Monday, December 31, 2012

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South India

31 Dec

This shot shows the feet of two policewomen in South India. They are standing near a Temple, so their shoes are off. Note the toe rings and anklet!

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Toe rings and anklets originated in India, I believe. Nice shot!

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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Is Video Marketing Freaking You Out? Don't Worry Read Here For ...

Video marketing can be a great way to introduce your business to the online world.

Learning to make the most of this creative marketing tool takes a little practice and research; begin with the following article.

This article is loaded with helpful tips and tricks to get you started in video marketing.Is Video Marketing Freaking You Out? Don't Worry Read Here For Help!

One of the best pieces of advice about video marketing is to keep it real.

Make a script, rehearse it, and then shoot your video.

That?s all there is to it!

You will end up looking over produced and fake if you do more than that. Real is honest and reliable.

Create video tutorials of your business website.

These tutorials are a great tool because they help guide your viewers around your website. As long as you have a webcam and a computer, you can create video tutorials.

This is a very simple thing that can be really effective in generating more customers.

Avoid letting your video turn into a commercial.

People see commercials all day long on TV and are sick of them, by the time they get to your video. If you plan to sell a product, do it in a fun way which seems more like a personal video than a sales pitch.

Avoid making your video a commercial. If your video looks like an ad or like spam, people will avoid watching it.

People certainly will not share it. A successful video marketing video is interesting, fun to watch, and it provides information that the consumer is interested in learning about.

Tag your video with as many related words as you can.

This will help to increase the amount of people that come across it. To figure out what words you should use you should brainstorm about the many things that your service or product does as well as the type of people that you serve.

Watch other videos offered by your competitors to get ideas on what to include in your video marketing campaign.

For instance, does your competitors include hands on demonstrations or do they mainly approach the videos with a more friendly tone?

Think of your business?s image and try to portray it in each video.

It is important that you maintain a sense of humor and don?t take yourself too seriously.

Keeping your video funny will help people to be able to relate to it.

Making people happy will help them to relate that feeling to your business and more readily trust your products or services.

Don?t go on too long.

People have short attention spans and you need to capture their interest quickly.

Be direct and keep your sales pitch simple. A good rule of thumb is to keep your message to under a minute when trying to attract new customers.

You can go a little longer for videos targeted at establish customers, but keep those relatively short as well.

Never quickly throw together a title!

It has to include not only SEO keywords you think will bring in the right viewers, but also something catchy so they?ll actually click the link.

What would viewers like yours be looking for?

Try to create a title which is witty and alluring.

Videos make your site more interactive but keep in mind that they are not an ideal solution for your search engine optimization campaign.

You can optimize your videos by choosing descriptive titles filled with keywords and adding a transcript or a summary of the content of the video you want to feature.

Marketing can be challenging, especially for a smaller business with limited capital.

Learn the ropes and get used to seeing yourself on the small screen; you could become the spokesperson for a very successful company!

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

At Israel school, anyone can learn to be a prophet

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, Shmuel Fortman Hapartzy, the Cain and Abel School for Prophets founder and teacher speaks to students in Tel Aviv, Israel. Instead of long beards and robes, they wear track suits and T-shirts. Their tablets are electronic, not hewn of stone, and they hold smartphones, not staffs. They may not look the part, but this ragtag group of Israelis is training to become the next generation of prophets. For just 200 shekels ($53) and in only 40 short classes, anyone can become a certified, modern-day soothsayer at the Cain and Abel School for Prophets.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, Shmuel Fortman Hapartzy, the Cain and Abel School for Prophets founder and teacher speaks to students in Tel Aviv, Israel. Instead of long beards and robes, they wear track suits and T-shirts. Their tablets are electronic, not hewn of stone, and they hold smartphones, not staffs. They may not look the part, but this ragtag group of Israelis is training to become the next generation of prophets. For just 200 shekels ($53) and in only 40 short classes, anyone can become a certified, modern-day soothsayer at the Cain and Abel School for Prophets.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, students sit outside of the Cain and Abel School for Prophets founder in Tel Aviv, Israel. Instead of long beards and robes, they wear track suits and T-shirts. Their tablets are electronic, not hewn of stone, and they hold smartphones, not staffs. They may not look the part, but this ragtag group of Israelis is training to become the next generation of prophets. For just 200 shekels ($53) and in only 40 short classes, anyone can become a certified, modern-day soothsayer at the Cain and Abel School for Prophets.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, brochures for the Cain and Abel School for Prophets are displayed in Tel Aviv, Israel. Instead of long beards and robes, they wear track suits and T-shirts. Their tablets are electronic, not hewn of stone, and they hold smartphones, not staffs. They may not look the part, but this ragtag group of Israelis is training to become the next generation of prophets. For just 200 shekels ($53) and in only 40 short classes, anyone can become a certified, modern-day soothsayer at the Cain and Abel School for Prophets.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, a painting of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson adorns the wall in the Cain and Abel School for Prophets in Tel Aviv, Israel. Instead of long beards and robes, they wear track suits and T-shirts. Their tablets are electronic, not hewn of stone, and they hold smartphones, not staffs. They may not look the part, but this ragtag group of Israelis is training to become the next generation of prophets. For just 200 shekels ($53) and in only 40 short classes, anyone can become a certified, modern-day soothsayer at the Cain and Abel School for Prophets.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ? Instead of long beards and robes, they wear track suits and T-shirts. Their tablets are electronic, not hewn of stone, and they hold smartphones, not staffs. They may not look the part, but this ragtag group of Israelis is training to become the next generation of prophets.

For just 200 shekels, about $53, and in only 40 short classes, the Cain and Abel School for Prophets says it will certify anyone as a modern-day Jewish soothsayer.

