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Dmitriy K necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 38 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
We are a high-tech start-up providing a powerful online content management system for businesses which wish to store their paper documents electronically. We help businesses turn their file cabinets with thousands of documents into searchable electronic documents accessible online.
Small-to-medium size businesses interested in converting their paper-based business process into electronic process. Examples: medical offices, law offices, schools, construction businesses, various government institutions.
We are looking for a creative marketing/sales flyer design which will incorporate the points below. Please see attached files for 1. Logo 2. Additional info in PDF
* We need colorful graphics which will grab the readers' attention.
*The picture has to bring the pain of having too many paper files. It has to address the problem of hard to find documents and resulting organizational crisis.
* Design should convey the joy of not having paper files lying around. It has to depict a powerful relief customer will experience from their day-to-day chores related to manual document management. Picture worth a 1000 words.
We would like to have a title in conjunction with a graphics which convey the title. Here are some themes we came up with (you can come up with your own themes if you have good ideas):
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* Don't get yourself buried in paper
* Too much paper? Go paperless with DocShelf
* Finally! a web based document management system which is proven to save you money and increase productivity.
* Discover a document management system which will save you money and increase your productivity.
* Now you can try a proven document managment system for free and discover the secrets to saving your money.
* Discover an easy way to organize your paper file mess with a proven document management system.
** A picture of an office with papers scattered all over the office
** A picture of a business-person buried under a huge load of papers
** Papers being moved to the server and users accessing them from their computers.
The rest of the content is attached in the pdf file.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Best Buy Co. lost less money in the fourth quarter as efforts by new CEO Hubert Joly to make the company more efficient showed glimmers of paying off.
The struggling electronics chain also said Friday that it did not receive a buyout bid from its co-founder Richard Schulze by the deadline Thursday, ending one question mark that had been hovering over the Minneapolis company.
The retailer's fourth-quarter results beat expectations, but Best Buy gave a cautious outlook on the first quarter because it is ramping up investments and the timing of some sales has changed from last year.
Best Buy has been working to turn around results as it faces tough competition from online retailers and discounters. The company has cut jobs, invested in training employees and started matching online prices. Results show that the changes are beginning to help.
U.S. revenue in stores open at least 14 months rose 0.9 per cent, the best performance in 11 quarters, Joly pointed out in an interview with the AP.
"We have momentum building. We're at the beginning of a transformation taking hold," Joly said.
Results may give investors more faith in new management, including Joly, who joined the company in August, and CFO Sharon McCollam, who joined in December, said NBG Productions analyst Brian Sozzi.
He said Best Buy is showing "striking positives," including better-than-expected gross margin — the percentage of each dollar in revenue a company actually keeps — and an 11.2 per cent increase in U.S. online sales.
"Every transaction online was essentially the equivalent of convincing groups of previously disenchanted customers that yes, Best Buy is finally price competitive," Sozzi said.
Earlier this week Minneapolis-based Best Buy announced 400 job cuts at its headquarters as part of a $725 million cost-cutting plan. On Friday the company said it expects to announce more job cuts later this year.
The company also said it plans $700 million to $800 million in capital spending and $150 million to $200 million in other expenses in fiscal 2014 as it invests in its business, mainly online and mobile channels. It plans to revamp Bestbuy.com by fiscal 2015.
"2014 is a year of transition," Joly said in a call with investors. "Further investment will be required to advance our 'Renew Blue' transformation"
Its loss after paying preferred dividends for the three months ended Feb. 2 totalled $409 million, or $1.21 per share, for the three months ended Feb. 2. That compares with a loss of $1.82 billion, or $5.17 per share, a year earlier.
Excluding restructuring and other costs, adjusted earnings came to $1.64 per share. Analysts expected $1.54 per share, according to FactSet.
Revenue was nearly flat at $16.71 billion, from $16.67 billion last year. Analysts expected $16.29 billion.
U.S. revenue in stores open at least 14 months rose 0.9 per cent, helped by performance from Best Buy's standalone mobile stores. International revenue in stores open at least a year fell 6.6 per cent due to weak results in Canada and China.
Best Buy also absorbed restructuring charges of $203 million related to closing stores and severance. It took an $822 million impairment charge to write off worse than expected results in Canada and China as well as $44 million in asset impairments.
"Renewed momentum in the domestic business more than offset continued softness in the International business," Joly said.
For the year, the loss totalled $249 million, or 73 cents per share. That compares with a loss of $1.32 billion, or $3.57 per share, the year before.
Revenue edged down less than 1 per cent to $49.62 billion from $50.04 billion.
CFO Sharon McCollam said she expects first-quarter results to be "under significant pressure" because there will be a week less of sales compared with last year. Also, people buying TVs before the Super Bowl helped the company in the fourth quarter this year, compared with the first quarter last year. That helped net income by 14 cents per share in the fourth quarter.
The company is also making investments during the quarter in a price-matching program and revamping its websites.
Schulze, who founded the company in 1966 and is its largest shareholder by far with a 20 per cent stake, had been considering a bid or selling his stake since resigning in June, following an investigation that led to the resignation of CEO Brian Dunn due to an inappropriate relationship with a female staffer.
Schulze had until Feb. 28 to make an offer for the company, but no offer materialized, Best Buy said Friday.
Shares rose 28 cents to $16.69 in morning trading. The stock has traded between $11.20 and $27.95 over the past 52 weeks.

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A. "Nikolai played last night" said Boris. "Grand Master Markovich lost 4 games on Wednesday night."
B. "Rubbish!", screamed Victor. "It was the next night that Markovich lost 3 games. My opponent was Grand Master Karsokovich."
C. "I think you will find," interrupted Alexis, "That it was I who took on Markovich. I can't remember how many games I won but I know it was 2 more than my brother Vladimir. Boris played against Grand Master Ivanovich the night before I played. And Tuesday my Karsokov brother could only win 1 game."
D. "Alexis you are not being honest," said Nikolai. On Thursday night my brother won four games. I won 2 more games than Boris but not against Grand Master Grigorovich."
E. "Alexis," chimed in Vladimir, "Your words are false as always. And it was Grand Master Petrovich who played on Thursday."
Each brother is either a consistent truth teller or a total liar.
On what night did each of the brothers play, who was their Grand Master opponent and how many games did each brother win.


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Environmental Statement
Maintaining a clean and green environment and conserving our natural resources are issues that concern us all.
Diversified Consultants, Inc. has a mission to create and maintain a working environment that is safe for our employees, the communities in which we work, and the earth on which we live.
The individual parts we play in our neighborhoods and on our jobs are critical to preserving these resources for our future and that of our children. It is the responsibility of every employee to incorporate the practices of informed stewardship in daily life. Waste, whether produced in the office, or home, represents environmental and economic inefficiency. Accordingly, we should reduce our consumption of resources to levels reasonably needed, and we should reuse those assets where practicable. Finally, we should dispose of resources intelligently, recycling those that can be utilized economically in a different form. We must recognize, however, that recycling is not without costs, and that some recycling processes consume more resources than they save.
From the very beginning, Diversified Consultants has found that the greatest success could be achieved by focusing all of our energy on developing our people. By placing emphasis on training and development, we make our people better. We focus on the consumer experience while bringing high level results back to our clients.
We all deserve to have clean air, safe water and adequate resources. As environmental stewards, DCI supports this mission.


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l-r: Daphne, Liza, Ingrid, and me
My days on TV are far behind me "" or so I thought. Two years as a newscaster on Studio 23 was more than enough. So what was I doing last night guesting on ANC Life? I'd gotten offers before to guest on other shows and I'd always turned them down politely but firmly. ANC Life however is hosted by my friend and former co-worker Daphne Oseña-Paez, also of the now-defunct show "F." I've always liked Daphne, she's really one of the more grounded people in the cutthroat world of broadcasting.
The topic was blogging, and I joined two other Filipino bloggers: Liza of The Fash Pack, and Ingrid of Tresor, self-confessed bag hag/hog. I'm not sure how they feel about me blowing their anonymity, but well, we were all on TV last night!
The show was broadcast live. TV studios maintain sub-zero temperatures because of their equipment, so needless to say, I had to work very hard to keep from chattering. (My knees were shaking under my skirt). Being inside that small room made me feel like we were all having a friendly conversation. In reality however, one look at that camera jolted us to the reality that our "conversation" was actually being beamed nationwide. It made me all the more self-conscious.
But it was fun. Daphne was an insightful host, asking us questions like how we started out, where we hope to take our blogs, and have any of us gotten into trouble because of our blogs.
Here's a look at some of the scenes.
The fluorescent lights in the studios will make anyone look pale, even someone as dark as me. Here I am just after being made-up.
Clowning around with Boo before the show.
The hush happens when the floor director says so.
Making a point… with hands flailing and earrings swinging.
Sharing a laugh.
Related Post:
See what fellow blogger Eric says about my guesting last night.


