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About six months ago, I read this excellent MSNBC interview about shaving (via the wiki’s shaving page), and I ended up experimenting with bits of what it suggested in my own periodic attempts at grooming. My results to date:

  • Water is good. AKA “The wetter the better.” Keeping your beard moist before and during the shave is job one. Shower first, and go nuts with a moisturizing soap. Not allowing time for your whiskers to fully saturate will make for a painful and joyless shave.
  • Get a brush. Even if you start with a $4.00 cheapie like I did, you just won’t believe the difference when you start with a brush. Even if you just use it to apply $2.00 drug store shaving cream, this will significantly change your shaving experience. A brush ensures that every little hair has been pummeled into submission with soap and water, and brother, will you never want to go back. I recently moved up to a moderately-priced badger shaving brush, and I love it.
  • Consider splurging on shaving cream. I’ve tried a bunch of soaps and shaving creams, including fancy Gillette gels and Italy’s popular Proraso, and, so far, my reluctant ruling is that it only really makes a difference at the high end. I’ll admit that I plunked down $17.00 for the article-recommended tub of Taylor of Old Bond Street, but, wow, was it ever swell — plus it makes you smell like a clean grandfather. Foamy, moisturizing, and it takes very little product to make an exceptionally generous beard of foam.
  • Safety razor? Meh. I tried it — bought a pretty nice Merkur safety razor, and stuck with it for 4 or 5 shaves. For me — and loathe as I am to admit it — the Gillette family leaves it in the dust. During the original Bush administration, I was a bleeding-edge “Sensor” sucker, and have upgraded annually or so to whatever model my masters at Gillette have offered. I’m currently a happy-enough Fusion man, although I’m not entirely sure it’s much of an improvement over the mighty Mach 3; that was Gillette’s “Abbey Road,” as far as I’m concerned. Your mileage may vary.
  • Finishing off. As smelly liquids go, I love Taylor of Old Bond Street’s “Eton College” after shave (“combining sparkling citrus oils with rich woody undertones”), but it seems the best finisher for the health of my face and neckal area is just lots of cool water and copious handfuls of regular old witch hazel. I break out like a teenager if I shave more than thrice weekly, and the witch hazel seems to really help with curtailing the damage.

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I use Geo Trumper ( http://www.trumpers.com ) Coconut Shaving cream (with a badger hair brush of course). It's lovely; very rich and moisturising. Some men may prefer the fresher feel of Geo Trumper's Lime Shaving Cream but I found it quite drying (more obvious on dark skin).

Use plenty of water; the foam should be very 'wet' rather than foamy (the point of the soap being to reduce surface tensing allowing water to 'flow' on your whiskers and the point of the foam being to hold a mass of water against your face). Leave the foam on for a couple of minutes to do its work and soften the hair. I too am a Mach 3 fan (whatever happened to the British Wilkinson Sword companies products - sign?). I did toy with the idea of using a open razor but chickened out.

Use the razor in the same direction as the growth or sideways across it, never against it unless you like razor burn. If you have a really tough beard save twice gently rather than once hard. Rinse the razor frequently. Rinse face with hot water. Then splash cold water on your face and rub a wetted alum block on the shaved areas (that's really old fashioned, my dad doesn't even bother doing that any more - but if you're an aspiring old fogey like me...)

Finally I use Clinique moisturiser to finish.

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In order to better coordinate and conduct joint research with scholars outside of Japan, ILCAA established two satellite offices overseas: one in Beirut (Lebanon) and another in Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia).

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JaCMES is the first overseas satellite office established in Beirut (Lebanon) by ILCAA. It was officially sanctioned by Lebanese government’s cabinet resolution of December 15, 2005. The inauguration ceremony of JaCMES took place on February 1, 2006.
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Anticoagulation management

If a patient comes to my office, has an INR drawn and reviewed by a provider, and sees a nurse for instructions, can we bill a 99211?

First, this depends on whether the nurse is working incident to a physician or a qualified non-physician practitioner such as a physician assistant. If so, the service should qualify as a 99211-level service as long as the documentation includes the signatures of both the nurse and the supervising physician, identifies the physician's name and credentials, and conveys the following key facts:

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Is it acceptable to submit a hospital admission code for evaluating a patient in the office and then directly admitting him or her to the hospital on the same day?

