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CPAN Ratings: Mac-Glue reviews http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Mac-Glue CPAN Ratings: Mac-Glue reviews en-us 2000-08-23T07:00+00:00 email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com Perl 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 daily Jose Alves de Castro http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Mac-Glue#5096
Rating: 5 stars

It's a wonderful module.

I can now control all my applications with Perl, using a very simple interface.

The only catch was that I didn't know I first had to create the "glue" for an application in order to control it (then again, I didn't read the documentation thoroughly), but I googled the error message and found the answer in "0.08 seconds".

Just in case somebody else needs it, here's what I had to do to start using this wonderful piece of technology:

sudo gluemac /Applications/iTunes.app

Just do that for every app you'll want to control later on.

Bottom line is, the module works great, and gives Perl users an amazing new degree of control over their Mac applications.
 Jose Alves de Castro 2008-12-26T10:20:22 Ricardo Signes http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Mac-Glue#1075
Rating: 4 stars

It's modules like this that make me /really/ wish there was a Usefulness metric in ratings. The documentation isn't great on the "doing simple things" front, because most of that sort of thing can be gleaned from the AppleScript docs for the applications you'll want to use. The system isn't painless to use, because AppleScript and Apple Events are painful things. The interface is great, considering that it has to mimic a considerably less great interface. Despite all this, the point is that Mac::Glue is insanely useful. It frees me from most of the shackles of AppleScript, lets me tie my Mac's programs to the entire might of Perl, and almost always works as I've learned to expect. Any serious Perl-on-Mac user needs to understand this module.
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This lesson provides a model of reflection for students as they listen to stories, begin to read stories, and develop their own written stories. The lesson can be used with any story; however in this case, the story of Corduroy allows for a personal connection by having students interact with a stuffed bear and write about their own adventures with Corduroy. Students listen to A Pocket for Corduroy and three other Corduroy stories and discuss the characters and plots. A letter to parents introduces a follow-up writing activity, in which a stuffed classroom "Corduroy" goes home with a different student each night. With parents' help, students write and illustrate a two- to three-sentence adventure story about Corduroy's stay with them, and share their stories with the class.
- A Pocket for Corduroy by Don Freeman (Penguin Putnam):Begin the lesson by reading aloud A Pocket for Corduroy or another of the Corduroy books. Ask questions while reading, and use the two handouts below to model how to choose a favorite part of the story and a favorite character.
- Corduroy Favorites handout: This handout helps students choose their favorite part of a Corduroy story and explain why.
- Corduroy Characters handout: This handout helps students choose their favorite character in a Corduroy story and explain why.
Wollman-Bonilla, J.E., & Werchadlo, B. (1999). Teacher and peer roles in scaffolding first graders' response to literature. The Reading Teacher, 52, 598-607.
- Literature response journals can help children to think about and respond to literature in new ways, thus guiding them to a deeper understanding of the communication of ideas through writing.
- Teacher instruction shifts in response to students' developing capabilities and peers can influence the learning experience by sharing personal responses to literature.
- Encourage children to trust their own voices and express their thoughts clearly in writing.

