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Cellulitis is an infection of the skin and underlying tissues that can affect any area of the body. It often begins in an area of broken skin, like a cut or scratch. Then bacteria invade and spread, causing inflammation, pain, swelling, warmth, and redness.
Conditions that create breaks in the skin and allow bacteria to enter, such as eczema and severe acne, will put a child at risk for cellulitis. Chickenpox, scratched insect bites, animal bites, and puncture wounds are other causes.
Cellulitis also can form in areas of intact skin, especially in people who have diabetes or who are taking medicines that suppress the immune system.
Orbital cellulitis, which infects the eyelid and tissues surrounding the eye, requires particularly close monitoring. It can be caused by minor trauma to the area around the eye (such as an insect bite or a scratch) or be an extension of another infection, such as sinusitis. This kind of cellulitis is treated with antibiotics and close follow-up. If untreated, it can progress to a more serious infection that affects vision.
Cellulitis, which is not contagious, usually begins as a small, inflamed area of pain, swelling, warmth, and redness on the skin. As this red area begins to spread, the child may begin to feel sick and develop a fever, sometimes with chills and sweats. Swollen lymph nodes (commonly called swollen glands) are sometimes found near the area of infected skin.
You can prevent cellulitis by protecting your child's skin from cuts, bruises, and scrapes. This may not be easy, especially with active kids who love to explore or play sports. Protective equipment worn to prevent other injuries also can protect skin, such as elbow and knee pads for skating, a helmet for bike riding, shin guards for soccer, long pants and long-sleeved shirts for hiking in the woods, sandals (not bare feet) on the beach, and seatbelts while riding in a motor vehicle.
If your child does get a scrape, wash the wound well with soap and water. Apply an antibiotic ointment and cover the wound with an adhesive bandage or gauze. Contact your doctor if your child has a large cut, deep puncture wound, or bite (animal or human).
The incubation period for cellulitis varies, depending on the type of bacteria causing it. Your doctor can diagnose cellulitis by asking a few questions and examining the area of affected skin.
Sometimes, especially in younger kids, a blood culture may be done to check for bacteria growth. A positive blood culture means that bacteria from the skin infection have spread into the bloodstream, a condition known as bacteremia. This can potentially lead to septicemia, an infection affecting many systems of the body.
A child with severe cellulitis may be treated in the hospital using intravenous (IV) antibiotics. Kids with milder cellulitis can be treated at home with antibiotics. The doctor also may recommend keeping the affected part of the body immobilized and elevated to reduce swelling and pain. Pain relievers such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen can help reduce discomfort.
After 1 or 2 days on antibiotics at home, a child will return to see the doctor, who'll check to see that the area of cellulitis has improved and that the antibiotics are working to heal the infection.
Call the doctor whenever any area of your child's skin becomes red, warm, and painful — with or without fever and chills. This is especially important if the affected skin is on the face or if your child has a chronic illness (like diabetes) or a condition that suppresses the immune system.
Because cellulitis can happen very quickly after an animal bite, call the doctor if your child is bitten by an animal, especially if the puncture wound is deep. Human bites also can cause skin infections and should be seen by a doctor. If red streaks develop from the infected area or symptoms worsen despite antibiotic treatment, your child should be re-examined.
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Date reviewed: October 2013
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|Cellulitis Cellulitis is a skin infection that involves areas of tissue just below the skin's surface. It can affect any part of the body, but it's most common on exposed areas, such as the face, arms, or lower legs.
|Cellulitis Cellulitis is a serious infection that can be mistaken for a bruise, scrape, or insect bite. Find out more in this article for kids.
|Osteomyelitis Osteomyelitis is a bone infection caused by germs entering the body's tissues through an open wound. The easiest way to prevent it is to practice good hygiene.
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Beretta M391 Gold Technys
I bought a Beretta Gold Technys (the hunting model, not the Sporting Clays version) some months ago, and finally got it to the range yesterday. It's a 20 ga.
It functioned fine, with both Express and low-brass loads, and patterned well, especially with Winchester's AA's with 7.5 size shot. I did need to substitute the optional plastic butt plate for the Gel-Tek one to get a better fit to my physique.
I am very satisfied with it. Should I be reporting this here, or are gun forums just for people who have complaints?
Sorry, guys. I just thought that someone should mention a GOOD gun that gave no trouble...
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A guy I shoot with occasionally has one. It took a couple hundred rounds for it to settle in but it has been flawless for several thousand rounds since. I shot a couple rounds with it, and liked it a lot. It is a little trimmer in the hand than my Browning Gold Hunter 20, but the balance and swing is virtually identical. REALLY nice guns.
