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Aaron, Thanks for your input. Creativity and imagination are truely the foundation of any succesfull endevour. Read "Think and Grow Rich` if you have`nt already and put the plans of success into action. Stay positive and see you at the top!
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Thanks Craig. Let me try to explain what i`m doing without spilling the beans so to speak. I want to open a business in the personal care industry. Those performing the work will be attractive women. I have a name / logo/ theme to go with my business. I then found out a franchise exists providing the same service also using attractive women.Thats where the similarities end. My name/brand is unrelated to theirs. They have a different theme than I do. Like you said, How can Hooters take ownership of "women in tight shirts" and own the process of "serving food and beverages". There are so many franchises out there doing exactly the same thing.McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy`s all sell burgers. KFC, Popeyes, and Boston Market all sell chicken. Avis and Hertz all rent cars. You get the point. With that being said, Is it a matter of "how" they sell the product that makes the difference? McDonalds and Burger king both use mascots. Same product, both have a mascot , but each have a different theme. I can relate with what you said about Hooters and Shooters. That scenario reminds me of the Eddie Murphey movie "Coming to America" .Eddie worked at a burger place called McDowells.They didnt have the Golden Arches like McDonalds. The had the Golden Arcs. I can see why that would be an infringement on a trademark. Anyway, thats the scoop.I will keep on doing my due dillegence and see what happens. If anyone else has any input on this , please feel free to share. Thanks for your help! Joe (TheJoeZone)TheJoeZone2009-6-12 9:3:28
June 11, 2009 1:50 PM EDT
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Thanks for your input Chris. I will check out the link you sent. After checking out my "competition`s" website I see that they have had an interview on The Big Idea with Donny Deutch. Still, this does not deter me or scare me off. It actually gives me confidence that my idea will work. I just hope that legally i`m still allowed to pursue it. Again, I dont see why I cant, but then again I`m very new at this . And too be honest , although we share the same idea, mine has a slightley different spin to it. For example, Does Hooters own the rights to having hot girls serve wings n beer? Or can someone else do the same thing?
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Thanks for your input Elements. I guess what i`m asking is- Can I use the same concept. For example,If I started a car wash where the employees were hot girls in bikinis and I found out someone else was doing it in a franchise setting, can I by rights still do the same? I would think so, but not sure. Is there a law against copy catting? Although I think both parties have similar ideas, they did come out with it first. Just want to be sure I can still pursue my dream as well. I`m not afraid of competition!TheJoeZone2009-6-11 18:10:53
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I have a business concept that I thought of several years ago. It is in the personal care service industry. I think the idea is great and would like to open one and then franchise it. I think it would would be very successfull. And I was right! In doing my "homework" I found out that another has beat be to the punch. They are doing pretty much the same thing I wanted to do. So tell me, Can I still do what I wanted even though someone else is doing it? McDonalds & Burger King both exist doing the same thing, right? Is there room for competition or this a case of "you snooze -you lose" ? They say they have 350 franchises, but I never heard of them.There are none in my state , They seem to be located in the Southeast and Southwest areas. I`m more N.Y.C.area. Does one own a concept or can they only own the name? Help is appreciated. Joe (TheJoeZone)TheJoeZone2009-6-11 15:44:4
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My whole life my father has done his best to drill certain lessons into me, to pass along some of his hard won knowledge to make my journey wiser and easier than his. As I started building a business he was always tell me to "focus on what you know," a lesson that has served me well over the years. It is also a concept I subscribe to in general. To do what you do best. This concept is also something in practice at a company I have become very interested in, Slowear.
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Preparation1. Stir together lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon salt, oil and shake to blend.
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Great British label Fashion Records – responsible for some of the UK's finest reggae records, from 'Cockney Translation' to 'The Stopper' – is finally getting its back catalogue digitally re-released. They're starting out by releasing 10 of their albums, including the brilliant Heat, Rumble in the Jungle and a clash between Tippa Irie & Papa San.
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I can't see the pic yet, but that sounds amazing! You pretty much had me at "melted wheel of brie."
So...this totally happened last night, and I am in no way ashamed. Was inspired by a recipe from the Facebook page "Occupy Bacon." Anyways, here it is--melted wheel of brie, topped with bacon that was cooked with butter, pecans, bourbon and a bit of maple syrup:
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I can't see the pic yet, but that sounds amazing! You pretty much had me at "melted wheel of brie."
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Wow! That looks and sounds amazing! I've never had Brie before. Do you eat it by itself with a spoon or dip it with something?
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We, the management committee of CFI, believe it is appropriate to confirm that Ms. Hensley is suffering from PTSD. Among other reasons, both Ms. Hensley and CFI receive comments on a regular basis that assert or imply that Ms. Hensley's statements that she has PTSD must be false. For example, just the other day, CFI received a communication stating "Your organization is terrible for having people on its staff that claim to have PTSD from Twitter!" Some communications on this issue, especially those directed to Ms. Hensley, have themselves been abusive and harassing.
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You may recognize Rick Genest, also known as Zombie Boy, from Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" video or those incredible Dermablend ads. He's Nicola Formichetti's muse, and has covered several magazines. This guy has ink from his head (or, rather, exposed brain) to his toes, and the fashion industry industry is completely enamored with him.
