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I was introduced to Rhett and Link by a couple of guys in my church who would show short films and such every week to people who were interested. Ever since the Epic Rap Battle, my experiences have only gotten better :) It's taken me a few years, but I finally found my way here!
My Socratic method teacher would always love to show youtube videos (only school-appropriate and only when we didn't have anything important to work on) and he showed a lot of Rhett and Link. I searched them myself one day and have been watching GMM every morning ever since about a year ago. For Halloween this year, I will be going as Link. The pic's that i took were corrupted, so I am going to have to take some more and upload them to a group.
I discovered Rhett and Link after being shown their "Facebook Song" at a friend's house. I'm now an avid GMM subscriber and Mythical Beast!
The first video that comes to mind is the "2 Guys 600 Pillows (Backwards)" video. But I may have seen some other video before that, only the pillow one really made me a true fan of R&L's creativity! :)
My sister showed me a thevideo of 600 pillows and I fell in love! :) Then I found myself watching more and more GMM 1st season!
I found them though wimp.com with the Lady Gaga Putt-Putt and Monster Truck Rally Caption Fail. Although I didn't look them up on Youtube for a long time afterwards. However, I've gotten hooked on Good Mythical Morning.
The first time I saw them, was when they came out with the facebook song. But back then I didnt care about who made videos, so I only watched the video some times and then moved on to other things.
Skip to 2012 and the All night Long video. This is the video that got me hooked seeing that I'm a big Lionel Richie fan, and I fell for the idea for actually singing it all night. Then I startet looking at the other videos and five hours later I found out that I've been missing out on something big for the past years.
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I discovered Rhett and Link last year while i was going through some of Julian Smith's videos. They were in Waffles and I wondered who they were. The first time i watched GMM, I knew that i would be listening to it everyday while i got ready in the mornings! Now, every weekend, I can hardly bear not watching it.
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CAMPAIGNERS fighting a decision to end child heart surgery at a Leeds unit which treats seriously-ill children from York and North Yorkshire have been told their legal battle must go ahead - despite them wanting to postpone it.
The Save Our Surgery (SOS) group wanted to halt its call for a judicial review into the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trust's decision to concentrate care at fewer sites, meaning the end of operation at Leeds General Infirmary.
That will leave parents of youngsters in York and North Yorkshire who need vital surgery facing a much longer journey to Newcastle. SOS applied for a judicial review into the committee's decision in October, but its lawyers asked a High Court judge to delay this application after Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt confirmed a full review of the recommendations would be staged by the Independent Review Panel (IRP).
However, Judge Mackie QC dismissed the application for a suspension of the judicial review and said the challenge should be expedited and heard over two days before February 15, before the IRP reports to Mr Hunt.
Sir Neil McKay, who chaired the panel which made the heart surgery decision, said SOS's request to delay its legal bid was "strange" and it would have "significantly delayed long overdue improvements to children's heart services for months". He said the group's "delaying tactics have failed".
SOS member Sharon Cheng said the group still felt the High Court decision was "a positive step" which gave it a timescale, and said pausing their legal action would have had "no significant impact" on the implementation of the changes to children's heart surgery, if they go ahead.


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Jaime Pressly and her DJ boyfriend Eric Cubiche are planning their engagement and expecting a baby.
Jaime Pressly makes headlines as she is reported to be pregnant and is planning to get engaged with DJ boyfriend Eric Cubiche.
Speaking on that matter, Pressly tells American publication US Weekly, "We're going this weekend to (Beverly Hills jewelry store) XIV Karats to design my engagement ring. I'm really looking forward to it."
Internet reports, moreover, also said that the pair are expecting their first child together and already announced the news to family and friends.
Nevertheless, Pressly and Cubiche, who have been friends for nearly a decade but only started dating a year ago, claim they "aren't in a rush to marry."


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Rogers Communications Inc., RCI is in the exchange NYSE and its industry is Wireless Communications in the sector of Technology. Based in Canada, Rogers Communications Inc., RCI has a market cap of 22027.49. Since its IPO date on the 1/11/1996, Rogers Communications Inc., RCI performance year to date is 26.67%. Today Rogers Communications Inc., RCI has gained 0.85%, with a current price of 42.47.
Ownership of the company is 0.80% for insider ownership while institutional ownership is 79.00%. The management of the company have seen the company have a payout ratio of 70.40%. Return of assets are at 4.90%, with return on investment at 9.50%.
In terms of debt levels and profit levels, Rogers Communications Inc., RCI is seeing a long-term debt/equity of 2.57. While Total debt/equity is 2.9. With a profit margin of 10.40%, this is combined with a gross margin of 51.50%, and operating margin of 19.20%. Rogers Communications Inc. ability to meet debt levels, with a current ratio of 0.5, while the quick ratio is 0.4.
For the last year Rogers Communications Inc., RCI has seen a EPS growth of 3.00%. A performance for the year of 29.30%. The 52-week high is -5.87%, and the 52-week low is 34.31%. The average volume for Rogers Communications Inc., RCI is 223600.
With a target price of 43.41, can Rogers Communications Inc., RCI reach this target? Looking at the value indicators of Rogers Communications Inc., RCI. Rogers Communications Inc. has a P/E of 20.58 and a forward P/E of 13.76. Perhaps the more useful indicator than P/E, is PEG which has a value of 4.57. Rogers Communications Inc. also has a P/S and a P/B of 2.14 and 4.86 respectively. For P/cash, Rogers Communications Inc. has a value of *TBA, while it is 55.36 for P/free cash flow.
At the current price of 42.47, Rogers Communications Inc. has a dividend yield of 3.46%. We see a return on equity of 24.30%.
Looking more long-term Rogers Communications Inc., is projected to get an EPS growth for the next five years of 4.51%. In the short-term an EPS growth of 5.65% in the next year is forecasted. This is after a EPS growth of 3.00% for this year and for the last five years a 0.60% growth has been seen.


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Expectant parents Penny Lancaster and Rod Stewart enjoyed a night out yesterday, attending the 32nd Annual Carousel Of Hope Ball at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California (October 23). Penny showed off her growing bump in a long, floral dress.