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How often does he take it down and clean it internally? (Remove the barrel and forend)
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Lone Star, I honestly don't know but I do know it has seen over 500 rounds on several days and was dirty when the day started. If I had to guess I would say he is like most skeet shooters and cleans his gun every couple months or when it gets wet. I clean my Browning every couple thousand rounds whether it needs it or not, and at the beginning of the pheasant season.
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Legal Question in Criminal Law in India
I m from baroda gujarat ,
mere marriage hua 8 yrs ho gaya hai aur meri wife falsely fiiled 498A, Dowry,and Domestic act ka cas file kiya hai,, aur woh bhi apne maike jane ke 5 months ke baad...(due to minor homely dissussion). i have 3 1/2 yrs old son.. jo abhi uske paas hai. 15-09-2012 ko jab 498A ki uske dusre hi din hamko bail mil gayi thi aur maine mere son ke liya 22-10-2012 ko ki child custory aur intrim (visiting rights) ke liye petetition kar diya tha jo ab tak muje visiting rights nahi mila hai..
1. woh 12-04-2012 ko apne ghare chali gayi without my ...(due to minor homely dissussion). permission.
2. 14-04-2012 ko ghaar aakar sab kapde, sab mere documents, uska pan card, elction card jo ek hi file mein rakhte the hum aur ornaments le gayi apne saath
3. 15-07-2012 ko meri cousing ke function mein aayi bhi thi..jo proof hai album mein.
4. inn 5 months mein compromise 3 baar hua .(ghar se alag mere saath rehnae ke liye) aur harbaar koi koi bahana baana dete woh log.
5. uske bad 15-09-2012 ko 498A, Dowry ka suddenly case dal diya aginst hole my famil includig my sister jiski shaddi ko 7 saal ho gaya hai
6. 22-10-2012 ko usne domestic kiya jisme usne 7,000 ka monthly maintenance manga hai. but she is also doing job..since july 2012 se.. case chal raha hai.
7. aur usne job mein marital status Single batay hai..maine check karva liya hai.
8. usne dusra Pan card issue karvaya hai uske father ke naame se 22-06-2012 ko,, jab uska already after marriage pan card hamne issue karvya tha mere naam se. aur dono pan card active dikha raha hai jab maine online status check kiya tab. aur dono panc card ka no. alag hai..aur name alag hai..but signature mein mera naam hai..
pls give me advise that what should i strictly action against her?
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You should consider an amicable out of court settlement. If you start litigation, you will first have to make payment to her towards her maintenance and litigation expenses. Consultation with a local lawyer may help you better.
your case requires thorough legal research.
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If the thought of a "jam band" sends shivers down your spine because it immediately brings to mind the twirling masses that started following Phish after the Grateful Dead stopped touring, then congratulate yourself on being sane. But there's a slightly new breed of instrumental joy starting to flow out of a younger generation of musicians who are getting the jam-band legions gyrating. Fueled by the intersections of funk, hip-hop and jazz, acts such as DJ Logic and Project Logic, DJ Smash and Sex Mob, are winning new fans outside of the clubs where they've honed their craft, in the wide open, college-radio spaces typically ruled by Blues Traveler, Galactic and Trey Anastasio and his crew. Labels peddling these funk, soul (and often white) brothers have caught wind that there's touring gold in them there suburban whirling dervishes. And it's at these audiences that some labels, like jazz mainstay Blue Note, are pushing their latest fare. Bring the noise, bring the funk, bring two turntables but no microphone, and beware of sensitive ponytail guys and girls who wear toe rings.
The New York trio that gets its name from keyboardist John Medeski, drummer Billy Martin and bassist Chris Wood is, whether it wants to be or not, one of the driving forces behind this push. What started in the early 1990s as a playful meeting of talented sidemen quickly grew into a lively improv-leaning unit with a loyal fan base because of its ebullient live shows. MMW surprised a number of its fans and critics with last year's live album of acoustic instrumentals, Tonic--a fairly impressive, straight-ahead outing from a group that prefers to noodle away from tradition rather than address it head on. But it's been its latest studio album, 2000's The Dropper (Blue Note), that's provided the best blueprint for what this genre has to offer, for better and worse.
It's not that MMW aren't obviously gifted musicians hip to what's shaking below pop music's radar--Martin recently unveiled his Groove, Bang and Jive Around vinyl release, volume one in an intended ongoing series by his Amulet Records of breakbeats and percussion samples intended for DJ use. Live these three can raise a ruckus, and as sidemen there's few small combos in mainstream jazz that are as versatile. But every time these three flirt with something that threatens to send them out of this world, they seem to hesitate and bring everything back down to earth into more groovy fare. The Dropper kicks off with a Squarepusher-style smorgasbord of beats for "We Are Rolling," only to dilute this tease with the rest of the album's less thrilling modesty. "Sun Sleigh" takes a Sun Ra approach to keyboard atmospherics and buries it beneath a simple pulse that never goes anywhere. "Illinization" makes a play for DJ Spooky-level illbient, ambient textures--too bad that scene is so 1996.
