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How Credit Check Payday Loans Are Helping People ?
Credit Check Payday Loans are small loans taken for a short period. They are useful in case one has a bad credit rating and is in an urgent need of cash. The lender will check your credit record for you to qualify for the instant payday loan.
If you have a bad credit rating, getting an ordinary loan becomes nearly impossible. With the availability of Credit Check Payday Loans, you are able to obtain credit. You will be required to prove to the lender that you have a job with a steady monthly income. This will act as a guarantee to the lender that you are able to repay the loan. In this case, you are sure of getting a loan despite your credit rating being poor.
The quick payday loans are easy and fast to obtain, because of the nature of no credit checks. Small amounts of cash are offered in this loan. The sums range from £100 to £1000 for Credit Check Payday Loans. The same way the loans are advanced quickly is the same way the payments are also made quickly. Credit payday loans are paid within a set time that differs from company to companies. Some are paid within a week, while others give up to one month.
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When applying for Credit Check Payday Loans, a number of details are needed. It is a smooth process because the paperwork is minimal. This enables quick transfer of money to your account once your application is approved. Personal details are mostly required, and one of them is age, which should be 18 years and above. Your employment and income status details are also needed.
Payday loans online have been established to help in overcoming small financial constraints. The increasing number of people who need money urgently has given rise to many companies offering these services. The majority of these companies offering these loans are convenient. They first ensure that the money needed by the customer is available.
An approval payday loan is another name for Credit Check Payday Loans. This means that the company checks the credit histories of applicants to determine whether they qualify. Application for a payday loan, with a credit check can be done online. You can get different sites offering these loans; all you have to do is decide on the one that suits your needs.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Organizers for last week's "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, backed by George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean, on Monday raised the estimated amount of money it raised to more than $61 million, to date.
The two-hour telethon, which aired Friday, drew an average audience of 24 million viewers in the United States to watch celebrities performing, telling tales of heroism and answering telephones to take donations.
R&B star Alicia Keys sang "Prelude to a Kiss." U.S. rapper Jay-Z debuted a song with U2's Bono and The Edge and Beyonce sang her "Halo" with Coldplay's Chris Martin on piano.
Actors including Leonardo DiCaprio, Denzel Washington and Nicole Kidman told stories of Haitians who survived the quake.
Organizers said the telethon, formally called "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief" drew a total of 83 million U.S. viewers across several networks and attracted 5.8 million video streams online.
Early estimates of money raised, released this past Saturday, showed more than $57 million already collected. Organizers will continue taking contributions for six months.
Charity Navigator, an independent charity evaluator, lists September 11 TV telethon, "A Tribute to Heroes," as raising around $150 million and Hurricane Katrina event, "Shelter from the Storm," collecting around $40 million in charitable giving.
Hit U.S. TV show "American Idol" has run two "Idol Gives Back" TV fundraisers in 2007 and 2008. The first raised $76 million and the second about $60 million for a mix of charities aimed mostly at kids and the underprivileged.
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Church & Dwight on Monday became the latest large-scale CPG company to field a line of gummy vitamins with its acquisition of Avid Health for $650 million in cash.
Green Forest Nutrition recently introduced a line of what it is touting as weight-loss gummies.
Sales of vitamins, totaling almost $3.6 billion, were up 2.7% for the 52 weeks ended May 13, according to SymphonyIRI Group data across food drug and mass (excluding Walmart).
Gummy vitamins are not just for kids anymore. With baby boomers entering their golden years, it won't be pill phobia that will drive
supplement-seeking seniors in search of gummy vites as much as it may be pill fatigue.
Natrol on Thursday announced the launch of a new line of supplements that will ship later this year.
Jelly Belly has expanded its Gummi Pet line with a new addition.
Healthy Food Brands has introduced a new line of fruit snacks and gummies based on a popular Internet game.
Perhaps the most exciting recent development in the multivitamin segment is the success of gummy vitamins. Data from SymphonyIRI show that, while teen and infant vitamin sales are in decline, gummy vitamins for adults are driving growth within the category.
Indie Candy is taking on Easter with its new allergen-free Easter candy line.
A gourmet candy maker has unveiled its 2011 lineup for Valentine's Day.
Hero Nutritional Products on Tuesday announced the launch of "Clifford, The Big Red Dog" gummy...
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Shopping For Thanksgiving and Daily Use Cloth Napkins
Roundup: Napkins For Thanksgiving and All Year Long
One easy way to cut down on use of paper products in your home is to replace paper napkins with cloth versions. But I've found that investing in some beautiful napkins that you really love makes you even more likely to actually use them at every meal. I've found some beautiful napkins that would dress up your Thanksgiving table perfectly but would also look wonderful in your dining room (or on the coffee table for a meal in front of the TV) every day of the year. My two absolute favorites are the Simrin Hummingbird Napkins ($48 for a set of four) and the Marimekko Lumimarja Napkins (on sale for $7 each). To shop the rest of the look, just click on each image!


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London-based designer Duro Olowu has been in New York this past week, even though he's actually showing his very smart, in both senses of the word, collection at London Fashion Week in a day or so. Here's an early peek:
The print is sunglasses – or spectators. It's like a suit, with humour: now you see it, now you don't. The reason I got to see it, though, is because unlike most other London designers, Mr Olowu is savvy enough to understand that the earlier you get your wares before giant American retailers, the earlier they place their orders, and the bigger those orders are – but that if you save your show statement until London, it doesn't get lost among the New York megaliths like Ralph Lauren. Weirdly, he seems to be the only one who realises this. Read more


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Released by Cubo De Sangre. Review excerpt from www.nocleansinging.com: "Vulgaari bring down mountain-sized blasts of ultra-sludgy, catastrophic doom, riven by flashes of swirling melodic guitar melodies that echo off the collapsing granite walls. Listening is like an ethereal journey through space-time at the final implosion of the cosmos. It's massively heavy stuff, but it's a narcotic head-trip at the same time."


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Mungo & Maud's Long Cotton Rope Dog Lead with stone leather trim will give your dog something to bark about. Walks just got a little more fun - and the introduction of this accessory is poised to cause quite a stir at the next doggy meet-up. Features 3 rings for adjusting length.
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Iraq Sees Saudi Seizure of Pipeline as 'Hostile' Act of Pressure
Iraq said Tuesday that Saudi Arabia's seizure of an Iraqi oil pipeline crossing the kingdom was a "hostile" act aimed at exerting political pressure on Baghdad, reported AFP.
"This problem could have been resolved amicably given that there is an accord (on the pipeline), but the Saudi leaders wanted to add a political dimension to exert pressure on Iraq," charged the Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations.
Mohammad Al Duri, quoted by the official news agency INA, said the seizure was "a new act of hostility against Iraq" by the Saudi leadership.
"Iraq will exercise its full right to recover" the pipeline, the ambassador said, accusing Riyadh of serving "the United States as an instrument against Iraq."
For his part, Iraq's minister of state for foreign affairs, Naji Sabri, told AFP the Saudi move constituted an "act of piracy aimed at stealing the funds of the Iraqi people."
He said it came within the framework of what he called a "colonialist" British-US effort to convince the UN Security Council to revise the regime of sanctions imposed on Baghdad after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Riyadh told the United Nations in a letter released Monday that it had expropriated the 1.65 million barrel a day pipeline built to carry Iraqi crude oil across Saudi territory.
Saudi Arabia shut down the pipeline after Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, and it has not been used since.
In a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the Saudi ambassador to the United Nations, Fawzi bin Abdul Majeed Shobokshi, said Iraqi threats of aggression had "destroyed any rationale" for maintaining the pipeline.
The letter was dated June 4, the same day as Iraq suspended more than two million barrels per day of UN-supervised oil exports in protest at US and British proposals to impose targeted sanctions on Baghdad.
The Saudi decision came only one week after the kingdom alleged in a complaint to the United Nations that Iraq had launched an attack on its border last month. But Iraq rejected the accusations.