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A new version of VStar has just been released! This version contains security upgrades and will re-enable the Plug-in Manager and discrepant observation reporting that were disabled in the wake of the AAVSO Security breach. (Please note that the Members-only BSM and APASS Epoch Photometry plugins are still not available until further security measures can be implemented.)
In addition to the security upgrades, David Benn has also corrected several bugs and incorporated other changes based on valuable feedback from participants in his recent VStar CHOICE course.
The VStar User Manual is now available for download! Thanks to a Herculean effort by VStar's creator David Benn along with some invaluable editorial and annotational help from Kristine Larsen, this long-anticipated publication has become a reality.
To get your copy, please visit the VStar Overview page and click on the yellow button marked "Download VStar User Manual". You will be glad you did!
One of the features of VStar is that it is set up so that you, the user, can think up new and interesting new ways to use the basic program. You can do this by creating your own plug-in or by using ones that others have created to extend the power of VStar. If you are interested in creating your own, please read the documentation on how to do this. If you would like to see some plug-ins that others have created, you have come to the right place.


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When it comes to newspapers, I'm locked into a love-hate
The love part? I flat-out love them. Always have. As a kid in New York, I came from a mixed marriage - Mom read The New York Times and Pop read the Daily News. Between the two, newspapers made the world real to me.
I love the investigative, "gotcha" stuff - when it's backed by real reporting. I love the "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" ethos. I love the opinions, especially when they're counterintuitive. I love the feature stories about people and things I would never encounter on my own. Style, sports, scandal, travel, inventions, obituaries - the whole world all in one place, all for under a buck, all new, every single day. Newspapers are just a damned miracle.
And just because newspapers always break your heart, now they're dying on us.
I was literally in shock last week when the Times threatened to close The Boston Globe. New England without the Globe is unimaginable to me. True, it ate its own with the plagiarism scandals of the Nineties. And the Times has already fairly well gutted it.
As former Globe columnist Eileen McNamara wrote Tuesday - ironically, in the Boston Herald - "From the moment The Times Co. purchased The Globe in 1993 it has treated New England's largest newspaper like a cheap whore. It pimped her out for profit during the booming 1990s and then pillaged her when times got tough. It closed her foreign bureaus and cheapened her coverage of everything from the fine arts to the hard sciences."
And here comes the hate part. While it was doing all that pimping, the Times also gutted my journalism career. I covered western New England for the Globe for more than three years. I often led their New England section - when they still had one. I wrote travel stories. I wrote magazine stories.
Then came the Internet, and I started learning how truly dumb newspaper management could be. The Globe, through the Times, required all us freelancers to sign contracts giving away our copyrights. Instead of offering us a few cents more per piece, they fought us all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to steal our work. They lost, by the way. But the freelancers of my generation lost our jobs.
Then newspapers began giving away all their work for free. It left a lot of people scratching their heads. In the mad rush to have a presence on the Internet, newspapers actually gutted themselves.
When combined with management greed, this lack of foresight became deadly. For years, newspaper owners were skimming off profit margins of between 25- and 30 percent. And they weren't putting any of that money back into their products. Instead, they were using the money - and more that they borrowed from Wall Street -to buy more papers, build buildings, create empires and fly around in private jets. The Times buying the Globe wasn't the half of it.
When your ownership is the "afflicter" rather than the "aflictee," the "sticking up for the little guy" ethos goes down the drain. Newspapers became monopolies engaged in consoling the wealthy. At the end, you got Judith Miller and the Times pimping for the Iraq war and the eight years of undisturbed and unexamined corruption of the Bush-Cheney administration.
My beloved newspapers became the "MSM," the scorned mainstream media. Coupled with scandal-driven, testicle-free television news, they earned the contempt of everyone with eyes to see and a lick or two of common sense. Even National Public Radio became toothless. So, an inability to "monazite" the Internet, corporate greed, a passion for the status quo, a corrupt and unregulated Wall Street - what else could go wrong?
I'll tell you. Journalists are only writers looking for their next big story. So we all started writing about the death of newspapers. First one or two articles appeared. Then came a flood. There's even a Web site for these stories: Jim Romenesko (www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45) posts them every day. Talk about self-fulfilling prophesies!
Most people in the industry think newspapers are dead and good riddance to them. But there are tons of ideas on how to save journalism The Internet, obviously, is where the future lies. But no one has yet come up with money to pay for real Web journalism - for example, the Globe's pedophile priests print investigation cost over $1 million.
Things on the Web tend to fracture into niches. Celebrity gossip over here, progressive opinion over there, right-wing opinion here, there and everywhere. and no one paying someone to examine the state budget line by line and report on where our money is going.
Love and hate. Crocodile tears and real tears. I love the Globe. I hate the Globe. I'll miss the Globe. But I won't pay $4 for the Globe on Sunday when I can read it all on-line. And I won't bother to read it all on-line. So I'll miss a lot of what's in the Globe. We will all miss newspapers.
A death in the family is always a tragedy.
Drawn-Out Death
When it comes to newspapers, I'm locked into a love-hate
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Big-game Draw License results available online, by telephone (Game & Fish Information Center at 888-248-6866 Monday- Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm), or at NMDGF offices.
Check the Hunter Education Course Schedule for new & updated class dates for Hunter Education, Field Day/Live Fire, and Bowhunter Education. We also offer online course options for New Mexico residents 11 years of age or older.
River Source will work with students to participate in fisheries monitoring at two locations on the Jemez River. There will be 25 students present from Los Alamos Middle School. Staffing will be provided by Department contractors, Richard Schrader and Carlos Herrera. The students will compare data collected on fish health and compare upstream and downstream results.
NMDGF will give a presentation to members of the Meadowlark Senior Center on bears and cougars. This event is only for members of the center.
Contact organizer for time and location.
River Source will work with students to participate in a fishing day at Tingley Ponds for approximately 43 students (Rio Rancho High). Staffing is provided by Department contractor, Richard Schrader and Carlos Herrera. The event will also include fisheries monitoring on the Rio Grande and the Ponds. This event is just for students and not open to the public.
Anglers can fish for free in New Mexico on Saturday, June 6, as the state celebrates National Boating and Fishing Week.
Anyone can fish for free in public fishing waters throughout the state Saturday, June 6, but everyone must observe bag limits and all other rules and regulations. For more information, please visit www.wildlife.state.nm.us.
For information about where to fish and what to use, consult the department's weekly fishing and stocking report. Maps of public fishing waters, lists of where to find family-friendly fishing and tips on how to fish also can be found on the department website.


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'high peak brightness'
'It's a decent, slim and lightweight phone. '
'the One mini doesn't feel sluggish, which is the important point.'
'Amazing build quality and design.'
'Updated with Motorola's newest Mobile Computing System, which is comprised out of a natural language processor, contextual computing chip, and a quad-core 2.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 SoC coupled with 2GB of RAM, we're seriously impressed by the Moto X's super snappy responsiveness. '
'However, sharpness is slightly disappointing at the resolution, with less fine detail in evidence than the best 8-megapixel phones. '
'With normal use, we could picture most people getting an entire day's life without any battery-saving adjustments. '
Google and Moto almost made a truly standout Android phone
Appealing design, Vivid 4.3 in display
'cutsy design'
Lack of apps, Slow, dated interface, Small display
Outdated OS, Unattractive design, Overpriced
Good-old QWERTY keypad, Offers both touchscreen and trackpad
Sizable display with very good pixel density
The Sony Xperia ZR is a smaller version of the flagship Xperia Z that offers much of the same features
Water and dust resistant, Camera works underwater
Good camera, Great performance, Good battery life
Aging hardware, obsolete before long
High screen resolution, Wide viewing angles
Superb low lighting camera performance
Exclusive apps including free driving and transit directions.
Eye-popping HD screen
Heavy, big, bulky, and large
Bright 4.7-inch screen, blazing 4G LTE data speeds, a powerful camera
Future-proof quad-core processor
Fast Qualcomm S4 processor
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A song by Plumb caught my attention for this week's edition of the iPod Devotionals. Singer Tiffany Arbuckle adopted the name of her 90's alternative rock band Plumb for her solo career. The lyrics to "Need You Now" touched my heart.
Well, everybody's got a story to tell
And everybody's got a wound to be healed
I want to believe there's beauty here
'Cause oh I get so tired of holding on
I can't let go, I can't move on
I want to believe there's meaning here
I am learning how important community is to make this journey with Jesus work. In my community I hear people's stories. I learn about their wounds. I believe there is beauty there but I grieve with them through the process. The chorus reflects my response to life battles that are way beyond my pay grade.
How many times have you heard me cry out
"God please take this"?
How many times have you given me strength to
Just keep breathing?
Oh, I need you
God, I need you now.
Jesus talked about how we limit our freedom by not trusting what He said to be true. He talked about a yoke and that His yoke was "easy". Then Jesus said, "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light." (Matthew 11:28-29, NLT)
You don't have to ride the life roller coaster more than a couple of times to know that this journey is not "easy". As I thought about loss I have suffered in my life and the suffering I see around me I was puzzled. What did Jesus mean by that statement? Clearly the burdens of life are heavy. There is nothing easy about heartache. A little research into the cultural context was helpful.
The yoke was a wooden beam that harnessed two oxen together to pull a plow or load. The idea was that they worked together in shared effort. That idea fit well into my performance driven faith. Jesus was with me but I had to pull my weight equally. The only problem with my view is that it was untrue, dangerous and from the pit of hell.
The truth is that Jesus was talking about the yoke of Torah, the yoke of the Law, which would have been familiar to his Jewish listeners. The Old Testament yoke represented submission to authority. The Jews knew that the law was impossible to keep. The key came in the often overlooked offer.
"Let me teach you because I am humble and gentle at heart."
For years I strained to pull my weight by determined self-effort while Jesus quietly offered a better way.
"Let me teach you."
I wore myself out trying to do more to please Him even as He whispered.
"I am humble and gentle at heart. Your trust and faith pleases me".
Members of this agrarian culture likely would have known that a young ox would be paired with an experienced ox for training. The mature ox would carry the bulk of the burden as the younger one walked by his side and learned. That is a beautiful image of Jesus walking side by side with me but carrying the bulk of the burden (if not all) as I learn from Him. That is the picture that Christ is painting. Not a straining effort to please but a submission to His provision and protection. Jesus is offering those who are exhausted and buckling under life's burdens a way to not go it alone. That was a comforting thought as I considered that pain and loss is a given. I don't have to go it alone. I can find rest for my soul even as I grieve.
Pastor and author John Stott writes beautifully about how seemingly contradictory truths fit together.
"The way to find rest is to lose our burden at the cross and allow Christ to put his burden and yoke upon us instead. Freedom is not found in discarding the yoke of Christ; it's found in losing our own burden. It's not found in discarding his authority; it's an amazing truth that freedom is found under the yoke of Christ. This is one of the great paradoxes of the Christian life: under his yoke we find rest; through service we find freedom; when we lose ourselves in loving, we find ourselves; when we die to our self-centeredness, we begin to live."
And that is my heart's cry today.
Lord I need you.


