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McDowell's sweet 16th wins Shot of the Year
Graeme McDowell is the third Irish winner of the "European Tour Shot of the Year" award in the last six years.
The Ulsterman's crucial birdie putt on the 16th hole on the final day of the Ryder Cup was voted the best of the Shot of the Month choices, edging out Martin Kaymer fearless putt on the 18th green at Whistling Straits to force a play-off with Bubba Watson in the US PGA and a chip by Ian Poulter in the WGC-Accenture Match Play final in Tucson.
The full list of monthly winners in 2010 was: Martin Kaymer (January and August) Ian Poulter (February), Noh Seung-yul (March), Lee Westwood (April), Luke Donald (May), Graeme McDowell (June and October), Miguel Angel Jiménez (July), Edoardo Molinari (September), Robert Karlsson (November).
Recalling the pressure of having Europe's Ryder Cup fate in his hands, McDowell said: "That putt on the 16th was the best I've hit in my life. It was just 15 feet but it was above the hole and very fast.
"I knew I just had to get the ball going and thankfully it caught an edge and dropped in because I wouldn't have fancied the one back if it had missed!"
One up with three to play against Hunter Mahan, McDowell knew that he had to win the final singles match on the course to help European regain the Ryder Cup.
The birdie put McDowell two up with two to play and he closed out the match and secured Europe a 14.5 to 13.5 win at the next hole when Mahan fluffed his chip.
McDowell added: "In the context of The Ryder Cup, that 16th hole was massive as I was aware that everything was riding on the outcome of my singles match with Hunter.
"I knew that a half point was still not good enough to regain the cup. However everything went according to plan at the 16th and the rest is history.
"I will never forget the feeling standing over that putt and appreciating its importance. It was as important as any stroke I will ever play in my career and I am delighted it has been voted as The European Tour Shot of the Year."
US Open champion McDowell is the third Irishman to win the Shot of the Year title following Paul McGinley's wedge to the 17th in the Volvo Masters at Valderrama in 2005 and Padraig Harrington's five-wood to the 71st hole in the Open at Royal Birkdale in 2008.
McDowell described his 2010 season as "the stuff of dreams" as he won four times, including his first major, and earned a string of awards. The first European winner of the US Open for 40 years, he shared the European Tour's Player of the Year award with Kaymer.


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Donald P. Jehle, P.E.
Chairman (Retired)
Don serves as Chairman of the Board and as a valued advisor to the firm. Having retired from day-to-day business operations in late 2015, Don has taken his extensive experience and expertise to North Carolina where he serves as the primary point of contact and Project Manager for our operations based out of Cashiers, NC.
Auburn University
B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1973
M.S. in Environmental Engineering, 1974
Florida PE #33839
North Carolina PE #017960
FDEP Qualified Stormwater Management Inspector
Glenn P. Halstead, P.E.
850.994.9503 x102
Glenn is the author of Wastewater Facilities Master Plan for Pace Water System's regional wastewater system Utility System's "Guideline Standards and Specifications for Wastewater Facilities" which included design standards and technical specifications for development compliance within franchise limits. He also is author of the Master Plan which included facilities evaluation for collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of wastewater for entire 100 square mile franchise area.
He recommended eight million dollar Phase I Regional Wastewater System; Project Manager and lead Design Engineer for the 1.0 MGD advanced tertiary wastewater treatment plant; evaluated ten treatment alternatives with selection of the more favorable based on present worth analysis; and responsible for design and permitting which included complete hydraulic and process design of the 1.0 MGD Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP). The WWTP includes redundant Class I facilities in accordance with the most recent Florida Department of Environmental Protection Standards.
Auburn University
B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1985
Florida PE #43970
FDEP Qualified Stormwater Management Inspector
D. Patrick Jehle, Jr., P.E.
Vice President / Operations Manager
850.994.9503 x107
Patrick is responsible for general company operations and serves as a Project Manager for individual projects. His operations responsibilities include project coordination and scheduling, accounts payable and receivable and general company administration. As project manager he is responsible for project design, permitting, scheduling and budget control.
His technical experience includes detailed storm water master planning and modeling, linear roadway design, intersection design and signalization, and layout and design for industrial, commercial, and residential properties among other areas of expertise.
Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S. in Civil Engineering, 2005
Florida PE #71528
Alabama PE #32657
FDEP Qualified Stormwater Management Inspector
S. Gary Rutan, PLS
Surveying Manager
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Gary has been working in the surveying and mapping field since 1975 and is responsible for the management of jehle-halstead's surveying department. He began his career in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area while working on engineering, land surveying and Louisiana Department of Transportation projects such as the River Bend Nuclear Power Plant, retracements of French land grants, the local Mississippi River levee system, the West Bank Expressway in New Orleans and Interstate Highway 55 through Alexandria, Louisiana. Gary also attended junior college while in the area and completed senior level surveying courses at Louisiana State University. In 1984, he obtained his Louisiana Professional Land Surveyor license and the following year obtained the same license in both Alabama and Florida. Being a native Floridian, Gary relocated to the northwest Florida area in 1985 to continue his surveying career.
Gary has completed numerous projects including large and small scale topographic, boundary and construction control surveys combining conventional, GPS and photogrammetric surveying technologies, prepared geodetic surveys involving the Florida State Plane coordinate system, prepared surveys delineating Florida's Mean High Water Line, surveys of portions of the Coastal Construction Control and Setback Lines, and subdivision plats for recording in the public records. Gary's experience and knowledge has resulted in his being called as an expert witness in cases concerning land boundary disputes.
Tallahassee Community College
A.S. in Civil Engineering Technology, 1975
Florida PLS #4708
Alabama PLS #15155
1206 N. Palafox Street, Pensacola, Florida, 32501
Phone: (850) 994-9503
P.O. Box 624, Cashiers, North Carolina, 28717
Phone: (828) 743-6081
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Fourth of July 1997, That's me in the clown suit with Charlie the mini donkey and two Toggenburg kids.
Our new addition Charlie.
This is PJ and his crew having a summer snack. Pj is a Silver Penciled Cochin Bantam, also in the picture are Silver Seabright Bantams, Crele Old English Game Bantams and Mille Fleur Bantams
The old farm tractor with grandkids Dylan and Colin.
This is Sammy our new barn kitten, as you can see she is doing her job keeping the mice down.
Royal Palm Turkeys showing off.
The ducks just about fly out of their house in the morning to get to the pond.
Have you ever seen such a sweet face? When we got Buttercup she was just a little thing about 50 lbs!
Since it's almost lambing time I thought I would throw in this picture of Leah and her twins from another year.
And Leah's twins from last year!
This is a picture of Mac & Andy our Scottish Highland steers. They are just about 1 1/2 years in this picture. Mac is buff colored and Andy red. You can see their neck yoke in this picture hanging on the fence. Their horns are getting large and soon they will have to have a head yoke instead of the neck yoke.
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In October I reviewed a case from SkyHawkUSA which is called the Jupiter. It had a cool feature which was really unique, a LCD/light module which displayed time, temperature, and changed colors. This is their newest case called the Galaxy, which continues with the space theme. This case is very similar to the Jupiter but has a new and different feature which we will see later. This case like the Jupiter is made of 1mm anodized aluminum, and has the same chassis.
The box of the Skyhawk Galaxy came in the same that the Jupiter did which was good because it protects well. I opened up the box to see that it was packaged well and had a plastic bag around it as well to keep it from being scratched. Skyhawk did a good job packing the Jupiter and continued in the same fashion with the Galaxy.
After taking the case out of the box and removing it from the plastic bag I looked over it and was pretty impressed. The front of the case has a similar look to the Jupiter with the acrylic on the front. The front of the case is protected with a plastic adhesive sheet so that it won't get scratched. This case has two vertical tubes on the side of the case which have bubbles in them that light up.
I really like the finish on this case, the brushed aluminum really looks good, a lot better than steel in my opinion. The side of this case has a window which is cut in a cool design, rather than a normal rectangle or square. The window has a blue tint to it and has an 80mm transparent blue case fan mounted in the middle of it. I like the side of this case because it looks cool and the fan will help cool the system. The window is held on with rivets not molding because of the more complex design, the overall look is good though.
The back of the case is also pretty nice, it comes with 4 thumbscrews which are used to hold the side panels in place. The side panels of the case have a little handle on them so that they are easy to pull off, we will see that more on the next page. one of the problems with the Jupiter case is that the power supply mounted upside down. This is a problem for power supplies that have a fan on the bottom of them to pull air away from the CPU and out of the case. This case unfortunately did not fix that problem, hopefully with the next case it will be.
This case has a good sized power and reset button and comes with a red and green LED for the power and hard drive actively. There is also a place for a case badge at the bottom which is nice because a lot of new cases don't. I went ahead and put an OCmodshop case badge because no case should go without one. You can buy one of these case badges for your case from the OCmodshop store for only $3 each.
At the bottom of the case there is a flip down cover which has front ports. There are 2 USB 2.0, 1 microphone, 1 earphone, and 1 IEEE1394 (firewire). I always love cases which have these front ports for USB and other things because it make it so much easier and less time consuming to do what you need to do. Instead of having to get up and reach around your computer and search for the hole you can just flip the cover down and plug it in. There is also a button next to the firewire port that allowes you to set the color of the lights on the side of the case.


