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Originally training as a printmaker and textile artist, Michele Bryant uses a range of mediums to explore the idea of belonging. Carving hand-drawn maps into wood, metal, resin, and glass Michele uses planes to symbolise leaving or returning a space while keys are used to implicate inclusion and exclusion.
Viewed at a distance Michele's work has visual impact but it is at close range that the underlying message becomes clear: not only does her inclusion of maps demonstrate the ongoing influence of one's travels, her use of maps, topography and building plans illustrates the influence of her own surrounds.
Michele's work is represented in private and public collections here and overseas.
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Tainted Testimony : The Khouri Affair
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Australian Literature : Points for Departure
In the conclusion to her germinal study of sex, race and nation in Australian women's writing, Along the Faultlines (1995), Susan Sheridan questions the prevalent orientations of Australian and literary cultural studies. In particular she draws attention to its 'fixed…
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When we were in Vegas a couple weeks ago, I had fried pickles for the first time. They were incredible! I don't remember the name of the restaurant, but I do remember that they had a mechanical bull and I rode it in a short, white, strapless dress! I'm not kidding. I really did that. So silly, but fun! Their fried pickles were covered in a crunchy coating, fried till super crispy and came with a spicy mayo. Did I mention that they were incredible? So much so that I couldn't stop thinking about them for the rest of the trip and how I would make them when I got home. Debbie was taking a nap when I had them so I told her about them constantly. Just to make her jealous.
Debbie and I decided to try our hand at a baked version. First, so they would be much healthier and second, so we could eat lots of them! But they still had to be super crispy and, of course, incredible. Debbie and I had our work cut out for us, but we managed to come up with a recipe and method that fit the criteria and then some. Our oven fried pickles turned out exactly like the ones I had in Vegas, only a lot less fat.
Turns out, getting a crispy coating for the pickles is all about the method. We tried a couple different ways of coating the pickles and found that coating them first in seasoned cornstarch, then dipping them in a beaten egg, and finally in seasoned panko bread crumbs make the pickles the most crispy. We also tried cutting them two ways. In long spears, and also slicing them in rounds. Spears worked the best by far! The rounds were ok, but holy cow was I tired of dipping each one three times! They took forever to prepare, so the spears won for that reason alone. They are much quicker to coat, get in the oven, and into my belly!
We used Debbie's dill pickles for these. They are so good! We will be making them this year again. We actually have a lot of canning to do this year. Dill pickles, pickled beets, and spicy beans. We will be sure to post the recipes we use. They are tried and true and always turn out awesome!
This dipping sauce is nothing like the one I had in Vegas, but I like it better. I just took a look through my fridge, took out a some ingredients and started mixing one up. I combined mayo with a bit of buffalo wing sauce, chopped up some cilantro, squeezed in some lime and sprinkled in some salt. I added some diced and seeded Roma tomatoes as well for some texture. The sauce does get a little thin and if you like a thicker sauce, just add a bit more mayo. Same goes for heat. Add a little less buffalo sauce. We had to do this for Debbie. Her little tongue was on fire when she tasted it at first. She's a bit of a baby when it comes to spice, but she's starting to come around.
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- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp Cajun spice
- 5 pickles
- olive oil sprayFOR THE SAUCE
- 1/2 cup Hellmen's mayo (we like Hellmen's because they use free run eggs in their mayo)
- 1/8 cup Buffalo sauce (we like Guy Fieri's)
- 1 Roma tomato , seeded and finely diced
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup or so finely chopped cilantro leaves
- To make the sauce, combine all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Cover and put it in the fridge until you are ready to use it.
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- Pour the panko bread crumbs on a plate. If your panko isn't pre-seasoned, season the panko with 1/4 each salt and pepper.
- Next, cut the pickles lengthwise into quarters.
- Line a baking tray with parchment paper and spray it lightly with olive oil spray. Heat your oven to 450 degrees
- Start coating the pickles. First dip them, one at a time in the cornstarch mixture. Coat them well and then tap off any extra. Then dip the pickle into the egg. Let any excess drip off and place the pickle in the panko crumbs. Coat it well and then place the pickle on the baking tray.
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Persona 5 will block PS4 share requests for screenshots and video captures, Atlus has recently confirmed.
Those wishing to capture any content from the game won't be able to use in-built sharing software, and will have to use an external solution like an Elgato Game Capture instead.
Altus said the decision was made with players' best interests in mind.
"Simply put, we don't want the experience to be spoiled for people who haven't played the game," Atlus said in a statement. "Our fans have waited years for the game to come out and we really want to make sure they can experience it fully as a totally new adventure."
Moreover, Atlus has warned anyone who shares content not to do so past the in-game date of 7 July.
"This being a Japanese title with a single-playthrough story means our masters in Japan are very wary about it. Sharing is currently blocked through the native PS4 UI. However, if you do plan on streaming, video guidelines above apply except length," Atlus said.
Anyone who shares content past that 7 July in-game date is at risk of "of being issued a content ID claim or worse, a channel strike/account suspension," according to the publisher.
What do you make of Atlus' decision? Should publishers be restrictive of sharing opportunities, or do you trust your favourite outlets to keep you spoiler-free?
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The new skin lines, Abbie, Tess, Sammie, Willow, and Lilly will be at the Skin Fair for everyone to buy. If you'd like to take a sneak peak, go to the shop and they are already on display. Each skin comes with a lash version and a clean version. All the above picture are the lash versions. On willow I added some of Eve's new OMG it's Gloss.
I'd like to thank Eve for letting me do these skins for her. I guess we're not her guinea pigs, we're Eve's Victims and I'm proud to be one of them.
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Steep reductions in municipal aid has obliged the Montclair library to shutter its Bellevue branch, lay off nearly a quarter of its full-time staff and cut hours at its main branch.
With township funding expected to drop 24 percent this year, the library's budget will take a similar hit, dipping to $2.7 million from $3.5 million in 2010.
The funding cut was much steeper than anticipated, said Frank E. Lawatsch Jr., the library board's president. The trustees had expected the library would lose $400,000 as recently as a few weeks ago, he said. But since the vast majority of the library's budget – 94 percent in 2010 and 92 percent this year – comes from the town, Lawatsch said the board had few options, all of them difficult.
"Since 2008, our municipal appropriation has been cut by nearly 45 percent," he said. "This is devastating."
But although shuttering the Bellevue – which was open just Mondays since last year – had been under consideration for months, some residents have criticized the library board for what they called the trustees' lack of transparency.
Ilmar Vanderer, who said he learned to read at the Bellevue and later worked as a library page and then in a public relations capacity at the main branch, called the board's action shortsighted and without sufficient rationale.
"Closing the library branch is not going to help one little bit," he said. "Our taxes are going up regardless. That begs the question: What are we paying for?"
Residents also complained that the board did not give adequate advance notice of the meeting earlier this month at which the trustees voted to close the branch. Although the meeting was advertised well ahead of time, the agenda did not list a discussion topic, as the state's public meetings law says it must. Lawatsch acknowledged as much, and said the board would rectify what he called a miscommunication at a February meeting.
Montclair has historically allocated significantly more to its library system than is required by state law. New Jersey's dedicated library funding formula mandates that 33 cents of every $1,000 in assessed property values goes to local public libraries.
But the township administrator, Marc D. Dashield, said the cap on property taxes, combined with steep increases in mandated costs, has carved a $3.3 million gap in the town's budget.
"This is not a cut we wanted to do," Dashield said. "But based on what our statutory obligations are and those to our taxpayers, we just had to make these cuts."
• Residents seek ways to keep Montclair library branch open
The executive director of the New Jersey Library Association, Patricia Tumulty, said the minimum allocation was traditionally understood as a base funding formula by both municipalities and libraries.
"The statutory minimum was not enough, clearly, for them to give good service," she said of libraries. "We've always looked at it as the floor for libraries, never the ceiling."
Although libraries in Newark, Camden and Trenton had already taken sharp hits, Tumulty said Montclair's was among the first suburban libraries to suffer drastic service cuts.
Montclair's library director, David Hinkley, said administrators and trustees would keep fighting for its budget. But, he added, this year's decline to the minimum possible amount meant the funding freefall had reached rock bottom.
"We have reached a floor. That's why I think we can reconstitute ourselves," he said. "Montclair has historically been a library leader and we will be again."
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Promising Young Woman is as confident as its protagonist, a film that's willing to be a little messy and inconsistent in a way that reflects…
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
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There is a shot toward the end of "Dear Frankie" when a man and a woman stand on either side of a doorway and look at each other, just simply look at each other. During this time they say nothing, and yet everything they need to say is communicated: Their doubts, cautions, hopes. The woman is named Lizzie (Emily Mortimer) and the man, known in the movie only as "the Stranger," is played by Gerard Butler. Here is how they meet.
Lizzie has fled from her abusive husband, and is raising her deaf son, Frankie (Jack McElhone) with the help of her mother (Mary Riggans). Instead of telling Frankie the truth about his father, Lizzie creates the fiction that he is away at sea -- a crew member on a freighter named the Accra. Frankie writes to his dad, and his mother intercepts the letters and answers them herself. Frankie's letters are important to her "because it's the only way I can hear his voice."
The deception works until, one day, a ship named the Accra actually docks in Glasgow. Frankie assumes his father is on board, but a schoolmate bets his dad doesn't care enough to come and see him. After all, Frankie is 9 and his father has never visited once.
Lizzie decides to find a man who will pretend, for one day, to be Frankie's father. Her friend Marie (Sharon Small), who runs the fish and chips shop downstairs, says she can supply a man, and introduces the Stranger, who Lizzie pays to pretend to be Frankie's dad for one day.
This sounds, I know, like the plot of a melodramatic tearjerker, but the filmmakers work close to the bone, finding emotional truth in hard, lonely lives. The missing father was brutal; Lizzie reveals to the Stranger, "Frankie wasn't born deaf. It was a gift from his dad." But Frankie has been shielded from this reality in his life and is a sunny, smart boy, who helps people deal with his deafness by acting in a gently funny way. When the kid at the next desk in school writes "Def Boy" on Frankie's desk, Frankie grins and corrects his spelling.
"Call me Davey," the Stranger says, since that is the name of Frankie's dad. So we will call him Davey, too. He is a man who reveals nothing about himself, who holds himself behind a wall of reserve, who makes the arrangement strictly business. We follow Frankie and his "dad" through a day that includes a soccer game, and the inevitable visit to an ice-cream shop. At the end of the day, Davey tells Lizzie and Frankie that his ship isn't sailing tomorrow after all -- he'll be able to spend another day with his son. This wasn't part of the deal. But then Davey didn't guess how much he would grow to feel about the boy, and his mother.
A movie like this is all in the details. The director, Shona Auerbach, and her writer, Andrea Gibb, see Lizzie, Frankie and his grandmother not as archetypes in a formula, but as very particular, cautious, wounded people, living just a step above poverty, precariously shielding themselves from a violent past. The grandmother gives every sign of having grown up on the wrong side of town, a chain-smoker who moved in with her daughter "to make sure" she didn't go back to the husband.
Davey, or whatever his name is, comes into the picture as a man who wants to have his exit strategy nailed down. He insists money is his only motive. It is quietly impressive how the young actor Jack McElhone understands the task of his character, which is to encourage this man to release his better nature. There is also the matter of how much Frankie knows, or intuits, about his father's long absence.
What eventually happens, while not entirely unpredictable, benefits from close observation, understated emotions, unspoken feelings, and the movie's tact; it doesn't require its characters to speak about their feelings simply so that we can hear them. That tact is embodied in the shot I started out by describing: Lizzie and the Stranger looking at each other.
"We shot several takes," Emily Mortimer told me after the film's premiere at Cannes 2004. "Shona knew it had to be long, but she didn't know how long, and she had to go into the edit and find out which length worked. She is a very brave director in that way, allowing space around the action."
Every once in a long while, a director and actors will discover, or rediscover, the dramatic power of silence and time. They are moving pictures, but that doesn't mean they always have to be moving. At Sundance 2005 I saw Miranda July's "You and Me and Everyone We Know," and its scene where a man and a woman who don't really know each other walk down a sidewalk and engage in a kind of casual word play that leads to a defining moment in their lives. The scene is infinitely more effective than all the countless conventional ways of obtaining the same result. In the same way, the bold long shot near the end of "Dear Frankie" allows the film to move straight as an arrow toward its emotional truth, without a single word or plot manipulation to distract us. While they are looking at each other, we are looking at them, and for a breathless, true moment, we are all looking at exactly the same fact.
Read Ebert's interview with Emily Mortimer at Cannes 2004.
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Help BJM's fifth graders get to Philadelphia! We have been studying the roots of our government as part of the fifth grade curriculum and our culminating event is a trip Philadelphia for an Old City Constitutional Walking Tour, the Museum of the American Revolution, Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, and more! Your assistance will help cover the cost of the tours, food and hopefully a bit of souvenir money for the kids.
The fifth graders have been working with Running to Places to put on the Broadway Kids version of Seussical. They will be performing at Ithaca High School's Kulp Auditorium on Thursday May 24th at 7pm. Donations can be made here and each $5 donation will go towards a ticket.