Shobokshi had said that an Iraqi patrol crossed the border May 23 and traveled about 400 meters (yards) into Uwayqilah in Saudi territory, opening fire on the border patrol.
The Saudi troops retaliated, and in the exchange of fire "a number of Saudi soldiers were wounded," he told the UN.
"An Iraqi soldier found wounded was hospitalized and died a short time later of his injuries."
Baghdad regularly accuses Saudi Arabia and Kuwait of violating Iraq's borders by providing bases for US and British warplanes that enforce flight bans in the north and south of the country - Albawaba.com
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Green Country Roots Festival
Tahlequah, OK 74464
This August, celebrate the arts during the Green Country Roots Festival in Tahlequah. This family-friendly festival...Learn More
This August, celebrate the arts during the Green Country Roots Festival in Tahlequah. This family-friendly festival...Learn More
Visit the Cherokee Heritage Center in Tahlequah for the Cherokee Homecoming Art Show. View authentic...Learn More
The Cherokee National Holiday in Tahlequah celebrates the signing of the Cherokee Nation Constitution in...Learn More
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[PBML] New to Perl - with a tricky question....please help!
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- Hello,
I am very new to Perl. I have wrote a simple program - "testbuf.pl"
(code attached below), just to see how "safe" is perl
in a very busy server environment, with many people accessing the same
script / files.
testbuf.pl is a very simple program, which read a number from a file,
increase it by 1, then
write back to the file.... to emulate a busy server I add a loop of
1..2000, so the file will
be read and opened 2,000 times... which means if I put 0 in the file to
start with, the result
after 2000 executions is simply - 2000.
Now if I run "testbuf.pl" FOUR times, the end result is 8000...
However, if I run "testbuf.pl &" in the backgroup FOUR times from the
command line, start a new instance before
the previous one finished... there seemed to be a problem.... the end
result is almost random,
but always less than 8000... sometimes 6000, sometimes 3000....
Obviously.... there was a problem while multiple perl scripts try to
open / write to the same file intensively.
My question
Is there an efficient, safe way to OPEN / WRITE to file in a
multiusers, busy environment?
Is there any way to make the end result always 8000... even if I run
the four instance of "testbuf.pl"
at the same time?
Many thanks for your kind help
Godfrey Ko
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
for ($runa=1;$runa<=2000;$runa++)
open (FILE, "<count.txt");
$i = (<FILE>);
open (FILE, ">count.txt");
$| = 1;
flock (FILE,2);
print FILE $i;
close (FILE);
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Whether you love ebooks or hate them, they're the future of the book publishing business. Don't get left behind. Attend Digital Book World 2013. Learn more about the exciting agenda here.
There are some people out there who are frustrated with ebooks. Dylan Love of Business Insider, for one, who published an article yesterday titled "Why I Hate E-Books".
The ebook revolution is exciting and certainly has been profitable for the book business as a whole, but publishers and booksellers should hear what Love (and others like him) has to say. Here's why he hates ebooks:
1. "E-books cost too much." In his piece, he pointed out an example of how an ebook edition of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (Random House) is more expensive than a paperback edition — when you order it with Amazon Prime, which offers free shipping, that is.
This is a gripe that should be familiar to the ebook business. Love isn't alone. I spoke with a number of consumers in April who were mostly upset about the price of ebooks because the perception was that they cost little to produce and distribute. There have been other media reports that point out similar price discrepancies to what Love pointed out, citing consumer dissatisfaction and confusion.
Love suggests that all ebooks should be under $10. I'm not sure where he came up with that number, but it seems to be the consensus among his set.
2. "When you pay for an e-book, you haven't bought the book at all. You've bought a license." His piece touches on an issue that has been hot in the book world ever since Amazon reportedly kicked one of its users out of the Kindle walled garden and didn't let her take her ebooks with her (this turned out to not be the whole story, but still spurred much discussion).
Aside from the principle of wanting to "own" something that he has bought, Love also points out that ebooks are hard to lend.
Love suggests that publishers and booksellers should let readers "own" digital books the way they own physical books — or at least remove any technology or restrictions that put friction between the reader and a feeling of ownership.
Publishers, librarians, retailers and readers: While Love is only one guy and might be ignoring some critical stuff here, it's important to respect his opinion. He's not the only one who holds it.
That said, what people say and what people do is not always the same. As we've seen from looking at weeks of best-seller data, the average price of a top-25 ebook best-seller currently hovers between about $10.50 and $12. That's more than $10. People might say they're upset about ebooks priced above $10, but they certainly are willing to buy them.
I think this gets to the heart of the matter: Not all books are created equal and some are just worth more (to me as a reader and to the businesses that create them and profit from them). If I'm a publisher or a retailer and thinking about ebook pricing, I'm thinking first and foremost about how I can get the most value out of a book (i.e., get the most dollars from maximum sales at the highest possible price). And if I have a book that people are willing to pay more for, then I will charge more for it — simple as that.
(I also like to think that the book world is somewhat of a meritocracy: Good writers who write good books should do better as a group than less good writers who write less good books. Part of that scorecard is pricing, in my opinion.)
People might say they're upset about only licensing ebooks and not "owning" them, but the precipitous growth of e-reading in the U.S. would suggest that they're basically okay with it.
While I think it's important that publishers and retailers know why people might be dissatisfied with their pricing and such, it would be a mistake to base strategy and decision-making on the media sensibilities of just one person.
That said, here's….
Why I Love Ebooks
1. They're mostly cheaper than print books. My first really pleasurable ebook experience in this arena came when I downloaded Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 (Random House) when it first came out. Hardcover version, ~$35; ebook version, $14.99. Even though there are some that are not cheaper, I'm not really concerned with a dollar here, a dollar there. I'm like most readers in that I'm willing to pay what it costs for what I want.
2. So convenient. You can carry around a library in your pocket. You can have any book, any time, nearly anywhere.
3. I read more. Now that I have a book on me at all times, I'm reading more. Not that I didn't read a lot before, but I'm reading more on the subway, when I am waiting in line for things and when I walk down the street.
4. I read differently. Now that I read on my Android phone, my e-ink Kindle and my iPad, I'm reading differently. Before, it was my book in various spots and times that were well-defined. Now it's:
— Any time, anywhere (phone)
— While I'm playing Scrabble (iPad)
— On long, long trips (Kindle — gives me the ability to take many books with me at once)
5. Power to the people. The rise of ebooks as a way that more people are reading has given purchase to authors who never would have had a chance to find an audience. A decade ago, a limited number of publishers was the only real path to a wide distribution of a book. Today, with the rise of self-publishing — mostly ebook self-publishing — anyone can distribute a book. Some are even seeing real commercial success. When it comes to rooting for publishers or retailers or anyone else, I'm a neutral party, but as someone who believes in free speech, I love that the tools to distribute have become even more democratized.
6. So exciting to follow. When I joined Digital Book World just over a year ago, one of the things that brought me here was the opportunity to observe the ebook revolution up close. The growth of ebooks is one of the most interesting business news stories of the past few years — and it's only going to get more interesting.
Whether you love ebooks or hate them, they're the future of the book publishing business. Don't get left behind. Attend Digital Book World 2013. Learn more about the exciting agenda here.
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Wanted Man Has Distinctive Tattoo
Title: Wanted Man Has Distinctive Tattoo
Auckland CIB want to hear of sightings or information about where 25 year-old Rory Smyth is and warn he is likely to be armed and dangerous.
Smyth is Caucasian, of slim build and stands 180cm tall. He has a distinctive tattoo - "Bad boy" - on the right hand side of his neck [see attached pics].
He may be travelling with or, in the company of, 22 year-old Shannelle Ward, formerly of New Windsor. She is also Caucasian, of thin build and stands 167cm tall [see attached pic].
Police have warrants to arrest Smyth and Ward who have both failed to appear in the Auckland District Court on a range of charges.
