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You 2 by Michelle Wooderson for Papertrey Ink, as seen in Budget-Friendly Scrapbooking, page 60.
Stamping is a fantastic, versatile technique that can add texture and depth to your scrapbook pages with little effort. With just a few stamps in your scrapbooking stash, you have multiple design options at your fingers.
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In 2009 his sculpture will be included in the Armory Show in New York and in a one person show at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas TX.
Eric is an inspirational speaker sharing his struggles and successes as a dyslexic. His art work reflects his difficulties reading and helps audiences see into the world of print disability.
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Katie Price has split from Leandro Penna amid reports she has been texting 19-year-old 'X Factor' contestant Dan Ferrari-Lane
Katie Price has split from her fiance Leandro Penna.
The 34-year-old star - who got engaged to the 27-year-old Argentine model last April after dating for almost two years since meeting him at the Oscars in 2011 - has confirmed they have amicably parted ways but insists 'X Factor' contestant Dan Ferrari-Lane had nothing to do with their split.
In a statement on her official website, Katie said: ''Leo and I have had a lovely fun time for a couple of years, we will always feel deep affection for each other, but sometimes relationships just run their course.''
The glamour model also revealed the couple struggled to cope with long periods apart.
She said: ''Pressures of work on different continents, natural demands of family ties, and careers, have meant we have spent a huge amount of time apart even when we were in the same country. This meant it was difficult for the relationship to move forward.''
The twice married model - who attended the premier of the new James Bond movie 'Skyfall' just hours before announcing the split - dismissed rumours linking her to 19-year-old District3 member Dan as ''ridiculous'' and branded the timing of her split from Leandro as a ''coincidence''.
She insisted her interactions with Dan, whom she is said to have been sending flirty texts, have been ''entirely innocent and platonic''.
Katie, who was previously married to Peter Andre and Alex Reid, said she will stay firm friends with her ex-boyfriend and even said his next girlfriend will be an extremely lucky girl.
She said: ''We really wish each other nothing but the very best and will remain best of friends, whoever he eventually settles down with will be a very lucky girl.''


