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How To Make Money Online With Amazon
If you've got a web site, you can make money with Amazon.
When Amazon.com started out, books were their main focus. The appeal was you could find pretty much any book in the world through Amazon. It was a good deal. So good, in fact, that Amazon decided to branch out. They started to offer other, non-book items. Amazon was trustworthy, careful, and professional; business continued to be great. So they kept branching out farther and farther, until they became the powerhouse we know them as today. You can order nearly any product online through Amazon.com.
"Well, that's great," you might think. "I can do the same with eBay." True. And eBay is often the place to find that super rare item that Amazon just doesn't carry. But the difference between Amazon and eBay is trust.
When you buy through Amazon, you buy through a company that has proven it will uphold its end of the bargain. When you buy through eBay, you're often buying from a new seller each time. Many transactions on eBay are person-to-person. So there's no corporate history of good business there. All you know is how the seller treated their previous customers, and maybe how they handled a previous transaction with you. There's a big difference between eBay and Amazon.
Many people feel much safer dealing with Amazon. Personally, if something I want to order is on Amazon, I don't have to worry about eBay. The great thing about Amazon is that the prices are usually better than you'd find in stores. There's a decent discount that you'll find on most products that is highly appealing. And most orders over $25 can be shipped free.
So Amazon is great. How can you make money with them? By becoming an affiliate.
Lots of sites out there like to have ordinary people like us push their products to others. "Hey, Joe, why not buy through these guys?" Joe takes your advice, and you get a referral commission. You get a percentage of a sale that you made happen. Being an affiliate marketer (selling other people's products) can be a great way to make money online. You don't handle the goods, you simply deal in ideas. It's your job to make your product sound so great that your visitors just can't stand not buying it.
What really helps smooth things over with a potential buyer is when they can trust the company you're recommending. You can sell them on the best product in the world, but if they don't have faith in the seller, you won't get a commission. That's what is so good about Amazon. They've already proven to most people that they can be trusted.
The basic Amazon Affiliate process is this: You sign up, get approved, and then gain access to a part of Amazon where you can create links and widgets advertising Amazon products. You put those links and widgets on your web site. If someone clicks one of your links or widgets, they'll be taken to the Amazon site through your referral link. That creates a 24 hour window. If within that window the customer buys an item, you will receive a 4% referral fee. That means that if they purchase a $100 item, you'll be credited with $4. Once a purchase is made, the 24 hour window closes. If the customer adds an item to their shopping cart, but doesn't buy it, you'll still receive the referral fee once they buy it, as long as it happens within 90 days. If the customer goes through your link to Amazon, leaves, and then clicks on someone else's referral link, your 24 hour window will close.
You can earn a higher % referral fee (up to 8.5%) if you refer lots of customers to buy. There are other products you can earn even higher percentages on. Right now referring Kindle products (the Kindle is Amazon's new $399 ebook reader) will earn you 10%. Amazonmp3's will get you 20%.
So, let's go through the signup process.
Go to Amazon.com, and scroll down to the bottom of the screen. You should see this:
Click the Join Associates link.
Click the Click Here link.
You can use the same email and password for your customer account with Amazon, or you can create a separate account specifically for your use as an Associate. Assuming you already have a customer account, and will be using it for Associate purposes to, you'll be brought to the following page.
Fill in all the information, agree to the terms, click continue, and you should see this:
"You can start making money today by adding links to your Web site or creating an aStore now! You choose the links you want, we create the HTML for you, and you paste the HTML into your site."
Once you've got access, you can begin to familiarize yourself with all the different options for creating referral links. There are simple, classic links, and some newer flashier ones. My advice would be to try each one. You may find that some fit the theme of your site better than others. Most of the widgets are highly customizable. Blending (making new links, widgets, etc. look like they belong) is usually a good idea.
Be sure not to post anything like, "Sponsored by Amazon" on your web site. I once read about a site that did that. A visitor emailed Amazon complaining about that site. They were shocked that Amazon would sponser them, because they didn't feel the content featured there was morally upright. Technically, no site is sponsored by Amazon just because it uses their affiliate links. Amazon decided to sever their agreement with that site. No more referral commissions for them. Don't make the same mistake.
The trick to make the most money is once you've got your affiliate links all set up, drive as much traffic to your site as possible. The more people who encounter your links, the more who will click, and the more who will buy.
Good luck, and happy Amazonian trails.If you enjoyed this post, I'd be delighted to have you as a subscriber to my RSS feed.
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I've already started a felt collaboration with my felter colleague Moira, working on the theme WATER and enjoying it.
Are you up for felt fun in a day workshop on Saturday, the 5th of October,10.30am - 4pm in Glasgow/Bishopbriggs?
We will spend a fabulous day in a group of felt friends of all skill levels! Beginners are welcome! You can do wet and/or needle felting. Here's a link to the FeltUnited website.
This workshop is not a teaching workshop of a certain felt technique; even I hope, you get lots of ideas and learn something new about felt making and share your own experience with others.
You can either use the wool, fabric and tools provided or bring your own material. I would like to ask for a basic pay of £15, exclusive wool or other material. There will be a separate charge for wool and other material used, depending on your usage.
If you would like to stay for a shorter period of time and not for the full workshop, please feel free to do so. Just please, let me know about in advance.
Tea, coffee and biscuits provided.
Please bring along:
- 1 towel for wet felting and 1 plastic bag for the finished item.
- your own ideas about the theme WATER! :-)
- wool and other material to include in your felt project, if you want to use your own material.
- a packed lunch, or you can buy a lunch in shops nearby.
Venue: Laryna E. Wuppermann, 63 Crowhill Road, G64 1QY, Glasgow/ Bishopbriggs (3 min walk from train station)
Mobile: 07503210416
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Sorry for the delay, my fellow travelers, but trust me...I have lots to tell you about.
First off, I'm roughly five thousand words away from closing out The Shadow Legion Casebook Volume One. The last story to be completed will be 'Amongst Monsters,' which sees Maybelle Tremens, the psychic detective known as Dreamcatcher, comes to the aid of a brand new hero whose encounter with a hideous creature has led them to a veritable house of horrors! You will learn a lot about Maybelle and what sets her apart from her fellow Shadow Legionnaires mentally, emotionally and physically while also getting more glimpses of the menace that will be looming over the city of Nocturne in the next two novels, which are tenatively titled Machina Ex Deus and Urban Inferno!
I also recently finish the preliminary draft for 'Sit By The Fire' (the title may change), the first new Don Cuevo story in years. An old man is visited by our frontier exorcist and his beautiful assistant during one of the nastiest snowstorms in memory. The old man serves them some food and is willing to let them warm up....but Cuevo has some suspicions about the man's hospitality and a mission he must carry out. I know where I'd like for this story to go, but I don't want to jinx it by saying much more.
Now onto things still being worked on...
You've probably already seen the announcement that I am the one new author to play in the worlds of Monster Earth for it's second collection. The story I'm working on is called 'Giants of Industry,' and I'll tell you more as we get closer to completion.
Then there's 'The Town That Hated Santa Claus,' the new Doc Thunder story that's slated to appear in this year's Pulpworks Press Christmas Annual. I'm roughly two thousand words in, and the story might be self-explanatory from the title, as Elias Thunder responds to a curious letter to Saint Nick from a child, teaming up with a mysterious stranger to visit a small town that shuns the holidays.
There's also a third project that I was just invited to. I can't go into details just yet, but I will say it plays into one of my great passions (one that I devote an entire blog to, in fact) and it's one I'm looking forward to letting loose on!
Since these three projects have roughly the same deadline (October or thereabouts), I'll be focusing on them before returning to The Shadow Legion Casebook and The Adventures of Tao Jones. Plus, there's the other project that needs a little explanation....
Several years ago, I proposed a short story anthology to Pulpworks Press called Amazing Alternity Stories, a collection of tales in alternate universes where famous personages took very different paths. Amongst the tales pitched to me and turned in were ones where Abraham Lincoln was a crime-busting boxer, Charles Darwin was an intergalactic lawman; Winston Churchill was a spy; Barack Obama was a masked avenger; and a number more (although I will admit I regret that the writer who pitched the story featuring George Carlin as a Vietnam-era fighter pilot never submitted anything). I asked for a few rewrites....
And then I stalled. I can't honestly say why the progress on the anthology stopped so dead for so long. When I got the opportunity to write New Roads To Hell, the collective brain trust behind Pulpworks Press took the project off their production slate and asked me to concentrate on the novel.
Well, the novel's been finished for a while. The second book is just about done. I had an idea for what will become my second novel I was looking for a home for. Pulpworks Press wanted to do it, but we both knew there was a big ol' elephant in the room that needed to be put behind us....
Thus, Alternity Lives!
I am in the process of compiling the stories into the final manuscript. God willing, you'll see it this winter!
So yes, it's true. I've got a lot on my plate. And hopefully, you'll all enjoy what I serve up in the coming months!
Your Gateway To The Chimera Falls Universe and The Shadow Legion, Heroes of Nocturne.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Coming Soon....
As we get closer and closer to the release of New Roads To Hell, the first Shadow Legion novel from Airship 27, a bunch of my friends and I got together and made an old-school audio promo! You can download it here!
I want to thank my cast for stepping up. To wit:
Narrator: William Robinson
Gunsel: Paul Herrman
Black Talon: Kelen Conley
Gloria: Rachel Bailey
Nightbreaker: Michael Bailey
Ferryman: Desmond Reddick
Dreamcatcher: Trelina Gonzalez Anderson
Rose Red: Megan Reddick
Johnny Seven: Andew Leyland
Kelen Conley also provided the musical bed. Let's all give them a round of applause!
I'll have more goodies for you to enjoy as we get closer to the release date...so stay tuned!
I want to thank my cast for stepping up. To wit:
Narrator: William Robinson
Gunsel: Paul Herrman
Black Talon: Kelen Conley
Gloria: Rachel Bailey
Nightbreaker: Michael Bailey
Ferryman: Desmond Reddick
Dreamcatcher: Trelina Gonzalez Anderson
Rose Red: Megan Reddick
Johnny Seven: Andew Leyland
Kelen Conley also provided the musical bed. Let's all give them a round of applause!
I'll have more goodies for you to enjoy as we get closer to the release date...so stay tuned!
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Monday, July 1, 2013
Coming To Crush A Major City Near You!
I've got a fuller update coming later this week, but this makes one of the things I was waiting to announce official! I am really jazzed to be participating in this anthology series. Check This Out (and keep an eye out for an episode of Nocturne Travel Agency Podcast where I sit down with James Palmer to discuss Mechanoid and the Monster Earth timeline!)
Monster Earth 2 Is Coming!
"This is going to take the monster action to a whole new level," explains Palmer. "I thing fans of the first book are really going to love this one."
MONSTER EARTH 2 will bring the action closer to the present day, with the nations of the world experimenting with genetic manipulation of the various beasties. Add a secret death cult trying to herald the end of days, and you've got a volatile recipe for mayhem and destruction as only some of the hottest writers in New Pulp can bring it.
MONSTER EARTH 2 is scheduled for either a late December or early January release, and will appear in both Kindle and trade paper formats.
About James Palmer
James has written articles, interviews, columns, reviews and fiction for Strange Horizons, Tangent Online, The Internet Review of Science Fiction, and New Pulp Publishers Airship 27, Pro Se Productions, and White Rocket Books. His books Slow Djinn and Four Terrors: Weird Horror Tales are currently available in PDF and Kindle formats. He also has a story in Mars McCoy: Space Ranger Vol 2. from Airship 27. For more, visit http://www.jamespalmerbooks.com/ or follow James on Twitter: www.twitter.com/palmerwriter and www.facebook.com/jamespalmerwriter
About Mechanoid Press
Mechanoid Press is a new imprint specializing in science fiction, New Pulp, and steampunk ebooks and anthologies. For more, visit http://www.mechanoidpress.com/ or follow the robot revolution on Twitter: www.twitter.com/mechanoidpress. You can also like Mechanoid Press on Facebook.
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In this exciting instalment of Maccy D and his Pip Pop Krew, our brave heroes fought a fire dog. They showed sensitivity to the mentally ill when fighting a crazy undead dwarf with living chains wrapped round him with Henry discovering the magical battle hammer of kunus which he presented to our one handed Cleaver they found and rescued the overseers son Duran. Apon leaving heard sounds of battle unable to resist a good fight (well any fight were we can loot bodies) our intrepid heroes went to have a look. Turns out Egan (bard turned scout when it turned out no-one wants a magician in a fledgeling civilisation) and a child fighting heaps of kobolds. Our heroes strike fear into the hearts of the kobolds making them run away, straight into Mr Gelatinous Cube. Our heroes ran away like frightened children and camped for the night to heal up, re equip and reassure each other that they really are bad asses.
They venture in the next day, leaving Egan with the kids. The enter the familiar steam room and find Mr G. Cube. There is quick debate as to whether they should run away. Then they run away! They run like little girls. Little girls running away from cotton balls. They eventually get back to where they found the kobolds (after soon Scooby Doo esqu running away), carefully they go up the corridor to look for the children and try to block the cube….with a door. It appears to work and our athletic heroes find themselves in a dark crypt of the dwarves with a ten pole given light, thanks to Eristal. Pip works out that the skeleton in the crypt could be undead, but before Pip can warn the team, Henry the impulsive hares off down toward the sound and finds a child this racket wakes up the skeletons from their peaceful slumber. The child hides under the anvil, and henry can not get to him, he returns to the group but head attacked by the socially challenged skeletons. The remaining skeletons then move towards Pip and Cleaver. Eristall is obviously to focused on lighting up the ten foot pole of light and gives Pip a pitiful channel. Cleaver gets tapped a couple of times and abandons Pip to face the full force of the skeletons. Pip puts on a brave face and shows valour as he gets taken down with his last ounce of consciousness he mutters something under his breath before darkness takes him….and the rest of the team in actual darkness as Eristall gets distracted. Cleaver and henry fight side by side forcing the skeletons to funnel through to them. Cleaver puts on a clear demonstration of how to aggressively negotiate with skeletons and the last skeleton does down. The child is rescued and Pip is man handled back to Egan who does have a potion of healing (luckily).