The school, which launched classes this month, has baffled critics, many of whom have dismissed it as a blasphemy or a fraud.

On a religious level, Jewish tradition recognizes a few dozen prophets from the biblical era ? from the monumental figures of Abraham, Moses and Elijah to lesser known foretellers of doom and tormented questioners like Micah the Morashtite and Habakkuk. Tradition says no one can be a prophet ever since the Romans destroyed the second temple in Jerusalem in the year 70 and the era of prophecy can only be revived with the arrival of the Messiah and the temple's rebuilding. As one Talmudic phrase puts it, the only prophets now are children and fools.

But also, on a philosophical level, how do you learn divine inspiration in school? And can anyone learn?

"There is no way to teach prophecy," said Rachel Elior, a professor of Jewish thought at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. "It's like opening a school for becoming Einstein or Mozart."

That hasn't deterred the school's founder and sole teacher Shmuel Hapartzy, a follower of Chabad, a worldwide Orthodox Jewish outreach and worship movement that has come under fire because part of its membership crowned its late leader the Messiah. The Chabad movement in Israel has distanced itself from the school.

Anyone looking in the curriculum for "Parting the Sea 101" or "How to Predict the Future" or even "Principles of Proclaiming A Jeremiad" will be disappointed. Instead, students learn about the meaning of dreams, the classification of angels, the mysteries of the holy spirit. They learn how to discern a person's inner feelings from his or her external behavior and appearance.

Hapartzy can't guarantee his course will give his students a direct line to God. But, he says, the syllabus provides the essential tools to bring out the prophet in anyone.

"In the past there were prophets but even now, in our time, divinity is being revealed to everyone. We just need to open our eyes to it," said Hapartzy at his introductory course, which is held at a religious center in grungy south Tel Aviv, known more for its licentious street parties than piety.

And graduates do get a diploma.

There's little "profit" motive to the venture. Hapartzy said the token fee is to prove students' dedication and is donated to the religious center hosting the school. There's no application process ? anyone who wants to become a prophet can do so by just showing up for the course.

The school's inaugural class this month welcomed a mixed bag of 12 students ranging in age from 18 to 50. One man had scruffy stubble and wore a blue track suit. Another walked in with a guitar slung over his back. Others fiddled with their phones during the lecture or stepped out to smoke. Two had long beards and wore Jewish skullcaps.

Darya Popdinitz, who drove in from Jerusalem for the course, wore a pink hat with dangling pompons. She said her knowledge of biblical prophets was limited, but she was "curious" about the course.

"It's a real diverse mix of people," said Hapartzy.

The class itself is a modest study group. In the small room, the men sat in a circle around Hapartzy, with the women separately in a corner, following Orthodox Judaism's segregation of the sexes. Hapartzy lectures and hands out study material ? photocopied excerpts of holy books ? and a question period follows. The students' homework is to conduct good deeds and pray.

The 34-year-old Hapartzy has a varied background. A software engineer and Russian immigrant, with a long beard and dressed in black ultra-Orthodox garb, he said he was originally an atheist. He dabbled in "sciences, mysticism, Chinese philosophy, astrology, black magic and Christian cults" until, he said, he turned to Judaism.

He compiled the study materials from writings he said could be found in any religious library ? including, no surprise, the books of the biblical prophets. Since there's no traditional set course for becoming a prophet, Hapartzy used his own judgment for what subjects would be appropriate.

Like some in the Chabad movement, Hapartzy believes that the Messiah has already come and that the age of redemption is nigh, so it has possible to have prophets again. Claims by some that late leader Rabbi Menachem Schneerson was the Messiah split the Chabad movement and brought harsh criticism from other Jews.

Hapartzy said his school aims to prepare everyone for the new messianic era. The school is named after the sons of Adam and Eve ? Cain was the first murderer and Abel the first victim. The name represents a person's different spiritual poles, which the school aims to unite, Hapartzy said.

The desire to open up the realm of prophecy to anyone has raised hackles in some circles.

"It's completely crazy," said Menachem Brod, a Chabad spokesman. Facebook commenters have accused the school of "charlatanism and blasphemy."

Roie Greenvald, a 27-year-old tennis instructor attending the classes, also showed some skepticism. While he expressed interest in the spiritual development the course offers, one crucial detail stands in the way of his religious elevation.

"I'm not going to become a prophet," he said. "I don't think it pays very well."

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Last-minute deal averts East Coast port strike

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A strike that could have crippled 15 major ports on the East Coast and the Gulf and put a crimp in the nation's commerce?has been avoided after dock workers, port operators?and shippers agreed to a deal that extends the workers' contract, a federal mediator said Friday.

The parties settled on a 30-day extension of the contract after a meeting Thursday with Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Director George H. Cohen, the FMCS said in a statement.

The parties had faced a Saturday deadline for resolving the labor dispute. The International?Longshoremen's Association, which represented the dock workers, had threatened to strike a day later.

The strike would have shut down major ports, including the port of New York and New Jersey, the largest on the East Coast and the second-largest port in the U.S. to handle manufactured goods from China.

Earlier Friday, The White House had urged the parties to resolve their differences. The dispute centered on a cap to payments to dock workers based on the weight of the container cargo, known as "container royalties."

The new contract does not eliminate the royalty payments, according to Benny Holland, an executive vice president for the ILA.

"The royalty will stay intact. We have worked out a formula for it," he said in an interview.

Established in 1960, the royalty payments to ILA workers are based on the tons of container cargo that move through a port. That tonnage has risen from 50 million tons in 1996 to 110 million last year, according to the alliance. Total payments last year were $211 million, according to the USMX, or an average of $15,500 per worker.

