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There are a lot of opinions out there about driving for Uber and Lyft, but I've never tried to convince anyone that they should or shouldn't do this job. Driving for rideshare services isn't for everyone, but one thing I do know is that there are hundreds of thousands of people doing it and thousands more signing up every month. And if you're considering it or you're already a driver, my job is to provide the best information possible and serve as a resource to help answer all of your questions.
A few years ago, I posted about the earnings potential of a driver in the Los Angeles/Orange County area, but a lot has changed since then. Although that article extensively broke down my earnings, I figured it was time to update it.
So during a recent week of driving, I decided to track all of my rides and analyze my total income and driving strategy. I'm always looking for ways to earn more by working smarter, not harder and I think it's important to take a break from driving every once in a while to reflect on ways to improve your driving strategy and increase your bottom line.
If you're just in it to get in the car and drive, great. But if you're like me, you probably want to maximize your revenue and figure out what the best strategies to drive are that fit in with your lifestyle. And since not everyone has the time to analyze a week's worth of rides, I've done it for you!
The Takeaway: I tracked all my rides for a full week of driving in Los Angeles and averaged around $24 per hour before expenses. During the slower weekdays, I was closer to $15-$20 per hour but during a busy Saturday night, I made $262 over 8 hours of driving ($33.16 per hour) plus an extra $80 for hitting my 20 trip incentive. I also calculated how much I earned after expenses and taxes, since that's something that drivers often overlook.


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Wasn't the 2014 Golden Globes just fabulous? I don't know why this award season is impressing me so much but I truly think the beauty looks have been incredible. There were 4 stand-out looks in my opinion and I'm going to show you exactly how to achieve them thanks to the experts who created them. Will your favourite celebrity be on my list? Will you try one of these beauty looks? I can't wait to find out. Continue Reading
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It has been some time since I have shown you some new Lancôme lipsticks but these came across my desk just a couple of days ago and they are so cute I couldn't bare to withhold them. Unfortunately, the sunshine in Sydney has been lacking but even in less than impressive natural light, you can still see how shiny and lustreous these are. Today I will be showing you 3 of the 21 new shades.
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As always, I will give you my thoughts on the individual colour below with the swatches, but here are my remarks on the overall line. Continue Reading
This wrap-up has been a long time coming but I wanted to make sure I could find most, if not all, the images from New York Fashion Week before I made my judgement. Well, weeks later, I think I am ready. Here are my favourites from the very recent New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011-2012 shows.
All the pretty faces ….
Lancôme for Chris Benz
Yellow eyeshadow is not something you can just throw on. The colour, the intensity and the pairing with other colours can make the look a complete failure, or a smashing success. Lancôme lead makeup artist, Daniel Martin, did a top job with this sunshine lid and full lip.
Official Description: The makeup muse for Chris Benz's Spring 2012 collection was Candy Darling, a 1960's nightclub fixture who was part of Andy Warhol's clique. With Candy and Chris' bright colors as inspiration, lead makeup artist Daniel Martin wanted to create fresh, clean skin with a pop of color on the eyes and lips. Daniel used shades of sea foam and mint green on the eyes and then applied black gel liner for definition. For thick jet-black lashes, he applied "tons of mascara." A wash of tangerine blush was applied high on the cheekbones and Lancôme's new Rouge in Love lipstick gave the models a bright pouty lip.
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There are some commands that won't serve any functional purpose in your dog's life, but are great fun to teach and will help to strengthen the bond between you and your four-legged companion. One example of this is teaching her to crawl. Whether your dog is big or small, young or old, this is a simple-to-teach command that will put a smile on your face every time.
Teaching Your Dog To Crawl
Although teaching your dog to crawl is simple, doing so will require a lot of patience and perseverance on your part. This is a progressive command, so you will be gradually building up your dog's ability to crawl through each practice session. Below is a step-by-step guide to train your dog to crawl like a champion:
1. Get your dog to lie down. Sit close to your dog with a treat in your hand and command her to lie down. Hold the treat close to the floor to encourage her to go low then reward her with a treat each time she lies down. Repeat this training a few more times until your dog understands and responds to your verbal "down" command. Once your dog knows how to lie down and stay there, teaching the crawl becomes much easier!
2. Encourage your dog to crawl. Now, take out another treat and show it to your dog. Be sure to use a treat that your dog is fond of in order to grab her attention and interest. Then, whilst she's still lying down on the floor, give the command "Crawl!" while dragging the treat slowly away from her to encourage her to crawl after it. When she crawls forward reward her with praise and the treat. If your dog stands up and walks forward towards the treat, move it away and give the "down" command. Keep trying until your dog moves forward by crawling, then instantly reward and praise her.
Repeat the exercise several times, moving the treat further and further each session. Remember to keep rewarding your dog every time she obeys the command, giving her a treat and lavishing her with praise. This will keep reinforce the behaviour as well as keeping her motivated. As with all commands, it is important that you are consistent with the word you choose. Don't say "Crawl!" one time and "Move!" the next time, for example.
3. Gradually remove the treat. When your dog has come to associate crawling with getting a treat, she'll try to impress you and crawl at every opportunity just so you can give her the reward! Don't fall for it. You need to move her beyond thinking about food whenever she crawls, to the extent that she can crawl just as easily without expecting anything in return.
Offer your dog an open palm whilst holding the treat in the other hand. Give the command to "crawl!" If she crawls on her belly, give her a treat with the other hand. But if she doesn't, it means the behavior hasn't become automatic just yet and she's still following the treat in your close hand. If this is the case, you'll need to take a step backwards and repeat the previous stage.
