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Use It, Stash It, or Trash It!
Time for a little gamin'!
The name of this game is Use It, Stash It, or Trash it and it's a variation of Sex, Marry, Kill. Never played it? It's easy!
Someone presents you with a list of three people in your life or celebs and you decide if you want to have sex with them, marry them, or kill them off.
My variation of the game involves cosmetics. I'll give you three options and you tell me if you'd keep the item and use it, stash it away in your beauty vault and never use it because it's just so damn gorgeous , or trash it in the makeup graveyard!
Game On!
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With so many amazing collections upcoming it's going to be a long, hard Summer of haulin'!
Which would Use, Stash, or Trash?
MAC Semi Precious Collection
Too Faced Fall 2011 Collection
YSL Face 2011 Collection
Phew! Hard one here!
I'm going to go ahead and……..Use the MAC Semi Precious Collection, Stash the Too Faced one, and Trash the YSL one.
How about you?
By the way we might as well play the original Sex, Marry, Kill version! The low calorie version of the Inbetweeners returns to BBC shortly (thank gawd I have the DVD set). I absolutely love those boys.
Do you watch it? It's the crudest show on the BBC lol!
If so who would you have sex with, marry, or kill from the series!
I'd have sex with Jay, I feel bad for him and his compulsive lying ways. At least if I had sex with him he'd actually have something true to brag about haha! I'd kill Si and Will…Simon is cute but he's a complete idiot sometimes and WIll is so amazingly anal I don't think I could cope with him in a relationship, briefcase wanker! I'd totally marry Neil because not only do I lust after Blake Harrison but how fun would it be living with Neil? He brings dumb to so many new levels!
Your turn!
Copy your answers into the comment box to play!
6/9/11 14:25 Taylor:
Use the Too Faced, stash the MAC, trash the YSL
6/9/11 14:34 kharanya:
If I hadn't started using natural cosmetics, I'd:
Use the YSL (yes I like bright colours 😛 the nude look makes me look like the walking dead)
Stash Too Faced (love the concept of coloured liners but I rarely find myself using them)
Trash MAC (never got into MAC)
6/9/11 14:49 Cj:
Omg this is a hard one lol!
I'd USE the Mac collection
I'd STASH the YSL collection
I'd TRASH the Too Faced collection
I just youtube'd a couple clips of that show… Crude is saying it nicely lol it's like a live action south park or something lol.
Marry Neil
Sex Simon and Jay
Kill Will
6/9/11 14:52 winni:
Use the MAC (this is a collection I'm actually excited about), stash YSL and trash Too Faced. For the men……kill Will, sex Jay and marry Simon.
6/9/11 15:14 winni:
I'd sex him too LOL! In fantasyland I'd keep a harem of men!
6/9/11 15:06 Christine:
Use the MAC (I've been lusting after this collection since I saw your post on it yesterday), stash the YSL (pretty, but too bright for me), and trash the Too Faced (seems so familiar, not very original).
6/9/11 15:29 Natália.:
Use the MAC, stash YSL, trash too faced.
6/9/11 15:33 JCz:
Use it: Too Faced – this seems the most tame (ok, maybe a bit boring) for every day.
Stash it: MAC – the collection is beautiful.
Trash it: YSL – I like the purples, the nail polishes, and I appreciate the artsy inspiration, but ultimately it's too bright for me.
6/9/11 16:02 Aimee Pan:
Use the YSL, because it's bright and crazy and I love it. Stash the MAC, because it's more wearable. Trash the Too Face.
6/9/11 16:42 Kasia:
I'd use MAC, stash YSL and trash Too Faced
6/9/11 16:43 tina:
Use: Too Faced
Stash: YSL
Trash: Mac, not liking anything in this collection :/
6/9/11 18:16 Tigress:
Use: YSL
Stash: Too Faced
Trash: MAC
6/9/11 18:34 ribbonroses:
Use Too Faced
Stash MAC
Trash YSL
6/9/11 19:56 Janet Shepherd:
Use the YSL – looks luxe & the colours would suit me
Stash the Too Faced – looks like good basics
Trash the Mac – just not me!
6/9/11 20:02 Courtney:
Use MAC, stash YSL, trash Too Faced
6/9/11 20:15 Mary the Muse Militant:
USE: Mac Collection
STASH: YSL Collection
TRASH: Too Faced Collection
I wouldn't touch any of those boys with an 80ft barge pole !!
Gimme a real man any day ! hehe
Aiden Turner – he will do nicely.
6/9/11 20:29 Mary the Muse Militant:
Those guys – never, ever would I, Muse !!!
As for the new C Word clunge – well I much prefer the original C Word with it's good old sharp short sound
Now that was one we bantered about until the femminists decided it was "not appropriate".
Am a bit old-fashioned I suppose.
6/9/11 22:44 Sara:
Hey, our answers are the same! On both counts! Freaky!