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Long-time Langley sports booster William (Bill) Bettles has passed away.
Bettles died on Dec. 26 at the age of 63 at Vancouver General Hospital with his family by his side.
Bettles, a father of three girls, was long involved in community sports.
During his three years as the Township of Langley's parks and recreation commissioner, he was instrumental in helping raise funds to develop a lighted park for the Aldergrove Men's Fastpitch League.
Bettles was also the president of the Aldergrove Ringette Association for five years and in 1988, he started the Lower Mainland Ringette League and served as its first president.
He was also a coach and administrator with the Langley Girls Fastpitch Association as well as instrumental in helping create the Langley Girls Ice Hockey Association in 1995.
In 2009, Bettles started and served as general manager of the Fraser Valley Avalanche, who played in the National Ringette League.
Bettles also endowed the Fraser Valley Ringette Association's Michelle Vandale Memorial annual scholarship award.
And in 2011, Bettles was the recipient of a Community Sport Builder Award from Pacific Sport Fraser Valley for his many accomplishments and contributions to amateur sport.
He is survived by his wife, three daughters and four grandchildren.


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Over the last year, Craig Crosby has bought more than 250 items on eBay. The 6-foot-3 ex-cop with bushy white hair and a white mustache — a cop's mustache — keeps each item in its own Ziploc bag, carefully labeled as if evidence from a crime scene, because in a way it is. At least that's how Crosby sees it.
"This is now the largest criminal enterprise in the world," Crosby says in a baritone drawl, sounding almost like John Wayne if he'd grown up in Reseda. "It actually is more profitable than illegal drug dealing."
All 250 items are counterfeits — counterfeit jeans, counterfeit watches, counterfeit respiratory masks, the kind you might wear if you had to remove asbestos.
"From what I understand, it's likely that it's actually more dangerous to wear the mask, because of the materials it's made out of, than to actually not wear the mask," Crosby says.
Beats by Dre headphones, Gillette Fusion razor blades, a Gerber Bear Grylls hunting knife, a Rubik's Cube, Head tennis racquets, Apple USB phone chargers, Duracell batteries, Giorgio Armani Acqua di Gio men's cologne, Marc Jacobs DOT perfume. To a layman, they're indistinguishable from the real thing. The packaging is the right colors, the lettering is in the right fonts. There are stickers where there should be stickers, holograms where there should be holograms.
But they're all knockoffs.
One of Crosby's favorites: a pair of Tron headphones from the electronics company Monster Cable Products. They look like the kind of headphones the characters in the 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy might wear: white and shiny with sharp edges and parts that light up aqua blue.
But the headphones on Crosby's desk are actually a step beyond counterfeit, since Monster never made Tron headphones. They're an entirely faked product, illegally and convincingly stamped with Monster's name.
Years ago, Monster thought about making Tron headphones, produced several prototypes and even displayed them at trade shows. But, Dave Tognotti, Monster's general counsel, says the factories "couldn't get the product made to our quality satisfaction." So Monster scratched the idea.
Yet a year or two later, after Tron: Legacy was released on DVD, the headphones started showing up online, as if the idea itself had miraculously engineered its own existence.
The headphones looked real, and the box — especially the box — looked real. They even came with an enticing origin story: that Monster had made the headphones, but when Tron: Legacy tanked at the box office, the company decided to shelve them in a warehouse.
"It's a myth," Tognotti says. "There's the example of the audacity of counterfeiters."
And there's a problem beyond their illegality: Their sound quality is poor, and some of the parts are fragile.
Today's global trade network is awash with knockoffs, and not just electronics and handbags but, frighteningly, such items as air bags and airplane parts. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has warned: "While these air bags look nearly identical to certified, original equipment parts — including bearing the insignia and branding of major automakers — NHTSA testing showed consistent malfunctioning ranging from nondeployment of the air bag to the expulsion of metal shrapnel during deployment."
The Senate Armed Services Committee found 1,800 counterfeit items had wormed their way into the "defense chain," and also cited an example of a private-plane manufacturer that is knowingly letting seven of its airplanes operate with what the committee believes are counterfeit "ice detection modules."
Perhaps most dangerous are the counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs. According to the World Health Organization, more than 50 percent of medicine has been found counterfeit that was bought "on the Internet from illegal sites that conceal their physical address."
And according to Interpol, each year more than 1 million people die from taking knockoff drugs.
Last year in China, a 23-year-old flight attendant was electrocuted to death by what turned out to be a counterfeit iPhone charger. Tognotti says he's seen knockoffs that "contain illegal levels of banned substances like chromium, lead and cadmium."
Estimates of the money changing hands ranges from $350 billion to $1 trillion. LAPD Detective Rick Ishitani guesses $500 billion — still enough to make counterfeit products bigger than the illegal drug trade, worth $321 billion, according to a 2003 United Nations report. The International Chamber of Commerce expects the counterfeit trade to reach $1.7 trillion by next year.
This black market is much harder to assess now, as it migrates online, especially to huge sites such as eBay, Amazon and one of nine sites owned by Alibaba. That Chinese behemoth, which went public in September, is hands-down the easiest way to buy counterfeit items in bulk, according to Crosby and others.
"Two years ago, most of our counterfeit items were coming [in] big shipping containers," Ishitani says, but the cops rarely have a chance to zero in on such physical mother lodes anymore.
"In the last year," Ishitani explains, "most of that stuff transitioned to air mail." Black marketers active on eBay, Amazon and Alibaba are "directly ordering stuff through a Chinese website, and they're delivered directly to their house." From there, the knockoffs are ordered online by people who think they're buying the real thing.
Private investigator Chris Buckner says, "People don't even need to meet their supplier anymore. It's shipped in direct from China, and here a week later. It's completely out of control."
Early in 2013, I bought a Louis Vuitton wallet. I liked the brown, monograph design, and maybe it was sort of an ironic thing. A new Louis Vuitton man's wallet goes for $490. I went straight to eBay and, after losing a few auctions, bought one for $216. It arrived a few weeks later, smelling of new leather.
When Craig Crosby heard this tale, he grinned and said, "Well, where did you buy it? If you didn't buy it from an authorized retailer, you probably got a fake."
But it looked real. So I took it to the Louis Vuitton store inside Bloomingdale's at the Glendale Galleria. There, the "leather expert," Josh, examined it suspiciously.
"They don't allow us to authenticate" items brought in, he said, but he pointed to a few troubling, subtle signs. The wallet is edged with a leather bumper; this one's was a lot thinner than those in the Louis Vuitton store. Some of the inside leather was already worn. Most glaringly, some stitches were fraying.
After only a couple years, a true Louis Vuitton should have held up better. Josh wouldn't say for sure, but it was clear he thought it was a fake — a good fake, maybe, but still fake.
Ebay contends that it has taken a number of steps to cut down on counterfeit products, including its program that allows manufacturers to file reports against entities that are selling counterfeit versions of their products.
"As a result of our efforts, we're currently seeing an all-time low in fraudulent activity on eBay — with fraud down 50 percent over the last seven years (2007-2014)," eBay spokesman Ryan Moore says in a statement.
That's a major reduction, but 50 percent of how big of a problem?
Kevin McPherson is director of brand protection for OtterBox, a company that makes waterproof, drop-proof iPhone cases. He says that this year alone, he's gotten 84,000 listings taken down from eBay, Amazon and Alibaba.
Despite that huge figure, he doesn't mind being in charge of enforcing counterfeit laws — it's the only realistic option.
"To put the onus on eBay or Amazon to try and enforce our brand would be extremely difficult," McPherson says. "They don't have the knowledge or fortitude to find those counterfeits and take them down."
Crosby, who can do a quick search of any number of products on eBay and find a fake within 10 seconds, dismisses this argument.
"My position is [that eBay is] not fulfilling an obligation, legally, morally or ethically, to protect their consumers efficiently," he says. "And the reason I can say that is I have the products."
Many manufacturers and private investigators say that eBay is doing the best it can. The firm claims to annually log more than 60 million disputes between buyers and sellers, only some of which are about counterfeits; millions of disputes are over false item descriptions, broken items, items that don't arrive, failure to accept a return and failure to pay.
"If you let eBay know there's a suspicious auction taking place, they'll take it down," Tognotti says. "The problem is that it becomes a cat-and-mouse game. The counterfeit sellers may have hundreds of accounts" — meaning they are selling things under different names. "It's very difficult — you're playing defense."
As for the fast-rising online marketplace Alibaba: "Their process for eliminating counterfeit is ... let's say cumbersome. They're not making an aggressive effort," Tognotti says.
Rob Holmes made his first undercover buy when he was 12, a counterfeit MTV T-shirt on the Seaside Heights boardwalk (which burned down last year) in New Jersey. His dad, a former state trooper, became a private detective in the early 1980s, busting counterfeiters at swap meets and on street corners. On Canal Street, in New York, they called him "Chief." He got his two sons to help make buys, and paid them in ice cream. Rob still has a clipping from the Philadelphia Inquirer about a raid of fake Guccis in 1983.
"I was on that raid," the PI says proudly. "And I still work for Gucci."
Rob's younger brother, Jason, couldn't wait to join the family business. But Rob was the rebel. He wanted something different. First he went to Bible college in Philadelphia. Then he moved to L.A. to be a stand-up comic, until he made a discovery: He just wasn't funny.
"My father always said he was born to catch bad guys," Rob says. "That's what I was born to do."
In 2001, Rob and Jason started their own firm — first they called it the Holmes Detective Agency, but they later renamed it IPCybercrime, after what had become Rob's specialty.
Since online knockoffs aren't exactly a priority for law enforcement, most companies hire their own private investigators, who then put together a case to either hand off to the cops or take to civil court.
When it comes to online detectives, Rob Holmes is the guy. Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Cartier — they all use him.
Earlier this year, Gucci asked Holmes (whom they keep on retainer) to build a case against Alibaba, whom industry experts say is the undisputed leader of counterfeit product sales. Not only can you find just about anything you want from Alibaba, you can buy thousands of units wholesale to sell on the street or online.
In the past, brands have successfully shut down manufacturers and gotten Internet service providers to take down domain names, such as DiscountGucci.com, that sell counterfeit goods.
What they haven't really been able to do is go after online marketplaces.
In 2004, Tiffany & Co. sued eBay, saying the auction site "simply turned a blind eye" to its many complaints about Tiffany counterfeiters.
A New York District Court in 2008 sided with eBay, saying the company didn't have the means to police its millions of listings. The Court of Appeals agreed, issuing a buyer-beware warning that Tiffany's "About Me" page on eBay clearly warns eBay buyers that "[m]ost of the purported 'TIFFANY & CO.' silver jewelry and packaging available on eBay is counterfeit."
Holmes calls the court ruling "earth-shattering for the third-party liability aspect of counterfeiting. They were not able to prove that eBay was complicit."
In 2011, Tre Milano, which makes electric hair straighteners that are popular with millennials, sued Amazon over knockoffs being sold on the website. Tre Milano had sent Amazon hundreds of takedown notices, some of which were ignored.
"The court basically said that Tre Milano didn't do enough of its homework, didn't do enough test buys," says Eric Goldman, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law. "Amazon won the case, even though it had ignored takedown notices, and even though the risk of injury was quite high."
That's what Holmes was up against — case law favoring the marketplaces.
Holmes and his team bought hundreds of products from merchants that had been declared "Gold Suppliers" and "Assessed Suppliers" by Alibaba — that is, merchants whom Alibaba had physically inspected and given its stamp of approval.