As your dog continues to respond to the command without the treat on offer, start to occasionally reward her with just praise when she crawls. Eventually, as the behaviour becomes ingrained, she should be crawling on command without the guarantee of a treat. It is of course ok to still reward her with a treat every now and then, but as long as you reward her with lots of praise she will be happy to crawl whenever you command her to.
So your pretty dog is crawling even without a treat in sight? Great! Keep training her but all the while keep the treats few and far between. Over time this behavior will become automatic and your dog will be just as eager to crawl as you want her to. Don't be too hard on her though, she's your pet and so an occasional treat here and there won't spoil her.
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As you teach your dog to crawl bear in mind the following tips:
– Rewards should be immediate and consistent. Unlike humans, dogs are not able to make connections between events that are separated in time. Reward your dog as soon as she completes the desired behaviour so that she can tell why she's being rewarded. Always respond the same way to the behavior- don't punish your dog one day for something you have been praising them for previously, all this will do is confuse her.
– Keep the crawling training sessions simple and short as dogs have a short attention span. Always stop the training at the first sign of tiredness or frustration. The trick is to keep your crawling lessons brief but repeat them throughout the day.
– Train systematically and introduce new skills gradually. Practice makes perfect. So if your dog doesn't get it initially, don't quit. Instead, go back a few steps and keep repeating the same process until it finally becomes ingrained in your dog's mind.
– Finally, be patient with your dog. It takes time and effort to learn to crawl, even for humans! Make it fun by not putting your dog under pressure to learn to crawl too fast. Your patience and persistence will eventually bring you satisfaction and put a smile on your face when your dog starts to impress your family and friends with her incredible crawling skills!


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While the state Legislature did not force major structural changes to higher education this year, lawmakers did approve a record number of resolutions and studies to be undertaken by colleges and their coordinating bodies.
The biggest is a resolution to form a new commission to study the overall governance of higher education and other related matters. The findings and recommendations must be submitted in January.
The Legislature's efforts — 25 resolutions and studies — will mean a lot of extra work and research for the Louisiana Board of Regents, which serves as the state's higher education coordinating and policy body. But Jim Purcell, the state's new commissioner of higher education, said he prefers too much attention over too little.
"I'm pretty happy higher education is of interest," Purcell said. "I think that'll help us in the long run."
The resolutions include requests for a myriad of regional higher education studies, the creation of a new Remedial Education Commission, studying expanding dual enrollment programs, studying tuition gaps between the state and the rest of the region, partnering more with the Louisiana Workforce Commission and much more.
Resolutions also include advising on the future of the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, called LUMCON, and seeking more funding to offset cuts to the state's college library network, or LOUIS.
There is even one resolution seeking the Board of Regents to work with the state Department of Health and Hospitals to modify and improve the Louisiana Midwife Practitioners Act.
But most of the overall Board of Regents efforts will look at studying higher education structure and governance issues on regional and statewide levels. Several of the resolutions overlap and could be merged, Purcell said.
House Concurrent Resolution 184 by state Rep. Thomas Carmody, R-Shreveport, will attract the most attention by forming a large, 18-person commission to study the future of the state's higher education structure.
Purcell said he favors of clarifying and strengthening the role of the Board of Regents in leadership and budgetary matters.
"It's not necessarily the governance structure; it's the ability to lead," Purcell said.
The next step is determining who will serve on the commission and which out-of-state experts will be brought in to testify, he said.
HCR184 states the commission should reflect the state's race and gender and comprise:
• Four Board of Regents appointments.
• Five Gov. Bobby Jindal appointments.
• One each from the boards of the LSU System, Southern University System, University of Louisiana System and the Louisiana and Community and Technical College System.
• The Senate Education Committee chairman, currently Ben Nevers, D-Bogalusa, and another committee member appointed by the chairman.
• The House Education Committee chairman, currently Austin Badon, D-New Orleans, and another committee member appointed by the chairman.
• The state's Workforce Investment Council chairman, currently Edward Rispone.
Jindal and House Speaker Jim Tucker, R-Terrytown, started the legislative session proposing eliminating all the higher education boards and forming a single "superboard," along with new advisory boards for individual campuses.
But that legislation was defeated on the House floor.
Jindal and Tucker also proposed merging the University of New Orleans with Southern University at New Orleans. That plan also was defeated.
A compromise resulted in the transfer of UNO from the LSU System to the UL System, which turned about to be the only significant higher education structural change of the session.
Apart from considering governance and board consolidation, the commission also is tasked with studying academic programs, duplicative services and personnel, student transfer plans, college tuition levels, the state's performance-based funding formula and more.
The wide range of goals likens the proposed commission to the Louisiana Postsecondary Education Review Commission, nicknamed PERC, and the Tucker Commission, that finished its work in February 2010. Purcell said the new commission could build on the previous work and achieve more of the recommendations.
"It's really all about how to build your human capital here in Louisiana," Purcell said.
He said the Regents' regional studies will start in the Houma area, then move to central Louisiana. The Alexandria area is admittedly more tricky, he said, because LSU at Alexandria was transformed from a community college to a university, and now there are requests to open a new community college.
Next, Purcell said, they will study the Shreveport area and northern Louisiana, where Louisiana Tech University is considering a move to the LSU System, which would essentially result in a swap-out between Tech and UNO.
"I want to ask (in each region), how do you ultimately see your future?" Purcell said.
The other question is how to finance the extra work.
"We'll be redirecting, but we'll get it done for sure," Purcell said.


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- We are committed to creating a Christian atmosphere for students, families and educators who share a common vision of integrating quality academic standards in an enriching learning environment supported by the Catholic values found in the Gospel message of Jesus Christ.
