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Dakar Academy Elementary School is a vibrant international community where learning and joy go together. Students from more than 20 countries join with North American trained and certified teachers to build a community where we learn in an atmosphere of caring, discovery and inquiry. Quality teaching and learning are key to growth in our children — academically, socially, emotionally, and spiritually.
The Fine Arts program at DA includes opportunities for students to participate in the visual arts, drama and music at all grade levels.
Student artwork is continually on display in the shelter area, and a judged art show is part of the yearly Fine Arts Festivals in May with appearances by the school choirs and performances of monologues and 1-act plays.
Dakar Academy provides a number of opportunities for students and staff to serve on and off campus with community leaders, local missionaries, Senegalese pastors and lay leaders.
Dakar Academy is a college preparatory, co-educational boarding and day school program primarily for missionary kids (MKs), providing kindergarten through grade 12. Boarding for children of missionaries begins in grade 6. Our boarding homes are accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International, and it is the only accredited boarding program in Africa. Dakar Academy has approximately 200 students in its academic program with approximately 40 students in boarding. We are located on a six-acre campus in Dakar, the capital city of Senegal, and are situated in a quiet, residential area.

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The thorny issue of raising the national debt ceiling to cover wildly escalating government expenditures is once again capturing the attention of the nation's citizens. The purpose of having a debt limit is to introduce a certain amount of discipline into the spending of taxpayers' money by Congress. But the need to raise the debt limit to almost unfathomable heights and so frequently exposes the continuing fiscal irresponsibility of the entire U.S. Congress.
The annual federal deficit (amount by which government's expenditures exceed its tax revenues or income) for fiscal year 2009 was the largest in history at over $1.4 trillion. The national debt, which is an accumulation of the annual federal deficits and other government debts, now stands at precisely $12,081,709,382,532.35. By the time you read this, it will have climbed even higher. The national debt now amounts to about 90 percent of the size of our nation's gross domestic product for one year!
The current national debt limit stands at $12.1 trillion and predictions are we'll smash into that on New Year's Eve -- Happy New Year! When the debt hits the statutory limit, the U.S. Treasury would be unable to borrow more money, and wouldn't be able to pay the interest on government bonds. If Congress had been exercising fiscal responsibility during the past year, there wouldn't be this emergency need for a debt limit increase.
Congressional leaders had been planning to raise the debt ceiling by another $1.8 to $2 trillion this month, which they hoped would be large enough to avoid another politically unpopular vote on a debt limit increase in the election year of 2010. However, some centrist Democrats have recently vowed to vote against such a large debt increase unless it would be tied to the creation of a new commission that would consider ways to solve the federal deficit problem.
Since Congress can't avoid raising the national debt before the end of the year, the latest plan is to vote on a smaller increase, $290 billion, which would get the federal government through another couple months. The House is voting on H.R. 4314 today to increase the national debt ceiling by $290 billion with the understanding that another vote will be required to raise the debt ceiling again in a couple months.
We need to take advantage of these votes on debt limit increases to pressure Congress to restore fiscal responsibility now. Click here to send an email message to your representative and senators telling them to vote no on any bill to increase the debt limit ceiling unless that bill, or a companion bill that would have to be passed at the same time, would restore fiscal responsibility by requiring Congress to have a balanced budget for fiscal year 2010 and each year after that.


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My hive died back in December. Homesteading FAIL!
I didn't post about it right away because I got busy, then I just kept putting it off because I wasn't excited about being a failed beekeeper. Of course, posting about it or not doesn't change that facts of what happened – and I started posting about my hive because there just isn't a lot of information about Perone hives available. I just really wanted it to work – and it didn't! =( And I didn't want my hive's failure to deter other people from using Perone hives. Please understand that I'm no expert, and I'm not trying to be one, but this type of (hands-off) hive really seems to make the most sense compared to the more popular Langstroth-style of hive. I don't think bees should be messed with and medicated like so many managed hives are. And, we can't forget that A LOT of managed hives die too. Well, it is what it is. My beekeeping experiment failed. One thing I guess I just glossed over in reading about Perone hives is that Oscar Perone says you should start with a "prime swarm" and not commercial bees. So that's what we're trying to do this time around. We are "first on the list" for a swarm from my beekeeping mentor this year and hopefully we'll be able to start this whole thing again. And, the new batch of bees will have the added advantage of all this comb already built, so they should be able to store a lot more honey than if we just plopped them in an empty hive.
So back to last December . . .
At first, I thought the dead bees on the bottom of the hive was just the hive's way of cutting down to essential personnel only (fewer mouths to feed) – to get through the winter in the cluster. But, then, when we didn't see any bees flying on the first warm day after a cold snap, I knew it was a dead-out. So sad. I felt like my pet had died!
Once we took the bottom board off of the hive, we had an opportunity to photograph the beautiful comb from the bottom. My bees worked so hard to build this stuff! We wrapped the entire hive in plastic – hoping to keep wax moths out until we can put a prime swarm in here – in the Spring.
This will give you an idea of the temperature here. In late December, most of the recently-fallen snow had melted, but this is the remains from a snow-man, so it was still on the chilly side.