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Back in April, Sony Ericsson announced its first Android powered Walkman phone, the Sony Ericsson W8. This handset runs on the old Android 2.1 (Eclair) Operating System and it comes with a 3-inch TFT screen, 600 MHz processor, 3.2 megapixel camera, 3G Connectivity and so on. Flipkart, a popular online retailer is currently selling the Sony Ericsson W8 Walkman phone in India. Check out the complete specs, after the break.
Sony Ericsson W8 features a 3 inch touchscreen display with 320 x 480 pixels resolution, 600 MHz processor, Android 2.1 (Eclair) Operating System, 3.2 megapixel camera, 3G Connectivity, 128 MB internal memory, MicroSd card slot, 16 G expandable memory, 4 GB card included, 3.5 mm headset jack, FM Radio with RDS, Wi-Fi, Connectivity, GPS, Bluetooth, up to 5 hours talk-time, up to 476 hours stand-by time and a 1200 mAh battery.
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STRANGE BUT TRUE- Give me a...: Our body is made of levers
Q. You don't need an engineering degree to figure out the common denominator here, but it wouldn't hurt: Tongs, scissors, staplers, nutcrackers, bottle openers, nail clippers, tweezers, hammer claws, can-openers, screwdrivers, pliers, car-jacks, light switches. Need more? Add in see- saws, baseball bats, golf clubs, fishing rods, hockey sticks. Archimedes, exaggerating somewhat, said if he had a big enough model of this and a place to anchor it, he could move the Earth. Got it now? –I. Newton
A. All incorporate some form of lever, says Steven Vogel in Cats' Paws and Catapults. Levers are simple "machines" consisting of a stiff rod, a load, and an effort. As such, they're older than humanity, used even by chimps when they "fish" termites out of their nest with twigs. Your body itself has built-in bony levers, without which you'd hardly be able to gain leverage to move about.
Q. With a name like Virginia Flowers, would you be more likely to move to Virginia and to become a florist? –I. M. Hogg
A. Can you believe the answer is a statistical "yes." We don't just like ourselves– we like what we associate with ourselves, including our own name. Brett Pelham, Matthew Mirenberg and John Jones have termed this "implicit egotism," says David G. Myers in Social Psychology. For
instance, women named Georgia are disproportionately likely to move to Georgia, as are Virginias to Virginia. And St. Louis has a 49 percent excess (relative to the national proportion)
of men named Louis.
Amazingly, this applies to last names as well, the clincher that people don't just do egotistic baby-naming but actually move to their place names! California, for instance, has a disproportionate number of Cali's, as in Califano; Toronto has excess Tor's. So it's no surprise
that Hills, Rocks, Lakes and Parks tend to live in places such as Park City.
"Weirder yet– I am not making this up– people seem to prefer careers related to their names," says Myers. Across the U.S., Jerry, Dennis, and Walter are equally popular (0.42 percent each), yet America's dentists are almost twice as likely to be named Dennis. And there are 2.5 times as many Denise dentists as Beverlys or Tammys, equally popular names. Georges and Geoffreys become geophysicists, geologists, geochemists. "And in the 2000 presidential campaign, people with last names beginning with B and G were more likely to contribute to the campaigns of Bush and Gore respectively," he says.
Q. If winter daylight deprivation can bring on SAD (seasonal affective disorder) and depression, what might happen to someone stationed at the North Pole, where night lasts for six months? –S. Claus
A. Coping there in winter is indeed overwhelmingly difficult–just read Admiral Perry's diaries, says the Center for Environmental Therapeutics, in New York. Not only is depression a major problem for those vulnerable to SAD, but maintaining a regular sleep-wake schedule is nearly
impossible for many people, especially kids. Northern Scandinavians call this "midwinter insomnia." Luckily, timed artificial lighting can help serve as the brain's early-morning sunrise signal.
A fascinating fact is that while alcoholism is common in Alaska, Russia, and Finland, native Icelanders do not have SAD even if they move elsewhere, says University of Minnesota psychiatrist Barry Rittberg, MD. Theirs was a genetically isolated population for hundreds of years, so the genes responsible for SAD were eliminated due to decreased offspring for those who got depressed and lost interest in sex, or who maybe even committed suicide.
Q. You know that 1 + 0 = 1, 1 - 0 = 1, and 1 x 0 = 0. So what does 1/0 (1 divided by 0) equal? And a related question, when does Wayne Newton become the Pope? –Benedict XVI
A. Dividing by 0 would bring on the "nonsense" cops because in our mathematical system, this gives an answer that doesn't make sense, says Ithaca College's Aaron Weinberg. To see why, check out the following progression: 1 divided by 1 = 1; 1 divided by 1/2 = 2; 1 divided by 1/3 =
3 ... 1 divided by 1/100 = 100 ... 1 divided by 1/1000 = 1000 ... The smaller you make the divisor, the bigger the answer becomes, until as you approach 0, it grows too enormous to even write on the page. Try to divide by 0 itself and the answer becomes infinity, which if treated like an ordinary number leads to some mighty strange things.
How strange? If 1/0 equals infinity, then so does 2/0. Which means 1/0 = 2/0, and since the denominators here are the same, you can conclude that 1 = 2. It gets better, says Weinberg. "We know that Wayne Newton is 1 person. The Pope is also 1 person, so together they're 2 people. But since 2 = 1, this also means that Wayne Newton and the Pope are 1 person, so Wayne Newton must be the Pope!"
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Wowie! Look at this cuddly kitten! oh my god, isn't it just precious?! This is dragon_king speaking and today we're going to learn "how to draw a cat" like the one above. As everyone knows, cats and kittens are small carnivores and are descendants from their large cousins, lions, tigers, leopards, and so on. Polls say that cats and kittens are one of the best quiet animals to have around your home. Preferably, people have cats as pets when they live in apartments because they are small and easy to maintain, and because dogs aren't allowed in most apartment complexes. Aaww sorry dogs! The best feature about a dog is that it has feeling for its owner. They cling to its owner forever. Hey its man's best friend! On the other hand cats manipulate owners for food and warmth of a home. There are hardly any cats that care for their owner. Unless, you've had your cat since it was a kitten. Then there could be a strong connection with your cat and you. The past cats I've had hated me. They always bit me and scratched for no reason. My last cat, Puffy, loved my mom to death. It always clung to her and lay on top of her back all the time. My mom always gets the cats to love her. Oh well, I hope this tutorial on how to draw a cat will help you in the future, and remember you can also use this tutorial on "how to draw a cat" or kitten, all you have to do is draw them to look smaller. I will leave you to this awesome tutorial, and I will also get on the ball and submit more drawing fun. Stay tuned in my little kiddies!
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That's what I thought.
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I moved my blog about a month or so ago and ... well, I know what they say about how you shouldn't really care about your statistics and all, but I admit that I kind of DO, and ... well, my subscribers aren't what they used to be.
As in, it looks like there may be all of 11 people over there.
Or maybe there were really only 11 people here and Feedburner was just playin' with me for nearly five years, or maybe traffic's down because of the summer, but whatever.
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A team of five George Wythe College students spent a day at the Monticello Elementary School tutoring students last Thursday. The students love having "big kids" mentor them.
Teachers report the only problem was that all the kids wanted to spend time with their drop-in teachers at the same time.
One of the core beliefs of the George Wythe philosophy is "giving back" in any way possible. When the new college is built and operating on their 500-acre campus west of Monticello, the contributions these values will make to the city and county can hardly be imagined.
A visit with Dr. Shanon Brooks, a team of architects, and donors Thursday morning revealed a beehive of activity at their headquarters in Monticello in what used to be the Hyland Hotel. School officials have invited interested educators, donors, and community members to come in and make suggestions. "How often do we get the chance to build a university from the ground up." Dr. Brooks mused. "We want to consider every good idea anyone has."
They are presently immersed with a team of professionals in what they call a "charrette", an intense design studio where members of the design team are brought to a single site for a week of intense activity. They bring all their equipment with them, and create a working office. More can be accomplished in that mode, despite the costs of travel and maintenance, than trying to do it from distances.
Among those attending the charrette was Marie Andree Soundy from Panama City, Panama. She and her husband own an architectural firm in Panama City. Panamanians don't see much snow in their part of the world, so this week has been a treat. Soundy and her husband both hold advanced degrees from Notre Dame, and are excited to be part of the George Wythe planning and design.
Because the motif of the George Wythe Campus will be a blending of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England and the University of Virginia, school officials have retained the services of Brad Houston, an architect in Salt Lake City who graduated from Cambridge University. He is not as enamored of the snow as Mrs. Soundy, but is excited about the project. Several other professional designers and architects are involved.
According to Dr. Brooks, the final drawings and elevations should be ready within a few weeks. Plans call for construction of the first of 10 colleges in 2010, with student instruction to begin full time on-site in 2012. The first class in Monticello is presently being taught by Dr. Brooks on Tuesdays from 6 to 9 a.m. Nineteen local people are enrolled in the three hour college credit class.
Another exciting feature of the campus is a 600 lot "village" which will provide housing opportunities not only for faculty, staff and students, but for hundreds of people who love the university atmosphere and would like to live or retire there.
Brooks said the master plan will attempt to make the residential "village" compatible with the overall master plan. The village will be designed so residents will be able to walk or ride bikes easily throughout the complex.
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Welcome to World Card Making Day! Later today, we'll have more cards – and a GIVEAWAY! But in the meantime…how about some holiday card inspiration to kick off with?
This adorable card by Kristy Dalman of Some Odd Girl stamps will have you counting the days until the snow flies and the scarves come out of the closet!
Supplies | Stamps: Some Odd Girl (Winter Friends and Warm Wishes Tia). Pattern Papers: Studio Calico (Classic Calico Vol 2) , My Minds Eye "Follow Your Heart" (Be Happy). Glitter Paper: Doodle Bug Sugar Coated Cardstock (Swimming Pool). Ink: Tsukineko Memento (Tuxedo Black and Teal Zeal). Misc: Button, Thread, Copic Markers, Ranger Stickles (Stardust).
Kristy shared this with us about her card:
"During the holidays i love making snowy winter inspired cards. For this card I couldn't help using the cute polar bear and giving him some light snow flakes and just as freshly fallen snow glistens in the sun, I added some sparkle to the snowflakes as well as using the glittery cardstock. For the snow flakes I used Teal Zeal from Memento which is a very rich color ink (its the same as the sentiment is stamped in) but I wanted it to have a very soft feel and not to over power my back ground. So I stamped it on a scrap paper twice before stamping it the third time onto my background paper."
If you like Some Odd Girl, be sure to check back later in the day, because we will be giving away some of their stamps in a World Card Making Day giveaway!
Kristy Dalman is the Owner/Artist/Designer of Some Odd Girl Stamps: She describes herself as a "crafty, artsy girl" and says "finding a career in a creative field has always been my number one dream". She worked grocery retail for 11 years before following her dream and becoming the owner of Some Odd Girl. Kristy has been Copic Certified since June 2010 and Intermediate Certificated in November 2011.
Some Odd Girl Stamps, based in a small town in Michigan, was founded in January 2010 as a digital stamp company. In May 2011, the company released its first clear photopolymer stamps. The company is known for owner Kristy Dalman's signature hand illustrated quirky designs of animals and figures of girls.


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In a lovely location - right on the harbour, with pretty water views when the tide is in - The Quay House is the oldest building in Clifden and was built around 1820.
Since then it has had a surprisingly varied usage: it was originally the harbourmaster's house, then a convent, then a monastery; it was converted into a hotel at the turn of the century and finally, since 1993, has been relishing its most enjoyable phase as a guesthouse, in the incomparable hands of long-time hoteliers, Paddy and Julia Foyle.
It's a fine house, with spacious rooms - including a stylishly homely drawing room with an open fire. And the accommodation is exceptionally comfortable, in airy, wittily decorated and sumptuously furnished rooms that include not only two wheelchair-friendly rooms, but also seven newer studio rooms, with small fitted kitchens, balconies overlooking the harbour and, as in the original rooms, excellent bathrooms with full bath and shower.
Breakfast is served in a charming conservatory, decorated with a collection of silver domes and trailing Virginia creeper criss-crossing the room on strings, and it is simply superb.
Treats include a buffet laid out to tempt you as you enter and orders for your tea or coffee are taken even before you sit down at tables beautifully set up with individual jugs of freshly squeezed orange juice. Hot dishes, such as a perfectly cooked traditional Irish, or scrambled eggs with smoked salmon, are all served with crisp toast, and fresh top-ups of tea and coffee.
Paddy and Julia never put a foot wrong at Quay House. They are consummate hosts: thoughtful, engaging, helpful and generous with local knowledge - and, perhaps most importantly, have the true hotelier's instinct of when to give their guests space. A stay is always a luxuriously enriching experience, simply because they have thought of everything.
Although officially closed in winter it is always worth inquiring.
*The Quay House was our Guesthouse of the Year for 2006, and also the national winner of the Irish Breakfast Awards.