The original idea was to protect longshoremen from wage losses expected as a result of "containerization," in which more and more goods are packed in the now-familiar 20- and 40-foot long boxes. Those take less manpower to off-load than the less-standardized containers they replaced.

Both sides also fought over the guaranteed eight-hour workday in the current contract and the seven-man "lashing gang." Lashing crews, or gangs, secure the cargo containers to the vessel using metal lashing rods to keep them from moving while the vessel is at sea. The maritime alliance wanted to eliminate each.

?The container royalty payment issue has been agreed upon in principle by the parties, subject to?achieving an overall collective bargaining agreement. The parties have further agreed to an?additional extension of 30 days (i.e., until midnight, January 28, 2013) during which time the?parties shall negotiate all remaining outstanding Master Agreement issues, including those?relating to New York and New Jersey," the federal mediator's statement said.

CNBC and?Reuters?contributed to this report.

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Last-Ditch Summit in D.C. to Avert 'Cliff'

By MICHAEL FALCONE ( @michaelpfalcone ) and AMY WALTER ( @amyewalter )

NOTABLES:

WHITE HOUSE SAYS, NO NEW PLAN: ABC's Jonathan Karl, Sunlen Miller, John Parkinson and Sarah Parnass report that the White House said Thursday it has no plans to offer new proposals to avoid the fiscal cliff which looms over the country's economy just four days from now, but will meet Friday with Congressional leaders in a last ditch effort to forge a deal. The White House announced the meeting after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called the budget situation "a mess" and urged the president to present a fresh proposal. But a senior White House official told ABC News, "there is no White House bill." http://abcn.ws/UpszEt

THE FISCAL CLIFF AND YOU: Unless there's a deal the fiscal cliff could do real damage to the economy, reports ABC News Business Correspondent Richard Davies. The first and best known impact would be sweeping tax hikes: "By jacking up taxes on so many taxpayers it will squeeze purchasing power," says Greg Ip, U.S. Economics Editor of The Economist. Many consumers and businesses would cut back on spending. "They just decide to pull back not to spend not to buy that house not to initiate that new business venture and that would multiply the negative impact." The third effect would come from sharp and sudden government spending cuts. "You'll see layoffs in the defense industry layoffs in any industry that does business with the federal government as federal spending is cut back sharply."

BACK TO WORK FOR HILLARY CLINTON: ABC's Dana Hughes reports that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will return to work next week after recovering from a stomach virus and a concussion. "The Secretary continues to recuperate at home. She had long planned to take this holiday week off, so she had no work schedule," said Clinton aide Philippe Reines in a statement. "She looks forward to getting back to the office next week and resuming her schedule." The last time Clinton was seen in public was December 7, leaving Northern Ireland after a whirlwind European trip.

THIS WEEK ON 'THIS WEEK': Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., debate the latest on the last-minute efforts to avoid the fiscal cliff, Sunday on "This Week." Plus, ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl and the powerhouse roundtable debate all the week's politics, featuring former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. Check the "This Week" page for full guest listings. Tune in Sunday: http://abcnews.go.com/thisweek (h/t ABC's Imtiyaz Delawala)

THE NOTE:

'Twas the Friday after Christmas and all through Washington not a deal was stirring, not even at the White House?

With the center of gravity in the fiscal cliff negotiations shifting to the Senate and to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, lawmakers and President Obama will try to break the stalemate today at 3 p.m. ET when President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden sit down with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

There are now just four days to go before the country falls off the cliff, and as ABC's Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl noted on "Good Morning America" today, this is actually the very first meeting all sides have had together in six weeks. The last time this group met was Nov. 16. http://abcn.ws/VGsGrV

That may be hard to believe, but it's not really that surprising when you listen to the rhetoric coming from both Senate leaders.

"Republicans aren't about to write a blank check for anything Senate Democrats put forward just because we find ourselves as the edge of the cliff," McConnell said on the Senate floor yesterday.

Meanwhile, Reid likened Speaker Boehner's leadership in the House to a "dictatorship" that was preventing "the vast majority of the House of Representatives to get what they want."

Most Capitol Hill insiders agree that the we probably go off the fiscal cliff - at least for a little while - with a real deal to come in January after the new Congress is sworn in, but there may be another option on the table.

The two sides could come together to support what Karl described as a "small deal that would at least prevent these tax increases from going into effect for most people."

Chances of that happening? Jon Karl puts them at three to five percent. Not exactly a glass-half-full scenario.

NOTED!

ABC'S AMY WALTER: Perhaps it's because I'm a parent to a six-year-old, but the only way to make sense of the fiscal cliff shenanigans is to put it in child rearing terms. If there is no consequence for bad behavior, then the bad behavior will continue. Think how many times you have heard (or said) "if you don't stop this right now then X will happen." When X doesn't happen (the car doesn't pull over, dessert is still served etc), the child learns that he or she can indeed get away with breaking the rules. In Washington, the only real consequence is losing an election. And, since both sides believe they won in 2012 (Democrats held the White House and Senate despite high unemployment; Republicans held the House despite sky-high disapproval ratings), neither side sees a real downside to letting the country fall off the fiscal cliff. A frustrated public, a declining Dow - these are not the consequences that will spur either side to action. It's only when defeat, real lasting defeat is felt, that compromise will happen.

