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Saturday, March 2, 2013
The Truth About Wedding Details - Every Last Detail
Okay, so if you don?t know by now, there are a few things that I?m REALLY passionate about when it comes to what I do. One of those things is details. (Hence the name Every Last Detail.)
Well for some reason, details (and the publications that share them) have gotten a bad rap in the wedding world over the past few years. I suppose it?s because everyone wants their couples to have weddings that have more of a focus on their relationships, their upcoming marriage, and spending the rest of their lives together. Well of course I totally and completely 100% agree with that. I mean, you shouldn?t even be getting married if you don?t want to focus on your love! BUT? just because you have a wedding full of love, that doesn?t mean you can?t focus on the details of your wedding too!
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You see, details are an important part a wedding. Not because they?re pretty and they get featured online and in magazines, but because they make each and every wedding unique. Your details are what differentiates your wedding from the one that happened at your venue the week (or night) before. Think about it for a minute- if no one had details at a wedding, they would all be the same boring events!
The details that are always the best- and that are usually shared by websites and magazines- are the details that have a personal tie to the couple. The details that reflect the bride and groom. The details that tell the story about your relationship. The details that make guests ?say ?This is SO bride and groom?s names? when they walk into the wedding. These are details that a couple puts their heart and soul into, and celebrates their love!
So brides, let me ask you this: why do you turn to the web and buy magazines? Because you want inspiration and ideas for ?details, right? You want to know what other brides have done. And then you want to take that inspiration, and put your own personal twist on it! There is NOTHING wrong with that, and you most definitely shouldn?t feel bad about wanting to have details at your wedding! [I will say that sometimes you can have TOO MANY details- and I blame Pinterest! My suggestion to avoid this is once you have your wedding designed, then step away from all the inspiration so things aren't too overwhelming!]
Truthfully, I think that people who ?diss? details don?t understand that details are in EVERY wedding. Like I said before- the details are what makes a wedding unique! Sure, details are pretty things like centerpieces, bouquets, and table numbers. But they?re also the functional parts of wedding too- like serving crepes at your wedding because your first kiss was over crepes, or having a nautical theme to your wedding because the two of you love sailing! Details should be all about reflecting you and your fianc?- and when they do, they will make your wedding more intimate and personal, adding to the love surrounding you on your wedding day!
So I?ll leave you with this:
Don?t have details at your wedding just for the sake of having details.
Have details because they tell the story of your life together!
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And now I want to hear from YOU all about what details mean to you! What kind of personal details are you planning on having at your own wedding?
Source: http://theeverylastdetail.com/2013/02/28/the-truth-about-wedding-details/
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Facebook buying Microsoft's Atlas ad business - Tech - IBNLive
San Francisco: Facebook is buying a set of online advertising tools called Atlas from Microsoft in its latest attempt to build a more effective marketing system around its social network.
In making the deal announced Thursday, Facebook is betting the acquired technology will be more fruitful under new ownership than it was during the past five-and-half years under Microsoft's control. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
Atlas is part of an online advertising service called aQuantive, which Microsoft bought for $6.3 billion in 2007. Aquantive didn't bring in as much online ad revenue as Microsoft envisioned, prompting the software maker to absorb a $6.2 billion charge last year that resulted in its first quarterly loss in its 26-year history as a public company.
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Given the magnitude of that writedown, Facebook probably didn't have to pay much to take Atlas off Microsoft's hands. The undisclosed purchase price is a sign that the amount isn't substantial enough to leave a big dent in the company's finances.
Atlas provides monitoring tools that help advertisers assess how their online marketing tools are faring. It helps marketers make adjustments needed to connect people more likely to buy their products and services.
Facebook already analyzes the interests that people share on its social network to target ads at certain audiences.
Those insights helped Facebook sell $4.3 billion in advertising last year, a 36 per cent increase from 2011.
But that wasn't enough to satisfy investors who want Facebook to grow at a faster rate. Wall Street's disappointment with Facebook's performance, particularly in the growing mobile advertising market, has left the company's stock price below the $38 price paid in its initial public offering last May. The shares dipped four cents to $27.21 in extended trading after Facebook announced its acquisition.
Atlas could help Facebook do a better job of using its knowledge about more than 1 billion users to place ads on sites that tether their services to Facebook's social network, according to Forrester Research analyst Nate Elliott.
"The question now is how quickly and successfully Facebook can integrate its data with Atlas' tools, and whether they can avoid a privacy backlash as they do so," Elliott wrote Thursday in a blog post.
Facebook has faced recurring complaints that it disregards personal privacy in its zeal to vacuum up more sensitive data from users and sell more advertising.