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While almost 20% of our au pairs are native English speakers, over 80% of you are living and working in a second language – English! It can be difficult to live your life in a whole different language, but immersion is truly the best way to become fluent. Follow our tips, and soon enough, you'll even be dreaming in English!
1. Spend time with Americans
The absolute best way to improve your English is to use it in conversation with native speakers as much as possible. Participating in our Au Pair USA program is unique in that you are automatically living with an American family, so this step is part of your daily living. You can be happy knowing that just by being an au pair, you'll improve your English!
2. Say "yes" to invitations
If someone invites you to a social event, go! Even if it's loud and hard to understand people, don't be intimidated. Bring your sense of humor, smile and talk to others!
3. Give yourself time to learn
It can be hard for people learning a new language. You will make mistakes, and may feel embarrassed. Do your best not to worry about the mistakes. It's a part of the learning process! People will respect you for making an effort and help you improve.
4. Don't spend all your time with friends who speak your native language
Spend some of your time with people who only speak English. Of course, we encourage you to spend time with other au pairs, but try not to spend time ONLY with friends from your home country. This is your year to learn new things!
5. Use free time to learn at your own pace
It can be exhausting to be around others all the time, especially when you're navigating a new culture and language. Even though the best way to learn English is to spend time with English speakers, you'll want time alone as well.
Time alone can be used to improve your English, too. Consider renting movies and try putting English subtitles along with the English soundtrack. This is a great way to make understanding easier, while still sticking to English.
You can do this using YouTube as well. If you like a particular English song, try searching for the song with lyrics! This way, you can read the words as you listen to the song. You can take time to look up any words you don't understand.
We hope that these tips help you to practice your English skills! Your English will improve dramatically during your time here, and InterExchange Au Pair USA wishes you the best of luck with the challenge!
Stephanie started her career working for a cultural exchange program that supports English language learning in Chilean public schools. She came to InterExchange's Au Pair USA program in 2013, and now works as the Web Developer.


