can be released based upon a decision from the commander in chief, but again because critical infrastructure support needs it, it probably will get diverted. Likewise we have food supplies in surplus, but they'll likely be used to feed these folks.
At some point in a crisis, a leader will have a televised message to the people and "urge calm". There's been no change in the crisis, the leader is only using their charisma as a service to help restore trust. Think to FDR's message after the bank runs. He closed the banks and gave people time to think about withdrawing their funds. Expect something like that to happen again. Will the people listen in a dollar collapse? I doubt it.
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1 Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-7.0a1.en-US.win64-x86_64.installer.exe When Aero is disabled the GUI does not display correctly. See attached screenshot for reference. Tabs are solid grey and no text appears. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Turn off Aero in Windows 7 64-bit (Control Panel\System and Security\System, Advanced system settings, Performance, Settings, Adjust for best performance.) 2. Start the latest Nightly Build. Actual Results: GUI renders without any text, page content also appears missing.
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I see from your screenshot that ClearType is disabled in the OS settings, and based on other reports of similar issues [1], I am almost certain that your problem is caused by the CT setting that you changed during your Aero/Classic switch). I can reliably reproduce this problem of text not being rendered if using DW in GDI classic mode if ClearType is disabled. The ability to use GDI classic with DW was exposed in bug 642589 and in bug 661471. This problem was not noticed with 642589 because people who explicitly changed the ClearType rendering mode are not people who run with CT disabled. This problem became noticeable with 661471 since that switched on GDI classic for people who have CT disabled in the OS.
Err, the "[1]" in the previous comment was meant to refer to: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=10871297#p10871297 http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=10875113#p10875113
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It just occurred to me that the problem isn't with GDI classic per se (since that wouldn't make a whole lot of sense), but rather with forcing DW to use an anti-aliased mode when ClearType is not available (that does make sense). These are the DW modes: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd368118.aspx Note that the default mode 0 (to which our "-1, we-don't-care" effectively corresponds to) is "the rendering mode is determined automatically". It just so happens that it corresponds with RENDERING_MODE_CLEARTYPE_NATURAL under normal circumstances, but when CT is disabled, it appears to correspond with RENDERING_MODE_ALIASED. So when we change the setting away from the default, we are not letting it fall back to RENDERING_MODE_ALIASED. This problem of disappearing text could be observed when the rendering mode is set to 2, 3, 4, or 5 (it just so happens that for people who override this setting, 2 is the one that they are interested in), so the problem is not specific to GDI classic. Finally, I couldn't help but notice that the UI text (rendered using Segoe UI) never disappeared for me regardless of the settings that I used. I then experimented with Consolas and Calibri, and they too never disappeared. I suspect that if I tried the other new CT-specific typefaces that Microsoft introduced with Vista (e.g., Cambria), that they would be okay as well. So there is something about these new typefaces that make them "immune" to this. The cases were the UI text disappeared have all been cases where the UI typeface was switched from Segoe UI to Tahoma.
Oh, I should add that Calibri, Segoe UI, et. al. continue to be rendered using CT when CT is disabled in the OS, so a tl;dr version would be, "DW is capable of forcing CT when CT is off in the OS only with CT-optimized typefaces, and not with other typefaces." I find this a little odd, BTW, since GDI never had any problems with forcing CT when CT was off in the OS.
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(In reply to comment #4) > Oh, I should add that Calibri, Segoe UI, et. al. continue to be rendered > using CT when CT is disabled in the OS, so a tl;dr version would be, "DW is > capable of forcing CT when CT is off in the OS only with CT-optimized > typefaces, and not with other typefaces." > > I find this a little odd, BTW, since GDI never had any problems with forcing > CT when CT was off in the OS. UI text is actually often drawn with a separate rendering path since it contains transparent layers with text. I'm not sure if this is true for non-glass though.
(In reply to comment #5) > UI text is actually often drawn with a separate rendering path since it > contains transparent layers with text. Tahoma in the UI falls prey to the problem (bug 661471 comment 46) and when I tried Calibri and Consolas, it was in the content, not the UI (and I just checked: Segoe UI in content is fine too).
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With the new landings in bug 661471, I guess this can be marked as fixed...
Yep, I can verify this as fixed. Nice job guys, the speed and efficiency of which this was addressed really floors me. The Mozilla open-sourcing collaborative at it's best...
