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Eyetex is familiar brand in Tamil Nadu. They started off with shingars and sticker bindis and graduated recently couple of years in to the cosmetic industry. India, apart from Elle18 and may be this, doesn't have that many really affordable options like e.l.f, MUA, Jordana, L.A Colors, e.t.c.(Sorry about the following ramble, felt the need to express myself here) And whatever affordable options available here in India cannot even be compared to affordable brands mentioned above. There is this huge gap and really horrible option in the affordable section of cosmetics. Of course health and well being matters more than money.
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Hi everyone :)
Here's an outfit with great and cozy jumper from Udobuy. I love its design and ofcourse the print, it's cute and perfect for winter.
Udobuy is great fashion store in which you can find many styles and designs for reasonable prices. My favourites are their jackets and coats :)
What do you think about it?

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Updated August 9, 2017
Thank you all for coming. Congratulations to Upstate Academy Gamers, 2017 Champions.
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I've never thought about this night as much as I have the past two months. Was there signs of his lies? Did I just believe because I wanted to believe?
It was a warm summer night in February. My friend AP and I had decided to go out just like every other Saturday night that summer. This particular night we had decided to go out to a bar in the city. We had a few drinks, talked to a few people but weren't really feeling it so decided to head home just after midnight.
I had just gotten changed and jumped into bed when my phone started ringing. It was S. Before I had a chance to pick up, he hung up. Why on earth is S pranking my phone at 1am was my first thought. He then sent me a text "You awake?". Really?? You just called my phone then sent me a text, if I wasn't already awake I sure would be now!
We exchanged quite a few texts where he revealed he was in a neighbouring city for a wedding only about 30 minutes away. He asked me to come and see him and revealed that him and L had broken up over a week ago. At this point I sat there wanting to go but really couldn't be bothered driving 30 minutes especially when I had been drinking. S apologised for bothering me and said goodnight.
Now I bet he wishes he left it at that but he didn't. He left it a whole 5 minutes then basically begged me to come see him. I knew he was drunk and S tends to get himself into trouble when he's had a few too many drinks. I'd like to say I only went out of concern for him, but truth be told I was excited to see him.
I quickly put on my watermelon coloured lace dress I had been wearing that night, grabbed my purse and left. While I drove the 30 minutes to see him he kept sending me texts, ones of the kind that make you blush but get you excited at the same time.
Luckily I know the city he was in a little because his directions to where he was waiting for me were that of a child when you ask where they have hidden their other shoe, a lot of I don't know, maybe go left, and I'm near the petrol station (mind you there are at least 5 of them in that particular area).
I found him walking down the road aimlessly and as soon as I pulled over I saw that smile, that sexy, very cocky smile.
We drove around for a bit and chatted. We finally turned down a secluded road (basically all roads were at this point as it was almost 3am) where we pulled over and jumped into the back seat. I obviously don't have to explain what happened I think that's quite clear. I will however add as it was quite a warm night/morning we had the door open, and quite frankly those of you who have had sex in the backseat of a smallish car would know it can be quite difficult and cramped. We however didn't realise we had parked right next to a nest of mosquitoes! Two naked bodies and thousands of mozzies does not turn out well! We had bites all over us, S even had them on his "bits" LOL. We thought it was pretty funny, not realising how many bites we would actually have on us.
After we got dressed and jumped back into the car and chatted again for a while. The sun was about to come up so I drove him back to where he was staying, an old house in the suburbs. I would find out five years later his fiancé L was inside sleeping.
As I drove home as the sun was rising, never did I ever consider how much this one night would utterly change my life. And that in 9 months time the best thing that would ever happen to me would come into my life.


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Remixing plays a huge part in our culture. Most people identify the word 'remix' with music, and for the most part it is. But with the increased creativity (you may say) of our viewers, the word now extends to videos on news segments as well. We see it just about everywhere, whether it's the speech of the president or local news, if it's remix-able, why not? And why not indeed? Creating something humours from something not so tasteful brings a new definition to fun. But is it all fun and games? While it may be creative, it may also breach copyright. This happens quite frequently, a you tube video with audio in the background that was not credited for, will most likely be flagged as a copyright infringement. A good example of this is the Buffy vs Edward: Twilight Remixed. Where a man named Jonathan McIntosh created a mashup of the popular Twilight and Buffy The Vampire Slayer film and tv show to create a sub storyline saying, "the work is an example of fair use transformative storytelling which serves as a visual critique of gender roles and representations in modern pop culture vampire media". This video was flagged for copyright 3 years after it was uploaded (they took their time didn't they!). After already having millions of views, translated into several languages, appearing on popular television shows and even nominated for an award, the copyright monster came and bit it in the you know what. And after it's continues ambiguous arguments from YouTube, Lionsgate Entertainment (producers and distributors of Twilight) also attacked. Things started to get messy, but finally Lionsgate dropped the chargers and the video was back online.
Remix culture plays a huge part in our society and culture. It's a way to express ourselves and indulge in our creativity. It is a way for us the audience to be active in the way we consume content. Without remix, new ideas would not emerge and our society would become stale and boring. One of my favoirte mash up artsist is
Girl Talk who mashes not just samples of songs but everything from sounds to lyrics. As a musician myself, i find it fascinating that people could mash up or remix others peoples art and create something with an entire new meaning.
…these 2 videos are for funzies, and also why I love Youtube!


