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I got this fun tag from Lilit's blog, Makeup and Macaroons. If you haven't checked out her blog before, you really should. Fab pictures & great reviews!
1. Greed: What is your most inexpensive beauty item? What is your most expensive?
My most inexpensive beauty item would have to be my NYX lipliner pencils. I believe they are around $3 each (even cheaper if you buy a few and use an Ulta coupon!).
My most expensive beauty products would probably be my skin care products. I feel like I can justify spending extra money because taking good care of your skin is so important. I'm always trying out new products looking for my HG but currently I am trying out/using Benefit Total Moisture Facial Cream as a night cream ($38) and their It's Potent Eye Cream ($32).
Left to Right: NYX Lip Liners in 835 Pinky, 817 Hot Red, & 860 Peekaboo Neutral
2. Wrath: What beauty products do you have a love/hate relationship with? What product has been hardest to get?
I used to have a love/hate relationship with foundation. For years, I stopped using liquid foundation because I hate the heavy feeling of (some) liquid foundations. I recently started using liquid foundation again and found that Makeup Forever HD foundation is light (feels like I'm not wearing any!) yet still gives me coverage.
The hardest product(s) to get would have to be certain items in limited edition MAC collections. Most recently, Pink Pidgeon from the Iris Apfel collection. It wasn't sold at counters and sold out on the website very quickly but I finally got my hands on it after it was randomly restocked on the site about a month later.
Makeup Forever HD Foundation & MAC Pink Pigeon lipstick (LE)
3. Gluttony: What are your most delicious beauty products?
Obviously I don't eat my beauty products so I'm assuming this tag question is referring to scent ;) I don't like heavily-scented products and usually try to shop for unscented or lightly- scented products. However, I do enjoy the scent of Jack Black's lip balms in Black Tea & Blackberry and Fresh Sugar's lip treatment (it smells like yellow pez!). Another product that I don't mind a sweet scent in is hand sanitizer. Bath & Body Works mini hand sanitizers smell great and don't leave a heavy alcohol scent behind.
Left to Right: Fresh Sugar Lip Treatment (Sephora's VIB birthday gift!), Jack Black Lip Balm in Black Tea & Blackberry, BBW PocketBac in Pink Sugarplum
4. Sloth: What beauty products do you neglect, due to laziness?
If I'm running late or feeling a lazy makeup day, I usually skip bronzer.
Benefit Hoola Bronzer
5. Pride: What beauty product gives you the most self-confidence?
It's a tie between mascara & lipstick (I'm addicted!) but if I had to choose one I'd say mascara. I love how mascara brings attention to my blue eyes.
Left to Right: Benefit Badgal Lash, Benefit Badgal Blue Lash , MAC Zoom Lash,
Tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes! & Benefit They're Real
6. Lust: What attributes do you find most attractive in the opposite sex?
Not sure how this is considered a beauty/makeup question per se but I'd say a great personality (kind, funny, etc.)
7. Envy: What item would you most like to receive as a gift?
I'd love to receive a YSL lipstick. Hint, hint boyfriend ;) They are beautiful and I hear the quality is amazing but I have yet to bring myself to pay over $30 for a lipstick (not that I haven't come close!).
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27 August 2013 at 5.01pm | 2 Comments
The Festival of Voices, which takes place on Sunday 22 September as part of Deloitte Ignite, will give both seasoned singers and newcomers the chance to sing 'Va pensiero', Verdi's famous Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco.
From 12 to 4pm Dominic Peckham, Artistic Director of the Royal Opera House RM19 Youth Singing Group will lead three choral workshops in the Clore Studio that will introduce both community singing and the chorus itself. The workshops will culminate in a special event in Covent Garden Piazza.
Learn 'Va pensiero' before the event:
The Festival of Voices will also feature an afternoon concert in the Paul Hamlyn Hall by community singing groups including The Choir with No Name and the Royal Opera House Thurrock Community Chorus. Composer Elspeth Brooks has created an imaginative interpretation of 'Va Pensiero' using recordings created around the world to create a unique sound installation. The recordings were collected as part of Royal Opera LIVE earlier this year. Elspeth's piece will also be available to experience during the first weekend of Deloitte Ignite.
The Festival of Voices is just one of a number of free events taking place at the Royal Opera House as part of Stephen Fry's Verdi and Wagner-themed Deloitte Ignite which will also feature live radio broadcasts, debates and pop-up performances inspired by the composers and their work.
Deloitte Ignite runs from 6 - 29 September. Follow us on Twitter for regular updates about this year's Deloitte Ignite, or search for #DeloitteIgnite.

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We revisit our rankings -- with tweaks courtesy of our PopWatch readers!
Countdown! The 10 best Bond girls
Before Casino Royale hit theaters and reinvented the James Bond franchise, we posted one of our most popular features ever: Our countdown of the 10 best Bond girls ever. At the time, we weren't sure where — or even if — Eva Green's Vesper Lynd would fit on the list. But now that the movie's a favorite, we figured we'd take another look at the rankings — with help from our readers, of course. So: Take a look at the new top 10, with tweaks courtesy of PopWatchers (buh-bye, Halle Berry)!


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Tournament Athletic Trainers & Medical Staff
AllSports Medicine program at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
The AllSports Medicine program at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital is a tournament partner of the Tampa Bay Labor Day Tournament and is providing the medical and trainer staff for the weekend. For pre-game tapings, please look for the medical tents. If medical assistance is needed for an injury please notify the closest quad tent.
AllSports Medicine is a comprehensive center for pediatric and adolescent sports medicine and is the only sports medicine program in the Tampa Bay area focused solely on the care of young athletes. Our pediatric specialty services, including orthopedics, emergency medicine, radiology, neurosurgery, nutrition, cardiology and sports rehab, are available to patients as needed, according to the type of injury and the specific needs of each patient.


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The scheme involves building a tiny language, called Meta, on top of Lisp. Whereas it does not handle all possible regular and context-free grammars, it can be used for a surprisingly large fraction of the grammars Lisp programmers encounter.
I think the family of grammars that Meta handles is usually called LL(1) as opposed to LL(k) which some other recursive descent parser generators support. -A. Kjeldaas. Actually the look-ahead limitation to one character is an artefact of using CL streams. The same technique and software can be used with sexprs and strings (and could be used with your own buffering streams if you dared) to provide unlimited look-ahead. -Fare Rideau I also believe that the languages Meta can parse can also be generated by Regular Tree Grammars: a formalism that under-pins xml schema languages like Relax-NG. -M. Swank
A simple practical package that uses Meta is Scribble, which you may take as an example.
meta source code is at: http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=users/frideau/meta.git
mel-base contains a modified version of cl-meta which uses sexprs instead of the reader. Huh? Baker's META works equally well on objects of type STREAM, STRING or LIST. cl-meta features access to these 3 via WITH-STRING-META, WITH-STREAM-META, WITH-LIST-META: lexical scoping is the solution, via MACROLET and/or LABELS. -Jörg Höhle Also, meta-sexp package is yet another META parser generator using s-expressions.


