text: Back Five Steps to a Safer Kitchen Your kitchen is a hub for family life, but it's also a place with risks. Although you can't foresee every hazard, you can make the room safer with five simple steps. 1. Pay attention to food on the stove. Cooking is the top cause of home fires and home fire injuries, according to Underwriters Laboratories. If you must leave the kitchen while food is cooking, carry a wooden spoon or oven mitt as a reminder that something is on the stove. Keep a fire extinguisher in the kitchen for emergencies. 2. Don't use cook tops as work surfaces. Placing anything flammable on a hot burner could start a fire. Don't use your microwave oven as storage space, either. This is especially true for paper bags, which could catch fire if you accidentally start the oven. 3. Be careful with knives. Knives are useful tools, but they should always be treated with care. Cut food away from your body, on a non-slip surface, advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Keep knife blades sharp and clean. Store knives in knife holders, not loose in a drawer, and keep knives away from young children. 4. Keep poisons away from children. Store cleaning supplies, insecticides and medications out of children's reach, the CDC says. To avoid accidental poisonings, store only food in food containers. Keep substances in their original containers with their original labels. Don't set insecticide in cupboards near open foods or on the floor, where toddlers can ingest it. Don't leave your purse around young children if it contains medications. Call the American Association of Poison Control Centers at 800-222-1222 if you suspect poisoning. You'll be routed to your closest regional center. Never wait to see if symptoms occur. If the poison victim has collapsed or isn't breathing, call 911. 5. Avoid dangling appliance cords. Hanging cords could catch on something, causing the appliance to tip over.


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Hello and welcome to the first "Cozy Sunday"! I feel like Sunday is a great day of the week to snuggle up with a cozy book. Nothing too heavy or dramatic. So, on Sunday's I'm now going to put up book reviews for fluffy reads for a lazy day! Whether it's a chic-lit, something light and funny, or a cozy mystery, you'll find it here!
Hope you all enjoy!!
2.5 out of 5 Stars
Weddings are big business in picturesque Sweetheart, California, and Something Borrowed's rent-a-bridesmaid service is thriving among the Hollywood elite. For the women who work there, a walk down the aisle is just a paycheck—until the right guy makes it priceless . . .
Marley Stevenson never imagined her stint as a rented Maid of Honor would practically become a career. Then again, nothing in her life has gone according to plan. At least the money's good—and she needs it to pay off student loans and help out her mom. But the job has rules, which have never been an issue . . . until one encounter with a gorgeous best man—and his swoon-worthy Southern accent—sends Marley reeling.
Determined to get through the weekend with her professional reputation intact, Marley grits her teeth and sends out her best "unavailable" vibes, but Luke Jessup doesn't give up that easy. A former Marine and a current SWAT team officer, his focus is legendary—and it's on Marley. Jeopardizing her job is bad enough, and starting a relationship based on half-truths is worse—yet Marley is beginning to wonder if certain risks are worth taking, especially in the name of true love . . .
The writing style for this book was fine. The word choices and language were fine. Notice I'm saying "fine" a lot. Ha ha! It was all just… Fine. The flow of the STORY on the other hand just wasn't organic.
You're pushed into the meeting between Marley and Luke before any characters are even established. How am I supposed to care that these people are propositioning each other in a cereal aisle when I really have no idea who they are?? It was all too quick.
Luke was a fairly likeable character in a typical hot L.A cop visiting a small town kind of way, while Marley? Well, there just wasn't enough to her to care about. She had lost her sister in the past, which we're supposed to feel bad about, but it's not really explained in a way that gave me any feeling about it whatsoever. I feel like I felt more for Marley's mom, who was really sweet and well written, than I felt for Marley who is the main character!
I also questioned some of the relationships… I mean, who wants to be "Eskimo sisters" WITH THEIR SISTER?? If you don't know what that term means, you need to watch the t.v show "The League"! But, it's also good because I'm trying to keep this review spoiler free so, as they say, "what you don't know, won't hurt you!" 😉
I'm any case, this book may not be bad for you if you just want an easy read with some somewhat steamy scenes. But, honestly, there are better books to spend your time on! But, you're all adults, so decide for yourselves! 😘
Don't Call Me Sweetheart is best Served with a
Sweet Tart Martini
Like the pun on "sweetheart"?? The book was sweet, with tart elements. So, this was fitting! I got the idea of the drink from Suburble and it is great!! (plus every other sweetheart drink seems to have grenadine… Too many drinks use grenadine 🤢
- 1oz Vodka
- 1oz Amaretto
- 1 oz Blue Curacao
- 1tsp Simple Syrup
- 2 splashes Lime Juice (or to taste)
- Add all ingredients to shaker filled with ice
- Shake for 20 seconds
- Pour into martini Glass

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Kutaisi is located in the most beautiful part of Georgia. The city, built on the banks of the Rioni River has a great history. It is one of the most ancient cities in the world. It was first mentioned in the ancient Greek mythology and history during the Minoan era (B.C XVII-XV century). Kutaisi is also mentioned in a famous Greek epic poem "Argonautica", written 3300 years ago.
In the VI century the cities of Lazika-Egrisi (a kingdom which existed in that time on the territory of present Western Georgia) turned into the war arena between Byzantines and Persians.
In the VIII century Kutaisi was the capital of the Kingdom of Abkhazia-Egrisi.
In the X century there was a war for the unification of Georgia that was led by Bagrat III (975-1014) and in 978 he brought the throne to Kutaisi. He built a wonderful church in the city which is a symbol of united Georgia. For 124 years (978-1122) Kutaisi was the capital of the United Kingdom of Georgia. In the XV century, after the division of the country, Kutaisi became the capital of the Kingdom of Imeretia.
With its culture, history and economy Kutaisi is an outstanding city. Many famous poets, writers, scientists, public figures, musicians, composers, linguists, painters, world-class opera singers, Olympic champions of the World and Europe and prize winners lived in the city.
The city has a 100 year-old theater named after a theatre actor and director Lado Meskhishvili, an opera and a puppet theater. Worldwide famous songs Suliko and Cicinatela were written in Kutaisi.
The city has a long sport tradition. Five-time world chess champion Maia Chiburdanidze, famous basketball and football sportsmen were raised here.
Kutaisi is also home to the State University of Akaki Tsereteli, private and higher education institutions, art galleries and museums.
The people from Kutaisi are distinguished for their hospitality, politeness, sharp-wit and their delicious cuisine is known all over Georgia.
The marvelous views spread out from Bagrati Temple and the beauty of Khvamli's mountain, the gorge of the Rioni River and the Kolkheti Lowland is easily noticeable from there.
The antiquity of the city is merged with modern buildings and cultural monuments.


