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39 U.S. Code § 3633 - Provisions applicable to rates for competitive products
§ 3633.
Provisions applicable to rates for competitive products
(a)In General.—The Postal Regulatory Commission shall, within 18 months after the date of enactment of this section, promulgate (and may from time to time thereafter revise) regulations to—
ensure that each competitive product covers its costs attributable; and
ensure that all competitive products collectively cover what the Commission determines to be an appropriate share of the institutional costs of the Postal Service.
(b)Review of Minimum Contribution.—
Five years after the date of enactment of this section, and every 5 years thereafter, the Postal Regulatory Commission shall conduct a review to determine whether the institutional costs contribution requirement under subsection (a)(3) should be retained in its current form, modified, or eliminated. In making its determination, the Commission shall consider all relevant circumstances, including the prevailing competitive conditions in the market, and the degree to which any costs are uniquely or disproportionately associated with any competitive products.
(Added Pub. L. 109–435, title II, § 202, Dec. 20, 2006, 120 Stat. 3206.)
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The date of enactment of this section, referred to in text, is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 109–435, which was approved Dec. 20, 2006.
Study on Equal Application of Laws to Competitive Products
Pub. L. 109–435, title VII, § 703, Dec. 20, 2006, 120 Stat. 3244, provided that:
"(a)In General.—
The Federal Trade Commission shall prepare and submit to the President and Congress, and to the Postal Regulatory Commission, within 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act [Dec. 20, 2006], a comprehensive report identifying Federal and State laws that apply differently to the United States Postal Service with respect to the competitive category of mail (within the meaning of section 102 of title 39, United States Code, as amended by section 101) and to private companies providing similar products.
The Federal Trade Commission shall include such recommendations as it considers appropriate for bringing such legal differences to an end, and in the interim, to account under section 3633 of title 39, United States Code (as added by this Act), for the net economic effects provided by those laws.
In preparing its report, the Federal Trade Commission shall consult with the United States Postal Service, the Postal Regulatory Commission, other Federal agencies, mailers, private companies that provide delivery services, and the general public, and shall append to such report any written comments received under this subsection.
"(d)Competitive Product Regulation.—
The Postal Regulatory Commission shall take into account the recommendations of the Federal Trade Commission, and subsequent events that affect the continuing validity of the estimate of the net economic effect, in promulgating or revising the regulations required under section 3633 of title 39, United States Code."
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Put one on top the basket yesterday does count two or one?
That is called a DROT (Disc at Rest On Top of basket) and unfortunately does not count. Now if you were able to stick one in the side of the basket, and retrieve it before it falls, then that counts, but on top of the basket does not count.SUX, sorry 4 ya.

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Iowans join protest over blood donations today
DES MOINES, Iowa —
A Des Moines blood donation center is one of 53 sites targeted for a nationwide protest by gay men Friday.
The men will offer their blood at the downtown LifeServe Blood Center but expect to be turned away.
The Food and Drug Administration barred blood donations from gay men in 1984 as the number of AIDS cases rose among people who'd received blood tainted with HIV, the virus that causes the disease.
Greg Gross works for a Des Moines AIDS prevention group, and he told The Des Moines Register the ban no longer serves a legitimate public health purpose.
He says most gay men don't have the AIDS virus although gay men, as a group, have a high infection rate.


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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (March 7, 2010) - Despite having six starters battling illness, including two starting pitchers, the ETSU softball team battled through some adversity to snap its five-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory over UC-Riverside on Sunday afternoon at Amy S. Harrison Softball Complex.
Junior right-hander Jessica Duncan (Ooltewah, Tenn.) bounced back nicely to earn the win (5-2) in the circle. Duncan allowed two runs on four hits while striking out three in seven innings of work. Freshman Sam Lower (Sebring, Fla.) went 2-for-3 with two RBI and sophomore infielder Amy Campbell (Chattanooga, Tenn.) was 1-for-4 with an RBI double and run scored.
With the win, the Lady Bucs picked up their first win on the west coast swing and improved to 8-9. The Highlanders, who defeated fifth-ranked UCLA at home on Wednesday, dropped to 6-12.
The Lady Bucs jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first thanks to Campbell's RBI double to left-center - scoring senior Cheniece Cason (Moreno Valley, Calif.) who led off the game with a walk. Campbell came around to score on Arielle Garner's (Buchanan, Ga.) two-out single - giving ETSU the two-run cushion.
After Duncan retired the first six UC-Riverside hitters she faced, ETSU came through with a three-run third - giving the Ooltewah, Tenn. native a 5-0 lead to work with. The Lady Bucs did all their damage with two outs in the inning, as Marlina Delisa (Tucson, Ariz.) drove in Trisha Massenzo (Russellville, Tenn.) with an RBI single; while Lower then came through to break the game open on the next at-bat. The Sebring, Fla. native singled to center - plating both Delisa and Katie Henderson (Jackson, Tenn.) to give ETSU the much-needed momentum.
Duncan kept the Highlanders hitless and scoreless until the bottom of the fourth when Alexis Pickett doubled to left-center - making it 5-1. However, Duncan kept two UC-Riverside base runners stranded in scoring position by forcing Brittany Keeney to hit into an inning-ending lineout to third.
With Duncan dealing in the circle - retiring the next eight hitters she faced after the RBI double in the fourth - the Lady Bucs were finally able to enjoy trip out west for the first time. The Highlanders scored their final run on Pickett's solo homer, but again, Duncan kept two Riverside runners stranded by getting Lauren Molina to pop out to third and end the game.
Amy Lwin suffered the loss (0-3) after giving up five runs on seven hits in seven innings of work.
The Lady Bucs now travel north to Fresno, Calif. and face another difficult test in the Bayer CropScience Classic. ETSU opens play with host and 22nd-ranked Fresno State on Thursday, March 11. First pitch is set for 10 p.m. (Eastern).
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The votes are in for the preseason USA TODAY Sports football coaches poll, and it probably won't come as a surprise that Alabama will enter the 2013 season exactly where it ended the last two.
The Crimson Tide were the overwhelming choice for the No.1 ranking, topping 58 of 62 ballots.
"We appreciate the recognition, but preseason polls don't determine who the best teams will be," Alabama coach Nick Saban told USA TODAY Sports. "We aren't entitled to anything, and this team's achievements will be based on what they create with the quality of their play and consistency in performance."
Indeed, another national championship will be a long battle for the Tide if perceptions of the Southeastern Conference are born out. Alabama heads a group of six ranked SEC squads, all in the top 13. The Big Ten and Pac-12 have five ranked teams each.
History is also not on the side of Alabama. The Tide never have won a national title after being preseason No. 1 in the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll. Their titles under Saban came after preseason rankings of fifth, second and second.
Some other notable facts and figures from this poll:
Past performance doesn't guarantee future success, as investors — and Saban — like to say, but that still might prove to be good news for the Buckeyes. Ohio State was ineligible for votes in the coaches poll last season while under NCAA sanctions. But three coaches took note of the Buckeyes' 12-0 campaign in 2012 and voted them No. 1. The final No. 1 nod went to Texas A&M, which opens the season ranked sixth, its best start since opening at No. 3 in 1995.
Louisville, the lone ranked team from the newly formed American Athletic Conference, can attribute its lofty expectations to a convincing Sugar Bowl victory against Florida.
"We played very well in that game," Louisville coach Charlie Strong said. "So now everyone is going to expect you to play each game the way you played in that game. ... So it's about us making sure we maintain our focus. And the preparation has to be there, the commitment has to be there."
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The Internet foils fudging by three "voter fraud" warriors.
What do those who believe voter fraud is a major national problem worthy of onerous voter identification laws have to hide?
In a recent Slate column, I noted the strange demise of the American Center for Voting Rights, an organization that sprouted up in the last few years to push the "voter fraud is a big problem" line at government hearings, conferences, and, most importantly, in the courts to defend strict new voter-ID laws. The brains behind ACVR is a St. Louis lawyer, Mark "Thor" Hearne, who has worked for the Bush-Cheney campaign and other Republican candidates for years. Oddly, the organization suddenly disbanded recently and yanked its Web site. Even more strangely, Hearne's résumé at his law firm, Lathrop and Gage, was scrubbed of references to ACVR. Thanks to the Internet Wayback Machine and blogs like the Brad Blog, much of ACVR's material still remains available, however. You just can't erase stuff put out in cyberspace very easily.