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Bitcoin is a software-based online payment system described by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 and introduced as open-source software in 2009. more about Bitcoins at wikipedia
Bitcoin faucet is a website that gives out FREE bitcoins (BTC) in exchange for doing a simple task, such as clicking on an advert, solving a CAPTCHA, or viewing a webpage for a certain amount of time. There are also faucets that dispense alternative cryptocurrencies.
Faucets usually give tiny amounts that typically fluctuate according to the value of bitcoin. Typical payout per transaction is less than 1000 satoshi, although many faucets have random larger rewards. Normally faucet saves up these small individual payments in its own ledger, and they add up to make a larger payment that is sent to your bitcoin address. This is to reduce mining fees. Some faucets use immediate off-blockchain transactions, which have no fees.
Bitcoin faucet rotators can 'rotate' through a large list of faucets by clicking a button on a single websites, meaning more sites can be visited than entering the URL of site after site. The website earns money through a referral system for each website visited. Faucet rotators can also prioritize faucets by their level of average payout and will only visit sites if the time limit in between payouts has been reached.
The business model of bitcoin faucets is to get advertisement revenue from banner ads and distribute only portion of that money to users. A time limit is imposed between payouts to stop bots, human CAPTCHA solvers in third world countries, or avid users performing repeated withdrawals.
Start here. If you are going to use it only for fun choose WEB wallet.
Microwallet is a place where all of your coins accumulate. Once they reach a withdrawal limit they will be sent to your real wallet address.
Most of the websites get their profit by showing ads. And most of them are able to detect the ad-blocking plugins. Be fair, we don't want them bankrupt, right?
A satoshi is currently the smallest unit of the Bitcoin currency (1/100,000,000 BTC or 0.00000001 BTC). The unit has been named "satoshi" in collective homage to the founder Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.


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Thursday, May 24, 2007
To hell with cars
Have you filled up yer tank lately? I haven't, but I have been following a little bit of "news." On Monday, MSN.com ran an interesting story on the rising gas prices. I took the liberty of extracting a few quotes, so I could, of course, make fun of the logic behind them.
"Needing gas ranks third behind needing to breathe and needing to eat," economics professor Patrick Welch of St. Louis University told the St. Louis Times-Dispatch this month. "It's a demand for a necessity, not for a luxury." Economics professor, eh? Well, I guess on the surface this surmise might be true of most Americans. But, come on ... really .. a need? Consuming (combusting) gasoline inhibits humans' abilities to breathe and to eat (thanks to pollution). I think Darwin (not to mention a few fundamental schools of psychology) might have a slightly different take on the opinion. It is sad, truly sad that the "need" for gasoline is ranked (by apparent experts) as a biological requirement for survival in our culture. I would argue as well that the majority of Americans' automobile usage is, indeed, a luxury.
"It is time for Congress and the administration to do their part to help alleviate the pain consumers are feeling at the pump," Mark Cooper, the Consumer Federation of America's director of research, said in recent testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. The average U.S. consumer is spending $1,000 more each year on gas than five years ago, according to the CFA. Hey, Congress, check out investment in alternative transportation -- truly effective mass transit, incentives for bicycling, more effective city planning so people will wise up and live nearer their workplaces. Retro solutions for adapting cars (i.e. hybrid tax credits) are like Band-aids on amputated limbs. Wake up, dipshits. It's not a problem of "alleviating pain at the pump," it's an issue of solving a problem that spans decades -- we should never have been allowed to develop our horrible dependence on oil for everyday, individual transportation needs.
And, proof that Democrats (too) are fucking idiots concerning this topic:
"Oil companies today are enjoying record profits, and while they could use those profits to invest in more production capacity, instead they use the money to buy back shares in the markets," Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., said at a recent hearing. I agree, Rep. Conyers that oil companies are finding ways to work this situation to their advantage. However, the problem goes beyond combatting capitalism. People, including you lawmakers, need to wake up and begin formulating balanced syllogisms.
"In April . . . crude oil was $7 a barrel cheaper than last year (but) gas prices were almost 50 cents a gallon higher," Rep. Bart Stupak, another Michigan Democrat, said at the same hearing. "Clearly there's more at play than simply the world crude oil market." Stupak has introduced a bill that would make oil and gas price gouging a federal crime. Let's take it a step further and see some laws that make overconsumption of gasoline a federal crime. This is proof of an inherent flaw in free-market capitalism -- as long as there is demand, matched with any available supply, it is regarded as not only right but obligatory to satisfy that demand. Clearly what is needed is a paradigm shift. We aren't dealing here with a simple matter of miserly suppliers creating price gouging -- we are looking at a very limited supply (and oil companies know it). Consumers, however, are programmed to believe that their rights to demand supply are above all other pragmatic considerations such as sustainability and the environment. Why are so many lawmakers afraid to broach this issue?
Everyday on my commute to and from work (via bicycle), I think about the hundreds of poor suckers I see driving cars. With all my capacity for empathy, I genuinely feel for them. It must really suck to feel stuck, to have no options, to essentially be operating like a caged rat. Why feel this way, though? Why wait for a bureaucracy driven by special interests to create a solution for you? Exercise some good ol' fashioned American individuality and find your own way out of your problem. Give up your car. That, my friends, is quite possibly one of the most patriotic actions one may execute in such troubled times.
Sunday, May 20, 2007
What's all that got to do with the price of gas?!
Here we are at Lake Calhoun just a couple miles from our house. I'm attempting to show Sylvia how to spot fish swimming near the shore. She had fun chasing the minnows. Mostly she had fun progressively testing the limits of how far she could wade despite our urging not to go too deep. She tests boundaries so much already. Hopefully she'll grow out of it by her teenage years, but I'm sure it will only get worse.
We bike most everywhere and, since I ride to work everyday, I never really notice gas prices. I overheard some coworkers talking about how expensive gas prices have become. $3.35/gal or something like that. How ridiculously wonderful, I thought. I don't hate to sound like a morbid curmudgeon -- it is music to my ears.
April's parents were in town last weekend to buy a recumbent at Calhoun Cycle and to celebrate Sylvia's birthday. Sylvia and I decided to hang back at the bike shop while the family was on a test ride. I was making small talk with the shop mechanics when a car pulled out of the parking lot. I told Sylvia to be careful and watch for cars. She said, "Cars are coffins." The shop guys got a kick out of it. She's been saying that now for a couple of months. And I hope she remembers it, believes it and lives by it. Just in case she doesn't, I stuck a little reminder on her birthday tricycle.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Four and one half months until 'cross season
But until 'cross season there are other diversions, like road racing. I upgraded to Cat 4 this season, so competition has been a little better (with fewer silly crashes ... although there have been some doozies.) Our field sizes can be 40 to 60 racers. My good friend Mr Nacey suggested I post my results. Well, here ya go:
April 14: Oxbow Classic -- 7th (A lovely gravel road race chock full o' hills including one 17-18% grade at the finish line.)
April 28: Ken Woods Memorial -- 11th (Like most upper Midwest road races, it's a rectangle laid out on county roads through farm fields. That is to say, windy. Very windy. Since it's a glorified square, you're guaranteed a tail wind for some portion of the loop.)
May 5: Gluek Road Race -- 8th (Another rural course. Mid 50s at the start with a little rain and winds gusting to 40mph. We had an epic pile up on one cross-wind section. I heard one guy broke his collar bone, another dislocated his shoulder. Ouch. I have [knock on wood] been very lucky to get around these pile ups with inches to spare and keep myself from going down.)
The road race season in MN is notoriously short. Nothing left to do now (until June anyway) except criteriums, time trials and track racing. (And then ... come September ... 'cross season!) I'm okay with some down time. I'm actually contemplating a couple weekend tours and Memorial Day weekend we are biking (the whole family) down to a park 30 miles out of the city to camp for the weekend. Once you begin integrating bicycle travel into your life there's not much you can't go do or enjoy on a bike.