WWD recently sat down with Genest to find out about the man behind the tats, and he told them all about getting inked and the origins of the body art that he calls his "project". "I got my first tattoo, an outline of a skull and crossbones, when I was 16," he said. "I'd always wanted tattoos. I'd see them on the bus or on TV or in movies." He went on to say, "If I get a couple of weeks off I'll go get more. I've got a couple of blank spots, I've got to finish my project. It develops, you know, with time." He guesses that his body is about 80 percent covered so far, and he says that his ears, throat, nose, eyes, and pressure points were the most painful to get done.
He also spoke about how he lived on the streets with his friends before Formichetti discovered him, and about his love of the circus — he now has a traveling act with those same friends that he calls Lucifer's Blasphemous Mad Macabre Torture Carnival. "I've got to learn how to do stilts," he said. "I want to stilt walk." Despite having been invited to fashion weeks around the world and posing in ad campaigns for both Thierry Mugler and Auslander, he knows that the circus is where he belongs: "When the fashion show is over, I want to go back to the circus."
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
THE Chinese New Year always brings with it a wealth of predictions from practitioners of the ancient Chinese art of feng shui, along with traditional Chinese practices for the New Year, including a general housecleaning in order to shoo away the bad and to welcome the good in the coming year.
For feng shui practitioner Ding Lu Torrefranca, brown and green are lucky colors for the year, as well as red, yellow and orange. White and blue colors are to be avoided.
And the preferred gems are tiger eye, "eight auspicious" jade and mystic nut jade, for never-ending success, long life and health and wealth.
According to Torrefranca, the feng shui flying star directions will have the following luck:
For southeast (dragon and snake), there are high chances for bickering, conflicts, and disagreements, in extreme cases resulting in law suits.
The southwest direction (sheep, monkey), is in an auspicious sector for academic and scholarly pursuits and research, as well as for travel and romance.
The west direction (rooster) can expect a career advancement or work recognition and enhanced social connections. However, abrupt complications are possible, too.
The northeast direction (ox, tiger) will have frequent emotional turbulence; medical complications may occur and intense rivalry may abound in the workplace.
The east (rabbit) is the illness sector and serious health complications may occur. On the positive side, there will be property and real estate gains.
The northwest direction (dog, pig), is the most negative sector of the year. Avoid this area or keep it quiet and inactive.
The north (rat) is the secondary wealth sector. Promotions, new ventures and general good news and opportunities are possible.
The south (horse sign) is the primary wealth sector of the year, with good financial returns in career or business.
Metal and water elements are bad luck for those who have these elements in their signs.
Torrefranca's predictions: three ships will sink and three planes will crash during the year. South Cebu will have enhanced opportunity for wealth while north Cebu will be good in terms of travel and good health and in the authority of a public official.
Cebu City will focus on education, and woman power will rise. Mindanao will have more calamities from typhoons and heavy rains causing more flooding, Manila will also be having flood problems and viral infections.
President Aquino's administration will be shaken with more scandals that will come out into the open. A dormant, undersea volcano off Camiguin may erupt.
In Cebu, the businesses to prosper are fashion/clothing, furniture, airlines and restaurants, electronic gadgets, and real estate and publications.
In Cebu, the businesses to prosper are fashion/clothing, furniture, airlines and restaurants, electronic gadgets, and real estate and publications.
Some people sincerely believe in these predictions. Others are skeptical about it.
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Date: October 17, 2012
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the truth is the american standard of morality has fallen very far.
it's not. being gay serves NO practical or biological purpose. a gay family cannot procreate because its not physically possible so whats the point of having a family? isnt it to raise a child? i know some hetero couples cant procreate do to some medical reason but i think we can assume that is a different issue and irrelevant.
gay men have colons that fall out, they get enemas so they dont see poop while doing what they do. thats not natural.
in a marriage between gays it is much more difficult for a child to learn their gender roles. it is easy to confuse a child through improper models, they mimic what they see.
Christians cant even agree what is the most basic of docterine and you have the nerve to call me close minded?
Jebus died on the cross for us is the most basic belief? Really? So what about God (being the one true god as you belive)? That must be part of the equasions because you cant have one without the other?
There isnt just 1 rule and you know it! You have a preset bunch of beliefs that allow you to fall into the christian catagory. "
christ clearly stated that our christian beliefs/moral duties consist of 2 simple directions:1. love God above all else2.love thy neighbor as you love yourself
it sounds vague but if you think about it, if you love God above all things you would not do something to anger/hurt him. and if you loved your neighbor (neighbor = everyone around you, everyone in general) you wouldnt do anything to hurt them aswell.
I think this says a lot about religion.
I think gay marriage is okay as long as it is a legal agreement and not a religious one. Churches are not required to wed anyone they do not want to anyways.
Way to go IAB'ers. And i mean WOW
Hetrosexual's are EVIL. Being gay will save the planet.
Plus, how does being gay and getting married hurt anyone.
Supersmash, I hear you. We're kindred spirits in that regard. And not all of us are spewing bile against Christians in general (glares at Madest).
At a poor attempt to get back on topic, my statement is very similar to yours and goes like this:
"It's just that when I saw all the hatred certain people were spewing towards homosexuality, I felt I needed to take a stand. I would have done the same for any minority group."
Exactly my point.
Luckily though, most religious people have strong convictions that cannot be swayed by playground style bullying aimed at them by those who wish to break them down.
I apologize, I didn't mean to be insulting. However, you're assuming that I don't know what I'm talking about, when I'm practically quoting Christian theology.
