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Hamilton Standard Address Plaque is rated out of 5 by 30.
Rated 5 out of 5 by cloudninegirl from Very High Quality! This address plaque is very well made and high quality. I am very happy with my purchase!
Date published: 2016-08-20
Rated 5 out of 5 by treefrogsGA from Delighted with quality Heavy duty, very well made plaque. Easy assembly - looks as if it will withstand any weather.
Date published: 2016-02-29
Rated 5 out of 5 by MomDee52 from Beautiful House Plate The Hamilton Standards Address Plaque is beautiful and a welcome addition to our new home.
Date published: 2015-08-05
Rated 5 out of 5 by californiagirl123 from AMAZING QUALITY! This is by far the best quality item that I have ever gotten from Frontgate....this sign is beautiful, well made and worth every penny and more that I paid for it. I am in love with this- and the stakes that you put in the ground are steel- this thing is built to last as long as your house....I will not be replacing this item....It looks even better than online- my entire staff was ewing and awing over it when it came in....very well boxed and packaged and sealed with plastic so that none of the metal touched in shipping....once again- I love this sign...if I had a place in my yard to put 2- I would buy another one- that is how much I am happy about it.
Date published: 2015-04-17
Rated 5 out of 5 by sw12 from Hamilton Address Plaque We were very pleased with the quality of the plaque. It arrived earlier than expected and is a beautiful and stately addition to the courtyard entrance of our new home. We have purchased from Frontgate before and have never been disappointed by the quality of their products.
Date published: 2014-12-12
Rated 5 out of 5 by DHubenak from Beautiful The address plaque looks beautiful in our yard and really adds a touch of elegance.
Date published: 2014-05-06
Rated 5 out of 5 by Arris from Great Purchase! So glad I purchased this particular address plaque. It's simple, yet artful and the quality of the product is super. I purchased the lawn version and it's the perfect addition for my front yard. When placed beneath an up-light, it shows beautiful at night.
Date published: 2014-04-29
Rated 5 out of 5 by Debi from Great Address Plaque! Absolutely what we were looking for! Very easy to put together and looks fabulous too! We put our last name under the number rather than the street name!
Date published: 2014-02-24
The wall mounted plaque--what are the measurements and do you include screws to go in brick?
The manufacturer includes screws that can attach the Hamilton Standard Address Plaque to a wall surface. Please consult your local hardweare store for appropriate hardware when attaching the plaque to stone or brick.
Date published: 2014-07-23
Is it possible to put numbers in the second line?
For example, if I live on 32nd Street, can 32 be in the second line? The customized template just adds spaces where the numbers should go. Thanks.
Thank you for your patience while we contacted the vendor to obtain an answer to your question regarding this item. We were able to confirm that you are able to put numbers on the 2nd line, however the "nd" would be capital as the vendor does not have lower case letters.
Date published: 2013-10-21
I wish to order the Hamilton wall plaque in Bronse with no numbers - Only to have on the first line West Winds and on the second line Farm all in same
West Winds Farm all in same font
Thank you for your interest in the Hamilton Standard Address Plaque. Unfortunately, the first line of this plaque is only designed for up to five numbers. You may wish to consider a different plaque such as the Designer Oval Wall Address Plaque, item 140017, that has more than one line of words. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Date published: 2015-07-14
is the height calculated from installed in ground or including entire length of legs?
We appreciate your interest in this item. The height of the plaque is measured from the top of the plaque to the bottom and does not include the stakes.
Date published: 2016-10-29
Is Hamilton AddressPlaque your recommendation for area with snow and cold temperatures(Toronto, Canada)?
If not, which plaque do you recommend? Think you
Thank you for your interest in the Hamilton Standard Address Plaque. This item is crafted of sturdy cast-aluminum to resist weather's worst and can be used in snow and cold temperatures.
Date published: 2017-08-08
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Indie Awards heckler outs himself; claims other nominees "detrimental to humanity"
The heckler at last week's Jagermeister Independent Music Awards has outed himself. And it's none other than Nic Warnock – boss at Sydney record label R.I.P Society – who makes no apologies for yelling out "not independent" when award winner Lanie Lane thanked her label Ivy League.
In a stinging missive published on Crawlspace, Warnock attacked some of the acts nominated for Indie Awards, suggesting their contribution to culture is on par with 50 Shades Of Grey and vajazzling, and likening them to "music from tampon ads".
While R.I.P Society had a big win at this year's awards with Royal Headache taking out Best Independent Album, Warnock declared that much of the music that was up for nomination was "detrimental to humanity". He described some of the nominees as a "more subtle" form of the same awfulness that's yielded "Fred Durst, steampunk and Christian metal".
Revisiting last week's "not independent" storm-in-a-teacup, Warnock claimed that while Ivy League are great at what they do, they simply have no place at a celebration of independent music. "Ivy League does not operate in any way, shape or form like an independent record label," he said. "There is no creative idealism or attempt to foster any type of collective/counter culture, nor has there ever been from what I can see."
He did, however, say that he didn't enter the award ceremony with a vendetta against Ivy League, describing his heckle as a "jovial, spur of the moment" reaction. "Whether Ivy League are independent or not is not really something I dwell on as Ivy League (and a great deal of the labels present at the AIR Awards) are so removed from any affecting independent music culture past or present that it seems irrelevant to discuss."
Although distributed by a major (Universal), Ivy League falls within the Australian Independent Record Labels Association's criteria for nomination, namely a company that is 100 percent Australian, owns the master rights for recorded music and "exploits" it for commercial gain.
Ivy League's managing director Chris Maund explained last week that while the issue of independency isn't "black and white", the label – a subsidiary of the Mushroom Group – is 100 percent independently owned and self-funded.
"We have our own independently funded sales staff and we independently control/distribute all our digital rights, which, for recent releases constitutes over 50 percent of our album and 100 percent of single sales. Weighing all that up, we proudly call ourselves an independent label and are proud to be a long standing member of AIR."

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Going for the Crop
Siobhan Bentley's got a serious case of hair-envy when it comes to Emma Watson and Mollie King's shorter styles.
There's always a hair trend doing the rounds in the fashion, music and celeb worlds. Whether it's the classic Rachel cut, or the magical tresses of Princess Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge on her wedding day, someone's bound to be giving us mere mortals serious hair-envy! At the moment, I'm crushing on the shorter styles — not the pixie crop (as even I don't think I will ever muster up the courage to go that short!), but those flattering 'dos that hit just below the collarbone. I'm booking an appointment at the hairdresser, pronto!
Mollie King of British girl-band the Saturdays was the first person to get me eyeing the scissors. Once known for her long, luscious golden locks, she recently began sporting a shorter style, which makes me wonder why she ever had long hair in the first place. This cut makes King look more sophisticated, accentuates her cheekbones, and with a slight curl throughout, is perfection.
Although Emma Watson has now embraced the pixie, her best hair lightly brushed against her collarbone. By keeping her mane light with a few golden highlights, Stone showed off the epitome of sexy, beach-waved hair.
With summer just around the corner, these shorter styles are increasingly appealing. Will I see you at the salon?
Siobhan Bentley is a 24-year-old Londoner, self-proclaimed beauty addict, and the voice behind A Girl and a Beauty Blog.


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I'm nervous. I ordered a HUGE canvas of one of my photos. An abstract of bee balm. I got a great discount because I used the code: RADIO, so it could have cost more. It is shipping free too. This should be my moment. The moment I've been waiting for. Recognition. Appreciation.
Ok, so it's coming from my husband, who requested gallery wrapped canvasses for each of our operatories in the dental office. And he might be a little prejudiced. Heck, it took me six months to order 15 smaller canvases, which aren't ALL that small, but smaller than 3x4 feet. Why am I nervous? I've never ordered such a big canvas before. And I don't use a tripod.