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Alan Waddams told the Azerbaijani ANS TV channel that EU representatives, currently on a visit to Turkmenistan, said Ashgabat had agreed to export gas to Europe via Nabucco, but if the Turkmen side changed its mind, then Iran could step in as an alternative.
The $7-8 billion Nabucco pipeline, backed by the EU and the U.S., is expected to link energy-rich Central Asia to Europe through Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria.
The European diplomat said Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov announced at the meeting his agreement for gas exports.
Some experts say that without the support of Turkmenistan, a major natural gas producer in Central Asia, the Nabucco project is unrealistic.
Construction on the pipeline with a projected annual capacity of between 20 and 30 billion cubic meters has been tentatively scheduled to begin in 2010.
Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan and, more recently, Iraq have been seen as possible suppliers for the project. Iraq is being backed by the United States.
Russia is skeptical about the successful implementation of the Nabucco pipeline in the near future citing insufficient gas supplies.
In what was widely seen as a major blow to the Nabucco project, Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan signed a deal in December to supply the Asian states' Caspian gas via Russia. Moscow also reached deals with Bulgaria and Serbia earlier this year on the South Stream pipeline to pump Central Asian gas to Europe.


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This dress is spring perfection. It is made from such quality material and the colors look great with any hair color. The feminine style makes it great for weddings and parties, well into summer. I am so glad I scooped this one up when I did. It's selling out fast but there are still a few sizes left.
I am a huge fan of the off the shoulder trend personally, and mainly because they cover my sausage arms, that after no matter how many workouts, remain sausage like! They flatter that pretty part of a woman's' neck and shoulders. Such a pretty style for spring.
I paired this dress with one of my favorite spring bags, my Jules mini satchel from Rebecca Minkoff! I love the buttery color and the sophisticated bad shape. It's classic! I also added my favorite mid heel cheetah heels because they kind of go with everything!
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Emmanuelle's piano stool
This is a wonderful piano stool which I reupholstered as a commission for a friend Emmanuelle this summer. Peter did a beautiful design for the top cover based on shapes and images from the garden - decaying poppy petals, pea pods, curling vines and leaves. I hand embroidered the design on an Ian Mankin linen, a unique piece!
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Did you know that the average US resident consumes more corn than the "Corn People" of Mexico and South America, every day? There are almost no items in a US supermarket today that do not contain corn in any form – processed, perfected, enchanted, et cetera – and scientists have ways to tell what a person's diet are made up of. By investigating dead skin cells (hair, nails) of US residents, they find that a significant percentage
of the nutrition comes from corn – even through the meat they consume, where most of the cattle have been fed with corn, and the sweets, where corn syrup and the likes have provided the sweetening. I guess it's safe to say that you pretty much are what you eat, and most US Americans are corn cobs with fat legs.
In Mexico and a large part of South America, where people identify themselves as the Corn People, and eat corn in a non-processed, natural form just about every day, the same studies of dead skin cells have been conducted – and these people are less like their food than the US Americans are. Their cattle are mostly fed on grass. Their peripheral foodstuffs don't contain much processed corn. They, who've lived off the corn for hundreds, or thousands of years, are more varied and diverse in their diets than the US Americans who exploit them. So who are the real corn people, really? Those who revel in it and embrace it… or those who unknowingly resemble it?