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Training students to be ready for tomorrow
Florida is 1 of 5 states with students participating in the SMART program
DALLAS, Texas – A recent survey of 500 elite business decision-makers found almost half believe today's college graduates are less prepared for work than they were 15 years ago. They may be more tech-savvy than ever, but why aren't students learning the skills they need to succeed? Now, one program is creating smarter schools and smarter students.
They can navigate their smart phones update social media and retrieve info in a split second. But Cognitive Neuroscientist Jacque Gamino, with the Center for BrainHealth in Dallas, Texas, says the students of today are lacking the basic skills they need to thrive in the workforce.
"They have information at their fingertips, more information than we had growing up, but they don't know what to do with it," said Gamino.
Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman, founder and chief director at the Center for BrainHealth, believes technology can work against students.
"We're literally building an ADHD brain by jumping back and forth through our technology, too much shifting," said Chapman.
Scientists at the center have been studying a new way to help students. Instead of focusing on memorization, the SMART program teaches kids to think critically.
"Unfortunately, kids assume that learning is the same as memorizing and not thinking deeply about information," Gamino said.
In a language arts class in Dallas, students learn to bounce and customize what they read. They bounce out information that's not important and customize something to make it understandable to them.
"Kids always think there is just a right answer and a wrong answer, but in life there's a bunch of answers as long as it works," said Gregory Parker, a 6th grade teacher.
The SMART program encourages teachers to ask more questions and let the students answer them.
Also, they try to make the lessons more meaningful. For example, kids might create their own table of contents for a book instead of using the author's.
"It just taught us new ways to process information and comprehend it," said Victoria, an 8th grader.
Schools implement the smart program 45 minutes every other day for four weeks. Results show standardized test scores improve by 20 to-50 percent.
"They're able to synthesize the information better and they're not just guessing," Gamino explained.
Experts say brain training can start at home. First—limit screen exposure. The average American child spends seven hours a day in front of a screen. Most experts recommend no more than two. Also, encourage your child to play a sport. One study found 80 percent of female business executives played team sports as children, and try to encourage your child to focus on one task at a time.
"Multi-tasking is like asbestos for the brain," Chapman said.
Most of all, get your kids to think critically about information they're exposed to. Ask: "What did that book or movie mean to you?"
It's a program helping students of today learn the skills to become the successful leaders of tomorrow.
"If you know how to learn, it doesn't matter what you're learning, you can do it," Gamino said.
In a recent journal article, one doctor noted that a child born today will have spent a full year glued to screens by the time he or she reaches the age of seven!
The researchers at the Center for BrainHealth have implemented their program in schools, with more than 20,000 students in five different states participating– including Florida, Massachusetts, Arizona, Texas and Kentucky.
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Even though the economy is slowly improving, recent college graduates are still unemployed. A recent survey of the 500 elite business decision makers showed that close to half (49 percent) believe today's graduates are less prepared for work than they were 15 years ago. The majority (70 percent) of executives say that fewer than half of graduates entering their companies have the skills to succeed in entry-level jobs. Many top executives also believe that less than a quarter (21 percent) of graduates applying to their company has the skills to advance past those entry level jobs. Even though the current graduates have mastered social media, a smart phone and the ability to have thousands of Twitter followers are not as important as you might think. The survey shows that business leaders feel the three most important skills to have when entering the business sector are problem-solving (49 percent), collaboration (43 percent), and critical thinking (36 percent). At the very bottom of the list was technological/social; media skills (5 percent). Almost half of the survey participants believe educational facilities are doing a fair or poor job of preparing students for the business sector. (Source: http://www.lexisnexis.com/legalnewsroom/lexis-hub/b/career-news-and-trends/archive/2012/02/01/survey-says-college-graduates-not-prepared-for-the-workforce.aspx)
SMART: Researchers at the Center for BrainHealth at UT Dallas believe that the middle school years would be the optimal time for training in complex reasoning skills, critical thinking skills, and risk resilience. Using teenagers suffering from attention deficit problems, researchers at BrainHealth used cognitive science to create the SMART program (Strategic Memory and Reasoning Training) to teach teens how to think critically and effectively use the information they learn. Teenagers were taught techniques to block unimportant details and condense critical information into main ideas or concepts, rather than try to memorize and repeat facts verbatim. (Source: http://watershedschool.org/resources/articles/ut-dallas-researchers-hope-to-train-teens-in-reasoning-skills/)
TESTING SMART: For the study, researchers tested the SMART program techniques in a classroom. They set up two groups of teens with ADHD. At the start of the camp, the students received tips on how to use their brains more efficiently. Campers were then asked to employ the techniques through a variety of activities throughout the two weeks. Every participant showed overall improvement in strategic thinking. "This is a problem across the nation," Dr. Chapman was quoted as saying. "We're missing the critical brain years and building a brain that doesn't reason. The TAKS test is not the problem; we need to get the basic skills up, but we also need to find a way to get beyond fact-based learning." (Source: http://watershedschool.org/resources/articles/ut-dallas-researchers-hope-to-train-teens-in-reasoning-skills/)


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Precedent-Setting Agreement Reached With Pro Bono Legal Representation by Hofstra Law Students
Mayor Ralph Ekstrand of the Village of Farmingdale and Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University Professor Stefan H. Krieger held a joint press conference today at the Farmingdale Village Hall to announce the details of a settlement reached in a nine-year-old legal dispute.
The case was brought under the Fair Housing Act in 2006 by nine Latino residents who were displaced from their homes in the village when Fairfield Properties redeveloped their residence, located at 150 Secatogue Avenue. The settlement that was reached lays the groundwork for affordable housing development in the Village of Farmingdale.
The residents were represented by Hofstra Law students in the Law Reform Advocacy Clinic under the supervision of Krieger. In the clinic, students handle housing, community development and public interest cases for low-income individuals and community organizations in areas such as fair housing and exclusionary zoning, housing rehabilitation, housing conditions and housing discrimination. The clinic focuses on cases that will have an impact for low-income individuals on Long Island, especially new immigrants.
The Farmingdale case originated in 2004 when the Workplace Project, a local immigrant-rights community organization, referred tenants at 150 Secatogue Avenue to the Law Reform Advocacy Clinic for help in addressing the deplorable conditions in the building. After learning of the village's redevelopment efforts, the clinic expanded its representation to challenge the planned displacement of the tenants from the building.
"The experience of our students preparing for a six-week federal jury trial is one that most students in any law school in the country will never have," said Krieger. "And the work of these students developing close relationships with new immigrants and working to protect their rights has been a truly transformative experience."
During the 11 years of the clinic's representation of the clients, over 100 law students have worked on various aspects of the case.
"Working with a team guided by Professor Krieger, interacting with other attorneys and jumping headfirst into a case as complex and important as this has given me the confidence to say that I am ready for my future," said third-year law student Kiran Raghubeer. "In addition, this experience has enabled me to work on high-profile civil rights litigation that I would otherwise not have had the opportunity to engage in if not for the clinic."
The language in the agreement is being finalized, but all major issues have been resolved to the satisfaction of the parties. Under the agreement, the village will use its best efforts to promote the replacement of the housing units that were eliminated in the redevelopment.
"We hope to become a model for housing development on Long Island, and we commend Hofstra University in their determined efforts to represent people who otherwise might not have had a voice," said Ekstrand.
"It's wonderful we have reached an agreement with the community we love," said Antonio Bustillo, one of the plaintiffs. "I hope that in the future all the people of Farmingdale can continue to work together."