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A Lap Around "Oslo"
Pretty sad actually. I'm sitting here with Alex Thissen and Dennis van der Stelt on my left. All three of us blogging the same stuff ;)
Douglas Purdy and Vijaye Raji are about to lap us around Oslo.
What is a model?
Basically it's a description of given domain.
- Drawings (models used to communicate with others; dataflow, use case, ..)
- Model-assisted (models used to understand or manipulate code; static structure, sequence, ..)
- Model-driven (models executed by the runtime, HTML, CSS, XAML, BPEL)
Model-driven platform
According to Don Box we're making the sort of progression in which we try to solve the impedance mismatch between humans and code COM+, .NET 1.0, webServices, .NET 3.0. Currently we're at the landmark at which we tend to deliver build software which increasingly uses declarative constructs.
It's not only the programming languages and tools focusing on DLS's. Applications often come with textual or graphical DLS to manage and maintain facets of the applications.
Why is this happening?
- Transparency (better understanding)
- Flexibility (faster changes)
- Productivity (more essence, less ceremony)
What is Oslo: The platform for model-driven applications
- "M" (the language for authoring models and DSL's)
- "Quadrant" (the tool for interacting with models and DSL's, aimed at developers)
- Repository (the database for storing and sharing models)
Language, tool and repository
Microsoft recognizes we're living in a model-driven world and is building this technology to bring their products forward. They did the same with OLE back in the days, and are determined to do the same with Oslo. According to Microsoft textual DLS's are the biggest thing to happen in programming looking forward.
Key Oslo concepts
M Example
module Microsoft.Samples
type MusicItem
Id: Integer64 = AutoNumber();
Album : Text;
Artist : Text;
Rating : Integer32 where value <= 3;
} where identity Id;
MusicLibrary :MusicItem*;
With M-schema to database you can, in two steps (m-compiler and the mx-tool) translate this code to T-SQL and add it to the repository. With a standard data tool such as excel you can view this data.
module Microsoft.Samples
album = " Four;
Artist = "Led Zeppelin";
Rating = 3;
This code-snippet is enough to write data to the repository and query it using excel. This is called concrete syntax.
With M-grammar you can translate arbitrary uni-code characters into structure data.
"Led Zeppelin" is awesome!
This is a simple way to write textual DSL's using M. The current tooling supports syntax highlighting. In the future the editor will support symantic analysis and intellisense.
We get to see a sneak peek of quadrant consisting of generic viewers you can see as a series of bundled controls. Stock views are provided out of the box which can be used to create your own editors. Quadrant also has a data flow engine which provides the multiple views of data and updates it accordingly. It also has a nice canvas that can pan, zoom, etc to process the information in a visual way. The same underlying system is used to customize the visualizer and language.
We've now seen a custom model, textual-DSL and visual DSL, next up is a custom runtime. This is done by transforming the same textual-DSL syntax as seen above into an XML-DSL. Creating a runtime is as simple as reading the XML file into an ASP.NET page with a datagrid component. Incredible!
This technology will be applied to WPF, the cloud, etc. Microsoft is modeling the Microsoft world.
Oslo value is one model driven architecture applied to Microsoft particular domains, we can use for our clients and their domains. In the CTP there are about 500 models to review and learn from. The tooling currently also supports debugging your own domain-specific languages.
Development domains
Web (ASP.NET with "MWeb"), services (WCF/WF ("Dublin") with "MServices" , entities (Entity Framework with "MEntity") and database (SQL with "MSchema").
What could a domain-specific language for a service look like? Look an shiver...
module Service25
service Service
operation Echo(str : text) : Text
.UriTemplate = "echo/{str}";
WriteLine { Text = "Message : " + str }
return str;
Years ago I dreamt on this blog to be able to write domain-driven design constructs directly into our language. public class Customer {} or public class CustomerRepository {} now becomes entity Customer and repository Customer {}. Guess this is the time to say "we can"!
Two announcements
- Public "Oslo" SDK CTP
- "M" language specification to be released under open specification promise (OPS)
This means that anyone can implement the M language. Microsoft is going to work hard to have third parties and open source communities to implement this particular language and have a rich ecosystem around it. Microsoft want's this to become as large as XML today is.
How to get ready for Oslo
- Use model-driven runtimes (WPF, WF, etc)
- use XML or a database to drive applications or services
- Embrace model-driven assisted development VSTA, DSL Toolkit, ..)


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TORONTO, Dec. 13, 2012There's new evidence about the benefits of marriage.
Women who are married suffer less partner abuse, substance abuse or post-partum depression around the time of pregnancy than women who are cohabitating or do not have a partner, a new study has found.
Unmarried women who lived with their partners for less than two years were more likely to experience at least one of the three problems. However, these problems became less frequent the longer the couple lived together.
The problems were most common among women who were separated or divorced, especially if the couple parted less than 12 months before their child was born.
Dr. Marcelo Urquia, an epidemiologist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St. Michael's Hospital, said that as more children are being born to unmarried parents, he wanted to delve deeper into the risks and benefits of not just single vs. cohabitating parents but the various kinds of relationships.