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Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Rocky Road Crunch Bars
Rocky Road Crunch Bars
125g/4½oz soft unsalted butter
300g/10½oz best-quality dark chocolate, broken into pieces
3 tbsp golden syrup
200g/7¼oz rich tea biscuits
100g/3½oz mini marshmallows
2 tsp icing sugar, to dust
Heat the butter, chocolate and golden syrup in a heavy-based saucepan over a gentle heat. Remove from the heat, scoop out about 125ml/4½fl oz of the melted mixture and set aside in a bowl.
Place the biscuits into a plastic freezer bag and crush them with a rolling pin until some have turned to crumbs but there are still pieces of biscuit remaining.
Fold the biscuit pieces and crumbs into the melted chocolate mixture in the saucepan, then add the marshmallows.
Tip the mixture into a 24cm/9in square baking tin and smooth the top with a wet spatula.Pour over the reserved 125ml/4½fl oz of the melted chocolate mixture and smooth the top with a wet spatula.
Refrigerate for about two hours or overnight.
To serve, cut into 24 fingers and dust with icing sugar.
8 comments:
- Rosie said...
Your rocky road bars look gorgeous Maria and I adore the pink marshmallows running through - another great bake from "The Goddess's Kitchen"...
Rosie x
- 7 October 2008 at 15:22
- The Blonde Duck said...
Those look so cute! I love the pink marshmellows!
- 7 October 2008 at 17:20
- Beth Sachs (Jam & Clotted Cream) said...
I love rocky road bars. I think there's a similar recipe in Nigella Christmas?? or am I thinking of another book? In any case I couldn't resist one of these
- 7 October 2008 at 20:03
- Hayley said...
Urgh you're making me feel so bad now! I've been meaning to make these since the first time I saw these on Nigella Express (like a year ago?!) and I still haven't made them! I think it's cos I always eat the marshmallows before I can cook with them...
- 7 October 2008 at 20:46
- Nickki said...
Your rocky road looks fabulous Maria! I also made this a few days ago, it didn't last very long at all :)
- 7 October 2008 at 22:41
- Reeni said...
Those look really good, love the pink marshmallows! They would be cute for valentine's day!
- 7 October 2008 at 23:15
- Maria♥ said...
Rosie you know me, I love my pink! Thanks for the lovely comment ;o)
Beth, there is a similar recipe for Rocky Road in Nigella Christmas.
Hayley you need to get on the case and make them..hehehe..they were a big hit with my son, his friend and girlfriend and not to mention hubby. There is only 1 small slice left!
Thanks to everyone who left a comment ;o)
- 8 October 2008 at 08:51
- Nic said...
I keep meaning to make these too, looks delish.
PS. Your kitty is sooo cute!
- 10 October 2008 at 17:05


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Toby Keith has earned a reported $500 million since his career began, according to a cover story in the latest issue of Forbes, a financial publication. The report indicates Keith has earned $65 million in the last 12 months — the most of any country artist.
Along with describing his various investments, the story notes Keith has never earned less than $48 million a year in the past five years. During the same five-year span, his total earnings reached $270 million. Much of his wealth comes from touring, songwriting and album sales, as well as restaurant franchises bearing his name and his own line of mezcal.
The story also reports Keith possesses an estimated 10 percent stake in Big Machine Records, which was launched as a co-venture with Keith's Show Dog label in 2005. That label partnership ended in 2006, but Keith's financial stake continues. Big Machine's roster now includes Taylor Swift, The Band Perry and many other artists. Keith continues to record for Show Dog, which merged with Universal South in late 2009.


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PS interesting Nepal fact - during the insurgency of the last twenty years the Marxist rebels of Nepal were the only guerilla army known to give receipts. True. If you were stopped and 'taxed' while trekking in the mountains they would give you a receipt to show to any of their colleagues who you may run into, who would except it a proof of payment so you would not be asked to pay again. Ahh bless.