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Eight Inch Red Confetti Metal Gecko - Caribbean Craft
Frequently Asked Questions
This gecko is handmade in Haiti from recycled oil drums. Each has a small hook to hang the piece, and is painted with a bright colorful design inspired by the local Haitian culture. From head to tail, the gecko is 8 inches long.
Meet the Artisans
Founded in 1990 by a multinational group of young entrepreneurs, Caribbean Craft promotes employment in Haiti by training unskilled craftspeople, and by assisting the independent artisans through the introduction of new designs and new market outlets for painted Haitian metal art.
Caribbean Craft's specialty is the brightly colored, artistically hand-painted Haitian metal art wall hangings. These hand-painted Haitian metal art pieces are truly works of art. Wall art designs include painted metal geckos, painted metal dragonflies and painted metal frogs.
Q - How do I qualify for free shipping?
A - All orders over $50 that are shipped to the United States qualify for free shipping and will arrive in 3-4 days.
Q - How long before I receive my order?
A - If you live in the United States your order will deliver in 3-4 days if you selected Priority Mail or you qualified for free shipping. International orders vary by country. The most common international countries are: England, Australia, New Zealand and western Europe take 7 to 10 days. This does not apply to custom printed orders.
Q - What are Memory Cross cards made of and how durable are they?
A - The small Memory Cross cards are printed on 10 point coated board (think playing cards). The larger cards which measure 6 x 6 inches are printed on 100 lb. uncoated cover (think Hallmark card). We've tested each size and they hold up to hundreds of folds. The larger cards hold up longer because the "hinges" that allow them to fold are larger. We've tested the larger cards to fold over 500 times. That being said it is still important for the cards to be folded properly. Most children can figure it out on their own but if you are giving them to 4 or 4 year olds we recommend that you show them how it works. If you do not know how they work, we've created a video that you can watch by clicking here.
Q - What guarantee do you offer?
A - Memory Cross offers a 100% money back guarantee if you are not happy for any reason. We even pick up the cost of shipping the product back. Here is the link to our full return policy.
Q - Can cards be customized?
A - Yes cards can be customized for churches and businesses. The minimum order for churches is 250 and for business is 500.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) today announced a mediated settlement for $2.2 million of EEOC's lawsuit which alleged that BNSF violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) by genetically testing or seeking to test 36 of its employees without their knowledge or consent. The genetic test was part of a comprehensive diagnostic medical examination that BNSF required of certain employees who had filed claims or internal reports of work-related carpal tunnel syndrome injuries against the company.
"I am very pleased to announce the successful resolution of this matter through voluntary mediation," said EEOC Chair Cari M. Dominguez. "Without the willingness of BNSF to mediate and bring prompt closure, this case could have taken years to litigate. Instead, the parties were able to work collaboratively to bring this matter to an amicable resolution that satisfied the interests of all the parties concerned." Chair Dominguez noted that the BNSF case was the first-ever EEOC litigation challenging genetic testing under the ADA.
The EEOC first learned about the genetic tests when several employees filed charges with the agency alleging that BNSF required them to submit to a medical examination which included a blood test for a specific genetic marker, and further alleging that certain employees faced possible discipline for refusing to submit to the medical examination. In response to the charges, the EEOC sought a preliminary injunction in February 2001 to prohibit any further testing until such time as the EEOC had completed its investigation. The preliminary injunction was amicably resolved by the parties in April 2001.
EEOC Commissioner Paul Steven Miller commended BNSF for its serious and thoughtful treatment of the Commission's claims. He noted that: "While the EEOC did not find that BNSF had used genetic tests to screen out employees, employers should be aware of the EEOC's position that the mere gathering of an employee's DNA may constitute a violation of the ADA."
While BNSF denies that it violated the ADA or engaged in any form of workplace discrimination, it agreed to attempt to conciliate the charges with the EEOC through voluntary mediation. Hunter Hughes of the firm of Rogers and Hardin in Atlanta served as the mediator. Today's settlement is a result of that mediation effort and concludes the remaining issues with the EEOC. Under the terms of today's settlement, BNSF has agreed it will not use genetic tests in required medical examinations of its employees in the future, will provide enhanced ADA training to its medical and claims personnel, and will have senior management review of all significant medical policies and practices.
In addition, BNSF has agreed to pay up to a total of $2.2 million to the employees who were directed to appear for the medical examination for claims related to the genetic tests, as part of a larger settlement which included partial payments for claims filed under the Federal Employers' Liability Act (an act which regulates a railroad employer's liability to its employees for on-duty injuries). The settlement, which is filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, is subject to court approval (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission vs. The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company - Civil Action File No. 02-C-0456).
Matthew K. Rose, Chairman, President and CEO of BNSF, said: "We think that the mediation process worked well and achieved a reasonable conclusion of this matter, although we continue to believe that none of the company's actions were contrary to the law. As we said on February 12, 2001, at no time did the company use, or intend to use, any genetic test to screen our asymptomatic employees. We are pleased with the Commission's acknowledgment, that BNSF did not engage in genetic screening of asymptomatic employees for any employment action, which should correct any public misimpression about this matter."
BNSF currently employs more than 39,000 people and is a leading transporter of coal, grain, intermodal containers and trailers, chemicals, metals, minerals, forest products, automobiles and consumer goods. Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, BNSF operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America. BNSF has 33,000 route miles covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. This network covers the western two-thirds of the United States, stretching from major Pacific Northwest and Southern California ports to the Midwest, Southeast and Southwest, and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. Further information about BNSF can be obtained at its Web site at http://www.bnsf.com.
EEOC is the federal agency responsible for enforcing the federal statutes which prohibit employment discrimination, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, sex, national origin, or religion; Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits job discrimination in the private sector and state and local governments based on the existence or perception of a disability; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, which prohibits discrimination against persons age 40 and over; and the Equal Pay Act (EPA), which prohibits wage discrimination based on sex. Further information about the Commission is available on its Web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Northumbrian Water, a leading provider of water and sewerage services in the North East of England, has chosen Atlas Copco ZS screw blower technology to help reduce energy consumption and minimise service costs at its sewage treatment works in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham.
The company, which has been awarded the 'Queens Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development' and 'Water Company of the Year' previously, needs a constant, reliable supply of air in the region of 480mbar for aerobic treatment of waste water at its site in Newton Aycliffe. This process uses bacteria to break up waste particles and requires large amounts of air to be blown into the aeration tanks to maintain the desired level of dissolved oxygen within the wastewater containment system - a biological process that typically utilises up to 70% of the energy consumed on site. There is a changing perspective within the water industry that the widely-used lobe blower design principle no longer meets the needs of today's low carbon economy and that operators can benefit substantially from energy savings through the replacement of conventional lobe equipment with innovative screw technology.
Atlas Copco ZS screw blowers helped us improved with 20% on energy usage, so we decided to replace all our conventional lobe blowers with Atlas Copco screw blowers."
Northumbrian Water decided to replace one lobe blower with the Atlas Copco ZS screw blower technology. On completion of the installation of the new ZS blower, Northumbrian Water carried out a comparison performance test between the existing lobe blowers and Atlas Copco's ZS technology. It revealed that the existing lobe blower used approx. 19% more power for the same output.
Based on these test results and continuous reliability issues with the lobe blowers it was decided to replace a second lobe blower with an Atlas Copco ZS90-VSD, low-pressure, oil-free rotary screw blower. The blower unit comprises a complete package based on a simple internal principle: precision timing gears maintain minute clearances between two intermeshing dry screw elements that never touch. No lubrication is required in the compression space and specially designed seals prevent any rotor bearing oil from entering the compression chamber. Intake air is compressed between the rotors and their housing and oil-free, pulsation-free air at pressures of approx. 480 mbar is delivered at an output rate of more than 4000m3/hr dependent upon process demand.
Northumbrian Water has now placed a third order with Atlas Copco to replace the remaining two lobe units installed at Newton Aycliffe Waste Water Treatment Plant with a further two ZS 90 screw blowers. Alan Harle, the Northumbrian Water engineer who conducted the comparison tests, commented: "From an operational perspective, Atlas Copco's ZS blowers have performed well, especially when compared with the incumbent blowers, and we are very pleased with the 20% improvement we have already seen. I would say that the proof is in the pudding and given that NWL have chosen to replace all blowers with the Atlas Copco units speaks volumes."
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Very long time ago, I guess more than 20 years, there was a series of shorter movies with a fiction and science fiction theme.
I am trying to track down a specific episode. I don't know what the running time was but I do remember some visual cues. I think it was an American production. Clothes, women's haircut, cars were 80's look. Colors were not vibrant sort of a pastel look. Not strong color contrasts.
The story was something like that. A woman, blonde, somewhere around 30, walks through the streets, across the streets and walks into a building into some kind of office, not so much different from dentist office only everything in much darker shade.
She has a sort of melancholic face expression. She takes off her blazer, sits on a chair, not quite unlike a dentist chair. Everything happens slowly, without words. And she starts to cry. As a tear runs down her cheek the doctor collects the tear and puts it in a bottle. And this scene repeats itself. She walks into an office, always somehow sad, sits down, cries and he collects her tears.
One day he gives her the bottle, big clear glass bottle, about a gallon big. She takes it, goes out and steps onto the street. In that moment we hear car brakes and tires screeching, a car veers off and almost hits her. She drops the bottle and in slow motion it breaks on the tarmac. The driver angrily shouts at her: "What was that?". She looks at him and says: "All of my tears". And for the first time she smiles. And I think those were the only two lines spoken.
I was just a kid when I saw this so my recollection might not be 100% true. But still, I would very much like to find this episode / movie.