The results of his study were published today in the American Journal of Public Health.
"What is new in this study is that for the first time we looked at the duration of unmarried cohabitation and found the shorter the cohabitation, the more likely women were to suffer intimate-partner violence, substance abuse or post-partum depression around the time of conception, pregnancy and delivery," Dr. Urquia said. "We did not see that pattern among married women, who experienced less psychosocial problems regardless of the length of time they lived together with their spouses."
Dr. Urquia said knowing the differences between married and cohabitating partners was important as the number of children born outside marriages rises. Thirty per cent of children in Canada are born to unmarried couples, up from 9 per cent in 1971. In several European countries, births out of wedlock outnumber those to married couples.
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The Westborough Civic Club was organized in 1975 for the sole purpose of benefiting the Town of Westborough and its residents . The Club is comprised of civic-minded men and women from all walks of life who derive satisfaction through personal participation in fund raising activities in a dynamic, social, community-based organization. New members are always welcome, join us!
Our next big event is our annual Fishing Challenge which will be held on Saturday May 2, 2015 at Minuteman Park in Westborough from 9 AM to 2 PM.The primary fund raising activity is the sale of Christmas Trees each year between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Members do all the work (with a little help from our friends), including: ordering materials and stock, setting up the tree lot, handling thousands of trees and wreaths, tree sales and clean-up. It's a real team effort and a lot of hard work. Westborough and surrounding communities look forward to the tree lot set-up as the signal that the holiday season has begun and Santa will soon be here! Our meetings include dinner and conversation in an informal atmosphere. The first meeting of the month features a speaker, with the purpose of informing Club members on local current events, matters of general interest or presenting a request for funding. The second meeting of each month is devoted to Club business including discussions on funding requests.


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Intermolecular interaction energies by topologically partitioned electric properties. 1. Electrostatic and induction energies in one-center and multicenter multipole expansions.
In: Molecular Physics (Mol.Phys.), Jg. 88 (1996) ; Nr. 1, S. 69-92
Zeitschriftenaufsatz / Fach: Chemie
Certain difficulties with the usual one-center multipole expansion of long-range intermol. interaction energies can be circumvented by multicenter multipole expansions using several expansion sites in each mol., such as, e.g., the nuclear positions. Based on the topol. partitioning of the mol. vol. provided by Bader's 'atoms in mols.' theory, a method has been developed for calcg. the required at. multipole moments and polarizabilities. The performance of these topol. partitioned elec. properties is examd. for the calcn. of multipole expanded first-order electrostatic and second-order induction energies by comparing their convergence behavior with that of the corresponding one-center expansions. The homomol. dimers of the water, carbon monoxide, cyanogen, and urea mols. serve as examples. The results show that distributed elec. properties calcd. within the topol. partitioning scheme indeed solve the 'shape' convergence problem, which arises in the calcn. of interaction energies of large nonspherical mols. via multipole expansions.


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Reading Contraband…or How I Spent Banned Books Week
Did you see the trending topic this week on Twitter or some other social media website? Did you know it was Banned Books Week, a moment when we celebrate the books that someone has told us are dangerous or dirty? I did. I spent all week referencing the list of books that have been banned for this reason or that over the years.
If you're not familiar with Banned Books Week, you might be surprised by some of the titles on the list.
Classics like Catcher in the Rye and Slaughterhouse Five are there along with books that have the dubious distinction of being listed as the Most Challenged Books of 2010. This year's include both The Hunger Games and Twilight et al.
I didn't always get why books were banned.
Okay, to be honest, I still don't. I mean, the world is a scary place and a lot of the most scary things are represented right there on prime time television on a nightly basis so what's the point of banning a book because it features sex or violence or what someone considers "questionable morals"?
I question the morals of the person who questions the morals of someone else, personally.
Did I just question myself?
I think I officially just wrote myself into a corner.
There's a lot to read out there that other people will look at you funny for.
I personally like to see what I can get the best looks for reading. So far, the most commentary I have gotten was for reading Star Wars (not the serials but the novelization of eps 4-6). It's not even a banned book but the looks I got – and the same question over and over again – make it noteworthy.
Yes, I read the novelization of the movies. Suck it up and deal, World. I love the movies and it made me want to read the book.
I also got a lot of looks for Game of Thrones but I'm not ready to talk about that one yet. I think it permanently scarred my retinas and my soul.
Of the books on the ALA's list of Banned or Challenged Classics, I've read 13 of them. And I have never been judged for it. In fact, if my friends and family are going to judge me for anything, it's for the fact that I've only read 13 and not all 46.
I think that my goal for the next year will be to knock my total up to 20 and to read as many of the books on this year's list of Most Challenged as I can tolerate.
I like to thumb my nose at the people who say I shouldn't read something because of the sex or the violence or the alternative lifestyles.
And the people who tell me I shouldn't read something because it's racist or homophobic? I think they're a little blind. I read that stuff – and other people should too – because it reminds me that judgement and discrimination and horrible acts of violence have been committed against innocent people – and in the not-so-distant past. If we don't learn from history, I fear its repetition.