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Seth Meyers returned to his "Weekend Update" roots on "Late Night" by talking about news, giving viewers a rapidfire summary of all the events that led to the crisis in Ukraine.
Meyers called on Ben Warheit, one of his writers, to help him out with the segment.
"Here's what's going to happen," Meyers said. "I'm going to explain what's happening in Ukraine faster than Ben here can untangle these headphones."
U.S. & World
"But Seth, I'm going to defeat you," Ben said.
"Okay, well we'll see Ben. I appreciate your enthusiasm for this," Meyers said.
Meyers then launched his lightning fast explanation, hitting points like: President Viktor Yanukovych's rejection of an agreement with the European Union in favor of a closer relationship to Moscow, the bloody protests in Kiev's Independence Square, and the subsequent establishment of a new government in the embattled country.
Meyers also talked about Putin's move to increase the Russian troop presence in the Crimean peninsula.
"Crimeans aren't upset because 60 percent of them are still ethnically Russian," Meyers said. "So basically it's not Russia but it's right next door and it's full of Russians. The closest thing we have to that in America is Cancun in March."
Meyers finished his explanation and pointed to Ben who had not yet finished untangling the headphones.
"I'm really sorry Ben," Meyers said.
"I went slow cause I thought you'd be mad if I won," Ben said.
"What would make you say that?"
"You said you'd fire me."
Watch Meyers take on the Ukranian Crisis above.


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Fragile Memories
|Altar U, located on the village square with two young boys, 1893. Photo by Edmund Lincoln. PM 2004.24.249.
Images of Archaeology & Community
at Copan, 1891–1900
Through April 6, 2009
Now online!
In the late nineteenth century, Peabody Museum expedition teams set out to remote areas of Mexico and Central America, often with little inkling of what they might experience and barely prepared to navigate the cultural encounters essential to their missions. The Peabody Museum holds the written and visual records of these early expeditions and recently completed a two-year project to digitize more than 10,000 nineteenth-century glass-plate negatives.
The earliest images in this amazing and unique collection were photographed at Copan in Honduras, during the Museum's pioneering archaeological expeditions to the site. These images act as visual time machines, offering a wealth of archaeological information for current research, along with a visual narrative of the budding town and the archaeologists ' interactions with the local community.
As the excavations unfold before our eyes, scenes of the Copan community also emerge. But, who are the people in these images, and what effect did the excavations have on their community?
Curated by Barbara Fash.
See the Fragile Memories brochure.


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NEW YORK.- To celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of François Boucher (1703-1770), an unprecedented international loan exhibition of his drawings opens today at The Frick Collection in New York. This is truly the first major survey of the artists graphic work to bring together a substantial number of loans from both international and national public and private collections. Presenting approximately seventy-five sheets of the highest quality, the exhibition provides a deeper understanding of Bouchers prolific output of works on paper and demonstrates his extraordinary technique and style as a draftsman. The artists wide variety of subject matter is revealed by a selection that includes depictions of pastoral scenes and landscapes, various conceptions of mythology, religious narratives, historical events, representations of literature and allegory, and contemporary scenes. The Drawings of François Boucher makes its debut at the Frick (October 8 through December 14, 2003), and then travels to the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth (January 17 through April 18, 2004). It is curated by Alastair Laing, Advisor on Paintings and Sculpture to the National Trust, London. The exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts and is made possible, in part, by grants from the Fino Family Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Pfizer Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the Benefactors Circle of the AFA. Presentation of the exhibition in New York, which is coordinated by the Fricks, Chief Curator Colin B. Bailey, is made possible through a major grant from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation with additional support from Jean A. Bonna and the Fellows of The Frick Collection.
Comments Dr. Bailey, "This is a remarkable selection that includes both the unexpected and the unfamiliar and represents Boucher at his fullest and most comprehensive. The compelling variety of works assembled here bears out Jacques-Louis Davids praise of his first mentor, Not everyone can be a Boucher (Nest pas Boucher qui veut.)"
By his own admission, Boucher is said to have made as many as ten thousand drawings over the course of a career that spanned nearly five decades. Not only did he make preparatory compositional and figure studies for his paintings, but he also used drawings in the process of designing cartoons for Beauvais and Gobelins tapestries and as models for Sèvres porcelain. From early on in his career he provided drawings to be engraved as thesis plates, book illustrations, frontispieces, and allegorical vignettes. As a mature artist he pioneered the concept of the autonomous drawing, creating individual works specifically for collectors. Following innovations in printmaking in the 1740s, Boucher also made drawings to be engraved in facsimile, which could, therefore, reach broader audiences. Furthermore, he explored the graphic medium in all its variety, drawing in sanguine (red chalk); sanguine brûlée (reddish-brown chalk); pen and ink (both black and brown); brush and wash; pastel; in the trois crayons technique perfected by Watteau; and in black chalk heightened with white on blue, gray, or fawn paper.
The son of a master painter in the Paris Guild (the Académie de Saint-Luc), Boucher spent a brief apprenticeship in the studio of the brilliant, but unstable, history painter François Lemoyne. During the early to middle 1720s, Boucher created etchings of more than one hundred drawings by Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) and was thereafter strongly influenced by the artists figural style and use of color. In 1723, Boucher won the Academys annual Prix de Rome, the premiere student prize that would enable him to study classical and Renaissance art in Rome at the Académie de France. Surviving drawings from this period (the trip was delayed and he actually traveled to the Eternal City in 1728) suggest that he was most interested in the vigor and grandiloquence of the Italian Baroque. On this sojourn, he also encountered the work of Northern mannerist Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651), whose rustic protagonists had a considerable influence on the young artists own peasant scenes and early pastorals. Back in Paris by the summer of 1731, Boucher quickly ascended the Academys hierarchy as a history painter and was made a full professor by 1737. Among the most successful of the extracurricular activities he undertook at the same time for private, sometimes royal, clients was the set of illustrations for a new edition of Molières works in 1734-35. Setting the narratives in contemporary Parisian interiors, Boucher approached each episode as a miniature history painting and prepared his compositions accordingly with figure studies of unprecedented verve and spontaneity. Featured in the exhibition is an exemplary study (above left) on loan from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, in which the costume, tricorn, gestures, and expressions of the protesting La Flèche are masterfully delineated, while his pockets are being picked by the suspicious figure of Harpagon.
Despite the caliber of such drawings, it was primarily as a painter of mythological subjects that Boucher made his reputation in the1730s, one that became unassailable with Madame de Pompadours installation as titular mistress in 1745. Indeed, under these circumstances, Boucher quickly gained ascendancy as the foremost painter in her circle. His masterpieces, The Rising of the Sun and The Setting of the Sun (now in the Wallace Collection, London), from which a single set of Gobelins tapestries was woven, were conceived as a part of mythological decorations for Pompadours Château de Bellevue. A drawing of a male nude, based on the figure of Apollo in The Rising of the Sun, is included in the exhibition. Similarly, the hoary Head of a River God in Profile (at right) is not a preparatory study, but one made after a figure in a lost tapestry cartoon, Rinaldo Asleep. The recycling of motifs to create satisfying individual sheets for the private market is an important aspect of Bouchers production, one that only recently has been given the attention it deserves.
The subject of the female nude was a constant in Bouchers graphic output, from the cat-eyed studies in black or red chalk that date from the mid-1730s to the 1740s, to the more weighty figures that characterize his later production. Close examination of the provocative Recumbent Female Nude, illustrated on the first page of this release, suggests that the function of these erotic studies is more complex than is immediately apparent. Part courtesan, part Venuss handmaiden, the figure adopts a pose that Boucher had studied many times before in the previous decade. While it anticipates the more blatant carnality associated with his Odalisques, the drawing retains an ethereal grace and delicacy more appropriate to Mount Olympus than to the seraglio of a sultans harem.
As a painter, Boucher embraced all genres within the Academys hierarchy with the exception of still life, and his graphic work was no less compelling and all encompassing treating religious, mythological, and historical narratives; scenes from everyday life and domesticity; studies of adults and children made from life models; depictions, real and idealized, of the male and female nude. The exhibition includes outstanding examples of all of the above and even presents one of Bouchers rare portraits in pastel, the genre least congenial to him.
Boucher not only operated within the parameters established by the Academy, but he recast and reinvented certain of its categories. Just as his creation of the painted pastoral scene civilized the prevailing Dutch-inspired rustic subject, so did his treatment of landscape renew that genre. The exhibition includes Landscape with the Aqueduct at Arcueil (at left), a rendition of the structure created in the seventeenth century for Marie de Médicis. Framed by overgrown trees, the scene evokes the abandoned grounds of a château south of Paris where artists of Bouchers generation flocked to make paintings and drawings en plein air.
Although in the 1760s Boucher came under fire from progressive critics for his attachment to a purely fictive universe, he continued to produce monumental mythological and pastoral decorations that display an inventiveness and acuity that would be matched only by his pupil Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the next decade. Still in royal favor, Boucher became premier peintre to the aging Louis XV in 1765. However, the artist seems also to have been receptive to the emerging classicism that infiltrated all aspects of French art, decorative arts, and architecture in this decade. An example of this aesthetic shift can be found in the exhibition, which features the dignified and magisterial Study of a Despondent Woman in Drapery (at right). While the work cannot be connected to any surviving composition, it may have been intended to assist his son-in-law, the history painter Jean-Baptiste Deshays, with a figure for a tapestry cartoon of The Anger of Achilles. Boucher remained a master of the heroic narrative, which is exemplified in the wash drawing The Continence of Scipio, a fully worked-up compositional study made in preparation for an aborted commission from King Stanislas Poniatowski of Poland.
A fully illustrated catalogue, published by the AFA in association with Scala Publishers Ltd., accompanies the exhibition and features entries that reassess the dating of many of Bouchers drawings, trace their history of ownership, discuss the relationship between drawings and specific paintings, and reveal other new research. Included is an essay by Alastair Laing that explores Bouchers development as a draftsman through his range of subjects, his contemporary appeal, and his innovations in the medium. A foreword by Pierre Rosenberg, former director of the Musée du Louvre, Paris, addresses Bouchers place among the great French draftsmen of his time. The catalogue (264 pages, more than 100 color illustrations) will be available in English and French hardcover editions ($55) and in an English softcover version ($37.50) through the Museum Shop of The Frick Collection, the institutions website (www.frick.org), or by calling (212) 288-0700.