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GDT Oilers at Avalanche – Game 82 – 2011-04-10 @ 1:00 PM MST – SNET1
Here we are, the final game of the season> And what way to end it than with a meaningless game between two bottom feeders? In all seriousness, I am still very much enjoying Oiler hockey. While the end result is a big stinker, I think the season has been a great success in seeing what the future holds. And while there won't be a post-season for our Edmonton Oilers, there will be one for the Oklahoma City Barons… so I suggest you follow and cheer them on. If you want to follow someone on Twitter who updates the Barons games a lot, I'd suggest following @ryaber (Ryan Aber).
Don't forget, Tuesday night we find out who the "winner" of the first overall pick is. That's the only excitement we have in the near future, aside from the AHL playoffs.
Prediction: 4-1 Oilers
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BOOK REVIEW: Joshua Knelman's Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art
The world's cultural heritage had become one big department store, and thieves of all kinds, at all levels, were shoplifting with impunity, as if the one security guard on duty was out on a smoke break.
Stolen art can be laundered through auction houses and art dealers; police aren't trained to investigate art theft; and lawyers aren't trained to prosecute them. "Meanwhile, the criminal network is international, sophisticated and organized," Czegledi says.
Ten years ago when Knelman first met Czegledi, tools to recover stolen art included Interpol's stolen art database; the International Council of Museum's guidelines for the buying practices of museums; the International Foundation for Art Research; and the Art Loss Register.