The company, which is based in Menlo Park, California, views Atlas as an "important step" that "will help advertisers to a more complete view of the effectiveness of their campaigns," according to a blog post written by Brian Boland, Facebook's director of product marketing.
Atlas also could help Facebook compete against the array of analytical tools and services that online advertising leader Google offers to marketers. Google, though, brings in most of its advertising revenue through its dominant Internet search engine, a weapon that Facebook is trying to counter with a recently introduced feature, called Graph Search, which makes it easier for its users to find information within its social network.
Google is expected to attract about 43 per cent of the projected $42.5 billion in online ad spending in the US this year, followed by Yahoo and Microsoft at about 7 per cent and Facebook at 6 per cent, according the research firm eMarketer.
Google has widened its share from about 31 per cent since Microsoft bought Atlas as part of the ill-fated aQuantive acquisition.
Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Washington, fared much better in the Facebook IPO than it did with the aQuantive acquisition. After investing $240 million in Facebook in 2007, Microsoft reaped a $249 million windfall last year by selling just 20 per cent of its holdings in Facebook's IPO.
Source: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/facebook-buying-microsofts-atlas-ad-business/375903-11.html
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Friday, March 1, 2013
Tennessee HBCUs Take On Obesity - Higher Education
by Ronald Roach
As a pre-med student and biology major, Fisk University junior Contessa Davis has learned largely through volunteering as a Student Health Ambassador in public health initiatives that it often takes the dedicated work of ?door-to-door canvassing? and other direct communication with individuals to persuade them to adopt healthy lifestyles.??
?The bottom line is that, whether it?s research or interventions to help individuals learn about healthy eating, the goal is to decrease the health disparities within our communities,? she says.?
This spring, Davis will be among a number of Fisk students and staff participating in an obesity awareness campaign at the Nashville-based historically Black private university. Last week, the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) announced that Fisk and four other historically Black institutions are part of a grant program aimed at the schools educating their respective campus communities about the dangers of obesity. In addition to Fisk, the campaigns are under way at Tennessee State University in Nashville, LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, Knoxville College in Knoxville and Lane College in Jackson.
Lesia Walker, director of the TDH Office of Minority Health and Disparities Elimination, said the goals of ?these obesity awareness campaigns are to educate college students and others about the problems associated with being overweight or obese, and to engage them in activities fostering changes to improve lifelong health.?
?Statistics show a disproportionate number of African Americans are either overweight or obese, and we have to start reaching people with important messages earlier in life to make a difference,? Walker said in a statement.
Tennessee officials report that in 2011 the state had the sixth-highest rate of adult overweight and obesity in the U.S. at 66.5 percent. There are significant racial and ethnic disparities in the prevalence of obesity. Roughly two of every three Black non-Hispanic adults in Tennessee are overweight or obese. Black non-Hispanic women have the highest rate of obesity among any race or gender group, with one of every two Black women in Tennessee being obese, according to the TDH. Nationally, more than one-third of adults in the U.S. are obese, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
For African-Americans who disproportionately suffer from diabetes, high blood pressure, certain cancers, heart attacks and heart and kidney failure, extra pounds can contribute to the severity of these adverse conditions. Additional weight also leads to higher health care costs, according to the TDH.
The Tennessee State University (TSU) program, which began last fall, involves ?targeting 1,200 first-year students in the required Freshman Orientation courses for the 2012-2013 school year? to educate them ?on health and fitness; increase awareness and easy access to nutrition health information in the campus cafeteria; and encourage physical activity to prevent obesity,? according to the TSU plan.
Other elements include healthy choice nutrition information labels placed on the commonly offered foods in the student cafeteria. Informational healthy choices and active lifestyle posters are being placed in the cafeteria, student center, and across campus to be renewed monthly so that new and fresh information is constantly available. The school received a $15,000 campaign grant for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Dr. Bill Johnson, the assistant dean for Teacher Education and Student Services at Tennessee State University (TSU), says the intent of the TSU campaign ?is to provide some information about the detrimental effects of obesity as well as provide some educational information to say ?choices matter,?? with respect to diet and nutrition.?
?The whole idea is on a college campus there?s a lot of opportunity to make some unhealthy eating choices. And so what we?re trying to do is trying to remind people that what they choose matters not just today but long-term,? Johnson says.
?There is an obesity epidemic in the United States. The HBCU community has a serious obesity issue and it needs to take responsibility?we need to take responsibility for our own community and move forward,? he adds.