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TSGS First Meeting for 2011-2012
13 Sep 2011
President Don Counts presides over the meeting (Peggy Newton, librarian is standing to his right). Seated in the first row is (L-R): Carol Lantaff, Rena & Larry Goss, Peggy & Ken Gilkey.
At end of the table (standing), Secretary Kim Nightingale reads the minutes of the previous meeting. Seated at that table at the end is Treasurer, Diana Davis, Former President Karin Kirsch, Program Chair Becky West. Carol Lantaff is at the end of the table to Kim's left.
Lyn Martin gives an animated Library Report as President Counts stands by.
Speaking of animation, former President John G. West, presented a lively program "Genealogical Research Skills vs. Just Plain Luck!" John used this John Deere cap to illustrate that all of his ancestors were farmers. Holding a corn-cob pipe was used to show that those farmers were almost exclusively tobacco farmers.
John dramatized that most of his lucky success in finding ancestors was that he had a wee bit o' Irish blood in him... and possibly a wee bit of Leprachauns along the line. Here John asked the audience if they thought he looked like a "little Leprachaun!" John used humor & unusual stories to point out his lucky findings, but then mentioned how using better research skills could have eliminated the need of luck to discover his ancestors. About 18-20 members were in attendance. Peggy Gilkey won the attendance prize... one year's TSGS membership.
- Photos taken by JGWest & Don Counts


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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Super-Dooper Homemade Muesli Bars
But have you looked at the ingredients in your off-the-shelf muesli bars? (You should, you know. Look at ingredients lists on things. But that's another story.)
These little bars were inspired by the magnificent Mollie Katzen (again) - specifically, her 'breakfast bars' in Still Life with Menu. (I must be going through a Mollie Katzen phase ... ) I've added raw cacao and coconut oil for antioxidants and nut meal to boost the protein levels, as well as buckwheat flour for its natural, sweet nuttiness. Feel free to try this recipe with whatever you have on hand - with or without the cacao and with different dried fruits, flours, nuts, and/or juices.
1. Mix all the ingredients together and spread into a large, lined, rectangular pan.
2. Bake at 180C (360F) for ~30 minutes; cut into squares while hot, but leave them to cool in the pan before removing them.
3. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week, or in the fridge if you want to keep them longer.
The cost
A tray of organic muesli bars cost me less than $5 to make - which is a lot cheaper than the ones you buy at the supermarket. And with no added corn syrup. Yay!
I promise promise promise there will be some Phoenix stuff coming soon ... I've been busy settling in for our 5 weeks here. But I have recently pulled my camera back out, dusted it off, and have been baking some truly fabulous cookies that I'll be sharing with you all.
Have a lovely day all you lovely people,
Amanda xx
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- Linda Barnier said... [Reply to comment]
I've been waiting for you to post something like this. Muesli bars are my go-to snack for Mini. I usually buy Carmen's Muesli Bars but these sound even better. Love your work. xx
- September 7, 2011 at 9:11 PM
- Paula said... [Reply to comment]
Okey Dokey! Definitely this is something I'm going to make. Thanks for the recipe. Looking forward to your cookies posts next week and to whatever else your camera cares to capture for us!
- September 7, 2011 at 9:27 PM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
@Linda @ stuff i like Thanks Linda! We miss you guys :)
- September 7, 2011 at 11:35 PM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
@The Vanilla Bean Baker Absolutely! My camera will be capturing a 4th birthday party for Nelle this weekend ... I still can't believe she's 4. (gasp)
- September 7, 2011 at 11:36 PM
- Jennifer @ Raisin Questions said... [Reply to comment]
The picture convinced me, but then I was really sold when you said $5 dollars. Really?? I feel like I will need to make some hefty investments in some the ingredients you mentioned above, but I guess a little goes a long way... and I would really love to include them in my cooking!
- September 8, 2011 at 3:57 PM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
@Jennifer @ Raisin Questions You are right on, Jennifer. A lot of these made-from-scratch goodies can be made really cheaply once you've got the ingredients for them! It may hurt to buy coconut oil (it's $12 or more in Australia) ... but once you have it, you'll use it for so many things :)
- September 8, 2011 at 8:12 PM
- Sherilyn @ Wholepromise said... [Reply to comment]
Well i am loving every single ingredient in these. Plus they would be great to take along when out and about with the kids.
- September 11, 2011 at 2:23 AM
- Ashley@Bakerbynature said... [Reply to comment]
This looks like a perfect balance of tasty and wholesome; A perfect choice for breakfast on the go!
- September 11, 2011 at 7:31 PM
- Where My Heart Is said... [Reply to comment]
Oh Amanda good timing! I've been planning to bake a muesli bar slice for a few weeks now (I do procrastinate a bit) but now I will give this recipe a go.
Have a great time in Pheonix. My Grandmother lived in Scotsdale so have many fond memories of the area.
- September 11, 2011 at 9:15 PM
- Jamie said... [Reply to comment]
I'm always impressed by your recipes. You have great skills when it comes to making food.
- February 16, 2012 at 7:27 PM
- Gordon said... [Reply to comment]
You ever consider using coconut flour instead of buckwheat flour to make it healthier. Love that you used sea salt over regular salt.
- April 9, 2012 at 12:35 PM
- Kelly said... [Reply to comment]
This looks yummy! Do you know about how much protein is in each bar?
- January 21, 2013 at 11:20 PM