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Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle (born August 7, 1952) is an English comedian, actor and author.
- To me history as taught at school was like all those memories of galleries, castles and historic monuments that I didn't have. There was the same sense that if there was only some matrix, some philosophical framework to which I could attach all these facts then they would all make sense and they would all stay with me. And then halfway through Marx's Wages, Prices and Profits I suddenly thought to myself, 'Fuck me! This shit is actually true.' … Once you understood Marx all the apparent chaos of human existence resolved itself into a coherent and comprehensive pattern. People fought not because they differed about how to wear a shirt but because they represented economic classes whose interests conflicted. The Cavaliers were landed aristocrats and their allies who wanted to hang on to a way of life being superseded by Cromwell's merchant class. Slavery was abolished not out of some idea 'niceness' in the Northern states but because the industrial factory owners of Chicago and Detroit wanted the blacks to work in their factories, to be 'wage slaves' rather than actual slaves, though often the improvement in their physical conditions was marginal. The British Empire wasn't some project designed to bring enlightenment to ignorant savages, but rather a brutal and rapacious exploitation of peoples who were often more humane than us.
You can imagine, armed with this philosophy, how full of myself I now became. Even when I hadn't had the secret of human history in my grasp I had been a mouthy little bastard in class. Now I was unstoppable.
- Stalin Ate My Homework (2010), p. 246-8 ISBN 9780340919576. On realising he agreed with the Marxist theory of history.


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One person dead after Southwest Airlines jet makes emergency landing in Philadelphia
A Southwest Airlines jet apparently blew an engine at 30,000 feet Tuesday and got hit by shrapnel that smashed a window and damaged the fuselage, killing a passenger and injuring seven others, authorities said.
The plane, a Boeing 737 bound from New York to Dallas with 149 people aboard, made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport just before noon EDT.
"I just remember holding my husband's hand, and we just prayed and prayed and prayed," said passenger Amanda Bourman, of New York. "And the thoughts that were going through my head of course were about my daughters, just wanting to see them again and give them a big hug so they wouldn't grow up without parents."
National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said one person was killed. It was the first passenger fatality on a U.S. airline since 2009, he said.
Seven other people treated for minor injuries, Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel said. He said there was a fuel leak in one of the engines when firefighters arrived and that a small fire was quickly brought under control.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane landed after the crew reported damage to one of the engines, along with the fuselage and at least one window. The NTSB sent a team of investigators to Philadelphia.
Bourman said she was seated near the back and was asleep when she heard a loud noise and oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling. She said the plane was fairly quiet because everyone was wearing a mask, while some passengers were in tears and others shouted words of encouragement.
"Everybody was crying and upset," she said. "You had a few passengers that were very strong and they kept yelling to people, you know, 'It's OK, we're going to do this.'"
Passenger Marty Martinez did a brief Facebook Live posting while wearing an oxygen mask. He posted, "Something is wrong with our plane! It appears we are going down! Emergency landing!! Southwest flight from NYC to Dallas!!" After the plane landed, he posted photos of a damaged window near the engine.
Bourman said that everyone started yelling to brace for impact when the plane started to land. Everyone clapped and praised the pilot after he set the aircraft down.
Bourman said she saw emergency medical workers using a defibrillator to help a woman who was taken off the plane.
Tracking data from FlightAware.com indicates that Flight 1380 was heading west over New York's southern tier at about 32,200 feet and traveling 500 mph when it abruptly turned toward Philadelphia.
Southwest has about 700 planes, all of them 737s, including more than 500 737-700s like the one involved in Tuesday's emergency landing. It is the world's largest operator of the 737. The Boeing 737 is the bestselling jetliner in the world and has a good safety record.
John Goglia, a former NTSB member, said investigators will take the Southwest engine apart to understand what happened and will look at maintenance records for the engine.
"There's a ring around the engine that's meant to contain the engine pieces when this happens," Goglia said. "In this case, it didn't. That's going to be a big focal point for the NTSB — why didn't [the ring] do its job?"
Goglia said the Boeing 737 is a safe plane but engine failures occur from time to time.
"We're pushing the engines to produce as much power as possible," he said. "We're right on the edge. Sometimes they fail, and that's why the containment ring is there."
The engine failure was reminiscent of a similar event on a Southwest Boeing 737-700 jet in August 2016 as it flew from New Orleans to Orlando, Fla. Shrapnel from the engine left a 5-by-16-inch hole just above the wing. Passenger oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling. Pilots landed the plane safely in Pensacola, Fla.
NTSB investigators said one of that engine's fan blades broke off from the hub during the flight. The broken edge of the blade showed crack lines consistent with metal fatigue.
12:40 p.m.: This article was updated with National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt reporting that one person died in the incident.
11:05 a.m.: This article was updated with additional details, including the number of passengers and crew members aboard the plane.
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HaysMed Nurses Recognized with Daisy Award
Hays, Kansas – Kylie Geist, RN and Ann Arnold, RN were recognized as HaysMed DAISY Award Winners. Geist works on the acute care unit and Arnold works in the special nurse services unit.
Geist and Arnold were selected from a group of blinded nominations voted on by the HaysMed Practice Committee. The Practice Committee consists of Staff and Supervisors from a variety of departments across HaysMed. Nominations are received from patients and family members, physicians, volunteers and Associates for nurses in inpatient, outpatient and clinic settings.
"Their nominations epitomize teamwork, leadership and customer service," said Terry Siek, VP of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer at HaysMed. "We are so fortunate to have nurses of her caliber and dedication working at HaysMed."
The DAISY Award is a nationwide program that rewards and celebrates the extraordinary clinical skill and compassionate care given by nurses every day. HaysMed is proud to be a DAISY Award Hospital Partner, recognizing one of our nurses with this special honor every quarter.
To nominate a HaysMed nurse for the DAISY Award online, go to www.haysmed.com/daisyaward. If you have questions, you can call 785.623.2388


