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Love CBD Dutch Capsules 400mg
Those who have been keeping an eye on the rapidly expanding CBD scene cannot have failed to hear about the quality of the Love CBD Dutch marijuana crop.
Zealous attention to growing their plants without using pesticides, artificial fertilisers or any harmful chemicals results in the purest harvests possible – and they're perfect for extracting all those good cannabinoids via CO2 methods.
To put it simply, any product of this kind is only as good as the plants from which it comes – and in this case, we have what's widely considered to be as good as anything currently on the market (which is why it sells out so often!).
So how does it work when used in capsule format?
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We confess to being slightly surprised to discover that this batch of capsules 'only' carry a 5mg concentration of CBD.
Sure there are 80 capsules in each pot so if you need a higher dose there's no reason not to double up, which considering that most people use 10-20mg/day may be an idea to consider.
Love CBD suggest in their dosage guidelines that people new to this kind of supplement start off with just one capsule a day for three days, then take more if their ailments show no signs of improving.
This is all well and good, sensible advice, but we'd say from our own experimentation that while these capsules contain a mere 5mg of active ingredients, the quality more than makes up for the lack of quantity.
Our consensus is that these capsules are not far short of delivering similar effects to alternatives that are twice the strength but derived from lower quality organic materials. Could it be a psychosomatic reaction because we know how good the Dutch plants are? Possibly – but even if so they worked very well for us (results may, of course, vary between people).
Why These Capsules Work So Well
One of the big issues people often have against capsules is the notion that they have a lower bioavailability compared to other methods of ingestion.
It's no secret that vaping allows for the quickest and most emphatic absorption of CBD straight into the bloodstream, with sprays and oil drops under the tongue coming in a close second.
CBD Capsules, on the other hand, are often thought to lose some of their potency via the digestive tract – which isn't actually quite the case with the Love CBD Dutch capsules.
So what's their secret? Simple science. An often overlooked fact regarding ingesting CBD orally is that it needs fat in order to prevent just being flushed through the system.
Coconut oil is the perfect, healthy and natural agent for ensuring the active components are absorbed as fully as possible into the system.
Many other delivery methods use olive oil for a similar reason, but coconut oil also has the advantage of being widely regarded as a 'superfood' in its own right.
In a nutshell, these Dutch capsules are probably the healthiest way possible to enjoy your CBD dosage.
Just in case you are worried about the actual capsules themselves – they are vegetable derived, contain no gelatin and are 100% vegetarian.
Manufacturer's Total Daily Guidelines
Best taken with food. Take 1 capsule daily for the first 3 days. Slowly increase intake to 2-3 capsules taken 3 times per day. Always spread the intake evenly throughout the day. In the months ahead, take up to 3 capsules, 3 times per day (9 in total).
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Given the quality of the product (honestly world class) and a generous 80 capsules per pot, this is a very competitively priced product. It deserves serious consideration by anyone who takes CBD via capsules.
Vaping and oils aren't for everyone - the taste alone can be tricky to get used to, and dosage awkward to measure especially with vaping - but capsules offer a long-lasting if a more subtle way of reaping the potential benefits offered by top-class CBD.
Sure, they may not be the most concentrated product out there but for people looking to try out this kind of health supplement without breaking the bank, you could do an awful lot worse than try out these excellent value capsules.
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Elizaveta Chistova, is Russian photographer specializing in youth inspired lifestyle and fashion photography. She recently submitted this exclusive editorial for us here at NAKID!
" I love Western Style, a vision of American photographers, i think i can see how they do it, and can't wait to come to the USA and immediately take pictures!"
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On this episode of LaborPress' Blue Collar Buzz we're talking about food service workers at the World's Most Famous Arena and their fight to earn a living wage; Early Childhood Education Teachers in NYC and their fight for pay parity with their DOE counterparts; and the exciting new ways local labor unions across the country are preserving their rich histories. Co-hosts Bill and Joe also give their take on the latest labor news.
Latest Buzz: MSG Food Service Workers Contract Fight; Pay Parity For Early Childhood Education Teachers, Union Histories And More!April 25, 2018
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Here at BodiSculpting Specialists, you are our priority during every visit to our medi spa. We believe that our patients should have a voice in the course of action taken to meet their individual needs. Our role is to facilitate this by providing detailed information regarding treatment options and expected outcomes. We appreciate the important choice you have to make. A member of our staff would be happy to speak with you about our menu of med spa services.
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Adam Jamnicky was born in Cobourg, Ontario and is currently a grade seven student at St. Anthony Catholic Elementary School in Port Hope. Adam has two older siblings and he is the first person in his family to be born in Canada. Both of his parents were born in Slovakia and his siblings were born in Australia.
Adam is an avid swimmer with the Northumberland Aquatic Club (NORAC), and he also enjoys competitive skiing as a member of the Brimacombe Ski Racing Club. Adam is an Air Cadet with 718 Yukon Squadron and is involved with the YMCA. Last summer, he volunteered with the organization's Future Leader of the YMCA (FLY) program. He spends his free time volunteering at various community events and Cadet fundraising initiatives. He aspires to become a pilot and to fly commercially.
In his application to the 'Mayor for the Day' contest, Adam offered his recommendations as student Mayor. His suggestions included: replacing LED lights in all of the streetlamps, fixing the municipal roads, expanding some of the Municipality's youth programs and increasing Port Hope's environmental initiatives.
On November 21, Adam spent a full morning with the Mayor, attending meetings and touring Municipal buildings and facilities. In the evening, Adam returned to Town Hall and chaired the the regular council meeting, wearing the Chain of Office.
The Municipality would like to congratulate Adam on a job well done.
The 'Mayor for the Day' contest initiative is open to students in Grades 7 and 8. The contest encourages young people to think about public service and future community leadership. This is an opportunity for youth to submit an idea to the Municipal council on how to make our community a better place to live. This will increase student interest and awareness.
The winner will have their picture taken with the Mayor, tour our facilities, spend the morning with the Mayor, officially open a regular council meeting and win a pizza party for their classroom!
To enter the contest, students must submit a one page letter answering the following questions:
1. Why would you like to be the Mayor for a day?
2. What concerns do you see in the community and what changes would you wish to implement if you were the Mayor?
3. What are the most important programs for youth in the Municipality?
4. What do like best about Port Hope?
Please submit your entry form and a letter to Mayor Bob Sanderson (500 words max.) answering the questions above. Entry forms can be submitted online, through email at email@example.com or dropped off at / mailed to Town Hall at 56 Queen Street, Port Hope, ON L1A 3Z9. Deadline for submissions is Friday, November 10, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. Winners will be announced on Friday, November 17, 2017.
On Tuesday, November, 21, the successful recipient is invited to work alongside Mayor Sanderson for the morning, (9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.) and then return to Town Hall to open the Regular Council meeting in the evening at 6:30 p.m. Family and friends are encouraged to attend the council meeting for photos of a special presentation to the recipient.
To be declared a winner, the selected entrant must confirm he/she meets the Contest eligibility criteria and otherwise complies with the Official Rules. The Administrator will attempt to contact the selected contestant by email within five (5) business days immediately following the selection of the entry as a possible winner. The selected entrant is required to complete and sign a Declaration and Release (including the permission and signature of a parent or legal guardian) and return it to the Administrator attn: Tami Garrett by email firstname.lastname@example.com within seven (7) business days following notice. The proposed winner shall also email the Administrator a photo of themselves (which may be published on the website and any promotional material) within seven (7) business days' notice.
If any of these conditions is not met or if the selected entrant cannot be contacted, the selected entrant will be disqualified and shall not be entitled to receive any prizes.
The Administrator is not responsible for the loss of prizes due to changes in mailing addresses, errors in completing the submission process or any other circumstances leading to an invalid, erroneous or incomplete mailing address, phone number or email address.
Winners will be announced on the Municipal website page, and via press releases.
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It has come to my attention that I need to provide vision on what the future of financial reporting and auditing looks like.
I do have a vision which I will develop here in real time.
This will be a fluid process and I will be working on it as I receive feedback and gather more information from others. And I will post as I go so you can see my thoughts.
Overall Vision. Distinctly separate and specifically identify the compliance vs. the relevant or value add portions of the financial statements and related audit.
- Financial Statements. The starting point. A cash based, historical cost, financial reporting model (included in this website) that is universal. It can be used internally, externally, with any currency, for budgeting and forecasting, integrated with block chain and AI, for any industry, vertically or horizontally in an organization, and many more. In addition, it is flexible and can be adjusted for balance sheet accruals while maintaining the cash based Sources and Uses. The balance sheet will contain 6 asset classes and the Sources and Uses will result in a cash based EBITDA.
- US GAAP. The next step will be to remove US GAAP and replacing it with a simplified set of accounting standards supporting the financial statements. There will no longer be accruals, estimates, impairment testing, valuations, etc. No deferred taxes, derivatives, capital leases, AROs, depreciation and amortization, etc. See below for how these change.
- The Audit. Imagine the compliance audit. Highly efficient, easy to perform and possibly not needed based on the confidence in the software providing the support of the numbers. This is what the commodity should be.
- Technology. The format can be integrated into a block chain and AI environment because the financial information provided is all transaction oriented. Thus, a set of financial statements can be produced in real time at any time. Also, if the software is considered immutable, alteration of the data is assumed to be almost impossible. Thus, manipulation of the financial statements would be very difficult.
- Fraudulent Financial Reporting. By removing the most abused classes (i.e. accounts receivable, accruals, etc.) and focusing the attention on Cash EBITDA. You can significantly reduce fraudulent financial reporting.
- Reduced Cost. The cost of the compliance audit will be reduced significantly creating cash for companies to redirect to value add services or other investments.
- Personnel. There will be a reduction in personnel both within the company (minor) and the audit firm (much more). These people can be redeployed to areas that create value to the company and the audit firm instead of being a "sunk" compliance cost.
- Financial Statements. Flexibility. The financial reporting method in this website includes a statement called the Statement of Retained Earnings Reconciliation. What it allows for is truly remarkable. It allows for balance sheet accruals while not impacting the Sources and Uses cash based information. As an example, let's say an issuer wished to include payables and receivables on the balance sheet. The reporting method allows these to be recorded reflecting the impact on the cash based EBITDA in the Statement of Retained Earnings Reconciliation. The value is financial statements tailored for users and issuers instead of this one size fits all concept.
- Accounting Standards. As US GAAP, will no longer be the "standard". A simplified set of standards will be used for the compliance audit. The current complex US GAAP may continue to exist but only as OCBOA or as individual standards, see below, to be implemented on a case by case basis as needed by the issuer and/or user.
- The Audit. Should this additional information need to be audited (the receivables and payables in the example above). It can either be done in conjunction with audit as a separate requirement or as a totally separate item for internal or specific purposes. For example, a bank may have secured receivables and may wish to see a specific audit done on receivables in addition to the financial statements. Whether they are recorded or not is optional. Total flexibility. No more commodity.
- Auditor. Once the compliance audit is stripped down. There is a never ending supply of value added services an auditor can perform. They can specialize in industries or fields or types of organizations. The focus would be consulting. Since it does not impact the compliance audit above, in my world, there is no independence problem. Even if there is, there is enough work to go around. The Big 4 already have much of this but the rest are still dominated by compliance work. That needs to change.
- Staffing. Once the focus is on consulting work, firms will not need bells and whistles to find, hire and retain staff. The staff will seek the firm out.
- Firm Revenue. Because it pays the bills. Value-add services are the key to increased revenue. Compliance revenue is capital and personnel intensive whereas consulting is value-add and companies and people will pay for value-add.
- Fraud. The savings (which will be substantial) from the audit can be redirected to other internal and/or external measures including improving fraud prevention and detection.
- Personnel. AS the increase in value added services will be significant. Audit firms can now train staff in the areas of value added services which used to be reserved for a select few. This will attract a whole new group of students to the profession.