- St. Mary School is a faith community consisting of clergy, principal, faculty, staff, parents and students.
- We base our philosophy of education on Christ as our model, through studying scripture and fostering the teachings and traditions of the Catholic Church.
- Our major emphasis is on the development of Christian life and the formation of spiritual and moral beliefs of the individuals.
- We believe that Catholic education is responsive to the uniqueness of each individual.
- It guides all students in the fulfillment of their potential by addressing the needs of the whole child: spiritual, academic, social, physical and cultural.
- At St. Mary School, we foster a sense of self-worth, dignity in each individual and an acceptance of others as reflecting Christ.
- As Catholic educators, we prepare students to be Christian witnesses by putting their faith into action and we encourage them to be catalysts of change for the betterment of society.
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Ernest William Hornung (1866-1921) was born in Middlesborough, England, and educated at Uppingham School, Rutland. He spent two years in Australia for his health, returning to England in 1886. In 1893, he married Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's sister Constance and five years later the first of his stories of Raffles the gentleman burglar appeared in Cassell's Magazine. More stories followed and proved extremely popular.
The first collection of the exploits of A.J. Raffles and his friend Bunny Manders was published as The Amateur Cracksman in 1899. The characters of Raffles and Bunny were possibly inspired by his brother-in-law's creations, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, although they are on the opposite side of the law.
The activities of the gentleman cricketer and his associate are highly questionable, but "he never steals from his hosts and he helps his old friends in trouble".
The stories are: "The Ides of March", "A Costume Piece", "Gentleman and Players", "Le Premier Pas", "Wilful Murder", "Nine Points of the Law", "The Return Match", "The Gift of the Emporer".
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In Week 12, when the Miami Dolphins imploded on their home turf, the New England Patriots' second-half drive chart was repetitive: touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, field goal, touchdown.
Since then, however, the Dolphins have put together a magnificent stretch of three straight games without yielding another touchdown. The last time they did that was under Don Shula in 1973, the second of back-to-back championship seasons.
The Dolphins on Sunday were dominated in time of possession and first downs but surrendered only three field goals in a 14-9 victory over the San Francisco 49ers.
"We were on the field for a long time today, but guys stuck with it," Dolphins safety Yeremiah Bell said after the game. "We made a lot of plays today when plays had to be made. Guys [were] stepping up to the plate, and that's what we expect to do. There are going to be times where we need those big plays and guys made them."
The Dolphins became the NFL's first team to not allow a touchdown in three consecutive games since 2000, when the Pittsburgh Steelers lasted five straight games and the Tennessee Titans held firm for three in a row.
Since the Patriots punched it in on their final drive, the St. Louis Rams, Buffalo Bills and 49ers have failed to cross the goal line on 29 consecutive possessions. No defensive or special-teams TDs either.
A breakdown of how each drive has ended during Miami's stingy stretch:
13 punts
8 field goals
4 interceptions
2 turned over on downs
1 fumble
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Good thing, too. Miami's offense can't be described as prolific lately. The Dolphins have scored 17 points or fewer in four of their past five games. The exception was when they scored 28 points yet still got blown out by the Patriots.
"We're following that saying 'You bend but don't break,'" Dolphins nose tackle Jason Ferguson said. "We get down there and we're bending but we're not giving up touchdowns.
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Need to delete many duplicate virtual network adapters
I have over 50 virtual networking adapters in device manager, I have posted this question in many forums, and still cannot get rid of these pesky unused extra adapters. I know they have been created by using Virtualbox, and by creating many virtual machines and updating virtualbox. Unfortunately, I have tried uninstalling virtualbox and the drivers all remain in devicemanager. DeviceMgmt also does not allow me to uninstall or delete the adapters, (When I do they just stay there, even after rebooting.)
I most likely have to go into the registry and delete them, but they are in so many different places there, I need to know the correct place to delete them.
I have a bet that this is the forum where I will get the answer for this even though I have posted in virtualbox forums, technet, MSDN, superuser, serverfault, and stackoverflow.
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|09 Sep 2012
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
Hi try the 2nd post in this link : networking - Unable to uninstall virtualbox network drivers - Super User
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|09 Sep 2012
Hey, thanks for the response, I have seen this link, and unfortunately, I think that I need to keep those network adapters because I still use virtualbox, what I am looking for is the keys for the virtualbox bridged networking driver miniports with #s 1-6 and the bridged networking driver miniports #13-19. I believe that the registry keys in that post apply to the first adapters that I actually use and therefore need to keep them, If I am wrong, let me know and I will take a closer look once again. The question in that post was to completely remove all virtualbox networking adapters because the user was no longer using the program. Thanks.
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|09 Sep 2012
Windows 10 Pro X64
Can't you right click and Select Uninstall in Device Manager for the ones you want to get rid of?
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|09 Sep 2012
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
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|09 Sep 2012
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Best to include a screenshot of the adapters you're wanting to delete.
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|10 Sep 2012
Windows 7 Ult, Windows 8.1 Pro,
This link might help if you need to make those extra adaptors show up in Device Manager so that you can uninstall them.
Error message when you try to set an IP address on a network adapter
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|15 Sep 2012
Device Manager wasnt allowing me to uninstall or delete them, but I have finally done it, and I do not know how the hell i did it, just today I went in there and they are gone. First I thought maybe Microsoft's update did something since I just updated yesterday but that doesn't really make sense, unless they did something that they have not advertised to public. Anyway I still have three network adapters that do not want to go away here is a picture. I have uninstalled all three, deleted the drivers and rebooted but they are still there. I also have spoke with Gov m from microsoft and all he told me to do was uninstall VirtualBox, (of course). I really need to get this old openvpn tapwin32 driver out of there It has been there for a year and i havent needed to use it.