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Yes, I can confirm as well that it is working now, thx for fixing it... ;-)


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Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Feb 15, 2013
Ever wonder how sometimes people still get through security with explosives on their person? Research done in the University of Alberta's Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering has revealed a new way to better detect these molecules associated with explosive mixtures.
A team of researchers including post-doctoral fellows Seonghwan Kim, Dongkyu Lee and Xuchen Liu, with research associate Charles Van Neste, visiting professor, Sangmin Jeon from the Pohang University of Science and Technology (South Korea), and Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering professor Thomas Thundat, has found a method of using receptor-free nanomechanical infrared spectroscopy to increase recognition of chemical molecules in explosive mixtures.
Detecting trace amounts of explosives with mixed molecules presents a formidable challenge for sensors with chemical coatings. The nanomechanical infrared spectroscopy used by the Univesity of Alberta research team provides higher selectivity in molecular detection by measuring the photothermal effect of the absorbed molecules.
Thundat, who holds the Canadian Excellence Research Chair in Oil Sands Molecular Engineering, says the spectroscopy looks at the physical nature of the molecule and "even if there are mixed molecules, we can detect specific molecules using this method."
Seonghwan (Sam) Kim explained that conventional sensors based on coatings generally cannot detect specific molecules in complex mixtures if the concentration of interfering molecules is five times greater than the target molecules.
The detection sensitivity and selectivity are drastically increased using the high-power infrared laser because the photothermal signal comes from the absorption of infrared photons and nonradiative decay processes. Using this method, a few trillionths of a gram of explosive molecules can now be detected in a complex mixture even if there is a higher concentration of other interfering molecules.
The research team's findings are published in Scientific Reports by Nature Publishing Group on January 23, 2013.
The research team's current work looks at detecting biomolecules and hydrocarbons in the oil industry and nerve gas stimulants (DMMP), which can be found in household radiators, gasoline, and fabric softeners, for example. The team also hopes to develop a hand-held device for chemical detection that could be utilized in fields such as security, health care and environmental protection.
The full article as published in Nature Scientific Reports can be found online here.
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My Passive Income Report [October 2012]
October was a fun month, mainly because I was on vacation for over a week (more on that below) and tax season (the 10/15 deadline) ended.
As far as income goes, things were pretty stagnant – as I expected, my income level returned to where it was at prior to last month (when I made a decent amount from an e-mail I sent out).
With the end of the year fast approaching, it's time to make that last big push to make sure 2012 ends on a high note.
Anyway, let's get into the specifics of October…
A Brief Overview of October
There were a lot of ups and downs in October. I'll start with the positives: I had a wonderful vacation in the Philippines with my girlfriend and her family. Her parents are originally from the Philippines, and they own a house out there right now, so we had some great hospitality while we were visiting.
Here are a few pictures from the trip…
A lot of times when you hear about third-world countries, people tend to focus on the negatives like poverty, disease,etc. (which obviously shouldn't be taken lightly). Lost in all of that is how beautiful some of these places are and how kind and hospitable the people are.
And…back to reality. As I mentioned before, this month's earnings weren't great (although they are consistent with most of the months this year).
One exciting thing that happened to me, however, was that I found out I'm ranking on page 1 for the super-competitive phrase "make money online" without even trying. As of right now, the ranking is still holding strong (I see the page ranked #6 from my location).
It's been ranking well for a couple weeks now, and there's no way to know how long it'll last. The traffic to my blog is nearly double what it normally is, and I'm seeing a strong uptick in mailing list subscribers. Now, it's just a matter of figuring out how to monetize it all.
Finally, onto the actual income report…
October Income Report
Article Writing
Because InfoBarrel can no longer be a focus of mine (due to probably never having an AdSense account again), I've changed this section of my report to include all types of article writing sites. The good news is, I had some success with a different site in October – Squidoo.
Squidoo has it's own complicated revenue-sharing system that isn't based on what your specific article generates, however this isn't the only way you can earn. You can also use affiliate links within your articles (or "lenses" as they call them), for which you would keep 100% of any commissions.
One of my lenses that has some Amazon affiliate links performed fairly well. Here's a summary of all my article-related income for October:
- Amazon: $41.00
- Chitika: $0.42
Total Article Writing Income: $41.42
Lending Club
Lending Club is one of my favorite online passive income sources, mainly because (as I've said before) I believe it's my only truly passive income source. If you are unfamiliar with Lending Club, however, you should read my original write-up. I wrote it a long time ago, but it still applies today.
October was a great month, as I'm starting to see the payoff for investing in some more risky loans (although not ones that seem too risky).