And as far as Ghandi goes, I don't know where he is. If he achieved the impossible and lived up to God's standard of absolute perfection then he very well may be in Heaven. I don't think that's very likely though, and it would be unfair to the masses to lower the standard just because he was a good person. The punishment for sin is death. It's not a scale system. Saying that you should get into Heaven for your good deeds is like saying that God has to abide by your rules because you think that's the way it should be, thereby making yourself equal to God. It doesn't work that way.
So... tell me how gays will make it worse?
Word to the wise: Think for yourself on this matter. I'll bet that there are lots of things that you do on a regular basis that are against your "religion", but as soon as someone's lifestyle comes up, God forbid (no pun intended) they go against the Bible. If every sin is created equal, that cigarette you just smoked or that cross tattoo tramp stamp you just got is just as bad as the same sex marriage that you're SOOO against.
Goooo Atheism!
Maddog, get over yourself. That is wrong, wrong, wrong. You do not have to prescribe to any set of beliefs to be Christian.----------------------------------------------------
W T F? Yes you do! How the hell do you differentiate from every other religion then?
"I don't think there's a hell, you just die"
Not a very christian thing to say!
As for you ShadowSeraph! I'm 34, you are 22. You'd be suprised what I have read. Dont even go there!
"Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
You already said that you "believe that there is only one God that all religions share and that I've simply chosen Jesus as my personal path". The idea that all the Muslims, Hindus, Jews, traditional Chinese animists, pagans, Shintoists, Zoroastrians etc are all getting into heaven is not a representative Christian view.
You must remember that when you say things like that you are putting down all people who believe in an afterlife, not just Christians.
If Jesus never existed and the Bible is a bunch of bull, exactly what happened 2000 years ago? A lunatic who fooled the masses? Mass propaganda? This is not to debate, I'd just like to hear some ideas. I'm curious.
But, that question brings up a good point and it's one that simply cannot be answered. If you want to go to heaven and you do the right things, I would hope you would make it. If you don't believe in heaven and expect just to die and that's it, then not making it wouldn't be too bad. So, I don't think there's a hell, you just die.
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Just wanted to share my experience for those trolling the google for answers.
I've had a death wobble for a while now. I'll say a while, because if I say how long, I'll get flack! But it started the second I drove away from the tire shop after having them plug a hole in my tire..
I replaced the rotors and pads about 2-3 years ago. Checker/Kragen rotors, Raybestos Ceramic Red label something.. So I rulled out brakes...first thought is usually the right one....I forgot that part initially...
So my next thought was either of these:
or the fact my 40's are getting older, theyre slightly cupped and even when new, the shop couldnt get them balanced, even after sticking $30 worth of weights on each one. So many weights in fact, they hit the caliper (16" rims). Even when I went back after the plug, they tried to balance it again and same problem. So, after rotating them, the problem didnt change. So I ruled out tires.
That left me with ball joints or bearings. Neither of which is a cheap fix. More importantly, I had started to develop other more pressing issues, like a blow hpop, bad ficm, other injectors, etc. So in between break downs, I just held on tight and pressed harder on the brakes untill it stopped. Note: It only did it 75% of the time when braking. Sometimes at low speed, other times at high speed. No real patterns.
Cut forward to yesterday. I'm now a certified (through experience only) hpop ficm...You name it, master 6.0 tech Truck runs perfect so now I decide to make it stop perfect.
Jacked 1 wheel off the ground. Stuck a 1" sq steel tube under the wheel and lifted. From the front of the truck. I can see the BJ's move up and down about 1/16". Same on both sides, top and bottom. My understanding is that these should not move At ALL..? So bad bj's is my death wobble?
Pulled tires off and inspected brakes.
LF- inside pad had a clip with a busted leg on it. The pad looked like it may have popped out of the clip there and was worn more than the outside one. And at a slight angle? Plus, one of the shafts was really tight in the bore. Not frozen, like I've read about. Just real real tight.
RF- Pads looked fine. It did have 1 shaft sticking like the other side did though.
Rotors: Now we're getting somewhere..
LF - First one I inspected. Installed 2 lug nuts to hold the rotor to the hub. And spun it. First off, hub spun smooth. Felt tight. Not sure if that rules of hub axel bearings or not?? But whn the rotor spun, WOW, that was a wavy rotor! About as bad as I would expect one to be able to get..
Untill I saw the RF one! WOW WOW WOW, 3 times worse!!!
So off to get new rotors and pads. Cleaned the junk off the shaftes and from inside the bores. Re-lubed this time with caliper grease, not the bearing grease I used the first time. Take notes here!! Installed new rotors and pads. Same $60 cheapie rotors as before and some new Wagner Thermo Quiet pads. These pads have the shims built into the pad itself? Marketing? FYI: drive 60mi on em' including a romp through the desert, and they have a faint squeek that was there from the first time I hit the brakes.
So after putting it all back together. Death Wobble Destroyed. Yes, my bj's are loose or worn or moving 1/6".. I'm going to replace them. But they weren't the cause of my death wobble. Now, I wont deny, driving on the bad rotors and having death wobble may have very likely caused the bj's to go bad.. But then again, everything goes bad at some point right?
Lesson learned: Sometimes it's the worse case senario and sometimes is the best case senario. The exception or the rule? Sometimes Your hpop is blown, sometimes you're just out of fuel...
Great info Gary!!! Glad you fixed it, and really glad you shared it with us.
Thanks. I just figured it was a story worth sharing. So many threads out there that start with an OP's issue, followed by advise and then no conclusions..
Maybe this will help someone fix their truck or sleep better if nothing else!