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Here are some photos of the actual installation from the "Looking After Trees" exhibit in Grand Junction, CO. The Aspen Tree installation and five photos of my forest site work that relates to trees... and securing the Connemara work on the wall with the accompanying book on the pedestal.
Sunday, July 7, 2013
LOOKING AFTER TREES installed
Posted by Mary Ellen Long at 1:24 PM
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- Jo Murray said...
That really is so'cool'...for want of a better word.
- July 7, 2013 at 3:17 PM
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New Jersey authorities are poised to announce numerous arrests stemming from a multi-agency effort that targeted the distribution of child pornography.
Details on the investigation will be disclosed during a news conference Wednesday morning at the State Police Technology Complex in Hamilton Township (Mercer County). Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa and State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes will be among those taking part.
Authorities say more than two dozen people across the state have been arrested so far as part of the ongoing investigation.
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by David Bain
NOTE: You may freely copy and repost or reprint this article as long as all links, the above byline, this note, and all following text remains unchanged.
Writers need to understand this:
Social media – your blog, Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Pinterest, etc. – is playtime.
It does not significantly affect your sales.
Actually, it might affect your sales a little if you're already established somewhere beyond the small/indie press. And getting listed on a popular book blog, for instance, will definitely affect your sales (at least temporarily).
But for the bulk of us, it's playtime.
Yesterday, I hit 35,000 followers on Twitter.
I'm in awe at that number. That's as many people as live in my smallish Indiana county!
So I tweeted these words in celebration: "Hey! 35,000 followers! Hi to 35,000 people! Here's a test: How many of you will say 'hi' back?"
The first ten minutes generated exactly 28 responses.
Including exactly one guy who told me to "go fudge" myself.
There were only about a dozen more responses over the course of the next hour or two.
I love all my Twitter followers – seriously, even the ones who tell me to go fudge myself … because, hey, we all need to be humbled from time to time – and it was fun seeing the initial flood of responses (thank you, everyone who responded!) but let's face it. If you're thinking of using Twitter as effective advertising instead of just a fun means of communication, that's a pathetic response percentage.
28/35,000 = .0008
That's not even a real percentage in my book.
I don't even want to comment on what that percentage might mean.
Okay, actually, I do:
What it basically means is that if I tweet about my thrilling new novel, DEATH SIGHT (due at the end of October), to 35,000 people, I can expect that only about 28, if that, might actually act on it and click the link and check it out.
Your guess is as good as mine as to how many of those who click would actually buy it.
This is out of 35,000 followers.
Translated to the non-electronic world: You put an ad in the newspaper about your book signing, and it goes out to every resident of your small Indiana county. Twenty-eight souls show up. And some number significantly less than that leave with your book in hand. (Twenty-eight people would probably be a decent number, in reality. I've seen less show up for instantly recognizable authors speaking at big city book festivals.)
Not to reduce people to mere numbers – I really do like the connectivity aspect of social media – but I've amassed this follower total in a little over a year (about 13 months). I have a feeling it would have taken Stephen King just a little less time to amass as many, would he care to directly join the Twitterverse firsthand.
But I also bet that, given the same number of followers, he would also have achieved a slightly better response percentage in the first ten minutes.
The point I take away from this: Keep writing.
Nothing else, no other self-promotion unconnected to a larger, established advertising-based network, really works.
Oh, I'll keep doing the social media thing, sure. Of course.
Because I enjoy the hell out of it. Interacting with what few fans and active followers I do have is one of the daily joys of my waking life. I've had some wonderful experiences via Twitter. For instance, although I've solicited none of them in advance, all the five-star Amazon reviews for my first novel, GRAY LAKE – http://bit.ly/GrayLake – are from strangers whom I've come to know on Twitter after they've either read the book and posted their review or tweeted me, letting me know how much they enjoyed it.
I can't deny that Twitter has certainly resulted in a few sales for me.
But only a few – probably not even the majority.
I still think only my writing itself – my writing, my constant labor, and whatever luck might erupt into my life – will be the only factors to give me anything approaching a break-out bestseller.
Thus, my focus remains on writing – on novels and stories and essays and the occasional poem – not social media.
If you see me here on my blog, on Twitter, on Facebook, you're seeing me having fun.
One more time:
Social media is playtime – it's a sparkly pastime, a great way to connect and interact – and I love you dearly for choosing to spend your time with me in this manner.
But it's hardly the key to success, and should not be treated as such.
NOTE: This essay also appears in my $.99 ebook TEN SHORT ESSAYS ON WRITING.


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ThinkTank necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 634 diseños de 102 diseñadores freelance.
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- Our Practice
With more than 60 years of experience between the partners, B. Ramgoolam & Associates Inc. has been associated with a variety of construction projects.
The practice was established in the Northern Natal town of Dannhauser in 1986 and commenced activities in Durban in mid 1999.
Now, after almost two decades of growth and acquisitions we have a client base with varied services that can hold its own under any requirements and conditions.
The offices are strategically located which ensures that a large area of Kwa-Zulu Natal is covered with close and personal management by either or both the Partners.
-Our Commitment
We at B.Ramgoolam & Associates Inc. have a commitment to realising and achieving the Client's vision and objectives.
Through our expertise, and sound management skills together with our commitment to our Client's care we strive to make a real contribution towards attaining the Client's goal.
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Construction projects are unique, no matter how simple or complex they may be. The appointment of a Quantity Surveyor would provide the client with the invaluable service of budget control, cash flows and cost control.
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Would like to have a professional logo that meets our target audience.
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Why a monthly marathan? What does it mean?
At Deb Smith Photography we offer three types of headshot sessions including a custom personal branding session.
The key difference between the types of sessions is the time taken and the level of service offered. Most people are usually surprised to find that they really enjoy the sessions and their best images usually come towards the end.
BUT if you're like me and forget to book things until the last minute, this is for you! One day each month you can book yourself into a "simple 30 minute" or "professional 45 minute plus hair and makeup" headshot session with just 24 hours notice depending on availability.
Interested but not ready to commit? You can book in a 15 minute video call with Deb here CLICK HERE. This is great for busy professionals to get a better sense of your needs without leaving the office.


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The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act that govern electronic business arose out of concern the skyrocketing popularity of e-commerce and its processes put e-commerce outside the boundaries of traditional contract law (Cheeseman, 2006). UCITA is "intended to bring the same uniformity and certainty to the rules that apply to information technology transactions that the Uniform Commercial Code does for the sale of goods" (Wikipedia, 2006). Therefore, UCITA recognizes the validity and enforceability of electronic contracts.
1. Before the UCC and the UCITA, what was one of the first, and most significant, of the U.S. government's attempts to promote uniformity in commercial laws from state to state?
Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States provides to the populace of this country the basis of our monetary and business system. Section 8 provides "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States (Cheeseman, 2006 pg.
2. Based on the information presented above, what do you see as the major differences between Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code and UCITA?
The computer information transactions involve licenses, not sales. It also extends easily to sales of computers and computer peripherals. UCITA was initially proposed as an amendment to the Uniform Commercial Code. The UCC, article 2 involves sales among other issues. These rules are to govern commercial transactions. Article 2 is also applied by federal courts to sales contracts governed by federal law.
3. What is the legal distinction between selling a product and licensing it?
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"For a while there, I just gave up," says Mark Linkous. "And I was sure that everyone had given up on me and moved on."
It's as heart-rending as it is perplexing to hear such self-doubt from Linkous, the creative maestro and instrumental jack-of-all-trades behind Sparklehorse's graceful, off-kilter beauty. Loyal fans may anticipate Sparklehorse releases with what amounts to religious fervor, and critical hosannas may greet each record — four over the last decade, including the new one, Dreamt for Light Years In the Belly of a Mountain — but after 2001's It's a Wonderful Life, Linkous had become convinced that his work was "insignificant."
Even the public adulation of peers like Radiohead, Califone, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, and the Cardigans' Nina Persson no longer made a difference to Linkous. He retreated to his secluded North Carolina farmhouse about an hour outside of Asheville and, with the exception of a few cameos and production credits, simply left music behind while he battled a crippling depression for three years.
"When you're down in that vortex, it's just all-absorbing," he says. "But if you can do something, or someone happens along just to inspire a little bit of confidence, it can go a long way."
It was a chance encounter with production wizard Danger Mouse's outlaw mash-up of Jay-Z and the Beatles, The Grey Album, that helped Linkous out of his creative funk. Linkous was already an accomplished home-studio alchemist whose previous records buzzed with sonic gauze — field recordings, reel-to-reel tape loops and glitchy samples — but he'd only worked with old-school analog. After touring with Radiohead in Europe after It's a Wonderful Life, Linkous wanted "as much electronic influences as [on] Kid A and Amnesiac," only without sacrificing traditional pop-song structure. Linkous was hearing his music through a digital filter, but it was one he couldn't access because, as he puts it, "I can barely do e-mail."
Enter Danger Mouse, aka Brian Burton, aka one half of 2006 sensation Gnarls Barkley. It turns out Burton was yet another musician fan of Sparklehorse, and eventually the two set up shop in Linkous' Static King home studio. There, Burton performed his cut-and-paste computer magic on four songs Linkous had been at creative impasse with, kick-starting what would eventually become Dreamt for Light Years ….
"He's like the Jimi Hendrix of the laptop," says a still-enthused Linkous, adding that he and Burton plan to collaborate on a future project tentatively titled Danger Horse. "He would grab things from tracks that I'd already recorded, flip them over, run them backward, and make them fit in other songs as if it was an instrument being played. I was very impressed."
The results are intoxicating. Linkous' Southern-inflected pop and wistful folk-rock melodies — crafted into seamless arrangements from a vintage-music-store coterie of pump organs, optigans, strings, vibraphones, Wurlitzers, lap steels, acoustic and electric guitars — are coated in Burton's computer-generated swirls, static and rhythmic hiccups. Burton's much-sought-after ear serves him well, as he instinctively knows when to lay out so that the songs never feel cluttered.
Linkous then ventured north with some of the remaining tracks to the Upstate New York studio of Flaming Lips' sound guru Dave Fridmann, even enlisting the Lips' Stephen Drodz to play on a couple of cuts. Fridmann had produced It's a Wonderful Life, whose slower-paced compositions Linkous now wanted to replace with a mix of poppier and more rocking tunes, harkening back to Linkous' seminal 1996 debut, Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot — a record that one reviewer wrote "has even more sad, beautiful, weird moments of spacey, rural folk-rock than it does letters in its name."
And, as has been the case since that debut, Linkous forges his songs in the crucible between sadness and wonder, destruction and renewal. It's a process mirroring their author's own struggles, one culled from the elemental lessons on display in the natural world surrounding Linkous, his wife, the menagerie of animals they live with, and the wildlife they encounter in the woods. Through those verdant metaphors and animal imagery, Linkous creates a fantastical tableau where the spirits of old horses roam, crows have "old souls," fireflies are "dying stars," and we are all "born to return back to clay."
"Images like fire, or watching a horse run, are very compelling to me," Linkous says. "That's one thing that I try to get across consistently in my records, is to try and remember to notice the little things every day if possible."
Perhaps the most ironic element of Linkous' story is that the new record's best songs may well be the trio he recorded and played entirely on his own. Echoing the DIY nature of Vivadixie …, they match anything Danger Mouse or Fridmann helped produce, and suggest that Linkous' crisis of faith in his musical ability was, like most horrific aspects of depression, simply a phantom of the mind.
[John Schacht is a freelance music writer who still fondly remembers the day he stumbled across his first Sparklehorse record in the used-CDs bin.]
Sparklehorse plays the late show at the Grey Eagle (185 Clingman Ave.) on Saturday, Sept. 9. 9:30 p.m. $10/$12. 232-5800.


