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(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, official resources may be used during a fiscal year (beginning with fiscal year 1999), in accordance with regulations of the Committee on House Oversight, to reimburse a Member, officer, or employee of the House of Representatives for the ordinary and necessary expenses related to the official use of telecommunications lines in the residence of the Member, officer, or employee.
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Deb Clarke Donates Painting To Marilyn Curcuru Van Fund Cause
Hi Joey,
Here's a link to my post with a pic of a painting that i did as a demo for my students during a class last June. The painting is a Stuff.
maybe you could post the link to encourage folk to go down, look at it and maybe buy it for a good cause.
Thanks Joey!
Stuff On Main Street Gets Facade Improvement
Main Street Gloucester just getting better and better all the time!
St Joseph Statue At Olimpia Palazzola's Stuff On Main Street
Stuff On Main Street Window Display
For Sale- Pepsi Bottle Bong at Stuff on Main St *Kidding*
So I'm walking down Main Street on my way to The Downtown Block Party wrap up meeting and as I passed Stuff, I had to do a double take.
Knick Knacks – Stuff
Let's face it, some people don't subscribe to the less is more theory of home design.
For those people, there is- Louise Palazzola's Stuff on Main Street.
Funky Lighting Fixtures -Stuff
If you have a spot at your humble abode for a funky light fixture like this- Stuff on Main Street is the place to get it.
Olympia "Louise" Palazzola's Stuff
Funky Vintage Lighting- Stuff
Creepy Evil Cat Dolls- Stuff
If you've been searching high and low for a creepy looking cat doll propped up within a drum- Stuff on Main Street is the place to go.
If You're Yearning For A Mermaid Doll- Stuff
If you've been searching all these years for a Mermaid Doll, Stuff on Main Street is the place to go.

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Recent events have me really worried about catching HEP C. Since reading that the virus survives well outside the body, it seems like it could be lurking anywhere. This past weekend, I was at a neighborhood BBQ and I noticed this older man had a cut outside of his hand. He shook my hand and I immediately noticed a droplet of blood on my thumb. I actually walked over to the pool and dipped my hands in the pool, then I went to wash my hands. I also remember that he handed me a cup earlier in that day and I filled it w/ water from the fountain to drink. I do have gingivitis and my gums sometimes bleed. Nevertheless, I was extremely anxious all day due to that experience and I didn't sleep well at all for a few days. The old man, by the way, said he was retired military and I heard that a lot of military baby boomers have HEP C.
Yesterday I went to the gym for a light workout and shook a few peoples hands on the way out. I wasn't really that sweaty and I made the mistake of picking my nose a few minutes later in the car on my way home. That got me really nervous too because I'm wondering if there were any small traces of blood on some of the equipment or on some of the peoples' hands.
I try to be hygienic as possible but sometimes I pick at my nose or rub my eyes and I'm nervous about HEP C transmission because I am around people all day and some people might have small cuts, etc. I even get nervous at the barber shop because sometimes the electric shaver seems sharp and I've never seen them sanitize them (and I've been to several barbershops).
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I picked up some drive thru fast-food today on the way home(chicken nuggets and a crispy pie) and as I was eating it I felt a burning pain in my tongue. I went to my bathroom mirror and noticed a small bump on my tongue had popped and it started to bleed. I spit out the blood and it stopped bleeding around a minute or two later but it still stings a bit. I guess my mouth was a little irritated and somehow the food made it worse. My question is, could I have been infected with any form of Hepatits? What if one of the people handling the food had HEP C and had a cut on his finger or somehow transmitted blood to the food? Could there have been a possible blood to blood transfer? Please help, I'm kind of freaking out! Is there any post exposure treatments available that I should take?View Thread
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Finances the transportation and distribution of New York state farm grown products to food service markets, including restaurants, schools, colleges, and others, especially in underserved urban and other communities.
Ayes (6): Ranzenhofer, Flanagan, Larkin, Martins, Perkins, Squadron
TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the New York state urban development corporation act, in relation to financing the transportation and distribution of foods grown in New York state for delivery to food service institutions and underserved markets
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To provide Economic Development financing for transportation projects to facilitate delivery of New York farm products from farmers and associations of farmers to institutional food service purchasers such as restaurants, schools and other food service operations.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Adds a new paragraph 1 to subdivision 1 of section 16-m of Chapter 174 of the laws of 1968 creating the Urban Development Corporation. Paragraph 1 would provide loans and grants to local and regional organizations to finance transportation and distribution projects facilitating distribution and sales of New York farm products by farmers to food and food services and processors, and buyers such as restaurants, food retailers, schools and other institutions in communities where New York foods are lacking. Financing can be used for construction, renovation, and acquisition of land, buildings, machinery and equipment.
JUSTIFICATION: New York farmers produce some of the finest fruits, vegetables, meats and dairy products anywhere and there is an increasing recognition of the taste, quality and freshness of these local farm products by chefs and consumers. Unfortunately, it is difficult for many of our family farmers to get their products to buyers who are very interested in purchasing them, especially in New York City, the number one restaurant location in the U.S. School food service programs are also looking for New York products as part of the New York Farm-to-School Law but distribution and delivery problems have sometimes been a problem. The volumes needed by some food service operations may require several farmers to combine their products to meet an order which further puts a strain on distribution and delivery.