Admittedly, The Dropper has its moments. "Tsukemono" takes an Autechere cut-and-paste play on group dynamics and features some fine violin work from Charlie Burnham that's pretty cool even though anything by Billy Bang makes it look limp. Alto saxophonist and Sun Ra alumni Marhsall Allen gives the rollicking bass line that powers "Partido Alto" a better bounce. And guitarist Marc Ribot brands "Bone Digger" with his characteristically idiosyncratic guitar sound to sear an indelible mark on the brain.
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If some ears hear the skeleton of fusion running around in the band's rock rhythms running into jazz time changes and chord arrangements, they're absolutely on the right track. MMW have taken the jazz-rock insanity of mid-'70s Miles Davis, Tony Williams' Lifetime, Herbie Hancock, Weather Report, and Wayne Shorter and bottled their lightning as a more accessible, danceable electricity. With tracks that could run in the neighborhood of an hour tempered with the audacity of jazz and rock politics butting heads, those pioneers never really caught on with either jazz or rock audiences, though Davis was one of the only jazz musicians who played the same sort of venues as rock musicians at the time. It just appears that one of the admittedly paranoid Davis' many fears has finally come to fruition: People would be all over his shit if he were younger and white.


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Major League Baseball will honour the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Opening Day.
Leading the memorial will be the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, who will have members of the Newtown, Conn. Police Department and Fire Services taking part in pre-game ceremonies, April 1.
"On Opening Day, we will reflect upon more important things and play the game to honour the community of Newtown," Yankees co-owner Hal Steinbrenner said in a statement. "Since the day of the tragedy, our hearts and thoughts have been with those who were affected.
We hope that bringing the families of Newtown together at Yankee Stadium later in the summer will give the community an opportunity to create new memories and aid in the difficult process of moving forward.
"Months have passed, yet we are still trying to come to grips with this incomprehensible tragedy," added Red Sox principal owner John W. Henry. "As our teams look to face each other on Opening Day, we will stand united in support of the families affected as we remember and honour those who were lost."
A special ribbon has been designed for the players at the Yankees-Red Sox game to wear on their uniforms, and MLB commissioner Bud Selig has requested the rest of the league wear them too.
The Yankees organization has also invited 3,000 Newtown citizens to celebrate summer vacation by attending the Yankees game against the Baltimore Orioles on July 7.
The World Baseball Classic has claimed another victim.
This time, its Los Angeles Dodgers standout shortstop Hanley Ramirez who jammed his right thumb while playing for the Dominican Republic in the WBC final against Puerto Rico Tuesday.
He was scheduled for an MRI in Arizona Wednesday.
Ramirez is expected to be out of the Dodgers lineup anywhere between two weeks and two months.
But thats guesswork according to manager Don Mattingly.
Theyve painted both pictures, and its a pretty big window, Mattingly told reporters. Were guessing. Theyre going from a guy coming out of a big game, to a guy who also stayed in the game and had a single. Until the MRI, were guessing. He could be feeling great, we dont know. Were concerned enough to get an MRI. Hes coming out of a game, a pretty big game guys dont want to come out of those.
Third baseman Luis Cruz is expected to be shifted into the vacant shortstop position while Nick Punto, Jerry Hairston or Juan Uribe could get the call on the corner.
Ramirez is one of many high-profile players injured during the WBC. The New York Mets David Wright aggravated an oblique strain Thursday, and Mark Teixeira also suffered a strained right forearm even before the WBC started.
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Signaling and the Design of Delegated Management for Public Utilities
We propose a theory explaining the shape of contracts between local governments and the contractors they hire to run public facilities on their behalf. Governments are privately informed over the quality of the facility and risk-averse while risk-neutral contractors are subject to a moral hazard problem. We show how the design of the contract signals the asymmetric information parameter. The higher the quality of the network, the higher the marginal return and the greater the share of operating risk kept by the government. This reduces the agent's marginal incentives, creating a trade-off between signalling and moral hazard. This trade-off is analyzed in different contexts allowing for risk-aversion on the agent's side, double moral hazard and political economy issues. Lastly, a model of delegated signalling is developed highlighting the difficulty of designing separating contracts when governments are under the countervailing influences of both the contractors and the voters.
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We were on the Liberty in May and our party of four was very pleased with the MDR food. Our servers were attentive. Carnival seems to be cutting back along with the other major cruise lines. Things that were included a few years ago are no extraq cost. But they are keeping prices of the cruises down so I can't complain. The one thing that did bother me was not the food but the shows. Two nights the main entertainment was passenger shows Love & Marriage & Legends. They are fun to see but not as the main entertainment for the night. What a disappointment for me. And the Welcome Aboard show was one that I have seen at least 6 or seven times now.