Anyone with information about where either or both these people are should contact Acting Detective Sergeant Matthew Lynch on 027 281 6706 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


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Greatness lay in taking an Australian mythology to the world
Childhood haunt
Sydney Nolan's Riverbend series were drawn
from the Goulburn Valley landscape he used to walk with his father.
He wanted to make a place for Australian art in Europe and America,
says his daughter, Jinx.
Photo: Peter Rae
THE artist Sidney Nolan produced as many as 35,000 paintings. His most prolific periods often came after a bad review, according to his adopted daughter, Jinx Nolan.
"He'd say, 'I'll show the bastards' and then he would have an extraordinary output of energy and paintings," she says.
Had he been alive to attend the opening of a retrospective of his work at the Art Gallery of NSW yesterday, Nolan might have felt he had finally put the bastards in their place.
The gallery's director, Edmund Capon, lauded him as "the greatest Australian painter of the 20th century", and the head curator of Australian art, Barry Pearce, compared his two nine-panel masterpieces, Riverbend I and II, to Monet's Water Lilies.
The exhibition features 117 works gathered from international collections. The Riverbend paintings are displayed together for the first time, facing each other in semi-circles.
Jinx Nolan, who is also a painter, was living in New York with Nolan and her mother, Cynthia, when he painted Riverbend's lush river landscapes, where the figures of Kelly and his police pursuers flit through dense bushland.
"For months he wouldn't paint anything, and then suddenly, when he thought it was right, he would paint non-stop for 17 hours a day," she says. "He'd become very, very remote - practically monosyllabic. From a child's perspective it was difficult His affection would be very intense, but then all his attention would go to his paintings."
Nolan drew his inspiration for the Riverbend paintings from a billabong in the Goulburn Valley where he walked as a boy with his father. "He really wanted to make a place for Australian art in Europe and America. He paved the way for people to come overseas and be known," says Jinx.
Though Nolan's paintings of Ned Kelly have made him famous as a story teller, Pearce says the works' true value lies in "the shimmer of pure pigments vibrating off each other in stripes and patches".
Pearce says Nolan's paintings built up a lasting mythology of Australian history and culture.
"He created an idea of the entire continent of Australia," he says. "He then looked at the entire planet to extrapolate what he knew about the Australian continent to the rest of the world That alone makes him the greatest painter of the 20th century in Australia and maybe one of the greatest painters of the world in his time."
Sidney Nolan - A New Retrospective is at the Art Gallery of NSW until February 3.
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Syrian capital struck again; 15 die in suicide blast
DAMASCUS — A suicide car bomber struck on Monday in the financial heart of Syria's capital, killing at least 15 people, damaging the nearby central bank and incinerating cars and trees in the neighborhood.
The attack was the latest in a recent series of bombings to hit Damascus in the civil war, slowly closing in on President Bashar Assad's base of power in the capital. Rebel fighters have chipped away at the regime's hold in northern and eastern Syria, as well as making significant gains in the south, helped in part by an influx of foreign-funded weapons.
The blast was adjacent Sabaa Bahrat Square — near the state-run Syrian Investment Agency, the Syrian Central Bank and the Finance Ministry — and dealt a symbolic blow to the nation's ailing economy.
In the early days of the 2-year-old uprising, the grandiose roundabout was home to huge pro-regime demonstrations with a gigantic poster of Assad hung over the central bank headquarters.
The area was a very-different scene on Monday.
State TV showed several cars on fire and thick black smoke billowing above the tree-lined street. At least six bodies were sprawled on the pavement. Paramedics carried a young woman on a stretcher, her face bloodied and her white shirt stained red. A man placed a T-shirt over a victim whose face was blown off.
Firefighters struggled to extinguish flames that engulfed the two buildings, as well as a row of cars near the roundabout. State media put the toll at 15 dead and 146 wounded.
Witnesses said the suicide attacker tried to ram the vehicle into the investment agency but was stopped by guards, forcing the bomber to detonate the explosives at the gate.
Visiting a mosque across the street that was damaged in the blast, Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi described the attack as "the work of cowards" and vowed the army would crush all armed groups fighting the government. Shattered glass and torn curtains littered the mosque's red carpet.
Some people wandering through the twisted metal, body parts and rubble on the street and directed their anger at countries supporting the rebellion.
"I want to say to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey that the Syrian people stand firm behind their leadership, and they are steadfast and will never kneel down, and we will emerge victorious," said engineer Saeed Halabi, 54, calling the attack a "terrorist and cowardly act."
The U.N. estimates that more than 70,000 people have been killed in the civil war.
The Syrian regime denies there is a popular uprising and refers to the rebels as "terrorists" and "mercenaries," allegedly backed by foreign powers trying to destabilize the country.
The last large explosion in central Damascus took place on March 21, when a suicide bomber at a mosque killed 42 people, including a top Sunni Muslim preacher who was an outspoken supporter of Assad.


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Benefit mr. frosty Reviews
Just like a snowman, it melts!What a waste of money!!! This thing is greasy and melts on the skin is a impossible pain to sharpen, I'll stick to something that works. Just like a man also, all hype! — 9 years agothedragonslady | 483 reviews
Didn't Like itIt did NOT stay on long enough — 8 years, 9 months agofabbymj | 199 reviews
disapointingthey need to re-formulate this because the other pencils they put out last. This was doesn't hold up very long at all. — 8 years, 3 months agoVenus_Envy | 81 reviews
yuckcan you say terrible? — 8 years, 9 months agozntke711 | 37 reviews
Benefitlives up to its claims — 8 years, 9 months agokatrucha | 110 reviews
the big freeze from Mr. FrostyThis product isn't all it is cracked up to be. After being recommended by a friend I decided to try what was supposed to be an eye opening product. It didn't do anything for me and I have given it more than one try. I don't think it is worth the price. Look elsewhere! — 9 years, 3 months agotonysopranogirl | 59 reviews
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MEMR. FROSTY GIVES YOU NICE HI-LIGHT UNDER YOUR BROW OR YOU CAN USE IT UNDER YOUR EYESHADOW AS A BASE. ITS HEAVY THOUGH AND YOU WANT TO ALWAYS HAVE THE RIGHT SHARPNER BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T THEN IT WILL CHIP OR FALL OUT BUT OTHER THAN THAT ITS A GOOD/QUICK SHIMMER OR HI-LIGHT. — 9 years, 3 months agoLVRUMPOINT | 23 reviews
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MR FROSTY OR MR COFFEE, U CHOOSE!!!WAKE UP TO MR FROSTY, ADD SOME LINES ON THE INNER PART OF YOUR EYES, THE OUTER, EVEN GO AS FAR AS HIGHTENING THOSE BROWS. THIS IS THE PERFECT WAKE ME UP WHEN MR COFFEE JUST JUST IS NOT ENOUGH. MR FROSTY HAS SOOO MANY BENEFITS. YOU COULD EVEN USE THIS AS AN EYELINER. WHATEVER THE CHOICE, MR FROSTY HAS STOOD BY SIDE THROUGH ALL THE SEASONS, AND HAS SAVED MY DROOPY EYES AFTER A MANY RESTLESS NIGHTS. GREAT VALUE FOR THIS DIVERSE PRODUCT. — 9 years, 3 months agolmlturbo | 29 reviews
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Three words "Save Your Money"I bought this because I read in an article that it was a good product. First of all it has no stay on power. It disappears within a hour or less. Second, this is very pricey compare to others that cost a lot less and do the same job or better. Not worth it there are better products out there. If you bought it and haven't used it for same reasons as above, try using it on the bridge of your nose and on above eyebrows. — 9 years, 8 months agoLangulo | 32 reviews
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The National Cable Television Association today announced that Marc Osgoode Smith has joined the NCTA staff as senior director for Communications.
"We're excited to have Marc aboard," said NCTA Communications vice president Dave Beckwith. "He brings an extensive background in the industry, knowledge of industry issues, communications ability and enthusiasm. His fresh perspective will help the association move forward on policy, regulatory and legislative messages."