I'm now invested in 148 loans (+4 from September) and my net annualized return is 5.94% (+.16% from September).
I was informed just a couple days ago that Lending Club hit a big milestone – they have now facilitated the borrowing and investing of $1 billion worth of loans. They created a pretty cool infographic that I thought would be worth sharing:
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Although it probably doesn't mean much to you, I think it's a significant milestone that really shows how this model for passive income investing actually works. When they were only 2-3 years in, some people were skeptical. But now that they're going on year #6, and both investors and borrowers are still getting great value, it's a good sign that this model really works.
If you're interested in trying Lending Club, you can sign up with this link and get a free account. If you're unsure whether this type of investing is right for you, you can deposit a small amount (investments can be as small as $25) and become familiar with it. As always, if you have any questions about it, I'd be more than happy to answer them in the comments (or feel free to contact me by e-mail).
Niche Sites
There's not much to report here. For my niche site domains that haven't yet expired, I still earn a little bit of money from various sources. Otherwise, I haven't put any work into these sites lately and don't plan to at this time.
- Amazon: $7.74
- Media.net: $1.34
- Chitika: $0.04
- InfoLinks: $0.31
- Commission Junction: $6.00
- Total: $15.43 (-$22.05 from September)
Authority Sites
Authority Site #1 (Not Revealed)
This site is currently inactive. As I mentioned last month, after struggling with my .ME domain, I purchased a similar .COM domain to see if my ranking issues (after a year of building content) were domain related.
I haven't moved the content over yet, but it's down and is no longer indexed by the search engines. This isn't too high on my priority list, but I plan on making the move at some point in the next couple months.
Authority Site #2 (Slow Carb Diet Experiments)
I've continued to add content on a regular basis (usually 2 posts per week), and I'm still receiving decent traffic from Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.
Unfortunately, the organic traffic is nonexistent. Ever since Google's "exact match domain" algorithm update (which also seemed to impact partial-match domains), I haven't been receiving any organic traffic from Google.
Because my link building is 100% "white hat" and I haven't obtained links from spammy sites, there's no reason to think my site is facing some kind of off-page SEO penalty. It's possible that some on-page issues could be negatively affecting me, but I haven't been able to solve the issue if there is one.
Stay tuned…this site is still my top priority.
Earnings – October:
- Amazon: $0.00
- Total: $0.00
Total Authority Site Earnings: $0.00
Affiliate/Other Income
Here's the breakdown for affiliate and other income earned during October. [Note: This income comes from other sites not discussed/listed above, including affiliate sales generated through this blog.]
- Amazon: $0.00
- CashCrate: $8.85
- ClickBank: $35.11
- Commission Junction: $179.00
- PayDotCom: $0.00
- Private Advertising: $0.00
- Market Samurai: $0.00
- Other Misc.: $23.32
Total Misc. Affiliate Earnings for October: $246.28
I didn't do nearly as well with Market Samurai in October compared to September, but I wasn't expecting to. Everything else was pretty stable.
Income Summary
Here's a summary of October's earnings, organized by project/challenge:
- Article Writing: $41.42
- Amazon & "AdSense" Niche Sites: $15.43
- Authority Websites: $0.00
- Misc. Affiliate Income: $246.28
Grand Total for October: $303.13 (-$479.98 from September)
Popular Blog Posts
These were my top 5 most popular blog posts in October based on number of views:
1) 142+ Ways to Make Money Online
2) My Passive Income Report [September 2012]
3) AdSense Account Disabled: What the Hell?!
4) How to Make $2,000 Per Month Writing for InfoBarrel
5) How to Get REAL Backlinks for Free (Without Much Effort)
I'd love to hear about how your October went. Share in the comments! And until next month, best of luck to you and your passive income projects!
If you enjoyed this income report, subscribe to the RSS feed (if you haven't already) so that you don't miss any future updates. Thanks so much!


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The Sony LAEA3 Adapter enables A-mount lenses to be used with E-mount cameras and camcorders. Key features include:
- Full-Frame Compatible. Provides full-frame coverage on the Sony Alpha a7 / a7R / a7S / a7 II / a7R II.
- A-Mount Lens to E-Mount Camera. Allows use of a very wide range of Sony A-mount lenses to be used on E-mount cameras
- Electronic Communication. The LAEA3 features electronic contacts, allowing both aperture control and autofocus. Additionally, EXIF data is transferred.