Ignoring it doesn't make it go away.
And frankly, your denial of this history or of these acts, just makes me think you are a little bit blind. Do you not watch the news?
I hope you celebrated Banned Books Week in some fantastic way. Maybe you bought a book that would make your mother squirm. Maybe you snapped a picture of the Banned Books Week shelf at your local bookstore or library like I did.
Or maybe you walked right by it and didn't even notice. Because the titles that it featured have been so canonized by their banned status that you read them all in high school…a girl can only hope, right?
Image: The Banned Books Week shelf at my local indie bookstore, Jabberwocky Bookshop.


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Bath time with Trouble Lights in new "Grey" video
Today Trouble Lights' new music video, "Grey," made its debut on the Iowa City website Little Village. It was directed by Philip Rabalais, who creates the music for Trouble Lights.
The duo will be performing Sunday at Vaudeville Mews. Not long after that singer Adrian Daller leaves for a tour with Leslie & The Ly's, so this will be the last Trouble Lights show for a few months.
It should probably be pointed out that depending on where you work this may not be safe for work. Daller is fully clothed, but I guess you could say there's an approximation of nudity.


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Pigeon issues at your home?
Any ideas, what is it?
Pigeon Poo & You!
Pigeon Poo and You!
I think its time to find a new parking spot. Bird poo can cause disease and can also ruin car paint and other structures. The other issue I have is tracking this stuff into the home and if you have children – do you really want them playing on the carpet.
Histoplasmosis is a fungal infection. It occurs throughout the world. In the United States, it is most common in the southeastern, mid-Atlantic, and central states.
Histoplasma fungus grows as a mold in the soil. You may get sick when you breathe in spores produced by the fungus. Soil that contains bird or bat droppings may have larger amounts of this fungus. The threat is greatest after an old building is torn down or in caves.
Having a weakened immune system increases your risk for getting or reactivating this disease. Very young or very old people, or those with AIDS, cancer, or an organ transplant have more severe symptoms.
People with chronic lung disease (such as emphysema and bronchiectasis) are at higher risk of a more severe infection.
Here is a publication on the cleanup procedure and please wear a mask and wear gloves.
Pigeons are messy and cause disease!
Pigeons are messy and cause disease!
Pigeons having once decided to set up a house at your home, will continue to stay there until they are made to move. Even after decided to make it difficult for them, they might continue to try to stay. I have seen them work around spikes (metal and plastic), I have seen them work into chicken wire by using their head to inch their way pass the obstacle. It is important to check the work after installing whatever method is used.
One problem can lead to another, sometimes more frightening..
One problem can lead to another, sometimes more frightening..
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By Marilynn McLachlan on 28th October 2013, in Celebrity, Hot Gossip
Popular rock legend and leader of Velvet Underground Lou Reed has died at aged 71.
How the massively influential rock artist died is unknown at this stage but he had a liver transplant earlier this year.
Rolling Stone call Velvet Underground the "the most influential American rock band of all time" but as a solo artist he was, he was "chameleonic, thorny and unpredictable, challenging his fans at every turn."
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There is only one solution to the dilemma that voters in Southfield will find themselves in when they go to the polls on Nov. 5.
And that is: Rewrite the city charter.
While that is said in jest, the truth is that there are only four seats open on the council this year, the max, according to how council member terms are staggered. But, there are seven people, four of them incumbents, who are running for a spot at the front of the room, the council chambers.
The truth is that council members, the ones who do their jobs well, are always at the forefront, whether it be researching the facts, making unpopular decisions or being out circulating in the community.
Of the seven, there are three easy choices for voters to make, and they are all incumbents: Don Fracassi, Kenson Siver and Myron Frasier. Those are the ones we will deal with in this piece; an adjacent editorial will cover the challengers.
Chief among the incumbents literally is a chief of sorts, as he takes the point, guiding meetings in his role as council president. That incumbent is Kenson Siver, to most, he is simply Ken.
Siver has done just a masterful job, particularly in the last year, when he deftly handled crowds and comments during sometimes raucus meetings over the St. Bede property. But he has done more.
His involvement in finding a resolution, and in working with the public closely in communicating the situation and the resolution helped keep the community together.
Likewise, he is patient with his fellow council members, some of whom can be trying at times.
An historian of all things Southfield, having written three books on the subject, Siver is not one to be focused on the past. His wide involvement in the community keeps him rooted in the present and his vision in the future.
There are two other incumbents that merit a return to office, namely, Don Fracassi and Myron Frasier.
Having a council without Fracassi is almost unimaginable. He is a warehouse of information, having served 30 years as mayor and 16 on the council. Clearly not yet tired, he may stand with one foot in the past, but he is facing forward. He knows why procedures, policies and plans were established in the city's history, and he uses that knowledge to help guide fellow council members.
He may wince at times when young Jeremy Moss, who was elected the first time a few years ago at the age of 25. As much as he is annoyed, Fracassi still listens, and that is half of the job.