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International Education Week
International Education Week
International Education Week (IEW) is coming the week of November 12-16, 2018. IEW is promoted each year by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education as an opportunity to recognize and support the benefits of cultural exchange and international education programs. Campuses and schools throughout the nation will highlight discussions and offer activities that encourage students to internationalize their own educational experience. More information on this initiative is available online: iew.state.gov.
Check out details of the IEW Event Schedule 2018!


text: Intermediate Lung Sounds Bronchophony - Abnormal Lesson Waveform Anatomy As the patient says '99' several times, clearly understood '99' auscultated sounds indicate consolidated or atelectic lung areas. Use the slider to reveal the lungs with the consolidated or abnormal areas highlighted. Skin and Ribs Blended View Lungs Move slider to reveal lungs play pause Table of Contents 1Vesicular - Diminished 2Bronchophony - Healthy 3Bronchophony - Abnormal 4Egophony - e 5Egophony - a 6Whispered Pectoriloquy - Healthy 7Whispered Pectoriloquy - Abnormal 8Wheeze - Expiratory 9Wheeze - Monophonic 10Wheeze - Polyphonic 11Crackles - Early Inspiratory (Rales) 12Crackles - Late Inspiratory (Rales) 13Stridor Quiz Ask the patient to say "99" several times while auscultating the chest walls. Over consolidated areas "99" is understandable. This is because acoustic filtering is reduced in consolidated lung tissue, which allows better sound transmission.Compare this breath sound to the recording in the "Bronchophony - Healthy" lesson.


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"Nassstyy hobbitses! They hurts us they does"
Nice work on this pair of halflings Teemu. As you say, that's 10 points towards your target.
Welcome to the Painting Challenge. Here you will find the fabulous, fevered work from miniature painters from around the world. While participants come from every colour, gender, age and nationality, they have at least three things in common: they love miniatures, enjoy a supportive community and they have all taken the Challenge. This site features the current year's event along with the archives of past Challenges. Enjoy your visit and remember to come back soon.
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
From TeemuL - A Pair of Hobbits (10 points)
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Some of my favourite GW scultps. Nice work on the Teemu.ReplyDelete
Who doesn't love Hobbits?! Nice small entry, in size and quantity ;-)ReplyDelete
Lumpin Croop! Great work Teemu!ReplyDelete
Cute little guys, very nicely painted :)ReplyDelete
Ah, nostalgia! Great work, Teemu!ReplyDelete
I always wanted to field a hobbit force. There are some new sculpts coming down the pike soon, but I do like these old GW ones.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hobbits with pikes? Now there's an idea...Delete
I used to have a Dogs of War army and these guys were awesome on the tabletop. Wonderful job Teemu!ReplyDeleteReplies
Very nice, but what has it got in its pocketses...ReplyDelete
They were very nice sculpts and a joy to paint. Pity I don't have more of them...ReplyDelete
These are great little chapsReplyDelete
smashing little figuresReplyDelete
I have always had a soft spot for hobbits. Good job on these a real blast from the past.ReplyDelete
Nice work! One of the most characterful of the old Dogs of War units! And that's saying something!ReplyDelete
Nice pair of chaps.ReplyDelete
Very nice pair of hobbots, Teemu! They came out really nice!ReplyDelete
I love the feathered cap!ReplyDelete