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When treating a pregnant patient for allergies and asthma unrelated to her pregnancy, can I bill separately for the allergy and asthma services?

Yes. The instructions in the Maternity Care and Delivery section of CPT state that “Antepartum care includes the initial and subsequent history, physical examinations, recording of weight, blood pressures, fetal heart tones, routine chemical urinalysis, and monthly visits up to 28 weeks gestation, biweekly visits up to 36 weeks gestation, and weekly visits until delivery. Any other visits or services within this time period should be coded separately.”

Editor's note: While this department attempts to provide accurate information and useful advice, third-party payers may not accept the coding and documentation recommended. You should refer to the current CPT and ICD-9 manuals and the Documentation Guidelines for Evaluation and Management Services for the most detailed and up-to-date information.

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Cindy Hughes is the AAFP's coding and compliance specialist and is a contributing editor to Family Practice Management. Author disclosure: nothing to disclose. These answers were reviewed by the FPM Coding & Documentation Review Panel, which includes Robert H. Bosl, MD, FAAFP; Marie Felger, CPC, CCS-P; Thomas A. Felger, MD, DABFP, CMCM; David Filipi, MD, MBA, and the Coding and Compliance Department of Physicians Clinic; Emily Hill, PA-C; Kent Moore; Joy Newby, LPN, CPC; P. Lynn Sallings, CPC; and Susan Welsh, CPC, MHA.

Send questions and comments to fpmedit@aafp.org, or add your comments below. While this department attempts to provide accurate information, some payers may not accept the advice given. Refer to the current CPT and ICD-10 coding manuals and payer policies.

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How far should companies be allowed to go to hunt cyber attackers?

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Suppose a thief breaks into your house and steals your belongings. In efforts to cover his tracks, the thief hides your stuff in a neighbor’s garage. The neighbor doesn’t realize your property is in his garage, but you find it there. What do you do next–go into the neighbor’s garage to retrieve your stuff, or call the police and hope they respond promptly?

A much more complex version of that scenario is playing out in the cybersecurity field with no clear resolution in sight.

The problem was discussed at a program presented Saturday by the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security in Dallas, where the association is holding its 2013 Midyear Meeting.

The issue, agreed three experts who spoke on the panel, is to what extent private concerns may go to track down the intruders who break into their computer systems and where the intruders hide that data to avoid detection. The dilemma, said Steven Chabinsky, is that the federal government has the statutory authority to carry out such investigations but lacks the resources and capabilities, while the private sector has the capability but lacks clear legal authority.

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“The private sector has learned it has to explore the legality of doing it on its own,” said Chabinsky, because there hasn’t been sufficient dialogue between private companies and the government on how to proceed. “This discussion has to emerge,” said Chabinsky said, who was a deputy assistant director at the FBI before joining the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.

The strategy of tracking compromised data to identify intruders often is described as “active defense,” but panelist Stewart Baker said it might be more appropriate to call it passive-aggressive defense. A key concern is that the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act raises questions about whether a private concern may go out of its own network and break into outside systems to find its stolen data. A related issue, he said, is whether a company may put information into its system for the sole purpose of tracking where it goes in the case of a breach. And under many foreign laws, self-defense actions by private companies amount to espionage. Baker is a partner at Steptoe & Johnson, and a former general counsel for the National Security Agency.

Another reason for coming to terms with the so-called active defense issue, said Baker and Chabinsky, is that efforts to protect data from breaches are simply not working. “We’ve never had more secure operating systems, and at the same time, we’ve never been less secure,” Baker said. “We’ve tried to just fix all the holes, and that has failed. It’s like buying better body armor to go out and buy milk.”

Toward the end of the program, Chabinsky noted, “Well over a thousand companies probably have been intruded upon in the hour and 10 minutes we’ve been sitting here talking.”