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|Canisius Golden Griffins
|Saturday, May 12, 2012
|5:00 p.m.
|Baltimore, Md. | Ridley Athletic Complex
|TV | Radio
|Series Record
|First Meeting
|Last Meeting
|First Meeting
Game Data
Loyola University Maryland will host a NCAA Championships First Round game on Saturday, May 12, 2012, as the top seed in the 2012 Championships. The Greyhounds welcome Canisius College to Ridley Athletic Complex for a 5 o'clock game.
The winner of the Loyola-Canisius game will meet the winner of North Carolina and Denver on Saturday, May 19, 2012, in Annapolis, Md.
On The Tube And Web
The game will be broadcast live on ESPNU with Mike Corey and Mark Dixon calling the action.
The action can also be seen worldwide on ESPN3, the broadband arm of the ESPN.
Series History
Loyola and Canisius will meet for the first time in men's lacrosse when they take the field on Saturday, however, the schools are very familiar with one another.
Canisius hails from the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, which is the primary conference for Loyola's athletic teams other than men's and women's lacrosse.
NCAA Championships History
Loyola is making its 20th all-time appearance in the NCAA Championships, 18th at the Division I level. The Greyhounds are 8-19 all-time, 8-17 in Division I Championships games.
The Greyhounds' last appearance in the Championships came in 2010 when they lost, 11-10, in triple overtime at Cornell.
Loyola last hosted an NCAA game in 2000 when Notre Dame defeated the Greyhounds, 15-12, on what was then known as Curley Field (now Diane Geppi-Aikens Field). Loyola's last playoff win was a 12-11 triumph over Georgetown in 1998 that sent the team to the Final Four where it eventually bowed out to Maryland.
Top Spot
Loyola enters the NCAA Championships as the No. 1 seed for the third time in school history. The Greyhounds were also the top seed in 1998 when they defeated Georgetown, 12-11, in the Quarterfinals to move on to the Final Four for the second time in school history. There, the Greyhounds lost, 19-8, to Maryland. They were then the No. 1 seed in 1999 when they fell in the Quarterfinals to Syracuse, 17-12.
School Record In Wins
Loyola's victory over Fairfield in the ECAC Championship Game was its 14th of the season, setting a school record for victories in a year. The Greyhounds eclipsed the previous best of 13 that the 1998 squad achieved with a 13-2 record.
This is Loyola's 15th season all-time with 10 or more wins with 12 coming since the Greyhounds joined Division I in 1982.
In The Polls
Loyola moved up to No. 2 in both the USILA Coaches and Inside Lacrosse Media Polls following their ECAC Championship. The Greyhounds were ranked No. 1 for two weeks before losing their only game of the season on April 28 to Johns Hopkins.
The Greyhounds finished the regular-season with the No. 1 RPI in the NCAA, as well.
Canisius is not ranked in the media version and receiving votes in the coaches poll.
The Hardware Department
In the span of seven days, three teams in Loyola's Department of Athletics advanced to their respective NCAA Championships by winning titles in three different conferences.
The men's golf team started the trend with its fifth-straight Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference crown on April 29, and the men's lacrosse team followed by taking the ECAC title on May 4. The women's lacrosse team completed the trifecta on May 5 when it defeated then-No. 2 Syracuse to win its second-straight BIG EAST Championship.
Balanced Scoring In ECAC Championships
Loyola traveled to Denver for the 2012 ECAC Lacrosse League Championships and left the Mile-High City with a 97-pound trophy (no, really). The Greyhounds, who earned the No. 1 seed in the tournament and finished the regular-season 6-0 in the league, beat host and No. 4 seed Denver, 14-13, in overtime to advance to the final. There, Loyola topped Fairfield, 14-7.
Fifteen different Greyhounds scored goals in the two games with 11 tallying goals in the semifinal and 10 in the title game. Mike Sawyer led the team with four goals in the two games, a trio coming in the final, while Eric Lusby, Chris Layne and Scott Ratliff each had three.
Justin Ward led the Greyhounds with eight total points, dishing out three assists in the semifinal and three along with two goals in the championship.
Two players scored their first collegiate goals in the games, one in each contest. Kevin Ryan tallied a first-quarter goal on a man-up possession against Denver, and Brian Schultz recorded his first in the fourth quarter versus Fairfield.
A Lot Of Everything
The adage that a player does a little bit of everything does not necessarily apply to long-stick midfielder Scott Ratliff. The Loyola junior does a lot, as he leads the team in ground balls (68) and caused turnovers (32), is tied for sixth in goals (9) and is seventh in assists (7).
A Tewaaraton Award semifinalist, Ratliff was named the Most Outstanding Player of the ECAC Championships after scoring three goals, one a game-winner, and recording two assists and 16 ground balls.
He had two goals, including the winner just eight seconds into overtime, and an assist versus Denver while picking up a career-high nine ground balls.
From Way Downtown
Reid Acton created his own SportsCenter highlight in the ECAC Championship Game, earning Friday night's Top Play on ESPN. After goalkeeper Jack Runkel made a save on Fairfield's Marshall Johnson with less than 10 seconds to play.
Runkel passed it to Acton on his right side, Acton took a step forward and launched the ball 75 yards to the other side of the field. It settled over the stick of Stags goalkeeper Charlie Cipriano to put the Greyhounds up 5-3 with one tick left on the first-quarter clock.
Acton's goal started a 8-1 Loyola run that spanned three quarters and put the game out of reach. The goal was the second of Acton's career – he also scored against Mount St. Mary's last season – and Runkel was credited with his first career assist.
50 Points, 40 Goals
Mike Sawyer scored four goals on April 21 at Hobart to reach the 40-goal mark in 13 games, and he current sits at 45 after tallying his 10th hat trick of the season in the ECAC Championship Game against Fairfield. Against Hobart, he became the first Loyola player to reach 40 goals in a season since Tim Goettelmann and Gavin Prout scored 50 and 41, respectively, in 2000.
His one goal in the ECAC Semifinal versus Denver pushed his season point total to 50, a number that is now at 53, making him the first Greyhound to reach 50 in a season since Prout had 58 (37 g, 21a) in 2001. It is the fourth time this century that a Loyola player has scored 50 or more points in a season. Goettelmann (65) and Prout (53) both reached the mark in 2000, and Prout did it again the following season. With his next point, Sawyer's teammate Eric Lusby will record his 50th of the season.
In addition to being just the third Loyola player to score 40-plus this century, Sawyer is the seventh Greyhound to reach the mark since Loyola moved to NCAA Division I status in 1982.
Sawyer, Lusby Form Rare Tandem
Graduate student Eric Lusby and junior Mike Sawyer have formed the top attack tandem in the ECAC Lacrosse League this year and one of the most balanced in the nation. The duo has combined for 82 goals in 15 games this season, an average of 5.5 per game.
Sawyer has scored 45 goals, and his 3.0 goals per game average is third-best in Division I. Lusby, meanwhile is right behind with 37 goals and a 2.47 goals per game mark, a number that is tied for 16th in the country. Loyola is one of two schools to have two players in the top 16 of goals per game nationally.
The Greyhounds have not had two players score 37 or more goals in the same season since 2000 when Tim Goettelmann set the school single-season record with 50, and Gavin Prout tallied 41. As a side note, the Goettelmann-Prout duo has gone on to highly successful professional careers. Goettelman recently retired from Major League Lacrosse as the league's all-time leading scorer with 268 goals in 11 seasons. Prout has been an MLL Champion and has scored 314 National Lacrosse League goals to go with 625 assists as a multiple-time all-star.
With Lusby's next point, the duo will also be the first tandem to score 50 or more points in a season since Goettelmann and Prout in 2000.
Ratliff's Scoring
Scott Ratliff had his second multi-goal game of the season in the ECAC Semifinal Game against Denver, and he tallied a goal and an assist in the title game, raising his season totals to nine goals and seven assists.
With his second-quarter assist against Fairfield, he tied the Loyola single-season record for long-pole scoring, matching the record of 16 points set by current assistant coach Matt Dwan his senior season in 1995 when he tallied 11 goals and five assists and earned All-America honors.
Ratliff, a Tewaaraton Award semifinalist along with teammate Mike Sawyer, is second nationally this season in goals and points by a long pole, and his seven assists are tops in the country. Bryant's Mason Poli leads all long poles this year with 19 goals and 24 points.
Spreading Out The Scoring Wealth
Loyola's first 11 goals on Wednesday night were scored by 11 different players. Eric Lusby, Phil Dobson and Scott Ratliff finished the game with two goals, and eight others had one.
All three members of the Greyhounds' first midfield – Davis Butts, Chris Layne and Sean O'Sullivan – scored goals. They received four goals from the four players who make up the second midfield line – Dobson (2), Pat Byrnes and Nikko Pontrello (J.P. Dalton did not score). Extra-man attackman Kevin Ryan scored, and two of the team's three attackmen – Mike Sawyer and Lusby (2) – recorded goals. Ratliff scored twice in transition, and short-stick defensive midfielder Josh Hawkins added one. The Greyhounds' other attack player, Justin Ward, did not score but had a game-high three assists.
In the title game, 10 different players scored for Loyola with all three attackers scoring and two of three from the first midfield like tallying goals.
Scoring From Different Places
Kevin Ryan scored his first career goal on Wednesday night, taking a Justin Ward pass form behind the crease and one-timing a shot into the net. Ryan did not play as a freshman in 2011 but has seen action in 12 games this year from the midfield and on extra-man possessions.
Nikko Pontrello added his third goal of the season and second versus the Pioneers. He also had the game-tying goal in the third quarter of the regular-season match-up that started Loyola's 5-1 run to close the victory.
Phil Dobson recorded his second career multi-goal game, both coming against top-flight competition. He recorded a pair earlier this season against ACC Champ Duke.
Josh Hawkins added a man-up goal after Mike Sawyer caused a turnover and Justin Ward picked up the ground ball and fed Hawkins. The goal was Hawkins' fifth of the year, and he also had his first assist of the season on a first-quarter Scott Ratliff goal.
Twelve In A Row Ties Mark
Loyola's 12-straight to start the season tied the school record for consecutive victories, matching the number put up by the 1998 (March 14-May 17) and 1999 (March 6-May 8).
It also matched the best start to a season, equaling the 1999 team that finished the regular-season unblemished at 12-0.
Back-To-Back OTs
It took Loyola 30 years of NCAA Division I play (the Greyhounds moved into the division in 1982) to play back-to-back overtime games, but now it has experienced the pleasure twice in two years.
Last year, Loyola defeated Fairfield, 7-6, in overtime on April 9, and it then won 6-5 in four extra periods at Georgetown on April 17, marking the first time it had played back-to-back overtime games since joining Division I.
The Greyhounds have now played two-straight overtime games, losing on April 28 at home to Johns Hopkins and defeating Denver five days later.
Ratliff Named ECAC Defender Of The Year
Junior long-stick midfielder Scott Ratliff was named the ECAC Defensive Player of the Year on Monday, marking the second time in four years a Greyhounds' long pole has received the award. P.T. Ricci earned the honor in 2009, as well.
Ratliff leads the ECAC with 32 caused turnovers (2.13 per game) and is eighth nationally in that category, and he is tops on the Greyhounds with 68 ground balls (4.5 per contest).
The native of Marietta, Ga., also has scored nine goals and has seven assists this year, keying the Greyhounds' transition game on many occasions. He earned ECAC Co-Specialist of the Week twice during the year and was the Defensive Player of the Week early in the season.
Toomey Tabbed ECAC Coach Of The Year
Loyola Head Coach Charley Toomey was named the ECAC Coach of the Year for the third time in his seven-year career. This season, Toomey guided the Greyhounds to a 14-1 mark during the regular-season and the ECAC regular-season crown with a 6-0 mark in conference play.
The Greyhounds became the second team in USILA Coaches Poll history to start a season unranked and ascend to the No. 1 spot in the rankings. The only other team was Duke in 2007 – a year after the Blue Devils had their season suspended in March – which accomplished the feat after being unranked in the first poll, moving to second in the next version and first in the third. Duke was knocked from its perch as No. 1 that season when it lost to the Greyhounds at the First Four in San Diego.
Earlier this season, Toomey won the 50th game of his coaching career, becoming the fourth coach in Loyola history to win 50 or more – Dave Cottle (181-70, 1983-2001), Charles Wenzel (62-104, 1954-1970), Jay Connor (61-46, 1975-1982). Toomey's .611 winning percentage trails only Cottle's .721 at Loyola.
All-ECAC Honors
Five Loyola players earned All-ECAC Lacrosse League honors form the conference's coaches last Monday. Long-stick midfielder Scott Ratliff earned a spot as a defender on the First Team, where he was joined by Mike Sawyer on attack and Davis Butts in the midfield.
Sawyer led the ECAC during the regular-season, and is now third nationally, in goals (45) and goals per game (3.0). Butts has scored 16 goals and assisted on 12 from the Greyhounds first midfield line while also regularly playing a role on the wings during face-offs with 36 ground balls.
Attack Eric Lusby and defender Joe Fletcher were tabbed to the All-ECAC Second Team. Lusby is second on the team and is 16th nationally with 37 goals (2.47 per game), and he also has 12 assists this season. Fletcher came on as one of the top lock-down defenders around, earning Midseason All-American honors from Inside Lacrosse last month. He has 28 ground balls and 20 caused turnovers entering the NCAA Tournament.
Ratliff, Sawyer Named Tewaaraton Semifinalists
Juniors Scott Ratliff and Mike Sawyer were named to the Tewaaraton Award semifinal list as the game's top players, making Loyola one of five schools – joining Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Massachusetts and Virginia – to have two players make the 25-man list.
Loyola is also one of six schools to have at least one male and one female semifinalist, as sophomore Marlee Paton made the women's list from Loyola. The winners of both awards will be selected on May 31, 2012, in Washington, D.C.
Big Runs
Loyola used runs of three-plus goals at important junctures of its 15 games, helping the Greyhounds to wins each time. In all, Loyola has scored three or more in a row on 30 occasions this season.
Loyola used four three-goal runs against Duke, including one three-goal streak that put Loyola up 4-1 at the beginning of the second quarter. The Greyhounds never trailed after that initial three-goal run and extended their lead to 13-5 after its fourth three-goal spurt of the game.
The Greyhounds had their longest run in almost two years against Air Force, scoring 10 in a row to open the second half. The last time Loyola scored 10 or more in a row was on March 20, 2010, when it had 14 straight against Air Force.
At Fairfield, Loyola scored the final four goals of the game to rally from a 6-4 deficit to win 8-6. The Greyhounds then scored four in a row during the third and fourth quarters at Denver that brought them from down 8-7 to a 12-9 victory.
Versus Johns Hopkins, the Greyhounds scored four in a row, holding the Blue Jays scoreless for the last 14:13 of regulation, to tie the game at 9-9, sending it to overtime.
Loyola scored the first four goals of the ECAC Semifinal game against Denver and then tallied three-straight after the Pioneers pulled within 4-2. The Greyhounds then reeled off five in a row during the third quarter to take a 13-6 lead.
In the ECAC title game, Loyola used an 8-1 run that was comprised of runs of 3-0 and 5-0 to take control of the game.
On The Flip Side
Conversely, the Greyhounds have allowed a run of three or more goals just nine times this year, with the most recent coming when Denver scored three on two occasions. Only Denver (seven), Johns Hopkins (five), Fairfield (five), Air Force (four) have scored more than three in a row this year.
Following six of the nine opponent runs of three or more, Loyola has answered in kind with a run of 4-0 or better.
On The EMO
This season, the Greyhounds are ranked second in the nation in man-up offense, scoring 50-percent of the time. Only Lehigh (.553) has a better mark this year.
The last time Loyola finished at or above .500 in man-up offense was in 1997 when it converted 39-of-77 (.506).
Second-Half Success
The Greyhounds have now outscored opponents 55-20 in the third quarters of games and 100-54 overall this year in the second half (including overtime).
The second-half scoring continues a trend from the last two seasons. Last year, Loyola outscored opponents, 69-52, after halftime (including two overtime goals), and 77-56 two years ago.
Record At Ridley
After going 4-1 at Ridley Athletic Complex last season, the Greyhounds opened this season with six in a row at home before falling to Johns Hopkins. Loyola is now 14-4 all-time at Ridley.