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Poet and MacArthur Fellow Susan Stewart has been named the new editor of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. She succeeds Paul Muldoon.
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A young man arrived at a Jerusalem hospital with a stab wound in his foot claiming three Arabs attacked him at his building's stairwell.
According to the man, he was stabbed after refusing to let the men use his mobile phone. The police said the case is being investigated. The man is said to be lightly wounded. (Noam Dvir)


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Get ready 3DS owners for the most scantily clad princess with the biggest sword ever. Atlus has just announced it's picked up the 2.5D beat'em up Code of Princess. Of course, you won't just be playing as the princess in the title. This side scroller has multiple characters that are all ready to fight their way through hoards of enemies. Prepare to fight this fall!
That princess is Solange Blanchefleur de Luxe. She's fighting to protect and save her kingdom. For some reason, the monsters that usually get along well with her people have decided to revolt and attack everyone. Which means she has to take the holy, royal sword to bring them to their senses by beating them down. That makes sense. She'll also have allies that you can fight as, should you decide to team up with friends.
Yes, there will be multiplayer. Both competitive and cooperative is stuffed in there. So grab a friend and play either online or offline together. Either way works.
There are two reasons to pay attention to Code of Princess, and neither of them involves fanservice. One, it's made by the people who created Guardian Heroes. Two, it will be part of the Atlus Spoils program. That means if you pre-order the game, you also get Code of Princess Sound & Visual Book. In case you can't tell, that's an artbook. A price hasn't been announced, but I'd expect it'll be $39.99.
If it's on the show floor, I'll play it and tell you exactly how good the current product is!
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In the past fifteen months over £10,000 has been raised by our school community to provide resources, uniforms, furniture and a teacher's salary. We also sponsor 6 children who have been rescued from the streets of Nairobi and placed in residential primary education.
British Airways provide us with flights and accommodation so we are able to make sure all the money we raise is only spent on agreed objectives.
To date, seven members of staff have visited the schools in Mukuru; three of these spent a week teaching there. What an amazing experience!
Pupils at our school have come to understand the appalling conditions of African slum life and the generosity and commitment to helping shown by them and their parents has been remarkable.
Before half term we had a 'non-uniform day' which was enthusiastically supported by the pupils - this raised yet another sum of money. The latest idea is collecting baby and toddler clothes to send over to the mother and baby unit at St Catherine's School in Mukuru. Other Hillingdon schools have been helping us with this project and we are extremely grateful. We hope to sending a consignment along shortly.


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My girlfriend and I are prone to take impromptu roadtrips for the weekend, which means our felines are occasionally left to their own devices for a day or two (don't worry, we've got automatic feeders/water fountains). But that doesn't have to mean "out of sight, out of mind". We've installed this discreet and easy-to-setup wi-fi enabled security camera in our living room (snapshot under the jump) so we can make sure all is well at home from either of our smartphones, both from iOS and Android devices...
Yup, that's me...still in my pajamas.
640x480 resolution up to 30 frames per second via VGA 1/4" CMOS sensor is more than capable of keeping an eye on home while away, while night vision mode is particularly useful for nocturnal feline viewing. Email notification, audio feed, and mobile device recording adds an additional layer of security if using the device for home security measures. Now to just disguise this camera...
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Rare Bird Sighting Goes From Joy to Sorrow as Bird Flies into Turbine
A rare sighting of a white-throated needletail bird on the Isle of Harris, one of Scotland's Western Isles, had bird watchers coming from miles away to get a glimpse. There hadn't been a sighting of the rare bird since 1991 so for a dedicated bird watcher to travel over 17 hours to see the bird wasn't unusual. What was unusual was what happened to the bird.


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You know, I feel a little better about my job (by which I mean this dirty, dust-covered computer that I show up at every now and then to bang my fingers on) after seeing these clearly telephoto lens pictures of Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese on the set of their new period movie "Ashecliffe". Not that I think I could have taken better pictures, mind you, but because even the Boston Herald — the friggin Boston Herald — is now printing very paparazzi-like pictures from the set of a still-shooting movie. Aren't they supposed to be, like, a real newspaper with real journalists and stuff?
So the question is: Am I moving up or are they moving down? You decide!
Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
First pic has Martin Scorsese directing a scene as Leonardo DiCaprio stands by, while the second one has DiCaprio in action with a rifle. Both images were shot at Nahant's East Point, which I'm assuming is in Boston somewhere. Or not.


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Pixie-esque Carey Mulligan is best known for her roles in dramas like "An Education" and the upcoming "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps". She was in 2009's crime thriller "Public Enemies", and apparently she liked the taste, because she is in negotiations to join the cast of Nicholas Winding Refn's ("Bronson") action thriller "Drive", according to the Risky Business Blog. Brian Cranston from "Breaking Bad" and Ryan Gosling are already set to star in the adaptation of the James Sallis novel.
