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ASPEN, Colo. (AP) -- Classical music echoed through the hotel's basement halls, drawing an audience around the person sitting behind the piano.
And who should be pounding the keys on the hauntingly enchanting piece? It was none other than Slovenian skier Tina Maze, who simply slid onto the bench and started in on the melody after a news conference following her third-place slalom finish in Aspen, Colo.
Her rendition was flawless, too, much like her recent performances on the slopes.
Maze has been in tune all season as she's jumped out to a nice lead in the overall World Cup standings heading into the races this weekend in Lake Louise, Alberta. Sure, it's early, but she's emerged as reigning champion Lindsey Vonn's top rival for the crown this season.
Oh, and Maze can sing a little bit, too. She has a song out that's topping the charts in her country.
These days, things are going awfully well for the 29-year-old Maze (pronounced MAH-zeh). Even her demeanor and disposition seem to be different.
Once thought to be a very serious person, she appears to be lightening up. Someone recently asked if she's still an "angry" person, or if she's finding more happiness.
"I'm still angry," Maze said, laughing. "The problem is there's nothing to be angry about now."
No, there's really not.
Maze switched ski technicians before the season and they've instantly been in harmony. She won the giant slalom in Aspen last weekend for her first win on U.S. slopes. To celebrate, Maze did a cartwheel - in ski boots, no less.
It was Maze having fun. She's been showing a side she hasn't really displayed before. Not quite like this, at least.
She's funny. She's witty. She's charismatic. And she's musical.
"I've learned that maybe sometimes it's better to show people who you are and what you are thinking about," Maze said. "That way, you can be more relaxed with yourself."
Just for kicks, Maze recently made a music video entitled, "My way is my decision," a catchy pop tune written for her to sing by a friend.
So far, there have been more than 800,000 hits on Youtube. One of the lines in the song seems extremely apropos: "So I've got to be stronger. I've got to prove I'm a winner. Lead them into the light. I've got to show them all that I'm right."
She's definitely on her way.
Maze has come so close to winning an overall crown in recent seasons. But Vonn has been standing in the way. The American has won four of the last five titles.
Vonn just recently returned to the slopes after battling a bad stomach bug that required her to spend some time in the hospital. She's still regaining her strength as the tour stops in Lake Louise for two downhill races and a super-G this weekend.
This is typically a place where Vonn shines. She's been so dominant at the venue that it's become affectionately known as "Lake Lindsey."
The same can't be said of Maze, who's never finished higher than seventh in Lake Louise.
This time around, she's loaded with confidence.
A fast start has her believing she can possibly unseat Vonn. Everything is just coming together after a strong offseason training program, which included grueling workouts on the beach.
"I was fighting with myself all summer to push myself to be stronger," said Maze, who won silver medals in the super-G and giant slalom at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. "It's working really well."
Can she capture the overall crown?
"I was dreaming about that. But dreaming is not enough," she said. "You need to make your dreams become reality. It's five years of working and trying to get on top of racing."
Ever so steadily, she's moved up the standings:
- In 2010, she was fourth.
- In 2011, third.
- In 2012, second.
"In mathematics, it's called missing No. 1," Maze said with a big grin. "Of course, that's a goal."
As for her singing career, she said she will just stick with her day job - for now.
However, she does think of her song as she glides down the course.
"It's good motivation to hear your song, to hear your voice, to hear your words," Maze said. "But I'm not a singer. I've never even tried to sing in front of people. I'm not sure if I could do a concert. I'd rather do a concert on skis."


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After a long weekend of drinkin' and druggin' I decided to make it a full weekend by swinging by Jonathan Viner's studio out in Brooklyn to see some of his new work, his new print operation and to be totally honest, to get a little more booze in me before the weekend was up.
Late in the day I head out from Jerz. while the whether was worth a shit.
Look at this beast of a structure (aka empire state building).
Rollin deep on the F train with an interesting bunch.
Got out to Viner's and was quite impressed with his table which he was eager to talk about... Metal and glass is always good shit!
Jonathan has been getting his lead on... Keep your eye on his store. He will be updating with fresh pencils pretty regularly. First come first serve!
The first of the upcoming edition of 75... So sweet!
More lead kicking around.
and more....
After a couple few Heinekens Jonathan got all Bushmill up on my ass!
There is a new batch brewing that will focus on vintage technology.
Bloodline print with super-fresh varnishing.
Way back when Jonathan's parent got married, before they got divorced his father had the option of going on a nice honey moon or buying this stereo receiver. Well as you can see his day chose the receiver... Not sure if that totally awesome or totally sad!?
Made it over to the second wing of the studio to check out some paint.
That is a fresh cabinet and peep the custom made speaker stands, dope!
Mixing the shit up all full table style.
Dewd does not take care of his plants very well.
Had a really dope pulley crank system set up, that lifts a large section of his wall.
And this is him explaining it. I have a sneaking suspicion that he may have shoplifted the materials. He is a hardcore street ass mother fucker as you can tell... Strait Gangsta!
How dope is this painting?
The first 2 editions out of Viner prints.
And then his lovely lady Emily showed up and showed her man some love....
...and this was about the time he sent me packing with a glorious parting gift. A Bloodline print. Thanks Buddy!
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The 41-year-old athlete admitted "yes" to using banned substances to enhance his cycling performances, using EPO, using blood transfusions and blood-doping to enhance his performance, and using other substances such as testosterone, cortisone, and human growth hormones.
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Hari, I believe you mentioned in another thread that you are using a Netgear WPN511 V2. What is the difference between the v2 and the standard one? I know the netgear are being sold really cheap as refurb cards. I was able to grab one for $9 canadian...I will test to see if it works.


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BOSTON — A Worcester tax return specialist was charged Monday with preparing false tax returns.
Nydia Elicier, 55, was indicted on seven counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
The indictment alleges that Ms. Elicier prepared individual federal tax returns for clients at Cox Elicier Tax, a Worcester business that she operated with her daughter, Jenniffer Cox Elicier. The allegations are that Nydia Elicier inserted false information into her clients' Form 1040 returns, including false adjustments and Schedule A deductions such as medical and dental expenses, gifts to charity, education expenses and other unreimbursed employee expenses.
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Instead of disabling the favicon on your Drupal 7 theme, you may choose to switch out the stock favicon with your own custom favicon. This article will show you how to do this in the Global Settings. Enabling the Drupal 7 global settings to allow you to use your custom favicon is simple to do with the following steps.
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Ideally your LR catalog and photo library should be on a external HD.
Good point, Fegari, the fast/slow external disk reaction...Some more questions to see if I understood:1) For SSD you mean an internal (bootable) SSD? => YES, internal SSD (all the drives I mentioned are internal by the way, SATA6)2) So you have the catalog on an internal drive, the pictures (archive) on an external, huge, 2 TB disk... => (No, as explained above both SSDs -boot and cache- plus the 2TB HDD are internal SATAs)Now: A) did you solve the point of the back-up of the "dynamic duo" (Catalog+Archive)? => Have no issues there. I use FreeFileSync (free!) and configured it to mirror the LR4 Catalog (in the SSD boot) and also the whole 2TB HDD (where the .dng / tiff /jpgs reside) into another internal HDD I have just for backups. Then I also backup the internal backup into an external 2TB WD Passport drive.B) what about the possibility to open your archive from another PC? => Don't need to. When travelling I use a separate Lightroom install in a Macbook Air , then when back at home I just export the new pics as catalog from the MacbookAir and then import it into the master LR on the desktop. By the way, just in case, when travelling I also backup the new pics on the portable WD Passport that I bring with me.ThanksMatteo
I do exactly the same thing as fegari for my LR setup and backup strategy.