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Dictionary Definition
teleology n : (philosophy) a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes
User Contributed Dictionary
- The study of the purpose of natural occurrences.
- The use of a non-natural purpose to explain an occurrence.
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Extensive Definition
Teleology (Greek: telos: end, purpose) is the philosophical study of design and purpose. A teleological school of thought is one that holds all things to be designed for or directed toward a final result, that there is an inherent purpose or final cause for all that exists.
It is traditionally contrasted with metaphysical naturalism, which views nature as lacking design or purpose. In the first case form is defined by function, in the second function is defined by form. Teleology would say that a person has eyes because he has the need of eyesight, (form follows function), while naturalism would argue that a person has sight simply because he has eyes, or that function follows form (eyesight follows from having eyes).
In European philosophy, teleology may be identified with Aristotelianism and the scholastic tradition. Most theology presupposes a teleology: "intelligent design" is a teleological argument for the existence of God. Aristotle's analysis speaks of a material cause, efficient cause, and formal cause but all these serve a final cause.
Later teleology was fundamental to the speculative philosophy of Hegel and was explored in detail by Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Judgement.
In general it may be said that there are two types of final cause, which may be called intrinsic finality and extrinsic finality.
- Extrinsic finality consists of a being realizing a purpose outside that being, for the utility and welfare of other beings. For instance, minerals are "designed" to be used by plants which are in turn "designed" to be used by animals - and similarly humanity serves some ultimate good beyond itself.
- Intrinsic finality consists of a being realizing a purpose directed toward the perfection of its own nature. In essence, it is what is "good for" a being. Just as physical masses obey universal gravitational tendencies, which did not evolve, but are simply a cosmic "given", so life is intended to behave in certain ways so as to preserve itself from death, disease, and pain.
In bioethics, teleology is used to describe the utilitarian view that an action's ethics is determined by its good or bad consequences.
Classical TeleologyPlato summarized the teleological position in his dialogue Phaedo, bemoaning those who fail to distinguish between the ultimate Cause and the mere means by which that Cause acts: Similarly, Aristotle argued that Democritus, proponent of the atomic theory, was wrong to attempt to reduce all things to mere necessity, because such thinking neglects the purpose, order, and "final cause" that causes the necessity:
Hence Plato and Aristotle agreed that all lesser causes were in the service of an ultimate good while Democritus or Lucretius were supporters of what is now often called metaphysical naturalism, or accidentalism:
Modern and postmodern philosophy
In the various neo-Hegelian schools - proposing a history of our species some consider to be at variance with Darwin, with the dialectical materialism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and with what is now called analytic philosophy — the point of departure is not so much formal logic and scientific fact but 'identity'. (In Hegel's terminology: 'objective spirit'.)
Individual human consciousness, in the process of reaching for autonomy and freedom, has no choice but to deal with an obvious reality: the collective identities (such as the multiplicity of world views, ethnic, cultural and national identities) which divide the human race and which set (and always have set) different groups in violent conflict with each other. Hegel conceived of the 'totality' of mutually antagonistic world-views and life-forms in history as being 'goal-driven', that is, oriented towards an end-point in history. The 'objective contradiction' of 'subject' and 'object' would eventually 'sublate' into a form of life which has leaves violent conflict behind. This goal-oriented, 'teleological' notion of the 'historical process as a whole' is present in a variety of 20th Century authors, from Lukács and Jaspers to Horkheimer and Adorno.
In contrast teleology and "grand narratives" are eschewed in the postmodern attitude and teleology may be viewed as reductive, exclusionary and harmful to those whose stories are erased.
Against this, Alasdair MacIntyre has argued that a narrative understanding of oneself, of one's capacity as an independent reasoner, one's dependence on others and on the social practices and traditions in which one participates, all tends towards an ultimate good of liberation. Social practices may themselves be understood as teleologically orientated to internal goods, for example practices of philosophical and scientific enquiry are teleologically ordered to the elaboration of a true understanding of their objects. MacIntyre's book After Virtue famously dismissed the naturalistic teleology of Aristotle's 'metaphysical biology', but he has cautiously moved from that book's account of a sociological teleology toward an exploration of what remains valid in a more traditional teleological naturalism.
Teleology and Science
Science concerns itself with physical causality and is well able to function within the bounds of naturalism, indeed, it has frequently to counter appeals to undemonstrable modes of causality. Yet teleological ideas still find refuge in the unpenetrated beginnings and endings of things.
It has been claimed that within the framework of thermodynamics, the irreversibility of macroscopic processes is explained in a teleological way.
In recent decades a form of teleological reasoning has reappeared in certain quarters of physics and cosmology, under the heading of anthropic principle, a term Brandon Carter coined in 1973. One of the problems the anthropic principle tries to address is this: why has the universe, which began in a very simple state (Big Bang), since grown ever more complex to the extent that it is even more hospitable to human life than is necessary for mere survival but even allows advanced human civilization?
Teleological arguments in the field of chemistry have once again often centred around the fitness of materials to form the complex molecular bonds of life. For example, Lawrence Joseph Henderson, an American bio-chemist, advanced such a view in the early 20th century.
Biology has always been susceptible to teleological thought, even after Darwin proposed survival as the only observable final good. Driesch, for example, presented a modified vitalism in whch an Aristotlean (or Kantian) entelechy drove embryonic development. Contemporary accounts of teleology within biology are heavily influenced by Larry Wright's etiological account, which seeks to supply a definition of "function" that can be applied to natural phenomena as well as human constructions such as a hammer. Most contemporary accounts of teleology follow Wright. (Ruth Millikan for instance). Others, however, such as Godfrey-Smith and Ernst Mayr, object to any such theory, preferring naturalistic accounts of teleology.
Cybernetics and Teleonomy
Julian Bigelow, Arturo Rosenblueth, and Norbert Wiener have conceived of feedback mechanisms as lending a teleology to machinery. Wiener, a mathematician, coined the term 'cybernetics' to denote the study of "teleological mechanisms," . Cybernetics is the study of the communication and control of regulatory feedback both in living beings and machines, and in combinations of the two.
In recent years, end-driven teleology has become contrasted with "apparent" teleology, i.e teleonomy or process-driven systems.
Philosophy of science
For a very detailed discussion of the recent resurgence of teleology in natural science, see Barrow and Tipler (1986). Their work includes:
- A review of much of the intellectual history of teleology and design arguments.
- A chapter on the teleological implications of earth science and chemistry, with special reference to the work of Lawrence Joseph Henderson;
- A discussion of the implications of evolutionary biology for teleology, emphasizing the writings of Theodosius Dobzhansky and Ernst Mayr;
- Teleological speculations on the ultimate fate of the universe.
See also
Further reading
- Aristotle, Metaphysics Book Theta (translated with an introduction and commentary by Stephen Makin), Oxford University Press, 2006. (ISBN 0-19-875108-7 / 978-0-19-875108-3)
- John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, Oxford University Press, 1986. (ISBN 0-19-282147-4)
- Julian Bigelow, Arturo Rosenblueth, and Norbert Wiener, 1943, "Behavior, Purpose and Teleology," Philosophy of Science 10: 18-24.
- Monte Ransome Johnson, Aristotle on Teleology, Oxford University Press, 2005. (ISBN 0-19-928530-6 / 978-0-19-928530-3)
- Kelvin Knight, Aristotelian Philosophy: Ethics and Politics from Aristotle to MacIntyre, Polity Press, 2007. (ISBN 978-0-7456-1977-4 / 0-745-61977-0)
- Georg Lukacs. History and Class Consciousness. (ISBN 0-262-62020-0)
- Horkheimer and Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment. (ISBN 0-8047-3632-4)
- Alasdair MacIntyre, 'First Principles, Final Ends, and Contemporary Philosophical Issues', in idem., The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays, Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, 2006. (ISBN 978-0-521-67061-6 / 0-521-67061-6)
- Herbert Marcuse. Hegel's Ontology and the Theory of Historicity. (ISBN 0-262-13221-4)
- Lowell Nissen, Teleological Language in the Life Sciences, Rowman & Littlefield, 1997 (ISBN 0-8476-8694-9)
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Once upon a time people who worked all their lives for their employer had a nice safe pension plans that allowed them to have a modest income after retirement paired with Social Security. Sure, you might not be rich, but you wouldn't be eating dog food for supper either.
Then the Republicans decided that they would convince people they were "empowered" and needed to invest in the stock market in order to "retire rich" and subsequently alleviate their friends from offering pensions while at the same time separating amateur "investors" from their hard won money.
Yesterday, the markets dropped 700 points because the fat cat friends who created the next Great Depression didn't get their way when they wanted the American taxpayer to cover their gambling debts.
Today, the good folks at the NY Times business page had this piece of advice for all the amateur investors who have to "play" the stock markets because the government has forced their retirement savings into stock heavy 401(k) plans (among other scams):
Continue to save. Big losses mean you'll need that much more time, or good news, to bring your balances back to where they need to be for you to retire comfortably. If your employer matches your contributions, this is a great time to take advantage of the largess.
As for whether you should pile into beaten down stocks, no one knows how much further the markets will fall or how long they'll take to bounce back. But people who move their savings to ultrasafe investments and then leave them there usually miss out on the gains when the markets come back. If you need to do that to sleep at night or avoid stomach ulcers, then do what you have to do. But it may cost you in quality of life come retirement time.
They further suggested that if you are about to retire, then you should wait so you don't "lock in your losses" during the downturn. After all, the good folks at the NY Times are absolutely convinced the American taxpayer will foot the bill for companies' losses on both sides of the coin, both in the markets and in the bailouts.
Meanwhile, back on Wall Street, the CEO's, CFO's and others eagerly await their government check so they can take the money and run into their own retirements on multi-million dollar "Golden Parachute" packages. Anyone else see something wrong with this picture?


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W.W. Hastings Hospital Achieves National Certification, Recognition for Technology Use
Published January 28, 2017
TAHLEQUAH — Cherokee Nation W.W. Hastings Hospital is among a select few hospitals in the country nationally recognized for using electronic medical records and other technology to advance health services for patients.
The Cherokee Nation received notification earlier this month that it is now certified as a stage 6 hospital from the Chicago-based Health Information & Management System Society.
The nonprofit reports just 30 percent of the more than 5,400 hospitals in the United States have reached stage 6 qualifications. There are 19 hospitals in Oklahoma certified as stage 6, and the Cherokee Nation and Muscogee (Creek) Nation are the only tribes with the certification in the state.
"Implementing electronic health records was a huge endeavor for the Cherokee Nation and not an easy task, but we are seeing the tremendous benefits, including better quality of patient documentation, which increases the level of care of our Cherokee Nation citizens," said Donnie Parrish, chief information officer for Cherokee Nation Health Services Health IT division. "As the Cherokee Nation applies for grants and accreditations, the technology component is a key part of obtaining those awards, and so we're extremely grateful to now be certified by HIMSS for our technology advances."
Cherokee Nation Health Services began working to upgrade its technology a few years ago.
In 2015, the Cherokee Nation implemented electronic health records for patients. Prior, half of Cherokee Nation's patient health records were paper and half electronic, and many patients had multiple charts at multiple Cherokee Nation health centers. That made it difficult to access all of a patient's files quickly or even to share information between health professionals.
Hastings' medical providers recently started using mobile technology carts with laptops to diagnose patients from their rooms, which directly upload to electronic health records. W.W. Hastings Hospital also has an online pharmacy refill and patient portal for patients to access their information.
"HIMSS Analytics congratulates Cherokee Nation W.W. Hastings Hospital for making significant progress towards achieving advanced health IT adoption," said Global Vice President of HIMSS Analytics John H. Daniels. "Stage 6 represents a level of sophistication that can lead to innovative health care transformation."
Advantages for being a stage 6 hospital, according to HIMSS, include better recruitment over competitors, documented health improvements and being positioned to give quality data results to stakeholders, grantees or other medical facilities.
"Using this type of technology has a direct impact on improving patient access and quality of care in the Cherokee Nation," said Connie Davis, executive director of Cherokee Nation Health Services.
The Cherokee Nation operates the largest tribal health system in the country. It oversees W.W. Hastings Hospital and nine other health centers in northeastern Oklahoma. In fiscal year 2016, the tribe had more than 1.1 million patient visits.