THE BUZZ:

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NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF, GULF WAR COMMANDER, DIES AT 78. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the retired general credited with leading U.S.-allied forces to a victory in the first Gulf War, died Thursday. He was 78 years old. ABC's Michael James reports, Schwarzkopf, called "Stormin' Norman" because of his reportedly explosive temper, actually led Republican administrations to two military victories: a small one in Grenada in the 1980s and a big one as de facto commander of allied forces in the Gulf War in 1991. "'Stormin' Norman' led the coalition forces to victory, ejecting the Iraqi Army from Kuwait and restoring the rightful government," read a statement by former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War. "His leadership not only inspired his troops, but also inspired the nation." http://abcn.ws/12Sy0ii

WHITE HOUSE LASHES OUT AT 'CONGRESSIONAL STUPIDITY.' With only days to come up with a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, the White House said "congressional stupidity" was damaging the economy but that an agreement could be reached if Republican leaders don't get in the way. ABC's Sarah Parnass, John Parkinson and Reena Ninan report, while Boehner has put the onus on the president and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a White House official used testy language to put the responsibility back on Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. "What we need is for the Senate Minority Leader not to block a vote and for Boehner to allow a vote," a White House official told ABC News. "The hits to our economy aren't coming from outside factors, they're coming from congressional stupidity." http://abcn.ws/12FUTWY

BUSH 41 GETTING EXCELLENT TREATMENT. The AP's Michael Graczyk reports, "Former President George H.W. Bush, who has been hospitalized for more than a month, is getting excellent medical treatment and would advise people to 'put the harps back in the closet,' his longtime Houston chief of staff said Thursday evening. But Jean Becker also pointed out in her statement that the 88-year-old Bush is sick and likely will be in the hospital for a while after a 'terrible case of bronchitis which then triggered a series of complications.'" http://abcn.ws/12SyEfB

ED MARKEY DECLARES CANDIDACY IN SENATE SPECIAL. The Boston Globe's Mark Arsenault reports, "US Representative Edward J. Markey, dean of the state's Washington delegation, will run in 2013 for the Senate seat expected to open with the nomination of Senator John F. ?Kerry to head the State Department. Markey, 66, a Malden Democrat elected to the House in 1976, is the first prominent candidate to ?declare a run for Kerry's seat, which will be filled through a special election early next summer, probably in June. Kerry, a Democrat and head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is expected to be easily confirmed by the Senate in coming weeks as the next secretary of state." http://bo.st/UvYmEP

SENATORS CHAFE AT INACTION OVER FISCAL CLIFF DEAL. The New York Times Jennifer Steinhauer reports, "Senators bid hasty goodbyes to families, donned ties and pantsuits in lieu of sweat pants and Christmas sweaters and one by one returned to the Capitol on Thursday to begin the business of doing nothing in particular. But for once, those lawmakers were fully united, if only around their sadness and frustration at being stuck in Washington in a holiday week, peering over the edge of the fiscal abyss. Not to be outdone, Speaker John A. Boehner, who failed last week to cobble together enough votes for his own bill, ordered House members to return on Sunday." http://nyti.ms/VloqCm

EXPERTS: TRAINED POLICE NEEDED FOR SCHOOL SECURITY. The AP's Larry Margasak reports, "the student's attack began with a shotgun blast through the windows of a California high school. Rich Agundez, the El Cajon policeman assigned to the school, felt his mind shift into overdrive. While two teachers and three students were injured when the glass shattered in the 2001 attack on Granite Hills High School, Agundez confronted the assailant and wounded him before he could get inside the school and use his second weapon, a handgun. The National Rifle Association's response to a Connecticut school massacre envisions, in part, having trained, armed volunteers in every school in America. But Agundez, school safety experts and school board members say there's a huge difference between a trained law enforcement officer who becomes part of the school family - and a guard with a gun." http://apne.ws/VaJgSq

HAWAII'S BRIAN SCHATZ SWORN INTO SENATE. Politico's Seung Min Kim reports, "Hawaii Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz was sworn in to the Senate Thursday afternoon to replace Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), who died last week of respiratory complications. 'I was pleased to have my family here with me,' Schatz said in brief comments after he was sworn in. 'And of course, we're hopeful to get right to work on averting the fiscal cliff.' Despite his relative youth - he's 40 - and just being sworn in, Schatz will be Hawaii's senior senator. Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) is retiring and will be replaced by Rep. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), who is set to be sworn in next week when the 113th Congress begins." http://politi.co/Uw3VTO

BUDGET WRITERS AT PENTAGON MOVE FORWARD DESPITE SPENDING THREAT. The Hill's Carlo Munoz reports, "The Pentagon is pretending the threat of the "fiscal cliff" doesn't exist when it comes to the Defense Department's 2014 budget. Budget planners are preparing their 2014 budget as if lawmakers will avoid the spending cuts known as sequestration that are scheduled to hit the Pentagon in January." http://bit.ly/WMJUHf

IN THE NOTE'S INBOX:

-OP-ED: THE SENATE SHOULD BLOCK AN END RUN ON NUCLEAR ARMS. John Bolton and John Yoo penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal calling for the senate to block an end run on nuclear arms. "President Obama has made eliminating all nuclear weapons his signature policy. In 2011, his New Start Treaty committed the United States to a ceiling of 700 strategic delivery vehicles and 1,550 strategic warheads," Bolton and Yoo write. "Now, as he promised in March, he seeks even deeper reductions through "a step we have never taken before-reducing not only our strategic nuclear warheads, but also tactical weapons and warheads in reserve." But the president faces the Constitution's requirement that two-thirds of the Senate consent to any treaty. In 2010, the Senate ratified New Start with a vote of 71-26, but only after ending a filibuster with the exact 67 votes needed for a treaty. After his nasty re-election campaign, partisan budget wrangling and unfulfilled promises to modernize our nuclear stockpile, Mr. Obama will have a hard time finding 12 Republican senators to support any new nuclear deal with Russia. Senators should block end-runs around the Constitution's treaty clause." http://on.wsj.com/THJsg5

WHO'S TWEETING?