Yet these suppliers were selling Gucci bags, in bulk, for preposterously low prices. Thousand-dollar handbags were selling for $2 to $5 a unit, with a minimum order of 2,000 units. Some claimed to be real; others advertised "replica." All carried the famous Gucci logo of two interlocked G's.
When contacted by Holmes' team, the sellers readily admitted they were actually peddling knockoffs. "Are you looking for the Gucci replica watch, right," one wrote. "It happen that our factory have such models as attached picture." Another wrote on his listing: "These items are not so good. Instead, they are as good as the original ones, but not as dear as original ones in your country."
The legwork paid off. Two weeks after Gucci sued, in July, Alibaba agreed to cooperate, and Gucci withdrew its lawsuit.
But since this victory never got to court, it won't enter into case law. The common law tilts in favor of eBay, Amazon, Alibaba and others.
"I think we're moving away from the idea that online marketplaces are absolute guarantors that there won't be counterfeit goods," says Goldman, the law professor. "Trademark owners have acquiesced to the fact that marketplaces will help them but won't do everything they ask."
But if the manufacturers and marketplaces are slowly approaching a sort of détente in which consumers have little voice, there's one guy who's still fighting: ex-cop Craig Crosby.
"The investigators and manufacturers are trying to maintain a working relationship with eBay," he says. "Whereas I resigned myself in the beginning — eBay, Amazon and Alibaba are huge proliferators of counterfeits, and I'm not here to be their friend."
Crosby is reluctant to go into his personal history. He refuses to give his age (he's in his late 50s) and doesn't want people to know too much about his LAPD career.
"Life is a series of events that seem important at the time," he says. "Who cares about five years ago? Today is the day."
He's also worried that big counterfeiters might take revenge on him for shutting them down.
"I'm not afraid," he says. "I expect it. I don't know what the fallout is, because no one's ever done this before. I know the Chinese [counterfeiters] hate me, because they try to hack me every day."
One counterfeiter even sent him a rat trap. "This is the mentality you're dealing with," he says. "But what I'm more concerned with is [them] sending stuff that's hazardous. Or dangerous. So the less information someone knows about me, the better."
Crosby grew up in the San Fernando Valley and joined the LAPD when he was 21. He worked in about half a dozen divisions, including juvenile, major crimes — and counterfeiting. In the 1980s, he bought a DEC Rainbow, one of the early home personal computers, for $1,000. That set off an interest in writing software, a hobby born out of restlessness.
"I don't enjoy sitting around," he says. "I'm not a 700-pound computer geek that sits around eating Doritos. It's a mental challenge. I like creating something."
In 1988, Crosby, a field sergeant, designed a program to determine which police officers should be deployed where — back then, officers filled out paper forms, and supervisors compiled spreadsheets and made judgment calls.
After a three-month test run, station captains praised the program, predicting it would save thousands of man-hours and millions of dollars. They recommended it "be adopted on a permanent basis."
Crosby wanted to spend time perfecting his software and then sell it to other police departments. He planned to give it to LAPD for free. But LAPD continued to use it after the initial three-month test run and wouldn't sign a usage agreement, which Crosby needed, in part, for marketing purposes. He warned the department that it was in violation of its agreement, and that he had built into the software a kill switch — which he intended to use.
Still, LAPD top brass dragged their feet. A few weeks later, the screens went dark.
"I wanted to wash my hands of dealing with them," Crosby told the Los Angeles Times in September 1991.
He soon was transferred to a division a long commute from his home, a punishment known as "freeway therapy." Crosby, in turn, sued the police department. Two years later, the department settled in order to avoid a jury trial, paying Crosby $983,000. He remained an LAPD officer for another 11 years, retiring in 2004.
In 2008, Crosby launched Pro Bids, a site that matches workers and contractors with clients. Today, the site has 280,000 customers and essentially runs itself.
So Crosby was looking for another project when, in 2012, he ordered a batch of four cordless phone batteries from a private seller on Amazon.
When the batteries died after less than a week, he did some research and discovered batteries are among the most counterfeited products. The more he read about how the knockoff industry had migrated online, the more shocked he was.
Where were the regulators? Where was the publicity?
"You go to restaurants, drugstores, someone's kind of looking out for you," he says. "You go to eBay or Amazon, who's looking out for you?"
So Crosby began a one-man mission to spread the word about the dangers of buying discount goods online. He bought suspicious items from reputable online marketplaces and published his findings on his website, The Counterfeit Report.
One of the items he bought was a Cardsharp knife, essentially a plastic fold-out knife the size and shape of a thick credit card. It comes in black — not pink. Sometime last year, pink Cardsharp knives showed up on eBay. Crosby bought one, verified it was fake and attempted to leave negative "feedback" on eBay about the seller, warning potential buyers that the seller was peddling phonies.
But Crosby couldn't post the feedback on eBay.
The seller, it turned out, had been deemed a "power seller" by eBay, having sold more than 54,000 items, and was therefore granted special privileges.
Anyone wishing to post negative feedback on eBay about a power seller had to wait a week, in order to give the seller a chance to make things right with the customer.
In most cases, the seller asks for the product back before sending a refund. But Crosby had no intention of mailing back the counterfeit knife — it was, after all, evidence of a crime.
Around that same time, Crosby had an idea: Why not offer, for free, his own product on eBay — a hard-copy printout of his emailed newsletter, The Counterfeit Report, in which he notifies consumers about knockoff products and slams eBay?
His newsletter printouts could be listed on eBay under the same keywords the counterfeiters choose to categorize their own items for sale. That meant that if, for instance, someone searched for "pink cardsharp knife" on eBay, Crosby's newsletter, categorized using the same keywords, also would pop up on the hopeful buyer's computer screen to warn them.
His clever digital-age idea didn't go too well.
First, eBay noticed what Crosby, one of tens of millions of sellers on eBay, was doing. It notified him that he couldn't give anything away for free on its marketplace — it's not Craiglist, after all.
OK, he said, and he changed the price of his free newsletter to 99 cents.
Crosby figured no one would buy his newsletter, but some did buy it — probably some counterfeiters, who then left him negative feedback, which in turn alerts other eBay users not to trust your products for sale.
Then eBay notified Crosby that his listings were in the wrong category — they needed to be sold under the "advertising" category, while he was placing his newsletter in various product categories.
Back and forth they went. Finally, Crosby talked to Alynna Wesley, the spokeswoman for eBay's CEO Jim Donahoe. According to Crosby, she told him that they were taking his listings down and blocking him from putting them up again.
"What's your objection?" he recalls asking Wesley.
"Well, this isn't in the spirit of eBay," she replied.
"I don't understand. Is there a policy?"
"Yes, we have a policy, and this is not in the spirit of eBay's policy."
"Protecting consumers? Or getting transaction fees?" Crosby snapped, referring to the fees eBay charges sellers — the main source of its revenue.
That's not the point," she said, exasperated. "You can't do this."
"Well, reference me a policy I can look at so we can comply."
"Well, there is no ... It's just the spirit of the policy."
Crosby was enraged. A simple search of eBay's site could find products such as the Tron headphones and the pink Cardsharps, which were immediately identifiable as fakes. Yet eBay was, by all appearances, doing nothing to take them down, and was blocking Crosby's attempts to alert buyers.
More recently, Crosby bought counterfeit Bear Grylls hunting knives on eBay, including one from a merchant selling 500 of the knives. Not only did eBay ignore Crosby's efforts to get the listing yanked but the company actually acceded to the counterfeit merchant's request and blocked Crosby from bidding on any more of the knives.
"It defies logic!" he says, finally starting to lose his composure.
Last month, eBay told the news site Business Insider that it was a misunderstanding: eBay had mistaken Crosby for an "abusive buyer" — weirdos who return a lot of products just to make life difficult for sellers.
A spokesman for the site also said that eBay had "reached out to Mr. Crosby to discuss how we can work together in a more formal manner to keep eBay a place where people can shop with trust and confidence."
But it now appears that wasn't true. The company hadn't reached out to Crosby. It did so only after the Business Insider story ran, in an email that Crosby calls "less than minimal."
Perhaps eBay, which is No. 54 on Forbes' list of most valuable brands, and is valued at more than $71 billion, simply doesn't take Crosby seriously.
Maybe it sees him as a gadfly, a nuisance, annoying but ultimately harmless. As long as it mollifies the Monsters, the OtterBoxes, the Guccis of the world, these big firms will stick with eBay.
Even Rob Holmes, who thinks that eBay does about as good a job as it can, says eBay will never be able to fully clean itself up.
The problem isn't just the supply. Today's economy has trained us all to demand a deal — you're practically a sucker if you don't. Whether buying airline tickets from Orbitz, used books from Amazon (some of which sell for a penny, plus shipping), or a Burke Williams spa package from Groupon, we are now a nation — a globe — of bargain hunters.
"People get used to purchasing brand names at discount prices," says Judy Zaichkowsky, professor of marketing at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. "It doesn't faze them — in fact, they think you're stupid if you're paying full price for a brand name, because you can get it so much cheaper at Walmart."
A few months ago, I bought an Athletico Madrid soccer jersey on Ali Express (an easy-to-use Alibaba site designed for U.S. customers). Normally, they sell for $90. This one was $18.37. I assumed it would be fake. But when it came, it looked real. Even soccer shop employees thought it was real. To this day, I haven't been able to disprove its authenticity.
"Prior to 2009, counterfeits we found were really poor quality," says Monster's Dave Tognatti. "They really didn't fool anyone. Starting in 2009, we saw the level of sophistication of counterfeiters had risen to a new level."
There are a number of explanations for this rise in craftsmanship. As the potential profits from counterfeiting increase, so do the effort and expertise. And, to a certain extent, it's like an arms race: Manufacturers make harder-to-fake verification tools such as holograms, and eventually, the counterfeiters catch up.
But undoubtedly, part of the story lies in China, where more than 70 percent of all counterfeits originate, according to the International Chamber of Commerce.
"There is a concept known as the ghost shift," says Tim Phillips, a journalist and author of Knockoff: The Deadly Trade in Counterfeit Goods. "A company outsources its production, which nearly every company does, to China. It gives the factory [in China] the materials, the instructions and a lot of money. If, as the manufacturer, you can get [extra] materials and you have the machines in place, you can run your factory for three shifts instead of two. The third shift makes fake product."
That's why some of the newly available counterfeits look so good — some of them are made by the same factories, if not with the same materials.
The Chinese call it shanzhai. Literally, the word means "mountain stronghold" or "mountain hideaway," a sort of hidden fortress for bandits. But the modern definition refers to counterfeit, pirated or imitated brands — a sort of Robin Hood–style prank played on global capitalism by a nominally socialist country beginning to emerge from poverty.
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"Those famous international brands, those are the super-rich," says Yunxiang Yan, a professor of anthropology at UCLA, who points out that many of the factories in China are small, family-run affairs. "And here, you have ordinary people fighting against the super-giants."
The Chinese government has naturally promised the World Trade Organization it will crack down. Yet, Yan says, "At every single level of the local government, there are close ties to individual merchants."
Holmes explains that no marketplace on Earth will ever admit the underlying reality that "a portion of their business comes from crime."
"When you have shareholders, you don't want any portion of your business to go away. That's the moral problem with enforcing counterfeits. It's like drugs — we want the problem to go away, but we don't want the money to go away."