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I think it's about time I shared with you who my personal favourite bloggers are. I follow so many great blogs, and I just LOVE reading what all you beauties have to say. I have to say, you're all very inspiring, and you tell such wonderful stories. I really enjoy reading your advice on make-up, watching how you do it, your posts about fashion and what you wear...I have become hooked on certain people's blogs, so I'd like to share with you the ones I can't get enough of!
Here we go:
The outfit posts are definitely the best part of this blog, and this beauty has some amazing outfits! I love reading about what you've been up to, and what fashion items are a favourite. I must admit, I read nearly all of your blog in one day, it's that good! Keep it up! x
I cam accross this blog the other week, and even reading the most recent post, I knew it was a blog I would be reading all the time! WOW! Just amazing...the stories, the product reviews, I can tell you my eyes have been opened to new things! The blogger behind this is beautiful, and a recently turned mother, which I respect her for-she's clearly busy being mother, but she still appreciates her lovers who read her blogs. I would recommend this blog to every blogger, she is AMAZINGGGG! x
Again, a blog I would strongly recommend! I just love the oufit posts...what an amazing style this woman has! Fab blog, ful of girly things-just a lovely read after a hard day! x
Maddie's blog is one of the BEST out there....well, one of the best I follow ;) I love her style, and she has inspired me on some clothing items I wouldn't have thought of buying, so thank you for openeing a new area to my wardrobe! I love reading her posts after a long, boring night of revision, and I get really interested in the clothing she wears...tad jelous over here-that figure is amazing! x
Anna's blog was the first one I followed. And, I can tell you now, I don't regret it one bit! Being a similar age, I feel like I can easily relate to her, and that's one of the best things about blogging I think. I follow anna on twitter, that's how I discovered her blog, and I am so glad I clicked on the link! She has great fashion sense, and her reviews on products are always great to read. I will never stop reading this blog! I can never wait for her new posts! x
Now this girl deserves an award! or maybe even a few. I can't express how much I love Hannah's blog! The fashion, the beauty product reviews, the make-up how-to's, the videos, the personal stories, food etc! FABULAS! Hannah offers EVERYTHING I'm looking for, and is definitely one of the most inspiring bloggers I have come accross. She's beautiful, and has so much confidence, not to mention her fashion sense-superb, by the way...she likes many things I like, and owns a few items I also own! Great start, I think so...The food posts are great, I intend to try one of those recipes in the next couple of weeks! I trawled through Hannah's blog, staying up until 2:30am one day because I was THAT hooked on reading more! It's just amazing-click the link, and read until your eyes close from tiredness! x
Last one for today! This blog is beautiful really. I know blog's can't be physically beautiful, but the images put up just look so elegant and graceful...if that makes sense! aha...anyhoo, really good blog, shows lots of sparkly, lace clothing, and many dresses-my idea of heaven! oh, and not forgetting shoes! I LOVE heels, the higher the better, and I get a nice selection of shoes on this blog...who could say no? x
So there we have it. Not all of them are there, but sometime next week I will do another post like this, Infact, I'll probably do this quite often-I feel the need to praise these godesses with the respect and attention they need!
Thanks for reading :)
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Fun Family At The National Seashore.
New Texans embrace the beach and community activities.
This was a fun bunch of students.
The flip side.
Thank you for the fun afternoon.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Lots Of Pictures Of Smiling Faces
First lesson was courtesy of Port Royal Condominiums.
What a great group of students.
Then to marker 14 and lesson with my cousin Jerry's son Chris and his friend Paige.
Nice to be with a Landrum.
Last lesson of the day was a fun lesson at marker 55.
These students were artists and took to carving castles like the surface tension of water takes to sand..
Thank you all for the fun in the sand.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Such A Fun Day
These guys are so much fun. This is a second lesson for this group and parents and kids both worked together to build a sand-castle.
It started raining as we took the pictures. Now I got to clean the lenses of my camera.
Thank you for inviting me in the sand.
Birthday girl castle. This was a second lesson for two of these girls and a first for the other two.
They remind me so much of my Sand Marlin Crew, very competitive and fun.
Thank you for the fun afternoon.
Going to clean my lens now. Thank you for the fun day.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Fun Start To Memorial Day Weekend
Met this couple at Marker 2. He had the basics from what he learned from watching a group at a mall and wanted to learn more.
Thank you for the fun Friday.


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Given my penchant for slacking I thought it was only appropriate to finally getting around to watching Richard Linklater's cult classic, Slacker. I wasn't sure what to expect as I had only heard some details. I only really knew that it was more vignette based and that there wasn't a singular plot that the movie revolved around. Other than that I figured it'd just show me the 1990s in Austin, Texas as what it was like for your general weirdo or slacker as Linklater calls them.
In the movie, slackers are usually people who just "hang out". Appropriately almost no one has a conventional job, even jobs they hate. They either get by through stealing, living with others to minimize costs or when they do get jobs it's things like playing guitar on the streets. I kept thinking that the film was set in Los Angeles for some reason, it was probably the weather.
To tell you what Slacker is about I'd have to be pretty broad in my scope since, as I mentioned before, it isn't about one thing. It's about many different people and their weird experiences being slackers in Austin, Texas. What resonated with me the most was the atmosphere that all of the characters seemed to live in. They seemed to be acting as if the 60s were still going strong in their hearts but in their heads they had given up. It was a mix of nihilism with pessimism and hedonism in the moment. Most of the characters do drugs or smoke or drink or try to enjoy whatever is in front of them.
Some of them try to use their environment against itself, for example one of the characters collects TVs and is trying to find a way for political radicals to use it as a form of protest against the establishment. Another character (in)famously tries to use celebrity culture to make a buck off of things like Madonna's papsmear and sell it on the streets.
The nihilism of the 80s seems to pass seamlessly into the 90s of Austin with the only real hope being found in either short-term human connection that people typically aren't sure about or the power of technology, most notably TV.
There's a lot to the movie that also seems to satirize as much as it does encourage the sort of people that might enjoy this film. A couple of teenagers talk about the futility of moving around and that going anywhere wouldn't really solve much. Most people suck and you always have to deal with weird people so why bother? I take it to be that the implied message is that this makes it ideal to slack around instead.
The word slacker was actually supposed to be a positive term. Linklater says:
Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for."
Clearly most people who adopted the term slacker into their vocabulary didn't see it this way though. They saw the slackers as losers (though to their credit, some of the people in this film seem to embrace loserdom, as with the guy who is a member of the band Beautiful Losers) and people not to be taken seriously. But Linklater himself never really takes them seriously either. He lets each character get their five minutes of fame (and sometimes a few minutes more) and then whisks them on to another person.
And really, no person is too weird. You've got three different kind of conspiracy theorists in this movie with one being a JFK buff, another group being about the Freemasons and the third one is an all around conspiracy theorist who'll talk your head off for hours. But as opposed to a lot of films that might portray them and even though they come off as odd and slightly socially obtuse due to their communication style, they don't come off as insincere. You could imagine running into almost any of the characters in this film in Austin or anywhere else.
In that sense, eventually the weirdness washes away to just a sort of "weird as the norm".
As Vincent Canby of the New York Times wrote:
After a while, a certain monotony sets in, as well as desperation. It isn't easy being eccentric, and it's even more difficult to remain eccentric in the company of other eccentrics. A terrible transformation occurs: the unusual begins to look numbingly normal.
Toward the end of "Slacker," a sane voice might bring down the house, but it's not there.
The only sane voice I found was an elderly man who, after being in a tricky situation starts talking about anarchism and fighting in the Spanish Civil War, as well as critiquing modern day libertarians (he seems to mostly have objectivists in mind). It was very cool to see someone who was familiar with anarchism or at least have them portray someone who knew enough to quote Bakunin, likes Leon Czolgos and hates the police. That's definitely not a recipe for a substantial anarchism perhaps but it was nice to see it anyways. I'll take what I can get even if all it amounts to is a pleasant surprise.
The movie begins with someone sleeping and dreaming about not doing anything more than reading books and lounging around, it's slackception, I suppose. And certainly a proper way to start Slacker.< But what's in this movie for anti-work people? Honestly? Not much. I wasn't really surprised that there were only a few quotes or statements about jobs and work. But when they are made, they're usually enjoyable enough. When one man is asked about his lifestyle he says that he may live badly due to not having a steady job but at least he doesn't have to work.
This definitely resonated for me as someone who doesn't exactly live the richest lifestyle but still manages to get by through connections via friends and family. I may not live well but at least I'm not working and I'm also making sure that whatever scenario I am in, I am not leeching off the other person or that they don't feel like they get the raw end of the deal.
Another thing that was of specific note was those who were jobless but used their time in academia or are still using it as a way to ascribe meaning to their life where most others wouldn't. There's one particularly obnoxious guy who talks about "slave morality" and the shortcomings of people who donate to the homeless. When the woman with him calls him an asshole he appeals to the idea that most people who changed the world were called assholes. This is obviously presuming a lot.
I especially like this one quote from her:
It's like you pasted together these bits and pieces from your authoritative sources. … I'm beginning to suspect that there's nothing really in there.
>Slacker doesn't really hold back from mocking its audience as much as it tries to pay it homage to how weird and crazy slackers can be. Other people in the movie read through complicated ideas or discuss philosophical abstractions but it never feels like it ever actually amounts to some great insight. And often times the people they're talking to aren't even really listening.
In short, it all seems pretty pointless.
And maybe that's part of what we're supposed to get out of the movie. That a lot of the meanings in these peoples lives simply aren't there. They're wanderers who have no single purpose and they're going to take their time about it. In that way the film is as much of a mocking as it is a celebration of the slacker lifestyle.
I recommend the film, but not strongly. I don't think it's a real must for anyone (even anti-work people) unless you're interested in doing some sort of cultural study on cult classics, Austin in the 90s or something of that nature. And even then you might be better off somewhere else for all I know.
The film isn't bad but it just isn't…much. It's not true for me but I think it's true for most other people that this is one of those films that you'll either really enjoy or really dislike. I doubt that I'm in anything but the minority in just giving it a vaguely positive shrugging of my shoulder.
Honestly, if I wasn't anti-work this film wouldn't interest me in the slightest. But given that it appealed to that sentiment a little bit and had a few interesting ideas and scenarios I'd probably say it was an above average movie overall.
Unfortunately Slacker is going to be off from Netflix soon after this is published. But if you can find it elsewhere, got a few hours to kill and don't mind vignette styled movies then get on your best pair of sweatpants and strap in for some nihilistic 90s fever!