Providing financing for farm product transportation projects would help the farm economy by opening up valuable food service markets. These projects could provide services that individual farmers could not afford and for which they do not have the time. The economic benefits to farm regions from increased sales could lead to increased business activity and jobs in those communities and new jobs for the transportation projects themselves. In addition, businesses and consumers in urban and suburban communities would benefit from the fresher, nutritious, quality food and meals available because of these projects.
This bill was amended for technical reasons that involve the effective date.
2005/06 - A.8000 Referred to Agriculture 2007/08 - A.5024 Referred to Agriculture 2009/10 - S.6203 Referred to Corporations, Authorities, & Commissions, Passed Senate
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: Subject to budget appropriations.
EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the amendments to section 16-m of section 1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968, constituting the New York Urban Development Corporation Act, made by section one of this act, shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 614--A 2011-2012 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (PREFILED) January 5, 2011 ___________Introduced by Sens. KLEIN, KRUEGER, OPPENHEIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the New York state urban development corporation act, in relation to financing the transportation and distribution of foods grown in New York state for delivery to food service institutions and underserved markets THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 16-m of section 1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968, constituting the New York state urban development corporation act, is amended by adding a new paragraph (l) to read as follows: (L) LOANS, LOAN GUARANTEES, INTEREST SUBSIDIES AND GRANTS INCLUDING INTEREST SUBSIDY GRANTS TO LOCAL OR REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TO FINANCE TRANSPORTATION AND DISTRIBUTION PROJECTS THAT FACILITATE DISTRIBUTION AND SALES OF NEW YORK FARM PRODUCTS BY FARMERS AND ASSOCIATIONS OF FARM- ERS TO FOOD AND FOOD SERVICES BUYERS AND PROCESSORS, SUCH AS RESTAU- RANTS, SCHOOLS, FOOD RETAILERS, FARMERS' MARKETS, COLLEGES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONAL OPERATIONS ESPECIALLY IN URBAN AND OTHER COMMUNITIES WHERE THERE HAS BEEN A LACK OF AVAILABILITY OF SUCH PRODUCTS. LOANS, LOAN GUARANTEES AND INTEREST SUBSIDY GRANTS MAY BE USED TO FINANCE NEW CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION OR LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENTS AND THE ACQUISITION OF LAND, BUILDINGS, MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend- ments to section 16-m of section 1 of chapter 174 of the laws of 1968, constituting the New York state urban development corporation act, made by section one of this act, shall expire on the same date as such section expires and shall be deemed to expire therewith.EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03692-03-1
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Windows Media Center is one the main vertebrae of Windows 7's backbone user experience, an operating system component that should be pushed to the foreground when it comes to entertainment capabilities without hesitation. Not without its shortcomings, Windows Media Center continues to grow, Microsoft proved at CEDIA EXPO 2009, even after Windows 7 was released to manufacturing. In this regard, the company announced the addition of support for Switched Digital Video (SDV) to Windows Media Center in Windows Vista's successor.
Available in the Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate SKUs of Windows 7, Windows Media Center is now capable of allowing end users to tune to SDV channels. The software giant explained that the support for SDV was catalyzed by customer feedback and by the proliferation of the distribution method for digital video via cable among cable providers. Users will, of course, need a tuning adapter in order to watch SDV channels, and they will have to get one from the cable provider. The complete receipt to tune to SDV channels involves Windows Media Center in Windows 7, as well as a digital cable tuner with CableCARD.
But not to fret, Microsoft has assured customers running Windows 7 that adding digital cable tuners with CableCard to their PCs will be a seamless experience. The Redmond-based company plans to deliver a new tool designed to scan Windows 7 machines and evaluate their ability to support the CableCard tuners. Microsoft noted that digital cable support would only be enabled once the tool had verified that the scanned computer met all requirements. Besides adding a digital cable tuner with CableCard, Windows 7 users will also be able to connect up to three more solutions, namely a total of four per tuner type. Want to watch/record no less than four digital cable TV channels? Well, with Windows 7 and Windows Media Center, now you can.
"We are excited that digital cable customers will now be able to take advantage of this new opportunity to bring great cable TV programming to the PC," said So Vang, vice president of OpenCable at CableLabs. "We are dedicated to helping customers get the most from their cable service, and this will be a great win for both the customer and the cable operators."
In addition, because of the collaboration between Microsoft and CableLabs, digital cable TV marked as "copy freely" (CF) will provide a high degree of portability. Digital cable tuner with CableCARD customers will essentially be able to enjoy CF-marked digital cable recordings on other computers or devices than on those they were recorded.
"We're continuing to work on creating opportunities for partners that will enable great entertainment experiences on the PC," said Craig Eisler, corporate vice president of entertainment client software for the TV, Video & Music Business at Microsoft. "Consumers understand that having access to content via the PC is critical when it comes to entertainment experiences, and with these announcements, we're underscoring our broader commitment to deliver a rich experience with Windows Media Center."