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Some Basic Facts on State and Local Government Workers
This brief report presents some basic facts about state and local employees: the jobs they perform, how many there are, how their pay compares with pay in the private sector, and how much states and localities — mainly school districts, cities, and counties — spend on pay and benefits.
Who Are Public Employees?
How Has the Number of Public Employees Changed Over Time?
Over the last 30 years, the number of state and local workers grew modestly relative to the overall population, from about 59 per 1,000 in 1980 to 65 per 1,000 in 2008 before declining to 61 per 1,000 in 2011. (See Figure 2). All of that growth has been in education workers and reflects demographic changes and policy initiatives, such as efforts to reduce class sizes and better help children with special needs. Over the same period the number of non-education workers remained about the same relative to the overall population until declining somewhat after 2008. Since August 2008, the total number of state and local government employees has declined by 662,000.
How Do Their Pay and Benefits Compare to Those of Private-Sector Workers?
Studies find that public workers are paid 4 to 11 percent less than private-sector workers with similar education, job tenure, and other characteristics.[1] This wage disadvantage is greatest for higher-wage public workers. The typical middle-wage worker earns about 4 percent less in the public sector than the private sector.[2] Low-wage state and local workers, by contrast, earn a small amount more than their private-sector counterparts. (See Figure 3.)
While the average pay for all public employees exceeds that of all private workers, this reflects the fact that public-sector jobs are much more likely to require higher education; teaching positions require a college or master's degree, for example. State and local employees are twice as likely as private-sector workers to have a college or advanced degree.[3]
Public-sector workers also earn less than their private-sector counterparts when one counts both their wages and benefits such as pensions and health insurance. Benefits are typically more generous and secure for public employees than for most private-sector workers, but factoring in the value of these benefits does not eliminate the gap between state and local employees and their counterparts in comparable private-sector jobs.[4]
The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, widely recognized as an authoritative source on retirement income issues, recently found that total compensation for public-sector workers — including the value of benefits — is 4 percent less than that of comparable private-sector workers.[5]
How Much Do States and Localities Spend on Their Employees?
Because providing services is the primary business of states as well as school districts, cities, counties, and other local governments, labor costs — i.e., wages and benefits — make up a significant share of their annual spending.
- Wages and salaries. Wages and salaries make up about one-third of state and local governments' general spending, on average, according to Census Bureau data. States spend a considerably smaller share (about 15 percent) than local governments (41 percent).
- Total compensation. Spending on benefits such as health insurance and retirement is not reported to the Census but can be estimated using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Adding these costs brings the total costs of compensation for state and local workers to about 44 percent of state and local spending. Some 20 percent of state spending is for employee compensation, compared to about 55 percent of local government spending.[6]
End Notes
[1] Alicia Munnell, Jean-Pierre Aubry, Josh Hurwitz, and Laura Quinby, Comparing Compensation: State-Local Versus Public Sector Workers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, September 2011, http://crr.bc.edu/images/stories/Briefs/slp_20_508.pdf. See also Keith A. Bender and John S. Heywood, Out of Balance? Comparing Public and Private Sector Compensation over 20 Years, Center for State & Local Government Excellence (CSLGE), National Institute on Retirement Security, April 2010, http://www.slge.org/vertical/Sites/%7BA260E1DF-5AEE-459D-84C4-876EFE1E4032%7D/uploads/%7B03E820E8-F0F9-472F-98E2-F0AE1166D116%7D.PDF; and John Schmitt, "The Wage Penalty for State and Local Government Employees," Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), March, 2010, http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/wage-penalty-2010-05.pdf.
[2] Schmitt, pages 8-9. In addition, the Economic Policy Institute www.epi.org has prepared a series of analyses that focus on individual states.
[3] See analysis of Current Population Survey data in Bender and Heywood , page 7.
[4] Bender and Haywood, pages 14-15.
[5] Munnell et al.
[6] Total compensation figures were estimated by applying a multiplier for state and local workers based on the BLS Employer Cost survey to the wage data from the Census Government Finances data. All data are for 2008.


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How summer thunderstorms could be punching new holes in the ozone layer
A study looking at conditions in the lower stratosphere, where the ozone layer resides, suggests a link between climate change and the amount of ultraviolet radiation reaching Earth's surface.
Global warming could open new holes in Earth's ozone layer at latitudes that until now have seemed immune to the ozone destruction that recurs over Antarctica and the Arctic, a new study warns.
The underappreciated keys to this conundrum: water vapor and temperatures in the lower stratosphere, where the ozone layer appears. Both, the researchers say, reach summertime values over the continental United States known to encourage ozone-destroying chemicals that are already aloft to attack ozone.
The team makes no attempt to project when significant erosion might be expected to occur. And researchers have yet to make the measurements that would confirm that the reactions the study describes are occurring. Rather, it points to conditions that are appearing and are known to stimulate stratospheric ozone destruction.
The results suggest a clear link between climate change and the amount of harmful ultraviolet radiation reaching Earth's surface, says James Anderson, a Harvard atmospheric scientist and the lead author of the study, which appears in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
When people talk about global warming, "most people would have their backyard warmer than it is now," he says. But global warming "is not about that," he adds. "It's about these feedbacks that couple the system into irreversible paths forward. That's the primary concern."
At ground level, ozone is a pollutant – a key element of smog. In the stratosphere, however, it shields organisms on Earth from destructively excessive levels of ultraviolet light from the sun.
The study by Dr. Anderson's team is based on well-established atmospheric chemistry and observations over the continental US of an underappreciated character in the ozone story: summer thunderstorms.
In essence, the team found that thunderstorms and their powerful, convective updrafts drive unexpectedly large concentrations of water vapor high into the stratosphere. The high concentrations of water vapor alter conditions in ways that encourage ozone destruction when the man-made chemicals associated with ozone depletion are present.
If the frequency and intensity of mid-latitude storms increase with time, as some global-warming models suggest, Anderson and his colleagues say they are concerned that ozone destruction at mid-latitudes could become one of those irreversible feedbacks.
"This is a really important find to nail down," says Mary Barth, an atmospheric scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., noting that it begs for field measurements to see how valid the warning is and how widely any effect might reach.
Dr. Barth, who was not part of Anderson's team, and colleagues have just completed a field project gathering data on thunderstorms and their impact on atmospheric chemistry, including ozone reactions.
In fact, Anderson's team initially was working on another climate problem: the formation of cirrus clouds and their effect on climate. Clouds represent one of the big areas of uncertainty in climate models. And cirrus clouds can have a warming effect on climate by allowing sunlight through but trapping heat rising up from underneath. The tops of thunderheads are one source of cirrus clouds, which assume their featherlike appearance as high-altitude winds blow across the tops of the thunderheads, giving them their anvil shape.
Researchers have known that the most powerful thunderstorms, whose strong updrafts can punch through the boundary between the troposphere (where weather happens) and the stratosphere, can deposit large amounts of water vapor in the stratosphere. But Anderson's team was using high-altitude aircraft to measure water vapor rising from the tops of a broader range of thunderstorms.
"We weren't hunting for big game here," he says. The aircraft were taking measurements from garden-variety summer thunderstorms over the Midwest and along the East Coast.
"To our huge surprise, we discovered that those convective storms were not simply distributing water in the upper troposphere," he says. Rather, they were lofting water vapor three to four miles into the stratosphere. Plumes often reached altitudes exceeding 60,000 feet.
Anderson had been deeply involved in studies of ozone depletion over Antarctica and the Arctic. What researchers learned about Arctic ozone depletion in particular triggered alarm bells. There, ozone depletion was all about the interplay between water vapor, temperature, the ozone-destroying compounds, and tiny particles known as sulfate aerosols – which act as tiny platforms on which chemical reactions can occur.
As water-vapor concentrations rose, so did the temperature at which the ozone-eating reactions could begin to take place, suggesting that the temperatures and water vapor were the key controls.
Under commonly observed conditions of water vapor and aerosol concentrations, the temperature at which ozone-depleting reactions would take place is about minus 119 degrees F., the researchers explain. Double the amount of water vapor, and the temperature at which reactions start rises by about 10 degrees F., bringing it within the range of temperatures commonly found in the stratosphere during mid-latitude summers.
Anderson's team studied data from the continental US, but it notes that similar conditions may appear over other parts of the globe.
The study points to "the potential for a pretty significant effect on stratospheric ozone at latitudes where we normally wouldn't think that would happen," said Mario Molina, an atmospheric scientist at the University of California at San Diego who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 with the late Frank Rowland. The two worked out the chemistry behind stratospheric ozone depletion and chlorofluorocarbons, once widely used as refrigerants and aerosol-spray propellants.
"Many ecological systems are quite sensitive to ultraviolet radiation, and they have not evolved the repair mechanisms for more severe ozone depletion," Dr. Molina said in a prepared statement.
The 1987 Montreal Protocol and subsequent agreements have played important roles in halting production of key ozone-depleting chemicals, Anderson notes. But these compounds remain in the stratosphere for decades. Moreover, the sulfate aerosols there occur naturally: They are not affected by controls on sulfur emissions at ground level.
Without reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions – especially carbon dioxide, which itself remains in the atmosphere for centuries – ozone holes once limited to the poles could become regular summertime features over some of the most populated places on the planet, the team suggests.
With the Montreal Protocol, many people said in effect, problem solved – let's move on, Anderson says, acknowledging that even he had dealt with ozone destruction and global warming as separate issues.
People "completely forgot about the remarkable dependence of the destruction of ozone on water and temperature," he says.