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How to Get Free Google Play Credit in 2018
So, if you are wondering on how to get free Google Play Credit / Cards / Codes in 2018. Is there any way? Yes, with Google Opinion Rewards you can achieve this.
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About Us
Rick Senn founded Lo Drag Inc, DBA The Swim IT in the spring of 2011. Amanda McIntosh started working for the company in the summer of 2011 for free because of her passion for the product.
The two knew that the product was a game changer for open water swimmers and the frequent deaths that were occurring in triathlons at that time. In 2012, there was a death every weekend in a triathlon event.
Most triathletes believe they are safe while swimming. They site wetsuits, lifeguards, divers, etc. that can protect them while swimming, but the fact is, with all of those things available people still die at an alarming rate in the swim portion of a triathlon.
Bringing a product to market that makes an athlete responsible for their safety is disruptive. The team received the same backlash that athletes expressed when the helmet was introduced. Amanda and Rick heard, "I'm a good swimmer," "my wetsuit makes me float," "the lifeguards will assist me."
The reality is, most of the casualties are seasoned triathletes, most of whom were wearing a wetsuit, and were never seen by a lifeguard. Or worse, were seen too late. Before Swim IT, there had never been a race legal swim safety device, and few triathletes and open water swimmers thought they needed one.
Our goal is to change safety in the water, one swimmer at a time with the Swim IT.


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Chef Profile: Eric Ernest
From Easy Bake Oven to cooking for the president
After carving out a career at world-renowned restaurants, Eric Ernest is catering to a new wave of diners. As the executive chef at the University of Southern California, he cooks for thousands of students and oversees 40 menus, product development, and culinary training. One key to success, he says, has been honing a keen business sense—something he encourages all aspiring chefs to develop. Here, Ernest professes his love of sweetbreads and a Gordon Ramsay jab he'd rather not share with diners.
"Even if you have skills, culinary school can teach the language behind it. Higher education also provided the business side, from economics to accounting."
Your alter ego wants to say this to diners: My favorite thing comes from Gordon Ramsay's show, Hell's Kitchen. These women were looking to order food and Gordon says to the maitre d', "Would you please escort these women back to plastic surgery." I use that as a reminder that I would never say that to someone.
Most famous person you've ever cooked for: President Obama, last year when he came to USC for a fundraiser.
The dish you wish your diners would try: I wish our diners at USC would be more adventurous with dishes made from whole pigs and sweetbreads.
The ingredient that's grabbing your attention right now: Whole animal cookery is a big trend right now. We use this new style in butchery and at some events.
Your favorite jam to rock out to in the kitchen: Anything by Bob Dylan.
When you knew you wanted to be a chef: When I was a little kid I cooked a lot. There was a mix-up with my sister, and I was given an Easy Bake Oven and immediately started baking cakes. I have always been intrigued by the science and technique of cooking and what happens when you whip an egg white. I remember making cookies in school, and going through a cerebral process of following directions but asking why. I graduated high school early so I could go to culinary school.
Free time is spent doing this: I spend most of my free time working out a lot, scuba diving and surfing.
The one person you'd like to cook for: I'd like to cook for my dad. By the time I got back from traveling across the country, he had been sick for a long time and eventually passed away. He was never able to sit down at the restaurant where I was a chef.
The traits you wish every cook could have: A sense of urgency. It's important because it's the cornerstone for service.
Age: 35
Employer: University of Southern California
Hometown: Milwaukee, Wis.
Education: Waukesha Community College
Mentor(s): Worked with Chef Lee Hefter at Wolfgang Puck and looks to internationally acclaimed Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten
Awards: Two gold awards from the American Culinary Federation. Oversaw the food and beverage programs at leading restaurants including: Jardiniere, Masa's, and Aqua in San Francisco; Chadwick, La Cachette, Katasuya, XIV by Michael Mina, Bazaar by Jose Andres, Gladstones, and The Abbey Food & Bar in Los Angeles.


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Mesotherapy is a minimal surgical process, which was introduced by French physician Michel Pistor in 1952, and was acknowledged by the French National Academy of Medicine in 1986, as an integral part of traditional medicine; it is currently widespread and tested throughout Europe for various diseases.
Through this methodology, we insert injectable conventional or homeopathic drugs, as well as vitamins, minerals and amino acids, directly in the mesoderm (middle skin layer)
Just like mesotherapy for the face or the body, similarly for the scalp, its effectiveness against hair loss is more direct because it is applied millimeters deeply in the scalp skin, so that active substances can act exactly on the level of their target, i.e. the roots of hair follicles.
The same substances, when applied as a lotion, cannot be equally effective, due to less deep penetration.
Therefore, we use mesotherapy in order to insert the appropriate pharmaceutical and multivitamin preparations into the hair follicles, for strengthening and resprouting of hair.
Prior to that, a medical history is taken, and clinical examination and digital dermatoscopy are performed, in order to diagnose the type of alopecia (androgenetic, disperse, cicatricial, areata, etc.), so that the medicinal concoction to be used can be specified.
The range of the substances that are used include multivitamins, minerals, trace elements, and antioxidant substances, combined with pharmaceutical substances, such as minoxidil, finasteride, dutasteride, etc.