I know I'm going to sleep better because of it!
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Emily Wharton has "braillitude."
But she didn't always.
"I grew up on the higher end of what you consider legally blind," says Wharton, 37, of Minneapolis. "So, I could read print, although it was not easy for me to do. I wore big, thick glasses and used a heavy lamp as I read, leaning over like a question mark. It was not something that was doable or sustainable in the long term."
That became clear as Wharton reached the upper grades.
"Kids' books have bigger print," Wharton says. "In high school, the print was smaller and there was more of it. It became harder and harder to keep up."
She managed, though. Her turning point came later, as an English major in college in Iowa.
"There was a poetry reading at a coffee shop on campus," Wharton says. "I had mostly memorized what I was reading, but I had printed it out in a 16-point font, just in case. I didn't realize it would be really dark at the reading. I couldn't remember part of it, but I couldn't read my printout. I was stuck, frozen, like a deer in the headlights. A friend turned the lights on, but it was a bad experience. I thought, 'I've got to learn Braille. I'm not going to live like this.' "
Thus began her study of Braille.
"I learned Braille in the traditional way," she said. "You start with a book, feeling the dots and figuring out what they mean."
It changed everything.
"I just loved Braille -- probably because I love reading," Wharton said. "The first book I read (in Braille) was Toni Morrison's, 'Jazz.
After graduating from college, Wharton continued her studies in Braille at the Iowa Department of the Blind. She also learned how to walk with a cane.
"Learning to use a cane and Braille were so huge," she says. "I felt so confident and in control of my life. Before then, I was pretty depressed and unsure of myself."
With these tools, Wharton planned to return to college to attend graduate school. Instead, she got a job in Minnesota at BLIND Inc., a nonprofit adjustment-to-blindness training center in Minneapolis.
A new opportunity arose in 2009.
"We needed someone to teach Braille," Wharton says. "I said, 'Oooo, yeah, totally!' It was a chance to do something else, to do something I loved, and to maybe do it differently."
She remembered how she felt as an adult, trying to learn a new way to read.
"When kids learn Braille, they're often learning to read at the same time," Wharton says. "But adults already know how to read. I remember when I was learning Braille, I felt like a first-grader again. But grown-ups shouldn't have to feel like first-graders when they are learning.
"Kids have advantages when learning something new -- they have 'spongy' brains; but I wanted to use the skills adults bring to the table when learning Braille: Adults understand patterns and systems and they can use mnemonics."
With this in mind, Wharton developed a system -- Code Master -- that helps adults learn Braille in six weeks versus the typical six months.
"We teach the code first, then the dots," Wharton says. "Usually, they are taught at the same time, even though they are really two different processes."
Code Master also can be adapted to different learning styles, and it shies away from textbooks.
"I ask, 'What do you want to read? Newspaper articles? Sports stuff?' " Wharton says. "A lot of people want to read 'The Onion.' "
Technology has made transforming many things into Braille easier, Wharton says. In addition, her students select their own Braille projects to help themselves and others.
"This shows how useful Braille can be," she says. "They can adapt anything from a game -- like a deck of cards or Apples to Apples -- to a restaurant menu to canned goods."
By breaking down Braille into parts and helping students immediately realize its usefulness, Wharton has become a revolutionary in her field.
Wharton, the curriculum and technology coordinator at BLIND Inc., is the 2013 recipient of the A Touch of Genius Award by the National Braille Press (NBP) and the Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). Both awards came as a result of her work in developing the Code Master system of Braille instruction, which soon may be available globally.
For Wharton, it's all about "braillitude," a term she coined.
"The students are generally a lot happier and more relaxed through the process," Wharton says. "To me, braillitude is about having the attitude that you can totally do this, that Braille is a useful and positive tool.'"
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Okay, I can't read any further and still take this seriously.
To be fair, he (both O'Donnell and the character) were ok-ish in Forever. It wasn't untill Batman and Robin that both become absolutely horrible.
The problem was more Schumacher's cartoonish style and the over the top villains. The Robin dynamic worked for the most part. If they would have stuck with the Tim Burton styling, it actually might have worked.
That being, I said, it would be very difficult to work Robin into a Nolan type Batman
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Talking to Paxton this week about the release on DVD of his directorial debut, Frailty, Empire Online discovered that he has a cunning plan to bring the British icons together for a romantic comedy. 'I'm working on a great British romantic comedy to team up Sean Connery and Michael Caine,' he told us. 'It's called Doug and Dave and it's a real Midsummer's Night Dream telling of two painters from Wiltshire who started the crop circle hoax in the Seventies.
' I really will only make it if I can get those two actors,' he added. 'They're born to play these roles and I've so admired their work in The Man Who Would Be King. I know they're great friends, but I can't go to them with my cap in my hand - I've got to have a deal set up. But that would be my dream project.'
Having just won a Saturn award for Frailty, Paxton has his pick of a number of projects to choose as his follow-up film. 'I've teamed up with Bill Aldridge's son who owns the film rights to Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. A great writer did a reworking of the Baby Jane story - instead of two ageing starlets this is two brothers who are ex-professional boxers where the younger brother's having to take care of the older brother who has boxer's dementia. But it's a well-written script and it would be a great book-end to Frailty. But I don't necessarily want to get lost in that [horror] genre.'
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Earlier this year, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum to the heads of all executive departments and agencies calling on them to leverage "technological advances to fundamentally change how they serve their customers."
