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Nice quality case, good sound. Not sure about battery life as I bought it to teardown and solder inside car radio.
Works with everything I bought it for, iPhone, MacBook pro, Android phone and android tablet.
Pros: low cost Good sound quality (with the right headphones of cours) Cons: 3.5 mm plug has to be pulled out a little of the connection for stereo sound. low range. I use it on my motorcycle so I don't need wires to to my... Read more
Pros: It works as promised. The quality is acceptable; I have not tested it with high quality sound equipment. Cons: The usb cable is not the same as the phone standard
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is not for nothing that I'm buying this product for the second time. this time the product came much more tightly packed in strong River... Read more
Nice quality case, good sound. Not sure about battery life as I bought it to teardown and solder inside car radio.
Works with everything I bought it for, iPhone, MacBook pro, Android phone and android tablet.
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Finding Madeleine, Five years on
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Five years on, Madeleine Mc Cann is still missing. Read on to find out more.
Finding Madeleine, Five Years on
Five years ago this week, Madeleine Mc Cann disappeared, apparently snatched from her bed whilst her family were holidaying in Portugal. Her parents were dining nearby with friends, believing their daughter was safe and asleep. It was unbelievable that someone could snatch a child from their bed, and make a getaway with them, but this seems to be what happened.
Of course when the Press got hold of the story, Gerry and Kate were slated for leaving Madeleine in the apartment. Being a mother myself, I know that sometimes we can make the wrong decision. I once had to leave my sick child alone in bed for a short time whilst I went to get him some medication. Luckily for me he was still there when I returned. In the case of the Mc Canns, the restaurant where they dined was very close to the apartment, and no-one would truly expect something like that to happen.
I am sure over the years Gerry and Kate have wished to have that time again, and change what they did. But no-one should condemn them, I am sure many people would have acted in the same way, and over the last five years they have suffered enough
This is what they have done
Over the past five years they have worked tirelessly to try and find their daughter. It is a story that has rocked the world, and their dedication and dignity has been moving to watch, especially when they were, themselves, suspects at one time, which must have been harrowing for them when they were suffering so much anguish at her loss.
As well as that, there is the knowledge that they may never know whether Madeleine is alive or dead. Having lost a daughter myself, I know the disbelief and heartbreak this causes, My beautiful girl can never be found, she is buried in a church yard, so I do have closure, but they have to live in hope that Madeleine is alive, and can be found.
Recently a cab driver from Portugal has come forward to say he is convinced that he took a group of about 4 people with Madeleine in his cab the day after she disappeared. He reported it to the police immediately, but they were so disinterested, they didn't even bother to take a statement from him. This is typical of the whole investigation in Portugal, they didn't seem to care, and they didn't work towards trying to solve the crime, and this is totally unforgivable. The police are there to protect the community whether you live in Portugal or are on holiday should make no difference
The British Press have spoken
The British Press have called for the investigation to be opened again, as it is now five years since that fateful evening. There are so many unanswered questions. Why didn't the police try to explore all avenues? Why didn't they listen to, and investigate important information? A photofit has been released , having been compiled with the full co-operation of Gerry and Kate, with a guide of what Madeleine may look like now at the age of nine years. One can only hope that someone may see it and realise she is living near to them.
Like Gerry and Kate ,I keep the faith that Madeleine will be found alive and well. I admire the strength they have shown in the last five years, the united front they present is inspiring. They have suffered enough, and I will say a prayer that their daughter Madeleine can be found, and the family will be complete again
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Village Idiots Pronounce Republicans Innocent, Obama 'The Divider'
Last Monday, something remarkable happened. PBS aired their newest Frontline segment on the first four years of Obama's presidency. In the opening segment, Frank Luntz crowed proudly about how the strategy session he organized and which took place four years ago today had proven to be a rousing success.
That strategy was, of course, the decision for Republicans to stand united against anything the President proposed. Anything, even if it was originally a Republican idea. In their mind, that was the only way they could recover from the devastating election results of 2008.
On This Week, Matthew Dowd keeps that drumbeat moving. Clearly he had to reach deep down into his storehouse of empty intellectual dishonesty to say this:
DOWD: But I think that we are at probably in this country in one of the most divisive, polarized times we've had since the Civil War. And in that speech, Lincoln talked about we both pray to the same God, malice towards none, charity for all, all of that, and I think this president should -- which I don't think he will do -- should come with a sense of humbleness, a sense of humility, and a sense that basically the biggest problem he has in this country is the divisions that exist in this country that have only been made worse in the course of his presidency, age divisions, sex divisions, church divisions. All the divisions that exist in this country, he has to figure out a way to bring people together and solve some of the problems.
This is the "magic Barack theory," writ large, and it's one embraced by the Village idiots to an intolerable degree. It's all on the president to breach the gap, reach over the divide, bring people together, make things happen. He is a magician, a conjurer, a sorcerer who can simply reach across the aisle and make it happen.
Congress is behaving badly, choosing to block everything the President does? No worries, Barack can fix it, if he wants to. All he has to do is what Republicans want and POOF! The divide will be forever bridged, a new unity. After all, look at Bill Clinton! He got things done because he and Newtie sat down and made it happen. Yes, someone said this on one of the endless pundit parades this week.
Never mind that it was Clinton's cave to the likes of Phil Gramm that brought the housing market and with it, the rest of the financial markets, to a complete standstill and nearly wiped out our entire economy. Never mind that, because Clinton knew how to reach across the damned aisle and get stuff done.
Sure. It's all about bridging the divide, no matter how awful the policy might be.
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Mon Jan 21, 2013, 02:50 PM
NRaleighLiberal (43,609 posts)
2. never mind....you found the door!
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Mon Jan 21, 2013, 02:56 PM
arcane1 (38,613 posts)
3. BarryRocks is struggling with his inadequacies at the moment
Thus making his posts come across as unintelligible
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Mon Jan 21, 2013, 02:56 PM
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5. I gave him a little assistance!
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Mon Jan 21, 2013, 04:14 PM
backscatter712 (25,016 posts)
10. Heh! Speaking of village idiots...
Yeah, it didn't take long for this Beavis and Butthead troll to get tossed.
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Mon Jan 21, 2013, 02:56 PM
Drunken Irishman (28,550 posts)
4. Dick Cheney has some words for you.
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Mon Jan 21, 2013, 03:04 PM
drm604 (16,220 posts)
7. Actually no, everyone doesn't know that.
Some unobservant people believe that. Others simply lie and say it's the case, hoping to convince others.
Edited to add: That was fast. Good jury decision.
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Mon Jan 21, 2013, 03:00 PM
emulatorloo (33,090 posts)
6. They love their Strawman Obama, don't they?
Happily most folks see thru it. Romney ran against Strawman Obama, didn't get him anything but " pants on fire" ratings from fact checkers.
For what it is worth, first guy I heard claiming "obamaisthemostdivisivepresidentever" was Karl Rove in 09. Clearly Rove was talking about Bush, but claiming it was Obama.
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UCmeNdc (4,919 posts)
8. It seems there is a "full court press" to slow down President Obama's new forcefulness.
Looks like everyone in the press is afraid President Obama will force his ideas and concepts on the GOP. The press seems afraid this action by the president will force the GOP to have to stand all alone on its own concepts and policies.
Why are so many pundits interested in making the GOP's own policies' authorship become hidden behind President Obama's coattails?
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Mon Jan 21, 2013, 04:10 PM
Tutonic (2,522 posts)
9. When the REthugs are pleading for the president to be humble they are losing big and we are
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Mon Jan 21, 2013, 04:31 PM
Filibuster Harry (664 posts)
11. Well, with sense like that it would appear that the Rs should give in since the president won
re-election. But that won't happen will it?? The Rs should have listened to the president's speech today about taking the oath. Or do the Rs not take the oath serious?? Oh, by their actions they don't ??
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The Bitcoin is a form of currency without notes and coins, it is a digitalcurrency.
In this era of Internet and digitization, we've moved from phone to VoIP calls, face-to-face meeting to video conferencing, fax to email, cable television to IP TV, and the list goes on.