Smith will have major responsibility in all aspects of the NCTA's communications work, including message development, strategic planning, media outreach and press relations. He will also assist with annual convention planning and the ongoing rebuilding of the NCTA website.
Smith has spent most of the past eight years at Phillips Business Information, the last three years as editor in chief of CableFAX Daily. In 1997-98, he was senior editor and Washington bureau chief of Cablevision Magazine. Prior to that, he worked on other Phillips publications, including a stint as senior editor of CableFAX Daily.
A 1993 graduate of the College of Wooster, Smith is married and lives in Washington, D.C.
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Guest Mixtape: Aquarium Drunkard's Midnight Radio
Filed under: Mixtapes,Original Mixtape Series | Posted by: jody
Justin Gage, the man behind Aquarium Drunkard and Autumn Tone Records, has made a mixtape for us! I am very pleased to present Midnight Radio: "Twelve tracks inspired by driving through the New Mexico desert after midnight on a surreal, starless night. Clocking in at just over thirty minutes the following tracks, mostly vinyl rips, should complement any weird, late-night dance party, séance, etc… Very hoodoo." Needless to say (this is Justin we are talking about after all), it's an incredible mix that features tunes by John D. Loundermilk, Screaming Lord Sutch, Elder Charles D. Beck and many more. In addition to Aquarium Drunkard and Autumn Tone, Gage also hosts a weekly, two hour radio show on Fridays on SIRIUS/XM satellite radio's XMU (channel 26), and XM radio (channel 43). Noon-2pm EST. I highly recommend tuning in to his show and making Aquarium Drunkard a daily read. Check out the mixtape and details on his SXSW parties after the jump.
Aquarium Drunkard's Midnight Radio:
1. Cat – Do The Watusi
2. Screaming Lord Sutch – Flashing Light
3. Bob Vidone & The Rhythm Rockers – Weird
4. Blenders – Don't Fuck Around With Love
5. Sunday Servants – Who Do You Love
6. Vichan Maneechot – Dance, Dance, Dance
7. Tommy James & The Shondells – Hanky Panky
8. Bob Azam & His Orchestra – The Last Time
9. Robb London – Gloria
10. John D. Loundermilk – Goin' To Hell On A Sled
11. Elder Charles D. Beck – Rock & Roll Sermon
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Posted June 7, 2014
Raleigh, N.C. — Downtown Raleigh is the site of several events Sunday, including high school graduations and a food truck rodeo.
The Raleigh Convention Center on South Salisbury Street is hosting four graduation ceremonies Sunday:
- Enloe, 8 a.m.
- Apex, 12 p.m.
- Panther Creek, 4 p.m.
- Wake Forest, 8 p.m.
From 1 to 6 p.m., more than 50 food trucks will be parked on Fayetteville Street for the second Downtown Raleigh Food Truck Rodeo of the summer. Trucks will also be set up on the surrounding blocks of Hargett and Martin streets.
Need Sunday plans but want to avoid downtown Raleigh? Read WRAL Out and About's Best Bets for some fun ideas.
These events are expected to draw hundreds of people to downtown Raleigh. Drivers in the area should expect delays.


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KISSIMMEE — Palm Harbor University and Countryside finished fourth and fifth, respectively, with 99.5 and 93 points, at the Class 3A, Region 2 meet Saturday.
The Hurricanes had three wrestlers in the finals and captured two individual crowns. PHU's Aaron Hartman scored a 4-2 decision over Osceola's Alex Rivera in the 130-pound weight class and Jared Stippert (215) defeated Countryside's Kevin Kitchen 9-6.
"We knew it would be close," PHU coach Brad Sakevich said of Hartman's match. "Overall, for a freshman, he did a good job."
Hartman defeated two-time state champion Rossi Bruno of Brandon in the semifinals. Last year, Hartman was the state runnerup at 103 while wrestling for Northside Christain.
Perennial state contender Brandon earned its 22nd straight region title and 30th overall. Brandon scored 318 points, ahead of host Kissimmee Osceola (172.5).
"Things are going right down to the end and looking good," said Brandon coach Russ Cozart, whose team won nine individual titles and qualified 14 for state.
The top four wrestlers in each weight class advance to the state meet that begins Friday.
2A-2: Springstead rallies to crown
AVON PARK — In the last Class 2A, Region 2 match of the night, heavyweight John Dreggors won his championship final to rally Springstead past Lake Gibson 222 to 218.50 on Saturday, giving the Eagles their first region team title in a decade.
Springstead trailed Lake Gibson by one point as Dreggors lined up to face the Braves' Devonte Terrell. The Eagles junior defeated Terrell 4-0 and erased last year's disappointment at the Class 2A state event.
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|Children's Books, Truth, and Adultish Readers
|Written by Nathan D. Wilson
|Saturday, 13 February 2010 12:15
Adults. We are very important, and we need to read important things. Sure, a lot of us read romance novels and humor and pulp fantasy and feel-goodistic schlock, but those aren't the important people. Important people read deep, thoughtful, ponderous, bitter, empty, foul, and incisive things—the stuff of wonderful fiction. Write without several of these key ingredients, and your work will be shelved in the section helpfully labeled "Plebe." (Hint: it's right behind "Inspirational.")
But writing for kids is a different prospect, even if most of your readers are still adults. Sure, there are many authors out there who see a children's book as an opportunity to wise some kids up to the heady ways of the adult world (issues, after all, are important, and future important people should grapple with them at a young age). These adult types want kids to face the Truth, and the Truth is hard. The world is hard and not necessarily interesting. The tension is in your head. And in how other people look at you and you look at other people. Groan. Moan. Come of age, and the veil will be lifted. Kid, you've seen the world now; I've shown it to you in this fine piece of award-winning fiction. Now you know that insurance companies are out to get you, and your sick grandmother and only you can save the wetlands. Or not. Have fun in high school.
On the other hand, the bestseller lists are crowded with kids' books featuring dragons and vampires and dwarves and many, many comic variations on Tolkien's creatures and characters. (To say nothing of all the happy, happy endings.) And if you push against this type of fiction for children, you'll get some very grandmotherly defenses.
A few examples from my own pushings:
It's important to preserve this time of innocence.
We need to water young imaginations.
What's wrong with dreaming?
Some kids need to escape (especially when they're getting beat up at school).
(And variations . . .)
I agree with all of this, but there's an undercurrent to it that I dislike. The assumption is that kids don't need/can't handle the truth. They need some time to be happy before they discover how much the world sucks and/or how boring it really is. Lie to the kids now, and they will look back on it fondly later. (Santa anyone?)
I don't want to lie to kids. Ever. I don't want to lull them to sleep before the real world wakes them up with a head slap and a wet-willy in the ear sometime during adolescence. I like the hard-nosed commitment to Truth and The Real that I see in some of my issues-driven colleagues. And I like the joy and the happiness and the thrill that is woven into the work of many others.
The two belong together.
I write kids' books because I can tell the Truth, and the Truth is that The Real is throbbingly fantastic. Ask the nearest grasshopper or rodent or turtle. Ask the nearest star (but show some respect and don't look directly at her—she's powerful enough to peal your nose and blind your eyes). I want to paint a picture of this world that is accurate (if impressionistic), and I don't want a single young reader to grow up and look back on me as the peddler of sweet youthful falsehoods. I want them to get a world vision that can grow and mature and age with them until, like all exoskeletons, it must be cast aside—not as false, but as a shallow introduction to things even deeper and stranger and more wonderful (and involving more dragonflies).
It is because I try to write this way that I use so much darkness. Evil is more than a prop. True sacrifice is not a sleight of hand. Laughter in the face of adversity is the first step to profound joy in triumph.