But both the bokeh and the detail are gorgeous. And I spend that much in a slot machine walking away with nothing to show for it most times I play. Heck, that's what I usually spend on my worst habit. (Michael Kors purses). And I'm getting a huge canvas. 36"x48" inches. Which translates to three by four feet. Whoah.
Want to see what I ordered?
That may or may not be really freaking cool. I'm hoping and praying that it doesn't arrive and achieve White Elephant status. I'm hoping for the best. I'm hoping that when I unwrap the canvas, it will take my breath away. In a good way.
I chose this photo for the color scheme, as I am hoping it is good enough to deserve a place of honor in our newly remodeled and soon to be redecorated dental office. I stalled and stalled ordering canvases for the office because well, I guess I just don't have enough confidence in myself.
Stay tuned for updates, photos will be taken once the order arrives.
What do you think? ~Karen Lynn
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As she hits the media circuit to promote her new memoir, former Secretary of State and potential 2016 presidential contender Hillary Clinton is speaking out against the sexism she faced during her last presidential run and in her public life.
"When you're in the spotlight as a woman, you know you're being judged constantly," Clinton told ABC's Diane Sawyer last week. "It is just never ending. You get a little worried about, okay, people over on this side are loving what I'm wearing, looking like, saying. People over on this side aren't…I'm done with that. I'm just done."
Clinton may say she's "done with that," but the media certainly isn't. Six years after the 2008 campaign, the jokes about Clinton's fashion and marriage have given way to a softer, under the radar form of gendered coverage. The sexist code isn't gone, it's just become harder to crack.
For instance, in a town hall style interview with the former secretary of state Tuesday night, CNN's Christiane Amanpour chuckled that Clinton "got quite feisty" in a prior interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC News. After the CNN interview, commentator Wolf Blitzer also said approvingly how "feisty" Clinton had been.
"Feisty" is one of the words that sets off alarms for the Women's Media Center, which released a guide to gender neutral coverage of female candidates and politicians during the 2012 election cycle. The guide includes a dictionary of all the words that are used to subtly demean women. For instance, the guide notes that "feisty" is a word "normally reserved for individuals and animals that are not inherently potent or powerful; 'one can call a Pekinese dog spunky or feisty, but one would not, I think, call a Great Dane spunky or feisty.'"
Other examples of seemingly innocuous but gendered terms include "complain," "aggressive," and "scold."
Rachel Larris, communications manager for WMC, explained that this sort of commentary is not intentionally sexist or malicious, as reporters are often "not aware that they are doing it."
Still, "tropes develop," Larris told ThinkProgress. "Covering a female candidate's appearance at a campaign stop is a journalistic trope."
Even when the coverage is not blatantly offensive or negative, these tropes can hurt women with political ambitions. Research shows that even neutrally mentioning a female candidate's appearance hurts her election chances.
Hillary Clinton has long been a magnet for such tropes, from her pantsuits to her scrunchies. Another new theme emerging is her soon-to-be grandmother status.
In the ABC News interview, Diane Sawyer tied Clinton's familial obligations to her political aspirations, asking, "Can you savor being a grandmother and be president?" Clinton shot back, "Of course, men have been serving in that position, being fathers and grandfathers, since the beginning of the Republic."
Similarly, Amanpour brought up the Benghazi attacks by asking Clinton about a victim's mother. "How do you relate to her as a mother?" she asked.
Clinton has certainly been eager to talk about her grandchild, and in several interviews expressed angst about balancing family with a potential campaign. But "that doesn't let political reporters off the hook for calling her Grandma Hillary," Larris said.
While candidates of both genders frequently talk about their families, Larris pointed out that journalists tend to more closely affiliate female candidates with their familial identities. "Mitt Romney was never called a grandfather in a headline, or called grandfatherly," Larris said, even when two new Romney grandchildren were born during the 2012 campaign. "[Grandfatherly versus grandmotherly] as an adjective shows the kind of differences between a male candidate and a female candidate. When a female candidate talks about children and grandchildren, the whole story is about that."
The "heavyhanded" sexism in the 2008 campaign cycle, during which Clinton was mocked as shrill and compared to a nagging wife, seems to have made the public more aware of the ways female candidates are targeted, Larris said. But reporters also need to be more aware of their language choices.
"The best tool that any media personality has in order to negate the effects that gendered reporting can have on their subjects is to simply be aware of it," Larris said. "To think about words — would I actually use the term feisty to describe David Brat? Have I merely made the fact that he's a father the main part of the article? In some cases it may be warranted. But just to think through these words can make a big difference."


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The Diapering Doula has closed up shop and a new business has taken over existing customers.
Clean Start Diaper Service started serving its first customers this week, picking up soiled cloth diapers and dropping off clean ones. The service is a division of Community Workforce Solutions, which has been providing vocational services to adults with disabilities in Wake County for more than 49 years. Clean Start has worked with the Diapering Doula to take over existing customers and find new ones. They serve the Triangle and surrounding areas. Click here for all the details.
The Diapering Doula grew by leaps and bounds after it opened four years ago. At one time, the shop in Morrisville included a small boutique. It them morphed into a home for other small businesses that serve moms and families. But last month, owner Karissa Binkley decided that she needed to take a break to be the kind of mom to her young daughter that she wants to be. Binkley announced on her blog in May that she was shutting down the business. Monday was her first day without the service.
Binkley said she's thrilled that the business has been taken over by Community Workforce Solutions and expects good things from the new arrangement.
Binkley, who also is a doula, continues to help new moms. She is teaching at Cary Pediatrics, Triangle Physicians for Women and the town of Apex. She also is working with one to two doula clients per month.
"The diaper service was a great platform to engage the public and share childbirth and breastfeeding as the biological norm," Binkley tells me. "Now I get to follow my passion full time ... I can be at home during the day with Cora and enjoy working with mothers and families in the evening."
To find out more about what Binkley is up to and where she is teaching, you can check her blog. I know she has some ideas brewing. I look forward to sharing her next project!


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In his first season of a forgettable comeback with the Washington Wizards, Michael Jordan became the fourth player – and first guard – to join the exclusive 30,000-point club when he made a free throw against his former team, the Chicago Bulls, at MCI Center on Jan. 4, 2002.
It took more than 10 years for Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone and Wilt Chamberlain to welcome a fifth member last Wednesday when Kobe Bryant made a running floater over New Orleans Hornets center Robin Lopez in a Los Angeles Lakers victory. The milestone is a testament to Bryant's incredible scoring prowess, durability and longevity. One of the pioneers of the preps-to-pros revolution, Bryant managed to become the youngest at just 34 years, 104 days old but also the slowest, needing 1,179 games – or 27 more than Malone.
The NBA probably won't need to wait another 10 years to have another member of the 30,000-point club. Three players – Dirk Nowitzki, LeBron James and District native Kevin Durant – could join that exclusive company in less than nine years.
More on them later. But the list of candidates to join two other exclusive clubs that haven't had many new members over the past 10 years – 15,000 rebounds and 10,000 assists – isn't very long.
Two-time most valuable player Steve Nash has 9,984 assists and will join John Stockton, Jason Kidd, Mark Jackson and Magic Johnson soon after he returns to the Lakers lineup from a fractured left leg. Kidd handed out his 10,000th assist three seasons ago.
With scoring point guards becoming the rage in the latest basketball evolution, the potential for players capable of reaching five digits in career assists becomes more stunted – at least until the game takes another shift toward faster pace offenses and more prototypical playmakers pulling all of the strings like a puppeteer.
Chris Paul fits the mold of his predecessors and likely will record his 5,000th assist before the end of the month. Paul would become the sixth player with 10,000 assists by 2019-20, when he'll be 34, if he continues to average at least nine assists per game and his knees manage to hold up until then.
Rajon Rondo, the reigning assist champion, faces a more daunting task but is on pace to average at least 11 assists for the third consecutive season. Rondo averages eight assists over his career and would top 10,000 assists around 2021-22 at that pace.