The couple announced this summer that they were expecting their second child together, saying, "We were thrilled and delighted to be able to tell Alastair that he was going to be the big brother to a little baby, expected just before Mummy's 40th birthday."
Rod and Penny weren't the only famous parents in attendance at last night's event – Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony hit the red carpet, as did Halle Berry and her new beau Olivier Martinez.


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London Broncos have confirmed they will retain Maxime Herold for the remainder of the season after the Frenchman impressed during his initial stay.
The 24-year-old prop initially signed on a short-term deal from French side Limoux, arriving on the recommendation of former Bronco-turned-Limoux coach, Karl Temata.
"I'm delighted with Maxime's progress since he joined us last month," said head coach Joe Grima.
"He's settled in really well with the squad and I'm pleased to retain him for the rest of the season."


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Michigan is probably going to a major bowl, while Ohio State isn't going to any bowl for the first time in 11 years.
Michigan forced three second-half turnovers and Tom Brady threw two touchdown passes as the No. 10 Wolverines rallied to beat the Buckeyes 24-17 Saturday.
The Buckeyes (6-6, 3-5) won't play in a bowl for the first time since 1988, John Cooper's first year as coach. A team must have a winning record to qualify for postseason play.
The victory gave Michigan (9-2, 6-2 Big Ten) an excellent chance of landing a berth in a Bowl Championship Series game, perhaps in the Orange or Fiesta bowls.
"You've got to give a lot of credit to those (Ohio State) guys," Brady said. "It took us a lot of time and our defense sure stepped it up to give our offense an opportunity to score. We capitalized on some their mistakes and we were just fortunate enough to win."
Ohio State outgained Michigan 368 yards to 252, but the Buckeyes drew 13 penalties for 115 yards in losses. The Buckeyes finished with six losses for the first time since going 4-6 in 1988.
"Hopefully, none of us at Ohio State will ever have to go through a year like this again," said Cooper, who fell to 2-9-1 against the Wolverines, including 0-6 in Michigan Stadium.
Brady, who led the Wolverines' comeback win last week at Penn State, completed 17 of 27 passes for 150 yards, including an 8-yard touchdown to Shawn Thompson and a 10-yarder to Marquise Walker.
"I never had the feeling we were going to lose," Brady said. "I knew that whatever it was going to take, we were going to come back."
Anthony Thomas rushed 31 times for 111 yards, including a 1-yard TD run for Michigan. It was the fifth straight 100-yard game for Thomas and his seventh of the season.
Stve Bellisari completed 8 of 20 passes for 84 yards and two touchdowns for Ohio State, but also tossed two costly interceptions.
A fumble recovery by Cato June in the fourth quarter set up a 77-yard, 10-play drive that gave Michigan its first lead of the game, 24-17, with 5:01 remaining. Brady, who was 5-of-6 for 51 yards in the drive, finished it off with the touchdown pass to Walker.
It was the third Ohio State turnover that the Wolverines converted into points in the second half.
The Wolverines tied it 17-17 in the third quarter on the strength of their defense, turning two interceptions into a field goal and a touchdown, plus forcing Ohio State into a missed field goal attempt.
"We wanted a big game," Michigan linebacker Ian Gold said. "That's exactly what happened. We knew coming in that Ohio State would be like a caged animal."
DeWayne Patmon's 32-yard return following an interception on the fourth snap of the third quarter gave Michigan the ball at the Buckeyes' 23. But three snaps resulted in minus-2 yards and the Wolverines settled for Hayden Epstein's 42-yard field goal.
Ken-Yon Rambo returned the ensuing kickoff 53 yards and later caught a 21-yard, fourth-down pass from Michael Wiley to set up a 27-yard field goal by Dan Stultz, restoring Ohio State's seven-point lead.
Jonathan Wells, who appeared to step out of bounds near the Ohio State 40, was credited with a 76-yard run to the Michigan 6. But the Wolverines defense held and Ohio State was left with a one-TD lead after Stoltz missed a 30-yard field goal with 3:34 left in the third quarter.
Then the game began to slip away from the Buckeyes, a team that had been wracked by dissension in losses to Michigan State and Illinois.
The Wolverines, on the first snap following Gold's 17-yard interception return, tied it 17-17 on Brady's touchdown pass to Thompson with 37 seconds left in the third quarter.
"We got after it today," Gold said. "We had a tenacity about us."
The Wolverines came out flat in the first half and the Buckeyes, unranked for the first time since 1994, made them pay.
Wiley, who rushed 22 times for 92 yards, broke loose for a 26-yard gain to the Michigan 6 as the Buckeyes went 51 yards in seven plays on their second possession of the game. Bellisari, who escaped potential sacks for gains of 9 and 3 yards during the drive, flipped a short pass to Kevin Houser for the touchdown and a 7-0 lead.
Brady completed 5-of-5 for 56 yards early in the second quarter as Michigan put together a 70-yard, 11-play drive. Thomas' touchdown run tied it 7-7.
But the Buckeyes responded with an impressive 80-yard, 11-play drive to regain the lead, 14-7, with 3:44 left in the second quarter. Fullback Jamar Martin had runs of 21 and 14 yards in the drive and finished it off by catching a 1-yard scoring flip from Bellisari.
"We had people going after it and layinit on the line," Wiley said. "That helped us a whole lot. Had we played like that all year, who knows what we could've done."