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Oklahoma State plane crash anniversary: How Kurt Budke's 'win the next five minutes' approach sustains his widow
"They were grouping up to come get me to tell me," Shelley said.
The plane had crashed.
Kurt was gone.
Around 7 a.m., after making the hardest phone calls of her life to Kurt's family and to her family, Shelley was drained.
"You'd better go get in the shower," Julie told her, "because people are going to start coming."
"What?" Shelley asked.
"People are going to come to your house, so you'd better be ready.
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For the next week, Shelley was never alone at the house. Someone, be it family or friend, was always there.
There were times that Shelley would go back to the bedroom and hide out.
"It wasn't really my house at some points," she said.
But ...
"This community wrapped us up in their arms. It was amazing."
She struggled to accept all of the kindness and generosity. She was flattered. She was honored. But she was worried that she would never be able to reciprocate.
"How am I going to thank all of these people for this?" she fretted.
Even now, she wishes that she could write a letter that would adequately express her gratitude. But she knows that the best thanks is to keep putting one foot in front of the other, to keep showing that she can make it.
That's also the best way to honor Kurt.
"He was not a guy that would get knocked down," she said. "He didn't pout. It was God, Kurt and my kids that I wanted to shine through in this.
"I wanted to make him proud."
On those days after the crash when she didn't want to get out of bed, she would pretend that she was playing basketball again and that the clock was winding down.
"OK, you gotta get out bed."
"Gotta get up when you get to one."
She had to beat the buzzer.
Then, she would think back to Kurt coaching that first team in Kansas City.
"Take a five-minute segment, Shelley," she could hear him saying. "You can do this."
Then, he pushed it out a bit more.
"OK, now you can do one hour. One hour at a time. Don't look into next week. Just one hour."
Then, a bit more.
"OK, half a day."
Then, more.
"OK, a day."
Early on, when people would say, "We need to get together for lunch next week," Shelley would tell them that they'd have to call her next week. She had to first get through that week, that day, that hour.
She had to get through that next five-minute segment.
"I definitely heard Kurt's voice," she said, "kind of coaching me along."
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Shelley Budke went to every Cowgirl game at Gallagher-Iba Arena last season.
She was drawn to them.
"Those first couple games ... I knew Kurt was there," she said. "I just had to be there. That's where I felt close.
"But as the season went on, it got tough."
It wasn't the empty seats on the bench. It wasn't the banner memorializing the crash victims that hangs from the rafters. It wasn't the sometimes tearful hugs that she got from the players after every game.
It was the countdown.
Much like the game she played on those days she didn't want to get out of bed, Shelley knew the buzzer was going to go off.
"It got really hard as the season went on because I knew that was coming to an end for me," she said.
She paused, tears rolling down her cheeks and emotions catching in her throat.
"When you've done something that long and you know it's never going to be the same ... it was just hard. It got really hard at the end."
The Cowgirls prolonged it as much as they could. They made a six-game run through the Women's NIT that culminated with a championship on a crisp Saturday last March.
Shelley was there, of course, and as the players and coaches were climbing the ladder and cutting down the net, Shelley found out they wanted her to be the last one wielding the scissors.
The net she cut down that afternoon is now among her most prized possessions.
This season, though, she isn't planning to go to any Cowgirl games.
"For several reasons," she said. "It's hard. It's a reminder. It's kind of like pouring salt in the wound right now.
"But also, it's Jim's team now," she said of Littell, who was named head coach. "I don't want to pull anything away from him and his staff."
And yet, she's still so close to some of the players. They supported each other after the crash. They texted. They called. They cared.
How can she not go watch them play?
All of it is a work in progress, really.
"I feel like I'm finally being able to feel again," Shelley said.
She sat at the family's kitchen table where morning sunlight streamed through a nearby window.
In the kitchen, on a cabinet near the crosses and the pictures of the kids and Miranda, hangs one of those photo calendars; all of the pictures are of Kurt. The one for November is a shot of him outside. The sun is hitting his face in such a way that it looks like he's glowing orange.
"You're just numb for so long," Shelley said. "The healing process has started, and I think it will continue. It will never go away."
"But I believe it's gonna be doable."
Win the next five minutes.
She's already won so much more.
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Task group launched for bizwoman's abduction-A A +A
By Bong Garcia
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
THE police have activated Task Group "Michelle" to address the abduction of businesswoman Michelle Panes, 36, from a west coast village of Zamboanga City.
Designated as the head the task group is the Zamboanga City Police Office (ZCPO) deputy for operations. [READ: Gunmen seize bizwoman in Labuan, Zamboanga]
ZCPO director Senior Superintendent Angelito Casimiro said he will act as the task group commander since he doesn't have a deputy for operations.
Panes and her husband, Noel, were seized by gunmen clad in camouflage uniforms that entered the victims' grocery store and pretended to be customers around 7:45 p.m. Monday at Purok 5 in the village of Labuan, 36 kilometers west of this city.
The victims were dragged to the shore, which is less than a hundred meters away from the grocery store, and was forced to board on one of the two waiting motorized boats.