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Part of National Museums Liverpool
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LoveSport is everything that sport should be – accessible, fun, challenging and, most of all, for everyone. This free exhibition at World Museum demonstrated how playing sport equals a healthy body, a healthy mind and even contributes to a healthy economy through advances in technology.
LoveSport immersed visitors in the world of sport. Visitors could take part in races, games and quizzes that tested skills and knowledge of sport.
Using simulators and interactive displays, visitors could shoot for goal in 'Penalty Pressure', slam-dunk in 'Hectic Hoops' basketball or 'Go the Distance' in the Tour de France.
Forrthose preferring a less-energetic visit, there was an opportunity to get a closer look at some amazing inventions in the sports world that have helped to produce record-breaking competitors.
LoveSport is an exhibition produced by eTEC (the ecsite-uk Travelling Exhibitions Consortium). eTEC is a consortium of At-Bristol, ecsite-uk, National Museums Liverpool, Magna and W5 together producing three interactive, travelling exhibitions funded by the Millennium Commission through a ReDiscover grant. www.ecsite-uk.net
Steven Gerrard video
In the meantime you can watch a short video, specially filmed by Liverpool FC and England midfielder Steven Gerrard while on a visit to World Museum and the Walker Art Gallery. In it he talks about how much the museums have changed since he was a child, the art he likes and how he tries to have no regrets in his sporting life.
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Oregon's Josephine and Jackson counties have both, at least per the preliminary counts (official ones will take weeks), voted in favor of banning the planting of GMO crops inside their borders. Find accounts of the highly contested ballot measures at Oregon Live and The Nation. Commercial GMO wine grapes aren't yet available, but it's likely they will be soon with research in that direction underway in Florida and France. GMO wine yeast are already for sale — ML01, which has the bacterial genes for malolactic fermentation — though whether the ban applies to its use, since the yeast aren't a crop per se, is a question.
Plenty of pro-GMO publicity relies on the lack of scientific proof that GMO foods are in any way harmful to eat or nutritionally inferior. That's true, but it's also not the point. In my opinion, the strongest reasons to oppose GMOs are:
Biodiversity – GMOs are usually designed to be more disease-resistant, more vigorous, and/or higher-yielding than non-engineered varieties, which means that they have a competitive advantage in the wild. With yeast and bacteria, or if GMO plants make it out into the wild, that means that they'll out-compete native varieties, which means that we lose biodiversity. Biodiversity is good. Natives and rare variants among natives may harbor as yet-undiscovered genetic and biochemical solutions to diseases or bioengineering problems. Diversity makes systems more resilient to disease and changing environments. And there's the aesthetic argument: life is beautiful in its many shapes and colors.
Food security and sustainability (the biology side) – At least 70% of the US corn crop is Monsanto "Roundup Ready," and something like 90% of the soybean crop. What if a disease struck to which Roundup Ready X was specially susceptible? Bacteria and viruses mutate to adapt to their hosts; this isn't that unlikely. Not only do we need farmers growing a diversity of varieties, but we need to ensure that in the case of wind-pollinated crops (like corn) hypercompetitive genes don't spread to infiltrate even non-engineered crops.
Food security and sustainability (the economic side) – GMO crops are patented. Growers can't legally save their seed from one year to replant the next; they're obligated to pay the giant corporation to provide their next crop and set of paychecks. Monsanto has aggressively defended this "right." I understand that the economics here are complex, but I can't see a way to slice this argument that doesn't come down to feeding mega-business, collecting power and money in the hands of the few who are already powerful and wealthy, protecting and encouraging increased commodification and commercialization and engineering of our food supply, and hurting everyone who A) isn't a corporate billionaire and B) eats. And if all of that is a bit much, just imagine being the family farmer who gets sued by Monsanto. The layers of anti-sustainability, anti-farmer, pro-big business unprintable evil this represents are too many to explore in full here, particularly because I may need to go out and chop some wood now just to burn off the anger I feel thinking about this nonsense.
All of that is in addition to the possibility that GMO crops may pose some danger to human or animal health, both of which are still untested possibilities insofar as we haven't been studying them long enough for a full assessment.
The Josephine and Jackson measures still need to be put into effect and enforced, neither of which are yet certain bets. But the vote is a definite step in the right direction and, more importantly, sets a precedent for other counties in other states. More reasons why, along with some very fine pinot noir, I'm proud to be an Oregonian.


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This is a beautiful Canvas Map of Leech Lake located in Cass County, Minnesota. This map features all lake contours and depth labels of the lake.
This canvas map has an innovative product design. With the unique colors this map features; it is sure to be a great addition to any room in your house or office.
We offer two options for the Canvas Prints. Canvas Print Wrap or a Black Framed Canvas Print.
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jaygillen needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 24 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
We need a sells sheet designed for our new television show. It should match our logos and have the look and feel of a big budget tv show.
Building It Green
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We need a sells sheet designed for our new television show. It should match our logos and have the look and feel of a big budget tv show.
The show is called "Building It Green" and it is being produced to air on HGTV this fall.
We need a one sheet sells sheet that tells about the show to potential advertiser and viewers.
It should have our logo and follow the same style and colors.
We need this as soon as possible and will pick a winner quickly and pay immediately.
Here is a link to two versions of the show logo. high res files of the logo will be emailed to the winner to complete the design.
This is a show about enviromentally friendly ways of building homes, so it is construction related and enviromental related.
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Building It Green is a new cutting edge television series that focuses on the enviromentally way to build a home.
Viewers are taken behind the scenes of the enviromentally friendly building movement to see practical ways that they can help save the enviroment while living comfortably in style.
Host Polly Blair takes viewers on a hands-on tour of environmentally-sensitive, high-performance homes using the latest technology and current materials in a better way. Building It Green takes viewers across the country to meet the leaders in the Green Building industry that prove that is really "IS easy being green".
We need this finished by monday and will pay a $25.00 bonus in addition to the prize money if we get the finished product early.
We look forward to seeing your designs.