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Ray Suarez talks to Democratic Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and Romney campaign adviser Tevi Troy about how the election campaigns will use the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Obama administration's health care law. Continue reading
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Sketch of the Supreme Court justices hearing the health care reform case in March by Bill Hennessy. The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld the landmark federal health law, affirming its mandate that nearly all Americans carry coverage and retaining sweeping … Continue reading
For a policy perspective, Judy Woodruff speaks with Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, about the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act. Continue reading
Susan Dentzer, editor in chief of the journal Health Affairs and an analyst for the NewsHour gives an overview of the possible implications of the high court's ruling. Continue reading
Ray Suarez gets some reaction on the Supreme Court's ruling from Ron Pollack, founding executive director of Families USA; Karen Ignagni, president of America's Health Insurance Plans; Dr. Donald Palmisano, a physician and an attorney; and Bill McCollum, a former congressman and Florida attorney general. Continue reading
The Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act reverberated on the campaign trail Thursday. Judy Woodruff talks to politics editor Christina Bellantoni about how will it play out this election year. Continue reading
In a decision that changed the course of American health care for years to come, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday morning decided to uphold the individual insurance requirement of the Affordable Care Act. We'll keep you up to speed on … Continue reading
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The Japanese most popular builders from the workshop "AC Sanctuary" have customized and remade dozens or perhaps hundreds of old motorcycles like Kawasaki, Yamaha, etc. They have their own style, and the new bike AC Sanctuary RCM-283 is truly awesome. The Japanese took the motorcycle Kawasaki Z1 as basis, which has undergone significant upgrades. The […]Continue reading →


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Amy Winehouse is all set to act in the new series of "Dr. Who", it has been reported.
Amid heavy media exposure on her meltdown, Amy Winehouse is reported to act in a forthcoming episode of "Doctor Who". The troubled singer, according to NME, will reprise the role of the villainess The Rani, which was made famous by actress Kate O'Mara in the 1980s.
The Rani is described as "an evil scientific genius rouge time lord" who in previous series of the hit TV show has enslaved entire planets. The role will be Amy's first acting debut on the TV screen should report on that matter is true.
And while there have yet words from Amy and her people, sources have revealed that Amy is very excited about the role as she is a "massive fan" of the show. "She was a total DR WHO nerd as a kid," so said the sources. "Her and Blake have all the DVDs in their flat. She once even told people at the Hawley Arms that she had a massive crush on [fourth Doctor] Tom Baker when he visited the pub."
NME itself claimed report on that matter as one of various music-related pranks that have made the round on the Internet during April Fools' Day.
Meanwhile, reports are abuzz that Amy has been offered a lucrative deal by fashion designer Roberto Cavelli to be the face of his clothing line this upcoming season after he's been informed by close friend Victoria Adams that she feels like Amy is a "fashion icon" and so Roberto is taking that into consideration.
In fact, it's been confirmed that Roberto doesn't want Amy to be the model for his line but apparently he wants her to wear his clothes every time she has a show. "Cavalli was suitably taken in by what Victoria had to say that he's now determined to get Amy on board," Hollyscoop reported.


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Johnson & Johnson Emerges Victorious in Lawsuit on Tylenol's Risks
Hundreds of cases are pending that involve claims that Tylenol has caused liver damage and deaths. The pain reliever's maker won a jury verdict in the first.
On average, more than 150 Americans die each year from accidentally taking too much acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, and tens of thousands more go to emergency rooms or are hospitalized with liver damage associated with the drug, according to government data. About the same number use acetaminophen to commit suicides each year.
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Hundreds of cases are pending that involve claims that Tylenol has caused liver damage and deaths. The pain reliever's maker won a jury verdict in the first.
Internal company documents that have emerged in a New Jersey trial make clear that marketing for Tylenol did not convey doctors' concerns about its risks.
Filings from a lawsuit, scheduled to go to trial today in Atlantic City, describe a previously unreported lobbying campaign by McNeil Consumer Healthcare to protect its iconic painkiller.
After an investigation by the Toronto Star, Canada's top health agency considers whether to lower the maximum recommended daily dose of the active ingredient in Tylenol and other painkillers.
Federal regulators' announcement that they will examine the regulation of non-prescription drugs such as acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, follows a ProPublica investigation.


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On 3 July, Heerema Zwijndrecht, one of the yards of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), secured a contract from Oranje-Nassau Energie B.V. (ONE) for the Procurement & Construction of a topside and jacket. It concerns an unmanned and sustainable satellite platform for the P11-E field, located near the Dutch coast.
"We are proud of this great and innovative assignment for Oranje-Nassau Energie," according to CEO Koos-Jan van Brouwershaven of HFG. Oranje-Nassau Energie was founded in 2008 and is the largest private Dutch exploration and production company in the field of oil and gas. It is an innovative concept: the platform is unmanned and will be operated from a central station on the Dutch coast. There is a helideck in the event of maintenance or an emergency to reach the platform quickly. In addition, the topside is self-sufficient regarding electricity generation thanks to solar panels and wind turbines. It is expected that in the near future more unmanned stations will be installed in the North Sea. "We look forward to go to any length with our client Oranje-Nassau Energie to make this innovative project a success and to contribute together to sustainable energy," says Van Brouwershaven.
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A WOMAN'S LIFE, by Harue Aoki, Tokyo: Shichigatsudo, 2004, 120 pp., 1,200 yen (paper).
Reviewed by DAVID BURLEIGH These two poetry collections — one by an American living in Japan, the other by a Japanese who has lived abroad — both draw on Japanese tradition. But the differences between them are as notable as their similarities.
Harue Aoki, the younger of the two, writes in the more classical form. Some of her Japanese tanka have appeared, with English translations, on the Bilingual page of this newspaper.