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Which Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman?
Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman as host of "The Late Show," CBS announced Thursday.
So which Colbert actually replaces him? The real Stephen Colbert or the faux Bill O'Reilly wannabe currently hosting "The Colbert Report."
This may confuse America I mean, worse than it already is.
Letterman has announced he'll retire from the 11:30 p.m. time slot next year, after more than 30 years on NBC and CBS.
So who's going to replace Colbert on "The Colbert Report."
According to ABC News, the 49-year-old Emmy-winning Colbert said being a guest of Letterman's was "a highlight of my career.
"I never dreamed that I would follow in his footsteps, though everyone in late night follows Dave's lead," he said. "I'm thrilled and grateful that CBS chose me. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go grind a gap in my front teeth."
"Stephen Colbert is one of the most inventive and respected forces on television," said Leslie Moonves, the network's president and CEO. "David Letterman's legacy and accomplishments are an incredible source of pride for all of us here, and today's announcement speaks to our commitment of upholding what he established for CBS in late night."
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the academic research cities. Harlingen is a small
harbor town where at best a doctor lives and
one or two students who visit parents in the
weekend. The nature of the top downloaded
paper suggests it is not a doctor :)
Data from Bohannon and Elbakyan.
The changes are not only technical, but also social. Several publishers still believe we live in a industrial area, where the world has moved on into a knowledge era. More people are mining and servicing data than there are making physical things (think about that!). Access to knowledge matters, and dealing with data and knowledge stopped being something specific for academic and other research institutes many, many years ago. Arguments that knowledge is only for the highly educated is simply contradicting and bluntly ignore our modern civilization.
This makes access to knowledge a mix of technological and social evolution, and on both end many publishers fail, fail hard, fail repeatedly. I would even argue that all the new publishers are improving things, but are failing to really innovate in knowledge dissemination. And not just the publishing industry, also many scientists. Preprint servers are helpful, but this is really not the end goal. If you really care about speeding up knowledge dissemination, stop worrying about things like text mining, preprints, but you have to start making knowledge machine readable (sorry, scientist) and release that along or before your article. Yes, that is harder, but just realize you are getting well-paid for doing your job.
So, by no means the success of Sci-Hub is unexpected. It is not really the end goal I have in mind, and in many ways contradicting what I want. But the research community thinks differently, clearly. Oh wait, not just the research community, but the current civilization. The results of the Bohannon analysis of the Sci-Hub access logs I just linked to clearly shows this. There are so many aspects, and so many interpretations and remaining questions. The article rightfully asks, is it need or convenience. I argued recently the latter is likely an important reason at western universities, and that it is nothing new.
This article is a must read if you care about the future of civilization. Bonus points for a citable data set!
Bohannon, J. Who's downloading pirated papers? everyone. Science 352, 508-512 (2016). URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.352.6285.508.
Elbakyan, A. & Bohannon, J. Data from: Who's downloading pirated papers? everyone. (2016). URL http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q447c.


