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Windows Vista: Apply Folder View Options To All Folders On The Computer
I personally like my folders to display contents the same across all folders on the PC. Windows Vista by default displays folder contents with large icons but to me it seems much easier to navigate if you use the folder view where it displays small icons with details about each item. Below are instructions on how to modify the folder view options and then apply that view to all the folders on your computer.
The default folder view will look something similar to the below.Details


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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Get the Arsenic Out of Our Rice
Anna Hackman of Green Talk also found that a study in 2007 showed people who consumed more than the average amount of rice were being exposed to arsenic. If you are like me and eat a limited amount of meat you likely eat a lot of rice. Sometimes for lunch I just eat a big bowl of rice with a bit of cheese and we eat it often as a side or even the main dish for dinner.
So where is the arsenic coming from? Well it comes from soil that has been contaminated by arsenic based pesticides. The pesticides were used on cotton crops and now a lot of rice is now being grown on these old cotton fields. So even though these pesticides have been banned the arsenic is still in the ground.
Thankfully there are ways to protect yourself. Anna has a great post on her blog, Green Talk, about eating rice safely. Check that out and also sign Anna's petition on Change.org to tell the FDA, EU, and the rice industry to set arsenic limits for rice and by-products.
Photo Credit: babbagecabbage
5 comments:
- Betsy (Eco-novice) said...
The biggest lesson I take from this debacle: conventional agriculture sucks and ruins the soil! Arsenic as a pesticide? Seriously?
- March 8, 2012 at 1:18 PM
- Anna (Green Talk) said...
Thank you so much for posting my article. Some of the comments over on my website are so upsetting from moms who had their kids tested.
- March 8, 2012 at 5:38 PM
- panamamama said...
Wasn't it only in rice that was from overseas? I know I buy only local rice (well, I do live in Arkansas and we grow a lot of rice here!) The bad thing is that we don't know where it's from in the brown rice syrup etc...
- March 8, 2012 at 7:46 PM
- LPN programs in illinois said...
Rice is my Favorite Food.
- March 9, 2012 at 12:00 AM
- Lisa Sharp said...
Betsy: True!
Anna: Your welcome, thanks for all your work!
Panamamama: The rice in Arkansas sounds like it maybe contaminated as well because it's grown on old cotton fields. Check out the links to the posts on Green Talk, she has great info.
LPN: One of mine as well. Thankfully I was already eating a safer kind of rice.
- March 9, 2012 at 9:47 AM


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More Development Being Planned For Downtown Grand Rapids
Downtown Grand Rapids has been one busy place.
Development and expansion have been constant. Now, another project is beginning to take shape.
Downtown is growing. The soon-to-be-finished Downtown Market is one of many examples.
Now more projects could be on the way in the same part of town.
The Grand Rapids Downtown Development Authority is moving forward with the planning stages of further development south of Van Andel Arena.
Grbj.com has more:
The DDA allocated up to $50,000 in October for the visioning project, which has a goal of creating a strategy to further develop the public properties south of Van Andel Arena to the site for the new Downtown Market. The market opens at Ionia Avenue and Wealthy Street SE this summer.
The "visioning" project is expected to be done in April.
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Hungarian Homeschoolers Need our Help
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Hungarians have enjoyed more freedom. Presently the homeschool movement is small, but growing and well organized.
The Reverend Imre Szoke has worked together with a number of other homeschool families to establish the Hungarian Home Schooling Association (HHSA). They have 25 homeschooling families on their mailing list and send out a quarterly newsletter. On October 8, 2002, HHSA held their first homeschool seminar and plan to have at least two a year. The next conference will be in February of 2003, and their scheduled speaker is Steve Demme of Math-U-See.
Reverend Szoke has created a special K-4 curriculum which includes some of the unobjectionable state textbooks and Christian textbooks from American homeschool correspondence courses. Chris Klicka, senior counsel of the Home School Legal Defense Association, has helped organize some discounted curriculum to be made available for Hungarian homeschoolers. He continues to work with Imre in the establishment and future strategies for the continued growth of the homeschool movement in Hungary.
The Hungarian laws allow parents to teach their children at home as private school students. They are required to generally follow the state curriculum and have their children examined twice a year. At this stage, homeschoolers must first enroll into a state school and then ask for the special private student status. This status is always granted at the request of the parents. Parents are free to teach at home whatever they want outside of the state curriculum. HHSA is working to create it's own curriculum for all grade levels.
The homeschool movement is growing quickly in the Christian population. HHSA is working in conjunction with the Westminster Biblical World Missions who operate out of Carbondale, Pennsylvania. This mission organization has established a seminary in Hungary which is training pastors. Dozens of these pastors have established churches throughout Hungary and they are urging their congregations and communities to homeschool.
Presently the major needs of the Hungarian Home Schooling Association is in the area of curriculum and finances. The Hungarians are willing to use American homeschool curriculum and will distribute it to their various families as needed. They also need funds for translation expenses as they would like to be able to use various American homeschool textbooks. Donations can be sent to the Hungarian Home Schooling Association via the Westminster Biblical World Missions, P.O. Box 200, Carbondale, Pennsylvania, 18407. (By donating in this way, American homeschoolers can get a tax deduction rather than sending it straight to the Hungarian Home Schooling Association.) The checks should have a designation to the Hungarian Home Schooling Association. All funds will be transferred directly to HHSA.


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Welcome to Féile Frank Mc Gann. The aim of this site is to promote the memorial festival of Irish traditional music, song and dance taking place from 10th to 12th October 2014, in Strokestown, Co. Roscommon.
The ongoing success of the festival is due to the fact that Frank Mc Gann was a widely known and charismatic figure in Irish Music, and the fact that Strokestown is a great town to hold a festival.