The story centers around
a nameless Hollywood stuntman (Gosling) who moonlights as a freelance getaway driver during robberies. When a bank heist goes wrong, he ends up on the run with a contract on his head and an ex-con's girlfriend (Mulligan) in his car.
From the summary I can't help but think of movies like "Vanishing Point" and "Two-Lane Blacktop". Shooting is set to begin around Los Angeles in September. OddLot Entertainment, Bold Films, and Marc Platt Prods. are producing the film.


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Businesses bid farewell to era of luxury spending
Many high-end vendors are turning to ordinary folk as Beijing cracks down on extravagance
From fine dining to top-shelf liquor and jewellery, businesses that once prospered on satisfying a taste for luxury on the mainland have had to lower their sights - and prices - to more ordinary folk with an eye for a bargain.
The high-end businesses are courting the mass market as the impact of Beijing's crackdown on graft and extravagant spending by government officials cuts deeper into revenues.
"The golden days are over," said Hu Haiquan, a manager of Shun Fung Seafood Restaurant in Beijing. The traditional Cantonese-style restaurant chain, known for its palatial dinning halls and high-priced dishes, is a popular haunt for local business elite and government officials.
After enjoying steady revenue growth and fast expansion for years, the operator of 30 restaurants across the nation was preparing to go public on the mainland. However, the listing plan has been shelved, as the company becomes one of the many casualties of a heightened anti-corruption campaign launched by the country's new leadership last December.
Hu says sales at the nine Shun Fung restaurants he manages in Beijing have fallen 30 per cent for the past seven to eight months, while average spending has shrunk from 500 yuan (HK$625) a person to less than 200 yuan.
The situation is similar for most high-end restaurants in the country. XE Flavour, a Shenzhen-listed restaurant chain, says its revenue slid a third in the first quarter of this year, causing the company to record a loss of 60 million yuan for the period. At least two of its restaurants have closed down this year.
A spokesman of the country's statistics bureau says there's "a significant drop" in the revenue of high-end restaurants in the first quarter, showing that curbs on spending with public money have had a significant effect.
"I once rang a regular customer who works for the government and invited him for dinner. He simply said he didn't want to lose his job just for a dinner," Hu says.
For the restaurant manager, the plunge in business brings back memories of the 2003 Sars outbreak. "It's even worse than the Sars period. The epidemic only lingered for half a year and the business rebounded quickly. But this time, I have to say, we would never be able to go back to the days like before."
Having seen business decline, the operator made a painful decision: offering discounts of up to 70 per cent through online group buying to attract less well-heeled customers.
A set dinner for 10 people in Shun Fung now costs 998 yuan, much lower than the original 3,012 yuan. A dinner for two is 198 yuan, against 500 yuan before. It is also offering special-priced dishes such as roast pigeon for 9.80 yuan; customers used to pay 58 yuan. Customers enjoying morning or afternoon tea are rewarded with a 20-yuan coupon for spending 100 yuan.
The measures have boosted customer numbers in recent months, with more people coming in for gatherings of family and friends. "With these prices, we are hard pressed to make any profit. But we'd like to show people that our restaurants are affordable, not too high to reach," the manager says.
Also eyeing the mass market is the elite national liquor brand Moutai. On June 5, Kweichow Moutai chairman Yuan Renguo said in a media briefing the company was adjusting its market positioning to adapt to the changes in the business environment.
The company would "no longer target high-end buyers only", but was expected to have a wider customer base, where food would be served for family gatherings, business banquets or just daily consumption, said Yuan.
Moutai's change of strategy came after local authorities in a number of provinces tightened the limit on government banquets in response to Beijing's anti-corruption drive.
From January to April, Moutai sales fell 23 per cent, and the retail price almost halved from the peak of more than 1,400 yuan a bottle to around 800 yuan.
The company earlier said sales generated from government spending accounted for less than 8 per cent of total sales, although many analysts and experts were sceptical of that figure. Yuan said that in future the liquor that was meant to be kept for a number of years would retain its high-end status, while cheaper product releases would be pitched to ordinary consumers.
Another industry that is suffering from the government's stern measures on public spending is high-end jewellery.
Since last year, most of the leading jewellers in Hong Kong - including Chow Tai Fook, Chow Sang Sang and Luk Fook - have been complaining about the same thing: mainland shoppers are not as generous as before.
Sales for big-ticket jewellery items, of more than HK$10,000, have been shrinking largely from uncertain economic conditions across the border as well as Beijing's ban on gift-giving among civil servants.
Winston Chow, deputy general manager of Chow Sang Sang, says the trend is continuing this year as revenue from expensive necklaces and rings has fallen by a quarter year on year since January.