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WOMEN'S HOOPS: No. 1 UConn routs Oregon, 95-51
EUGENE, Ore. -- First came the No. 1 ranking, then came the rout. All told, it was a pretty good day for Connecticut.
Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis scored 19 points and the Huskies celebrated their return to the top of the poll with a 95-51 victory against Oregon on Monday.
UConn took over the No. 1 spot in the Top 25 for the first time since the end of the 2010-11 season on Monday afternoon, and then followed with their 12th victory of the season to remain undefeated.
"It's nice to be No. 1 but we're just trying to play basketball," Mosqueda-Lewis said. "Day in day out we're practicing really hard and trying get better."
Five other players reached double figures scoring for the Huskies, including Stefanie Dolson with 16 and senior guard Caroline Doty had her best game of the season with 14 points and a career-high 12 rebounds.
Doty had been averaging 3.9 points and 1.7 rebounds. UConn coach Geno Auriemma called Doty's performance Monday "doubly rewarding."
"I don't know what makes me happier, the fact that Caroline is playing great and contributing a lot, or that it shuts up all the idiots that wonder why she's starting, why's she's playing so many minutes and how much someone else would be better than her," Auriemma said.
Kelly Faris also had 13 points and seven assists, while Morgan Tuck and Moriah Jefferson scored 10 each for UConn, which made 15 3-pointers.
Jillian Alleyne had 18 points to lead the Ducks (2-10), who have lost three players to season-ending injuries and had two players make their season debut on Monday.
Still, Oregon did itself no favors by going scoreless in the first five minutes and last five minutes of the first half to trail 54-24 at halftime.
"If there is a better team in America, somebody is going to have to prove it," Oregon coach Paul Westhead said.
There was no let down for UConn coming off its stunning 61-35 win against then-No. 1 Stanford at Maples Pavilion on Saturday.
The Huskies got out to a 12-0 lead in a game-opening run that included 3-pointers by Doty and Mosqueda-Lewis, while Oregon missed its first nine shots with five turnovers during that stretch.
Oregon heated up midway through the half, scoring 13 points on seven straight possessions -- including its first field goal of the game on a banked 3-pointer by Amanda Delgado at the 14:09 mark -- to cut its deficit to 19-13 with 11:45 to play.
That run by the Ducks ignited the season-high crowd of 4,052 at Matthew Knight Arena, but it also seemed to have a similar effect on the Huskies.
UConn quickly shutdown Oregon's momentum with 17-4 run over the next five minutes, starting with seven straight points off three forced turnovers, to go up 36-17.
"I didn't think the pace that the game was going was the pace that I wanted to play at," Auriemma said. "We're at our best when we're moving up the floor quickly, the ball's moving quickly and we're putting the other team on the defensive. After the 10-minute mark I felt we did that."
Leading by 15 with just under 5 minutes to play before halftime, the Huskies ended the first half on a 15-0 run to extend its advantage to 54-24 at the break.
Mosqueda-Lewis and Faris finished off the half with back-to-back 3-pointers in the final minute.
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It was only a matter of time. After drilling Mother Earth and exploiting her oil resources for centuries, the planet is retaliating. A sinkhole 260 feet deep and 900 feet long has opened up in Daisetta Texas, swallowing Telephone poles, tractors, and oil drilling equipment. The hole was still growing as of Thursday, threatening to consume a main highway nearby as geologists struggled to figure out the reasons behind its mysterious formation.
Local geologists think drilling activities could've caused the hole, which was still growing as of Thursday, and threatening to consume a main highway nearby. Turns out, Daisetta is sitting on top of a giant salt dome, which is great for trapping oil. But drillers have a tendency to circulate salt water back down the holes the bore, which scientists think might've dissolved the dome and caused the collapse. Here is a photo of a shallower portion of the sinkhole, with barrels floating in it.
That's just a theory, though — how sinkholes form is a bit of a mystery of science. Some people think unusual groundwater percolation can carve out an underground cavern that suddenly collapses. Either that or the angry Earth could've sent giant Sarlacc worm-plants to eat all humans and digest us in excruciating pain over thousands of years.
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Reality TV stars Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt frittered away their $10 million fortune because they believed the world would end in 2012.
In 2010, Pratt revealed the couple was broke and on the verge of bankruptcy, and they even gave up their luxury home and moved in with his father to save money.
He has now admitted they deliberately spent all their cash before December 21, 2012 —the day the world was set to end, according to a prophesy based on the Mayan calendar.
He tells Britain's OK! magazine, "We made and spent at least 10 million dollars. The thing is, we heard that the planet was going to end in 2012. We thought, we have got to spend this money before the asteroid hits.
"Here's some advice, definitely do not spend your money thinking asteroids are coming. But the world didn't end."
Opening up about his extravagant lifestyle, Pratt adds, "I would give my friends $15,000 for their birthday. Just cash. I would buy people cars. Every valet I met got a couple of hundred pounds tip. I would pay people $200 just to open doors for us."