However, Noel managed to escape when responding policemen from Police Station 10 arrived and engaged in a shootout with the gunmen.
The gunmen fled towards the direction of Zamboanga del Norte.
Casimiro said the case remains an abduction citing there was no ransom demand yet from the gunmen, who were believed to be kidnap-for-ransom-group.
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Although the 3G version of Samsung Galaxy Note II is already available in Australia, the 4G LTE model has yet to make its entrance on the market.
There's no official confirmation on LTE Galaxy Note II's availability in Australia, but AusDroid has it from a tipster that Optus will be the one to offer the smartphone in the country.
According to the latest hearsay, the Australian carrier has already tested the LTE Galaxy Note II and hope to be able to launch it on the market sometime in December.
It's unclear if the LTE variant of Samsung Galaxy Note II will be an Optus exclusive or additional carriers will offer it in the next few months. Anyway, rumor has it that the smartphone will eventually make it to Australian shore by the end of the year.
Obviously, it's too early to talk about pricing options, but we suspect the smartphone will be priced a bit higher than the 3G version, which is currently available for 650 AUD (660 USD or 510 EUR) outright.
However, the Galaxy Note II was initially priced at 840 AUD (855 USD or 655 EUR) off-contract, so the 4G LTE model may be priced around the same amount.
The LTE-enabled Samsung Galaxy Note II was spotted for the first time at IFA 2012 trade fair back in late August. From what we noticed, there is no difference between the 3G and 4G versions when it comes to design.
In fact, aside from offering LTE connectivity, the Galaxy Note II LTE does not come with anything new in comparison with the global version.
Samsung Galaxy Note II LTE is likely to be shipped with the same Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean operating system out of the box. In addition, the smartphone will be equipped with a 1.6 GHz quad-core processor, 16GB of internal memory and 2GB of RAM.


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NEW YORK (AP) — NBA owners apparently weren't bluffing when they said they wanted competitive balance just as much as a chance to profit.
Though Commissioner David Stern and Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver have insisted throughout the lockout they needed the potential for both in a new collective bargaining agreement, there was often a belief — even from players — that money mattered most.
Yet it was the salary cap system, not the division of revenues, that emerged as the biggest obstacle to a new labor deal in time to save the start of the regular season.
"The numbers are close enough that that wasn't going to doom the season. The hard salary cap is what's going to doom the season right now," players' attorney Jeffrey Kessler said Monday. "That's the sticking point, because the numbers are close enough that if there was a fair system, the parties would find a way to get there."
That's not what union president Derek Fisher had predicted less than a month earlier.
Talks had broken down after a meeting in September in which players were prepared to make a new economic proposal, but the league said players conditioned it on owners conceding on the salary cap.
It was clear the union believed management was prioritizing the financial picture when Fisher said afterward that "if we can address these economics, we're not going to lose the season over the system. So that's something that's been clear from the beginning and will remain from our perspective."
The split was never settled, but both sides say they see where compromise could be reached. Players had proposed lowering their guarantee of basketball revenues from 57 percent down to 53, which they said would transfer more than $1 billion to owners over six years. But in doing so, they expected something in return.
"I think where our paths separate is that they believe to the extent they're willing to make economic concessions that we should be willing to leave the current system largely intact, and our view is that the current system is broken in that 30 teams are not in a position to compete for championships," Silver said Monday after the league canceled the first two weeks of the regular season.
The league's view is that teams willing to keep spending above the luxury tax level have an advantage over teams with payroll constraints. And indeed, teams such as the Lakers and Mavericks, who won the last three NBA titles, are annually among the top spenders.
So owners want a system under which teams with means can't keep blowing off the cap. Their initial proposal was for a hard salary cap like the NFL has, removing the exceptions that NBA teams possess to spend above the cap.
Players rejected that and the league has since focused on strengthening the luxury tax to deter spenders. But players believe it would become so restrictive, saying in some cases the current $1 for every $1 over the threshold penalty would become $6 or higher, that it would act as a hard cap. And the sides are also clashing over the Bird exception, which allows teams to exceed the cap to re-sign their own free agents.
"And we just said 'Wait a minute, you're creating a hard system. You're creating a hard-cap system and we've said to you that's the one thing we don't want,"' union executive director Billy Hunter said.
Players fear that a hard cap would eliminate guaranteed contracts for all but the top players. And they disagree that making teams spend equally would determine how well they compete.
"As athletes we don't believe that competitive balance is completely decided by an economic system or how much payroll exists on one team or another," Fisher said. "We believe that there are tons of other variables that impact success on the court, so we cannot just address competitive balance through the control or reduction or lower percentage of player salary or a hard tax system that essentially prevents most if not all teams into going into the tax. Those things don't create basketball wins by themselves."
The system emerged as such a difficult issue that the sides spent all of their last two meetings discussing it, never getting back to the split before Stern's deadline for canceling games. Soon after came word the unexpected reason for their failure.
"That did surprise me. Both sides said publicly that the holdup is the system. I thought for sure the big deal was the BRI either made us or broke us," said Anthony Tolliver, the Minnesota Timberwolves' player representative.
The sides have discussed a 50-50 revenue split, so perhaps settlement on the finances is there. But that won't be good enough.