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Edward De Valle Shares Top Trends in Content Marketing Landscape for 2018
"Trusted Travel Hospitality & Real Estate Global Marketing Expert"
Edward De Valle is on the roll when it comes to content marketing reaching out to every nook and corner of the world. Content is now a major part of all marketing initiatives and everyone wants to know what's in store for 2018. Edward De Valle has outlined some of these, and on top are automation and artificial intelligence, visual media, and connect with people.
As corporates devote billions of dollars for content marketing, the size of the market by the end of 2018 will be over $30 billion. At stake are growth and expansion, and the return on investment that comes with investing in content. Edward De Valle and his experts are certainly geared up for this as its offerings encompass a wide range of industries and services, from digital and paid media to public relations, design and content creation.
By the beginning of 2018, one should expect more and more artificial intelligence and automation going into content creation. Search engines too are today relying heavily on such algorithms for creating better search results. For content creators in digital and paid media, it is important to leverage aggregated content from users, and invest in software that can re-create content based on raw data from social media.
The rise in visual content in the form of memes, animated graphics, short videos, infographics and more is already obvious. This trend will continue unabated into 2018. With better speeds available for smart phones, video content is like icing on the cake for content marketers. Edward De Valle has already made a presence in the design field, and offers visual content for a host of industries such as retailers, real estate firms, heath and education and luxury lifestyle products.
If social media brought to the fore the power of being connected and the appeal of user generated content, 2018 will push it even further by focusing on content that is close to people with its emotional appeal and logical thrust. Digital marketing is thus gearing up to shift focus to content that keeps the audience at the center. For Edward De Valle, this is the way for both designs and paid media to take in order to get better traction and returns. LINKS expects the influence of this trend to be of great advantage to retail and other B2C sectors where customer connect is important.
Other than the shift to automation, visual content and people connect, other areas will emerge in content marketing in 2018. Beyond B2C, content marketing will become even more attractive to B2B clients, who will plan to spend more on engaging content. In addition, newer platforms are also likely to emerge for publishing content that are either faster, more effective or have a wider connect with a global audience.
"As we move into 2018, the experience of the last few years for content marketing tells us to expect bigger things to happen. No business today can do without some form of content marketing, and with specialized tools for insights and research, we will have much better return on investment in the years ahead," said Edward De Valle.
Edward De Valle has emerged as a major marketing communications consultancy on a global scale due to its ability to give a voice to their client's vision. Since its strategies are geared towards return on investment, its team has gained expertise in executing marketing plans that bring revenue and deliver results by combining both traditional and new media. As a research oriented and forward thinking agency, Edward De Valle and his experts are able to generate remarkable results for its clients in a wide range of industries.
For the year 2018, Edward De Valle has outlined its offerings in the paid media and visual design space. Edward De Valle has created a unique strategy to weave its paid media campaigns around the client's financial goals. The activities are informed by prior research, and include both the traditional and new media formats. Some of the major paid media services include apps and mobility, online videos, soclal, below the line activation, and television and cable.
Visual designs are one of the main pillars of any business outreach, promotion and marketing activity. A good design makes for a good business, and Edward De Valle and his experts specializes in creating stunning designs for a wide range of platforms. From logos and social media to infographics, printed material, and any form of branded content, the design portfolio at Edward De Valle consultancy is vast and comprehensive.
About us Edward De Valle
After graduating college, his career began at GE as the Marketing Manager for GE Power Systems Latin America. He then became Director of Sales for group publisher IPG, and manage all sales and marketing for Newsweek, Vogue, Glamour, Discover, Men's Fitness, Prevention, Teen and Architectural Digest for both the U.S. Hispanic and Latin America markets.
Drawing from that experience, De Valle then founded AMGW Agency, an Americas-focused digital, advertising and public relations company in 2001. His global perspective contributed to his desire to provide marketing strategies to real estate developers, hoteliers and luxury brands on a worldwide scale.
After having much success with his own marketing and communications company he set of to do what he always wanted to do, which was to become — a serial entrepreneur.
In 2012 he purchased the franchise "Douglas Elliman Real Estate" for representation in the Dominican Republic.
In 2013 he made a deal with Forbes Magazine in New York and was later awarded the honored to own the license to publish Forbes in Central America and the Caribbean.
In 2015 De Valle founded LINKS with a goal of providing clients with high-impact, intelligent and innovative solutions in the marketing world.
From 2001-2017 A special passion for real estate marketing has led him to become one of America's top marketing, and communications professional's to help developers sell new developments.
Edward De Valle has marketed more than $15 billion of residential and vacation real estate projects for many of the world's most prominent developers and architects, including Roger Staubach, Andres Balaz, Richard Meier, Zaha Hadid and Armani.
In 2017 he secured the license to build alongside the development company Grupo Zagalo the first-ever yoo Studio by Phillipe Starck project ever to be constructed in the Caribbean. Today his regional Caribe LINKS office manages the sales and marketing with brokerage Ankrom Group.


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Right now, we've got cranberry smash boiling away on the stove, in the oven the pie crust and yams are baking. Cranberry smash is a very simple dish that has been a family tradition for at least three generations, going on four. The dough for the rolls is almost done rising. Once we've got the pie filled and back in the oven, we're going to start on the rolls.
The rolls went ... well. Usually, Mimi makes them, but it was up to us today, and without Mimi we were bumbling along. Mimi always makes her rolls crescent shaped, and so we followed suit. Once we'd spread the dough out in a circle, I started halving the dough, so that we could make the crescent rolls. We halved all the way to thirty-seconds before we started rolling them. By the time we'd rolled about a quarter of the rolls, the other rolls had risen enough that they started to grow back together. So, after tugging re-slicing and tugging a little bit more, we had 32 rolls laid out. They're certain to taste as good as Mimi's, but they're not as beautiful.
I just finished peeling the brussel sprouts. What a bunch of work they were! When I started on 'em, the sun was still up (though behind clouds), when I finished removing the bad spots and chopping them, it was completely dark outside. I think Dad started the stuffing while I was chopping brussel sprouts. The cranberry smash is done, the pie is done, the rolls are rising, the yams and turkey are in the oven, and the brussel sprouts just got thrown into cook with shallots and bacon fat. Yum. The stuffing is on the stove, replete with onions, celery, garlic and lots and lots of butter. The croutons and chicken stock have yet to go in.
Dinner is taking a little longer than expected, because of the turkey of course. Hopefully they'll be out in a few minutes though, and then we can throw the rolls in. While we wait on the last few dinner items, we get to fulfill one of the other Thanksgiving traditions, word games. Most years, we'll play dictionary (also known as balderdash). This year though, we've got a new game, called konexi. You build words in a three-dimensional tower, a sort of Jenga meets Scrabble. Like camping, it's in-tents.
Dinner was awesome. It had every thing we need to feel that the holidays have begun, from butter rich dinner rolls, to cranberry smash and chipotle yams. For dessert we had the requisite pumpkin pie. To finish off the evening, we've got more word games.