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Melissa McKinley is the Director of Planning with the Alberta Cannabis Secretariat within the Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General. She has been with the Government of Alberta since 2005 and has worked in a number of areas including information management and technology, organizational learning, strategic planning, governance, legal services and legislative development. Her current role is to lead the development of legislation required to support policy decisions made by the Government of Alberta in response to the legalization of cannabis in Canada.
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Did you know that a little girl's self-esteem peaks at the age of 9* and then plummets from there? All sorts of things – from her hormones to her heightened sensitivity to what she watches in the media – begin to shape the way she feels about herself.
This is why it is important to equip her with a high sense of self-worth before she reaches that critical turning point.
As a style platform for babies, toddlers and little girls age 0-9 we get excited about dressing her up on the outside but can't ignore the need to build her up on the inside.
We asked a few moms for their thoughts on how style can be used as a confidence-building tool. Here's a summary:
1. Don't Project Yourself on Her
Children emulate their parents – the good, the bad, and the ugly. It's important to be aware of your own self-esteem issues (yes, we all struggle with them) and be careful not to inadvertently project these ideas onto your little girl.
2. Let Her Make Decisions
Allowing her to exercise choice at a young age (within reason, of course), even with something as simple as choosing her own hair bow, gives her confidence in her own judgment.
3. Nurture Her Evolving Aesthetic
Don't downplay her unique sense of style just because she's young. Letting her wear that mismatch outfit could potentially pay off in the long run, especially if she feels loved and supported for her special tastes and interests.
4. Ask Her For an Opinion
When you are getting dressed, see what happens when you engage her in your own outfit choices. Allowing her to pick out one of your accessories, for instance, could empower her and may make her feel as if she makes a difference.
5. Use Dress Up to Bond
Of course the morning rush may not be the appropriate time, but find other times to build special moments around styling. This can be an opportunity to relay words of wisdom and other—- that she'll cherish for a lifetime.
*According to clinical psychologist Robin F. Goodman for the New York University Child Study Center. Images of Scout the City via Unsplash.
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3. Hold the paw in your hand and spread the toes out.
4. Cut holding the clippers at a slight angle and horizontally to the floor.
5. Cut a little at a time.
6. It should be gray or white at first. As soon as you see a solid dark spot, stop.
7. Go to the next nail.
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Waterboxx Offers Possibilities for Reforestation in the Desert
Image of the Waterboxx from the AquaPro Holland website.
It appears to be just a run of the mill, regular, rectangular plastic bucket with a whole in the centre, but the Waterboxx is actually a sophisticated design that traps night time condensation. Those dewey drops along with the little rain that falls in arid areas is distributed in small doses to the seed or young tree inside. This seemingly simple invention could have some amazing implications. According to its inventors:
The Waterboxx is an instrument that supports plants and trees in order to survive in difficult circumstances without using any groundwater or electricity. The instrument collects water by catching rainwater and producing and catching water from condensation. It subsequently distributes over a long(er) period the collected water to the tree placed in the centre.
Trees are actually planted (from seed, plant or tree) on top of the soil and their roots spread under the Waterboxx. Tests they ran by planting trees in the Moroccan Sahara showed that 90% of the trees planted using this big, green box survived while those planted on their own didn't eventhough they were watered every week.
This ingenious device could play an important role in reforesting burnt or felled forests and in places like China where desertification is eating up an area the side of Rhode Island every year. We have hope and are imagining the Moroccan Sahara lined with these green boxes.
The Waterboxx was invented by Pieter Hoff, a Dutch businessman and inventor. It has won the Beta Dragons Award during the Flying Dutchman 2008, Science & Technology Summit in Amsterdam. The jury proclaimed his design to be "the most promising and innovative project." Its inventor "is convinced that, if the right species are planted, large parts of the earth can be reforested, without sacrificing agricultural land." Via: PRNewswire
More on Desertification:
China Being Submerged in Sand: Desertification Spareads 1,300 Square Miles Per Year
Good Growing Regions Drying Up in Turkey
"Walls of Trees" Planned to Help Stop Sahara Desert from Expanding
TerrAfrica: Combating Desertification


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In http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Jul/1261.html, [ valid ID characters are ] >>> Any character minus space characters. [so you can have an id of "1" or "$^&"] Sander Tekelenburg asked >> How do existing (pre-HTML5) UAs handle this? Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Anyway, they handle it fine. In CSS you might > have to escape certain characters because the IDENT > production does not always allow them to occur literally. That is an important enough limit that it should probably be included in the good authoring advice, even if not in the actual grammar. Perhaps something like: Authors wishing to write robust applications are advised to use a more restricted set of IDs. While "1" and $^&" are technically valid identifiers, they will trigger bugs in some tools. Therefore, authors SHOULD stick to ID characters from the ASCII digits [0-9] and one case of ASCII letters (either [a-z] or [A-Z]), and SHOULD ensure that the first character of each ID is a letter rather than a digit. This probably applies to the name attribute as well. -jJReceived on Tuesday, 31 July 2007 22:00:06 UTC
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Nowadays a wide variety of devices and resolutions are used to browse the web; you can theoretically lose more than half of your market if your website is not responsive. That's why responsive web design has become very important, if not mandatory, if you want to have a successful and reachable website.
In this course, you'll first learn the basic principles of web design and how to apply them to the website you will be building. On top of that, you will learn how to work with one of the most widely used frameworks-Angular-using the latest version. To make sure our Angular application is responsive, we will be using a very popular library called Bootstrap that will ensure our website looks amazing on every device.
You will end up with a ready-to-deploy responsive web application while exploring two very popular frameworks. After a brief and to the point introduction to web design and responsive web design, we will immediately set up the environment and start to create an application (your portfolio website).


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Planar Lensing Lithography: Enhancing the Optical Near Field.
Permanent Linkhttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/1091
Thesis DisciplineElectrical Engineering
Degree GrantorUniversity of Canterbury
Degree LevelDoctoral
Degree NameDoctor of Philosophy
In 2000, a controversial paper by John Pendry surmised that a slab of negative index material could act as a perfect lens, projecting images with resolution detail beyond the limits of conventional lensing systems. A thin silver slab was his realistic suggestion for a practical near-field superlens - a 'poor-mans perfect lens'. The superlens relied on plasmonic resonances rather than negative refraction to provide imaging. This silver superlens concept was experimentally verified by the author using a novel near-field lithographic technique called Planar Lensing Lithography (PLL), an extension of a previously developed Evanescent Near-Field Optical Lithography (ENFOL) technique. This thesis covers the computational and experimental efforts to test the performance of a silver superlens using PLL, and to compare it with the results produced by ENFOL. The PLL process was developed by creating metal patterned conformable photomasks on glass coverslips and adapting them for use with an available optical exposure system. After sub-diffraction-limited ENFOL results were achieved with this system additional spacer and silver layers were deposited onto the masks to produce a near-field test platform for the silver superlens. Imaging through a silver superlens was achieved in a near-field lithography environment for sub-micron, sub-wavelength, and sub-diffraction-limited features. The performance of PLL masks with 120-, 85-, 60-, and 50-nm thick silver layers was investigated. Features on periods down to 145-nm have been imaged through a 50-nm thick silver layer into a thin photoresist using a broadband mercury arc lamp. The quality of the imaging has been improved by using 365 nm narrowband exposures, however, resolution enhancement was not achieved. Multiple layer silver superlensing has also been experimentally investigated for the first time; it was proposed that a multi-layered superlens could achieve better resolution than a single layer lens for the same total silver thickness. Using a PLL mask with two 30-nm thick silver layers gave 170-nm pitch sub-diffraction-limited resolution, while for a single layer mask with the same total thickness (60 nm) resolution was limited to a 350-nm pitch. The proposed resolution enhancement was verified, however pattern fidelity was reduced, the result of additional surface roughness. Simulation and analytical techniques have been used to investigate and understand vi ABSTRACT the enhancements and limitations of the PLL technique. A Finite-Difference Time- Domain (FDTD) tool was written to produce full-vector numerical simulations and this provided both broad- and narrowband results, allowing image quality as a function of grating period to be investigated. An analytical T-matrix method was also derived to facilitate computationally efficient performance analysis for grating transmission through PLL stacks. Both methods showed that there is a performance advantage for PLL over conventional near-field optical lithography, however, the performance of the system varies greatly with grating period. The advantages of PLL are most prominent for multi-layer lenses. The work of this thesis indicates that the utilisation of plasmonic resonances in PLL and related techniques can enhance the performance of near-field lithography.