"While we understand their position, we understand change is difficult, it makes no sense for us to operate under the current model where taxpayers, especially those taxpayers who are willing to spend $10, $20 (million) and often even more money above the average team in this league has a huge advantage over the other teams," Silver said.
AP Sports Writer Jon Krawczynski in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
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Clearing the automatic reminder when a task is entered
Is it possible to prevent an automatic reminder from being set when entering a task?
For example, can I enter <no reminder> or some other phrase when entering a task to prevent a reminder from being set?
Thank you.
All responses
Related question: when entering a reminder for a new task and setting a due date, two reminders are set --- the default 30 minutes before due date reminder and the reminder I set using <remind...>.
Is there a way to prevent the automatic reminder from being set when I enter a reminder in the task name?
Hi Bill,
Unless you have notifications turned off there is not currently a way to remove the automatic reminder when entering a task. You can Go to the web -> Settings -> Reminders and select "no default reminder" but that will be the same for all created tasks. Remember that reminders are only set if you have a time set, if you enter a date only, there is no reminder for it.
You can instead, click the gear icon next to the task, and click "reminders" and remove the reminder from there.
As for the second question, you can follow the same steps and remove or add the reminders you would like from there.


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As a few suggestions were made concerning his media appearances, Vogel said, "Before I commit to that, let me ask you this: Is that going to upset our guys?"
As he steps into his first head coaching role, replacing the dismissed Jim O'Brien, Vogel seems to have his players' interest at the forefront. ...


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Your application is your first "test" for employment. The quality of your presentation, including your responses to the supplemental questions, will affect your success in moving forward in the selection process.
NOTE: OPEN UNTIL FILLED - Applications reviewed on receipt
Reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer, this position will be responsible for managing, monitoring and maintaining the Information Technology architecture supporting the production environment(s) of the college. This includes ensuring all tasks are completed either personally or through subordinate staff members.
This position will direct and coordinate the activities of technology staff, and a number of students, engaged in provisioning servers/mass storage supporting the college, hardware/operating systems support, desktop/thin client support for administration, faculty and students, and production network(s). This position will be responsible for managing subordinate supervisors who supervise employees in several functional groups and for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of these groups.
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Hey there,
So as you have seen over the past few days I have been shooting videos for our new Micro Viral Marketing Product.
Now this won't be launched for a while yet as we have nearly 6 hours of footage to edit just for the main content! Then we have to build the customer portal, the support system and test everything to breaking!
In the mean time I will be aiming to blog a lot more frequently on here with some more great free advice like I used to in the early days of this blog.
I thought I would start that off today with something that I see a lot.
People starting what they call an online business in their spare time but not really doing it as a business.
I see this all over the place in the world of online marketing and it really saddens me because these people generally have great potential but they just don't take it seriously.
I know exactly how they feel though as I was in the same place a while ago.
I thought that by putting up a website and doing the bare minimum amount of work would make me a shed load of money.
Building and running an online business takes time effort and a certain amount of money.
Now the amount of money you invest is almost the direct inverse proportion to the amount of time you can put into your business.
You can either build it fairly quickly if you invest a lot of money on outsourcing the parts you don't know to other people or you can take the slower route of building it all yourself with no money invested and try to learn everything yourself to be able to do it all.
In the early days I spent probably 3-4 years learning everything I could without taking action on much of it at all. If I did take action it wouldn't last. I would find out a new technique of making money and then try it for a few days or a couple of weeks and then when I didn't make anything from it I would give up.
Now I'm sure most of you have read Think And Grow Rich and specifically the chapter called three feet from gold. If not I will quickly summarize it here…
Three Feet From Gold
There was someone in America that decided to make his fortune mining for gold. He found somewhere there was gold in the ground and invested a lot of capital in mining equipment. For a while the going was good, then all of a sudden the vein dried up and they weren't getting anything. He had someone he knew come out to survey the land and they told him there was no more gold there. They shut up shop and that was that.
However a local farmer (I think that's who it was I am writing this from memory rather than referencing directly) went back to the site after they had cleared out and he had an expert cast his eye on the site. What that expert discovered was that the vein hadn't stopped but the was a fault in it and it was just three feet to the side of where they had stopped mining it.
That farmer needless to say became VERY WEALTHY from mining the rest of the vein and the original prospectors ended up penniless.
Now I have just recounted that story from memory so forgive me if there are mistakes in it but you get the idea I'm sure.
Never give up until you have exhausted all options and avenues.
If you truly believe in your project and it is a proven model then there will pretty much always be something you can change that will help you achieve the success you are looking for.
Now back to the main point of this post.
If you are running your online business as more of a hobby then you are way more likely to give up three feet from gold than to go out and get that second opinion on what you are doing, shift your perspective and MAKE IT HAPPEN!
So whether you are just looking for an extra bit of cash to pay for the extravagancies of life or if you are looking to quit your job and work for yourself full time I really urge you to treat it as a business from the start.
- Setup a business officially
- Get a business bank account
- Speak to professionals in and around the industry you are entering
- Do your SWOT and PEST analysis'
and most importantly when you are working on your business
I have learned this the hard way so you don't have to.