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The world had already seen the doughnut burger, made famous by Paula Deen, which squeezed a beef patty inside a halved Krispy Kreme doughnut instead of a bun. So when New York baker Dominique Ansel invented the croissant-doughnut hybrids known as Cronuts earlier this year, Canadian foodies knew just what to do with them: Slap two around a ground-beef patty! Unfortunately, the Cronut burgers served at a Canadian food festival in August made more than 200 people sick. This past summer also saw the rise of the ramen burger, which uses two fried noodle cakes in lieu of a bun. But the country's leading champion of the burger-with-something-else-taking-the-place-of-the-bun is a Philadelphia restaurant called PYT, which has served burgers made with fried rice patties instead of buns, burgers made with crab cakes instead of buns, and burgers made with fried spaghetti clusters instead of buns, among other variations. This week, PYT is serving its most ambitious creation yet: a burger made with deep-fried Twinkies instead of a bun.
What accounts for our era's explosion of bunless stunt burgers? One harbinger might be KFC's infamous Double Down—bacon and cheese sandwiched between two breaded chicken patties. The Double Down was not a burger, but it was definitely a stunt, and by all accounts a successful one: It's not every fast-food offering that gets an appearance on the Colbert Report.
The low-carb craze of 10 years ago, which had people eating burgers swathed in iceberg lettuce leaves instead of buns, may also be to blame—although the recent iterations of the genre are obviously not low-carb. Their over-the-top unhealthiness, in fact, is the key to their archness. But the real joke is on the people who eat these things.
A burger made with deep-fried Twinkies is just another example of foodies valuing foods precisely because most people find them disgusting. Contemporary food culture has taken on a Fear Factor-like ethos, in which he who eats the most bugs and offal without vomiting wins, as Dana Goodyear demonstrates in the upcoming, entertaining Anything That Moves. Still, taste is not my main objection to stunt burgers. Sweet and savory flavors often complement each other. Who am I to tell PYT that crème filling and ground beef don't mix?
My main objection is that gourmands who replace hamburger buns with deep-fried [fill in the blank] willfully ignore the architectural purpose of hamburger buns. They are not just there to provide flavor contrast to your seared beef patty. They are there to sop up beef juices and whatever delicious condiments you have smeared on your burger. They are also there to prevent your hands from getting messy. Deep-fried things are very, very bad at sopping up juices and sauces—their crispy, hardened shell acts like NeverWet is supposed to—and, worse, they actively contribute to getting your hands messy. A burger sandwiched between two deep-fried Twinkies or bundles of noodles will fall apart after the first bite; it has no structural integrity. You may as well put a Sno Ball on a plate next to a slice of meatloaf and call it a day.
Perhaps you are rolling your eyes right now, wondering why I'm taking the Twinkie burger at face value. Perhaps it's clear to you that stunt burgers should be understood as edible art—as a morsel of tongue-in-cheek commentary on contemporary culture—rather than as a serious lunch offering. The problem with this reading: The conceit of the droll postmodern hamburger is tired. As Alison Pearlman chronicled earlier this year in Smart Casual, chefs have been imitating and reinventing the burger for years—and the results mostly feel like rewarmed pop art. Pearlman summarizes what another author described as a "haute burger skirmish": In 2003, fancy restaurants competed by developing increasingly expensive and ludicrously rich burgers containing ingredients like foie gras and truffles. (Those highbrow, winking burgers have since been sent up by a $666 "douche burger" containing caviar, lobster, and gold.) Pearlman also describes a macaron-based dessert made to look like a McDonald's cheeseburger that was introduced by a Chicago restaurant in 2009.
These days, crazy burgers are common enough that the food gossip blog Eater has a topic tag devoted to the genre. In other words, novelty burgers aren't novel, and they don't push the envelope (except calorically). A deep-fried Twinkie burger doesn't say anything new about American culture—it just fecklessly recombines familiar symbols of excess. And then falls apart.


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Holy Moly!!!
I seriously do not even know where to begin on how to explain how I feel right now.
I am beyond relieved, but stressed, exhausted, and overwhelmed!
Today has been a whirlwind of emotions that have gone from fear to excitement to exhaustion.
The last 5 years have been leading up to today and now that it is here, I am a bit overwhelmed.
I have spent many days and nights studying at the kitchen table while my friends and family were going about their lives as my life was put on hold the best I could due to nursing school.
Going back to school at the age of 37 with ZERO college credits and starting night school while working full time during the day was not something that I ever thought I would be able to do.
However, I was determined to do it and succeed so that I could better myself and help others.
Little did I know just how difficult nursing school would be and how it would turn into a full time job while trying to juggle family life.
The 3 years leading up to the nursing program while doing my pre req's was not a walk in the park, but they were cake walk compared to starting the nursing program at 40!
Even though there were many of days when I wanted to throw in the towel when things got tough during the last 9 months of school, I am so glad that I stuck it out and completed the program!
I graduated June 16, 2015, I waited 6 weeks before I was able to schedule my state board exam and then another 4 weeks before taking my exam.
During the 6 weeks that I was waiting for the authorization to test, many of my classmates were scheduling their exams and passing NCLEX-RN!
I started to get discouraged as I waited, but I took the time to unwind a little bit after 5 years of school and I finally got my authorization to test on July 23rd.
Once I scheduled my exam, I started to study everyday for the exam and I completely went off of all social media the last 2 weeks in order to be able to focus on the exam and not get wrapped up in things that I did not have time for.
BTW- If you are reading this blog post from a Facebook or Twitter link, I am still taking a break for a couple of more weeks from social media so that I can continue to de-stress and go on a very much needed vacation. ❤
I took my exam the morning of August 20th and I have been freaking out thinking that I did not pass the exam.
However, I found out today that I am now a Licensed Registered Nurse in the State of California! 🙂
I do not think that there is anything that can truly prepare one for the NCLEX-RN exam!
I did every single Kaplan qbank question, practice exam, and trainer test to study with, some of them multiple times until I got them correct and I still did not feel that I had passed when I left the testing center.
I did do the Pearson View Trick when I was done with the exam in the parking lot of the testing center and I got the "Good Popup", however, I did not feel that it was 100% that I had passed!
There is something so mental that happens to you when you do this exam and you have to wait for your results, but I cannot explain it to be able to put it into words!
Only that it is BRUTAL! 😥
On the way home from my exam, I started to think of a backup plan for my career since I knew that I could never (would not) take that exam again!
Not only did I not want to pay the crazy fees to retake the exam, but I never wanted to put myself and my family through that stress again!
And now the REAL FUN of looking for a position as a New Grad begins! ❤
If you have any questions about studying for NCLEX-RN or how to do the Pearson View Trick, send me an email and I will be happy to help!
Peace, Love, & Hugs,
Julia McCabe, RN