Interesting. Does the OS go on the same SSD as LR and catalogue? Do you also run PS? If so, where do you put that?
Yes, the Boot SSD hosts the OS, LR, LR Catalog, Previews & PS (it is 256GB). The other SSD (80GB) is dedicated as a scratch disk and for non important applications (Word, Office etc).
Ok, thanks Fegari - that should make PS run pretty well and should take care of rendering previews in LR in library mode. The remaining constraint I guess you will have is rendering LR previews in Develop mode which will still be constrained by read speed off your files disk which is presumably a mechanical drive. With your configuration, do you find there is benefit to adding more memory or have you lessened the requirement for high memory with your SSD's. Thanks and Regards.


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Worried that Verizon might pass over the Samsung Galaxy S III? Jonathan Geller of BGR claims he has exclusively learned the details about Verizon's flagship smartphone launches for the remainder of 2012. Read on for the full details.
Samsung Galaxy S III
First up is the Galaxy S III. There was some speculation that Verizon might turn the next Galaxy into a Droid phone or even pass on it (like they skipped the Galaxy S II), but BGR says that Big Red will carry the phone. No release date was provided, but Geller thinks it will arrive sometime this summer.
Motorola RAZR HD
Next we have the Motorola RAZR HD. This is the device we had been calling the Droid Fighter. We still don't know the final product name, but this device will feature a look similar to the new RAZR. Upgrades include a 4.6 inch 720p HD display, 13 megapixel camera, and dual-core 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 processor. It will still pack a massive 3,300 mAh battery, and it should feature even longer battery life than the RAZR MAXX thanks to the Snapragon S4 chip with integrated LTE modem.
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At the time of their introduction, the Republic clone troopers represented the future of galactic warfare. Far superior to battle droids, the clone troopers formed the backbone of the Republic's new military that waged war against the forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. So symbolic were they of the times, the galaxy-wide conflict that saw their debut took its name from their ranks: the Clone Wars.
Clone Captain Rex
Clone Captain Rex served the Republic during the Clone Wars, often taking orders from Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano. He viewed military service as an honor, and he always completed his mission. Fond of using two blaster pistols at the same time, Rex customized his armor with distinctive blue markings. His loyalty to the Republic and his Jedi Generals was absolute, but even this dedicated veteran soldier found himself plagued by doubts as the Clone Wars claimed more lives and brought ruin to more worlds.
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A city-covered planet, Coruscant is the vibrant heart and capital of the galaxy, featuring a diverse mix of citizens and culture. It features towering skyscrapers, streams of speeder-filled air traffic, and inner levels that stretch far below the world's surface. Coruscant was the seat of government for the Galactic Republic and the Empire that followed, and was the site of numerous historic events during the Clone Wars. It also housed the Jedi Temple and Archives, which hosted Jedi training and learning for over a thousand generations -- traditions that ended when the planet bore witness to Order 66.
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For over a thousand years, the Galactic Republic stood firm as a democratic union that governed the galaxy. The Republic was governed by the Galactic Senate, consisting of elected officials from each system and world, and Jedi Knights served as peacekeepers. With the rise of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, however, the Galactic Republic -- and democracy -- would crumble.


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The diversity of mobile operating systems and application environments for mobile devices is constantly growing. From a developer's point of view it is getting more and more difficult to choose the 'right' platform. There are different criterias that have to be taken into account.
Google's Android and Apple's iOS tend to become the major players in the mobile market, while Java ME is getting more and more into the background. Application vendors that target common mobile devices and that do not sell their own hardware may want to choose a wide-spread platform. For vendors that sell their own, mostly special-purpose, hardware bundled with software, distribution might not be that cruical for business.
Basically, the more convenient a development environment is, the shorter are development cycles. As a result the application might be of higher quality and cheaper in development and maintainance. There are a lot of parts that make a development environment convenient: API, IDE, programming language, available tools.
From a long-term perspective, portability is rather important. The mobile market may change (again) dramatically in the next 10 years, and wide-spread platforms may become out of date as it is currently happening to Java ME. However, Java might be a good option for portability even if the 'Write Once, Run Everywhere' cannot be fullfilled to 100%. Apple's iOS is great but application vendors must also consider the fact that choosing iOS leads to a Lock-In situation.
In this symposia we want to present and discuss different mobile platforms:
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We want to discuss pros and cons of these platforms. Moreover, we want the participants to share lessons learned.
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One year into her role as president of New Jersey City University, Sue Henderson is preparing to unveil one of her first major achievements: the opening of a dedicated business school at NJCU.
Henderson will help cut the ribbon on Oct. 25, officially turning the school's department of business into a formal school. That move will place a greater emphasis on the growing business program at NJCU, formerly known as Jersey City State College, and will allow students to specialize in four distinct areas of business: accounting, finance, management and marketing.
"I think it gives you a far greater presence," Henderson said. "You have made an institutional commitment that's saying business is one of our important strategic areas."
That same day, NJCU also will open the Peter G. Mangin Real Estate Institute, which will offer seminars and lectures for real estate professionals, as well as programming for students that will help them earn a minor in real estate, Henderson said.
The announcement is part of major growth that Henderson has planned for the university, which is home to almost 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students. NJCU has already added Ph.D. programs in securities studies and educational technologies, and in the coming years, the university will tack 22 acres and two new buildings onto its footprint.
"I got here a year ago, and I knew that there was so much promise," Henderson said.
As part of that growth, Henderson said she has made it a priority to bring in strong faculty members. With the business school, where the student population has ballooned to about 900, that means adding professors with real-world expertise who can mentor students and help them land more meaningful internships and, eventually, jobs.
The new real estate institute also incorporates that real-world expertise, Henderson said. In fact, the idea for the institute came from Peter Mangin, who made his money off Jersey City real estate.
"If you look around Jersey City, the people who have benefitted the greatest have been a lot of the developers," Henderson said. "So we're starting an institute that would provide seminars every year for people in the real estate business and provide a minor within our business program."
The institute will be funded by a donation from former Congressman Frank J. Guarini.
NJCU also launched an honors program this fall, with 23 students who have come to the university on a full scholarship. And Henderson said the business school is planning to launch an honors program of its own soon.
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Ep. 10: Cinecon • Beggars of Life, with Thomas Gladysz
NitrateVille Radio Episode 10: Cinecon, with Stan Taffel and Michael Schlesinger • Beggars of Life, with author Thomas Gladysz
I went to France and all I got was a cold, but the podcast must go on, so in this episode I talk about one of the top festivals of the year, coming over Labor Day weekend, and a major silent film video release coming out August 22.
(01:58) Labor Day weekend brings the 53rd annual Cinecon in Hollywood, and I talk to Stan Taffel and returning guest Michael Schlesinger about how they dig through the studio vaults to find rarities to show at Los Angeles' best fest for the film buff who's seen everything. They talk about working with the studios to identify titles for restoration and making sure those restorations actually get seen, and about guests like Norman Lloyd, Patricia Morrison and Marsha Hunt, our last links to the golden age of Hollywood.
Here's the link to the Cinecon site, for tickets, the schedule, hotel info and more. Here's the Cinecon Facebook page.
(24:13) A stark, exciting tale of hobo life, starring Wallace Beery, Richard Arlen and Louise Brooks (disguised as a boy), Beggars of Life was William Wellman's followup to his big hit Wings and one of those great late silents from the last moment (1928) the form would exist. Kino Lorber's release of the George Eastman House restoration, with music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, is a vast improvement on greymarket releases and allows this film to be seen as it should be.