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Deer mice feed on a variety of organic matter from seeds, nuts, fungi and fruit to insects and small invertebrates. They even feed on their own feces during times of food scarcity.
Deer mice tend to stockpile food during the fall, storing the items in larder nests. These larder nests are connected to their living nests and act as storerooms during the winter. Deer mice are also a food source for other predators such as foxes, weasels, coyotes, snakes and owls. Due to these predators, deer mice in the wild have short life spans of about one year.
Predation helps to control deer mice populations. A single female door mouse can give birth to nearly 100 young every year. The young then start reproducing at five weeks old.
Deer mice help to disperse seeds throughout the environment and act as a food source for predators, but large and uncontrolled populations can have many negative effects. Deer mice can ravage forests and crops and raid grain supplies. They can also carry diseases dangerous to humans such as Lyme disease and hantavirus. Once the hantavirus infects humans, the fatal hantavirus pulmonary syndrome can develop.
Deer mice grow between 5 and 9 inches long, although several of those inches belong to the tail alone. These small rodents usually thrive in the woodlands of North America.


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In a bid to push for work style reforms at construction sites, Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Keiichi Ishii said Friday his ministry will set schedules for most of its construction projects so that workers will be given two days off per week, starting in the fiscal year from April.
The land ministry hopes that its efforts to give additional leeway in the schedules of construction projects will spread to local governments and the private sector in orders for their own construction projects, ministry officials said.
"To correct long work hours, it is important to establish a system of two days off per week in the construction industry, which is already the norm for other sectors," Ishii told a press conference.


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Mennonite Disaster Services is accepting donations to aid those affected by Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. The mission of MDS is working with the uninsured and people that fall through the cracks. If you'd like to donate on-line, please visit www.mds.mennonite.net and then follow the directions. If you'd rather give by check, please mail your donation to MDS, 583 Airport Road, Lititz, PA 17543. THANK YOU.
Christian Peacekeeper Team (CPT) - Palestine - Our Pastor Brenda just returned from a Christian Peacekeeper Team delegation to Palestine and Israel. CPT enlists the whole church in an organized, nonviolent alternative to war. CPT's initial roots began with Mennonites, Church of the Brethren and Quakers and has spread into a broad ecumenical network. Pastor Brenda worked in Hebron in the West Bank, and then in Jerusalem. She has indicated that there is a lot to process and that we, here in the United States should be so grateful for what we have.
Sunday Morning Discussion Group - Since its inception in 1927 the adult discussion group has defined the character of our little church. Fairfield Mennonite was founded by several progressive thinkers who wanted to create a worship community in which it was safe to explore different ideas and ways of being church. Having felt stifled in the "mother church" they felt a strong need to question accepted doctrines and practices and to think outside of the box. To this day, our free wheeling discussions shape the character of "FMC."
Mennonites have traditionally downplayed doctrine and creeds and have focused on living their faith. This is very true of FMC. Our focus as a faith community is on being and doing The Word, not just believing the word. The question that underlies all of our worship, study, and discussion is: "what does it mean to follow Jesus?" Faith for us is not about "believing in Jesus, but believing Jesus and taking seriously his instructions to 'love your enemies, feed my sheep, follow me."
The adult group just completed a study of world religions hoping to better understand ourselves, others, and the world around. Over the past months we have examined the teachings of Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism. Currently we are examining Confucius' morality and how it's shaped the China of today.
Everyone is welcome, believer or nonbeliever. Sunday's discussions begin at 9:30 am. We meet in the kitchen, where most good conversations occur!
FMC Book Club - Our Wednesday evening book club has started up again. We meet at 6:30 PM at the church. We are discussing the book "What God Said, The 25 Core Messages of Conversations with God that will Change your Life and the World" by Neale Donald Walsch. If you are interested in joining this lively discussion group, you can just show up or use the "Contact Us" option on this website and send us your name, phone number and email address for additional information. The book club meets every other week. Our next meeting is November 15. Please join us. Everyone is welcome!
Project Linus (Providing Security Through Blankets) - Join us on the 3rd Friday of each month from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM as we sit together and knit, crochet or quilt blankets for children. Of course, we have a good time doing it too! Project Linus was started in 1998 and has chapters in all 50 states. The mission of Project Linus is to provide handmade blankets for children-nothing commercially made.
Past Events
International Gift Festival - This year's Gift Festival was held Tuesday, November 7 through Saturday, November 11. Once again, the Ten Thousand Villages Store in Mechanicsburg transformed Fairfield Mennonite Church into an international shopping delight. All attending got a head start on their holiday shopping. If you didn't make it this year, look for the Gift Festival next year (2018). It is always held during the first full week of November. Fairfield Mennonite Church does not profit from this event.
Hair and Care - On Saturday, October 21, we held a fundraiser for hurricane and earthquake victims, as well as a fundraiser for the Arts and Music programs at Fairfield Area Schools. The event was not well attended, but we did raise close to $400.00 for the school and received donations of blankets and quilts for the victims of Hurricane Harvey and Irma. The blankets and quilts were delivered to the Cumberland Valley Relief Center who will make sure the Mennonite Central Committee gets them.
Maria Richards, owner of Shades and Shapes in Carlisle, Pa, provided free haircuts to men, women, and children from 10 am to 4 pm in the church fellowship hall. First come, first served. Maria has been a beautician for 17 years. She studied at Toni and Guy's Hairdressing Academy in Erie, Pa.
Those that came for their "free" haircut assisted hurricane and earthquake victims by helping knot comforters which were laid out on tables. These will then be distributed to the disaster victims by the Mennonite Central Committee. The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), the relief and material aid arm of the Mennonite Church, has sent out an urgent appeal for home made blankets, quilts, comforters, afghans as well as new sheets (preferably twin size), pillow cases and towels. They are currently working along with Mennonite Disaster Service in Florida, Texas, Mexico, and the many affected Caribbean Islands.
Several other things were organized, along with the haircuts and comforter knotting, with all tips going to the Fairfield School System. Philip Schindel provided seated massage. Several local artists displayed their wares and refreshments were provided.
Spring Arts and Crafts ShowOur second annual Spring Arts and Crafts Show was held on Saturday, May 13, 2017. While the weather was a deterrent to visitors, those of us who joined together to display our arts and crafts had a really good time. The visitor turnout was small, but we will be starting to plan our third annual event very soon. Our show had something for everyone.....stained glass, jewelry, wreaths, photography, quilts, crocheted items, drawings, houses made from natural items found in the woods, pottery and journals. We've included some pictures......
On Sunday April 9, 2017, we held a Messianic Passover Seder at our church. We started with a shortened Christian service and then moved into our Fellowship Hall for the Seder. The Seder was organized and presented by Steve and Barb Semiatin (church congregants) and Pastor Brenda Walter. This was the second year for the Seder and it was a wonderful success.
|The Seder service uses unleavened bread (matza), parsley, salt water, horseradish and choroses (a mixture of apples, almonds, cinnamon and wine)
|This was the plate that was set up at the main table. Each item on the plate has a special meaning.
|Steve Semiatin was one of the leaders of the service.
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I chose this one because of the woman who is just randomly doing a few dance moves and sings the same sentence over and over and the guys in the alien costumes have cool golden gloves but come on they also say/ sing only 1 sentence so its basically a Song made out of 2 sentences. And then this random ass weird sounds at the end that doesn't fit at all 😂😂😂😂
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Not sure why they had to dress up like woman but Queen is still awesome. :D
Yup. This is weird and soo good! Never heared of queen or this Music video, but I know this song from somewhere. Anyways, there you go, MHO!
yay thank you for mhg ^^
You can't be a British star without appearing in drag at some point. I believe this is an English law.
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it's pretty weird in my opinion... since it has no point at all...
basically it's a showcase of early-computer graphics... but dis one it's a hell of an instrumental man... fuckin electro... ;)
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No dude, that's a fucking classic. Rockit is considered by many to be a top-ten greatest video.