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Here are the top area sports stories of the year as selected by The Monroe News sports staff:
There was no shortage of top sports stories to choose from in 2013 in the Monroe County Region.
Dundee won state championships in two sports, a Monroe High graduate earned a starting spot with the Minnesota Vikings, Jackson Lamb became the all-time Region basketball scorer leader among MHSAA teams and also was drafted in baseball, St. Mary Catholic Central reached the state basketball semifinals for the first time, Miranda Johnson won two state track titles, Gibraltar Carlson won its third straigtht state cheerleading title, Bedford won its first 11 games despite the tragic death of defensive back Colton Durbin, Marc Cisco retired after 47 seasons as Jefferson football coach and Bob Howard stepped down after 37 seasons as Summerfield?s only golf coach.
Here are the top area sports stories of the year as selected by The Monroe News sports staff:
1. Softball Champs
Before 2013, Dundee had never even won a softball Regional in school history.
All that changed this past spring when the Vikings went 44-1, shattered the school victory record, were ranked No. 1 in Divison 3 virtually all season and won their first state title.
Coach Mickey Moody?s Vikings had big sticks throughout the lineup but were led on the mound by the dynamic duo of Vanessa Ewing and Region Player of the Year Hannah Rachor.
The Vikings won their first 16 games, suffering their only loss 2-1 in eight innings to Onsted in the first game of a doubleheader. They never lost again, although not every win was easy. They knocked out second-ranked and two-time defending state champion Clinton in the Regional semifinals. They nipped Bronson 2-1 in the state quarterfinals and outslugged Allen Park Cabrini 11-6 in the semifinals.
Ewing pitched a shutout and hit a three-run home run in the ninth inning as Dundee shut down Unionville-Sebewaing 3-0 in the state championship game.
?The girls have been focused all year on just one thing,? Moody said afterward. ?This is truly, truly icing on the cake.?
2. Audie Cole a starter
The former Monroe High quarterback became a linebacker at North Carolina State. He was last year?s story of the year after he was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the seventh round, returned two interceptions for touchdowns in an exhibition game and played in five games as a rookie.
This fall Cole took things up another notch. He became the starting middle linebacker on Nov. 24 with the absence of Erin Henderson. He recorded 13 tackles and a sack in his starting debut and performed well in a starting role the rest of the season until suffering an ankle injury Dec. 22 that sidelined him for the final game.
3. No more wait ?til next year
Dundee?s wrestlers had come oh-so-close in recent attempts at state titles. The Vikings finished second in Division 3 in four of the previous five seasons.
Sean Keilitz?s upset win over a state qualifier helped coach Tim Roberts? Vikings clinch a 35-26 win over Richmond for the state championship. It was the seventh state wrestling title in school history for Dundee which also won in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001 and 2007.
The Viking had been ranked No. 1 in Division 3 all season and also would win middle and elementary school titles.
A week after winning state, Dundee dominated the Individual State Meet. Nine of its 10 wrestlers placed in the top eight including state champions John Marogen, Doug Rojem and Teddy Warren. Rojem was 54-1 for the season and shared Region Co-Wrestler of the Year honors with Bedford?s Brandon Sunday.
4. Marc Cisco retires
After 50 seasons of coaching football ? including 47 at Jefferson ? Marc Cisco decided it was time to go.
Cisco, 77, announced in April that he would not be returning for a 48th season as Bears head coach. He also coached Jefferson track and field for 40 seasons.
The Hall of Fame coach led Jefferson?s football team to the state championship in 1994, an undefeated season in 1983 and nine playoff appearances. He finished with an overall record of 241-192 at Jefferson and the football field was renamed Marc Cisco Alumni Field in 1994.
5. Carlson cheer champs Gibraltar Carlson?s competitive cheerleading team had won back-to-back state championships under coach Danielle Jokela.
But the Marauders finished second to Dearborn Divine Child in the Division 2 Regional. They lost the heart of their team in the process when four-year varsity starter Annie Hajec tore her Achilles? tendon.
Forced to compete at state without Hajec, Carlson had the best overall score of any school in any division and beat out runner-up Divine Child by 10 points. It was their fifth state title in six years and the sixth overall for Carlson.
?The girls decided to put it all together and win it for Annie who has put her heart into this team for four years,? Jokela said.
6. Jackson Lamb
Jackson Lamb already had become Bedford?s all-time basketball scoring leader as a junior. As a senior, he became the all-time leader among all scorers among Michigan High School Athletic Association teams.
He averaged 26.0 points and 10.9 rebounds while leading the Mules to their first league title in school history. He finished his career with 1,901 points and 889 rebounds and repeated as Class A All-State and Region Player of the Year.
But Lamb?s future is in baseball. He already had committed to the University of Michigan before his junior year. Despite annoucing that he would not turn pro, the pitcher/outfielder still was drafted in the 20th round by the Texas Rangers.
Lamb once again was named Region Baseball Player of the Year. He capped his Mule career by batting .511 with 34 RBI, 40 runs, 15 steals, an 8-0 pitching record, a 1.14 ERA and 72 strikeouts in 42 innings. His career pitching record was 22-5 while batting .498 with 19 home runs. He was named 2013 Mr. Baseball in Michigan, was state Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year and crushed a 410-foot triple in the East/West All-Star Baseball Classic at Comerica Park.
7. Victory in tragedy
Bedford?s football team was 8-0 and headed for an undefeated regular season when tragedy truck. Senior Colton Durbin was critically injured Oct. 23 when his car struck the back of a garbage truck. He died the next day.
Durbin was a defensive back whose inspired play was one of the reasons the Mules were undefeated. His fumble recovery was a key play as Bedford defeated rival Saline and he returned a blocked punt for a touchdown against Utica Henry Ford.
Coach Jeff Wood?s Mules were scheduled to close out the regular season a day after his passing and his teammates voted to go ahead with the game in Colton?s honor. They crushed Jefferson 49-0 to finish 9-0. They would go on to win two playoffs games before suffering a heartbreaking 34-33 loss to Detroit Catholic Central on a late touchdown.
8. Johnson wins two
Whiteford junior Miranda Johnson won the state long jump title as a sophomore. She only got better during her junior season and was the No. 1 seed in the 100, 200 and long jump heading into the Division 4 state meet.
Johnson did not disappoint. She won the long jump in a state-meet-record 18-2 1/2. She also was state champion in the 200 in :25.94 and just missed out on the 100 title, finishing second. She led Whiteford to its best-ever sixth place team finish at state.
This fall she also was a standout on a Whiteford volleyball team that set a school record for victories and won a Regional crown.
9. Falcons go far
St. Mary Catholic Central already had a great season going when it won its second Regional basketball title in three seasons. But the Falcons took things even higher this season under coach Randy Windham, advancing to the state semifinals for the first time in school history.
Senior Kevin Woodson scored a career-high 29 points as the Falcons won their District final. Four days later he poured in a career-high 34 points in a Regional semifinal win. SMCC won its Regional 51-40 over Clinton. Woodson scored 33 as the Falcons beat Schoolcraft 71-62 in the Class C state semifinals. They finally met their match at the Breslin Center, falling to Flint Beecher 73-55 in the semifinals.
SMCC finished 23-3 and broke the school victory record. Woodson would average 19.4 points while sophomore point guard Bryce Windham led the Region with an average of 5.9 assists per game.
10. Howard retires
Bob Howard wasn?t just Summerfield?s golf coach. He was the only golf coach the Bulldogs ever had.
He became Summerfield?s first boys coach in 1977 and started the girls team in 1992. Along the way he was named Michigan Interscholastic Golf Coach of the Year six times and was inducted into the Michigan Golf Coaches Hall of Fame in 2002.
He suffered a near-fatal stroke four years ago but returned to coach, finally deciding to step down this summer. Howard, 73, finished with 1,024 boys wins, the most by any coach in Division 4 history.


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text: How to Retire Early: 5 Steps You Have to Take July 28, 2017 Looking to retire before the traditional retirement age of 65? It's a big feat and unless you win the lottery, you might find it a difficult goal to achieve. The good news: It can still be done. Here's how to save for early retirement in five steps: Know your numbers How much money do you need to retire early? It's important that you know the amount of money you need to live on in retirement. You'll need to know the annual amount of income you'll need and the amount of retirement savings you'll need to generate that income. Boost your savings rate Many financial planners recommend that you save 10 to 15 percent of your income for retirement and that you start saving as early as you can. If you're going to retire early, you might need to save more than 15 percent. It's essential to start saving early and regularly. By doing so, you'll increase your compound earnings. If you start saving later in life, you'll want to bump up your contribution rate to catch up and meet your goals. Cut back on your expenses If you want to retire early and stretch your savings for several decades, you should cut back on expenses. Review everything you spend and create a cost-benefit analysis. Even if you think you're living frugally, you might find that you aren't. How often do you dine out or stop for coffee on the way to work? Non-essential expenses add up! Eliminate debt It's ideal to have your mortgage paid off by the time you retire and have any student loans long paid off. Having these expenses paid off will significantly reduce your expenses. Save as much as you can in a qualified retirement plan If your employer offers a 401(k) or other savings plan, put aside as much money in it as you can. Contributions to your employer's plan are tax deductible, and earnings from your investments can grow tax-deferred. Whether retirement is many years or mere months away, chances are the time will fly by faster than you expect. Farm Bureau can help you with various retirement funding options. We can discuss your options and help you plan to achieve your retirement goals. Retirement is the beginning of an exciting chapter in your life. Start saving now, and make those years rewarding. Sources: http://money.cnn.com/retirement/guide/basics_basics.moneymag/index7.htm


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Obama pledges investment and partnership with Africa
President Barack Obama on Tuesday promised more than $33 billion in public and private investments in Africa, pledging that the United States wants to deliver business and development to the rapidly booming continent, where China already has a massive presence.
Obama made the remarks as he addressed the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the first of its kind and the largest event any American president has held with African heads of state and government. Countries including China have held similar events for years as they've sought access to African markets for oil and other natural resources.
But the U.S., Obama insisted, wants a different kind of relationship.
"We don't look to Africa simply for its natural resources," Obama said. "We recognize Africa for its greatest resource, which is its people and its talents and their potential."
Obama didn't mention any foreign competition, though China has been criticized for seeking access to markets in order to purchase raw materials and sell its manufactured goods.
"We don't simply want to extract minerals from the ground for our growth," Obama told the gathering of African leaders and business leaders from the U.S. and Africa. "We want to build genuine partnerships that create jobs and opportunity for all our peoples and that unleash the next era of African growth. That's the kind of partnership America offers."
To that end, Obama announced a $7 billion program to promote U.S. exports to, and investments in, Africa under the Doing Business in Africa campaign. U.S. companies have announced new deals in energy, aviation, banking and construction worth more than $14 billion, he said.
And he announced more than $12 billion in new commitments for his Power Africa initiative, which seeks to increase access to electricity to more than 600 million people.
Critics have suggested the U.S. is late to Africa, and former President Bill Clinton, who preceded Obama in speaking, urged U.S. businesses to embrace Africa.
"We are missing the boat," Clinton said. "This is a very important part of our future."
Speakers noted that six of the 10 fastest growing countries in the world are in Africa, and that its middle class is the fastest growing in the world.
Other nations are already deeply invested in the continent, and the U.S. now realizes "we have some catching up to do . . . we are letting Europe and China go faster than the U.S.," said former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose Bloomberg Philanthropies hosted the summit, along with the U.S. Commerce Department.
Obama noted the continent still faces "enormous challenges" with poverty, conflict, hunger and disease, but he noted "a new Africa that's emerging."
Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete echoed Obama's remarks, saying Africa still has its "hot spots," but that many of its 53 countries have changed over the past decade, with leaders endorsing strong economic and political policies.
"Democracy has taken root, governance is enshrined," Kikwete said. "There is stronger commitment now to fight vices, corruption, drug trafficking. There is more respect for human rights."
But Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden pressed the African leaders in particular to crack down on corruption.
"People should be able to start a business and ship their goods without having to pay a bribe or hire somebody's cousin," Obama said.
Corruption in a number of countries hampers the U.S. to the benefit of countries like China, said Andrew Spalding, assistant professor at the University of Richmond School of Law and an expert on international business and corruption.
The U.S. aggressively enforces laws that prohibit U.S. companies from bribing foreign governments, Spalding said. Other exporters, particularly China, do not enforce such prohibitions, allowing them to "fill the void" in countries where corruption is rampant, he said.
The attention to Africa included a dinner at the White House late Tuesday night hosted by Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. Singer Lionel Richie was to perform and the menu included touches of Africa, including beef served with chermoula, a marinade popular in North Africa.
The push for more investment with Africa comes at an opportune time, with many African countries eager to process their natural resources inside their borders and not simply export their raw material, said Vera Songwe, World Bank country director for Senegal, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania.
She called it a good time "for U.S. companies with the cutting-edge expertise to come in and partner with the continent to do this, and I think this is what we're seeing more and more of."
The U.S. approach to business in Africa "is almost the opposite of the Chinese approach," said Witney Schneidman, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs. He noted that when American companies like Microsoft, Proctor & Gamble or GE invest in Africa, they generally hire and train Africans, which "has an incredible ripple effect and it helps to create skills, it helps to create this middle class."
Chinese trade has grown more rapidly over the last decade than the U.S., Schneidman said, but "the African market is so large and there's such an opportunity there and there's so many different needs that I think it's really about how do we get more U.S. companies into the continent."
Obama called on House of Representatives Republicans to reauthorize the imperiled Export-Import Bank of the U.S., a call echoed by Clinton, who called Republican criticism of the government agency "ridiculous."
"Economics is not theology. If you're running a country, you've got to try to create an opportunity for all of your businesses to be competitive," Clinton said of the agency that helps promote American businesses that want to sell products overseas.
Republican lawmakers nationwide are divided over whether Congress should renew the bank's charter by a Sept. 30 deadline, with some charging that it doles out "sweetheart deals" for particular companies.
Anita Kumar of the Washington Bureau contributed to this report.