- Integrated Tripod Mount. The 1/4"-20 mounting point on the adapter helps to keep the strain from large, heavy lenses off the camera's lens mount.
- This adapter does not have a focus motor built in like the LAEA4. Please check your A mount lenses to make sure they have their own focus motors to work with this adapter.


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Tortolita Middle School's TV Broadcasting & Video Production students took the three top spots in the 2013 Step Up, Speak Out, End Bullying PSA Contest April 27 at the Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway.
The event showcased student-made public service announcements.
Mikayla Curcio won the grand prize, an iPad Mini, and the opportunity to have her video, titled "What if that were You?" air on Cox Cable TV this fall.
Alison Plocki was runner-up for "What will they Think?" and Cyan Cornett's video won the "radio ready" distinction for "Don't Be Afraid." Her PSA will air on KMXZ 94.9-FM this fall.


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WITH reference to York Minster becoming the first building in the UK to install new state of the art protective glazing to protect it from the elements, is it a coincidence or an act of God that this protective system is manufactured in Germany?
Considering as a young lad during the Second World War, ensconced in an Anderson shelter in Acomb, during German air raids on the city to provide protection, for an icon to many York residents, stranger than fiction is the operative word.
However, York Minster during those years was designated as a landmark to guide enemy aircraft to their intended targets, the railway network, and if my memory serves me correctly, valuable stained glass was removed until hostilities ceased.
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Should we be heading towards Mars? Rand Simberg notes that the Phoenix's triumphant landing on Mars this past Sunday occurred on the 47th anniversary of President Kennedy's appearance before a joint session of Congress to propose an American mission to the moon "before this decade is out." He comments on the possible significance of what Phoenix finds -- or doesn't find -- to an eventual manned mission to the red planet:
This mission, like all Mars missions, is not just to answer pure science questions. It is also ostensibly a precursor to eventual human trips to Mars. The discovery that water is available in large quantities at the poles was encouraging to those who plan to "live off the land" there. But perhaps those who hope to one day be Martians themselves should also hope that Phoenix doesn't find signs of life, at least current life. If it does, it's not at all inconceivable that the planet would be put under quarantine from humanity so that we don't contaminate it with our own life forms (this is a concern even for the robotic envoys, such as Phoenix, to the point that they are scrupulously sterilized prior to launch). Beyond that, for reasons having nothing to do with Mars, some say that we should hope that we are alone because to learn otherwise might be a bad omen for the human race.
As I noted a while back, I'm not convinced that the discovery of life on Mars -- or elsewhere -- is necessarily bad news. If Mars were to be quarantined, it would be bad news for those who planned to settle the planet, but the exciting news of finding life elsewhere in the solar system would be bound to mitigate that disappointment to some extent.
Assuming no life is found (ever) and no quarantine sets in, when do we start settling Mars? And how do we start?
Former NASA engineer Jim McLane recently proposed that we kickstart our settlement of Mars with a rather dramatic (some would say radical) first step: a one-man, one-way mission to Mars. Personally, I think this is a great idea - if you can find the right man (or woman) for the job, and if it truly sets in motion a wave of missions to Mars.
A single one-man, one-way mission to Mars, with no follow-up planned or executed, would be an exercise in nihilism. But the same mission intended as the first step of a long process of establishing ourselves on Mars would bring something back to space exploration that used to be its defining characteristic: heroism. That astronaut would be a hero if ever a hero has flown into space.
As McClane explains it:
I think people have forgotten how exciting the Apollo program was, and this would bring that excitement back. And it wasn't just here in the US; the whole world was excited. This enthusiasm would be the greatest effect of a program that places a man on Mars, over and above anything else, whether it makes jobs, or stimulates the economy, or creates technology spinoffs. We're all humans and the idea of sending one of our kind on a trip like that would be a wonderful adventure for the entire world. The whole world would get behind it.
I think he might be on to something. And I'm not alone. Nancy Atkinson, writing at Universe Today, notes that the original piece she wrote about McClane's outrageous plan has found its way around the world and has caught the attention of some would-be volunteers. Soldiers serving in the 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan have read Atkinson's article and are ready to take up the call.
One of these soldiers, SFC William H. Ruth III, has written to propose the following:
Here is an 'out of the box idea. Let the heroes of all our countries, for once, risk the ultimate sacrifice for something greater than one man's idea. Maybe once let these men and women that rise every morning and say 'today I will stand for something' and say 'evil will not prevail, not on my watch'. For once let them volunteer for us all, you never know, mankind, the human race. It might just catch on if we let it."