Active defense is one of the issues on the agenda of the Cybersecurity Legal Task Force, which was created in August by the ABA Board of Governors at the request of President Laurel G. Bellows of Chicago, said Harvey Rishikof, who chaired the cybersecurity panel. Rishikof, a law professor at Drexel University, co-chairs the task force with Judith A. Miller, an attorney in Washington, D.C. The task force is working closely with 11 ABA sections and divisions that have committees looking at issues relating to cybersecurity.

Also see the special ABA Journal series featuring the work of the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security, especially:

Cyberattacks: Computer Warfare Looms as Next Big Conflict in International Law by Richard Brust

What Is the Role of Lawyers in Cyberwarfare? by Stewart A. Baker and Charles J. Dunlap Jr.

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A group of Queensland school children has been admitted to the Canberra Hospital after contracting the influenza A virus.

The group of 168 students and teachers from Marymount Primary School in Burleigh Waters on the Gold Coast had been on a school excursion to Jindabyne in the Snowy Mountains.

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Wilcannia's only Indigenous World War Two serviceman will be recognised with a plaque, thanks to a donation from the Returned and Services League (RSL).

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The Tourism Association's Chris Elliott says she has received permission from Mr Quayle's family, and the Department of Veterans' Affairs to lay the official plaque.

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The Department of Homeland Security is still struggling to find it's place in intelligence circles. A recently scheduled teleconference with leaders of all 50 states' Departments of Homeland Security highlights the failure of the federal agency to effectively coordinate and desceminate vital information to the states. Many of the directors of the state level Homeland security agencies are finding it difficult at best to get accurate, complete, and timely information from the National department.
CALVERTON, Md. (AP) - The first call came in midafternoon: State homeland security advisers needed to join a classified briefing about a potential new terror threat. Most states were connected to the U.S. Homeland Security Department by 4:45 p.m.

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DHS has a long way to go before it can transform itself into the agency it is intended to be. Much of the problem, as I see it, is the unwillingness of the agencies that have been rolled into DHS to let go of the reins to a larger organizational structure. Even though DHS is supposed to provide a bridge between the FBI, CIA, and some of the federal first responders, those in these agencies seem unwilling to cooperate.

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posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 06:54 PM
First let me start by stating that child abuse is a very real and serious problem. I want to make absolutely clear that this thread is NOT in any way to minimize the problem of child pornography and abuse.

However, these are dubious times, times when people are becoming more aware of how commonplace manipulation and deception is in our world. I was just now watching CNN and they were running the child porn site crackdown piece, where a site with child porn setup in australia was monitored and an companion piece where ISP's are cracking down on forums and newsgroups that distribute child porn. Now, I don't have a problem with this, but this led me to the following mental question:

Could this crackdown on child pornography on the internet be a catalyst for the fight against freedom of speech on the internet? Could an environment be being setup where child porn would be used as a pretext for the erradication of online identities and the destruction of unwanted sites? A few of us have realised that there is a persistant link between elites and child abuse. In my own country there was a massive sex scandal involving a boarding school and elite individuals and in past history there had been another. Could the more evil and control orientated elite be planning to use their connection to this seedy underworld as a tool for persecution of online political opponents, could this be the first shot in an online war intended to clean out the voice of dissent off the internet and reshape world culture into something more manageable?

I mean, who in their right mind would stand up against a crackdown on pedophilia? You would have to be a terrorist right? Sorry, I meant a pedophile. Something for this board to think and talk about and possibly preempt.

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 06:58 PM
Dude...there is a BIG difference between freedom of speech and sex with children. I don't think there's anything more to it than that.

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 07:04 PM
I'm all for cracking down in any fashion, in any manner it takes on child porn, their viewers, child porn magazines, their subscribers. I think it's the bottom of the bucket of humanity.

Are you posing the possibility of these kind of crackdowns morphing into a NWO persecution of otherwise innocent people? Sort of like saying that it's such a dispicable crime that your friends and family would turn away from you at just the accusation of it? I donno, if that's what you're hypothesizing. I think IF the NWO exists and IF they wanted to create a mechanism to allow them to round up innocent folk, there would be far easier methods to do so, such as planting drugs, etc.

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I reread what you wrote, OP. I think I understand. -- using online pedophelia as a mechanism to eradicate websites and eventually all internet? I don't see it happening that way. Dang, the primary connection I have to the outside world lives inside this little computer box. I can't even pick up Glenn Beck on the satellite (chorus of booos).