I have spoken to some of my (non-fantasy-writing) literary superiors and had them express appreciation for my use of darkness—it made my story just real enough for them to like me, the saving grace of my otherwise numerous sins. On the other hand, some of my more fantasy-driven friends have expressed curiosity, and even concern, about the same thing. Should the adventures be lighter? The darkness less dense (but more slimy)? The triumph easier? The book shorter? (No, No, No, and Okay, maybe.) My brush strokes are sweeping. I don't delve into the gritty details of evil. But I want the ratio of light to dark on my canvas to match the ratio in the world around us. Shadow is real and cold and frightening, but I see a lot more of the blazing sun.
A final point, disjointed but related. Many readers of children's books are, in fact, adults. The line at any bookstore signing can tell me this. I don't think it's difficult to understand. Sure, some of the adult readers focus on children's books for the same reasons that others focus on romance—they've developed a particular itch and they scratch it. But others are wandering the store (pickily) looking for flavors they remember from when they were kids, looking for their young eyes again, hoping to once more see the world how they used to. They're looking for Mom's apple pie and Grandma's quilt. They're looking for a kind of truth that's hard to find up at the adult table, but a truth nonetheless. Often they're looking for something to fill that role for their own children. And sadly, they frequently bring along a bipedal lump of flesh or two—numbed by the flickering god—hoping I might have some mental-imaginative defibrillator tucked away in my book bag. Sometimes I do (and those are good times). Sometimes I don't.
C.S. Lewis wrote truth for the young, and he wrote truth for the old. The weave is finer in That Hideous Strength than in Narnia, but the truth and the ingredients are the same in both. That apple pie hasn't lost its savor, and it continues to feed me even when I'm not reading, when I'm walking beneath a row of maples or climbing a hill or slaving on a project . . . when I'm writing.
I write for kids because I like apple pie, no one asks me to lie, and I refuse to write for any but the most important people.
ND Wilson's The Chestnut King, the conclusion to his Cupboards Trilogy, is now available for purchase through Canon Press. The first book in the series, 100 Cupboards, was just named the book of the month by Al 's Book Club, on NBC's Today Show.
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Five Ideas for a Better Wyoming Economy
Earlier this week I reported that Wyoming is experiencing major economic growth problems. In the bad recession years 2009-11 we were the only state that saw our state GDP fall two years in a row.
I also reported that our private sector is very reluctant to hire new workers. In 2012 there were almost 1,000 fewer private employees in Wyoming than in 2009.
One sector that has not seen a recession is government. While the productive sector has slimmed down and is held back by a mediocre outlook on the future, state and local governments in Wyoming have hired thousands of new employees. Wyoming has more government workers relative private workers than any other state in the country.
The combination of anemic private-sector growth and heyday-level expansion of government is unsustainable. It is time for our governor and our state legislators to get serious about putting the private sector in the driver's seat of our economy.
There is a lot we can do, from small, immediate steps to large, structural reforms. Below are five ideas on how to improve the state economy. Two of them are short-term items, while three require longer-term reforms.
First, the two immediate-action items:
- Cap government growth. This can be done in many ways, from the classic TABOR (Taxpayers Bill of Rights) to more sophisticated growth caps. One example is a payroll parity rule which ties growth in the number of government employees and their compensation to the growth of employment and compensation in the private sector. If Wyoming had introduced this payroll parity rule in 2007 it would have saved taxpayers $301 million in 2011 alone.
- Windfall tax holidays. Our state government has ample funds put aside in various accounts for "rainy day" purposes. But the trend is that funds continue to grow while legislators spend the "rainy days" scrambling for more tax revenue (the extra fuel tax dime is a good example). Furthermore, windfall revenue from the state's funds is often used toward new spending, which tends to be more permanent than the windfall revenue. To prevent this in the future we could use a rule that all windfall revenue should be used strictly toward a tax holiday the following year. If, for example, the state gets an unexpected $300 million in capital gains in 2013 it would match that with a $300 million rebate on the property tax in 2014. This prevents spending increases and lets the private sector keep more of its hard-earned money.
Longer term solutions require more comprehensive reforms. Here are some ideas to consider:
- Block-grant federal funds. Even though Congress is 1,700 miles away, it is good at making Wyomingites know it exists. One of its ways it does so is through federal funds for the state and local governments. Historically, federal funds have grown at rates of 6-8 percent per year, which means that state matching and maintenance-of-effort funds have to grow about as fast. To stop this cost drive, our state should negotiate a block-grant solution for all federally sponsored programs, where we get to decide how to run the programs – and what programs we would like to privatize. (Wyoming Liberty Group will publish a report on this topic in late March.)
- A Regulatory Overhaul Commission. Wyoming is often praised for its low taxes, though recent studies from the Tax Foundation show that we are not as good anymore as we used to be. In other areas, we have performed poorly for quite some time. Business regulations is one of them, as demonstrated by the 2011 Freedom of the 50 States study from the Mercatus Center. Overall the study ranks Wyoming 21st, one reason being intrusive and stifling regulations. This criticism was echoed by the 2012 CNBC study of state business climates (which also mentions poor access to venture capital as a problem). To address the regulatory situation, the governor or the legislature could appoint a Regulatory Overhaul Commission with the purpose to create a complete map of all business regulations, local as well as statewide, and propose repealing and streamlining regulations to improve Wyoming's business climate.
- Structural prioritization of government programs. One of the major economic problems in Wyoming is that government is sprawling in all directions. It is involved in everything from income security and infrastructure to education and health care to "economic development." But not everything government does is equally important. On the contrary, most of what government does can be handled better by the private sector. Given how fast government has grown over the past five years – with 7,000 more state and local government employees in five short years according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics – it is fair to say that our state legislators are not very good at separating essential government functions from non-essential functions. Time is ripe for our lawmakers to start learning how to focus on the essential functions and structurally reform away the non-essential ones.
These are some ideas, though the list is of course not exhaustive. It focuses on measures to reverse the destructive imbalance between a growing government sector and a troubled private sector in Wyoming. There are many other areas where we need good, free-market oriented reforms to improve both economic and individual freedom, with education and health care being two of them.
However, reforms to contain and reverse the overall growth in government in Wyoming will have positive effects on all sectors of our economy. They would facilitate reforms to privatize non-essential government functions and help inspire private businesses to step in and replace government where government should not be involved.


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WASHINGTON (May. 12)
Ten Israeli veterans who were wounded fighting to protect the Jewish State are rounding out their second week in Washington, visiting national shrines and making many friends as guests of American families. They will leave here tomorrow for a weekend in New York before returning to Israel.
The group, reflecting Israeli informality and democratic ways, including a captain and a lieutenant but is headed by a sergeant, Yitzhak Yariv, of Haifa, who is an industrial engineer in company manufacturing medical electronic devices. His spine was injured when he was thrown from a jeep that overran a mine in the Sinai during the Six-Day War.
Among them also is infantry Sgt. Tuvia Beten, who was wounded in three separate army actions and served in the 1967 and 1973 wars. Wearing a little blue yarmulka is parachutist Cpl. Yosif Weiner, who lost an eye from a mine near Jericho in 1967. He is from Kibbutz Einzurim in Ashkelon.
The group is the third from among the 22,500 Israeli war-injured personnel to visit America. The idea originated with Mrs. Donald Robinson of Pittsburgh for American volunteers to entertain small groups of the disabled in the United States. The first group of a dozen visited Pittsburgh in 1975. Last year another group of 12 came to Washington.
Now plans are being formed for veterans to go in future years to other American cities, too. Detroit and Chicago were indicated as probabilities at a reception for the veterans this week at the residence of Ambassador and Mrs. Simcha Dinitz.


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Seneca Valley grad Jackson striving to get back to major leagues
A lot has changed in Zach Jackson's life since he debuted in the major leagues with the Milwaukee Brewers in 2006.
After eight big-league starts, Jackson, a Seneca Valley graduate, was sent down to Nashville, the organization's AAA affiliate.
There he met Ashley Kingsbery, an aspiring country singer who had three rules about dating: First, she wouldn't date a musician or professional athlete. Second, she wouldn't date anyone younger than she is. Third, she wouldn't date anyone shorter than she is.