@politicalwire: Why neither side wants a fiscal cliff deal http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/12/28/why_they_want_to_go_over_the_fiscal_cliff.html ?

@ChadPergram: Republican Study Cmte Chair Jim Jordan: Sen Reid and his colleagues should accept the House-passed plan or approve an acceptable alternative

@markknoller: No one holds out much hope the group can reach a deal to avert the fiscal cliff on Tuesday, but stranger things have happened.

@thegarance: "what on earth is Washington doing setting cat policy - polydactyl or otherwise - for Key West, Fla.?" http://trib.in/Tudqk7

@jackshafer: But consider the upside. RT @mlcalderone: "112th Congress Set To Become Most Unproductive Since 1940s" http://huff.to/RW3EKC

@kelleymc: Wishing @susquinn a very happy birthday! xo

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Bake Better Chocolate Chip Cookies by Using Chocolate Bars Instead of Chips

Bake Better Chocolate Chip Cookies by Using Chocolate Bars Instead of ChipsThe (very worthwhile) hunt for the perfect chocolate chip cookie has yielded thousands of cookie recipes. The next time you bake a batch, try out this simple tip: instead of chocolate chips or chunks, chop up a baking bar for more flavorful and better-looking cookies.

Leslie Beslie offers this tip on her blog, saying that the chopped chocolate will be more evenly distributed in the cookie, and adding all the little slivers makes the cookies look amazing. (That's her cookies photo up above.) She suggests using a good quality semi-sweet chocolate bar.

Serious Eats did a taste test pitting chips, chunks, and chopped bits against each other and scientifically concluded the same thing.

Chopping up bars is an extra step, but one that you'll appreciate when it comes time to dig into those cookies.

Check out Leslie's post for more cookie perfection tips.

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Q&A: Why Gay Marriage Won't Pass | NBC Chicago

David E. Smith, executive director of the Illinois Family Institute, talks about why he thinks gay marriage shouldn't -- and won't -- pass during the General Assembly's lame duck session next month.

Q: You've said you feel the public was sold a bill of goods two years ago, because they said, "We just want civil unions and this is as far as we're going to go." Can you explain why you're feeling deceived now??

A: They explicitly said that we're not seeking same-sex marriage. They also promised -- this is part two of this deceit -- that there would be religious freedom, that there would be no effect on religious liberties and freedom of conscience, and that also was a bill of goods.

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Q: You had an example of a bed-and-breakfast owner in Paxton. How was his religious liberty violated?

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A: It happened a month after Governor Quinn signed the law. It hadn't even gone into effect yet. A lesbian couple came to the Waldorf Bed and Breakfast and said, "We want to do our civil union here," and Jim Waldorf said, "I own and operate this business for the glory of the Lord. I'm a Christian. This violates my conscience." He's being sued for discrimination.

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Q: What's the difference for you between having a civil union and calling it marriage?

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A: There is a difference. The word "marriage" itself linguistically means something. No one's going around trying to redefine triangles as round. There are no round triangles. There are no gay marriages. There's going to have to be a distinction between marriages that are gay marriages, or genderless, you might say, and those that are actually man and woman who produce children: procreative.?

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Q: So why shouldn't gays get to call their relationships marriage?

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A: They don't have the right to go around and demand that we redefine a historical institution that has been understood for thousands of years as the union of one man and one woman.?

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Q: The civil unions bill was close. Where do you see the numbers on this one?

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A: Can I preface it by saying that we object that they are again using the lame-duck session. There's something wrong when you have unaccountable lawmakers going back to Springfield and passing tax increases or other things, like civil unions or gay marriage, over the objections of the people they're supposed to represent. Any lame-duck session should require a three-fifths vote, a supermajority. If there's an urgent matter, I'm sure three-fifths would do it. If there's not an urgent matter, wait until the people's newly-elected officials get into office.

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Q: Newt Gingrich made a comment that gay marriage is inevitable. Even if they don't pass it now, there's a generational shift going on that, as time goes by, it's going to be seen as so acceptable it's going to pass. What do you think of that, and is there anything you can do to turn that momentum around?

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A: I understand how he could be discouraged, but the fact of the matter is, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, the nation was pro-choice. Today, it's pro-life. Nations and attitudes can change. I don't think we ever give up principles like this, because it's politically difficult. We've got to continue. There's a principle here. The question that hasn't been asked is, 'What is marriage for? Why is government involved in it in the first place?' Because government recognized that a mother and father home is the ideal environment to raise the next generation of healthy and productive children. Homosexual relationships don't offer that. It's not like government wants to discriminate against one group of people. They're upholding a particular relationship and dynamic to raise healthy, productive members of society.?

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Q: Are you expecting this to come up for a vote next month?

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A: I don't know if I should tell you this, but I doubt if it's going to come up. I don't think they have the votes. I think they're going to fall short. Here's my philosophy, but I could be totally wrong. I'm working as if they're going to, but I believe if they call it, and it fails, they only hurt themselves with their so-called momentum. So why would you do it when you have greater numbers coming in the next session? However, here's the other side of that: Michael Madigan wants to protect some of his new members who might be in more sensitive districts from having to take this vote.

Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/QA-Why-Gay-Marriage-Wont-Pass-184945001.html

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Friday, December 28, 2012

'Modern Family': Gloria Gives Birth Previews (VIDEO)

The "Modern Family" baby is on the way! Gloria (Sofia Vergara) will give birth to the newest Pritchett in January 2013 on the ABC comedy.