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Coke CEO Daft to retire at year end
Faced with an increasingly difficult competitive environment in the carbonated soft-drink industry, Coca-Cola Co. Chairman-CEO Douglas N. Daft said he plans to retire at the end of 2004, citing "personal wishes." Mr. Daft's decision could pave the way for Steve Heyer, president-chief operating officer, to succeed him. "In 1999, when the company's board asked me to assume the position of chairman and CEO, this company faced a number of significant structural and strategic challenges," Mr. Daft said in a statement. "Today, our brands are stronger and our global production and marketing system has been restored to health. I am proud of what we have accomplished." While the company's board of directors is hiring a search firm to identify external candidates for the post, Mr. Heyer is the sole internal candidate and is considered by observers to be a shoo-in to become the next CEO. Neither Mr. Daft nor Mr. Heyer would comment further, a spokeswoman said. AdAge.com QwikFIND aap39w
Palmolive icon Madge dies at 86
Jan Miner, the actress who made Madge the Manicurist a household name for Palmolive dishwashing soap, died Feb. 16. She was 86. Although well-known as a stage and radio actress, Ms. Miner's most famous role was as Madge in commercials for the Colgate-Palmolive soap brand positioned as a "beauty prescription for hands that do dishes." Madge's clients at the salon would ask how gentle the soap was on hands, which prompted the famed advertising response, "You're soaking in it." Ms. Miner played the character for 26 years, and is said to have made more than 92 commercials for the brand before Colgate-Palmolive retired Madge in 1991. AdAge.com QwikFIND aap38x
E-Trade encourages wary investors in ads
E-Trade financial breaks a campaign this week to reach out to gun-shy investors encouraged by the stock market's rebound, but still spooked by the recent rash of Wall Street scandals. The campaign, the first work for the broker from Martin/Williams, Minneapolis, is part of the company's efforts to promote its broad-based diversified services. E-Trade plans to spend more than $90 million dollars this year marketing its services, an increase of $40 million to $50 million over last year. E-Trade will sponsor the NCAA tournament broadcasts this year and may also increase its national media schedule, said Chief Marketing Officer Pamela Kramer. For more, see AdAge.com
Mohegan Sun narrows review
Gaming and casino operator Mohegan Sun named four agencies to compete in the next phase of a review for its advertising and media planning business, a spokesman for the company said. The incumbent, independent Cliff Freeman & Partners, New York, will defend its account against MDC Partners' Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners, New York; Bartle Bogle Hegarty, New York, 49%-owned by Publicis Groupe; and Interpublic's Mullen, Wenham, Mass. Media spending for the year is expected to reach $25 million to $30 million, according to an executive familiar with the marketer's plans. AdAge.com QwikFIND aap38u
WPP Group's Ogilvy & Mather cut a number of jobs from its Los Angeles office as it shifts a portion of its Motorola account to its New York office, a spokeswoman for the agency said. The spokeswoman said "less than 10 people" were laid off. AdAge.com QwikFIND aap39f ... Retailer TJX Cos. named Hill Holliday as its agency for broadcast planning and buying on an estimated $6 million Bob's Stores account, the agency said. TJX, Framingham, Mass., handed the business to Hill Holliday without a review, making the shop responsible for all of its broadcast planning and buying. AdAge.com QwikFIND aap39s


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my painting adventures... "art happens"
Friday, January 4, 2013
Rhythm Cafe Skateland Luncheon
Angela Davis drew this napkin masterpiece and everyone signed it.
Skating friends came to see my paintings hung here at the Rhythm Cafe. We had a wonderful luncheon today at the Rhythm Cafe in Merrimac MA with the members of the Friday Morning Skating Session people. Ray Ninness took these pictures with his new iPhone. The lunch was to celebrate my solo show of oil paintings.
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Wore it on a Sunday ride of 233km around Penang Island. Tested it along the highways, the Penang first bridge (not so strong winds but with open sea left and right), the Teluk Bahang-Balik Pulau hill curves, the busy Georgetown area, the ride on the road along the seaside, and also...carrying the helmet around the world heritage area and Esplanade G'town Festival on 31st July 2016. Was with the helmet from 9am to 12am.
The helmet is surprisingly light. It feels sturdy, I did not get that pain at the back of the neck when speeding on the highways (the issue with the upright riding of the Scrambler Ducati).
Now, on the hills of Teluk Bahang-Balik Pulau, the open faced helmet I used to wear had more visibility of the corners and curves. I was a bit wary of the disadvantage of a full faced helmet for me personally, however, this proved to be a non-issue. My mind did not create any anxiety nor did I lose any focus when taking on the continuous curves of the hills. As usual, it was, "Alaa…dah habis??" as I reached the foothill.
The first time I wore it and turn on the engine of my bike, I did not recognize the sound that came out from my bike. Pretty snug. I am used to using an open face helmet, so it took some time to get used to a full faced helmet. But I'm always excited whenever I'm out for a ride so, it was just a few minutes to get used to it :)
|pillion bidan terjun.
i look like i've been out all day. coconut vanilla ice cream.
12th hour of outing.
When speeding on the highways and riding on the bridge (with expected winds from the open sea), I could hear the wind, of course, but not that continuous buzzing sound pressing on your ears. The design at the chin area (and the smooth solid paint of the whole helmet) splits the wind in a way that it passes smoothly by your ears (imagine soft silk and Yuna's Crush playing).
Man, it was a beautiful ride that Sunday.
Now, I wear a head scarf and a tudung bawai pulak tu… I've tried Bell Bullitt a few times before but the material inside it somehow, ripped the scarf off my head when I took the helmet off. Habis tercabut pin kerongsang bagai. (yea, LoL moment i had with my friends). Frust!
Nexx XG100 however, while it is snug but the material inside is probably smoother so and I just need to readjust my head scarf a little after I took the helmet off. No issue. Thank God, coz, it was a gamble, I just bought this helmet off the internet (Urban Rider) as it is not available in Malaysia. Otherwise, I would have spent like what…rm2k..r3k on a Bell Bullitt tak pasai2.
So yea, I love this helmet. The purist solid white paint, I'm gonna sharpie wise words around the edges of the helmet. Anyone would like to contribute?