God I love the Inbetweener's, I just quoted it earlier tonight! (spotting a fence at Lowe's: "That one's bent. Neil's dad is bent. 'My dad's not bent!', 'yeah, you have to say that.'" Lol, what a sloppy quote job. It was all ones-sided, though, the other person kept looking at fences and ignoring my shenanigans. :p
I still get the urge to yell "Bus wankers!" every time I see someone walking down the street (can't yell it to actual bus-riders, I'd feel like a jerk). Oh, and I've totally started saying "blowie" instead of my previous name for it. :p Forgot all about clunge! Gotta put that one back in the rotation. Oh, and "pedo!" That's like, a thing! There is a whole thing with it in an episode of Peepshow about Mark avoiding some kids because they make fun of him and call him a pedo. Pretty much any time anything is going down I start yelling "pedo". It's ridiculous!
Ugh…we don't have the BBC any more and I am missing Inbetweeners, Being Human, Peepshow, and that Mitchell and Webb look. Netflix saves me a little bit, but not as much as you'd think. Plus, how am I to fall in love with new shows??
6/10/11 12:20 Sara:
Aww man, I only follow restaurants n' things on my twitter – totally missing out!
6/10/11 12:17 Sara:
Movie?! omg…..Why am I not up to date on the news?!
We just watched the first season of Peepshow through Netflix – seasons three and four are what we caught on the BBC initially. Damnit they are so funny it hurts! Last night before bed we watched a couple episodes of That Mitchell and Webb look – we'd only gotten to see one or two before downgrading the channel list. The episode with the Gordon Ramsay spoof? Gold. Pure gold. From start to finish there was soo much in there!
Yep, the episode with the "*ahems*" 😉 Oh, and the one where Jezzer takes that intern (or errand boy?) job with the musician he admired? And the face spasm from the interview episode of season 1? Totally found that on youtube to rewatch. After seeing the unedited Netflix episodes, I don't think I can go back to watching them censored on the BBCA. Ugh…censoring drives me crazy.
I think I'll be spending my browsing time today looking for stuff on amazon uk. 😀 It's been too long since watching that first season of the Inbetweeners – and I still haven't seen the second! Ooh, the caravanning episode….there was a lot of awesome in that. Scenes with a dancing Neil guarantees an angel gets their wings. :p
6/10/11 22:12 Sara:
Wellies and clunge – you're killing me! I needs mah brit shows back!
Dude, Mark's boss is the shit. He's so smooth and so perfect. I can't remember who I compare him to…damnit. I *love* when he hooked up with Big Sooze (prolly not how they spell it, but I like it like that. *lol*). And – yes! – the episode were Mark thought he was gay. God that was hilarious! Loved the gay porn! I can't wait to watch the other seasons.
Pedo Kennedy! I love his scenes with Neil! Poor, dumb Neil, how adorable can he be? I never saw the actor on any of those ilttle "behind the scenes" clips during commercial breaks on the BBCA, so I don't know if he has to practice that blank stare or not. *lol* It's pretty damn spot on. Ugh, I've forgotten too much of the good stuff. Even though we had to watch each episode twice, one for us, and one time to share with others. Sometimes we end up pulling it back because we laugh through half the snappy lines. Does't surprise me Neil gets lucky all the time. How can you turn down that face and those moves? *lol* :p
Oh, wait, after checking out the imdb it turns out I've seen season one *and* two. Ok. Their seasons seems short over there. Maybe that's why their shows are better? Ours are usually two to three times longer!
Green wing…Don't hit me, I haven't seen it! You've given me something to look for now. :p What's F&S? I'm sadly still on the shallow end when it comes to bbc shows. I love the dialogue, vulgarity, cheekiness, and ridiculous situations. They've just got a different way about 'em, you know? Nothing seems to be really "off limits" and it just makes for funnier stuff. Accents and loads of slang don't hurt either. 😀
6/9/11 22:57 Jess:
I dunno, it's a hard decision.
Use the Too Faced
Stash the MAC
Trash the YSL!
6/10/11 1:50 tiny:
Use Too Faced collection
Stash YSL
Trash Mac…
I'm just kind of over baked shadows.. Most of the time they don't do what I want them to and I end up pissed off at them and I "ground them" by taking them out of my makeup shelving unit thing and stuffing them in my bathroom drawers to sit and think about what they've done!
8/19/11 10:58 Majick:
Tiny, your comment about "grounding" your "bad" makeup made me LOL this morning.
I'm not sure what's going on but I had like 200 emails from comments from the Muse this morning. Even comments that I've read already. Weird.
6/10/11 2:57 Nia:
Oh, that's a really though one.
Use the YSL 😉
Stash the MAC collection and trash the one from Too Faced, but mainly because I do not have any idea what's in it.
6/10/11 5:53 Misato-san:
Use: Too Faced, so many interesting things to have fun with!
Stash: MAC Semi precius… but there isn't something to stash in it to me, it's only I'm not interested into YSL one at all
Trash: YSL
6/10/11 7:26 Maria:
Hmmm…that's a toughie, but I'm going to Stash MAC (it just look SO damn pretty i don't even know if I want to use it or look at it) Use Too Faced and trash YSL (sorry YSL!) ^_^
I wish I had BBC….if only to watch Merlin episodes as they come out.
6/10/11 12:05 ann:
Love the YSL collection, but, I'm not someone who would wear such bold colors on an everyday basis.