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Scott Aaronson has offered $100,000 to anyone that can show that viable quantum computers are fundamentally impossible.
The question is not a practical one, there seems many technical difficulties that have prevented the primitive quantum processors being scaled up to working quantum computers. The question is deeper than this and asks is our understanding of quantum mechanics right?
What is true is that the scaling up of quantum computers cannot be forbidden by some obvious or trivial reason within quantum mechanics. So the bet is to come up with some convincing reason why practical scaled up quantum computers cannot be realised.


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Alaska's maritime industry, from its largest cities to smallest villages, represents 70,000 jobs. In fact, studies have shown that Alaska ranks third in the nation per capita for maritime jobs. The waters surrounding Alaska produce 60% of the nation's seafood harvest. Our state is highly dependent on maritime shipping for imports of food and other goods, and for exports of oil, seafood and minerals. Alaska's economy is boosted annually by hundreds of millions of dollars generated from water transport. This includes bringing visitors on cruise ships, running halibut charters, traveling on Alaska's Marine Highway, and supporting subsistence hunting and fishing.
These opportunities require a responsive workforce that enables the maritime sector to remain a substantial contributor to the state. Through the implementation of the Alaska Maritime Workforce Development Plan, Alaska's workforce can be guided to discover and prepare for the wide range of employment opportunities.
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History of the Fishing, Seafood and Maritime Initiative
The University of Alaska (UA) has been collaborating with maritime industry representatives, state agencies, legislators and other training entities across the state since 2012 on the Fishing, Seafood and Maritime Initiative (FSMI). The goal of the initiative is to assess, develop and deliver training programs, raise awareness and further research to prepare Alaskans to meet current and emerging workforce, economic and scientific needs. The FSMI is in alignment with UA's efforts in Shaping Alaska's Future. Through this effort, the Alaska Maritime Workforce Development Plan was created and published in May 2014. The University of Alaska is now working with its maritime partners to implement the plan.


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Recipe from Jane Wheeler of Englewood, OH
Prep Time: About 2 hrs
Total Time: 2 1/2 - 3 hours Ingredient List and Recipe Steps:
3 cups flour
1 cup water- temp about 110-115 degrees
1 pkg yeast (disolved in the water)
pinch of salt
mix above ingredients for dough and knead for at least 10 minutes-minimum, set aside and let rise for appox 2 hours.
1 large onion & 1/2-1 green pepper (cut in strips)
1 12 oz can diced tomatoes
1 small can tomato paste
1 12 oz can tomato puree
Saute onions and green peppers in small amount of olive oil until softened. Add diced tomatoes and simmer for 1/2 hour. Then add the tomato puree and tomato paste and simmer for another 1/2 hour. Set aside.
1 pkg of Colby Longhorn cheese, shredded
1 pkg of Pepperoni , thinly sliced
1 small jar sliced mushrooms
When dough has risen (about double bulk or more), then spread out in a large jelly roll pan (cookie sheet with sides) which has been greased with crisco. Spread the sauce onto the dough, then top with the mushrooms, pepperoni and lastly the shredded cheese.
Bake at 375 degrees (mid oven) for approx 1/2 hour or so. Slice into squares and serve.
(Can add cooked sausage or other ingredients that you like, if you wish). If you can't find Colby Longhorn can use Longhorn/Jack mix (already shredded!).
Yield: 1 pizza will serve about 4 people
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Freeman, Heyward power Braves past Brewers 5-2
MILWAUKEE (AP) Freddie Freeman hit a pair of solo home runs and Jason Heyward added a two-run shot to back a solid outing by Alex Wood and power the Atlanta Braves to a 5-2 victory over the Brewers on Tuesday night.
Heyward's first homer of the season off Kyle Lohse (0-1) put the Braves on top 2-1 in the fifth and snapped a string of 22 scoreless innings against the Brewers.
Freeman opened the sixth with his first homer and added a two-out home run in the eighth to make it 4-1.
Wood (1-0) settled down after allowing a home run to Carlos Gomez on his first pitch. The left-hander allowed one run on five hits in seven innings. Craig Kimbrel struck out the side in the ninth for the save.
Lohse allowed three runs on five hits in seven innings, striking out eight and walking two.
Gomez hustled the Brewers within 4-2 in the eighth after drawing a leadoff walk. With one out, he stole second as Ryan Braun struck out, and continued to third on a throwing error by catcher Evan Gattis. Aramis Ramirez singled in Gomez.
Atlanta answered with a run in the ninth on a double by Dan Uggla, a single by Gattis and sacrifice fly by Simmons.
The Braves missed a chance to tie it in the fourth when Freeman singled to open, but was cut down at the plate by Gomez on Uggla's two-out double to left-center.
NOTES: Gomez's lead-off home run was the third of his career. The other two were with Minnesota in 2008. The starting pitchers for the final game of the three-game series Wednesday are Matt Garza for the Brewers against Aaron Harang, each making his first start for his new team . Braun, who received a standing ovation during Tuesday's home opener, was greeted with a round of applause and a smattering of boos during his first at-bat Wednesday


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"Better Dayz"の翻訳を手伝ってください。
Better Dayz
Lookin' for these better days
Better days hey, better days
Got me thinkin' 'bout better days
Better days, better days, better days
Hey, better days
Got me thinkin' 'bout better days
[Verse 1]
Time to question our lifestyle, look how we live
Smokin' weed like it ain't no thing, so even kids
Wanna try now, then lie down and get ran through
Nobody watches 'em, clockin' the evil man do
Faced with the demons, addicted to hearin' victims screamin'
Guess we was evil since birth, product of cursed semens
Cause even our birthdays is cursed days
A born thug in the first place, the worst ways
I'd love to see the block in peace
With no more dealers and crooked cops, the only way to stop the beast
And only we can change
It's up to us to clean up the streets, it ain't the same
Too many murders, too many funerals and too many tears
Just seen another brother buried plus I knew him for years
Passed by his family, but what could I say?
Keep yo' head up and try to keep the faith
And pray for better days
Better days, better days
Hey, better days
Got me thinking 'bout better days
Better days, better days, better days
Hey, Better days
Got me thinkin' 'bout better days
[Verse 2]
Thinking back as an adolescent, who would've guessed
That in my future years, I'd be stressing
Some say the ghetto's sick and corrupted
Plus my P.O. won't let me hang with the brothers I grew up with
Trying to keep my head up and stay strong
All my homies slanging llello all day long, but they wrong
So I'm solo and so broke
Saving up for some Jordan's, cause they dope
I got a girl and I love her but she broke too, and so am I
I can't take her to the place she wanna go to
So we argue and play fight, all day and night
Making passionate love 'til the daylight
Plus we about to get evicted, can't pay the rent
Guess it's time to see who really is yo' friend
Tell me you pregnant and I'm amazed
So many blessings while we stressing
Looking for them better days
[Verse 3]
Now me and you was real cool, hell on them square fools
Since back in high school, we was true, me and you
Hardly parted or separated, we stayed faded
Affiliated with gang-bangers and still made it
Up in the gym, mess with me, gotta mess with him
Still dressin' like grown men when rollin'
Out in the dark, smoking Newports, gamin' marks
Got a place in my heart, homey stay smart
Locked you up in the pen, and gave you three to ten
I send you letters with naked flicks of old friends
Hoping you well, I know it's hell
Doing time in the cells, you need mail, when you in jail
And me, I'm doing cool
I settled down, had a family, workin' an' night school
Every once in a while, I reminisce
And wonder how we ever came to this
I miss the better days
I send this one out, to all the homeboys down in uh, Clinton lockdown
Rikers Island, all them dudes I was uh locked up with, hehe
E Block, F Block, lower H
N-I-C in Rikers Island, downstate
All the peoples I met along the way
Better days is coming homeboy, keep your head up
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Just a reminder, if you are using WordPress, make sure you at least once a month, if not once a week apply any updates to the core, plugins and/or themes.
Also, if you are not using a plugin or theme, not only deactivate it from the site, remove the files and folders from the server. In the root of your wordpress install, after every update look for "readme.html" and DELETE IT, it tells hackers what version you are running. (try it, go to http://mydomain.com/readme.html if you have WP)
I just came across a WP site, that is version 3.2.1 (current is 3.5) that doesn't have any extra plugins or themes installed, yet it was hacked. How do I know what was installed? Part of the hack was a pretty powerful hack script that let me view all files on the account, which means if I wanted to, I could have also looked at database login and fully access the site's database, all from within the SINGLE hack file on the server.
This tool not only lets you read, but also lets you write anywhere that a regular script file can write to (if you are on a cPanel environment, the default is any file on your user account, INCLUDING email still sitting on the server.) And it does have a nice built in tool to find ALL writeable files and directories that it can.
So yes, it is easy to set up, just keep it cleaned and updated. If you have SSH access and know how to use it, right before you do any updates, run a command that will list any .php file modified since the last time you ran it. Look for anything you don't recognize and check it out!!!
Remember, there are sites out there that list what vulnerabilities are on each version of WP and the popular plugins and they know what to look for (ie, the readme.html I mentioned earlier).
And if you are hacked, remember, you have to check most everything on your account, not just where you found the hacked files.


