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What Is A Cloze Activity?

A Cloze activity is a exercise, test, or assessment consisting of a portion of text with certain words removed (Cloze text), where the student is asked to provide the missing words.

Cloze tests require the ability to understand context and vocabulary in order to identify the correct words or type of words that belong in the deleted parts of a text. This type of assessment is commonly given to English as a Second Language Learners.

Here is an example of a Cloze Passage from Read.Write.Think.

Cloze activities are great vocabulary builders. Cloze activities come highly recommended by proponents of the Lexical Approach such as Michael Lewis.

Cloze procedures consist of samplings of all potential readability influences, which is similar to sentence-completion activities. The Cloze method requires that you delete random words from a passage. Students read the passage and insert synonyms of words that would fit in the space. When studied, this method of testing was reliable and handled specializ…

Beaumains in King Arthur's Court

At the court of King Arthur, all the knights had gathered at the round table for a feast when three strangers entered. The tallest of the group, a handsome young man, stepped forward to speak. He asked the king for three gifts, one to be given now and the other two in a year’s time. Arthur agreed, whereupon the young man asked for nothing more than to be given food and drink for the next twelve months.
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The young man was given over to Sir Kay, the steward. Sir Kay felt that the man was not worthy to be at the court. He aired his views so openly that Sir Gawaine, Arthur’s favorite knight, and Sir Lancelot became furious at his rude conduct.
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For the next year, the young man, named Beaumains by Sir Kay, lived as a kitchen hand doing menial tasks, all the while enduring Sir Kay’s insults. Whenever there was a joust or another set of games, however, Beaumains was allowed to take part. None could surpass his feats of strength or skill.
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Where do you get your writing inspiration?

I write everyday. I love to write. I love to think about writing. I love the writing process. I love to teach others about writing.
But where does our inspiration come from? What inspires us to sit at the keyboard and write?
Check out this blog about writing ideas!
Right now, I'm snuggly inside my home while it's a freezing winter wonderland outside. We've gotten so much snow and ice that the town has practically shut down. There is my inspiration.

The trees look like someone has taken plastic wrap and wound it around each branch. The branches are heavy. All of the furniture looks like it's covered in glass. When the sun comes out, the ice wrinkles like diamonds.
The cold is brutal. The temperatures continue to plummet. I'm so thankful that I don't have to go out in it.
I'm glad that I went to the grocery store last weekend to get what we need.
Inspiration. It's like a flask of creativity that we carry around. We are inspired. We are bound to our creativity.

Fred Rogers was an American Educator, Presbyterian minister, songwriter, author, and television host. Mr. Rogers was most famous for creating and hosting "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood," which featured his gentle, soft-spoken personality, and directness to his audience.
Initially educatied to be a minister, Mr. Rogers was displeased with the way television addressed children and made an effort to change this when he began to write for and perform on local Pittsburgh-area shows dedicated to youth. WQED developed his own show in 1968 and it was distributed nationwide by Eastern Educational Television Network. Over the course of three decades on television, Fred Rogers became an idelible American icon of children's entertainment and education as well as a symbol of compassion, patience, and morality. he was also known for his advocacy of various public causes. his testimony before a lower court in favor of fair use frcording of television shows to play at another time was cit…

How to Develop a Lesson Plan

What is a lesson plan?

A lesson plan is a teacher's detailed description of the course of instruction for one class. Lesson Plans guide instruction. Think of your lesson plan as your outline. Now, details in lesson plans may vary depending by the subject you teach, the number of students you teach, and the age of the students that you teach.

What are the basic parts of a lesson plan?

The goal~what do you want the students to know or be able to do at the end of the lesson?
Reaching the goal~what is your method for teaching this to your students?
Assessing the goal~how will you know that your students have reached the goal?

What are the necessary components of a lesson plan?

Lesson plans consist of 11 components:

1. Title
2. Time
3. Rationale
4. Resources
5. Objectives
6. Set
7. Instruction
8. Guided Practice
9. Independent Practice
10. Formative Assessment
11. Closure

The time in which you will present the lesson will be determined mainly by your class schedule. The lesson make take…

I've always devoured historical fiction. As a girl, I would read anything that was set in the past. I'm proud to say that I learned much of my history through fictionalized accounts of historical events.

I loved Victoria Holt novels and all of those hundreds of other novels that she wrote under different names. So, it's no surprise that I enjoy reading Phillippa Gregory's WHITE QUEEN series.
I've discovered a STARZ series based on her books of the same name on Amazon Prime.
Elizabeth Woodville is the widow of a Lancastrian Knight during the early part of England's King Edward  IV reign during the mid fifteenth century. She petitions King Edward for the return of her husband's lands for her two sons. Edward is smitten with the beautiful young widow. After Elizabeth turns away Edward's advances, he proposes marriage. They are secretly married with her mother as a witness.

Edwards cousin, the Earl of Warwick, is furious as he'd been arranging a marriage wit…


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Saturday, June 4

Leapin' Froggies!!

The June challenge is posted at Creative Playground (]Imagine That! Digis by Kris) and it's a {tic tac toe card.

On my card I used all of the blocks on the tic tac toe card. I used a cute digi and sentiment from the set called Monique's Froggie Friends.

You Make My Heart Leap!

~Send a Smile 4 Kids-anything goes for a kid
~Hiding In My Craft Room-Summer colors
~Crafty Friends-based on a book (Tuck Everlasting-reminds me of Winnie and the toad)
~Allsorts-the great outdoors
~Word Art Wednesday-anything uplifting/encouraging
~Tuesday Throwdown-proud of you
~Crafty Sentiments-gems/pearls
~Crazy Challenge-favorite color (orange is one of my favs)
~Catch the Bug (Bugaboo)-anything goes
Happy Crafting,

  1. Wow, Wow, WOW! Deanne, this is amazing - love your whole card, and especially love that upclose shot of your glitter stickles!! TOOO fun!!! :) Thanks so much - you make these digis come to life. ♥

  2. So pretty! I love this card! Thanks for playing along with us at Hiding In My Craft Room Summer Color Challenge!!!!!

  3. Hello… Thanks for joining our ‘Inspired by a Book’ challenge with your lovely card. Good luck and hope you can join us again.
    [Diane Louise, Team Leader for Crafty Friends Challenge]

  4. Gorgeous card, beautiful colouring and I love all the sparkles!

    Thanks for joining us at Crafty Friends Challenge Blog, good luck in the draw and hope to see you again soon :)

    DT Tanya xx

  5. Oh she is a sweetie!!! thank you for joining us over on the HIMCR blog this week!

  6. It's a great creation and perfect for our theme this week Deanne, many thanks for joining us at Allsorts 'The Great Outdoors' challenge.

    B x

  7. What a cutie! I love all of the touches of sparkle and the flourish element is so fun.

    Thank you for joining us at Crafty Sentiments Designs for our Pearls or Gems challenge.

  8. Beautiful card Deanne, love the cute image. Thank you for playing along with our Challenge at Crafty Sentiments Designs. We would love to see you again ... Anet DTx

  9. Lovely project, I like your touch of sparkle and the cute image. Thanks for join us at Crafty Sentiments Design, good luck and hope to see you next time. Hugs Beatriz DT

  10. How cute is this!! Love the sparkles to this, adorable image, and what a refreshing change to see orange used -- so bright and cheerful and this would make for a fabulous smile card for kids! Saw your entry on SAS4Kids.

  11. Beautiful card for our theme at allsorts Tracy X

  12. What a fab and brighty coloured card!
    Thanks for joining Crafty Friends
    DT Laura

  13. This is so pretty, thanks for joining us at Crafty Friends this time, xxxx

Thanks so much for your wonderful comments! Always greatly appreciated and read. Have a happy crafting day!!!

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Easy Pelmet Boxes

Many of you asked about the pink pelmet boxes in my girls’ room and I’ve been so excited to share the mini-tutorial! It’s an easy and inexpensive one!

Two of the three windows in the bedroom were obstructed by furniture, so curtain panels (my default window treatment) weren’t really an option. I thought about transforming the mini-blinds into fabric shades, but I was really hoping to find a way to make a structured valence or pelmet box.