But Hearne apparently wasn't satisfied with just cleansing his résumé. Despite the Slatearticle and follow-up by NPR, National Journal, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Hearne, ACVR, and his possible connection to the U.S. attorneys' scandal, someone is working hard to scrub Hearne's paper trail. And now somebody is going into Hearne's Wikipedia entry and trying to cleanse it of references to ACVR. (Just about anyone can edit a Wikipedia entry, though the organizers have some methods of quality control.) Moreover, someone's been trying to clean up Wikipedia's entry on ACVR itself.
Who would do such a thing? Wikipedia keeps records of the user IDs or IP addresses of whoever changes its pages, and it turns out, astonishingly, that this cleansing was done by someone at one of the IP addresses of Hearne's law firm.
It does raise a question: Just what is it about Hearne's work for ACVR that he or someone else at his firm is trying to hide?
Hearne is not the only "voter fraud" warrior involved in covering up old information. In 2005, as noted on the Election Law Blog, I received a copy of a law-review article in the mail, postmarked Washington, with no return address. I had never seen an anonymous law-review article before. Published under the name "Publius," the article argued in favor of voter-identification laws.
Fast forward to March 2006. Hans von Spakovsky, one of the administration's great pushers of the voter-fraud line, was moved from DoJ—where he had been involved in overruling career attorneys on whether the department should approve Georgia's controversial voter-identification law and the Texas redistricting plan—to the Federal Election Commission for a recess appointment. And on von Spakovksy's new FEC Web site, he suddenly took credit as author of the Publius article. I pointed this out on my blog, and von Spakovsky got calls from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Washington Post, at which point he removed his reference to the article, without any explanation (though he did acknowledge authorship of the Publius article through a spokesperson to the Post).
Today, Sen. Dick Durbin raised the issue with von Spakovsky at a Senate hearing for his confirmation for a full term at the FEC. Von Spakovsky said he removed the reference to the article because it was a "distraction" from his work at the FEC. What is not clear is why von Spakovsky tried to hide his identity in the article in the first place. Didn't he believe what he wrote? Perhaps he hoped that the article could later be cited in the Georgia litigation to support the voter-ID law. (Hearne cited it last year in testimony before the U.S. Election Assistance Commission as evidence that voter-ID laws are not unconstitutional.)
Finally, there's Bradley Schlozman, the DoJ official who brought a controversial set of indictments just days before the 2006 election in Missouri claiming voter-registration fraud. Schlozman was criticized because the convictions seemed to go against DoJ policy to avoid bringing election-related indictments just before the election, so as not to interfere with the upcoming vote. In his testimony last week before the Senate judiciary committee, Schlozman said repeatedly that he acted at the "direction" of the Public Integrity Section of the DoJ.
In pre-Internet days, Schlozman might have been able to get away with that. But the blogs and newspapers were promptly all over the story of lawyers from that section objecting to Schlozman's mischaracterization. Thus forcing him to backpedal from the story, yesterday issuing a "clarification" that he only "consulted" with the section. But if Schlozman thought the voter-fraud indictments were so strong, why was he trying to hide behind the Public Integrity Section last week?
Don't these voter-fraud warriors know that in the Internet age they can run, but they can't hide?


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|Speed Curious
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GM Benjamin,
It seems that more and more these days we see speed chess as the determining factor at some tournaments, especially at the higher levels. I have never cared for speed chess because, honestly, I'm terrible at playing fast. However, many at the local chess club spend countless hours playing five-minute (and less) games of chess, and I simply cannot participate because I'm not good at it.
My question for you....should I at least try to play speed chess to acquire the skill, or would I be better off merely trying to improve my game by playing classical chess at normal speeds? I am mostly afraid that speed chess will only reinforce bad habits or sloppy play. What do you suggest?
Thank You,
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Don Wade
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On the other hand, there are "speed traps." If you are playing at a rate that does not allow you to think at all over your moves, you are wasting your time. [You will not catch me playing bullet on the ICC!] Worse yet, you may develop patterns of superficiality. I think it is a particularly bad idea to play blitz right before a tournament game - you will probably crank out your moves too fast.
The time and place for speed chess depends a lot on the individual's skills and temperament. In your case, you have already established that you do not enjoy speed chess and are not good at it. So do not feel you need to torture yourself. Stick to what works for you - slow chess - and perfect that as best you can.
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Updated: House votes to repeal new scholarship programBy GARRY RAYNO
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February 20. 2013 8:59PM
CONCORD — The House wants to repeal a new school scholarship program funded through business tax credits.
The House voted 188-151 to approve House Bill 370, which would repeal the program lawmakers passed last year over former Gov. John Lynch's veto.
Opponents of the bill, say lawmakers should wait before repealing the program which began Jan. 1. The bill was passed by the last term's Republican-controlled Legislature, while Democrats this year have targeted the program for repeal.
Bill opponents said the program will provide opportunities for families around the state to have a choice in their students' education. But they said it is not a voucher bill.
"Let's give this program a chance," said Rep. David Hess, R-Hooksett. "There's not much to lose, but a tremendous amount to be gained in giving all our citizens a choice in educating their children."
But opponents call it a back-door voucher plan that takes money away from public schools as private and religious schools cherry pick the best and least expensive students to educate. And they say it is unconstitutional because it provides state tax money to religious schools, something specifically prohibited in the state constitution.
"It is poor education policy and badly conceived legislation," said House Education Committee Chairwoman Rep. Mary Gile, D-Concord. "We cannot ask local communities to absorb any more loss of funding."
The bill's fate is uncertain in the Senate. Two current Republicans in the Senate opposed the program last year, but one of those senators, Sen. Nancy Stiles, R-Hampton, announced at the public hearing on HB 370 that she would not support repealing the program because it should have the opportunity to function before being repealed.
"Today's action by the House is premature, and as this bill moves to the Senate I will not support a repeal," Stiles said after the vote. "The School Choice Scholarship Program has garnered significant interest from students, parents, and business owners who applied to it based on their understanding of the law. I believe we should allow the program and these applicants this opportunity before voting to repeal program that has yet to even begin."
Under the program, students can receive up to a $2,500 scholarship to attend private or parochial schools. Homeschooled students can receive up to a $750 scholarship. School districts losing students because of the scholarships also lose an average $4,100 per student in state education aid.
Eight other states have similar programs.
As of Wednesday, businesses have contributed $135,581 in scholarship money to the program, which has a $4 million limit this fiscal year. One nonprofit — Network for Educational Opportunities — has registered to offer the scholarships.
The education tax credit program is under a legal cloud because the American Civil Liberties Union and others sued the state to block its implementation, claiming taxpayer dollars would be sent to religious institutions.
Supporters said there are students and their families waiting to use the scholarships next year.
Repealing this program is "telling those 400 children and their families 'You don't have a better opportunity out there,'" said Rep. Pam Tucker, R-Greenland. "We must give these children the opportunity to use these scholarships and see how this will work."
Several representatives noted that the tax credit program does not address special education students or those with serious behavioral problems.
Private schools do not have to accept those students which costs much more to educate than successful students, they said, "Will these children have the luxury of choice," asked Rep. Marjorie Porter, D-Hillsborough, "or will their education and high costs be left to public schools?" Opponents also argued the constitution prevents state money from going to religious schools.
Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, R-Manchester, read from Article 6 of the state constitution on state money for religious schools.
"I did not read words detailing how it would be permissible to put money under a shell, move it around like in an old game of hutchenspiel, and then after the proper amount of laundering — viola — declare it acceptable to give to a religious school," said Vaillancourt.
But supporters said the bill is constitutional because no state money is used for the scholarships, rather charity donations from businesses.
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Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Selena Gomez, and Sarah Hyland hit the red carpet at the Weinstein Company party following the 2013 Golden Globes held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday (January 13) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Guests at the party munched on Sheila G's Brownie Brittle Truffles and sipped on DeLeon Tequila.