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There are total 9 letters in Beggardom, Starting with B and ending with M.
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I'm not sure which is worse . . . being educated in the wrong subjects, or being miseducated in the right ones! I'm talking about being propagandized. Brainwashed! That's what goes on in churches, mosques and synagogues all over the world. Self-described ministers of truth, spreading falsehood about Gay people and calling it doctrine! Taking Scriptures out of context, distorting the Gospel of Grace, ignoring the clues to our identity that exist there, encouraging ignorance, and whipping up hatred against us, all in the name of the Lord. I'm convinced that this rampant practice constitutes the Desolating Sacrilege of which Jesus Christ spoke!
In my opinion, there's nothing so sacrilegious as a False Prophet who vilifies God's Gay children. And there is nothing so desolate as the life of a Gay child of God who takes part in that sacrilege! An interview has surfaced on the Web which proves my point beyond the shadow of a doubt. This interview, which extensively quotes the alleged former lover of a closeted Christian preacher, details how such men lead lives fraught with guilt, shame, deception and perverted desire. The interviewer, New York journalist Clay Cane, calls it a story of "sadness, sexual deviance and scandal." Believe me, it's about as strong an argument against living in the closet as you'll ever find!
The closeted Christian preacher in question is Donnie McClurkin, who has recently been in the news. Back when he was running for President, Barack Obama recruited him to head a Gospel music tour in support of his candidacy. Seemingly unaware of McClurkin's reputation in the Black community as an advocate of heterosexual conversion (he himself claims to be "ex-Gay"), Obama got himself embroiled in a firestorm of controversy. In a lame attempt at damage control, he added an openly Gay minister to the tour, which included other militantly heterosexist acts like the duo Mary Mary and Reverend Hezekiah Walker. Reportedly, the Gay minister was so intimidated by the heavy anti-Gay atmosphere, he fled from the event as soon as his time on stage was up! What a joke!
Here's some background on Reverend McClurkin: Born 1959 in Amityville, New York, McClurkin grew up in the Christian church and led Gospel groups in his teens. He entered the ministry and served as associate pastor at a Detroit church headed by Marvin Winans, a member of the Gospel-singing (and very homophobic) Winans Family. His own career as a professional Gospel singer began in 1996. He's since cut several million-selling albums, and won three Grammy awards. He also has an NAACP Image Award. McClurkin now pastors his own congregation in Freeport, New York; he founded his Perfecting Faith Church in early 2001. Although his ministry and singing career are high-profile, he's most famous in evangelical circles for his claims of having been "delivered" from Gay identity. He made these claims in a 2001 autobiography titled Eternal Victim/Eternal Victor, and in articles he's since penned for Charisma Magazine and other Conservative Christian publications.
An admitted victim of incest and child sexual abuse, McClurkin writes that he was unwillingly drawn into homosexuality by male pedophiles: "The seed of homosexual lust and desire was planted" is the ominous way he describes it. He professes to have overcome same-gender attraction through prayer and guidance from his church elders. Here's a sample of the kind of "guidance" he got:
They would pray with me, talk with me, and a few of them . . . would even teach me how to carry myself like a man. When I wanted to sing soprano, they'd say things like, "Get some bass in your voice!" or "Men don't sing soprano!" (They) even taught me how to walk. If I held my hand up in a feminine way, (they'd) hit it and say: "Put your hands at your side. Men don't hold their hands like that!"
These intensive lessons in masculine swagger may have had something to do with McClurkin fathering a child out of wedlock in 2000. The evangelical community forgave that transgression, of course . . . at least he was fornicating with a woman.
Donnie McClurkin has become prominent among a shamefully large number of hetero-fascists who are active in Black Protestantism. Ever since he performed at the 2004 Republican National Convention, he's been forging links with the White religious Right Wing. He has appeared in support of George W. Bush, and parrots the "family values" rhetoric of the Republican party (begging the question of why Barack Obama would have wanted to be associated with him)!
Ask him what he thinks about Gay identity, and he's liable to call it "a matter of choice" as well as a "curse". He's gone on record with such opinions in the past. In addition, McClurkin has characterized Gay Christian men as "vultures" who populate a "deceptive underworld" within the church (holy religious McCarthyism, Batman)! According to The New York Times, he offers "therapy" to young boys who feel homosexual desire. "I've been through this, and have experienced God's power to change my lifestyle," he asserts. "I am delivered, and I know God can deliver others, too." Doesn't reading about this development make chills run up and down your spine? It certainly has that effect on me.
The aforementioned exposé had an equally potent effect on me when I read it. There is, of course, a possibility that the anonymous man's claims are bogus; he could be a jealous rival trying to settle a score with McClurkin by making up lies about him. However, I seriously doubt that's the case: From what I know about closeted men, the story rings uncomfortably true! You can judge for yourself, though. Here are excerpts, taken from the website claycane.net. They've been edited for clarity and objectionable content.
Clay Cane: (This) interview with someone who claims to be Donnie McClurkin's ex-lover (describes) his relationship with the millionaire pastor . . . he demands to remain anonymous (because) he is tied to the Gospel music industry and explains, "I can be blackballed by him." For his professional and personal protection, he will only go by the name of "Rob". In this revealing interview, "Rob" details his relationship, or as he described, "roller coaster ride", with the "We Fall Down" hitmaker from 2001 to 2004, which (was) ironically during the height of McClurkin's anti-Gay rants and calls for (heterosexual) conversion . . . the full interview cannot be made public. Some things I had to leave out, such as other artists in Gospel (music) who are Gay . . . I only wanted to focus on the relationship with McClurkin and no one else. I am presenting (this) story for people to make up their own minds.
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Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and current and former world leaders are marking the occasion with warnings of continued divisions among major powers.
President Barack Obama issued a statement saying Russia's actions against Ukraine are a reminder that there is "more work to do" for Europe to be "whole, free and at peace."
The Berlin Wall divided the German capital and came to define the Cold War, which pitted the United States and its allies against the Soviet Union following World War II.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said Saturday that the world was on the brink of "a new Cold War" and that some say it has already begun.
At an event commemorating the anniversary of the wall's fall, Gorbachev said, "Bloodshed in Europe and the Middle East against the backdrop of a breakdown in dialogue between major powers is of enormous concern."
Gorbachev, 83, also criticized Europe and said it was in danger of becoming irrelevant as a global power.
"Instead of becoming a leader of change in a global world, Europe has turned into an arena of political upheaval, of competition for spheres of influence and finally of military conflict," Gorbachev said.
"The consequence inevitably is Europe weakening at a time when other centers of power and influence are gaining momentum. If this continues, Europe will lose a strong voice in global affairs and gradually become irrelevant," he added.
Tensions over Ukraine
The West and Russia have been mired in tensions over Ukraine for months.
Built in 1961, the wall divided the city for nearly three decades. It separated communist East Berlin from West Berlin, which was occupied by the Americans, French and British.
The 161-kilometer wall was designed to keep residents in the East from fleeing to the West. It divided streets and neighborhoods and tore apart families and friendships.
Nearly 140 people are said to have died trying to cross the wall from East Berlin, but victims groups say the number is closer to 700.
It was November 9, 1989, when East Germany's government ended its restrictions on travel into West Berlin after weeks of public protests that began in the eastern city of Leipzig and spread to East Berlin.
Jubilant crowds immediately gathered at the wall, climbing it and crossing through the gates, hammering and chiseling away pieces of it and joining in celebration with West Berliners on the other side. Not one shot was fired.
The opening of the border was a critical moment in the collapse of communism.
'Tear down this wall'
Just two years earlier, then-President Ronald Reagan had delivered a speech in Berlin in which he challenged Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."
East and West Germany reunited on October 3, 1990.
German authorities said the emphasis of the anniversary this year is on celebrating a unified Germany.
A 15-kilometer chain of illuminated balloons along the former border will be released into the air Sunday as a symbol of the wall's elimination.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was a scientist in East Germany at the time the wall fell, has said it is a day she will never forget. Merkel is leading three days of commemorations for those killed trying to escape the repressive state.
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Cold in July's Jim Mickle and Michael C. Hall On Masculinity's Frailty
Jim Mickle's moody, genre-skipping film Cold in July opens on a terrifying home invasion and only gets crazier from there. Dexter's Michael C. Hall plays Richard, a man who's thrust into a situation he's in no way prepared for, and then finds himself seduced by it. He ends up pursing a path that blurs the line between vigilantism and wanton criminality.
I don't want to give too much away, because part of the joy of this movie is watching it glide from shocking plot point to shocking plot point (adapted from Joe R. Lansdale's 1989 crime novel of the same name). I will say that it's a serpentine sort of revenge movie that Mickle envisioned as a "straight-up Western," but one that also incorporates elements of horror and comedy, alike.
Like Breaking Bad's Walter White and Blue Ruin's Dwight, Richard is clearly not cut out for this huge, morally ambiguous task that he undertakes. Cold in July reminded me of the kind of B action/thrillers you'd see on cable during the '80s with a key difference: In those, the masculinity of the protagonist was a given, whereas in Cold in July, Richard isn't at all confident about his manliness. Though his motivation initially appears to be run-of-the-mill family-protecting, as the film progresses and his situation intensifies, his selfishness becomes clearer.