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The New Yorks Knights bid to win the US Chess League was stopped cold last night by the Boston Blitz. Board One, the battle of former US chess champions, Hikaru Nakamura for New York and Larry Christiansen for Boston, was the first game finished; it was a hard fought draw. Then Iryna Zenyuk, the hero of the Knights this year, couldn't continue her winning ways and went down to her first defeat of the season on Board Four.
On Board Two, Pascal Charbonneau, playing Black for New York, had a great position. On move 29 (shown below)
he shifted his rook to g7, a logical-looking move, training the queen and rook battery on the White king. But White can then defend by retreating his bishop to f1. Black's position, of course, is still strong, though. When I joined all the Knights for a gallows-humor post-mortem afterward, Pascal realized that on move 29 he should have penetrated with his queen to d2 so that he is forking White's bishop and b-pawn.
Later Pascal had blundered into the position shown below, in which White, on move 35, has a cute, decisive shot. Can you find it?
The shot is Rh4, attacking and winning Black's queen. The undefended rook is immune to capture by the queen because then White mates on g7. After Rh4, the French Canadian showed his excellent command of English by uttering a choice expletive.
With Pascal's loss, New York was down two games, and would lose the match no matter what happened in the sole remaining encounter, between "Sleeping Knight" Jay Bonin and Denys Shmelov. Bonin, in fact, probably had a losing game because Shmelov was up material and had too many pawns. To the delight of his teammates, Bonin ended up swindling Shmelov by weaving a mating net and dangerously advancing his one foot soldier.


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Watching the farce of 'free offerings' at the entrance of the university and noticed an interesting anomally. Blokes who look to be 2nd or 3rd year were chasing down girls who appeared to be 1st year offering drinking promotions at certain bars tonight. After a few minutes it was quite clear these guys were ignoring everyone except these young individuals. Campus Watch is not looking inwards or the university is happy to let the wolf in the door as long as the collateral damage is not their own.
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Lady Gaga Struck By Pole During New Zealand Show
The singer was hit Sunday during the third of three shows in Auckland.
Clips posted online show a backup performer accidentally striking Gaga with the set prop while removing it from the central stage. Gaga, holding a mock machine gun, staggers and rubs her head before briefly leaving the stage. She continued the show, part of a world tour.
Gaga's makeup artist Tara Savelo wrote Monday on Twitter: "Gaga has a concussion but she is going to be okay … cant believe she finished the show."
Gaga's New Zealand publicist Bridget de Launay said Monday she was seeking comment from tour organizers, adding the Auckland shows were sellouts and a "huge success."