"A Woman's Life," her second collection, consists entirely of such poems. As so often, these delicate short lyrics, 31 syllables in Japanese, form a tenuous narrative. Early in the volume, we find this tender portrait:
a butterfly alights
on a yellow forsythia,
my small child
for a while
Near the end, one of the author's sons announces, in a "calm and firm voice," his intention of getting married. One circle of life, then, has been completed. The personal record, of shifting moods and circumstances, is not quite a happy one, however. Moments of discontent are set down too:
I tidy the garden
this autumn evening,
my cold hands
red with scratches
from the roses
The use of color is sensitive here. The tanka, like the sonnet, is frequently part of a sequence, though with some differences. While a Japanese poet will usually write only tanka, a Western writer of only sonnets is virtually unknown. The 14-line sonnet affords greater space for developing a thought, while the tanka works mostly by suggestion. Aoki sometimes discovers herself in proximity to nature:
surface of the lake
leaden, monotonous:
I feel
my small ambition
fades little by little
At other times, she increases her awareness, or finds reassurance, in her own reflection in a mirror, or in the subject of a painting (by Marie Laurencin). The sounds of waterfalls and lapping waves cause her to ruminate:
waves roll noisily
on the lake;
looking it over
I'm not healed
Later, she shares her occasional loneliness, following a divorce. Her travels overseas are recorded, and as she grows into middle age, new experiences arrive, and receive classical expression. The book is bilingual, and the last poem is this:
a married life
a divorced life
both I accept
for a woman over fifty
life is more profound
Edith Shiffert's new volume consists of a selection from previous collections, together with new poems. Shiffert made her home in Kyoto over 40 years ago, and still lives there in retirement. "Pathways" is dedicated to the memory of her Japanese husband, who died last year. Their life together is celebrated in many of her poems, especially in books of 17-syllable haiku-like verses not included here. The book opens thus:
When I think back over all I loved
in nearly a century,
infants, women, men, animals,
plants, rocks, waters, mountains, sky,
that concern and joy stays with me.
The series of "meditations" that follows is not presented as haiku, but their 17-syllable form clearly comes from Japanese tradition. What is different is that the verses pursue a philosophical argument. This is not a poetry of self-reflection, but of reflection on the nature of existence. It is more abstract, and less personal, than the tanka above, and wider in its formal range.
Besides free-verse compositions, Shiffert includes a pair of sestinas about a priest sweeping a temple garden. The pattern of repeating rhymes throws individual words like "action," "nothing" and "pity" into relief so that we ponder deeply on them. Later there is an unrhymed sonnet called "A Buddhist Legend for a Friend Who Shot Himself." The poet handles these demanding forms well.
Buddhist thought informs much of Shiffert's writing, which has been deeply colored by her long residence in Kyoto. Many of the poems are set in temples and gardens there, retelling Buddhist parables or, in one case, the story of a Noh play. Very little of the modern world intrudes upon this vision, but there is an immense gratitude for what she has discovered.
"Wandering alone in sunshine / I give thanks," is a typical statement by the poet, and the questions that she asks are invariably the right ones: "In the indistinguishable pathways of yourself, / what frightens you?"
The answers come through experiencing the world ("Each leaf / before it falls / turns red"), and in meditation: "To liberate the Pure Existence, / free motion from myself, I meditate . . ."
"Paths are countless / but my days are one" observes the author in a poem called "Quest." Her quest, and the "paths" mentioned a dozen times or more, are key elements in this volume. There are some very appealing poems about animals and birds. But the great puzzle remains:
Who can explicate before dying
the hopeless anguished love all have borne
for the eroding earthen body of life
and its eventual disappearance?
The new poems that complete the book show calm and courage ("Now I lie down to rest / and wait for whatever comes"), and the collection ends, triumphantly, with these lines:
Here in the Great Emptiness of my 88th year
plum flowers in a snowstorm
and I find
I am not lonely or afraid.
Late last year Edith Shiffert emerged from retirement and gave a reading to celebrate her 88th birthday. This is a handsome volume, decorated with ink paintings and well produced.


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Wal-Mart began offering free transplant surgery at the Mayo Clinic in 1996. This latest expansion of its "Centers for Excellence" program is aimed at providing top-quality care while providing the retail giant with savings through "exclusive and unique bundled pricing arrangements" with the participating hospitals.
"This will change medicine," tweeted noted surgeon, writer and Harvard Medical School professor Atul Gawande following the announcement.
Michael McMillan, executive director of managed care for the Cleveland Clinic, was equally upbeat. "We call it the triple win. It's a boost in quality, it's an improvement in value and it's no cost out of pocket for employees, so we think it is a great opportunity," he told Insurance Journal.
Carving out direct-to-employer bundled service arrangements effectively allows businesses to knock the costs of certain common, high-ticket medical procedures out of their insurance pools. This allows employers to offer health insurance plans at a lower cost to employees, including those with low-paying jobs who might otherwise forgo coverage.
Cleveland Clinic, whose doctors are not paid per procedure, has had a similar direct-to-employer arrangement for heart surgery services for employees at Lowe's home improvement stores since 2010 and recently signed a similar arrangement with aerospace giant Boeing. McMillan says that while such arrangements only accounted for $1 million of Cleveland Clinic's $5.83 billion in annual revenue, they have exceeded expectations so far.
"It's a growing trend and an important new aspect of employers' ability to manage quality and improve their value proposition. We see more and more large employers asking about this kind of approach," he says.
Wal-Mart's 2006 decision to sell certain prescription drugs for $4 caused a ripple effect as other retailers followed its lead.