Who Developed The Idea Of Bitcoins?
The concept of Bitcoins was developed by Satoshi Nakamoto, who resides in total anonymity. He is said to be from Japan but his mail ID was from Germany, plus the bitcoin software was not available in Japanese. He developed the system and the Bitcoin software (that is used to run the system) in 2009 but disappeared into thin air in 2010.
The other developers of the system stopped hearing from him in 2010, and plenty of speculation turned up about his real identity. Some even suggested that his name was just a mashup of popular Japanese companies — SAmsung TOSHIba NAKAmichi MOTOrola. But what he created was definitely the fantasy of every tech guy in the world.
What Is So Special About the Bitcoin System?
The Bitcoin is a system which allows you to do anonymous currency transactions and no one will come to know about the payment or about all other info related to the payment, including who sent it, who received it, etc.
Satoshi did it by making the system – a peer-to-peer network – controlled by no central authority but run by a network of contributors and freedom enthusiasts, who donated their time and energy to this innovation. Essentially, people can do money transactions and no authority or organization will come to know about it.
Satoshi Nakamoto was so talented that he even solved the problem of double spending of digital currency in his system.
What is Double Spending?
We can make many copies of digital data, e.g. people copy software and sell it as counterfeit or pirated copies. We may face the same problem with digital currency – one can copy the digital currency (let's suppose USD10) and use it as many time as he/she like (as many notes of USD10).
Satoshi solved this problem by showing all transactions in a public list. Whenever a new transaction is made, its validity is checked by confirming from the list that the digital currency was not used before. This way, no one can copy the currency and use it for more than one time. It's a simple but effective idea to stop double spending of the same bitcoin.
How Does A Public Listing Make Things Anonymous?
The public listing only shows the transaction ID and the amount of currency transferred. You will be anonymous in the system because you don't need to provide any of your personal details like your name, address, email, phone number, etc. In comparison, when you use payment gateways like Paypal you have to give up all these personal details.
How do you use Bitcoins then?
Bitcoins are kept in a digital wallet which you can keep in your computer, or on a website online, which will manage and secure your wallet for you. You can have as many wallets and bitcoin addresses (where you receive money from others) as you like.
What's more, you can use Bitcoin software on top of Tor to prevent anyone from tracking your IP address – total anonymity guaranteed!
How many people are using this?
At this very moment, 10.71 million Bitcoins are in existence, which is like 207.929 million USD worth! In fact, the Canadian government is working on their own crypto-currency, named MintChip. (a glance:)
In one day, more than 45,000 transactions of a total of BTC 2.5 million (worth of USD48.5 million) is handled by the bitcoin network.
How Do I Acquire Bitcoins?
Using and getting Bitcoins is really easy. There are various ways to get Bitcoins:
- 'Mining'
- Currency exchange (bitcoin in return for Dollars or Euros) via bitcoin provider services like Mt.Gox
- Providing services to others in return of Bitcoins
What's Mining?
Mining is a process of extracting Bitcoins currency. Bitcoin mining is a business – most people mint Bitcoins to gain profit. Bitcoins are minted using a special software (known as Bitcoin Miner) which tries to find a new block in the chain of Bitcoin network.
Whenever a new block is found, its owner is gifted with 50 Bitcoins. Technically, a computer has to perform long and tough hash calculations to find a new block.
How Do You Spend A Bitcoin?
Spending Bitcoins is a bit easier. You can send Bitcoins to a person, buy goods, or donate to non-profit foundations who accept it, such as Wikileaks, P2P Foundation, Operation Anonymous, Free Software Foundation,Archive.org.
You can send Bitcoins to anyone once you know their bitcoin address.
Conservation Law in Bitcoin Faucets
What is money? It is a specific commodity that is an equivalent form of evaluating other goods and services, which was agreed by some group of people. Meaning that money in itself is not valuable, valuable are the things that can be bought for it. Money is like energy – if it appears in one place, it disappears in another, this is the way how economics work.
Is it possible to receive money for free? Of course, but, for that, someone must earn it and then give it to anybody else. On the similar principle charity funds work – rich people give the part of their income to help poor ones. Or one can become a philanthropist – to finance art projects with unselfish aim.
Far from unselfishness are the owners of network resources that offer free Bitcoins or other crypto-currencies. These resources are called faucets, because they function in much the same way – like those devices in your kitchen or bathroom, when closed not tightly – drops of "reward" periodically fall and you have to catch them. To receive these "drops" you have to just visit a website, enter your Bitcoin wallet address, pass the verification procedure and prove you are a human being, and spend several moments of your precious time before you take your reward.
This moment of your time is your payment for the free Bitcoins. Websites place ads and, while you were waiting, you were looking at them and maybe even clicked on one of the banners. Such clicks give earnings to website owners, and they share these earnings with website visitors. So the conservation law is working.
However, you didn't spend much time, and you received hundreds or thousands of Satoshi. This sum is small as well, 1 Satoshi= 0.00000001 ฿, so the exchange of your time for money is equivalent. From this one can draw a conclusion – want to earn more money (read – get free Bitcoins), you must visit more faucets (they are hundreds on the network). You should choose several websites with good reputation and visit them regularly, since you can receive rewards periodically (every hour, for instance).
Why Buy Ether?
Sometimes, when one tries to explain the principles of how crypto-currency or blockchain technology work, one feels the lack of analogies available. Simple analogies are needed to explain complicated things at the elementary level. For example, when Bitcoin has just appeared, it was compared to gold, and Litecoin – to silver. Explaining to someone complicated and sometimes quite incomprehensible computer characteristics can be an ungracious task, but when only you mention that a certain powerful program works on it without problems, it will momentarily withdraw all questions.
So, let's try to perform such thing with Ethereum. Potential investor finds a perspective land property at the end of nowhere. He buys it and waits. This land won't make a profit at once. Sometimes one must wait for a long time. One may think he has literally buried money into the ground. However, with time the price of this land will grow. This land property can be far from the inhabited locality, but with time a town or village is growing outside its old boundaries. Near your property new buildings and shops start to appear, there is a beautiful nature around, and one can build a spa resort there. Now, your land has a remarkable value, and it can be sold to builders for the large check.
And now let's compare real estate with Ethereum. Ether is present on the market, like the land property. At the moment is it bought by investors only, since there is no practical use of Ether right now, it is impossible to spend Ether. There is no market for it, so Ether can only be collected. Ethereum platform is building and growing, which can be compared to the urban sprawl. With time it will reach the place where your land property exists. The clear perspective of the further growth of Ethereum is shaping up, the developers have intentions to implement new applications and programs on Ethereum basis. Ether is needed as fuel for the applications to work. So those who have a margin of it, would be able to sell it for good money.
The developers will cooperate with those who own the land property (i.e. the fuel for their applications' engines). That's why, the bigger becomes Ethereum community, the more landowners gain in weight, and this is a symbiotic process. Ether itself costs nothing, the platform makes it valuable. Unlike other crypto-currencies, built on the principles of currency exchange, Ether works on principle "invest and earn". So you should wait until the big mall is built near your land.
Acronics and Ethereum Have Announced About Cooperation
Acronics, the company that specializes in the development of solutions for the data protection in cloud storages, and the blockchain platform for the decentralized apps Ethereum have recently announced about the strategic cooperation aiming at the development of the blockchain-based apps for the data protection.
As a result of this cooperation, the solution for the data storage and exchange must appear, the protection of the data will be guaranteed by the blockchain technology usage. This technology gives the possibility to control the operations, distribute digital notes about various events among multiple participants and organizations all over the world, this way protecting the information from the unapproved changes.
The example of such information is the registry of ownership and financial assets, medical notes, information about the goods replacement in the warehouse, camera records, the systems of the data archiving, which are to be audited, data storages for the common work of consortiums that combine several organizations and a sufficient amount of employees.
Acronics works on the solution for the reserve copying, emergency restoring and protection of information, for the managing data on the mobile devices. Acronics products protect data of more than 5 million users and 500 thousand companies in 145 world countries. The company is founded in 2003. Co-owners are Serguei Beloussov, Ilya Zubarev, and Max Tsyplyaev. Such venture funds as Insight Venture Partners and OpenView Venture Partners have parts in Acronics (in 2004 they invested 11 million dollars in the company). The main office is situated in Singapore.