The gal pals also stopped by the Warner Bros. and InStyle party during the evening.
FYI: Vanessa is wearing a Jenny Packham dress with a Daniel Swarovski clutch. Selena is wearing an Atelier Versace dress, Jimmy Choo heels, and Lorraine Schwartz jewels. Ashley is wearing an Issa gown, Rousseau shoes, a ring and bracelet Sylva & Cie, State Room earrings, and a L. K. Bennett bag. Sarah is wearing a Pavoni dress, Giuseppe Zanotti heels, and a Judith Leiber clutch.
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One of the best parts of summer gatherings is having the opportunity to share my favorite foods with close friends and family members. That said, as much as I love to cook and bake, sometimes those get-togethers really sneak up on me!
I love turning to my favorite no-bake desserts when I need a quick, easy and delicious treat, and this no-bake berry smoothie cheesecake is at the top of my list!
I am a huge fan of cheesecake, and what I love most about this no-bake dessert, aside from how easy it is to make, is that it is so light and refreshing. This no-bake berry smoothie cheesecake would be perfect for a 4th of July celebration.
The graham cracker crust adds just a little extra sweetness and crunch, and the filling is cool, light, and fluffy. This berry smoothie no-bake cheesecake is so refreshing; it's really perfect for a picnic or family cookout on a summer day.
Sweets are a delicious addition to a balanced diet, but of course, you should remember to be conscious of your portions. This no-bake cheesecake makes enough for 16 yummy servings.
You can use any berries you like for this recipe, too! I chose to use a mixture of blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries. You could choose one of these berries or any combination.
I love knowing that this recipe includes many lighter-versions of my favorite ingredients, including PHILADELPHIA Neufchatel Cheese, which has 1/3 less fat than cream cheese and COOL WHIP Lite.
This no-bake cheesecake was a huge hit with my entire family, and it's definitely a recipe we'll be trying again this summer.
No-Bake Berry Smoothie Cheesecake
2 cups Honey-flavored Graham Cracker crumbs
6 tbsp. butter, melted
3 tbsp. sugar
4 pkgs. (8 oz. each) PHILADELPHIA Neufchatel Cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
3 cups fresh berries (I used blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and strawberries. Strawberries should be chopped into smaller pieces.)
1 tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Lite Whipped Topping, thawed
Mix the cracker crumbs, butter, and 3 tbsp. sugar. Press onto bottom of nonstick 9x13 pan and refrigerate while preparing filling.
Beat PHILADELPHIA Neufchatel Cheese and 1 cup sugar in large bowl with mixer until well blended. Add berries; beat on low speed just until blended. Whisk in COOL WHIP Lite Whipped Topping. Pour over crust.
Refrigerate 4 hours or until firm. Cut to serve.
For more recipes and ideas, visit my blog at www.dearcrissy.com.
Ever had a smoothie so thick, creamy and luscious you could almost eat it with a fork? That's just about how this No-Bake Berry Smoothie Cheesecake tastes!
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Love fashion? Love shopping? You can pull your favorite items from your closet, fashion magazine or images from the latest Paris runway and bring that inspiration into your home. This theme of pulling fashion inspiration into home decor is becoming more and more prevalent with the accessibility of the internet. The ability to find the latest trends in fashions off the runway and the latest home decor are just clicks away. High Point Home Furnishings Market starts Saturday, October 13th and the main theme throughout will be Fashion Focus, www.highpointmarket.org. For this Fashion + Decor Blog Hop, I pulled my favorite runway pieces right off pinterest.com.
I've been really gravitating to Black & Gold lately. I'm thinking with the holidays coming up and the colder weather approaching us, I find some comfort in the color black. Metallics have been huge in fashion for quite sometime now (at least a couple seasons) and are always great for holiday wear. I feel like the trend from silver is gravitating to more golden tones, even some rich bronzes. I grew up in the fashion and fabric industry and remember back in the late 80′s and early 90′s when black brocade with gold metallic thread with even some gold lame was really in. Almost everyone was buying the gold lame.
If you are not familiar with what kind of fabric lame is, see Elvis wearing it! Uhhh-huhhh
Important Note: Please don't get the idea that me posting this image as a recommendation of wearing all gold or decorating your whole room in gold metallic fabric!
Don't be this guy, rocking the MC Hammer pants. I don't recommend walking the streets or rocking the clubs looking like him, unless you want to get a beat down… There is a reason he is wearing sun glasses. The glare of his clothing is just down right blinding…Ouch!
However, I found a fabulous dress in gold from Saks Fifth Avenue, so there is a little hope if you want to be ultra shiny.
According to InStyle.com and their Fall 2012 Fashion Trends, "Let gold dominate. It's more fun and flattering. Do not let any other color come out to play with these two (referring to black & gold). No jewelry except for gold earrings. Find one knockout garment that will take you through the holiday and beyond." I recommend wearing a bold black piece if you want to really go for the gold, such as a strong black jacket or adding some black accessories (jewelry, shoes or purse). The best way to wear it or style it in your home is to find a nice balance of both black and gold.
The main inspiration in my room design was this fabulous dress in black and gold brocade. It has beautiful trim detail and is paired with fabulous geometric cuff bracelets that remind me of Greek Keys. The dress has an ancient Asian feel with modern, edgy lines that results in a flattering and form fitting design.
I'm also absolutely in love with these coordinating shoes from Manolo Blahnik….oh la la!——–>
If they are a little too matchy for you, I have another fabulous to-die for pair of Alexander McQueen heels….
Mmmm deliciosa
These shoes will certainly have all eyes staring at you! How do we achieve an ultra fabulous room that has the details, visual interest and feel of all this fashion eye candy?
First, I started by applying an amazing gold damask wallpaper to my olioboard, go to Olioboard.com to create your own mood board. It's fun, simple and available for anyone to use! I then layered some luxurious black velvet drapes from West Elm for a nice bold contrast to the walls. I incorporated a strong black sectional sofa to really anchor the space.
I added the Greek Key Rug in black and white that reminded me of the gorgeous cuffs the model is wearing with the Leonard Collection Dress. This Trina Turk Greek Key Rug found at laylagrayce.com takes the ancient Greek Key motif and makes it look modern and fresh. So accessorize your room as you would your body, add an unexpected piece for a nice "Wow" factor. I do this in all my designs. At times, my clients can be bit skeptical but when you step back and look at the overall finished room, it certainly always makes the design. My recommendation is to take a little risk and it will go a long way!
One of my favorite pieces in the room is the artwork, called Dress One by one of my fellow OlioHop bloggers, Robin Pedrero. Robin is amazingly talented and I selected her painting as a beautiful touch of elegance and to add softness to the space. There are many angular elements in the room and the painting reminds me of a beautiful Monet watercolor painting but with a beautiful fashion element with the the dress as the focal point. You can find more of Robin's artwork at http://www.etsy.com/shop/RobinMariaPedrero
The power of olioboard.com is you can be your own artist. You can take a piece of fabric and make it a wallpaper to see how it would look on your wall then go and try to find a product similiar. Most of the time, you can shop the product by just clicking on the image on your own olioboard or other olioboard designs you love! It's so simple! I was a bit creative with the Sophia Table from Layla Grayce. It's one of my all time favorite tables. It's actually a dining table but in my design, I really wanted to use it as a coffee table by the sofa.
It has a strong masculine espresso table top but the antique gold legs add a feminine curvy effect that looks like a piece of art.
Another piece that is a small element of the room but makes a strong visual impact is the lumbar pillow found on the black wingback chair, it's a John Richard pillow found at lampsplus.com. I've bought lighting at Lamps Plus before but to my surprise, they also carry home accessories and decor items!
If you are not ready to redo your whole room (like most of us) but want to use some of what you already have to emulate a similar look, I can give you a few tips:
1- You can always slipcover your sofa with black fabric.
2- Purchase some decorative pillows. I suggest contrasting the black with black & white print or gold & white fabric pillows.