In the early planning stages, I was going to buy some plywood at Home Depot and use an electrical saw to cut out a fun design. That was intimidating for me though, and the price of the wood and a new saw (or a carpenter) was going to add up. Then I realized that I didn’t need anything fancy in this room – just something flat that could be cut easily and that was sturdy enough to hold up some batting and fabric.
Enter: foam core board.
I picked up three sheets at Michael’s for $1.99 each. I carefully drew one half of my pelmet shape on to the foam core, cut it out with a box cutter and used that piece as my template. I also cut some short pieces that would be my sides.

I had bought some L-brackets, screws, nuts and washers to assemble the corner pieces, but I ended up just duct taping the whole thing!! This project was SO easy!!

Duct tape holding the two halves together (above) and the side/corner pieces (below)
Then, using ¼” staples and my trusty PowerShot Pro, I upholstered the pelmets with some batting and pink linen left over from a client’s project. I ended up using only about a yard of fabric for all three pelmets.
After stapling, I used Fabri-tac to glue on ¼” navy blue bias tape as a top and bottom border.

I don’t have a photo of this step, but to hang the pelmets, I simply epoxied some wall hangers to the back of the foam core, and hung the boxes on the walls with nails.

And that’s it! It took me about two hours to do this project – from design conception to hanging the three pelmets. So fast and so easy!

–P.S. Our internet has been down all weekend (I’m posting this from my husband’s office), so if I owe you an email I promise to have something to you as soon as possible. We’re hoping to have the situation fixed in the next couple days. Thanks!!

  1. Ani

    Very cute! I just finished making mine. Phew!
    The 1/4 staples did not work for me, I ended up getting slightly longer staples.
    It was a little hard to connect to the wall..but with a lot of duck tape, and playing around, it is up!
    Looks cute!

  2. Anonymous

    I have done 3 Pelmet Boxes and all of them turned out very well. I'm so excited of showing them to my family that is visiting us for Christmas.
    Thanks for the instructions!!

  3. I think my fav part of the room is the yellow mirror. Or the window treatments. Or the headboards. Or the nightstand.

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  4. I love these!!! And I adore your blog – you're so talented.

    Quick question about the pelmet boxes… would they work on a really wide (59") window? I would love to do these in my living room, but I'm wondering if I'd need some sort of extra support for something that wide.

  5. Jenny, I finally did a pelmet box for my boys' room today! Thanks so much for the inspiration. (And now, comparing your photos to mine, I am SO jealous of the natural light in your home…)

  6. Anonymous

    I saw the same episode of Rachel Ray that the original commenter mentioned and have thought about it on occasion since then. The segment isn't on the show's web site, but Google brought me to you :)

    I noticed recent comments about a longer one – that's my plan too: 12 feet! I'll probably put brackets up every two feet or so to keep it from sagging/support it since it's only held together with duct tape. But I'm hoping other that that adjustment, it'll work just fine.

    I tested the project on a smaller scale in my "office" first. I went for straight lines – it's just more my style (and I figured easier). Here's the public link to the final product of the test run: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=31208245&l=2cecb09bf3&id=123701161

    If anyone is wondering, supplies for this were less than $25. I'm still unclear on how you hung this, but I made mine with a top piece, so I just used 2.5 inch corner braces as "hanging brackets".

    Yay! Thanks for the step-by-step instructions — it really helped give me the confidence to try it, and I love the end result!

  7. This tutorial was wonderful! I was looking for something to do to finish off my windows and this was perfect! I used Micheals velcro hangers so it was removable since I live in an apartment, but love the idea of using foam board.
    I linked your blog and pelmet post here, http://2catsandarental.blogspot.com/2010/02/diy-pelmet-boxes.html

    Thank you for the inspiration!

  8. Anonymous

    What a great idea; super simple and super chic!

    For those interested [especially renters] check out COMMAND picture hanging strips – "the versatile attaching solution with firm holding power and clean removal. Picture Hanging Strips are easy to apply, easy to remove and leave no nail holes".

    Jenny thanks for sharing your gift of imagination and creation…

  9. Anonymous

    I love this project, and have bought all the supplies I need. But I'm still not clear on how you hung them. Can you help? I'm doing this as the window treatment for my baby girl's room – due next week!

  10. Oh my goodness – what a great idea!!!

  11. Becky

    has anyone tried this with particle board? the reason I want to make it out of wood is to hopefully be able to screw (or attach some how) a roller shade in the box. But I don't know how they attach it to the wall and I"m afraid by pulling down the shade I'll pull down my box and rip some holes in my wall. Any ideas?

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  13. Thanks for the great idea about the foam core board. It was so easy to make.

    Here is mine: [url=http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/183818_10150092592025658_549480657_6770473_3850967_n.jpg]HERE[/url]

    Hope that works. BTW, I used velcro to hang on the wall since I could't find thick core board. I got heavy duty and they are staying up just fine.

  14. Mimi

    BRILLIANT!!! Okay – I am just discovering this a few years later because I'm sort of new here but….I can't wait to try this {and the duct tape? – this is something I could really have fun with!} Can't thank you enough for opening this door for me. Very high end looking – I never would have imagined. What a talent you have!

  15. Staci

    I read your blog regularly. I googled how to make a pelmet box and came upon your diy directions. My husband gave it a shot. I love the finished product. I blogged about it with a link to your blog. Thanks for all your awesome posts!

  16. Sharon

    thank you so much for sharing this tutorial! I am going to make one .. how thick was your foamboard?

  17. Esther

    These are great! I'm looking to do these for a kitchen. How do they hold up? I'm thinking that they are exposed to steam in there so… does the foam board hold up well?

  18. Anonymous

    I am just in love with these for our nursery. Thank you for such a wonderful and easy idea!! I went to Michael's and found the foam core in two thicknesses…how thick was the foam core did you use?

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  20. Oh I have been looking around for this tutorial and I finally found it again! Hooray. I think I will be making one of these for my super small craft room window. Thanks for the great tutorial!

  21. I made mine last night and love it! I have no idea how to hang it on the wall now! I'm thinking I should have made a top to hang it on.

  22. Wow, popular post! I've linked this to my pelmet box post too today, for inspiration!

  23. Jen

    I made mine! They are on my website. Thanks so much for creating this tutorial.

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  25. Sandra

    Great job!!! I’ll be very happy if you can please tell me which thickness of foam that was used for this pelmet board; thank you.

  26. Alicia Catrina

    Wow!! Wow!! Absolutely classy and soooo easy. Where can I buy the foam core board from? I want to hang lightweight drapes under my pelmet box and use trim with tassels on the pelmet box.
    Should I just glue or staple the lightweight drapes to the under/back side of the pelmet box or???? I appreciate any advice. Again…wow!! I was beginning to think it was going to be impossible to make the box. You’re a genius!

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Sunday, October 20, 2013

When you get married....

We were married in the Stockyards. My colors were torqouise and black. After we were officially married and walked back down the isle as husband and wife, the song "Another One Bites the Dust" played over the sound of our friends and family cheering.

My cake was two tiers, square, and off-white with white fondant polka dots and we almost forgot to cut it. We served Riskey's bar-b-q and even peach cobbler. I had a "DJ" that kept trying to sing while we all just wanted him to let us dance to songs like Fergaliscious. Our gift to our guests was a deck of cards that had our names and wedding date on them.

My wedding day was the best day of my life. My reception was the best party I've ever been to. But, in the 9 months of planning leading up to my wedding , when I would sit and dream about married life, I dreamed of days like today. Days that started with getting my kids ready for church. And church was me sitting next to my husband with his arm around me or squeezing my hand when the pastor would say something that meant something personal to us. I dreamed of Sundays after church with football on TV and kids running around screaming while Ryan and I laughed at them or had our own conversations about nothimg at all, laughing about things that can only make the two of us laugh. I dreamed of windows open and eyes closed under the sunshine. And, little boys jumping on a trampoline.

Today was a dream day.

  1. Love this! Only wish I hadn't had to have a surgical procedure the day before and missed it. I truly missed out on a beautiful moment. All my love to you. You've become a sister to me and I love those beautiful babies!!