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While not necessarily "miraculous," there is much to praise about Carnival Miracle, the fourth of four "mid-sized" Spirit-class ships. First of all, the 88,500-ton, 2,124-passenger vessel, which launched in 2004, is just plain pretty, understated in comparison to flashier creations in the fleet -- legendary interior architect Joe Farcus is known for super-showy designs. Still, Farcus always has a theme, and Miracle's is "fictional icons" -- guest hallways feature drawings of famous literary characters like Robin Hood and Robinson Crusoe (and the more obscure Belgian detective Hercule Poirot). The lobby and atrium are named after the Metropolis of "Superman" fame, and there's even a Gotham lounge that gets its name from "Batman." Carnival Miracle is also laid out exceptionally well and a breeze to navigate.
Second (and third and fourth), Miracle and its Spirit-class brethren introduced some significant firsts for Carnival: fantastic alternative steakhouses found on every Carnival new-build thereafter and onboard wedding chapels. Spirit-class ships also offer an impressive 80 percent ratio of outside cabins (and 80 p, as well as lots of nice little touches -- like museum-quality artwork and "designer" martinis.
Good news: A January 2012 dry-dock refreshed Miracle from bow-to-stern and added yet another signature Carnival feature. Beyond the obligatory under-the-hood work and touch-ups to carpeting and upholstery, the ship gained Carnival's adults-only Serenity deck. The popular kid-free retreat, featuring plush loungers, a pair of hot tubs and an endless view of the wake, is now featured on 21 out of 23 Carnival ships.
Ultimately, Carnival Miracle offers quintessential Carnival -- solid dining options, unpretentious fun and affordable rates -- in a less mega-sized package.
Carnival Miracle Fellow Passengers
You may find a lot of couples and groups of friends traveling together, with most passengers ranging in age from 25 to 55, plus a good number of families, though you'll find even more kids onboard in the summer and during school breaks.
Carnival Miracle Dress Code
A seven-night cruise includes two formal evenings, during which most men wear dark suits rather than tuxes, and women opt for business-y pants suits or evening dresses -- some rather glitzy. All other nights are deemed casual (when you're likely to see everything from ratty jeans to pretty sundresses) or "elegant casual" (a skirt or pants and blouse is fine for women, and most men wear Dockers-type pants with a buttoned shirt or polo).
Carnival Miracle Gratuity
Carnival recommends $12.00 per person, per day. The guidelines allocate $6.10 to dining room services, $3.90 to cabin services and $2 per day for alternative services, which include kitchen, entertainment, guest services and other hotel staff members. The amount is automatically added to your shipboard account, but it can be adjusted in either direction at the guest services desk. A 15 percent gratuity is automatically added to bar bills. Tipping a couple dollars for room service at delivery is expected (and appreciated) by the service staff.
Carnival Miracle Cabins
Seemingly well soundproofed, cabins are rather quiet during the day and night. Heavy drapes help with noise and sun, and add a classy touch to balconied cabin.
Furniture is constructed of solid cherry wood, and cabins are well lit with attractive lamps and fixtures. Flat-screen TV's were added to all the cabins in January 2012. Little "goodies" are left waiting in the bathroom at embarkation (though they aren't replenished throughout the trip), including samples of Physique hair products, Reach Access flossers, razors for men and women, Crest Vanilla Mint toothpaste and Lever 2000 soap.
Inside cabins represent only 20 percent of the total number onboard, which means a fairly significant 80 percent (849 cabins) are outsides -- another plus, and a huge draw for modern-day cruisers. Of these 849 cabins, 624 are oceanviews with private verandahs, 68 are partial-view oceanviews with French doors, and just 99 are standard oceanviews (which, interestingly enough, measure the same as standard insides at 185 square feet).
Still, 185 square feet is fairly roomy for an inside, all things considered. Inside cabins are laid out with a small desk/vanity area, a bathroom with a curtained stand-alone shower (there are both shower gel and shampoo pumps in the shower), twin beds that convert to a queen, decent closet space (two cabinets with hanging bars and one with wide shelves), a flat-screen television with remote, and a mini-fridge. Higher cabins have a little sitting area with a peach sofa and table, except for adjoining staterooms which have chairs in place of a sofa so as not to block the door. All oceanview staterooms come with terry robes for use onboard. Balcony cabins measure from 225 square ft. (including the verandah). Balconies are outfitted with a plastic table and two plastic chairs. All balconies feature an extended barrier for extra privacy from neighbors.
Note: Categories 8C, 8E, 8G and 8I feature "extended" balconies, which add 50 percent more space, but jut out a tad further and are visible from above. (So don't do anything you wouldn't want your neighbors to the north to see!)
Suites (there are 52 of them) range from 360 square feet to 465 square feet and have larger verandahs with upgraded furnishings and whirlpool tubs; pick a suite at the aft corner for a wrap-around verandah.
There are 16 cabins specifically designed for wheelchair-bound passengers, in a variety of stateroom categories.
Carnival Miracle Dining
The Bacchus Dining Room, named for the Greek god of wine, is the main restaurant for dinner. It's visually "loud" in purple hues with grape motifs on the ceiling and walls, and pale pink table linens. Surprisingly, there is only one dining room on Spirit-class ships (while Carnival Valor and even the older Celebration feature two main restaurants), but at two decks high, Bacchus comfortably accommodates all passengers in two seatings (early at 6 p.m., late at 8:15) or on a flexible basis, via Carnival's "Your Choice Dining" program. With the flexible option, passengers can have dinner in the main dining room anytime they like between 5:45 and 9:30 p.m. (times may vary). Dining assignments -- which you select before the cruise -- are made on a first come, first served basis, so if you have your heart set on one or the other, consider booking sooner rather than later.
Dinner runs like a well-oiled machine; service is prompt and attentive, and aside from generally boring salads (iceberg lettuce and a few random tomatoes), food consistently meets or exceeds expectations -- particularly high-quality, hearty cuts of meat that are brought out as requested.
Menus feature Spa Carnival and low-carb entrees daily, as well as special selections for children and vegetarians. Often, the low-carb choices mirror the main menu choices -- fish, steak, chicken -- but are prepared with lighter sauce or accompanied by healthier sides like steamed vegetables. Breakfast and lunch is also served here in an open-seating fashion every day. The breakfast menu is the same each morning, offering standard fare: French toast, pancakes, omelets, eggs Benedict, etc. Lunch choices often reflect what's available in Horatio's, the buffet area.
Dinner at Nick & Nora's, nestled under a skylight in Carnival's signature red funnel, is truly unforgettable and worth the $30 per-person charge considering the quality of the meals, exquisite atmosphere and extra-attentive service. If you make reservations, be sure to take the glass-backed elevator up -- there is a gorgeous black and white photo of the 1930's Manhattan skyline that pops into view as you arrive, and it aptly feels as if you are leaving the cruise ship behind for something entirely different. There are plenty of cozy tables for couples and small groups. Truly intimate and lovely, with prime cuts of meat, delicious Caesar salad prepared tableside and Versace china to boot. Leave room for dessert, such as a trio of chocolate treats.
The lido buffet is Horatio's, a sprawling, one-level restaurant offering full breakfast and lunch buffets, as well as a casual dinner alternative and a late-night "bistro." Among the plentiful tables and chairs are cozy booths, which make it feel more like a restaurant than a cafeteria (there are also tables set up poolside for those who prefer dining alfresco). Breakfast options include eggs, sausage, bacon, pancakes, grits, Cream of Wheat, bagels and fruit. There is an omelet station each morning for made-to-order egg dishes, and separate islands for juice, coffee, fruit and yogurt. Assorted pastries and juices are brought around on carts by staff, a nice touch (fancier than usual for Carnival). Lunch options include hot buffet items (such as surprisingly tender pork chops), a salad bar, an Asian station, a carving station and sweets. There's rarely a line more than a few minutes and nearly always a place to sit.
The 24-hour pizzeria and 24-hour ice cream/frozen yogurt station are located here, along with a deli offering a variety of hot and cold items from tuna sandwiches and roast beef subs to gooey Reubens and Indian-spiced chicken tikka wraps. There is also a poolside grill offering burgers, hot dogs and the like. Hot coffee is available at drinks stations throughout at no cost, but the offerings at the specialty coffee bar near the pizzeria, as well as The Fountainhead Cafe in the lower promenade area, are extra.
Each afternoon, a sushi cart is set up outside of Maguire's Bar offering rotating options like salmon, shrimp and assorted rolls (free of charge). But that's not even the best part -- sake is available (unfortunately not free of charge) in Maguire's to accompany your Japanese snack.
The Punchliner Comedy Brunch was the result of Carnival's relationship with comedian George Lopez. Available on sea days, the brunch features a five- to six-minute comedy performance by an in-house stand-up every hour on the hour. The Mexican-inspired brunch menu is pretty interesting –- there's a Caesar salad with fried chicken and jerk bacon, a breakfast burrito and huevos rancheros. There's also a Bloody Mary bar. There is no extra charge to dine (bloody Marys are extra) though reservations are recommended.
Carnival Miracle's Taste Bar (Deck 2 along the Promenade) is available from 5 – 8 p.m. on sea days and select port days. The dining option (free) features a selection of tapas curated from a number of Carnival's newest dining venues (many of which are not found on Miracle). You can pair tastes with a specially selected cocktail for $5. For example, you might find roasted pork tacos and lime tortilla soup inspired by the BlueIguana Cantina (debuted on Carnival Liberty), with a Blue Margarita as the accompanying drink. Or, try "Nonna's" meatballs and ricotta bruchetta, inspired by the Cucina del Capitano Italian restaurant introduced on Carnival Magic, paired with the venue's house Chianti.
Also available on all of Carnival's ships is The Chef's Table dining experience, which affords a dozen passengers a multicourse dinner with a master chef, a private cocktail reception and a tour of the galley and its operations. This dining option usually takes place in a nontraditional venue, such as the galley or library, and it can be booked onboard at the information desk for a per-person cost of $75.
Still hungry? Room service is available around the clock. Tasty sandwiches are a nice touch (try the mozzarella with grilled veggies and basil aioli), though mainstays like juices, breads and pastries, salads, veggie platters, cookies and brownies, cakes, yogurt, fruit salad, and beverages (including bar service at regular bar prices) are also on the menu. Service is usually prompt. Full stateroom bar service is available 9 a.m. until 3 a.m. In-cabin continental breakfast is available by hanging a checked-off menu on your doorknob -- and being that this is a "Fun Ship" and you're not exactly expected to turn in at a reasonable hour, the deadline for this is a generous 5 a.m. There are no hot dishes on the list, just fruit, cereals, yogurt, breads and pastries, juice, milk, tea and coffee.
Carnival Miracle Entertainment
Carnival does a good job with entertainment, as a rule. The elaborate production shows onboard include a high-energy medley of popular music from the last few decades, called "Legends," and a Beatles-themed production that is quite fun.
The three-level main show lounge is fashioned after the Paris Opera House and "The Phantom of the Opera." White enamel masks and mini candelabras line the maroon and gold walls, and almost feel magical. Stone figures hold up orange "stained glass" lights atop the entryways.
Carnival's Farcus tends towards gaudy, over-the-top themes, but Mad Hatter's Ball, the alternate show lounge beneath Phantom, works beautifully. The entrance from Deck 2 is inviting with sparkling red hearts dancing down the winding staircase and funky frosted lamps in red and ivory lighting the way. The lounge itself is plush and fantastical -- like a fall down Alice's rabbit hole. There are several late-night adult comedy shows in Mad Hatter's Ball, and a friendly bartender who makes fabulous appletinis.
Frankenstein's Lab is the pretty nifty two-deck disco. It received new furniture and carpeting as part of the recent refurb. Neon "electricity bolts" line the walls along with slabs of grayish purple stone, gargoyles hold up the bar stools and cocktail tables, and a gigantic light-up Frankenstein patrols the dance floor. This is used for a teens-only dance party each evening, but becomes a hot spot for adults much, much later -- think way after midnight.
Mr. Lucky's casino is enormous with table games and slot machines galore. Particularly precious are the Garfield (yes, the cartoon cat) nickel slots, but there is often a line to play at both machines. For low-key card playing, check out the Joker, a small card room located forward on Deck 2.
Sam's piano bar features live music each evening, and the pianists take requests -- there's actually a huge binder of songs to flip through and microphones along the bar for guests with a little gusto. One neat feature here is that the piano is on a platform that spins ... though this may not be so neat for anyone feeling a little seasick!
A fabulous jazz trio plays in the Gotham Lounge after both dining seatings. During the day, cruisers participate in art auctions, trivia contests, ship-sponsored "pub" crawls, big-screen movies, bingo games, slot tournaments, fun contests and game shows like "Newlywed, Not-So-Newlywed."
Carnival Miracle Public Rooms
Passengers enter the ship in the Metropolis Lobby at the base of the atrium, named after the Metropolis of "Superman" fame and done up with Art Deco-meets-classic furnishing and blue Murano glass lights. The lobby's Jeeves Lounge is a natural meeting place for pre-dinner drinks, particularly when the ship's classical trio begins playing (piano and strings). The Gotham Lounge is another popular spot for pre-dinner drinks, right near the main entrance to Bacchus.
There is an outdoor promenade on Deck 3 as well as an enclosed "winter garden" promenade fashioned after Gatsby's garden in the novel "The Great Gatsby," with white trellises and a faux-stone floor, which can be oddly quiet at all times of the day compared to other public areas.
The photo gallery is located on Deck 3, around the perimeter of the lobby. The gift shops are located near here as well, selling the usual logo wear, souvenirs, sunscreen, perfume, duty-free liquors and cigarettes, T-shirts and jewelry. The Formalities shop rents out tuxedos.
The Raven Library is pretty in dark mahogany-style wood, with loveseats and tables, but the selection, as usual on Carnival ships, is pretty sad (why even bother to have a library, frankly?) -- there is only one glass case of books (three cabinets of five shelves each) and about three random board games. It also doubles as the Internet cafe, and houses 10 computers and a printer. Connectivity is sold in a number of packages or a la carte, though per-minute prices are lower when you buy in bulk. For instance, a block of 120 minutes is $59 or 49 cents a minute; 480 minutes for $159 or about 33 cents a minute; otherwise, expect to pay 75 cents per minute. Wireless access is available to laptop users on Decks 2, 3, 9 and 10. Directly across from here is the small wedding chapel.
Note: Make it a point to ditch the elevator from time to time. There are beautiful glass vases on display in the stairwells, all very different and colorful and fascinating.
Carnival Miracle Spa & Fitness
There are four pools onboard -- three main pools, each with a whirlpool, and one children's pool -- though none are particularly large. Updates to the pools were part of the January 2012 dry-dock, which also saw the addition of the popular Serenity area for adults only that includes a full bar. The midship Ulysses Pool area seems to be the liveliest of the bunch, housing the stage for live Calypso music as well as the grill and the Odyssey Bar. For a quieter swim, try Orpheus (forward; the whirlpool here is adult-only, though it can still get raucous after a couple of drinking hours have passed) or Sirens (on the other side of Odyssey Bar). The entrance to the twisty slide is up on the Sports Deck along with a jogging track (15.2 laps equals one mile), a ball court (for basketball and soccer) and a putting green. There are areas designated for shuffleboard and Ping-Pong as well.
Spa Carnival is run by Steiner Leisure, and is pretty run-of-the-mill with a small reception area and 10 private treatment rooms, and sauna and steam rooms available for men and women. Treatments are pretty much in the on-every-cruise vein, ranging from aromastone therapy and body wraps to facials and massages. A basic massage will soak you $109, though on port days you might get lucky and pay $10 or so less.
The multi-level fitness center, located far forward on Decks 9 and 10, is impressive. One wall is comprised entirely of picture windows overlooking the water, which offers a really nice view (though there is a strip of deck that wraps around here as well so passers-by can watch you through the glass). Steppers, bikes, rowers, treadmills and weights -- all high-tech -- are placed facing the windows on escalating levels that give the whole room an arena or stadium sort of feel. And there is a foamy, inviting hot tub smack dab in the center.
The fitness center offers Pilates, yoga and cycling classes for a fee of $10, but if you are interested in taking one, be sure to check in at the facility in advance because the start times printed in Carnival Capers may be wrong.
For gamers, Wizards is an impressively sleek and spacious arcade with at least two dozen new-looking machines and two air hockey tables. You may have to look twice for it though; it's tucked behind the Phantom Lounge (access it from the forward stairs leading out of Gatsby's Garden).
Carnival Miracle Family
Pinocchio's Club, the children's facility on Miracle, is a colorful, adult-free hideaway (save from the very cool and cheerful youth staff), but what's inside is even better: five eMac computers, several small televisions hooked up to PlayStation consoles and a mosaic of wall-mounted screens for watching movies. There's also a huge flat-screen TV set up with Dance Dance Revolution, which is basically an arcade dance simulation game where you can create your own routines and even track the calories you burn -- loads of fun for the kids. There's also a game cabinet, bookshelf, arts and crafts tables, a candy art machine (so neat), and a spin art machine.
Club O2, on the Sun Deck, is the place to be for passengers aged 15 to 17. It has a full array of gaming consoles, a dance floor, music-listening stations and soda bar, plus activities such as karaoke, dance classes and midnight mini-golf forays. Circle C, the designated venue for the 12-to-14 'tween set, is on Deck 4 forward, and has has a dance floor, video jukebox and Internet stations. Activities include dance parties, game shows and Wii competitions. Both spaces have dedicated directors, and both are generally open from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. on days in port and from noon during sea days.
The actual children's program, Camp Carnival, is tailored for many age groups. Children are broken up into four categories: ages 2 - 5, ages 6 - 8 and ages 9 - 11. Activities are also tailored for the age groups, and baby-sitting services, basically a slumber party in the play room, are available for a reasonable cost -- $6.75 per child -- from 10 p.m. until 3 a.m. Toddlers do not have to be potty-trained to participate, as long as parents provide the staff with diapers and toiletries as necessary.
An all-you-can-drink Bottomless Bubbles program is available for children at $4.50 per day; adults may also purchase a fountain card for $6 per day. Soft drinks range from just $1 to $1.50, so you'd have to drink a whole lot of soda to get your money's worth -- plus, while your buck-fifty can get you a fresh soda, we noticed that guests who proffered up the fountain card at the bar were served whatever dregs were left in already-open cans. Admittedly, kids consume more soft drinks (and less wine) than adults might, so parents may want to consider this option rather than paying a la carte.
The Carnival Miracle is the fourth Spirit class ship. Famous fictional icons is the theme for this spectacular ship. Catch some rays by the Ulysses pool, have a special dinner in Nick and Noras' supper club, and finish the night in Dr. Frankenstein's Lab. Whatever you choose to do, the Carnival Miracle is sure to please.