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Criteria is Doodling
and remember "doodling" can be as simple as a hand drawn border !
My tip for reluctant doodlers: Use a patterned paper base as a kind of template, and just embellish it with a pen or brush. I chose a paper from a very old Scenic Route collection. The original pattern was a simple array of different sized circles. Every little bit of black that you can see is my pen work. I had lots of fun with lines and dots and other simple doodles. I also fussy cut some leftover circles from the same paper, and doodled each one to make my title.
Hello! My name is Karen Brierley, and I live in a beautiful semi-rural area of southeast Queensland with my husband, young teen daughter, and an assortment of chooks and ducks. I work full time (rotational shiftwork) in the public sector. Scrapbooking is my "happy place" - I love capturing memories of our family trips, our home life, and special milestones. I have yet to discover what my 'signature style' is; I just scrap what feels right at the time. When I'm not scrapping you will find me sewing or gardening or hiking or volunteering as a rural firefighter. I also love to hang out at quirky cafes and secondhand bookstores.
I blog about my scrapbooking creations at beingkaren.blogspot.com ~ please visit if you have a spare moment.
Thank you so much for the opportunity to guest design at ARTastic this month.
Two of my favourite layouts from 2014:
* SWaK - first time I used paint splatters on a layout (using a pipette) - I had heaps of fun with this one!
* Woolgoolga - one of my favourite photographs from summer vacation last year - I played with gesso and embossing powders on this layout.
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Title and Author: The Charge by Brendon Burchard
Caption: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive
Summary of Content:
This book is about elite. It isn't for the shy or those that need desire. It is surely not for the individuals who look for the simple, torment free, easy lifestyle. This book is about how to outline a course of self-improvement that difficulties you in the most significant and burdening routes with a specific end goal to understand the most significant outcomes.
Burchard begins with this statement from Ralph Waldo Emerson: "We are continually preparing to live, however never living." This sets the tenor of his proposal in this book. He provokes you to decrease to acknowledge average quality and to take a stab at as well as can be expected be and as well as can be expected accomplish.
He isolates the powers that prompt prevalent execution into "drives" which spur and empower you to accomplish the most. The book is then composed around those ten drives.
The principal segment tends to the five Baseline Drives. They incorporate the drives for Control, Competence, Congruence, Caring and Connection. These drives impact the quality and the vitality of your life. They enable you to meet your center organic needs. These drives are fundamental for meeting your essential needs and keeping up negligible security and execution. They are your establishment helpers.
Next he talks about the five Forward Drives which incorporate the drives for Change, Challenge, Creative Expression, Contribution and Consciousness. These drives are for more than negligible survival. They are the motors that push you to accomplish your aggregate potential.
In every section the creator investigates how the drive capacities, how to utilize it in your life in the best ways and what it can enable you to achieve. He utilizes representations from his customer's carries on with, his own life and different stories.
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Similarly as with most achievement writing there is nothing totally novel here. Burchard has taken the established standards of inspiration and achievement and composed them along these extraordinary lines. Burchard examines brain science and you can see mental hypothesis at work in the book.
This book has the capability of being exceptionally valuable to the individual who understands it completely and after that deliberately sets up an arrangement to execute what is found out over the long run. Similarly as with most books in this sort just understanding it and putting it away will offer little profit.
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The book is elegantly composed and simple to pursue. He incorporates practices toward the finish of every part to enable you to actualize his thoughts.
Notes on Author:
Brendan Burchard is a web data advertiser and mentor. He guides and he mentors. He established the High Performance Academy and is an open speaker on superior.
Three Great Ideas You Can Use:
1. To succeed and accomplish at your pinnacle execution level you should comprehend the essential motivational drives you can use to achieve your objectives.
2. Use of these drives requires comprehension, study and work.
3. Regardless of your conditions in life you have the ability to deliberately pick and make a "charged" life to accomplish your most astounding potential.
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Caption: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive
Copyright: 2012 by The Burchard Group, LLC
Distributed by Free Press, a division of Simon Schuster, Inc. Hardbound is 246 pages barring the list.
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Victory over Hull may have all but assured Aston Villa safety from relegation, but manager Paul Lambert remains in the dark about owner Randy Lerner's intentions for the club.
Speculation that Lerner will look to sell the club this summer has been growing since he released a vague statement last month which indicated only that he would clarify his own position at the end of the season.
With Barclays Premier League football now virtually assured following the 3-1 victory at Villa Park, all eyes are on the American businessman's next move.
But Lambert, whose own future is uncertain as a result of perceived instability at the top, has no inside track.
Asked what developments he expected at boardroom level, the Scot said: "You're asking me a question I can't give an answer to and that's me being honest.
"The chairman will come out and say what he's going to say and I really don't know what he will say. His statement is what it is. I understand what has gone on in the last few weeks and I'm pretty sure people will find out soon."
Lambert was more comfortable reflecting on footballing matters, with a first win in seven matches delivered by Ashley Westwood's opener inside the first minute and a pair of headers from Andreas Weimann.
Pressure had been mounting by the week and Lambert was pleased to see the response he wanted both on and off the field.
"The crowd was excellent," he said.
"I think people were probably thinking there would be some animosity towards myself - and if that happens you've got to accept it - but the start we got put everybody in a good frame of mind.
"This game was huge. I've been involved in some massive games before, but the pressure on this one was incredible.
"They came through it and if they came through that they can come through everything in their careers.
"I thought they were outstanding and we deserved to win."
Hull boss Steve Bruce, whose side slipped below Villa and into 15th place after their third successive game without a win, admitted FA Cup final fever has had an effect on his side.
Attention in East Yorkshire has been focused firmly on the May 17 trip to Wembley since last month's semi-final success over Sheffield United, but Bruce has been battling hard to keep his players on the task at hand.
As yet, it is a battle he has been losing.
"I've said for the last couple of weeks we have to keep focused," he said.
"The whole city is talking about the FA Cup final and why shouldn't it be? But it's been very, very difficult to keep a lid on it when we've still got a little bit of work to do.
"It's at the forefront of everybody's mind and that's only human nature because it's something we're all looking forward to.
"But we didn't do enough to win this game. We were so sloppy, awful in our defending.
"We didn't get started and didn't show that resilience you need to win a game or draw a game in the Premier League."