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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Christmas Presents

Waiting and Wondering
My mother would have had numbers on these.
When I was a kid, my mother was a master at keeping our Christmas presents secret. One of the first rules of hers was that after Thanksgiving, we were not allowed in her bedroom. Next if we found out what any present was before Christmas morning, she told us that it would be given to the Salvation Army. This alone was enough to keep me from looking too much. Every year at Christmas time, we had to pick out one of our current toys to give to them, so I understood who they were. I was willing to give up one toy, I wasn't willing to give up the new toys that were coming.When we got a little older, our presents were labeled with numbers instead of names. Every year the numbers were different and seemed to have no rhyme or reason as to who got what number, but she told us she had a system.

However of all of these present rules, the one I remember the most was that we were not allowed downstairs on Christmas morning until my aunt and uncle arrived. It wasn't like they got there in the middle of the day, but it seemed like forever to me. However, my mother had a way of making the waiting bearable. When we went to bed the night before, we took the toaster, a loaf of bread, and a stick of butter with us. As a child I thought this was very special and was fascinated with the fact that we used the window sill as a refrigerator for the butter. The next morning while we were waiting, we had toast for breakfast. Then finally we would be called downstairs to see what Santa and others had left for us.

While I didn't always understand all of the present rules while I was growing up, I realize that they were one of the things that made Christmas special for me. My mother understood that anticipation is sometimes the best part of something.

Now lets move on a little bit. I realize that one reason that my mother's gift practices worked was because she had four fairly rule abiding children. However I know that sometimes curiosity gets the best of kids and they can't help themselves. For example, a friend was telling me about her children when they were younger. She wasn't sure where to hide their Christmas presents to she put them in the back of her large van with a blanket over them. The gifts couldn't be seen, couldn't be reached from any of the seats, and the kids were never in the van by themselves. So she thought they were safe. However one day, the two older kids lifted up their younger brother and pushed him through the vent window into the van. He then unlocked the doors so they could all get in and see the gifts that were coming. They never let on that they knew anything even on Christmas morning. It was only recently as adults that they told their mother what they had done.

I'm gonna have to ask Wally and Theo if they ever did anything like that because it was only recently that I learned they climbed out on the roof when they were supposedly taking a nap.Who knows? Maybe they were looking for Santa.:)

Do you do anything special to keep gifts secret? Have you ever secretly found your gifts ahead of time?


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Thursday, December 17, 2015

I generally try to be positive on my blog, so it's been hard for me to write a post recently. Below are some ramblings to explain why. Sort of a stream of consciousness.

I am weary. But just not because of the hustle and bustle of the holiday season. Life keeps marching on and it's not giving me much time to rest. My mother had a fall which resulted in some broken bones. This has brought a whole new set of difficult issues about her care. And while that was going on, we found out that a close family member's cancer has returned.  Add the continual intensive care of a declining cat, and as I said, I am weary.

Christmas can be a fun, joyous time, but for many it's a time of mixed emotions. It's often a time that bittersweet memories of the past are the most intense. Whether it's the first or 30th time of celebrating the holidays without a loved one, it's a difficult time. Thoughts of Ward's sister, who passed away in May, are ever present in the family's mind with both sadness and a determination to Ethool (Enjoy The Heck Out Of Life) as she so wonderfully did despite the adversities she was facing.

Okay, I'm really depressing myself. Time to switch gears. Yes, life goes on and there are ups and downs to it. We have to accept what we can't change and celebrate the gifts we are given each day. For example, the weather has been warm, and I finished one of the gifts I was making and got it in the mail. I had a great holiday party at work where I saw a coworker who has been too ill to come to work for a few months. She's getting better. Our tree is decorated and lights are beautiful at night. I have enough money to pay all of my bills, and I saw a cardinal yesterday. The list is endless when I take time to focus on the positive.

I hope if you are weary this holiday season, it's because you stayed up too late wrapping presents and you're worrying about when you're going to have time to bake the cookies for the neighbors. But if you're weary because life is difficult right now, I hope you are able to rest a little so you can remember some of the things that are a blessing.


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Ardenza - the Casini di ArdenzaArdenza - the Casini di ArdenzaThe village of Ardenza grew up gradually in the countryside to the south of Livorno at the beginning of the 19th century. Although the village was sparsely populated, it already had its own church, San Simone, which was built in 1844.

During the same period the elegant ‘Casini’ were also erected along the seafront, to provide accommodation for visitors coming to enjoy the sea from outside Livorno. The Caprilli race course was built in 1868, and the Naval Academy in 1881, on the site of the former lazaretto named after San Jacopo and San Leopoldo.The area’s three bagni - Bagni Pejani, Bagni Lido and Bagni Fiumegrew up in the mid 1800s.

Most of Livorno’s sports facilities are found in Ardenza, including the Armando Picchi football stadium, an indoor swimming pool, the athletics ground, a basketball stadium, a fencing ground, a rugby pitch and the Caprilli race course.

The area also hosts the weekly Friday market, in Via degli Oleandri, near the stadium. It is also home to the popular Baracchina Rossa and La Vela bars.

The district is divided into two - Ardenza Mare on the seafront, and Ardenza Terra slightly inland (Via del Mare connects the two), the latter with a good selection of local shops and restaurants.

Sightseeing in Ardenza
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Ardenza Rowing Team

To see more images of Ardenza, click here

Getting to Ardenza:

Ardenza Mare: LAM blu and number 5 buses from Livorno city centre

Ardenza Terra: LAM rosso bus from Livorno city centre

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Did you have hip implant surgery and needed a revision? You may have a case!

 In Personal Injury

Illustration Of A Hip- renjith krishnanOne Billion Dollars! No, I’m not pretending to be the Austin Powers villain Doctor Evil! I’m amazed at the damages just one metal-on-metal hip can cause. Howmedica Osteonics Corporation, which uses the trade name Stryker Orthopaedics, agreed on November 3, 2014 to pay more than $1 billion in damages to a class of injured patients who needed to have their hip implants removed and replaced.

This is called a “revision surgery.” That’s a lot of cake for two hip implants known as the Stryker Rejuvenate and the ABG II Modular hip stem, which Howmedica initially denied had any net negative results but later agreed to recall in July 2012. Since that time the lawsuits have quickly mounted. The recall was based on the risk of corrosion and fretting, according to the company. Plaintiff attorneys argued more than simple fretting was occurring and that the deterioration of the hip implant could lead to the introduction of metal ions into the local tissue and blood stream. This created a host of problems that have permanently harmed the hip implant patients.

The major stateside lawsuit that was filed in State Court in Bergen County New Jersey indicates there are more than 2,100 cases in New Jersey alone. Then there are more than 1,500 federally centralized cases in Minnesota! The November 3 settlements were, in an act of excellent time coordination, simultaneously announced in both courtrooms at 4pm eastern and 3pm central time.

Each failed implant will settle for a base of $300,000.  There will be a chance for additional compensation if the patient had any complications due to the failed implant. Those additional negative complications are numerous. This means that many of the effected patients may opt out.

What should you do if you think you have a hip implant case?

The time line is short! Each claimant must register by December 14, 2015 to be a part if the settlement pool. The payouts will be in the summer of 2015.

The eligibility requirements to be part of the hip implant class action include the following:

  1. You must be a U.S. citizen.
  2. Must have both the initial surgery and the revision surgery.
  3. Must have had both surgeries in the United States or at a US military hospital.
  4. The surgeries must have occurred before November 3, 2014.

If the patient petitions for an enhanced award due to complications there shall be an appointed panel of three special masters. Their determination will be able to appeal past US Magistrate Diane Welsh in Pennsylvania who is now with the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (JAMS). Judge Walsh was credited with mediating the settlement.

If you meet the criteria and do not have attorney representation you must act quickly. Please call our office for instructions on how to claim your settlement rights. But beware; this settlement is not the best alternative for thousands of defective hip implant victims. Do not settle for far less than what you deserve. Our partners have developed hundreds of hip implant cases nationally. We are prepared and experienced in handling the most serious of hip implant cases. Don’t settle for less. Call our office for a free consultation.

Images courtesy of freedigitalphotos.net by renjith-krishnan

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Certificate Of Title

A document provided by a qualified source, such as a title company, that shows the property legally belongs to the current owner; before the title is transferred at closing, it should be clear and free of all liens or other claims.