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Hyderabad : A 23-year-old trainee woman constable committed suicide by hanging herself at the RBVRR Telangana Police Academy on Saturday night.
According to the Station House Officer (SHO) of the Narsinghi Police Station, the trainee constable, Naveena, took the drastic step following the suicide of her close friend Madhavi, who worked as a constable at the Vemulapalli Police Station of the Nalgonda district.
After receiving the information of her friend's suicide, Naveena had admitted to feeling depressed. Thereafter, she went into her room and told her colleagues she wanted to take rest.
She was later found hanging in her room.
The SHO informed that the body was shifted to the local government for autopsy, and a case was registered under Section 174 of the CrPC. Further probe is underway. (ANI)


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Replica Handbags
Replica handbags are extensively obtainable. You could discover them at flea markets, at road side stands, on the net or in the car truck of road sellers' vehicles. Lots of women say they have been stopped on the road by men and women that sold so-called designer bags. The question is whether to purchase or not. The force of style trends is very substantial, and countless girls desire to look their greatest, however, they can't manage to […]Read more


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4 Things I learned from the Elite Training Workshops
After spending several days in Frisco, TX teaching about 50 of the top fitness professionals in the country about running a fitness business I got to spend sometime with my good friends BJ Gaddour, Mike Robertson, Eric Cressey and Dave "The Band Man" Schmitz. These guys are the leaders in the strength and fitness industry. Seriously! I am sure that you have heard of a few of them before and others fly under the radar for the general public and focus on coaching the fitness professionals. The coolest thing about my trips like this are that I always learn something new from these guys.
Here are the top 4 things that I learned from my good friend at the Elite Training Workshop:
Bands are an amazing tool that are only limited by your imagination
I am a huge fan of bands, and that is obvious if you come into our facility. We use bands in everything from the warm up to the workouts and in hundreds of ways. I am a huge fan of bands because you can use them to train anywhere any time and get in a great workout. Not only that, but the bands that "The Band Man" uses are great for anyone. Athletes to the fitness junkie, advanced workout freaks to the absolute beginner. If I had to start up a home gym it would be 90% comprised of these bands. In fact, I never travel without my set of bands.
I got to spend a few minutes with Dave talking about training for our athletes and adults alike and how to better use the bands! Watch out for some new workouts very soon!
If you want to pick up some bands, just let us know and we have them at Force!
Core work should be kept simple, but not easy
It is too easy to let your simple core work and functional training seem easy. However, the simple little details that we try to pay so much attention to at Force Fitness make all the difference. Simple things like birddogs, planks and other basic core moves can be really tough when done right. If you want to get the most out of your training focus on the basics and do them really well. I started thinking to my own training and realized that I focus on basic training movements all the time and try to keep challenging myself to do them better each month, month after month. I never master the movements and it is always a challenge to my body.
It is fun to do fancy and new movements, however the majority of your program should be focused on doing things the right way and doing them really well. Have complete focus on each simple movement and watch it, no feel it, become much tougher.
Corrective work must have a focus
My buddy Eric Cressey is the shoulder guru. This guy knows more about shoulders than anyone else that I have ever met. He works with hundreds of baseball athletes from the age of 9 to guys in the MLB and he is the go to resource for our corrective work with shoulders. This weekend after watching EC go through a ton of shoulder rehab work with our attendees at the event I realized that you have to really focus on doing these correctly. This isn't something that I didn't already know, but after watching fitness professionals try to do the movements right I realized that it is even more important for our coaching clients to do these movements with a purpose.
Make sure that if you have corrective work, stretching or mobility work in your training program that you are doing it with a purpose. I think too many of us try to fly through this stuff without thinking and get it done so that we can start our program. Start focusing on your corrective work with the same intensity as your workout and watch your body change!
Metabolic Training is Fun!
One of my all time favorites is BJ Gaddour! BJ is the godfather of metabolic training in this era. He has been a good friend for a long time and has literally changed the way that fitness professionals all over the world program their boot camps and metabolic conditioning. BJ always makes things fun and he is one of the funniest guys that I know. Not to mention that he has a motor that doesn't stop and is the sweatiest man alive. A title that I once thought went to me!
BJ has so many ways to plan out your metabolic training and it makes it fun to continually see the changes he makes.
One thing that I got from BJ this weekend is that we have to continue to challenge ourselves in a workout. You must have the mental toughness to push as hard as you possibly can to get the results you want. Don't let the little voice in your head let you stop or keep you from reaching the next level. The great thing about metabolic training is that you don't have to think about anything, just do it. Make sure you are pushing as hard as possible during your short, intense metabolic workouts so that you get the absolute maximal results from your program.
I hope that you can take these 4 things and make your training even better than it already is! I know that it will change the way I look at my personal training programs and our clients' programs at Force.
I just want to thank you for sharing the wealth of knowledge of have and you continue to acquire. Keep up the great work!
FYI, I am starting up a new boot camp in May and would love to incorporate bands into my training. Could you please let me know how much they cost and do you provide workout ideas with the bands? Please advise.


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Community Involvement
We are currently supporting the local ( Belmont ) police department DARE program in the Belmont school system.
Each year we also support WLNH during their Children's auction: we donate gift certificates to the organization that are to be auctioned off. This last auction we helped raised $250,000 for local kids!!
If you would like more information on how you can help, Please fill out this form below and we would be happy to contact you.


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He was supposed to graduate last April as a Public Admininstration major. He was a councilor in the college student council. He was planning to enter law school. To that end, he had resolved to join a fraternity. The college student council president recruited him.
One Saturday, he joined several people for initiation by the fraternity. He sent several text messages to his friends.
Then nothing was heard from him.
Early morning, three cars rushed to a government hospital. There, they deposited him, black and blue. And dead.
One doctor released the body to a funeral parlor, without having the body undergoing autopsy. His son was one of those who brought him to the hospital.
The news of his death had spread out, sparking a wave of outrage. The fraternity involved, and the men who battered him to death, including the student council president who he had considered a friend, hid like cowards while protesting their innocence.
The university made a hoopla, promising investigations and fire and brimstone. The police and the investigation bureau dipped their hands in his blood. The media feasted on the issue.
Six months later, nothing happened.
His birthday had passed, and nothing happened.
Almost a year after his death, nothing has happened.
Except that life goes on.
For the university.
For the police and the investigation bureau.
For the media.
For the fraternity.
For his killers. One of them graduated already.
Except for him. Because he is dead.
Except for his family. Because he is gone.
Except for justice. Because divine justice is unfathomable and works in mysterious ways.
Except for Life itself. For a life snuffed out uselessly is a blow against Life itself.
Except for History. Human memory fails all the time, but History never forgets.
In eternal memory,


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Some times, a gut feeling is more than you need when it comes to interviewing candidates.
While the potential employee may look good on paper, and even sound great on the phone, there are occasions where the face-to-face interview proves they may not be the candidate you're looking for.
[ALSO READ: 5 of the worst job interviews ever]
Be it a bad culture fit or a dodgy resume, sitting through the full interview when you've pretty much made your decision could end up being a huge waste of time for both parties.
So how do you cut short an interview without seeming dismissive or rude?
Be honest
Without being blunt or harsh, explain to the interviewee why you are cutting the interview short. You might want to avoid telling the candidates you're looking for someone with a better skill set or more experience though, as these are points which should have been raised prior to the interview – especially if you have reviewed their resume beforehand.
Give them half an hour
Many hiring managers disagree over how long to wait before cutting the interview off. The consensus seem to be around the half an hour mark, which should give you enough time to really determine if the candidate will not be making it to the next round of interview without being too abrupt.
Plus, you never know if sitting through those final minutes might bring up a point which could change your mind about the interviewee.
But if you're feeling a bit more adventurous, tongue-in-cheek website Evil Skippy at Work has 10 things you can do to end an interview.
Here are five of our favourites:
1. Pretend to fall asleep. Do not "wake up" no matter what the candidate does.
2. Stand up. Rip off your shirt or blouse to reveal your super-hero costume and declare that you're needed elsewhere immediately. Note: This requires advance planning. Do not rip unless you are prepared.
3. "Pick a number between one and 10." Wait for answer. "Nope. Better luck next time."
4. "You had me going there for a moment – I thought you were a real applicant. Who put you up to this? My brother maybe? Those were crazy answers!"
5. Scream. Repeatedly.
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June 16, 2012
iPads in the classroom
Last November, I had the opportunity to take the Apple sponsored tour of Canby School District in Canby, Oregon. This district has been at the forefront of technology integration for the past few years. The district technology director, Joseph Morelock, walked us through the exciting things Canby has done. One of the most amazing things, which became my own personal dream, was to put handheld technology into the hands of as many students as possible, even down to a 1:1…
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Class conscious blues, from the wonderful New Orleans blues musician Mem Shannon.
Class conscious blues, from the wonderful New Orleans blues musician Mem Shannon.
I listened to your talk online today. Sorry I didn't get there to hear you.
I wish we could put all our resources together to make the change we desperately need. There are countless groups, movements, NGOs across the country, indeed across the world, all working against neoliberalism policies, and for socialism. I know, that's oversimplified but it makes my point. It's as if people are coveting their sub-interest. So much energy scattered across the spectrum, if concentrated, especially during the run up to an election (hint), would break through the ideology that is causing untold destruction to everything of any value to all living things.
The damage is so obvious by the huge power we are fighting against, yet there are many more of US than THEM. We should be able to do this.
What do you think.
(We are fellow countrymen/people, by the way. I started out in Lawrencetown—when the NDP was the CCF—and developed in Toronto and Vancouver).