3- You can change out your lighting, which can be an investment into your home. For some active home buyers out there, such as myself, I always look at what kind of overhead lighting is in a potential home I'm looking at buying. A fabulous chandelier such as the black one found in my design can be found at laylagrayce.com. If it's something you absolutely love, take it with you when you move, which I've done with a chandelier that was given to us by our parents.
4- Don't forget to add table lamps for ambient lighting and task lighting too when you don't want to use overhead lighting. I am in love with this lamp found at wayfair.com, one of my favorite websites ever. You can pretty much find anything and everything for your home there. Shhh…it's my secret weapon (for finding fantastic interior design items).
Please join me in this Blog Hop today by visiting 9 other extremely talented bloggers. Check out their olioboards and interior design tips with their take on Fashion + Decor inspiration:
Thanks so much for stopping by, please join us on olioboard.com for some #OLIOLOVE and create a fun moodboard, using some of your fashion inspiration to create a fun 2D or 3D room design. Please be sure to comment on my blog for feedback. Hope something in my post inspired you or at least made you chuckle!


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Book on librarians and professional development receives national awardUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Professor Emerita, Library and Information Science Program
Growing Schools: Librarians as Professional Developers, edited by Debbie Abilock, Kristin Fontichiaro and Violet Harada, has been selected as the "2013 Best Professional Guide for School or Youth Librarians" by Library Media Connection (LMC) and the American Reference Books Annual (ARBA).
Harada is a professor emerita in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Library and Information Science Program, Department of Information and Computer Sciences. She received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of School Librarians in 2011. Her other recently published works from Libraries Unlimited include Assessing for Learning: Librarians and Teachers as Partners, 2nd edition (2010), and Librarians as Learning Specialists: Meeting the Learning Imperative for the 21st Century (2008).
This newly established award recognizes high-quality reference resources that support and encourage K-12 student learning and achievement. LMC and ARBA selected a panel of judges from their pool of well-regarded reviewers and editors to evaluate entries from publishers throughout the K-12 reference market. The edited volume is the first that directly addresses the role of the school librarian as a staff developer. Within the chapters, the authors share their stories as staff developers in a range of K-12 public and private institutions and universities across the U.S. and Canada.
ABC-CLIO/Libraries Unlimited published the award-winning book in 2012. It presents examples of school librarians leading professional development in numerous contexts and for diverse learning goals with remarkable success. It is intended for individual librarians looking to become professional development leaders and for district librarians in planning and implementing meaningful district-wide professional development.


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How to Fake Your Way Through Oscar Season
Sound smart without seeing the movies (or even reading blogs).
Look, it is hard to keep up with Oscar movies. Most of them get held until December and many of them are longer than the average movie. If it's not your job to follow the ups and downs of Oscar season, then it is pretty much impossible to actually do so. So, since it's actually our job, Vulture would like to help: We've made a 2014 Oscar Cheat Sheet, complete with early favorites and smart(-ish) things to say about all the major categories. You will impress everyone at the next bar or mythical cocktail party you go to! (You just sit around and talk Oscars at all social gatherings, right?)
Note: the full list of Oscar nominees is here. Maybe take a quick glance? You don't want to be surprised when people start talking about Her.
Best Picture
Nominees: Her, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, 12 Years a Slave, Philomena, Nebraska, The Wolf of Wall Street, American Hustle
The Early Favorites: 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle
Possible Upset: Gravity, which tied with 12 Years at the Producers Guild Awards — the PGAs have a good track record lately of predicting Best Picture winners.
Smart Things to Say If You Haven't Seen All the Nominees:
- "I was blown away by 12 Years a Slave, but I'm still not sure why Brad Pitt had to play the guy who saved the main character. It took me out of the film a little."
- "I liked American Hustle better when it was Silver Linings Playbook."
- "None of this matters, because American Hustle wasn't nominated for hair and makeup."
- "Everyone is talking about how The Wolf of Wall Street lets its main characters off the hook for being crooks, but isn't that exactly what American Hustle does?"
- "My parents saw Philomena. They liked it."
Best Director
Nominees: Martin Scorsese, David O. Russell, Alfonso Cuaron, Alexander Payne, Steve McQueen
The Early Favorites: Cuarón (Gravity), McQueen (12 Years), and Russell (American Hustle)
Possible Upset: It'll probably be one of these three.
Smart Things to Say If You Haven't Seen All the Nominees:
- "Gravity is such a technical achievement. Doesn't it makes sense for Cuarón to win this one?"
- "This would've been closer if David O. Russell hadn't said that stupid thing about 12 Years a Slave."
- "12 Years is beautiful, but doesn't it feel like McQueen is being too artsy in some moments — you know he was a visual artist before he was a director, right?"
Best Actress
Nominees: Amy Adams, Judi Dench, Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep
The Early Favorite: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine). She won the Golden Globe (Drama), the SAG award, and almost every critic's association prize. It is hers to lose.
Possible Upset: The Academy really seems to like the American Hustle performances — the movie received nominations in all four acting categories. So maybe Amy Adams? But again, Cate is a heavy favorite.
Smart Things to Say If You Haven't Seen All the Nominees:
- "These are all very good actresses, but did we just teleport back to the 1998 Oscars?"
- "Did you see Enough Said? Julia Louis Dreyfus was robbed."
- "No doubt about it, Cate Blanchett is a powerhouse. But her performance felt a little too much to me, you know what I mean?"
- "No doubt about it, Meryl Streep is a powerhouse. But her performance felt way too much to me, you know what I mean?"
Best Actor
Nominees: Bruce Dern, Matthew McConaughey, Leonard DiCaprio, Christian Bale, Chiwetel Ejiofor
The Early Favorite: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club), who won both the Golden Globe (drama) and the SAG Award.
Possible Upset: Leonardo DiCaprio won a Golden Globe, but not against McConaughey. (The Golden Globe separates comedies and dramas.) So a Leo win seems unlikely.
Smart Things To Say If You Haven't Seen All The Nominees:
- "And just think about all the amazing performances that didn't get nominated. Tom! Forest! Oscar! Redford!" [Feel free to shout out any other male names you like; basically everyone was a contender this year.]
- "I understand that Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom was not a critical success, but why would you pass up a chance to see Idris Elba in a tux? Haven't you heard about his bow tie?"
- "Bruce Dern's nomination strikes me as a lifetime-achievement-type thing."
- "Do you remember how many close-ups there were in 12 Years a Slave? I mean, come on. That guy's face is half the movie!"
- "You can't stand in the way of the McConaissance. Yeah, that's a term now."
Best Supporting Actress
Nominees: June Squibb, Jennifer Lawrence, Lupita Nyong'o, Julia Roberts, Sally Hawkins
The Early Favorites: Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave) and Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Possible Upset: It'll probably just be one of these two.
Smart Things To Say If You Haven't Seen All The Nominees:
- "Did you see Lupita's acceptance speech at the Critics Choice Awards? It was lovely. She'll give a great Oscar speech."
- "Don't get me wrong: I love Jennifer Lawrence." [Be sure to say that part loudly, for fear of retribution.] "But did you really believe her as a thirtysomething mother?"
- "You've probably seen June Squibb before. She was Jack Nicholson's wife in About Schmidt. And she's going to play Hannah's grandmother in Girls this season. But yeah, no, she's probably not going to win."
Best Supporting Actor
Nominees: Barkhad Abdi, Bradley Cooper, Jared Leto, Michael Fassbender, Jonah Hill
The Early Favorite: Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
Possible Upset: Leto has really been sweeping the awards circuit; it is hard to imagine that changing.
Smart Things to Say If You Haven't Seen All the Nominees:
- "I was glad to see that Jared Leto acknowledged AIDS victims at the SAG awards. His Golden Globes speech was a little tone deaf."
- "I hope Jonah Hill wears his fake teeth to the ceremony."
- "Michael Fassbender has starred in all three of Steve McQueen's movies."
- "Captain Phillips was Abdi's first movie. Amazing, huh?"
- "Cooper used more than 100 curlers to get his hair like that every day."
Additional Smart Things to Say, for Various Categories:
Best Documentary: "No, but can you believe Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell did not get a nomination? Or Blackfish?"