6/10/11 16:45 Majick:
wow, this is tough choice.
Use: YSL
Stash: MAC
Trash: Too Faced
no wait…
ha ha, no I'm not gonna do that but it's really how I feel. I have a soft spot for any YSL because my dear departed Sister-in-law used to work for YSL and I have many goodies stashed already from them. I may have to break them out this weekend and play.
I'd stash the MAC because the whole gem thing rocks my world.
I'd trash the Too Faced because it just looks too much like everything else. Since I have the UD Black Palette and that little too faced 500 pt perk I think I'm ok.
LOL good game
TRASH: Too Faced
I can't wait to get my hands on the MAC collection, I can't wait for swatches! I'd stash YSL because the collection has a lot of pretty colors, but they're not colors I like to wear regularly. The Too Faced collection looks nice, but nothing seems too amazingly innovative
6/10/11 23:17 DaenaCat:
The bad thing about having sex with a Jay-type is that he'll likely become completely obsessed with you once you break things off.
Not that I know from experience or anything. *cough*
Despite his bus wankery ways I'd settle with marrying Will (aka Petal!), sex with Neil and kill the other 2.
6/14/11 22:53 Angela:
Use MAC, Stash Too Faced, and Trash YSL. I agree with you!
The MAC collection looks sooo gorgeous. Too Faced looks nice and sultry too, but not as many of the colors/product types I go for. YSL looks just kind of bright and almost one dimensional…I would like to see ore variety like there is in the MAC collection, if you know what I mean.
6/18/11 23:46 cinthya:
Use: Too Faced
Stash: MAC
Trash: YSL
until i see some swatches!!


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Despite growing interest by European auto makers in the U.S. being spun by politicians and other self-interested parties, there is no silver lining to the dollar being steamrolled by the euro.
The greenback's withering exchange rate vs. foreign currencies, especially the euro, is creating a temporary windfall by making U.S.-built exports less expensive in global markets and killing profits on imported European cars and components.
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A lousy exchange rate is not forcing VW to locate here, says Dave Andrea, vice president-industry analysis and economics, for the Original Equipment Suppliers Assn.
Companies do not make long-term manufacturing or sourcing decisions based on exchange rate trends, because they know the pendulum eventually swings the other way, Andrea says.
Richard Spitzer, global industry managing partner of Accenture's Automotive and Industrial Equipment practices, says the tenet of producing where you sell is what usually guides auto makers into making huge plant investments in specific regions.
Currency is given some weight when auto makers consider locating plants in specific regions, but they are more interested in logistics, taxes, skill sets of the prospective work force and supply-chain issues, he adds.
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// make sure I am in the correct branch
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// bring your master repository up to date with a master remote repository
// in short "git pull" does a "git fetch" followed by a "git merge".
// if you want to err on the safe side, do "git fetch" followed by "git merge"
$ git pull
// think of what to do. say "Task A"
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Vendela Vida's fearless, critically acclaimed fiction debut follows the unpredictable recovery of a young woman as she tries to make sense of her life after an encounter at gunpoint.
Accosted one afternoon in Riverside Park by a man who doesn't want to die alone, Ellis, a young grad student, talks her way out of the situation by reciting poetry to her desperate captor. He lets her go, but is she free? Rejecting the overtures of her kind-hearted boyfriend, the police, and the suitors who would like to save her, Ellis finds herself unable to escape the event. She leaves the city to visit her family; joins her mother on a medical mission to the Philippines. When she returns, Ellis discovers something more about life — perhaps even how to take back her own.
"It's a good thing Vida makes her fiction debut with this novel instead of a story collection: she takes getting used to, but it's worthwhile....Hilarious and touching, icily removed, yet bracingly real." Kirkus Reviews
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ISDN & VoIP - potentially a marriage made in heaven!
And by 'potentially' we imply if done right the call quality and reliability of isdn, combined with the flexibility and cost savings of VoIP offers small businesses potentially - the best of both worlds.
Some background
The ISDN or Integrated Services Digital Network is the gold standard for business communications. It is available Australia wide and is owned, operated and fully managed by Telstra, with all services generally available via 3rd party telecommunications service providers nationally.
Integrated services refers to ISDN's ability to deliver at minimum two simultaneous connections, in any combination of data, voice, video, and fax, over a single line. Multiple devices can be attached to the line, and used as needed. That means an ISDN line can take care of most people's complete communications needs (apart from broadband Internet access and entertainment television) at a much higher transmission rate, without forcing the purchase of multiple analog phone lines.
Why is ISDN favoured for Business Use?
Digital by Design - Being a digital technology delivered from a fully monitored and managed network, ISDN offers superior audio quality and extremely high reliability over comparative services such as Analog PSTN lines or GSM (Mobile Phone Lines).
Anywhere and Everywhere - Due to the wide availability and uptake of this technology most Phone
Systems and ISDN capable premises equipment are affordable, and easily supported by a broad range of vendors and maintainers - which helps keep total communications operating costs under control.