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text: World 18 March 2013 Cyprus: everything you need to know The tax, the Russians, the insurance, the surprise, and the future. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML The tax The Cypriot government is to impose a levy of 9.9 per cent on deposits of more than €100,000, and 6.75 per cent on deposits of less than that. Or maybe those numbers are 3.5 per cent for the poorer depositors and 12.5 per cent for the richer ones, according to the FT last night. Or maybe it's actually 3 per cent for €0-100k, 10 per cent for €100-500k, and 15 per cent for €500k+, according to Dow Jones' Matina Stavis this morning. Update: or maybe it's 0 per cent for some as-yet-unidentified portion at the bottom, according to Reuters. For what it's worth, Stavis Reuters seems most up-to-date, and the proposal she's got hold of is apparently the one set to be negotiated in the Cypriot parliament today. The Russians The reason for the tax is the, er, "unusual" make-up of the Cypriot banking system. It is an offshore finance capital which caters to a lot of very wealthy Russians. And it's big - or rather, Cyprus is little. The cost of recapitalising the banks is around sixty per cent of the country's entire GDP, and that's a cost which Cyprus' government can't afford. At the same time, Cyprus is a small enough nation within the EU that the core nations - for which, read "Germany" - can afford to play hardball. Germany is sick and tired of paying to recapitalise periphery banks, and is doubly unhappy about having to do it when a lot of the deposits in this particular country's banks are borderline - or actually - laundered money. But given the size of Cyprus, most other euro nations could handle its exit from the euro with ease – which isn't the case for, say, Greece – and so the ECB had the courage to make Cyprus an offer it couldn't refuse: either fund some of its bailout with a levy on large depositors, or the ECB would suspend emergency capitalisation for one of Cyprus' two struggling banks, in effect forcing bankruptcy and an exit from the eurozone (Cyprexit? Cyxit? Cexit?). But it appears Cyprus went further than Germany demanded. Ekathimerini reports that the German finance ministry only requested a levy on deposits over €100,000. Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble is quoted: We would obviously have respected the deposit guarantee for accounts up to 100,000. But those who did not want a bail-in were the Cypriot government, also the European Commission and the ECB, they decided on this solution and they now must explain this to the Cypriot people. As Paweł Morski writes: If the infliction of losses on small depositors has a purpose, it's probably to reassure the Russians that they are not being discriminated against. Yes, I may have thrown up a little in my mouth typing that. The exact numbers suggested on Friday night - the ones which have already been modified - make it look like Cyprus went even further, specifically levying a 6.75 per cent levy on small depositors just to ensure that the levy on larger depositors didn't break 10 per cent. Now that that barrier has been broken, hopefully the distinction will keep growing until small depositors pay nothing, and the entire burden is on those who can afford to pay it. The insurance The levy on small depositors is unanimously agreed to be the worst thing about Cyprus' case. There is debate about whether or not bank depositors should have to stomach some of the cost, because, to quote Morski again, "when you deposit money in a bank you're making a loan". There is debate about whether the ECB is continuing its anti-democratic trend, started with the technocratic ousting of Silvio Berlusconi last year, or whether the two choices it presented Cyprus really are the only two options reasonably available to it. There is debate about whether the levy is actually even legal, because, as Joseph Cotterill points out, it may not be "reasonably foreseeable and adequately accessible" enough to satisfy Article 1 of Protocol 1 of the ECHR, which governs the legality of wealth taxes. But on the penalisation of the poor, all are in agreement: it was a bloody stupid move. The biggest reason is that the levy on deposits under €100,000 hits insured depositors: people who are legally protected from losing their money even in the event of a bank crash. Deposit insurance is disliked by many titans of finance, because it creates a so-called "moral hazard", allowing banks and savers alike to forget that their money is technically at risk and behave in ways that they shouldn't. Nonetheless, it has one major advantage, which keeps it alive in nearly every western nation: it prevents bank runs. If you know that your money is safe even if your bank fails, the motivation to remove your money from a bank which might fail is greatly reduced. And given, of course, one of the things which makes a bank fail is that everyone who thinks it might takes their money out, deposit insurance ought to - and does - prevent systemic crises turning into waves of collapsed banks. By hitting poor depositors, who thought that their money would be safe, the Cypriot government has created the risk, however small, of a bank run in its own nation and others. Because if you are an Italian depositor worried about the state of your own banks, are you going to be quite as certain as you were that you're insured in the event of a collapse? Even worse, incidentally, is the fact that deposit insurance is actually required by the EU, and €100,000 is the threshold set by the Deposit Guarantees Scheme Directive. That's why no-one told Cyprus to hit its poor, but it did it anyway. Finally, as well as stupid, the levy on small accounts is likely to be borderline pointless. Bank deposits in most nations vaguely follow the 80:20 rule: 80 per cent of deposits come from 20 per cent of customers. The changes in the proposed levies back that up: a 5pp increase in the levy on deposits over half a million paid for a 3.75pp decrease on deposits under €100,000. The poor are being taxed, not to aid the fiscal situation of Cyprus, but to fit a bizarre definition of fairness - as well as to stay in "the laundry business". The surprise There's one thing that the Cypriot parliament got right: this news was a surprise to nearly everyone. ("Nearly", because there had been unhelpful murmurings about depositors taking a hit for a couple of months, which will have led to some draw-downs). If you want to hit savers, you need to do it before they have a chance to react; otherwise, you're going to see deposits being withdrawn and shoved in shoeboxes under the bed. The announcement coming, as it did, late on a Friday night of a bank holiday weekend was a stroke of good planning. So good, in fact, that some commentators got a bit caught up in the flow of things, and suggested that the move was a good test of whether any country had what it takes to leave the Euro: keep it a secret, announce on a bank holiday, close the ATMs and freeze funds to prevent capital flight. Of course, Cyprus then blew it. Rather than passing legislation over the weekend and enacting the levy before markets opened late Sunday night, the country is still debating what should happen as Monday morning becomes Monday afternoon. Don't get me wrong, debate is good. But here, speed is probably better. There's already queues outside ATMs; who knows what will happen if the banks open before the tax is levied? The future In the short run, things should work out OK. From its savers and the ECB, Cyprus now has the cash to recapitalise its banks; and it managed to do so without defaulting on its sovereign debt, which is nice for the bondholders at least. Despite the fact that a Rubicon has undeniably been crossed, this isn't, as some commentators are warning, Lehman II. Cyprus is, from its size to its banking sector to its questionable financial specialisation, nearly unique in the eurozone. 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The elections may be over, but the WTAMU Political Science Society is just getting started. After a few semesters of absence, the old organization is being re-established by students and faculty of the political science department.
"Periodically, we've had students show interest in a political science society or in particular political advocacies," Andrew Garcia, instructor of Political Science, said. "But often times, when those students graduated, the society kind of went away."
According to Reed Welch, head of the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, the reason for re-establishment was a need to educate the campus of political and governmental events and news.
"A lot of students who belong to the society right now are there to, as they see, better educate the campus community about politics and government and why it matters." Welch said.
Fifteen members make up the entire society, but Aurora Ortiz, the Political Science Society president, said they hope to spend the rest of the fall and spring semesters raising that number.
"We're doing quite well for only being up and running for about less than two months," Ortiz said. "We're trying to gain more steam here on campus…and get more people to join and be aware of who we are."
Even though the organization was developed and run by Political Science students and faculty, society members welcome students of all majors to join in on political discussions.