Title is a legal term for a bundle of rights in a piece of property in which a party may own either a legal interest or an equitable interest. The rights in the bundle may be separated and held by different parties. It may also refer to a formal document that serves as evidence of ownership. Conveyance of the document may be required in order to transfer ownership in the property to another person.

Title is distinct from possession, a right that often accompanies ownership but is not necessarily sufficient to prove it. In many cases, both possession and title may be transferred independently of each other. The main rights in the title bundle are usually:The rights in real property may be separated further, examples including:Possession is the actual holding of a thing, whether or not one has any right to do so. The right of possession is the legitimacy of possession (with or without actual possession), the evidence for which is such that the law will uphold it unless a better claim is proven. The right of property is that right which, if all relevant facts were known (and allowed), would defeat all other claims. Each of these may be in a different person.

For example, suppose A steals from B, what B had previously bought in good faith from C, which C had earlier stolen from D, which had been an heirloom of D's family for generations, but had originally been stolen centuries earlier (though this fact is now forgotten by all) from E. Here A has the possession, B has an apparent right of possession (as evidenced by the purchase), D has the absolute right of possession (being the best claim that can be proven), and the heirs of E, if they knew it, have the right of property, which they cannot prove. Good title consists in uniting these three (possession, right of possession, and right of property) in the same person(s).

The extinguishing of ancient, forgotten, or unasserted claims, such as E's in the example above, was the original purpose of statutes of limitations. Otherwise, title to property would always be uncertain.

The equitable title refers to the actual enjoyment and use of a property, whereas a legal title implies actual ownership. An example of such is a trust. In a trust, one person may own the legal title, such as the trustees.

Another may own the equitable title such as the beneficiary. In countries with a sophisticated private property system, documents of title are commonly used for real estate, motor vehicles, and some types of intangible property. When such documents are used, they are often part of a registration system whereby ownership of such property can be verified. In some cases, a title can also serve as a permanent legal record of condemnation of property, such as in the case of an automobile junk or salvage title.

In the case of real estate, the legal instrument used to transfer title is the deed.

A famous rule is that a thief cannot convey good title, so title searches are routine (or highly recommended) for purchases of many types of expensive property (especially real estate). In several counties and municipalities in the US a standard title search (generally accompanied by title insurance) is required under the law as a part of ownership transfer. Paramount title is the best title in Fee simple available for the true owner. The person who is owner of real property with paramount title has the higher (or better, or "superior") right in an action to Quiet title.

The concept is inherently a relative one. Technically, paramount title is not always the best (or highest) title, since it is necessarily based on some other person's title. A Quiet title action is a lawsuit to settle competing claims or rights to real property, for example, missing heirs, tenants, reverters, remainders and lien holders all competing to get ownership to the house or land.

Each of the United States have different procedures for a quiet title action. However, most personal property items do not have a formal document of title.

For such items, possession is the simplest indication of title, unless the circumstances give rise to suspicion about the possessor's ownership of the item. Proof of legal acquisition, such as a bill of sale or purchase receipt, is contributory. Transfer of possession to a good faith purchaser will normally convey title if no document is required. California prevented aliens (mainly Asians) from holding title to land until the law was declared unconstitutional in 1952. Currently there are no restrictions on foreign ownership of land in the United States, although sales of real estate by non-resident aliens are subject to certain special taxation rules. Prior to the establishment of the United States title to Indian lands in lands controlled by Britain in North America was governed by The Royal Proclamation of October 7, 1763. This proclamation by King George III reserved title in land to the Indians, subject to alienation only by the Crown.

This continued to be the law of Canada following the American Revolution. In the United States Indian title is the subservient title held by Native Americans in the United States to the land they customarily claimed and occupied. It was first recognized in Johnson v. M'Intosh , 21 U. S. (8 Wheat) 543 (1823). It very early became accepted doctrine in this Court that although fee title to lands occupied by Indians when the colonists arrived became vested in the sovereign - first the discovering European nation and later the original states and the United States - a right of occupancy in the Indian tribes was nevertheless recognized. That right, sometimes called Indian Title and good against all but the sovereign, could be terminated only by sovereign act. Once the United States was organized and the Constitution adopted, these tribal rights to Indian lands became the exclusive province of the federal law. Indian title, recognized to be only a right of occupancy, was extinguishable only by the United States. Oneida Indian Nation v. County of Oneida , 414 U. S. 661, 667 (1974). The usual method of extinguishing Indian title was by treaty.


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Credit Enhancement

A method used by a lender to reduce default of a loan by requiring collateral, mortgage insurance, or other agreements.

Securities Bond Stock Investment fund Derivative Structured finance Agency securityMarkets Bond market Stock market Futures market Foreign exchange market Commodity market Spot market Over-the-counter market (OTC)Bonds by coupon Fixed rate bond Floating rate note Zero-coupon bond Inflation-indexed bond Commercial paper Perpetual bondBonds by issuer Corporate bond Government bond Municipal bond Pfandbrief Sovereign bondEquities (stocks) Stock Share Initial public offering (IPO) Short sellingInvestment funds Mutual fund Index fund Exchange-traded fund (ETF) Closed-end fund Segregated fund Hedge fundStructured finance Securitization Asset-backed security Mortgage-backed security Commercial mortgage-backed security Residential mortgage-backed securityTranche Collateralized debt obligation Collateralized fund obligation Collateralized mortgage obligationCredit-linked note Unsecured debt Agency securityDerivatives Option Warrant Futures Forward contract Swap Credit derivative Hybrid securityCredit enhancement is a key part of the securitization transaction in structured finance, and is important for credit rating agencies when rating a securitization. The credit crisis of 2007-2008 has discredited the process of credit enhancement of structured securities as a financial practice as the risk was not assessed correctly and defaults began to rise. If the credit rating was properly assessed and higher interest rates assigned to structured securities, then the crisis may have been averted. There are two primary types of credit enhancement: internal and external. Senior/Subordinated structures are the most popular technique to create internal credit enhancement technique. The cash flows generated by the assets are allocated with different priority to classes of different seniority. The senior/subordinated structure thus consists of several tranches, from the most senior to the most subordinated (or junior). The subordinated tranches function as protective layers of the more senior tranches. The class of highest seniority has first right on the available principal cash flows. This structural protection is called the waterfall structure. The priority for the cash flows comes from the top, while the distribution of the losses rises from the bottom. If an asset in the pool defaults, losses thus incurred are allocated bottom up (from the most junior to the most senior tranche). The senior tranche is unaffected unless losses exceed the amount of the subordinated tranches, and is usually rated AAA. The excess spread is the difference between the interest rate received on the underlying collateral and the coupon on the issued security. It is typically one of the first defenses against loss. Even if some of the underlying loan payments are late or default, the coupon payment can still be made. In the process of "turboing", excess spread is applied to outstanding classes as principal. Overcollateralization (OC) is a commonly used form of credit enhancement. With this support structure, the face value of the underlying loan portfolio is larger than the security it backs, thus the issued security is overcollateralized. In this manner, even if some of the payments from the underlying loans are late or default, principal and interest payments on the asset-backed security (ABS) can still be made. A reserve account is created to reimburse the issuing trust for losses up to the amount allocated for the reserve. To increase credit support, the reserve account will often be non-declining throughout the life of the security, meaning that the account will increase proportionally up to some specified level as the outstanding debt is paid off. Surety bonds are insurance policies that reimburse the ABS for any losses. They are external forms of credit enhancement. ABS paired with surety bonds have ratings that are the same as that of the surety bond’s issuer. By law, surety companies cannot provide a bond as a form of a credit enhancement guarantee. A wrapped security is insured or guaranteed by a third party. A third party or, in some cases, the parent company of the ABS issuer may provide a promise to reimburse the trust for losses up to a specified amount. Deals can also include agreements to advance principal and interest or to buy back any defaulted loans. The third-party guarantees are typically provided by AAA-rated financial guarantors or monoline insurance companies. With a letter of credit (LOC), a financial institution — usually a bank — is paid a fee to provide a specified cash amount to reimburse the ABS-issuing trust for any cash shortfalls from the collateral, up to the required credit support amount. Letters of credit are becoming less common forms of credit enhancement, as much of their appeal was lost when the rating agencies downgraded the long-term debt of several LOC-provider banks in the early 1990s. Because securities enhanced with LOCs from these lenders faced possible downgrades as well, issuers began to utilize cash collateral accounts instead of LOCs in cases where external credit support was needed. With a cash collateral account (CCA), credit enhancement is achieved when the issuer borrows the required credit support amount from a commercial bank and then deposits this cash in short-term commercial paper that has the highest available credit quality. Because a CCA is an actual deposit of cash, a downgrade of the CCA provider would not result in a similar downgrade of the security. Securitization transaction · Credit enhancement · TrancheAsset-backed security · Mortgage-backed security · Credit derivative · Collateralized debt obligation (CDO) · Collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) · Collateralized bond obligation (CBO) · Collateralized loan obligation (CLO) · Collateralized fund obligation (CFO) · Senior stretch loan