Killer Feature - ISDN has one massive advantage over all other traditional communications options, and this is referred to as Direct Inwards Dialling or DID. With DID, businesses rent a number of virtual phone numbers usually in blocks of 100 from their service provider. Each of these virtual numbers can be answered directly by the phone system / PABX (Private Automated Branch Exchange) and translated direct to an extension or handset. This means that we can now have more extensions or handsets than actually phone lines (big saving) and we can bypass reception to receive our calls direct to our own number (massive saving)!
What's the Catch ?
As mentioned earlier ISDN is the gold standard and it's priced accordingly. Because it is flexible, widely deployed and the network is owned by the incumbent telco there is not a lot of direct competition which ultimately sees this as the most reliable and expensive business public telephone line solution.
VoIP SIP Trunks are Cheap - I'll just flick the switch
Some background to SIP Trunking or SIP Trunk Services.
For most businesses it's neither that simple or that easy. VoIP SIP trunks potentially ticks all of the communications boxes for a small business in terms of flexibility and savings, however few take the time to understand the real costs, benefits, advantages, disadvantages and risks of going VoIP, which consequently sees a large percentage of VoIP deployments ending in tears.
What is VoIP ?
Voice over IP (VoIP) commonly refers to the communication protocols, technologies, methodologies,and transmission techniques involved in the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. Other terms commonly associated with VoIP are IP telephony, Internet telephony, voice over DSL (VoDSL),and SIP Trunks (Session Initiation Protocol).
How does it work ?
Basically, a VoIP telephone call requires signalling and a media channel setup, digitization of the analog voice signal, encoding, packetization, and transmission as Internet Protocol (IP) packets over a packet-switched network. On the receiving side, similar conversion steps (usually in the reverse order) are required to reproduce the original voice (audio) stream.
Is my network up to it ?
As you might appreciate, the overall performance (Bandwidth / Speed / Load etc.) of IP networks varies considerably between locations, directions, service providers and technologies. E.g. with ADSL and Cable networks Download Speeds are substantially higher than upload speeds i.e. 4-20meg down and .2 to 1.0 meg up. And it is this performance difference, without exception that makes or breaks a VoIP deployment for a small business.
While nearly all appreciate their download speeds...It is the upload speed that most forget when thinking VoIP! IP Network performance and VoIP is further complicated and impacted upon by the activities ofusers on the networks - i.e. file sharing,
web browsing, email and or FTP uploading etc. places different burdens on the network. These activities (unlike voice) are generally tolerant of each other and simply slow down as less bandwidth is available or more users are added. VoIP is not tolerant and
does not play well with others.
VoIP needs a minimum amount of bandwidth and a constant speed to deliver a phone call. IP Voice is Real Time Traffic. Furthermore, our hearing has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to pick even the smallest of differences in pitch, tone, and cadence of audio frequencies in the spoken word range.
An example : Site A has a standard adsl with 15 meg down & 0.65 meg up and 4 or 5 users,doing light web browsing and email correspondence with few large attachments. In this case, the network might be say 10% utilised and one or two VoIP calls via this adsl may sound reasonably good.
Now if the same users were a Graphic Design company receiving and sending large attachments, with a few users connected to a cloud based server all day - then this same network might be over 90% utilized. Even a single VoIP call in this case would
have to fight for bandwidth, and assuming the call could setup (ring the other end) it's resulting poor audio quality (mostly characterized by echo, jitter, fading, periods of silence or disconnection) would inevitably frustrate both parties.
Getting VoIP right
In the smallest of companies, like the example above you may get away with a single adsl service supporting voice and data, however this would definitely not extend to providing a VoIP line and concurrent call for each user at almost toll (ISDN) quality
while they were online going about their predominately administrative activities. One sizeable download while a call was in progress would result in some loss of call quality, with the exact impact dependant on file size, link speed, codec used, network configuration,
quality of service implementation etc. etc. (will leave QOS and data networking equipment for another day)
As a guide, we recommend a minimum of a separate adsl internet service 2-8 concurrent VoIP calls.
Any business that needs to have 8 or more VoIP calls in progress at any one time, at a quality level of GSM mobile calls or better should be looking at business grade symmetrical internet access solutions. Depending on your location Options include BDSL, SHDSL, Metro Ethernet, and or Fibre should be available and a min of 1 meg down / 1 meg up speed should be chosen to support the desired call volume and quality. A good rule of thumb is .1meg per VoIP call at analog phone line quality.
VoIP Gets Expensive with Dedicated Internet ?
As you can see, more calls need more bandwidth. There's still no free lunch! For many companies where call quality is very important and 10+ calls are constantly in progress the cost of dedicated internet access for VoIP often exceeds the costs of
traditional phone lines. Couple this with new LAN & WAN hardware (data switches & routers with QOS) IP PABXs, Gateway devices, Analog adapters (for fax and eftpos) etc. and the true cost and complexity of going VoIP starts to materialise. The savings will
come, however the technology investments still need to be made up front if call quality and reliability is important to the business.
Have your cake and eat it too
While every businesses call patterns and network are different, for the most part phone calls and data traffic go both ways, with the outgoing calls and the incoming data costing the most money. We said earlier that ISDN is the gold standard, so it
makes sense to maintain 'some isdn' from a call quality and phone line reliability perspective, But having too many isdn services may actually be costing you money that might be better invested in VoIP and your ip network.