Ethereum is the blockchain technology with the functionally full programming language, the architecture of which allows to write smart-contracts and decentralized apps, in which any developer is able to realize the arbitrary ownerships, agreement formats and registration rules.
The platform Ethereum was created by Vitalik Buterin in 2015. Since its founding, Microsoft and 40 biggest world banks joined into the R3CEV consortium have become Ethereum partners.
Bitcoin and Blockchain: Perspective Symbiosis
Blockchain technology and crypto-currency Bitcoin are historically connected. The chain of blocks is necessary to protect the wallet and to create, transfer or withdraw crypto-currency, being sure it's safe.
Blockchain is a modern technology that works on the principle of the book of account. Here the history of the fulfilled transactions is put down, which allows to track the origin of Bitcoin and its whole history. The main peculiarity of the blockcahin is the fact that one is able to track not only the origin of the crypto-currency, but also any other details included into system, for instance, the production and delivery of any goods.
The new technology suggests carrying out transactions without the third party interference, which usually take additional fees for their services, and are not always secure. The system creators do not agree that the financial system management system must be centralized and in the hands of the group of people. For creating trust inside the platform, all the actions are fixed and recorded, which already gives certain guarantees.
The distributed database records the information about agreement members, transaction sum, its date and time, and what is the most important, about the network generally. If someone tries to hack the blockchain network, then its parts, like puzzles, won't form the whole picture, as a result, the operation will be denied. The transaction is in the public access, and all network members agree that a certain operation is carried out in particular time.
Thanks to the distributed database in the chain, everyone possesses the information only about the agreement where one has been present personally. Blockchain technology is interesting for the use in various spheres of economics, both by the private groups of people and personally. One can resume that the crypto-currency Bitcoin has encouraged the development of this system, which in the future will serve as the example of the money compliance assurance.
One should give a credit to the blockchain technology reliability. The absence of the failure endpoints when the system can break down, make it invulnerable from this point of view. The chain of transaction blocks never stops thanks to the functioning of the unique algorithm. All separate components were known before, but the blockchain technology successfully combines several technologies into one common platform.
The system members receive a good reward for the database support on their PCs, with the aim that information blocks were built into the new chains and fix the received information forever.
The breakthrough in popularity the blockchain technology received in 2014, when the new version of the platform was released, in which, besides payment history, the possibility to record metadata appeared. Thanks to this factor blockchain has come out the grey area and received the unlimited perspectives for the growth and development.


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The incident happened at lunchtime on Thursday when James Barney Jr had been riding his bike with friends before deciding to swim in a restricted area of Lake Tohopekaliga in Florida.
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He sustained 30 marks from the nine-foot creature's claws and teeth, all of which were non-life-threatening, and he underwent surgery for his wounds to be "cleaned up, stapled and stitched", his father James said.
Speaking from Florida's Arnold Palmer hospital, the boy told reporters how he didn't initially realise what was happening as the reptile approached him.
"It really amazed me what happened," James said, according toSky News.
"At first I thought someone was just playing with me and I didn't know what happened."
His quick-thinking saved him: "I reached down to go grab it and I felt its jaw – I felt its teeth and I didn't know what to do, so I immediately reacted and hit a couple of times.
"And then finally I had enough strength left to pry its jaw open a little."
Lake Tohopekaliga, a popular tourist spot, had some of its nearby swimming areas closed while investigations began, and trappers were out in force to try and catch the alligator.
Barney Jr's wounds were "superficial", Sandra Ramirez, Public Information Officer for the City of Saint Cloud told ABC News.
However, one of the animal's teeth was lodged in his skin, which he wanted to keep as a souvenir to show his friends but wasn't allowed to.
"The tooth is pretty big. I wanted to keep it but animal control came in and took it so they could find the alligator that attacked me," he said.
When Barney Jr, who is expected to make a full recovery, was asked if he would go back into the lake, he replied: "Negative".
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With the constant construction breaking down and rebuilding almost every corner of downtown SF, you might wonder what our iconic city skyline will look like in 5 or 10 years. Thanks to local tech gurus Autodesk and Steelblue, a new, extremely detailed, 3D-printed, scale-model of San Francisco is now being used to mold the city's future.
The 3D model covers about 115 blocks of downtown including iconic landmarks like AT&T Park, the Bay Bridge, and the Ferry Building. The amount of detail on the model is astounding: The print was done at a resolution of 16 microns, which made reproducing minute details not only possible, but beautiful — look close enough, and you can pick out individual seats at AT&T Park.
Built at Autodesk's Pier 9 workshop using two Objet Connex 500 printers, it took just over two months to make the model – including the time required to build prototypes, and cost under $20,000 in materials.
The mock city isn't just for show however, the model represents SF's most rapidly changing neighborhood and was designed for real estate developer Tishman Speyer to help the company with urban planning and construction decisions. Each block of the map can be picked up and replaced within hours to help developers see exactly what new construction will look like in the context of the neighborhood. In fact, a section of the map already shows SoMa not as it is now, but as it'll look in 2017 when a number of major construction projects are finalized. Images and graphics like traffic patterns, new subway lines, and even sunlight movement can also be projected onto the model by way of an overhead projector.
Right now, there's only one copy of the map, and it'll be in possession of the real estate developer whom it was built for — but Autodesk plans to print another and have it available for viewing at its gallery. Steelblue and Autodesk also have plans to print other cities — and possibly expand on the San Francisco map, as well.
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Well, folks, I think that Linuxfest Northwest (LFN) 2005 went rather well. The LFN team this year worked really hard to make this event happen, so I think I am going to take a moment to shine the spotlight on some of the planning committee. Everyone here on this page worked really hard to make sure that the festival went off without a hitch. I'd also like to give a huge shoutout to the others who may not be listed here. Your hard work is really appreciated, guys!
The presentations were all really well done and I came away feeling like the day was definitely well spent. Speaking for myself, the presentation that really struck home for me was brough to us by Chris DiBona of Google. DiBona is a great guy to begin with, perhaps even being seen as a bit of a free spirit. He made sure that all who attended the Google presentation had a good time and was most certainly a real blast to watch in action.
Since a large number of you were not able to attend Linuxfest this year, I have a little surprise with each of you in mind. Myself and a few other members of the Linuxfest Northwest staff have put together some video footage of select presentations for your viewing pleasure. While we are still editing much of the video footage, the Google presentation video is uploaded and ready to be downloaded.
Understand that this is Creative Commons video. So if you are so inclined, please take it upon yourself to upload it to your own servers and share it till your hearts' content! While I am still working on finding a permanent home for much of this content, I am happy to share the Google footage with you so long as my server's bandwidth remains intact. Thanks for all of the support!