Jackson, who is 6-foot-5, broke Kingsbery's first two rules.
Fortunately, she made an exception for him, and the detour in his pursuit of the big leagues has proven to be a "blessing" for them.
"She's been my rock for a long time," said Jackson said.
They got married in 2009 and now have two children, Tyson, 3, and Cambrynn, 2 — so he's not just pitching for himself anymore.
"I think he is a better man today in sports and in his family than he was when he started this journey, because he's grown so much because of her," said Susan Jackson, the baseball player's mother. "Ashley is his greatest fan, and I would say, 'I am,' but she really is."
After being drafted by the White Sox in 2001 after his senior year of high school, Jackson turned down an offer from the White Sox in order to pitch in college, where he starred at the University of Louisville for two seasons before transferring to Texas A&M for one year.
His dominance in college continued, and when the Toronto Blue Jays picked him in the first round of the Major League Baseball draft in 2004, he accepted.
Jackson hasn't pitched in the big leagues since 2009, playing for several minor league teams, but he has made adjustments within the last 13 months to try to make it back.
"What seems like the impossible thing to do is to get to the big leagues, when actually the hardest thing to do is to stay there and establish yourself," Jackson said. "I truly believe in the bottom of my heart that it is still possible to get back to the big leagues and stay there."
Jackson made a complete transition to reliever last season with Northwest Arkansas, which is Kansas City's AA affiliate. He primarily was used as a lefty-on-lefty reliever.
He also decided to go from an over-the-top delivery to throwing sidearm.
"I was very fortunate that the Royals gave me an opportunity to test that experiment out last season and take a chance on me," Jackson said. "It was either going to work or it wasn't."
It worked.
He had a 1.32 ERA in the minor leagues last season, by far the lowest it ever has been.
He signed with the Washington Nationals organization this past offseason, and they plan to use him in a relief role in Syracuse, where their AAA affiliate is located.
"That's the plan, but in baseball, anything can happen, anything can change," Jackson said.
His wife knows that as well as anyone. She has traveled to six different cities with Jackson since their relationship began.
"It's a crazy, crazy lifestyle," she said. "Every time he goes to the field to pitch, I always go, 'Make our dreams come true,' because his dream became my dream. For me, it's not about money, it's about his success and how hard he works every day. He deserves to be up there every day for a while."
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Sunday, November 18 to Tuesday, December 18, 2012; 10:15 a.m.
Location: Orono Public Library, , Orono, Maine
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ORONO, Maine — The Tuesday Readers will meet at 10 a.m. the third Tuesday of the month, Dec. 18, to discuss "Big Stone Gap" by Adriana Trigiani.
The Thursday Thoughtful Readers meet at 3 p.m. the third Thursday of the month. Dec. 20. Led by library Friend Judy Hakola members will discuss the next book in the Maine Humanities Council's series featuring Native American authors, "The Sharpest Sight" by Louis Owens.
Both book discussion groups are sponsored by the Library Friends and meet in the Community Room of the Orono Public Library, 39 Pine St. The book groups are open to all and participants from surrounding communities are invited to participate.
For information, call the library at 207-866-5060.


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STOW-on-the-Wold maintained their position at the top of the Berks/Bucks and Oxon Premier Division with a commanding 55-0 triumph at Hungerford.
Number eight Craig Chapman was the star of the day with five tries as the visitors made it three wins from three this season.
Chapman opened his account early on and it took until midway through the half before the next score came, some good handling from the backs resulting in Nick Caferao touching down in the corner.
Soon after, Stow won a Hungerford scrum close to the line and Chapman crashed over for another try. With no conversions, the visitors led 15-0 at the break.
The second-half saw Stow continue their dominance with the back line taking control. The hosts struggled to compete with the pace which resulted in a superb individual try from James Holmes who beat four tacklers in the process. Cafearo converted.
Andrew Piercey then got his name on the sheet with a blistering 20-metre run to the line and Cafearo converting.
The large Hungerford forwards were now tiring and good line-out ball from Richard Huggett supplied Chapman for his hat-trick, with Cafearo addin the extras.
The home side rallied briefly but Stow's defence remained solid, resulting in a turnover inside the visitors' half, from which Cameron Davidson went over in the corner.
Stow finished off a convincing performance both in attack and defence with two more tries, both from Chapman and converted by Cafearo.
The club's under 15s have secured a sponsorship deal Gloucestershire recruitment agency Teamwork Selection.
Coach Steve Hill said: "I would like to thank Teamwork Selection for their generous support, the team are all pleased with the new shirts, which have already been used while on tour and at a few home matches."
Juliet Capelastegui, managing director of Teamwork Selection, added: "We wanted to get involved with this local team who have been dominating the county recently and performing excellently."


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Are you looking to mount something that can only go on a weaver mount? If that's the case you could have it drilled and tapped. If you want to use a 1" scope on a rimfire base, Tasco sells bases with integral rings that fit rimfire grooves but have 1" rings.
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Some years back, I bought a couple pairs of 3/8 groove-to-Weaver adapter blocks at the local gunshow. These have worked very well, allowing me to use scopes on a couple Norinco .22 rifles (Chinese-copies of the BRNO action) that had bolt-handle-clearance issues with standard scopes. They mount to the gun's grooves with set screws. I haven't seen them in awhile, so I don't know if they are still made/sold? I'm thinking Tasco made them at that time.
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'Sound of Music' Star Slams Carrie Underwood Remake, Beyonce Meme Takes Over The Web, Lady Gaga Pulls a Boy George: A Roundup
Sound of Music Star Says Carrie Underwood Remake was "Disappointing"
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Alright my girlfriend and I have been going out for 4 months would of been 5 on the 15 of Feb :'{. Am not sure exactly y she end it we had arguments about me not replying, logging out when we talked, and how paranoid I would get because we haven't seen each other in 2 MONTHS! how am I suppose to be. Also she told me that we don't have much in common and that she doesn't love me anymore x(. She also said that she doesn't want to be in long relationships I took that to heart X[. She wants to be friends but I begged her we can make this work :[ I just want to be with her again but how? please! I almost forgot she told me this before we ended out convo(I don't wanna end this like were gonna never talk to each other again like yeah it may get weird (at times),we had fun times & yea your a great guy but the moments we had I'll Never forget , yea we had rough times but we got through it .. You were the only true boyfriend I had & liked a lot b after a while i don't know what happen but don't worry I'll still love ypu :])
My girlfriend broke my heart, but I still love her :[ can I still get her back?
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Is this a long distance relationship kind of deal? It seems like it.
She seems pretty firm on her position, so for now I think you should start putting yourself in a position to get over her and move on.
The final part she said...is probably true, but the REASON why she said was to probably reassure you that you were a good guy and lessen the blow of her leaving you.
Anyway, if you keep trying to push her into coming back to you it'll just end up pushing her away, turning her off, and probably ruining any developing friendships.
If you do distance yourself or give her some room...she might have returning feelings. But remember this is just a CHANCE.
Best bet: try to move on.
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Acer AT3205-DTV 32in LCD TV
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If regular readers of this website are thinking they've accidentally stumbled away from TVs and into the PC monitor section, fear not: Acer is no longer just a PC company. As with a number of other traditionally PC brands (Evesham, BenQ, ViewSonic etc), Acer has seen the huge popularity of LCD TVs as a perfect opportunity for translating its LCD PC monitor experience into AV success. But with the demands of video on an LCD screen being very different to the demands of a PC, can Acer really compete with the more established AV brands?
Let's start with our very first impressions, which find the AT3205 looking… different. It's certainly not ugly, thanks to its glossy black and silver colour scheme, and boldly rounded edges. But with its 'bolt on' speakers and unusually large chassis, it's also hardly in keeping with the diminutive, minimalist style currently favoured by the Sony and Panasonic's of this world. Ultimately it kind of looks like some sort of cross between a PC and a TV – which is probably about right, given its heritage.