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Pints Pub: A food & drink anchor in Denver's ever-changing Golden Triangle (Eat Local)
Denver has no shortage of sandwich shops or watering holes, but it's relatively light on the lived-in variety — the kind that reek of history, both literally and figuratively.
While Pints Pub is barely 20 years old, the Golden Triangle mainstay offers both a remarkable consistency and an attention to detail that more than makes up for its not-so-historical lifespan.
The oaky interior of the authentic English-style public house proudly boasts a world-class selection of over 250 scotches, as well as a mouth-watering variety of artisan, cask-conditioned ales (I highly recommend the rich but quaffable Phonebox Red Ale and Airedale Pale Ale).
But given its proximity to downtown's cultural and civic institutions — about a block from the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Public Library, Denver Police headquarters and others — it's also a favored lunch destination.
Old-fashioned is the word here, and that's a good thing. The popular Wimpy burgers, for example, are hormone- and antibiotic-free, but their sesame-seed-topped rolls from Vie de France taste like nothing else in Denver. British ex-pats may appreciate the Salisbury Wimpy, covered in "lordly quantities" of brown gravy, sautéed mushrooms and swiss. But for a lighter meal grab the Highlander Chicken, a honey mustard-marinated skinless treat.
Playful but largely traditional appetizers dot the menu as well. The omnipresent house-made crisps are heavenly and righteously stinky with salt and vinegar. Chips (our French fries) are available smothered in gravy and Swiss and sprinkled with curry powder.
It's hard to go wrong, really, provided you can get down with some fish and chips (grilled salmon as opposed to fried), hearty Sheepherder's Stew, full of tasty lamb chunks and leavened with a roll and salad, or beer-boiled bangers and mash.
Amid the Mile High City's sea of gleaming, pleasantly vapid cafés and hip gastro-pubs, Pints is an anchor of delicious sanity.
Open 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday-Tuesday; 11 a.m.-midnight Wednesday-Saturday. Golden Triangle, 221 W. 13th Ave., Denver. 303-534-7543 or pintspub.com.


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Blackwell and Eric Kroshus each logged a goal and an assist and Dan Ford assisted on both goals, but the Crimson (4-4-6, 3-3-4 ECAC Hockey) could not take advantage of a 27-13 edge in shots on goal. Scott Diebold helped the Engineers (3-16-1, 1-7-1) end a six-game losing streak with 25 saves, and Steve Michalek made 11 stops for Harvard.
The teams began the final period with four skaters aside, and the Engineers holding a 2-1 lead. Blackwell used the extra space to even the score at the 1:34 mark. From the left corner of his defensive zone, Ford moved the puck up the wall to Kroshus. The senior fed Blackwell, who carried all the way down the right side, waited for the RPI defenseman to go down, spun around and scored on his backhand.
Harvard skated to its second straight tie and extended its ECAC Hockey unbeaten streak to four games. The Crimson blocked 23 RPI shots, with Mike Seward notching a game-high four blocks. Alex Killorn led all skaters with five shots.
The Engineers jumped ahead early with two goals 26 seconds apart in the game's sixth minute. The first came when Zach Schroeder deflected in Marty O'Grady's point shot. RPI got the puck deep after the ensuing faceoff and intercepted a Harvard breakout pass at center ice, leading to C.J. Lee's goal.
Kroshus cut the lead in half less than two minutes later, as the Crimson scored on its first power play for the fifth straight game. All five Harvard skaters played a part in the goal. Luke Greiner dug the puck out of the corner and passed to Danny Biega, who in turn sent the puck across the point to Ford. Blackwell redirected Ford's point shot on net. Kroshus collected the rebound in the slot and calmly beat Diebold with a shot to the glove side.
Harvard went to the first intermission trailing, 2-1, despite holding a 12-4 shots advantage. The Crimson blocked nine attempted shots by RPI in the first period.
The Crimson did not surrender an RPI shot on goal in the first 13 minutes of the second period and outshot the Engineers by a 9-1 margin, blocking 10 more Rensselaer attempts.
Harvard pinned the puck deep in the RPI end for much of the period but could not even the score. Killorn had perhaps the Crimson's best chance when he swooped in from the left side six minutes before the intermission, but Diebold saved his close-range backhand shot.
After Blackwell tied the game early in the third, neither team managed to pull ahead as each totaled five third-period shots and Rensselaer killed a late Harvard power play. The Engineers looked set for on odd-man chance with two minutes left, but a backchecking Killorn was there to lift an RPI stick and prevent a shot.
The line of Blackwell, Greiner and David Valek generated some chances on a strong shift early in overtime, but the Engineers had three of the four combined shots in the extra frame.


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Paying for the Next Generation of Innovative Therapies
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Health Care Cost Control: What is the Path Forward?
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Can Technology and Delivery Model Innovation Lead to Meaningful Reductions in Healthcare Spending?
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The Future of Medicare Advantage
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Future Scenarios for US Physician Practice Under MACRA
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Outcome-Based Contracts for Pharmaceutical Products: Opportunities and Challenges
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Healthcare Consolidation: Winners, Losers and Policy Implications
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The Future of Pharmaceutical Benefit Management
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Comprehensive Health Care Payment Reform: What Will it Take to Get There?
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The Evolution of Accountable Care Under Medicare
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Kids' pajamas, strollers recalled over burn, choking hazard
Items purchased from Target, Bugaboo
More than 600,000 items pertaining to children have been recalled this week, one of which was sold at a major retailer.
Target is recalling about 560,000 Girls' Circo Fleece Blanket Sleepers two-piece pajama sets that were sold last year from August through November for about $13.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the items failed to meet federal flammability standards for children's sleepwear, which poses a burn hazard to children. Those who bought the items can return them to Target for a full refund.
Meanwhile, Bugaboo is recalling more than 50,000 Cameleon and Donkey Model Strollers that were sold in the U.S. and Canada.
Officials said a button on the carry handle can disengage, causing the handle to detach and pose a fall or choking hazard.
Those who bought the strollers can contact Bugaboo for a free replacement handle.


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*[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?SEARCH=the+world+is+flat '''The World is Flat'''] by Thomas L. Friedman
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The dismal science? Not in these books!
- Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
- A genuine page-turner that recounts the 1988 sale of RJR Nabisco, the most excessive operation of Wall Street's "decade of greed." The authors reconstructed the conversations of principal players based on hundreds of hours of interviews, which gives a novelistic feeling to the book and they were careful to introduce business and financial concepts at appropriate moments, so that a very convoluted fight among four teams, each with ten or more self-interested parties, can easily be followed. It's a depressing story, and despite the elaborate dinners, ski and golf vacations, celebrities, and multi-million-dollar fees, most readers will be glad they can experience this at a distance.
- The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
- Thomas Friedman clarifies just how the world is truly changing into the oft-discussed 'global community'. The 'flattening' of the world refers to the metaphorical leveling of the playing field as a direct result of the technical advances of the digital revolution. He enables the reader to make sense of the rise of India and China, along with numerous smaller countries that can now take advantage of the political and economic barriers that are falling. It is an insightful and important work, full of anecdotes that bring complex economic theories to life.


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LEZYNE Micro Drive Taillight 2014 – Our Most Powerful Single LED Rear Safety Light
Introducing the lightweight, aluminum bodied, Micro Drive Taillight; our most powerful single LED rear safety light.
The Micro drive taillight combines CNC machining and composite matrix technology for weight efficiency and versatility, capable of producing 70 lumens with the powerful daytime flash mode and 7 different light modes.
With 180 degree side visibility, it will keep you safe and seen on the road, at any time of day.