"One of the common misconceptions we have already with the society is that people believe it's only for majors and minors," Ortiz said. "But it's open to the entire community."
For the recent political season, society members gathered together to watch and discuss the presidential debates.
"The professors that were there not only watched with the students, but answered questions and established a dialogue about the different types of things that were brought up," Garcia said. "It was kind of a way to integrate campus participation and political advocacy and activism here at WT."
Various Political Science professors and students are trying to institutionalize the organization for a more permanent existence at WT.
"Politics, and government and policy affect all of us," Welch said. "There are a lot of students out there that are interested in it and would like to join and discuss those kind of issues and learn more about those things."
The society is young, but plans to expand political knowledge and awareness are already in place.
"We're actually going to start a new ad push here in the coming semester," Ortiz said. "I don't want to give it away… the more that we inform other people of political science in general, the more the communities are informed on policy and what's going on in our government which affect us every day, whether we like it or not."


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Reading Life on the Kobo Touch has proven to be lame. There are broken awards, and ones that simply don't work on the Kobo Touch. It's a busted version compared to the smartphone/tablet apps. Moreover the semi-transparent crossover between the two systems is a fail in my opinion. I had the 20 badge award before I had 20 awards on the KT, later I realized it was because I dabbled on the Android app for 5 minutes and got myself 3 awards on my account.
It's certainly not bug free and it's pretty clear to me that iOS is the lead development platform for Kobo - all the new features appear there first and then limp through to the other platforms later. They even use iPhones and iPads in advertising images more often than their own readers! I also agree that the award system crossover doesn't really work. Not that long ago, awards were specific to each device, and that gave you the option to start over relatively easily. Now they're awkwardly synched across - although, oddly, the responses I am getting from customer services in response to my original question suggest they aren't aware of this! I am being told that all I need to do is factory reset my Vox to reset the awards! But of course, they'll just come trundling back in as soon as I reenter my account details....
There is even a feature on the Vox which supposedly allows you to clear your Reading Life awards - as detailed here:
...but logically, this can only affect awards which have not been synchronised! (I should add that I haven't actually tried it yet....)
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Karen Countryman-Roswurm, LMSW, Ph.D candidate
Karen Countryman-Roswurm is a licensed master social worker and doctor of psychology with more than 15 years experience serving young people. Beginning her career at the Wichita Children's Home as a Street Outreach Workers, Karen has since worked locally, regionally, and nationally as an individual, family, and group therapist; a founder and coordinator of youth programs; a researcher; a community organizer; and a human rights advocate. With a passion to better serve high-risk marginalized populations, Karen works to bridge the gap between direct practice, academia, research, and policy. Karen has been nationally recognized, and has received many awards for doing just that, particularly, for her specialization in working with homeless, runaway, and throwaway youth (HRTY) and young people who are at-risk of and/or subjugated to domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) or other forms of exploitation.
As the founder/coordinator of the Anti-Trafficking/Anti-Sexual Exploitation Roundtable for Community Action (ASERCA) she coordinates multi-disciplinary collaborative efforts to prevent, intervene in, and reduce DMST. With this, Karen works in direct practice advancing methods of effective identification and interventions strategies through the use of her Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking-Risk and Resiliency Assessment (DMST-RRA) tool as well as providing mental/emotional health therapy and legal advocacy to survivors of DMST.
Since 2006, Karen has traveled the country facilitating hundreds of trainings to assist providers in identifying and serving DMST survivors. Karen has been recognized and filmed by Little Wolfe Productions in their human trafficking documentary Hope Road, as one of four Women Warriors Fighting to End Domestic Sexual Exploitation and has also been featured in a documentary film by End Child Prostitution and Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT) USA titled What I've Been Through is Not Who I Am.
Furthermore, Karen serves as an expert to the Kansas Attorney General on a statewide Human Trafficking Advisory Board; is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) Task Force on Trafficking of Women and Girls Cadre of Experts; and is a professor in the School of Social Work at Wichita State University.
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No more excuses, Mr. President; approve the Keystone XL pipeline
Now that his own State Department has declared the proposed Keystone XL pipeline a climate "wash," undercutting environmentalists' objections, President Obama has little choice but to approve its construction. But don't count on any quick decision.
The State Department has a major say because of the project's cross-border nature. While it concludes that the Canadian crude the pipeline would carry — from Alberta tar sands to Gulf Coast refineries — emits more carbon when burned than does crude oil from other sources, it's going to be used with or without the pipeline. And with fiery, often deadly accidents on the rise as producers increasingly ship Canadian crude to refineries via rail, that makes the pipeline a public safety boon.
The report triggered a 90-day comment period before State makes a final recommendation to Mr. Obama, who has final say. But he faces a tricky balancing act among his political backers. Unions, which urge Keystone XL approval for jobs, as do some Senate Democrats facing re-election in energy-producing states, are at odds with environmentalists.
That said, a White House spokesman reminds that the EPA, Department of Energy "and other federal experts" still must weigh in. Sounds like a delay tactic to us.
It's past time for the Obama administration to do what's best for America, building this bridge to a safer, more independent, secure and prosperous energy future. As Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in response to the State Department report: "Mr. President, no more stalling — no more excuses."


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In the Stars' Shoes: What's You In a Jar?by Liz Gray in Behind the Scenes, July 16, 2010
During this week's camera challenge, Susie asked the finalists to create a food that was "you in a jar." Some finalists had more success than others cramming themselves into said jar. Brad's 3-Onion Cherry Jam shined at the judges' table, but he forgot to flash his million-dollar smile for the Venice Beach crowd. Meanwhile, Tom made the audience crave his Citrus Marmalade (even on yuck-factor foods like brussels sprouts and chicken livers) but the taste made Bob shudder, "He made me want to buy 12 jars…but I would have returned them all." And poor Serena! Before her big comeback, the granddaughter of the "patron saint of marinara sauce" botched her bottled Amatriciana sauce and gave a nerve-filled presentation.