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The Federal Reserve's aggressive easing policies have had plenty of critics, but now there could be a new enemy — Wall Street's high frequency traders.
In an attention-getting post, the Tabb Group's Paul Rowady suggests that the central bank's money creation is disrupting the financial markets and in particular HFT platforms that try to stay ahead of the various factors that influence asset prices.
Rowady argues that the Fed's interventions are rendering trend analysis used to construct trading algorithms useless, and in turn driving volume from the markets.
"As a result of this exodus, the machinations of central banks are becoming a proportionately greater force in capital markets," Rowady wrote on the Tabb Forum, which is an invitation-only idea exchange for traders to discuss technology and other issues in the markets.
High-frequency traders use computer programs based on mathematical algorithms to trade at rapid speed, capitalizing often on tiny moves in stock prices. The industry itself has received widespread blame for market instability. A report in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, for instance, questions whether exchanges give some HFTs preferential treatment in placing orders.
As for the Fed, its latest foray into the financial markets came Thursday when it announced a third and likely perpetual round of quantitative easing in which it will buy $40 billion of mortgage-backed securitieseach month.
The effort both will aim to drive down mortgage rates and be tied to the unemployment rate. The Fed anticipates the open-ended easing will create housing wealth that will in turn drive people to spend more money, revitalize the economy and encourage hiring.
That, at least, is the Fed's hope.
As for its actual effect on the markets, Rowady contends that the suspense that the Fed's will-they-or-won't-they approach creates is disruptive and makes conditions more difficult for traders.
At the crux of his argument is the point that algorithms rely on patterns of behavior, but those patterns are distorted by the Fed's unpredictable and unprecedented interventions.
The critical passage in Rowady's essay:
"Consider that algorithmic trading is little more than pattern recognition. Patterns are simply manifestations of consistent behaviors. The behaviors of market actors left behind in the data – like so many clues – represent the patterns that automated methods are designed to home in on."
"Converting theoretical, yet (hopefully) persistent, patterns (or 'theoretical alpha') into harvested or actual alpha is the name of the game."
But he contends that the only thing HFTs can count on from the Fed is that it won't "allow markets to fall very far or very fast" and does not act in a predictable manner.
"We don't know how forceful (or desperate) they will behave going forward, nor how coordinated their efforts globally, nor which markets they will seek to influence at any given time, nor when they will stop," he said. "However, one thing's for sure, the record of their activities is preserved in the data; increasingly, their fingerprints are on more and more of the data."
Finally, Rowady offers a warning: "Going forward, keen awareness of changing demographics, methods of strategy deployment, and cross-market forces are among the skill requirements for ongoing success with automated methods. And, above all, never forget that the Fed uses algos too."
As for how much traction Rowady's argument has, the first obstacle is that HFTs, with their checkered history through Flash Crashes and the recent Knight Capitalfiasco, generate little sympathy from most quarters.
Even in the industry, there were doubts about his position.
One HFT veteran who read Rowady's post dismissed it as it "a rant" while others debated the wisdom of the Fed's moves but weren't sure how much they directly affected the industry.
"The market is not a closed system; outside influences change the market in ways that cannot be predicted solely by the preceding market data," one Tabb poster said. "From natural disasters, to discovery and depletion of natural resources, to political changes and technology innovations, many types of external events influence the markets. Why should central bank intervention be singled out?"
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With her breakaway goal just a little over three minutes into overtime, Schuylkill Valley graduate Brooke Sands got the eighth-ranked Messiah College women's field hockey team off on the right foot with a 2-1 victory over Stevens Institute of Technology on Aug. 30.
It was the 29th career goal at Messiah for Sands, who begins her senior season as one of three captains on the team. Her tenacity and versatility puts her both at forward and midfield, but she contributes most by scoring goals.
'I feel that my field hockey career at Messiah has been one that has truly helped me not only grow as a hockey player, but also as a person,' said Sands.
'Many student athletes go off to college hoping or expecting to have a great career, but I truly think that coming to Messiah has provided me with a great hockey career because I continue to play because I love the game and love the other ladies that are on my team. If my experience were any different, it wouldn't have made my field hockey career at Messiah as enjoyable or memorable as it has been thus far.'
After four seasons on the Schuylkill Valley High School field hockey team in which she scored 17 goals and had 13 assists, she went on the play for the Messiah College team where she made an impact from the very start.
As a freshman Sands was fourth on the team in scoring with 12 goals and five assists.
'The transition from high school to college level field hockey was not very difficult for me,' said Sands. 'Sure, it's more fast-paced and we play on a different surface, but playing hockey for a club team as well as going through some of the USA field hockey chain by participating in Futures helped me to develop my skill and play in games which were faster and more skilled than playing in a regular high school game or on grass.'
Brooke started playing soccer when she was in second grade where she was coached in youth league by her mother. She quickly fell in love with the sport and in seventh grade started playing for High Styx.
Through the club team she played in the National Field Hockey Festival, the National Indoor Tournament in Virginia Beach, and the National Futures Championship and Showcase.
When it came time to choose a college, she wanted to play field hockey, but for her academics always came first. One of the reasons she chose Messiah is that academics comes first there as well.
'Playing field hockey is a privilege, and I think sometimes that can be overlooked when academics is not put before athletics by the coaches and of staff of the school,' said Sands. 'When classes are missed, professors are usually very understanding and flexible as long as you approach them well in advance of when you will be missing, and it's on you to finish any work by the time they ask of you, even if that means turning it in prior to missing class.'
Although academics always comes first for Sands, she has flourished on the field hockey field as well. After collecting 29 points in her freshman season, she had seven goals and five assists as a sophomore, and nine goals and three assists as a junior. But according to the Messiah College head field hockey coach Brooke Good, she is much more than just a goal scorer.
'Brooke is a very dedicated and hard-working athlete,' said Good. 'She consistently puts the time and energy into her physical training and skill development in order to be one of the strongest players on our team.
She also has great field presence and is always thinking through different strategies that will contribute to the team's overall success.'
Sands gives much of the success she has enjoyed to her teammates, but her biggest influence came from her mother, who was a field hockey coach at Kennard-Dale High School before Brooke was born.
'I loved the game immediately, and she has since always pushed me and encouraged me to play as long as I enjoyed and loved the game,' said Sands. 'She has always supported my desire to play, and has always reminded me that there is so much more to life than field hockey, and that has taught me to be humbled, helping me to grow to be the person I am today.'
Sands is a health and physical education major at Messiah and her first choice is to teach health or physical education at the grade school level. She is also looking into getting a sports management masters and maybe teach at the college level. She says that she is currently 'weighing her options.'
She would love to see her team make it to the Final Four, and play for the national championship like they did during her freshman season. But win or lose, she believes her time at Messiah College was a very positive experience.
'Everyone's college experiences are different, especially when athletics are thrown into the mix,' said Sands. 'I wouldn't trade my experience here at Messiah for any of the experiences my friends or family members have had at other schools. Sure, athletic levels are different, academic majors are different, but I'm amazed at how much coming to Messiah for the past three years has helped me to grow, not only as a field hockey player, but as a friend, daughter, sister, teammate and Christian.'


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Gallery: Baggage carousels at LAX
How much would you pay to avoid waiting for your luggage at baggage claim?
On three major airlines — United, American and US Airways — you can pay a fee to have a service deliver bags to a hotel, home, business or even a golf course.
It's part of a drive by major carriers to make traveling easier for customers, and to make a little extra profit in the process. If the service is successful, it could be something of a win-win for airlines and customers.
"We are more driven by time," said Melody Andersen, director of customer strategy for US Airways, describing why she believes passengers are ready for bag delivery. "We want things to be as hassle free as possible."
At US Airways, which began the service earlier this month, the cost is $29.95 for one bag, $39.95 for two bags and $49.95 for three to 10 bags.
Customers still bring bags to the airport. But after the flight, a service contracted by US Airways takes them from the carousel and promises to deliver them within four to six hours, although sometimes the service is considerably faster. The destination must be within 40 miles of the airport or an extra fee is required.
At American, which will soon merge with US Airways pending government approval, the program is nearly identical. So is bag delivery offered by United. All three airlines offer the service, which is actually handled by a contractor, at each Los Angeles-area airport they serve.
Passengers must be on a flight arriving from another U.S. destination or a foreign airport at which U.S. Customs and Border Protection maintains a pre-clearance facility, such as Toronto and Dublin. At least an hour before their flight, customers must sign up for bag delivery on a website.
In a recent interview, Maria Walter, a United managing director for product and brand strategy, said the carrier is seeing a lot of repeat customers since launching the program in January. But she said it has been difficult to drive new business, in part because airline passengers are concerned about leaving bags for someone else to fetch.
"There's been this inherent distrust of, 'My bag gets lost if I'm not managing it myself this whole time,' " Walter said. "So getting people used to the idea of, 'We'll get it from baggage claim and get it to your hotel' is something that is going to be a bit of a paradigm shift for people to get used to."
Robert Mann, a New York-based airline industry analyst and consultant, said only a small slice of customers might be interested in a baggage deliver service. And he said that the customers with the best ability to pay — business travelers with expense accounts — are probably the least likely to check a bag, given the short durations of most trips.
"All you are really avoiding is waiting for 25 minutes at a bag belt," Mann said. "It's an issue of what is your time worth or what's the inconvenience of going to the bag belt."
Andersen, of US Airways, said the service could be helpful to families, noting that she used it after a recent vacation.
"We just wanted to get home," she said. "We were tired. We didn't want to wait and we didn't want to deal with the four extra bags. It was a nice benefit for us. The bags were delivered about 20 minutes after we got home."
Bag delivery might be convenient, but whether it is a short-lived fad or a long-lasting service enhancement probably depends more on whether it brings profit to airlines than anything else, Mann said.
"Airlines are looking for the sweet spot — something that customers want and are willing to pay for and on which you can make a margin," Mann said. "There are a lot of people who want a lot of things. They're generally not willing to pay for them."
Tim Winship, publisher of the blog Frequentflier.com, said the price of the service might be a little too high for most customers. He called it a "splurge."
"It might be worth $29.95 to bypass the baggage claim scrum and have your bag delivered directly to your home, business, or hotel," he said. "But most travelers will also have to factor in the $25 fee charged by the airlines, too, for each checked bag. So on a round-trip basis, the all-in price is more than $100 — just to get your luggage there and back."
Troy Daniel Smith, an independent film producer in Los Angeles, said he is intrigued by the service. Waiting at LAX this week for his bag to arrive off his United Express flight from Wichita, Kan., Smith tweeted: "I expect the Duchess's labor will be more swift."
"Having something like this, though it is an extra service and you're paying for it, I think it would make travel easier for some people," Smith said.
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Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, pleaded guilty to federal drug charges after twice walking away from scheduled plea hearings.
"I've agreed to plead guilty, of my own free will," Gosnell told a judge.
Prosecutors say he sold prescriptions for $10 or $20, flooding Philadelphia streets with OxyContin, codeine-laced cough syrup and the antidepressant Xanax.
Investigators found more than $240,000 in cash in a 2010 raid of his West Philadelphia home. Informants later told them that Gosnell would sell prescriptions in dozens of names to the same customer, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joan Burnes said in court Tuesday. Gosnell also sold monthly refills.
"A license to practice medicine is not a license to deal drugs," Burnes said after the hearing, which stalled as Gosnell weighed the $200,000 asset forfeiture contained in the plea agreement.
Gosnell is already serving life without parole in the deaths of three babies born alive at his Women's Medical Society in West Philadelphia in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation's abortion debate. He was also convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the drug overdose death of an abortion patient.
It was during an investigation more than two years ago into prescription drug trafficking at the clinic that investigators discovered the fetid conditions there: bags and bottles of fetuses, including jars of severed feet, along with bloodstained furniture, dirty medical instruments, and cats roaming the premises.
Gosnell's federal drug plea calls for a guideline sentence of 24 to 30 years.
Sentencing was set for Oct. 4.