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First female general to lead Parris Island Marine base says women can handle combat
PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. – The first female Marine Corps general in charge of Parris Island's basic training says she's confident women in the Corps will be able to handle combat.
Brig. Gen. Loretta Reynolds says the Pentagon's lifting of the combat exclusion against women means commanders will be able to use the talents of both men and women, wherever they may need them.
Reynolds was the first female Marine to command one of the Corps' bases in a combat zone. She was in charge of Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan which supported about 20,000 Marines.
Now, the Marine Corps has entrusted her with training all its women and nearly half its men. And from her experience, she said, young Marines aren't as concerned about gender as they are about a commander's ability to lead.


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I have a customer with an Access database (ugh!) in which credit cards are stored in plaintext (yikes!), so amongst other changes I'm doing in the app, I'm applying some encryption in there.
I've used Rijndael as the algorithm of choice, but I'm struggling to find the correct approach to storing the encryption/decryption key, since an access database is inherently source-visible. How can I provide decent security on this one to prevent someone grabbing the database (by local access - this machine is NOT Internet connected) ? I feel I'm most of the way there, but missing this vital piece of the jigsaw
[NOTE: Originally posted on crypto.stackexchange.com but they suggested its better suited here]
[UPDATE] For clarification, this is a purely Access system, no web front end. I've split the database into front-end and back-end components, both in Access. The machine(s) that it will be on are right in the shop front - it's the system they use to take customer bookings and/or renewals (and it's the latter that is their given reason for storing credit card details).


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PSC/CUNY Executive Council Resolution on the Proposed Elimination of Hostos Community College
In 1976, the Executive Council of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) produced this resolution to convey their opposition to the proposal to close multiple community college campuses in New York City's effort to save money. They also resolved [...]
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Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Activism, Austerity, Board of Higher Education, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Labor Unions, Relationships with Communities, State and/or City budget
New York Protest Day Announcement
This flier, distributed by the Citywide Community Coalition, announces a citywide protest to the headquarters of the Emergency Financial Control Board (EFCB) in April of 1977. The EFCB was the body put in place to manage the budget crisis plaguing [...]
Item Type: Text (Flier / Leaflet (1 or 2 page handout))
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Activism, Austerity, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations


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Congratulations, Sony Ericsson, for winning what was ultimately a barely challenging competition to become the greenest electronics company around. Our favourite Swedish-Japanese conglomerate rose to the top of Greenpeace's Greener Electronics Guide by exceeding Energy Star requirements, making all its models PVC-free and banning the most harmful chemicals from phones launched since January 2008. Unfortunately, it was valedictorian in a class whose scores have plummeted all around.
In fact, Sony Ericsson was the only company to score more than 5 out of 10 in the Greener Electronics Guide, which judges tech giants on their recycling programs, their use of harmful chemicals and their energy waste. Microsoft and Nintendo were at the very bottom of the guide, with Microsoft's exceedingly low score on climate criteria and Nintendo's Wii being more of a resource hog than one might expect.
The Information and Communications Technology sector accounts for two percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and e-waste becomes a bigger and bigger problem the more we ignore it. While consumers like us can do our part by only buying the gadgets we need (and the greenest ones at that), companies really need to step up and rework internal policies to stop polluting. [Greenpeace]


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May Astrology – A NEW ALIGNMENT
"alignment" We have had the theme of alignment before at various times but this month's focus is different as the main word to pay attention to is NEW. We have been shaken, rattled, taken apart, and sideswiped by the unexpected. … Continue reading
March Astrology Forecast – Power
The main theme for March is POWER. Power is a HUGE topic with many layers to be explored, redefined, understood and embraced. We have worked with the theme of power before, however this is a new time with new influences … Continue reading
Improvement – February Astrology Forecast
The theme for February is IMPROVEMENT. This month supports us to look closely at what needs improvement in our lives and take some action in that direction. Since Mercury is still retrograde for the first part of the month we … Continue reading
Activation – January Astrology Forecast
The theme for January is ACTIVATION. The year starts off with an intense period of release and initiation and a push from spirit to get all your ducks in a row. As we move from the more organized influences of … Continue reading
December Astrology Forecast
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October Astrology Forecast – Balancing
The main theme for October is "THE THREE-LEGGED STOOL". October is a balancing act. The image is of watching a circus act from a place of terror and excitement and then feeling both relieved and exhilarated when the act is … Continue reading


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I am not alive or dead. My muscles are wood and my skull is cracking. I swear it's cracking. Someone's tightening my heart like it's a screw and I hear the world from underwater. Sound and images blur, broken like my brain.
In truth, I have no idea how I built this blog sleeping once every four days. That's on a good month. But I'm not writing to detail the insomnia hell that's been my life these twenty-five years. In fact, I'd rather not get into it so please respect my wish on the comment board. I write to share a breakthrough I've experienced because while I have felt completely alien among the people in my life who look so rested and functional, over 60 million people are supposed to suffer insomnia in America alone. If you happen to be among them, yes, I've read your posts. I've plenty understood. You might find freedom from your living nightmare here. Or maybe you can share this treasure with someone who is suffering.
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It's been raining since morning, freezing as it lands and bending the branches of the trees. There's wood in the stove and the animals are fed. It's a good day to stay warm inside, and to finally put out another blog post.
Jim Wrenn is a hit. Locally, that is. Of course being a hit in our small community doesn't make it a best-seller, by any stretch of the imagination. I'll be lucky to recover my costs of publication. But it's a story I wanted to tell and I'm glad I wrote it. The favorable reviews have encouraged me to write another one. I do have another story to tell, so I've been working on the sequel. I just wish I could type it out as fast as it comes to me.
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Where (human) beings are heard to produce sounds, then we will tend to impute intention to the sonic event. We will hear it at some level as an Utterance. In particular, whenever the human voice is used as a source of sound in whatever context, the concept of Utterance will enter at some level into our apprehension of the event. This becomes particularly important in the sphere of electroacoustic music projected in the virtual space of loudspeakers where we can no longer rely on the physical and social cues of the concert hall. In general, non-music sounds produced by individual creatures may be taken to indicate or express something about internal state, reaction to environment events, responses to utterances by other creatures. At whatever level, the sense of Utterance, whether as indicator, signal, symbol, sign or syntactic or semantic-syntactic stream enters into our perception of the events. (Source - Trevor Wishart (1985). On Sonic Art. York: Imagineering Press.)