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Carl Cox announced as mentor for Burn Residency 2017
Burn Residency continues its partnership with Carl Cox to uncover the next wave of DJ talent before launching their career in Ibiza. For the fourth year running, the energy drink welcome back the King Of Ibiza, Carl Cox, as an ambassador for their esteemed Burn Residency programme which aims to unearth the finest emerging talent across the globe.
Having had the chance to meet some of this year's aspiring DJs at Kappa FuturFestival earlier this month, Carl's role as mentor will be to school and judge finalists throughout the competition alongside other Burn ambassadors including Luciano and Seth Troxler.
The house and techno legend will guide the remaining 16 finalists through the next stages of the competition, which will involve a variety of challenges during a week-long boot-camp which will take place in Ibiza at the end of August.
Competition will be fierce for the finalists aspiring to the promise of a €100,000 career investment and a place in the Burn family alongside renowned global talent.
Seeking out the best in world-leading, undiscovered DJ talent from across the globe, the BURN Residency 2017 competition has begun. Hailed as the ultimate initiative in electronica and geared towards breaking through next generation's beat makers, this competition is the definitive opportunity for bedroom-based producers. Offering up a summer-long residency, partnering with iconic Ibiza clubs as well as an additional prize of €100,000 to help carve out their career, those finalists lucky enough to have their mix shortlisted will attend a professional DJ bootcamp. Industry partners include Mixcloud, Be-At.TV, Ibiza Sonica Radio, Resident Advisor and Mixmag.
For the latest from Burn Residency, click through to the official website: www.burn.com.