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text: Politics 4 May 2013 "Mega-canal" proposal distributed in Government Canal running from Pennines to London would transport goods, power and water. Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML Aecom, an American professional services company, has proposed construction of a "mega-canal" running from the Scottish borders to London. The canal, which would cost £14bn to create, be 24m wide and run alongside a high-voltage power cable, is intended to provide solutions to future issues with water supply, power transmission and sustainable transport. Yesterday, Construction Manager magazine reported that the proposal was implicitly supported by DECC's scientific adviser David McKay, who distributed copies to to officials at the BIS, Defra and the Department for Transport, and describes the reasoning behind it: The canal would help to mitigate any future drought and also supply additional irrigation to the agricultural sector, by feeding Scottish water into existing waterways. And as well as offering a sustainable alternative to road and rail freight, facilitating the movement of biomass fuel to the south, it could also carry High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) cables in special compartments, with the water providing natural cooling. Aecom's associate director David Weight argues that there's real hope for the proposal: "We think that unlike HS2, local authorities would be queuing up to have a canal going through their area. As for funding, we'd anticipate a multi-stakeholder approach. There are many organisations that could either save money by using the canal or extract a toll for others to use it — for instance Scottish Power, Scottish Water, the National Grid… The canal would also be perfect for associated developments, such as eco-towns — the power and water are already there. The proposal is an elegant – if rather brute-force – method of combining solutions to several problems facing Britain today. Unlike the Victorian Georgian age of canals, which were primarily built for transportation of goods, Aecom envisages a greater focus being on the transportation of water, from the pennines down to the drought-ridden South East. The transmission of goods would be only secondary – although with shipping being one of the most environmentally friendly methods of transport around, it's not inconceivable that it could have a second wind. Adding in transport of power on top, solving three problems in one, is also a very good idea. But despite that, this remains blue-sky thinking. The joined-up nature which is its greatest strength is also the single biggest reason why it's unlikely to be implemented: as good as it is at solving a number of problems, it's not likely to be the best method to solve any individual one. DECC would rather increase generation capacity; the DfT would rather focus on rails and roads; and Defra's water strategy doesn't envisage any large scale transport of water. Instead, it's best to look at the Aecom proposal as something between a wonderful highlight of how low we now aim with our mega-projects, and porn for infrastructure geeks. With a little bit of steampunk thrown in for good measure, too – now, how about those zeppelins? Update: @BorisWatch points out I have got my ages of canals wrong. By the time Victoria was on the throne, the railway boom had all but killed canals. › Help to Buy won't bring a sub-prime crisis to Britain – but it does move us closer to one A map of the proposed route. Photograph: Construction Manager Alex Hern is a technology reporter for the Guardian. He was formerly staff writer at the New Statesman. You should follow Alex on Twitter. Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles How US states are fighting inequality with a "millionaire tax" Laying the foundations for conflict-free construction Lowland: small and mid-caps for…income? Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine


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People from other cities try to pigeonhole queer Dallasites. They say we're pretentious, money-hungry and obsessed with lip-gloss and Prada. And that we're always claiming we have "the biggest" something or other.
Well, at least we have personality worth stereotyping.
Welcome to Dallas Voice's inaugural Readers Voice Awards. If there's any indication about what identifies Big D's queer vibe, you'll find it in this section. Instead of our staff of know-it-all-editors, blowhard critics and muckraking journalists recommending where to go, what to do and whom not to trust, it's all y'all readers who are telling it like it is.
The online balloting was launched on Jan. 6, and came down on Jan. 31. From an exhaustive 197-category ballot, voters entered their favorite places to eat, party, spend money and rant about how much they detest Governor Rick Perry (the overwhelming winner of Most Homophobic Elected Official).
The awards are divided into 12 sections everything from medical (What's Up Doc?) and pets (Animal Farm) to travel (Gay Globetrotting) and fitness (Flex Appeal). Some winners (Most Knowledgeable Bartender, Best Weekend Getaway) have editorial components. That's because they received the most votes in their sections. And some winners (like The Round-Up Saloon and Trilogy/Obscurities piercing-tattoo salon) racked up multiple wins.
So what does the Readers Voice say about gay life in North Texas? We like to dance and sing karaoke. We take care of our teeth. We buy homes and cars, and we even shop at dollar stores. We appreciate nice panties, tragic drag queens and Ikea furniture. And we've effortlessly reclaimed country-and-western traditions and Christianity, and adapted them into gay culture.
Dallas queers are a fabulous species, but as GLBT Texans, we're at the front line of a fierce battle for equality. And with our lip-gloss cocked and ready and our cowgirl dykes who can hogtie a homophobe in a New York minute, Dallas is helping transform Texas into a GLBT utopia.
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Luck was on Brad Hawkins' side when he got online and filled out his Readers Voice ballot. As the 1,737th entrant, Hawkins' ballot was picked at random, and he won two round-trip tickets on American Airlines. Where's he going? Who's going with him? Hawkins answered some questions about his upcoming travel plans.
Who: Brad Hawkins, journalist for WFAA-TV, Channel 8.
Where did you grow up? The southern tip of Texas
How long have you lived in Dallas? More than 15 years.
When did you fill out your Readers Choice on-line ballot? Jan 31 at 1:56 p.m. the absolute last day, of course. I was voting Jeff Manning for best chiropractor. He and his wife have been friends of mine for years.
In the past, how has your luck paid off when it comes to winning jackpots and prizes? Never. This is a first, honestly.
Have you planned where you'll go with the winning tickets? If I get it together soon, a warm beach or an August vacation to do some kayaking in much cooler British Colombia.
Do you know whom you might take with you? My friends are circling the wagon.
Most exotic destination you've ever visited: A tie: Malaysia and South Africa.
Favorite thing about leaving town: The binge while emptying the fridge.
What do you dread having to do in order to prepare for travel? Packing everything into one carry-on suitcase.
See the world before you leave it. Name three destinations you want to visit before you croak: Sri Lanka and coastal India, Mozambique and Antarctica.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition, March 17, 2006.


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Please confirm that you want to add Getting Started with Gmail, Google Drive, Docs and Calendar to your Wishlist.
This course is an introduction to four of Googles most popular tools, namely Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs and Google Calendar. Designed especially for beginers, it will help you to organise your online life.
Almost everyone uses email these days, so why not start as you mean to go on, and get organised?!
And, what's more, you don't have to be in business to use Google Drive and Google Docs.
We all have documents that need storing. They could be photos, videos, or even important paperwork. Safe storage is essential. So why not use Googles cloud to look after them? It's free!
As for Google Calendar.....we all need a diary to run an efficient life.
You will find 25 easy to follow videos inside. The majority of these are only a few minutes, so they are easy to digest. You can quickly go over them again if you "don't get it".
And you've got my personal contact details, so feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Take this course and learn the basics of these "must have" Googe Tools.
I'm delighted to have you on board! This video is just a quick introduction and one or two suggestions while you learn.
You'll be pleased that you don't need anything more than what you already have!
This is a basic video to get you going. To make use of all of Googles wonderful tools you need to have a Google account. If you already have one you might want to skip this video.
When you first log into your Gmail account, there is no need to feel daunted. In this lecture I walk you through the basics of the Gmail Interface. In less than 10 minutes you will know your way around and feel comfortable when logged in.
One of the longer videos in this course. I will walk you through the basic settings, so that you you will be able to find your way around your Google Account.
This is one of my favorite videos because in this video you will find out how to get your account looking just the way you want it. Keep an eye out here for different 'themes'!
One of the easier lessons but an essential one!!!!
Again, not a difficult lesson. But it pays dividends to get your contacts sorted out. Saving your contacts is easy. Putting them into appropriate groups can save you a lot of time if you need to include the same people in lots of emails.
Gmail filters allows you organise your emails before they even hit your inbox. Talk about time saving! You'll be suprised how easy this is.
This is a cool little video. Lots of people have several gmail accounts. It's quite possible that you will want the same filters in each email account. Watch what I do in this video, and it will save you having to set up each email filter individually. A great time saver!
This allows you to apply labels to each email that comes in. It helps you store and find any emails easily.
A great way of keeping different groups of emails together. Another great time saver!!!
This tells you what Gmail Labs are about. Not many people know about this, and even fewer use it!
This lesson is probably aimed more at those people who are in business and receive and send lots of emails. Its a watered down version of Google Analytics. It lets you analyse everything you want about your emails!! For the enthusiasts!!!!
The first video in your Google Drive series. Downloading is quick and simple so I added 'backing up files' to this video. When you back up a file onto Google Drive it is perfectly safe and can't be stolen or hacked. Backing files up onto your hard drive is no longer safe.
In this video I show you around the Google Drive interface. You'll quickly be able to find your way around G Drive.The chances are that you won't use everything here, but it will do you no harm to know where things are!
There are one or two ways to find Google Drive on your Desktop. Watch this and choose your favorite way to find it!
From time to time you will need to upload a file from your local computer to Google Drive. It might be a word doc or it could be a photo. It's a simple process to follow, and its the first part of sharing files. Or it might be that you are just putting it there for safe keeping!
Sharing files is probably what Google Drive is most used for. It is a fantastic free service that will saved you lots of time and money. Sharing files online is the way forward!