Frasier is a moderating voice on the council, where he quietly and patiently helps another councilman who repeatedly gets lost in the discussions. He, too, is a good listener, coming up with clear reasons for his decisions.
A real people person, Frasier also cares deeply about neighborhoods, and how moving Southfield forward will help the people who live there with everything from holding the line on taxes to improving the roads.
In this piece, we have chosen to focus more on demeanor than on issues. Since Monday night's more than five-hour meeting at which a development was approved for the controversial St. Bede property at 12 Mile and Southfield roads, the talk of the town has not been about the decision but about how it was reached.
The word "contentious" is on everyone's lips, and they are referring to the council and to the treatment of some council members toward those who appear before it.
While there is no reason for council members to be in lock-step agreement, there is a way to disagree without being disagreeable, as the saying goes.
That contentiousness is one of the key reasons why we are chosing not to endorse the fourth incumbent running, Joan Seymour.
In meetings that involve the planning department, and there are a lot of them, Seymour appears barely able to contain her undeserved contempt for the city planner. Though she denies it, it is almost palpable.
Furthermore, she lacks the kind of vision that will help keep Southfield on track. Instead, she thinks the city should have delayed deciding on the St. Bede development, though she refuses to say what she would have favored going in that site.
To her credit, Seymour has an 18-year history on the council, and voters should thank her for that.
So, three of the four council seats should go to incumbents Kenson Siver, Don Fracassi and Myron Frasier.


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Twenty-seven firefighters from the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District left the area Oct. 22-23 and drove down to Orange, Los Angeles and San Diego counties to fight the raging firestorms. They joined 15,000 other firefighters, said Mike Brown, district battalion chief.
Eight firefighters, three managers and two fire engines from the district continue to be stationed in Southern California, Brown said Wednesday. The district will get its entire personnel back over the next few days. There were no injuries.
"It was tough down there," Brown said. "It was relatively chaotic . You go to a staging area and get assigned to a fire to work. You do the best you can and it could take several hours and more resources are needed."
"It's the worst fire that a fireman can go down to," he added. "It's as bad as it gets."
"There's fire all around you," he said. "All you can do is your best to protect the structure until the weather changes."
Gov. Schwarzenegger and President Bush declared the recent firestorms in Southern California as a state of emergency, according to reports. The fires forced more than 900,000 people to evacuate their homes.
Two fire engines and a strike team have returned, said Brown. There are around 130 firefighters in the district in total. Brown said most of the firefighters had to sleep on park grounds although some were able to sleep in motels and hotels.
"It's an intense scene. I'm sure they are tired," Brown said. "It's a long drive, especially with the engines. They are not very fast."
Brown said the fire personnel who went down south found it gratifying on many levels.
"You're helping out communities," he said. "We have the potential for these fires in our area. We had the Oakland Hills Fire. All of those people would be coming to help us. We are doing something for somebody."
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has anyone tried the dark orchid fragrance?
It really is worth it to get the secret rewards card- I gathered about 4 last year, 3 were worth $10 but one was actually worth $100!! It was a great surprise to get such a high amount. Even if they are only $10 though, you know that you are at least saving that much off of your next purchase, or getting something for free if the price is $10!
Do you know, if when you use the card, do you have to be buying more than the card is worth for it to work? In other words, if I buy a $12 item and my card is worth $100, then when they apply the card will they tell me it is worth $100 so I can go get more stuff, or do I ahve to have been buying more than the card was worth for the discount to register? In other words: is the discount on the card pre set? Or can it vary depending on what I buy. THX!
The VS fantasies are 5/ $30 and work with the beauty code
thanks sindy. i did the 5 for $30 too. don't know how some of the scents smell but would make nice gift basket fillers if i don't particularly care for the scent and i didn't spend a lot out of pocket.
I got five 1 oz Eau de Toilettes for $30 before tax. I don't know what they smell like but I like trying new scents.
After reading your comment I got 5 edt for $30 too. Thanks for the tip.
Thanks for the deal, I had a birthday coupon to use and didn't want to splurge too much. I bought a cute PJ set just for me only 19.00 dollars and no shipping. Can't wait to see what card awaits me
i had a ten dollar off that came in the catalog about a month ago so i was able to get a shirt i wanted and eyeliner for such a great price…plus the free shipping..made it even better!
Thanks for the the info. I ordered 5 Lace-waist hiphugger for $26. These are the only cotton pair that I can say that do not show a panty line through my clothing…Also, it beats being disappointed when the store is out of the size and color you want.
Thanks for the heads up! VS shipping is SO expensive that I try not to buy online without a code. And now that you can do returns in store, even better!
I got the Ribbed Cut-Out Sweater on clearance for $19.99 and a Beauty Rush Colorshine Gloss $7 (the cheapest beauty product I found) and the free fragrance sample (plus the rewards card) = $28.68 (tax included). Will give the sweater and gloss to my sister-in-law as a Christmas gift. :)
I have $10 off Q from the book i got last month. Can i Use it and still get free shipping if my order goes below $25 after Q and will i still get a rewards card? TIA!