Just five men have grabbed at least 15,000 rebounds in their careers: Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Abdul-Jabbar, former Bullet Elvin Hayes and Moses Malone, who became the last member in 1991. Karl Malone retired 32 rebounds short of forming a sextet.
Kevin Garnett and Tim Duncan are the active leaders in rebounds, but they are half of the four players that have entered the NBA since 1991 rank among the top 20 in career rebounds. Garnett needs about 1,500 rebounds to reach 15,000 and Duncan is roughly 2,300 short, but both face a difficult challenge as they receive reduced minutes at their advanced age.
You also have to wonder if either player is motivated by statistical chases, especially with championships already won and Hall of Fame careers already established. Garnett and Duncan are great competitors but have shown a willingness to sacrifice numbers for wins in recent years.
In his ninth season, Dwight Howard already has more than 8,000 rebounds and could average 8.5 rebounds between now and 2022-23 to reach the club.
As for the 30,000-point club, Nowitzki is 5,866 points shy but would need to maintain his career average of about 23 points for the next 3½ seasons to become the sixth member – at age 38. Given the current health concerns of the former MVP, that proposition seems like a stretch.
Barring any major injuries, James and Durant are the more realistic pursuers of the 30,000 club, with both players already displaying the desire and work ethic required to be great and well ahead of Bryant's scoring pace.
James, who came directly out of high school in 2003, has already surpassed Bryant as the youngest to score 10,000 points and is on track to become the youngest to reach 20,000 points before the all-star break – when he'll just be 28. If he can maintain relative health and durability and maintain a 25-point average, James would reach 30,000 points in 2017-18, at age 33.
The wait for the 24-year-old Durant will be much longer. Had Durant been allowed to enter the NBA directly out of high school, he likely would've been the youngest to reach 10,000 points but the youngest ever three-time scoring champion stands to join the 30,000 point-club in 2021-22 – at a younger age than James or Bryant – if he maintains his current career scoring average of roughly 26 points per game.
James and Durant have been two of the more consistent, durable and prolific scorers since entering the league, but projecting so many years in advance is difficult, because so many factors have to fall into place; Shaquille O'Neal was on the path toward 30,000 points before injuries and those tricky free throws forced him to retire with 28,596.
Before he has to worry about James or Durant, Bryant can focus on climbing up the career scoring list. He currently leads the league in scoring and should pass Chamberlain (31,419) for fourth before the end of this season. If he can simply maintain his career scoring average of 25.4 points, Bryant would surpass Jordan's 32,292 early next season, when he'll be in the final year of a contract that he has intimated could be his last.
Going down as the highest-scoring shooting guard of all-time – and possibly grabbing two more rings to top Jordan – are more important milestones for Bryant than simply scoring 30,000 points.
Bryant made it to this point by playing with a psychopathic purpose, looking beyond any potential rivals in his generation and hunting down legends. When it comes to the exclusive milestone chase, that's what it takes.


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Fairfield resident Aaron Beverly fired a two-day total of 4-under-par 140 to win the Fairfield city golf championship, which concluded on Sunday.
Beverly, a sophomore at Sacramento State, shot back-to-back rounds of 2-under 70 over two days at Rancho Solano and Paradise Valley.
Beverly also won the 2012 Fairfield Junior title.
Peyton Smith finished alone in second at 1-under 143. Regan Kilpatrick and John McCord tied for third at 145.
Green Valley member Jack Anthony won the Senior Division with a total of 5-over 149.
More than 65 golfers from throughout Northern California competed in the 19th annual event.
VACAVILLE WOODS SHINE IN SACRAMENTO >> The Vacaville Woods traveling baseball team won four straight games to take the title at the Super Series age 17-under tournament over the weekend at Mather Field in Sacramento.
Vacaville beat Roseville's Golden Spikes Academy 6-2 in the championship game.
The Woods were led by the timely of Jared Kay, Saahil Patel and Arnie Hayes. Pitcher J.J. Chicovsky went the distance for the win.
Vacaville opened with a 4-0 win over Roseville behind the pitching of Nickolas Roach. The Woods added an 8-4 over the Bay Area Bombers behind C.J. Carroll's home run.
They opened play on Sunday with a 6-1 semifinal win over the Devil Dogs. Wellington Balsley finished with three hits, and Connor Caporale pitched a complete game.
Also contributing for the Woods were Braydon Altorfor, John Betz, Jacob Brown, Dustin Henderson, Robert Lewis, and Joshua Payne. The team is managed by Donavan Balsley, with coaches Arnie Hayes and Eric Altorfor.
WOOD TO HOST FREE CAMP >> Will C. Wood High School's football team will host a free youth clinic on Saturday at the school's practice fields.
The camp for players ages 5-12 begins at 7:30 a.m., and continues to 11.
Wildcats coaches and players will lead the camp.


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Our mission is to create innovative software products and professional development services to inspire great teaching and improve student learning.
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World Submersible Pumps Market - Opportunities and Forecasts, 2014 - 2020
A submersible pump is an equipment whose assembly are kept submerged in the fluids that it needs to pump thus preventing the formation of any vapor cavity in the liquid and work by pushing fluids to the surface from their submerged positions. These pumps are developed for different flow rates of the liquid satisfying different purposes in industries.
Increase in count of urban population, and increasing industrialization are the factors that is expected to drive the submersible pumps market. Growing investments in infrastructure development is another factor that will foster the growth of the market. The increasing cases of Motor Failure & High cost of troubleshooting involved are key restraining factors that hampers the growth of the market. Increasing exploration activities related to deepwater and increase in subsea operations are factors that will offer abundant growth opportunities to this market. Designing submersible pump which can operate for a pump intake excess air is a key market challenge faced by manufacturers and end-users.
The market is segmented on the basis of operation, application, power rating, industry and region. On the basis of operation, the market is segmented into single stage and multistage. On the basis of applications, the market is segmented into industrial sector, agriculture sector and domestic sector. On the basis of power rating, the market is segmented into low power, medium power and high power. On the basis of industry, the market is segmented into water & wastewater, energy & power, mining & construction and other industries. On the basis of region, the market is segmented into Asia-Pacific, North America, Europe, Middle East & Africa and South America.
Key market players operating in this market are Xylem Inc., Sulzer AG, KSB Group, Grundfos Group, Ebara Corporation, Atlas Copco AB, Flowserve Corporation, General Electric Company, Halliburton Company, The Gorman-Rupp Company, Tsurumi Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Wilo SE, ITT Goulds Pumps, Toyo Denki Industrial Co., Ltd. and Walrus Pump Co., Ltd.
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I do love my music and I admit to owning numerous amounts of CD players, boomboxes and headphones. These portable radios/ CD players are handy for when I use my uncle's caravan for a long weekend. I was on the lookout for a cheap radio/ CD player and after looking in Tesco Direct and B&Q I had a look in Argos and found this one. It was only £15 and I thought that was a bargain, so I wrote out my infamous Argos slip and bought one!
The CD radio is an elegant looking piece of equipment with its silver colour and generously sized speakers. It certainly looks more expensive than it is, it doesn't look at all cheap. The radio is lightweight and portable. You can simply pick it up by its handle and carry it from room to room etc.
The radio isn't digital so if you're on the lookout for a DAB radio then you would need to pay a little more than £15. However, for a decent cheap FM radio this certainly fits the bill. The radio is easy to operate. There's an aerial located on the top of the radio itself which you can expand to get a better signal. Signal quality obviously depends solely on location but once tuned in properly the radio sounds great.
The sound quality is good and what you would expect from a £15 radio. The CD player is also easy to operate. You can flick through tracks until you find your favourite or you can simply programme them in. The radio does come with a small instruction leaflet explaining how to operate the controls. I find it extremely easy to use, even children would be able to use this easily without any problems. CDs sound great on my player and I have never experience any problems with them skipping, jumping etc.