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Okay, something new I'd like to try. Instead of writing a Dork Review for Man of Steel, I'm going to provide an alternate take on how the story could have plaid out. Basically, I'm spit-balling my version of the movie, since I know the movie has been thoroughly analyzed by others, such as my friend Adam over at Page of Reviews (here).
To start off, I should mention that I agree wholeheartedly with Adam's review. He nails the same issues I had with the movie. Man of Steel was a huge letdown for me. Not because I'm a Superman fan but because I'm not and the trailers and snippets for this movie had me convinced that they might actually be doing something interesting with the character, and because despite my better judgement I actually like a lot of what Zack Snyder has done. Yes, even Sucker Punch. (Don't look at me like that. I'm a sucker for all the elements in the movie, even if I understand the issues a lot of people have with it.)
Now on to the rebuild.
First, we need a foundation. I will give Snyder props on the style and visuals in this movie. Krypton is suitably alien and stunningly captured, looking dark, decadent, and foreboding. Really, the only issue I have with the visuals is that they remain dark throughout the entire film. There should have been a greater contrast between Krypton and Earth. Our world, as Jor-El states, is young and vibrant. It should have a color scheme to match. Superman has always been a primary colored superhero. Keep him that way. All it would have taken was adjusting the colors just a wee bit.
Next, we need to chop off quite a few elements, including a few characters. All the military characters, gone. They added almost nothing to the version we saw on screen and can easily be tossed. Next, the crew of the Daily Planet, including Lois Lane, are going to appear much later in my film, as in they'll be in the third act. And finally, Zod and his henches won't be the villain Superman defeats and kills at the end of the film. In fact, Superman won't kill anyone at all.
Okay, so now we know what's going to be cut, let's move on to what is going to be added in. The answer is, more Krypton!
The Alternate Reality version of Man Of Steel will have either it's first third or half take place on Krypton and show the struggle between Jor-El, Zod, and the ruling council. In the version that got up on the screen we received a taste of that, but not enough in my books. Zod could have been such an interesting character, a conflicted patriot who thought he was doing what was right for his people, a dark hero who slid into villainy. Instead he was a genocidal schmoe.
I want to have time to develop both Zod and Jor-El, to show how their choices shape what happens to Kal-El. I want time to explore this decadent, festering society they live in, and I want the over the top space-opera action we only got a tiny taste of.
The rest of the movie would be about Clark discovering who he was. I'd probably use the same flashback technique Snyder employed, simply because it will let me compress the amount of time spent in Kansas while showing the moment Clark decides to come out of hiding and reveal what he can do to the world.
And that is the crucial thing that must happen before Zod, before any villain shows up really. Clark needs to become Superman before there is a threat to respond to. He needs to decide to help people, to explore his full potential after being encouraged by both his fathers. You see, unlike Papa Kent in Man of Steel, my version of Clark's human father would come to realize his son can do great things and encourage him to make a difference, but also encourage his son to do those things without attempting to take credit, to do them because they are the right things to do, and would have some kick-ass scenes of Superman doing those things, saving people from impossible odds.
The whole second half of the film might just be that. Clark traveling the world, helping people, while a reporter named Lois Lane investigates all of these strange stories and sighting that have started cropping up. And my Lois would be able to take care of herself, able to get out of nearly any situation that arose.
The last part of the film would be Clark discovering the scout-ship left behind by his people and the suit inside. The very last scene would be him announcing himself to the world after saving a large group of people, and Lois, from a natural disaster, something that they couldn't have saved themselves from.
My version of Man of Steel would understand that, ultimately, Superman represents hope. Hope that we can do better. Hope for the future. Hope that we are not alone and that we do not need to be afraid.
My version would also attempt to avoid turning Superman into Space Jesus.
In the end, what should be taken away from the thought exercise above is that it is possible to make a big action flick with a heart, and this is what the next Superman film should strive for since he is a character that is all about heart.