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Where have all the 汉字 gone... (aka, Missing zh.Chinesepod.com)
I just have to bring up something that has been on my wish list since V3...I miss zh.chinesepod.com, not just because it was almost the only time we saw Jenny's name, 朱琦, in Chinese (which I feel learns of the language should get used to, hearing/reading/remembering Chinese names), but just because it got me thinking in Chinese more. Not saying to bring back a whole another website/sub-website, but anything in the works to allow www.chinesepod.com to have the option of website text being in Chinese?
While I rarely posted on zh.chinesepod.com, it did have a feeling of having the mind-set of one language... honestly, my Chinese is poor (and lazy) when I am in an English/Chinese environment. Even if I talk to Chinese person in both English and Chinese, everything (including my English) goes downhill. When seeing an all-Chinese site, I am more focused on reading the Chinese. Here, well, I must admit that not only do I not type as much as I would like (even though I pretty much write notes in Chinese on paper), and I often skip over what people have written in Chinese to read the English or Pinyin.
While English and Pinyin won't vanish from the posts (although I must admit, I am trying to force myself to write in Chinese in the Intermediate and above discussions, as Lantian admirably does, with translation!), I would like to see menus, buttons and even lesson titles/synopses being in Chinese an option. There are many great content managers out there that make multilingual websites easy, Typo3 is a free one and really powerful (http://typo3.org / http://www.webempoweredchurch.com)
所以,我就要就我们能有比较好中文的环境。你们觉得呢?我们也应该多用我们的中文名字吧!(It takes an ear to distinguish names, get to know the common names and characters, something that is very important in building relaitonships in China)
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Media 060914 UK-Mexico
June 9, 2014
Great Britain and Mexico held High Level Economic Talks
British Embassy Mexico City
The UK and Mexico held
the sixth round of the annual High Level Economic Talks (HLETs) on 2-3 June in Mexico City.
The talks were chaired by Juan Manuel
Valle, Executive Director AMEXCID (the Mexican Development Agency), and Head of Economic Relations in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. Other Mexican departments present included the Secretaria de Hacienda y Credito Publico (the Ministry of Finance),
Secretaria de Economia (the Ministry of Trade), ProMexico (the Mexican trade promotions agency), and the Secretaria de Energia
(the Ministry of Energy).
The UK was represented by Angus Lapsley, Head of the European and Global Issues Secretariat in Cabinet Office. Other
departments represented were the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, UK Trade
and Investment, and the Department for International Development.
The HLETs were preceded by the third meeting of the UK-Mexico Trade
Task Force. The Task Force was established with the objective to bring together Mexican and British experts to investigate
new ways in which to overcome obstacles for business and investment in both countries. Both sides agreed to establish a bilateral
working group to take forward work with Mexico post-energy reform, on identifying international standards and implementing
best practice. There was also agreement to support the science and technology sectors, including academic and business sectors.
The HLETS themselves
covered a broad range of issues, from global economic governance to financial services, multilateral trade negotiations, trade
promotion and development issues. Specific agreements included exchanging technical expertise on large infrastructure projects,
and in relation to this to agree on a bilateral strategy on the use of PPPs, particularly for infrastructure.
There was also agreement
to build on the joint work the UK had initiated in the G8 Summit in Lough Erne last year, around the HMG 3Ts agenda (Tax,
Trade and Transparency), relevant multilateral, particularly for the G20. Both sides also agreed to work together to ensure
a significant Trade and Investment component to the Year of Mexico in the UK, and Year of the UK in Mexico.
On green growth and
energy there was agreement to share experience on green growth strategies around green deal, green jobs, green bonds and green
banking principles. The two countries also agreed to work together to create favorable conditions for international dialogue
on the Post 2015 Development Agenda and Financing for Development.
Both sides agreed that this round of talks had once again proved
a fruitful and valuable mechanism to secure bilateral economic cooperation between the two countries. The next round of talks
will be held in the UK in summer 2015.
News release, "Sixth
meeting of UK-Mexico High Level Talks," British Embassy Mexico City, Jun. 4, 2014


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Winter smoothie with dried fruitjanuar 06, 2017
I'm pretty sure smoothies are modern potions. They combine the best of nature with the best of technology to make you healthy and strong! I just love them. In winter I like to use frozen fruit, but dried fruit is also a great option if you want some variety.
Goji berries are one of the first superfoods I fell in love with. They have a very unique taste and a ton of health benefits. And they have a surprising amount of protein for a fruit.
"These berries contain all 8 essential amino acids. A single 4-ounce serving provides nearly 10 percent of your daily value for protein", says Health line.
Goji berries are actually so powerful you may want to be careful with them if you have medical conditions related to blood sugar or blood pressure and if you're pregnant or nursing.
But apart from that, they are really a superfood that can aid in weight loss (so relevant right now, ahem!), they help fight flu and inflammation in the body. They are even considered a natural alternative to the blue pill!
Well, if that's not enough reason to put goji berries into your winter smoothie, I don't know what is! Come on, let's get blending!
Winter smoothie with goji berriesa handful prunes (pitted)
a handful goji berries
1 banana
small piece ginger
juice of half a lemon
a cup hemp seed milk
1 teaspoon honey/agave nectar
Place prunes and goji berries in a bowl, cover with water and let soak for 4-8 hours. Put all the ingredients, including the soaking water, in a blender and blend on high speed for about a minute. Pour your goji berry smoothie in a pretty glass and serve immediately. You'll be rewarded with a beautiful winter smoothie, full of antioxidants, iron, vitamin C, omega 3 and 6 fatty acids, potassium, and calcium that may keep you going strong all winter long! Yay!


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When we first arrived at Acadia on a cold night on October I was charmed by its warm atmosphere and the open kitchen which allows you to watch as your food is prepared and meticulously plated. The bar spotlighted a skilled bartender mixing up craft cocktails involving foreign-looking contraptions and even more foreign-sounding ingredients. We needed a lot of guidance from our waiter in order to decide which cocktail to order, but he was more than happy to oblige. Our friend Stella (Food Junkie Chronicles) ordered a drink that came in this adorable Tiki glass:
Between 3 of us we ordered more than half the menu so that we could get a good taste of everything. One of my favourite dishes was actually a side dish: The farro "succotash" with wild mushrooms and truffle oil. I would love to see them take this dish and expand on it to turn it into a main dish. Everything that we tried was creative, flavourful and exceptionally beautiful.
I feel that the best dishes in terms of both creativity and portion size were the fish and seafood, while the non-fish options that Richard ordered were less interesting and served in smaller portions. I felt relatively satisfied after the meal, but Richard left feeling hungry. I'm not the kind of person who lists "huge portion sizes" as an asset in a restaurant, and I don't expect a dinner like the one that we had at Acadia to cost $20/person because I know that they use quality ingredients and the food is very special. But when it costs $75/person (without wine) and you leave feeling hungry, it's hard to imagine going back again soon… regardless of how amazing the food is (and it is amazing).
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News Posted: 22nd December 2010
Shetland Livestock Marketing Group's 2010 season has seen sales rise by £320,000.
While cattle sales were slightly down on 2009, the throughput of sheep rose from 34,257 to 37,441, thanks to better market prices. Sales have gone very well this year with both local and visiting buyers keeping trade brisk at the Mart.
Participating in Wool Week, an international initiative promoting real wool of which Prince Charles is patron, Jamieson & Smith (Shetland Wool Brokers) ran a supreme Shetland fleece competition, which was sponsored by one of their customers, luxury bed manufacturer Vi-Spring. The competition was judged at the Flock Book sale in October and the overall champion was owned by Sean Graham.
The new EID scanners, which read the electronic tags on sheep for identification purposes, have worked very well. If anyone requires the ear-tag number of sheep that they have bought or sold through the Mart, please contact the ScotEID Information Centre in Huntly on 01466 794323 or see www.scoteid.com. This information should be recorded in your new holding register.
Another positive development this season was the introduction of a farmers' market on sale days, with a wide array of vegetables on display, which helped encourage more people to attend.
Also proving popular was the catering by Gloria Beaton, 'Food by Ms Beaton'. This added another new - and delicious - dimension to the day.
With sales finished for the year, Shetland Livestock Marketing Group would like to remind readers that winter storage is available for caravans, boats, cars, etc at £3.25 per square metre, per month.
Over the coming months, the penning system in the lairage will be upgraded to speed up throughput next season.