Cool! (I sent the deal to Collin :) ) Anyway, I got a $25 bottle of cologne and…well, actually I did what Collin posted LOL! But I went thru Ebates for 2% because I like to stick with one rebate website. Less confusing for this ol' brain :) Hope everyone got some great deals :) :) :)
Just a tip for your secret reward cards when they are Elgible to use, you can buy a $25 gift card online and then combine that with another secret reward card if you have one. I did this last year because I had 7 and they can not be combined so I bought a couple of gift cards that came to $15 after I used the secret reward and then placed an order with the gift card and another secret reward. Some stores will let you buy the gift card with the secret reward , but most do not so I just do it online it's free shipping.
do you get a secret reward with a gift card now? Thanks for any answers.
ugh tried to place my order too late :(
darn wish I had seen this last night!
me too! that's what happens when i go to bed early… miss the good deals! i love vs!!
CAN YOU FIND OUT PRIOR WHAT YOU CARD IS WORTH? AND WHAT IF YOU SPEND A CERTAIN AMOUNT BUT YOUR CARD IS WORTH MORE? HOW DOES IT WORK? THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR THAT i RECEIVED ONE.
It gave me an error saying the Free25 code was not valid yet?!


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Edgar Steele died in a California prison on Sept. 4, the California prison system confirmed. Cause of death has not been released.
Edgar Steele was sentenced on Nov. 9, 2011, to 50 years in federal prison for a failed murder-for-hire plot that targeted his wife and mother-in-law with a car bomb.
Steele was convicted May 5 of plotting to kill his wife and mother-in-law. His wife, Cyndi Steele, vowed to appeal the verdict. She believed her husband was targeted because of his defense of unpopular clients, including the Aryan Nations.
The North Idaho lawyer was arrested June 11, 2010, and charged in the plot. That was the day the women were allegedly to be killed in a car crash meant to look like an accident.
Four days later, mechanics found a pipe bomb attached to an SUV driven by Steele's wife Cyndi Steele, just hours before he pleaded not guilty to the murder-for-hire charge in federal court.
On June 9, Larry Fairfax had told FBI Special Agent Mike Sotka he'd been hired by Steele, whom he said he'd known for 20 years, to kill Steele's wife and mother-in-law. He said he'd already been paid $10,000 in silver coins, received $400 for travel expenses to Oregon, where Steele's mother-in-law lives, and was to receive $25,000 for the murders, then $100,000 if an auto insurance claim paid off.
Fairfax was arrested June 15 after he told investigators he made the bomb at his home. Fairfax is accused of placing the bomb on the 2004 Mitsubishi Endeavor Limited on May 30, one day before Cyndi Steele was to drive to Oregon. He told police that although he planted the first bomb, he manipulated the fuse to malfunction, according to court documents.
Steele, 65, wanted his wife murdered because he "had been establishing a relationship with a young woman who lives outside of the United States," according to documents filed in February 2011 in U.S. District Court in Coeur d'Alene.
Edgar Steele's background includes a history of association with North Idaho white supremacists. Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler hired the Sandpoint attorney in 2000 to defend the group from a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of a woman and her son who were shot at outside Butler's Hayden Lake compound. Although Steele lost the court battle and the $6.3 million jury award bankrupted the group and shut down the compound, he quickly rose to prominence in the extremist movement.
Cyndi Steele, who operates a horse farm on the couple's property, filed for divorce in June 2000, alleging her husband "misrepresented his marital status and eligibility" in online dating profiles "with the sole intention of meeting women" in San Mateo, Calif., where he maintained a law office. But the case was dismissed two months later and the couple remained married.
When Steele took over the Aryan Nations' defense, he said it wasn't because he shared Butler's beliefs, but because he believed the case was about free speech. He sued The Spokesman-Review over an article he said implied otherwise. The Idaho Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit in 2003.
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Newly-single Mario is wasting no time in getting reacquainted with the ladies, while his ex, Lucy, isn't exactly doing badly with the fellas either...
Mario and Lucy's split back in April had been coming since, well, since they originally got together. Mr Falcone's eye for the ladies was always a problem, but now it seems it's plus point. The Italian stallion - much to Arg's jealous disgust - shared a cheeky snog with Beth, a Miss Universe runner-up.
Lucy, meanwhile, looked to have left a club with Danny Osborne.
Arg had no such luck! He tried in vain to pull Gemma for the millionth time, but finally she said no to his saucy demands. We bet Gem's boyfriend Rami blew a big sigh of relief!