I really dont know how I got rid of the other virtual network adapters, I just got lucky and they dissapeared today, since I got a new problem,
device manager seems to not allow you to delete and uninstall virtual network adapters msot of the time, now that I have only two from virtualbox left, and One TAP WIN32 (which I have for over a year, I leave it to you again to find out how to remove at least the tap-win32 adapter which was left behind from openvpn., thanks for the comments guys
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|20 Oct 2014
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Bit late for this thread ( 2years!)
but you need to remove the adapters from the virtual switch manager rather than just delete them from the network connections...
Hope this helps somebody
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Michael Moore suggests a fatal hug: "Democrats needs to embrace Hollywood more"
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Michael Moore, the guy who, wherever you see him, you assume that's where the bus stop is, has said that not only do the Democrats not need to run from Hollywood, they need to embrace them further.
Oh man, with this mindset, the Republicans are going to rule Washington longer than Hirohito quarterbacked Japan.
At least this could ensure that Hollywood remains in the political spotlight, spouting off moronicisms daily, and keeping the Joe McCarthy-esque spirit of the "Subersive Celebrity Dossier" alive and well, not to mention activist groups like "People for the Ethical Treatment of Alec Baldwin."
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Opening Arguments Delivered In Air Bag Death CaseApr 8, 2000 | AP
A girl's death in a minivan crash resulted from "a terribly aggressive air bag" by an automaker more concerned about sales even the cost of test dummies than proper testing of the device, an attorney argued Friday.
The family made the claim on behalf of Alison Sanders' family, which is suing DaimlerChrysler AG over the passenger air bag that fatally injured the 7-year-old girl in a low-speed, 1995 crash in Baltimore.
The company put "an untested air bag in this vehicle to enhance the sales and improve the marketing," rushing it to market knowing it could kill a child seated near it, Peters said.
The Sander's attorney also said the automaker failed to adequately warn consumers about the dangers of air bags and exacerbated "bad engineering" by making "no effort to modify the risk to children." He said the automaker declined to crash-test the air bags out of concern it would lose a $20,000 to $25,000 dummy used in it.
"The question is and the hard part is and it's always been the hard part is how do you protect someone who's not a dummy?" Peters said.
James Feeney, a DaimlerChrysler attorney, countered that the "profoundly tragic case" was of Alison not being properly buckled in to the 1995 Dodge Caravan's front seat when her father, Robert, drove through a red light and crashed into another minivan.
Feeney said Alison was sitting "literally over the air bag when it deployed," despite "optimal" government-approved warnings inside the van that doing so inherently risked serious injury.
"That has always been a given," Feeney told jurors they will hear "the history of air bags in this country over the last 30 years."
Feeney said the air bag's design met federal safety standards, that the devices must rapidly inflate to be effective, and that warnings about proper passenger positioning have been used industrywide.
"For this vehicle to have been defective, every vehicle would have to be defective from a warning standpoint," he said.
He called Alison's death the product of "one horrible, narrow set of circumstances" and said that if t seat belts had been properly used there would have been "no injury, no fatality, no nothing."
Feeney dismissed claims that the automaker rushed the air bag into vehicles without adequate testing, saying that testing was evident in the findings that sitting too close to the deploying devices was risky.
The Sander's attorney has said "everyone was belted." He questioned whether the air bag should have even deployed in a crash involving a van he said was traveling 9 to 16 mph. Feeney said the van was moving 30 mph.
Alison died the next day after being taken off life-support, Peters said.
The trial is the second case of a child being killed by an air bag in a DaimlerChrysler minivan to go to trial. A federal jury in New York found the company partially liable in a 1995 case, but a judge threw the verdict out. That case is on appeal.
The family attorney told jurors that "this case is going to be proven from Chrysler materials" and testimony from Chrysler witnesses.
Several recent liability cases against automakers have resulted in large awards, including a $4.9 billion award to a California family against General Motors Corp. after the family's 1979 Chevy Malibu was rear-ended by a drunken driver and exploded into flames. That award was later reduced to $1.09 billion, though GM is still appealing the ruling.
The plaintiffs have not revealed how much they are seeking from DaimlerChrysler, which earned $5.8 billion on revenue of $41.7 billion last year.
Sanders is a founding member of Parents for Safer Air Bags, a nonprofit group that has lobbied the U.S. government for more explicit safety warnings and better air bags.
An estimated 93 million vehicles in the United States are equipped with air bags, nearly half of all cars and light trucks on the road.
But critics say children and small-statured adults can be dangerously vulnerable to serious injury or death from the violent force of an air bag.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says that air bags have saved 5,303 lives, and have been linked to 153 deaths.
Since March 1997, most automakers have installed what Peters said Friday could have spared Alison's life: air bags that deploy with less force then previous models. Federal data show that air bag deaths have declined sharply for vehicles made since then.
Sanders has said he still carries guilt about the crash that his attorney said Friday left him screaming, "temporarily insane" and briefly seeking treatment in a mental hospital.


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A/N: This oneshot is a bonus chapter from my story, Fixed Determinence. You can think of it as Chapter 23 ½ since it takes place the day after Chapter 23: You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory.
If you have not read Fixed Determinence, then I recommend that you go read it first; because if you read this and then read the main story, the climax, falling action, and resolution will be spoiled for you. And I'd hate for that to happen. I really can't stop you from reading this if you want to, but there's an excellent chance that it won't make sense without all the background information from the original story. If you haven't already read it, I think you'll enjoy it; so give it a shot. It hasn't been showing up on the main Gilmore Girls page of ever since Chapter 10 because I upped the rating, just so you're aware.