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A precious metal, first mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 2. It was one of the gifts of the Magi to the Infant Jesus (Matthew 2) offered to Him as symbol of His kingship. It is a symbol of purity (Job 23), and great value (Isaiah 13).
- Feast of the Epiphany
- Saint Apollonia of Alexandria
- Saint Balther of Lindisfarne
- Saint Dunstan of Canterbury
- Saint Eligius of Noyon
- Saint Nicholas of Myra
- "gold". . CatholicSaints.Info. 19 December 2010. Web. 5 April 2020. <http://catholicsaints.info/gold/>


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"There would be no creation (creating more trouble) than the Dajjal right from the creation of Adam to the Last Hour." [i]
"The Dajjal will appear.And there will be along with him water and fire.What the people will see as water will be burning fire.And what will appear as fire will be water.Any one of you who will see that should plunge in that which he sees as fire for it will be sweet, pure water." [iii]
| There is little difference between man and the animal species closest to him. He eats what he finds ready in nature, and shelters in an unorganized manner in trees and hollows. But with the acquisition of the ability to speak and think there will inevitably be solidarity with other members of the species in collecting food, defense against OTHER ANIMALS, protection against natural disasters and the development of various primitive stone tools. Until that stage, THE LAW OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTIONS, WHICH APPLIES AMONG ANIMALS, prevails.
(Kurdish Humanism and the New Man, Istanbul, April 2001, p. 13)
| MAN IS THE MOST ADVANCED SOCIALIZED FORM OF ANIMAL. Man is the wildest animal and the most ruthless animal.
(Kurdish Humanism and the New Man, Istanbul, April 2001, p. 106)
|"I am just a normal anarchist that believes in natural selection. Humans need to put natural selection back on tracks. The animals live that way, why won't the humans. We are animals after all. We were made that way now we just screw everything up and pollute the Earth that birthed us. Humans are the worst animals on the planet. We humans came up with a screwed up society. The whole world is screwed. All of the society shall fall. That is what should happen. The sooner, the better… Law is the opinion of the "higher in power"… That's why you should take control of your own life. Live in anarchy. Do what you want and don't let others tell you what to do. This is your own life. The weak should die while the strong live. It is survival of the fittest, natural selection. Animals die all the time. You don't see some dog crying their eyes out after they figure out that some other dog died. Because another dog has died. Humans die too. It should be the same reaction. It is just all natural, not a big deal. Do not cry for someone you don't know, this is not sad… I evolved one step further… My personal philosophy, THE GENOCIDE OF THE HUMAN RACE MUST HAPPEN." (2)
(Capital letters in original text) (Pekka-Eric Auvinen's Video 'My Philosophy', http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bb4_1194559199) (Capital letters in original text)
Allah has promised those of you who have faith and do right actions that He will make them successors in the land as He made those before them successors, and will firmly establish for them their religion with which He is pleased and give them, in place of their fear, security. 'They worship Me, not associating anything with Me.' Any who are unbelievers after that, such people are deviators. (Surat an-Nur, 55)
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Your God is One God. There is no god but Him, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful. ( Surat al-Baqara, 163)
What about the one who argued with Ibrahim about his Lord, on the basis that Allah had given him sovereignty? Ibrahim said: "My Lord gives life and causes to die." He said: "I too give life and cause to die." Ibrahim said; "Allah makes the Sun come from the East. Make it come from the West." And the one who was an unbeliever was dumbfounded. Allah does not guide wrongdoing people. ( Surat al-Baqara, 258)
O mankind! An example has been made, so listen carefully. Those whom you call upon besides Allah cannot create a single fly, even if they were to join together to do it. And if a fly steals something from them, they cannot get it back. How feeble are both the seeker and the sought! ( Surat al-Hajj, 73)
... Or have they assigned partners to Allah who create as He creates, so that all creating seems the same to them? Say: "Allah is the Creator of everything. He is the One, the All-Conquering."( Surat ar-Ra'd, 16)
... The Messiah, 'Isa son of Maryam, was only the Messenger of Allah and His Word, which He cast into Maryam, and a Spirit from Him. So believe in Allah and His Messengers. Do not say: "Three." It is better that you stop. Allah is only One God. He is too Glorious to have a son! Everything in the heavens and in Earth belongs to Him. Allah suffices as a Guardian. ( Surat an-Nisa', 171)
What He Said
Azerbaycan Reyting newspaper, November 6-2008
Adnan Oktar: The whisperings of satan are such that we must not be delayed by them; it is as if we are going to sit down to dine, the table is laid, and we are worrying about where to put the chairs and the salad. There is no need to prolong the matter. It is obvious that the Turkish-Islamic Union will be very excellent and bring with it plenty, abundance and joy. We must have no dealings with lame excuses or pretexts. TURKEY, THEIR ELDER BROTHER, WILL EMBRACE THEM WITH LOVE AND AFFECTION. AND TURKEY IS ASKING TO RENDER THAT SERVICE, but stands to gain nothing from it itself. In other words, what is extraordinary about a father and his sons coming together and eating? Turkey is like a father, THE FATHER OR LEADER OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD. It is calling them all, all its children, to sit down at the table and dine together, and celebrate, and create a joyous environment.
TASCA, Turkish Arab Science, Culture and Art Association, November 21-2008
Adnan Oktar: It is ready. And the historic conditions make it essential. All the Islamic countries and Turkey are uncomfortable at present. Turkey is uncomfortable domestically; there is the PKK problem, and the high cost of living. The nation is unhappy, it has lost its joy. The same goes for Islamic countries. But that happens in all systems without a head. But if Turkey becomes their leader... Nobody can live without a head. Once a system with a head emerges, Turkey is a country that can play the role of leader very well. It has experience from Ottoman times. It has mature and well-trained work force. Turkey has a large and intelligent administrative class. This means a very successful force, a great strength. And nobody is objecting to it. Why should anyone object to Turkey if people will be happy and will enjoy great service and benefits from Turkey acting as elder brother and leader? This will be beneficial for Turkey such as; terror will come to a halt. Straight away. And Turkey will be enriched. But all the oppression in Islamic countries will stop. The suffering going on in Israel may not be felt anywhere else in the world. The Torah describes the suffering the Jews will endure. Many passages in the Torah state that they will live in terrible fear and suffering.
Hilal TV, December 27-2008
Adnan Oktar: I HAVE SO FAR SEEN NO ISLAMIC COUNTRY UNWILLING TO ACCEPT TURKISH LEADERSHIP. Nor have I to date seen any Turkic country unwilling to accept Turkish leadership. Kazakhstan has just said again that Turkey should be the leader. All the Turkic states want Turkey to be their leader. Azerbaijan is desperately keen. Even Armenia wants to unite with Turkey. Let us open our borders and be as one, they say. Of course they have been encouraged in the wake of my writings and these recipes and have subsequently taken up the idea. Armenia, Georgia and even Lithuania and Russia will be included in the Turkish Union, in the Turkish-Islamic Union, insha'Allah.
What Happened
Akşam, February 3-2009
The new leader of the Islamic world
Posta, February 2-2009
Joy in the East
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What to Expect When You Open a Brokerage Account
If you're reading this, you may be planning to open a brokerage account. You may wish to invest for your retirement or a child's education, or simply to try to grow some cash you have set aside. This publication explains what to expect if you do decide to open a brokerage account, including what information you will be asked to provide, what decisions you will be asked to make, what questions you should ask your broker and what your rights are as a customer of a brokerage firm.
Information You'll Be Asked to Provide
When you decide to open an account, there will be paperwork to complete. This will include a new account application, which brokerage firms may also call a new account form, account opening form or something similar. This application form will require you to provide some information about yourself, as well as ask you to make certain decisions about your account. As explained in more detail below, brokers use this information for several purposes, including learning about you and your financial needs and meeting certain regulatory obligations. While it may take a little time to fill out the application, it is important to answer the questions on the application accurately. So, be sure to read the application and the accompanying agreements and other documents the brokerage firm gives you carefully—and ask questions about anything you don't understand.
In a new account application, along with other information, you'll likely be asked to provide your:
- Social Security or other tax identification number: The rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)—which regulate the securities industry—require brokerage firms to ask for this information for several reasons. Like banks, credit unions and other financial institutions, brokerage firms must report to the Internal Revenue Service the income you earn on your investments. In addition, under the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, financial institutions may use your Social Security number to verify your identity when opening brokerage accounts in order to help prevent money laundering and terrorist financing.
- Driver's license or passport information, or information from other government-issued identification: This, too, can help your broker comply with its obligations under the USA PATRIOT Act.
- Employment status, financial information—such as your annual income and net worth—and investment objectives: Collecting this information helps your broker to fulfill regulatory obligations. For example, if your broker is recommending investments to you, SEC and FINRA rules require that your broker collect this information. In addition, the information can help your broker determine suitable investment recommendations for you.