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United Talent Agency announced Wednesday that it has acquired N.S. Bienstock, a talent agency that represents television news personalities including Bill O'Reilly, Anderson Cooper, Robin Roberts and Megyn Kelly.
N.S. Bienstock, which is headquartered in New York, has approximately 40 employees, about half of whom are agents. The company's office will remain open and will not be consolidated into UTA's existing Manhattan branch.
N.S. Bienstock's founders and co-presidents, Richard Leibner and Carole Cooper, will remain co-presidents of the company and manage its operations, UTA said.
Beverly Hills-based UTA declined to disclose terms of the deal.
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UTA, whose clients include Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Channing Tatum, maintains an office in New York that houses about 20 people. In total, UTA has more than 135 agents in its stable.
Other N.S. Bienstock clients include Bob Scheiffer, Norah O'Donnell and Glenn Beck. The company also has an unscripted-television and packaging division that represents production companies and has put together shows such as Investigation Discovery's "On the Case with Paula Zahn" and History Channel's "Mountain Men."
Television package fees -- one of the key financial drivers for agencies -- are derived from putting together actors, writers, directors and producers on a show.
N.S. Bienstock also represents the executive producers of TV shows including "Live! with Kelly and Michael," "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and "Rachael Ray."
"As the entertainment, media, news and technology industries comingle in new and exciting ways, we see tremendous potential for broadcast news talent across every conceivable media platform," UTA Chief Executive Jeremy Zimmer said in a statement.
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UTA's acquisition comes during a busy stretch of deal-making in the agency world. On Monday, talent agency Paradigm said it would expand into Europe through a joint venture with the London-based CODA Music Agency. The deal gives Paradigm a 50% stake in CODA, which represents acts including Imagine Dragons, Bastille and the XX.
In December, the William Morris Endeavor agency said it would acquire IMG Worldwide in an approximately $2.3-billion deal. Sports and media company IMG represents athletes such as NFL quarterback Peyton Manning and tennis player Novak Djokovic, and sells media rights to sporting events including Wimbledon and the Australian Open.
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Erm, okay, I may have lied about no more election stuff. I was seduced into giving more election links by this amazing photo-series. Just keep hitting 'show more images', it's lovely. But I have gamer-girl stuff to share too, I promise!
A little over eight months ago, Michelle Obama said to a crowd of her husband's supporters, "For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country." She took a lot of flak for that statement, and was called unpatriotic, 'ungrateful', and generally accused of being a nasty strident Sapphire who didn't know her place. Yesterday two good friends of mine each said pretty well exactly that, a third (who lives abroad) said that she no longer feels ashamed when people realise she's American, and Kyrias, a long-standing US resident, is considering filing for citizenship. A lot of people at Feministe are also echoing Michelle's remarks.
With provisional and absentee ballots to sort, the last calls are still being made; Georgia was finally settled for McCain earlier today, but I'm not sure if the Senate call (it will be a runoff election, because the Libertarians prevented anyone getting 50% of the vote) has been formalised. North Carolina went for Obama by 14000 votes, again due to those pesky Libertarians; Missouri is likely McCain but still to be called - on Super Tuesday it was prematurely called for Clinton but the final count flipped it to Obama, so I guess they're trying not to make a mistake again this time. The only other outstanding presidential count is in the city of Omaha, custodian of one of Nebraska's five votes; they're busy opening the last 15000 ballots, and it's relatively likely that Obama will eke out a tiny win. This would be the first time either of the splitting states - Maine and Nebraska - have actually split their votes; personally I think it would be more fun, and lead to more engagement, if all states split their votes by congressional district.
They're also still counting in the Alaska senate race, where seven-times felon Ted Stevens has probably pulled out a win. (Nate has a post about how Alaska skewed dramatically away from pre-election opinion polls, with the Republicans overperforming by +12% in all election races, not just the Senate). If so, he will be thrown out of the Senate and Alaska will join Georgia in having a December 2nd special; I fear the seat is Ms Hun's if she wants it. It's a shame because this was the one real chance of getting a left-wing Alaskan into the Senate. :/ The Oregon Senate race has been belatedly called for the Democrats, but Minnesota is in the throes of a full recount.
Saxby Chambliss, btw, did manage to find time to get even lower and shittier right before the election. Also, I am linking this just for one great sentence: "Nate Silver taught numbers how to fuck."
Now, gamer shit: if there's one videogame movie the world really doesn't need, it's this one.
This blog post contains a PDF file of the best gaming article I've ever read. It's about people who still play Pac-Man and other old arcade games competitively, and it contains the phrases 'meditative states' and 'gamer ontologies'. I thought I was the only person in the world who cared about gamer ontologies and I am so not. That article is very long but it made me so very happy.
The one thing I found off about it is that it framed classic gaming as being so completely a matter of male homosociality. This puzzles me because one of my housemates is a classic gamer - an obsessive Dr Mario player - and I often find myself sat drinking coffee while hypnotised by her arrays of primary-coloured pills. She is not an 'adept', and rarely squeaks past level 23, and is not part of any gamer club that I know of. And I like watching people play games, even ones I suck at (especially ones I suck at). I also know a person with a basement full of consoles from long ago - Ataris and the like. Yep, she's a chick. I don't know any men who still play classic games, only these two women. The article only mentions one woman among the many gamers it discusses, adepts and audience members both, and prefers to put women in the background caring for the gamers in their lives but not partaking. I suspect that this is an old idea at work - that what men do with their free time is serious, worthy, even sacred, but women have only their tasks and their fripperies. It's not true IRL obv, only in the media.
And here at Vorpal Bunny Ranch (which truly is the best-named website ever) is another wonderful article marred by the assumption of male homosociality. It's about the role of the dandy as a male stereotype in videogames, and it has Balthier in it just to make me happy:
It is a common stereotype that we have come to expect--if a man is not muscular and cannot save the day through his forceful body or strength, then he has to be crafty, making him either a man of questionable morals or a villain himself.
... You cannot trust the man who does not use his hands for physical labor and counts on magic and deceit to achieve his goals--how loathsome.
Is it that surprising that this happens in videogames? Not at all. Consider that, in general, the dandy is a male who is considered feminized by his opposition to the male principle of power through strength.
That post makes some great points but I think it's slightly crippled by comparing men only to other men, when electric culture is really way more level about gender; it talks about Balthier as a dandy, and yes he does have a claymore-swinging foil whose story is about grappling with the male principle of power through strength...and that person is Ashe, a chick, so there you go.
Also speaking of chicks, Nintendo have been surveying DS players in Osaka. The biggest user block of all is boys aged 10-12, but the second biggest is women in their early 30s. At most ages, women are more likely than men to use a DS.
Did any of you hear about the Little Big Planet recall? A classic case of oversensitivity at work; songwriter Toumani Diabate, a Malian Muslim, included two lines from the Koran in a song he wrote for the game - something that's apparently common in Mali's music culture. When Sony realised this they went apeshit and recalled the game. M. Zuhdi Jasser, head of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, has no idea what their fucking problem was: "The fact that the music writer is a devout Muslim should highlight that at the core of this issue is not about offending 'all Muslims', but only about freedom of expression and the free market." Tycho, meanwhile, points out that Little Big Planet is a game centred on user-generated content, which - as I said re. the Hot Coffee mod a while ago - is inevitably going to cross every line the designers, censors and raters attempt to draw. It's the end user who chooses the content, not you.
No matter what this song contained, rated by some universal standard for blasphemy, the things you could do with the included toolset would make any scholar of Islam beg for the days when the holy scriptures were merely set to a jaunty beat. [...]
No-one was watching when modding became something like a gamer's right. Now, the mainstream perches in every high corner, shifting its weight like Poe's raven, positively starved for evidence that this incredible medium bears within it the dissolution of a generation.
This is why Microsoft doesn't want to get within ten miles of this shit.