I think the world is internet dependent, and as long as the technology exists, it'll be demanded and utilized. If TSHTF, probably the best way of severing communication would be to truncate the internet. eek

[edit on 11-6-2008 by argentus]

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 07:11 PM
Yes, of course that is what I am hypothetising. And the first reply in this thread kinda shows how easily it could work, people have such a violent emotional knee jerk reaction that when they read about it they tend to lose their rationality to the point of not understanding what is really being said.

So I will state it again: child pornography could be the internet's false flag attack in a elitist cyberwar against freedom of speech and online community.

Of course it would not by itself end the internet but it could be instrumental in getting rid of specific targets. I expect it would work with a rash of pedophile smear campaigns, and since it's a digital environment the data is easy to falsify.

[edit on 11-6-2008 by Zepherian]

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 07:20 PM
I understand what your saying but why child porn? why not some other framing for murder or some equally atrocious act?

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 07:20 PM
Welcome to the club. We have jackets. I've been saying the same thing for 10 years now. When they finally close down the internet, it will be because of "kiddie porn".

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 07:43 PM
Because I believe the evil elites in illuminati type conspiracy theories do correspond somewhat to the reality and there is a connection between them and organised crime, specifically human trafficing and pedophilia. I mentioned it in the original post.

Or to put it short, they have the resources and the psyop impact of kiddie porn is large. We have been desensitized to murder and violence in general by mass media and computer entertainment, it dosen't have the shock factor required to herd the popular conscienceness in the required direction. And most people don't care about zoophilia I guess, while necrophilia is a victimless crime. Sorry for the black humour there btw.

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 07:52 PM
i don't think it will be because of child porn. I do believe there should be a limit on the internet ad child porn doesn't cut it. Freedom act my ass. These people deserve to go to jail over the sexual exploitation of children fullstop. If it does happen its not the government to blame on this one its the people who have the disgusting habit spreading this across the internet.

Do you know what freaked me out. One of the teachers from high school, who everyone believed was a bit weird was on the news supporting the fact that they place those painting of naked underage children in the galleries of sydney. What a sicko.

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 08:04 PM
Again, nobody is advocating child porn. But there is such a thing as rule of law and innocent untill proven guilty. Reserve judgement for clear minds and calm hearts, these are dificult times and the water is muddy.

I'll add more to this thread: Has nobody wondered why the media coverage in europe over the Maddie McCann case was so exaustive and pointless? Viewed in the eyes of a conspiracy theorist the whole thing does fit the model of memetic warfare and social manipulation. Another nasty biproduct of the pedophilia meme is that it breeds distrust and isolates people. I have noticed how society becomes more polarized if it's scared, and pedophilia is indeed scary.

Pedophilia is a very nasty crime that scars it's victims, and at the end of the day it's a police matter that should be handled discretely, especially for the peace of mind and the safety of the children unfortunately envolved.

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 08:10 PM
Look at the responses to this thread and that should tell you exactly how well this type of attack will work.

2-3 of responders didn't even get the subject of the thread.

People feel so strongly about the kp subject that they lose control of rational thought once it's mentioned.

Can't think of a more perfect way to justify total censorship. After all its for the children right?

Wouldn't even be surprised if much of the stuff is allowed/ignored or planted until such time it fulfills their mission and the hammer comes down.

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 08:15 PM
And you can bet your life if someone stands up in MSM and comes up with a viewpoint similar to the one posted here he will be wide open for a pro-pedophilia accusation in much the same way the holocaust is used to give Isreal an aura of false righteousness due to the anti-semitic meme.

Memetic warfare sucks dosen't it?

[edit on 11-6-2008 by Zepherian]

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 08:30 PM
reply to post by Zepherian

I created this thread that included similar subject matter and many of the responses were just mindless attacks with just such accusations.

I'm not sure why some people are unable to see at a higher level or the bigger picture and others like us can, I guess that's why we label them sheeple because they are stuck in the muck and are taken advantage of by those doing the real dirty deeds.