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Brown Leather Briefcase Apex NC

Welcome to the Best Italian Leather Local Pages. Here you will find local resources about Brown Leather Briefcase in Apex, NC and some related products that may be of interest to you. For your convenience, we have also compiled a list of businesses and services around Apex, including Men's Clothing Stores, Department Stores, and Office Supplies that should help with your search. Before you take a look at the local resources, please browse through our competitively priced products that you could order from the comfort of your own home.

Creek Side Womens Center
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2034 Creekside Landing Dr
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Cary, NC
L And S Retail Ventures Inc
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223 Candia Ln
Cary, NC
Robin'S In-Home Personal Training/ Fitness Bootcamp
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Lululemon Athletica
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215 Southwold Dr
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Triangle Womens Center
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Adore Designer Retail Boutique
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4226 NW Cary Pkwy
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Brown Leather Briefcase Brazil IN

Welcome to the Best Italian Leather Local Pages. Here you will find local resources about Brown Leather Briefcase in Brazil, IN and some related products that may be of interest to you. For your convenience, we have also compiled a list of businesses and services around Brazil, including Men's Clothing Stores, Department Stores, and Office Supplies that should help with your search. Before you take a look at the local resources, please browse through our competitively priced products that you could order from the comfort of your own home.

A & J Retail Group Inc
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Terre Haute, IN
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Friday, February 28, 2014

Theeeeeeeerrrr's Hootie!

We have a little owl hanging around our place.  I love owls.  This little guy is dark, mostly black and brown, and we see him in the trees along the driveway or on the powerlines along the highway.  Lately we have seen him sitting in the tree in the pasture across from our deck.  Of course I had to give him a name if he's going to hang around here so we (ok, I, everyone else thinks it's crazy to name an owl) call him Hootie!  I love his little cat-like ears.

Now THAT'S a Knife!

One beautiful winter evening.....

Remember this?!

Yeah, well, this is what came from all of that...

Cleaned up...

Then came time to pass the inspections...

First the big brother inspection: PASS

Next the dreadfullly difficult Papa paper inspection:  PASS!

With the inspections completed it was time to get a handle on things.

And now..... THAT'S a knife!

Yeah Baby!!!!!

Saw this at the school this morning.  LOVE it!  Go, Baby, Go!!!!!!!

Thursday, February 27, 2014

The Trouble with Nicer Weather

The boys come out to play...

Slopin' with Style

Katie was out a couple of weeks ago working on her slope style snowboarding.  Well, as much slope style as she can get on these "gentle, rolling hills" of Missourah...

Another Project Picture

I made this canvas art project a while back.

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Best "Olympics" Video Ever!

This is my all-time favorite "Olympics" video.  Can't be beat!

Throw-Back Thursday Olympics Style

OK, I don't usually do the throw-back Thursday thing but today I'm all hyper for the beginning of the Olympic competitions in Sochi.  So we'll throw back 12 years to when we had our up-close-and-personal experience with the Olympics during the 2002 games held in Salt Lake City.

Ski Jump

Men's Luge

Medals Ceremony

Closing Ceremonies

Olympic Torch Relay in San Francisco before the Games began.

Stopping at Lombard and Hyde

Running down Lombard Street

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Oh Good! Another Excuse Why I Can't Do The Laundry Today!

All this time I thought there was a different way for catching 'em....


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Monday, June 23, 2008

Part I: The Business of Social Networks

July/August 2008

Part I: The Business of Social Networks

Can social-networking sites make money?

By Bryant Urstadt

Leah Culver, a cofounder of Pownce
Credit: Stan Musilek
photo Timeline of key events in the rise of social-networking sites.

KickApps is an 80-person social-networking startup with its head office in a loftlike space just off Fifth Avenue in New York. In less than two years it has created the underlying structure for more than 20,000 social-networking sites--"mini-Facebooks" with an aggregate of 300 million page views per month. You've probably never heard of it.

KickApps gets a fraction of the press coverage of a giant like Facebook, but its growth has been sufficiently impressive that venture firms like Spark Capital and Prism VentureWorks have backed it with $18 million in startup financing, hoping for the payoff of a monster IPO. Its software allows companies to quickly roll out social networks with many of the features of Facebook or MySpace. Its clients--which include local radio stations and newspapers, national networks like NPR and ABC, and brands like AutoByTel, Harley-Davidson, and Kraft--want to offer fans a place to gather and share their love of a team, a product, or anything else.

KickApps' CEO is Alex Blum, formerly of JumpTV, an online television service specializing in sports. "We have 35 programmers working in this office," says Blum, leading a reporter through a sea of desks and flat-screen monitors, "and we only have two marketing people. We don't really have to sell our product."

Like most of the social-networking sites enjoying huge growth, KickApps is giving its product away, expecting that the communities built around it will generate ad revenues. It's a model that stirs memories of the first Internet bubble: build the user base and hope the money comes--from an IPO, a buyout, or ads. At this point, KickApps does not reveal revenue figures, or even what kind of a cut it is taking from the ads. That, too, brings back memories: staying mum about revenue was always a sign that there wasn't much to talk about.

Many Users, Few Dollars
Social networking is the fastest-growing activity on Web 2.0--the shorthand term for the new user-centered Internet, where everyone publicly modifies everyone else's work, whether it's an encyclopedia entry or a photo album. The growth of social networking is astonishing, and it has spread to sites of all sizes, which are increasingly intertwined as platforms open (see "Who Owns Your Friends?"). Even small players are soaring.

Ning, for example, is similar to KickApps but caters to individuals. Founded in 2004 by Netscape's Marc Andreessen and former Goldman Sachs analyst Gina Bianchini, it has been backed with $104 million in venture capital by a variety of firms, including Legg Mason. "We've got 267,787 sites," boasted Bianchini in May. "And we're adding 1,500 to 2,000 a day." ComScore, a firm that measures Internet usage, reports that the Ning domain, on which all the sites reside, sees three million unique visitors a month.

Meanwhile, Bebo, a social-networking site more popular abroad than in the United States, sees more than 22 million visitors a month. (AOL bought it for $850 million in March.) Club Penguin, a network for kids, sees five million. LinkedIn, a business-networking site, gets nearly five million unique visits.

But that's just the smaller players. Facebook, according to ComScore's latest research, saw 33.9 million unique U.S. visitors in January 2008, nearly double the number from the previous January (but down by about 2 percent from December 2007). MySpace doubled Facebook's numbers again, with nearly 72 million unique visitors in the same month.

Nevertheless, the sites seem largely incapable of generating revenues commensurate with their popularity.

Last year, Microsoft bought a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook for $240 million, giving the company a dubious valuation of $15 billion. But Facebook is likely to lose $150 million this year, according to a January conference call heard by Kara Swisher of All Things Digital, a Wall Street Journal-affiliated site devoted to "news, analysis, and opinion about the digital revolution." That's based on projected earnings--before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization--of $50 million and an expected $200 million in capital expenses, including new servers.

Revenues for MySpace parent Fox Interactive Media fell $100 million short of predictions this year, apparently leading to the dismissal of the chief revenue officer. And Google met with disappointment after paying $900 million in 2006 to get a piece of MySpace's traffic, buying the right to deliver ads for three years against keywords entered on the networking site. "I don't think we have the killer best way to advertise and monetize social networks yet," said Google cofounder Sergey Brin in a call with investors after Google announced its fourth-quarter 2007 results.