This video is not going to appeal to everyone. If you so wish you can use G Drive as a Webserver. Ok, you're not going to host your whole website this way, but its a pretty cool tool to have. You don't need to be a 'techie' to follow this!
Maybe this video should have been at the start of this section! Here I show you how easy it is to navigate between Gmail, Google Drive and Google Docs. Easy to follow!
Quickly find your way around the Google Docs interface. Not difficult to follow. Once you know where 'things are', you can move around easily and hassle free!
At just under 20 minutes this is easily the longest video in this course! Its a thorough video and when you've watched it, you will know how to create and edit a Google Doc at ease!
The title is self explanatory, but knowing how to open a word doc in Google Docs is definitely something you need to know.
Google Sheets is what you are probably used to calling a spreadsheet. Find out how to work a 'spreasheet' in Google Docs.
Editing a pdf is something that you might have thought to be difficult. Find out how you can do this with ease within Google Docs.
There is only one video here on Google Calendar. However, in five minutes we cover the main points and what I use myself. This is a great free tool, and I strongly recommend using it!
I have made my living online,working from the comfort of my own home, for several years now. The financial rewards are wonderful. Not to mention the time I can now spend with my family, something you can't put a value on.
It wasn't always plain sailing though. Please take a moment to read my brief history below, and see how YOU also can become financially independent and live the life you've always dreamed about.
I have no fancy letters after my name but I know what I'm talking about.
I have spent virtually my whole adult life running small offline businesses. Most of these I'm pleased to say were successful, but they all had learning curves, some of them very steep!
There was a car auction turning over £25 million with 45 employees, an 18 hole golf course and driving range with 30+ employees, car retail with 3 sites, some property development, a web development company. The list goes on. I truly have had a go!
But this much I can tell you. No matter how successful your offline business is, there are always headaches that go with it. Always.
Running two businesses at the same time with about 40 staff in each brings problems every day.
I always dreamed of running a business with little, or no, overheads.
Then about five years ago, I discovered the wonderful world of Internet Marketing.
Now, if anyone tells you it's an easy path, don't believe them! However, it can be, With the right help and mentor. AND THERE LIES THE SECRET.
When I started I had no one to show me the ropes, to hold my hand. There were many times I nearly threw the towel in.
Fortunately I persevered. And as I told you before, I now make my full time living online.
My BIG BREAK came when I decided to invest in my future. To buy courses and learn from them. That shift in mindset saved my Internet Marketing career. If you don't do the same, your chances of success are greatly reduced.
So, a few years ago, The Internet Marketing Tutor was born. I'd been doing well online for a while and decided that it was time to 'give something back'.
Any mentor will tell you to get the basics right. You can't build a house on sand.
If you're anything like I was (and still am!), you'll want to make money today! You can't wait! Of course this is natural, and quite understandable.
So what am I saying?
Learn to walk before you run. Do that and you'll soon be running. Fast.
In my courses I cover the basics to start.
But I also have some super courses on Making Money Online.
Please take my advice and learn the basics first. Some of these are free. However, be prepared to invest in your future.
I'm here to help you, don't forget that.
Get your mindset right, learn what you're being taught, and before you know it you'll have left your nine to five!
Assuming that what you want!!
Good luck.


text: Howdy All! After lurking for ages I decided I'd upload and share my version of a starter map for the Unleashed Pack. I've seen a few great ones but I personally find it more fun/challenging to start in a cave-type home rather than a nice house on a flat area. I left the furnishings and area pretty untouched and basic to prevent the urge to scavenge parts of the house for materials.... Not that I tend to do that or anything.... nope.... not at all.... Any comments or suggestions on improvement are welcome. I know most people hate cave dwelling, but I know there must be a few other weirdos out there. Please Enable Biomes-o-Plenty for this map! (Otherwise I have no clue what it'll do but I doubt it'll be pretty.) Starting Area Features: - Oil (A small starter supply in the main room of the house, there doesn't seem to be any natural spawns nearby) - Water Mill power, BattBoxes, and basic Industrial Machines. - Tinkerers Construct stations and smeltery - Barrels - Enchanting Room - Personal rooms with Private Safes, beds and storage for up to 4 Players. (Designed for LAN play) - Mine with Spawner and Abandoned Mineshaft w/ Lava Lake access - Farm, Animal Pen, and bee-keeping area - Nearby a Large Village and an Orchard Biome Pictures: (Will add pictures from outside as soon as I can. I keep getting a upload errors for some reason.) And the download link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r9onw1czv5q26t4/Unleashed Cavedweller.zip


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GM has re-offered Spyker the deal to buy Saab, but only has a short window of time to make it happen. Ford lets some news slide via Facebook, Twitter, or some social networking site, according to Inside Line. Also, a wrecked Audi R8, impaled by a guard rail.Hosted by Derek DeAngelis. Fast Lane Daily is your daily source for the latest car news, car reviews and exclusive coverage of automotive events. www.FastLaneDaily.com For More car reviews, check out our other channel www.youtube.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: www.twitter.com
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America Frances McCleese and Virgie (McCleese) Adkins
On the left, America Frances (Blankenship) McCleese, (Virgies mother) was born in 1883 and died in 1941. America married Wyatt "Watt" McCleese. Wyatt was born in August 1878 and died February 4, 1951. Wyatt is son of James Wesley McCleese, who is son of Thomas Jefferson McCleese Jr..
On the right, Virgie (McCleese) Adkins, (my Grandmother) was born October 10, 1902 and died January 15, 1996. Virgie is buried at Waring Cemetery, Garrison, Kentucky.
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QOTW: Sleeping Issues
Welcome to today's question of the day post!
The question of the day is a question that a lot of you moms might be wondering, or maybe don't even know to ask it yet, so we are asking it for you!
So mommies to be, share with us your thoughts and experiences on:
Have you ever experienced any sleeping issues with your little ones? How did you handle them? Do you have any tips or tricks you can share with us?
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My daughter did great. She started sleeping through the night at 3 months old. My son who is 6 days away from 10 months, is still getting up once a night. But it's better than it was 2 weeks ago. He was still getting up 4 times atleast!
when i had trouble getting my 4 month old tosleep i did research on the net and read in several places how babies up to 1 year need a lot of sleep and havea general sleep cylce of being awake from 1 1/2 to 2 hours and then needing a cycle of sleep and getting up again. it also stressed the importance of not missing that window of opportunity b/c a baby who is overtired is obviously not a happy baby and they lack the ability to get themselves to sleep once they are overtired and worked up. you have to learn your baby's sleepy cues like pullin their ear, rubbing their eyes, acting fussy, and you get them to bed right away. i did this with both my babies and it really worked for us. they had two naps a day til htey were both 18 months old. also having a good calming nihgttime ritual like bath time and stories really helps wind them down at night and gets them used to getting ready for bed.
You are a great mom i'm sure, but for me I let my daughter cry it out. When she would cry I would go in her room to reasure her that mommy is still here, but never pick them up out of the bed because that confuses them. So i'm for the let them cry it out method. It worked so well for me. It took only one night of her crying for 1 hour. Yes I felt bad but it works.
my baby hates to sleep! Around 2-3 months she would only nap on me (not in bed with me, but actually on my chest, only way to get her a good nap) She would fight sleep all the time!!! (still does actually)
But the best thing ever is the book: "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy child" by dr. marc weisbluth! This book helped us recognize her early sleepy signs and find her sleep schedule!
As for other advice... I tried EVERYTHING out there to get my baby to go to sleep and take better naps, she was nursing to sleep until 8 months, then I had to get her to go to sleep on her own b/c her sleep was getting SOO terrible!
I'd say the most common thing that causes sleep issues is a too late bedtime, or not enough naps during the day! Also, encouraging night waking well past the time babies should be waking at night causes problems (yup, I've been there)
My advice to all is fix it now!!!! Don't promote bad habits... I had too many kids in my kindergarten classes (used to teach, now sahm) who had major issues in school (like ADHD) due to lack of sleep!