Will we falter at a hint of death or danger? Or will we do now what so many in all of the world's history have done before us. NASA of all thinking societies should understand this. Would there even be an America or NASA if a man named Columbus had not pursued a dangerous and possibly deadly voyage to a new world? He certainly had to consider whether or not he would ever return home to see all those he loved so dearly. But what of those aboard his ships, those that left Spain knowing that they would never return. Those few that willingly risked all for the chance at a new world and a new future, could they have possibly known what effects they would have had on the future due to their sacrifices? Now can we have enough vision to see our destiny, can we, for a moment, see past our petty differences of race and religion to see…peace, prosperity and possibly a new world."
Imagine the possibilities. We start with a single mission, a single hero. Perhaps Ruth himself would be first. This initial one-way mission is followed by ships with slightly bigger crews -- say four to eight personnel -- who join the First Man on Mars and help him to establish a settlement there. We continue with one-way missions manned by soldiers from every nation on earth who want to participate, until we have created a serious and permanent foothold on the planet. Then the civilians begin to come.
It would be epic. It would be the greatest adventure in human history. Everything that has come before would pale in comparison. I love this idea. But sadly, I think we might be too "civilized" to attempt anything this daring. Is there room for this kind of heroism in this day and age? My heart say yes; my head says no way.


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In her State of the Industry address that kicked off the sixth annual IT Operator Summit at the Hyatt Regency in Schaumburg, IL, president Elaine Hodgson told those in attendance that recent trends have had serious effects on the amusement industry, and that the industry's job is not to fight trends, but to spot them and use them to determine the most effective ways to entertain people.
With this philosophy in mind, Hodgson said IT will make a new push toward trying to connect with this "casual majority" with simpler, cheaper and quicker games.
"We are in the entertainment industry," she said. "And we must do everything we can to understand these people and what makes them spend money on our products. They don't need what we have to offer – they have to want it."
She went on to say that IT has taken notice that this audience finds the simplicity of games like Silver Strike Bowling very attractive. "These games require less commitment of time and strategy," she said. "They are simple and approachable. This trend was also responsible for the development of Target Toss Pro: Bags."
IT vice-president of product development Larry Hodgson echoed the message by saying that the company would try to "get back to the basics" that made it so successful in the first place. While Golden Tee LIVE will still be the flagship, games such as Target Toss Pro: Bags and a possible "unplugged" version of Golden Tee will become an increasingly important focus in the near future.
"We have always tried to reach out to the casual majority of players," Hodgson commented. "The real trick is to get players from the bar stool to the game. Ultimately the goal is to get them to progress to Golden Tee LIVE where the true experience lies."
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The one thing a high school football coach hates to see is when a player goes down with an injury, especially a major one.
It hurts even more when the injury ends a season, or evenb costs an athlete part of it.
A lot of coaches around the district have seen some of their top players exit unexpectedly this year.
Washington superstar running back Shai McKenzie may be the biggest name to see his season end, but there are others. McKenzie injured his knee making a simple cut in Week 3 at Charleroi.
Yough played against Mt. Pleasant without nose tackle Tom Sever (leg) on Friday and probably lost starting tackle Chandler Daniel for the season with a leg injury. Daniel left the turf at Cougar Mountain on a stretcher and was transported to a hospital by ambulance.
"Not having Tom was a big loss," Yough coach Mark Crovak said. "He's a leader and makes a difference on defense. He plugs up everything in the middle. We're hoping to get him back in a couple of weeks. Chandler, however, might be done."
Crovak said losing Sever and Daniel impacts his team's depth.
"They were two-way starters for us," Crovak said. "When you're a Class AA squad with limited talent, losing kids like that hurts. You get the next player up and try to coach them the best you can."
The one player Greensburg Central Catholic couldn't afford to lose this season was starting quarterback Chase Keller. But the senior was gone for the season when he injured his left shoulder in Week 2 intercepting a pass.
His injury forced the Centurions coaching staff to change their offense.
Greensburg Salem saw senior linebacker/tight end Kenny Clark's season end in Week 1 with a knee injury. Greensburg Salem coach Dave Keefer said the loss was felt more in Week 2 because of Clark's leadership.
"What an injury does can affect your depth, especially if you don't have a deep roster," Latrobe coach Ray Reitz said. "A lot of times the backup is OK, but now his backup is inexperienced because they are sophomores."