You can plug the radio into a mains socket to use (it comes with a mains cable and plug) or you can simply run it on batteries. I have used it both ways but I prefer to use batteries (rechargeable ones of course!) as I am not restricted to a plug socket then. When you move the radio around it does skip a little but this soon settles down again once the player is placed onto a flat surface.
For the price this works a treat. It's a bargain and a great no frills simple to use CD/ radio player that looks great, sounds good as does the job.
Worth £15!
My four year old niece has almost everything so it difficult to find a that somebody else hasn't already got her. After racking my brain for weeks, and some secret conversations with my brother, I decided to get her a CD player. I didn't see the point in splashing out on a fancy one as she would only be playing CDs on the machine so I got the Argos Value Range Portable CD player which cost £15 from my local Argos store. It is also available on their website.
About the product
The product plays CD and also has an FM radio included. It is portable so has both an electric plug and a battery option so you can use it on the go. It allows you to choose which songs on a CD it plays by programming up to 20 songs that you want to hear. It is 12 cm high, 24 cm wide and it has a depth of 25.5 cm. It is light in its weight so would be easy to carry around with you.
The product I chose was silver in colour with two speakers on each side and the CDs are inserted in the top. It has a handle for carrying the machine and an areal to improve the radio signal. It has a row of buttons along the front such as on/off, volume, play/pause and a button to skip through the songs. A small screen on the front lights up to tell you what track you are on.
Although the product does look quite nifty and looks more pricey that it was, it wasn't pink so I set about making it more pretty for my little niece. I bought lots of pink sparkly rhinestones and flowers to stick all over it to make it more child friendly, even spelling her name out in jewels along the top. It looked beautiful and I was so excited to give it to her. I even bought plenty of CDs to give along side her main gift.
Christmas morning
My niece was overjoyed when she opened the box, assuming fairies had made it so sparkly and bright! She wanted to use it straight away so I set it up. It was simple to attach the plug socket and the buttons were very self explanatory so the included instructions manual wasn't needed. The top is easy to open and my niece managed to insert the CD and to press play on her own. Everyone was instructed to come into the living to dance to her favourite song, 'Is this the way to Amerillo?'
That were the happiness ended though as the CD started to jump immediately. Even though it was brand new, I wondered if my niece had touched the CD when putting it in so we tried anyone. The same thing happened, with the music jumping and skipping every few seconds. The volume on the product went louder than you would ever need it to but within a few minutes, everyone has got irritated and it had to be switched off. Much to the upset of my little niece.
All in all, I couldn't have been more disappointed with this product. I bought it for the simple function of playing CDs and it couldn't manage to do that. My niece was very disappointed, as was I, especially after spending a lot of time and money decorating it. All the jewels have now been picked off again and the product has been boxed up... Now I just need to find the receipt. I won't be buying from this range again.
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Please bear in mind that I have had this for a couple of years, and they are still available from Argos.
I paid around £20 for it, which was good value, especially as it had a CD player built
This was brought for my bedroom as my then hi-fi had packed in and I wanted something cheap and cheerful to do the job till I got round to getting another hi-fi.
The CD/Radio player is silver in colour, is a compact design, it has 2 built in speakers on the front of the unit. It had quite a good level of sound, as you could fill the room with music, and it was also loud enough to be used for a children's party.
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The CD is easy to load, and has the basic functions needed, stop, start, skip, play and pause, and worked well.
There is a built in aerial which you can expand out to get a better reception, but generally I found that by moving the unit around, even just around a fraction it soon improved any problems with the signal.
Stations, I had a fair choice of stations, and generally I just left it on one station, although this could be changed by moving the button.
This is a dual action unit, it comes with a electric cable, although you can put your own batteries inside it, (does work out more expensive as there the larger batteries) so electricity won every time.
The power was easy to operate, you had the off button which also operated the cd and the radio, just changing at a flick of a knob.
=The Controls=
The controls are basic, but they do the job.
Even though I upgraded to a hi-fi system I have kept this as a spare as it is a good little system that works.
=Would I recommend=
I would highly recommend this system, great value, easy to use, and a good retro looking item.
Price: £15.99
Call me old-fashioned but I was recently searching for a basic cd radio, one which I could take with me to uni so I could leave my more expensive equipment at home. I didn't have a huge amount of money to spend and was looking for something that I would not be heartbroken about if it got damaged. This cheap stereo seemed like the perfect answer.
For the price this has been surprisingly good. It is a pretty decent silver colour and light enough to be easily transportable. The size also means it can fit in small spaces, perfect if you are limited in the amount of room you can spare. The player can be operated using 8 C batteries, although I find plugging it into the mains is easier, as the batteries are not included and can be quite expensive.
Overall, I have found the basic functions of this CD radio to be more than adequate. It has all the expected controls e.g. repeat, play and the radio has both a AM and FM tuner. It doesn't pick up as many stations as I am used to on my digital radio but those I do receive have perfect reception. Occasionally CDs skip but I wasn't expecting miracles and often this is with discs which are slightly damaged or scratched to bein with. The two relatively large speakers produce a good sound quality and there is a headphone socket if you want to listen quietly.
For the price this is as good as I could have hoped. It performs the basic functions as I was expecting and has been great to transport around. Obviously if you are searching for a completely faultless piece of equipment, and have more money to spend, then it may be worth shopping around. However, if you are just looking for a cd radio at its most basic give this a go.
The idea of being able to get a radio and CD player combined for under twenty quid must surely appeal. I am a biggie on sound quality but I am also a biggie on price, so weighing up you have to consider what you are getting and whether it represents value for money. I think what we have here is a solid product for the price and there aren't many players you can get for such a good price, that have a radio too.
We had one of these in the kitchen a while back. You want something in the kitchen to listen to while preparing food, but you don't want the most expensive hi fi that is going to get covered in oil and grease. This is one of those products where it doesn't really matter if it gets dirty, because it's so cheap.
A neat design with a stylish look, silver throughout and a couple of speakers at the front, delivering enough volume for even the larger sized rooms. It would also work well as a lounge or dining room device, or maybe to warm up dinner parties with.
The CD feature is easy to work with the basis stop and start and skip and pause features there and these allow quick and easy use, though we did notice occasionally the skip button would get stuck if the discs were much older.
The radio side is pretty good and though the tuning is not one hundred percent precise you can can a decent enough signal and pick up most major stations and use the aerial to enhance the signal. You can turn the radio on and off with a switch and flick between modes easily too. As for the sound quality, okay it isn't amazing, but it does just fine for quiet levels and the unit is sturdy enough to withstand a few knocks here and there. It runs off the mains with a generous cable. A good buy and handy for portable use too.
When I needed a basic radio and cd-player for my cabin, I decided to go with this very cheap and yet surprisingly good quality player from Argos, and all though it`s not exactly of Apple quality in terms of design and audio quality, I think this is a very good bargain for only 15 pounds, being both portable and allowing you to listen to albums and radio...
If you prefer to listen to music or the radio using headphones, this product allows you to do so, and I find that the audio quality somehow is being presented better this way, as the sound quality otherwise isn`t all that superb, but still good enough to make this a good and well worth the money product! If you are on the search for an audio player for your evening party or afterski extravaganca, I wouldn`t go for this one, but it presents radio and music very good given the low cost, and it`s perfect for the cabin, boat, kitchen or children`s room! Yes, it does look exactly as cheap as it is, but for its use, I have no problems with that... It runs with eight C batteries, and these will last for a long time, unless you use this product very much during the day...
This is a basic, easy to use and fairly good sound radio and cd-player, that for its cost is a bargain! It`s easy to carry around and looks somewhat all right, so all in all, I would recommend this product if you`re on the look for something basic and budget friendly.
I decided to buy a little radio to listen to in my office at work as I hate working in silence, although I can hear a lot going on and people do come in and out all the time, I like to have some background noise. So I had a look through the argos catalogue for the cheapest radio they had, as it was only for work, and I didn't want to spend much at all, incase it went missing!