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 08:35 PM
I don't label them sheeple. To be honest I sympathise, they are living in another mindset which shields them from harsh realities. It was a pretty hard process for me to realise that things were a bit worse than I thought they were with society, and to be honest one I was thrown into by circumstance more than choice, and I can perfectly understand that if someone has an even half decent life he or she would not want to taint it with such somber thoughts.

They are however asleep, and the sooner they wake up the sooner the collective consciousness will self correct and the window of opportunity for mass social manipulation will become much much smaller.

I still believe most people are good, but they have to be active good, not just passive good.

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 08:35 PM
The internet does appear to be way too liberal. And it does represent what a NWO would determine as a threat through various means of communication and illegal activities.

Double standards are for the elite and powerful. I think all pornography should be banned or permanently blocked from certain people and households with children. I've heard some arrested cannot use the internet either. If our identities are exposed on the internet, due to these policy changes, it would seem even more likely they would be stolen.

Many sites appear to be used for profiling for good and for bad. If people love their (legal) porn so much, they can purchase these at the adult stores. It's sad that so many who abuse it will ruin it for others. Something has to change, you have to admit that.

I think the main theme would be a major threat to the population due to extreme illegal activities. Using childen as a wake up call gets people more motivated to accept these changes. I wonder if it will be on the next election ballot?

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 08:39 PM
I disagree somewhat, the internet is not responsible for bad parenting. And giving a 10 year old unmonitored internet access is bad parenting. The internet is neither liberal or conservative, it is a medium, the sum of all parts. I would rather it not be messed with, because as it is now it shows us an honest reality of what we are and we can use that to self correct. You don't get that out of MSM. Sure, it has a downside, but everything is voluntary, and it's a great tool for fishing out the real criminals of this world too.

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 08:47 PM
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Agreed, but the fact remains that because they are asleep they can be turned and used against all of us without them being aware - which is why I label them sheeple. Being asleep at the wheel is just as dangerous as being intoxicated.

We are all sheeple in some respect, but if we are aware of it we can change, grow and fight on an equal playing field.

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 09:05 PM
I don't see it as a fight though, it's more us doing what we should be doing in the first place, careing and participating in our local communities, which is all really we should do. Too much eagerness to fight is what got us in this mess in the first place.

Now, if by fight you mean the same sort of memetic dissemination techniques for good wholesome human interests... then I agree 100% Our empowerment will be elite disempowerment, little blood would be shed if done right. And look at it this way, all that energy spent trying to get us against each other, all that money, social leverage, corporate structure would be left purposeless and the lack of return would be a huge blow to the sociopathic elites. Take american politics for example, it's not about liberals and conservatives, republicans and democrats, it's in reality all about the duality, the manufactured political conflict.

Ordo ab chaos is the elitist mantra, it is countered by meaningfull social relations which lower the entropy levels in our societies. I suspect that if there is a divine plan behind all this, this is where the internet fits in, it's the possibility of global communication, the start of a healing process for humanity.

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 09:46 PM
Here's the best example I could come up with.

N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access

For those of you who are unaware - the usenet came before the World Wide Web your using now at ATS. It was older technology and is text only, but is still used by millions and anyone can post or create groups (forums). The Alt areas mentioned in the article are where people can post exe's, picture, music ect. but they have to be encoded & then decoded on your computer because the newsgroups are text only.

Posted by Declan McCullagh

Time Warner Cable said it will cease to offer customers access to any Usenet newsgroups, a decision that will affect customers nationwide. Sprint said it would no longer offer any of the tens of thousands of alt.* Usenet newsgroups. Verizon's plan is to eliminate some "fairly broad newsgroup areas."

Yet Usenet's sprawling alt.* hierarchy contains tens of thousands of discussion groups--one count says there are 18,408 of them--including alt.adoption, alt.atheism, alt.gothic, and Ditching all of those means eliminating perfectly legitimate conversations.

"The Internet service providers should not be blocking whole sections of the Internet, all Usenet groups, because there may be some illegal material buried somewhere," said Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU's technology and liberty program. "That's taking a sledgehammer to an ant."

Here we have Time Warner saying that since there is a few disgusting sites among the 100's of thousands newsgroups instead of going to the expense of monitoring and deleting such posts they will put up a roadblock and deny everyone access to any of the newsgroups.