Similarly, VoIP has a number of advantages over isdn in terms of reduced line and call costs and it offers additional features which help businesses work more flexibly such as easy relocation and portability, unified messaging and mobile extensions etc.
So, to have your cake and eat it to, we suggest the following general approach for businesses with 4 or more administrative users...
- Phone System Review
- Buy or rent a phone system if you don't have one
- The system should be ISDN + Direct VoIP Trunk capable or
- ISDN + Analog Trunk capable (VoIP to analog adapters are widely avail at < $50)
- Review your lines
- You only need enough isdn channels for the quantity of incoming calls
- Migrate any analog pstn lines not used for adsl or alarms to isdn
- Rent a direct in dial range (bypass reception, call direct - more efficient)
- Cancel any surplus lines
- Add VoIP lines for some incoming and all outgoing calls
- Review your internet Access
- Add a dedicated internet access for VoIP
- Upgrade current internet access to symmetrical
- Move to business grade internet and get a service guarantee
- Review your Network & Equipment
- Add a router with 2 WANs (1 for internet + l for VoIP)
- Check what users are doing on the network
- Identify what internet traffic is coming and going
- Add a firewall to manage the in/out traffic and to limit non business use
- Engage Expertise
- Upgrade the network
- Upgrade the internet access
- Install some VoIP lines
- Configure the network & phone system to suit
- Adjust the ISDN vs. VoIP line mix to suit
- Review every 3-6 mths
A common scenario relating to the above is that a small company (up to 10 staff) using 4 x ISDN2 services at approximately $350 / month + timed call costs at up to $400 mth (based on an industry average of $50 per extension per month) would be spending around $750 mth for up to 8 concurrent calls.
After upgrading and or reconfigure their equipment and changing their services mix - say, reduce the ISDN line qty to 2 x ISDN 2 (4 lines), add an additional ADSL internet access and 6 VoIP lines, their overall line rental is less, call costs are less and more lines are available - not to mention additional features becoming available such as Voicemail to email, or VoIP softphones on PCs instead of additional handsets in the business etc.
Realistic overall savings in the revised ISDN VoIP Hybrid solution above would be along the lines of:
Line rental for isdn down by up to 50% i.e. $175
Call costs down 20-30% i.e. $80-$120
(depends on call types and patterns - most VoIP providers offer lower costs on local / std / and fixed to mobile calls as well as more flexible call bundling options - such as free on net calls etc.)
Line rental VoIP up by $0-$50 (some don't charge for numbers / lines - depending on customer call spend)
Internet access up i.e. $75 mth
Savings on a $750 current telco spend could be up to $250 ex gst or more.
Other Investments potentially required
- Firewall from $400
- Dual WAN router from $300
- VoIP / Analog ATA from $50
- Pabx / IT hardware
- PABX / IT tech services (2-8 hrs.)
Other benefits potentially gained
- Maintained the quality and reliability of ISDN
- Access to ISDN lines if VoIP is down or network congested
- Additional adsl provides redundancy (failover internet to VoIP)
- Unified messaging - VM to Email, fax to email etc.
- Direct dial into staff / extensions
- Portability of numbers i.e. work from home on the office phone number/easy relocation
If done right - VoIP Works!
If added to ISDN - Business Communication Works Better !
The underlying network and internet access must be in place for VoIP to work effectively and it is at this point of under-investment where most small business VoIP deployments fail.
Furthermore, a large percentage ignore the golden rule of you get what you pay for - and further under invest in the expertise and services to "VoIP ready" their networks.
If that wasn't bad enough some after taking the time, doing the reviews and making all the right investments go with a less than reputable internet telephone service provider (ITSP) ...usually offering the world's cheapest call rates...and the inevitable reliability and call quality issues from the network / service provider side then impact these business directly. Cheap will also mean offshore or non existent support
In maintaining ISDN with its inherent reliability and quality advantages, while migrating unused services and/or adding additional services via VoIP - business telecommunications risks and overall costs can be significantly reduced without impacting on call quality or the customers experience by phone with your organisation.
While the telephone remains one of the most powerful tools in business - getting the right balance between line types, technologies and telecommunications costs is a critical aspect of managing the modern business.
Feel free to pass the above article on to Fellow small business owners and operators who you believe may be struggling with this whole VoIP thing.
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One way that states are looking to fill their coffers is by auditing unclaimed property on companies' books — so-called "escheat audits." This isn't the world's sexiest topic, but an in-house lawyer might serve a valuable purpose by double-checking corporate escheat policies.
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Thomas J. Hendricks, 86, a resident of Mountain Home, formerly of Chicago, Illinois passed away Tuesday, February 19, 2013, at the Hiram Shaddox Geriatric Center in Mountain Home.
He was born June 7, 1926, in Chicago, Illinois to the late, George and Mary Butterly Hendricks. Mr. Hendricks was a veteran of the United States Army, serving during the Korean Conflict. After his military service he worked as a chauffeur for Marshall Fields. He married Lois Joan Carl on October 17, 1953, in Chicago, Illinois. In 1999 they relocated to Mountain Home from Chicago. Mr. Hendricks is preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Lois Hendricks and a brother, George Hendricks.