When it comes to connections, the AT3205 teaches some of the premium AV brands a thing or two. For starters, it sports an impressive two digital video inputs: one DVI flavoured, and one HDMI flavoured. And no, in case you were wondering, neither of these digital inputs is restricted to PC use; both can take a high definition video signal.
The AT3205 also shames many of the other TVs we've looked at so far in our epic World Cup countdown by providing three SCARTs, alongside an analogue PC jack, component video inputs, and a digital audio output.
If you're wondering what the digital audio output's for, it's because the AT3205 carries a terrestrial digital TV tuner, and terrestrial digital TV broadcasts might one day start broadcasting Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks. Soundtracks which, without the digital output, you wouldn't be able to pipe out into a surround sound receiver.
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Commentary: Turkey's Client State in Revolt
By Edmond Y. Azadian
Popular discontent and protests sweeping across the Arab world have also hit "The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," a client "state" created by Turkey after the invasion of the island in 1974. To this date no country has recognized that artificial "country" except the regime in Ankara.
Former Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Eçevit concocted an excuse at that time that Greek colonels, then ruling in Greece, had been plotting to unite Cyprus with Greece (Enosis) and launched an invasion under the pretext of defending the Turkish minority, which was not threatened in any way and was living with the Greek Cypriots rather harmoniously. A thirty-thousand-strong Turkish army occupied 38 percent of the island's territory, where they have stayed ever since.
Turkey used the 1960 Geneva agreement to invade the island as the protector of the Turkish minority. Some population engineering was exercised by the mass moving of Anatolian peasants to Cyprus to change the demographic profile of Cyprus. At that time, Turkish Cypriots numbered 80,000, more than half of them with British passports. That figure was boosted to 260,000.
Journalists and historians to this date keep repeating the fake argument that the Greek colonels had engineered a coup by deposing the popularly-elected president, Archbishop Makarios, and installing an adventurer named Nikos Giorgiades Sampson, whose "rule" lasted little over a week, to provide enough time and excuse for Turkish forces to invade the independent island.
At that time US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger threatened Greece not to intervene, as otherwise it would face US forces on the way.
In reality the colonels themselves were in cahoots with the Pentagon and they could not act without Washington's acquiescence.
Throughout all the negotiations, Ankara kept its forces on the island with the excuse that Greece was threatening to unite the island with the mainland. It turns out today — and it is openly advocated — that Turkey itself has the same intentions and designs over Northern Cyprus.
The US permitted and encouraged the Turkish invasion of Cyprus to reward Ankara for its pro-Western stand and to steer the Turks towards cooperation with Israel, which to this day has worked well, Prime Minister Erdogan's rhetoric notwithstanding.
Today Turkey is at a crossroad, because the popular storm of demonstrations has also hit Northern Cyprus. Indeed on January 28, the Forum of Labor Unions organized a rally of 10,000 protesters in the Turkish sector of the divided capital of Nicosia, chanting: "Hands off Northern Cyprus."
While Mr. Erdogan was patronizingly advising Husni Mubarak to "listen to the people," he himself turned a deaf ear to the popular call in Cyprus and resorted to insulting the protesters.
What triggered the uprising was the austerity plan imposed on the economy of the North. Since the invasion, Turkey has been financing not only its occupation forces, but also the artificial economy of Northern Cyprus. In the end, the US taxpayers have been footing the bill for this illegal situation, in terms of US assistance to Turkey, which has been benefiting from American largesse, at the expense of Greece, another NATO ally. There has never been parity in the US military aid between these two countries, maintaining a 7-10 ratio in favor of Turkey. Recently, Greek Premier Papanadreou blamed Greece's economic collapse on the arms race imposed by Turkey.
The Turkish daily Hurriyet, in an editorial on the dichotomy of the Turkish foreign policy, quoted an interesting metaphor: "Turkish society (and presumably its political life) is like moving on two opposite axles, one turning in one direction while the other one is turning in exactly the opposite direction."
One immediate example of that axle analogy is Turkey's condescending advice to Egypt's former ruler, without heeding the very same in the face of protests in Northern Cyprus. Other examples are Ankara's refusal to recognize Karabagh Armenians' right to self-determination while occupying Cyprus under the pretext of defending the same right for the Turkish minority. Last year when clashes erupted in China resulting in 200 casualties, Erdogan cried who would listen that the ethnic Uyghurs were being subjected to genocide. But it turned out that there were more Chinese victims than Muslim Uyghurs ones. Erdogan's government sheds crocodile tears on the genocide in Gaza, while murdering 30,000 Kurds in Turkey. For Turkish leaders the accusation of genocide is a convenient tool to achieve any political goal, while they sit on the loot left from historic Armenia, denying that their ancestors could not have committed the Armenian Genocide.
Today the moment of truth has reached Ankara and Turkish Cypriots are demanding the end of the colonial rule in that occupied section of the island.
The protests were triggered when Ankara asked Northern Cyprus to come up with 600 million Turkish liras toward the deficit.
Learning about the insults hurled at his government's face, Erdogan publicly replied: "Who the hell are these people, that are living on our hand outs?" He also blamed Northern Cyprus's puppet president, Dervish Eroglu, for allowing such protest rallies. Eroglu himself is an immigrant from Turkey who continues former President Raouf Denktas's intransigent policy versus the Greek Cypriots. Right now he is caught between a rock and a hard place.
Following Erdogan's outburst, one of his deputies, Jemil Cicek, infuriated the protesters further. He said that Erdogan had not said enough: "The protesters insulted Turkey on Friday and the next Monday they went to cash their salaries provided by Ankara."
Action followed Ankara's word when the New Turkish "ambassador" to Northern Cyprus was appointed. That "ambassador" is nothing but a governor sent from Ankara. A very unpopular Turkish diplomat Akca was sent to Cyprus. Writing in the Cyprus Mail, Simon Bahchali states: "With the appointment on Thursday of Halil Ibrahim Akca as a new 'ambassador' to the North, Erdogan sent a clear message to the Turkish Cypriot Unions, the Turkish Cypriot Leader Dervish Eroglu and the Turkish Cypriot people in general: 'Either you are with me or against me. Either way, my wishes will prevail.'"
Some politicians in Ankara, while blaming Erdogan for his rage, are giving the unequivocal message about Turkey's long-term goals. One of those politicians is Nationalist Movement Party leader (MHP) Devlet Bahceli who says: "Whether we like them or not, all our Cypriot brothers and sisters are important to us. Northern Cyprus will continue its existence as an inseparable part of Turkey and all the aid they receive rightfully belongs to them like their mother's milk."
As far as Ankara is concerned Turkey is in Cyprus forever, regardless of EU demands, the Anan plan or any other formula.
Once again, the Platform of Unions is planning another "Survival Rally" on March 2. In the southern Greek-Cypriot section of the island, the Teachers' Union is planning its own rally in solidarity with the Platform whose clear message to Erdogan is: "Colonizers, pack up and leave Cyprus; we don't need your help, this land is ours."
This time around it seems that the time has come for Mr. Erdogan to heed his own advice and "listen to the people."


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Mitch Daniels.The latest unbecoming trend in politics? Declining to run and issuing a statement that you would have won. The genre was perfected, naturally, by bored television star Donald Trump. "This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country," Trump wrote in an arrogantly worded statement about his unsurprising decision. "I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and ultimately, the general election."
Now, in an interview with ABC over the weekend, Mitch Daniels said much the same thing, though in a far less clownish fashion. Asked whether he could have beaten President Obama, the mild-mannered Indiana governor responded, "Yes, I think so." To his credit, he added, "I mean no one can know." While it's certainly an uncomfortable question—what is he going to say, "no chance"?—the first three rules of primary politicking are: equivocate, equivocate, equivocate.