For everyone who has read FD, enjoy this look into Tristan's thought process before Chapter 24.
It's So Easy
Tristan was lying in his bed on Sunday morning with his hands behind his head, staring at the ceiling. It was really early. Even though he hadn't been getting up to practice as early in the summer as he did during the school year, he still woke up before dawn most mornings. Sometimes he'd get up and go to his piano anyway. However, his nieces had been over the night before and he didn't want to wake them. In any case, they'd probably be up in another hour or so. So here he was, all alone, in his large bed. He had trained himself to not look at the empty spot next to him. It wasn't like it used to be filled every morning, anyway. Just some days. And okay, Sunday used to be one of the more regular mornings for it to be occupied.
He was thinking about the conversation he'd had with his brother the day before. Do what you need to do, Matt had told him. Well, what the hell was he supposed to do? Or, rather, what did he need to do? Beg Rory to come back, because he was depressed without her? That didn't sound right. An image of the last episode of Friends came to his mind—Ross running around to more than one airport, to plead for Rachel to stay in New York with him. What was she supposed to do in New York? She had a job waiting for her in Paris, for God's sake. Tristan knew that Rachel showing up at Ross's apartment was supposed to be the feel good moment at the last minute. It's easy to feel good about it when you don't know what happened after that—good or bad.
So what were his options?
As much as it hurt to make Rory go, he still firmly believed that it was the right thing for her to do. She deserved to work for a good paper with a fair editor. He'd even go so far as to say that a job like this was the only reason they'd ever met in the first place. It's why she'd gone to Yale; and Yale—or a school like it—was why she had transferred to Chilton. She deserved to have what she'd worked so hard for. He'd forced her into taking the job and he'd be damned if he was going to ask her to quit now. But he knew she was lonely there; he'd had it on good authority that she still asked about him. And he absolutely knew that he was desolate here.
He tried to remember what his life had been like over a year ago; when he'd been so busy that he believed himself content. Is this what it was like? He wondered. After being with Rory for a year, he now had a higher standard of what content felt like. Now he walked around like a zombie with a terrible empty feeling. Why hadn't he dated much over the years? He was pretty busy; however, he could make the time if he really wanted, as he'd found out. Was it because he hadn't wanted to waste time with girls who he knew weren't 'the one'? Because he didn't feel like any of his time had been wasted on Rory. Maybe Matt was right; perhaps everything did happen for a reason.
So; did that mean that he needed to go win her back and do the long distance thing? It was at least a twelve hour drive to Detroit and it took even longer by train. He supposed a modern day cross-country romance could be carried out with constant plane rides. But that didn't sound altogether appealing. He'd almost certainly have to go to work for his grandfather to pay for all the plane tickets. And how long would they be able to keep that up? It would undoubtedly be only a matter of time before they started missing each other's calls and playing phone tag. Then one of them would be too busy and have to cancel a planned visit. That all sounded like a tedious mess, which would only lead to disappointment. Besides, he liked how she could pop over to his office for lunch any day of the week. Or how they could just watch television on a Thursday night at one of their apartments; it was often followed up with an activity they could both enjoy. And he didn't think that would be satisfying over Skype. He really didn't even mind bonding with Paris while waiting for Rory to get home. No, long distance definitely wouldn't do.
School would be starting in a few weeks. For him as well as his students. Yale. He was supposed to start classes at Yale soon. He'd taken the time to enroll in classes a few weeks ago. So why did he not care? Probably because he was hundreds of miles away from the person who was supposed to be impressed with Yale. He still needed to earn the doctorate, though, he thought with a sigh. Is that why he was in Connecticut? Because there were plenty of other schools out there, and he'd never cared about the Ivy Leagues before, no matter how prestigious they were. And as long as he was thinking of schools to attend, there were also plenty where he could teach. Plus, parents all over needed piano teachers for their children.
He thought about his family last. Though his immediate family had an element of dysfunction, they'd made it through the wilderness, for the most part. Somehow. He did like living near Matt's family and his grandparents after being away for seven of the last ten years. But his company as of late was apparently less than desirable. What was the point of being near your family if you were just going to bum them out when you were with them? And Matt was right, the DuGreys weren't going anywhere. They'd always be his family and there would always be holidays.
He really did want Rory to be happy; and Lorelai told him earlier this summer that she had been happy with him. Since he had already discarded the notion of asking her to come back; this left him with one option. And if she had the audacity to stay for him, then certainly she was worth. . .
"Of course," he said out loud. "It's so easy."
Tristan got out of bed, put on his glasses, and went across the hall to the guest bedroom; he was careful not to disturb the two sleeping girls in the queen sized bed. He sat down at his desk and moved the computer's mouse to bring it out of hibernation mode. He went to Google Maps and took a look at Michigan. He estimated the distance between Ann Arbor and Detroit. It wasn't too far, so he went to the University of Michigan's website. He clicked on the admissions tab and looked over the information. He wrote down some music department contact numbers and stuck his jump drive into the USB port. He opened the appropriate file and glanced over at the bed. They were still asleep. He turned on the printer and started printing the document containing his dissertation proposal. While the printer was working, he completed the application for admissions. When his print job was complete, he opened a desk drawer and pulled out a large envelope. He grabbed a Sharpie from a cup of pens on the desk and addressed the envelope. He looked up at the CDs that were on a shelf above the computer and took one from the end; it was a copy of his last concert. He put the papers and the CD in the envelope and went to the kitchen.