This radio cost me £15, and it is portable. It has a handle on it, that your can flap down, and the aerial is quite long. It isn't a nice looking radio, its not something I would have out in my kitchen on show or anything! But for what I want it for, it is perfect. It does look cheap but the sound on it is fine, and it picked up the radio station I listen to first time I plugged it in, with no hassle at all.
It doesn't go very loud but this isn't a problem as I only have it on low anyway, and you can also play cd's in it. I have never tried this part as I only want to use it as a radio. I don't think it is a very good size, it isn't very compact, it is quite a big radio but it is very lightweight and easy to carry around.
It also has a socket for you to plug your headphones into. You can either plug it in or put batteries in it. You cant actually see the numbers of the station you want to listen to, but once you have found it, if you keep it on that one you are fine, but I think it would be a pain if you were switching between stations all day.
I would recommend this radio if you want something for your office at work, for children or if you aren't bothered by what it looks like as it works perfectly for the price and I would definitely buy another one.
Last Christmas I was out shopping and had a brainwave that I would quite like to get my son a small CD player for his bedroom. He had had a child's version with a little microphone and things but the door on it had broken rendering it useless so I thought I would opt for a more adult looking one, but it would need to be relatively cheap.
I wandered into Argos knowing that they have a value range and it was one that I had purchased things from before and as a rule had never had any problems with them. I browsed the catalogue and I spotted the Argos value range CD/ radio. It was just £14.99 and looked great for what I wanted and so I snapped it up.
The box in which the CD player comes in is very basic and just a white box with a little bit of blue on there too in line with the majority of the value products. I don't really care what the box looks like though in this case and was just hoping that the product inside would be good. The CD player is well packaged inside the box with polystyrene and a plastic bag wrapper too.
When we unpacked the CD player on Christmas Day I was pleasantly surprised at how nice it actually looked. It is basic of course but it was a pleasant silvery colour and would look quite nice in my son's bedroom. This isn't the type of product you would use if you were a huge music fan and wanted a music system but I think for children or the kitchen this product is great!
The CD player has a carry handle on top for being transported around if you choose to do this. It is mains powered in our house but you can actually put eight C batteries in it and then you can transport it wherever you wish! It would be a nice idea for BBQ's and things actually.
The CD player is on the top of the unit. There is a button in the corner which you press and this will release the hinged CD door. To close it again you press the same area until it clicks and then the CD will be ready to play. The door for the CD's opens quickly and with ease and my son has no problems in changing his own CD's.
On the top of the unit is where you find the majority of the function buttons. Here we have a repeat button and a program button. My son hasn't really used these buttons but I believe you can program up to 20 songs to play. On the opposite side of the top is the function keys for playing a CD and we have a play/pause button, next song, back, and stop buttons.
On the sides of the CD player we have the volume control which is done by twisting a dial. We have found the volume to be fine. It doesn't get hugely loud but is loud enough for my son. If it got any louder he would try and drown out my music when I am in my bedroom! There is also the function switch where you can turn the player off, or to radio or CD mode. On the opposite side of the player we have the band switch and you can switch to AM, FM, or FM stereo. There is also the tuner dial. We haven't really used this player for the radio function but on the odd occasion when my son has been playing around he has been able to pick up some local stations so that is quite nice.
The front of the CD player has the lcd display which tells you what number track you are on whilst playing a CD. There are also the two circular speakers encased within the player at the front too.
I think this CD player was a great pick up to be honest. It isn't too big and fits nicely on my son's bedside table with his lamp and was a bargain price. My son sometimes likes to go in his room and put one of his CD's on and this gives him the flexibility to do this when he wants to.
The player plays the CD's at a really decent level and there is no skipping or jumping even when my son is having a big dance around his bedroom-and his idea of "dancing" is jumping around a lot!
The volume on the player is of a good level. Even if my son puts it on at full volume it isn't blasting out too much and I don't need to worry about him disturbing neighbours or anything.
If your child loves music or you are looking for a CD player to have in the kitchen whilst you cook I would really recommend this product. It was great value and does a good job. I have no complaints with the product at all.


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Garden of Life Oceans 3 Better Brain with Omegaxanthin, 90 Softgels
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If you're like millions of other Americans, there are probably times you think you're losing your mind – that just may not be an exaggeration. Brain health and memory loss are issues of concern for more and more people every day. But now, there is Oceans 3 Better Brain, the only Omega-3 supplement available with OmegaXanthin™, a synergistic complex of three health-promoting compounds from the ocean plus a dynamic suite of three clinically studied ingredients designed to support neurological and brain function.*
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Having never tasted the original Drake's Coffee Cake, I make no guarantees that this recipe compares. All I can do is all I can do. This recipe was posted in 2006 by someone from New York, where she probably could have found the original Drake's Cake in its convenient packaging but wanted to complicate her life by reinventing the wheel.
Source: The Barefoot Contessa Parties by Ina Garten Servings: 8-10
Source: The Barefoot Contessa Parties by Ina Garten Servings: 8-10
Ina writes, "This is the ultimate breakfast treat. My goal was a homemade version of a Drake's Cake, but better. As if the cake wasn't delicious enough, I decided to drizzle maple icing on top and give it an extra-special flavor. This recipe can also be made into sour cream coffeecake muffins."
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter at room temperature
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
3 extra large eggs at room temperature
1 1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups sour cream
1/2 cup cake flour* (not self-rising)
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. kosher salt
*If you don't have cake flour, you can substitute 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour plus 1/4 cup cornstarch.
3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. kosher salt
3 Tbsp. cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
3/4 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
2 Tbsp. real maple syrup
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
Cream the butter and sugar for 4-5 minutes until light. Add the eggs one at a time, then add the vanilla and sour cream.
In a separate bowl, sift the flour, baking powder and soda and salt. With the mixer on low, add the flour mixture to the batter until just combined. Finish stirring with a spatula to be sure the batter is completely mixed.
Place the brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, salt and butter in a bowl and pinch together with your fingers until it forms a crumble. Mix in the walnuts, if desired.
Spoon half the batter into the prepared pan and spread it oput with a knife. Sprinkle with 3/4 cup of streusel. Spoon the rest of the batter in the pan, spread it out, and scatter the remaining streusel on top.
Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean. Let cool on a wire rack for at least 30 minutes.
Carefully transfer the cake, streusel- side up, onto a serving plate.
Whisk the confectioners' sugar and maple syrup together, adding a few drops of water, if necessary, to make the glaze runny. Drizzle as much as you like over the cake with a fork or spoon. (Leave off the maple glaze to make it more authentic.)


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Scott County Historical
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The A. C. Elliott, Jr. Collection
Around Dungannon
Courtesy of Don Baker
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|A. C. Elliott, Jr.
Pearl Burke
|Dungannon High School Auditorium, ca. 1936
|A. C. Elliott, Jr.
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|Nancy Elliott
|Pearl Burke
|Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Elliott, Sr.
|Ross Elliott
|Doris Elliott
|Pearl Elliott (R) - 1944
|Ross Elliott
|Rich Hagan's Cabin
|Rich Hagan's Cabin
|Nancy Elliott
|Pearl Marie Burke
|Eualee Templeton
|A. C. Elliott, Jr.
|A. C. Elliott, Jr. (R) - 1957
|The Elliott Home
|Doris Elliott (L)
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Benzinga's Top Pre-Market Losers
Novo Nordisk A/S (NYSE: NVO) shares fell 2.44% to $163.48 in the pre-market trading after Bank of America downgraded the stock from "buy" to "neutral."