The moral of the story: It's easier said than done. So, what would you make? Would your jar be butter-filled like Paula's, as spicy as Bobby's or totally off the map?
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Ashlee Simpson's infamous lip-sync incident is being reffered in a song by Neurosonic, and boyfriend Pete Wentz has reacted to this.
When Ashlee Simpson was caught in technical fault at a Saturday Night Live performance in 2004, she has since become a target of constant jokes including that by a rock band named Neurosonic. Simpsons's rocker boyfriend, Pete Wentz, is handling this matter legally.
Wentz has issued a written request to the Canadian band to stop mocking Simpson with their song 'So Many People'. The Fall Out Boy bassist has asked them to stop performing the song live, New York Daily News gossip column PageSix reported.
The band has made a reference to the lip-sync incident, saying in the beginning of the song, "Everything under the sun / Going to hell in an episode of 'SNL' / Busted on the TV / You ugly girl, you cannot sing / Can't even lip sync / Apparently money can even buy you dignity."
There was also a report that Neurosonic frontman Jason Darr asked their audience at New York's Knitting Factory to dance just like Simpson did when she tried to cover the incident.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Chanel Les 4 Ombres Quadra Eye Shadow in Prelude
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I love the look of that, but I am waiting for my taupe fix in August with Fauve. I also plan to get Taupe Grise :)ReplyDelete
I love the taupes!ReplyDelete
:O! I NEED THIS. Seriously, my life is not complete without it. When can I get my paws on it in the UK??ReplyDelete
P.S. I super love your style of writing, really sucks me in :3
"A world without beige is not a world I care to live in." Brilliant phrase, and I'm not even a fan of beige. Your writing style is getting better than ever. Also, that is one beautiful eyeshadow quad, I must admit.ReplyDelete
Best post I've read in a long time, in terms of writing. My favorite was the cheeky description of lizard-like tendencies. It was incredibly funny. Brava!ReplyDelete
oh, only the best post ever!! I love beige...beige is my buddy. my dog is beige but that's a coincidence. my skin is beige, so beige haters...bleh to ya.ReplyDelete
You know, I'm really glad I'm not the taupe ho you are or I'd be broke. I'm more the smokey eyes whore. Which this appears to fit. So I'm screwed regardless.ReplyDelete
So far, I've restrained myself to Khaki Platine and Peridot from this collection. Now I need to go back and check this out, too.
Thanks for that.
Argh it's gorgeous :X.ReplyDelete
Ps. I love your descriptions of your reactions hahaha.
They are very pretty. And thankfully nothing that would suit me LOLReplyDelete
I like the 2 darker shades. Browns and taupes always work for me when I want a natural look.ReplyDelete
The evil Pink Sith has just convinced me that my collection isn't complete without this. Do I love you more than ever now? Or do I stop reading so that you will no longer tempt me? I think I'll love you! :)ReplyDelete
If I didn't already own this I would be purchasing this off of Chanel's website based on this post alone. I love this quad and every taupe shadow there is! I'm still pining over Fauve!!!ReplyDelete
That is one gorgeous quad!ReplyDelete
Loved this post - you have a way with words :) I think the term taupegasm should be added to the Oxford English Dictionary :P I had to get this palette - I love the taupes and the vanilla ice cream shade makes a pretty nice highlighter :)ReplyDelete
Very entertaining!! And I can attest to Janine's expertly applied makeup! :) this Friday there is a Chanel National event at Neiman's Tysons--I think they have some afternoon spots available, and they will be offering pishpek changes while you wait!! Call the same number to book but ask for Janine....why not get some treats if you must have TAUPE?!!ReplyDelete
YOUR.FAULT. I ended up in ordering this. Then I was with my SA and even she said - boring! But I did not use it yet. Is it Taupegasm for brwon eyes? is ist... basic? is is to be paired with RED?ReplyDelete
Is ist to be kept or do I rather need a real orgasm? I mean - oops.
Anyway I am not sure about the beige and the briht taupe - they seem rather similar to me. They could have done it with plum or with burgund.


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The workings of the financial, energy, air safety and aged-care regulators will come under scrutiny as the government accelerates moves to reach its $1 billion deregulation target.
Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister
The performance of regulators will be audited according to a framework being devised by the Productivity Commission. That was a Coalition election promise, along with the "letters of expectation" that are being sent to the heads of all regulatory agencies highlighting the government's preference for light touch, risk-based activities.
A third key element of the government's regulatory reform agenda is the parliamentary repeal day on March 26, following the introduction of an omnibus red tape reduction bill and a series of specific deregulation bills on March 19.
"It's not about getting rid of every piece of regulation, it's about getting better regulation in place which enhances productivity, encourages investment and leads to the creation of more jobs," Mr Frydenberg said.
"A lot of the suggestions they made were based on practical examples of where regulator behaviour had increased cost at no commensurate benefit to the consumer.
"One of the particular concerns they raised was the timely response by the regulator to queries or in some cases the regulator promising the provision of information or the making of a decision by a certain time, and that time-frame subsequently not being adhered to.
Discussion focused on the Australian Investment and Securities Commission, Australian Tax Office, Civil Aviation Safety Authority, Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Australian Energy Regulator and Australian Aged Care Quality Agency.
Some business leaders would like senior staff within the regulators have their performance linked to achieving red tape cuts, in the same way the Coalition has done for senior public servants.
Business Council of Australia chief executive
"The approach taken by regulators can create uncertainty, result in unnecessary delays and increase risks around critical investments for business. All of this increases costs for business, while impeding job creation and economic growth," she said.
"In most cases, these problems can be remedied without legislative change or compromising the policy outcome."
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In general, using a drive for a long period of time isn't a bad thing. Two things that can damage the drive are having it do constant reads/writes (listening to music is not constant access, as the drive makes an access, caches the data, and makes another access a bit later when the cache is used up), and having the drive frequently spin up and down. Externals tend to spin up and down often if not used consistently as a measure of preventing excess heat or power usage.