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Holy crap! Glee brought it hard this week, like thirtysomething EXTREME brought it. The drama was up, the tension was great, and everything was perfectly set for next week's fall finale, the show's final ep until April.
"Mattress" opened in the teachers' lounge, with Ken (hey look he's back!) sitting with Emma and Will when Sue drops her latest bomb: She's blocked the glee kids from getting a page in the yearbook. Because why not? Kurt convinced the kids that they've been given a blessing, since the yearbook photo is annually defaced and will only heap more scorn on them. But Will -- curly-haired, idealistic Will -- lobbied for a photo, even though he had to buy out the ad space for it himself.
Will let the kids elect Rachel as the glee club captain, so they could send her as the sole rep for the photo. Emma and Will also talked about their relationship (or whatever) and Will's belief that Ken scheduled the wedding on the same day as glee sectionals just to screw with Emma and Will. Which, duh.
Rachel conned Finn into being co-captain, which for some reason meant they had to sing. They did Lily Allen's "Smile," though the auto-tune on Rachel's voice was over-the-top. She didn't even sound like she was in the same room! Ease the hell up on that, guys.
But Finn, of course, bailed on the picture after being harassed by football players. That left Rachel alone come picture time, but she pulled it together by singing "When You're Smiling" to herself. It was a nice parallel with the first number. When Rachel found out that the photographer had to shoot a local commercial, the bloodthirsty look in her eyes was priceless, as was the way she sold herself by claiming, "Aside from nudity and the exploitation of animals I'll pretty much do anything to break into the business." That's what I used to tell myself, too. But oh, how times changed.
Anyway, she lands the ad for a mattress salesman. The glee kids do a fantastic, high-energy version of "Jump" while bouncing around on mattresses. It's one of the most fun numbers of the season, right up there with the girls' "Halo/Walking on Sunshine" mash-up and "Don't Stop Believing." And what better inspiration for a glee club than the spandexed insanity of David Lee Roth?
But buckle up kids because HERE IT COMES. Glee is getting good at making the hairpin turn from funny to oh shit, and they did it by going from "Jump" to a scene with Will at home looking for a tie square and FINDING THE FAKE BELLY. You know. Terri's "I'm totes having a baby and not being an unrepentant bitch to my husband" belly. That one. And the whole thing was amazing. Matthew Morrison and Jessalyn Gilsig ramped up the acting and it totally worked. Like, Will gets violently angry and confronts Terri, she gets terrified, they're both crying. It's heartbreaking. Will said he wanted to be happy, and Terri replies, "This marriage works because you don't feel good about yourself," which is the darkest thing ever. And Will's tears! Shit, this was killer. Terri cops to the whole plan with Quinn, and Will grabs his keys and leaves. Glee, you snuck up and hit me good.
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Will headed to school and found a stack of mattresses the kids were given as payment (the wide shot of his discovering them was hilarious), so he slept on one. However, Sue saw the commercial and got the glee kids DQ'd by claiming their paid appearance violated their amateur status. The principal sided with Sue and told Will that glee is basically done. Dude! I knew the club would be up against the wall, but this is tough.
But Quinn double-crossed Sue, saying she'd rat out Sue's habit of taking swag unless Sue gave up some yearbook space. Will also resigned (I think?) from the club since he's the one that technically accepted the mattresses by sleeping on one, so he told the kids they have to pull off sectionals without him. Again: DUDE! Fantastic way to make the kids rally.
Everything ended with a great montage of photos being taken to "Smile" -- the old one about doing it even though your heart is breaking. Really nice tie-in with the others. It was a sweet, sad number, and a beautiful way to set the stage for the showdown. This ep almost single-handedly made up for most of the filler from earlier in the season. You better believe I'm pumped about next week.
Line of the night: The mattress salesman: "We here at Mattress Land believe that mattresses aren't just for sleeping and fornicating anymore."


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Report Roundup
Public Opinion
"2010 PEPG-Education Next Survey"
A new survey of American opinions on education policy finds the public at large and its teaching force are at odds on whether teachers' pay should be tied to their students' test scores.
The 4th annual survey by Harvard University's Program on Education Policy and Governance and the journal Education Next found 49 percent of respondents approved of the idea, compared with just 24 percent of teachers.
The survey also found tepid support for Race to the Top, the Obama administration's signature education program. Just 32 percent of those surveyed said they believed the program was needed to improve education; 22 percent said they saw it as an "unwarranted intrusion into state and local government."
Support for the program was stronger among black and Hispanic Americans. They backed the program by 48 percent. The program got low marks from educators, with 46 percent of teachers saying they opposed it and 22 percent saying they approved of the competitive-grant program.
The PEPG-Education Next survey was conducted by the polling firm Knowledge Networks between May 11 and June 8.
The findings are based on a nationally representative, stratified sample of 1,184 adults. The margin of error for responses given by the full sample in the PEPG-Education Next survey is roughly 2 percentage points.
Vol. 30, Issue 02, Page 5Published in Print: September 1, 2010, as Public Opinion
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Change Footer Copyright Text Of Portum Theme
One of the tough times is that when we want to change the Footer Copyrigh Text of the WordPress theme but we don't know how to change it, because each theme Developer create the code of theme in different files according to him therefore, the method of any changes in each theme is different.So in this article i will tell you how can you change footer copyright text Of Portum theme.
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In copyright.php file, find this code
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Dubbed one of "America's Ultimate Experts" by Woman's World Magazine, and one of the "World's Creative Spiritual Revolutionary Leaders" by Soul Art TV, Jennifer Tuma-Young is a sought-after speaker and media guest on nationally syndicated TV shows such as Rachael Ray, The 700 Club, and Better, and on news affiliates of ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC. Her tips can be found on the web on Forbes, Anderson Live!, Maria Shriver, and The Huffington Post.
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Here are some highlights from her media work:
Rachael Ray – nationally syndicated
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Daily Connections- national morning show
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The Harvest Show – nationally syndicated
NJN- New Jersey
ABC – New York
FOX- Great Day Houston
NBC- Baltimore 11 New Saturday Morning
CBS- Morning Show (DC)
CBS- Virginia This Morning F
OX- Morning Show
NBC- Las Vegas Sunrise Sunday
ABC- Channel 8 At Noon (New Haven, CT)
FOX- Morning Show (Hartford, CT)
NBC- Today Show (CA)
ABC- Living in the Heart of Virginia
NBC- Sonoran Living Live (Phoenix, AR)
The New Yorkers – (New York, NY)
Radio: Over 200 guest appearances – have appeared on nationally syndicated radio programs as well as local radio appearances in almost every state such as…
– Nationally Syndicated ABC Radio
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– Cosmo Radio "Wake Up with Taylor"
– New York 106.7 FM "Get Connected with Christine Nagy"
– Syndicated "The Bob & Sheri Show"
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– New Jersey WCTC 1450 "Judith Leblein"
– New York/New Jersey Magic 98.3
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For a more robust look at the media Jennifer has done, check out her blog categoryIN THE NEWS.
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Jennifer Tuma-Young, a lifelong journal-keeper, a seeker, a researcher, student of life, and teacher, for over a decade has worked with thousands of people, and designs and delivers workshops for organizations around the country. Recently dubbed one of "America's Ultimate Experts" in life balance and inspired living by Woman's World Magazine, Jennifer has appeared on over 300 television and radio programs as a coach and inspirer, and she's had appeared on Rachael Ray, and ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX News. Her articles and tips are featured online and in print in major outlets such as Martha Stewart Living, Yahoo Shine, and iVillage. Jennifer's book Balance Your Life, Balance the Scale is available in retailers nationwide wherever books are sold.