Note that the terms used to describe investment objectives often vary across brokerage firms and new account applications. You might hear terms such as "income," "growth," "conservative," "moderate," "aggressive" and "speculative." If you don't understand the distinctions among the terms, ask your broker to explain or give examples. Make sure that you describe your financial goals, how much risk you are willing to take with your investments and when you expect to need access to the funds in your account as comprehensively as possible.
- Trusted contact person: Effective February 5, 2018, new account forms may include a section asking you to provide information for a trusted contact person. Your broker might ask for this information in a conversation or via email as well. You should expect to be asked to provide the name, address and telephone number(s) for a trusted contact person that your brokerage firm may contact about your account. While you are not required to provide this information to open an account, it may be a good idea to do so. By choosing to provide this information, you are authorizing the firm to contact such person and disclose information about your account in certain circumstances, including to address possible financial exploitation, and to confirm the specifics of your current contact information, health status, or the identity of any legal guardian, executor, trustee or holder of a power of attorney. You also will receive a written disclosure from the firm that lays out these details.
Be accurate when you are providing the information requested on these forms. Your broker will use the information to understand your financial needs and to meet certain regulatory obligations. In addition, you are certifying that the information you've provided is accurate when you sign the new account application.
Decisions You'll Be Asked to Make
The new account form will also ask you to make some important decisions about your account, including how you will pay for your transactions, how any uninvested cash will be managed and who will have control over and access to your account.
- Do you want a cash account or margin loan account? Most brokerage firms offer at least two types of accounts—a cash account and a margin loan account (customarily known as a "margin account"). In a cash account, you must pay for your securities in full at the time of purchase. In a margin loan account, although you must eventually pay for your securities in full, your broker can lend you funds at the time of purchase, with the securities in your portfolio serving as collateral for the loan. This is called buying securities "on margin." The shortfall between the purchase price and the amount of money you put in is a loan from the brokerage firm, and you will incur interest costs, just as with any other loan.
There are risks that arise from purchasing securities on margin that do not come with most other types of loans. For example if the value of your securities declines significantly, you may be subject to a "margin call." This means that the brokerage firm can either (1) require you to deposit cash or securities to your account immediately, or (2) sell any of the securities in your account to cover any shortfall—without informing you in advance of the sale. The brokerage firm decides which of your securities to sell. Even if the firm gives you notice that you have a certain number of days to cover the shortfall, the firm still may sell your securities before that timeframe expires. Also, the firm may change, at any time, the threshold at which customers can be subject to a margin call.
Be sure to read carefully your new account application and any other documents that your broker gives you about margin loan accounts. Be sure that you understand how these accounts work before you sign up for one. With some firms, you sign up for a margin loan account by default unless you indicate otherwise on the application. If you have opened a margin account, but you pay for your securities in full at the time of purchase, you incur no more risks than you would in a cash account. For more information about margin loan accounts, read FINRA's Investor Alert, Investing with Borrowed Funds: No "Margin" for Error.
Note: While margin loan agreements are typically used to allow investors to buy securities on margin, some firms allow their customers to take out loans for other purposes. In connection with these loans, a firm might ask the customer to sign a margin agreement. Before you borrow money from your brokerage firm-for any reason-be sure you fully understand the terms, costs and consequences.
- How do you want to manage your uninvested cash? Sometimes there is cash in your account that hasn't been invested. For example, you may have just deposited money into your account without giving instructions on how to invest it, or you may have received cash dividends or interest. Your brokerage firm typically will automatically place—or "sweep"—that cash into a cash management program (customarily known as a "cash sweep" program).
On your new account application, your brokerage firm may ask you to select a cash management program. Cash management programs offer different benefits and risks, including different interest rates and insurance coverage. Be sure you understand the different features of the cash management programs that your firm offers so that you can make an informed decision if you are asked to choose one.
- Who will make the final decisions for your account? You will have final say on investment decisions in your account unless you give "discretionary authority" in writing to another person, such as your financial professional. With discretionary authority, this person may invest your money without consulting you about the price, amount or type of security or the timing of the trades that are placed for your account.
Some firms allow you to indicate who has discretionary authority over the account directly on the new account application, while others require separate documentation. There may be other types of authority that you may provide over your account, including a power of attorney and authorized trading privileges. Make sure you think through the risks involved in allowing someone else to make decisions about your money.
Other Account Opening Documents
The new account application may come with other documents-such as a "Customer Agreement," "Terms and Conditions" or the like. These documents, along with applicable state and federal laws plus SEC and FINRA rules, govern your brokerage relationship. Make sure to ask for copies if you do not receive them and download or print out copies of these for your records if you conduct business with your brokerage firm online.
Be sure to take time to review carefully all the information in these documents, whether you are opening your account in person at your broker's office or filling out your forms at home or online. And do not sign them unless you thoroughly understand and agree with the terms and conditions they impose on you.
Check Out Your Broker
If you haven't already done so, make sure you check out the background of your broker and brokerage firm before you open an account with them. Although a history free from registration or licensing problems, disciplinary actions or bankruptcies is no guarantee of the same in the future, checking out your broker and firm in advance can help you avoid problems. Look up your broker and firm on FINRA Brokercheck by going to https://brokercheck.finra.org or by calling toll-free (800) 289-9999.
Also make sure that the phone numbers and addresses that your broker and brokerage firm give you as their contact information are consistent with those listed in Brokercheck. Fraudulent entities and individuals have been known to steal the identities of legitimate brokers and brokerage firms so that they can get at your personal information!
Questions to Ask
Asking questions will help you to invest wisely and avoid problems. No matter what your level of investing experience, don't be shy or intimidated—it's your money. Here's a list to get you started.
- Is this a margin account or a cash account? Can you explain the differences between the two?
- What choices do I have regarding cash sweep programs? What are the different features, including interest rates and federal insurance coverage? If the firm offers both bank deposits and money market funds, what are the advantages and disadvantages of selecting one over the other?
- Who will control decision-making in my account?
- How often will I get account statements? Who will provide the statements and will they be online or in paper?
Tip: The brokerage firm that you open an account with may not be the one that sends your account statements. You may open an account with an introducing firm, which makes recommendations, takes and executes your orders and has an arrangement with a clearing and carrying firm, which is the one to finalize ("settle" or "clear") your trades and hold your funds or securities. There are also firms that take and execute orders and settle trades. If you work with an introducing firm, you may receive statements from the clearing firm. Find out what type of firm you open an account with and who will send you the account statements. You will receive an account statement at least once every calendar quarter.
- Will my securities be registered in my name, or in the name of the firm? Can you explain the differences between the two?
Tip: Whether the securities are registered in your name or in the name of the brokerage firm can affect how soon you receive your dividends and interest, the ease with which you can sell your securities and the types of communications you receive directly from the issuer of the securities, among other things. For more information, see "Holding Your Securities—Get the Facts" on the SEC's Web site at http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/holdsec.htm.
- What are all the fees relating to this account? How much are commissions? Are there any other transaction or advisory fees? Fees for not maintaining a minimum balance? Account maintenance, account transfer, account inactivity, wire transfer fees or any other fees?
- What services am I getting with this account?
- Who do I contact if I have a question or concern regarding my account? What are the different ways I can contact my account representative or his or her manager? Phone? Email? Local branch office?
As You Monitor Your Account
After you open your account, you should monitor its activity regularly. Make sure that you review all of your account statements and trade confirmations for any errors or any transactions that you did not authorize. If you see any evidence of unauthorized trading or errors, notify your broker, broker's supervisor or brokerage firm's compliance department immediately to further protect your rights. Make sure to take notes of any conversations you have with your firm concerning such disputes, to send in your complaints in writing as well and to keep copies of these notes and all communications related to such disputes for your records.
Ask yourself whether your investments are meeting your expectations and goals and whether your goals have changed. Do your investments still appear to be right for you, and what criteria will you use to decide when to sell?