At bed time, both of my boys will go right to sleep. Only a few times do I have to lay him back down. My problem is getting them to sleep all night. My 2 yr old, I have noticed depending on if or how long he takes a nap, he'll wake up durning the night. And my 1 yr old could nap for 4 hrs and sometimes he'll sleep all night, and sometimes he'll wake up like 2 or 3 times. I don't know how to get them to sleep through the night.


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You get them in the mail, see them in the newspapers (in small print) and, sometimes, they are on (late-night) television: NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF CLASS ACTION.
They tell you that you may be entitled to some amount of money — often very small — because a lawsuit in which your rights are involved is settling. They warn you that if you do nothing the court will decide what to do with your rights. You might get nothing and lose the right to sue yourself, they advise.
While common now, consumer class actions as we know them today were not allowed anywhere before 1966. The California Supreme Court first allowed them in 1967 and gave them a ringing welcome: "Protection of unwary consumers from being duped by unscrupulous sellers is an exigency of the utmost priority in contemporary society ... many persons ... experience grievous exploitation by vendors using such devices as high pressure salesmanship, bait advertising, misrepresentation of prices, exorbitant prices and credit charges and sale of shoddy merchandise.
"Frequently numerous consumers are exposed to the same dubious practice by the same seller ... Individual actions by each of the defrauded consumers is often impracticable ... ; thus an unscrupulous seller retains the benefits of its wrongful conduct ... "
Class actions exposing these "unscrupulous sellers" to multi-million dollar judgments would end these "dubious practices" the Supreme Court was sure. However, from the very beginning and throughout their life there have been those who have argued that these cases provide little benefit to anyone other than the lawyers who bring them and they should be abolished.
Lawyers do receive millions of dollars in fees in these cases. Seven-figure attorney's fees in a case, paid by the unscrupulous seller, are common. Some attorneys now seek fees for the hours they have spent handling a class action at the rate of $1250/hour. And they ask the court to double or triple their fees because of the favorable result they have won for the class.
Equally true is the fact that few consumers directly benefit from these settlements. About 90 percent of the consumers who receive these notices throw them away and do not file claims. Most because they don't understand them, don't care or because it is simply not worth it to take the time. A surprisingly large number of people do nothing because they want nothing to do with lawsuits and lawyers and courts. Many believe that these notices are telling them they are being sued.
It is true that by and large class actions fail to compensate the victims of "high pressure salesmanship, bait advertising, misrepresentation of prices, exorbitant prices and credit charges and sale of shoddy merchandise."
In large measure, class actions also fail to accomplish their second stated purpose for existence: Disgorgement from unscrupulous sellers of the profits they derive from their wrongful conduct — in effect, multi-million-dollar fines for their wrongful, predatory conduct.
Putting aside the question of why the filing of a claim should be required, the effect is to automatically reduce the "fine" by about 90 percent, an amount the defendant can readily manage and does not really move it to mend its ways. It may, in fact, reduce the amount or value of the settlement to an unreasonable level — pennies on the dollar — unfair to the consumers.
Given the failure to achieve the goals for which class actions were "invented," the case for abolition of class actions appears to have considerable merit.
But the reasons stated by the Supreme Court in 1972 for allowing them still ring true, particularly in an age where governmental regulation of unfair business practices is ineffective and huge scandals that should have been prevented erupt (Enron, et al). The class action continues to hold the potential for accomplishing the goals set not only by the California Supreme Court, but by virtually every federal and state court and legislature. That it fails, in large measure, to deliver justice should be a cause of public concern and a case for reform, not abolition.
What has been advertised as reform in the past (e.g., The Class Action "Fairness" Act of 2005) was written by big business — big tobacco, big insurance, big drugs, big auto, etc. It was designed to frustrate the ability of the courts and attorneys to use class actions effectively.
Don Ricketts has been a trial lawyer for more than 40 years. His column represents his own views, and not necessarily those of The Signal. "Business Law" appears Fridays and rotates between members of the Santa Clarita Valley Bar Association. Visit www.SCVBar.org.


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Puppy Mill Couple Arrested UPDATE [With PHOTOS]
Here's an update to the story from over the weekend of the couple with the 350 dogs in their house. The Allegan County Sheriffs Department released a statement saying George and Cheri Burke of Cheshire Township were arraigned Wednesday afternoon on felony animal cruelty charges following Monday's seizure of 352 small dogs from the couple's Cheshire Township home by Animal Control Officers with the Allegan County Sheriff's Office. They posted the $5,000 bond and were released. That's an interesting part of the story, here's another. Look at these people.


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Sarah Henning has been promoted to director of population health programs at HealthChoice. Henning previously served as manager of the department. In her new role, Henning is responsible for designing, implementing and managing population health and wellness initiatives and programs for the HealthChoice network. She also collaborates with stakeholders to promote and support these programs and to ensure they meet the needs of the affected populations and adapt with the changing health care environment.
ANKENY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa regulators have voted not to let a Tennessee-based company build a psychiatric hospital in Bettendorf, Iowa.
The Iowa Health Facilities Council voted 2-2 Wednesday at its meeting in Ankeny on the $14 million, 72-bed proposal by Strategic Behavioral Health. The tie vote effectively rejected the company's request for a certificate of need.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Healthways' board has decided against selling the company after reviewing its strategic options to boost shareholder value.
Healthways Inc. announced the review in January.
The incoming president of the University of Memphis should name his provost or chief academic officer this week as he prepares to take office May 16.
M. David Rudd was appointed president of the city's largest institution of higher learning last week by the Tennessee Board of Regents.
Tracy Lindow has rejoined The Centre Group human resources firm as a senior consultant following several years in Germany. As a senior consultant, Lindow will help organizations improve their bottom line through human asset development by leveraging compensations strategies, executive search, employee attitude research and leadership skills development.
David Palmer has joined Cannon Wright Blount certified public accounting firm as director of assurance and accounting services. Palmer's specialties include audit and profit-sharing plans in the nonprofit, health care, government and construction industries.
Cathy Hernandez has joined Ballet Memphis as director of development. She also is an adjunct professor of arts administration and thesis adviser at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Dr. Radwan Faysal Haykal, director of the Bipolar Spectrum Program at Lakeside Behavioral Health System and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has been inducted as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Raleigh, N.C.-based Highwoods Properties Inc. has signed two deals at its Southwind Office Center, a 62,000-square foot, three-story building with views of the Tournament Players Club at Southwind golf course.
Doug Petty has joined Phoenix Power Group as the new vice president of sales and marketing.
Hometown: MemphisEducation: I hold B.S. degrees in chemistry and industrial hygiene from the University of North AlabamaWork Experience: I worked for 10 years as a specialty hospital sales representative for Merck Pharmaceuticals. For nine years I was a senior industrial hygienist for EnSafe Inc.Activities you enjoy outside of work: You can usually find me on a golf course, but I also spend time singing and playing guitar in the Memphis area. I enjoy watching Tigers football and basketball games and cooking out with friends.Who has had the greatest influence on you? My parents are my greatest influences. I obviously chose wisely.What drew you to Phoenix Power Group? I was drawn to the opportunity to become involved on the ground floor of such an innovative, revolutionary system. In addition, this was a chance to be associated with a talented and experienced group of professionals and investors. Based on my years of professional experience, I know a good thing when I see it.What does your job as VP of sales and marketing entail? Our company utilizes breakthrough technology to convert used oil into electricity in an environmentally responsible manner. My position utilizes my background in environmental science, regulation, and high-performance marketing and sales. My specific responsibilities include managing regulatory affairs, developing marketing materials, training and distributor support.What do you consider your greatest professional accomplishments? It would have to be the relationships that I've built with co-workers, clients and customers over the years. Those are things that can't be measured on a spreadsheets or sales reports. Winning the Regional Medical Center's 2007 Pharmaceutical Representative of the Year Award certainly comes to mind.What do you most enjoy about your work? The level of excitement and energy around the PPG organization is remarkable. I've been looking for the opportunity to help launch a potential "Next Big Thing" for quite a long time. It is hard not to be excited when your field of work is always pushing the edge and creating new challenges and opportunities. No one has done what we are doing, so we really are a "new" idea. That comes with challenges and benefits; but there is something unique about "creating" a product, something that a cubicle just can't offer.