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Lubbock, Texas, might seem like an unlikely travel destination until you remember that it is home to both Texas Tech University and Buddy Holly. As you think about West Texas, recall Lubbock's cattle ranching heritage and its current status as a hub for wine grape growing. Add in Texas Tech's outstanding public art program and its commitment to preserving the heritage of the Lubbock area and you have a recipe for an outstanding vacation.
In fact, there's so much to experience in this West Texas city that you can easily spend several days here seeing the sights and enjoying delicious meals and local wines – and you just might end up falling in love with Lubbock along the way.
Here are nine reasons why your first visit to Lubbock, Texas, won't be your last.
Buddy Holly Center, Statue and Gravesite
Buddy Holly, Lubbock's most famous native son, died in a plane crash in 1959. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and Roger Peterson, the pilot, all died when their airplane crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa. Buddy Holly's meteoric rise to fame lasted just 18 months, but the music he created continues to endure and inspire.
The Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock includes a museum packed with guitars, artifacts and Holly's iconic glasses, the home of Crickets drummer J. I. Allison, two art galleries and a gift shop. Across the street, you'll find the City of Lubbock's Buddy and Maria Elena Holly Plaza and the West Texas Walk of Fame. A bronze statue of Holly stands in front of the Walk of Fame's tribute wall. Honorees include Roy Orbison, Tanya Tucker, Waylon Jennings and many other talented West Texas performing and visual artists.
You can visit Buddy Holly's gravesite in the City of Lubbock Cemetery, just a short drive from the Buddy Holly Center. Once you enter the cemetery, signs direct you to Holly's grave.
National Ranching Heritage Center
While West Texas is known today as a cotton and wine grape growing center, cattle ranching made this part of Texas famous. The National Ranching Heritage Center, part of Texas Tech University, brings the past into the present with 49 historic structures, a 44,000 square foot museum and bronze sculptures of Longhorn steers.
The outdoor park contains historic buildings from cattle ranching country – Texas, Kansas and New Mexico – and give visitors an idea of how cattle ranchers lived and worked from 1780 until the 1950s. A free mobile app that provides background information on all the buildings is available for Android and iPhone users.
In the museum, you'll find exhibits on ranch life that range from an antique chuck wagon to a collection of rifles. Don't miss the western art on display.
Lubbock Lake Landmark
Lubbock Lake Landmark is more than a museum and better than a nature center. It's a window into the natural and cultural past. Archaeologists from Texas Tech University conduct annual digs at Lubbock Lake Landmark. They have discovered artifacts dating back 12,000 years, to the Clovis and Folsom periods, when Native Americans hunted ancient mammoth and bison and made tools from bison bones.
In addition to its museum exhibits, the Landmark offers visitors a chance to walk along a half-mile, wheelchair-accessible boardwalk trail to view native plants and wildlife. This trail is a wonderful place from which to watch the sunset. You can also hike or bike a 3.5-mile trail. Once a month, the Landmark staff offers night hikes that are free and open to the public. On Dig Day in mid-July, you can tour the archaeological dig and see how scientists uncover the past.
Silent Wings Museum
The Silent Wings Museum honors the World War II glider pilots who risked their lives flying combat gliders in the European and Pacific Theaters. Because combat gliders did not use engines during their missions – hence the name "silent wings" – they were stealthy but difficult to fly. The glider launch procedure, which involved towing the glider into the air using another airplane, added to the danger. Once the glider pilot landed his airplane behind enemy lines and delivered his cargo of troops or equipment, he had to fight alongside infantrymen and paratroopers in order to survive and escape.
All of the American glider pilots who served in World War II volunteered for this dangerous duty. Many gave their lives or became prisoners of war. The Silent Wings Museum, which was created by the National World War II Glider Pilots Association and the City of Lubbock, tells their story.
The museum's collection includes a restored CG-4A combat glider, photographs, artifacts contributed by glider pilots and special exhibits. Don't miss the 15-minute film that shows combat gliders in action. You'll come away with a new respect for the brave, daring glider pilots of World War II.
American Wind Power Center
This unique museum showcases the history of windmills and wind power in the United States. With over 100 windmills on display inside and outside the museum building, the American Wind Power Center is the perfect place to learn about wind-generated power and see the many styles of windmills used in the US over the centuries. An interactive wind turbine, working model trains, exquisite miniature houses, a mill stone exhibit and an enormous windmill mural round out the collection. The beautiful West Texas sky is a perfect backdrop for viewing and photographing the outdoor windmills.
Public Art at Texas Tech University
Since 1998, the Texas Tech University System has maintained a strong commitment to public art. Each capital project at a Texas Tech campus includes a one-percent set-aside for public artworks. A walking tour brochure is available online so that visitors to each Texas Tech campus can locate and view the artworks and learn about the artists. The public art at Texas Tech's flagship campus in Lubbock includes murals, statues, mosaics, fountains, photographs and more. Texas Tech professor Robert Bruno's untitled steel sculpture, created in 1974, became one of the highlights of the public art collection when it was moved to the Lubbock campus. This sculpture inspired Bruno to build his fantastical Steel House on the rim of Ransom Canyon.
Robert Bruno's Steel House
Steel House defies description. It doesn't resemble a traditional house at all, yet it was designed to be lived in. It was never finished, but its creator, sculptor and architect Robert Bruno, lived in it anyway. Steel House looks like something out of a crazy science fiction movie that happened to plop down on the edge of a canyon.
Inside, Steel House is dizzying. There are many curves and almost no corners. The steel walls are punctuated by leaded glass windows that look out over Ransom Canyon. As you might expect, the windows are not square or rectangular. The balcony does not have a guard rail. The staircases feature curved steel railings that are hard to grasp. But the views are spectacular, and Bruno's vision of a sculpted house – or maybe it's a house made from sculpted forms – is compellingly clear.
Bruno worked on Steel House for 34 years, but died of cancer before he could complete the project. Bruno's daughter now owns the house. The caretaker, Bruno's friend and former employee Henry Martinez, loves showing visitors around Steel House and telling them about Bruno's life and art. He sees Steel House as a living memorial to the artist, not a static tribute.
Steel House is rarely open to the public, but even a glimpse of the exterior will make a lasting impression. Don't miss the Rock House, also designed by Bruno, across the road.
Steel House Address:
85 E. Canyon View Drive
Ransom Canyon, TX 79366
Texas-Sized Meals
Bring your appetite when you visit Lubbock. Like most college towns, Lubbock has plenty of restaurants to choose from. Be sure to have breakfast at the Cast Iron Grill, which is famous for its big breakfasts and its delicious homemade pies. (Yes, pie for breakfast is a thing in Lubbock.) For a Texan-Italian dinner, head to Orlando's, Lubbock's oldest full-service restaurant, where green chile chicken pizza and pasta are served right next to traditional Italian favorites. If you're looking for an upscale dining experience, try the Funky Door Bistro & Wine Room, which features fondues, steaks and international specialties, or The West Table Kitchen and Bar, where local, seasonal ingredients take pride of place and menus change daily. (Tip: If you order chicken-fried steak at a Lubbock restaurant, expect to receive a plate filled with food.)
West Texas Wines
You'll find wineries throughout Texas, but 80 percent of all the wine grapes grown in the Lone Star State come from the Texas High Plains and Panhandle region. With five wineries and an equal number of wine festivals, Lubbock is at the center of the local wine scene. Llano Estacado Winery hosts three of the annual wine festivals and offers tours and tastings all year. McPherson Cellars also hosts a wine festival; the fifth festival takes place at the American Wind Power Center.
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Button Greeting Cards Part 2: 14 More Ideas for Handmade Homemade Card Making
My first button greeting card article has been so well received that I decided to create a part 2. Even after I published the first article, I continued to save great button card ideas on Pinterest. I now have lots of new cards to share for this second article. I'm sure that many of you are here because you already craft frequently with buttons and are always on the lookout for new inspiration. If you haven't experimented with buttons before, give it a try. They are inexpensive and have so many possibilities.
Please note that unless indicated otherwise, all tutorials, patterns, and ideas in this article are for personal use only. Please respect artist copyright and contact artists directly if you are interested in selling your creations. Thank you and happy crafting!
Gumball Machine
This is one of those ideas that is so awesome that I wish that I'd thought of it. The gumball machine is such a classic, nostalgic image, and the buttons add just the right amount of whimsy to it. Several scrapbook/card supply companies do sell gumball machine templates. Of course you can also create your own. This is a great option for a birthday card or an all-purpose card.
I found a few different examples of cupcake button cards. Some have buttons covering the entire top of the cupcake while others use a single button for a cupcake topper, like a little cherry. There are other fun possibilities for using buttons to decorate cupcakes as well, such as creating a patterned embellishment (stripes, random dots, etc.) on the bottom part of the cupcake. Of course this is another natural choice for birthday cards, but don't let that limit you.
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the most effective. Using buttons to create a rainbow is no exception. Create a fun, carefree greeting for a friend or make a set of St. Patrick's Day cards. Feel free to experiment with different colors for your rainbow.
Baby Rattle
I have created baby cards with buttons for baby carriage wheels before, but I had never thought to use a button for a rattle. Keep it simple with a single rattle or create a handful of them. Of course you can customize the colors for this concept for a boy or a girl or you can keep it gender neutral with a beautiful yellow or green theme.
Christmas/Winter Tree
I presented a few seasonal cards in my first button card article, but I had to revisit this. There are so many fun button cards out there for holidays, particularly Christmas. One of the best parts about the tree design is that you can use it any time during the winter and not strictly at Christmas. Consider winter wedding showers, baby showers, birthdays, and more.
Add a new visual element to one of your classic balloon card designs with buttons. Let a single balloon stand alone or create a colorful bunch of them. Balloons are a perfect choice for birthdays and other celebrations, including graduations and weddings.
In Place of Words
I found this card through Pinterest and cannot find a link to the original post, just the blog. However, the concept is pretty self-explanatory. The Valentine's Day message pictured is a classic, but of course you can customize this any way you like for any occasion.
This butterfly has so much visual appeal with the button middle, toilet paper roll wings, and different patterned papers for the wings. I like the contrasting background paper, too. One option to consider for your butterflies is that butterfly imagery is often paired with messages about flying high, letting your wings soar, the sky's the limit, etc.
I first came across quilt cards when I became interested in sewing with paper. Whether or not you choose to sew your paper quilts (gluing works just fine, too), the buttons add a sweet touch. I've had fun picking out papers for quilts that coordinate with different seasons and holidays.
Ice Cream Cone
This concept is very similar to the cupcake. I could not find a tutorial for this and have provided an example from Etsy instead. The concept is pretty straight forward so you shouldn't have any trouble putting it together on your own. This would be a fun image to use for summer birthday party invitations.
Birds Revisited
I included one bird example in my first button card article. It didn't include a tutorial, and I've since found several more bird cards with more information. So I'm returning to this idea. All of the bird button cards that I've found are so darn cute. These little guys are great for spring, Mother's Day, and baby showers.
Letter projects are another idea that I'd never even considered before I started using Pinterest. Now it seems like every where I look, I find another idea. These cards are no exception. Personalize a graduation gift card or the gift of a check for a wedding with a letter card and/or envelope.
Shirt Buttons
I couldn't find a full greeting card with the shirt button idea, but you can get the concept from this sweet vintage button card. I found a number of vintage cards similar to this one. You can continue the vintage theme with your own card or modernize the concept. For Father's Day, consider taking the classic dress shirt card idea and add a little extra detail with real buttons. (Check out the shirt example link below. That card is pretty girly, but you can change the colors around for Dad.)
- Button-Down Dress-Shirt Card Cards By Stephanie
- FREE download: Vintage button cards! | Papercraft Inspirations
Do you enjoy vintage button cards? Check out this FREE download with vintage inspired designs.
Bingo Card
This was another concept where I couldn't find a regular greeting card, but it was too cute of an idea not to include. If you know someone who loves bingo, this is a perfect option that can be customized for many different occasions. Again, I found a handful of vintage examples for the bingo card, but you don't necessarily have to carry this theme into your own card. I've included a link below for printable bingo cards on Pinterest.
Tutorial for 3 cards with buttons.
Don't forget to check out Button Greeting Cards Part 1!
- Button Greeting Cards: Ideas for Handmade Homemade Card Making
This article has over ten different button greeting card ideas. These are all free ideas for handmade home card making. There are lots of photos and resources.
Super cute ideas! Thanks for sharing!
~ Lisa
all the cards are great and they are amazing ideas!
I really like the rainbow card. I have so many buttons at home and so many card blanks - sounds like a match made in heaven to me :)
Very creative and you are one of the most creative hubber. Keep on writing and share with us. Thank you very much. Rated up!
There are so many great ideas here! Glad to see part 2 is just as great as the first one!
This is such a fun idea! I am really sure small children would love to do this. It sounds really fun and enjoyable to do wth the family for other loved ones :)
Loved these ideas and the way you presented them! I can't pick a favorite but I think I might try making my own cards from now on! Take care, Kelley
These are so adorable! I want to make my own Christmas cards this year and I love the Christmas tree with buttons - I guess I need to go out and buy a few stamps!
Such a creative look with just a few simple buttons. Lovely cards! I think custom made gifts like this are so memorable and make any event even more special. Voted up and shared.
What a nice Hub. These are very cute. Love them. :) I especially love the flower one at the top of the Hub. :)
Just love these cards. Especially the Mother's Day card! Voted up and beautiful.