When you start a project make sure you see it through to the end. Set targets for yourself and your team and meet them
Keep yourself accountable, do regular review on the project and don't give up until you have had a second, third and fourth opinion.
You can never know what fresh eyes will see on a project. That is why in broadcast news they have a 'Red Team' who are kept in the dark during the research of the story until all the facts have been gathered. They then come in and try to pick holes in the story to see if it still holds water (I may have learned that from 'The Newsroom' rather than my experience in television broadcasting).
I hope you have got a lot out of this post, I would love to hear your feedback on this so leave me a comment with your thoughts. I read and reply to all of them myself.
Speak soon


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Galilee Diary #575, May 23, 2012
Marc Rosenstein
On the third new moon after the Israelites had gone forth
from the land of Egypt, on that very day, they entered the wilderness
of Sinai.
-Exodus 19:1
The holiday of Shavuot, as it is described in the Torah (Numbers
28:26) is a harvest festival, when "first fruits" are brought as an
offering in the Temple. It has no historical referent, its timing was
set according to the counting off of seven weeks from the second day of
Pesach. However, the rabbis of the Talmud somehow (creatively, it seems)
calculated that the date coincided with the giving of the Torah at Mt.
Sinai, and so it took on the additional meaning of the holiday of the
giving of the Torah and that is how it is described in the traditional
secular Israeli culture it is associated with the color white, with
dairy foods, and with greenery: kindergarten children come to school the
day before Shavuot dressed in white with crowns of leaves. A
permutation of Mayday, I suspect. In any case, for those who don't go to
synagogue, it is a day off, and the weather is usually conducive to
excursions in nature or to the beach. The unexplained tradition of
eating dairy foods has become a kind of obsession fueled by
advertising. A generation ago, the kibbutz custom of holding a parade
celebrating the first fruits of the fields (and of the plastics
factories and of the baby nursery) was well-known, and an attraction
for city visitors. These still exist, but today are seen more as quaint
than as a moving symbol of our return to the land.
The medieval custom, the "Tikkun Leyl Shavuot" staying up all night
to study Torah has long been observed, mostly in Orthodox communities
around the world, as a way of connecting with the Sinai component of
the holiday. We spent a couple of years in Jerusalem in the 70s, and
looked forward every year to the experience of wandering the city all
night, tikkun-hopping until we got to the Western Wall in time for a
sunrise service and then walked home to collapse. The density of
religious communities and scholars in Jerusalem made that experience
uniquely possible. There were enthusiastic conversations before and
after, as people gave tips on where was cool and what had been boring
(the recent Israeli movie "Footnote" has a scene making fun of this
aspect of Jerusalem culture).
Since then, the tikkun has become a mass phenomenon all over the
country, and the week before Shavuot is packed with pre-holiday tikkunim
at community centers and schools, libraries and other institutions,
enriched by musical performances and focusing on a broad variety of
themes from the heavy to the light (the food, on the other hand, tends
to be only heavy). Of course, one can criticize this fad for a certain
amount of kitschiness and trivialization. However, it seems to me that
it is a wonderful example of the way culture develops, sometimes in
surprising directions. The belief that God indeed appeared on Mt. Sinai
and revealed ten or 613 commandments is not exactly universally
accepted by the participants in all these tikkunim. But that doesn't
stop increasing numbers of us from gathering on the anniversary of that
alleged revelation to explore together the rich tradition Torah in the
broadest sense that somehow got started on that day. For the early
20th century pioneers, the return to agriculture was a kind of
redemption, and so the restoration of the harvest festival was a
powerful symbol. But just as in the rabbinic period the day took on a
meaning connected to revelation, so too in modern Israel, the land
itself has turned out to be not enough many Israelis are seeking the
spiritual and moral dimensions in their Jewish identity, and are taking
advantage of the resources of the tradition in new-old ways to find
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The glam pirate zen preschool.
For grown-ups!
The Playground.
The Playground is a hidden, charming, slightly magical and extremely awesome center for play!
In Portland, Oregon.
It is also sometimes a pirate ship. On the mostly metaphorical high seas. A place to hide, create, refuel, and invent.
We have hammocks and napping and costumes and snacks!
People come from all over the world. To play. They bring a project, a wish, a dream or simply the desire to find out who they are when they are in a state of peaceful, curious, glee-filled discovery.
Come for the creative flow and the hot buttered epiphanies. And come back for the Refueling Station.
What happens at the Playground?
You play with your projects. You play with your stuff. You explore. You destuckify.
Magic. Voyages. You get things done. You get things undone.
You look for clews. You puzzle all the puzzles. You read and color and stretch and try things.
You find out what you're like in an environment of shelter, exploration, freedom and delight.
And when no one inside your head is yelling "ASS IN CHAIR! GET BACK TO WORK!"
You get an outrageous amount of high-quality work done despite the lack of whip-cracking.
You discover hidden superpowers. You make un-fun things pleasurable and light-hearted.
You remember the incredible things that you already knew when you were small.