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Johan Martin Harless
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Johan Martin was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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•ID: I31417 •Name: Johan Martin Harless •Given Name: Johan Martin •Surname: Harless •Sex: M •Birth: 11 Mar 1739 in Appar. At Sea On "Wintergalley" •Death: Abt 1820 in Clover Hollow, Sinking Creek, Giles County, Virginia •_UID: 71BA9E72DDAE444ABC499CDE55AF03C7A187 •Change Date: 14 Aug 2006 at 21:30 •Note: See Heavener, German New River Settlement (Baltimore: GPC, 1981), p. 62. See also Yates & Price, Increase in Prices, p. 3; Salt Lake Film #5188 p. 37 for Holy Trinity Lutheran Church records. Married twice: first to Catherine Lingel, dau. of immigrant Johan Jacob Lingel who arr Phila 26 Sep 1737; second to Selah Kirk, Giles Co. 13 Octr 1818. \par \par Birth: 25 JUL 1738 in at sea,"Winter Galley" \par \par Born 25 July 1738, while at sea aboard the Winter Galley. He and his family lived on a large acreage at Clover Hollo w on Sinking Creek, near what is now Newport in Giles County, Virginia. He served in CPT Looney's company, Virginia Militia, mainly in a garrison on Sinking Creek or at Smithfield at Draper's Meadows during the Revolutionary War. \par \par http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=returnwithhonor &id=I47
Father: Johan Philip Harless b: Abt 1716 in Nürnburg, Karlsruhe, Baden, Palatinate, Germany Mother: Anna Margaretha Price b: 21 Sep 1713 in Offenbach, Bayern, Germany
Marriage 1 Anna Catherina Lingel b: 30 Aug 1741 in Upper Hanover, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania •Married: Abt 1754 in Augusta County, Virginia •Change Date: 25 Sep 2005 Children 1. Ferdinand Harless b: Abt 1755 in Shenandoah, Dunmore County, Virginia 2. Harriett Harless b: Abt 1756 in Augusta County, Virginia 3. Daniel Harless b: Abt 1758 in Augusta (Giles) County, Virginia 4. Phillip O. Harless b: Abt 1760 in Augusta County, Virginia 5. Patrick Harless b: Abt 1761 in Cowpaster River, Augusta (Rockbridge) County, Virginia 6. Anna Marie Christina Harless b: 10 Oct 1763 in Rockingham, Mcgaheysville, Augusta (Giles) County, Virginia 7. Martha Harless b: Bef 1768 in Augusta (Giles) County, Virginia 8. Michael Harless b: Abt 1768 in Augusta (Giles) County, Virginia 9. Catherine Harless b: Bef 1769 in Augusta (Giles) County, Virginia 10. Mary Harless b: Bef 1771 in Augusta County, Virginia 11. Elizabeth Harless b: Bef 1774 in Augusta (Giles) County, Virginia 12. Margaret Harless b: Bef 1777 in Augusta (Giles) County, Virginia
Marriage 2 Selah Kirk b: Bef 1798 •Married: 13 Oct 1818 in Giles County, Virginia •Change Date: 25 Sep 2005


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Works with no problems across FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux based systems. SystemDataRecorder has been used the module since 2009 with no crashes or core dumps. Documentation can be improved.
The documentation is awful, tests are shallow, no usage examples are provided. No way, I'm sticking with Net::Curl.
Compiling and installing version 4.15 on Windows needs further tweak in Makefile.PL, The following line reports a error on Windows if I use Microsoft Visual Studio as compiler ("|" is Unix flavor, Not MS)
open(H_IN, "-|", "cpp", $curl_h) and $has_cpp++;
Just replace it with next line.
open(H_IN, "<", $curl_h);
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Once it is installed with ActiveState perl 5.12.2 on Windows. All 3 modules WWW::Curl::Multi, WWW::Curl::Share, WWW::Curl::Easy work good.


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This course is intended to provide the student with an introduction to the Japanese Language. This will include the basics of the language plus an overview of various online resources and recommended study habits.
I will also discuss Japanese culture within the framework of the language to enhance the students' learning experience.
- Lecture I
Introducing the Teacher, the Course, Japan, and Japanese
- Lecture II
The Rest of the Phonetic System, Resources.
Recommended- Linguistics 101
The syllabus can be viewed publicly here.
Required Materials-
1) Japanese Keyboard Input on your computer. This is already available in Windows, you just have to set it up. Here are some instructions I found with a Google search that seem up to par, please use the class subreddit or irc chat to ask questions if you have problem. If you Google search 'Install Japanese Keyboard Input', you can find other resources to help you with this.
2) Rikaikun/Rikaichan. This is a browser extension for Chrome/Firefox, respectively. Please download and install these. If you are using IE, may Princess Mononoke have mercy on your soul.
I have studied Japanese for over half of my life (16 years). I was formally taught for all 8 years of high-school and college, and graduated with a BFA in Japanese Language and Literature.
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Andrew Johnson was a vice-president under Abraham Lincoln, and became president following Lincoln's assassination. Wikipedia.com notes: "As a boy, Andrew followed his brother as an apprentice tailor in James Selby's shop at the age of ten; he was legally bound to serve until his 21st birthday. Selby does not appear to have had any great influence on the future president. The apprentice was boarded with his mother for part of his service; one of Selby's employees was detailed to teach him rudimentary literacy skills. This minimal education was augmented by citizens who came to Selby's shop to read to the tailors as they worked; even before he was an apprentice, young Andrew came to listen. These readings began a lifelong love of learning for the boy; his biographer, Annette Gordon-Reed, suggests that Johnson, who would be acclaimed as a public speaker, learned the basics of that art as he threaded needles and cut cloth.
Andrew Johnson was not happy at James Selby's, and at about age 15, ran away with his brother. Selby responded by placing an advertisement in the paper, as customary for masters seeking missing apprentices, "Ten Dollars Reward. Ran away from the subscriber, two apprentice boys, legally bound, named William and Andrew Johnson ... [payment] to any person who will deliver said apprentices to me in Raleigh, or I will give the above reward for Andrew Johnson alone." The boys went to Carthage, NC, where Andrew Johnson worked as a tailor for several months. Fearing he would be taken and returned to Raleigh, Andrew moved on to Laurens, South Carolina. There, he found work in his craft, and met his first love, Mary Wood, for whom he made a quilt. After his marriage proposal to her was rejected, Johnson returned to Raleigh, hoping to buy out his apprenticeship, but he could not come to terms with Selby. Then, like many others in the late 1820s, he journeyed west."
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Political economy 101 at Harvard starts with three parallel lines or bars drawn next to each other, representing actual performance vs perceptions of performance vs projection of performance (or the hype surrounding performance). Once perception lags the hype then it's the beginning of the end for any government.
No one knows this better than Narendra Modi, who has ridden to office on an inexorable rising tide of collective aspirations and the faith of India. This inexorable burden of hope is also Modi's biggest challenge. He must ensure that the bar of actual performance is always ahead of the bar representing perceptions of it.
The government over its first 100 days has been a curious combination of speed and slack, resolve and caution. Indeed to expect it to create a panacea for everything is simply not practical. They are playing a Test match, not a T20 match, whereas the excitement and expectations raised are reminiscent of the latter!
The first 100 days saw a few excellent steps such as the judicial accountability Bill, reimagining a development think tank in place of the outdated Planning Commission through crowdsourcing of ideas, and instilling discipline into a slack bureaucracy and an often undisciplined political executive. Anecdotal stories of the PM insisting on high standards of probity and advising the political executive not to indulge in media-pleasing claptrap are much needed and indeed long overdue.
Environment and defence ministries have within this short span of time cleared several log-jammed projects thereby creating a 'feel-good' factor. Deft political management made passage of the landmark judicial accountability Bill possible through the Upper House where NDA does not have the numbers.
Likewise the bureaucracy, which many a time merely 'writes objections' on files like a hippo revelling in the mud, is being disciplined. Steps towards declaring every public servant's assets and liabilities aim at creating genuine accountability of public services. Also superior inter-ministerial coordination and speedier decision-making by the bureaucracy are both visible and welcome.
However, there have been some disappointments as well. The budget wasn't bold, multi-brand retail and GM crops face opposition for no discernible reason, and there is no word yet on how and when central assistance funds will be disbursed in the absence of a Planning Commission. And prices of essential commodities need to come down even further.