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Our doctors are trained in both the cardiovascular system and specific types of imaging, such as CT and MRI. They hold leadership positions In professional societies that set guidelines for exam procedures and play leadership roles in research projects that advance the state-of-the-art in cardiac imaging.
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The Heart Imaging Program at Massachusetts General Hospital offers diagnostic exams for the following conditions.
An abdominal aortic aneurysm, also called AAA or triple A, is a bulging, weakened area in the wall of the aorta (the largest artery in the body) resulting in an abnormal widening or ballooning greater than 50 percent of the normal diameter (width).
Angina pectoris (or simply angina) is recurring chest pain or discomfort that happens when some part of the heart does not receive enough blood and oxygen.
Arrhythmias are heart rhythm disorders that may originate in the atria (the receiving chambers of the heart) or the ventricles (the pumping chambers of the heart).
Atherosclerosis is a thickening or hardening of the arteries caused by a build-up of plaque in the inner lining of an artery.
Atrial fibrillation is a type of arrhythmia where the electrical signals in the atria (the two small chambers of the heart) are fired in a very fast and uncontrolled manner.
Cardiomyopathy is any disease of the heart muscle in which the heart loses its ability to pump blood effectively.
Carotid artery disease, also called carotid artery stenosis, occurs when the carotid arteries, the main blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood to the brain, become narrowed.
Congenital heart defects occur when the heart or related blood vessels do not develop properly before or at birth.
Coronary heart disease occurs when cholesterol builds up within the walls of the heart's arteries (coronary arteries), forming what is called plaque.
Gout is characterized by inflamed, painful joints due to the formation of crystal deposits at the joints.
A heart attack occurs when one or more regions of the heart muscle experience a severe or prolonged lack of oxygen caused by blocked blood flow to the heart muscle.
Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure, is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough oxygenated blood to meet the needs of the body's other organs.
Heart murmurs are additional sounds made by blood flowing through the heart as it beats. Many murmurs are harmless (innocent), but some abnormal murmurs might signal a heart problem.
The heart's valves can have one of two malfunctions - regurgitation (when the valve does not completely close) or stenosis (a narrowing of the valve).
Blood pressure, measured with a blood pressure cuff and stethoscope by a nurse or other health care provider, is the force of the blood pushing against the artery walls.
Metabolic syndrome is a condition that includes the presence of a cluster of risk factors specific for cardiovascular disease. Metabolic syndrome significantly raises the risk of developing diabetes, heart disease, and/or stroke.
Obesity increases the risk for many diseases, especially heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes.
Pericarditis is inflammation of the pericardium, the thin sac (membrane) that surrounds the heart.
A pulmonary embolism (PE) is a blood clot that develops in a blood vessel elsewhere in the body (most commonly from the leg), travels to an artery in the lung, and forms an occlusion (blockage) of the artery.
Rheumatic heart disease is a condition in which permanent damage to heart valves is caused by rheumatic fever.
A thoracic aortic aneurysm, also called TAA, is a bulging, weakened area in the wall of the thoracic aorta (the largest artery in the body), resulting in an abnormal widening or ballooning.
The Heart Imaging Program at Massachusetts General Hospital offers diagnostic exams to assess heart disease and related conditions. All images are interpreted by a specialist with advanced training in cardiovascular imaging.
A cardiac CT is a type of CT scan designed to detect the buildup of plaque in the coronary arteries as well as the structure and function of the heart.
A cardiac MRI is a type of MR exam designed to look at the structure and function of the heart.
A vascular CT (also called CT angiography) is a type of CT scan that focuses on the blood vessels, using a contrast material to make them show up clearly in the images.
A vascular MRI (also called MR angiography) is a type of MR exam that focuses on the blood vessels and may not require contrast in some cases.
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Cardiac CT gives emergency physicians the ability to predict major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in patients presenting with chest pain, according to a study published in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Radiation-reduction case study: Cardiovascular imaging team reduces radiation dose for cardiac CT angiography by employing new scanner technology and carefully tailoring each exam to the patient.
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As CT (computed tomography) technology has transformed the practice of medicine, Mass General Imaging has dedicated itself to making sure each exam exposes the patient to the lowest achievable amount of radiation. Department of Radiology Chairman Emeritus James H. Thrall, MD, discusses our decade-long commitment—and our success—regarding this issue.
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Each radiologist at Mass General Imaging is a specialist in a particular area of the body. Department of Radiology Chairman Emeritus James H. Thrall, MD, explains how patients benefit from the additional specialty training our physicians have completed.
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The BBC News reports that "Grammy nominees Coldplay have been sued by rock guitarist Joe Satriani, who claims the band's song Viva La Vida uses one of his riffs."
Apparently the song uses substantial original portions of Satriani's 2004 instrumental "If I Could Fly".
Whilst I'm not the biggest fan of Satriani's music, I can only applaud his decision to take the arrogant Chris Martin and Co down a peg or two.
It's not the first time Coldplay have plundered someone else's songs and presented them as their own. As a big Kraftwerk fan I still shudder everytime Coldplay's "Talk" comes on the radio, which uses the entire melody line and main riff from Kraftwerk's "Computer Love". At least in that instance Chris Martin asked persmission and having heard a thing or two about Kraftwerk's Ralf Hutter, you can bet they get royalties. (It still irritates me though.)
It makes me wonder why Coldplay's Chris Martin asked permission from one artist but not from another. Did he think the Satriani piece was so obscure that no one would recognise it? And can't Chris Martin write his own music at all?


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Taiwanese-Style Shaved IceWednesday, June 27th, 2012
I wasn't a big fan of shaved ice until I tried the Taiwanese version. Far different from American or Italian styles made with simple syrup, Taiwanese shaved ice consists of flavored shaved ice topped with chopped fruit, ice cream, lots of sweetened condensed milk, and any other goodies you can think of for toppings. The key ingredient is the sweetened condensed milk, which takes Taiwanese-style shaved ice to a whole new level in my opinion. It's almost in a class of its own, rivaling ice cream or fro-yo for its mouthfeel. If you want to make a frozen dessert this summer and don't have time to make ice cream, try my far-from-authentic (but really quick!) recipe for Taiwanese Shaved Ice at Small Kitchen College. No need for a special shaved ice machine – just whip out your blender!
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'Show your spots, let's raise lots'
Pudsey is the official mascot for BBC Children in Need, he's been going since 1985!
Over the years he has rocked quite a few different looks, for this nail design I chose to stick with the original Pudsey Bear...
There are so many ways to donate this year, here's just a few;
Visit the BBC Website for more ways to donate and information on the charity.
Have you created any Children in Need nail art?
Post your a link to it in the comments below, I'd love to check it out.


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Join us for the Oakville Mutt Strutt & Fall Fair.
This is a great way to walk and raise money for the 5,000+ animals OMHS cares for every year. Shop at the Vendor Marketplace, visit the face painting booth and dog agility demonstrations and make this a fun morning out for everyone!
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Getting kids into the habit of brushing and flossing isn't easy, but it's perhaps one of the most important habits you instill in your child as a parent — up there with always using a seat belt and always wearing sunblock.
As a father of three girls myself (all grown up now, and all still cavity-free!) I've definitely experienced the battle before bedtime to get teeth brushed and flossed and everyone into bed at a reasonable time.
There are some tricks that will definitely make it easier to instill this habit in your children, but there's one phrase that always seems to really stick with kids.
It makes them laugh and, most importantly, helps them internalize the importance of brushing and flossing so that it becomes a lifelong habit.
The tooth bug is pooping in your mouth.
Yup, nothing like a little potty humor to get kids excited about brushing, flossing, and tongue scraping!
It's true: after a meal, especially a sugary one, the bacteria in your mouth have a feast, which allows them to multiply.
For children too young to understand what bacteria are, I like to invoke "The Tooth Bug" — a bad guy that leaves a mess but who your child can overcome with good brushing and flossing.
Just like humans, after bacteria have a meal, they have to "go to the bathroom" afterwards — and this "poop" is the acidic stuff that causes bad breath and tooth decay.
Have you ever noticed how saltine crackers or Goldfish become sticky in your mouth as you're chewing them? The tooth bug loves that stickiness between your teeth so he can feast for even longer!
This fact really impresses my pediatric patients and I encourage you to explain it this way to your children as well.
Also, tell your child:
Run your tongue over your teeth.
Ask your child what he feels when he does this.
Does it feel sticky? Rough?
Getting children used to being in tune with how their mouth feels can help with the habit.
People didn't always know to brush their teeth at least twice a day. The reason you and I brush our teeth twice a day is actually thanks to a 1950s TV ad that told people, "Just run your tongue across your teeth. You'll feel a film. Why would you keep a dingy film on your teeth? Our toothpaste removes the film!"
This advertisement was able to successfully change America's brushing habits forever because running your tongue over your teeth and feeling the film invokes a craving along with a clearly defined reward.
Feeling the film on your teeth and knowing that brushing will remove the film is a craving with a clearly defined reward — which, according to habits author Charles Duhigg is critical for forming habits.
By asking your child to run their tongue over her teeth, you create simple and obvious cue — removing the bacteria's "poop" or making your teeth feel smooth and clean — which will activate the part of their brain that makes it a habit.
Remember these two things that will really motivate your child when you're not there and they're on their own:
1. Make sure they can differentiate between a fuzzy and a slippery tooth surface.
2. Make sure they know that the fuzzy tooth surface lets tooth bugs poop in their mouths.
Ideally, your child can identify this fuzzy film themselves. Don't just tell them about it — make sure they can feel when their teeth are fuzzy or slippery themselves. This is the thing that will make the difference and cement the habit.
If your child can differentiate between slippery teeth and fuzzy teeth, they'll be able to check in at school or at a sleepover and know to brush their teeth.
Being told to do something doesn't work, but feeling it does.
Mark Burhenne DDSRead Next: The Best Electric Toothbrush for Kids