Yvette Spicer, the campus community outreach coordinator at Fisk University, says the school has held public forums on obesity and is working with the school?s food vendor to increase awareness and availability of healthy meal choices for students. She noted that this spring and fall school and student government officials expect to organize a ?Biggest Loser? contest, which is based on the popular television show. The state awarded Fisk a $15,000 grant for the school?s obesity campaign for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Spicer explained that the Fisk obesity awareness campaign builds on the work of the HBCU Wellness program, which has been present at the school and the other Tennessee HBCUs since 2006. ?HBCU Wellness has operated in conjunction with Meharry Medical College and has been funded through the [Tennessee Department of Health].?
The program created the Student Health Ambassadors (SHAs), who are full-time students attending one of the participating institutions. The SHAs, such as Fisk?s Contessa Davis, work as health promotion and disease prevention advocates, and provide education in one of five health priority areas. The health priority areas include breast cancer, infant mortality, obesity, prostate cancer and sexually transmitted infections. Spicer says the SHAs have been active in the current obesity campaign at Fisk.
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Source: http://diverseeducation.com/article/51581/
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Odds against him, Obama still betting on big deal
In this Feb. 28, 2013, photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio pauses while meeting with reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, to answer questions about the impending automatic spending cuts that take effect March 1. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
In this Feb. 28, 2013, photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio pauses while meeting with reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, to answer questions about the impending automatic spending cuts that take effect March 1. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Senate Democratic leaders finish a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, after answering questions about the impending automatic spending cuts that take effect March 1. From right to left are, Senate Majority Whip Sen. Richard Durbin of Ill., Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
In this Feb. 28, 2013, photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., joined by fellow House Democratic women, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, to talk about the impending automatic spending cuts that will most likely take effect late Friday, March 1. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? A fiscal deadline all but blown, President Barack Obama says he once again wants to seek a big fiscal deal that would raise taxes and trim billions from expensive and ever growing entitlement programs. But with automatic federal spending cuts ready to start taking their toll, the path toward that grand bargain Obama campaigned on last year has significantly narrowed.
The president has summoned the top bipartisan congressional leadership to the White House, a meeting designed to give all sides a chance to stake out their fiscal positions with a new threat of a government shutdown less than four weeks away. There were no expectations of a breakthrough.
But for Obama, Friday's session would be his first opportunity to spell out his 10-year, $1.5 trillion deficit reduction plan in a face-to-face meeting with congressional allies and adversaries.
His chances are squeezed by anti-tax conservatives, by liberals unwilling to cut into Medicare and Social Security, and by a Republican leadership that has dug in against any new revenue after ceding to Obama's demands two months ago for a higher tax rate for top income earners.
On Thursday, two ill-fated proposals aimed at blunting the blame over the cuts ? one Democratic and the other Republican ? failed to overcome procedural hurdles in the Senate. Obama placed the responsibility on Republicans.
"They voted to let the entire burden of deficit reduction fall squarely on the middle class," he said.
The White House is still betting that once the public begins to experience the effects of the $85 billion in across-the-board cuts the pain will be unbearable enough to force lawmakers to reconsider and negotiate. But the consequences of the cuts ?the so called sequester ? will likely be a slow boil. Obama this week said the effect "is not a cliff, but it is a tumble downward."
Indeed, much of the impact won't be felt for weeks or more than a month; others, like possible teacher layoffs, wouldn't take place until the new school year in the fall.
And yet, the next likely showdown ? the expiration of a six-month spending bill on March 27, with its built-in threat of a government shutdown ? will loom before that, meaning that the leverage the White House would hope to have won't materialize until late.
Polls also show that the public is not as engaged in this showdown as it has been in past fiscal confrontations and an NBC-Wall Street Journal Post survey indicates that Obama has lost some ground with the public in his handling of the economy.
Still, White House officials also say they believe Republicans will once again give way to additional tax revenue in part to avoid drastic cuts and in part to win reductions in Medicare and Social Security spending from Obama that they have been unable to get from Democrats before.
"I am prepared to make some tough decisions, some of which will garner some significant frustration on the part of members of my party, but I think it's the right thing to do," Obama told top business executives this week.
Given Washington's entrenched partisanship, Obama's effort could be dismissed as either another failed attempt at negotiations or as simply an effort to lay blame on Republicans for blocking compromise.
The odds aren't with the president.
Many conservatives are willing to accept the automatic cuts as the only way to reduce government spending, even though the budget knife cuts into cherished defense programs. Likewise, many liberals are beginning to embrace the cuts as a way to protect revered big benefit programs that have long been identified with the Democratic Party.
Moreover, many programs for low-income Americans are protected from the immediate cuts while the Pentagon ? whose budget has long been a target of the left ? faces across the board cuts of 8 percent and up to 13 percent in some of its accounts.