As a follow-up to Executive Order 13571 (Streamlining Service Delivery and Improving Customer Service), the memo, entitled "Building a 21st Century Digital Government," also announced the release of a new government-wide strategy developed to accomplish the monumental goal of enabling "more efficient and coordinated digital service delivery" across all agencies.
In order to do this successfully, agencies need to adjust technology to changing conditions as well as the end user's level of expectations where citizens expect to be able to access information within seconds, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
As the government embraces initiatives such as cloud computing virtualization and data center consolidation, however, it should be aware of the downside. Such technological advances create a new layer of complexity that can wreak havoc on the end-user experience.
Private cloud and virtualized infrastructure projects also pose a serious threat to the end-user experience. In many virtualization initiatives, IT tends to treat infrastructure utilization metrics as the ultimate end-game. But, the relevant metric shouldn't be how many virtual machines have been created and to what extent are infrastructure resources being maximized. Rather, the relevant metric needs to be the point of utilization at which the end-user experience begins to degrade. Will our applications perform as well or better after virtualization? Only a commitment to performance management based on the end-user experience can answer this question.
An understanding of the end-user experience helps guide smarter decisions as major projects are being carried out. Case in point - data center consolidation and other infrastructure change projects. A critical first step must be to baseline the current performance of applications and transactions. Then, IT needs to test all applications with the new configuration, as well as map all applications, storage and network changes, making data center consolidation projects very time-consuming and complex.
Once the new data center changes are in place, IT needs to continually measure the applications to ensure they perform as expected, with no impact to end users. The common antidotes to all these various phases of a consolidation project are tools that enable effective management of application infrastructure through an understanding of the end-user experience, as well as the ability to trace transaction flows across the environment. If the end-user perspective is factored in properly throughout the entire project, IT teams can better avoid re-work and re-do's that can lengthen costly "overlap" periods between new and existing infrastructure, and keep overall project costs and timeframes down.
Understanding the end-user experience is a cornerstone to helping IT teams deal with the adoption of new technologies and the management of complex projects. Today, successful IT teams are adopting a new generation of application performance management that is driven from the end-user experience. It's all about the end-user and the view of their world of an application – not just about infrastructure. After all, the delivery of fast, reliable, high-quality applications to end-users must be the ultimate measure of success for any project. If these projects aren't managed with explicit user-experience objectives, IT can introduce risks that can reduce or even eliminate the potential business benefits.
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The following are full adventures for Shadowrun 3rd Edition. These are based on the original FASA Shadowrun, not the current Fanpro line.
These are tournament adventures that i have written, intended originally for a 4 hour tournament game slot but quite playable in other circumstances. Each includes everything you need to play appart from the Third Edition rulebook and about 20 six sides dice to supply the GM and players and some pencils for when the lead starts to fly. These scenarios can probably be expected to take a group playing outside tournament conditions rather more than four hours to play and can be adapted for characters other than the ones provided. Feel free to use them to run games but do not modify them, or charge anyone for distibuting them (beyond printing costs) or playing them (excepting the table fee for tournament/charity games, that often goes to charity anyway). Note that they can also be obtained through UK tournament sources in which case the relevant rules for use from that source apply (not that this is likely to be any matter). If you do want to use the scenarios with the current Fanpro 4th Edition Shadowrun rules you will have to rebuild most of the game mechanics and NPC's yourself which i suspect would be quite some undertaking.
I include some notes on each adventure based on where and when they have been run. The adventures are Word6/95 documents presented in PDF format (PDF printer driver used for conversion). PDF format has been used to overcome pagination problems with distribution of Word files. If you would prefer files in native Word for Windows format i can supply these directly.
Download : Music in the Shadows
Written for and first run at GenconUK 2001 where 2 tables ran. Since run twice at Conception 2003. Returned to GenconUK 2004.
Both groups at GenconUK completed the adventure successfully, and managed to do it within the four hour limit, just. The two roups at Conception failed to complete the mission but seemed to enjoy themselves, which is what i consider a real success for a roleplaying scenario, did the GM and players enjoy it. The team that tackled this on its return to GenconUK also failed, this has proven a tough scenario to complete.
I suspect that run as a private game that this adventure could well take a lot more than four hours to play, maybe more like eight to twelve depending on how much time the players spend investigating it. The adventure is investigative in nature and there is more than one way to complete it so a group of players that investiate everything included will take a long time. This adventure will run very easily with a different group of characters to the group of Shadowrunners provided. Generally i found this a pleasure to write, and it's fun if demanding to run under tournament conditions as there is a lot to do. Expect to need several hours to read it, and rely on the aids provided within the adventure to find the information you want when running the game.
Download : Trouble in the Gang
Written for and first run at GenconUK 2002 where 3 tables ran. Since run once at Conception 2003. At least one other person whom i supplied a copy to has also run it after playing at GenconUK.
The groups at GenconUK did well, while the group at Conception had a fairly severe case of lead poisoning. However everyone seems to have enjoyed themselves and done quite well.
This adventure is intended for the characters provided as there is some background and linkage between the characters. However it could be adapted quite easily for any group of gang level player characters and lower end Shadowrunners could be tasked with the mission by reading the advneture and picking a suitable 'Johnson'. I cannot provide direct advice here though without exessive spoilers. This adventure will probably not run too much over the four hours outside tournament play, my best guess being six to eight depending on how fast you get on with it.
Download : Shadows at Sea
Written for and first run at GenconUK 2004. Since run once at Conception 2005.
The groups at GenconUK did well.