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Per Executive Order No. 987 - Policy Statement on Energy Conservation, Sustainable Building Practices, and Physical Plant Management for the California State University.
- All CSU buildings and facilities, regardless of the source of funding for their operation, will be operated in the most energy efficient manner without endangering public health and safety and without diminishing the quality of education.
- Purchased energy resources on CSU facilities will not be used to heat above 68 degrees Fahrenheit or cool below 78 degrees Fahrenheit. These limits will not apply to areas where other temperature settings are required by specialized needs of equipment or scientific experimentation.
- All air conditioning equipment, including supply and return air fans, are to be shut off on weekends, holidays, and for varying periods each night, except where it would adversely affect instruction, electronic data processing installations, or other scientifically-critical or 24-hour operations.


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After two years of agonizing pain, making every step exhausting, I have a new hip.
Time for high heels!
In the past few weeks, in an unprecedented spree, I've bought two pairs, one of which my husband urged me to do, one of them so high I asked the befuddled sales associate if they came with oxygen. The altitude…
I was never much of a high heels sort of girl.
It wasn't because I'm a feminist.
It's because I'm a journalist, lived downtown alone in large cities for many years and have often traveled solo in some funky places — i.e. I wore flats so I could walk long distances and run fast, safely, when necessary.
Yes, a stiletto heel makes a nice weapon, but I never wanted any miscreant to get that close in the first place.
When you work as a news reporter, every day offers some
fresh new hell interesting challenge as you're sent off to cover whatever the editor thinks important, and in all kinds of weather. It's not a job for gals whose wardrobes restrict them physically, or whose idea of outdoor activity — as American humorist Fran Lebowitz once joked — is stepping from the taxi into the restaurant.
Stories I've covered included:
— a bloody car wreck where everyone died in a head-on collision with a city bus. This meant running up a wet, snowy and muddy hill to reach the site
— racing to beat the press pack across a convention center hall to reach the Prime Minister after a speech
— squatting on the wet, slippery, bucking deck of an America's Cup boat to interview crew members
— heading into the midtown Manhattan offices of a shady "baby nurse" firm for a quote, fully expecting to be yelled at, possibly hit, and needing to sprint back to safety
You get the idea.
Not only do serious reporters need to run/squat/climb things, we need to beat the competition. Not that anyone really working it would show up in Louboutins, but knowing I could book it was comforting. On several occasions — back when the earth was cooling (the 1980s), before the Internet and cellphones — I had to locate, commandeer and race to the nearest pay phone before anyone else in the press pack.
(Watch a few 1940s movies to see what I'm talking about.)
It was no time for heels.
The week I got re-married, last September, a tad anxious as most brides are, I did what tends to soothe me at times of stress — buy shoes. I treated myself to my first-ever, full-price pair of Manolo Blahniks, burgundy sling-backs to wear with my (non-white) wedding dress.
Damned if I was going to head back into matrimony in boring old flats. Nope, this was a day for gorgeous, sexy heels. One of my favorite photos of that day is my Dad and the minister, each steadying me, as I slip into them before gliding down the aisle.
Here's a recent blog post featured on Freshly Pressed, about whether you can be a feminist and wear high heels.
How many of you dig high heels?


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If you aren't some kind of techno-whiz yourself, opting to have a professional designer build your website's a great idea. Not only do you get a fantastic, functional Website at the end of the process, you also spare yourself the tedium of trying to do something incredibly complicated yourself.
Before you involve someone this closely with your business, though, it's a good idea to understand how the relationship typically works.
Most small-to-medium-sized businesses can't afford to keep a designer on staff, so they hire one. You should look at this like any other kind of contract work. The contractee does the work you need, and you pay for their services. Pretty simple.
However, make sure you understand what your designer's services entail — just like you would a mechanic or A/C tech. By asking the right questions up front, you can avoid unpleasant surprises (like additional costs) later on. Here are some basics:
Because there's no tangible product at the end of your website's creation, who owns what piece of your website can be convoluted. Clarifying ownership of your website's original content, domain names, and hosting account up front helps avoid any disputes down the digital road.
Domain Names: The owner of a domain name is known as its "registrant." This is the person who or entity that has the legal rights to the domain name. We always recommend that the person who owns the company the website represents be listed as the domain's registrant. This way, if you decide to use a different Web designer in the future, you don't have to worry about your former designer having total control over your domain name.
We also suggest that you keep the domain name in an account you have access to. If the designer needs to access it, you can assign them as a Domain Name Account Administrator. For more information, see Becoming a Domain Name Account Administrator.
Web Hosting: Web hosting (or just "hosting") is where your website's files "live" so they're visible on the Internet. Often times, designers just include hosting and factor that cost into your bill. Others want you to purchase hosting yourself and just give them access to it.
Who controls the hosting matters less than who owns the domain name, but it's a good idea to know in advance how your arrangement with the designer will operate.
Website: Unlike either your domain name or web hosting, ownership of the files that comprise your website can be murky territory. It's possible that the designer can give you a copy of your website's files and you're free to do with them whatever you wish — including having another designer work on them at a later date. It's also possible that the designer literally has no access to the files and they're not portable to you, another designer, or another host. It's important to establish an agreement about the ownership of your website's files before you agree to anything.
You should understand the intricacies of working with a professional website designer before making a decision. That way, you're more likely to build a successful relationship with your designer — and establish an amazing digital presence.