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Dec. 12, 2004
AMHERST, MA (December 11) - Andrew Billinghurst (Fort Collins, CO) scored 22 seconds into the game, but the Pioneers fell the the Massachusetts Minutemen 2-1 in non-conference action Saturday Night.
After Pierre-Luc O'Brien (Nicolet, QC) won the opening faceoff, the Pioneers started their attack up ice. Kalen Wright (Candle Lake, SK) moved the puck up to Alexandre Parent (Boisbraind, QC). Parent then lead Billinghurst up ice with a pass into the UMass zone. Billinghurst won the race to the puck and crashed the net sending his shot past Minutmen goalie Gabe Winer for the Pioneers only goal of the night just 22 seconds in.
Masachusetts tied the contest at the 7:22 mark when Matt Burto fired home a rebound just seconds after the Pioneers killed off a Peter Giatrelis (Wallingford, CT) penalty to knot the contest at 1-1.
The Minutemen would then go-ahead for good on the power play later in the first. P.J. Fenton would again capitalize on a rebound in front of SHU net minder Kevin LaPointe (Quebec City, QC) sending the shot over his shoulder for the 2-1 lead.
LaPointe finished the night making 34 saves in keeping Sacred Heart in the contest. Winer made 20 saves on the night for UMass.
The Pioneers return to action on December 29 with an exhibition game at the Milford Ice Pavilion with St. Clair College before returning to Atlantic Hockey action on January 4 when they host defending Atlantic Hockey champs Holy Cross. Face off for both games is at 7:00 PM.


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I grabbed Bitch off my shelf of books I have had forfreakingever but haven't read. I'm like 3 pages into the introduction and I'm seriously annoyed that every single example Elizsabeth Wurtzel has given of bad-girl-ness involves women engaged in sexy badness, being the bad girl of men's wet dreams. Tell me it gets better, because I really do connect right now- really, really, really- with what I think she's trying to say.
Down with a world in which the guarantee that we will not die of starvation has been purchased with the guarantee that we will die of boredom.
-Situationist graffiti from 1968 Paris
Why did I unleash a huge freakout on my husband this week?


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Another Kind of IT Project Failure
Scott Rosenberg describes the trials and tribulations of building innovate computer software in his new book "Dreaming in Code" (ISBN 978-1-4000-8246-9). He reports the history of the Chandler project under development by Mitch Kapor's Open Source Application Foundation. The subtitle of the book gives us a sense of the issues he addresses: "Two dozen programmers, three years, 4,732 bugs and one quest for transcendent software."
Greenberg observed much of the Chandler project from the inside, sitting in on meetings, discussing issues with the participants, and recording what he heard and learned. It's a great read, and I commend it to anyone interested in the development of software. (An extensive review appeared in the Chicago Sunday Tribune Book Section on March 4, 2007.)
As the book ends, Chandler is in a pre-release stage. Some modules have been released, but the system is incomplete. As of this writing (March 8, 2007), Chandler's website – http://chandler.osafoundation.org/ - says "Our goal for our most recent release, 0.7alpha4, is to give a rough sketch of what Chandler will be by our first Preview release (Spring 2007)." So it is still not finished.
As you may know, I have been interested for some time in what causes IT project failures and how to prevent them. [http://www.ghco.biz/publications.htm] My research and consulting has been oriented toward development of information systems by user companies for their own use. "Dreaming in Code" offers us the opportunity to see how my results might apply to the somewhat different world on the shrink wrap developer.
In the course of my research on project failure, I identified seven root causes of project failure, any one of which would cause failure. They are:
- Incomplete project planning and evaluation
- Project plan misses non-technical issues
- Roles and responsibilities of users, senior management, and IT are not well understood and agreed to by al parties.
- Bad or non-existent communications among interested parties.
- Inadequate project governance
- Lack of post audit procedures and project archive.
- Inconsistent application of good practices.
As I tried to go through the above list item by item to see how each root cause applied to the Chandler project, I had an epiphany. I suddenly realized that the Chandler effort was not a project at all! A project is, after all, an activity with a pre-defined beginning, a pre-defined end and a well-defined work product. It is not clear from the book whether Chandler had a pre-defined beginning; apparently Mitch Kapor simply started it. Certainly there was no pre-defined end. And apparently from the beginning to where they are now, there has been no well-defined product.
The author argues that no IT project has an end because changes are always being made. This, I think, is pernicious nonsense. The concept of project is a management concept, a methodology to get some thing done. The fact that the thing will change later – which almost every thing known to man will do – should not be used as an excuse for never finishing.
Chandler is a research effort, and a badly managed one at that. I spent some years in the chemical process industry. Our company had a 500 person research facility that did primarily applied research, much of it on new chemical engineering processes. We had a well-defined sequence of stages in the development of any new process:
- Bench top work to see whether the chemistry at the heart of the idea actually worked.
- A bench top model, in which all the process steps (not just the chemistry) were implemented and joined to one another.
- Construction of a pilot plant, the smallest possible configuration that could make enough of the product to test.
- A semi-commercial scale plant, the smallest possible plant that could actually earn a profit.
- A full scale production plant.
Each of these stages included testing, modifications, retesting, and finally a formal approval to proceed to the next stage.
Chandler started by trying to execute Stage 5, after doing a little Stage 1 work. Is it any wonder that the developers had problems?
All of the old project management clichés apply: If you don't know where you are going, it doesn't matter what road you take; If you don't know where you are going, you will never know when you get there; If you don't know where you are going …..et cetera, et cetera, et cetera ….
What should Chandler have done in the beginning? It should have been treated as a project, complete with project plan and all the other impedimenta of project management. Such a plan should have identified the research needed to reach the goal, and provided for the execution of this research. Or, don't even try to build a product until the relevant research is complete.
What should Chandler do now? What they are doing, as reported by Rosenberg: partial releases – which are often called picking the low hanging fruit; stabilize the technology; cut out, for now, anything that cannot be bounded and estimated, and thereafter, stabilize the scope of the project.