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My apologies for misunderstanding your point.Chrissie Boy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2018 8:52 amMy query is to do with a point of law, rather than to do with Messrs. Burr & Webb. But self-evidently my query relates to a type of offence somewhat different from theirs, which is why I've chosen my words so carefully.
I wrongly interpreted it as specific to the cases in hand, given that the adequacy or otherwise of the sentences imposed had been discussed higher up the thread, rather than a general observation and query.


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jontuttle necessitava di un nuovo design di design per stampa o packaging e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 25 design presentati da 6 designer.
I need a front, back and spine for a 2" binder. I also need the same basic design used for the creation of cds, and dvd disc only. I don't need to have a cover for the CD/DVD as they will be put in a binder.
Desired Color Scheme:
see notated links for color scheme
Desired Style:
see http://www.caroltuttle.com for design style ideas,
Accepted File Formats:
print ready (hi-res) PDF or Acrobat InDesign or similar
cover title
Carol Tuttle Energy Healing Conference 2007
Carol Tuttle
Donna Eden
David Feinstein, Ph.D.
Dr. Leonard Horowitz
Stephanie Eldringhoff
Carol Look
Tom Tessereau
Lorene Cron
Valarie Miller
Dr. Ada Gonzalez Stergion
Susan Busen
Use the Color pallet provided at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddgr4cwp_3d86rcp
Use image of Carol somewhere on front page. Not too big but showing her image as the creator of the conference. Image at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddgr4cwp_3d86rcp
Back Cover - see file at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddgr4cwp_0dm3qjn