Best Original Song: "Ugh, this category. The tiny evangelical movie gets a nomination, but nothing for Lana Del Rey's 'Young and Beautiful' (The Great Gatsby)? That song was made to be nominated for an Oscar! 'Young and Beautiful' is Kim Kardashian's favorite song!"
For Like Eight Different Categories: "I just don't understand what the Academy has against the Coen Brothers." Or: "Don't tell anyone, but I didn't love Inside Llewyn Davis either." Either view is acceptable.
Best Original Screenplay: "Sorry to keep repeating myself, but Enough Said? Hellooooo?"


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Transferring / Re: Law School Transfer Book- The Art of the Law School Transfer« on: April 28, 2011, 02:34:40 PM »
Out of curiosity, since this is a subject you've studied in depth, do schools do this to fill the seats that were vacated because of attrition?
Or do different schools just have different philosophies.
For instance, school X may lose 10% of their 1L class and they go out and get an equal number of transfers so their 2L class will be the same size as their 1L.
Or, maybe school Y loses 10% of their 1L class, but recruits MORE than that number? Does that ever happen? The school does this to have a larger 2L class?
Or the other way around, schools just don't care who they lose out of 1L, and they just go with whoever comes back?
Also, it seems to me that most transfers into t14 or first tier schools probably come from the 3rd and 4urth tier. Is that true? The reason I suspect this is that if you're doing really well at your school and it's a 2nd tier school, you will probably have awesome job opportunities and not feel the need to transfer.
A lot of what you said is true. Different philosophies for different schools. Some schools ranked in the 30's to 50's just want to get a handful of transfers to get their 1L class back to its original status quo. Some schools, like Georgetown or FSU, however, don't care how many leave per se, and just want to add transfers to beef up their class and revenue (and help their US News ranking). It really all depends on the school, so that's why we made that chart in our book. Many transfers into T1's do come from lower ranked schools of students who did very well (top 5%). However, if you are attending a school in the geographic location you want to live and practice in, and you are in the top 10%, and your school is ranked 50-80 (T2) it may not make sense to leave. You will most likely receive a scholarship and good job placement in that regional area (transfer students rarely, if ever, receive scholarships). But remember, outside the T14, schools are regional, not national when it comes to job recruiting and placement.


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The Liberty swimming has 11 finalists competing during tonight's session.
Live Video Live Results Heat Sheets The 2013 Coastal Collegiate (CCSA) Swimming & Diving Championships have begun, at Gabrielsen Natatorium in Athens, Ga. Tonight's evening session starts at 6 p.m. with the A heats of the 200 freestyle relay, and concludes with the finals in the 400 medley relay.
Liberty had a strong showing in the morning prelims, with 11 student-athletes qualifying for tonight's finals (five in A finals, six in B finals).
Brye Ravettine swam 22.81, qualifying second in the 50 free with an NCAA B qualifying time. Cori Gary (23.06) tied for fourth in qualifying, and Meghan Babcock (23.11) had the seventh fastest 50 free time. Emilie Kaufman swam 2:04.89, good for fourth seed in the 200 individual medley. Emily Duff qualified sixth in the 500 free, at 5:00.98
Tonight's finals will feature pool-side, live blog coverage as the Lady Flames compete in Athens. Look for coverage to begin shortly before the 6 p.m. finals start with an interactive blog, where all are invited to interact with questions and comments.
Day 1 – Finals (6 p.m.) 200-yard Freestyle Relay "A" One-meter Diving (Women) 500-yard Freestyle (Emily Duff, Hannah Wakeley) 200-yard Individual Medley (Emilie Kaufman, Laura Day) 50-yard Freestyle (Brye Ravettine, Cori Gary, Meghan Babcock, Chloe Thomas, Jess Reinhardt, Ranndi Grubbs, Rachel Nelson) Three-meter Diving (Men) 400-yard Medley Relay "A"
Scoring will follow the NCAA championships rules. Individual events will be scored as follows: 20-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Relay events will be scored as follows: 40-34-32-30-28-26-24-22-18-14-12-10-8-6-4-2
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Star Jean (Brundle) Mutchler, wife of the late Donald Joseph Mutchler, of Stroudsburg, died peacefully Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, at VNA Hospice of Monroe County in East Stroudsburg, surrounded by her family. She was 83.
Born in East Stroudsburg, she was a daughter of the late Robert Brundle and Mabel (Smith) Brundle.
Star devoted her life to her husband, Donald, a decorated career military veteran who served in three wars, and her seven children. She worked for many years as a housekeeper and later owned her own housekeeping business. In what little free time she had, Star enjoyed tending her peonies and roses, taking walks and swimming, antiquing and bargaining at flea markets.
She was an avid reader who loved mystery novels and history. She was an adventurous, fun-loving and generous person who loved to tinker with mechanical devices and woodworking. One of her favorite pastimes was family picnics, playing croquet.
A military wife, Star became an expert at relocation, moving her family many times between Landstuhl, Germany; Atlanta, Ga. and Baltimore, Md. In later years, she enjoyed leisure traveling with her husband and adult children, and had particular soft spots for Germany, New England and the West. She was a member of Branham Tabernacle of Jeffersonville, Ind.
She is survived by three daughters: Star Donna Parker of Jeffersonville, Ind., Linda Jean Rushin of Henryville, and Terry Mutchler of Fort Washington; four sons: Charles J., Joseph and Scott M. Mutchler, all of Jeffersonville, Ind.; and David W. Mutchler of Williston, N.D.; 20 grandchildren; and many great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
She is also survived by three sisters: Mary Smith of Cherry Valley; Ann Sacher of Jeffersonville, Ind.; and Jeanette Reto of Bangor.
She is predeceased by one infant daughter, Rosanna Mutchler; two sisters, Emily Henrich and Judy Maude LaBar; and two brothers, Gordon Brundle and Charles Brundle.
A visitation will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, at William H. Clark Funeral Home, 1003 Main St., Stroudsburg. The funeral service will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, at the funeral home. Interment will follow at Stroudsburg Cemetery.
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BLOG: Retail RFID initiatives are flourishing
My 7th annual visit to RFID Journal Live! (April 12-14th, 2011) was jam packed with engaging conversations with optimistic and energized retailers, suppliers, academics and technology vendors. Mark Roberti, the founder and editor of RFIDJournal magazine and host of the event, reported that preregistration was up 15%, in an RFID Journal editor's note on April 18, 2011. Interestingly, it seemed to me that there were fewer vendors and more endusers than last year. Most importantly, the endusers that attended were already working on projects or feverishly trying to figure out how to leverage RFID in their businesses.
The biggest surprise, for me, was the number of retail suppliers earnestly taking notes and asking questions as industry experts and peers provided guidance in breakout sessions, and the number engaged in serious discussions with technology vendors. This makes sense, with more than a dozen US based retail pilots and/or rollouts underway, many suppliers have gotten on the bandwagon to gain early competitive advantage. Most of these suppliers are working on identifying their own business benefits, so that these projects don't become underwhelming "slap and ship" efforts, like many of the consumer goods company's efforts, whose RFID efforts heated up in 2004 in response to Walmart and DoD mandates, but progressed at a snail's pace. In fact, the story is quite different today for apparel manufacturers. Gerry Weber, the winner of the 2011 Best RFID Implementation award by RFID Journal, drove their initiative based on the benefits as a supplier.
Astounding Benefits Continue to Drive RFID Implementations
I have to reiterate that I am convinced that the benefits are real for retailers, particularly vertically integrated retailers, who generally work with a limited number of suppliers, and can tag all products and roll out store by store, rather than having to go through the painstaking process of assisting suppliers, one by one. I am also convinced that RFID enables leaner store inventories, without sacrificing lost sales.