I think that is the jist of what Zepherian was getting at with his first post - maybe I'm wrong.

[edit on 11-6-2008 by verylowfrequency]

posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 10:18 PM
Yes, it's called incrementalism. First they get the public accustomed to internet censorship by removing porn. That way, they pose as our "saviors", those brave warriors who "rescue" the generation that is "drowning" in porn. Then, incrementally, "terrorist", "anti-government (ATS??? INFOWARS???)", "alternative (CANCERTUTOR.COM???)", and "free speech" go down.

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posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 11:19 PM
Child porn is the perfect way to introduce laws and measures that will eventually be used against other purposes. That is because noone will dare to oppose them and risk being labeled as protecting paedofiles.
This has already happened in Finland. Isp's were talked into volunteering to censorship child porn sites. Good idea you think? Well it's already been used to censorship at least one site that is nothing more than a blog that critizizes this measure. There is a huge number of perfectly legal sites on the list of banned sites, many gay sites for example. There is no place to complain about the censorship and there is no overseeing of the banned lists. There has been few sites on the list that were removed because of outrage from people who ran legal businesses and sites which were placed on the list. A high profile case being that of a memoribilia site for a deceased asian princess. Then there's the fact that they can ban entire domain names if one customer abuses their web space.
There number of bad things about this measure is huge but they still got it trough because it's "against child porn". Communications minister was actually quoted saying in a press confrence that "I refuse to discuss this measure as if it was a freedom of speach issue".

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Catch a fish you can brag about on your next fishing trip, when you use a fly reel to bring him in. Fly reels are specifically used for fly fishing, which is a distinct angling method in which artificial flies are used to attract fish. These flies are cast with the help of fly rods and fly line. Fly reels are used to store fly line and provide drag when you're fighting a heavy or fast-moving fish.

Convertible Fly Reels

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Fly reels come with many variations. Some are designed for freshwater fishing, while others are for saltwater fishing only. Some popular fly reels are used to catch bass, while others are specifically for panfish. Some reels accept lines with a weight of 3 to 5 lb. whereas others accept lines with weights up to 8 or 9 lb. Some fly reels have a line backing capacity of 30 yards/20 lb. while others have a line backing capacity of 160 yards/20 lb.


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It looks like Microsoft has had enough of people moaning that Excel is a particular weak spot in financial reporting and corporate governance.

In a post on his Excel 2007 blog, Microsoft Excel team manager David Gainer drew readers' attention to a new Microsoft whitepaper on spreadsheet compliance and Excel.

The short summary is that Microsoft, too, read the PricewaterhouseCoopers demolition job on end-user computing and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and it has done all it can to make sure the next release address the issues raised.

But both Gainer and the Microsoft report have some interesting things to say about the topic. What follows are some edited highlights to encourage you to read the full whitepaper (730k Word download).

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Janet Jackson Denies Giving Up Singing for Acting

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The sister of late Michael Jackson states she had started acting before making music, saying 'This was my first passion.'

Janet Jackson is fighting back against fans who have accused her of dropping music for movies - because she worked as an actress years before landing her first record deal. The singer has been showing off her acting skills in recent years, including roles in Tyler Perry's movie sequel "Why Did I Get Married Too?" and his upcoming drama "For Colored Girls".

And while the "Nasty" hitmaker is adamant she will return to music, she's reminding critics she got her first taste of fame with a role in 1970s U.S. sitcom "Good Times" - not with a record contract. She says, "A lot of people feel I've given up my music for acting and they have to realize this was my first passion. This was my first career. I had a recording contract when I was 14 but I started acting when I was 10."

And she's been aching to return to acting ever since her former manager father, Joe Jackson, pushed her into music. She adds, "I'm just really living out a dream I've had for a very long time. I never really wanted to be in music, I'm not complaining because it's been very good to me but I did it because my father wanted me to, so I'm finally getting to do something."

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Dress: Found the fabric on fabric.com with help from a friend, it was a yarn cotton. I used a pattern and modified it for the white portion and sleeves. I pleated a long rectangle for the bottom half, with a fishnet underskirt. Tie is made of cotton and directly sewn to the dress. Has a zipper closure in the back.