A mission away from base this makes less use of contacts that some of the scenarios where contacts are critical. Players seem to work out that they need to be sensivle and generally things have gone quite well. The ending can be a touch on the hazardous side but player characters have proven as resilient as ever to attempts to terminate them and have generally done ok.
Download : A Simple Twist
Written for and first run at GenconUK 2005 where at least 5 tables ran. Since run once at Conception 2006.
The groups at GenconUK did well, while the group at Conception did very well indeed completing the mission alive in under 3 hours. So far all the groups i have run this for have done a good job of working things out and one team had a go at the big bonus available despite the risks.
Although extra sourcebooks are not required if you run this away from a convention setting having the sourceooks mentioned is certainly beneficial so the players have the time to read up on one or two things if they don't know already. In a convention setting you won't have the time. No experience of Shadowrun is required but one or two players that have played a fair bit including some of FASA's campaign stuff form some years ago does help on the realising what certain things mean. If you have less experienced players make sure you explain just how important certain names are when they come up!
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24 has a new President, and it's a woman
The show has tapped Cherry Jones for the part. She is a veteran actress who you might remember as Matt Damon's mom in Ocean's Twelve. She's made several appearances on Broadway in plays such as Doubt, Imaginary Friends and A Moon For The Misbegotten.
This is a very cool choice. Not just to actually go ahead and make the role female but to cast Jones. She's a good actress, and has that been-there, commanding air that the role demands.


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Maybelline Color Tattoos are a cream shadow, sold in a glass jar. They're £4.99 each and there are 7 shades available. There are more available in the US, but I'm not sure how the colours match up as the shades we have here are sold under different names.
The jars are a little deceiving. There isn't a weight listed that I can find but the product only accounts for half the depth of the glass jar. The lid has a sticker that matches the colour of the product and the base is clear. As far as I can tell, the US editions have a black sticker on the top. That's going to make it nice and easy to find the colour you're looking for.
On And On Bronze is a metallic bronze with cool undertones that become more apparent when it's applied heavily. The cream texture is quite dense, it reminds me a lot of MAC's Paint Pots and Benefit's Creaseless Cream Shadows. It dries down quite quickly if you've applied a thin layer.
The left swatch shows it applied quite heavily, the right shows a blended swatch. I apply this with either my ring finger or a synthetic brush. I'm quite liking the Real Techniques Base Shadow Brush for applying this. It blends the shadow out quite nicely as I apply and doesn't pick up too much.
I wasn't expecting much from these to be honest, despite the rave reviews. I just haven't had much success with drugstore brand cream shadows, they crease on me in minutes. These claim to last up to 24 hours, a claim I haven't tested as I never wear make up that long! However, these lasted the 10 hours wear that I gave them with only minimal fading at the outer edge and no creasing. I just applied a very thin blended layer over bare lids, no primer was needed!
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NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin Lumberjack football team will step onto the field at Homer Bryce Stadium for the final day of spring practice Saturday for the annual Purple and White Scrimmage. Saturday's scrimmage is slated for a 2 p.m. start, and will be the team's final workout until they report back for preseason camp in August.
The scrimmage will pit the SFA first-team offense against the first-team defense. It is the third scrimmage of the spring for the Lumberjacks. The first two scrimmages have been marked my big plays in all facets of the game. The Lumberjack running backs have recorded three running plays of 40 yards or more, including two 50-yard runs, receivers Marquis Mosley and D.J. Ward have put up some impressive numbers and Collin Garrett and Lamarcus Brown have looked impressive on defense. The Lumberjack defense has also come up four interceptions in the two previous scrimmages, and the Lumberjack special teams blocked a kick that was returned for a touchdown in the second scrimmage.
In the two previous scrimmages SFA quarterbacks have combined to complete 44-of-87 (.505) passes for 405 yards and three touchdowns, while the running backs have combined to tally 242 yards on 33 carries (7.3 ypc) and three touchdowns.
One of the most impressive stats on the Lumberjack defense is how they have handled the Lumberjack ground game. Junior running back Gus Johnson has made a name for himself over the past two seasons for running over would-be tacklers, but the SFA defense has done a great job of wrapping up and preventing Johnson from breaking the long runs, even dropping Johnson for a loss three times during the opening scrimmage. Johnson was able to exact a small bit of revenge on the defense at the end of the first scrimmage with a 50-yard scamper for a score.


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The desert oasis site of the Mogao Grottoes was the venue for working through the master planning process to test the evolving China Principles. Cave 85 at Mogao is the focus of a model wall paintings conservation project of the GCI and the Dunhuang Academy, which follows the China Principles methodology. Photo: Francesca Piqué.


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No, a murder conviction should be minimum of life with no parole
Yes, people can be rehabilitated
Leslie Van Houten...should she be paroled?
No, she should have been executed with the rest of them decades ago.
And the LORD was with Judah, and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain, but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
Judges Some number here:and here
none of em idiots should ever get out of jail
Hey cockroach, don't bug me! ©
death penalty should be carried out just minutes after verdict. Yup! I miss the cowboy days. No reason to pay to keep vermin like this alive. They get the same respect as a mouse in my home from me.
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Of course, Diplodok :-)
Of course, Diplodok :-)
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Cg_projectilenudge 200 and try to rocket, it looks so weird! what is this command?
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Quakelive is broken and undocumented features are enabled on some servers but not others.