Retailers continue to resist being very vocal about the benefits they've received, arguing that they don't want to give up competitive advantage, but the numbers I continue to hear over and over include the following:
- Up to 30% improvements in inventory accuracy
- Up to 50% of the OOS (out of stock)eliminated
- 96% reduction in amount of time to cycle count, enabling more frequent and more valuable insight into real physical inventory
The bottom line is, doing physical counts and making sure shelf availability is managed appropriately is no longer primarily an exercise to make our accountants happy, but an exercise that enables better customer service. The value of improved shelf availability on the top line, on increased sales, is the best kept retail secret. The truth is there are so many factors that go into increasing sales for a retailer, that it is nearly impossible to pin a true value on sales lift due to an isolated initiative. Perhaps, Myron Burke, Director, Store Innovation and Electronic Product Code, Walmart explained success at the shelf best, "If the customer finds what they want and it goes into the cart, that's success.
The DoD gets my vote for the most impressive and steadfast RFID program, even ahead of Walmart, as they consistently report significant benefits from their end to end RFID enabled supply chain management strategy. Paul Peters, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Supply Chain Integration, reported that 74% of goods are tagged at receipt and that perfect order fulfillment is as good as can be expected and material availability is at a remarkable 85%. Despite these successes, Peters pointed out that counterfeit goods are still "a looming cloud" for all to be concerned about.
The Technology Keeps Getting Better
The technology is undoubtedly fit to meet the needs of many industries including retail, manufacturing, packaging companies and 3PL's. These days, it seems that every potential challenge is quickly met with a solution. For example, one of the challenges that department or general merchandise retailers in particular face, as they expand RFID programs, is getting supplier tagging initiatives started quickly. In a breakout on Thursday, Larry Arnstein, Senior Director Business Development, Impinj, gave a really good presentation on how to formulate a scalable RFID source tagging strategy, accounting for the many source tagging scenarios employed today. Not surprisingly, Impinj announced technology a week before the conference that helps solve the source tagging issue. The new Impinj Monza 5 chip and STP source tagging technology can enable encoding of up to 1750 tags/minute for both inline and bulk encoding situations.
Another vendor, Tagsys announced FiTS (Fashion Item Tracking System), its commercial off-the-shelf, end-to-end supply chain system for apparel and fashion businesses. Tagsys says that RFID enabled FiTS will provide end-to-end visibility from manufacturing, through the distribution center, and to the retail floor. Tagsys has already proven itself in item level RFID library and laundry systems, and has been a leader in item level pharmaceutical tagging efforts.
Tyco Retail Solutions and Checkpoint Systems are also helping retailers with item level RFID inventory tracking implementations, but due to their heritage in product security and loss prevention applications, they are particularly well equipped to help retailers with dual tag initiatives, enabling even greater asset protection than possible before. Retail feedback suggests that EAS security tags thwart external theft, while RFID tags combined with actionable reports significantly reduces internal crime.
Intelleflex won the RFID Journal Best in Show for its breakthrough condition monitoring tags that can be read from producer to retail receipt. Unlike tags often used for this task today, these tags are able to be read in transit, so that logistics providers can participate in the tracking of goods as they make their way through the supply chain. Another cold chain monitoring tag manufacturer of note is Infratab, a company that has developed a very low cost, simple to implement and use passive tag.
Five years ago, vendors shied away from developing purpose built tags - they simply did not have enough business to support doing this. Some companies are now discovering just how lucrative designing and manufacturing tags for specific business cases can be. One of these companies, Omni-ID has developed a variety of purpose built tags, and as a result has successfully deployed tags in several industries including healthcare, automobile manufacturing, oil, gas and utilities, and defense transportation and logistics. The secret to this success also has a lot to do with the strength of the partner relationships they have developed in these industries and with the fact that they own their own manufacturing facility, limiting production and security issues.
Alien now has a small footprint RFID handheld reader, but they may be late to the game, as Motorola continues to lead in retail deployments of handheld readers. Motorola's latest MC75A handheld has NFC contactless reader capability built in, for the coming wave of high frequency NFC tagged media, assets and payments applications. As retailers get to full rollouts, vendors need to expect that retailers will shop around, so the Korean and Chinese handheld companies will become serious competitors in the North American market.
There are so many other technologies that are worth discussing, but just not enough room on this page - this is a blog after all, so allow me to sum up.
Today's best innovations are being driven by business need
Gene Delaney, Executive VP, Motorola Solutions, said it well in his keynote presentation, "RFID initiatives today are all about businesses driving initiatives, enabling intelligent processes by applying RFID technology." Data is merely collected via smart tags and wired and wireless networks. The real magic happens when real time information about products, inventory and sales are ultimately converted into actionable data that result in better business decisions.
I do feel compelled to emphasize that RFID is not a silver bullet. Much work will need to be done to maximize return on investment for retailers and suppliers alike. The benefit comes from the intelligent use of real time information and inventory visibility. I'll spell this out more in a full length report at http://www.idc-ri.com.
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The basic idea of Real-Draw is to produce rich bitmap-based web or Illustration graphics using the comfort of vector editing combined with 3D features such as Lights and the amazing Natural Paint techniques.
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Additionally, over the years Real-DRAW became a favorite tool for making scrap book pages and collages, photo clones and much more.
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Zero stars (out of four)
The equivalent of watching 100 people pat themselves on the back, the documentary "Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's" is as detached from the real world in 2013 as a primer on how to choose the best-tasting caviar.
Admittedly, I'm not in the target demo for a movie about iconic Fifth Avenue luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman. Mention "fashion" or "shopping" and I'll immediately check out of a conversation. Still, any topic can be fascinating, and "Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's" (a title taken from a 1990 New Yorker cartoon) could have been, in theory, an examination of the creative outlet and social function of fashion, cross-referenced with a modern era in which couture couldn't be any more synonymous with the entitled 1 percent. Does the public still dream of the white mink earmuffs Liz Taylor once purchased there as gifts? Or has the veteran symbol of elite culture lost its already-minimal interest in the people who gaze in their windows, thus catering only to celebs and society page folks who can spring for $6,000 shoes?
Rather than ask any questions of consequence, writer-director Matthew Miele delivers a revolting puff piece that could run on a loop in the store.
He features designers like Michael Kors and the Olsen twins raving about Bergdorf's, while other fashion industry folks talk generally about "the emotional experience of clothes" without considering that people can feel happy/sexy/content in apparel that costs less than a car. Mild detail comes from the influence of store taste-makers like Linda Fargo, but the film fawns rather than probes. Not once does Miele engage members of the public, whom Bergdorf's clearly shrugs off. Showing designer/talking mannequin Nicole Richie cooing about how nice it is to get into the store and get your mind off things presumes every American's stress melts away at the sight of a sparkly dress and a gigantic price tag. A late-movie mention of the 2008 financial collapse attempts to generate sympathy for poor luxury retailers without any sense of their place in the crumbling economy.
Look, high fashion serves a purpose for some, and that's fine. Those who drool over "Sex and the City" (which of course appears within the first three minutes of this doc) may flock to "Bergdorf's" to ogle the fabric eye candy and dream of a more elegantly populated closet. The film doesn't actually gather anything about what's so (subjectively) great about the store or its items, though, only that a lot of famous faces want to shop there. My eyes almost rolled out of my head as designer Lazaro Hernandez talked about his allegiance to Barney's but simultaneous desire to sell at Bergdorf's. I mean, couldn't you just die?
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ISLAMABAD – Pakistan agreed to free a handful of Taliban prisoners at the request of the Afghan government, in a move meant to help jumpstart a shaky peace process with the militant group in neighboring Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday.
The decision to release the prisoners -- described as mid- and low-level fighters -- is the most encouraging sign yet that Islamabad may be willing to play a constructive role in peace efforts that have made little headway since they began some four years ago, hobbled by distrust among the major players involved, including the United States.
The U.S. and its allies fighting in Afghanistan are pushing to strike a peace deal with the Taliban so they can pull out most of their troops by the end of 2014 without the country descending into further chaos. But considerable obstacles remain, and it is unclear whether the Taliban even intend to take part in the process, rather than just wait until foreign forces withdraw.
Pakistan is seen as key to the peace process. Islamabad has ties to the Taliban that date back to the 1990s, and many of the group's leaders are believed to be based on Pakistani territory, having fled there following the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
There were conflicting reports about whether Pakistan had already released the Taliban prisoners or just intended to. There was also some confusion about exactly how many prisoners were involved.