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April 29, 2003 - What You Think They Hear, Is Not Always What You Intend...
Not long ago, I was at the PRWRA convention in New Orleans and my friend, Jane Roqueplot of Profiling Pro (www.profilingpro.com), had the group perform a simple exercise that has stuck with me and I would like to share with you now.
This exercise is designed to prove that what you think the interviewer hears when you say it, and what you tell them, aren't always what you thought or intended. The next time you get two or three of your friends in a group, try this fun exercise to prove this point.
The point is this. When you prepare for an interview, actually participate in the interview, and then assume that the interviewer heard you correctly, you are in for a big surprise.
You cannot hope for the best. To be successful, you must seek and receive confirmation that the interviewer not only understood what you said, but that they understood it the way you intended.
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The love of a couple has showed it could stand the test of time as they celebrated their 71st wedding anniversary.
Eric and Winifred Pryer from Mildenhall shared a cup of tea in a local tearoom to celebrate their day.
Mr and Mrs Pryer, who celebrated their platinum anniversary last year, have stuck to their roots in Suffolk after they first met in a cinema in Ipswich many years ago.
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There is no general consensus with respect to how big big data is—some companies deal with data volumes in the order of terabytes or even petabytes—but not many people will disagree that managing these huge amounts of data represents a challenge. It's fair to say that we're dealing with big data when traditional relational databases and systems are no longer sufficient.
Things as simple as data storage and movement between repositories can have a big impact on the organization. Big data management is more than just working with an enormous data set; it has to do with the complexity of analyzing it and getting the most value from it— competitive advantage, performance improvement, and, of course, profit. Big data requires special strategies and tools, and has to be considered from a broader perspective than mere size.
More than Just Size
Big data has three main features:
Once it's established that big data is an issue, there are a couple of major aspects to consider. The complexity of the data will determine the difficulty of reliably exploiting the information beneath the big data. This in turn will guide an organization in acquiring the technology to deal with the data—the combination of hardware and software technologies that make the handling of its big data possible.
Some organizations have realized that relational database management systems (RDBMSs) are not sufficient for managing large and diverse amounts of data, and traditional business intelligence (BI) applications are not powerful enough to unveil the insights in a proper and timely manner. They need to deploy specific technologies to be able to work with big data.
A big data solution provides the technical means to perform operations with high volumes of data in a short period of time, with the ability to treat various types of data from disparate sources.
Why the Hype?
One of the main triggers for the design of new applications and technologies is the inability of common BI deployments to manage both structured and unstructured content. The data extraction process can be especially difficult with large amounts of information.
These new tools are changing the traditional BI data cycle. Data can be collected from its sources and analyzed in a matter of seconds, giving reliable results in a fraction of the time required by a traditional BI deployment, thus reducing data latency and speeding up the decision-making process. Some of the advantages of deploying a big data solution include:
There's also an economic angle to the big data hype. A corporate data warehouse can rapidly become expensive as the data volume increases. Scaling a data warehouse can be a burden when you're dealing with such volumes. Meanwhile, some big data providers can produce solutions not only that are cheaper from the get go, but which can be escalated, adapted, and modified as required.
Open source solutions—such as NoSQL—have also played an important role in the big data movement, forcing market prices to stay down.
The Players
As with any other segment in the software industry, the big data space is filled with providers that serve different aspects of handling big data. We can distinguish two major categories in the big data space.
Big data management systems are for administering big data volumes.
Big Data File and Database Management Systems
Big data analytics appliances are products for analyzing large volumes and their information sets.
Big Data Analytics Appliances
Netezza, an IBM company
Actian (formerly Ingres)
Big data has had a rapid uptake by traditional BI vendors. Some of them offer connectors to big data applications in order to be able to analyze the data. A few of these vendors are Pentaho, Tableau Software, Endeca (acquired by Oracle), Jaspersoft, and MicroStrategy.
Getting Started
Here's a summary of some basic things to take into account when selecting a big data provider:
A big data solution involves the complete data life cycle, from data collection to its visual representation. The explosion of data within an organization can be the impetus for a big data strategy. Organizations that succeed in the deployment of this sort of solution are the ones that are able to identify the type of data to be managed, the process the data needs to undergo, and the nature of the information to be obtained. Following this path an organization can select and deploy the necessary technology for the best use of its data.


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Saturday's baseball game against Chicago State has been moved to Noon. It was orginally scheduled for 2 p.m.
The Bisons also play Chicago State a 3:00 p.m. on Friday and 1:00 p.m. on Sunday.
Russ Burroughs will broadcast the games on the Lipscomb Sports Network available via the internet at LipscombSports.com
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Soroptimist International of the Conejo has extended the deadline for accepting Women's Opportunity Award applications until February 10, 2013.
Women who serve as the primary wage earners for their families and seek financial assistance to go back to school can now obtain applications for the Women's Opportunity Awards, Soroptimist International of the Conejo's major service project. You can find an application at our website, http://www.siconejo.org or you can obtain a applications by contacting Paula Driscoll at 805-795-4865, or emailing her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The deadline for submitting completed applications has been extended until February 10, 2013. Your completed application can be submitted by email to sia.conejoaward@gmail or mailed to P.O. Box 3634, Thousand Oaks, CA 91359.