I'm drunk and these forums are far more entertaining than usual. :d
Yep, i'm boozing at 10 AM, problem? Go start a business so you can chose your days off. lol
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No. 1! Decemberists coup d'état, overthrowing last week's king, Cee-Lo! Sorry, Lady Killer, your reign of terror is over.
The Decemberists that make the leap from No. 12 to the top spot at CMJ's Radio 200 this week, knocking Cee-Lo down to No. 6. Britsh Sea Power's Valhalla Dancehall (Rough Trade) is this top mover of the week, jumping over 60 spots, from No. 172 to No. 10. And, new to the chart, and right on BSP's heels at No. 11, is post-punk politico Gang Of Four's first new record in 16 years, Content (Yep Roc).
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Fullerton an early challenge for VC
His team may be preparing for one of its toughest non-conference games in recent memory, but Ventura College football coach Steve Mooshagian has been able to keep his sense of humor this week.
The Pirates (1-0) welcome Fullerton, the No. 2-ranked team in the nation according to JC Grid-Wire and JCFootball.com, to the VC Sportsplex on Saturday night.
"It looks like our game last year against Cerritos," said Mooshagian.
"It seems like everybody is asking me, 'You're not going to go for two, are you?' "
The Falcons, who reached the Southern California semifinals, escaped Ventura dramatically, 36-35, on Sept. 26 after former Ventura coach Jon Mack elected to attempt a 2-point conversion with nine seconds left rather than send the game into overtime, despite a huge advantage in the kicking game.
Kicker Tyler Stampler, who is now at New Mexico State, kicked a school-record five field goals that night and had set the school record for longest field goal the previous week.
"That's last year," said Mooshagian. "We'll see what happens this year.
"It feels like we're playing ourselves. The team that makes the fewest mistakes, the team that competes for four quarters, the team that makes the fewest turnovers is going to win. It may come down to a special-teams play."
Top-ranked soccer team visits: Saturday's football game isn't the Sportsplex's only visit by a nationally ranked opponent this weekend.
The Ventura women's soccer team (2-0-1), ranked No. 7 in the NSCAA national poll, will host the No. 1 team in the nation, defending state and national champion Santiago Canyon (2-0-1), today at 5.
"We match up pretty good," said Ventura coach Steve Hoffman. "If we play well, we can give them a game.
"It's a good game for us. Whether our kids can take the pressure, I don't know."
The Hawks have a 28-match unbeaten streak and have only lost five times in 137 matches dating back to 2003.
Santiago Canyon withstood a late barrage to edge the Pirates 1-0 last year in Orange. The two teams then progressed to the state Final Four.
Ventura has already scored nine goals in three matches, including three each by sophomore Monique Orocio and freshman Victoria Brunell.
Strong starts: Boosted by Oxnard's 5-0 start, the three local women's soccer programs are unbeaten over the first nine games of the season, going 8-0-1.
Scheduling tough: The two local men's soccer teams aren't afraid to open the season in a meat grinder.
Moorpark will open its season with nine straight road games, hosting its first game Oct. 8 against cross-county rival Oxnard.
Meanwhile, the Condors (1-0-1) were disappointed Tuesday to only draw 1-1 at powerhouse Santa Ana.
"I think we felt like we threw two points away," said Oxnard coach Ross Greaney.
Since losing to Santa Ana 6-0 in 2005, Oxnard is unbeaten in its non-conference series with the Dons, state semifinalists in two of the last three seasons and state champions in 2004 and 2005, going 2-0-3.
The Condors now visit Santiago Canyon today and face Cerritos, Cypress, Rio Hondo and Chaffey in the coming fortnight.
"Seven straight tough games," said Greaney.
They are bolstered by the return of midfield Sam Nellis, defender Richie Vargas and fullback Gerardo Guzman, as well as winger Mathayo Huna and midfielder Jesus Lopez, who played on the 2008 team.
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Session Details
120. Rethinking Recovery: American Women's Writing
Sunday, 3 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., Republic Ballroom, Sheraton
A special session
Presiding: Alexandra Socarides, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia
Speakers: Paula Bernat Bennett, Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale; Paul Lauter, Trinity Coll., CT; Mary Loeffelholz, Northeastern Univ.; Robert Dale Parker, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana; Carla L. Peterson, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Eliza Richards, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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This roundtable gathers scholars of women's writing and recovery to reflect on the state of the field. Short presentations will address the limitations of and promising directions for future recovery of women's writing and the scholarship it makes possible. Participants will address how race, class, culture, sexuality, and geographic affiliations differently inflect recovery work.
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Tantalizing Tomatoes: Smart Tips and Tasty Picks for Gardeners EverywhereFrom planting tips to pruning hints, from instructions on starting seeds to scrumptious recipes, this indispensable guide includes everything you need to know about growing America's favorite vegetable. You'll be harvesting plump, juicy, mouth-watering—and pesticide-free—tomatoes in no time!
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Aspiring golf pro and forlorn businessman Wallace Avery (Colin Firth) has a few problems: He chokes under pressure on the golf course, he's disenchanted with his love life, and his teenage son isn't interested in him. So, in Dante Ariola's dark comedy about lost souls, Wallace flees that life by taking on a new identity. Dubbing himself Arthur Newman, he sets off for the utopia of Terre Haute, Ind., with an orange duffel full of cash and a perpetually worried expression. His ex-wife's infuriatingly perfect home is hardly out of Newman's rear-view mirror when he stumbles upon "Mike" (Emily Blunt). If anyone seems more pathetic than Colin Firth in a pink polo shirt and frown, it's Blunt's kleptomaniacal lock-picker, who has stolen her insane twin's identity to assume a life of cough-syrup abuse and car theft. Naturally, the two are a match made in false-identity heaven, and they build an exciting sex life by breaking into strangers' homes and impersonating the absent residents. Grandparents walking in on Firth and Blunt, cardigan-clad and mid-coitus, is a high point. But ultimately, Arthur Newman is more a therapy session than a game of dress-up, a bittersweet reflection on how the past never dies.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
What is it about toddlers that makes them so good at noticing details? And what is it about us adults that makes us so oblivious to them?