A Pakistani government official and an intelligence official said Islamabad released at least seven Taliban militants Wednesday in response to a personal request by Salahuddin Rabbani, the head of an Afghan government council for peace talks with the Taliban, who was wrapping up a three-day visit to Islamabad. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.
An Afghan official with knowledge of the talks said no prisoners had yet been released. He said the delegation gave Pakistan a list of 40 Taliban prisoners they wanted released. Pakistan provided a list of 10 prisoners they would release, but this list was rejected by the delegation, the official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. The two sides were still trying to reach a compromise, he said.
A joint statement put out by Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday said "a number of Taliban detainees are being released" to support the peace process at the request of the Afghan government. It also called on the Taliban and other armed opposition groups to participate in peace talks and sever links with al-Qaida.
The Pakistani government official said the men involved in the release were "low- and mid-level" fighters and did not include the Taliban's former deputy leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who was captured in Pakistan in 2010.
The Afghan government has repeatedly asked Pakistan to release Baradar because he is seen by some as crucial to the peace process. Baradar was reportedly conducting talks with the Afghan government that were kept secret from the Pakistanis, and his arrest in the sprawling southern port city of Karachi reportedly angered Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Pakistan helped the Taliban seize control of Afghanistan in the 1990s -- providing funding, weapons and intelligence -- and the Afghan government and the U.S. have accused Islamabad of continuing to support the group. Pakistan has denied the allegations, but many analysts believe the country continues to see the militant group as an important ally in Afghanistan to counter archenemy India.
However, Pakistan is also worried about instability in Afghanistan following the planned withdrawal of foreign forces. If civil war breaks out again as it did in the 1990s, hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees could stream across the border into Pakistan. Violence could also give greater cover to Pakistani militants who are at war with Islamabad.
These concerns have made a peace deal more urgent in the minds of Pakistanis.
Talat Masood, a retired Pakistani army general and defense analyst, said the prisoner release would improve the relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan, increasing the chances they could work together to strike a peace deal with the Taliban.
"It will improve the trust level and confidence," Masood said. "It will help Kabul find a genuine solution to the problem."
The prisoners could also play a positive role in the negotiations, said Masood.
"I am sure the released Taliban can play some part in making the peace process a success," he said.
Pakistan has also increased its cooperation with the U.S. in recent months. The two sides have set up working groups to identify Taliban leaders who could be open to reconciliation and ensure they are able to travel from Pakistan to the site of talks. But it's unclear whether the groups have made any progress.


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Expect personal access cards to go wireless this year.
Common Access Cards and Personal Identity Verification cards will be loaded onto smart phones and other mobile devices to allow personnel more flexibility in accessing both physical and digital infrastructure, and it will permit federal agencies to more easily issue and update security credentials.
This is the prediction of Dave Adams, senior director of product marketing at HID Global. Adams recently released a list of five federal mobility trends/predictions for this year.
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Commercial and federal industry sectors moving to a more secure, flexible and extensible smart card data structure will make it possible for CAC and PIV cards to be embedded into smart phones and other mobile devices equipped with NFC technology, Adams wrote.
For example, users may be able to open locked doors by simply waving their mobile devices in front of the door reader just as they would with their CAC or PIV cards. The embedded short-range NFC wireless system in the mobile devices allows them to exchange access control data with the door locks.
Permitting CAC and PIV cards to be carried on mobile devices will also allow organizations to issue credentials over the air within a secure boundary via cloud-based identity provisioning. This capability will be more expedient and convenient for users and issuers alike, Adams wrote.
NFC mobile access devices are smart enough to verify a user's identity and relevant access data. This means that future physical access control readers and locks can be built without any major intelligence or connectivity capabilities, Adams wrote. This is because the average smart phone has the on-board intelligence to carry out most of the tasks that would otherwise be carried out by a reader and server or panel.
Without the need for any resident computing power, all readers and locks need to do is interpret an encrypted command to open the door. This will make the resulting unconnected, encrypted door switches less costly to build, Adams wrote.
Additionally, as access control moves to mobile devices, it allows the deployment of inexpensive, yet very secure, access systems for interior doors, filing cabinets and storage units.
The emerging mobile access control model will provide an additional layer of security, on top of those dictated by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 and the Federal Information Processing Standard 201 by allowing credential issuers to continuously monitor and modify security parameters when needed, eliminate the risk of credential copying, issue temporary credentials as needed, and cancel credentials when mobile devices are lost or stolen, he wrote.
Besides offering a scalable and interoperable security system, HSPD-12 also establishes the government's vision for future converged logical and physical security. Converged identity systems reduce deployment and management costs while improving security by allowing single credentials to be used for logical access such as strong desktop authentication.
Converged systems also help federal agencies enforce more consistent policies and facilitate the use of consolidated audit logs throughout the enterprise. NFC-enabled smart phones are ideal for this convergence, Adams said.
Smart phones and tablets will leverage existing digital credential data structures to support many types of information such as access control, biometrics, vending, meal and transit fare payment, time-and-attendance, and secure print management. These capabilities will further enhance the value and utility of CAC and PIV credentials, he said.
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It seems the way of the locksmith is all but gone. you can start some cars with your phone. Lock, and unlock the doors. What will I do then? I hear being homeless in San Diego is a good gig. The ol time locksmith. David
How embarassing would it be to be locked out of your building or your workstation because your smartphone with all the embedded security features described in this article ran out of juice when you forgot to charge it up overnight. This stuff sounds great, but you better have a contingency plan such as the "simple" HSP-12 card with a picture on it. I assume you will still need the cards for photo ID unless you plan to wear your phone around your neck as you walk through the building.
This is all well and good, except for facilities that require more robust physical security. These are facilities where you leave your smartphone with its embedded recording and transmitting technologies in your car before you go in the front door (or in a locker by the front door if you are forgetful). The good old reliable HSPD-12 card will remain the access mechanism of choice for those select locations...
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Mixed feelings for Garcia Marquez in hometown
Mixed feelings for Garcia Marquez in hometown
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ARACATACA, Colombia (AP) — Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his homeland had a relationship as conflicted as any in the Nobel laureate's twisting and impassioned novels.
Colombia inspired and dismayed Garcia Marquez in equal measure, and the feeling was often mutual.
Nowhere is that ambiguity more evident than in this sweltering hamlet that was the inspiration for the fictitious Macondo in "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
Since the author died Thursday at the age of 87, residents and holidaymakers have been flocking to the zinc-roofed home where he was born and raised by his maternal grandparents until the age of 8, paying their final, tear-filled respects to a man who was a symbol of pride for a country long torn by violence.
President Juan Manuel Santos declared three days of national mourning for the "most loved and most admired compatriot of all times."
Still some in this impoverished Caribbean town regret, with not a little bit of rancor, that he didn't use his considerable wealth and fame to help residents overcome their perennial neglect.
An aqueduct officials have promised for decades to relieve frequent water outages has never been completed despite numerous ribbon-cutting ceremonies. And when authorities converted his childhood home into a museum in 2006, Garcia Marquez reviewed the blueprints but didn't donate a penny to its $350,000 restoration.
"He should've thought more about his people and not left us on our own," said Mariby Zapata, a 31-year-old dentist. "I guess he preferred fame and abandoned us."
A few steps away, Robinson Leyva countered that putting the town of 45,000 on the map was generous enough.
"Of course he helped us," said the 49-year-old teacher. "But officials here didn't know how to take advantage of his influence."
Some of Garcia Marquez's mixed feelings stemmed from the way he was treated for his leftist political views. He fled the country in 1981 after friends and government officials warned him that the army wanted to interrogate him about alleged ties to the now defunct M-19 guerrilla group.
When he was awarded the Nobel Prize a year later, conservative President Belisario Betancur attempted to quash the international backlash against the writer's treatment by offering him ambassadorships in Europe. But it was too late. Garcia Marquez would always maintain a critical distance from his homeland, proclaiming himself a "wandering and nostalgic Colombian."