Thomas Gladysz, founder of the Louise Brooks Society (an acclaimed scholarly fan page that has existed since 1995), provides a commentary track on the Kino release and has also written a companion book, Beggars of Life: A Companion to the 1928 Film. I talk to him about this film, which among other things, stands out as Brooks' best work in America and likely the film that attracted the attention of G.W. Pabst for Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl.
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Mon, 24 Sep 2007
Objects Considered Harmful
From time to time I feel a strong urge to write an article describing how object-oriented programming is bad. Well, this post is not a full analysis, just a simple example. I have tried to read some Java code (maybe I am becoming a masochist :-), and found this:
/** * Get X position. * Shortcut for getPosition().getX(); * * @return X position */ public int getX() { return x; }
It is nine lines (and nine more for Y) so that they can write something like this:
myobj.getX() + myobj.getY();
instead of the following:
myobj.x + myobj.y;
I wonder why some programming languages tend to attract people who like to write mid-layers. Java is probably the worst one, but also Python with its Zope and Plone mammoths, and Ruby with RoR are similar. Wrapping wrapped wrappers into the wrapper code. I have yet to see something like this in Perl (yet OOP is widely used in Perl). I think accessors and mutators are amongst the worst habits in OOP. Most often they are just like the above code - dummy wrappers for the class member variable. Maybe Java people have some sort of mighty IDE, which generates such a write-only garbage for them.
In a related news (related to the mid-layer problem), see this post about trying to use Ruby on Rails (another midlayer-happy framework).
Comming soon on your favourite flamebait channel: Wrapping SQL Database to Objects Considered Harmful. Stay tuned.


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Seducing the Vamp
- $1.59
- Published By: eXtasy Books
- Author: Tianna Xander
- Page: 30
- Word Count: 6000
- Publication Date: August 10, 2010
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Vivianne's life is boring. When she asks her husband to participate in a sexual fantasy to spice up their sex life, he refuses. With her curiosity piqued and still bored to distraction, she attempts to battle the boredom with a visit to a local nightclub. Mysterious Dimitri has ideas her husband does not. Tall, dark and handsome, he's intense and impossible to refuse. She craves the excitement he generates. Will he give her the night of passion she craves or will something go horribly wrong?
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Eliza Dushku has stood against vampires, demons and the forces of darkness and even worked with James Cameron, but this weekend she will confront her biggest fear yet, the Bay State fans, as she embarks on the Boston Super Megafest this Saturday and Sunday at the Sheraton Framingham.
"I'm so comfortable at home, and I'm so comfortable in Boston. I love it so much," the 32-year-old Watertown native said while taking a break from filming in New York. "And I've done fan conventions all over the world. But this is my backyard. These are Boston people. I'm so excited, but I'm a little nervous."
Best known as driving a proverbial stake in the heart of pop culture as the emotionally troubled vampire slayer Faith on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (and the show's spinoff, "Angel"), Dushku is a "badass" in every good sense of the term. It also turns out she has a heart as big as the Hellmouth.
After a five-month search, a then 10-year-old Dushku was discovered and cast in the lead role of Alice in "That Night." It turned out that, despite her Boston brogue, casting agents thought her a natural.
"I remember my first casting director wrote on my casting sheet, 'Pretty good instincts. Horrible New England accent.' So I guess I had pretty good instincts but I did have a coach follow me around and knock my Boston accent out of me," Dushku recalled. " 'That Night' was a coming-of-age movie we shot in Baltimore with Juliette Lewis, and she won the Academy Award for 'Cape Fear' while we were shooting. I literally went to my first audition and next thing I knew I was the lead in this movie with this Academy Award-winning actress."
"That Night" would not be the only time Dushku would be cast opposite an Oscar winner. Her next movie, "This Boy's Life," had her acting alongside two-time Academy Award winner Robert De Niro and multiple Academy Award nominee Leonardo DiCaprio. The following year, Dushku played Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis' rebellious teen daughter (even though she was only 12) in James Cameron's "True Lies," which she enthusiastically confesses she would love to do a sequel to.
Even though she had done three major motion pictures before she was old enough to drive, Dushku said she imagined herself following in the footsteps of her mother, Judith Dushku, a political science professor at Suffolk University. In fact, she was enrolled at her mother's university when she got the call from the "Buffy" people that changed her life.
"I thought, I should go and do three episodes and make some money for my first year of school. So I went out to L.A., shot the first three episodes and immediately after those episodes aired, I had a response for that character that blew my mind. It really rocked my world to start getting messages from people that related to the character so much, so I felt strong and empowered by the character of Faith," Dushku said. "When they asked me to stay, I withdrew from school and that just continued."
Dushku acknowledges that one reason she was so good in the role of Faith was that the two shared many personality traits, except one.
"I've never killed anyone," Dushku said. "There were a lot of similarities. I remember I was 17 years old when I booked the job, and I was kind of doing the heavy makeup and 'badass' thing to the horror of my mother and my father at the time. So it was a little bit of art imitating life, without the murder."
Dushku said one of the joys of playing Faith was that Joss Whedon, the show's creator, didn't make the character black and white, but very complex with a lot of gray areas.
"Even though Faith did horrible things, it didn't mean she was bad. There's this whole path of redemption and finding out who she was and making horrendous mistakes and having consequences and still finding redemption and people who live for her. It was beautiful," Dushku said. "And, in the end, she was working with Buffy in the series finale, which I loved so much. Joss made Buffy and all the slayers give out the slayer power to all the women of the world. It doesn't get more empowering and feminist than that."
Her favorite Faith moment of all time actually happened on the "Buffy" spinoff show, "Angel," in the "Five by Five" episode from the first season.
"I kind of burned Wesley's face with Pam cooking grease and a flame and then Angel charges Faith and they crash out a window and the fight continues in the alley, and then I'm begging Angel to kill me and he just wraps his arms around me and helps me," Dushku said. "I remember that as a specific episode and experience that I really tapped into a deeper place in my acting as far as feeling it. I really kept surprising myself in a way, and people responded to the episode so intensely. It was really rewarding."
Despite her deep connection to the Faith character, Dushku turned down a "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" spinoff in favor of "Tru Calling." On the Fox series, Dushku played Tru Davies, a medical student/morgue attendant who has the ability to talk to corpses and to "relive" and right the wrongs of the previous day. When "Tru Calling" was canceled, Dushku reunited with Whedon for "Dollhouse" (also on Fox). She played "Echo," a "doll" for hire who ended up wearing a lot of skimpy outfits.
Currently, Dushku is providing the voice to the "She-Hulk" on the animated TV series, "Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H."
Dushku said after years of playing characters that "smash" people up, she is actually much calmer these days.
In addition to "Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.," Dushku is starring in the upcoming television reboot of the Roger Moore international espionage classic, "The Saint," as the feisty Patricia Holm. The pilot airs Jan. 15 on a cable network yet to be determined.
Last week, Dushku was finishing up "Jane Wants A Boyfriend," a film about a young woman with Asperger's trying to find her first boyfriend with a little help from her older sister (played by Dushku).
"I play a normal girl. No leather pants. And she doesn't have any super powers," Dushku said. "It's just a woman trying to deal with life and relationships."
In addition to working steadily on the big and small screens for more than 20 years, Dushku is deeply involved in two charities — THRIVE-GULU, a trauma, healing and reflection center for former child soldiers and victims of the war in Northern Uganda, founded by her mother in 2009; and Camp Hale in New Hampshire, a camp for inner-city Boston kids. Traditionally an all-boys camp, Dushku helped to establish an all-girls program there in 2012.