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Instrumental Group of the Year
Comedian of the Year
Instrumentalist of the Year
Entertainer of the Year
Male Vocalist of the Year
Female Vocalist of the Year
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Song Title: "A Boy Named Sue"
Instrumental Group of the Year
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Comedian of the Year
Instrumentalist of the Year
Entertainer of the Year
Male Vocalist of the Year
Female Vocalist of the Year
Vocal Group of the Year
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- Same Train, Different Time - Merle Haggard
- Charley Pride Live and in Person - Charley Pride
- Stand by Your Man - Tammy Wynette
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- "When the Green Grass Grows Over Me" - Don Chapel
- "Yes Darling You Know I Wouldn't Lie" - Wayne Kemp
- "Daddy Sang Bass" - Carl Perkins
- "Stand by Your Man" - Billy Sherrill and Tammy Wynette
Single of the Year
- "Galveston" - Glen Campbell
- "Daddy Sang Bass" - Johnny Cash
- "All I Have to Offer You Is Me" - Charley Pride
- "The Games People Play" - Freddy Weller
3rd Annual CMA Awards Summary
The popular singer and TV star Tennessee Ernie Ford hosts the event as it is broadcast live for the first time. Johnny Cash sets a record by winning five awards -- entertainer, male vocalist, single, album and vocal group with wife June Carter Cash. This record has yet to be broken. Tammy Wynette continues her reign as the female vocalist just as Chet Atkins earns his third instrumentalist of the year award. The swing influenced band Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass take home the instrumental group of the year, and Archie Campbell wins comedian of the year. The singer and movie star Gene Autry is inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.


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"Engineering on the Edge: Engineering in the New Century," will bring together industry and academic leaders to address the recently published report: The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century. Keynote speaker Sharon Nunes, vice president of technology for IBM's Corporate Technology and Manufacturing Group, will open the conference, focusing on "21st Century Engineering: Who'll Be in Demand for Our On-Demand World?" An industry panel, with representatives from BAE Systems Control Platform Solutions, Dover Technologies, IBM, GE Global Research, Lockheed Martin Systems Integration and McFarland-Johnson, will follow her address
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Drawing on international best practice, learn how to develop your content marketing strategy as well as how to demonstrate and measure the effectiveness of content strategies to deliver ROI.
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Content is King. Organisations are increasingly engaging audiences through storytelling and conversation. Content fuels this approach. Learn how to develop your content marketing strategy and measure its effectiveness.
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- Marketing directors, Marketing managers, Brand managers and Marketing executives responsible for driving customer engagement
- Marketers looking to build emotional relationships with their audience
- Ideal for both B2B and B2C marketers
- Client or agency side.
Learning outcomes
- What content your customers want and need to connect with your brand
- Identify how and where you can align your content to the customer journey
- Pinpoint your brand story – the common theme for your content
- Ideas and techniques for creating and sourcing content
- Templates and tools for content strategy and implementation
- Measurement and evaluation of your content strategy
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- The marketing landscape, where content fits in and why content marketing is important.
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- Learn international best practice from a showcase of four compelling ROI-driven case studies from global brands.
Content Planning: ten steps to developing a content marketing strategy:
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3. The marketplace - product, positioning, perception
4. Channel Planning - which channels could you use? i.e website, social, video, blog
5. Technology choices - examining the options
6. Editorial direction - finding your brand story
7. Customer touchpoints - mapping content to the path to purchase
8. Content sources - auditing internal and external sources
9. Content production - create and curate - who does what
10. Content distribution - getting it out there
How to: measurement and evaluation: learning and improving:
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With over 18 years of experience in integrated advertising in London, Chicago and Melbourne, Jonny has worked on major brand strategies for Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Whiskas, Nike, Cadbury, Heinz, Schweppes and Nintendo. Jonny launched BD Network in Australia, and was awarded over 30 international and domestic awards for effectiveness and creativity. Jonny joined Edge in 2014 as Managing Director and has a passion for storytelling and how digital makes the world a better place.
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Richard is a strategist specialising in brand storytelling and content driven through-media campaigns. He is pioneering content marketing in Australia, drawing on international best-practice from his UK career where he worked for strategic content agency Seven, Story Worldwide, then was strategy director and co-owner of integrated marketing agency, Better Things. Richard is now Head of Digital at strategic content agency Edge, a committee member of ADMA's Email Expert Group and regularly speaks at marketing events and industry conferences.
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More than 56,000 industry visitors, conference speakers and delegates, exhibiting staff and media from around the world attended CommunicAsia 2011 between 21 – 24 June. Occupying three levels of the Marina Bay Sands Exhibition Centre in Singapore, CommunicAsia featured a myriad of key and emerging technologies from backhaul networks and systems integration to software and applications.
VNL's booth at #1H2-01 was one of the largest and most visible on Level One. Taking up 180 sqm, VNL's booth showcased an actual Village Site deployment configuration in the VNL booth. New to Asia was the introduction of broadband as part of the WorldGSM™ solution available now for rural areas running exclusively on solar power.
Visitors were also able to see a live commercial deployment in Bhutan illustrating VNL's optional seven-day backup configuration that stores even more energy for powering the system in foggy and cloudy conditions.
Also at the booth, visitors enjoyed learning more about our deployments in villages in Rajasthan, India.
VNL was very pleased to have ministers from many countries visit our booth to discuss their challenges with deploying projects in rural areas in their countries. N.K. Mohapatra, Head of Sales for the APAC Region, presented to members of the Telecom Ministry of Vietnam.
Also visiting our booth were members of the Telecom Ministry in Qatar.