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The AgBMP Loan Program provides needed funding for local implementation of clean water practices at an extremely low cost, is unique in its structure and is not duplicated by any other source of funding.The AgBMP loan program provides 3% loans through local lenders to farmers, rural landowners, and agriculture supply businesses.
This project will identify and compile existing nitrate data from groundwaters and surface waters in the Lower Mississippi Basin (LMB) generally and focus on the Root River Watershed. The purpose is to investigate the quantity and quality of existing nitrate data, and to organize it for use in comprehensive watershed strategy development (including assessment, TMDL computation and identification and study of nitrate sources and delivery mechanisms).
This project will build network and the skill set of local resource professionals to do effective civic engagement work for water restoration and protection in Southeast Minnesota. The cohort will be administered through the Southeast Minnesota Water Resources Board (SE MN WRB) which is an area wide Joint Powers Board (JPB) established to help improve and protect the water resources of the area through coordinating local water planning efforts. This JPB has successfully administered water quality grants in the past that have positively impacted the water resources of this region.
This project will construct, calibrate, a set of HSPF watershed models covering the entire area of the Lake of the Woods drainage, including the Rainy River watershed. The consultant will produce HSPF models that can readily be used to provide information to support conventional parameter TMDLs. The consultant will clearly demonstrate that these models generate predicted output timeseries for hydrology which are consistent with available sets of observed data.
The goal of this project is to complete the calibration/validation process of Hydrologic Simulation FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed models for the Lake of the Woods/Rainy River Basin.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is a co-sponsor and assists with a portion of the financial support for the International Rainy River-Lake of the Woods Watershed Forum.
This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by MPCA EAO staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, and fieldwork expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities.
Lake Monitoring: Lakes are monitored for nutrients, clarity and other information to provide the data needed to assess the aquatic recreation use support.
This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by MPCA EAO staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, fieldwork, data management, and interpretation expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities.The ambient groundwater monitoring network describes the current condition and trends in Minnesota's groundwater quality.
The goal of this project is to complete the construction, calibration, and validation of an Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed model for the Minnesota portions of three watersheds: Root River, Upper Iowa, and Mississippi River-Reno.
Approximately 70 percent of all Minnesotans rely on groundwater as their primary source of drinking water. Wells used for drinking water must be properly sealed when removed from service to protect both public health and Minnesota's invaluable groundwater resources. The Minnesota Department of Health protects both public health and groundwater by assuring the proper sealing of unused wells.
Clean Water funds are being provided to well owners as a 50% cost-share assistance for sealing unused public water-supply wells.
The purpose of this effort is to create an educational video that will "bring to life" geo-scientific information related to groundwater movement in southeast Minnesota. This video will be used by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and other regional partners to help explain the local geology and related groundwater movement. It is anticipated that the video will be used at meetings and other events related to water resource management and natural resource issues. In addition, three stand alone high resolution graphics will be created.
The lack of sewage treatment in many small communities in Southeast Minnesota is causing surface water and groundwater pollution. Ten of these small communities will be the target of the technical assistance provided by this project. These communities have community or individual straight pipes which are discharging raw sewage directly into the environment, surfacing sewage, or have sewage contaminating groundwater.
The lack of sewage treatment in many small communities in Southeast Minnesota is causing surface water and groundwater pollution. Fourteen of these small communities will receive technical assistance provided by this project. These communities have community or individual straight pipes which are discharging raw sewage directly to the environment, surfacing sewage, or have sewage contaminating groundwater.
The goal of this project is to investigate nitrate transport and the sources of nitrate in karst for more effective implementation of best management practices that will reduce nitrate concentrations in ground and surface water.
Project goal is to develop Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) and Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) that will protect and improve water quality for the Minnesota portion of the Mississippi River–Reno and Upper Iowa River watersheds. This information paired with other tools (e.g. Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) models and best management practice spreadsheets) and will support restoration and protection strategy development and prioritization efforts in the 1W1P area.


text: Not much is known about Jacob Cornelisz Van Oostsanen's training or early life; his birth year and year of death are estimated from his son's accounts and inventories taken of his possessions. Van Oostsanen was said to have run a large workshop in Amsterdam, where Jan van Scorel apprenticed and where he tutored at least two of his sons, Cornelis and Dirck, the latter of whom would take over the studio. His output included oil paintings on canvas and designs for stained-glass windows, ceiling paintings, and woodcuts. Van Oostsanen produced a large number of altarpieces in large and small scales, both on commission and for the open market; the Catholic oligarchy in Amsterdam were frequent patrons of his workshop. His earlier paintings were more artisanal and relied heavily on drawing, while his later works grew to become more painterly.


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ashes_2_ashes needed a new flash animation design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 15 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
This contest is to create a repeating flash image for a unrealesed cigar website. All artwork is supplied as PSD files.
Accepted File Formats:
I am providing all the art work in a PSD file and wish to have the picture of my cigar standing straight up in the middle of the image of the two business cards on the "Coming Soon" image. I would like a continuious smoke stream coming out of the cigar looping over and over.
Similar to the steam/smoke coming from the cup of coffee on this company's website. (under the company tab) http://www.digitalmunky.net/
Cigars are here: http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/…garkt1.jpg
You can use either cigar?
Can provide the PSD with the background art work of the website via e-mail to interest contestants.
Here is the jpg as a reference. (This will be a single page website)
Also looking for a jazzy/rumba/mambo/ music loop as well if that's possible.
Thanks in advance and good luck


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Welcome! Read on and learn about the WISE Project.
WISE (Water for Irrigation, Stream and Economy) is a regionally-supported water management project that will improve the health of the Bear Creek and Little Butte Creek watersheds in Jackson County, southern Oregon. This collaborative effort will enhance the viability of regional agriculture, critical habitat, and quality of life. Project momentum has been reestablished after a two-year funding delay.
This Web site offers comprehensive information including project history, schedule, funding, and benefits. You will also find advisory committee meeting dates, public involvement opportunities, and key resources. For information, contact us.
WISE PAC members, friends and supporters
Thanks for your ongoing participation! We sincerely appreciate the many hours you have generously volunteered over the past several years. Your commitment helps keep the WISE project moving forward. We're making real progress, and we couldn't do it without you.
Look how far we've come since 2003
- Fostered successful collaboration among diverse interests
- Verified the validity of the WISE project
- Conducted over 30 stakeholder interviews
- Hosted countless project briefings
- Led site tours
- Designed a project Web site and outreach materials
- Initiated the Feasibility Study and Environmental Impact Statement process
- Developed preliminary alternatives for storage, piping and re-use
Here's to our ongoing success!
Best regards,
Steve Mason, project coordinator


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Benchmark results for a new MacBook Pro and iMac were spotted in Geekbench's database over the weekend, suggesting that Apple will launch updates to both line-ups imminently.
MacRumors reports that the MacBookPro9,1 has appeared in Geekbench's database. The current models are called MacBookPro8,x, which suggests that the new data is referring to a currently unreleased model.
According to the data, the new MacBook Pro runs build 12A211 of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, a newer build than 12A193i, which was the most recent to be seeded to developers.
The listed model has an Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7-3820QM quad-core running at 2.7GHz. The motherboard matches one of the Mac configurations spotted in the developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion in February.
The benchmark score for the new model is listed as 12,262, higher than the 10,000 to 11,000 for the current MacBook Pro line-up.
Also spotted on the Geekbench database is the iMac13,2, which is listed as running an Intel Ivy Bridge Core i7-3770 quad-core processor at 3.4GHz. The benchmark score is 12,183, lower than the new MacBook Pro score, but slightly higher than the scores for current iMac models.
MacRumors points out that the motherboard listed in the data for the new iMac was first seen in the OS X Mountain Lion developer preview in February, and the machine runs build 10A2040 of OS X Mountain Lion.
It is possible that these benchmarks have been fabricated, but the data corresponds with predictions for the new models of the iMac and MacBook Pro.