In addition to being at the Boston Super Megafest Saturday and Sunday, Dushku will have a "Meet and Greet Camp Hale Charity Drive" at 6 p.m. Saturday at the event. (Donations are $50; no photo-ops or autographs during the charity drive.)
As for her personal life, Dushku has been dating former Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers (and "Dancing with the Stars" contestant) Rick Fox for years. Fox will also be attending the Boston Super Megafest.


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Skip to comments.Public school children forced to pray to Allah
Posted on 09/16/2010 1:38:53 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Shocking video was released today by Americans for Peace and Tolerance:
The video was taken inside the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center - Boston's controversial Saudi-funded mega-mosque - during a Wellesley Middle School social studies trip to the mosque, ostensibly taken to learn about the history of Islam first-hand. Yet the video reveals that the students are being blatantly mis-educated about Islam. A mosque spokesperson is seen teaching the children that in Mohammed's 7th century Arabia women were allowed to vote, while in America women only gained that right a hundred years ago. This seems to be an increasingly recurring theme in American schools - the denigration of western civilization and the glorification of Islamic history and values. In fact, just recently, the American Textbook Council revealed that the New York State high school regents exam whitewashes the atrocities that occurred during the imperialistic Islamic conquest of Christian Byzantium, Persia, the African continent, and the Indian subcontinent, even as it demonizes European colonialism in South America.
The mosque spokesperson also taught the students that the only meaning of Jihad in Islam is a personal spiritual struggle, and that Jihad has historically had no relationship with holy war. As far as we know, the school has not corrected these false lessons.
Where is the ACLU, which sues schools which dare mention Jesus or permit football teams to pray before games? Why are Wellesly (a very wealthy town) school authorities taking children to be indoctrinated by an affiliate of the Moslem Brotherhood?
This is an outrage. I hope that some parents sue the district.
A must-watch for everyone.
This is NOT A RELIGION! When will the left and the media get it?
Answer - never. They like the death cult because the death cult want to destroy Christianity and Judaism.
I get it! The left desperately wants to destroy Christianity and Judaism and has allied with a violent death cult to help do it.
If we, the people of the U.S.A , do not put a stop this it will never stop until we have no U.S.A.
And to stop it we need to stop the ACLU and CAIR!!!!!
I'm afraid that like Great Britain and Tony Blair - they will get it when it is too late.
Conservatives could start by pulling their kids out of public school; but they won't.
Islam is a far richer and larger cult, and therefore, much more dangerous.
I believe out betters have decided on their (our) global religion, and it is Islam. Islam has none of those messy rights and freedoms we enjoy and it certainly doesnt believe in the sacredness of the individual as independent creations of God. What better religion for the serf/slave class of the New World Order than a totalitarian repressive system where everyone is a slave to someone else and all are slaves of their god. If anyone gets out of line, kill them. Our new masters of course, will be above these petty matters (or so they think). I think our progressive friends are too clever by half, thinking they will not be consumed by the tiger they would unleash among us. They too will find out, too late, that Satan isnt looking for partners. It will be small consolation to us who will be swallowed by the maelstrom they are working to create.
We cannot allow this to happen or our children will rightfully curse us for our bloodless submission.
Outrageous and offensive!
A Catholic participating in this is essentially denying his faith.
Being forced to participate is allowing the STATE to dictate which religion is acceptable.
Under Islamic law, after saying those prayers, the boys are now Muslims! Just like our Pretender-In-Chief. And like a Roach Motel, once you check in, you can't check out. Perhaps the school will send the parents a letter telling them: "How to raise your Muslim child."
Thank you, JCB!
You're welcome!
I'm sure you guys will be glad to know that my 15 yr-old sister is now being homeschooled.She's doing quite well,making very good grades!
It is too late for America already
I'm not quite sure how I got here but as someone who has seen the dead-eyed, oleaginous NYC imam taken down, I have no doubt that America will triumph.
As Sarah said, BUCK UP!
Technically true. But in practice that right didn't carry into countries where they could vote until the early 1900s. I'll look this up ... only one modern Muslim country in the world gave women the right to vote before the United States did, two years before by Azerbaijan (which didn't last two years until the Soviets took over). Others granted (not necessarily universal) suffrage as recently as 2006.
You may be interested in this.
"Where is the ACLU, which sues schools which dare mention Jesus or permit football teams to pray before games?"
Duh, the ACLU was at the Mosque for the event.
The question is, where is the apology from the ACLU?
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Dramatic Advances at CROI for HCV Treatment: Telaprevir, Boceprevir, Faldaprevir, Sofosbuvir, ABT-450, ABT-267, ABT-333 and Ledipasvir
May/June 2013
These featured new drugs in co-infected patients and interferon-free combinations in mono-infected patients highlighting the clinical decisions for optimal management and timing of treatment. Several studies were also presented on drug-drug interactions.
New and Pipeline Treatments
The three new groups of drugs with direct activity against hepatitis C are NS3/4 protease inhibitors (first generation of which, telaprevir and boceprevir are already approved), nucleoside/tide and non-nucleoside NS5B polymerase inhibitors (generally furthest along in pipeline development) and NS5A inhibitors. Although the study design differs between studies the top line results in this report highlights the vibrant optimism for approaching therapies.
NS3/4 Protease Inhibitors
There were several studies using NS3/4 protease inhibitors with pegylated interferon plus ribavirin (pegIFN/RBV) in coinfected patients with HCV genotype 1 infection.
Results from two ANRS studies using telaprevir and boceprevir in HCV treatment-experienced patients were included as oral presentations. These two recently approved drugs that are already standard of care but require dosing three times a day. Approximately 30-35% of patients in both studies had F3/4 cirrhosis although, as with most of the studies at CROI, decompensated cirrhosis was an exclusion criteria. Treatment duration was 48 weeks although this was extended to 72 weeks for patients without early treatment responses.
An interim analysis at 16 weeks reported approximately 90% of patients using telaprevir and 50-70% using boceprevir had early treatment responses (ETR) defined as undetectable HCV RNA. This has a strong correlation to sustained virological response (SVR), irrespective of previous non-response to pegIFN/RBV. This included 70% patients with F4 cirrhosis in the telaprevir study.
However, side effects were significant. Approximately 10% patients on telaprevir discontinued before week 16, about 30% of participants had grade 3/4 side effects and 58% required erythropoietin. There were 67 grade 3/4 side effects reported by the 39 patients in the boceprevir study, including 21 serious adverse events.
Once-Daily NS3/4 PIs: Faldaprevir and Simeprevir
Interim 12-week data in 308 HIV/HCV coinfected patients (239 naive, 69 previous relapsers) was also presented for faldaprevir. This is a once-daily NS3/4 protease inhibitor in development with Boehringer Ingelheim. All patients also used pegIFN plus ribavirin and the majority were also on ART.3
This late-breaker oral presentation reported greater than 90% ETR in HCV treatment-experienced patients and 85% in those using HCV treatment for the first time. These results were equivalent to those seen in HCV monoinfection. Approximately 10% of patients reported serious side effects with 6% of patients discontinuing the study early due to tolerability.
Another two oral late-breakers presented interim 24-week results with simeprevir (TMC435). This is a once-daily NS3/4 protease inhibitor in development with Tibotec/Janssen.4,5
One study included 50 HCV treatment-naive patients and 14 prior non-responders. All patients used pegIFN plus ribavirin. Rapid viral response (RVR) rates were approximately 90% at week 4 but was lower in previous null responders. Overall, 15% of patients experienced HCV treatment failure (approximate breakdown: naive 9%, previous relapsers 0%, previous partial responders 10%, previous null responders 36%). Approximately 30% of patients reported grade 3/4 with serious adverse events in 5% of patients and 4 discontinuations.