More than 20 Democrats in Congress, including veteran Rep. Ed Markey, a candidates for the Senate from Massachusetts, have signed a letter pledging not to cut Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security benefits in efforts to reduce the deficit.
Obama's plan calls for $580 billion in new revenue over 10 years by limiting the value of itemized deductions and certain tax exclusions to no more than 28 percent. That means taxpayers with a tax rate greater than 28 percent would face a tax increase.
While Obama also regularly talks about closing loopholes to gain more revenue, his tax plan would close many corporate loopholes to lower corporate tax rates, not to generate more revenue. He aims to drop corporate tax rates from 35 percent to 28 percent for most corporations and down to 25 percent for manufacturers.
In exchange for new tax revenue and a tax overhaul, Obama has offered to reduce spending in health care programs such as Medicare by $400 billion over 10 years, change an inflation formula for government benefits that would result in lower cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security and other programs, and reduce other spending for total reductions of $900 billion over 10 years.
Those cuts, together with about $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction already achieved over the last two years through spending cuts and a year-end tax increase on taxpayers making more than $400,000 would achieve a $4 trillion deficit reduction target.
Republicans though are unimpressed, and House Speaker John Boehner rejected it when Obama first offered it in December.
"Last year we proposed generating new revenue through tax reform," Boehner said Thursday. "We did that as an alternative to the president's demand for higher tax rates. Ultimately, the president got his revenues and he got it his way through higher rates. Given those facts, the revenue issue is now closed."
At the other end of the spectrum, liberals are seeking to silence White House talk about cutting entitlements.
"They're almost on a daily basis talking about (reducing) Social Security benefits," said Adam Green, founder of the liberal Progressive Change Campaign Committee. "There's no rational or political reason to do so, except some ill-conceived idea that Americans would value a grand bargain, even one that robs their grandparents of thousands of dollars."
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YouTube for iOS updated, can now send video to your TV or game console
YouTube for iOS has been updated, gaining the ability to send videos to your TV. Users can now pair their YouTube app on iPhone, iPad, or both with a Smart TV, Xbox 360, or Playstation 3, and the elect to play videos that they find through the iOS app on their television. Once your devices are paired, find the video you want to watch in the iOS app, select it, then hit television icon on the top bar, to the left of the search icon, and choose your device from the provided list.
In addition to ?send to TV?, YouTube now features improved streaming over slower Wi-Fi connections and stability improvements. Finally, YouTube for iPhone can now send you directly to the YouTube Capture app to record and upload videos.
The update is available now. Go grab it and tell us what you think.
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AP PHOTOS: Benedict's final day as pope
AP PHOTOS: Benedict's final day as pope
By The Associated Press?
?By The Associated PressPope Benedict XVI greets the crowd from the window of the Pope's summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, the scenic town where he will spend his first post-Vatican days and make his last public blessing as pope,Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd from the window of the Pope's summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, the scenic town where he will spend his first post-Vatican days and make his last public blessing as pope,Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Pope Benedict XVI waves from the balcony window of the Pontifical summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, some 35 kilometers south of Rome, to a cheering crowd gathered to see him the day he ends his pontificate, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
FILE- In this Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, file photo. a general view of the gardens of pope's summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, in the town of Castelgandolfo, south of Rome. Immediately after his resignation on Feb. 28, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI will spend some time at the papal summer retreat in Castel Gandolfo, overlooking Lake Albano in the hills south of Rome where he has spent his summer vacations reading and writing. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
FILE- In this Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, file photo, a view of the garden of pope's summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, in the town of Castelgandolfo, south of Rome.. Immediately after his resignation on Feb. 28, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI will spend some time at the papal summer retreat in Castel Gandolfo, overlooking Lake Albano in the hills south of Rome where he has spent his summer vacations reading and writing. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
FILE - In this , Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, file photo, Pierpoalo Turoli, responsible for pope's residences, opens a window of the pope's summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, in the town of Castelgandolfo, south of Rome. Immediately after his resignation on Feb. 28, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI will spend some time at the papal summer retreat in Castel Gandolfo, overlooking Lake Albano in the hills south of Rome where he has spent his summer vacations reading and writing. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope Benedict XVI, the first pontiff in 600 years to resign, has left Vatican City for scenic Castel Gandolfo in the hills south of Rome, where he has spent his summer vacations reading and writing. To a roaring cheer, Benedict appeared at the balcony of the palazzo and said he was happy to be "surrounded by the beauty of creation."
Here's a look at photos of Benedict's final moments as leader and the papal summer retreat in Castel Gandolfo.
Associated Press
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