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What is Trenchless Sewer Line Repair?
One common problem for many homeowners is the sewer problems because it gets really messy when a sewerage line bursts and even messier when the repair guys dig around your yard to fix the problem. But those were the tales of the old days because these days most homeowners go for a trenchless sewer line repair method.
Trenchless pipe repair or pipe rehabilitation or no dig repair method does not involve digging trenches and destroying your yard. Instead of digging trenches, experts use sewer access holes to repair or reline a sewer line by using state of the art equipments. If access holes are not already available, then they will dig two small access holes that will also come in handy when next time you need this service.
Although trenchless sewer line repair method involves use of advanced equipments that should make it little expensive than traditional method, it is actually not very expensive than the latter one. Why? Because when you count all the cost incurred in digging trenches, repairing sewer lines, and reforming ground you will see that trenchless method does not involve the digging and reforming part. This obviously means that it could not be as expensive as you may think. Besides, when you take into account the other advantages it has, you will see why most homeowners now prefer this method.
Advantages of Trenchless Pipe Repair
First of all the obvious benefit you get is that the trenchless pipe repair method is a lot quicker, efficient, and tidy than the tradition method. This is because it does not involve digging trenches, which saves a lot of time and make it more efficient and tidy.
No dig means no reforming of ground, which means your yard, driveway, plants, fences, and every other feature of your property will remain intact. This also means no additional cost. You happy and your neighbors happy.
require disabling gas, electrical, and other underground pipelines. But trenchless sewer line repair method does not involve any of that. This means you can do your work, while the experts do theirs. No interruptions at all.
In trenchless methods, new pipes laid down are made up of special materials. This makes new pipelines stronger and durable. This means you will not have to deal with this same problem for a long time.
When homeowners are not sure what the cause of the problem is, the trenchless guys use sewer camera inspection to locate the cause of the problem. This allows the experts to locate and fix the problem with doing any digging at all.
So now when you understand trenchless sewer line repair better, what do you think of it? When you compare the trenchless with traditional method, you will realize which one is better.