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Best winter motorhome holidays
Taking a motorhome holiday in New Zealand's North Island during winter is a great idea!
Auckland is a great place to stay for a few days, with bars, restaurants, shopping and culture to enjoy. After that – a motorhome holiday is the best way to see and do the most in the least amount of time. Companies such as Apollo Motorhome Holidays make sure their motorhomes are built for New Zealand winters – they come with internal heating, full insulation and plenty of warm blankets to keep the cold out.
Even if the weather is cold, you'll get a warm feeling from the beautiful views in the little town of Thames, 1.5 hours' drive from Auckland, where you can enjoy cosy meals, locally grown and made produce and friendly hospitality.
Head north on your winter exploration to The Coromandel, blessed with New Zealand's warmest winter weather, with average temperatures of 12-14 degrees Celsius. Hearty mountain hikes, beautiful bay side water activities, fishing and antique fossicking are all easy to do, even in winter.
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I'm all tucked up in bed, meaning to be asleep a good half-hour ago, but my sleepytime doesn't seem to be doing to trick. Lately, my inspiration for dressing myself comes from a curious place. Not that movies are a strange place to look at for that sort of thing, but I always feel a little bit silly taking inspiration from sad movies. Nevertheless, life is now about thick tights, little dresses, too-big cardigans and some variant of wellington rain boot.
The movie is Never Let Me Go, and after seeing the trailer, my interest was piqued, and so I trotted myself off to the bookstore for my own copy of the novel. When the movie came out, I went to see it with Kim and then again today (with Kim again, as she is a lovely friend and also awesome). I've been obsessively re-reading the book since then, and honestly thinking about little else (if you haven't seen it, I urge you to both do so and read the book first).
I'm not entirely sure how to describe it. It's one of probably two movies that, for me, almost surpasses the book (an unfair statement--comparing books and movies is one of the most useless endeavors of all time, since how on earth are they ever comparable to begin with?). It fills me up until I feel I might be obliterated, and I can't bear it as the days go by and the spell of it starts to ebb away.
But besides all of that, I love the careful assemblage of outfits that happen in the movie. It's somewhere between utilitarian, throwing on what makes you warm or easy to walk in, and the heartbreaking care taken when there are only a handful of things to wear. It also makes me want that thick bang across the forehead, but alas, there is nothing that looks quite so terrible on me as a blunt bang.
My boots are in the mail and I think I have a few acceptable sweaters to toss on in the remaining weeks of fall.