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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Eight Russian weightlifters have been banned for breaking anti-doping regulations, the country's anti-doping agency (RUSADA) said on Tuesday.
Denis Shiryakov was banned for life and Maxim Matveyev for four years while six others were suspended for periods of up to two years.
"The Russian weightlifting federation (RWF) banned the eight athletes for breaching anti-doping regulations," the agency said on its website (www.rusada.ru) without giving further details.
Russia has been forced to step up its fight against doping in recent months after being criticised by international anti-doping officials for being too soft on drugs cheats.
Several years ago, the International Weightlifting Federation threatened to ban Russia from competing in major championships after several Russian athletes failed drugs tests.
Reporting by Gennady Fyodorov; Editing by John Mehaffey


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Comrie Medical CentreStrowan RoadComriePerthshire, PH6 2LWTel: 01764 670217
The following dates are Public Holidays. The Medical Centre will only be open in the morning for pre-booked appointments on these days. All telephone calls on these dates will be transferred to NHS24:
Monday 6 April 2020
Monday 13 April 2020
Friday 8 May 2020
Monday 25 May 2020
Monday 27 July 2020
Monday 5 October 2020
Friday 25 December 2020
Monday 28 December 2020
If you require urgent attention during this time please dial 111.
As Comrie Medical Centre no longer has a female GP in the practice, Dr Elizabeth Hills has kindly offered to do a Women's Only clinic every Thursday from January until mid March.
If you have a significant problem and would like to see Dr Hills, please make the Reception staff aware at the time of booking your appointment.
If you fall into one of the categories below you are eligible to register for Minor Ailments:
Children under 16 (or under 19 if in full-time education);
People aged over 60 years of age;
Those on certain benefits (eg Income Support);
People with a valid medical exemption certificate.
When you are registered for the minor ailments service your pharmacist can give you medicine for a minor illness or complaint, if they think you need it. You will not have to pay for this.
You will be able to get advice and free treatment (if you need it) from your pharmacist for problems such as:
Acne, Athletes Foot, Backache, Cold Sores, Cough, Constipation, Diarrhoea, Earache, Eczema, Allergies, Haemorrhoids (Piles), Hay Fever, Headache, Head Lice, Indigestion, Mouth Ulcers, Pain, Nasal Congestion, Period Pain, Thrush, Sore Throat, Warts, Threadworms, Verrucae.
Your pharmacist, like your doctor, can only give out certain medicines and products. You may not get the medicine or product you would normally buy.
If your pharmacist feels it is better for you to see your GP, they may refer you directly or ask you to make an appointment at your surgery.
Register at any pharmacy.
Davidsons Chemists in Comrie is now offering a Travel Clinic service to patients wishing to travel abroad who need vaccinations and advice. Please contact Davidsons on 01764 670210 to discuss this, or pop in at 36 Drummond Street, Comrie. Comrie Medical Centre is still able to offer Typhoid, Cholera, Hep A and DTP vaccinations free of charge if required.
Pharmacies across Tayside are now able to offer treatment for certain conditions without the need to make a GP appointment.
Women with uncomplicated UTI can be treated using Trimethoprim (or Nitrofurantoin in Tayside only)
Females aged 16 - 65 years presenting with 3 or more of the following symptoms, or if both dysuria and frequency are present.
Impetigo can be treated using Fusidic Acid 2% under the following conditions.
Contact your local pharmacy for more information.
Comrie Medical Centre is now issuing text reminders for appointments to patients who have registered their mobile phone numbers. This means that a text reminder will be issued 24 hours prior to an appointment at the Medical Centre. Please complete one of our forms at Reception to ensure the Practice has your up-to-date mobile phone number, allowing us to provide this useful service. Many thanks.
Are you deaf or hard of hearing? Do you wear a NHS hearing aid? Come to our free local drop-in to find out about:
Please contact the Information Line on: 0808 808 0123 or visit www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk
There is now a Drop-in Clinic running at Crieff Community Hospital on the 1st Wednesday of every month 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Perth & Kinross Health and Social Care Partnership is now offering a Social Prescribing service to patients, helping them to gain access to local activities, reducing loneliness and isolation, and encouraging a more healthy lifestyle. This may include signposting to nearby social groups, or discussing ways of changing habits to enable better general wellbeing. If this sounds like something that may interest you, please discuss with your GP, or pick up a leaflet at the Surgery which gives direct details of the local social prescriber, Marisa Carradice.
Do you have any used postage stamps at home? We are collecting stamps to raise money for donkey sanctuaries. Please hand them into Reception or pop into the box in the waiting area. Thank you kindly.
May we remind our patients that GP appointments are 10 minutes long. If you have more than one problem or would like a longer discussion then please let us know when making your appointment.
This is a 44-bed hospital, which opened in 1995.
There is a 22-bed ward accessed by the general practitioners for the acute care, palliative care and rehabilitation of their own patients.
The hospital has Physiotherapy, X-ray and Occupational Therapy departments and a Day Care area.
The Comrie Doctors visit the hospital every Tuesday and Friday morning and as and when required by the hospital nurses.
Open from 9 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday and 9 am - 9 pm Saturday and Sunday, is located immediately to the left upon entering the hospital. This is a nurse-led unit covered by the Crieff GPs during the day.
Outwith these hours please contact NHS 24 on 111 to be directed to the most appropriate point of healthcare.
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Tortellini Bean Soup Mix
I like to use mixes for Christmas gifts. One year, I gave this soup mix in a jar and included a kettle, a mug and a pint of my home-canned tomatoes.—Doris Simmons, Browning, Illinois
Total TimePrep: 15 min. Cook: 1 hour
Makes15 servings (3-3/4 quarts)
- 1 cup dried great northern beans
- 1/4 cup dried lentils
- 1/4 cup dried green split peas
- 3/4 cup uncooked dried tricolor tortellini
- 1 tablespoon dried parsley flakes
- 1 tablespoon chicken bouillon granules
- 2 teaspoons dried minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 8 cups water
- 1 can (49-1/2 ounces) chicken broth
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, drained
- 2 medium carrots, chopped
- 2 celery ribs, chopped
- Grated Parmesan cheese, optional
- In a 3-cup jar or container with a tight-fitting lid, layer the beans, lentils and peas. In a small resealable plastic bag, combine the tortellini, parsley, bouillon, garlic, thyme and salt. Place bag in jar. Replace lid and store in a cool, dry place. Yield: 1 batch (about 2-1/4 cups).
- To prepare soup: Remove bag of tortellini and seasonings; set aside. Rinse the beans, lentils and peas; drain. Place in a Dutch oven. Add 8 cups water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 45-60 minutes or until beans are tender.
- Stir in the tortellini and seasonings, broth, tomatoes, carrots and celery. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 8-10 minutes or until pasta and vegetables are tender. Serve with cheese if desired.


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The British distributor of a childrens' toy has taken steps to recall the product, warning that there is a risk of injury if owners attempt to change the battery.
Character Options Ltd has recalled the Little Live Pets Lil Frog and Lil Frog Lily Pad products after testing revealed the design defect.
A statement from the distributor read:"Consumers who have either of these products are asked to stop using them and arrange a return to Character Options.
"Although there is minimal risk of injury, they are asked not to open the frog's battery compartment or remove the batteries.
"Moose, the makers of the product, and Character Options the distributors have made the determination, out of an abundance of caution, to issue the voluntary recall."
Further information can be found at the moose toys website: www.recall.moosetoys.com.