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Harold Peary stars as the great man, with Lurene Tuttle as Marjorie, Walter Tetley as Leroy, Lillian Randolph as Birdie, and Earle Ross as "the old goat" Judge Hooker in sixteen digitally restored and remastered broadcasts from the 1941-42 season.
Includes a Program Guide by Elizabeth McLeod.
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Boston: Tamarind Bay's Lalla Musa Dal
A weekly profile on a favorite New England dish.
A couple months back I wrote a post about one of my favorite Indian dishes, Punjab Palace's take on the North Indian eggplant stunner known as baingan bhartha, and promised to follow that up with a tribute to my other vegetarian go-to, the lalla musa dal ($11.95) at Tamarind Bay Coastal Kitchen. I'm a woman of my word.
I fell in love with this version at a press dinner that the Brookline branch of the restaurant (the original location is in Harvard Square) hosted a few years back, and not because it looked good. As food aesthetics go, the murky, rust-brown, pebbly concoction can't compare to the restaurant's other specialties like the fennel cream-sauced cauliflower dumplings or the spiced lobster tail. But famed Indian chefs like Julie Sahni don't consider this dish "the most exquisite of all dal preparations" for nothing, and speaking in terms of decadence, it outclasses the rest by a long shot.
A Moghul staple, dal makhani, kali dal, Butter dal or Special dal combines black gram beans or lentils (not to be confused with petite black beluga lentils), fresh ginger, onion, tomatoes, cardamom, coriander, and a touch of hot pepper and cooks for hours—all night long at Tamarind Bay—at a bare simmer until the beans are creamy but still intact. Then a portion of the beans are puréed and returned to the pan, giving the dish a thick, spoon-coating consistency. Finally, the beans are finished with a healthy ladle of cream and ungodly amounts of butter or ghee.
To describe the result as decadent would almost be an understatement—Indian cuisine authorities like Sahni note that, unlike other lentil preparations, this dal is not everyday fare—and its remarkably savory, smoky edge would fool (and delight) any vegetarian.
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By increasing their down payment, borrowers save on interest while still taking advantage of tax benefits.
As luxury-home sales take off, some home buyers with deep pockets are using cash to dodge large mortgages. Some are making massive down payments in exchange for a smaller loan with a lower rate. Others are sticking to all cash.
"We're seeing more and more cash buyers coming into the market in the jumbo arena—much more than we've previously seen," says Jeff Gennarelli, president of Bridgeview Bank Mortgage Company, based in Lombard, Ill.
Why the change of heart? With yields on deposit accounts at record lows and concerns about future returns on equities, high-net worth home buyers are focusing on maximizing savings, says Jack McCabe, an independent housing analyst in Deerfield Beach, Fla.
Private jumbo mortgages—starting after $417,000 in most of the U.S. but at $625,501 in some pricier metro areas—charge higher rates than smaller home loans, averaging 4.04% compared with 3.54%, respectively, according to mortgage-info website HSH.com. Signing up for a fixed-rate $1.5 million mortgage, for instance, would cost nearly $1.1 million in interest over the life of the loan.
By increasing their down payment, borrowers save on interest while still taking advantage of tax benefits. Taxpayers can usually deduct interest payments on a total of up to $1 million of mortgage debt. In other cases, luxury-home buyers are ditching mortgages to get a leg up on the competition.
Sales of million-dollar homes are on the rise nationwide, and some buyers are encountering housing boom-era style bidding wars. Real-estate agents say luxury home sellers are more likely to accept an offer if it doesn't rely on financing, a process that can delay the final sale.
In upscale Short Hills, N.J., Arlene Gonnella, an agent with Weichert Realtors recently sold a $2.2 million home to a buyer with an aggressive offer: cash for the full asking price.
Still, buyers have to weigh pros and cons to decide between cash, a small mortgage or a jumbo home loan. Here are some points to consider.
- Liquid assets: Buyers should consider a large down payment or paying all cash only if they'll be left with enough liquid funds to cover expenses and goals over at least the next five years.
- Interest rates: The Federal Reserve plans to keep interest rates very low until at least mid-2015, meaning savers still have years of earning close to zero on their cash. Buyers will have to determine whether their cash might be put to better use in a home that will ultimately save them thousands in mortgage-interest payments.
Local market conditions: Speak with local real-estate agents and check listing sites like Trulia
and Zillow
+0.89%to find out how many luxury homes in the area sold recently and at what prices. If few homes have sold in the past six months or they're selling well below the typical asking price in the neighborhood, that could lower the home's appraised value, making it harder to get a jumbo mortgage.