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Sheldon Harnick, Rachel Potter and More Set for Carnegie Hall COMMUNITY SING Today
Today, February 3 at 5 p.m., in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, Carnegie Hall gives Broadway fans the exclusive opportunity to sing along with the brightest stars of today at a FREE Community Sing presented by Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute. Mandy Gonzalez, Rachel Potter, Caesar Samayoa, and many more join Leslie Stifelman, musical director and conductor of Chicago: The Musical, and host Thomas Cabaniss in guiding the audience through the show-stopping, electrifying numbers of your most beloved Broadway musicals including Hair, West Side Story, Rent, and LES MISERABLES.
The Community Sing will take place tonight, February 3 at 5 p.m. in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College.COMMUNITY SING: THE PEOPLE SING WITH THE BROADWAY ALL-STAR VOICES
Leslie Stifelman, Artistic Director and Conductor
Thomas Cabaniss, Host
Sheldon Harnick, Special Guest
Dave Trigg, Trumpets
Scott Cady, Piano
Jeff Carney, Bass
Dave Ratajczak, Drums and Percussion
Ken Hitchcock, Woodwinds
The Broadway All-Star Voices:
Whitney Bashor, Whistle Down the Wind, The Fantasticks
Nili Bassman, Chicago, Curtains, Never Gonna Dance
Etai BenShlomo, Wicked
Haven Burton, Shrek, Legally Blonde, Rent
Bradley Dean, Evita, A Little Night Music, Spamalot, Company, Man of La Mancha, Jane Eyre
Susan Derry, Wonderful Town, Ragtime
Mandy Gonzalez, Wicked, In the Heights, Aida, Lennon, Dance of the Vampires
Leah Horowitz, Follies, White Christmas, Les Miserables, Fiddler on the Roof, La Cage Aux Folles
Christopher Johnstone, South Pacific
Max Kumangai, Hair, Lysistrata Jones
Kate Loprest, Hairspray, Xanadu, Drowsy Chaperone, Wonderland
Michael Lowney, La Cage Aux Folles
Michael Marcotte, South Pacific, Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, Anyone Can Whistle
Anastacia McCleskey, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Hair, Tarzan
Elizabeth Pojanowski, Seattle Opera, San Antonio Opera, Metropolitan Opera workshop
Rachel Potter, Addams Family, Evita
George Salazar, Godspell, Spring Awakening
Caesar Samayoa, Sister Act, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Hot Feet
Ryan Worsing, Chicago, Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Shrek
Richard Rodgers / Oscar Hammerstein II "Do-Re-Mi," from The Sound of Music
Jerry Bock / Sheldon Harnick "To Life," from Fiddler on the Roof
Jerry Bock / Sheldon Harnick "Sunrise, Sunset," from Fiddler on the Roof
Richard Rodgers / Oscar Hammerstein II "There is Nothing Like a Dame" / "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" from South Pacific
Jonathan Larson "Seasons of Love," from Rent
Leonard Bernstein / Stephen Sondheim "Tonight," from West Side Story
John Kander / Fred Ebb "Go Back Home," from The Scottsboro Boys
Stephen Sondheim "Sunday," from Sunday in the Park with George
Claude-Michel Schönberg / Alain Boublil / Jean-Marc Natel "I Dreamed a Dream," from LES MISERABLES
Claude-Michel Schönberg / Alain Boublil / Jean-Marc Natel "Do You Hear the People Sing?" from LES MISERABLES


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SAN DIEGO -- The at-home winner of NBC's season 13 "Biggest Loser" reality television series spoke about healthy lifestyles and physical fitness to Sailors assigned to amphibious assault ships USS Makin Island (LHD 8) and USS Essex (LHD 2) at the Harborside Fitness Center aboard Naval Base San Diego, Jan. 31.
Mike Messina, who lost an incredible 160 pounds during the competition, talked with Sailors about how he changed his life through an improved commitment to nutrition and overall physical fitness.
"Changing your lifestyle is easy it's just changing your mind," Messina told the group of Sailors. "The lifestyle is about making smart choices the majority of the time. If when you wake up you work out and then make yourself a healthy meal, it becomes a routine and then turns into a lifestyle."
Messina, who started the show at a whopping 358 pounds, used Navy basic training as an example of a model lifestyle Sailors should lean towards.
"I feel like boot camp was a warm up for life for Sailors," said Messina. "The military got you ready - everyday you got up, you worked out, you ate, and you trained. It's a model for life."
Messina encouraged the group of Sailors to maintain that mentality in order to stay strong in life.
"There's a reason that the military runs so smoothly, it's like a well-oiled machine," said Messina. "There is a meaning and a purpose to everyday that you guys get up and do your job."
Many of the Sailors asked Messina questions about what types of exercise routines worked for him and what types of food to avoid in order to get rid of unwanted pounds.
"You don't have to change everything, you can still enjoy all the things that you love, but it has to be in small increments," said Messina. "I think that if your start young and take care of yourself, for the rest of your life you will have a healthy good life."
Sailors who met Messina said they walked away with a lot of good advice.
"The most important thing I think we need to do as Sailors is change our mindset on how important is for us to eat right and exercise," said Chief Mineman Enrique Guerra, a representative from Essex's Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) division who attended the event. "We need to put it in our heads that if we take care of ourselves, we will live a happier and more prosperous life."
Guerra, who also helps promote physical fitness aboard Essex, said Sailors have a lot of access to gyms on both shore installations and on most Navy ships. He also encourages healthy eating.
"Try restaurants that have healthier foods and eat salads," said Guerra. "When you order hamburgers eat everything don't remove the lettuce or the tomatoes."
Messina's visit was coordinated by Makin Island's MWR division in conjunction with the ship's own "Biggest Loser" competition that began earlier this month.
The ship's competition is intended to help maintain Navy physical fitness standards, supporting the Secretary of the Navy's 21st Century Sailor and Marine initiative, and ensuring the command's overall mission readiness.
The 21st Century Sailor and Marine initiative consolidates a set of objectives and policies, new and existing, to maximize Sailor and Marine readiness, safety, physical fitness, inclusion, and continuum of service which builds resiliency and hones the most combat-effective force in the history of the Department of the Navy.
Makin Island recently returned from a seven-month deployment and was the first U.S. Navy ship to deploy using a hybrid-electric propulsion system. By using this unique propulsion system, the ship saved more than $15 million in fuel costs and the Navy expects to see fuel cost-savings of more than $250 million, over the course of the ship's lifecycle. Lessons learned during Makin Island's maiden deployment prove the Navy's commitment to energy awareness and conservation and will positively influence future ship designs for several decades.
This initiative is one of many throughout the Navy and Marine Corps that will enable the Department of the Navy to achieve the Secretary of the Navy's energy goals to improve energy security and efficiency afloat and ashore, increase energy independence and help lead the nation toward a clean energy economy.
The ship is currently undergoing a planned maintenance availability (PMA) at Naval Base San Diego. During this seven month PMA period, Makin Island will receive numerous equipment upgrades, modernization, and general repairs. The PMA period will also ensure the ship will reach the full service life of at least 40 years.