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Hi, Shelley! Funny how your posts are so similar to mine! I just did a post on my blog about "Cheap Gifts," and I had made a "DIY Craft Pack" for my friend's 40th birthday!
I had found a $1.90 old metal bucket (but cute!) from the thrift store......painted it......and put creative quotes all over it, and personalized the inside. She loved it!! You're so right--the packaging that it comes in is pretty special, too :)
Cost was about $60 total after stuffing it with my favorite DIY crafting supplies, like a Purdy brush, Rub n' Buff, and some plaster of paris so she can make her own chalk paint! :)
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So fun! Love all of your great suggestions and inspiration! I agree with you, I love getting creative on my gifts because it makes people feel extra special!ReplyDelete
It looks lovely, kind of vintage and beautiful presentations, really cool mixer styles too.ReplyDelete
I love all the jars! I always package my gifts like your first selection - brown paper tied up with string. This year I got brown paper floor protection from the paint section and green landscape twine from hardware department at Home Depot - yes, I get my holiday wrapping supplies at Home Depot!ReplyDelete
How fantastic. I love DIY gifts and decorations at Christmas time; it adds an extra spark into my home. Very classic feel to your brown paper wrapping!
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There was blood on his badge.
Chilling photos of slain Brooklyn cop Peter Figoski's blood-stained shield and uniform were revealed in the first-degree murder trial of his killer today – bringing tears to the hero cop's mom as she watched from the courtroom gallery.
Career criminal Lamont Pride, 28, shot Figoski once in the face when the decorated cop and father-of-four responded to a call at the East New York apartment where Pride and four other thugs were robbing a drug dealer.
Pride remained motionless as his deadly handiwork was projected onto courtroom screens.
The crime scene photos showed how Figoski's blood soaked his bulletproof vest and uniform and spattered his shield after the December 2011 shooting.
While the slain cop's mother became emotional over the gruesome photos, all four of his daughters stayed away from Brooklyn Supreme Court for the first time since the trial opened last month.
"When I opened the door, I saw the police officer laying on the floor with his legs up in the air," testified Carlos Feliciano, 52, owner of the building where Figoski was gunned down.
"Was he moving?" asked assistant district attorney Howard Jackson.
"No," Feliciano answered.
Prosecutors have said that Feliciano's nephew, Nelson Morales, 28, picked out the drug dealer who rented his uncle's ratty basement apartment as an easy stick-up target.
Feliciano said he called the cops after the violence downstairs woke him up.
"I heard people yelling, 'Give it! Give me the money!" said Feliciano.
He added that when cops arrived he pointed them downstairs and told them to be careful.
After the shooting Feliciano's nephew Morales and another crook even pretended they weren't robbers and were trying to help the beat-up dealer.
"I asked him what the hell you doing down there? He was the last person in the world I expected to see down there," Feliciano testified he said when investigators brought his nephew into his apartment.
In other testimony, a NYPD detective said he caught getaway driver Michael Velez by tracking his cell phone to a Bushwick apartment.
Pride has admitted he shot Figoski but claims the gun went off accidentally as he tried to escape. He faces life in prison without parole.
Getaway driver Velez, Pride's co-defendant, faces second-degree murder charges in the same trial – and could get 25 years to life.
Morales and fellow thug Kevin Santos, 31, will face trial later this year. Another robber, Ariel Tejada, 23, flipped on the other crooks and is expected to testify tomorrow in exchange for an 18-year-sentence.
Pride's trial is expected to close Wednesday.


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Hello JPF!
I'm studying Computer Science at uni, and by the time writing taking a java course. I expect to explore the many features Java has to offer, and hopefully be using it more atively in the future. I'm still i newcommer to programming, thou.
Anyways, I'm looking forward to contribute to the community as well as be leeching from it


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If You Can't Sell to Me on My iPhone, Best Buy, You Can't Sell to Me at All
In a past life, covering media companies and ad-tech startups at Ad Age, I was amazed by how many big brands are still having a really hard time getting the basics of mobile advertising right — poorly optimized landing pages, broken links and more.
As a result, I often click on mobile ads, regardless of whether I'm interested in what's being pitched, just to see what awaits on the other end of the finger-tap.
So, a few days ago, I did just that, after seeing a link in a Promoted Tweet from Best Buy on my Twitter iPhone app advertising a two-day Father's Day sale. There I was greeted by the image to the right.
And while I could make out prices and images of computers and TVs without zooming in or squinting, that was about it. And once you ask me to zoom in — tap — I've clicked on the "X" and I'm gone.
And then, yesterday morning, another Best Buy Promoted Tweet arrived in my stream on my Twitter iPhone app, advertising the Nintendo DSi. Of course, I clicked.
This time the result was much worse: A broken page, telling me "there was an error when processing your request."
I closed out and clicked again. Same result.
I'm not just picking on Best Buy — these types of experiences are par for the course in mobile advertising that could lead to buying online. And, as we all know by now, mobile phones are still challenging devices to advertise on, especially with all the different devices and screen sizes.
Despite the challenges, advertising on mobile devices is expected to rise 76 percent from $4.36 billion in 2012 to $7.65 billion this year, according to research firm eMarketer.
But if you are going to spend the money to advertise in mobile — especially on a popular platform such as Twitter — it's probably a good idea to make sure the experience for the consumer will be a decent one.
It's also not a good look for Twitter, which is effectively sending its users off to unreadable pages. Once that happens a few times to the same Twitter user perhaps they think twice before clicking on a Promoted Tweet again.
Still, Twitter doesn't seem to feel this is its responsibility. "Brands control the content that they put into a Tweet, regardless of its promoted or organic," a spokesman wrote in an email. "We don't screen what the final experience looks like on specific landing page[s], etc."
A Best Buy spokeswoman acknowledged that the company has work to do in digital.
"As we have shared previously — most recently during our Q1 earnings, we are focused on accelerating our online growth and are taking a number of steps including consistent browsing across devices to improve the online experience for our customers," she wrote to me in an email.
"We've talked publicly about our dot.com platform being woefully underfunded," she added. "The new Executive Team has recognized this and is making the additional investments to get the site improved for our customers across all platforms."
As for the broken link, "a brief outage this morning on our Web site" was the cause, she explained.
It's no secret that more and more people are making purchases from their mobile phones. EMarketer estimates that mobile commerce sales will increase 56.5 percent this year to $38.84 billion, from $24.81 billion in 2012. But those mobile shoppers choose the brands that make it easy.
In the end, I did indeed end up buying my dad a Father's Day gift from my iPhone — a label maker, just like he asked. But it happened on Amazon.com's mobile website — and while I was standing in a Staples analog store.


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Welcome on our new website!
The old website is down and so are the forums. You're more than welcome to take a look at our new website! You can read articles about game accessibility, write a review about a game or check out the latest news. Make sure to leave a comment, or, if you have a question, post it below one of the articles.
Happy gaming!


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Hot Harry on a Horse and Tom Ford?
Once upon a time, it was Armani for men's suits. These days… it's all about Tom Ford. Just ask James Bond. Tom is Bond's official tailor. And Daniel Craig is all over it:
"It's really a crime - it makes me weep every time (I ruin a suit during filming). They are great suits."
Put it this way, my husband has style for ass. Like the worst…ever. EVER. And I hate children. But if he put on a Tom Ford and asked me to consider womb warming, I'd definitely be more receptive.
Anyway, Tom was asked not to long ago who else he'd like to dress. His answer:
Hot Harry on a Horse!
Of course!
Hot Harry would look the hottest in a Tom Ford!
Here's Hot Harry at a memorial service today, seems to have lost some bloat. Perhaps Canada should take credit for that? Harry was training in Alberta recently with the army. Sadly, unlike his visit last year, he did not end up at a porny bar doing shooters from between a pair of fake tits at Cowboys.
Hot Harry and Chelsy are going strong.
PS. You know what would be the ultimate challenge to Tom Ford's design genius? Creating a suit that would look good even on the GMD. Then again, would Tom Ford ever want Tom Cruise wearing his garments?
Photos from Splashnewsonline.com