And again, your usage of the drive shouldn't impact it. Unless you're having your drive spin up and down many, many times per day, or unless you're doing extended periods of pure read/write activity (secure formats are an example of this, where the drive may be writing for hours on end) then your usage patterns of watching anime, listening to music, etc. wouldn't cause a drive to fail.
Heat was mentioned as another drive-killer. In general, excessive heat is bad for any component. A study by Google showed that heat actually plays less of a role in HD failure, and that temperature variation had a greater role. In other words, if you're cooling your drives to 27˚C, but then during usage the drive temperature jumps up to 37˚C, that's damaging to the drive as it's experiencing a temperature range of 10˚C. It would be better to have the drive operating at 30˚C and only jump to 34˚C during usage (example numbers), as the temperature range is much less. Of course, if your drive is experiencing 50˚C+ temperatures, even if there's a very low range of temperature change it's probably not very good for it.
If your data matters to you, be efficient about your recovery. Without accessing the drive, map out (either on paper or in your mind) what you need to recover and where it is. You don't want to waste time thinking about what you need, searching the drive for those files, and you don't want to risk having the drive make any more accesses than it has to. It could fail at any moment. Make sure that you have enough free space available for those files. Don't waste time with anything. Once you've recovered the essentials, feel free to keep trying to get off everything else that you can.
If it didn't work for you this time, it's quite possible that the drive died for good. But don't give up - let the drive come down to room temperature, and then put it in the freezer for 4+ hours.
|2008-01-20, 18:15
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Although... look like I have to wait for a bit of time before I can put it into the freezer that's full of stuffs inside... <_< But sob, no anime for the weekend.
Also, thank you very much for the informative post regarding the temperature range thing.
Anyway, just in case I won't get the warranty, would there be any advantage of getting a drive and enclosure myself instead of buying an external hard drive as a whole?
|2008-01-20, 23:30
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If you can catch them on deals, it's theoretically possible to get an enclosure and a HD for cheaper than an external unit. However, I've found that it's very difficult to match the price of an external unit when buying a regular HD and enclosure separately, unless you go for the absolute cheapest ones available (not always a good idea).
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Typically, you can build an external drive yourself at a cheaper price, if you are only considering major hard disk manufacturing brands (maxtor, seagate, wd) on the other side of the equation. If you don't mind other known-for-external brands, like fantom, buffalo, lacie, etc., you can buy them at cheaper price compared to building yourself.
I mostly build the drive myself, if I plan to use it as storage. Otherwise, if I plan to use the drive like an internal, I usually prefer Seagate. But, my preference, just like many others' is typically based on previous experience (which is typically subjective). The performance you get from the drive highly depends on how you use the drive, in addition to how the drive is built, so, it is better to check the reviews of the popular external drives before making a decision. You can get a better view by reading both the positive and negative aspects of a drive from a lot of people.
For reviews of externals, try amazon, newegg, epinions, as they usually have extended reviews and many times present tiny details that you do not normally pay attention to.
|2008-01-21, 02:47
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Yea.. I have read about building external hard drive yourself is cheaper but after digging around a bit, I can't say the same. Also, on best buy there's a 500 GB external hard drive on sale; it's a WD MyBook Essential for $129.99, but after seeing the words WD, and Essential, and the external hard drive looking rather similar (only difference is the light, which is blue instead of green and forms a short line rather than a circle), I felt a bit skeptical (and lame). Anyway, that was the whole reason why I even brought that up, but I just found out that other places had hard drives for around similar price... so at least my choice wouldn't be as limited.
On another note, my drive is in the freezer now. I know it's more recommended to put it in for longer amount of time, but how would there still be a need to leave it there if until enough time has pass for the temperature of the hard drive to no longer cool down?
Also, if anyone here used to have hard drive failing and went through the hassle of recovering it before, usually how long would the hard drive still continue to run after taking it out of the freezer? Just so I know what to expect... I don't doubt there's no exact answer for this time, but an estimation is good.
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Based on the operation principle of that trick, one thing that may increase the time you can keep the drive on is possibly running the drive at colder temperatures (so that appearance of the problem would be delayed). If the weather outside in your region is cold enough, open the window and place the drive in front of the window (just make sure there is no rain or snow outside that can create electrical problems). You may save some time with that.
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A DRUG dealer set up a cannabis farm in the house he had lent to his brother, a court heard.
Thomas Johnson initially started growing cannabis plants in an outbuilding at the property on Whalley Avenue, Johnson Fold, but when they grew too big he shifted them into a rear bedroom at the house.
His brother, Terence Robinson, paid for his rent by watering and feeding the 55 large plants, said Duncan Wilcock, prosecuting at Bolton Crown Court.
When police raided the property on March 5 last year they found Robinson and his partner living at the address and experts said that the plants would have yielded 2.22kg of skunk cannabis, valued at up to £19,123 on the streets.
Afterwards, officers visited Johnson's home in Dunsop Drive, Johnson Fold, where they found nine further plants, which would have yielded 456g of cannabis worth £3,909.
They also recovered a Blackberry phone which revealed messages to and from customers buying the drug.
Mr Wilcock said that Johnson had been growing the cannabis and selling it in £20 deals for about five months, but the father-of-four alleged that he had a heavy cannabis habit himself, using drugs worth up to £30 a day, and so he did not make a profit on the enterprise.
Hunter Gray, defending Johnson, who works for a computer recycling firm, said that he has now stopped taking the drug and drinking alcohol.
He told the court: "He accepts responsibility. He doesn't try and justify his actions and accepts his involvement in what occurred."
Johnson, aged 28, of Dunsop Drive, Bolton, pleaded guilty to two counts of producing cannabis and two further counts of abstracting electricity.
His brother, Robinson, aged 30, of Bryn Walk, Johnson Fold, pleaded guilty to producing cannabis.
Judge Peter Davies told the brothers that it was a "hefty" amount of cannabis that they had produced, although he accepted that they were working for someone else.
He added: "Cannabis is a scourge. It is an evil substance, it is a dreadful substance and you involved yourselves in peddling it for personal profit."
Johnson was jailed for 16 months and Robinson received a nine month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months. Robinson must also carry out 100 hours unpaid work.