Although he evoked his homeland's beauty in his novels and visited frequently, he never again resided there permanently, instead spending his time in Europe and Mexico City, where his cremated remains will be displayed at a memorial service Monday. Aracataca's mayor, Tufith Hatum, says he hopes the author's ashes are returned to his birthplace.
Colombia's ambassador to Mexico, Jose Gabriel Ortiz, suggested on Friday that Garcia Marquez's ashes could be divided between Mexico and Colombia, but there was no official confirmation that the family has agreed to that idea.
"There will be a portion (of the ashes) in Mexico, of course, and I would like to think that another portion could be taken later to Colombia," he told reporters. "We Colombians would like to do that tribute, to have part of his ashes resting over there."
Security was one reason why Garcia Marquez stayed away. As he chronicled in his 1996 work "News of a Kidnapping," an account of several high-profile abductions ordered by cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, Colombia had fallen into a seemingly bottomless pit of political and drug-fueled violence.
Known for directness, he never tired of wagging his finger at his compatriots.
"We're scandalized by our country's bad image abroad, but we don't dare admit to ourselves that the reality is worse," he said in a speech at the presidential palace in 1994. "We're capable of the noblest acts as well as the most abject, of sublime poems and insane assassinations, of jubilant funerals and deadly revelry. Not because we're good and others are bad but because we all partake in both extremes."
Gabo, as he's almost universally called in Colombia, tried to mediate a solution to the country's long-running rebel conflict but the effort didn't go anywhere. In death, he's had more luck, prompting expressions of praise and mourning both from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the Marxist insurgents' fiercest enemy, former President Alvaro Uribe.
Still his lifelong friendship with Cuban leader Fidel Castro continues to rankle many in what remains one of Latin America's most conservative countries. Shortly after his death was announced, recently elected congresswoman Maria Fernanda Cabal, an ally of Uribe, tweeted an old photo of the two under the heading: "Soon you'll be in hell together." It was later removed.
Whatever his ideology, Garcia Marquez always sought to strengthen the country's democracy and bring about peace, the 91-year-old Betancur said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.
With less fanfare, he also taught several generations of journalists by purchasing the newsmagazine Cambio with money from his Nobel and by creating a foundation to train reporters and raise the standards of journalism across Latin America.
"What Gabo did was describe things that nobody had seen before," said Andres Grillo, an editor at Bogota-based magazine Soho who took part in two workshops with the novelist. "If Colombia is known for something it's because of him."
Oscar Collazos, who wrote a biography of the novelist, said much of the criticism is a byproduct of envy.
"They say that because he lived a half-century in Mexico, Garcia Marquez isn't Colombian; that because he's friends with Fidel Castro he's a miserable communist," Collazos wrote in a column published in El Tiempo newspaper just before the author's death. "In Colombia, there's less unanimous support for Garcia Marquez as a person than a writer."
Goodman contributed to this report from Bogota. Associated Press Writers Vivian Sequera, Camilo Hernandez and Libardo Cardona contributed to this report from Bogota. Michael Weissenstein contributed from Mexico City.


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Mount Auburn Hospital spokesman Michael O'Connell says the officer had emergency surgery after suffering a single gunshot wound. The 33-year-old Donohue was brought to the hospital at about 1 a.m. Friday after a shootout with the suspects.
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority spokesman Joe Pesaturo says Donohue is a married father of a 6-month-old child. He has been with the MBTA's police department for three years.
Donohue graduated in the same police academy class as Sean Collier, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer who authorities say was killed by the two suspects.
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The move comes after New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, said human error resulted in some of its products being contaminated and shipped around the world.
Ministry spokesman Shen Danyang also said in a statement that separate investigations into drug company pricing and bribery allegations are not targeted specifically at foreign companies, which he called "an important part" of China's economy.
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ChezSuzanne is a cooking teacher and caterer living in the San Francisco Bay Area who has been a consistently inspiring presence on food52 since early last fall. Her submissions exude class and creativity, often fusing sweet and savory and always reflecting the seasons (see her Quiche aux Bruxelles and Autumn Grilled Salad with Figs and Apples). The recipes she writes are underpinned with thoughtful details and practical substitutions, making it clear that she's really thinking about how her recipes will work for other cooks and testing and re-testing to get them right.
The cheffy flourishes she adds to her dishes make us think dinner parties at her house must be splendid affairs -- especially once the dessert course is served. She makes all kinds of ice creams from scratch and even briefly considered opening a wholesale business to sell her fetching little tarts, so you can't go wrong with her Sweet Potato Rum Tart with Rum Whipped Cream or her Strawberry Tarts with Lemony Mascarpone Filling.
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Did you know that pre-sliced mushrooms cost the same as whole mushrooms? For the longest time, I never noticed that. Now, I'll gladly skip doing the work, if I can! The only challenge with pre-sliced mushrooms is that you need to use them pretty quickly-- or they'll start to go south.
I created this soup by foraging through the vegetable pantry, and realizing I'd better make use of these creminis (which are baby portobellos) before they expired. Dinner was ready in less than 45 minutes, and I had to write down how I created this soup right away. If I do say so, myself-- this was an excellent soup! Let's begin, shall we?
So I sliced three smallish shallots. 1/3 of the shallots I cooked in a little olive oil until crispy, and then set them on a paper towel. Easy enough?
I pureed the mushrooms to leave small chunks. If you want it super creamy, that's okay too.
Now, add some heavy cream. I didn't measure, but I'd guess I added 1/4 cup of heavy cream and 1/4 cup of half and half. Dinner' ready! Soup, salad & bread...
I promise that I'm out of mushrooms for now. I have more recipes to come, as soon as I slow down my busy life at the office!
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Alec's Shoes' founder built Nashua business the old-fashioned wayBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
February 17. 2014 8:16PM
NASHUA — While some city residents may not recognize the name Alexander Koutsos, it would be difficult to locate anyone in Nashua who hasn't stepped inside Koutsos' popular downtown shoe store at least once in their lifetime.
Koutsos, the patriarch of Alec's Shoes, died this past weekend at the age of 96 after an illness that began last month, according to Koutsos' son, John Koutsos.
"Honestly, he had a great life — a true immigrant American story," John Koutsos said of his father. "He had to learn the language, which he did, and then he started a business from the ground up."
The Nashua businessman, known simply as Alec, was able to build a successful family shoe store based on principles, values, honesty and customer service, according to his son.
"My father was really obsessed with customer service and delivering a valuable product. He never very much cared about money at all," said the younger Koutsos, one of Alec's three children. "He wanted to please everyone, and that was the basis of his business."Described as a compassionate and generous man, Alec launched a shoe club program during a time when many customers couldn't often afford a new pair of shoes.
"Those personal charges would sometimes run on forever, and people didn't pay. But you know, he was okay with that," said Koutsos, who lives in Nashua with his wife, Diane.
Alec was born in Greece, but immigrated to America when he was 17. He began working with his father and brother at their family shoe shop in Manchester, Charles K Shoes. After learning the ropes of the business, Alec ultimately branched off in 1938 to create his own shoe store in Nashua.
It was history in the making at that point, according to Koutsos, who credits his father's perseverance and work ethic in making Alec's Shoes a place where customers still return to time and again.
"I can remember walking over to the store after school and starting to sweep the floors and stock the shelves," said Koutsos, who eventually took over the downtown Nashua business from his father in the late 1980s.
It can be a taxing profession, admits Koutsos, explaining his father instilled in him the importance of a quality experience for each customer the first time and every visit thereafter.
In addition to Alec's passion for the retail industry, he was also talented with a camera. During his service in World War II, Alec was an aerial reconnaissance photographer who had a great love for traveling.
Koutsos has no doubt that his father's legacy will continue to live on through Alec's Shoes.
"I expect we will continue to thrive. I know the world is changing, but we are still thriving, and as long as customers still believe in the personal touch, I think we will do well," he said. "The principles that my father taught me are really tried and true, and should withstand the test of time."
Alec's Shoes will be closed Wednesday for the funeral. Visiting hours will be held from 3 to 8 p.m. today at the Anctil-Rochette and Son Funeral Home, 21 Kinsley St. The funeral service will take place at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Philip Greek Orthodox Church, 500 W. Hollis St.