Interim results from a second study, combined simeprevir with the investigational nucleotide NS5B polymerase inhibitor sofosbuvir which is being developed by Gilead. This study was in prior non-responders, with some patients randomised to additional ribavirin but without using pegIFN. In the very small numbers of patients with longer follow-up data, sustained viral response (SVR) rates at week 4 and 24 were greater than 85%. The suggestion from this dataset was that when two effective DAAS are combined, even for previous IFN null-responders, ribavirin may not be required.
Shorter Treatment Duration: 12 Weeks in Acute HCV
Telaprevir with pegIFN plus ribavirin was also associated with higher response rates from shorter duration of treatment (compared to historical results using only pegIFN plus ribavirin) in a U.S. study of acute HCV genotype-1 infection. The results were from a small single-arm open-label study in 18 men with HCV genotype 1 and health insurance that would cover telaprevir treatment.6
Patients with RVR at week-4 stopped treatment at week 12, with an additional 12 weeks of pegIFN plus ribavirin for two patents without RVR.
The SVR rate at 4 weeks after end of treatment was 83% (15/18 patients). Over 75% of these men had IL28B CC genotypes. Interpretation of these results is thus complicated by the difficulty of knowing whether some of these people may have spontaneously cleared HCV without treatment and whether the shorter duration of therapy may only be applicable to sub-set of patients with IL28B CC genotypes, as is already becoming apparent in chronic genotype 1 HCV monoinfection.
Drug Interactions
The complexity of drug interactions with new HCV treatments was highlighted in several studies.
An interaction between telaprevir and ribavirin (RBV) in monoinfected patients appears to increase plasma levels of ribavirin by 1.5 fold and intracellular levels of RBV mono-, di- and tri-phosphates (by 2-3 fold). The mechanism for this is not yet unexplained, but this could explain the high rates of anaemia seen in the ANRS studies reported above.7
A poster reported that boceprevir increased plasma levels of the HIV NNRTI rilpivirine [GMR (90%CI) for AUC, Cmax and C24h levels was 1.39 (1.27, 1.52), 1.15 (1.04, 1.28), and 1.51(1.36, 1.68) respectively] but that this was not considered clinically significant and that no dose adjustment was necessary.8
CYP-mediated interactions between faldaprevir (FDV) and some ARVs in a study in uninfected volunteers reported that FDV exposure increased by 130% with darunavir/ritonavir (requiring an FDV dose reduction) and decreased with tenofovir, and efavirenz (by 22% and 35% respectively, both requiring FDV dose increase). FDV has no clinically significant affect on levels of darunavir or tenofovir.9
The best source for this growing complex field is the HCV drug interaction website developed by Liverpool University.10
Interferon-Free Treatment in HCV Monoinfection
Several studies in HCV monoinfected patients provided early results from other exciting pipeline HCV drugs often in interferon-free oral combinations.
A U.S. NIH-sponsored phase II study in difficult to treat (mostly African-American patients with genotype 1, non-CC monoinfection) using sofosbuvir (NS5B nucleotide) plus high/low dose ribavirin, reported high week 4 and week 12 early response rates (>95% and 90%) but that significantly lower SVR rates 24-weeks post-treatment (48-70%) suggesting that full weight-base ribavirin dosing is still required.11 This is different to the sofosbuvir/simeprevir combination (Cosmos study reported above).
An interferon free combination from Abbott used three new compounds: ABT450/ritonavir (PI), ABT 267 (NS5A inhibitor) and ABT-333 (non-nuceloside polymerase inhibitor), with and without ribavirin, reported SVR rates of around 90% or higher at 12 week post-treatment in treatment naive patients and around 90% in prior null responders. They also reported very low rates of relapse in the 4-drug arm in prior null responders after 8 and 12 weeks of treatment (~12% and 1% respectively, with little or no association with high HCV viral load or IL28B HCV genotype. In a logistic regression analysis of the quadruple therapy arms, length of therapy less than 12 weeks was the only statistically significant factor associated with risk of relapse, but note that this study excluded cirrhotic patients.12
Simeprevir (TMC-435) plus sobosfuvir (GS-7977), with and without ribavirin, with both 12 week and 24 week treatment arms in genotype 1 prior null responders showed significantly reduced rates of rapid virologial responses (RVR week 4) in the two-drug arms, suggesting that ribavirin may affect viral kinetics.. However, early results (SVR4) showed little difference between the 12 and 24 week treatment groups, suggesting that 12 weeks may be possible even fro prior null responders.13
Final results from another interferon-free combination using two Gilead compounds: sofosbuvir (NS5B nucleotide) plus ledipasvir (GS-5885; NS5A inhibitor), plus ribavirin, in patients with genotype1 monoinfection (25 treatment-naive and 9 previous non-reponders) reported 100% end of treatment responses and 100% 4-week post-treatment responses.14
The challenge in the current management of HCV/HIV coinfected patients is assessing who should use currently available, more difficult, but still successful treatments, and who may be able to wait for the treatment in development that are likely to be easier to tolerate.
This issue was the focus of a retrospective Spanish study looking at the risk of liver decompensation in 102 patients (86% were men) with HCV/HIV coinfection and with F3/F4 (57/43%) fibrosis over 12 years (median 5.6 years follow-up).15
Baseline characteristics included median (IQR) age was 39 (37-44) years, CD4 cell count 497 cells/mm3 (331-666) and 71% had undetectable HIV viral load.
The incidence of decompensation events per 100 patient years was 0.12 (95% CI: 0.05-0.28) cases vs 0.45 (0.26-0.78) for patients with F3 vs. F4 stage respectively at baseline. The probability of remaining free of decompenstation for patients with F3 vs F4 was: at 1, 3 and 5 years was 98% (88%-100%) vs 86% (71%-93%); 94% (82%-98%) vs 75% (59%-86%) and 84% (62%-94%) vs 59% (38%-75%) respectively (p=0.007).
Although baseline fibrosis F4 vs F3 only showed a borderline association [HR 2.7; 95%CI: 0.93-7.95; p=0.067), baseline platelet count <100 x 103 was significant associated with the risk of decompensation (HR 3.9: 95%CI 1.4-11.2; p=0.011). Predictors for progression also included F4 stage on biopsy or liver stiffness >14.6 KPa with Fibroscan.
Although the study concluded that patients with F3 fibrosis are at significant risk of decompensation over three years -- the expected time needed for need drugs to become available -- monitoring may help identify patients who have the lowest risks and where waiting may be appropriate.
Note: This article is based on a BHIVA feedback lecture that is posted online as a webcast.16
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It's the second leg of "The Amazing Race," and we learn some interesting factoids about the teams.
For example, one of the blondes snorts when she is almost hit by a taxi. Was it a snort of laughter? Or of fear? It all happened so quickly.
Also, were you wondering how Team Monster Truck met? Her former husband was his best friend, and the husband was killed in an accident. Wow. At least they're both happy now, although I think they would be even happier if they both had green hair.
Last fun fact: The Twins claim to be the opposite of divas, and in fact they say they are the "most badass Sri Lankans you will meet." I hope you remember that the...


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Video: Gay Liberal Candidate "Comes Out" To His Tea Party Dad
Nigel Campbell | September 18, 2013
Blood is clearly thicker than water--and, in this case, politics--as shown by this really cute campaign ad from self-described gay Massachusetts liberal Carl Sciortino.