Fred Jones has received the Arthur S. Holmon Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Memphis Black Student Association.
Rahema Barber gazed into the void of the Power House. It looked as though all the art had been wiped away: blank walls, empty rooms and silent space.
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I have recently been suffering from snapping hair, so much so that one side of my hair was distinctly shorter than the other. After having it all chopped off, the hairdresser suggested that I needed protein based products and recommended this spray treatment.
This Protein hairspray will apparently reconstruct, recondition and add immediate strength without any added weight. It also promises to be a Strengthening hairspray which will boost hairs shine and softness.Redken's 3D Repair Complex builds long lasting strength and conditioning into your hair leaving it healthier and more manageable. The spray is formulated to provide a triple line of defence with proteins penetrating into the core of your hair helping to build internal strength, the ceramide enters the cuticle layers to help repair any damaged areas, and natural lipids, help resurface hair leaving the cuticles shiny, smooth and protected.
If all of this is true then I wish I had found this ages ago...
The product comes in a 150ml blue blue plastic bottle with all of the information and directions on the bottle. One of the things I like instantly is that although it is blue, I can see straight through the bottle and so see how much of the product is left in the bottle.
The bottle has a spray mechanism and when I spray the product I can't work out if the scent is more perfumed or medicated. I think it's a little bit of a floral scent because when it is applied to my hair my hair doesn't smell like it's had a medicated treatment on it.
The instructions on the back of the bottle tell me that after shampooing I should squeeze excess water from my hair and apply the treatments and lather. It should then be left on the hair for between 3 and 5 minutes and then rinsed out of the hair. It does rinse out nice and easily, and when it is rinsed out, my hair is easy to comb. My hair dresser also suggested that I spray it onto my hair some time before I wash it and then after washing and before styling. I have tried it both ways and tend to prefer the two applications.
the product is widely available in chemists online and in hair salons and costs around the £12 mark. Whilst this seems expensive, even using it twice for each wash as I do, it does still last for ages, and when hair is as distressed as mine, then I was willing to try anything.
When I first apply the product to my hair it does make each individual strand of hair feel thicker and less soft, which at first was a bit disappointing especially when I have just thoroughly washed and conditioned my hair. I tend to spray it on about an hour before washing my hair to let it really seep in, at which stage I just look as though I have greasy hair. It does wash out easily with my normal shampoo, and then when I spray it in after washing and conditioning I'm ready for the styling. Because my hair strands seem thicker, then I do feel as though it is being protected from the heat.
I have been using this for about a month now and I really do think it is making a difference. My hair feels stronger and it is definitely growing at the same rate at both sides of my head. Snapping has been reduced and the side of my hair which was especially distressed now looks thicker and healthier.
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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3
Review by Gumbercules
"Killer sequel to a crappy prequel"
This is the kind of game that you hate to love and love to hate. With all the mixed emotions I had playing through it, I may not be able to give you a straight review. Some things I liked in the game were the Dragon Universe and the combo system. Some things I thought could have been better were the soundtrack and the stories.
What can I say about Dragon Universe? Well, awesome would be an awesome choice . They finally made a great Dragonball Z storyline that you can interact with. Now, being able to fly around and find your battle is rather fun, and finding items along the way is great. The way they have it now is you can find capsules in the Dragon Universe so you can save yourself time and money in the capsule shop. The thing is, finding the items is pretty annoying. When you fly over one and it comes up on screen, half the time there is nowhere for you to fly to. You have to back up and turn around in order to fly to the item. I've found this to be the only real flaw in the Dragon Universe stories, and I'm glad because this doesn't really ruin the experience of it.
Kamehameha! A great finishing move. However, the graphics could have supported it better. With most of the finishing moves in this game, you do get a cut scene to go along with it, but the graphics are very poor in making the character's actions look fluent. If you're looking at the overall battle graphics, the good does outweigh the bad. The melee seems very true to the movements, especially when you go into the Dragon Rush mode. If you upper-cut your opponent they get thrown into the air instead of just standing there like nothing happened. The only weird thing about the game are the invisible barriers. When you fling your opponent into them hard enough, they can be broken, which allows you to go to a different part of the stage. Just one problem. When you break the invisible barrier they make it look like you shattered glass. I found this to be a little strange because they obviously did this on purpose. It shouldn't look like shattering glass when you throw your opponent into another part of the battle arena.
Unlocking things in this game isn't too complicated or frustrating. That is, unless you've never been good at world tournaments. Basically, it works like this. You play through the story and collect the items that can be collected there. However, the stories only contain so many items. This then forces you to collect money, and that is done in two ways. The first is to find it during Dragon Universe, which doesn't allow you to buy many items once they start getting expensive. You can also compete in world tournaments for prize money. Prize money from world tournaments lets you buy more of the expensive items because you obtain so much. The only thing is that they aren't easy. There are three World Tournament classes: Novice, adept, and advanced. Each one offers more fighters and more prize money than the last, which means harder battles.
The battles during Dragon Universe were very easy on any difficulty. The opponents get steadily stronger, but as you fight so do you. This makes it even no matter what difficulty you're on. Making it through a story twice is more than necessary in this game because items and characters have to be unlocked in each story. This usually takes more than one time through, and having no challenge every time does get boring. The only way to really make it hard is switching over to Z3 mode, which is the absolute hardest mode in the game.
Punch, punch, kick, kick, energy! Pretty simple, eh? Well, it is one of the things that I like about these games. When you're first introduced to the Budokai series, you'll notice the impossibly easy combos. Still, there is a combo system in the game unlike any other fighting game I've played. But if you're really into the Budokai games, you'll find that as you dive deeper into the game you'll unlock harder combos that take a little time to pull off and are loads stronger. Combine these with the weaker combos and throw in a few extra punches and kicks, and you've got yourself a master-style combo. This combo system is just so much deeper than you can see and it takes time and patience to really uncover it, so if you think you've seen all that can be seen in this game you may want to check it again.
The Dragon Rush mode. Some hate it, others love it. Me? Well, it really depends on the character. The new Dragon Rush is a high paced button mashing combo sequence. By completing a Dragon Rush you can pull off an awesome combo and end it with a finishing move. It's easy to do and even easier to complete, but it's annoying when you're trying to see the finishing move and you get blocked half way through. The damage inflicted from Dragon Rush is massive, especially if you complete all three stages of the combo. As the AI gets stronger it also gets smarter allowing it to counter your Dragon Rush. So the best thing you can do is practice Dragon Rush.
Same old, same old. They have not changed the music in this series once and it's really starting to get annoying. I got so annoyed I had to play with the T.V. muted. Fighting games need good fighting music like hard rock or something with a fluent beat. If you're a huge fan of video game soundtracks you may want to bust out a good C.D., mute the T.V., and play the game that way. I found it a lot more satisfying than listening to that sorry excuse of a soundtrack.
I found myself loving and hating this game at the same time. I couldn't stand running through the stories in a matter of minutes. The idea of Dragon World is great; they just need to make it more challenging. I really hated the music, but playing some of my own while whooping butt with my homemade combos is rather entertaining. Are you prepared to give it your all? To become the strongest you have to beat the strongest, so start fighting.
Reviewer's Rating: 3.5 - Good
Originally Posted: 02/17/06
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Media Minute: Wrong questions, wrong answers
By Jerry Brown, APR
If you ask the wrong questions, you usually get the wrong answers.
For example, I recently found these questions in my inbox:
"What does it take, in your experience, to achieve good public relations? What are good public relations? If I am already issuing periodic press releases, is that enough?
"What if I have a whole social media marketing plan and I am distributing monthly newsletters, tweeting weekly, writing articles and publishing them in online magazines and talking about everything I do (my company does) on Facebook and Linked-in. Is that enough?
"I believe the above is a more tactic(al) view of PR tools, what about the strategic view of PR?
"And the million $ question — is there real value is paying a retainer of tens of thousands of shekels to a PR firm? Sometimes I feel that despite all the tools that I use, I am not breaking a glass ceiling when it comes to awareness. Can a good PR firm help me and my business? Is a traditional PR firm or a digital marketing firm more advisable today?