These queries first appeared when we thought our 2.5-year-old had a superhero-like ability to spot sounds and sights almost beyond adult sensory range. Then we figured out most kids are like this. They notice airplanes dozens of miles away, just specks on the horizon really. Plenty of times I've said, "Hmmm, I'm not sure there is a plane out there right now ... oh wait, there it is." Kids and air traffic controllers are usually right when it comes to the skies.
Other special ability sightings include birds, squirrels, fire trucks, police cars, "diggers," and any car that's the same make and model as his grandma's.
And then there's the stuff you were hoping no one could notice: a pimple, a shirt stain, the hole on your beard that never really fills in.
My boy's hearing talents mesh well with his vacuum phobia. Or perhaps he just has a fear of cleaning any mess up. Regardless, a couple months ago we were in the new Hudson/Berlin BJ's and he heard through all the competing noise one of those ride-on floor cleaners on the other side of the behemoth building. I didn't believe him until it eventually buzzed by our aisle. Now every time we pull in to BJ's he asks with a whimper, "Is there going to be a vacuum there?"
There must be an evolutionary reason for kids catching such minutia. Maybe it was to spot a saber tooth tiger before it spotted them. Who knows?
But then, somehow, life beats that prized resumé quality of "detail-oriented" out of us. As adults life is just one big cacophony of distractions.
Still, learning from kids seems like a wise idea. They keep it simple. So I'm trying to stop and smell the roses more often - which begins by noticing a rose is in front of me at all. Now if I point out something borderline interesting, the boy sometimes responds with "Good eyes, Dada," like some tiny coach from the dugout trying to support the team's weak link.
A few weeks ago, while riding on my shoulders during a walk on the
Assabet River Rail Trail
the 2.5-year-old spotted a family of racoons scurrying down the shore of the river in broad daylight. We didn't believe him at first, but as usual the kid doesn't need a sniper scope to spot a needle in a haystack a football field length away.
On a recent solo walk, inspired by the boy I scoped the same area and caught some kind of a dinosaur descended bird (a crane?) creeping through the mud. Maybe you can see it in this Where's Waldo-like photo.
Anyway, as anyone who has been around kids can attest, their spatial skills only go so far. Ours, for example, has bad luck with doorknobs, which I suspect will be the case until his head isn't at their exact height. The devil, in this case it seems, is in the knob's details.
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Back to Eden
It's been a dream of mine….OF OURS…to start an organic produce business from the roots! A happy place full of love & growth! An inspiration to be GREEN & eat better! Fortify your body with organic, whole foods grown from seed. A self-sustainable greenhouse that produces fruits & vegetables for the community & also a portion to be donated to the local food shelters.
We are vegan & eat only organic foods & make our own green juices. Our reason for starting this greenhouse is our need for produce year-round at a great price! IMAGINE….eating great-tasting veggies in the winter! FRUITS full of flavor & juicy goodness:)
Our dream is….Back to Eden! A place we dream, work hard & grow both individually & for our neighbors who LOVE to feed their bodies with excellent nutrient-rich foods:)
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Jeremy Hammond, the man accused of being involved in cyberattacks launched by Anonymous and LulzSec, has issued a lengthy statement from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, where he is currently being held in solitary confinement.
Hammond, who has become a symbol of wrongfully accused activists, shared some insight on the case of Aaron Swartz and the ones of numerous others who have fallen victim to what he calls the "government's flawed cyber security strategy."
"I am currently facing multiple computer hacking conspiracy charges due to my alleged involvement with Anonymous, LulzSec, and AntiSec, groups which have targeted and exposed corruption in government institutions and corporations such as Stratfor, The Arizona Department of Public Safety, and HB Gary Federal," Hammond said.
"My potential sentence is dramatically increased because the Patriot Act expanded the CFAA's definition of 'loss.'"
He explains that this allowed Stratfor to claim over $5 million (3.8 million EUR) in damages, which, added to the use of 'sophisticated means' and 'affecting critical infrastructure' sentence enhancements could land him in prison for the next 30 years.
"Dirty trial tactics and lengthy sentences are not anomalies but are part of a fundamentally flawed and corrupt two-tiered system of 'justice' which seeks to reap profits from the mass incarceration of millions, especially people of color and the impoverished," Hammond commented.
"The use of informants who cooperate in exchange for lighter sentences is not just utilized in the repressive prosecutions of protest movements and manufactured 'terrorist' Islamophobic witch-hunts, but also in most drug cases, where defendants face some of the harshest sentences in the world."
He concludes his statement by saying: "The government will never be forgiven. Aaron Swartz will never be forgotten."
The statement in full is available on The Sparrow Project here.


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Just wondering what month new rankings out? I know a few movements shouldn't change my decision, but I am curious if I will get to see an update before committing to a school in this cycle.Thanks,W
Thanks, so prob just a TAD late for decisions. Too bad.
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