Sciortino has been state representative in Massachusetts since 2004 and he's now running in the Democratic primary to ultimately take a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
According to The New Civil Rights Movement, "He is a raging progressive, author of a bill that keeps abortion protesters from being able to accost clinic patients, and an outspoken proponent of raising the minimum wage. Rep. Sciordino has been reelected to his seat four times."
And his dad's in the Tea Party. Check out Sciortino's campaign ad, "Father's Son."
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Alpha-Lipoeic Acid
This anti-oxidant fights the signs of aging that come from being exposed to the sun's UV rays. It encourages new cell growth and is beneficial against free-radicals. Some ot it's noted uses are:
- A potent and versatile antioxidant.
- It inhibits cross-linking, the formation of chemical bridges between proteins or other large molecules. Cross-linking contributed to the aging process by causing hardening of arteries, wrinkling of the skin and stiffening of joints.
- It has moderate anti-inflammatory effect.
Alpha-Lipoic acid was first discovered and known to be important to the body when it was noted that it prevented Vitamin C and Vitamin E deficiencies. It can also help to maintain the youthfulness of the cells by eliminating dangerous chemicals that result as a by-product of energy production.
Natural Occurences of Alpha-Lipoic Acid
Alpha-Lipoic Acid naturally occurs in: kidney, heart and liver meats as well as spinach, broccoli and potatoes.
ZENMED's uses this ingredient in our Skin Support Supplement, a great solution to be used for daily skin care conditioning.


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Take Captech, a 300-person IT consulting firm headquartered in Richmond, Va. The 14-year-old company has indeed saved on travel costs, but that's not necessarily what they set out to do. IT operations manager Brett Bajcsi said in an interview that as Captech grew beyond one office--it now has five, plus other remote employees scattered around the country--it needed a way to keep people from feeling too, well, remote.
"As you find yourself distributed into more markets, it's harder to bring people together," Bajcsi said. "The big challenge for me is: How do I find a way to make people feel like they work for Captech?"
Bajcsi said a branch office could feel like a "rogue state" without the opportunity for regular, face-to-face interaction with the company's partners, management, and other teams. While videoconferencing isn't a complete substitute for in-person meetings, it can come pretty close.
"It's one thing if you talk on a phone to someone--you hear their voice, you hear what they're saying. Or you read what they're saying in an email," Bajcsi said. "But you can't read them. Videoconferencing allows you to do that."
Captech first deployed videoconferencing for its internal company meetings, such as its weekly marketing session. Doing so enabled remote employees to better see presentations and other visual content, whereas in the past they'd quite literally been left in the dark.
The company soon found other videoconferencing uses that have become integral to regular operations. It began conducting job interviews via videoconference rather than requiring candidates to travel to the Richmond headquarters and reimbursing the associated costs, which was it's previous process. Bajcsi said the video interview method has worked well to date.
Videoconferencing has also become core to the company's extensive employee training programs. "It's been very useful for that," Bajcsi said. "We've been able to integrate remote offices with [video] training as opposed to having them travel."
Meetings, recruiting, and training use cases have all generated significant travel savings. From a return on investment standpoint, Bajcsi notes as an example 15 employees who drive down from the company's Washington, D.C.-area office to Richmond--about 180 miles roundtrip at 51 cents per mile--for a 5 p.m. all-hands meeting. Those employees are likely spending the night in a hotel--say at $100 or $120 each for the night. Then there are meals and miscellaneous expenses. Punch all that into a calculator, and Bajcsi said one videoconferencing endpoint pays itself off after a couple of comparable meetings. Captech's video technology is almost exclusively Cisco gear, including the C40 and EX90 endpoints, and Movi. Bajcsi said the company will occasionally use Skype for a job interview.
The company's video usage has since expanded beyond its corporate borders. "We've been able to leverage it for client work, which has really been fantastic," Bajcsi said. They've begun using videoconferencing for a project with the Virginia Department of Transportation, one of Captech's customers. That has again saved on travel costs, but Bajcsi said it also reduced employee downtime while in transit to the client site, and allowed for daily check-ins rather than meeting in person at less regular intervals.
More recently, Captech actually installed one of its own endpoints at a client office, Tampa, Fla.-based financial service company Raymond James. Doing so helped Captech win an additional project with Raymond James; as a result, they're considering deploying their own endpoints at other customer offices.
"One of the things they were very concerned about was running a distributed Scrum development project," Bajcsi said. "We were able not only to offset issues related to distributed teams, but also significantly reduce travel costs and the impact of time spent in transit."
Bajcsi's advice for fellow IT managers considering a videoconferencing deployment can be summed up in two words: Start small.
"Don't try to solve every problem at once; don't try to anticipate every use case," he said. "Keep your scope small to begin with, understand how it's implemented and how it's going to work, and then expand from there."
Starting simply with meetings allowed Bajcsi's end users to become comfortable with the technology and learn what it could do. Then the users themselves began asking questions and driving demand for other videoconferencing applications.
"We've had some issues. It's a little different than walking into a room and turning on a projector," Bajcsi said. "Our users have really adopted it well. Most of the confusion in the beginning was what all you could do with it."
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A person who is heavily intoxicated to the point that his/her eyes deviate away from their head (much like how a hammerhead shark is)
Dude, you were so hammerhead last night!
by HurricaneGordon November 18, 2009
Another word for penis you can say in public
by V dux August 28, 2007
Term used in the cycling community for a really gung-ho athletic rider, the kind with an intense training regimen and a "need for speed." Named for their habit of dropping the hammer, or launching into unnecessary bursts of speed, particularly blowing off weaker riders in recreational group rides. In extreme cases, they've been known to blow off traffic lights and laws just to go fast. Too often matching the stock image of the athletic, lycra-clad scofflaw, they're often blamed for perpetuating a lot of ugly stereotypes about people on bikes.
"I get to the intersection on my bike, and just when I get the light, some hammerhead blows off the intersection right across my bath! He cuts me off, AND all those cars. Then they all start honking at me, even when I signal properly, because they think I'm a jerk, too. I'm just trying to get to work!"
by The Urban Husky October 30, 2011
A girl lays on a bed legs spread, vigorously double fisting her vagina, while a guy stands at the far corner of the room and he is bending over. He places his hands on his head thus imitating the dorsal fin of a shark. He charges forward toward his pray and plows that pussy into oblivion with his head creating the image of the elusive hammerhead shark.
Wow my vagina hurts. WHY? My boyfriend hammerheaded me several times yesterday.
by B2daALLZ September 01, 2006
A person who enjoys eating out excessively bloody assholes. They typically bite off small chunks of flesh in the process, adding to the bloody carnage.
Hammerheads usually perform this action in groups as part of a "feeding frenzy."
Hammerheads usually perform this action in groups as part of a "feeding frenzy."
That hammerhead is eating mad time asshole! Look at all that blood!
by UsedDinger October 23, 2013
(n.) One who is slow in grasping an idea or concept. One who talks the talk but cannot walk the coroporate walk. An albatross around the neck of any company, quite likely to scare away the customers. Hammerheads are often killed in road accidents.
by Kung-Fu Jesus May 09, 2004
Hammer head is someone who uses heroin and shoots up a lot, or likes to chase the dragon.
by calais kid November 16, 2009


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Great job ladies! I just wait for the webisodes. Lodell is doing amazing work.
By the way Cardmaking 101, your sister site, is just what many of us "newbies" needed. Thank you so much.
I love your Webisodes, and look forward to them every week.
I especially like it when Ann gives us the "story" of her creative journey -- as when she tells us about the things she tried that didn't work, and her successful solutions. Maybe your other helpers could share some of their trials too!!