What next? What do the next 100 days hold? Government would do well to move quickly on GST by conceding to the demands of states on a few commodities such as petroleum and by establishing a genuine compensation mechanism for them. States are wary of the Centre because the compensation mechanism for VAT was never allowed to work in the past and they felt nickelled and dimed in the process. A watertight compensation mechanism will create trust and may never need to be used if the aims of GST are met.
Disclosure of moveable and immoveable assets of civil servants is a welcome step. It should be extended to the armed forces, lower bureaucracy and all rungs of the judiciary. They too fall in the broader category of the state and there is no dearth of deviant behaviours there as recent exposes by Justice Katju suggested.
However, the government must find the right balance between right to information and right to privacy. Putting the immoveable assets of public servants on the web can invite fraud, theft and so on. Imagine taking a 500% cut in your pay and then also becoming a sitting duck for those who would like to take shots at you, as well!
Further over the next 100 days the government must discuss and publish its strategy for privatisation. It must reveal the strategic rationale for the public sector to exist and thereafter work on a road map of privatising assets, raising valuable capital. Does India need three state-owned oil giants, two state-owned telecom companies and several state-owned banks? There must be a rational debate and the onset of a thoughtful privatisation stra-tegy, learning from mistakes of crony capitalism of the past.
Modi could well replicate successful innovations in governance from across states and implement them at the Centre. Rajasthan is reforming its Industrial Disputes Act such that a collection of 100 workers does not constitute a large factory, which cannot lay off its workers. Karnataka has taken noteworthy steps in commercial tax administration, running one of India's best managed public transport companies, pioneering mobile governance and kick-starting start-ups in IT and biotechno-logy. Gujarat's fabulous record in power and agriculture sectors is an excellent example as well.
The thought which keeps me awake at night and perhaps is burning inside every Indian is that the huge mandate India gave was for dramatic, discontinuous and transformational change. It was not for incrementalism, it was not for doing what was being done earlier a little better or a little differently. It was for Big Bang change and dramatic transformational reforms. India waits, with bated breath and unconcealed hope.


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Students in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program use all the usual resources for their extended essay. Books, websites, news articles, magazine articles. Senior Eden McKissick-Hawley went the extra mile for hers — 6561 miles, to be exact. That's how far Eden traveled to Beit Sahour, Israel to research the conflict between Israel and Palestine in the Gaza Strip.
To her surprise, the conflict exploded the day she landed.
Eden is no stranger to human rights issues. Her mother, Holly, is a minister and has taken Eden on trips around the world. She wanted Eden to learn by experience, but never be exposed to anything too traumatic. Through Eden's travels and studies abroad, she has seen the remnants of an apartheid in South Africa, a country trying to rebuild; former concentration camps in the Czech Republic and Germany and WWII sites all over Europe; poverty in developing nations like Guatemala, Mexico and Losotho.
But there's one conflict that Eden's been closer to than any other.
Although it's a long distance to Israel, this half-a-century-long war between the Israelis and Palestinians, for Eden, hits close to home– her aunt's home, that is. Eden's Palestinian aunt came to the United States in the 60s as a refugee and has been living here ever since.
"At Thanksgiving every year, we are always with her side of the family that is Palestinian and hear about the conflict and hear about what's going on and hear about their desire to be able to live in peace with Israelis," Eden said, "[She tells us about] their frustration with Hamas and terrorists and [terrorist like] acts on both sides, so I've just grown up hearing about this."
Hearing her aunt talk about Palestine led Eden to develop a keen interest in the conflict with Israel. So when it came time to pick her IB extended essay topic, the Gaza Strip conflict was a natural choice for her.
"It involves social justice issues and conflicts that have been going on for almost a century and I wanted find a way to get people to talk about it and care," Eden said.
Eden wanted to get first-hand knowledge about her topic, so she decided to go a step further than most candidates. This past summer, she applied for a tour of Palestine and Israel to see what books couldn't give her.
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The sky was pink when they landed in Tel Aviv. Eden was under the impression of everything being tranquil; relaxing. Looking back, Eden considers it "a bit of light before the darkness." Because when they met their guide, Muhammad, something did not seem right.
"We were heading to the inn that we were staying at and I remember he had a bizarre expression on his face," Eden said. "I asked if something was wrong and he said something was going to happen and we don't want to be here when it does."
Security was tight and everyone seemed tense. The group was thoroughly questioned by officials. During their hour and a half drive to their inn, they went through two security checkpoints.
"I remember when my mom had been before she said everything was just very lovely and just very relaxed and calm and nice and hospitable," Eden said.
But Eden's visit was quite different than her mother's.
Once they got to their inn in Beit Sahour, all the guests were huddled around the television. Videos of civilians screaming and buildings being bombed to pieces streamed across the screen. Everyone sat in awe. The writing on the screen was all in Arabic. Earlier that day, a Hamas military leader was killed by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) so Hamas fired back by shooting rockets at Tel Aviv. Eden had just flown into a war.
"The idea of a war happening where we were is just a foreign idea and a foreign experience," Eden said. "Like if that were happening here it would feel like a movie we had all been in. I felt like I was in a war movie. Instead of Angelina Jolie being there, it was a bunch of people who couldn't leave. I had a sad snapshot of what they go through every single day."
In the days that followed, Eden got more than she bargained for. She was experiencing her topic firsthand. She avoided airstrikes by hours, talked to locals and through it all she learned more than she could have in any amount of hours in the East library.
Instead of flipping through pages, she was hearing straight from the mouths of the citizens. She heard both sides' point-of-view of the conflict. After talking to Israeli teens, she learned that although there is a mandatory draft, there are some ways to get out — claiming insanity, depression. After visiting the homes of some Palestinians, she saw the value they place on hospitality.
Segregation is extremely bad in the city of Hebron, which Eden considered to be the most depressing thing she had seen. It is a city of 400 Israelis that are being protected by 1,500 soldiers from the IDF.
"The Israeli's have literally segregated the town road by road," Eden said. "I was actually really infuriated when I went to Hebron. It was probably one of most rough or hardest things I've had to see. They had divided road by road between the Palestinians and Israelis."
No matter where the doors to their home are, Palestinians are not allowed to walk on Israeli roads.
"There are 80-year-old women climbing on roofs and ladders and through windows to get into their homes," Eden said.
Not only were the streets segregated, but so were the holy sites.
"When the Israeli government reclaimed the city of Hebron, they cut the Israeli mosque in half and said this half is a Jewish temple and put bulletproof glass along the tomb of Abraham, that is the sacred tomb for Muslims," Eden said.
This isn't the only area where the Israeli government had control. On the outskirts of Hebron, the group went to a place called Tent of Nations, where a man named Dahur and his family have had his land since 1916 and runs a summer camp out of his farm for 50 Palestinian kids from his village. His motto for the camp is "we refuse to be enemies."
"The sad reality is that Israeli government can come in at any time and take everything from this man," Eden said.
For as long as he can remember, his family has been living out of caves they built on their property because the Israeli government won't allow them to have building permits. They won't give him a permit because they have settlements surrounding his property and they want his to be able to connect them all.
"They survey this land to try to catch him building without a permit. Every time they see that he has built or added to his land soldiers come to his property and destroy it," Eden said. "He simply asks that they leave their machine guns outside of the property so it doesn't scare the children. They tear down whatever they say is 'threatening their security', even though it may be his source for safe drinking water. Then they leave and he get gets right back up and rebuilds."
The violence is what sparked her interest to visit the area, and it's what sparked her necessity to leave. Their trip was cut short when 35,000 IDF troops stood at the Gaza border to scare Hamas. Hamas wasn't ready for a war and didn't have the resources to go fight.