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Use warm flooring in the bedroom. A cold floor can be a nasty shock first thing in the morning. Be sure to use something like carpet or wood flooring in the bedroom. Avoid ceramic, marble, or any other cool surfaces. If warm flooring isn't an option, put a rug down under or near the bed.
One of the basic things that you should consider in choosing the area rugs that you will have in your home is the role that you want it to play in your home. You may either use it for decoration or for practical proposes.
No matter what, as long as it comes from the heart, this Interior Design tool, as any artwork, will be rewarding. Are you willing to take the risk? It would be safe to follow trends, to imitate what you see in magazines. You will not fail: those are professionals; they do interior design tool for a living. Follow their advice; even hire one if you want, but then, where is your real reward? You'll hear from your friends: "Wow! This is great!" But is this really for you? To do so is to ruin your own talent.
At first glance (so to speak) the digital book and the digital picture frame seem similar. A book is simply a display of some combination of text and pictures.
Since I "made-up" this room, it is a representation of my fashion. I am what you'd call Eclectic-Glamorous, I love glamor but appreciate various styles as well.
Keep the amount of exposure from the sun in mind as you are working to select the colors to be used in the home. Knowing what sort of light the room gets at all times of the day will help you pick a color that suits it.
Make sure to give some time in dusting or brushing the blinds every time you do house or office general cleaning. There is no need to take down the fixture and you only need to wipe each slat with moist cloth. If the slats of the blinds are too small, a vacuum cleaner can be used to remove the loose dust on it.


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Get to know Grenada!
Other Interesting Facts!
Location: 12ᵒ North 6ᵒ West of the Equator
Size: 133 sq. miles
Capital city: St. George
Population: 110, 000
Language: English
Currency: Eastern Caribbean Dollar (XCD)
Climate: Tropical, with the dry season running from January-May, and the rainy season running from June-December. Average temperatures range from 75 degrees F to 85 degrees F (24 degrees C to 30 degrees C)
Ethnicity: African (majority), with increasing numbers of East Indian, European, Lebanese/Syrian and Chinese.
Religion: Christianity (majority); with smaller numbers adhering to Rastafarianism, Hinduism and Islam
Voltage: 220 V (50 cycles)
Airports: Maurice Bishop International Airport – Point Salines (mainland)
Lauriston Airport – Carriacou (sister isle) *small craft
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When we got home from the honeymoon I decided to ease back into the kitchen with a simple chicken salad recipe with one of my favorite flavors: the bright and salty Caesar. Ready for some culinary history? The original recipe is attributed to an Italian, Caesar Cardini, who immigrated to the US and opened a restaurant. According to his daughter, her father came up with the recipe in 1924 after a Fourth of July rush depleted the kitchen's supplies. Using ingredients that were left in the kitchen, he created the salad that bears his name and added dramatic flair to the dish with table-side tossing. Besides the taste, this is the best part of the salad; you can make it from what you probably already have in your kitchen.
I like my Caesar with chicken on top and an acidic dressing but if you prefer a creamier one you can find a good one over at So Delushious. I cooked the chicken in Caesar dressing for added flavor but grilled chicken or rotisserie chicken a would be great too. I left the anchovies out of my recipe which brings me to a final trivia fact for you: Cardini was opposed to using anchovies in his salad and the original salad did not contain the small, salt-water fish.
What to buy (serves 2):
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 3/4 cup olive oil
- 1 head romaine lettuce, cored and chopped into 1/2 inch pieces
- 1/3 cup grated Parmesan
- 2 chicken breasts
What to do:
- beat egg yolks in a mixing bowl, adding in lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce and garlic
- drizzle in the olive oil until the mixture emulsifies and season with salt and pepper
- pour 1/2 cup of dressing over chicken breasts in an oven-safe dish and cook in oven at 375 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink in the middle
- cover remaining dressing, refrigerating until ready for use
- cut chicken into bite-size pieces and while still warm, sprinkle chicken and parmesan over the lettuce and drizzle remaining dressing on top, seasoning with salt and pepper to taste
The fine print: Take caution in consuming raw eggs due to the risk of Salmonella or other food-borne illness. To reduce this risk, use only fresh, properly-refrigerated, clean, grade A or AA eggs with intact shells, and avoid contact between the yolks or whites and the shell


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Hello Tuesday
Hello Friends! I am a day behind this week, and I need to be thinking a day ahead!! We have a busy week ahead of us, with Easter Egg Hunts (3 to be exact!), Easter parties, lots of sewing to be done, grocery shopping and Easter prep to be done (at least the Easter bunny seems to be done with his shopping!), and lots of other to-dos on the good old, never-ending list. Here's what we're saying hello to today:[Read more]