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BIOS Rootkit Infects China
Malware, such as viruses and worms, typically infect systems in user space, where applications run. A few dig deeper, infecting the system's kernel; these are called rootkits. A new piece of malware digs even deeper, infecting systems before the operating system even loads.
Dubbed "BMW virus" by Chinese antivirus vendor Qihoo 360, a new rootkit successfully infects key areas of a computer system: the BIOS (at the moment, only Award BIOS is affected), the Master Boot Record (MBR), and key Windows files. Symptoms of infection include the phrase "Find it OK" on the screen at start up, an antivirus virus warning of a "Hard Drive Boot Sector Virus", and a browser home page redirect to http://10554.new93.com/index.htm (which does not point to an active web site). Infection vectors include a compromised game download with a system restart required. BMW appears to be limited to China.
The BIOS or Basic Input/Output System is stored on a ROM and is responsible loading and checking the hardware for the system in advance of loading the operating system. Failure to "boot" the system from the BIOS generally means failure of the system.
While infection at this may seem novel, there have been other BIOS malware. In the 1990s CIH/Chernobyl required the motherboard of infected systems to be replaced. More recently, in 2007, the ICELord BIOS rootkit affected only Award BIOS systems. ICELord may have been the basis for the new BMW rootkit.
From Webroot
Storing the malicious code inside the BIOS ROM could actually become more than just a problem for security software, giving the fact that even if an antivirus detect and clean the MBR infection, it will be restored at the next system startup when the malicious BIOS payload would overwrite the MBR code again. Developing an antivirus utility able to clean the BIOS code is a challenge, because it needs to be totally error-proof, to avoid rendering the system unbootable at all. The job of handling with such specific system codes should be left to the developers of the specific motherboard model, who release BIOS updates along with specific tool to update the BIOS code.
On the other hand, although this kind of infection is potentially one of the most persistent infections known out there in the wild, it will hardly become a major threat because of the level of complexity needed to achieve the goal. While a kernel mode infection or a MBR infection could still work in a generic way among all the PC out there – and they still have a huge available free space to play with, a BIOS-based rootkit needs to be fully compatible with all major BIOS rom out there, it should be able to infect all the different releases of Award, Phoenix, AMI BIOS's out there; a level of complexity that is simply unasked for writing a good persistent infection (e.g. TDL rootkit, various Rustock releases, ZeroAccess rootkit among all). In fact, why is Mebromi only targetting Award BIOS rom? Perhaps because there was already a known proof of concept that is 5 years old targeting Award BIOS ROM available online.
The original Chinese write up from Qihoo 360 contains more detail.


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If you didn't already assume, there's definitely some NSFW language. Saint's Row IV has 7 different voice actors, and 7 romance options, so I decided to give everyone their due and make 7 different characters and try them all out.
Up top is Female 1 - Laura Bailey
The other voice actors feature the same dialogue, but I thought it'd be fun for you guys to see the differences in what they sound like. Check out all the options, in seven different advances, down below. And don't forget to read our review, which has even more ridiculous video clips from the game.
Male 1 - Troy Baker:
Female 2 - Diane Michelle:
Male 2 - Kenn Michael:
Female 3 - Sumalee Montano:
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Allow your children to actively participate in planting your organic garden. Helping a garden grow is an excellent learning experience for kids, and it allows your family to spend time together while creating healthy, nutritious foods.
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Why Minneapolis is taking a licking at the State Capitol
Many Minneapolitans see ourselves as a rainbow of culture and color. They are a monotonous monochrome. We reside in a quaint mix of bungalows, Tudors and Queen Anne's, while they live in cookie-cutter houses surrounded by look-alike lawns. They eat at McDonald's; we dine at Quang's. We thoughtfully vote blue; they reflexively vote red.
To some in the suburbs and beyond, Minneapolis is the Bastion of Boondoggles - a brie-sucking, subsidy-loving, Bush-hating, crime-racked wasteland ruled by the two-party system of liberals and extreme liberals - a place to be endured only if one wants to watch a Vikings game.
OK, maybe it's not that extreme. Still, it seems that somehow, the political discourse between Minneapolis and the rest of the state has broken down - with Minneapolis paying the price.
The state has cut city aid for education and local government, resulting in fewer Minneapolis cops and teachers and library hours. City leaders mutter about increasing the local sales tax to fund public safety, but that might be no solution at all. City officials fear that if they increase the local sales tax, state leaders will just cut local aid.
Is the city's fiscal bruising a sign of the times, or is it something we said?
The Southwest Journal called dozens of legislators, city leaders and political insiders, both past and present, both from Minneapolis and outside Minneapolis, to ask their insight. Is there a schism? Is it new or long-standing?
The thoughts, theories, and musings fall into three loose categories:
– The problem is not what we've done, but who we are;
– The problem is what we did - or their version thereof;
– The problem is a Republican party feud that we abetted.
Blame Them
Running against the city works
Some say that Minneapolis' image problems are nothing new. Republican outstate legislators say they take a political risk if their constituents think they are too cozy with the city. City Democrats see it is an excuse for divide-and-conquer.
Steve Sviggum, speaker of the House and a resident of rural Kenyon, said all rural candidates - Democrats and Republicans - run against the city.
"It is true that good politics in an outstate Minnesota, rural small-town farming community is not necessarily to support and be hand-in-hand with Minneapolis - the big boys in the city," said Sviggum, a Republican.
DFL State Sen. Scott Dibble of Southwest has a different spin.
"It plays well at home to beat up on Minneapolis," he said. "It's easy to play up the politics of difference and division. It's destructive in the end."
One former DFL legislator from greater Minnesota, who asked to remain nameless, said some former constituents feel "left out" and "left behind." They don't make a distinction between Minneapolis, inner-ring suburbs or the outer-ring suburbs, he said.
"They look at all the successes the metro area has and then they say, 'Our small town is shrinking' or 'Our county is losing population.' They tend to say to their public officials: 'How strong are you standing up to them?'"
Political parties hurt
Lyall Schwartzkopf was first elected to the Legislature from Minneapolis in 1962, so he remembers a time when that body was nonpartisan. That is, no one was elected as a DFLer or GOPer though, of course, they privately and even publicly preferred one party.
Schwartzkopf, a Republican, has been around the political block. He's a former Minneapolis city clerk, city lobbyist, state legislator, city coordinator and former chief of staff for Republican Gov. Arne Carlson. He said that after Minnesota law allowed members of the House and Senate to be designated by party after 1973, the legislative landscape shifted.
"After that happened, the political parties really got involved. They were somewhat involved prior to that but not an awful lot.
"Once they really got involved, it was for blood. Because whoever controls the speaker, whoever controls the majority leader, controls the legislation. And it's gotten tougher and tougher and tougher since that time."
As power has shifted between parties and people have tallied the injustices real and perceived, collegiality appears the casualty.
Republican Dick Erdall of Lynnhurst, a City Councilmember from 1967 to 1973 and a former Council president, said he and members of his party used to be good friends with Democrats. "We didn't always vote together, but there was a willingness to compromise and a willingness to try to find solutions that everyone could buy," he said.
"It seems that a lot of legislators don't talk to each other any more. Some [legislators] bemoan the fact that people aren't friends any more. A lot of them aren't."
Blame US
Payback time
For much of the 1970s and 1980s, city Democrats had Capitol clout. At various times, Congressman Martin Sabo of Minneapolis was House Speaker. Minneapolis Democrats chaired key committees in the House and Senate.
But the last DFL governor was Rudy Perpich, who lost reelection 15 years ago.
Mayor R.T. Rybak has reaped some of the whirlwind sown by DFLers who thought the party's good times would never end. "When I first came into office, I'd walk through the [Capitol] corridors and they'd tell me about things some Minneapolis legislators did to them when I was back in Cub Scouts," Rybak said. "I walked into a situation in which there was longtime, pent-up hostility toward Minneapolis, and then the Legislature turned dramatically right and Gov. Pawlenty came into office."
Sarah Janacek, a Republican lobbyist who lives in Lowry Hill, said the House Republican majority remembers when Democrats ran things and "a ton of money flowed to Minneapolis," she said. "Everybody knows that the city of Minneapolis operates at the margin in terms of debt. There's just no willingness, given how much Minneapolis has gotten over the years, in doing anything special."
Bob Miller, who heads the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization project, said city DFLers such as Rep. Jim Rice and Sen. Carl Kroening had a lot of power and wielded it to aid the city.
"Members of the Republican minority resented it," Miller said. "[Rice and Kroening] were excellent for Minneapolis; don't get me wrong. They got Minneapolis a lot of stuff they would never have gotten otherwise."
However, the past's highly desirable pork has morphed into baggage for present-day legislators, he said.
Rice's son Brian, a longtime lobbyist, disagrees. He said what happens is pure power politics without regard to the past.
"If you are going to get stuff done over there, you have to be tough as nails," Rice said. "The rural guys are. It doesn't matter if it is Republicans or Democrats. If you come down and start fighting for something for rural Minnesota, it is like trying to separate a hungry pack of wolves from its kill."
Pork City
One popular outstate theme is that city kids get too many of the state's education dollars.
Rep. Greg Davids, a Republican who represents largely rural district, said there's frustration among outstate legislators looking at the money going to Minneapolis schools.
"A Minneapolis student is worth $11,000 to $12,000 [annually] and a student in my district is worth $6,500," Davids said. "That certainly doesn't set a good tone. We're asking the questions, 'Why are your graduation rates so low with double the money we're getting and ours are so high?'"
Suburban Republican Sen. Mady Reiter, R-53, said, "Legislators from Minneapolis and St. Paul have a little more trouble now because in the suburbs, we've realized how shortchanged we've been on items such as education," he said.
City Democrats such as Sen. Wes Skoglund have long argued that Minneapolis needs more money because its students tend to be poorer, more diverse and have more special needs, including immigrant children who don't speak English as their first language. He bristles when people argue Minneapolis had been overpaid for education.
"From a very simplistic view, in a campaign brochure, it does work that way. People who don't think it through or do the math, think that way," said Skoglund, who also works as a substitute special education teacher. "There's an enormous difference between who we're educating and who they're educating."
Lack of local unity
Minneapolis legislators and city officials aren't always on the same page when it comes to arguing for the city's needs at the Capitol.
For example, Minneapolis DFL Rep. Phyllis Kahn proposed a bill to pump more aid into the city's troubled pension funds. The mayor and City Council voted it down.
Kahn, who has represented the city at the Capitol since Richard Nixon was president, said current city officials don't understand how the Legislature works.
"Count me as one of the people who's not impressed with the city of Minneapolis at the Legislature," she said. "They don't have any party differences where they work. They don't understand how difficult it is to work from a minority basis. They just think that you just say something and you get it done."
Rybak and the Council majority argue that Kahn's bill was flawed, offered short-term gain while pushing the problem onto the future generations. Whether they can get a better bill through the Legislature remains to be seen.
Rep. Paul Thissen, DFL-63A, who lives in Lynnhurst and backs Rybak, acknowledges the division and its harm.
"It's not often that we sit down and say, 'We need to take a unified position on this,'" he said.
Practically as Thissen spoke, the City Council passed a hotly debated initiative to ask the Legislature for permission to levy a half-cent local sales tax. As they voted for the motion, supporters acknowledged that no Minneapolis legislator had signed up to sponsor the bill.
Blame BOTH
Political polarization
Some, particularly Republicans, argue that Minneapolis suffers at the Legislature because it's a one-party town.
No Minneapolis Republican has served in the legislature since 1982 and none have been councilmembers since 1997.
Lynnhurst Republican and former state Senate candidate Elsa Carpenter said that rather than hate Minneapolis, her party's legislators ignore it, "which maybe you think is worse than hate.
"But the point is, we [Republicans] don't have anybody sitting at any off the tables - in the School Board, the Park Board, the Library Board nor at the House nor the Senate."
Carpenter, Sviggum and past and present Republican leaders say if the city elected one Republican it would help.
Yet most Democrats, see that not only as rewarding your abuser, but conceding power. (The House is now split 68-66 in favor of Republicans; even a one-seat swing would make it a tie.)
Thissen doesn't buy the "at-least-one-Republican" theory.
"Just having one voice in a caucus of 67 people, where the leadership has made a point of focusing their opposition to Minneapolis, isn't going to make a significant difference," he said.
It wasn't always this way. Three decades ago, Republicans held a 10-3 City Council majority, Erdall said. What caused the great Republican extinction in Minneapolis?
Republican lobbyist Mary Ann Campo said some city Republican woes stem from intraparty battles. A sea of change occurred when Julie Morse organized the conservative's party takeover in the 1984.
As Campo remembers it, Morse started everyone arguing with each other and made the GOP unwelcoming. "Julie's style was scorched earth: burn, burn, burn, with no long-term plan with what to do after you burnt," Campo said. "It discouraged a lot of people from running."
Morse agrees the battle for the Minneapolis Republican Party left hard feelings. The party's old leadership was odd-man out. "The world belongs to people who show up. A lot of [conservative] people started showing up," she said.
Morse later married conservative GOP gubernatorial candidate Allen Quist. She said the changes in Minneapolis were part of the Republican Party's natural progression away from the moderate wing to the pro-life party of Ronald Reagan - and eventually, Minnesota's majority party.
That statewide success makes it less likely that the GOP will take the prescription some city Democrats offer: that Republicans could win here if it would only run credible, moderate candidates.
Carpenter describes a sort of electoral death spiral for the Minneapolis GOP: the more one party dominates a political contest, the more the minority party tends to run maverick candidates, those with a political "death wish."
"The best is having two fairly even parties," she said. "Then both parties tend to have reasonable people the truth is the state is becoming more Republican and more conservative. We live in the city, we live in the microcosm of 'Anti.' Anti-Bush, hate-Bush, hate-this, anti-cutting taxes you go out to Eagan, it is pretty different."
Republican Walter Rockenstein is a textbook example of the state GOP moving away from city success. Rockenstein represented Southwest's 11th Ward from 1974 to 1983. He ran unopposed in his last election, he said. He used to go to the Legislature and lobby his Republican colleagues such as Rep. Bill Dean, R-Minneapolis, legislators he knew from Edina or Richfield on the same issues that city leaders work on today - state aid, pensions and water quality.
He was a Minneapolis Republican voice that GOP leaders say is missing today. But whether a 2005 version of Rockenstein would make a difference today is unclear.
"I am not sure if I decided to run again for the City Council that I could get the party's endorsement," Rockenstein said. "I am not 'right' on any issues. I am pro-choice. I am against prayer in the schools. I am not a born-again Christian, even though I am the son of a Presbyterian minister and extremely active in my church. That is not good enough. I am not sure I'd want the party's endorsement if I did run."
Redistricting disputes
Campo also said Minneapolis Democratic redistricting plans diminished Republican power in the city on the City Council and in the Legislature.
The election map "was drawn for a purpose. It succeeded. I would tell you it succeeded too greatly," she said, noting the city now has no Republican representation.
For Campo, it's personal. She said was going to run for City Council in the 13th Ward after her unsuccessful state Senate race in 1990. The new ward map put her house two blocks into the 11th Ward, away from her political base.
Jeff Spartz, a former DFL Hennepin County commissioner familiar with the redistricting discussions, said there may have been some DFLers who wanted to hurt Republicans. But "I would swear an oath that my friends and I did not have that intention. We realize the value of an effective minority."
He said Watergate and demographic changes had made it impossible to draw the boundaries to preserve GOP wards.
"By the time we realized there was a problem, it was too late," he said. "When the Republican Party was in jeopardy, there actually were discussions: is there a way to create four or five wards so you have that legitimate minority? No one could figure out how to do it."