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A new Stacey's Favorite Places
Every item inside West End Architectural Salvage has a story.
That's why the building on 9th Street in downtown Des Moines is one of KCCI anchor Stacey Horst's favorite places.
The business started out as a hobby for owner Don Short, salvaging architectural elements from old houses that were being demolished.
"About seven years ago in September, actually, we did a two weekend tag sale," said Short. I had so many people come in on those two weekends that I just kept staying open on weekends."
That tag sale became a full-time career for Short, and West End Architectural Salvage was born.
Now, the business fills all four floors of the building in downtown. There are surprises everywhere you look -- you won't only find traditional architectural salvage here.
"A grill of a GMC, this is probably a 1952, 1954," said Short, pointing to one new item.
In addition to pieces with Iowa ties, Short also brings in finds from bigger markets across the Midwest.
"This piece I picked up this weekend in Minneapolis," said Short. "The face is milk glass. It has light behind it. The metal frame is all copper."
Other pieces come from New York and even Europe.
"That black trunk is from France," said Short.
Designers of movie sets were drawn to the unique selection in the store. A number of pieces were sold to production companies during the boom of feature films made here in Iowa a couple years ago.
The Hollywood connection continues today.
West End Salvage is featured in a new series on the cable network HGTV.
"We have 50 to 100 people a day from out of state who are driving down the interstate who have seen us on TV and they'll stop in," said Short.
Custom furniture is designed and created on site. Everything from custom tables, like this one made from a tree blown down in the Creston tornado.
Custom furniture design has grown to 30 or 40 percent of West End's business.
The building has also become a popular event center for parties and weddings.
"The really cool part is we are an antique store during the day and a bar/reception area at night. So we have as many people at night per week as we do during the day," said Short.
The growing fan base is not lost on Short as he considers the unintended start to his business.
"It just evolved and seven years later, we have a 50,000 square foot warehouse. We're open seven days a week. We do 15 parties in here a month at night and we have our own TV show on HGTV," said Short.
You can learn more about West End Salvage at http://www.westendsalvage.com


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Through outstanding academic programs in architecture, art and engineering, and a Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art prepares talented students to make enlightened contributions to society. The College admits undergraduates solely on merit and awards full scholarships to all enrolled students.
The institution provides close contact with a distinguished, creative faculty and fosters rigorous, humanistic learning that is enhanced by the process of design and augmented by the urban setting.
Founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper, industrialist and philanthropist, The Cooper Union offers public programs for the civic, cultural, and practicable enrichment of New York City.


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The Alienist - S01
Year: 2018
Duration: 1h
IMDb: 7.9
Country: USA
Actors: Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans, Dakota Fanning, Douglas Smith, Matthew Shear, Matt Lintz, David Wilmot, Martin McCreadie, Q'orianka Kilcher, Ted Levine, Harvey Weedon, Jackson Gann, Oliver Cater
The Alienist opens when a series of haunting, gruesome murders of boy prostitutes grips New York City. Newly appointed police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt (Geraghty) calls upon criminal psychologist (aka alienist) Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Brühl) and newspaper illustrator John Moore (Evans) to conduct the investigation in secret. They are joined by Sara Howard (Fanning), a headstrong secretary determined to become the city's first female police detective. Using the emerging disciplines of psychology and early forensic investigation techniques, this band of social outsiders set out to find and apprehend one of New York City's first serial killers.