Latrobe lost two-way tackle Josh Nunez to a knee injury on the second play of the game Week 1 against Gateway. Reitz is hopeful Nunez can return before the end of the season so college scouts can see him on film.
"Josh was a leader and a tough kid," Reitz said. "A lot of times an injury affects three phases of the game: offense, defense and special teams."
Latrobe then lost starting linebacker Alex Hoopes, a junior, during Week 2 against Hempfield. Hoopes was one of the Wildcats' top defensive players.
Belle Vernon coach Aaron Krepps probably thinks his program is jinxed. The Leopards lost junior running back Anthony Levis to a knee injury in a scrimmage, and then starting quarterback Travis Snyder a three-year starter as a junior, was lost for the season with a knee injury in Week 3 against Ringgold.
"It's tough," Krepps said. "I know every situation is different. The dynamics of the team has changed. The offense we envisioned is now a lot different.
"I know injuries are part of the game, but we lost our second- and third-string quarterbacks in Week 3, too. Now we're starting freshman Michael Fine. I thought he played well for us against Elizabeth Forward."
Krepps said he and his staff have been forced to make player moves out of necessity.
"You never want to see a player get hurt," Krepps said. "But injuries give other players opportunities."
Reitz agrees.
"If you're able to overcome the injuries, there are benefits," Reitz said.
Franklin Regional coach Greg Botta said injuries are forcing him to start three, sometimes four, sophomores.
Botta is dealing with the season-ending loss of all-conference tackle Adam Mihoci, who injured his knee in Week 2 and played on it in Week 3 before telling his coach the knee was sore. Mihoci is getting recruited by some Division I programs.
"We thought it was a sprain or strain," Botta said. "When he came to us before the Greensburg Salem game in Week 4 and told us, it made me and the staff sick.
"It shows how tough the kid was by playing on it. I asked the team how they were about all the injuries and they told us they try not to think about it."
Botta hopes how Mihoci played in the first two weeks is enough to convince college coaches what type of talent he is.
Linebacker Pat Kukalis also is missing from the Franklin Regional lineup.
"In 2005, 2007 and 2011, we were pretty lucky," Botta said. "We didn't have that many injuries those seasons. You just have to approach it as the next man up."
Some injuries don't even happen on the football field. Blairsville quarterback Scott Thompson injured his knee turning around in the classroom.
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When intheclouds label-head Dan Marter told me about Ghost House, I was intrigued. You see, Ghost House is essentially the band Athletics with a different drummer and a different attitude.
Over the past year, Marter has helped the band by recording the demos that would later become this release. "I thought it would be fun to help them record some demos… and honestly, it was fun… maybe too much, trying to crank out 8 songs over a 3 day weekend while getting "paid" in beer (which I took full advantage of)… the results were a little sketchy."
What they accomplished proved to be enough come recording time. The band laid down the tracks in upstate New York with Paul Besch from Quiet Country Audio. You can hear them for the first time here.
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Kristen Stewart & Rupert Sanders Were Doing It For Six Months
Kristen Stewart claimed her make-out session with Rupert Sanders was a "momentary indiscretion" because people just all of a sudden agree to meet and tongue each other's no-no places in a parking lot without a history of seeing each other naked, but Liberty Ross' brother is claiming their affair went on for at least six months, according to RadarOnline:
Leopold Ross, brother of Sanders' actress wife, Liberty Ross, told the Brit newspaper, The People, "It was from the last half of filming and all through post-production, clear into last week."
His sister, who had a small role as Kristen's mother in Snow White and the Huntsman, had left England with Rupert and primarily stayed home raising their two children, so that he could pursue his dream of becoming a successful Hollywood director.
"She made some sacrifices for something she thought was worth it, now she knows, right? Five minutes from her home…."
Wow, what a kick in the SparkleBalls to Robert Pattinson. And not because Kristen Stewart cheated on him but because that's six months he could've been playing with Katy Perry's giant breasts instead of wasting his time with tiny implants strapped to an emotionless, dead-fish that's high all the time. Rupert Sanders gave Kristen Stewart coke is what I'm trying to say here. "Okay, whatev, I'll try it, but it'll probably suck. *SNOORRRT* Ohmygod, I'm so full of life! Do me in a car, Rupert Murdoch!"
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LSU AgCenter News - Dec 01, 2011
By LSU AgCenter Horticulturists Dan Gill, Kyle Huffstickler and Allen Owings
The ideal planting time for cool-season bedding plants in Louisiana runs from late September through early December. Some of our common cool-season flowers prefer the earlier planting dates, and some do better with the later planting dates.