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I spent four days teaching TCP/IP Weapons School in two two-day sessions, to a total of 116 students. I think both classes were well-received. The students were some of the sharper ones I've had in class, which is what I hoped for and expected. The first day of teaching I was lucky enough to share lunch with some of my students and Joanna Rutkowska. We discussed covert channels related difficult detection problems.
The following are thoughts on the first day of briefings. I spent the majority of the day in the application security track.
- I sat in Richard Clarke's keynote. He emphasized how what he called "visualization exercises" help decision makers envisage digital risk. I described this phenomenon last year in Analog Security Is Threat-Centric and Disaster Stories Help Envisage Risks. Mr. Clarke explained how human-machine interfaces are the next security frontier and how DoD's Net-Centric Warfare (see Thoughts from IATF Meeting depends on the vast number of IP addresses available in IPv6. Unfortunately Mr. Clarke has fallen for the myth that IPv6 will bring greater security and "prioritization," which means we must have it. I debunked these misconceptions held by many executives in Chinese IPv6 in CIO. It struck me that Mr. Clarke mentioned that executives view spending on security as a "cost center" but spending on breach recovery is a "loss center." I wonder where we've heard that before?
- David Byrne delivered an exceptional talk on the security consequences of anti-DNS pinning. The purpose of his attack is to use Web clients as a conduit for attacking intranet hosts. He demo'd conducting a remote Nessus scan and Metasploit attack of intranet hosts via a "tunnel" of HTTP POSTs and replies passed through a Web browser. David's talk showed that DNS resolutions which result in an Internet hostname resolving first to an Internet host and next to an intranet host can be used as a detection mechanism. A Web server vulnerable to XSS is required, and the presence of Java or other rich content vehicles on the host only exacerbates the problem by providing additional attack vectors.
- Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen continued to pile on Web application attacks. They showed a variety of ways to exploit Web clients and internet hosts without Javascript. Robert (aka Rsnake of ha.ckers.org said that everyone who links to his site from the intranet Web pages and uses his files for penetration tests leaks data on their company to him.
- I only saw the last half of Brad Hill's talk because I had lunch with several ex-Foundstoners, but the part I saw was impressive. Brad explained how to exploit XML digital signatures, such as running arbitrary executables (like cmd.exe) from within a signature!
- Bryan Sullivan and Billy Hoffman rocked, showing how their demo site www.hackervacations.com exemplified the many vulnerabilities in Ajax Web sites. They really made me understand the problem with Ajax: most, if not all in some cases, of Ajax applications are executing on the client. Previously, attacking Web applications centered on providing malicious input to influence the execution of the Web app. Now, attacking Ajax Web applications means malicious clients manipulate every aspect of the program, including variables, order of execution, and control of the server. They showed how to "DoS a plane" by reserving all seats on a flight booking system, and keeping all seats filled by sending an HTTP message every 30 seconds. They showed how to buy a plane seat for $1, or buy all seats for nothing. They accessed hidden administrative functions by directly talking to the remote Web service and dumping the entire database (with zero knowledge of the remote database) with two commands. This emphasized that testing inputs through the Web applications is completely insufficient; all the Web services must now be similarly assessed.
- Ben Feinstein and Daniel Peck showed a way to crawl and de-obfuscate malicious Javascript. They mentioned an integrity attack whereby malicious eBay sellers used XSS to provide fake positive seller ratings to unsuspecting buyers. The showed how their Caffeine Monkey tool profiles Javascript, providing a fingerprint of current malicious Javascript compared to nonmalicious Javascript. For example, string and object instantiations are very common in malicious Javascript but rare in nonmalicious Javascript. This is essentially the same detection problem we've been wrestling with for years, and it shows that intruders could begin to write their Javascript to resemble normal versions.
- I ended the day in Hacker Court, where the "Crimson Knight" was tried for cheating the "Masters of Mayhem" online game. As usual Hacker Court was great, especially because Jennifer Granick moved from her traditional role as defense counsel to the new role of prosecutor. She lost her case, but I spoke with her briefly and learned the experience gave her a chance to think like the other side in front of an audience in a simulated trial.
My overall impression from the first day of briefings can be summarized in this manner.
- Detecting current attacks in "real time" is increasingly difficult, if not impossible. Even if you assume attacks are not obscured by encryption, recognizing and understanding the variety of Web-based attacks shown at Black Hat is almost a lost cause. There is basically no way for defenders to address the expanse of the attack surface exposed by "rich Internet applications" and frameworks. I realized that the "rich" in "RIA" refers to the money intruders will make by exploiting Web clients.
- The average Web developer and security professional will never be able to counter these attacks. Intruders are so far ahead of the defenders with respect to tools and techniques that it is simply not possible to prevent the attacks I saw at Black Hat. This statement will probably offend many people but it's time to face the truth. There is no way to get "ahead of the threat" here.
I realize I've painted a very bleak picture. In my next post (time to board the plane) I will summarize day 2 of the Black Hat Briefings. In the post after that I will provide some defensive strategies and concluding thoughts.


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Robert Pattinson 'Batman' Rumors
October 4th, 2019
Robert Pattinson was born in London on May 13, 1986 as the third child and only son of Richard and Clare Pattinson. His foray into showbiz began in local London theater productions and modeling. Shortly thereafter, he landed his first film job, acting in the 2004 movie "Vanity Fair" with future "Water For Elephants" co-star Reese Witherspoon. His scenes, however, were cut from the theatrical release.
What set off his path to stardom was when Pattinson was cast as Cedric Diggory in 2005's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." Three years later, Pattinson scored his own teen franchise and rose to superstardom when he landed the role of Edward Cullen in 2008's "Twilight," and life as he knew it was never the same again. Pattinson became a household name, a favorite among young girls, and one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors as the "Twilight Saga", which went on to include "New Moon," "Eclipse," "Breaking Dawn – Part 1," and "Breaking Dawn – Part 2," became a mega-franchise. At the same time, Pattinson worked on other films like "Remember Me" and "Bel Ami," and teamed up with "Cosmopolis" filmmaker David Cronenberg, who would later direct the star again in "Maps to the Stars."
Pattinson began dating his "Twilight" co-star Kristen Stewart in 2008, but the two never publicly acknowledged they were a couple until photos emerged of the actress kissing her Rupert Sander, her "Snow White and the Huntsman" director. It was then that Stewart issued a public apology to Pattinson about her indiscretion, but the couple split after the incident. In September 2014, Pattinson started dating singer FKA Twigs, a fellow Brit. The two got engaged in April 2015, but went their separate ways in 2017.
Following the "Twilight" films, Pattinson became the face of a Dior fragrance and has continued association with the fashion house until this day. He then went on to film "The Rover," and was slated to spend the last weeks of 2014 filming "Idol's Eye" with Robert De Niro but, as Gossip Cop was first to report, the funding for the project fell apart. Instead, Pattinson traveled the globe with then-girlfriend FKA Twigs. He's since appeared in such films as "Queen of the Desert," "Life," "The Childhood of a Leader" and "The Lost City of Z."
Pattinson also dabbles in music, and even wrote the songs "Never Think" and "Let Me Sign," which were featured on the Twilight soundtrack. He also played the guitar on the 2013 Death Grips song "Birds." Pattinson's 2008 film "How to Be" also features three of the actor's original songs. He'll also be contributing music to his upcoming film "Damsel," which is slated for released later in 2017. He's also starring in the 2017 crime-drama "Good Time," while future projects in-development include the thrillers "The Trap" and "High Life."
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If you're lucky enough to live by the sea as we do here, you can't help but love a bit of nauticalia.
But whether you are channelling (geddit!?) anchors, Breton stripes or deck shoes, the nautical look has edged its way into your wardrobe. Every summer it's everywhere — fashion's catch of the day!
Join Sarah Jane Wilson as we get ship-shape!
Let us set sail on a voyage across the fair seas of vintage.


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Dear Folks,
I wish you was here just now to see the beautiful sunset; But only to see the sunset for it is no place for a city born. We are camped on a flat piece of ground which is all clay, and (oh) isn't it hot. As soon as we left Kansas City we began to get the alkali dust in our throats and it seemed as though we could not get enough water, and when we did get it, we wished we were all back in dear old New England; It looks just like water that has been drawn from the Mystic River. But of coarse we had to drink it, and there isn't a man sick yet.
I could not and will not try to discribe the grand trip it was down here to the farthest state in the south of the good old U.S, for it is some thing that has to be seen not told of. First the Adarondacks in N.Y. from which you look down on great vallies and right here I want to say that for beauty it exceeded every thing we saw on the trip. Then we hit Ill. But it being dark when we went through there all we saw was the station of Chicago. The plains of Ohio on which is raised corn that covers areas of fifty miles along the rail road, and the land as level as a lake as far as the eye can see in all directions. Then the muddy rivers of the Missisippi River and its tributaries. The plains of Missourie are just like the plains of Ohio only, instead of corn they raise wheat, and I wish you could see and ride through these vast field of plenty. You ride, ride, ride and then you ride and all you can see is grain and alfalfa, (a high grade of hay. When this hay is cut they pile it up as high as a voting booth, in fact the resemblance is the same.
I think that New Mexico is the most baron piece of land that was ever made for just as we rode for miles through grapes in N.Y, corn in the east of the Mississipi River, and wheat, (it seemed every where), there is nothing in this vast dersert of rocky hills, and dried up streams. But down in the lower part of the state the Indians live in low mud huts and they do look savage.
Now I said I was not going to discribe the trip, and I guess I haven't. But I am going to describe the place in which we are quartered. By this map you can see our position in regard to Mex. The last tent in our street is about 100 yards from the river which sesarates the two countries. The cross opposite the arrow indicates where a sentinal got shot and killed yesterday morning. We have all got 90 round of ammunition which we carry with us all the time. I hope you got all the post cards I sent you. Please write soon. I am sorry I can't write any more now for I have to go out to drill, but I hope to find time to write again soon. By the way, outside of being dry all the time from the clay dust I am as well as the best of them. You will have to excuse the condition of this paper for all we can sit on is the ground, (if you can call it such) and use our mess pans as desks.
I was going to finish this letter when the other sheet of paper was full but you see some one was kind enough to give me a few sheet of this, so I will continue a little longer. We have just come in from an hours drill, and it is tough hiking around in these uniforms, rifles, round abouts filled with 90 rounds of ammunition a canteen of water, boyonet, and wire cutting tools. I took a drink of water from my canteen, and I bet you could boil an egg in the water, it was so hot. We will get river patrol next week and then we will find out the nerve of some of the men we have with us. This job will consist of small parties of men called outposts, stationed along the river in plain view of the out post of the Mexicans. Yesterday we could see the Mexican cavalry drilling and they looked good, about 200 of them. You can see by the diagram that I made on the other sheet that the old Bay State Troops are an important factor. I guess we are nearer Mexican soil than any other National Gaurdsmen. So if anything happens (and I don't think there will) the old Eight will be right there.
The regular army fellows down here of which there are about 4,000 are a fine lot of fellows, and they don't do any kidding at all. Last week there was a call for these 4000 troops to assemble, for they were to take Jaurez, as city just opposite El Paso and they were ready in 15 minutes. Of course this was only a practice event, and they were all sore when told so.
We are going to be issued six pair of unterwear, twelve pair of socks, two pair of shoes, two more outside shirts, beside the rest of a soldiers equipment so it looks as though they have got us here for a while.
The first day we struck here it seemed every body had a blood nose, I didn't, olthough the say it is good for you. The reason for this is the high dry climate. I am doing pretty good ain't I to write all this, for I guess it is the longest letter I ever wrote. It only shows how much I would like to be back there again, for it seems an age since it rain last, (you know Sunday) and Monday when pa came down to Framingham to see me off, when we didn't leave until 7 oclock Tuesday morning. There are very few cases of sickness yet in this camp, and I think we will soon get used to the intense heat. I sent a post card from about every place we stopped long enough to do so. So as I have said before I hope you have received them. The idea is, I would buy them in one Town, and if I didn't have time to mail them, we would through them out the window with the money for the stamps at the next station.
There is no chance of starving down here for you don't feel like eating. All you want is water, water water all the time, and oh what water. But the regulars tell us that we will get used to it and I (know) we will. They also say that the thirst lasts only for 2-3 days. (I hope so) This isn't Boston. Well don't forget to write very soon and be assured that I will take care of myself to the best of my ability that I will return in proper shape soon.
Send mail to,
Serg. Samuel E Avery, Company K
Eight Massaschusetts National Guard
Camp Cotton, El Paso, Texas
P.S. This address is some letter in itself but it is the only way so that I can be sure and get it. Well don't forget that I'm a long way from home and a letter will carry me back quit a distance.
Yours Sam.
© Copyright 2008 by Richard Landers, All Rights Reserved. No reproduction without permission.