"I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts and experiences on the above."
A lot of people seem to think the key to successful PR is using the right tools. But the tools are just tools to help you reach the right audience effectively with right message.
Should a carpenter use a hammer, a saw, a screwdriver, a level, a ruler — or all of them? Depends on the job to be done. S/he probably won't use a saw to drive nails or a hammer to cut a board. And a master carpenter is going to build a better cabinet than I would even if we use the same tools and materials.
I suggested to the author of the opening questions that she start with a different set of questions:
- What's your objective? What do you want to happen as a result of telling your story?
- Who's your audience? Unless you have a monopoly on air and we need to buy it from you to breathe, the answer is not everyone.
- What's your message? What do you need to say to your audience to persuade them to do whatever you need them to do to meet your objective?
- How do you reach your audience with your message? Getting a story into the Wall Street Journal may sound like success — unless your audience doesn't read the Wall Street Journal.
Once you know the answers to these questions, then you can start thinking about which tools to use and how often to use them.
Does the questioner need to hire a PR agency? Maybe. Does she need to hire a large, expensive agency? In her case, probably a waste of money. She'd be better off working with an experienced independent practitioner, a small agency or hiring an employee to do her PR work.
Starting with tactics is often tempting. We've all done it. But it's a bad place to start if you don't know the answers to the questions I listed above and if you don't have a strategy for delivering your message effectively to your audience. There's no cookie cutter list of the right tools to use. And good PR is about building relationships, not just delivering a message.
We all have stories to tell. Do you need help telling yours?


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Amanda Petrusich, Breton Stetka
Published: September 25, 2005
Amanda Petrusich, a daughter of Linda and John Petrusich of Buchanan, N.Y., was married yesterday to Dr. Breton Scot Stetka, the son of Mary Lou and Daniel Stetka of Barboursville, Va. Richard L. Lucyshyn, a Universal Life Church minister and a friend of the couple, officiated at the Chapel of Our Lady Restoration in Cold Spring, N.Y. The bride and bridegroom met at the College of William & Mary, from which they both graduated.
Ms. Petrusich, 25, is keeping her name. She is a pop music critic in Brooklyn and writes for Pitchforkmedia.com. She received a master's degree in nonfiction writing from Columbia.
Her father, who is retired, taught math at Blue Mountain Middle School in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y. Her mother retired as an art teacher at Walter Panas High School there.
Dr. Stetka, 26, is a medical researcher and writer at Fission Communications, a medical education company in Manhattan. He is also an editor and writer in the psychiatry department of Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He received a medical degree from the University of Virginia.
His parents own the Diagenetics Laboratory, a clinical lab in Orange, Va. His mother is its financial manager and his father is the geneticist there.


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Fish and Wildlife Service celebrates Endangered Species Day
May 21, 2011
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and numerous conservation organizations observed Endangered Species Day on Friday to recognize conservation efforts underway across the nation aimed at helping America's imperiled species.
To date, the Endangered Species Act, which became law in 1973, has helped to prevent the extinction of hundreds of species. Co-administered by the Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the purpose of the act is to conserve imperiled species and the ecosystems upon which they depend.
The service works with other federal agencies, state, local and tribal governments, environmental organizations, industry groups, academia, the scientific community and members of the public to help conserve our nation's threatened and endangered fish, wildlife and plants. Endangered Species Day honors this national commitment to recovering endangered species and their habitats and provides an opportunity to learn about what efforts are being made to conserve them.
The bald eagle, brown pelican, American alligator and Maguire daisy are all species that were on the brink of extinction, but have successfully rebounded. The wood stork, Kirtland's warbler, Lake Erie water snake, Okaloosa darter, black-footed ferret and Louisiana black bear are also listed species that are showing significant progress towards recovery – the ultimate goal of the Act. These recovered and recovering species are just a few examples of those benefiting from the protections afforded by the Endangered Species Act and the dedicated people who work to ensure their continued existence.
To learn more about the service's Endangered Species program, visit http://www.fws.gov/endangered/.


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On November 3rd, Cannibal Corpse will release their 14th full-length, 'Red Before Black', via Metal Blade Records. For a first preview of 'Red Before Black', the band has launched a video for the single, 'Code of the Slashers'.Read More
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On October 6th, The Black Dahlia Murder will release their eighth full-length, 'Nightbringers', via Metal Blade Records. For a preview of 'Nightbringers', the new single, 'Matriarch', can be heard now at the Alternative Press Facebook.Read More
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On October 6th, Cattle Decapitation will release 'The Flesh Is of No Use' snuff-DVD, featuring three Mitch Massie music videos. Included in a plastic evidence bag, this NSFW DVD is strictly limited to 1000 copies.Read More
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Earlier this week, Metal Blade Records and BMG released 'For the Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records'. Now, fans can purchase exclusive bundles and Metal Blade memorabilia through PledgeMusic.Read More
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Cosplayer Bishoujo Senshi > Costume of Mami Tomoe (Madoka Magica)
- Most Recent Photo
- 10-11-2014
- Series
- Madoka Magica
- Character
- Mami Tomoe
- Year Completed:
- 2014
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- Otakon 2014
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- Bought from Vaults on tumblr! thanks for selling me such a lovely garment!
Still need to finish my rifles and also have it taken in a little bit but I'm so glad to have finally cosplayed one of my favorite megucas!
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The invention of that fine silke, Tiffanie, Sarcenet, and Cypres, which instead of apparell to cover and hide, shew women naked through them. [Holland's "Pliny," 1601]The fashionable N.Y. jewelry firm Tiffany & Co. (1895) is named for its founder, goldsmith Charles L. Tiffany (1812-1902) and his son, Louis C. Tiffany (1848-1933), who was the art nouveau decorator noted for his glassware. The surname is attested in English from 1206.
So saying, and heartily recommending himself to his lady Dulcinea, whom he implored to succour him in this emergency, bracing on his target, and setting his lance in the rest, he put his Rozinante to full speed, and assaulting the nearest windmill, thrust it into one of the sails, which was drove about by the wind with so much fury, that the lance was shivered to pieces, and both knight and steed whirled aloft, and overthrown in very bad plight upon the plain. [Smollett translation, 1755]
to have a good time ( = a time of enjoyment) was common in Eng. from c 1520 to c 1688; it was app. retained in America, whence readopted in Britain in 19th c. [OED]Time of day (now mainly preserved in negation, i.e. what someone won't give you if he doesn't like you) was a popular 17c. salutation (as in "Good time of day vnto your Royall Grace," "Richard III," I.iii.18), hence to give (one) the time of day "greet socially" (1590s); earlier was give good day (mid-14c.). The times "the current age" is from 1590s. Behind the times "old-fashioned" is recorded from 1831. Times as the name of a newspaper dates from 1788.
Jones [archaeologist of A.D. 5139] potters about for a while in the region which we have come to regard as New York, finds countless ruins, but little of interest to the historian except a calcified direction sheet to something called a "Time Capsule." Jones finds the capsule but cannot open it, and decides, after considerable prying at the lid, that it is merely evidence of an archaic tribal ceremony called a "publicity gag" of which he has already found many examples. ["Princeton Alumni Weekly," April 14, 1939]To do time "serve a prison sentence" is from 1865. Time frame is attested by 1964; time-limit is from 1880. About time, ironically for "long past due time," is recorded from 1920. To be on time is by 1854 in railroading.
Previous to 1883 the methods of measuring time in the United States were so varied and so numerous as to be ludicrous. There were 50 different standards used in the United States, and on one road between New York and Boston, whose actual difference is 12 minutes, there were three distinct standards of time. Even small towns had two different standards one known as "town" or local time and the other "railroad" time.
... At noon on November 18, 1883, there was a general resetting of watches and clocks all over the United States and Canada, and the four great time zones, one hour apart, into which the country was divided came into being. So smoothly did the plan work that the general readjustment was accomplished without great difficulty and it has worked satisfactorily ever since. ["Railroad Trainman," 1909]