Ning does not release numbers about ad sales. All Bianchini will say is, "The number of networks we have is our leading indicator." If Ning's experience is anything like MySpace's and Facebook's, its leading indicator just indicates a lot of users.

Lookery, an advertising network that buys ad space on Facebook in bulk, has been reselling that space at 13 cents per thousand times an ad is served, or in ad industry jargon, at a $0.13 cost per mille (CPM). Facebook sets a minimum CPM of $0.15 for its "social ads," which allow advertisers to target ads to Facebook users and groups according to characteristics like location and age. And over the last year, MySpace has lowered its banner-ad rate from a CPM of $3.25 to one of less than $2. By way of comparison, a banner on Mashable, a blog covering the world of social networking, has a CPM of $7 to $33, depending on its size. Websites with clearly defined audiences of executives and technologists who purchase corporate products and services, such as, do best of all. Technology Review's site boasts a CPM of $70.

But even low rates haven't been enough to lure advertisers and media buyers to social networking. "A lot of advertisers are very hesitant to get into MySpace," says Anthony Acquisti, who oversees strategy for emerging media at OMD, an advertising agency in New York. "We've even flat-out told interested brands, 'You don't want to be there.'"

Why not? The problems with social-network advertising revolve around three main issues: attention, privacy, and content.

Attention Deficit
In the last week of April, around 400 people who spend their days trying to figure out how to make money in social networking gathered at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The conference went by the not very catchy name of EconSM, short for Economics of Social Media.

The point of the conference was clear enough. As Kara Swisher, one of the panel moderators, joked on her blog: "I'm in search of the elusive profit, which I don't think I'm going to find."

Almost every player in the game was represented: smaller companies that sent their CEOs, like Alex Blum; investment banks that wanted to take them public; and companies like Yahoo, AOL, and Fox Interactive Media, which were in the market for acquisitions. (Facebook sent no one.) "This is a huge conference," Blum said. "All the people we work with are here."

But they didn't seem very engaged. Audience members were jumpy, posting updates to the microblogging service Twitter, checking e-mail, reading blogs, dipping into the newspaper, and--occasionally--listening. Specific problems addressed in panel sessions quickly sorted themselves out into a general problem and a general response. People weren't paying attention to the ads (as, indeed, people at the conference weren't much paying attention to the panels). One panelist, Seth Goldstein, put it this way: "Right now, 'social' advertising is anything on a social-networking site that users are pretty good at ignoring."

Goldstein should know, since his company, Social Media, sells advertising linked to the applications developed for Facebook and MySpace--products like Scrabulous and Compare People, which are hugely popular among the sites' users. "The trouble," says Goldstein, "is we're putting ads up in front of users, where they can ignore them. We've got to get them between users."

Goldstein's comment had the air of a slightly worn sound bite, but it did acknowledge a problem that outside observers describe more bluntly. "It's a really bad place to advertise," Jason Calacanis, founder of Webblogs and, says of social-networking sites. As he wrote in an e-mail, members of social networks "are busy in conversations and don't want marketing messages."

Compare the situation of social networks with that of Google, which manages to make money putting ads in front of users.

With about 140 million unique visitors per month, Google earned $16 billion in 2007, largely from ads that people did pay attention to. (It may bear mentioning that Facebook recently hired Sheryl Sandberg away from Google, whose phenomenally successful ad program she had led.) Google's AdWords auction sells ads on a cost-per-click basis: advertisers pay not for a thousand viewings but for each individual click on a particular keyword. Advertisers choose how much to spend over any period of time, and they can influence the placement of their ads by paying more. Bids vary according to keyword, of course, but they were averaging around 70 cents per click in the first quarter of 2008.

Advertising on Google works because visitors come to Google looking for specific information. If a user who types "scooter" in the site's search field is hoping to buy a scooter, the keyword ads that appear at the right of the search results can be more useful than the results themselves. In social networks, on the other hand, users show up to find friends; ads are, at best, irrelevant to that goal. The click-through rates on social-networking sites bear this out. While around 2 percent of Google users actually click on a given ad (and the number is much higher when users are conducting searches for purchasing reasons), fewer than .04 percent of Facebook users do, according to a media buyer's report obtained last year by the Silicon Valley blog Valleywag.

Users in the Crosshairs
When social-media insiders are asked how advertising could capture users' attention, they always answer, "Targeting."

Targeting is at the core of traditional advertising; apparel manufacturers advertise in Vogue, for example, to reach readers interested in fashion. In the case of social-networking sites, targeting means sifting through the data in your profile to get an idea of what you're interested in. Social networks know more about you, your preferences, and your behavior than most businesses, and profiles are generally considered, in the words of former Fox Interactive Media executive Ross Levinsohn, "digital gold." Mining that gold is the best way for a social-networking site to make money--but, given users' attitudes toward privacy, the trickiest.

Startups that help advertisers and marketers better target the users of social-networking sites are fashionable investments for venture capitalists in North America and Europe. Such startups hope to sell advertisers detailed information about individual social networkers. They include the brand-new 33Across (which we profile in our list of 10 notable startups, which begins on page 50) and the more established Finnish company Xtract, which counts Vodafone, T-Mobile, and Blyk among its customers and has begun selling its software to advertising agencies and online marketers and publishers.

For social-networking sites, targeting will necessarily entail getting "between" users, as Seth Goldstein put it. You come to a social network because you are interested in your friends; ergo, the thinking goes, in order to get your attention, advertisers need to let you know what your friends are buying or thinking about buying, or they must somehow get you to send each other ads. It's either a beautiful idea or a creepy one, depending on whether you're an ad executive or the user of a social network.

In November 2007, Facebook tried to get between its users with its Beacon program. Announcing the program in New York, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg declared, "The next hundred years will be different for advertising, and it starts today."

Beacon was an advertiser's dream--and, like many things that are good for advertisers, very annoying to ordinary folks. Working with commercial websites like Blockbuster and eBay, Beacon tracked Facebook users' purchases and displayed them to their friends.

The problem was that users were enrolled in the program automatically. If a user went to, say, the Blockbuster site and rented a movie, that information was automatically sent to everyone in her Facebook network. (That's what happened to Cathryn Elaine Harris of Dallas; she is suing Blockbuster for violating the Video Privacy Protection Act.) Online petitions and negative press ensued, and the program was clumsily scaled back. On the company blog, Zuckerberg wrote, "We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we've made even more with how we've handled them. We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it."

Still, "Beacon is alive and well," says Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook's vice president of product marketing. "What happened was unfortunate," he says. "We took a step back and tried to figure out how to improve it." Now it's an opt-in system, and users can choose what information to share--or whether to participate at all. About 30 companies are still with the service, he says.

Most of the industry members at EconSM liked Beacon, wished it had worked better, and felt it would work eventually; Goldstein called it a "sign of things to come." But maintaining the user's trust in how data is used is paramount, says Roger McNamee, a venture capitalist who made early bets on companies like Electronic Arts and Intuit. "Facebook is so much more personal than Google," says McNamee, who invested in Facebook and is a confidant of Zuckerberg. "It really matters to people how their information is used."

Not every attempt at targeting has aroused as much protest as Beacon. In 2007, MySpace launched its HyperTargeting system, which scans users' profiles for information about their interests and demographics. It sorts the profiles into 10 rough categories--such as sports and entertainment--that are subdivided into more than 1,000 narrower categories, such as baseball or a specific film. (E-mail and personal messages are currently not scanned at either Facebook or MySpace.) Says Adam Bain, president of the Fox Interactive Media Audience Network, "People are essentially hand-raising every single day on MySpace and other social-media sites. What we want to do is take that and put it into easy-to-buy segments."

Bain says MySpace did extensive research before the launch. "The users said, 'I understand I have to live with ads, and I don't mind them,'" he says. "The concept of relevance really resonated with users." The algorithm is constantly modified by a 150-person team; it is already on its 12th revision. Although the program has not yet led to riches, "it has led to an unprecedented amount of advertisers coming to MySpace," Bain says. "We're getting blue-chip brand names like Adidas, Schwab, and Electronic Arts, Frito-Lay, Kraft, General Mills, and McDonald's."