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Thanks for all of the nice emails about the Fridge Stocking Strategies for 5-Minute Meals articles! I'm really glad that you've found them to be helpful and I've created another quick meal for you that's healthy, easy and delicious. This one may be closer to 7-10 minutes, depending on how well-done you like the onions.
Healthy eating can be quick! The trick is to prep and cook veggies when I have time, so my fridge/ freezer is always stocked with vitamin-packed foods. That way if I get home from work late, and the fierce growling in my stomach threatens to disturb the neighbors next door, I won't have to settle for pasta and canned sauce. By cooking a few things on the weekend, I'll have lots of leftovers to make a new dish!


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When people are arguing over whether you've had more lifetime success than any other playwright in history, the answer doesn't really matter. You've won already. Unless he's worried that Lope de Vega is somehow badmouthing him to his mates back in the Spanish Golden Age, I think Alan Ayckbourn has pretty much established bragging rights. Though he doesn't seem to be resting on his laurels. Neighbourhood Watch, his seventy-fifth play, is vintage stuff: funny, bleak and appallingly accurate.
Starting with a speech to open a memorial garden, the play immediately loops back to a couple moving into an English suburb. Matthew Cottle and Eileen Battye play play the brother and sister perfectly, with the right dose of likeability, obsessing over side-tables and jokes which they don't realize have fallen flat. The cheerful, politely Christian pair are eager to see the best in everyone: they rather worry about the high fences around the gardens and the uncharitable talk about "the kids from That Estate" down the road. As the first act movement develops, there is trespassing, threats of lawsuits, misunderstandings and vandalism until the plot turns on one line: "Right everybody, you heard my brother. Tea first, then war!"
Ayckbourn's genius is in blending the comic and serious, the familiar and the outré. As a suburban housing development descends into martial law, there are some broad brushstrokes – "You know the procedure. If you want to make a complaint, you must submit it to the Morality Subcommittee in writing within ten days"… "The pillory is a problem: some of these anorexic teenage girls just slip out and walk away. Makes a mockery of the whole thing" – but they're always set within an entirely convincing world of neighbourhood meetings and cups of tea. The affair between Cottle's increasingly power-hungry do-gooder and Frances Grey's local temptress works both as a mock-epic love affair between a troubled siren and The Leader, and as a suburban carrying-on complete with grimy net curtains. Amy Loughton as the music teacher is superbly suited to Ayckbourn's style, switching in a minute between effusive unworldly Mozart nerd and a woman whose life has been shaped by a relentless catalogue of male abuse. Her reveal speech held the entire audience silent and horrified without ever stepping over into "theatrical" or showy. What's so haunting about Ayckbourn at his best is the way these two perspectives both make perfect sense of the facts: the homely is also the horrible, the laughable is also the grotesque.
The same applies to those ghastly ideas "theme" and "relevance". Neighbourhood Watch never feels like an "issue" play, but the London riots, the increasingly draconian Law and Order rhetoric from the Conservative-led government, and a series of police shootings make it exceptionally timely. Ayckbourn plays hilariously with the suppressed violence and fury which underwrite the huge sales of tabloid papers which tell Middle England every day that the yobs are at their garden gate, the welfare scum are taking their taxes and the police are too scared to do anything about it. It's funny. But it's also pretty ugly.


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You've always dreamed of getting into the car industry, but you don't know where to start. Jalopnik readers have found the ten greatest car-related jobs you should kill to get.
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10.) Supercar engine builder
Suggested By: Reptar
Why it's so good: Factory work for most automakers is fairly grueling in the loud conditions, and fast pace of the line. Exotic car manufacturers, by contrast, invest heavily in clean, orderly, more slow-paced factories, like the OCD wonderland at McLaren. Getting to assemble engines all day in there would be quiet, calm, and something you could enjoy.
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9.) Classic car restorer
Suggested By: ReggieDunlop
Why it's so good: You get to spend your whole day with complete dream cars, bringing them back to original condition or better. Well, you don't get to spend all day, as you're self employed. This means you're going to have to deal with asshole customers, guys who leave their car at your shop for months and never return your calls, and take the stress of staying profitable with your own business.
For people like Walt Johnsen, who do nothing but work on coachbuilt cars from 1925 to 1941, it's all worth it.
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8.) CEO of GM
Suggested By: Irving Washington
Why it's so good: What other job in the world lets you run the biggest company in the world into the ground and retire with a humongous paycheck? Irving Washington gives us the answer:
Maybe Akerson will change the expectations, but it appears to me that one could comfortably preside over mediocre to poor financial results for years, become the subject of a hilarious documentary about incompetence, get fired by the White House, and even engage in criminal conspiracies, and still reliably get very rich.
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7.) F1 safety car driver
Suggested By: west-coaster
Why it's so good: Actually driving in Formula One is quite stressful. You never know when your wheels will explode, you have to work out all the time, and you spend most of your day doing fitness training, not gallivanting with groupies.
That's why you should get Bernd Mayländer's job wailing on an SLS AMG with open pipes around a track as F1's safety car driver. You still get to fly around the world for free, but you're only on track for a few laps at a time, leaving you fresh for the evening's festivities.
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6.) Skunkworks engineer
Suggested By: agjios
Why it's so good: Being an engineer in the massive bureaucracy that defines most car companies can be extremely degrading, with years going into refining unheralded, out-of-sight parts. Working at a skunkworks division, like BMW M, AMG, or SRT allows you to make visible progress to a car design, and what you're doing is making some of the fastest, coolest cars in the world.
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5.) Car designer
Suggested By: magman007
Why it's so good: The starting pay is bad and you will spend your entire career fighting with corporate drones who want to economize your designs into something less radical and expensive to produce.
It will all be worth it to see your work used by millions of people, making their lives better with good design.
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4.) Automotive journalist
Suggested By: Kiwi_Commander
Why it's so good: Oh, I'm sorry, I couldn't possibly borrow the Aston Martin Virage this weekend. No, not even if you drop it off at my house, I simply don't have time. Call me back when the new Vanquish comes out, I think I'll be available then.
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3.) F1 team technical director
Suggested By: SennaMP4
Why it's so good: For the engineers out there, this is as good as it gets. You run a team of the most brilliant minds in aerodynamics and car design, plucked from the best universities with your sponsor's money. You yourself design the most technically advanced automobiles the world has ever seen and they actually pay you to do it.
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2.) Supercar test driver
Suggested By: SennaMP4
Why it's so good: There are not many slots open as a test driver for companies like Pagani, Koenigsegg, Ferrari, or Lamborghini. You have to train for years, going to specific schools and working your way up studying car design and telemetry.
And after all that, you get to drive the greatest cars ever built before anyone else, and your entire job is to make them even better to drive. Again, they actually pay people to do this?
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1.) Racecar driver
Suggested By: BiTurbo228
Why it's so good: In spite of the stress, the rigorous schedules, the constant fight for sponsorship, the media relations, the physical training, and the life-threatening risk you take every time you step into the cockpit, this is the one that everyone dreams of.
You get the money, the fame and, above all, the thrill of victory.