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Iranian Police Clash With 3,000 Protesters
Witnesses told The Associated Press that some protesters fought back, chanting: "Where is my vote?"
They said others described scenes of brutality - including the alleged police beating of an elderly woman - in the clashes around the Ghoba Mosque.
The reports could not immediately be independently verified because of tight restrictions imposed on journalists in Iran.
North Tehran is a base of support for opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has alleged massive fraud in Iran's disputed June 12 presidential election and insists he - not President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - is the rightful winner.
Sunday's clashes broke out at a rally that had been planned to coincide with a memorial held each year for Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, who came to be considered a martyr in the Islamic Republic after he was killed in a 1981 anti-regime bombing.
It was Iran's first election-related unrest since Wednesday, when a small group of rock-throwing protesters who had gathered near parliament was quickly overwhelmed by police forces using tear gas and clubs.
Iran's standoff with the West over its crackdown on opposition protesters escalated Sunday after authorities detained several local employees of the British Embassy in Tehran - a move that Britain's foreign secretary called "harassment and intimidation." The European Union condemned the arrests.
Iranian media said eight local embassy staff were detained for an alleged role in postelection protests, but gave no further details. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said "about nine" employees were detained Saturday and that four had been released.
EU foreign ministers meeting in Corfu, Greece, issued a statement Sunday condemning the arrests and calling for the immediate release of all those still detained. The 27-nation bloc also denounced Iran's continuing restrictions on journalists.
"They make clear to the Iranian authorities that harassment or intimidation of foreign or Iranian staff working in embassies will be met with a strong and collective EU response," the statement said.
Iran has accused the West of stoking unrest, singling out Britain and the U.S. for alleged meddling and for expressing concern about the ferocity of the regime's crackdown on protesters. Last week, Iran expelled two British diplomats, and Britain responded in kind. Iran has also said it's considering downgrading diplomatic ties with Britain.
On Sunday, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported that the embassy staffers were detained for what was described as a "significant role" in postelection unrest.
The British Foreign Office says the embassy has a staff of more than 100, including at least 70 locally hired Iranians. Last week, Britain sent home 12 dependents of embassy staff because the protests had disrupted their lives.
Miliband, in Corfu for the EU meeting, said Britain lodged a protest with the Iranian authorities over the detentions. He described the step as "harassment and intimidation of a kind that is quite unacceptable."
"The idea that the British Embassy is somehow behind the demonstrations and protests that have been taking place in Tehran. ... is wholly without foundation," he said.
Iran's government has tried to discredit opposition supporters by alleging they have been directed by the West.
On Friday, a senior Iranian cleric, Ahmed Khatami, lashed out at Britain in a nationally televised sermon. "In this unrest, Britons have behaved very mischievously and it is fair to add the slogan of 'Down with England' to the slogan of 'Down with U.S.A.,'" he said.
Britain, a former colonial power in the region with a long history in Iran, has been a prominent target. Britain and the U.S. were behind the 1953 coup that toppled Prime Minster Mohammad Mossadegh, who nationalized Iran's oil industry. Britain had almost complete control over Iran's oil industry for decades.
The British have also drawn fire because of the BBC's prominent role as a trusted broadcaster in Farsi inside Iran.
This is a reversal from the way the state and publicly funded BBC was perceived in the run-up to the Iranian Islamic Revolution. At the time, the BBC was widely listened to because it extensively covered anti-Shah demonstrations and activities of the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who was in exile in France.
Iran's leaders have countered Western condemnation with increasingly angry rhetoric. The confrontation appears to be dashing hopes for a new dialogue, as initially envisioned by President Barack Obama when he took office.
Mr. Obama wants to engage Iranian leaders in talks over the country's suspect nuclear program which the U.S. and other western countries worry is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. Iran defends its nuclear program as civilian in nature. On Sunday, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the bloc would "like very much" to restart nuclear talks with Tehran despite the rising tensions.
Senior White House adviser David Axelrod played down Ahmadinejad's accusations against the U.S., saying Sunday they aren't credible and are meant for domestic consumption. "This is political theater," he said on ABC's "This Week."
Iran's rulers have unleashed club-wielding militiamen to crush street protests and arrested hundreds of journalists, students and activists.
On Sunday, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called for national unity, appealing to both sides in the dispute, even though he has come down firmly on the side of Ahmadinejad.
"I admonish both sides not to stoke the emotions of the young or pit the people against each other," he said in comments carried on state TV. "Our people are made of one fabric."
Mousavi signaled he is not dropping his political challenge.
In a new statement, he insisted on a repeat of the election and rejected a partial recount being proposed by the government. However, Mousavi's challenge seemed largely aimed at maintaining some role as an opposition figure.
The latest statement by Mousavi, who has been increasingly isolated, appeared Sunday on Ghalamnews, a Web site run by supporters. Mousavi-related Web sites have frequently been blocked by the government, and one was shut down by hackers last week.


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The Japanese have led the charge on this practice. You have probably heard the well-known American expressions: "Grass on the infield: Play Ball!", or: "Old enough to pee; old enough for me", or: "Old enough to eat; old enough to be eaten". Well, in Japan the ancient saying goes: "Old enough to shit; old enough to have a flexible colonoscope inserted to your terminal ileum, then drawn out slowly while taking biopsies of suspicious polyps". Believe me, it sounds much more clever and pithy in the original Japanese.
I got a polyp to look at under the microscope the other day and, like one might expect, there was some fecal material along with the tissue. This is usually due to a "poor prep", a.k.a. "I ate a corn muffin and 20 munchkins before coming in today". Amazingly, it is possible to microscopically identify what that person ate in most cases. Sure, there is a lot of digested sludge that is basically a mass of bacteria and degenerated goo. But, if you are lucky, you may see a leafy vegetable; some steak; and, of course, CornNuts®. Anyway, this poo was different. There was some sort of seed structure that looked unusual. I showed it around and was greeted with shrugs (how is shit NOT interesting!?). I probably could have dropped it there but I actually know a botanist, so I gave her the slide. A couple days later she called me and said, "It looks weird because it is germinating".
The dude was growing a bean sprout in his colon. I'm thinking: New England Journal of Medicine: "Ass-plants: a case report and review of the literature". Move over Jonas Salk, step aside Louis Pasteur; I'm going to Disney World, bitches!


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GPS Safety Warning
If you have a GPS unit in your car, keep it hidden when your vehicle is unoccupied, especially if you pre-programmed addresses in it. GPS units are a popular target of thieves. Having it in plain sight is an invitation for someone to break your window and steal it.
And, if that's not enough, consider this. You're out shopping and a thief steals your GPS. They turn it on and click "home" from the list of pre-programmed addresses. By the time you return to your car, report the crime and write up a report with the police officer, the thief will have also robbed your home.
Realistically, you probably don't need to program home into your GPS. Chances are that you know how to get there without any help! If you really want to program it, call it something else. Label it "Bill" or "Susie" or something that only you would know is your home address. You could avoid a major hassle.


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Autumn begins September 22nd this year, so there's no better time than now to talk to your homeowner clients about installing radiant heat in their homes. While all rooms could benefit from radiant heat flooring underfoot, one of the prime spots is the bathroom, where cold tile and porcelain will need plenty of warming up. Get your clients excited about top-of-the-line radiant heat technologies and appliances from experts like WarmlyYours.
Radiant floor heating
Radiant floor heating has numerous advantages over central heat. Not only is it an eco-friendly option that reduces reliance on gas and consumes minimal electricity, but it's sure to improve a home's air quality. Forced air heating pushes through old, dusty vents, jeopardizing air quality in a confined room your client uses multiple times each day. On the other hand, radiant heat is installed easily below a variety of flooring types - even those used often in the bathroom, like tile, stone or engineered hardwood. It also uses entirely natural convection currents to keep a room warm.
Just imagine stepping out of a steaming shower on a cold morning and not having to shiver - radiant heat can give that and much more. Consider these other great energy-efficient radiant heat options from WarmlyYours.
Towel warmer
These professionally crafted towel warmers won't set your clients back much considering the luxury they provide. Best of all, with such extreme energy efficiency, most folks won't notice a change in their utilities bill! Encourage your clients to indulge in the guilt-free luxury of a piping hot towel straight out of the tub.
Mirror defogger
This easy-to-install amenity will keep any bathroom mirror fog free after even the steamiest of showers. Installed behind mirrors, these ease morning routines and reduce the accumulated smudges of wiping away fog.
Radiant heat panel
If your clients are looking for a unique way to heat their bathroom and maybe add a touch of style to the space's décor, radiant heat panels could be just what they're looking for. Installing these in clients' bathrooms provides them with an energy-efficient source of heat, not unlike radiant floor heating, but also gives them a stylish piece of art that's sure to impress guests. WarmlyYours provides a number of variations on its panel design, any of which are sure to be a hit with homeowners.
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