In typical "Modern Family" fashion, it looks like the birth of Jay (Ed O'Neill) and Gloria's baby will be rife with comedy. "Get out!" Gloria screams at her unborn baby in one of the commercials.

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I'm Chef Aaron Sanchez, and This Is How I Work

I'm Chef Aaron Sanchez, and This Is How I WorkIf you're a Food Network fan, you probably recognize Aaron Sanchez as a judge on the culinary battle show Chopped or a participant in the high stakes cook-off Iron Chef. Off camera, the chef divides his time between restaurants in New York and Kansas City, as well as the nationwide network of House of Blues eateries. Aaron's fresh spin on traditional Latin cuisine has collected a stack of awards, launched two bestselling books, and even landed him a guest chef gig at the White House. We stole a few minutes from Aaron's crazy schedule to talk about his favorite gadgets, the best tunes to cook to, and more.

Name: Aaron Sanchez
Occupation: Chef and partner at Mestizo in Kansas City, KS; Culinary visionary behind Tacombi in New York, NY; Culinary director of Crossroads at House of Blues nationwide; Judge on Food Network's Chopped
Location: New York, NY
Current computer: MacBook Pro
Current mobile device: iPhone 5
I work: Passionately

What apps/software/tools can't you live without?

Songkick is amazing. It keeps track of my favorite bands and musicians and tells me when there are upcoming concert dates. Spotify is another one that I couldn't live without. For work, Google Calendar keeps me on track.

I'm Chef Aaron Sanchez, and This Is How I Work

What's your best time-saving trick?

Having membership accounts with travel companies, like Hertz and Starwood Hotels helps me keep track of everything. Having all of my info saved in my account makes coordinating travel a lot smoother and easier. I'm also big on planning ahead and making appointments and reservations so I don't have to wait around. Pictured at right: Aaron's iPhone homescreen.

What's your favorite to-do list manager?

I use the Notes app on my iPhone for everything. I'm never without my phone so it's perfect for me.

Besides your phone and computer, what gadget can't you live without?

My electric shaver.

What's your workspace like?

Since I'm on the road all the time, I work from wherever I can?airport waiting rooms, restaurants, hotels. Since I have to be mobile, I keep everything in my bag?my AT&T wifi device, my phone, my MacBook, iPad, headphones, and chargers for everything.

What do you listen to while you work?

My wife, Ife Sanchez Mora, is a musician, so I listen to her music when I'm in the kitchen.

What's your sleep routine like?

I'm an early riser. When I'm on the road my phone is my alarm clock, but when I'm at home my son Yuma is my alarm clock. There's no sleeping once he's up and running.

I'm Chef Aaron Sanchez, and This Is How I Work

Pictured above: Aaron's desktop.

What everyday thing are you better at than anyone else?

I'm a champ at changing diapers.

What's the best advice you've ever received?

Cook for the customer, not yourself.

Anything else you'd like to add?

Being a chef isn't about glamour and accolades. Cooking is all about passion and love.

Connect with Aaron on Twitter @Chef_Aaron.


The How I Work series asks heroes, experts, brilliant, and flat-out productive people to share their shortcuts, workspaces, routines, and more. Every Wednesday we'll feature a new guest and the gadgets, apps, tips, and tricks that keep them going. Have someone you'd kill to see featured, or questions you think we should ask? Email Tessa.

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2013: The Year Of The Literary Movie?

From 'The Great Gatsby' to 'Catching Fire,' movie producers seem to be raiding bookshelves more than ever before.
By Amy Wilkinson


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Thursday, December 27, 2012

New York City Crime Rates Are Up - Business Insider

Kim Bhasin / Business Insider

New York City's overall crime rate in 2012 is on track to go up for the first time in two decades, largely because thieves are stealing so many Apple products, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Grand larceny was up 9 percent, a spike officials attributed to theft of personal electronic devices like Apple phones, according to the Journal.

Overall crime was up 3 percent.

If Apple thefts had not gone up in 2012, "we would be experiencing a slight decline in crime citywide," the NYPD's top spokesman Paul Browne told the Journal.

The NYPD seems to be taking steps to tackle smartphone theft, though.

After the new iPhone went on sale in September, the NYPD put officers in 21 stores across the city to help consumers register their phones so cops could track them down if they were stolen, Bloomberg reported.

At the time, the NYPD noted that between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30, more 11,447 Apple products had been stolen in the city ? a 40 percent increase since the same period the prior year, Bloomberg reported.

Browne told Bloomberg in an email that Apple products were a "magnet for crime."

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Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-crime-rates-are-up-2012-12

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

2013 ? The Greatest Year for Your Fitness and Health! | Arcadia ...

Here are Some Guidelines to Help You to Be the Best that You Can Be!