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While an off-the-shelf chemistry set of today consists of little more than baking soda, some vinegar and a plastic volcano, old sets were filled with good stuff, like explosive nitrates and deadly cyanide compounds.
MAKE has a tutorial, or series of tutorials even, on how to build your own ballsy chemistry set. For instance, pick up Sodium hydroxide that's packaged as crystal drain cleaner. Put the corrosive substance on metal and you get flammable hydrogen gas!
So promise to be good and wear goggles, then hit the link. It could make for a great DIY Christmas gift. [MAKE]


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Mr. C has faded into history and is no more, but suffice it to say he survived and is a survivor. He no longer chooses to live here and is moving onto new horizons, feel free to join him or not, he can be found by clicking HERE.
Running Conscience
America and Other News
I hope Joe doesn't mind me letting this slip but our own Joseph Keleher will be collaborating with me on the Magnum Opus. I'm really excited about working with Joe and especially providing a serious work to help the Morgellons community cope with this illness.
The video below I thought I'd post as I found it very uplifting ….
The American Parasite
Long but very revealing, if you stick it out to the end you will be well rewarded … (had to post this as it was so interesting)
Magnum Opus Coming Soon
The Mundane Approach and me seem to be one and the same, there just is no replacement.
I've been thinking about this and have wanted to do this for a few years now. I am going to pull all of the best material from the articles I have written (most from the "All Articles" page) into one cohesive document with some new material in there as well. Including things I left unsaid for a whole host of reasons but will now say in this final post. It seems to me that new cases of Morgellons are not near as common as they were around 2005, 2006 and so on. To me, Morgellons appears to be fading, and that is a good thing.
For posterity and those who come after us the final post on this blog will be a massive compendium of material available on this site, in book format, and in a logical order. When I make that post I will disable all comments and feedback on this site, it will stand forever as a resource for those who come after. It will essentially be static.
I do plan to start a new blog for any that are interested. I'm thinking the title will be "The Forsaken Christian". That title can go off in many ways, but suffice it to say that will not be anti-Christian, but rather confront an even more formidable and dangerous foe. The title is subject to change before the new blog is created.
Anyway, watch for the Magnum Opus, it will be an incredibly long post, with a few revelations that I dare not say earlier in this nightmare but am ready to talk about now.
Everyone have a Merry Christmas and I hope you are all well.
You can keep your plan
It's now estimated at nearly 93 million Americans are going to lose their current health care plans …
If you have time
It's the Full Movie
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Before you start your kitchen cupboard restoring assignment, there are couple of essential strides you should do keeping in mind the end goal to have an all around arranged revamping system. As a matter of first importance, you should choose how you wish to resurface your kitchen cupboards. There are a lot of courses you may take; they incorporate varnishing your cupboards, painting or recoloring them. Essentially the decision depends entirely on what look you wish your kitchen to show. Be that as it may, you ought to pick astutely as not all stains work flawlessly fine for your wood. For example, a light fine complete can never mix well with dim mahogany wood.
Next, you should accumulate every one of the materials required for your kitchen cupboard restoration. When you have decided the kind of revamping to be done then you can begin gathering the fitting materials, for example, the paint and completing specialist. Plus, know that you will likewise require sandpaper, preliminary, degreaser, tack fabric, and some great quality paintbrushes. This is not the ideal opportunity for wipes or rollers. At that point you can unfix the cupboards. In the event that you are just resurfacing the fronts at that point bring them around effortlessly unscrewing the screws and expelling the pivots.
At that point convey the cupboard fronts to your carport for your kitchen cupboard revamping errand. Observe that the zone ought not be excessively dusty, making it impossible to maintain a strategic distance from tidy staying on the surfaces while drying. At that point clean the cupboards as regularly they would be secured with grime and oil. All these ought to be expelled before you start completing them. A decent degreaser ought to be extremely useful. Additionally, scour hard to clean any past layers of varnish or paint. Oil paint is okay to be utilized over latex yet the other way around could cause peeling. Accordingly, on the off chance that you wish to utilize latex you should totally evacuate the first oil paint. You can look for guidance from the paint merchant with respect to the reasonable concoction item to evacuate the old wrap up.
Another perspective to observe for your kitchen cupboard renovation is the sanding. Sanding is vital to smooth the cupboards. Keep in mind forget to utilize mid-range review sandpaper and sand the cupboards uniformly. Guarantee that your cupboards have a perfect and smooth surface before continuing to the artwork step. The key of sanding is to sand before painting and sand again after you are finished with the wrapping up.
Extra thing to this about while resurfacing cabinets in 89052
Having a patched up kitchen can have a colossal impact to the presence of your home. Be that as it may, every so often the cost associated with re-styling an entire kitchen essentially isn't justified, despite any potential benefits, especially when you can establish a continuing connection, and pick up a few extra years out of your current kitchen cupboards, by patching up them all alone.
Glass Doors
Kitchen cupboards with glass fronts are an uncommon option for redesiging your present cupboards. This works especially well accepting that your present kitchen cupboards have an outskirt and an inlayed leading body of wood or molecule board. All you have to do at the present time is to understand that beautified bit of wood out and swap it with a touch of glass. The glass could be clear, calculated, foggy or anything amidst. You may need the glass cut to fit your particular cupboards yet, it may not be excessively expensive, since the bit of glass itself won't be excessively tremendous for your prerequisites. This will surrender a wonderful to date, open feel to the kitchen in one smart swap.
Painting Cabinets
A fundamental layer of paint can in like manner breathe in some life into your kitchen with irrelevant effort. Besides, seeing how a holder of paint shouldn't cost you excessively, this is an outstandingly unassuming way to deal with overhaul your kitchen cupboards. Make a point to take the agency gateways off their turns and expel the greater part of the handles and drawer pulls before you start, with the objective that you don't unexpectedly get paint on any of the fittings regardless of the way that it can much of the time be scratched off after the occasion if required.
You can moreover do a white washing strategy on your kitchen cupboards. This may incorporate adding paint to the cupboards and subsequently using a weakened paint answer for gently brushing over the cupboards. It will leave particularly cool streaking plan that is clashing all through the kitchen, adding significance and venture to the cupboards themselves.
Most home change stores around, for instance the Home Depot and Lowe's for example, offer free workshops and classes for the home loan holder that is hoping to restore their kitchen cupboards. They won't simply walk you through the means you need to complete your setup orchestrates be that as it may, will decide whether you have the most ideal gadgets to keep running with your as of late found data of your moving toward kitchen wander. Regardless, they may well have some incredible plans on other reestablishing thoughts for your home, both from the store staff.
Giving your kitchen another look is as straightforward as kitchen cabinet resurfacing 89052. There are various reemerging thoughts that will enable you to accomplish precisely the look you need for your kitchen cabinetry.