Pansies and their dwarf cousins, violas, prefer planting after the temperatures have cooled off some. The LSU AgCenter normally recommends late October through early December as a recommended planting window for these plants. Pansies continue to be our most popular landscape flower for late fall through early spring, but violas are gaining more market share and are being used more in home landscape plantings.
Many pansy and viola varieties are on the market in a wide choice of colors – blue, rose, pink, yellow, white, purple, red and scarlet, among others. Flower sizes come in large, medium and small. Some varieties have solid-color ("clear") flower petals and others have blotched flower faces. Normally, clear-faced flowers are more popular for landscape use, but some folks like the colors of the blotched flowers in mixed plantings.
When properly cared for, pansies will last into late April and early May most years. A combination of pansies in the front of a landscape bed with the colorful foliage of ornamental kale and cabbage behind them can be attractive. Snapdragons are also a nice companion plant for violas or pansies.
Pansies and violas do best when planted in full sun, but they can tolerate a few hours of partial shade daily. Be aggressive and plant these flowers in masses for the best visual enhancement. Space individual plants 8-10 inches apart and at least 3-4 rows deep.
Choose pansy varieties with small- and medium-sized flowers. These hold up better than larger-flowered pansy varieties long term. The smaller-flowered violas are season extenders due to their rain and heat tolerance. Violas last two weeks longer than pansies into the late spring. Matrix pansy and Sorbet violas are two of the LSU AgCenter-recommended series. To enjoy pansies and violas season-long, follow proper bed preparation, fertilization, soil pH and irrigation practices. Properly prepare the landscape bed to allow for good internal drainage and aeration. Make sure your soil comes from a reputable supplier. Cheap soil is "bad," expensive soil is "good."
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Late in the evening an Ottawa resident tweeted the gates failed to drop for an approaching train at the Fallowfield Rd. crossing. According to the tweet a train was forced to stop metres away from the level crossing.
Luckily, Via crew members were on site with stop signs, reported the tweeter.
Mayor Jim Watson and Coun. Jan Harder both tweeted at the rail company asking for an explanation.
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I was 6 years old in 1929, the beginning of the Great Depression. My dad bought me a small rake, hoe and shovel and got me hooked on raising a small garden to go along with his vegetable garden. During the winter, we disconnected the refrigerator to save electricity and kept spoilable food in a window "icebox." You opened the window to put food in, and then closed the window to keep it cold. We didn't have freezers yet. I had three brothers, so we had a family of 6 to feed.
Dad owned a small electrical shop. He was a licensed electrician. He would wire houses and sell Crosley appliances and Haag washers in the shop. But people had no money. He'd wire a house and then he wasn't always able to collect for it. So, on summer afternoons, he and I would take the store truck and go up into the woods to cut firewood with a two-man saw (chain saws weren't invented yet). Then, we'd haul it home and throw it into the coal bin. One winter, we only had to buy one ton of coal.
In 1931, I was 8 years old and I decided I wanted to make some money by doing something after school, but there were no jobs. You had to make your own job. So, my Dad got me some magazines from a wholesaler. In those days, nobody could afford yearly subscriptions, so I went door-to-door to sell them. I still remember my spiel: "Do you want to buy a 'Literary Digest,' 'Radio Dial,' 'Liberty,' 'True Story,' 'Woman's Home Companion,' 'Collins' or 'American'?" I'd go every week to the same places and, eventually, I had a magazine route built up. Most of them cost only 5 cents, so I made half a cent on them. I saved my money and was able to buy most of my clothes.
My Brother, Ed, had a hobby of making crystal set radios, and later became very good at repairing regular radios. He was 7 years older than I was, so he set up shop in Dad's electrical store and did very well there. Ed was so good at repairing radios that he got to be known as the guy in Hamilton, OH, who, when he fixed your radio, it stayed fixed. Before that, Ed built up an evening newspaper route in the summer selling "Baseball Extras". In the winter, people got hooked on the "Cincinnati Times Star" and he had a full year route. My brother, Pat, 2 years younger than me, and I later inherited the route and worked at that.
While in high school, I had a country paper route. After school, I'd load the "Journal-News" on the back of my bicycle and take them up 3 hills (15 miles, round trip) and put them in people's mail boxes, rain or shine. When Pat started high school the next year, we split the route so we each had 7 ˝ miles and each cleared 6 dollars per week.