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Großes Gewächs
Similar to Bordeaux's Grand Crus, the VDP Großes Gewächs classification (GG for short) identifies exceptional wines produced from great growth sites in regions outside of the Mosel and the Rheingau. These wines exemplify the best of Germany's terroir and producer expertise and finesse. Well-known sites in include Baden's Mauerberg, represented by Schloss Neuweier's Mauerwein Großes Gewächs 2014.


text: I have been putting it off for a while, or rather meant to do it for some times and somewhat forgot; Well over twenty years now in fact. But the other day, the idea of going on a wild goose chase, travelling to the north west of the island to witness the wonderful ballet of Barnacle Geese, had been resuscitated by my friend Jonathan Shackleton. I must have mentioned it in one of our conversations, and as he was soon to be heading back to Antarctica for another few weeks' round as a guide and lecturer, time was ticking, and by the time he'd come back, they would probably be gone back to Greenland. He rang me a couple of days before to confirm, and Sunday last, we finally went.


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Bankruptcy hearing for shuttered Solyndra
The California solar manufacturing company that the federal government loaned $528 million to - and which closed its doors, laying off hundreds of workers - will be in a U.S. bankruptcy court in Delaware Tuesday morning.
The proceeding is likely to shed more light on the company that closed abruptly earlier this month, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.
At Tuesday's bankruptcy hearing Solyndra will ask for permission to auction off its state-of-the-art factory built with more than $500 million from the federal government.
Last Friday, before a congressional committee, Solyndra's two top executives pleaded the Fifth, on the advice of their well-paid attorneys.
Solyndra execs keep mum on $528M gov't loan
In bankruptcy court filings Solyndra lists nearly a dozen attorneys being paid from $255 an hour to $950 an hour. The company also wants more than $300,000 a week to pay about 100 employees still working there.
But 900 laid-off workers are looking to the bankruptcy court to help them collect severance pay they didn't get when the company suddenly shut down.
Alan Harper worked as a maintenance technician at Solyndra for three and a half years. Now he's going to job fairs.
But when President Obama visited the Solyndra factory last year, Harper was convinced the company had a bright future: "If it hit big, then it hit big. But it didn't," Harper said. "Oh well, I took a chance."
But Solyndra, now under FBI investigation, took a chance with a half-billion taxpayer dollars, and lost.


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