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Terrific stamps and I love all the uses! Versatility is the word! As to Smooch, when I first purchased some a while ago, I actually painted my nails with them. And no, the colors never did dry on my nails. "sigh.." But it did look pretty while it lasted!
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Intangible Assets are non-physical assets on a company's balance sheet
Intangible assets are assets that cannot be physically seen or touched. In general this includes things like intellectual property (such as patents and trademarks), brand recognition, and trade secrets. On the balance sheet, intangible assets add to the total asset value and, as such, are a component of the total book value.
While the value of intangible assets is harder to calculate than physical assets such as equipment or factories, intangibles have no less real value than their physical counterparts. There are several methods used in calculating the value of intangible assets, all of which rely on an accountant or accountants' estimates of worth.
In most cases, GAAP does not allow internally generated intangibles to show up on the balance sheet. For example: Coco-Cola corporation would not list the value of its brand on its balance sheet. On the other hand, if a company pays more than the fair value to acquire another company, the difference is shown as goodwill in the acquirer's balance sheet. Also, research-based companies, such as drug-manufacturers, are allowed to capitalize their research and development expenses -- since, in theory, research provides value long after it has been completed.
Some intangibles are amortized, i.e. written off, as expense over time. Under the U.S. GAAP goodwill cannot be written off as expense unless the company has a reason to believe that it has reduced in value. Amortization of intangibles decrease income of the company and hence offer tax benefits.
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Sandwiches are the cornerstone of lunch and dinner menus at both limited- and full-service restaurants, where they are offered more than any other entrée. More consumers report purchasing sandwiches away from home today vs. just two years ago, due in large part to operators' innovative responses to consumer demands for lower prices, greater variety, fresher fare, flexible portions and healthier items.
While the industry as a whole lost 4,500 restaurants in 2011, the limited-service sandwich segment grew by 800 units, spurred by Subway, which netted 872 new franchised restaurants in the U.S. focusing on healthy, fresh, and lower-priced sandwiches.
"Today's consumer expects greater customization and broader sandwich options," says Darren Tristano, executive vice president, Technomic, which recently released its Sandwich Consumer Trend Report. "Trends in portion flexibility, variety, freshness and shareability have come to the forefront of this segment. Shareable options give operators a chance to go beyond the standard menu and try new ethnic sandwiches. Often these ethnic and next-level sandwiches, which focus on gourmet ingredients and toppings, are introduced through mini sandwiches or wraps. Giving consumers smaller, shareable portion options can be considered as healthier with less calories. This trend shows no signs of slowing down."
Interesting findings from the Sandwich Consumer Trend Report include:
- 41 percent of consumers ages 25-34 would like more restaurants to offer mini-sandwiches that can be eaten as a snack or light meal, up 15 percentage points since 2010
- Gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches continue to take off. This simple American sandwich staple is getting an update, as whole concepts are being built on the appeal of high-end, high-quality grilled cheese
- Specialty breads offer operators and suppliers a strong avenue for sandwich differentiation. Focaccia, ciabatta, and sourdough have seen modest increases on menus
- Gluten free flatbread, bun and wrap options are becoming increasingly prevalent
- More consumers are purchasing grab-and-go sandwiches, reflecting a greater shift toward increased convenience and prepared foods


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I think this is an argument against watching regular TV let alone porn. It is so tempting to use the intimate gaze because the woman on the TV can't see you. I would find it difficult to maintain the social gaze let alone the business gaze.To build good rapport with someone, your gaze should meet theirs 60% to 70% of the time.
BUSINESS GAZE - Imagine there is a triangle on the other person's forehead. Keep your gaze directed on this area. This will create a serious atmosphere. The other person will know you mean business.
SOCIAL GAZE - When the gaze drops below the other person's eye level, a social atmosphere develops. Look at the triangular area below the eyes (include the nose and mouth).
INTIMATE GAZE - This gaze goes across the eyes and below the chin to other parts of the body. When close it forms a triangle from the eyes to both sides of the chest or breasts. From a distance it is from the eyes to the crotch. If the person is interested, he/she will return the gaze.
The type of gaze you use in face to face encounters have powerful results. Use the appropriate gaze for this situation.
From: Where Do Your Eyes Gaze? by: Kathy Thompson
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SOURCE: The Boston Consulting Group
February 07, 2013 00:01 ET
Drawing on a Unique Database of Private-Equity Deals, BCG and Research Partner HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management Show That Owners of Secondary Buyouts Create Substantial Value
Drawing on a Unique Database of Private-Equity Deals, BCG and Research Partner HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management Show That Owners of Secondary Buyouts Create Substantial Value
MUNICH, GERMANY--(Marketwire - Feb 7, 2013) - Secondary buyouts (secondaries) produce returns that match or even exceed returns on primary buyouts (primaries) sold to private-equity (PE) acquirers -- while carrying substantially less risk, according to a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management. The report, titled "Take a Second Look at Secondaries: Owners That Raise Their Value-Creation Game Can Excel," is being released today.
The report's findings are a strong challenge to critics who claim that secondaries -- companies whose ownership passes from one PE buyer to another -- are second-rate assets, because they have little potential for value creation. Drawing on one of the largest samples of primary and secondary buyout transactions ever compiled, the report reveals that the median annual return on the secondaries in the database was 24 percent, compared with 20 percent on primaries sold to PE acquirers. Another key finding suggests strongly that merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, not leverage, is the surest route to improved returns on secondaries. The median annual return on secondaries that did add-on M&A was 25 percent, compared with a median return of 15 percent on those that did not.
"The competitive returns of secondaries that engaged in add-on dealmaking were driven by the synergies and operational improvements that the deals generated," said Dr. Jens Kengelbach, a BCG partner and coauthor of the report. "So it is puzzling that less than 30 percent of secondaries in our sample engaged in M&A -- even though private-equity executives generally regard M&A as their primary value-creation lever, ahead of alternatives like geographic expansion and outsourcing."
Tertiary Buyouts Are a Viable Exit Strategy
Many PE professionals regard tertiary buyouts (tertiaries) as the exit of last resort -- to be engaged in only if the market's IPO window is closed or strategic buyers show little interest in the asset. But the evidence does not support this view. Returns on secondaries sold to a tertiary buyer were within striking distance of the returns on trade sales. The median annual return on the tertiaries was 21.5 percent, compared with 25.8 percent on the trade sales.
Secondaries that were exited through a sale to a tertiary buyer also held up well compared with those exited through a trade sale on operational-performance metrics such as sales and earnings growth. With little evidence that the IPO market will revive in the near future, investors in secondaries should know that tertiaries remain a viable option.
Secondary Buyouts Are Here to Stay
The report is especially timely, because secondary buyouts have become an increasingly prominent feature of the PE landscape. Secondary and later-stage deal volume in the first nine months of 2012 was roughly $56 billion, according to statistics compiled by Preqin, a clearinghouse for information on alternative investments. Activity in secondary and later-stage transactions is likely to remain high for the foreseeable future, owing to steep declines in public-to-private deals, the moribund state of the market for initial public offerings, continuing efforts by PE firms to deploy capital accumulated during the buyout boom, and pressure from investors for the return of some of their funds.
Better Value Creation Drives Better Performance
The tactics that in the past produced strong returns for secondaries -- M&A and efficiency improvements -- will continue to create value in the years to come. In addition, secondary owners will need to focus more strongly on organic growth. In the future, the PE firms that outperform with secondaries will be those with the skills to pursue organic top-line growth activities while continuing to engage in M&A and realize operational improvements. In short, to maximize returns on their holdings, PE sponsors need to be prepared to use the complete value-creation toolkit.