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1. It appears that the Executive Branch is spying on the Legislative Branch because the latter is investigating the former for alleged acts of torture.
2. James Clapper, the Head of Intelligence, lied before Congress...which is a felony in this country. There are no consequences suffered by Mr. Clapper.
3. President Obama marks terrorist suspects in various countries for death by assassination. "Collateral damage" (the death and maiming of innocent civilians) continues---about 1400 in Pakistan so far--- despite White House claims of "precision" and "minimal loss of innocent civilians".
4. Various sections of the Constitution (e.g., the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, Article II Section 2, in fact---all of Article II, which is the portion dealing with the Executive Branch, and others) now mean pretty much whatever the Gov't desires them to mean. [This is not unique to the Obama Gang...other White House Gangs have been just as guilty; so too have various Legislative and Judicial Gangs.]
5. Russia is being criticized and punished for violating International Law. You see, when they do it, it's a crime. When the US Gov't does it, it's "spreading democracy" or "a humanitarian mission"... or "in the interests of the security of the USA". The US Elites never commit crimes; everyone knows that. That's because US Elites are, you know, "exceptional", "special", and beyond question as to morality. Besides, they have the biggest guns. Apparently, might makes Right.
6. It would seem, according to the actions of the US Gov't, that the Pakistani People have no sovereignty. Their Gov't has asked the US Gov't to stop launching Hellfire missiles onto their territory. The US essentially has said: Frack You. It would seem that the Big Bully US Gov't gets to decide who has sovereignty and who doesn't. This whole scenario, of course, is not a crime...because US Elites are ordering it.
7. For decades, the US Gov't has done what it can to oppose the peace process in the Middle East. That continues today. I say that because the only acceptable proposals (in the Elites' eyes) are those made by the US and Israel. Even though the overwhelming majority of people in the world believe that Israel is in the Occupied Territories illegally, that doesn't count. Leaving is not an option. Israel should be able to continue evicting Palestinians and bulldozing their houses...because, you know, that's how we get peace.
[NOTE: Some people seem to have forgotten that just before Israel became a nation, when that land still was British Palestine, men like Menachem Begin were bombing hotels there...they were terrorists. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones at others.]
8. According to the Elites in our Gov't, inflation is low in this country. That's because when figuring the rate of inflation, they don't count the rises in the cost of food, energy, and housing. No wonder inflation is "low".
9. The NSA has plans to infect (using automated systems) millions of computers...and has impersonated the Facebook server...in order to gather more bulk data...on everyone. It has done so with no probable cause, and no proper warrants. Obama claims it's all legal, and there's "oversight". Yes, we've seen some of that oversight---Clapper lied to Congress. Here's how "oversight" works: a representative of the appropriate Executive Department appears before the Congressional Oversight Committee...and tells the truth when answering questions, or lies, or both. No one knows for sure...unless a whistleblower such as Snowden releases documents to the public.
10. Whistleblowers are being smeared and criminalized.
11. Independent journalists are being smeared, and in some cases, criminalized.
12. You now can become a "terrorist suspect" by reading the "wrong" thing on the internet. Even if you're later cleared of suspicion, you're already in the information system in probably a thousand places. That system is too unwieldy too manage properly. There's a definite chance that you're screwed. Ask Cat Stevens.
13. The Heads of mega corporations can buy their way out of Fed criminal prosecutions by paying a fine amounting to billions of dollars. A top executive in a mega bank involved in a case recently sent an email to a colleague stating, "Just throw some money at it, it'll go away." The Feds don't prosecute the top cronies in Big Business...the geese that lay the golden eggs...for campaign financing.
14. A Fed Gov't official recently stated, "I would gladly walk up to Edward Snowden and shoot him in the head." As far as I know, that official is still on the job.
15. Presumption of innocence apparently no longer exists in the minds of some in our Gov't. Suspects are being assassinated overseas in the name of We the People. At least two American citizen suspects have been so assassinated.
16. Though we're not constitutionally at war, the Elites have propagandized us into believing that we legally are in an actual war. They've convinced us that the War Powers Act somehow trumps the Constitution, which is impossible. No Legislative Act trumps the Supreme Law of the Land. They've also convinced us that the President can do pretty much as he pleases with the American military...because he's Commander-in-Chief. To the Elites, that means he's not constrained by the constitutionally permitted uses of the military. Hello...that's false.
17. Thanks to the misnamed PATRIOT Act, FBI Agents can write their own search warrants...a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment.
18. Thanks to the Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. the City of New London, governments now can seize private property under Eminent Domain and sell or give that property to private developers. Supposedly, the "public use" in that scenario are the taxes generated by the development. Essentially that means anyone's property can be seized at any time and sold to private entities. Incredible.
There is a better way, but first we have to stop drinking the Propaganda Kool Aid.
Be Well
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Signs That the Elites in Our Gov't Have Lost It (Edited 3-25-14)
Posted by Scott Haley at 2:59 AM
Labels: Constitution, Elites, eminent domain, Fed Government, Inflation, Israel, James Clapper, NSA, Obama, Oversight, Pakistan, Patriot Act, Private property, Propaganda, Russia, Snowden, War
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|Middle School - Life Science - Prentice Hall- Pearson
|Topics of learning Science for 7th and 8th graders . Grade 7 and Grade 8 - Middle School The sub-topics for this group is based on a book " Prentice Hall Science Explorer " by Pearson. http://www.phschool.com/webcodes10/index.cfm?wcprefix=chk&wcsuffix=1000&area=view
Infectious Diseases and the Immune System
Human Immune System for kids - Body Defense Mechanism ( Biology )
Visit http://www.makemegenius.com for more free science videos. The Immunological System parts: Recognition, Attack, and Memory.
Infectious Diseases and the Immune System
What are Germs ? - Major Types , Diseases, Infections ,Animation Video
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Infectious Diseases and the Immune System
Immune Response to Bacteria
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I was 15 the first time I went through treatment. I had no idea what was going on and wasn't ready to listen. I knew it all, and no one could tell me different. Drugs and alcohol were the only things that I thought made me happy. I was having fun. When I was 17, I came back to treatment beat up and ready to listen. I wasn't having fun anymore. I was young and not sure if I was going to be able to stop drinking and drugging.
I struggled, trying to decide if recovery is really what I wanted or if I wanted to continue to use. I was in treatment during the holidays and came up with an analogy that worked for me. I thought back to when I was a little girl and couldn't wait to open up my Christmas presents to see what kind of toys I was getting. But when I opened the gifts and all I received were sweaters and other winter clothes, I was upset. It wasn't until it got cold that I was grateful for the clothes that I got and happy that I didn't throw them away. That is how I looked at my recovery. I wasn't very happy to have it at the age of 17, but I thought that maybe there would be a time when I would be grateful to have it and would regret it if I threw it away.
Today, I am grateful that I stayed sober. It's not always easy, but it is much better then when getting high was the only thing that was on my mind.
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The ADF4351 allows implementation of fractional-N or integer-N phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizers when used with an external loop filter and external reference frequency if the on-board 10 MHZ is not used. The ADF4351 has an integrated voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) with a fundamental output frequency ranging from 2200 MHz to 4400 MHz. In addition, divide-by-1/-2/-4/-8/-16/-32/-64 circuits allow the user to generate RF output frequencies as low as 35 MHz. Control of all on-chip registers is through a simple 3-wire interface. The ADF4351 module draws under 60 mA - 100 at 3.3 VDC, depending on the output power set and if the frequency dividers are being used.
The PCB dimensions are only 25 x 38 mm and it requires an external frequency reference that can be applied to J5 SMA female connector if the on-board 10 MHZ TCXO is not used. In this case remove L7 which powers the TCXO with 3.3VDC.
A small Arduino or any other MCU can be used to control the ADF4351 module, and the "cheat sheet" provided at the end of this page is really a great help. Considering its small size and the simplicity this module provides, a user can quickly produce an RF signal, phase-locked to his reference and also to control the output power, this module can find many applications like a VFO, fixed frequency oscillator, ADC or DAC clock etc. Interesting features are the capability to adjust phase, to set low spur or low noise and of course the capability to select Integer-N for lowest phase noise. Adding a large capacitor on the supply rails reduces phase noise more.
I have found this "cheat sheet" that helps, see it here:
For code examples also see here
and here
Fill your basket with ferrites, RF cables, RF connectors, transistors, ICs etc. on our shop
The KIT includes a high-quality ENIG FR4 PCB (25 x 38 mm) that comes with all SMD components factory pre-soldered. RF capacitors are used for all the circuits.
Three SMA female connectors (long shaft) with nuts and washers are also supplied, unsoldered.
The shipping is with registered mail (your signature is required upon delivery).
I usually ship the next day and it takes about a week to 10 days for USA or Australia, less than a week for Europe.
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Juno Reclaimed Wood Media Console
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Hi Everyone!!!! It's Friday Funny time and holy cow! it's February 1st! I made this purse using Becky Roberts tutorial but just a little plea if you don't have an SU consultant please consider me :) I have a website that you can order from at your convenience and right now SU has a special on some digital discs $1.00 each! but you can only get these disc's from my Website and they have a LOT of clearance items...so back to the purse I think it's our California weather right now, it's totally perfect, crisp air but sunny! so I have birds and butterflies still on the brain and by now my class is used to using both A LOT :) ...luckily they still like coming every month haha....everything is SU..I really liked the idea of candy and a gift card inside but the skies the limit...of course I had to show pictures of the triplets...sleeping :) O how cute they are! the picture of Rocks reminds me a lot of when they shipped Superman to the states and stuck him in that ship..(teehee)...I haven't seen that movie in years so I could be imagining something completely different but hey it's my brain that thinks I'm right and I know what I'm talking about but when it's written down or talked out loud I start to wonder if maybe I'm NOT right (shock)! ...so just go with it ;0) ...well my family and I are off to go eat dinner in Monterey yumm!!! so I will see ya all tomorrow
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Since I was a young boy growing up in San Francisco, I always remember my mother buying her furniture at Ethan Allen. Let's face it as long as dad was not bothered it really was mom's furniture. We would take the MUNI to Ethan Allen and spend what seemed like a fortune on furniture. Those pieces are still in my mother's house in perfect condition. Why did my mother buy her furniture at Ethan Allen? She wasn't into brand names but she knew Ethan Allen looked great and would last.
Now that I am older and in the design industry I want to draw my attention back to Ethan Allen for pieces that I think are just amazing.
First up the "Shelton Sofa" with classic lines and an elegant feel this couch really sets the mood for any living room.
After that we have one of the most gorgeous coffee tables I have ever seen. This is the "Deacon Square Coffee Table" and it is a must have for anyone looking to achieve that Rough Luxe feel.
Last and my favorite piece is the "Beau Bed". This bed is elegant and perfect to make your bedroom pop with the right white sheets. I have this bed in my guest room and every time someone stays over they drool over this bed.
So those are my picks from Ethan Allen. I really would love feedback and if I missed anything please let me know.
Stay Inspired,
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Vacuum floor with brush attachment as needed.
Boatright Hardwood Floors uses Dura Seal products. Dura Seal Liquid Wax and Dura Seal Paste Wax. Follow the manufacturers recommendations for using these products.
A buffer (whether rented or purchased) is recommended for maintenance with a wax-finished floor.
Don't overwax. Re-buff and re-buff again before waxing. Spills should be wiped up promptly before they become sticky or hard. Wipe up food spills with a damp, well wrung out cloth. Dry off afterwards. If an area appears dull after a wipe up, apply a small amount of past wax to that area and machine or hand buff out.
Never pour water directly on the floor or allow water to lay directly on the surface of the floor. This can cause the wood to swell or buckle.
Oil and Wax finish require regular maintenance to maintain the beauty and durability.


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Here are the most recent articles from the Cats site at BellaOnline.com.
Maneki Neko, the Japanese Lucky Cat
A black cat is seen as a symbol of good luck in some countries, but in others bad luck. The 'Good Luck' cat from Japan, the Maneki Neko, crosses all borders, and as he beckons with his raised paw is believed to attract good luck and happy visitors to wherever he is. Guest author, Francine McKenna.
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What can pet owners do to have the benefits of an indoor cat, but give them the opportunity of the outdoors? Guest author, Tina Sansone.
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Voyage à Dakar
Together with my Dutch-Senegalese son Noah Saliou I made a road trip from Amsterdam to Dakar – via France, Spain, Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauritania – in a beautiful Mercedes classic.
In many cities along the way, we stayed with Senegalese family and friends. Some join us for parts of the journey, or put parcels in the car to be taken home. Others share their stories about longing, fatherland and being separated from their beloved ones.


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Epistomina sp. 2 morefound in sands of Kleby, Poland late Oxfordian Taxon Profile
View of a specimen of Epistomina sp.
Material provided by Johannes Kalbe
SEM picture taken together with Dr. Rosenfeldt
head of the Mikrobiologische Vereinigung
The classification is based upon: Eric S. Collins, Wolfgang Kuhnt, David B. Scott: 7. TITHONIAN BENTHIC FORAMINIFERS FROM HOLE 901A1 in Whitmarsh, R.B., Sawyer, D.S., Klaus, A., and Masson, D.G. (Eds.), 1996 Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, Vol. 149, Plate 3 Fig. 8-12
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I saw a really cute cherry design on youtube, made by Cutepolish, and here is my take on it!
The polishes I used are Nina Ultra Pro French White, Revlon Revlon Red and Barry M Spring Green.
I applied three coats of white, and then painted my cherry blobs and my red tips with the red. I added the stems with a small hobby brush, and added the highlights on the cherries. Finally a layer of top coat, and done :)
If you want to try this design yourself I would suggest watching Cutepolish's video, it's really well made!