Are those advertisers as excited as Bain is? "We've bought a little bit," says Marc Ruxin, director of digital strategy and innovation at the advertising firm McCann. "It's been okay." Well, that's better than nothing. Still, it doesn't exactly settle the question of whether targeting, even if it avoids the worst of users' privacy concerns, will ever be able to punch through the attention barrier.

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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Patsy Cline

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unbelievably, she was gone by age 30. a private plane crash, and this after surviving two auto wrecks, one nearly fatal. the harsh climate of life on the road. like sam cooke, she'll be forever known for her brilliant vocals and interpretations beyond measure.

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Saturday, January 25, 2014

January Prima BAP

I had so much fun with last months Prima BAP, I thought I'd give this months BAP a go too!!

I've used a variety of papers from the Ledger Pad, that I've had in my stash for quite some time....and probably quite some time to come too, as there's like 48 pieces of gorgeous PP in that pad!!

Anyways, here is what I've created.....

Most products are Prima....the papers, stencil, stamp, ink, flowers, zipper, lace, chipboard, resist canvas heart, rhinestones, leaves, & both alpha's.
The only products not Prima are the brads....and the mist & modelling paste on the background, oh, and the punchs that I've used :).
Here is the January BAP
 2014 BAP Nine
And now for a few close ups

Main cluster with Prima flowers, Vintage trinket zipper & chipboard bird.

Title using 2 different Prima alpha's - I can't remember which collections these are from.

Some punched butterflies, using the same PP's from the Ledger Pad.

Another angle of the main cluster & layers of PP

And here you can hopefully get a good view of the pic of the Bangor Marina - although it's not a good pic to begin with as it was a very overcast day & quite early in the it just didn't turn out as it should have.
This is the town where my dad grew up...well, the nearest town, as where he lived was just a little village.  So when we were there last October, I had such a great time exploring & remembering things from when I was there back in 1980.  I have some journaling on the back of my layout...about the differences to this area of the town from when my dad lived there, and also from since my visit in 1980.
Thanks so much for looking, and for visiting my blog.

Simple Stories - I {heart} summer for All About Scrapbooks / Life.Paper.Scrapbook January sketch

Hi there everyone, welcome to my blog today :)

I have been creating again with Simple Stories "I {heart} summer for All About Scrapbooks.  This is such a fun collection to create with, the patterns & colours are just gorgeous!

My layout is based on the January sketch at Life.Paper.Scrapbook....

I created a fun patchwork effect using squares of the same patterned paper, with strips of yellow stitched between the squares to help separate it all & give it some pop.
This is the sketch at L.P.S
And a few close ups....

I also created a card with the same collection.....

For more details & a list of products used, please pop over to the All About Scrapbooks blog HERE
Thanks so much for dropping by today :)
I really appreciate you visiting me....xx

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Prima "Sunrise-Sunset" For all About Scrapbooks / OUAS January challenge

Hello again!

I'm back again to share another layout created for All About Scrapbooks, this time using Prima's stunning Sunrise-Sunset collection (oh how I love this collection!).

My layout is based on the January challenge at Once Upon a Sketch....

Lots of background work & a few simple clusters :)
This is the January sketch over at Once Upon a Sketch
& the journaling theme is "Lesson Learnt"
Some close ups...

This is my basic journaling...with LOTS lots more on the back of the layout, telling the story of our adventures & lessons learnt from trying to get to the Dunloe Gap!

For more details and a full list of products used, pop over to the All About Scrapbooks blog HERE
Thanks so much for visiting today! Until next time...take care! xx

Friday, January 17, 2014

Kaisercraft "Key to my heart" for All About Scrapbooks / SATW January challenge

Hello there fellow scrappers....Happy Friday!  :))

Today I'm sharing a layout created using Kaisercraft "Key to my heart" collection for All About Scrapbooks.  This collection is utterly gorgeous!! and such a joy to work with :)

My layout is for the January mood board at Scrap Around The World - have you seen it??
It is a stunning & inspiring board put together by Kim make sure you check it out!

Here is what I created....

Ok, first up, this layout didn't turn out how I had intended!!
I wanted to use a "beachy" type photo to go with the beachy mood board at SATW.
BUT, my printer had other ideas & decided to pack it in!!!  grrrr
I already had the layout almost completed when I discovered I couldn't print my photo :(
So, me being the inpatient person that I, couldn't wait until I got a new printer, so ended up using a photo that I had already printed out.  So my flowers ended up getting some gelato colour treamtent to help coordinate with the photo, plus a few more bits got added into my layers to help tie the new colour combo together.
I was inspired by the beachy photos & the colours in the photo of the stack of teacups.  And also the netting that is holding the glass balls (what are those things called???), and although I didn't have any netting, I've cut up pieces from an old doily to add in amongst my layers to represent this.
Here are a few close ups....
My main cluster....with MHC flowers that I've altered the colour using my awesome gelato's plus some added gesso.

Another small cluster with altered flowers.

This is a 2Crafty Vintage oval frame that I've coated in Ranger distress crackle paint.

More 2Crafty - ATC words from the Friendship pack.

And a bit of a side on view to get an idea of the layers created.
More details & a full list of products can be seen over on the All About Scrapbooks blog HERE
I would love for you to pop over and have a little looksie - thanks :)
That's all from me for today.... I will be back soon with some more creations for AAS :).
Take care & happy scrapping xx

Thursday, January 16, 2014

CSI - Case File No. 105

Hi there everyone,

Just a quick visit today to share my layout for case file No. 105 over at CSI!

Using Echo Park Reflections <3
Pics are from the Swiss Cottage in Co. Tipperary in Ireland.
Here is the case file...
And here is how I solved the case....
The Scheme
All colours are there
Speech Bubbles
Book Pages
(I meant to do some stitching as well, but forgot!!  Might still add some in though)
I've listed 3 quirky things about the cottage as part of my journaling on the back of the layout
1.  No 2 windows are the same size
2. The patterned trellis on the outside walls is different on each sectioned panel
3.  The walls inside are lined with various handmade wallpapers
I've also used the inspiration words within my journaling on the back of the layout.
Escape;  Strange;  Away
Now for some close ups....

Diecut flower made form book paper, as well as a few circles - the flair button & veneer circle.

From a different angle

More book paper doilies behind the photo

A speech bubble & more veneer circles

My basic journaling on the front of the layout (with more on the back)

And some more veneer circles.
Thanks so much for dropping by....I hope everyone is surviving this horrendous heat wave atm.
Stay cool peoples....xx

Friday, January 10, 2014

More I {heart} Summer for All About Scrapbooks / 1st Dec Stuck?! sketch

Hi there everyone,

My gosh, the weeks are rolling by so quickly already...we're almost 1/2 way through January already!  It must mean I'm having fun, right?  lol (you know how the saying goes, time flies when you're having fun!!)....well, I certainly am having fun creating with Simple Stories "I {heart} Summer collection for All About Scrapbooks.  It is just one of those collections that screams FUN!

Here is my 2nd layout created with this collection, based on the 1st Dec Stuck?! sketch....

Using pics from our little holiday over Christmas down the south coast of NSW.
And as you can see, someone loved the beach & had a ball :)
(not the best pic of the layout, I'm was overcast & taken at about 7.30pm last night!)
Here is the sketch, which you can see that I've stayed very true to
And a few close ups...

You can see more info & details, including a very basic card using the same collection, over on the All About Scrapbooks blog HERE....please pop over for a visit, and possibly leave some love? (being a new blog, we are still trying to build up our followers)....thanks, it would be muchly appreciated :)))
Until next time...happy scrapping & enjoy your weekend.  xx

Friday, January 3, 2014

Simple Stories "I {heart} Summer" for All About Scrapbooks / Sketchabilities sketch # 106

Hello there fellow scrappers...welcome to my blog today :)

I'm popping in today to share a layout created for my January DT work for All About Scrapbooks, using Simple Stories "I {heart} summer" ...and my layout is based on sketch #106 at Sketchabilities.