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Reviewed by Dominik C (age 7)
I liked this book because it was interesting to read. You could learn about the Wright Brothers and their flying machine. I liked the characters Wilbur and Orville because they never really grow up. My favorite part was when Tom Tate got to fly in the first glider because I like to fly in planes. I liked the illustrations because they showed what the gliders, and Kitty Hawk looked like.
Everybody would like this book because it's exciting when they fly in the propeller plane. Anyone who likes planes would love this book.


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Using an application, like CASA's Image Cutter or the Automatic Tile Cutter, you can create your own map tiles for Google Maps. It is therefore possible to replace Google Maps tiles with other maps.
Among the first to take advantage of this were game fans, producing maps for World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto. Graphic designers and artists, however, soon woke up to the fact that the Google Maps interface is a great way to present a design portfolio. All you need to do is create map tiles from a collage of work.
The Google Maps' navigation tools can then be used to zoom in on designs and map markers to provide further information about an individual work.
Here are some of my favourite design portfolios using Google Maps:
Markus Dressen
German book designer Marcus Dressen has created a Google Maps mashup of his designs. The mashup replaces the Google Maps tiles with map tiles showing Dressen's cover work.
Dressen also uses map markers, shaped like ink blots, to provide information about each of his designs.
Blaubo Design
Blaubo Design have stitched together shots of a number of their website designs and created map tiles from the image.
Using the Google Maps interface to browse the designs enables the user to centre on any design and zoom in to view details. Blaubo Design have also used map markers for each design. This means the user is able to click on the relevant marker and open an information window with a link to the actual web page shown.
Design With An Accent
News Zealand web designer Stas Kulesh has used the Google Maps API to produce a portfolio of his work.
The portfolio map replaces the Google Map tiles with custom map tiles showing Stas' web designs. The result is an interactive portfolio that can be used to scan and zoom in on examples of Stas' web designs and photography.
Stas has has also produced a menu, with links that open information windows above some of the designs.
Academie Arnhem Portfolio Map
The Academie Arnheim have used custom map tiles with the Google Maps API to present the work of the final examination candidates of The ArtEZ Academy of Arnhem. The academie has replaced the Google Map tiles with custom tiles created from images of the students' work. The images represent the artistic work of the students after four years of studying at the acadamie and mark the start of their career as artists, designers or teachers of visual arts and design.
The acadamie has also done some impressive programming (with jquery I think) to overlay text links on each of the student's work. Clicking on any of the links loads information about the art work directly onto the map, .
Kalle Hagman
Graphic designer Kalle Hagman has created a Google Map of his art work. When the page first loads the map is zoomed in on an image of Kalle's business card. The user can then use the Google Maps navigation tools to zoom in and examine in close up any of Kalle's featured work.


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Lisa Dempster with her new book, Neon Pilgrim and emcee and fellow author, Simon Groth at Avid Reader, Brisbane.
This past Wednesday night I had the pleasure of being in attendance when my friend Lisa Dempster launched her first full-flung, non-fiction book, Neon Pilgrim at Avid Reader in the West End of Brisbane.
*Seriously unfit and unmotivated, Lisa Dempster is an unlikely candidate for a gruelling outdoor adventure. But when her life needs a shake-up, she decides the only thing for it is to hike the henro michi, a 1200 kilometre Buddhist pilgrimage through the mountains of Japan.
Lisa plunges into life on the road, getting well off the beaten track and experiencing the highs and devastating lows of solo long-distance hiking. Along the way she sleeps in a public toilet, befriends a motley crew of wandering ascetics, falls in lust with a monk and tries her darndest to avoid the local wildlife. As the kilometres tick excruciatingly by, she realises that to finish the pilgrimage it's more than just physical hardship that she'll need to overcome…
Lisa's journey from overweight dole bludger to intrepid explorer is a witty and fascinating insight into Japan's famed 88 Temple Pilgrimage.*
Having predominantly been on the publisher / editor side of things, this was Lisa's first experience on the side of being a solo author (she previously co-authored Veg*n Shopper: an essential pocket reference with aduki publisher Emily Clark), and from what I've read so far, she has an extremely engaging and honest style of writing; and I have absolute respect for her in even contemplating the pilgrimage she undertook.
I met Lisa through a mutual friend a few years back, and completed a commission of covers for the first series of her Mini Shots series, as well as contributing to The Sex Mook and The Death Mook and with this latest book, its preceding hike, and her role as owner and publisher at Vignette Press I am always amazed at her energy, enthusiasm and tenacity.
If you have a chance, you should check out the following artist talks and Melbourne book launch:
1-4 October – Book launch and reading, plus panel appearances at the National Young Writers' Festival, Newcastle (NSW)
6 October – Author talk, Ashfield Library, Sydney (NSW)
10 October – Workshop at Art Jam Festival, Fyshwick (ACT)
14 October – Book launch at Readings, Carlton (VIC)
11 November – Author Talk at Whitehorse Manningham Library, Nunawading (VIC)
18 November – Author talk at Burnside Library, Adelaide (SA)


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Royal Cliff Hotels Group Sponsors 1st Fitz Club Squash Tournament!
Come and join the fun at Fitz Club – Racquets, Health & Fitness as Royal Cliff Hotels Group invites one and all to compete in the 1st Fitz Club Squash Tournament that will be held on March 8-9, 2014.
The tournament is set to bring all Squash enthusiasts in Pattaya together for a day of fun and camaraderie while enjoying a sport they all love. Players of all standards are welcome to participate and enjoy a rewarding Squash experience! Squash lovers who are interested but are not confident enough of their playing skills to join the tournament are also welcome to come and enjoy this exhilarating event as spectators. Prizes will be given to the winners and runners up.
Registration starts at 8:30 am on March 8, 2014 and the tournament will commence at 9 am.
For more information, please contact Mr. Romeo, the Fitz Club Assistant Manager or any of the Fitz Club reception team at Tel no: + 66 38 250421 ext: 2621 or 2622 or email: email@example.com. Please register early as playing slots are limited.
Don't miss out on the fun and competition, register now!
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Office of EC veep jumps gun on net privacy law
No statement on withdrawn statement
The office of the vice-president of the European Commission has withdrawn a rather extensive statement on cookies and the EU Data Protection Directive sent out last week "without authorisation".
Out-Law.com, the legal news site, had written a story last week using the statement from Viviane Reding, where she said that companies needed prior consent to use individual's data, a contradiction of the UK government's stance that consent could be given after or during processing of the data.
The story has now been taken down and replaced with the following:
A story previously published here was based on a statement of EU Commissioner Viviane Reding's views on cookies and the EU Data Protection Directive.
We have been informed that the statement does not represent the Commissioner's views and was sent without being authorised so we have removed the story.
The confused staff at The Reg asked the VP's office what had happened, but were told it had no further statement on the statement.
Spokesman Matthew Newman did add, however, that "the reform of the Data Protection Directive is ongoing and our proposals should be released in the next 20 weeks".
The bone of contention is in the interpretation of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive, or e-Privacy Directive – a continuation of the Data Protection Directive – which says that firms can only store and use the information on computers "on condition that the subscriber or user concerned is provided with clear and comprehensive information... about the purposes of the processing, and is offered the right to refuse such processing by the data controller", with one exception:
This shall not prevent any technical storage or access for the sole purpose of carrying out or facilitating the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary in order to provide an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user.
When cookies are used as a way to take you from one part of a site to another, eg, from a product page to checkout, this is seen by some as included in this exception.
It is hoped that the reform of the directive, expected in the next six months, will clarify issues around consent. ®