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"In one case, they took the complainant and his girlfriend and they forced them in his car at gunpoint, took them to the ATM, took money out and then came back went in their house and took property."
Lt. Jeff Stauber is with the Harris County Sheriff's Department. He wouldn't say exactly how they caught the suspects, but says they had plenty of witnesses who cooperated.
"We were able to develop suspects from witnesses while we were recovering property."
Lt. Stauber says the robberies were committed by two different sets of people. It appears to be a coincidence that they were committing the same types of robberies in the same area at the same time. Stauber says they have a total of five people in custody. Three are adults and two are juveniles.
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Thanks. So, any word on Delaroca?
Thanks. So, any word on Delaroca?
He's doing time. If you want to know specifics, e-mail Da-Chief or myself. Fair warning though, it isn't good. It's quite sad really.
I was stationed with Delaroca when he was the SMDR at 1/4 on Horno. I showed up to work one day and he was gone. some other chief replaced him. No one could give me a straight answer as to what happened. My Marines gave me more answers than my BAS. if you could please e-mail me the details, I would appreciate it.
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Lenape mythology is based on polytheism.
Kishelemukong is the creator god, not involved in the daily affairs of the Lenape. Instead, he directed the manitowak, the life-spirits of all living things, which were created by Kishelemukong. The manitowak were venerated in ceremonies, rituals, dreams, visions, games and ohtas (see below), as well as through the interventions of the Metinuwak, who were healers, spiritual and emotional guides, and religious leaders; they could communicate with the manitowak.
An ohta is a wooden doll carved annually and that were said to have remarkable powers of healing and luck.
A nianque is an animal guide, such as in a vision quest.
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- Harrington, Mark (1921). Religion and Ceremonies of the Lenape. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1921.
- Lenik, Edward (2002). Picture Rocks: American Indian Rock Art in the Northeast Woodlands. UPNE. ISBN 1-58465-197-0.
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Use a simple white basin from the dollar store to create your own Christmas party centerpiece. This is a great way to keep your delicious treats fresh and tasty! This Seasonal Dollar Store Centerpiece from Candace Jedrowicz is whimsical and so easy to make.
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- Narrow garland – 9′ – I used a red rope garland
- Accent garland – 5′ – I used a plastic bell garland
- Greens – 8 small pieces – I used glittery green berries
- Ornament for the top handle – I chose a wire heart
- Turn the basin over and sand the outside to a matte finish.
- Drill two holes in the center to wire the ornament/handle to the basin. Wrap the wires together on the inside of the basin.
- Use a pencil to mark opposite edges, in half first, then quarters, then eighths.
- Place two Tacky Dots (one on the edge and one just below it). Attach the accent garland allowing it to drape between attachments.
- Cut off excess and attach the ends.
- Pick up one bell at a time to attach the red garland, draping just below the gold garland.
- Use the Tacky Tape Runner to hold the draped garland in place.
- Use Aleene's Tacky Quick Dry Glue to fasten a double thickness of red garland in the rim of the basin.
- Use Aleene's Tacky Dots to attach the greens to the top of the bells.
- Glue red garland around the top edges.
- I added swirls, stripes and dots of glitter glue to complete the iced cake look.
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Obama's National Security 'Not Top 10′ of 2011
Making the Carter administration look brilliant!
December 31, 2011 - 12:00 am
(See last year's "Not Top 10″ here.)
Here you go, in chronological order:
1) President Obama claims Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood lacks major support (February 6)
During Obama's Super Bowl interview with Bill O'Reilly, Egypt was in the midst of a revolution that eventually led to the ouster of longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Obama was asked about whether the Muslim Brotherhood was a threat. He responded:
I think they're one faction in Egypt. They don't have majority support in Egypt. But they're well organized. There are strains of their ideology that are anti-U.S. There's no doubt about it.
He went on to claim that there are many secularists and liberals in Egypt that wanted representative government. The rest of the administration followed suit, with Daniel Shapiro of the National Security Council assuring Jewish groups on a conference call that the Muslim Brotherhood would "be a minor player in Egyptian politics." New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof also pointed to questionable polls claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood only received 15 percent support.
As we've seen in recent weeks, the president was completely wrong in his assessment (as were the administration flacks and media lapdogs who parroted the president's claims). In the first two rounds of elections, the Muslim Brotherhood has come out on top, and with their Salafist Al-Nour allies, they aim to control the Egyptian parliament with a significant legislative majority — possibly enough to rewrite the country's constitution. In the first round, they secured 37 percent of the seats; in the second round, they won 47 percent of the seats up for grabs.
Now, the Obama administration's think-tank allies are spinning the Muslim Brotherhood's electoral success by assuring the Beltway's "smart set" that the group is savvy and politically flexible, meaning there's nothing for us to fear.
How did Obama miscalculate so poorly on the Muslim Brotherhood's support in Egypt? Well, that brings us to …
2) Director of National Intelligence James Clapper tells Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood is a "largely secular" group (February 10)
Just a few days after Obama claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood lacked major support in Egypt, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper went before the House Intelligence Committee and was asked by Rep. Sue Myrick about the organization. He gave this response:
The term "Muslim Brotherhood" … is an umbrella term for a variety of movements, in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried al-Qaeda as a perversion of Islam. … They have pursued social ends, a betterment of the political order in Egypt, et cetera. … In other countries, there are also chapters or franchises of the Muslim Brotherhood, but there is no overarching agenda, particularly in pursuit of violence, at least internationally.