He sat the envelope on the counter before starting a pot of coffee. Light was beginning to shine through the living room windows. So it would be sunny out today; that seemed like a good omen. He did feel like some dark clouds had lifted. He went back to his bathroom to shave and take a shower. When he was finished and dressed he could hear the television on in the living room. The kids were up. Good, they needed to get ready for church anyway.
The last strains of the recessional song ended as Matthew and Felicity turned around in their pew to look at Tristan. His grandparents, who were next to him, also turned to him.
"You look different," Janlen observed. "I'm not sure what it is, but you look. . . "
"Better," Felicity supplied.
"It's because he doesn't resemble a hobo any more," Matthew told the others. Tristan made a face at him.
"That's what it is," their grandmother agreed. "And you aren't glowering."
"I have bad news for you," Tristan told his brother and sister-in-law. Felicity looked around at the two pews of DuGreys and counted all of her daughters. Tristan looked at her with narrowed eyes, "I didn't lose any of your kids."
"Just checking," she said.
"You're going to need to find a new baby-sitter."
"Why's that?"
"Because I'm moving," he answered.
"Please tell me it's to Michigan," Matthew asked hopefully. Tristan nodded his head. "Thank God. Don't get me wrong, it's been nice having you around for the past few years, but you've been bringing everyone down this summer."
"Oh, well, sorry I haven't been my usual cheerful self," Tristan said sarcastically.
"When are you leaving?" Felicity asked as they made their way out of the church.
"After I find a house."
"A house, huh?" Matthew asked with raised brows. "That sounds serious."
"Yup," Tristan said, his eyes scanning the horizon when they were outside. "I'll give my private students a month to find new teachers. It will give me time to drop classes at Yale and resign from the university. And I'm sending a recording of my last concert to the University of Michigan, but I still want go there in person. I can look for a place to live when I go."
"Oh, can I go along?" Felicity asked excitedly. "I can help you pick out a house!"
"I guess if it's alright with him," Tristan answered, jerking his head toward his brother.
"I don't need his permission!" she exclaimed, raising a brow at Matthew, who gave her a nod of consent.
"Fine, I'll let you know when I'm going."
"Yes!" Felicity said, pumping her fist Tiger Woods-style.
Lorelai was in the living room on Monday night, sitting on the couch and flipping through a magazine. She turned the page when she heard a knock at the front door. She put the magazine down and got up to answer it. Tristan was on the other side; he grinned pleasantly at her.
"Tristan, what are you doing here?"
"I need to talk to you," he answered. "Can I come in?"
"Oh, sure," she said, moving to let him enter the house. She led him into the kitchen and they sat down at the table. She couldn't help but notice that he didn't look as he had the last time he'd been there. "You look different," she observed as he drummed his hands on the table anxiously.
"Not homeless?" he suggested.
"That's it. So what can I do you for?"
"I need your permission." She raised a brow.
"What would you need my permission for?"
"I need your permission to move to Michigan," he answered. Lorelai smiled slowly.
"Tristan, you're twenty-seven years old, you don't need my permission to do anything."
"Well, I still want it."
"Then you have it," she answered. "When did you decide to do this?"
"Yesterday. At dawn. It still seemed like a good idea today," he explained as Luke walked into the room.
"Hey, Tristan, what are you doing here?"
"He's moving to Michigan," Lorelai told him with a grin.
"Is that right?" Tristan nodded.
"Good. Hey, Lorelai, where's Jeremy? I promised him we'd go to Doose's for ice cream tonight if he ate his vegetables at supper. Did he?"
"Yes, he did; bribery worked. He's in his room, playing with his Lego's."
"Okay, do you guys want anything from the ice cream shop?"
"No, thanks," they both answered. Luke left the room and Lorelai turned back to Tristan.
"So, how do you plan to do this?"
"What do you mean? Today I resigned from my job and mailed my graduate school application to the University of Michigan. I'm gong to fly out next week with my sister-in-law to find a place to live."
"But when are you going to go see Rory? Are you going to call her and tell her that you're moving?" Tristan thought about it.
"I hadn't really thought that far."
"Then you've come to the right place. Let's figure out a plan," Lorelai said happily.
"Okay. I want to be moved before I see her, so it'll be a surprise."
"She'll be coming home for her birthday; is this going to be her present?" Tristan thought some more.
"No, that's not for another two months. How about this: I'm planning to move at the beginning of September. Give me a week or two to get settled and then I'll go see her. Hopefully, I'll be on the plane with her when she comes home."
"That sounds reasonable. And if you're not lucky and she's still upset with you, then you're invited to her birthday. So she'll have to deal with you, even if she doesn't want to."
"It's nice to know that you're so confident in me," he said wryly.
"I'm just being realistic here. She misses you, but she can be hard headed."
"Paris once said that she got that from you,"
"I can't say that I know what you're talking about," Lorelai said haughtily.
"Mm-hmm. Well, I should go; I have things to do," he said, standing up. He stopped and pointed a finger at her. "Do not tell her about this. You have to promise me you won't say anything."
"Okay, I promise. Oh! Before you go," Lorelai said quickly, hurrying over to the closet in the foyer, Tristan followed her. "It's going to be getting cold out in a couple of months. Here," she said, handing over a black sweater. Tristan smiled and took the garment.
"Thanks. Oh, and while I'm here, I should tell you: I have a ring," he said carefully. Lorelai raised a brow in surprise.
"Oh? What kind?"
"The kind you're thinking of. I've had it since last year, sitting in my drawer. I'm not saying that I'm going to walk up to her and whip it out as soon as I see her."