Another year has passed. Have you done all you can for your fitness and health? Have you procrastinated? Have you said you are going to do the things you know you should? Let?s break out of a rut today by following these simple guidelines for your well being.
1. How much exercise are you getting? The latest research from the various medical boards that keep track of our health needs show that as little as 40 minutes three times a week can maintain a healthy body. This includes cardiovascular workouts like walking, cycling, circuit training, as well as swimming. Couple this with weight training, 8 ? 10 exercises like curls, presses, squats, bent rows, leg extensions, hamstring curls, upright rows, and bench presses. This will take care of your muscular needs. One of the neglected areas as a trainer I?ve seen in my clients is lack of flexibility. There are excellent programs for this that include pilates, yoga, and other flexibility exercises that we can show you that will keep you injury free and youthful.
2. What about your nutrition? The holiday season is winding down, time to put away the See?s candy, cookies, and sugary treats that are empty calories that put on weight. Begin 2013 with fruits like bananas, watermelon, strawberries, blueberries, cantaloupe, honeydew, oranges and apples. Some of these you can find in the 99Cent Store if you are on a tight budget. Set a goal of losing one pound a week if you are overweight. Coupled with exercise up to 40 minutes a day, the pounds will come off very quickly. Add vegetables like salads, broccoli, spinach, cauliflower, tomatoes, and cucumbers. These will provide the necessary nutrition to retain good health. Water is very important to drink. It is caloric free and won?t put on weight.
3. Your spiritual and mental well being is very important in the year 2013. Do you have a relationship with God? Do you pray? Do you study the Bible and other inspirational material? We are in need of healing in this nation as never before. With the mass shootings and violence in our country we need to return to Godly principles that made this nation truly great. It?s up to you and your family. Will you keep things in a positive light in the year 2013? Don?t watch violent movies or play violent video games that do effect one psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually. Get out in our beautiful Southern California environment. Take a walk; breathe in the wonderful fresh air. Thank God for your life.
This will be our 45th year as professional fitness trainers, motivators, and leaders in our nation in helping people stay healthy and well. We can be reached at 626-355-8964 or harrysneider@earthlink.net. YOU DESERVE HEALTH AND FITNESS. GO FOR IT!
By Harry Sneider

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Django Unchained Movie Review | Film School Rejects

DJANGO UNCHAINED

Quentin Tarantino has very quickly, but not so quietly, found a new niche for his filmmaking talents as a teller of tall tales with a historical bent. He?s less interested in historical accuracy than he is historical tomfoolery, but that never lessens the sheer entertainment he finds in mankind?s relatively recent foibles and misdeeds. From Inglourious Basterds? band of World War II Nazi-killers to his latest film?s vengeful slave turned bounty hunter, Tarantino has shown a knack for fitting his charismatic and electric characters into unexpected historical contexts with entertaining as hell results.

It?s 1858 in America, and Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) is a dentist on a mission. It?s light on tooth decay, heavy on bloodshed and utterly unrelated to the field of dentistry. He?s a bounty hunter whose latest targets, The Brittle Brothers, present a challenge in that he has no idea what they look like. Undeterred, Schultz acquires, apprentices and befriends a slave named Django (Jamie Foxx) who can identify the brothers. In exchange the ex-dentist will help the newly freed Django reunite with his wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), who currently belongs to a cruel but undeniably charming plantation owner named Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

What follows is a tale that would have made American History class a hell of a lot more memorable as Schultz and Django cut a bloody swath across the post-Civil War South through racists, enforcers and recognizable TV actors (Tom Wopat! Lee Horsley!) from decades past. The cinematic violence is paired with Tarantino?s typically sharp and often hilarious dialogue, an eclectic and anachronistic soundtrack and a roster of actors as thrilled to be onscreen as viewers will be watching them. Despite its subject matter Django Unchained is a somewhat slighter film than its predecessor and sometimes feels too comically broad and bloated, but as with David Fincher and the Coen brothers even Tarantino?s lesser films often exceed the best that others have to offer.

Schultz and Django work their way through a handful of wanted men, and while some of it is accomplished via montage and time lapse we?re shown Django?s entry into the business by way of the Brittle Brothers in vibrant detail. They?re tracked to Big Daddy?s (Don Johnson) plantation, a bright and faux-happy land that a racist, meat-eating incarnation of Colonel Sanders would be happy to call home. The laughs are plentiful, but when the violence comes it?s with the brutal crack of a whip and the generous spurting of dark red blood (done practically as opposed to via CGI).

Two of Tarantino?s biggest strengths have always been his scripts and his casts so it?s no surprise that both are highlights again here. Script-wise the film boasts some brilliant and eminently quotable dialogue that shies away from punch lines as infrequently as it does the n-word. It?s laugh out loud funny, but while it (unsurprisingly) finds much to exploit in the world of slavery, lynchings and casual murder it still allows for some serious and harsh exchanges and instances. It?s most definitely not for the squeamish.

All three leads give fine and fun performances and truly embrace their characters with enthusiasm. Waltz gets many of the best lines and proves again how wonderfully suited he is for Tarantino?s words. Foxx does well too as he manages the tightrope between the solemnity of the subject matter and the playfulness of the execution. If there?s a stand out though it?s DiCaprio?s turn as the malicious and easily offended Candie. Subtlety is not an option and DiCaprio lets his inner evil loose with a mustache-twirling, scene-stealing performance that refuses to let the fun stray too far from the cruelty. The supporting cast is equally memorable with appearances by Walter Goggins, Franco Nero, Michael Parks, James Remar (twice!) and others. Last but not least, Samuel L Jackson plays the film?s darkest bad guy (pun not intended) as Candie?s well-treated house servant who turns other slaves in for severe punishment at the drop of an N-bomb.

As entertaining as it is though, the film is a step back from the multi-layered high of Inglourious Basterds. While that film has loads of surface level entertainment it also features a smart subtext on movies and movie-making that runs parallel to its tale of Nazi scalping and familial revenge. Django is all surface by comparison. Clearly there?s a none too subtle criticism of slavery and racism, but that?s more common sense than commentary.

It also has pacing issues most notable when Tarantino brings the movie to a stirring, crimson-colored conclusion only to let it keep going for another twenty-five odd minutes. Prior to the film?s natural end there?s only one scene that probably should have hit the cutting room floor (even if it is a very funny ode to Blazing Saddles), but this near thirty minutes of extra ending marks the first time that the film begins to feel long. There?s a temptation to blame the absence of his longtime editor Sally Menke, but it?s clear the excess is all due to Tarantino. The section contains laughs and thrills to be sure, but it still feels unnecessary.