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I am new to this but maybe with your help we can get my son of 19 in better health. He had diarea and lost 25 pounds and the first doctor said it was his thyroid so he is on thyroid medicine. For 3 more months he still had diarea and bleeding so when we complained he sent us to a gastrologist and they gave him a scope and said he had ulcerative colitis and after the steroids they put him on Asacol, 6 pills a day plus the other doctor still has him taking the thyroid medicine. 4 weeks ago he had a terrible pain on his left side that doubled him over. After a blood test and over a week end the pain went to his right side. The med. doctor said his spleen was bad then when the pain moved he said we'd better get a liver specialist. I called the gastrologist and he wanted a liver byopsy. They said that he has auto immune hepatitis. They put him back on the steroids and the pain went away. He finished the recommended amount and the pain came back. He went back on the steriods but they make him break out and his personality is different. They are recommending a new drug called Inuran but I am afraid of the side effects and the fact that it is an immune suppressent. Does anyone know why they aren't trying to fix the liver instead of suppressing his immune system?
He is a person that wouldn't even take an aspiran unless it was the worst. Now he has 8 pills a day that he has to take.
I am having him try a foot detox that they do here in town but I don't know whether it will help or not but it is worth a try.
If you would have any helpful information for him please let us know.
Thank you,
Motorcycle Mama
Welcome, Motorcycle Mama. I'm so sorry that your son's illness has brought you here. There are several people who post here who have autoimmune hepatitis. Hopefully, they will see your post and give you some replies. I know that they have been, or are, on steroids.
Did the doctor who prescribed thyroid medication do a thyroid test first?
I hope you will get some answers to your questions.
Hi, I have autoimmune Hep. also. Got real sick about 1 1/2 years ago. Turned yellow and felt like crap. My alt was 955 and my ast was 550.
I was put on pred. 60 mg per day, and gradually tapered off. I am now at 5mg per day. Yes, pred is a really hard drug, when I was on 60mg I was hallucinating and having terrible nightmares. And it made me temporarily "drug induced diabetic". It does also change your personality.
I tried Imuran, but I thought at the time it made me worse, but now I am not really sure about that, as the pred had made me diabetic, and I felt like crap.
I went for a liver biopsy in May of this year, and to my shock and horror I was told I have severe liver damage and will need a transplant within 5 years. Apparently, I had AIH for a long time, but was never properly diagnosed. I have found since that it is possible to have normal liver enzyme counts and still have a bad liver, who knew? I am going to U of Miami in Sept to be evaluated and I guess put on the list.
I would suggest your son goes to a GI who specializes in Diseases of the liver, and get check out fully, including a liver biopsy. I hope this helps.
Didn't mean to scare you, but AIH is very serious.
Take care,
Thank you for you welcome and response. The doctor gave him a blood test and an ultrasound to find out why he had diarhea. All he said was that his thyroid was off a little and gave him the thyroid pills. Is that the thyroid test you are talking about?
Thanks again,
Yes, the doctor would be able to determine hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) through a blood test. An ultrasound would show enlargement or nodes of the thyroid.
Thanks so much for your response. After the gastrologist told us the side effects on the medicine that he wanted Eric on I told him I wanted a second opinion from a liver specialist. The doctor he had me see is also a gastrologist. Are they liver specialists? Erics first # was 844 then it went down but that was when he had the ulcerative collititis and the doctor put him on steroids then it went down. I got upset with our family doctor for not seeing this before so I've asked for copies of the blood work. I haven't gotten them yet.
Eric is on 10 mg for the next 10 days then they want to put him on the Inuran. I seen a posting about Inuran giving people headaches or sinus pressure. Did you experience any of this?
Have you tried any of this detox that I had talked about earlier? I don't know if it will work or not but it might be worth a try.
My prayers are with you and keep in touch with me on how you are doing.
Pink Grandma
Thank you for your support. I appreciate everyones help. It is good knowing that we are not alone.
Thank you all,
Rhonda, I just wanted to respond to your question about a gastroenterologist ("gastrologist"), also known as a GI doc. They specialize in the digestive system, including stomach, esophagus, spleen, pancreas, gall bladder, and liver. A liver specialist is a hepatologist, and their practice is limited to diseases of the liver. In seeking a second opinion, I personally would go to a hepatologist (if one is available in your area), rather than another GI doc.
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Connie, thank you so much. I didn't know what they were called and since the guy didn't even take any tests but used what the GI doctor had made me question the diagnosis. Thanks to for the spelling I appreciate it since I am new at this.
Hugs back at ya,
You're very welcome, MM.
Hi Motorcycle Momma! Welcome to our support group.
I too have AIH. I was diagnosed in Jan 2007. I am currently on 5mg of prednisone and 50mg of Imuran daily. Others have posted why he NEEDS, I stress needs, to be on immunosuppression. That's what will help control any further liver damage. If it is possible, I would also recommend seeing a hepatologist. If it isn't possible, then try to find a gastroenterologist who has some specific liver expertise.
As far as foot detox goes...I don't believe you will find any 'cure/treatment' using alternative medicine. Maybe that kind of thing works for migraine, stress, etc...but you are talking about an autoimmune disorder. Being in the medical research field, only modern medicine will help that.
Don't be afraid of the side effects. It can seem super scary, we've all been there. The body does get used to the imuran and if he can't take it for reasons others have had, there's Cell Cept which is fantastic. Initially, I was on prednisone (with the effects others have mentioned; hyperactivity, irritability, insomnia, acne...) and the immunosuppressant I started on was Cell Cept as I needed something quick acting. Imuran takes 2 months to 'kick-in' so once I was stable they piggy-backed the 2 and I stopped the Cell Cept. I did have some hair loss with the Imuran at first but not horrible, just noticed more in my brush. Now I'm fine and no one would know anything were wrong with me except they ask why I can't drink. Stress that to your son with him being a teen...NO DRINKING!!!!
Good luck and take care.
Diagnosed with AIH January 2007,
CMV (cytomegalovirus) June 2008
CMV (cytomegalovirus) June 2008
meds: Azathioprine 50mg + Prednisone 5mg
Motorcycle mama,
Wow..your son and i are almost twins. I also have thyroid disease (hypothyroidism to be exact), ulcerative colitis, and autoimmune hepatitis. I actually have one more disease called Addison's disease. And the one thing that should definitely be noted is the fact that all three of these conditions (four for me) that your son has are IMMUNE DISEASES. They are due to an overactive immune system which is why we are placed on immunosuppresants. Immunosuppresants such as prednisone and Imuran suppress the immune system so that it stops acting crazy. I currently take Imuran and I love the medication (compared to Prednisone). I have zero side effects with this medication as opposed to Prednisone. I have been on this medicine since I was 12/13 years old and I am currently 26. The first time I was placed on Prednisone (when i first got sick) I ended up getting bleeding ulcers. Make sure that while on the prednisone that the dr. has your son on some type of antacids-like zantac or prilosec. These are over the counter as well. This will just help in reducing acidity in the stomach. From time to time, Ive had to be placed on prednisone for a short while when liver enzymes decide to rise. This is because prednisone works fast and is i guess a quick fix to control things. Then I am weened off and imuran continues to be my immunosuppresant. Prednisone has bad long term side effects and most doctors dont like to keep their patients on this medicine longer than they have to.
I also see a gastroenterolgist. This dr is important for your son and I because they take care of the large intestine AND the liver. The dr that i see for my thyroid and addisons disease is called an endocrinologist (they control hormone disorders). Another dr that may be of interest to you and your son is a rheumotologist. These doctors study the immunology of many autoimmune disorders.
Well hopefully i was able to share some helpful information with you and if you would liek to ask anymore questions, id be happy to answer. good luck to you and be positive (thats how ive managed so far....and no liver transplant!)
Womens multivitamin
PG, thank you for your kind words. I'm blushing. If my experience, knowledge, and hope can help someone else, then what I've been through has been worth it.
I have hep C and cirrhosis, and am post resection of the right lobe of my liver due to cancer. I have NO energy most of the time. So you can come on over here and clean out my closets if you have excess energy!
PG, with Prednisone, it's more of a "hyper" state, rather than real energy. My friend's husband lost 50 lbs. in a month, just from pacing, when he was on Pred. I have a psychotic reaction to it myself.
There is always hope!