"It's really none of my business what you whip out when you see her."
"How do you always manage to make things inappropriate?"
"It's a gift."
"Well, anyway, I just wanted to let you know."
"Thank you. Do you think you could let me know before you do give it to her?" she asked hopefully. "It'll drive me crazy not knowing."
"Sure. I'll text you before I even think about opening the box."
"That sounds fair. Bye, Tristan," she said as he walked out the door.
"Good night, Lorelai. And thank you."
The following Monday, Felicity was looking around a master bedroom as Tristan walked out of the connecting bathroom.
"This one is nice," she commented.
"It's okay," he answered, indifferently.
"What's wrong with it?"
"It's kind of small."
"There are three bedrooms," she argued.
"Yeah, but I don't want my piano in a second floor bedroom. I'd rather it go downstairs. It needs an extra room. Like a second dinning room or something. This house would work if it had one. The bedrooms are nice. But I also want to put a bunch of book shelves in one of the rooms."
"Like a library?" she asked, looking up at him. He nodded. "You have some books, but you don't have that many."
"Well, I know someone who does have a lot," he answered. She smiled at him.
"Hey Tristan?"
"What?" he asked as they walked down the stairs to meet the realtor, who was waiting in the kitchen.
"Can I see the ring?" she asked hopefully. He rolled his eyes.
"Swing and a miss; I don't carry it around with me." She pouted a little.
"So, are we going to go see her while we're here?"
"Strike two. I'm not going to see her until after I move. You know that. And no, we're not going to become stalkers, either."
"It was worth a shot." He considered her for a moment.
"We could drive past the Detroit Free Press. Just to see where she works."
"Good, let's go after lunch!"
"We have time to look at one more house before that," he said as they reached the bottom of the stairs.


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The blood coral crystal, passed down from generation to generation of the bat demon clan (Hyakki Mori clan), is used by their current guardian to create a barrier to protect the clan. The stone contains all the souls of previous bearers within the tribe.[1]
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- Impenetrable Barrier: The crystal can erect a barrier so strong it could withstand the Kaze no Kizu (Wind scar) easily and even withstand the backlash wave though it was temporarily weakened by the latter. It is said that the barriers created by the Demon Bat Clan are considered to be impenetrable though the barrier can only held up by one member of the clan at the time which wanes with age and when passed to the next then the ability is lost altogether. Should the need arise, the crystal can project a small personal barrier around itself if it's threatened.[1]
- Demonic Aura: If the crystal is threatened it can emit large amount of demonic power that mesmerizes a hanyō or weak demon holding it and burn a human if they attempt to grab hold of it.[1]
- Soul Collection: It is also said that this crystal houses the spirits of the previous generations of the bat barrier guardians of the clan and thus can release the spirit of a previous guardian if its existence is threatened such as Taigokumaru's soul reappearing after Shiori suggested that Inuyasha destroy the crystal. Though there are chances when a previous guardian spirit can escape it on its own such as Tsukuyomaru in order to protect his wife and daughter.[1]
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On February 21 2001, Kevin Reagan won a Grammy award for Best Recording Package for Music.
Reagan had collected the same award two years earlier for his art direction on Madonna's Ray Of Light album. He would go on to win it a third time in 2003 for The Dixie Chicks' Home.


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Kaerus Thambadar runs a blacksmith shop on the east side of the harbour in the city of Scornubel. His usual trade is mundane ironmongery such as wheel rims, hooks, hinges and nails, but he is also capable of producing armour and weaponry.[1]
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Lithuanian game developer Game Insight scored a 9X return on investment with a savvy Facebook re-engagement strategy that brought back 60,000 highly engaged players.
Game Insight, a global developer with headquarters in Lithuania, is best known for the hugely popular game The Tribez. Facebook has been central to its success and represents a major part of its advertising spend. But Game Insight saw even more potential to grow its business further with Facebook.
Game Insight set its sights on increasing The Tribez's million-strong user base further—while growing its overall business—by using Facebook to target and attract lapsed players.
"With Facebook, we can show our advertising to real people and we can see how they react to it. This is the only advertising system where we can be so close to our audience,"- Spokesperson, Game Insight.
"It was a total re-engagement strategy for people who had perhaps deleted the app," says a spokesperson for Game Insight. The campaign used a Custom Audience to target the right audience and mobile app ads to bring these customers back to the game.
"We created a Custom Audience of players who hadn't connected with the game in the last 2 weeks—or longer," explains the spokesperson. "The aim was to get maximum return on investment." Each month, Game Insight ran ads based on new game content and timely occasions like 'Back to School'. This kind of custom creative proved crucial for the campaign.
Products used
- Mobile App Adverts
- Custom Audiences
- Build Awareness
- Increase Online Sales
- Promote an App
Using what it knew about its audience and their interests, Game Insight custom-fit its creative to connect with people emotionally. It used the Audience Insight tool to analyze and understand its players' behaviour and preferences.
"We saw what kind of TV shows or books they like and we used this in our creative," says Game Insight's spokesperson. "We always try to use insights to drive our creative. For example, women love it when we ask them to help characters in the game, whereas men love it when we ask them to fight."
Game Insight's savvy re-engagement strategy, fuelled by Custom Audiences and data-driven creative, successfully brought players back to the game over the 4-month campaign between June–September 2014. Game Insight's spokesperson says, "We not only brought back players, but payers!"
- 9X return on investment
- 3% click-through rate
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TomTom's Future Is in Maps, but What's the Strategy?
Amsterdam-based navigation provider TomTom found its way to a surprise net profit Monday, but it may be running into a cul-de-sac.