Bodysuit: Unitard pattern, made from cotton spandex. Painted the stitches on with staples made from pvc vinyl.

Shoes and Bracelet: Black Platform Maryjanes with white pleather strips added. Foam, painted, and varnished.

Bag: Bought on ebay

Accessories: Belt was bought on ebay. Metal chain was sewn on, and a belt buckle was made from scupley. Tie pin, and earrings are made of Model Magic and painted. Neck screws are made from foamie and painted.

Make-up: Airbrush paint, mixed to be the right color. I painted my face arms and hands. Black lines are applied with liquid eyeliner. Regular make-up was applied on top of the airbrush make-up.
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I fell in love with the design of these dolls years ago, and I was happy to find I wasn't the only one. So when my friend wanted to a group I was all over it. Even though the group didn't work out.
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I'm going to add some more white highlights when I get the chance.
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Published: Wednesday 20th January 2016

Message from Associate Vice Chancellor (Victoria) Dr John Ballard: Welcome back from the Christmas break and I am looking forward to another challenging and exciting year.

In the early weeks of January, the Campus is pristine, Facilities Management using this time to refresh for first semester and complete minor works.

The place invokes the spectre of the former BBC series, ‘Yes minister’ in the episode that highlighted the hospital awarded for administrative excellence, albeit in the absence of any patients.

This week a small student presence is evident in the Summer Schools and library and I expect numbers of both students and staff to build after Australia Day through to Orientation week.

In addition to expecting record Campus numbers, we are embarking this year on the detailed regulatory process to gain approval and commence design and construction of a new teaching building to be sited on the front car park adjacent to the Mary Glowrey Building on Victoria Parade.

It is envisaged that this building will be complete by 2018.It will provide an expansion of flexible teaching space and  incorporate multiple underground levels of car parking.

Other new works will include the relocation of the School of Arts from level 3 of the Mary Glowrey Building to a new Arts precinct around St. Albert’s Garden, off Graham Street and backing 32-38 Brunswick Street.We are also working on a draft refurbishment of the rooms at the front of Cathedral Hall, the 1873 building formerly the Exhibition Boot Factory.

Those who have taught or studied in the four teaching rooms of this building or have been housed in the upper level office accommodation will appreciate the need for significant works.Associated with these works the IT team will relocate in March from the upper levels to 174 Victoria Parade and we are working to establish a museum in honour of Dr Sr Mary Glowrey JMJ, Servant of God, on the uppermost level.

This space was allocated as offices to Mary Glowrey and the newly founded Catholic Women’s League in 1916 by Archbishop Carr. It is an ideal siting for a museum with an authentic air as it appears not to have been renovated or materially changed since Mary Glowrey left the building in 1920.

The hiatus from major works on Campus will continue throughout this year and come to an end at the beginning of 2017 when we anticipate major construction to commence.Once again, an enthusiastic welcome back for 2016 and what is shaping to be another busy year.


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ADA - Columbus Grove broke open a close game with six runs in the fourth inning, and then added five more in the fifth to run-rule Ada 13-3 in a Northwest Conference softball contest Thursday evening.

The loss dropped Ada to 9-4 overall and 0-4 in the NWC. Grove improved to 6-4 overall and 4-1 in the league with the win, placing them second behind only perennial power Crestview.

Grove pitcher Hope Schroeder hit a home run and hurled a five-hitter. Ada pitcher Ashley Sumner suffered her first loss in five decisions this spring. Six errors hurt the Ada cause, and they were out-hit 11-5.

Ada catcher Ashley Windle slammed a two-run home run, her third round-tripper of the week, to help Ada grab an early 3-1 lead. CG inched within 3-2 by plating a run in the third, then blew it open with 11 runs in the fourth and fifth frames.

Sumner, Alexis Gonzaga, Mackenzie Wills and Quinn High each singled to provide the other four Ada hits.

"It was a long night," said second-year Ada head coach Ken Jochims.

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2B-Glass (CG), Delgado (CG), Stechshulte (CG)

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Busy Ada visits Arlington Friday in a non-league game that will be their seventh contest in seven days.