Since 1972, the Soroptimist Women's Opportunity Awards program has provided women who serve as the primary wage earners for their families with the financial resources to offset costs associated with their efforts to attain higher education or additional skills and training. The award can be used for tuition, books, childcare, carfare or any other education-related expense.
Soroptimist International of the Conejo will provide a $1,000 to $1,500 cash grant to its award recipient, who will then advance to the Soroptimist Camino Real Region level, where one recipient will receive $5,000. The program culminates with three finalist $10,000 awards.
Soroptimist International of The Conejo is a volunteer organization for business and professional women dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls, in local communities and throughout the world. Chartered in 1981, the Conejo club is part of Soroptimist International where almost 90,000 Soroptimists in about 124 countries and territories and 3,000 clubs contribute time and financial support to community-based projects that benefit women.
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Financial Aid >> Browse Articles >> Expert Financial Aid Advice
How does job loss affect federal student financial aid?
Mark Kantrowitz
August 25, 2009
When I turned in my FAFSA my parents were making a lot more money than they are now. Both my parents were working full time, but now my mom is the only one working for minimum wage, with my dad jobless. Is there anything I can do at this time to change my FAFSA? — Sam W.
Call or write the college financial aid office and ask about the procedures for a professional judgment review. (Some colleges call this a special circumstances review or financial aid appeal.) Colleges have the authority to make adjustments to the data elements on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) on a case-by-case basis when justified by special circumstances. Special circumstances can include any financial circumstances that changed from last year to this year. Job loss and salary or work hour reductions are good examples, since this year's income will be much lower than last year. Even if the job loss occured before the FAFSA was filed it might still qualify for an adjustment.
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- What types of student aid are available for a second Bachelor's degree?
- My Parents Won't Pay for School-- Can I Complete the FAFSA Without Them?
- How does job loss affect federal student financial aid?
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A similar situation occurs when last year's income was artificially inflated by a lump sum severance. That's a one-time event that is not reflective of the ability to pay during the award year.
The college financial aid administrator will want to see documentation of the job loss or salary reduction, such as a copy of the layoff notice. (Give them photocopies, not originals.) They will also want information about any severance packages and unemployment benefits. If they decide that your situation merits an adjustment, the adjustment will be based on the difference between last year's income and estimated award year income.
The US Department of Education recently sent letters to college financial aid offices encouraging them to make adjustments in response to the current economic downturn.


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Fontbonne/KMOX Book Club Features Time Mgt. Author
ST. LOUIS - The Fontbonne University/KMOX Book Club welcomes Jill Famer, author of "There's Not Enough Time … and other lies we tell ourselves," at its next book club event. The event will take place Friday, Jan. 25, from 10-11 a.m. at the Park Pacific Building on the 22nd floor, 1220 Olive St.
Due to limited seating, a drawing for tickets to this event will take place Jan. 18. To enter to receive two tickets, email your name and address to email@example.com. KMOX will notify all winners.Jill Farmer is a Martha Beck certified life coach who has perfected the art of time management. She was a reporter and television anchor for more than a decade when she decided to quit to make more time for her family. Subsequently, her volunteer work, family responsibilities and freelance jobs overwhelmed her, and when she got frustrated, she did something about it. In her new book, Farmer explores the key ways she made her life more efficient, productive and meaningful, and how you can do the same.


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Going Green!
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Litchfield Public Schools Green Initiatives:
The Litchfield Public Schools is engaged in several projects to improve efficiency, reduce costs and diminish our carbon footprint.
Our most recent district wide conservation initiative began in the fall of 2009 at Litchfield High School and soon expanded to include Litchfield Intermediate School and Center School. This venture was focused on changing the behaviors of our staff and students as we began our district commitment to Going Green. Collaboratively we agreed to turn on lights only when necessary, using only half of the fixtures in a room or hallway when possible, and turn off lights when a room is emptied. In addition, we have emphasized unplugging chargers and appliances when they are not in use. These efforts have resulted in savings in excess of $108,000 since September 2009.
The recent renovation of the Intermediate and High Schools provided both buildings with new boilers; computer controlled heating and cooling systems and the ability to improve indoor air quality. The net result is that the buildings' new construction increased the square footage by 16% while consuming 25% less oil!
Additionally, in the spring of 2010, the district participated in a program sponsored by CL & P to analyze the electricity consumption in the Intermediate School. The study looked at every piece of equipment or lighting fixture that consumed electricity to determine efficiency. The final report listed several suggestions that could reduce the energy consumption of the school.
As a result, the district applied for various incentives offered by the utility enabling the school to be retrofitted with new and more energy efficient fixtures, bulbs and motion sensors. The remaining expense beyond the incentives will be paid for over the next two years by the savings realized in reduced utility bills. These items were installed in the summer of 2010. Since the installation, the school has not only realized a savings that covers the cost of the project, but has enjoyed a substantial savings beyond that expense.