It has yet to reveal a detailed strategy for how it intends to use its mapping business to survive the challenge from smart phones, with cheap or free navigation applications, and how it intends to integrate profitable services and content into the digital maps provided by TeleAtlas, the company it bought for €2.9 billion in 2007.
Investors breathed a sigh of relief Monday when TomTom said the average selling price of its personal navigation devices, or PNDs, increased from the previous quarter, despite being down 10% year on year. It also said margins had improved and posted a 71% increase in non-PND revenue.
Still, despite solid first quarter results, the challenges from cheaper rivals and platforms mean the value of its device business is falling fast. In a development of concern to some analysts, it also said Monday it will stop providing the average selling price (ASP) or volume sales for its PND units from the second quarter.
Right now, the ASP is €89, down 10% on year. What will it be a year from now?
[Read on over the jump for more details on TomTom's challenges.]


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Galloway needs
more businesses
The website NJSpotlight.com recently ran a story on Census data about daytime populations in New Jersey - that is, the number of people living in a town versus the average population of people in the town due to work, leisure, etc.
While Galloway Township's residential population is roughly 37,000, our daytime population is less than 30,000. Furthermore, only 22 percent of Galloway residents work in the town. While many of our residents work in the casino and tourism industries, there are still many who are forced to find work in other areas because of the lack of jobs and development in Galloway.
We need to promote Galloway by creating an aggressive marketing campaign to attract quality jobs and investment into the town. With our great schools, proximity to Atlantic City and Philadelphia, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center and Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, we need to do a better job of encouraging businesses to start or grow in Galloway.
We also need to make our town more business-friendly to attract developers. We need to consider tax incentives for businesses that will bring good-paying jobs to Galloway residents and streamline the permitting process so businesses can start building and growing.
Galloway Township works best when Galloway Township is working.
Galloway Township
Michael Suleiman is a Democratic candidate for Galloway Township Council.
More parkway exits
•eeded in Upper Township
We should seriously think about the impact of the closing of the Beesleys Point Bridge. Exit 20 of the Garden State Parkway and access in Marmora is horribly congested and dangerous for motorists. Our legislators should arrange for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority to create new parkway interchanges in Beesleys Point and Seaville so motorists can more easily access the only north-south highway from Atlantic County to Cape May County.
No one, including blacks,
should use the N-word
Wouldn't this be a great teachable moment? Wouldn't it be great if some of the more distinguished African Americans (Michelle Obama, for example) chose to use the Paula Deen story to come out and say what has not been said? It is not OK for anyone to use the "N-word."
I am confused why the other races and ethnic groups that have risen through their American journey have not typically used racial or religious epithets hurled at them in the way the African American celebrities have. Is it not time that this word gets removed from the lexicon by everyone?
Deen has been vilified, rightfully so. But I'm just hoping that this moment will be seized by the leaders in the African American community to speak up for their dignity.
Doesn't Deen get
a second chance?
So now it's Paula Deen's turn. In our era of racial intolerance and political correctness, the previously successful businesswoman has been chastised and has lost lucrative sponsorships for using the N-word, the Holy Grail of all hurtful utterances.
But shame on these companies. To dismiss a person for disclosing that she used a certain word, one she probably heard as a youngster, is an example of injustice in itself.
In our land of second chances, where is Paula Deen's, especially after her numerous heartfelt, remorseful explanations of the insensitive remark?
Perhaps the Coors Beverage Co., for the sake of political correctness, should dismiss the rapper Ice Cube, known for using the N-word in his lyrics, from its Coors Light commercials.
On a brighter note, some enterprises have promised to continue doing business with the embattled chef. And kudos to Rev. Jesse Jackson for supporting her, noting that Deen should not just be a "sacrificial lamb" for all those who feel violated by this issue.
In today's society, as suggested by Leonard Pitts Jr. in his June 18 column, "No explaining away offensive team names," many people of color liberally use the N-word as a sign of endearment or empowerment.
Ponder this question: Where would the public stand on this point of discussion if Paula Deen were a black chef?
Galloway Township
Supreme Court ignored
the will of the people
Regarding the recent Supreme Court decisions on the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8:
On a court of nine judges, five of them (majority rules) voted to overturn the voice of the people. The people of California voiced their desire with their votes on Proposition 8 - but five judges overruled their decision.
The current system allows a total of nine judges to overrule, disregard or eliminate the power of "we, the people." Something is wrong with this picture.
It is a very sad day in America when the will of the people is no longer the guiding light of the nation. Something in our system of checks and balances has gone awry.
The power of the people is now systematically being transferred into the hands of a small group of powerful people who will make the decisions for all. From birth to death, decisions are being made by a powerful minority that affects the majority. This must change.
We need to contact our federal and state representatives to voice our concerns regarding this shift of power. Let our representatives again reflect the will of the majority and the foundations of our Constitution.
It's time to return the power to "we, the people."


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Miami-based Garcia released his newest album Shattered Dreams a couple weeks ago – which you can download by clicking here. So we thought we'd take the occassion to give you a Garcia throwback from 2003.
Garcia has been one of Miami hip-hop's longtime mainstays. He's been putting in work since his teenage years and has represented Crazy Hood Productions since as far back as I can personally remember.
Well, in 2003 he released his debut album Anti-Social. At the time that he released it, it was instant local classic. The album was supported by "None Of Dem", a single produced by Nick Fury. The song picked up a good amount of radio spins in various markets. Here's a free download of the album, which also includes two unreleased album songs "Aluminum Niggaz" with J-Pure and "I Don't Care". Click below to download.