If sideliners Trump and Daniels made mildly annoying proclamations about their invincibility, we can hardly imagine what Sarah Palin will do when she inevitably declines to run. Well, we can sort of imagine: Donald Trump with fewer first-person singular pronouns and more "doggone"s and "darn"s and "you betcha"s.
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The mother of Charlie Sheen's twins escapes jail time, providing she stays out of drugs and alcohol in the next 12 months.
Charlie Sheen's ex-wife Brooke Mueller won't be put behind bars for cocaine possession but she has to stay out of trouble for a year. It was determined at Pitkin County District Court on Monday, May 21 that Mueller's drug case would be cleared if she maintains good reputation and lives up to the court's terms.
Mueller was arrested in 2011 following an alleged bar fight. The mother of two pleaded guilty to felony drug possession of four grams or less of cocaine in March and enrolled herself in an "aggressive outpatient program".
A spokesperson for the reality star said, "Brooke is very glad to put this chapter of her life behind her and focus on being a great mom and making some exciting career decisions." Mueller also told The Aspen Times via phone after the sentencing hearing, "I feel like I am a new person with a new pair of eyes. I am excited about my children and my recovery."
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Huffy/Raleigh Paint Finished
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Dude, you are good.ReplyDelete
Why, thank you! :)ReplyDelete
Good job! I love that headbadge, very "quality" looking.ReplyDelete
Yeah, it's substantial!ReplyDelete
Thom, how did you managed to do the graphic parts of the painting? I mean the old logos and lettering on the frame.ReplyDelete
That's still original--I only ended up painting the top tube and the chain stays, the rest is the original paint, just clear coated. It really brought out the shine of the old paint and made the decals much sharper. I'll get a close up of them soon--you'll see that they're not perfect, but still in good condition.ReplyDelete
Beautiful! and as always your blog is an inspiration and helpful both!ReplyDelete
best, Mark
ps and regarding the above looks like i will eventually want to repaint one of the 2 phillips colors--i will be watching to see how fotos of your decals show after clearcoat
So did you use paint stripper or sanpaper only? did you refer to the meticulous 22 step (after the don't do it preamble) sanding and paintin instructions over on old roads or other? Different topic, after going back in your posts--is there a "for dummies" dismantling/repacking the front hub guide out there? lastly, what do you use to remove 18t cog from hub?ReplyDelete
thanks Mark
@ MarcosLagoSalado: Here's my process for painting:ReplyDelete
1) sand as much of the old paint off as possible with fine grit sandpaper (I think I used 220, but you can go a bit coarser even).
2) clean the sanded area to remove sanding residue, dirt, etc. Your regular bike cleaner will work.
3) prime with a gray base coat primer. I did six coats for this one, applied a few minutes apart.
4) once fully dry, sand the primer lightly with fine grit sandpaper or fine steel wool. This smoothes out any drips or imperfections in the primer coat and scratches the surface of the primer to create a good surface for the paint to adhere to.
5) apply the color coats, light coats, a few minutes apart. I usually do three coats to get full coverage, let that dry, then do another three.
6) once fully dry, you can either lightly wet-sand, or I've found that using the fine steel wool dry works, too. Again, you're creating a "rough" surface for the clear coat to stick to. The gloss of the paint will disappear, but don't worry, the clear coat will bring it back.
7) apply the clear coat--again, I do six light coats, but with the clear coat, I do all six a few minutes apart. The clear dries faster, so you don't have to worry so much about drips, but if you apply too heavily, you can get a bit of "clouding" or cracking of the finish, so be mindful of applying evenly.
8) When fully dry, I follow up the clear coat with several applications of Turtle Wax to create a final weather-proof seal.
I make no claims to this being the "correct" way to do it, but it has worked for me with great results. The final finish IS more delicate than a professional job, but it's better than rust and it's much cheaper than taking it to a pro.
Second answer: the front hub should be pretty easy. All you've got there is the axle, the bearings on each side, the bearing cones on each side, and the nuts and washers. Take the nuts and washers off, and you're left with the bearing cone (with two flat sides). You can use a specialized cone wrench if you have one, but just a small adjustable wrench should work, too, since the cones should not be very tight. Hold the opposite side of the axle tightly with your fingers to keep the axle from turning when you unscrew the cone.ReplyDelete
Best to do this with the wheel laying in your lap, rather than standing up, as the bearings will spill out as you back the cone off. Unscrew the cone all the way off the axle, and slide the axle out of the hub *carefully*, being aware that dried-out bearings will likely spill out as you draw the axle out. Do this somewhere where the bearings can't roll too far if they go astray.
That's it as far as dismantling, and reassembly (after cleaning) is basically just the same processes reversed, only with generous amounts of fresh grease applied in the bearing races and on the cones. Don't tighten the cones down too hard, the wheel should spin freely, smoothly, and quietly. If you get a gritty feeling, or a lot of noise, back the cones off a touch. If there's play in the axle from side to side, then tighten the cones a smidge. With adjustment of the cones, the goal is a tight, quiet wheel that will spin for (seemingly) forever.
Finally, if you're talking about a sprocket on a Sturmey-Archer hub, check this link, and see if you can make heads or tails out of it:ReplyDelete
I've not ventured into this territory before, so that's about the best I can do for you on this one.


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She's best known as an Oscar-winning actress, but on a visit to San Diego on Saturday, Geena Davis took on a different role: that of an activist battling media stereotypes of women.
"The invisibility, hyper-sexualization, and dis-empowerment of women and girls in the media cry out for change," Davis told members of the National School Boards Association gathered at the San Diego Convention Center.
Davis, 57, was the keynote speaker at the association's annual conference, attended by more than 5,000 school board members and school administrators from across the United States. The three-day event runs through Tuesday, and includes sessions on topics such as school safety, federal legislation and budgeting, as well as an expo featuring innovative educational products.
Davis' talk about gender equality drew frequent applause from the audience. The association's figures show women comprise 44 percent of the membership of school boards — well over twice the rate of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, both with about 17 percent.
Davis, who chairs the California Commission on the Status of Women, referred frequently to her own experience. She spoke of her early determination to be an actress, her studies at Boston University, her self-confidence as she launched her career. She said that a turning point came with the 1991 Ridley Scott movie, "Thelma and Louise," in which she played a passive housewife who broke away from her controlling husband. The film "cemented my passion to help empower women," she said, "and has driven my commitment ever since."
Davis briefly lived in Rancho Santa Fe during the early 2000s, and is currently based in Los Angeles. Married with three children, she continues to act. "I wait until something worth it comes along," she said, adding that she seeks out nontraditional female roles such as that of U.S. president in the 2005-06 ABC series, "Commander in Chief." She is currently portraying a bounty hunter on a TNT pilot being filmed outside Portland.
Davis said she was propelled into activism after watching children's programming eight years ago with her two-year-old daughter: "I immediately noticed, with the exception of Dora the Explorer, that there seemed to be far fewer female characters than male characters in these entertainment programs that were made for kids."
That led to her founding the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. The institute works closely with the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Davis said that one study found that in G-rated movies from 2006 to 2009, "not one female character was depicted in medical science, the law profession or in politics," Davis said. "There were characters who had jobs in those fields, but not one of those were women."
Davis uses the results of such research to confront producers, directors, writers, animators about the content that they are putting out to the public: "When they hear the numbers, their jaws are on the ground," Davis said. "They had absolutely no idea that the worlds they were creating were so bereft of female presence."


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Got a ticket for failure to obey stop sign in CT at a T intersection (3-way stop) I was on through street. According to wording of statute is a stop line required also? The stop sign I am accused of violating does not have a line. 14-301(c) The driver of a vehicle shall stop in obedience to a stop sign at such clearly marked stop line or lines as may be established by the traffic authority having jurisdiction or, in the absence of such line or lines, shall stop in obedience to a stop sign at the entrance to a through highway and shall yield the right-of-way to vehicles not so obliged to stop which are within the intersection or approaching so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard. I am a young driver and wonder if this is worth sending in not guilty and arguing. Thank you
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