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Yay! Raymond's team won the latest autonomous robot search and rescue competition in Austria! Here is also a link to his book from a previous competition. It is of excellent quality and a good read! (I have a copy.)
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PARIS, LONDON, 19 November 2008. ULLINK, the global provider of end-to-end connectivity and trading applications, today announced that Winterflood Securities, London's specialist market maker, is now live on Chi-X Europe, the largest pan-European MTF. Winterflood Securities has been using ULLINK's technology, the UL BRIDGE connectivity and order routing platform, for more than a year now. Its UL BRIDGE has recently been complemented by an OMS that provides exception management, a pre-trade risk filtering module, and DMA access to the LSE. In response to demand from its clients, Winterflood Securities has also added three new ULLINK DMA gateways to its existing trading environment, including access to Chi-X Europe.
"In this rapidly evolving industry, it is essential to be able to quickly adapt the Winterflood electronic trading environment Win-X without impacting the outstanding service our clients have come to expect. We selected the ULLINK technology, after a comprehensive review of the technology available in this space, for the modularity that it offers. Connections can be added, removed or modified without changing the underlying infrastructure. This feature allowed us to simply add the Chi-X Europe plug-in to our trading platform and go live in a matter of days," commented Philip Yarrow, Electronic Trading Director of Winterflood Securities.
"We are pleased that Winterflood Securities has been able to leverage our platform's modularity,", added Laurent Useldinger, CEO of ULLINK. "Our technology is plug-and-trade and therefore allows us to lower the TCO of trading solutions, which can be particularly helpful in these market conditions. We offer an extensive library of 350 ready-to-trade connections to favourite destinations, including over 35 major exchanges in DMA, to help our customers quickly adapt to evolving business needs and regulatory requirements."
Commenting on the announcement, Peter Randall, CEO of Chi-X Europe added, "We are delighted to welcome Winterflood Securities, the eminent specialist UK market maker, to our growing list of market participants and commend ULLINK for making this possible. In September, we extended our coverage of FTSE 250 stocks. We believe that the mid-cap market, as well as the blue chips, offers significant trading opportunities. On Chi-X Europe our participants achieve an average saving of more than 3 basis points on every trade. In these challenging times, we believe this proposition is proving ever more compelling."
About ULLINK
ULLINK is a leading provider of end-to-end multi-asset connectivity and trading solutions. With over 350 plug-and-trade connections to favourite destinations (brokers, exchanges, order routing networks and trading applications, in all formats and all asset classes), ULLINK enables financial institutions to build vendor-neutral environments: they simply connect their existing applications to the platform (UL BRIDGE), select their destinations and start trading. To leverage this universal connectivity solution, ULLINK provides turn-key DMA to over 35 major international markets, and comprehensive care order architectures with full order management (OMS), exception management, best execution, and algorithmic trading across the globe. These flexible solutions are available in-house, in Facilities Management (hosting and monitoring of the entire solution by ULLINK) or through the UL NET global routing network. With offices in New-York, London, Paris and Hong Kong, ULLINK supports customers worldwide, around the clock. Its proven capacity to deliver reliable software and exceptional services has earned ULLINK the trust of hundreds of clients, including many of world's largest financial institutions. Please visit https://www.ullink.com or email email@example.com.
About Winterflood Securities
Winterflood offer clients a one stop trading solution for the UK, EU & US equity markets. Winner, one of the leading FIX order routing platforms, provides immediate and simple access to our extensive liquidity. The Winterflood internal exchange Win-X our Pan European DMA order routing platform has been created to satisfy client demand through connections to lit and dark order books with exclusive access to our internal liquidity giving consistent price improvement over the home market However, we still value personal relationships and have a team of experienced highly skilled sales traders. 2008 is Winterflood's 20th year of market making. Having succeeded in such fiercely competitive financial markets we have learned to always listened carefully to our clients, provide flexibility through bespoke trading solutions with a constant focus on quality of execution. Our continued success for the future will be built on the same principles.
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About Chi-X® Europe
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Listen to Yourself by xkcd.com
Go Hawks!!!
As grand finals kick off, today is the most spectacular moment for Aussies sporting event.
I love underdogs, Go Hawks!
After 5 hours:
Hawks won! If you know the story behind this game, it's indeed mission impossible for Hawthorn Hawks to beat Geelong Cats, but it was amazing they won by 26 points (115/89). Life is full of surprises!
[Read Real Footy]
Good thing, there's NO malware relating to this event!(",)
Non-Win32 Malicious Files
There are heaps of Non-Win32 malicious file currently in the wild. These files are crafted to allow attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code. Although, it exploits known vulnerabilities, but still attackers find it useful as most of us do not bother applying security updates. So, the effect is massive installation of various threats in your computer.
FileType: SWF
Solution: Flash Player Update
FileType: RIFF Windows Animated Cursor
Solution: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-017
FileType: PDF
Solution: Adobe Reader and Acrobat Security Update
FileType: RAR
Solution: Update to latest version (version 3.61 and onwards)
Other non-exploited files:
FileType: DOC, Excel, PPT, JPEG, CHM
Behaviour: Drops and Install malicious EXE file
Filetype: ASF (Windows Audio/Video Files)
Behaviour: Connects to remote IP address to download malicious EXE file
For these kind of files, please make sure its coming from trusted source and make sure you have security software with updated signature installed.
Related Post:
– Inside Exploited PDF
– ASF File Specification & Recent Threats
– Malicious CHM
First Day of Spring
We still feel the cold weather here in Melbourne, but Google just reminded me that it's already Spring!
Latest Blog Post by malware
I found this in my (wordpress) dashboard at the lower right …
Once you click the link, it will create the following traffic in background …
Good thing, there was no DMG file for Mac OS X, instead it tries to download EXE file for unfortunate innocent Windows users. The file free.porn.movie.exe is a Trojan downloader.
After few hours, WordPress responded to these malicious activity…
Stay informed!
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Notice, "Oprah Winfrey's Death"…
It's been all over the internet, but definitely coming from unreliable source. It's just a sick hoax!
For sure people started searching and verifying this information online but be careful from dodgy websites! You might bump to a drive by download servers.


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My latest creation is another fairy tale design,
this time Alice in Wonderland!
It was a natural to use Alice and the White Rabbit
for a weather house pin,
because you need to know if the weather
will be suitable for a Mad Tea Party!
Look for it in my shop!
Bye for now!


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Biking to work, for exercise, or just to enjoy beautiful weather — no matter why or where you ride, your bike is considered a vehicle. Because bicyclists share the road with motorists, you need to be aware of your surroundings at all times.
In general, follow these seven guidelines any time you're biking to stay safe on the road:
- Wear
a helmet. Adjust the straps on the helmet until it is
snug and sits level on your head. See the complete steps
for helmet fitting here.
- Do not wear headphones, which
impair your ability to hear
traffic or warning signals.
- Don't ride on
sidewalks. They are intended for pedestrians,
and many cities have ordinances prohibiting it.
- Obey the same
rules as auto drivers when riding on the
street. Ride with traffic, stop at lights and stop signs, and
yield to pedestrians.
- Ride in a
straight line at least three feet from the curb or
parked vehicles. Don't swerve around vehicles.
- Stay visible
with bright colors, lights, and reflective clothing,
especially at dawn, dusk, and night.
- Use the appropriate hand signals for stopping and turning (see below).
Some states have specific ordinances regarding bicyclists. Go to your state's Department of Transportation website for more information.
For a list of scenic bicycle trails in your area, visit www.railstotrails.org.
For a list of scenic bicycle trails in your area, visit www.railstotrails.org.


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Recently I am noticing more and more parents are stepping up and talking about their issues, concerns, frustrations as well as sharing ideas and tips they have used in raising their children. All in all, it is about parents helping parents.Years ago when I struggled with my daughter, I felt so alone - and it was such a hush hush mentality. We were all so determined to prove our kids were nearly perfect! Oh, so smart and athletic or gifted and talented in some way. In today's generation of raising children it is become more challenging.
Here are a few Blogs on Parenting that could help you help your child:
Van's Mom - Exploring and dealing with an ADHD and ODD daughter.
Tangerine Times - Myrna's parenting tips on the sweet and sour times of teens.
Phil's Blog - Why physical education is so critical to children today in highly techy times.
Inhalant Abuse Blog - Parents educate other parents on the dangers of many home products.
Love Our Children Blog - Helping keep today's children safe.
Sarah Maria's Blog - Learning to increase your self image to make better choices. (For parents and teens!)
Lori Hanson's Blog - Holistic solutions for a eating disorders.
ADD/ADHD Blog - ADDitude Magazine offers many parent Blogs on ADD/ADHD and more.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Parents Universal Resource Experts - Sue Scheff - Parenting Blogs
Posted by Sue Scheff at 8:04 AM
Labels: mom blogs, parenting advice, parenting blogs, Parents Universal Resource Experts, struggling teens, Sue Scheff, teen help


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Italian Braised Fennel and Peppers with Cannellini Beans
Classic Italian flavors from sweet fennel, bell peppers, and creamy cannellini beans come together in this healthy comfort food. This vegan, gluten-free, fat-free recipe even works in the slow cooker, with raw beans. Simply toss everything in, set on low for 8-10 hours, and come home to an easy, satisfying dinner.
EASY Servings: 4 Ready In: 25 minutes
1 Tbs fennel seed
1 head of fennel
2 bell peppers (orange, red or yellow)
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 can (15-ounce) cannellini beans
2 cups vegetable stock
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Gather ingredients.
To prepare the vegetables: Seed, core, and thinly slice the bell peppers. Peel the fennel. A vegetable peeler does a great job without wasting too much. Pluck a few fennel fronds for garnishing later. Trim the green stalks. You can save these for vegetable broth. Core and thinly slice the fennel bulb
To braise the fennel and peppers: Combine the bell pepper, fennel, and fennel seed in a wide pan. Cover and sweat over medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring every few minutes. When peppers start to turn brown, they are ready. Add the garlic and vegetable stock. Simmer, partially covered, for about 10 minutes, until fennel is soft and broth is flavorful. Drain and rinse beans. Add the beans to the fennel. Cook, partially covered, another 3-5 minutes.
Taste to adjust seasoning.
Serve over Herbed Cauliflower Mash and garnish with fennel fronds.
Servings: 4
Yield: 4 cups
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Percent daily values based on the Reference Daily Intake (RDI) for a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition information calculated from recipe ingredients.
Amount Per Serving
Calories 150.02
Calories From Fat (5%) 7.81
% Daily Value
Total Fat 0.93g 1%
Saturated Fat 0.14g <1%
Omega-3 Fatty Acids g
Omega-6 Fatty Acids g
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 105mg 4%
Potassium 790.9mg 23%
Total Carbohydrates 29.43g 10%
Fiber 10.59g 42%
Sugar 1.03g
Protein 7.89g 16%
Calcium 141.41mg 14%
Iron 108.42mg 602%
Vitamin A 225.74IU 5%
Vitamin C 0mg 0%
This vegan gluten-free, fat-free recipe is a modern twist on Italian comfort food. Use it as a satisfying base for Braised Fennel and Beans, Hearty Mushroom Ragout, or Smoky Braised Giant Lima Beans.