I love Cold in July. In terms of its aesthetics, mood, and referential nature, it's an extremely cool movie about an extremely uncool guy. I talked to its director, Jim Mickle, and its star, Michael C. Hall, last week in the office of Cold in July's publicist. What follows is a condensed and edited transcript of our conversation.
Gawker: You set this movie in 1989, and it looks like something that would have played on HBO in '89. It's a layered sort of period piece. Is that intentional?
Jim Mickle: Yeah. It was when Michael brought up [his character having a] mullet, it sort of set a bar for the movie, a baseline in a way. I probably never would have thought to go as far with the '80s stuff and the music, but when he did that, it was a sign that we could literally let our hair down and have fun with it. Until then, I thought of it as more of a straight-up Western, but then it was like, no: this actually feels like the movies of that era.
It's a vanity-free role that you have, Michael. Your outfits are horribly misshapen throughout.
Michael C. Hall: Yeah, the high-waisted, cinched, pleated, mass-produced slacks. I didn't want to shy away from my sense that Richard was in no way inherently cool. He was aspiring to a kind of cool, and then he found these two models of cool [played by Sam Shepard and Don Johnson], and couldn't stay away from 'em.
I like how ambiguous but hinted upon Richard's motivation is. Though he's ostensibly protecting his family, his objective ultimately feels selfish. It feels like this is the first cool thing that ever happened to him, and he's riding it. There's even that line when he's lying to his wife about his phony job prospect: "I been waiting for something big like this."
MCH: Yeah, exactly. He's telling a lie, but he's telling the truth more than at any other moment.
He doesn't even seem to like his son very much.
MCH: ...and seems to wonder if his son really likes him. They don't connect. They don't get along. [Vinessa Shaw's] character seems to be wearing the really bad pants in the family. I think he wants to own his right to be a man, and be a father. At the end of the film, I have a sense that he's going to be haunted, to a degree, by this experience, but also isn't going to need something big to happen again. He can be the big thing in his life. He can step into the role he's been feeling like a fraud playing up until this point. He can be a husband, he can be a father in a way that he couldn't own before.
Jim, you're 35 this year?
JM: Yeah.
Did you identify with Richard at all?
JM: It was more my dad. It's funny that you say that, because people would say, "[Richard]'s 30," and I was always like, "No, he's 35." He's old enough to know better but he's not old enough that he's so set in his ways that he won't be tempted to do this. In the book, he's haunted by his father, and I hope we've kept that sense about it. We've limited what we've conveyed in the movie, and a lot of it is conveyed through his sense of who he is and what he's looking up to. I always kind of imagine if my dad was mowing the lawn and Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson pulled up in a cool car, and were like, "Dude, we need you to go on a journey." My dad would be like, "Uh, I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm going to get in the backseat of the car. I'm gonna try." I just hung out with my dad this weekend, and it rang true. He kind of dressed that way and he wasn't that cool. At some point he came home in the early '80s and he'd gotten a perm. And this was a few years after the time when it was cool for dudes to get perms. In some weird way, I feel like you [to Michael] played my dad, trying to be cool, trying to hang with the older guys. So yeah, not me. I don't have kids, I have dogs.
This movie feels very studied, and there are moments that are trope-like, if not flat-out cliched. I get the sense that you're aware of this, if not playing with it.
JM: Yeah.
So tell me about playing with cliches.
JM: I will paraphrase James Gray, who paraphrased someone else when he said that cliche is just myth done badly. I think that's really true. That's what was fun when I read the book, I think ultimately the movie came around to it: I felt like Joe Lansdale had seen all those movies that I loved and read all those books and authors that I loved and had seen Night of the Hunter a million times, Cape Fear a million times, and then he probably went to bed and had a crazy nightmare and all these things influenced that and then he woke up and spit all these things out. It was this interesting story from a family guy's perspective that was filtering all these things together. I think if we had tried to do it a hundred percent straightforward, it would have felt a little false, or it would have felt maybe uneventful in a way. It would have felt like, "Yeah, but I've seen all those elements before." What's kind of fun is hopefully you let the audience know that you know we've seen these things before, but part of the fun is that they're in this combination with this sort of energy.
I also like the candor of: Yes, these are cliches, but they work. Like creating empathy when Richard knows what's up but the police won't believe him. Or thunder as a device.
JM: Totally. I still cry in football movies when the football is in the air in slow motion. That'll always work.
I get the sense that you're out to please a crowd with this movie.
JM: Yeah. Our last movie [last year's We Are What We Are] tried to challenge the crowd a little bit, and that's rewarding in its own way, when you get the sense that that works, but then there's also a lot of people that are pissed off by that. There's a lot of elements about this that are inherently fun. Reading the book, I was exhilarated by it. I reread it as soon as I was finished, just, "How did you do that? This is so enjoyable."
MCH: I think this is more moment-to-moment pleasing, but more broadly challenging in terms of the narrative structure.
Fatherhood is a huge driving force in this movie. This is a dude movie. The meaty roles are for the men, even though Vinessa Shaw's taco salad-eating scene is amazing. Did you worry at all about the argument that this movie is misogynistic?
MCH: I think it's about fathers and sons. It's man-on-man violence. I don't think there's any anti-female...
JM: No, I think so, too. [Shaw's] character in the book has a lot more to do in the story. She follows Richard for a long time. To me, it took away from the sense that this is something this guy had to explore. When it was a shared experience, it pulled away something from it. I think there was something to him having to go through this alone, and knowing that it's the wrong thing to do in a lot of ways, and knowing that he'd get in trouble for it. That's what was important about that. So no, I didn't. And also [We Are What We Are] was the same thing but with women. It was sort of a female-empowerment story. I feel like we earned it, in a way.
Michael, did you feel any specific pressure coming off Dexter? This is your first major role since that show ended.
MCH: Rather than pressure, I felt a sense of liberation. It felt like an epilogue to the Dexter experience in as much as I got to play somebody who killed somebody and actually felt something about it other than, "I just flushed another shit down the toilet." [Richard] was really traumatized and haunted by it. I finished Dexter and a part of me was like, "What have I done? Oh my god." I realized that I had to turn part of myself off so that I could keep doing that and act as if it was what I needed to do and that that was OK. If I'm inspired to do something, I feel a sense of duty and pressure to guard whatever bit of the truth that I have to guard, but more than anything I was just excited. I felt like I'd gone and joined a carnival.
It's interesting that portraying violence can weigh on you. Jim, what are your thoughts on that, having directed horror movies and now this movie, which has elements of horror? Do you feel any particular responsibility to the world when directing a violent movie?
JM: No...I mean, that's not true, there are elements. When we had our first phone call [about the movie], Trayvon Martin was a big thing at that point, not that it isn't now, but all that stuff picked up and that was one of the reasons why it was important to keep it in the '80s in a way. I think now, you got the Cliven Bundy ranch, and you get dudes like, "This is my gun, this my land," and I think if we did a movie set now about a guy who defends his living room, there would have been a politicization of that that would have taken away form the fact that it really isn't about the violence. There's a seduction to that, and it's part of what this guy's idea of masculinity is. It ranks on the scale. It was important to keep it personal in that sense. But no, and maybe I justify it because this is our least crazy thing, but also, I probably rationalize it because I think we're doing things that hopefully make you think a little bit more, so it isn't totally like just getting off on just watching people getting slaughtered. There's always a point behind that stuff, especially in We Are What We Are. It's a condemnation of a lot of other things, and so...no, I don't have a great sense of social responsibility (laughs).
Regarding masculinity, this movie revels in it to a certain point, but it's also...if not satirical then revealing of the bullshit that guys do in the name of it.
MCH: That's what's cool about Richard being the guy who gets seduced, because he's a guy who, in the first quarter of the film, has a distaste for someone who'd say, "Good job!" [in response to his self-defense killing of an intruder]. He hates that shit. A part of the reason he hates it is that he has a degree of insecurity about it, as well.
JM: Early on, when we were trying to find the essence of what the story was about, I called Joe, the book's author, who's a Texas guy, born and bred. He teaches martial arts, invented his own. I told him, "There's a bunch of issues the financiers have, like, 'Why does Richard do this?'" To me, that was the point of the entire movie—hopefully, that's what's explored and hopefully we don't give you all the answers. But he said, "Have you ever been in a fight, Jim?" I was like, "I kinda was one time. Threw a punch kinda..." And then I was like fuck, fuck, I haven't. I've been in intense sports situations, but I don't know a hundred percent what that's like.
At the time, there was a guy who lived next to my girlfriend, who'd get drunk every night and go out in the back yard and just scream. One night, she came out and yelled at him, and he called her a bitch and a cunt and, "Fuck you, I can do whatever I want in my back yard." I wasn't there, she told me about it, and the next time I went over, I brought a baseball bat. I just kept it by the door. And there was this whole part of me that was just like: Could I do it? If this guy came out, could I hit the dude? So even though part of it is this sort of comical study of that, there's a sense of that that's in everybody. That's what was fun about this, getting to explore that without having to hit someone with a baseball bat.
Cold in July is out in select theaters and on demand today.