After graduating from high school in 1941, I joined the NYA and learned to run a lathe. Then, I transferred to Patterson Field (now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) and worked on airplanes. Later, I flew 43 combat missions in B-25s in the U.S. Army Air Corps in WWII.
We were always taught if you're last out of a room, turn out all the lights. Also, don't drive over the speed limit - it saves gas and prevents tickets. We also learned how to budget our money by putting it in several jars each month. Consequently, we never had to use a soup kitchen.
Story collected for the Ohio Department of Aging Great Depression Stories Project 2009.
(Picture from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.)


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After a year of setback and struggle, Barack Obama last week sought to revive his programme, to reboot the American Dream. A generally solemn State of the Union address culminated in a rousing call to the nation "to start anew, to carry the dream forward, and to strengthen our union once more".
Commentary focused on the president's efforts to connect with the needs of middle-class America, those blue-collar workers whose lives are profoundly affected by the jobs market, taxation and interest rates.
But another feature of this address is just as remarkable – for its absence. The word "liberty" was entirely missing, and the term "freedom" was used only once.
Prior to Obama's election, these terms had been liberally sprinkled over every address for the last 25 years. They represent a mission statement for America that has become hardwired into its logic circuitry.
There is no way of knowing if Obama is seeking to wean his fellow citizens off the "f" word. But my analysis of the conflicted state of contemporary US society points to a country that is hooked on freedom – and suffering from the afflictions of liberty. This ideal has grown inflated and unstable, and is now fracturing the society it defines.
The US is not, of course, a Hobbesian dystopia. The Founding Fathers sought the perfect balance between liberation and regulation, and contemporary America can appear to fulfil this vision. A sense of consensus emerges in the give and take of the free market; shared narratives played out in the cinema; the ritualised battles of sport; and the year's cycle marked out by feast days and public holidays. But this doctrine of liberty has developed a bias towards hyper-individualism, engendering a sense of insecurity about personal and national identity.
The political scientist Louis Hartz described this condition as "psychic inflation" – a term that chimes with the Jungian concept of the neurotic who believes an idealised image to be the real self. This spirit of freedom is intoxicating, but it threatens to turn the American dream into a nightmare. For Jung, psychic inflation could be overcome through patience, humility and self-analysis, and there are countless US citizens practising these as they agonise about the unsettled states of America. No less a figure than President Obama stands in the vanguard for change.
But the steep decline of Obama's ratings in the polls and the apparent resistance to much of his programme – reflected in the loss of the Massachusetts senate seat to the Republicans – may suggest that millions of Americans regard their brand of liberty as a commodity that needs to be protected.
The idea of liberty beloved by the US seems quite different from the British conception. These two Anglo-Saxon cultures, characterised by the common law, representative government, strong civil society and traditions of individual freedom, adopt surprisingly different approaches. Hartz wrote of England containing "an indefinable germ of liberty, a respect for the privacies of life" that the US cannot duplicate. American expatriates in the UK often praise the quality of tolerance in British society, and many cite this as a reason for migrating.
British society seems to have moved away from the libertarian tradition that was transported to America. There seems to have been a notable shift in British opinion in the 1880s. Gladstone shocked many in the Liberal party by supporting the agenda of collectivists in his cabinet. The individualist current abated, and while Lord Salisbury (leader of the Conservatives) proposed public grants for working class housing, the Fabian Society advanced principles of social democracy and laid the foundations of the Labour party.
Fifty years ago, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin provided a clue to these differences. He spoke of "negative" and "positive" attitudes to freedom – the difference between protecting and taking liberties. And he suggested liberty might need to be constrained so that all can be free – a liberal morality underpinned by notions of equality and social justice.
Western liberalism, as Berlin recognised, faces an irreconcilable dilemma: if we desire freedom to be the ultimate end for humanity, none should be deprived of it by others, nor should some enjoy it at the expense of others.
The radically positive approach contained in the idea of Land of the Free exacerbates this dilemma. An American pupil of Berlin, the philosopher John Rawls, seemed to agree. He argued that in order to achieve equality of liberty, the defining precept for a society like the US should not be freedom but justice: a shared conception of what is fair.
If America could adjust its frame of reference by tempering its brand of liberty, it might come closer to the vision of the Founding Fathers. Given the temper of the times and the mindset of so many American voters, however, this would be a brave change, indeed. But I suspect Barack Obama understands why it matters. And this might explain why the key omission from this year's address was any extensive reference to the great American fetish – freedom.


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