This is truly a FUN collection....the colours & patterns of the papers, the sticker sheet, the brads, Flair buttons....and the Sn@p Cuts!!  Such fun to work with & perfect for any type of layout :)

Lots of different pieces from the collection in this layout.
 Pic is of hubby & I on our trip to The Great Ocean Road last summer....standing in front of the 12 Apostles.
Here is the sketchabilities sketch.  I flipped the title & cluster to be at the top of my photo rather than at the bottom as in the I added some journaling :)
And here are a few close ups....

For more details on products & techniques used, please pop over to the All About Scrapbooks blog HERE...which includes a list of products with links to the All About Scrapbooks store.
Thanks so much for visiting today....I hope 2014 is a good one so far!

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The holidays are fast approaching.  Office parties and family gatherings are being planning and the menus are being set.  It’s the most wonderful time of the year!  Right?  Well for some, this time of the year may also be the most challenging as they want to maintain and not gain weight.  Studies have shown that many people gain weight during the holiday time.  They find it challenging to push back from all of the festive eating, maintaining a fitness regimen while travel and shopping, and keeping stress levels down too.

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Tip #3 No Doggie-Bags Please!

During the holidays when attending an event we like to wrap up food to take home.  Better yet, if attending a family members house we will come with our own food containers to take food home.  If you’ve already indulged in foods that may not be the best choice for your health and fitness goals, you don’t want to increase your pounds with a second day of indulgence by bringing food home.So, if you are visiting someone for the holidays, enjoy your meal, take a deep breath, remember this article (LOL) and opt to not take food home (no doggie bags).

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As you fix your plate to get your eat on, be sure to include a portion of protein with your holiday meals.Increasing your protein will reduce hunger and spikes in your appetite.  Protein will make you feel fuller and it will aid in weight maintenance.  So go for it!

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Of course you may be excited about the holiday dishes that only come around during the holidays, BEWARE.  Be conscious of the portion sizes you place on your plate.  Use your judgement based on your normal non-holiday portions.  Again, don’t let your hard work be in vain and you gain unnecessary pounds.

Tip #7 “Take Human Bites”

I use to laugh when I was a youngster when my auntie would repeat a popular saying from a commercial.  When I would sit down to eat, I would get to it gobbling down my food with wonders if I even swallow it.  She would look at me, chuckle, and say, “Take human bites!”  She was signaling me to slow down and enjoy my food.  Did you know that slowing down to and savoring every bite of your meal aides in weight-loss?  Yes, we know when food is good, we want to “go in” and get our eat on!  But it’s not the best way to go.  Slowing down will give your body a chance to recognize when it’s full.  This tip is a great way to prevent overeating.  Try it!

Tip #8 Avoid Being Socially Influenced

Often times family and friends may encourage you to eat more.  They may say something like, “Go on girl and eat more, it won’t hurt you.”  or “Your diet can wait, it’s the holidays!”  Please know that it’s ok to respectfully decline.  Your body will that you later.  No one knows your goals that you have set for yourself better than you.  Stand strong in your decision of being full and satisfied.

Tip #9 Water, Water, & More Water

Water will give you a feeling of being full, decrease sugar cravings, and aid in the consumption of less calories.  Choose water over other beverages that are high in sugar.

Tip #10 Limit Your Alcohol Consumption

Excessive drinking will result in weight gain and the consumption of empty calories.  If you must have a drink, opt for a glass of wine with your holiday meal.  But water will be your best choice to stay on track with your health and fitness goals.

Your success is ultimately up to you.  These tips are definitely a great way to have continued success.  You don’t have to go into the new year being back at square one.  Enjoy the holidays!

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  • Pre-filing assets: $3,010 (millions of current dollars)
  • Pre-filing number of employees: 20,972
  • Sub-industry: 45 Transportation By Air
  • Place of incorporation: DE
  • Court for city of headquarters: MO St. Louis
  • In business at filing? yes

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  • Chapter at filing: Chapter 11
  • Who filed case? debtors
  • Debtor's lead attorney: Kirkland Ellis
  • Date of filing: 1/10/2001
  • Court district of filing: DE
  • Court city of filing: Wilmington
  • Case number: 01-0056
  • Cause of bankruptcy: Not tort
  • Forum shop? Forum Shop

  • Case transferred? no
  • Destination court of transfer: not applicable
  • Creditors committee appointed? yes
  • §363 sale: 363 sale
  • Dip loan final approval? yes
  • Plan type: free fall

  • Disposition status: confirmed
  • Date of disposition: 6/14/2002
  • Judge at disposition: Peter J. Walsh
  • Days from filing to disposition: 520

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  • Did firm emerge? company did not emerge
  • Did firm refile? not emerged 5 years

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Monday, March 21, 2011

Kohryu (Ramen) - Costa Mesa

I was Yelping around one day around lunch time because I was in the mood for ramen but wanted to try something new. Kohryu seemed highly rated enough, so I decided to give it a try. It actually took me a while to make it here because this place is on the way to Santouka and I have gotten side-tracked on many well meaning attempts to get here. Finally, one day at lunch, I made it a point to make a beeline here.

Kohryu shares a small parking lot with a couple other restaurants and businesses so if you happen to come during a busy time, you may have a hard time finding a parking spot. I didn't have that problem on this particular day, a Wednesday close to 1pm. Also, I should mention that the inside of the restaurant is not very big so coming at a busy time may cause you to have to wait. I didn't have to wait on this particular day. I guess I picked the right day to come here. But then again I did call ahead to check on the wait. Sometimes I surprise myself. Not all the time, but on this particular day I did.

Since this was my first time here I decided to just start out by ordering the Shoyu Ramen - $6.75. I added that flavored hard boiled egg for $1. The egg is included if you order one of the ramens from the Special Section but my Shoyu ramen was just your basic starter bowl of ramen.

I think lots of people on Yelp have already mentioned all of these points but just to reiterate. The noodles are nice and chewy. Reminds me of the noodles at Mentatsu. The Shoyu broth is plain. I didn't drink any of the broth. The egg is cooked perfect! That sliced of pork was good. I liked it. It wasn't anything special. It wasn't too salty like it can be at Santouka sometimes. I want to go back a couple more times to try out the other flavors.

891 Baker St, Ste B-21
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
(714) 556-9212

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ilovesteaks said...

I like eating here when I get tired of super oily Santouka ramen. Also they have ika geso (squid) and kurage (jellyfish)... 2 of my favorite sides.


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Hey there!

Just wanted to post an update on our up coming trip.

Previously I wrote about how our old motor home (MH) was ready for a new family. She was sold to some very deserving people with kids raring to go exploring!

We then had the perfect fifth-wheel (5er) show up at the perfect time! The financial things were the key. I put out a ‘fleece’ (Judges 6:36-40) saying  “If I was supposed to have it then the finances would work in our favor” .. this is coming from someone who has the worst credit in the south-western US!

The LORD works in mysterious ways! I cried when we got approved.

So here we are!

I have been studying and researching RV sites and forums like crazy!

If you have not seen Rays blog, you are in for a treat! Go check it out and say I didn’t tell ya so!

I discovered a few things that needed to be tweaked and customised. Me and my buddy ‘DeWalt’ took care of it.

Anywoo, getting all the necessary stuff packed and desions on what to take or not, like the folding hammock is a big NOT… never use it.
Debating on the outdoor grill/stove. The 5er has a cool outlet that I can attach the stove outside and use the propane from the tanks.

Since I do the cooking, cleaning and camp setup and tear-down, I dont know if this would be a plus or a minus. I’ll post a question in the RV way to learn about something is to ask those that have gone before you.
The main thought is saving weight.
The more we are hauling the less MPG we get, and the more handling issues show up.

So getting real close to our departure. The first point of interest (POI) will be the Big Tent RV Show in Quartzite and then on to the RVBOOTCAMP in Congress Arizona. After that, then we can meander around until we get to Livingston Texas.

What is in Livingston?
That will be in my next post!

Catch ya on the flip-flop!

-Kimberly (wagon master)

PS As I enjoy sipping my favorite tea, I am reminded of the pleasures of life we take for granted.
I am slowing myself down this year in order to ‘be still‘ taking in the sheer awesomeness of my world.
Come and let me share with you!

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