"In a challenging market, a good way to attract people's attention is to make your products special enough," says Chow, citing its latest collection as an example. The collection, named "Diamond in Motion", features a series of necklaces, earrings and rings with diamonds that swirl or move.
"We have no plan to cut our spending on advertisements this year. You should be able to draw more attention when the market is relatively quieter. But first of all, you must have something that is really good," he says.
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interesting. just heard a story about homesteading and the homestead act last weekend. some believe it is responsible for creating the american character and the rural middle class. come on up to alaska archy. plenty of cheap land and good surf. it is starting to get dark though...
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If 30% (this is a wild guess) of the population moved from urban living to homesteading, we would probably run out of land and the population would have to decrease drastically. There are over 300 million people in this country and the vast majority (80%) live in or near a metropolitan area. The only reason that we are able to sustain and grow this population is because we don't all live on farms any more. Additionally, the increase in productivity in farming has allowed us to feed this population.
Do we need to find sustainable ways to live? Sure, but to go back to being a nation of farmers and homesteaders would necessitate a huge drop in the population of this country. So, is it worth it if, say, 100 million people (again, a wild guess) have to die to support your dream of a nation of homesteaders?
Oct 4, 2012, 03:15 PM #13
I'm down, all we need is good companym healthy food and some gnarly waves. Hell I'll live in a shake the rest if my life if it means riding waves and doing what I love everyday. Let the politicians and the Barney's worry about the gov't and how it's run. I just want to go surf.
Oct 4, 2012, 04:19 PM #15
^^healthy food and some gnarly waves. Hell I'll live in a shake the rest if my life^^
Maybe you could live in a smoothie..
Oct 4, 2012, 11:41 PM #16
I thank all who contribute with open mindedness. 100 million probably will die when this system collapses. If alot of people have'nt noticed, water is becoming scarce. Why do you think companies like Coca Cola and Nestle are buying up most of the world's water rights. Residents of Maine have undergone water restrictions, but the Poland Spring's (Nestle) trucks leave on or ahead of schedule during those times. People have got to wake up. Many are too busy cheering on their favorite team while consuming corporate goods. 5% of the population-25% of the resources. It's that simple. If your not willing to, then how about this If you want to see gas go down in price: stop eating beef. It takes 25 gallons of gasoline and 2500 gallons of water for the production of 1 pound of beef. Your tax dollars pay for that through subsidies from the government. Also the increase of large scale farming requires tons of pesticides and herbacides. Resulting in soil degredation, polluted enviornments, and an increases of cancer. It is not sustainable. Where the 80% percent now live, used to be farm land. Here in Jersey where I live, we had farms right here at the beach. Now its filled with yuppies who commute to Manhattan every day. The whole monetary system and the life that revolves around it is why there are wars, famines, and polution. It will not last forever. And if any of you have children and care about their future you should take note.
We will all be dead by the time we run out of fossil fuels and water.
There's nothing wrong with being conscious of our ecosystem, but your video subliminally puts into peoples minds that attacking and blowing sh!t up is the answer.
And, indeed, it is not.
Oct 5, 2012, 04:28 AM #19
archy fwiw i agree with a lot of what you're saying and it's partly why i moved to alaska. if you truly believe what you're saying then just find a place where you can provide for your 'family' no matter what (by family i mean whoever you care about. and by no matter what i mean no matter WHAT). up here, 1 moose and 65 salmon is more than enough protein for my family of 4 for 1 winter. 10 acres of spruce covered land is enough wood to keep the stove going into the foreseeable future. my job (or the entire economy) might not last forever but my family won't be hungry or cold when the ****e hits the fan. and it will.
and the empty breaks will still be empty and the (recently dumped upon) chugach will still be collecting pow. yeeeeeeew!!!


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ENCINITAS -- Encinitas and Carlsbad officials are working together to buy 51.7 acres to keep as open space for native plants and animals along La Costa Avenue near Batiquitos Lagoon.
"We're calling it the Batiquitos Bluffs property," said Dave de Cordova, principal planner for Encinitas.
Most of the undeveloped land is south of La Costa Avenue, a quarter-mile west of El Camino Real. Encinitas has acquired about 24 acres for preservation nearby in recent years, de Cordova said.
"This piece would actually kind of complete that whole stretch there," he said. "Protecting this property will benefit the lagoon."
Public open space has a number of advantages from the obvious to the obscure, planners say. Everyone can enjoy the views along the wide-open saltwater lagoon, and the open water, marshes and sage-covered hillsides allow native birds such as the least tern and the California gnatcatcher to nest, raise their young and thrive. Native shrubs and trees not only provide birds with homes, they filter water and help keep impurities out of the lagoon and the ocean.