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Hi friends!
I have a few patterns that I'd love to pass along! I'll post pictures here and you can leave a note in the comments as to which ones you'd like to be in the draw for. (As many as you'd like!) I'll draw for winners Monday, March 14th if more than one person would like a specific pattern. I hate to do it, but my pocketbook says it will have to be US only this time, unless you wouldn't mind paying the overseas postage. Thanks so much !!
8 comments:
- Minnie said...
This is very generous of you and maybe I'll be lucky to get #3 and/or #5. Thank you.
- March 5, 2016 at 2:52 PM
- Katie said...
Beautiful patterns but I'm going insane with everything I have on the go already haha. Good luck to those who enter though.
- March 6, 2016 at 8:22 AM
- cucki said...
Aww it's very sweet of you
I so much love no 4 and 5 ..so cute
Thank you x
- March 6, 2016 at 8:50 AM
- Joyce Clark Frank said...
How very nice of you. I like the patterns #2, #3, #1, and/or #4
Thank you
- March 6, 2016 at 9:37 AM
- gominam said...
So nice:)
- March 6, 2016 at 6:14 PM
- KimM said...
Ooo....1, 2 or 4 would find a good home here. Thank you for offering to share.
- March 7, 2016 at 6:19 AM
- Julie said...
I hope they find nice new homes
- March 9, 2016 at 9:57 AM
- Kathy W said...
I'd love to be considered for #1, 2, 5, or 7. Thank you.
- March 12, 2016 at 1:25 PM
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Posted on Friday 26 April 2013 by Ulster Business
Click here to see Photos from the event - Video at bottom of the page
The Awards in association with Ulster Business were held on the 23rd of April in the prestigious Royal Automobile Club and awarded those companies who have best demonstrated a positive impact on the Northern Ireland economy and a strong collaboration between NI and GB.
The seven-strong judging panel deliberated over 100 of the province's most entrepreneurial and innovative companies before deciding on the eventual winners.
The esteemed panel consisted of Valerie Abbott, Commercial Manager of Aer Lingus in Northern Ireland; Symon Ross, Editor of Ulster Business; Tracy Meharg, Managing Director of the Innovation & Capability Group at Invest NI; Roseann Kelly, Chief Executive of Women in Business NI; Adrienne McGill, Business Editor of the News Letter and Gary McDonald, Business Editor of the Irish News and Alan Taylor, Managing Partner at Arthur Cox.
The categories were; Most Innovative Company of the Year, Exporter of the Year, Small/Medium/Large Companies of the Year, Outstanding Contribution, Entrepreneur of the Year and the Aer Lingus Viscount Award for Overall Excellence.
The winners were;
Most Innovative Company of the Year – Williams Industrial Services. The judges were impressed by their ability to leapfrog European competition in order to design a state of the art anaerobic digestion plant, specifically to suit the Irish Farmer.
Exporter of the Year – Sepha, a business that has grown its export sales to account for approximately 99 per cent revenue outside of Northern Ireland, by investing significantly across all areas of their business including product innovation, marketing and staff training.
Small Company of the Year – The Deluxe Group, who have invested almost half a million pounds in new state of the art design machinery to expand exports in 2012 and who was recently awarded a £2 million contract against international competition for works to a major theme park in Paris.
Medium Company of the Year – Brookevent. This company was chosen because of its ambitious export strategy, culminating in the development of eight new markets and their innovative range of new Mechanical Ventilation Systems.
Large Company of the Year – Kainos Software, who witnessed significant growth in 2012 with the creation of 120 new jobs as a result of taking on landmark projects for the UK Government Digital Services to help transform public services with their digital technology.
The award for Outstanding Contribution recognises the outstanding contribution a person, group or company has brought to the future success of Northern Ireland and was awarded to Mark Huffam CBE of Generator Entertainment.
The judges acknowledged that his company's presence in Belfast has been a decisive factor in luring studio productions such as Game of Thrones and Your Highness, who utilise hundreds of local extras and crew.
The penultimate award, Entrepreneur of the Year went to Peter Hannan of Hannan Meats, who was described as, 'a passionate foodie who has brought success to his business through his commitment, innovation, energy and vision'.
The Aer Lingus Viscount Award for Overall Excellence was awarded to Andor Technology.
Valerie Abbott, Aer Lingus Commercial Manager N.I. said; "We were hugely impressed again by the calibre of this year's entrants and while only seven companies may be crowned Aer Lingus Viscount Award winners, all are a reminder of the immense talent creating prosperity across Northern Ireland and indeed, across the world.
"As an airline we are proud to connect businesses with opportunities internationally every day via our Belfast City to Heathrow and Gatwick routes, and are pleased to see so many of these businesses pursuing global growth opportunities with a forward-thinking approach.
"As these winners attest, Northern Ireland has a great deal to be confident about."
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Cuddle Covers about these:
See how practical they are? They serve a purpose.
I looked them over some more and really liked Max the Dog
not a very flattering picture but you get the idea, right?
I was sold when I read that they are fully machine washable and you can use your own pillow. I answered that I'd love to review Max the Dog and forgot all about it.
One day we had people over and a lot going on. UPS brought a package and my 5 and 3 year old proceeded to open it, which is not supposed to happen. Then I heard my 3 year old son squeal, "OOH he's cute" and they ripped him out of his packaging and hugged him, wrestled with him, fought over him and eventually, took turns laying down and napping with him. Who knew a pillow could be so entertaining? That is the whole idea though: this practical pillow wears many many hats and isn't just a pillow. What multi-tasking mom can't appreciate that?
As you ponder my deep thoughts on Cuddle Covers, you should know that right now is a good time to try out your own Cuddle Cover because for a limited time they come with their own mini version.
Rules are there for a reason, but I am glad that we made an exception and gave Max the Dog a chance.
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Natty's Paste Wax is a very unique Carnauba wax that is long lasting and so simple to use. Natty's Paste Wax gives incredible clarity to any colour, as well as protection from UV and the environment. - Easy On/Easy Off - Carnuba Paste Wax - Use in Sun or Shade - Long Lasting Formula with Patented UV Light Absorbers - Super Clarity, Protection and Depth for all Finishes, Colours and Vehicles 8 oz tub.
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On August 5, 2009, our world shattered when our beloved daughter Aly died in a car accident while coming home from a swim meet. Going into her sophomore year at Ferndale, she was just 15 years old.
For her Sweet 16 birthday, Aly's teammates and friends paid it forward by delivering treat bags to strangers. The joy they found in this act of kindness inspired Project Kindness.
Grief Diaries is a village of people helping people, because when we help others it helps our own heart to heal. Together we can spread kindness to others in need around the world.
If you can spare $5, please help us fill our Project Kindness boxes with donations. It's easy, will take only a moment, the kindness will help more than you'll ever know—and 100% of your donation goes to purchase supplies we deliver directly to the poor including:
Baby wipes
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Toothbrushes and toothpaste
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Click below to refine your search. Find, for example: a winery (or restaurant, accommodation, tour or whatever you are interested in - under 'what'), wherever you want (under 'where'), open on any day you choose, producing e.g. shiraz, or organic, or with childrens' facilities, a cafe or al fresco dining (under 'with'). Then simply press 'advanced find' - it's easy to find the right experience just for you .
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A living legend of food and wine in Melbourne, Alla Wolf Tasker AM is a committed champion of regional producers. She presents a Masterclass at the Melbourne Food and Wine festival in March highlighting the culinary riches of regional Victoria.Great eating on the Mornington Peninsula
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Hi there Pianlarng
How to create a simple action Agent
• In order to create the Agent do the following
• Provide it with a name as you can see in the snap
• Select " Shared"
• Next to Trigger select " On event"
• select " After new mail has arrived"
• Make the other selection and next to the " Run on behalf of " select the person who can run it or try first the administration server hub
• on the right pane and under the Agent Action click " Simple Action " then click " Yes"
• Press the button of the " Add Action " located at the bottom of the screen and then select in the " Action " " Reply to Sender" and putt whatever you want in the " Reply with the following message"
• Press "Add" after you finish .
• Close the "Agent Screen"
• In the agent page under the shared code click on the agent and press "Enable" button and then the " Sign" button and then press them again . Then you can try after something like 20 minutes
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