Still, not every film needs to be a masterpiece (self-declared or otherwise). Sometimes ?damn good? is more than good enough.

The Upside: Very funny; violence is often ridiculous and wonderfully bloody; actors are having an infectiously great time; damn nice seeing amble blood squibs used instead of CGI

The Downside: Runs twenty or so minutes too long; comedy often feels too broad; lacks additional subtext; subterfuge used against Mr. Candie seems wholly unnecessary and illogical; someone needs to tell Tarantino that his cameos are his films? low point

On the Side: The role of Django was originally intended for Will Smith, but the actor decided to make After Earth with M. Night Shyamalan instead, so everyone be sure to send a Thank You note to Mr. Shyamalan

Grade: B

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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Zacks Lowers Willis Lease Finance to Underperform (WLFC) | Daily ...

Willis Lease Finance (NASDAQ: WLFC) was downgraded by Zacks from a ?neutral? rating to an ?underperform? rating in a report released on Monday. They currently have a $13.70 target price on the stock.

Shares of Willis Lease Finance traded up 0.63% during mid-day trading on Monday, hitting $14.47. Willis Lease Finance has a 52 week low of $11.31 and a 52 week high of $14.82. The company?s market cap is $128.2 million.

Willis Lease Finance last announced its earnings results on Monday, November 5th. The company reported ($0.90) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The company had revenue of $37.50 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $39.48 million. Analysts expect that Willis Lease Finance will post $1.10 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Willis Lease Finance Corporation (Willis) is a lessor of commercial aircraft engines. The Company is a provider of aviation services whose primary focus is on providing operating leases of commercial aircraft engines and other aircraft-related equipment to air carriers, manufacturers and overhaul/repair facilities worldwide.

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Monday, December 24, 2012

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Pokemon: Its Our Destiny! lOneOnOnel

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The Chosen Ones
Humans with a hand-given destiny by Arceus to save the world.

The Dreams
Since they were small children, they have had strange dreams. Dreams that were nothing more than fleeting glimpses of colorful and glowing shardsImage and even the Sword of Vale. They've had visions of Arceus and a strange world where there are creatures that resemble Pokemon, but none of the Pokemon that they've ever seen.

Team Mystic
The "evil" side of the war, apparently. They want to capture The Chosen Ones to help them recruit Pokemon and find Arceus' treasures.

The War
Team Mystic has been using their Pok?mon to abuse humans and mutants alike, greedy for rare Pok?mon and treasures. They've recently discovered information regarding the Mystic Shards and The Chosen Ones and now seek to possess them. Their abuse has grown as they stop at nothing to find these Chosen Ones.

Arceus Treasures
The very last shards, larger than the rest. Its rumored that they can create new Pok?mon and even open doors to other dimensions. Hidden by Arceus - Only the Chosen Ones have an idea of where they could be. They ofen have dreams showing fleeting images of the shards' whereabouts. There is also the Sword of the Vale of which Team Mystic wishes to use to control the Dragon Force. No-one knows where it is now, but the Chosen Ones often see fleeting glimpses of it in their dreams just as much as the Mystic Shards.

Pokemon
The Chosen Ones can only capture Pokemon that correspond with their Type. For now. They have an intense bond with Pokemon of their Type and literally have never felt the need to capture a Pokemon of any other Type. The ability to capture other Pokemon Types will be introduced soon - With a light twist. What happens if they try to capture a Pokemon not their Type, you ask? Their Pokeball simply won't work at all. What happens if their Pokemon will evolve into something that isn't their corresponding type anymore? They won't evolve. The trainer can choose to let it evolve, but they will no longer own it - The Ownership seal from the Pokeball will break.

Communication
All Chosen Ones can use telepathy with their Pok?mon and Pokemon that they've established a strong bond with. Chosen Ones can understand all Pok?mon when they speak - Not just their own. They can also feel their Pokemon's emotions as their Pokemon can feel their trainer's as well.


Dragon Type and Martial Arts Mentor
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Eric Brian Caron

Age
42

Gender
Male

Classes
Weapons Master
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Ninja
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Personality
Outgoing. Strong-willed. Passionate. Never-back-down mindset.



Grass Type and Breeder Mentor
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"If you need help, all you gotta do is ask!"
Full Name
Miki Renata Sakaki-Kond?

Age
27

Gender
Female

Classes
Botanist
Evolver
Medic
Hatcher

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Personality
Maternal. Studious. Trusting.



Flying Type and Capture Specialist Mentor
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"To the skies....AWAY!"
Full Name
Cloud Jenara Lightfoot

Age
29

Gender
Female

Classes
Engineer
Artificer
Apricorn Smith
Pokeball Designer

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Personality
Spirited. Free-soul. Lively.



Water Type and Researcher Mentor
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"Ugh. Can't you do better than that?"
Full Name
Mizuki Nana Kondo

Age
40

Gender
Male

Classes
Watcher
Professor
Scientist
Petrologist

Current Pok?mon Team
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Personality
Socially precise. Strict. Aggressive.



Fire Type and Ace Trainer Mentor
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"I'll see you bright and early tomorrow!"
Full Name
Ember Marie Test

Age
25

Gender
Female

Classes
Stat Ace
Tag Battler
Black Belt (Muay boran)

Current Pok?mon Team
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Personality
Complacent. Self-sufficient. Rowdy.



Psychic Mentor
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"Let us meditate."
Full Name
Ellen Lynn Ornova

Age
23

Gender
Female

Classes
Hex Maniac
Clairsentient
Empath

Current Pok?mon Team
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Personality
Reserved. Staid. Discreet.

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