Over the four days, more than 250 industry luminaries addressed pertinent issues and challenges affecting the ICT industry. These knowledge-sharing opportunities provided conference attendees with invaluable opportunities to network with industry experts and thought leaders from across Asia and the rest of the world. Rajiv Mehrotra, VNL's Founder, Chairman & CEO, was very busy presenting. On Day Two of the show, he presented the program, "Strategies for Handling the Drastic Increases in Data Transmission Demand". This program reviewed the growth of data demand and forecasts, and showcased many of the strategies currently being deployed to address the issue. He presented the pros and cons of different technologies, network architectures, and deployment strategies.
During Day Three, Mr. Mehrotra also presented, "The Real Winner – GSM + Wi-Fi" which discussed their ubiquitous nature and how the future will look based on these two technologies. Part of the presentation was centered on how Wi-Fi is built-in to nearly 100% of devices, and that for the majority of users, this will be more than adequate for future growth. He also showcased a solar powered internet kiosk in use in schools in Rajasthan, India, that connected children to the global village. He stated that, even now in the villages, he has seen dramatic use of both voice and data:"The villagers cannot read and write. They can only speak to communicate. Instead of walking ten kilometers, they can now make a simple phone call. This is quite a valuable thing to some rural areas where people must focus on basic daily living activities like gathering water and firewood, farming and herding."
When asked about data usage and whether anyone in rural areas would ever feel the need for data, Rajiv responded:"We were initially surprised at the volumes of data consumed. Children are downloading infotainment, finding information for their parents. It's making families closer. Parents become dependent on their children to access the world."
Following that, he participated in a panel discussion on "Real World Deployments", along with other equipment manufacturers and operators, discussing the perils and pitfalls of different deployment strategies, what worked, what didn't and how to plan better, more efficient and robust networks across Asia.
For more information, visit www.vnl.in or contact VNL's PR representative Bridget Fishleigh +44 7946 342 903, firstname.lastname@example.com
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The world's largest GSM conference and expo attracted even more exhibitors and visitors than last year. The show received a staggering increase in attendance and that resulted in even more numbers of attendees visiting our booth.
View of Booth from Hall 2 Entrance at Mobile World Congress 2011
VNL's booth at #2B47, along with Shyam Telecom and Shyam Networks across the aisle at #2B33, were the largest and most visible in Hall 2. Taking up 234 sqm in total, VNL's booth showcased an actual Village Site deployment configuration in the VNL booth.
VNL's booth at Mobile World Congress 2011.
Solar and other alternative energy-based solutions were available all over the floor, from solar, wind, and hybrid systems to a variety of fuel-cells. It is clear that the telecom industry has taken up the mantle to deploy more green telecom solutions in the coming years and many of the operators we spoke with are ready to deploy new green powered technologies in the near future. VNL was busy completing a number of MOUs and orders from the meeting rooms in our booth at the show. These orders are the culmination of the many trial deployments we've deployed on three continents over the past year.
Rajiv Mehrotra speaks with Shri. Sachin Pilot, Hon. Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology, Govt. of India at Mobile World Congress 2011
The bottom line? In our opinion, Africa is at the forefront, with more mobile operators at the testing or deployment stage using non-traditional power sources for their mobile networks. Latin America is showing signs of increased use of green telecom, especially for intra-city coverage along highways. Asia, for VNL, has more deployments on the ground now, radiating and starting to connect the next billion. We were glad to be able to present our products to a seasoned crowd of operators already working in the same direction – connecting rural networks in a sustainable and affordable manner that serves the underserved across the world.
Rajiv Mehrotra discusses how mobile operators can become broadband service providers with minimal investment with Dr. J. S. Sarma, Chairperson, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India at Mobile World Congress 2011
Signage at the show covered VNL's unique Cascading Star Architecture and new Infrastructure Sharing concept to visitors to the booth.
Rajiv Mehrotra discusses VNL's new multi-operator infrastructure sharing capabilities with Shri. Sachin Pilot, Hon. Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology, Govt. of India at Mobile World Congress 2011
Rajiv Mehrotra introduces Cascading Star Architecture with Broadband to visitors to the booth.
VNL's pioneering work has been widely praised: in December, VNL won the Telecom Asia Readers Choice Award. In 2010, Fast Company named VNL one of the "Fast 50: The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies". In December, 2009, VNL was named as a Technology Pioneer 2010 by The World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org). In November, 2009, VNL was selected as a 2009 Top Pick and named as a company to watch in the wireless infrastructure market by Light Reading, a specialist telecoms analyst and publishing house. In September, 2009, it was named the third most innovative company – and the most innovative telecoms company – in the world in the Wall Street Journal's annual Technology Innovation Awards. VNL also won the "Best Technology Foresight" category at the 2008 World Communications Awards and came second in the "Green Network Hardware and Infrastructure" category at the 2009 CTIA Wireless E-Tech Awards.
Rajiv Mehrotra, Founder, Chairman & CEO of VNL, speaks with visitors to the booth.
For more information, visit www.vnl.in or contact VNL's PR representative Bridget Fishleigh +44 7946 342 903, email@example.com
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