The district also has engaged in recycling since
September 2007. Each classroom and office in the district is furnished
with a paper recycling box; the paper is collected several times weekly
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Top 6 Most-Tested GRE Problem Solving Concepts
Noticing that your scores on your GRE practice test isn't quite as high as you'd like? One quick way to get better GRE Quantitative scores is to increase your content-knowledge in the most-tested Problem Solving areas. Here are the top six most-tested GRE Quant concepts to review; get these down and you'll ace the GRE section!
1. Functions and Symbols. A function is a different way of writing an equation. Instead of y = mx + b, we'd have f(x) = mx + b. It's helpful to think of a function as simply replacing the "y" with a symbol called "f(x)." The GRE may also present made-up symbol functions; pay attention to any definitions you are given, and expand accordingly.
Try this coordinate geometry question for practice.
2. Number Properties. The properties of integers, primes, odds and evens, integers, fractions, positives, and negatives will all appear in various questions on your GRE test. The more comfortable you are with them, the more quickly you will arrive at the correct answer. This concept will bleed over into Quantitative Comparisons as well.
3. Plane and Coordinate Geometry. Not only will you need to know the standard equations for a line, parabola, and circle, but also you will need to memorize the distance formula, the midpoint formula, the slope formula, the relationship between slopes and the different quadrants, properties of parallel, perpendicular, vertical, and horizontal lines, as well as the quadratic formula/discriminant. For Plane Geometry, triangles are tested the most often on the GRE. You should know the Pythagorean Theorem, Triangle Inequality Theorem, the special right triangles: 45-45-90 and 30-60-90, as well as the properties of isosceles and equilateral triangles. Other plane geometry concepts to review include angles, circles, and polygons. Make sure you know how to find the perimeter and area of all shapes, and be comfortable dividing irregular shapes into manageable pieces.
4. Linear & Quadratic Equations. y = mx + b is the standard equation for a straight line, or a linear equation, where m is the slope and b is the y-intercept. You'll need to know how to graph them and how to find the slope given two points. Quadratic equations look like y = ax2 + bx + c, and make a parabola, or curved line. Quadratics have two factors, and two solutions (also called "roots"). You will need to know how to factor quadratic equations to find the roots, how to find the quadratic if given the roots, and how to graph a quadratic on a grid given the equation.
5. Ratios and Proportions. A ratio is a relationship between two things. Given a ratio and one "real world" number, you can always set up a proportion to solve for the other missing "real world" number. Sometimes you will need to do this for similar triangles in Geometry, and sometimes in algebraic word problems.
6. Data Analysis. Data Analysis questions are like an open-book test. Make sure you read every tiny piece of writing on or near the data, including titles, the labels for the x and y-axes, column names, and even footnotes if there are any. Pay attention to the units of measurement, and notice any trends in the data BEFORE reading the questions.
Top Ten Pacing Tips for the GRE
Pacing is vital to ace the GRE. The best graduate schools want master's students who can balance their time efficiently. The grad school candidates with the best GRE scores know how to manage their GRE test prep, utilize the best free GRE resources, and pace themselves through each section of the GRE. Use these 10 pacing tips to get better scores on the Revised GRE!
1. Know your essay templates before you start writing. The Revised GRE contains two essays: the Issue, and the Argument. This should be the easiest section because you can review prompts ahead of time and plan out your essay structure for each. A high level of organization is essential to better scores on the AWA.
2. "Mark and review" harder questions. The Revised GRE allows you to skip around freely within each section - use this new ability to skip harder questions and come back to them later once you've answered the easier ones first.
3. Write down a Prediction for tough Verbal questions. Don't simply go straight to the answer choices. It will help you eliminate, and the best graduate schools want students who can think critically and trust their own judgments. Try this GRE reading comprehension question for more practice.
4. Know how many questions are in each section. Always be aware of how many questions you have left! The GRE Quant sections have 20 questions in 25 minutes, and Verbal has 20 questions in 30 minutes. Keep track of where you are in a section at all times.
5. Don't rush, but start each individual section with confidence. Don't rush through the beginning 4-5 questions, but move quickly past the easy ones, saving the majority of your time for the harder test questions.
6. Check your work if you finish early. If you finish a GRE section early, go back and check your work! Don't second-guess yourself to the extreme, but re-check your work on the medium-hard level test questions.
7. Have a "panic plan." Know what you will do if you find yourself (1) stressing out over a particularly challenging question, (2) finding yourself falling behind in a section, or (3) losing confidence in your abilities. Write down and imagine your own "worst-case scenario" and describe what you will do if it occurs on GRE Test Day.
8. Use Process of Elimination. For challenging GRE test questions, don't give up if you don't know how to solve. Examine the answer choices, and don't be afraid to make an educated guess on 2-3 GRE test questions if necessary. You likely will have a very strong instinct that 1-2 choices will NOT be correct. Use POE to increase your chances of GRE success.
9. Memorize the directions. If you have adequately prepared for the GMAT, you should already be intimately familiar with the direction for each question type. Don't waste valuable time re-reading them on test day.
10. Take the optional break. There are six sections with a 10-minute break following the third section. Take the break! Get up, stretch, and give yourself a mental rest.