Catcalls poured in from all quarters. Richard Engel on MSNBC called Clapper's comments "a wild misreading of the organization." Sen. Mark Kirk expressed his concern about Clapper's remarks and the Obama administration's position with respect to the Muslim Brotherhood. ABC News noted that the State Department's own background note on Egypt described the Brotherhood as a "potent political and religious force." Even FBI Director Robert Mueller, who was testifying with Clapper, had to add: "Obviously, elements of the Muslim Brotherhood here and overseas have supported terrorism." This put the lie to Clapper's claims that they had "eshewed violence" (e.g., Hamas).
It wasn't even the close of business that day when Clapper's spokesman issued a "clarification" of the director's remarks.
What is important about this episode is that Clapper was not speaking off-the-cuff, but was reading verbatim from a set of written briefing notes that had been prepared by the top intelligence analysts in the intelligence community. They had apparently ignored (unlike PJ Media's Barry Rubin) that the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood had declared war on the U.S. just a few months before, just as the Clinton administration ignored al-Qaeda's declaration of war in 1998.
As we continue to see the Middle East devolve into fundamentalist Islamic totalitarianism over the next year — perhaps the worst foreign policy disaster in the past century — we can be reminded that the U.S. intelligence community not only didn't see it coming but actively aided in the collapse by blinding policy makers to the reality of the Muslim Brotherhood's agenda.
3) Osama bin Laden buried by U.S. military in accordance with Islamic traditions (May 2)
The Obama administration eviscerated a decade's worth of (admittedly misguided) U.S. strategic communications that said Osama bin Laden had hijacked Islam by burying him in accordance with Islamic law.
After the deed had been done, Obama's national security adviser John Brennan gave a briefing to the White House press corps where he claimed: "The disposal of — the burial of bin Laden's remains was done in strict conformance with Islamic precepts and practices. It was prepared in accordance with the Islamic requirements." Brennan explained that bin Laden's funeral had been conducted by a U.S. military Muslim chaplain (no word if the Muslim chaplain involved was one of those hand-picked by al-Qaeda financier Abdurahman Alamoudi on behalf of the Defense Department, or one trained by al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki). The Navy's service for Islamic burial also includes a petition that Allah forgive the sins of the deceased, and provide a nice house and a better wife.
But that didn't assuage prominent Islamic scholars from around the world, who complained that bin Laden's burial at sea did violate Islamic law. In response, the Islamic scholars at the White House doubled-down, insisting that he had been buried according to Islamic tradition.
There was hardly any public discussion about the ramifications to the years of strategic communication by both the Bush and Obama administrations that insisted that Osama bin Laden had "hijacked Islam" and operated outside bounds of Islamic teaching. In one simple act the Obama administration confirmed what the U.S. government had repeatedly denied for almost a decade.
4) Pentagon overrules field commanders, grants Private Naser Jason Abdo conscientious objector status just weeks before his arrest for planning terror attack on fellow soldiers (May)
When Naser Abdo was arrested in Killeen, Texas, on July 27 just outside the gates of Fort Hood — the location of Major Nidal Hasan's massacre two years before — it should have set off alarm bells at the Pentagon. The deputy assistant secretary of the Army had overruled Abdo's field commanders, including the commander of the 101st Airborne, in granting conscientious objector status to Abdo just a few weeks before. Abdo would have received an honorable discharge, had it not been for an outstanding child porn charge that he was facing a court martial hearing on.
Abdo went AWOL from Fort Campbell on the July 4 weekend, only to reappear planning his terror attack at Fort Hood a few weeks later. In a recent jailhouse interview with a Nashville TV station, Abdo admitted that he had initially planned on abducting, torturing, and killing on camera one of his superiors at Fort Campbell, but when he was questioned about his visits to a local gun store by Army investigators, he went AWOL and redirected his terror attack plans.
The Pentagon had plenty of warning that Abdo was trouble. After his arrest, a member of his basic training platoon, Sgt. Michael Payton, appeared on Fox News and described the anti-American and anti-Semitic statements Abdo would make. He added that Abdo would harass a Jewish soldier in the platoon. Abdo was later kicked out of a Pashto language school.
As I noted here at PJ Media just days after he had been granted conscientious objector status, many of the statements he had publicly made parroted those made by Major Hasan. Other groups were aware of his extremist views and refused to support his conscientious objector claims, and his case was opposed by at least one Islamic organization.
That didn't stop Abdo from being the darling of the establishment media, with his plight given coverage by CNN, Al-Jazeera, ABC News, and the New York Times (the Times story has apparently been removed from their website). His cause was also championed by Iraq Veterans Against the War and the Muslim American Society.
After his arrest, several anti-war organizations attempted to scrub their association with Abdo from their respective websites. Unfortunately for the Pentagon, their ruling in his favor as a conscientious objector will be harder to scrub away.