About 4 acres of the desired property is north of La Costa Avenue in Carlsbad, said Gary Barberio, a planner who worked for Encinitas for about nine years and this year took a new job as a Carlsbad planner.
"The biological value of the lagoon would be enhanced," Barberio said. "We're willing to cooperate and participate."
Carlsbad officials will contribute a proportionate share of the costs, he said, though the value of the land is still being negotiated.
Members of the Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation, a nonprofit group that works to assure the lagoon's maintenance and preservation, support the purchase.
"It offers some very good habitat, and we'd like to see it maintained," said foundation board member Fred Sandquist.
The foundation's board is working with city and state officials to preserve the property, Sandquist said. In addition to the native birds, the area also hosts more commonplace animals such as opossums, skunks, racoons and coyotes.
"They are not endangered, but (the property) offers them a very good habitat, and we'd like to see it maintained. It's good for the community," he said.
California least terns have been on the federal list of species in danger of extinction since 1970. The terns forage on small fish in shallow estuaries and lagoons, and they nest on open beaches and mud flats near the ocean. The construction of Pacific Coast Highway early in the 20th century dramatically reduced the birds' habitat, and since then many more California beaches have been lost to construction and development.
The least tern's population has recovered significantly from a low of 600 nesting pairs in 1970, according to the Pacific Biodiversity Institute, a nonprofit conservation group based in Winthrop, Wash. There were 2,300 pairs of the birds in 1993, thanks to ongoing preservation efforts. However, the species remains on the endangered list. About one-third of all California least tern populations breed on protected areas of Navy and Marine Corps bases, according to the institute's Web site.
About four of the contiguous 51.7 acres is within Carlsbad city limits, de Cordova said. Carlsbad officials, as have authorities at the state Department of Fish and Game and other interested agencies, have been cooperative in the project, he added.
Encinitas City Council members unanimously approved a resolution to pursue the purchase as a consent calendar item at their Dec. 10 meeting.
The land, now owned by the partnership Pioneer Land Inc., is expected to cost about $3 million, de Cordova said. The owner applied for permits to build a subdivision there in 1999, he said, but later withdrew the application because of the environmental constraints on the property.
"We are seeking funding from a variety of sources," de Cordova said. "We've applied to the state Department of Parks and Recreation for a $100,000 grant to acquire this property."
Another possible source of money is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, from which the city has requested a grant of up to $2.25 million. It also has applied for a grant of the entire cost of the property from the State Coastal Conservancy's wetlands recovery project, he said, though the chances of receiving that grant improve if matching money is available.
"It's all contingent upon securing the funding," de Cordova said, adding that the city is unlikely to get any money for the purchase for at least six months.
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okay, so I have a dialog box which is used as the main window for my app. for the dialog box's WM_INITDIALOG message I am creating a thread. the thread does some stuff, and then sends a message to a control on the dialog to adjust its font weight.
the problem seems to be that sometimes the message to adjust the font weight of the control is being sent before the WM_INITDIALOG message has been fully processed (before the dialog box appears). when this happens, the code to adjust the font weight doesn't work, I have to minimize and maximize the dialog box to see the change. this only happens sometimes, and depends on a number of factors, however I am 100% sure that this is the problem (I tried adding a MessageBox in the thread function before calling the function that adjusts the control's font weight, and found that the MessageBox sometimes appears before the dialog box does, and in these cases the font weight is not changed). the function that adjusts the control's font weight uses SendMessage, sending WM_SETFONT.
I've thought of adding a Sleep statement in my thread function, but that would be my last resort. basically I need a way to make sure that the function that changes the font weight is executed after the WM_INITDIALOG message has been fully processed, but I can't think of how I can do this.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Miguel Mateos-Martinez, who murdered Faviola Hernandez during a robbery at her Glendale neighborhood salon in 2007, apologized to the woman's family Tuesday.
But neither they nor 3rd District Judge Deno Himonas believed him.
"Your words of remorse just ring hollow," Himonas said. "Too little, too late."
The judge sentenced the admitted gang member to a life term without the possibility of parole.
Mateos-Martinez, who fled to Mexico for more than a year after the shooting, looked on with little apparent emotion as Hernandez's younger sister, who was a witness to the murder, and her mother asked for the maximum sentence.
"The hole you put us in, we're never going to come out. You buried this family," the victim's mother, Rosa Hernandez, told him. "We're never going to forgive you. ... You are a monster."
In February, a jury convicted Mateos-Martinez of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated robbery and two counts of aggravated assault in the Aug. 15, 2007, robbery and shooting.
Both a woman who was in the getaway car and a former jail inmate testified that Mateos-Martinez admitted shooting the shop owner.
Mateos-Martinez opened fire on Hernandez after she went into an adjacent room and returned with a small handgun instead of money. Two witnesses — a client and Hernandez's sister — identified Mateos-Martinez soon after the shooting and in court as the robber who fired a single shot into her chest.