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NEW ORLEANS — Gov. Edwin Edwards, his brother and five other men pleaded innocent today to federal racketeering charges that accused them of illegally making $10 million in a hospital construction scheme. Each was placed under $100,000 bond to await trial.
Edwards left court and joked with reporters: "I just found out how much I'm worth." Asked what he thought about the proceeding, he called it a waste of time.


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Today was my something is better than nothing day. Feeling tired but got up and enjoyed the cool summer evening at the park doing a circuit with my husband.
Warm up: cheaters...we just used the first 80 jumping jacks as a warm up
40 jumping jacks (did 80 the first round)
40 Vertical Leg toe touches
10 Full sit ups
20 Bench dips
40 Walking Lunges
20 Push ups
20 Oblique Crunches each side
30 sec Mountain climbers
10 Jump Squats
15 V sits
Total Time: 21:15 (I won't lie, we goofed around and laughed a lot so I wasn't as focused as usual)
HR: 150's
Sweat'o'Metre: Not much, I won't lie.
Burn'o'Meter: eh, felt it in the abs but nothing major
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Asheville is country's reigning champ of hippie culture!
Asheville is the country's reigning champ of hippie culture. Flooded with farmers' markets, art and crafts, and live music, this southern gem has a long history of street performance and outdoor festivals. It also led the charge in farm-to-table local … Continue reading
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Is Gingrich vs. Romney Good for Obama?
The presidential campaign is heating up in both South Carolina and Florida as Rick Perry withdrew and threw his support to Newt Gingrich. Meanwhile, Florida is seeing heavy campaigning in advance of its January 31 primary. Even President Obama is in the Florida mix. WSJ's Laura Meckler visits Mean Street to discuss. Photo: Reuters.
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I ... the ... big story in the nose Rick Perry throwing in his lot with the ball to implement Gingrich ... down in South Carolina Perry finally calling it quits ... we have Laura Meckler White House correspondent for the Wall Street Journal ... here in Washington are down there in Washington ... to comment on the White House response ... to what's going on down in South Carolina ... Laurie there ... I am here ... can you hear me ... I get here in Indy now listen ... first before you start on the what's going on with the Republicans ... is it just my imagination or does it seem like President Obama has been running for re-election now for what seemed like two years ... is it so it always works with his re-election campaigns ... certainly there's less blurry line between Governing and ... campaigning in every aunt and I delayed anti dance eight that I ... I'm ... in terms of when the real Obama campaign seemed to jump into a ... full mode I think we start to see in the fall where he talked a lot more about jobs the time the last one about serve Brennan against the Republican Congress I think we start to see it start to more than ... ten certainly in December were negated a populist beaching can't this I think it's really not us a sweet baby fell on a non ... and adulation that were Tennessee slowly been moving more and more into Canada tonight but really the White House is ... trying to stay above the political fray to the extent it can to stay above the political fray ... but as we saw the Keystone decision maybe not ... too high above Blickle Frank now is the White House happy with what's going on ... in terms of the civil warfare or whatever you wanna call it certainly ... the wrangling down in South Carolina between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney ... are they please with developments ... my suspicion is that of course they won't really in it to pay attention to any of this that the White House that the campaign ... they're a little more candid about it aam ... I think that it might guess of how they feel about it is that this is good news that Rick Perry dropping out gains new Gingrich a little bit of the Brits perhaps any means that perhaps the Republican primary will go on for a longer period of time ... I think the longer the Republican primaries checked out ... the more on comparable positions around you'll be putting even if he is ultimately the nominee they seem that he ultimately will be the nominee ... I'm and eight ... I think they think he's the probably the strongest candidate remaining think that for them to face but ... the more we get so wrapped up in the primary ... really there's the pattern is for for present Obama now do you think some of the recent brouhaha over ... Mitt Romney's tax returns and his record in pain ... and a lot of these these elements ... of that of come out in terms of ... I've been promoting his blog Newt Gingrich ... is that something that the White House wants to see happen now with the White House prefer to wait and use that ammunition ... against Mitt Romney a few months down the road is near the danger that all that dirt on Mitt Romney's bill before the Obama campaign gets to it ... I don't think that's how they view I think they view this is very helpful this is the line of attack in the NT is and think they view it as an either or in our ward that I think they view it as now and the band ... aid plan that they think that this assertive stopping the ground in the evening away ... and then to make very similar attacks that ... they're starting stand in them I get the more that the public's access the net Romney ... as certain I know a one percent in for lack of a better term somebody who ... E-mail has an enormous amount of money and doesn't understand what life is like for the middle class the extent that they can pay ... their debt ... and they ... made new Gingrich is helping them do it ... you know that I think all of the good for for Brock Obama ... now we do have some upcoming contests in Republican primaries ... with South Carolina win Florida and then we have Nevada ... now Florida and Nevada ... are both key swing states and I saw some ... polling honors the storied storied political talk about the polling that in ... five or six of the key swing states noting Florida Ohio New Mexico ... Nevada Virginia and Wisconsin I think that sticks ... that Mitt Romney's action pulling ahead of President Obama ... are we can expect to see how President Obama making a lot of ... important presidential visits to the states in the coming months ... I have no doubt that the state of the saying lots of about my mediocrity has done a lot of traveling to states that are expected to be competitive later this year ... on next week after his eighteen address on Tuesday setting Opana ... at ... every gate check they were a skinny get high Allied Nevada ... on to Colorado and Michigan those are all states that aam arm where in the general election year disappear when since I'm share ... on I know the you in everything in ... politics the bonds in scheduling decisions like that that that ... he certainly will be at the four are the voters to help cited a ... write what you think we should expect out of the White House ... in the coming weeks as the Republican race develops clothing in a ... filing to throw in their life and decide to attack Romney ... or if this thing drags out an in app to hold their fire for for at least a couple of months more ... I think they wanna go out now to attack Romney for men twenty view the longer the present state the president ... that's good for them they don't really wanna get in and I think that Romney won again of light with congressional Republicans who have probably been ... the least popular institution in America right now so ... they they they are not in today not in any hurry to make this the one on one race at the thing tiny his campaign is strategically putting stuff out about Romney responding to things that needs that employers ... this week the first act on pay TV ad rates Dom was the defense of Pres Obama on the issue of some underweight me in an attack by ... one of the Super PAC some lessons that ... the team teaching it's the right there just aren't set out by ... the White House doesn't want to make this I'm Brock Obama versus Mitt Romney Clinton break now ... now what should be looking forward to in I think next week's data the Union address that when it's taken place ... is the president come out is going to re-election campaign platform ... receiving the least pretend that he's only present United States and is intent on governing the nation ... email I am ... unable to agree in differ ways I think it's clear that held the founding that the internet that are Guinea part of his re-election campaign the idea ... that we are again the themes of returning Qantas in December ... which were not biting the middle class making sure everybody has upped their shots at the American Giannini and yet that that's looking away from too many people I think that when you're a lot of the same kind of beans ... on next Tuesday ... will also be some policy proposals will say I wanna work with you I wanna try to get something done ... and I think having it to others in the White House thinks it would be good to try to get something that they can agree on something with the Republicans I think that might have some accomplishments ... to to show for I'm not particularly optimistic that that's been aware that ... that aam knew this one didn't meet your agenda last item left on the agenda which is extending the payroll tax ... um it expires again at the end of that the ratings were extended for the rest of the year ... I'm so that's one thing that didn't have to work through but ... you know one too optimistic about a lot of of the getting done but on this um I'm having said that though I'm sure there will be ... here several dollops of policy the trend to hit ... its barbaric you and we have to put on the front that you're busy governing thank you very much Laura Meckler