"We were pretty sure that violence wouldn't end up breaking out," Eden said. "But the reality is that both sides kept acting like they were going to go through with the war and if there was a ground war and a ground invasion, Israel probably would've shut down the Tel Aviv airport or important borders that we would need to pass through to leave."
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"You don't know what you don't know."
That's what Eden always says.
"You can't say for sure that an entire group of people acts a certain way," Eden said. "You can't say for sure that everyone in a group of people is a terrorist or everyone is oppressive."
She has learned to really ask questions and actually evaluate both sides — especially her own. She wonders the ways that she can maintain her connection and help spread the word, such as possibly going to work at Tent of Nations this summer. Her motto for this way of thought is "you can think global while acting local."
"Everything from where you shop to what you talk about with friends can impact what's happening overseas," Eden said. "I think that although we aren't overseas and in the middle of that conflict by doing things here at home we can greatly help peace efforts and the same applies to situations like this all over the world."
She believes that it is her obligation to her friends and family that are directly affected by this conflict to help to others get more involved and shine light on the overlooked issue.
"I think I owe it to my Jewish friends as much as I owe it to my palestinian family to work towards and talk about and try to open discussions about ways we can find peace," Eden said. "I think every American truly has kind of an obligation to be aware of the conflict and be educated about it. I think we all owe it to ourselves and to Israel and Israelis and Palestinians as well to learn about the conflict and resolve it because its about time."


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Baron Davis is well-known for his sartorial skill set in addition to his skills on the hardwood. The former NBA point guard always brings his fashion A-game, prompting the league to tap him as a "Style Correspondent." His latest endeavor merges his interest in style with his background in filmmaking. Davis is the host of "How I Rock It," an original show set to air on the newly launched Esquire Network.
The six-part series will feature a range of icons, athletes, musicians and influencers, from the music of Jim James to the menus of Marcus Samuelsson to the rock and roll clothing line of John Varvatos, and delve into their lifestyle. The show will highlight style in a variety of forms, proving it is not limited to what you wear. From executive producers Ryan Seacrest Productions and Citizen Jones, "How I Rock It" debuts on Wednesday, November 20th, at 10/9c on the Esquire Network. Baron Davis dished on the new show, his style preferences and the world of NBA fashion.
An important component of "How I Rock It" is the idea that style is more than what you wear. That being said, how would you describe the show and what can viewers expect from it?
I would describe the show as taking a person and really getting to know them and why they are unique. It's the uniqueness to the individual that makes them good at what they do. We want to push the bar as far as what we talk about when we talk about men and men's style and give viewers great content that guys can connect with. And then also their girlfriends or women can connect with to see what type of guys they're into. It's not just a guy's show, it's a show for everybody.
Outside of fashion, what are some of the qualities that can define a person's style?
Overall, I think your personality and the way you live. The things that you're into. There are so many different ways to define that. Basically this show is about lifestyle and how style is not just about your clothes, it's about who you are as a human being and the things that you like and embody.
The Esquire Network is newly launched and while it must be exciting to be part of its original programming, does that add an element of pressure as well?
Absolutely. Especially since Esquire has been around as a magazine for 80 years. Now that they have their own network, it really says something to be part of the first stint of network shows. And to have a show like this, which really speaks the language that Esquire wants, especially to the young gentleman and the gentleman culture.
You already have production experience under your belt, in particular documentary filmmaking ("Crips & Bloods: Made in America"). Is this interest of yours something that had attracted you to the project?
Definitely. For me, it was wanting to do something that was kind of outside the box. Something that was a little disruptive as far as where television is going. Something that was shot differently, the text is different, it feels different, but it feels like something that you look forward to coming home and watching and being like, I can relate to these guys. These are some cool worlds that some of these people live in.


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Altisa VII 1/2 — By
Kim Kavin
— September 2003
Labor of Love
|A liveaboard couple works with Rybovich Spencer to turn their first dream home into their second.
Since Nordlund Boat Company delivered Altisa VII in 1994, she has been more than a dream home for Stanley and Frannie Hanin. She has been the passion that brings them together each day. They designed their 87-foot baby so they could live aboard and run her without crew in their retirement years, which they hoped would last as long as their working ones had. They even took their 100-ton captain's exams together.
"I finished first, though, so I'm the senior captain," Frannie says with a chuckle.
"It was about five minutes first," Stanley retorts.
"Please," she says. "At least an hour!"
"I've never heard the end of it," he groans.
The Hanins cruised the East Coast and Bahamas year-round until June 2002, when they found themselves arriving for a refit at the Rybovich Spencer yard in West Palm Beach, Florida, the same way they tended to arrive everywhere: just the two of them with their baby. On that day, watching workers take Altisa VII away, they realized just how much they had come to love their yacht.
"The most horrible thing you can watch is your boat going into the dumpster," 58-year-old Frannie says, looking down at her hands, gently folded on the galley table. "When they took the boat into the shed, I felt like my child was going in for major surgery." Stanley, 67, nodded with remembrance.
Indeed, Altisa VII would be no more. At the end of nine months, the boat that left Rybovich Spencer was so different that the Hanins took to calling their old baby "the other boat." Their new, 96-footer included an aft deck and crew quarters, a new helm, a dining room and top-deck Jacuzzi, and stunning new interior decor. Every space—from the galley forward to the master cabin aft—was so altered that even Paul Nordlund, who runs Nordlund Boat Company with his brother Gary, reportedly had a hard time believing the photos.
Indeed, the refit was so dramatic the couple thought about rechristening her Altisa VII, but settled on Altisa VII 1/2 to honor what had made her worth keeping in the first place.
It all started about three years ago, when the couple decided they wanted an aft deck, a formal dining room, and a decor change on Altisa VII. They put her up for sale and commissioned a motoryacht just over 100 feet LOA.
A year and a half into the project, it fell through. There had been no buyer for their 87-foot owner-operated yacht without crew quarters, so in February 2002, they moved back aboard. "We went to the Bahamas and regrouped," Frannie says. "We looked at this boat and decided we had a great boat."
They hired Murray & Associates in Fort Lauderdale to handle naval architecture for the refit, and Stanley brought in Howard Stein to serve as co-project manager with him. The couple added crew quarters to their wish list to avoid any future resale problems and hired Plantation, Florida-based Lisa Pirofsky to help transform the colorful, Bahamian interior.
Their package went out for bids, and the Hanins agreed to visit three yards. Rybovich Spencer was the last. Stanley had met the father of yard president Jim Bronstien about 20 years earlier, when the elder hired him to deliver a 53 Hatteras to St. Louis. "He gave me what I considered a courtesy call," Jim Bronstien says, adding that he didn't expect to get the project.
Next page > Part 2: "If there was a problem or a question, Stanley would literally yank his cellphone out of his pocket and get the answer." > Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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The big mid-section of the memorial to Abel & Sarah Ezell the original progenitors in this Ezell Cemetery. We are actually looking at Abel's inscription.
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EZELL, Abel, 7 Dec 1780 - 9 Dec 1854. "IN memory of ABEL EZELL, born Decr 7th 1780 and Departed this life Septr 9th 1854. Why do we mourn departing friends or shake at deaths alarm tis but the voice that Jesus sends to call them to his arms."
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When You Were Small
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Both the text and illustrations for this children's book were very simple and elegant. The intention behind the design was to be quietly playful, without overwhelming the content.
Color plays an important role in the design. It was delightful for me to work with the illustrations, because of their colors: aqua, olive, chartreuse, creamy yellow, mauve, denim blue, burnt orange and deep crimson. Combined, they created a handsome palette of tertiary colors, which I used sparingly throughout the book.
Each page of the text begins, "When you were small . . . ," so we played with the repetitive uppercase W. The illustrator was commissioned to provide a number of ink drawings of Ws, which matched the illustrations. I used these in place of drop caps, a different W beginning each page.
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Nice marriage of text and art, as well as design decisions such as cloth spine and charming endpapers that add to the nostalgic package.
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- hundreds & thousands design inc.
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- Sara O'Leary
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