"Stuff went wrong and that really wasn't my intention," he said in court Tuesday. "I thought I was just going to go get the money and that was that."
His attorney, Ralph Dellapiana, argued for the minimum sentence of 20 years to life in prison, saying his young age, limited criminal history and lack of intent to commit the murder should be mitigating factors.
Dellapiana said an older cousin of Mateos-Martinez led him into gang life at an early age. "A 12-year-old doesn't go out looking for a gang to join."3 comments on this story
The attorney said Mateos-Martinez, 23, may not have expressed remorse before because he was considering an appeal or feared retaliation in prison from inmates who know the Hernandez family.
But prosecutor Patricia Cassell said he had bragged in jail about committing the crime, and that his "complete lack of remorse" argued for the harshest sentence.
Mateos-Martinez asked the judge in vain to give him hope he would one day get out of prison, promising he would try to leave the gang behind.
"I've been living life like this a very long time," he said. "It's not that I'm proud of it. It's all I know."
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We have hope because God is faithful and will keep the promises made to us. Our Hope comes from God.
Romans 15:12-13
The white candle reminds us that Jesus is the sinless, spotless Lamb of God, sent to wash away our sins! His birth was for his death; his death was for our birth!
John 1:29
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In ancient times the cedar was revered as the tree of royalty. It also signified immortality and was used for purification. We place the cedar branch as a sign of Christ, who reigns as King forever, and who's coming, in justice and righteousness, will purify our hearts. During this Advent, wherever you see a lighted Christmas tree, let it call to mind the One who brings light to our darkness, healing our brokenness, and peace to all who receive him.
There are three purple candles and one rose candle. The purple candles represent the royalty and majesty of Jesus Christ as King; King of Kings. Purple also represents prayer, pertinence, and preparation.
The rose candle is lit on the third Sunday of Advent, also called Gaudete Sunday, when the priest wears rose vestments (robes, etc.) at Mass. Gaudete Sunday represented by the rose candle is the "Candle of Joy" and rejoicing because the faithful, we are at the midpoint of Advent. We have been Preparing the Way for Christ, and we are close to Christmas for the Birth of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior!
The weekly progression of the lighting of the candles symbolizes our preparation, prayer, penitence, our Hope and Expectation of Jesus Christ first Advent of coming into the world and the Anticipation of Jesus Christ's second Advent of coming to judge the living and the dead.
The light that gets brighter each week and climaxes on Christmas day with the lighting of the Christ Candle which represents Jesus Christ as The Light of the World.
The light again signifies Christ, the Light of the world.
· The Advent Wreath is made of various evergreens ever-life,
life everlasting. The circle of the wreath (like a wedding ring) has no beginning and has no end; eternal life through our Savior, Jesus Christ.
· Cedar represents healing and strength.
· Holly reminds us of the Crown of Thorns that were place on the head of Jesus at his crucifixion.
· Red Holly berries represent sacrifice, sacrificial love; the blood of Christ which was shed for us on the cross.
· Pinecones and nuts represent symbolize life and resurrection through Jesus Christ.
· Laurel represents victory over persecution, suffering, and death.
There are many different Advent Wreath traditions. The most important thing about the Advent Wreath is not the candles, the candleholders, the wreath.... The most important thing about an Advent Wreath is the Circle of Family and Friends praying around the Advent Wreath.
The Advent Wreath is a wonderful time to get the family together before dinner; to all be together – to pray together! This is a time of prayer, giving thanks for your blessings, being thankful for what you have (a time to take your mind off of 'what I want for Christmas list,') a time to think of others, the people with less.
The Advent Wreath is an wonderful opprotunity to teach children the true meaning of Christmas; all of its meanings and symbolisms. Teaching children about the real St. Nicholas and the origins of Santa Claus are wonderful Christmas teaching tools!
The Christ Candle in the center reminds us that Jesus Christ should always be in the center of our lives! Jesus Christ is the true meaning of Christmas – Giving!
"Its an Unwonderful Life"
is a parody of the 1946 Christmas classic, Frank Capras's "It's a Wonderful Life" with James Stewart and Donna Reed. Join our Bailey as he struggles with problems and contemplates suicide. Bailey meets his guardian angel and they travel back into the past and travel into the future of "what could happen."
The twist this time is their startling conclusion that the world would be better off without Bailey! What a predicament; will Bailey jump or not jump from the bridge into the icy waters below? Join Bailey on his Christmas Eve roller coaster of a ride of Faith or Fear. Christian-fiction written by Osten Aune. Though "It's an Unwonderful Life" is Christian-Fiction, this story is not a story written for young children. If this were a movie I would give it a PG-13 rating.


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