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The average debt owed by retirees has fallen for the third consecutive year, according to research by Prudential.
Data reveals that the average person retiring in 2015 will owe £21,800, down from £24,800 in 2014 and £31,200 in 2013.
This is a 43% drop in the last 3 years.
However, the proportion of indebted retirees has risen among people retiring in 2015. Almost a fifth (19%) will go into retirement with debts in 2015, up from 17% of 2014 retirees. It is estimated that it will take the average retiree from the 'Class of 2015' 3 years to settle their debts.
The survey also revealed:
There is also a difference between the debt levels of men and women. Men retiring this year owe an average £19,700, while the average woman owes £24,900.
Stan Russell, a retirement expert at Prudential, said:
"Our new research shows a welcome downward trend in the average amount of debt for people retiring this year. However, it is a concern that the proportion of people reaching the retirement milestone still owing money is refusing to fall.
"For many, retirement is a time in life when it is necessary to re-assess household budgets, and any debts outstanding will inevitably make this job more difficult. Citizens Advice Bureau can provide free help on managing and paying off debt, and the pensions Advisory Service can help with retirement income planning and related issues."
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Herbed Seafood Bruschetta
Thinly slice a baguette-style French bread loaf for these bruschetta (broo-SHEH-tah) appetizers. Toast the bread slices and top with a mixture of crabmeat, shrimp, and tomatoes tossed in a lemony herb and garlic sauce.
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- Stir together the 1 tablespoon olive oil, lemon juice, chives, basil, mint, and garlic in a mixing bowl. Add crabmeat, shrimp, tomatoes, and onion; toss to coat. Cut the bread into 48 thin slices; brush one side of each slice with some of the 2 tablespoons olive oil; sprinkle lightly with pepper.
- Arrange bread slices, oiled sides up, on baking sheet. Broil 3 to 4 inches from heat for 1 to 2 minutes till toasted. Turn and broil other side till toasted. Arrange on a serving platter with oiled sides up; spoon seafood mixture on each slice. Garnish with fresh basil, if desired. Serve at once. Makes 48 appetizer servings.
Nutrition Facts (Herbed Seafood Bruschetta)
- Per serving:
- 24 kcal ,
- 1 g fat
- 12 mg chol. ,
- 39 mg sodium ,
- 2 g carb. ,
- 2 g pro.


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Sunday, March 13, 2011
(PICTURE: I was a little late for this photo...and for some inexplicable reason I'm sticking out my tongue like Michael Jordan.)
Apparently there are huge firework displays in Hanoi during Tet. I can't confirm this though since I've spent all three of my Tet Holidays in Ha Nam. I can confirm that the fireworks there are not so huge and usually consist of a few random houses launching a single firework or some kids lighting streamers. Unlike the past couple years, this year we partook in the fun. At midnight on the lunar new year, we lit some sparklers on the roof of Huyen's house. The sparklers were absolute crap and sometimes lit up beautifully and other times burnt to a crisp in a flash as if they had been doused in kerosene. Here's a couple of pictures I like from that night:
(PICTURE: Su and his sparkler.)
(PICTURE: Huyen with her sparkler.)
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John L. Allen Jr. writing at the Boston Globe:
This will be the first time two popes have been declared saints in the same ceremony, and although projections vary, well over a million people could turn out in Rome to watch history being made, with millions more following the event on TV or over the Internet.
In the Catholic street, John XXIII is an icon of the left, remembered as the pope who launched the reforming Second Vatican Council and opened the Church to the modern world. John Paul II is a hero to the right, the pope who brought down Communism, who fought what he called a "culture of death" behind liberalizing currents on abortion and other life issues, and who insisted on strong Catholic identity vis-à-vis secular pressures to water down the faith.
Inevitably, those stereotypes don't do justice to complex figures. John XXIII was actually a man of deeply traditional Italian Catholic piety, and John Paul II was hardly a neo-con. Recall, for instance, his opposition to both the death penalty and the US-led war in Iraq in 2003.
Nonetheless, the politically savvy Francis is aware of how these popes are seen, so the dual halos represent an invitation to left and right to come together. Had either pontiff been canonized individually, it might have come off as a victory lap for one side or the other.
Read the rest of the article here.


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This month Jenn has challenged us to veg-ify our meal posts - that's pretty easy for this vegetarian chickee!!!
On Sunday, I cooked up a big ol' pot of quinoa and I've been making up a bunch of different meals with it. For lunch, I've been loving this quinoa salad, which includes wilted baby spinach, sweet onion, yellow pepper, sundried tomatoes and goat cheese....mmm, life is better with goat cheese....and lots of veggies :)
For afternoon snackages, I've been eating lots of fruit. Oranges, apples, strawberries or pineapple have been my fruit of choice lately. These strawberries are surprisingly sweet for February!!!
As a night cap, I've been snuggling up with some good TV and a warm glass of water with fresh ginger, lemon juice and a dash of Truvia. It's tasty and cleansing!