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Win Tickets to See Beirut at Greek Theatre LA on October 4th
September 30, 2011
Two lucky Rock Is A Girl's Best Friend readers will each win a pair of tickets to see Beirut at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on Tuesday, October 4, 2011.
Here's what you need to know to enter:
- The contest begins now and ends at 11:59pm EST Sunday, October 2, 2011
- TO ENTER: Visit Rock Is A Girl's Best Friend on Facebook
- You will see there are several ways you can enter and you can get additional entries for each thing you choose to do. You can follow us, tweet about us, like us on Facebook, and more. ENTER NOW
- Winners (2) will be selected by random.org and notified via email on the night of October 2nd, 2011. Winners will have 12 hours to respond before a new winner is selected
- Your tickets will be available for pick up at Will Call at The Greek Theatre on the evening of the show. Please bring photo ID.
- Transportation and accommodations not included
About Beirut: Beirut is embarking on its first national tour in over four years in support of The Rip Tide, which came out August 30th on Pompeii Records. Beirut will make their Greek Theatre debut on October 4.
Joining Beirut leader Zach Condon (ukulele, trumpet, piano, vocals) on the road is Perrin Cloutier (accordion, piano), Paul Collins (electric bass, upright bass), Ben Lanz (trombone, piano, tuba), Nick Petree (drums), and Kelly Pratt (trumpet, euphonium). A six piece band who has consistently honed their live show throughout the band's career, Beirut puts on an undeniably solid and confident performance and shows a singular band maturing both on record and in concert.
Few predicted the inward journey Condon has achieved on The Rip Tide. With songs that speak of universal human themes that are less fabricated stories than impressions of life at a quarter century of age, the album exposes a depth of honesty that outstrips the simplified nomadic troubadour image of his past. Hear album track, "East Harlem," below.
Listen to Beirut's "East Harlem" off of The Rip Tide here: http://soundcloud.com/revolver-usa/beirut-east-harlem
About The Greek Theatre:
For "official" information about The Greek Theatre, you can check out their website, but here's my take: The Greek Theatre is one of my all-time favorite music venues. Start to finish, The Greek Theatre is an EXPERIENCE! You can get there early, picnic, and drink wine. If you don't mind a walk, you can park on Vermont and enjoy the walk to and from the venue. If you're reading Rock Is A Girl's Best Friend, chances are you're not the type to leave the show early, so you can take the easy route and commit to the stacked parking option. The venue is beautiful, outdoors, surrounded by trees. The sound is impeccable. I've seen some of my favorite shows at The Greek and I'm very excited to share these opportunities with you.
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or Gemniczer, Wenzel vĕn´tsəl yäm´nĭtsər, yä´mĭtsər, gĕm´nĭtsər [key], 1508–85, leading member of a German family of goldsmiths and engravers. Born in Vienna, he settled in Nuremberg where, as a leading artisan of his day, he executed work for emperors and officials of the court and the church. Examples of his refined workmanship, showing the German adaptation of Italian mannerist forms, are to be seen in the Louvre and in the Victoria and Albert Museum. His gilt bronze nude Spring is in Vienna.
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Tuckermans at 9 concert will benefit Guatemalan mission trip
ELIOT -- The rockin' a cappella of Tuckermans at 9 comes to Eliot United Methodist Church in Eliot, Maine, on Saturday, January 26 at 7pm to perform a benefit concert for an upcoming mission trip to Guatemala. (In case of inclement weather, the show will take place January 27.)
"As part of the Salud y Paz organization," says Tuckermans at 9 founder and baritone Mark Miller of Dover, "a 17-person team from Eliot United Methodist Church and Stratham (New Hampshire) Community Church will travel soon to Chichicastenango, Guatemala. They'll work in a school or a local health clinic, or help build a home, or do any other needed work. We're glad to be able to help get them there!"
Based in the New Hampshire Seacoast, the group, dubbed "T9" by fans, has entertained audiences from Boston and Massachusetts' north and south shores to Lewiston, Maine, and in New Hampshire from Portsmouth to Nashua and into the Lakes Region.
"We just celebrated our eighth anniversary," says tenor Daryl Robertson of Eliot, Maine. "And in that time, the T9 sound has evolved into a huge variety of material from pop to rock to blues to light jazz, including our own customized versions of songs people know and love. But we do it a cappella, so our voices make all the music. Everything you hear, including what sounds like brass, electric guitars, or drums, is just us. It's a funny, entertaining show with something for every age and taste."
Rounding out the group's New Hampshire roster are soprano Ashley Gove (Nashua), altos Kam Damtoft (Exeter) and Fran Lipe (New Durham), tenor Walt Porter (Brentwood), and bass Bill Hersman (Durham). Sound technician Tony Berke hails from Exeter and assistant sound technician Kevin Consaul from Nashua.
The hour-long show will include "I Got the Music In Me", newly adapted by the group from the version heard on The Sing Off TV show a few years ago. Others are Jimmy Buffet's "Cheeseburger in Paradise", the Eagles' "Desperado", and the Jefferson Airplane's 60s rock anthem, "Somebody to Love".
"Refreshments will follow the show," adds Miller. "We really hope people will stick around so we get to meet them!"
Tuckermans at 9 Rockin' A Cappella; January 26 (snow date January 27), 7pm; Eliot United Methodist Church, 238 Harold Dow Highway (Rt. 236), Eliot, Maine. Suggested donation: $10. Directions: eliotumc.com. More information: 207-439-3406, 207-439-6593, tuckermansat9.com, or Tuckermans at 9 on Facebook.


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West Nile virus threat level raised in Boston, Brookline
Mosquito pools in Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain test positive
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health raised the threat level Monday for West Nile virus to moderate in Boston.
The announcement comes after two consecutive weeks where mosquito pools in the city tested positive for West Nile virus and after the number of trapped mosquitoes has doubled.
The positive mosquito pools were found in Jamaica Plain and Hyde Park. State officials also raised the threat level in neighboring Brookline.
There have yet to be any recorded human cases of mosquito-borne illnesses in Boston this year.
The Boston Public Health Commission encourages people to use insect repellent when outdoors, especially from dusk to dawn when mosquitoes are more likely to be biting and, when possible, to wear clothing that includes long sleeves and pants.
People should also mosquito-proof their home by making sure that their window and door screens are in good repair to prevent mosquitoes from getting into the house.