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(AP)—South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says a report on a massive security breach in the state's tax collection agency shows officials could have done more to protect personal information for nearly 4 million taxpayers.
She also said Tuesday that she also has accepted the resignation of Department of Revenue Director Jim Etter effective at the end of the year.
Haley says the report from computer security firm Mandiant found South Carolina made two mistakes. She says it didn't require two different ways to verify when someone was trying to get into the system to look at tax returns and it did not encrypt Social Security numbers.
The breach involved people who filed electronically. Haley says the hacker now has access to 3.3 million bank account numbers.
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Objective: To assess the availability and affordability of medicines used to treat cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease and glaucoma and to provide palliative cancer care in six low- and middle-income countries.
Methods: A survey of the availability and price of 32 medicines was conducted in a representative sample of public and private medicine outlets in four geographically defined areas in Bangladesh, Brazil, Malawi, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. We analysed the percentage of these medicines available, the median price versus the international reference price (expressed as the median price ratio) and affordability in terms of the number of days' wages it would cost the lowest-paid government worker to purchase one month of treatment. Findings: In all countries < 7.5% of these 32 medicines were available in the public sector, except in Brazil, where 30% were available, and Sri Lanka, where 28% were available. Median price ratios varied substantially, from 0.09 for losartan in Sri Lanka to 30.44 for aspirin in Brazil. In the private sector in Malawi and Sri Lanka, the cost of innovator products (the pharmaceutical product first given marketing authorization) was three times more than generic medicines. One month of combination treatment for coronary heart disease cost 18.4 days' wages in Malawi, 6.1 days' wages in Nepal, 5.4 in Pakistan and 5.1 in Brazil; in Bangladesh the cost was 1.6 days' wages and in Sri Lanka it was 1.5. The cost of one month of combination treatment for asthma ranged from 1.3 days' wages in Bangladesh to 9.2 days' wages in Malawi. The cost of a one-month course of intermediate-acting insulin ranged from 2.8 days' wages in Brazil to 19.6 in Malawi.
Conclusion: Context-specific policies are required to improve access to essential medicines. Generic products should be promoted by educating professionals and consumers, by implementing appropriate policies and incentives, and by introducing market competition and/or price regulation. Improving governance and management efficiency, and assessing local supply options, may improve availability. Prices could be reduced by improving purchasing efficiency, eliminating taxes and regulating mark-ups.


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Police released the audio from the call in a bid to warn people celebrating on October 31 to look out for elderly neighbours.
On the upsetting recording the OAP can barely breath and struggles to explain what is happening to the call handler before bursting into tears and saying: "I'm so scared."
The woman tells the call handler the yobs are throwing stones at her windows and she's worried they'll try an open her door.
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Game will likely be made up in September
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Twins' scheduled game with the Angels on Wednesday night at Target Field was postponed due to inclement weather, and the game will be made up on a yet to be determined date.
It marks the second postponement of the season for the Twins, who also saw Sunday's game against the Mets postponed due to weather. It's also the seventh postponed game in the four-year history of Target Field.
Right-hander Vance Worley was scheduled to start Wednesday against the Angels, but will now be pushed back to Friday against the White Sox in Chicago. He'll be followed by left-hander Scott Diamond on Saturday and right-hander Kevin Correia on Sunday. Right-hander Mike Pelfrey will now start on Monday against the Marlins and will be followed by left-hander Pedro Hernandez on Tuesday.
"We're just backing everybody up," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "With the weather, we tried to find a way to play this, but it just wasn't conducive. It's supposed to rain all night long."
Both teams have an off-day on Thursday, but with snow in the forecast in the Twin Cities, the Angels planned to head back to Anaheim after the game. The two clubs share a mutual off-day on Sept. 9.
"It's not going to be a good situation for either team, because they're going to have to fly back in here," Gardenhire said. "But it's just the way it is. You can't control that stuff. You just have to do what's right for tonight."
Fans holding tickets to Wednesday's postponed game have two options. They can keep their tickets for admission into the rescheduled game, or utilize the value of their ticket -- the amount paid -- as a voucher towards any future Twins regular season game in 2013. Tickets for the postponed game are not subject to refunds.
Fans who wish to exchange their tickets for another game must bring the tickets to the Target Field box office no later than 48 hours prior to the start of the rescheduled game. Tickets returned any later than 48 hours prior to the start of the rescheduled game will be considered invalid. Tickets may be exchanged only at the Target Field box office located on Target Plaza off 7th Street.
Fans are encouraged to visit www.twinsbaseball.com, call 612-33-TWINS (612-338-9467) or 800-33-TWINS (800-338-9467), or visit the Target Field box office during normal business hours for detailed information on the Twins' rainout policy.


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The Confucian Value of Harmony and its Influence on Chinese Social Interaction
As the cardinal cultural value in Chinese society, the Confucian harmony presupposes the coexistence of different things and implies a certain favorable relationship among them. In social interaction, Confucianism puts weight on "harmony but not sameness", "harmony without mindlessly following others" and "harmonization of various kinds of people by observing rituals of propriety", under the influence of which Chinese interpersonal relationships are characterized by emphasis on group orientation, the Doctrine of the Mean, giving or making face for others, guanxi (social connections), and reciprocity.
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By Marlena De Lacroix
I've had a lot of problems with One Life to Live over the last two years, but Kish (Kyle and Fish) was never one of them. The shocking write-off of these characters is wrong, wrong, wrong on so many levels. Of all the ways this failing soap could be improved, dumping Kish NOW isn't one of them.
Goodbye Kish: Scott Evans as Fish, Brett Claywell as Kyle
The first rule of soaps is to respect the fans. Kiboshing Kish shows no respect for any of the fans, and especially Kish's gay fan base. This story was meaningful and
Besides betraying the trust of loyal fans, did the network ever even contemplate what a huge public relations disaster getting rid of Kish is?
easy to relate to for so many gay viewers. Beneath the fury of betrayal expressed all over the net this week at their story's abrupt [Read more…]